Spiders should evolve to jump at people’s faces when they try to kill them. I wouldn’t kill spiders if I thought they might jump at my face.
What’s made me wary about Jon Huntsman is that his name, when translated from English, means “to hunt man”.
Quite the engineering feat to take the explosive fuel out of a car yet make it more flammable.
Everyone who is president wants to be known as a great president. What do you think Romney would do towards the goal of greatness? I’m actually kind of scared by that question.
Of course, Coolidge didn’t care about greatness. He was the honey badger president.
Is everyone still talking about the Republican presidential primary? When are we done with that?
I knew I wasn’t going to like who the GOP picked as their nominee when I realized he was probably going to be a politician.
I’ve heard Huntsman is changing his name to “Huntshippies” in a shameful ploy to woo Idaho engineers.
But I think it may turn off Naval Academy grads like McCain and he’ll need their support, as well.
what’s even scarrier is how they define greatness. Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Broke Obama think of themselves as great.
Frank J. Fleming: Making the world safer for spiders!
sheesh
Wow thanks Frank! It now appears I can Date Asians according to the ads on you borders. Yan he, Manatsanan and Blair would like to meet me online. I don’t think Blair is her real name…just pandering to racist American men. Well gotta go ask my wife if it’s ok to date Asian online.
I’m pretty sure I’d go out of my way to kill all spiders everywhere if I knew they liked to jump at people’s faces. Kind of like those little baby alien thingies from the Alien movies. (Are they in all the Alien movies? I’ve only seen significant portions of Alien vs. Predator, and they were in that one.)
Ed, I went thru that with Frank trying to set me up with bushy eyebrowed muslim women.
Now it is busty Brazilians.
Frank found love on the web and wants us all to be as blessed as He is.
I suggest you forego talking to your wife and dump your cookies.
@EdthePastor: be honest – you wouldn’t be able to tell Yan he, Manatsanan and Blair apart anyway.
Is there a waiting list to return Chevy Dolts?
“What do you think Romney would do towards the goal of greatness?”
Guy #1: What a crappy president.
Guy #2: Yeah, but his hair was perfect.
As I often say, the Internet has put an end to most good natured kibbitzing. I had to look up jumping spiders. What I found horrified me. WARNING: this is prolly the most disgusting spider I’ve ever seen:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Mystaceus.jpg
It jumps. Then again, if I saw one of those hideous spawn from sheol, I wouldn’t reach for the swatter or shovel. I’d grab a Colt M1911A or a 12 guage pump, and I wouldn’t stop until I emptied the magazine. To heck with a hole in the floor.
Even jumping spiders are not safe from my wrath.
hwuu, If I had a choice between dumping or chucking my cookies, I guess I’d go with dumping them because things always come out well in the end.
Crap. Obama’s gutting our military…
The Chevy Volt was actually Obama’s new seceet weapon developed for the air force to take out Iranian bunkers. Or Tea Party gatherings.
But if they jumped at random people’s faces and not just mine when I tried to kill them, would I still try to kill them? Yes, I would.
I knew I shouldn’t have clicked on that link, Burma. But I did.
Spiders! GET THEM OFF! GET THEM OFF! DIE! GET THEM OFF! DIE! GET THEM OFF! THEY’RE ALL OVER ME!
As the resident potato farmer here, don’t make me lecture you guys about the benefits of spiders! You just gotta know how to stay away from the poisonous ones, you know, like the Brown Recluses and the Black Widows, etc. And those giant Wolf spiders the size of quarters or fifty cent pieces that people think are ugly and scary? Leave ’em alone! And don’t mess with my Daddy Long Legs. They keep the aphids out of my gardens.
I knew I wasn’t going to like who the GOP picked as their nominee when I realized he was probably going to be a politician: While that’s true…it’s also true that all people who get into politics are politicians. This can be said of both Republicans and Democrats…both parties are made up of politicians. Some may not be politicians before they get into politics, but once in politics…they become politicians. So I don’t see how we can avoid voting for politicians no matter how much we may hate to vote for politicians.
Back when my daughter was very young, she had no qualms about gently picking up daddy long-legs spiders and carrying them outside. Then one day she tried to coax a wolf spider on to her hand, and it JUMPED AT HER FACE. She has been afraid of ALL spiders ever since.
http://theoatmeal.com/blog/cobwebs
Crabby, I’m glad someone else is reporting Daddy Long Leg spiders IN their house. After last summer’s bumper crop of potatoes, beans, boysenberries, etc., I STILL have quite a few living with me. They all seem to like it in here – but I’m concerned because I don’t know what they’re eating!
Our daddy long legs seem to thrive on air. The funnel spiders in the sliding tracks of the windows and glass doors have a steady supply of bugs who try to sneak inside the house – our guardians at the gate, as it were. But the daddy long legs live above the shower, or on the ceiling in the middle of a room – nowhere near any access to incursive insects – and I never see buggy little corpses in their webs. They grow to a mighty size, however, so they must be eating something.
@EdthePastor: Well gotta go ask my wife if it’s ok to date Asian online.
I asked my wife that and she said it was okay but I had to do the dishes first. Guess I will be watching Tron Legacy for a while.
I’ve often wondered why deer haven’t evolved to not stand in the middle of the road and stare like a… a… sorry, can’t think of a suitable simile.
. . . like an OWS protestor confronted with a bar of soap.
Ooooooo, that was a good ‘un, Crabby!
The uglier the Leftist, the smellier the hippie, the the bigger the mustache on the lip of the lesbian, the more it feels compelled to get in your face. No spider wants to emulate the behavior of those pests.
“What’s made me wary about Jon Huntsman is that his name”
I thought you were going say it’s a jumping spider!
Frank, I heard you on Monica today. Pretty good. I’ve heard that line “To the right of Genghis Kahn” You were to the left of Lev Davidovich Bronshtein . Bravo!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky
Why so many fear a principled conservative:
“We say we want a renewal of character in our day but we don’t really know what we ask for. To have a renewal of character is to have a renewal of a creedal order that constrains, limits, binds, obligates and compels. This price is too high for us to pay. We want character but without unyielding conviction; we want strong morality but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame; we want virtue but without particular moral justifications that invariably offend; we want good without having to name evil; we want decency without the authority to insist upon it; we want moral community without any limitations to personal freedom. In short, we want what we cannot possibly have on terms that we want it.”
– James Davison Hunter, The Death of Character: Moral Education in an Age Without Good and Evil, 2000.
In short, we won’t be able to say “No” to the continuing slide of our culture into the abyss, until we’re willing to say “No” to ourselves when it counts.
Character is precious, because it’s rare.
It’s rare because it’s costly.
Who was it that said, “Weigh the cost…”?