Everything except gullible, which isn't in the dictionary.

My daughter used to read the encyclopedia for fun.

Bobagalooba!

can i just take this moment to say how much I hate Microsoft Exchange?

/shakes fist at Bell Gates

More radical Muslim victimhood:

'Intifada NYC' Principal Sues NYC

Rare lizard hatched at Chehaw

Albany -- In June of 2007, Chehaw Assistant Curator Ben Roberts became involved with the Population Management Plan for Uroplatus geckos. This species is common to the island of Madagascar and Chehaw is one of five AZA institutions housing 22 Uroplatus phantasticus.

re: #4 beblebrox

You have my sympathies. At least I don't have to deal with that stuff.

Via the always questionable Debka:

Independent intelligence, military and scientific circles strongly suspect that Iran is a lot closer to a nuclear bomb than officials in the US, West Europe and Israel are ready to surmise in public. DEBKAfile’s sources report that this suspicion was strengthened by the discoveries made in Syria as a result of the Israeli attack of Sept. 6.

Iran Close to Nukes?

re: #6 NJDhockeyfan

Okay, those guys are downright cute.

Good morning all, Wednesday morning, 8.30, warm and fine and Hone Harawira, a Maori MP in NZ and a radical activist is flying on an all expenses paid trip to Malaysia for an interview on AlJazera, no doubt to espouse his views that all us NZ'ders of european descent are nothing more than illegal occupiers and we have gotta pack up ship out.

When the Leaves Blow Away, Steven Wright

re: #4 beblebrox

Yes you can, and while you're taking that moment, I'll take this one to say just how much I hate corporate "approved" anti-virus software.

The end of fetal stem cell research is at hand.

Drudge just put up a link to an article about a link between childhood autism and Wi-Fi at computerweekly. But the site says the article can not be found, but it may just be because of the traffic hit. I found a shadow of it and posted it here.

Oh the irony. The Clueless MSM.

The main issue before the justices is whether the Second Amendment of the Constitution protects an individual's right to own guns or instead merely sets forth the collective right of states to maintain militias. The former interpretation would permit fewer restrictions on gun ownership.

Gun-control advocates say the Second amendment was intended to insure that states could maintain militias, a response to 18th century fears of an all-powerful national government. Gun rights proponents contend the amendment gives individuals the right to keep guns for private uses, including self-defense.

Supreme Court to take up gun confiscation.
[Link: www.breitbart.com...]

The idea that the "people" in the Second Amendment are a different class than that of the First is ludicrous. The court has been actively engaged in destroying the obvious meaning of the Bill Of Rights. This will be important.

FOMC language. Market down (again).

/retreating faster than General Washington from New York...

I hope the NFL network and the major cable companies all get the hives. They're in a pissing contest over how to carry the NFL network on cable, so if you don't have dish you can't see Packers-Cowgirls next week.

I was reading the dictionary; I thought it was a poem about everything.

— Steven Wright

I'm one of those bizarre people who really does read the dictionary.

Actually, reading dictionaries is one of my favorite pastimes. No joke. I've read an entire dictionary of WWII slang, an entire dictionary of Jamaican patois, and a dictionary of word origins -- just in the last year.

We all have our secrets, I suppose. That's mine.

DinnerJacket purchases $150,000 each bomb sniffing dogs, upsets hardliners in Iran. Bonus: mildly offensive (to dogs) Photoshop.

awesome quote.
I like to read Roget's thesaurus. Anyone else notice Roget's has no mention of any word related to the game of Pool or snooker?

re: #13 Perplexed

Okay, but: how? That article just says that "four key genes." What genes? Where did those genes come from? I need to get a copy of the papers.

Oh sh** I'm a butter head.

re: #15 pat

Whoever wants to try can come to my house and take my guns/

re: #13 Perplexed

That's great news. I've been following it all morning. Solves all the ethical quandaries.

Incredible medical breakthroughs await the human race.

re: #18 zombie

If you're willing to admit it, then I have to admit mine: I used to read the encyclopedia as a kid.

re: #18 zombie

I share your weakness. It causes me to use words that make my marine say things like HUNH? then I explain. It only takes once. Then he uses em. its funny. I think I am corrupting him. Soon, he too will love words.

re: #14 EC Marm

Drudge just put up a link to an article about a link between childhood autism and Wi-Fi at computerweekly. But the site says the article can not be found, but it may just be because of the traffic hit. I found a shadow of it and posted it here.

Did they factor in the widening of the symptoms for autism as well? Didn't see that in the article. If anyone was susceptible to getting autism I would expect that USAF military dependents would have a much higher rate just due to the RF exposure at most bases. The housing areas usually are within 5 miles of the airfield.

re: #15 pat

Gun-control advocates say the Second amendment was intended to insure that states could maintain militias

Apparently these same advocates believe that the Framers of the Constitution were semi-literate morons who couldn't construct a proper English sentence to properly express themselves. So, you know, they just kind of accidentally wrote "the right of the people". Good thing these advocates are here to correct their grammar, two centuries later.

re: #18 zombie

We have a 1902 websters dictionary and compared it to a 2005 websters. That was fun.

re: #8 GregInSeattle

Via the always questionable Debka:

Independent intelligence, military and scientific circles
strongly suspect that Iran is a lot closer to a nuclear bomb than
officials in the US, West Europe and Israel are ready to surmise in
public. DEBKAfile’s sources report that this suspicion was strengthened
by the discoveries made in Syria as a result of the Israeli attack of
Sept. 6.

Iran Close to Nukes?

I'd prefer nukes to be close to Iran....

re: #18 zombie

I was reading the dictionary; I thought it was a poem about everything.— Steven Wright

I'm one of those bizarre people who really does read the dictionary.

Actually, reading dictionaries is one of my favorite pastimes. No joke. I've read an entire dictionary of WWII slang, an entire dictionary of Jamaican patois, and a dictionary of word origins -- just in the last year.

We all have our secrets, I suppose. That's mine.

I also have a thing for reference books. Library Journal is one of my favorite magazines.

re: #31 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

Sssssh, they are.

re: #17 pingjockey

I hope the NFL network and the major cable companies all get the hives. They're in a pissing contest over how to carry the NFL network on cable, so if you don't have dish you can't see Packers-Cowgirls next week.

I heart my directv. And if anyone is thinking of signing up, they've got this referral program.... ;-)

re: #18 zombie

I'm one of those bizarre people who really does read the dictionary.

Actually, reading dictionaries is one of my favorite pastimes. No joke. I've read an entire dictionary of WWII slang, an entire dictionary of Jamaican patois, and a dictionary of word origins -- just in the last year.

We all have our secrets, I suppose. That's mine.

I like to go to cemetaries and read the headstones.

re: #4 beblebrox

can i just take this moment to say how much I hate Microsoft Exchange?

/shakes fist at Bell Gates

I truly feel sorry for you, my son.

The simple solution is to avoid Microsoft products. Every single type of software they produce can easily be replaced with superior products made by other companies.

The only Microsoft product I use is Word, which unfortunately is such a standard for word processing that most companies will not accept any other format. Grrrrrr.

buzzsawmonkey,
Don't forget, you got lunch coming.

re: #18 zombie

I was reading the dictionary; I thought it was a poem about everything.
— Steven Wright

I'm one of those bizarre people who really does read the dictionary.

Actually, reading dictionaries is one of my favorite pastimes. No joke. I've read an entire dictionary of WWII slang, an entire dictionary of Jamaican patois, and a dictionary of word origins -- just in the last year.

We all have our secrets, I suppose. That's mine.

I too, have a set circa 1915 and I enjoy the contrast and comparison.
It amazes me how things evolve to deviate from the Dic.

re: #35 mama winger

I do that! Not as often as I would like, but it's always interesting.

re: #13 Perplexed

The end of fetal stem cell research is at hand.

Another thing to be thankful for .

You people are all freaks. Me, I'm normal.

re: #34 commander_vimes
If it was just me and the better half direct tv would be ok, but the 2 teenagers have their own and I'm not getting 4 dishes. But I hear direct is pretty good.

re: #40 mama winger

re: #13 Perplexed

The end of fetal stem cell research is at hand.

Another thing to be thankful for .

Amen.

re: #22 Jack Reacher

Better butter than towel or rag!

re: #39 vxbush

You too? I always like finding the really old out of the way cemetaries. People used to die awfully young.

re: #27 Perplexed

Did they factor in the widening of the symptoms for autism as well? Didn't see that in the article. If anyone was susceptible to getting autism I would expect that USAF military dependents would have a much higher rate just due to the RF exposure at most bases. The housing areas usually are within 5 miles of the airfield.

I don't know. I've been following the research for years and it's always been a back and forth argument. But I think I'll start shutting off my equipment at night, just in case.
One thing I did notice years ago was that Silicon Valley was considered a 'hotspot' for autism.

re: #20 Karagush

awesome quote.
I like to read Roget's thesaurus. Anyone else notice Roget's has no mention of any word related to the game of Pool or snooker?

Billiards?

re: #41 Occasional Reader

You people are all freaks. Me, I'm normal.

As if.

re: #45 mama winger

I just find it refreshing to stop and realize that all these lives were lived in the dash between the birth and death dates.

re: #45 mama winger

re: #39 vxbush

You too? I always like finding the really old out of the way cemetaries. People used to die awfully young.

The other thing one notices is the fairly sudden, dramatic improvement in headstone quality around the 1870s or so. Much bigger blocks with deeper-carved letters.

re: #41 Occasional Reader

You people are all freaks. Me, I'm normal.

From the guy who was bragging on the morning thread that he packs heat when he scores "H"?

re: #48 mama winger

"you brought me an abnormal brain"?!

re: #8 GregInSeattle

Iran Close to Nukes?

Can't be true . . . Colin Powell said Iran was a long way from a nuclear weapon.

re: #21 vxbush

re: #13 Perplexed

Okay, but: how? That article just says that "four key genes." What genes? Where did those genes come from? I need to get a copy of the papers.

A Japanese scientist isolated the genes in the human ovum that stimulate stem cell growth. Took many years of trial and error, until he hit it -- bingo. Now they can use those genes to get the same effect as ovum/embryo growth, but without having an actual embryo involved.

The papers explain the whole thing.

re: #48 mama winger

re: #41 Occasional Reader

You people are all freaks. Me, I'm normal.

As if.

[adjusts bow tie on velour clown suit]

And just what the heck is that supposed to mean?!

Like the unexpected climax of a romance novel, these historical paradoxes foreshadow a culmination to the ten-year tale of human embryonic-stem-cell research that is remarkably unlike anything we could have imagined. To be sure, a new day has dawned in the world of stem-cell research, thanks to the intellectual honesty and scientific acumen of researchers like Thomson, Wilmut and Yamanaka. The best part, of course, is that, for advocates of embryonic-stem-cell research, as well as for those opposed to embryo-destructive research, and especially for those millions of potential beneficiaries of stem-cell related therapies, the advent of the age of somatic cell reprogramming marks an enormous victory for all of us.

These guys should be put up for the Nobel Prize in medicine.

re: #54 zombie

So are the genes coming from human ova, or have they been able to replicate the genes independently? Because I've read a story that the women who donate their ova for science often take very strong hormones that has, in at least once case, left the woman unable to bear children. That doesn't sound like a plan to me.

If the print msm dies who will write the obit, and where will it appear?

re: #18 zombie

I was reading the dictionary; I thought it was a poem about everything.
— Steven Wright

I'm one of those bizarre people who really does read the dictionary.

Actually, reading dictionaries is one of my favorite pastimes. No joke. I've read an entire dictionary of WWII slang, an entire dictionary of Jamaican patois, and a dictionary of word origins -- just in the last year.

We all have our secrets, I suppose. That's mine.

As a kid, I used to read every newspaper available, the dictionary, thesaurus, the cheap encyclopedias we'd get from A&P, cereal boxes--you name it, I read it.

Some thought it odd when I could recite sports statistics and the weather around the world when I was about 6 years old. I considered it knowledge.

I get a laugh when I see O'Reilly use what he thinks are big words at the end of his show.

re: #35 mama winger

I like to go to cemetaries and read the headstones.

I like to go to cemeteries and carve the headstones.

/Anybody remember August Heat? Best short story ever.

re: #55 Occasional Reader

[adjusts bow tie on velour clown suit]

See - you did that just to freak me out. You know I have clown-a-phobia.

re: #54 zombie

A Japanese scientist isolated the genes in the human ovum that stimulate stem cell growth.

Oh, great... this pretty much guarantees that this entire "scientific breakthrough" will quickly lead to massive, Tokyo-stomping monsters.

#51 EC Marm:

From the guy who was bragging on the morning thread that he packs heat when he scores "H"?

Well, what do you bring along with you when you score "H"?

re: #58 pingjockey

If the print msm dies who will write the obit, and where will it appear?

When a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound?

What is the sound of one hand clapping?

These and other zen questions answered tomorrow.

re: #61 mama winger

You know I have clown-a-phobia.

Hate speech!

Giong to lunch, y'all have fun and play nice.

re: #60 zombie

Anybody remember August Heat?

Is that the one with the women behind bars, who discover a forbidden love in the cellblock shower?

re: #14 EC Marm

Drudge just put up a link to an article about a link between childhood autism and Wi-Fi at computerweekly. But the site says the article can not be found, but it may just be because of the traffic hit. I found a shadow of it and posted it here.

Thanks for posting that, I sent it to my daughters and friends and family with kids/grandkids.

Countries like England and Holland did experiment with economic freedom with great results, but only on a fickle discretionary basis and for purely consequentalist reasons. They never accepted the moral foundations that supported free markets and free societies. Lacking firm ideological and institutional commitments to universal individual rights, these countries’ courtship of these classical Man-centric values did not stand the test of time. In short, Europe had too much cultural baggage for liberalism. The seeds of freedom had to be sewn somewhere else.

After failed efforts to conceive a new society within sterile Europe, the United States of America was Western Thought’s first love child: a country conceived in liberty, self-determination, and natural law. Indeed its initial political formulation wasn’t flawless: slavery and deficient political rights for women were ugly incumbents. Yet it’s noteworthy that the Founding Fathers never specifically banned women from voting (but the states did have that power and used it). Many of them were also vocal abolitionists throughout their lives. Most importantly, they drafted the Constitution as such an airtight argument for freedom, that with time it successfully transcended all the leftover debris of Old-Continent tyranny that were originally incorporated into the country for the sake of expediency.

[Link: kejda.net...]

re: #65 buzzsawmonkey

Preach it, brotha!

re: #67 Occasional Reader

re: #60 zombie

Anybody remember August Heat?

Is that the one with the women behind bars, who discover a forbidden love in the cellblock shower?

Ah, that's a good one...

re: #65 buzzsawmonkey
It's the old argument about correlation vs. causation. There is a high statistical correlation between proximity to power lines and leukemia.

re: #65 buzzsawmonkey

I can recall only one publicized case of cancer that could only have been linked to RF radiation and that was the guy working in the transmitter room at the top of the Empire State Building. I've worked with many, many RF techs over the years and they died of things like heart disease, car accidents, cancer due to seditary life styles, etc. Not a one I worked with died from RF exposure.

re: #73 EC Marm

Remember what Mark Twain said about statistics?

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

re: #65 buzzsawmonkey

Don't confuse us with those pesky "facts" things again!

re: #18 zombie

I read the encyclopedia from time to time. My kids think I'm weird.

re: #67 Occasional Reader

re: #60 zombie

Anybody remember August Heat?

Is that the one with the women behind bars, who discover a forbidden love in the cellblock shower?

But they were only sentenced to a one-month term?

re: #75 Perplexed

Remember what Mark Twain said about statistics?

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

I used to live in a Hodgkin's disease 'hot spot' which was downwind from an incinerator. Too many cases to be an anomaly. Incinerator got shut down, disease cases disappeared. Nothing could ever be proved.
I have to keep my cell phone at least 10 feet from my television or it screws up the picture every half hour, or so. I am sure if there was bulletproof evidence of effect than the legal profession would be all over the Wi-Fi industry.
If I had young children in my house, I would be concerned. Not necessarily alarmed, just concerned. If it's not a major nuisance I would also turn off some of the equipment at night.

Note to Terry Bradshaw:

9+81=6

re: #2 newsjunkie_ky

My daughter used to read the encyclopedia for fun.

I did, too. My mom still has that 1969 set of World Book encyclopedias, and 10+ years of Year Books. Leather binding, too - green and antique white. I have a 1981 school and library edition, up in the attic now.

Where is Lopps when I need her?

Re Sweet Caroline and the Boston Red Sox? This is really sweet, and there is an effort afoot to help make YouTube a better place!

You can take a girl out of the Bronx Boston....

re: #81 LC LaWedgie

Note to Terry Bradshaw:

9+81=6

Well, to be fair, we need more than ten games on which to judge his attitude change.

re: #14 EC Marm

Drudge just put up a link to an article about a link between childhood autism and Wi-Fi at computerweekly. But the site says the article can not be found, but it may just be because of the traffic hit. I found a shadow of it and posted it here.

Sounds like a load of crap.

re: #84 Ward Cleaver

Yeah, but as long as Bradshaw keeps him spun up, that'll do.

re: #13 Perplexed

The end of fetal stem cell research is at hand.

That is great news.

re: #86 buzzsawmonkey

But the human organism is not a mere inanimate machine; it can compensate for its environment.

But not nearly as well as a cockroach - which you can stick in a microwave, turn on, and it will survive. A human would not survive the dosing that a cockroach would skitter away from.

Don't try this at home, folks.

re: #80 EC Marm

Cell phones do "call home" by themselves and when they do that they do emit full power. Put one on top of a clock radio then sit back and listen. Enough power to muck with the electronics. That doesn't mean much though because of the proximity to the clock radio is high and the fact that the duty cycle is so very low. Go with a unity gain antenna and begin making power measurements as you back off from a transmitter and you'll find that power levels quickly drop off. If they didn't you would be able to power up fluorescent bulbs for free. At microwave frequencies a rough rule of thumb was 60 feet away from the emitter gives you 60dB of attenuation (around a factor of 1,000,000).

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Why do some people on tv news describe a cache of weapons and say cashay?

Oh! An open thread! :D

I'm gonna repeat my wierd article of the day linky from the previous thread:

Warnings on Sesame Street
The original episodes are apparently no longer suitable for today's toddlers. » 'Frightening glimpse' NYTimes.com

re: #92 buzzsawmonkey

re: #89 EC Marm

The most obvious source of ionizing radiation in your house is probably the americium in your smoke detector(s).

I never had you pegged as a part of the "Blame Americium First" crowd.

re: #91 BuddyG

I love that! Very clever!

re: #96 joncelli

Thanks. And by the way, The King Lives !

re: #93 debutaunt

Why do some people on tv news describe a cache of weapons and say cashay?

Because they're stupid.

And when did processes become "processees"? Geez.

re: #92 buzzsawmonkey

Zapping something with microwaves is wavelength dependant. If the object is close to 1/4 wavelength then you can transfer much of the power to that object. When it falls under the magic 1/4 wavelength you transfer much less power to it. That's why roaches and ants seem impervious to microwave ovens. Change the wavelength to something much smaller and you would have a roach zapping, ant burning machine. For those of you who have a microwave oven with a metal wire tray in it, have you ever wondered why that tray doesn't arc and snap? It's because of where the tray is placed within a resonant chamber. It's close to a current node which maximizes current and minimizes voltage, so you have no arcing. Also the wires are placed so that you aren't at a voltage node.

re: #100 buzzsawmonkey

Nuclear:
When did nuke-lee-er become nuke-u-ler ?

re: #102 BuddyG
#102 BuddyG 11/20/07 12:33:40 pm reply quote report 0

re: #100 buzzsawmonkey

Nuclear:
When did nuke-lee-er become nuke-u-ler ?

Ask Ward.

re: #87 LC LaWedgie

re: #84 Ward Cleaver

Yeah, but as long as Bradshaw keeps him spun up, that'll do.

His attitude has changed because he's getting more balls thrown his way. Look at Randy Moss and his success in New England - same thing. In both of their cases, I hope that they are maturing, and becoming better people, but only time (and adversity) will tell.

re: #103 debutaunt

re: #102 BuddyG
#102 BuddyG 11/20/07 12:33:40 pm reply quote report 0

re: #100 buzzsawmonkey

Nuclear:
When did nuke-lee-er become nuke-u-ler ?

Ask Ward.

Wasn't it with Bush 41? He's the first guy I remember hearing say nuc-u-lar.

re: #105 buzzsawmonkey

I've been away from that fun stuff for nearly 15 years. When I did it for a living I saw circuits burst into flames, components unsolder themselves, etc. RF design teaches you humility and respect for the gods of analog.

re: #106 buzzsawmonkey

re: #102 BuddyG

re: #100 buzzsawmonkey

Nuclear:
When did nuke-lee-er become nuke-u-ler ?

Around the same time that "foliage" became "foilage."

I'm waiting for the for first government building with "United State's" on the front of it.

re: #107 Ward Cleaver

Jimma Carter?

109 Ward Cleaver 11/20/07 12:39:26 pm reply quote report 0

re: #106 buzzsawmonkey

re: #102 BuddyG

re: #100 buzzsawmonkey
Nuclear:
When did nuke-lee-er become nuke-u-ler ?

Around the same time that "foliage" became "foilage."
I'm waiting for the for first government building with "United State's" on the front of it.

Eat's, shoots and leaves. re: #109 Ward Cleaver

[Link: www.russiablog.org...]

re: #41 Occasional Reader

You people are all freaks. Me, I'm normal.

Is there any such thing as normal? Every man, woman and child on Earth has SOME thing about him or her that is a little bit wierd! :D

with the erratic performance of the stock market lately, i was wondering if any of it could be the result of george soros' actions? does anyone know enough about his business M.O. to comment on this? i realize there are many factors involved in the market, but i think he'd do almost anything to harm this country if he thought it might help the dems regain the white house.

re: #107 Ward Cleaver

Jimmah Carter..who claimed to be a nucular scientist.

re: #110 Perplexed

You win! Prize to be determined later.

Ward? What will the prize be?

re: #115 NomadOfNorad

re: #41 Occasional Reader

You people are all freaks. Me, I'm normal.

Is there any such thing as normal? Every man, woman and child on Earth has SOME thing about him or her that is a little bit wierd! :D

Normal is just another cycle on the washing machine.

re: #42 pingjockey

re: #34 commander_vimes
If it was just me and the better half direct tv would be ok, but the 2 teenagers have their own and I'm not getting 4 dishes. But I hear direct is pretty good.

You don't need four dishes, just four receivers. Each one can independantly tune the channels. The typical service plan today is four recievers, or three receivers with one of them being a PVR.

Sorry, it was Eisenhower! Take a look at the origins and the list!

re: #121 NY Nana

I like Ike

re: #122 BuddyG

I still have a campaign button from the campaign. To my WW2 generation, he was a hero!

He and Mamie were real people.

re: #121 NY Nana
#121 NY Nana 11/20/07 12:47:33 pm reply quote report 0

Sorry, it was Eisenhower! Take a look at the origins and the list!

How odd that Clinton got a pass.

re: #1 Sharmuta

Everything except gullible, which isn't in the dictionary.

'Gullible' is not in the dictionary?

I totally believe that without checking for myself.

Ike was the man. Sent in the 101st against the Nazis in Europe
and sent 'em in against the racists in Little Rock.

re: #75 Perplexed

re: #73 EC Marm

Remember what Mark Twain said about statistics?

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

"In the space of one hundred and seventy six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a trifle over a mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oölitic Silurian Period, just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi was upwards of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-pole. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long, and Cairo [Illinois] and New Orleans will have joined their streets together and be plodding comfortably along under a single mayor and a mutual board of aldermen. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact."
--Mark Twain

re: #120 NomadOfNorad
Didn't know that. Cool.

re: #124 debutaunt

He is also on the list....but he never gets what he really deserves.

U.S. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Jimmy Carter (who served as an officer on a United States Navy experimental nuclear submarine), Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush have all used this pronunciation

I would love to see the Billaries with a prison number on their striped suits..Shrill is so used to wearing pants.

re: #89 EC Marm

re: #86 buzzsawmonkey

But the human organism is not a mere inanimate machine; it can compensate for its environment.

But not nearly as well as a cockroach - which you can stick in a microwave, turn on, and it will survive. A human would not survive the dosing that a cockroach would skitter away from.

Don't try this at home, folks.

Cockroaches will inherit the Earth! ! ! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

re: #129 NY Nana
#129 NY Nana 11/20/07 12:59:38 pm reply quote report 0

re: #124 debutaunt

He is also on the list....but he never gets what he really deserves.

U.S. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Jimmy Carter (who served as an officer on a United States Navy experimental nuclear submarine), Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush have all used this pronunciation

I would love to see the Billaries with a prison number on their striped suits..Shrill is so used to wearing pants.

What a lovely thought. I've never understood how they keep getting a pass.

re: #130 NomadOfNorad

re: #89 EC Marm

re: #86 buzzsawmonkey

But the human organism is not a mere inanimate machine; it can compensate for its environment.

But not nearly as well as a cockroach - which you can stick in a microwave, turn on, and it will survive. A human would not survive the dosing that a cockroach would skitter away from.
Don't try this at home, folks.

Cockroaches will inherit the Earth! ! ! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Zap a roach with the amount of ionizing radition that would kill a human in two days and the roaches just shrug it off. Put a roach into a test tube with ammonia gas (burns the lungs) and you have a roach who'll just walk right on out of that test tube. The amount of radiation that kills a roach is just a little shy of the amount of radiation it takes to set fire to the roach.

re: #132 Perplexed
Good thing we've got thumbs, otherwise the roaches would take over!

re: #133 pingjockey

re: #132 Perplexed
Good thing we've got thumbs, otherwise the roaches would take over!

They have and we just don't know about it yet.

re: #133 pingjockey

Ya gotta carefully hold a roach between your index finger & thumb,
otherwise you might burn yourself. ;-)

re: #134 Perplexed
Hillary has thumbs?

re: #135 BuddyG
I would use hemostats myself.

re: #138 pingjockey

Those little electronics alligator clips work good.

re: #128 pingjockey

re: #120 NomadOfNorad
Didn't know that. Cool.

The old style, large satellite dish operated by physically turning the dish to face all the different, seperate TV satellites in the sky. Those little 18" dishes are placed into position permanantly, and receive all their signal from the same place in the sky, because all the channels are now digital, and a bajillion of them are now crammed into the same signal coming from a much smaller set of satellites (say, four or five) that are positioned in the sky such that you don't have to move the dish around to get their signals. Even from just one satellite, you're gotting more channels than you used to get from all those seperate, disparate, analog satallites.

re: #137 buzzsawmonkey

re: #130 NomadOfNorad

Cockroaches will inherit the Earth! ! !

If you've ever had to deal with a bureaucracy, you are aware that they are well on the way.

ROFLMGO!

re: #136 debutaunt

re: #134 Perplexed
Hillary has thumbs?

No, just think of Edgar in the first Men in Black movie. That's Hillary.

re: #140 NomadOfNorad
Yes. I work with electronics, just not tv. Two way radio stuff and its gone digital big time. I didn't realize the sat rcvr was set up so you could split off of it.

re: #131 debutaunt

I've never understood how they keep getting a pass.

Same here, but it seems, if we can believe the latest polls, Shrill is showing slippage.

They seem to be bullet proof...I am terrified of her actually winning the nomination.

I've downloaded this but have yet to hear:

This week, The Sanity Squad analyzes a "Family Feud" going on among several conservative bloggers that has everyone in the right blogsphere taking sides and shaking their heads. Four mental health professionals talk politics and shine a psychological spotlight on both the sane and insane markers of today.

[Link: www.blogtalkradio.com...]

re: #136 debutaunt

Hillary has thumbs?

Shrillary has claws....

Learn about the relationship between vehicle theft and terrorism:

Is your car going to the Middle East - without you?

Here are two blog pages that are useful for introducing people to RSS and Atom feeds:

Resource Page - Get 1389 Blog Delivered is adapted from material provided by Copyblogger, with their permission. If you have a blog, you can adapt it and post it yourself, to encourage people to subscribe to your own blog.

How to Use the Little Orange Square to Get Your News Anywhere also introduces the reader to Google Reader and Google Reader Mobile.

Based on reporting at National Review online, it appears that Hezbollah/Iran/Syria is about to start their takeover of Lebanon in coordination with that country's presidential election slated for Nov. 23rd.

re: #148 1389

This was helpful. I'd not been explained the fundamentals of RSS feeds, so I this got me started with Google Reader. My first subscription was LGF, of course.

You will need to hold your nose to click this link
Just a part of my weekend adventures

Why don't we buy more crap from China?

That was a great quote. Made my night ;)

Bad News Good News
Is anyone else upset by Michael Savage's article on his website that the US Army is asking for its money back that they paid soldiers when they signed up and the army feels it didn't get its money's worth because they injured the healthy army person for life, so they are demanding money back from injured soldiers who have lost arms, legs, eyesight, mobility, hearing etc?
see
[Link: kdka.com...]
Oops the army has already started to backtrack:
"The injury forced the military to send him home. A few weeks later, he received a bill from the Department of Defense. He owes the military nearly $3,000 from his original enlistment bonus because he couldn't fulfill his tour.

"I tried to do my best and serve my country and unfortunately I was hurt in the process and now they're telling me that they want their money back," Fox told KDKA.

KDKA contacted the Pentagon. Investigators there took a look. A military spokesman told KDKA's Marty Griffin the bill sent to Fox was a mistake.

Griffin: "You are taking this case on involving Jordan and looking into it?"

Major Nathan Banks, Army spokesperson: "We are. We are ... definitely working it out. We have seen where the problems have been made, the system, and we're just making - you know, give us the opportunity to make a wrong a right."
Major Banks says Fox will not have to pay back his bonus. Fox says "fine," but he wants more.

"Hopefully this will turn into change for not only me but many other soldiers that have lost limbs, you know, become permanently deaf," he said. "I hope to see a change for everybody."

The Pentagon will not comment on allegations that thousands of other soldiers just sent home from Iraq and other invasions, including Afghanistan, will not receive these sorts of bills. They cannot comment on those cases.

KDKA has learned that our local congressional delegation, as well as both Pennsylvania senators, are demanding answers. We're also being told they are pressuring the President to get involved.

(© MMVII, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)"
[Link: kdka.com...]

re: #154 GreenSoccer

Unfortunately, I suspect that this isn't uncommon. Remember that these guys were dealing with the prefumed princes/princesses of the Pentagon who've lost touch with reality.

Injured? Lost conscience? Had your gear cut off of you so you can get emergency treatment? Gear lost? You will pay for that lost gear.

re: #155 Perplexed

I can't even understand their not paying to return a soldier home but let him/her hitchhike to get home in a culture that does not give soldiers lifts.