Dabe has done her penance, and while I dont think she is not going to slip up and do the foulmouth thing again, I do think she has learned a lesson.  One I hope she will carry for at least awhile. For all that know me, you know full well I am a dyed in the wool conservative and have less than 1% of beliefs in common with Dabe.  And yes, I have made fun of her.  But she seems to have learned part of the lesson, if not the whole lesson, and I think she will bite her tongue if you...

Just got off the phone with manopeace and he is Dead in the water.  Seems everytime he tries to get to joe User (or Stardock, Political Machine, etc.), he gets a page starting to load, and then a Page cannot be Displayed.  As I have not had any abnormal problems, and it appears that not many else are, does Stardock belong to a blacklisting site that may have blacklisted his site due to high spam content? (Beleive it or not, the State of VA was on one of those lists at one time!&nbs...

Is it live?  Or just an hallucination?  Can we play again?

When you blog in a community like Joeuser, and people read you, they form opinions of who you are and how you tick.  None of which can be true as some have shown us to be frauds.  Yet the ones that are at least semi sincere, and are not trying to be Hercules or WOnder Woman, will reveal parts of themselves in their writing.  Both in their blogs and in their comments. So when someone changes their writing nuances, it is noticed.  At least by some.  That does not mean t...

For regular readers, most know that I live in a very multi ethnic neighborhood.  With every continent represented (except antartica).  My newest neighbors I guessed were muslim based upon the woman's attire.  I met her over the weekend.  Her son (he looks about 2) loves cats and was chasing some of ours.  She appologized, and I told her dont worry.  They are more afriad of him than their own shadow!  Perhaps they will get use to him in time and let him pet them...

"Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose." "The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help." "The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so." "Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong." "I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandment's would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U...

Several members of late have stated they are going or thinking of it.  I know JU has had its problems, and I have been frustrated by them as well.  But given the price and the response, I am not going to complain.  I will pay when and if it becomes a premium site. But for now, I am hanging around. Why?  Because of the people here.  I dont agree with half, and agree with the other half most of the time.  But I have learned about a lot of things from them, that hav...

For about a week, a couple of weeks ago, my site was listed as the second highest in JU Land.  While I have not taken any time off lately as I normally do in the summer, I have not really been blogging more than others, and as far as I know, there was no earth shattering article written in that time.  So why did I have over 20k points and beat out Skinning the Frog? I have no idea.  I can tell you that while I do have a few articles marked as private, none were written in the l...

With all this points wars going on, I have not really been paying attention to mine.  Because as many others have stated, I blog for my own reasons, and points are just an abacus that counts the tax, not the content. But I just created a special group.  The group is made up not of like minded people (indeed all of them BBQed my tail), but ones I owe an explanation to about an article (Shades, Baker and Mano, please view the link - oh, and if anyone else can view it, let me know.&nbs...

But do I need you to respond or read it?  Well, I like it, but it is not necessary. What I like to do is what I just did a few minutes ago.  I lampooned Dharma and her Franken Scar! It was not mean, it was eerie! (unless you follow SciFi).  And it was inspired by what she said on someone else's blog. it was fun!  It was not mean, and it gave a few people some laughs! Why?  Cause life is tough, and every chance we get to laugh, we want to laugh! SO how many...

ON a blog, I told Philomedy (Philo for short, not Phil BTW) to shut up.  And I am sorry. I tried to find the offending passage, and could not.  I tried to remember where it was, and could not.  All I have to offer in my defense was that I was wrong!  And since I cannot find the thread, I want to offer a public appology.  And a special thanks to Philomedy! For he is a bigger man (you are a guy, right?) than I.  He said forget it, it was nothing.  But it wa...

This is about as much as they have told us.  But then we are just lowly employees!  and the local rag is just that a rag.  Do you think they would try some investigating? is the moon made of green cheese????

I have had this bike for about 25 years.  I bought it when I worked for a major retailer that was trying to become the first in their niche market to pass a Billion Dollars in Annual sales.  So they had a great sale!  It is not a great bike.  A Schwinn 12 speed.  Not what you would call a racing caliber bike. Back in High School, I bought a Peugeot 10 speed that had bent front Forks.  I straightened them out, and got a $250 bike for $29!  I also learned all ...

My Wife and I had planned on taking a couple of weeks vacation to go to her Nephew's wedding in California since last March.  So we did.  Instead of writing a "see you later" or "I am done" article, I debated if I was going to say anything at all.  I will admit, that I did drop hints, and at least one person picked up on them, and I did tell one person What was going on.  But he kept it to himself. I decided at the last moment to just go and not announce.  I have seen...

With Kudos to Texas Wahine for beating me to the punch (I have been busy): http://texaswahine.joeuser.com/index.asp?aid=83879 I do want to chime in on this blatant and apparent ignorant stigmatism and stereotyping by our northern brethren. First of all, the illustrious north is so ignorant of the real south, that like Howard Dean, they think it is filled with a bunch of KKK robed individuals running around trying to lynch every black man in existance.  They and their willing medi...