The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Operation Linebacker II - DEC 19th, 2002

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/ops/linebacker-2.htm ^

[Darksheare]

Yes, you use a tortillon to smudge the pencil, but it doesn't do it as readily as charcoal. One reason charcoal and I aren't friends.

I knew what you meant about drawing stuff on the mousepad.
I find that rather hard to do. HB lead is roughly about the same as #2 regular lead. though, I would prefer an Empire #2 pencil, they don't make them like that anymore. the lead was able to melt at low heat into a sharper point.
(It boiled as well if you weren't careful. Back awhile ago in school I had a kid nail me in the arm with an Empire #2. I permanently carry the pencil point in my arm.)

Computer art is outside my current scope of skill. But I'm trying!

[Darksheare]

*One eyebrow raised*
Now I'm ribbing you.
"dry my little figures" Fruedian slip? *giggle*

[MistyCA]

Actually, drawing with the mousepad and my finger isn't as hard as I had thought it would be....but then, I am not doing anything real complicated...only drawing clothes and arms and stuff that can be used for animation. I have wondered if it would be better to get one of those mouse pencil things for more definition.

[MistyCA]

LOL. Just call me pixel-ated :)

[Darksheare]

My paint shop pro 7 can do that, just my mouse likes to do it's own thing. So a three minute GIF ends up taking thirty minutes and a couple aspirin.

And some people wonder why artists go mad or drink... *Chuckle*
You would probably have to bump your width and height up a bit as well as the resolution for a mouse pencil to work, then after you get it finished you could resize it. (Like making it 400x800 pixels and then resizing it once done. But doing a larger image takes more time and more frustration. So I am rather impressed with the little GIF people. I get too frustrated trying it myself.)

[MistyCA]

I do expand the image in order to create new parts and stuff, and then I shrink it back down. I literally do pixel by pixel. :)

[PhilDragoo]

I've heard first-hand stories from someone who says that Lyndon Johnson was just about the lowest-class piece of sh!t ever to live within 100 miles of Washington D.C.

LBJ was doing Doris Kerns (Goodwin) the Harvard professor, plagiarizing author, PBS "expert" perennially waxing ecstatic as she sings the praises of Landslide Lyndon.

The citation occurs on page 90 of The Texas Connection, Craig I. Zirbel, Warner, 1991, and is credited in the endnotes to page 203 of It Didn't Start With Watergate, Victor Lasky, Dial, 1977.

The Lasky citation was confirmed to me by email from Lucianne Goldberg who explained she was Victor Lasky's agent for his books.

LBJ led a corrupt political career based on vote fraud, having assisted in 1960 by "delivering" Texas to JFK.

He was likely a player in the JFK hit for scores of reasons, the main being he was to be dropped from the 1964 ticket, notwithstanding a lifelong lust for the Oval Office.

Earle Cabell was mayor of Dallas at the time of the JFK hit. His brother Charles Cabell was Deputy Director of CIA and fired by JFK.

JFK's National Security Action Memorandum No. 263 of October 11, 1963 removing U.S. advisors from South Vietnam, was reversed by LBJ's National Security Action Memorandum No. 273 of November 26, 1963 (the first business day after the JFK funeral), referencing objectives "as stated in the White House statement of October 2, 1963".

His conduct of the war was despicable, and cost the tens of thousands of lives on the Wall, and lost the victory which could have been--had he listened to the Joint Chiefs November, 1965.

He died in 1973, the best thing he ever did for America.

[SAMWolf]

LBJ, Carter, Clinton, were do the Dems find these incompetent clowns?

[MistyCA]

Thanks for that post and expose, Phil! We appreciate your contributions to the Foxhole and I certainly wasn't aware of that information about LBJ. I wish so much that the truth was an easy thing to see because so many of us are blinded by lies. Corruption needs to be exposed and the American people need to be able to restore their confidence in their government. Politicians are such a rotten bunch!

[MistyCA]

LOL....we have a few of our own too. :) But you are right, those three are pretty hard to beat!

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!