"US was 'hell-bent' on Iraq invasion, Greenstock says | The administration of George W. Bush was so dismissive of efforts to get UN approval for an invasion of Iraq that it effectively scuttled attempts at making the war legitimate, a former British ambassador to the UN says."
- Sean McBride
from Bookmarklet
Yeah a cowboy terrifed of horses... But the MSM reveled in his macho shit so we never knew that he did not have a cow on the Crawford "ranch"
- WarLord
The silver lining, if you can call it that, is that the UN didn't spend precious credibility on a war that ended up based on lies.
- Andrew C
from Android
This was hours ago! It's almost done now. But I think I'mma let it sit overnight and bust out some cornbread tomorrow when I'm watching football.
- Derrick
There's something about letting it cool down in the frig and then heating it back up that makes it all creamy and delicious. NOM. I can't wait.
- Derrick
It's not thickening up the way I like it, so I'm taking my wooden spoon and mashing the beans up against the side of the dutch oven. Also letting some of the liquid cook out with the lid off.
- Derrick
There's red beans and rice in there? All I see are carrots. Horrible, horrible carrots. Oh, guess I should've actually clicked on the image to see that those are actually sausages. Uh. Hi.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I not only want to go to there, I also want to take it behind the middle school and get it pregnant.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
I'm not afraid of carrots, no. I just hate them. They are just nature's second most diabolical cruel joke on mankind (nuts are the first).
- Akiva Moskovitz
*writes this down from Akiva for future reference*
- Derrick
Glen, I'll probably make it tomorrow. This pic was taken when I put it on the stove...some four hours later, I think it *might* be ready. Going out to dinner tonight, so it'll have to wait. :(
- Derrick
It's always better on the second day anyway.
- Akiva Moskovitz
It varies from company to company. Some give the day after Thanksgiving off, some don't.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Just Thursday but most people take Friday as a vacation day.
- Michael Hocter
I've had jobs where just Thursday is off and others jobs give both days off. I think it really varies.
- Rochelle
Thursday only. I work for a bank (behind the scenes, not at a branch as a teller or anything. We get all kinds of weird holidays (like Columbus Day) off that kind of makes up for that.
- Kamilah Gill
Usually just Thursday, but we are furloughed today
- Alan Simpson
It depends - our company has the day after off, but that's not always common. But a lot of people do take the day after off, anyway, so if you work the day after, it's a pretty slow day. If you're in retail, NEVER. No one in retail gets Black Friday off. :)
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
"At 52, Mr. Ai, a beefy, bearded man with an air of almost monastic composure, is an international figure in the art world, successful beyond what anyone might have predicted even a decade ago. He is a celebrated architect, a co-designer of Beijing’s landmark Bird’s Nest Olympic stadium, an installation artist and a documentary filmmaker with a 100-member staff. Artistically, he can do almost anything he wishes, like personally shipping 16 40-foot containers, including 9,000 custom-made children’s backpacks, from Beijing for his recent exhibition in Munich. Yet clearly, all is not rosy in Mr. Ai’s world. In one of his early acclaimed works, a series of three photographs called “Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn,” he dispassionately shatters a priceless ancient Chinese vase, striking a theme — destruction and recreation — that runs through much of his art."
- Derrick
from Bookmarklet
OMG, I'm not sure I could watch him breaking that urn, but it is interesting the feelings that it would call up.
- Ayşe E.
...well, then...the wife won't be happy when I tell her I failed this gay test!
- JA Castillo
The fact that it said GAY TEST at the top probably made me think something "gay" was to follow, hence me seeing two people dancing. (that's my story...and I'm sticking to it)
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
Missing part: "News for you: If you are female, you are het. if male, gay" - I assume.
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
I saw boobs. I don't know if that makes me gay, or just dirty-minded. And the latter is certainly not news to me.
- PENGUIN: MAJOR CAPS LOCK
Definitely zoomed in an the boobage aspects, though I did have a bit of a struggle trying to figure out if that was a G string down below...
- Mark Jepsen
My life has come to a complete halt and I cannot go on living until this riddle is revealed! Partner thinks it is because male figure is not touching his female partner and is obviously posing and twirling or as billy idol would say dancing with myself oh oh oh o
- Thom Collins
@Thom.Collins It took me a while to get it (I'm gay) but the straight guys are supposed to see the naked woman immediately ~ imagine the heads of the figures to be nipples, and the \/ in the lower portion of the image (or the right leg of person on left + left leg of person on right) to be belly of a woman...
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
K, I liked this the day it was posted. I /just/ noticed that it could be interpreted as a naked female body. I need to go talk to my wife, I guess.
- Jason Huebel
@Jason.Huebel ...It's ok to be gay :) What did you see before anyway? Since you 'liked' it a long while back, I could only assume that you did see two different images? :)
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Aden, it isn't a sailboat, it's a scooner!
- Joe Pierce
@See-ming, I saw two dancers. My first inclination is still that the picture is two dancers. But I can make myself see boobs. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
- Jason Huebel
One thing that I thought was #genius about this photo is that while most 'psychology tests' explore the positive / negative space, this image explore the 2d / 3d perception. the first kind I have come across. :)
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
@Jason.Huebel I'm not the author of this so I can't give you a psych evaluation....! But if you follow to the Freudian view of the world, everyone is bisexual anyway, so ultimately I guess it does not 'mean' anything... I personally don't follow the doctrine of homosexual / bisexual / *sexual - I think that if two people love each other, they should be together, period. Sex or not is rather besides the point. #smlphilosophy
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Sex is a necessary step for procreation, and although it is often related to love + relationship, I hypothesize that it's possible to love someone without having sex with them. (aka platonic relationships) - in this regard it does not change anything regarding your marriage. (I am a very strange thinker...)
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Congratulations, David! Welcome, Kaitlyn!
- Louis Gray
Welcome, newest FriendFeed-fodder. We shall be like many of your pictures, from now on.
- Mike Nayyar
Thank you everyone! Mom is doing great. She's already taking to being a mother like a pro. Kaitlyn was born at 4:11am (Central), 7lbs 11oz, 19" long and as adorable as can be.
- David Cook
Well, here's the story. We're actually getting up at 3 am to shop at the PX on base. Already scanned the ad, and there's about 15 things we're hoping to get. Hopefully the fact that it's on a restricted-access military base will keep lines shorter...but we'll find out.
- FF's Bubba of Arizona
I feel that I should definitely participate in tonight's meme and report that we're Alive after today's fire! (Luna was the only one in real danger.) I've got a messed-up trouser sock on my head to hold my hair down for the night. (I normally use old pantyhose, but I forgot them.)
Hey Alex ... While you're at it ... I'm hunting for a GREAT Father/Daughter wedding song (June!). I will stray (and feel free to mock ... mercilessly :) Lots of Beatles ... Can't lose
- Charlie Anzman
Deniece Williams "let's here it for the boy" Ooo Ooo...lol
- Bill Heslin
None? Dario? 80's rocked...we had to live through the disco sucks years of the 70's, and we all knew disco would continue, and I loved the 70's btw, and then we rocked in the 80's...LOL
- Bill Heslin
Well at least I did in my Capezio's and my skinny jeans...lol...yes skinny jeans rocked in the 80's. Well at least for gay men...hehehhehe! And now they are popular. Go figure!
- Bill Heslin
Journey..."Don't stop believing" - Bill Heslin +10000
- johnpiercy
Yeah, Squier was 80's...it was 1985 when my cousin threw his album out the window at my ex-boyfriend, when she found out he was only dating me to be around her. (I had borrowed the album from him and he showed up at the house to collect his stuff)
- April Russo (app103)
It wouldn't be an 80's list without Nichole's pa. Just about 65% of Lionel Richie's 80's work would do, especially "Endless Love" and "Truly."
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Thanks Rishabh! We went 63 comments without that and there you go ruining it. I hope you're happy. (Cause I am!)
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
More Than This -- Roxy Music (bring on the slow dance!)
- Ayşe E.
Please don't hand the organist sheet music for your favorite pop tune. I know that's not what you mean Alex, but people actually do that, according to an organist friend. OTOH, it would be amusing to see how well they could render White Wedding.
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
We won't be having an organist, so that's not a problem :)
- Alex Scoble
from IM
my wife and i were married in the 80's and i have been informed that "our song" was endless love ;)
- mike "glemak" dunn
don't tell her but my preference would be blitzkrieg bop...
- mike "glemak" dunn
What about a song that debuted in 1990, from a spin off group that was around in the 80s? Does that work for you?
- Justin Korn
No...that doesn't work for me :)
- Alex Scoble
from IM
I hate youth sports! I just got a call from my son's now former baseball coach telling me he does not want him on the team next year. That's twice now that a coach has cut him from our local rec team to take kids from outside the area in hopes of getting more wins under his belt.
I guess everyone forgets youth sports are supposed to be about the kids, not making the coaches look good. I guess all the games my son won pitching in the spring for him just wasn't good enough. He needs taller, stronger pitchers. I will just sit back and laugh as the team loses a lot of games and falls apart like the last coach's team did after the cuts.
- Alan Simpson
have you talked to the rec league? i'm sure they can't do that. i know i played ayso and they had rules/regulations on how much each person was required to play and they would ban coaches for trying that kinda of crap
- Sir Shuping
WTH? That is a bunch of bullshit. I am sorry for your son, no kid should have to deal with that.
- Joe
Is the baseball team part of a national organization? You'd think they had rules (at least on paper) that would prevent kids from being effectively banned from a team.
- John E. Bredehoft
that's messed up. I hope you can find another team as I wouldn't want my son on a team coached by a jackass like that guy.
- Jim Hearts FF
That sucks. Maybe soccer? AYSO's motto is "Everyone Plays". (But, yes, I absolutely hate this about the American sports mindset. It should be about fun and it should be about good sportsmanship. With the examples we have at college and pro levels, it was only a matter of time before that kind of assbackwards bad sportsmanship approach to things percolated down to the peewee level.)
- Spidra Webster
Can he do that? I mean, not that you'd want your kid playing under such an asshole, but that guy needs to not be coaching.
- Anika
Unfortunately, the coaches here can do what they want. The first coach who cut him is now the commissioner of the rec league and helped pick this team. Our organization is run by a very small, insular group that cares only about winning and making sure their kids and friends get the select spots. I'm not part of the "in crowd" so my kid suffers.
- Alan Simpson
I'm with Anika. I'd have a chat with the association about this coach. AND I'd never let my kid play for such an @-hole.
- vicster
The worst part is having to tell him it happened again. Another part the asshats don't think of when they do this to kids.
- Alan Simpson
That's rough, Alan. Is there another, saner, league in your area?
- Anika
I'm looking into it now. I would be OK with it if I felt he wasn't as good as the other players, but hew was one of their best pitchers and while he did go into a slump toward the end of the year, he had one of his best years hitting. He just too "inconsistent" for this coach.
- Alan Simpson
Also, they get away with this by moving out of the county run league and into "select" leagues where they can do what they want
- Alan Simpson
Well good luck on finding something for him. I'd hate for him to be discouraged because the coach is a short-sighted dick.
- Anika
I cannot improve upon Anika's last comment.
- Ayşe E.
I suggest taking out as many of the kids from the team until he has a space.
- Andrizzle Gizzle
Hmm, that's a good idea. I've also considered starting my own team and recruiting his kids away from him.
- Alan Simpson
Now I'm even more annoyed. I just saw the list of the kids on the team. There are at least 3 kids on the team that are no where near as good as my son. One of them looked completely lost at the tryouts. I guess he's on the team because he's a few inches taller than my kid. GORC coaches do not like short kids.
- Alan Simpson
I can't believe the whole thing, are these kids trying out for a AAA or a college team? We are talking about little league right?
- Joe
It's not even an AAU team. It's a division B Little League type team. Just stupid and really pisses me off. You can mess with me all you want, but you mess with my kids and I get very angry.
- Alan Simpson
I decided to send an email to the president of the entire rec council. It turns out it is someone I've known for years. She has requested a meeting with GORC baseball to look into why local kids are being cut so kids from other areas can make the team.
- Alan Simpson
That's good, Alan. I remember how angry and helpless I felt when my sisster got cut from her select soccer team. It broke her heart and there was not a damn thing I could do about it. She quit playing on the school team a year later (junior year) because she said it wasn't fun anymore. Getting cut even though she'd helped take the Select team from a Div III to the top of a Div II really affected her. Still makes me sad and that was nearly a decade ago.
- pea ♥..!..♥..!..♥
We both agree that it is not even about my son anymore(I've already started sending emails about new baseball opportunities). It's about the younger kids coming up through GORC who will face the same issues if it isn't stopped now.
- Alan Simpson
It never ceases to amaze me how adults can ruin kids sports. I'm glad you emailed the president of the rec council and that important questions are being asked. Maybe it's time for the rec council to revisit its mission statement. Do they exist to enrich children's experience? Or is it just to win tournaments?
- vicster
When I was in middle school my church league b-ball buddies informed me that the coach wished aloud that I wouldn't make it to games so he wouldn't be forced to play me the required minimum minutes. Even at that age I was more shocked at how seriously he took church league ball than I was hurt at the slight.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
There (generally) are leagues that are for fun and leagues that are for serious in youth sports. I have coached ice hockey in both. Generally the coaching/training in the competitive leagues is much better. It seemed to me that kids, parents and I had a lot more fun in the house leagues. I also found that the parents of the kids in the competitive leagues refuse to accept that their kids are less talented.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Yes, but you can do the competitive leagues the right way. Our local rec football teams are the most dominant in the area and every player on all the teams are local. They don't recruit and players who played for the team the year before are given preference over new applicants. The difference is, the coaches taught the kids to play the game and worked to help them improve instead of blaming the losses on the kids, cutting them and looking for "better" players.
- Alan Simpson
Agreed, Alan. The biggest problem, IMHO, is that most coaches are both volunteer and a parent. Better trained coaches are needed. That's one of the things I do, now: help train the coaches. Also, an important distinction between a competitive and a fun league is a try-out. if there isn't one, it's a fun league and should be coached as such.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
And I never coached a win that wasn't the result of the kids' play or a loss that wasn't 100% coaching error.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Update: I've already had call backs from 2 coaches for tryouts with new teams. I also have an email from a local track coach about running track instead this spring.
- Alan Simpson
UPDATE: My son was just offered a roster spot on a team playing one level higher than than the team that cut him. He has the possibility of playing against his former team in a pre-season tournament.
- Alan Simpson
I'd love to see that go down, Alan. Good follow-through on this, BTW.
- Christopher Harley
Gumbo basically... minestrone stock... shrimp sauteed in butter Edit: AND GARLIC (can't forget the garlic)... pinto beans... veggies... pinch o' cumin... a little bit o' smoked turkey sausage for good measure.... the wimmenz ate it up
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
That's what grabbed me about these photos. My mom looks gorgeous. My favorite is the one where she has the head scarf and cigarette.
- tiffany
from Android
Sean, if only I knew. This was delivered directly to me fresh and hot.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Wow, whatever you do, don't google "Asian guys at beach licking" if you want to find the Flickr account for this. No, seriously. Just...don't. o.O
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
changed my life forever...I will always go to the beach with a a few chubby buddies after porking myself up for those bosoms ~ and this image is most definitely going in the ol' spank bank
- sofarsoShawn
Remember ! I bring quality product to Friend Feed !:)
- Akiva Moskovitz
you know what would be funny: ok bear with me, if we blindfolded leather donut (you know the booby man) and...yeah fill in the blanks...something like this http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- sofarsoShawn
Sir, randomly linking to your FriendFeed from one of my posts is oh wait you'll never see this because you're blocked for spamming. Thanks anyway, kaghazrangy.
- Akiva Moskovitz
damn this picture just won't go away - you have forced me to hide it
- William Harryman
Akiva, wasn't that pic taken at your last BBQ?
- Paul
Every time I see this picture I smile. Their joy is infectious, like herpes.
- Sparky
Paul, I surely do wish I had a beach in my back yard!
- Akiva Moskovitz
Sparky, I'm going to have this blown up to poster-size and attaching it to the ceiling above our bed. That'll cause some infections!
- Akiva Moskovitz
makes me want to grow a rack and diddle with my own, know what I'm saying?
- sofarsoShawn
this. . . .this. . . ugh . . . so fucking wrong.
- Peter Ghosh
Akiva - you can put anything you want above our bed.
- Sparky
i've been trying to formulate a comment for this for days, but i just...can't.
- joey
I still want to know the motivation here. is this a gay marriage argument? or are we already pushing group social contracts on friendfeed?
- Noah David Simon
oh man this one keeps popping up on ma friendfeed,....must spread virus nao
- Chris Hofmann
I'm surprised no one's noticed old boy's red-framed glasses.
- Akiva Moskovitz
oh right... the glasses are so important when three asian men are licking his nipples and all the comments are by people who think gay marriage has something to do with equality... when it has everything to do with taking protections away from children. the red glass glasses.... um yeah. chicken and Oklahoma with milk
- Noah David Simon
Mark, you have uncovered the dark underbelly of humanity except in this case it isn't dark but is rather a pasty hue somewhere in the vicinity of undercooked flan.
- Akiva Moskovitz
This should be in the default noobie FF stream. Like the first thing anyone who signs up sees. If they stick around they're part of the family.
- Internet's Tad
Perhaps this can replace the kitty pic on the start page for non-members!
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
I'm certain prop8 had nothing to do with Swine Flu
- Noah David Simon
I'm thinking that eventually, it will have been hidden by every user on FriendFeed. It'll be the most hidden post in FriendFeed history.
- Akiva Moskovitz
WHY WHY KEEP BRINGING BACK THE EYES THEY HURT ME
- Neal Jansons
from IM
Herpes (and this): the gifts that keep on giving.
- Sparky
I wonder if the FriendFeed guys see this and say to themselves, 'Well, this isn't exactly what we had in mind when we started started FriendFeed.'
- Akiva Moskovitz
I look at it and think, "Not again."
- Steven Perez
from IM
Just about the time you FF is getting some class .. Oh well we is what we is.
- Brent Smorgen Bleg
I can't believe after all this time some diligent FF'er hasn't dug up the identities (I said "titties") of this bunch and invited them to join the service that made them famous. Mitchell Tsai, get to work!
- Sprague D
i think if you unlike and delete all your comments anna it'll go away, but hide in general would be nice too (this photo makes me smile every time it pops up so don't mind it)...
- mike "glemak" dunn