Look what STUPID thing the LIBERALS have done NOW!

“MarkO, what's your excuse for your homophobic remarks?”

“I hear that NJ is also going to apologize for Bon Jovi.”

“that apology is LONG overdue”

“Mutt, no excuses.........loose tongue here.

What's your excuse for being a neo-fascist sock cucker?

Abusive or absent father?
Doting mother?”

“MarkO thought long and hard for that come back.

If you know what I mean.”

“Anyone seen American Beauty?
The biggest homophobic character was a closet homosexual.”

“What is it...with apologies to the Bard...."Methinks the marky mark doth protest too much"”

“The biggest homophobic character was a closet homosexual.��

well, if it happened in a movie, it MUST be true”

““Mutt, no excuses.........loose tongue here.”
MarkO
1:07:24 PM
1/08/08

"Methinks the marky mark doth protest too much"”
XL400236
2:21:45 PM
1/08/08

Protest??
No protest here........I made no excuse.

XLax, you earn your place among the Axis Of Idiots every day.”

“No, no excuses or contrition. MarkO is proud of being a homophobic bigot.”

“Do I owe you an apology, mien fuhrer?

Or are you just trying to hold me up to ridicule?

Even if I was what you say I am, this kind of stuff from a white supremist is weak.”

“OOOOH the non denial denial....classic....”

“These slack-jawed yokels are making me thirsty.
last edited: 1/08/08 7:05:46 PM”

“XLax, you earn your place among the Axis Of Idiots every day
XLax, you earn your place among the Axis Of Idiots every day
XLax, you earn your place among the Axis Of Idiots every day
Damn good readin' , got any whiskey Marko?”

“For some classic literature, try 'Takes One to Know One', by Alfred Nominus.”

“Whiskey, no......

It's bottle(beer) and nap time for me.”

“Obviously "nap time" at 7:24 p.m. is a euphemism for drunk again.”

“this kind of stuff from a white supremist is weak - MarkO

When have I ever said anything racist? That's a serious allegation to make without posting evidence.

You, however, are on record here making homophobic remarks. And misogynist remarks as well. I can pull your quotes, though anyone can find them on the "classic TT quotes" thread.”

“LOL...drunk househusband taking naps at 7 PM....sorry there is something about the WHOLE family thing that rings a bit hollow at this point.

Marky mark, you know the whole SITTING drunk on the couch scratching your nether regions while quaffing beer and watching TV does not REALLY qualify as family time. And having the kids grab you another beer to drink does not REALLY qualify as "doing things as a family."

LOL”

“Don't forget the hot-dawgs.”

“Wow, the Klan's all here!”

“Pass the kraut.”

“So not only is MarkO unrepentent about being a homophobic bigot, he's also happily a False Witness.”

“Aw, somebody give Mutt a doggie treat.”

“*yawn*”

“�Obviously "nap time" at 7:24 p.m. is a euphemism for drunk again.�
bacpac

It was 9:24 PM my time, hillbilly.
I was nursing a beer and took a break from homework to check on you TT geniuses.

yawn indeed.........up at 5:30 AM.......my time.”

“Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL License Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Perm it Tax
Gasoline Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax),
IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax),
Liquor Tax,
Luxury Tax,
Marriage License Tax,
Medicare Tax,
Property Tax,
Real Estate Tax,
Service charge taxes,
Social Security Tax,
Road Usage Tax (Truckers),
Sales Taxes,
Recreational Vehicle Tax,
School Tax,
State Income Tax,
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA),
Telephone Federal Excise Tax,
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fe e Tax,
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax,
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax,
Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax,
Telephone State a nd Local Tax,
Telephone Usage Charge Tax,
Utility Tax,
Vehicle License Registration Tax,
Vehicle Sales Tax,
Watercraft Registration Tax,
Well Permit Tax,
Workers Compensation Tax.”

“*waves* at geo and pumkinhead.”

“Stratdood has been listening to AM radio again........”

“I was nursing a beer - MarkO

Translation: I was trying to make the last of tonight's 12er last.

took a break from homework - MarkO

Translation: stopped hitting off the bong.

check on you TT geniuses - MarkO

Ha, compared to you, most of us *are* geniuses. MarkO-Dumb FTW! Slacker peterpan housewife.”

“Slacker Peter Pan might accurately describe a scrawny boy who spends time in trees and lives in a fantasy world in his momma's house.

Homework = scales, riffs, runs, arpeggios, chording, etc.
Some evenings it would be hand crafting instruments in the wood shop down in the city.

Get a life, Fifi.”

“Notice how Mark never objects to being called dumb. LOL - he must realize it's obvious.

Homework = scales, riffs, runs, arpeggios, chording, etc. - MarkO

Plus afterwords drinking beer = ignoring the kids/family trying to relive his drugged out hippy years. Gotchya.
last edited: 1/09/08 8:10:58 AM”

“A clean mirror reflected that comment.”

“My kids are all 6' 4", Mutt...........kinda hard to ignore.”

“kinda hard to ignore

Yes, but Ignore this user should be invoked immediately!”

“But he did mention he likes spending time "buffing his instrument"...LOL”

“You betchya!

Playing music is a natural high kinda like runner's high.
So's workin' the wood!
It grind so fine!

Y'all can have your pills and your cocaine.”

“Yes, but Ignore this user should be invoked immediately! - Kleetn

Are you kidding? I've said much worse to MarkO and he hasn't put me on ignore. You implying that MarkO can't handle my casual insults is much more insulting than my casual insults, nitwit.”

“HA! made you look”

“*chuckle*”

“LOL...it hit me...aging Debris Generation hippie playing music, spongin off a woman, getting drunk and stoned while he leeches off society.....OH MY GOD...MARKY MARK is John Kerry”

“You idiots have your own mythology about me that you continue to embellish upon.

Rock on, Pudgenik!”

“marko, always the poor little victim.
last edited: 1/10/08 5:33:12 PM”

“I just can't understand why those neo-fascist sock cuckers, abusive absent fathers, mien fuhrers, white supremists, slack-jawed yokels, Klan members, hillbillys, idiots, and pudgenis, are so mean to poor little mArKo. He's always so pure and innocent.”

“I suppose they are obsessed with me like you are Stovenik.

There, I paid you the attention that you so crave.”

“LOL...gotta get up pretty early to beat SPONGE MAN!!!!!”

“Back atchya, ROACH MOTEL.”

“since xl intruded on the hillary story with his libbie obsession, its only fair that the tables are turned

RIP Hilary. you are a pioneer and a hero

Everest legend Edmund Hillary diesStory Highlights
One of the 20th century's greatest adventurers has died at age 88

Hillary devoted much of his life to aiding the mountain people of Nepal

Hillary's life marked by grand achievements, adventure, discovery, excitement


WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Sir Edmund Hillary, the unassuming beekeeper who conquered Mount Everest to win renown as one of the 20th century's greatest adventurers, has died, New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark announced Friday. He was 88.


Sir Edmund Hillary took his fame in stride and considered himself just an ordinary beekeeper.

1 of 2 The gangling New Zealander devoted much of his life to aiding the mountain people of Nepal and took his fame in stride, preferring to be called "Ed" and considering himself just an ordinary beekeeper.

"Sir Ed described himself as an average New Zealander with modest abilities. In reality, he was a colossus. He was an heroic figure who not only 'knocked off' Everest but lived a life of determination, humility, and generosity," Clark said in a statement.

"The legendary mountaineer, adventurer, and philanthropist is the best-known New Zealander ever to have lived," she said.

Hillary's life was marked by grand achievements, high adventure, discovery, excitement -- and by his personal humility. He was humble to the point that he only admitted being the first man atop Everest long after the death of climbing companion Tenzing Norgay.

He had pride in his feats. Returning to base camp as the man who took the first step onto the top of the world's highest peak, he declared: "We knocked the bastard off."

The accomplishment as part of a British climbing expedition even added luster to the coronation of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II four days later, and she knighted Hillary as one of her first acts.

But he was more proud of his decades-long campaign to set up schools and health clinics in Nepal, the homeland of Tenzing Norgay, the mountain guide with whom he stood arm in arm on the summit of Everest on May 29, 1953.

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He wrote of the pair's final steps to the top of the world: "Another few weary steps and there was nothing above us but the sky. There was no false cornice, no final pinnacle. We were standing together on the summit. There was enough space for about six people. We had conquered Everest.

"Awe, wonder, humility, pride, exaltation -- these surely ought to be the confused emotions of the first men to stand on the highest peak on Earth, after so many others had failed," Hillary noted.

"But my dominant reactions were relief and surprise. Relief because the long grind was over and the unattainable had been attained. And surprise, because it had happened to me, old Ed Hillary, the beekeeper, once the star pupil of the Tuakau District School, but no great shakes at Auckland Grammar [high school] and a no-hoper at university, first to the top of Everest. I just didn't believe it.

He said: "I removed my oxygen mask to take some pictures. It wasn't enough just to get to the top. We had to get back with the evidence. Fifteen minutes later we began the descent." CNN's Jonathan Mann looks at the life of Sir Edmund Hillary »

His philosophy of life was simple: "Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself," he said in a 1975 interview after writing his autobiography, "Nothing Venture, Nothing Win."

Close friends described him as having unbounded enthusiasm for both life and adventure.

"We all have dreams -- but Ed has dreams, then he's got this incredible drive, and goes ahead and does it," longtime friend Jim Wilson said in 1993.

Hillary summarized it for schoolchildren in 1998, when he said one didn't have to be a genius to do well in life.

"I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it," he said before planting some endangered Himalayan oaks in the school grounds.

The planting was part of his program to reforest upland areas of Nepal.

Hillary remains the only non-political person outside Britain honored as a member of Britain's Order of the Garter, bestowed by Queen Elizabeth II on just 24 knights and ladies living worldwide at any time.

He reached the summit of Everest four days before Elizabeth was crowned Queen of Britain and the Empire on June 2, 1953. She immediately knighted the angular, self-deprecating Hillary, who was just 33.

Throughout his 88 years, he was always the atypical "typical New Zealander" who spoke his mind.

In his 1999 book "View from the Summit," Hillary finally broke his long public silence about whether it was he or Norgay who was the first man to step atop Everest.

"We drew closer together as Tenzing brought in the slack on the rope. I continued cutting a line of steps upwards. Next moment I had moved onto a flattish exposed area of snow with nothing but space in every direction," Hillary wrote.

"Tenzing quickly joined me and we looked round in wonder. To our immense satisfaction we realized we had reached the top of the world."

Before Norgay's death in 1986, Hillary consistently refused to confirm he was first, saying he and the Sherpa had climbed as a team to the top. It was a measure of his personal modesty, and of his commitment to his colleagues.

He later recalled his surprise at the huge international interest in their feat. "I was a bit taken aback to tell you the truth. I was absolutely astonished that everyone should be so interested in us just climbing a mountain."

Hillary never forgot the small mountainous country that propelled him to worldwide fame. He revisited Nepal constantly over the next 54 years.

Without fanfare and without compensation, Hillary spent decades pouring energy and resources from his own fundraising efforts into Nepal through the Himalayan Trust he founded in 1962.

Known as "burra sahib" -- "big man," for his 6 feet 2 inches -- by the Nepalese, Hillary funded and helped build hospitals, health clinics, airfields and schools.

He raised funds for higher education for Sherpa families, and helped set up reforestation programs in the impoverished country. About $250,000 a year was raised by the charity for projects in Nepal.

A strong conservationist, he demanded that international mountaineers clean up thousands of tons of discarded oxygen bottles, food containers and other climbing debris that litter the lower slopes of Everest.

His commitment to Nepal took him back more than 120 times. His adventurer son Peter has described his father's humanitarian work there as "his duty" to those who had helped him.

It was on a visit to Nepal that his first wife, Louise, 43, and 16-year-old daughter Belinda died in a light plane crash March 31, 1975.

Hillary remarried in 1990, to June Mulgrew, former wife of adventurer colleague and close friend Peter Mulgrew, who died in a passenger plane crash in the Antarctic. He is survived by his wife and children Peter and Sarah.

His passport described Hillary as an "author-lecturer," and by age 40 his schedule of lecturing and writing meant he had to give up beekeeping "because I was too busy."

By that time he was touring, lecturing and fundraising for the Himalayan Trust in the United States and Europe for three months at a time, speaking at more than 100 venues during a tour.

He was known as ready to take risks to achieve his goals, but always had control so that nobody ever died on a Hillary-led expedition.

He was at times controversial. He decried what he considered a lack of "honest-to-God morality" in New Zealand politics in the 1960s, and he refused to backtrack when the prime minister demanded he withdraw the comments. Ordinary New Zealanders applauded his integrity.

He got into hot water over what became known as his "dash to the Pole" in the 1957-58 Antarctic summer season aboard modified farm tractors while part of a joint British-New Zealand expedition.

Hillary disregarded instructions from the Briton leading the expedition and guided his tractor team up the then-untraversed Shelton Glacier, pioneering a new route to the polar plateau and the South Pole.

In 2006 he climbed into a row over the death of Everest climber David Sharp, stating it was "horrifying" that climbers could leave a dying man after an expedition left the Briton to die high on the upper slopes.

Hillary said he would have abandoned his own pioneering 1953 climb to save another life.

"It was wrong if there was a man suffering altitude problems and was huddled under a rock, just to lift your hat, say 'good morning' and pass on by," he said. "Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain."

Named New Zealand's ambassador to India in the mid-1980s, Hillary was the celebrity of the New Delhi cocktail circuit. He later said he found the job confining.

He introduced jetboats to many Ganges River dwellers a decade earlier, in 1977, when his "Ocean to the Sky" expedition traveled the Ganges by jetboat to within 130 miles of its source.

The last segment was by foot, and two mountain peaks near Badranath, where the Ganges rises, were also climbed. He sought adventure in places as distant from each other as the Arctic and Antarctic.

Hillary didn't place himself among top mountaineers. "I don't regard myself as a cracking good climber. I'm just strong in the back. I have a lot of enthusiasm and I'm good on ice," he said.

Despite his fame, he spoke of being "really embarrassed" even when introduced at a lecture.

"I really am an ordinary person with a few abilities which I've tried to use in the best way I can," he said.

The first living New Zealander to be featured on a banknote, he helped raise nearly $530,000 for the Himalayan Trust by signing 1,000 of the sparkling new five-dollar bills sold at a charity auction in 1982. They were snapped up by collectors around the world.

Honored by the United Nations as one of its Global 500 conservationists in 1987, he was also awarded numerous honorary doctorates from universities in several parts of the world.

One of his accolades was the Smithsonian Institution's James Smithson Bicentennial Medal for his "monumental explorations and humanitarian achievements," awarded in 1998.

Throughout his life Hillary remembered the first mountain he climbed, the 9,645-foot Mount Tapuaenuku -- "Tappy" as he called it -- in Marlborough on New Zealand's South Island. He scaled it solo over three days in 1944, while in training camp with the Royal New Zealand Air Force during World War II. "Tapuaenuku" in Maori means "footsteps of the Rainbow God".

"I'd climbed a decent mountain at last," he said later.

Like all good mountaineers before him, Hillary had no special insight into that quintessential question: Why climb?

"I can't give you any fresh answers to why a man climbs mountains. The majority still go just to climb them."”

“*waves at mArKo and Geo*”

“http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3177653.ece

A STUDY that claimed 650,000 people were killed as a result of the invasion of Iraq was partly funded by the antiwar billionaire George Soros.

Soros, 77, provided almost half the £50,000 cost of the research, which appeared in The Lancet, the medical journal. Its claim was 10 times higher than consensus estimates of the number of war dead.

The study, published in 2006, was hailed by antiwar campaigners as evidence of the scale of the disaster caused by the invasion, but Downing Street and President George Bush challenged its methodology.”