The Goat Pen

hedge wrote:Wait, you're saying he had you as a teacher and still managed to succeed in life? That's amazing...

The kid could barely read and write until his 7th grade days.... Amazing the progress I made with him.

The guy on the left is also a former student of mine..... I think he started his beard when he was in my homeroom that year.

So I bought a bottle of crystal skull vodka a few years ago just for kicks, I just like having the skull on the shelf in the bar (also bought another bottle and poured it into a different bottle and gave the skull to my brother's kids, they use it for milk). So now we have this:

"Forensic artists can’t come across a skull, or skull shaped decanter, without wondering what that person’s fleshy face looked like when they were among the living, and there’s no better testament to your artistic skills than creating a skull sculpture from scratch that actually looks like a human being when clay skin is added.

Some hitherto unnamed forensic scientists couldn’t help themselves when they saw a bottle of Crystal Skull Vodka sitting on the shelf at their local liquor store, they just had to see what that laughing face would look like properly skinned.

So they bought a bottle and went to work properly replacing layers of muscle and flesh until they revealed the face of a drunken fool, very appropriate for the spokesskull of a popular alcoholic beverage!"

looks like a villian from one of those old Sinbad claymation movies

That Kentucky union issue with VW is kinda interesting...

I thought it was Tenn? There's one in Kentucky as well?

Its Tennessee.

Its all the GOP. VW wanted a union and I'm sure the workers were at least interested in exploring it.

The union had it teed up for them and they couldn't deliver. The majority of workers didn't want it.

Last time I passed through Tennessee we stopped at a McDonalds off 75. Poop was all over the floors in the restroom. Go Volls!

That's the ass end of the state.

Nephew did a great job on the interview on AJ TV. Some tough questions... most about the reasons for the failed union vote at the VW plant in TN and why the vote was so close. Not bad for a local boy.....not bad at all.

not bad He deserves an attaboy

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Did you happen to catch the segment, Owlman??

New Georgia plate causing an uproar......



Georgia officials have approved a license plate featuring the Confederate flag, infuriating civil rights advocates, the Associated Press reports.

The new plate has stirred up the fiery debate between those who believe the flag honors Southern heritage and those who see it as symbol of racial oppression and slavery.

"To display this is reprehensible," Southern Christian Leadership Conference spokesman Maynard Eaton told the AP. "We don't have license plates saying 'Black Power.'"

A spokesman for the Georgia Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, that proposed the new plates, says the group meant it no offense.

"We believe that everyone has the right to preserve their heritage," the group's spokesman Ray McBerry told the AP. "Southerners have as much right to be proud of their heritage as anybody else."

crotch wrote:Did you happen to catch the segment, Owlman??

no, but I wouldn't mind looking at it. I can definitely relate to the proud uncle though.

I go out last week to meet the new scouts that are coming into my troop in March. The council leader invited me to go with him and answer questions. He is black. The Scoutmaster for that troop has an adopted son who happens to be black. Now this is a troop of about 7 boys so its a small knit group.

So I walk in to meet the parents and one woman is wearing a shirt with a big ass confederate flag on it and the shirt says "if you don't know what it stands for, you need a history lesson"

I didn't ask but the council leader didn't even act like he noticed it, but I'm sure this isn't the first time she has worn this shirt around the scoutmaster.

So I came to conclusion that either that symbol is virtually meaningless to them living in Ohio or they noticed it and felt the discussion wasn't worth the fallout it would certainly bring.

But I was afraid to bring it up to him in the car ride back because if he didn't notice it, then he'd have an issue with the family that would trickle down to their son coming into my patrol.

If he did notice it, I have to commend him for looking past it and treating her as well as anyone else in the group.

""To display this is reprehensible," Southern Christian Leadership Conference spokesman Maynard Eaton told the AP. "We don't have license plates saying 'Black Power.'""

First of all, why is he comparing the black power movement to the confederacy in terms of it being reprehensible? What's reprehensible about the black power movement? But maybe that's not what he meant...

Secondly, why shouldn't they be able to have a black power license plate if they want it?

Thirdly, I do think they should ban the confederate license plate, simply b/c I like to think about redneck crackers being enraged when they don't get their way on this point...

Actually, I can understand why the state doesn't have black power license plates, b/c if you start with that, every damn group is going to want an "official" plate with their fucked up organization/identity on it (NAMBLA, etc). But in that case, the confederates shouldn't get special treatment, either. I thought they had solved all this bullshit by letting you put any kind of unofficial plate on the front of your car...

eCat..... you need to design us a Goat Pen license plate

ATM is better than me at that kind of thing now