who is the knower?

Some people say, “How can you live without knowing?” I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.

I have no idea what he said so am I following his example?

George Carlin: Stop Saving the Effing Planet!

re: #1 sadhu

who is the knower?

that's not the knower I knew

Some people say, “How can you live without knowing?”

While others will probably vote for McCain.

I have his lecture series. A genius.

On vacation in the Wisconsin Dells this week with the family. Some of you may have seen where the torrential rains washed away a highway and surrounding land and drained a lake. Saw it today from the river and it was insane. Mother nature sure is a bitch when she gets pissed.

"Are you Alive?"

I know!
- The Shadow

I know nothing!
- Sgt Schultz

Well, of course he didn't know stuff. He was a quantum physicist. They never know where anything is.

Headline
Rocket Attacks Threaten Mideast Truce

In other words, Israel might respond, but until they do the "truce" holds.
Shit.

re: #10 angst

Well, of course he didn't know stuff. He was a quantum physicist. They never know where anything is.

Well you can know where it is but nothing else. If you know anything else, you don't know where it is.

re: #10 angst

Well, of course he didn't know stuff. He was a quantum physicist. They never know where anything is.

They can't even tell you if the damn cat is alive or dead. That takes a biologist.

How did Obama get to know? How does anyone know Obama?

re: #9 The Shadow Do

I know!
- The Shadow

I know nothing!
- Sgt Schultz

Me neither.

Barack Obama

re: #5 solomonpanting

Some people say, “How can you live without knowing?”

While others will probably vote for McCain.

What better choice is there? Barr? Mmmm, no. Obama, Mmmmm no.

re: #14 DesertSage

How did Obama get to know? How does anyone know Obama?

I know Obama knows nothing.

More madness from the State Department

The U.S. government is considering sending envoys to Iran for the first time since the 1979 Islamic Revolution to boost contact between the two nations.
The U.S. State Department was considering opening a so-called interests section in Tehran to handle such issues as visa processing and other consular services, Financial Times reported Tuesday.

Looks like it's up to the Israeli to destroy the Iranian reactors because this sounds like we won't

re: #12 jcm

Well you can know where it is but nothing else. If you know anything else, you don't know where it is.

Well, that's one of the many possible states of knowing.

One.
We are one.
One is the beginning.
Are you one , Herbert ?

You'll never know...

"As early as February 1997, mega-speculator George Soros's Quantum Fund started attacking Thailand's currency, the baht, and by June-July, it was taking short positions against (i.e., betting on the fall of) the Philippines peso, the Indonesian rupiah, and the Malaysian ringgit, which sent the currencies falling by 40-70% percent. On July 28, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad called Soros a ``criminal.''

The (Wall Street) Journal leapt to Soros's defense. It ran, on the front page of its Sept. 19 Asian and European editions, an article entitled ``Malaysia's Mahathir Finds Strange Source for Soros Campaign; Asian Country's Media Tap U.S. Conspiracy theorist Lyndon LaRouche Jr.'' The Journal wrote that much of the information that the friends of Mahathir in Malaysia have used to skewer Soros, came from EIR and Lyndon LaRouche. The Journal perhaps thought that presenting the Mahathir-LaRouche relationship would be damaging to Mahathir. Indeed, what it did, was to draw the battle lines between Soros, speculator hit-man for the British Commonwealth, and LaRouche, whose record of accurate economic forecasts for 40 years is well known, and whose plan for a development-vectored new world monetary system, would destroy the financier oligarchy.

"

Al Gore is currently smiling in an ad in the side bar! He is looking slimmer and more tanned, probably because of global warming. He knows everything./

Obama Urges Backers to Pay Off Clinton Campaign Debt

I think he plagiarized this from Stinky Beaumont's dissertation on Existential Philosophy.

“How can you live without knowing?”

The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know. If that isn't already a quote, I'll claim that one. That pretty much describes how I feel about things.

re: #23 snowcrash

That's got to be an old photo of Al.

re: #19 angst

Well, that's one of the many possible states of knowing.

Know it all!

re: #23 snowcrash

But what do I know.

re: #11 kansas

Headline
Rocket Attacks Threaten Mideast Truce
In other words, Israel might respond, but until they do the "truce" holds.
Shit.

ROFL ! I bet the MSMer who wrote that headline thinks it's sane!

re: #24 Typicalwhitey

I wonder how many Obamadisciples are donating to his campaign and skipping mortgage payments.

You'd think, as a skeptic and an agnostic, I'd like Richard Feynman, as all my fellow skeptics do.

However, I really found him distasteful. I didn't like him at all. He was a good physicist, but to me, a first-class jerk.

Completely sanctimonious and thoroughly egotistical.

The more I know, the less I know I know.

re: #28 jcm

Know it all!

One of my many possible states of being. Albeit vanishingly unlikely.
That's what I love about quantum physics. Anything is possible, including the possibility that I have a clue.

re: #32 zombie

Completely sanctimonious and thoroughly egotistical.

You rang?

re: #32 zombie

You'd think, as a skeptic and an agnostic, I'd like Richard Feynman, as all my fellow skeptics do.

However, I really found him distasteful. I didn't like him at all. He was a good physicist, but to me, a first-class jerk.

Completely sanctimonious and thoroughly egotistical.

maybe he just hates zombies

re: #33 ggt

The more I know, the less I know I know.

That is one of the most important things to know.
The other is to know what you don't know.

Gas Prices Could Fall To $2 If Congress Acts, Analysts Say

Its all so simple, Don't you see... congress just has to make a new law.

re: #27 jaunte
No, I'm pretty sure it's another side effect of global warming. He is tan and hungry. I'm not an intellectual heavyweight like Al but I can connect the dots!/

re: #31 Mich-again

I wonder how many Obamadisciples are donating to his campaign and skipping mortgage payments.

Speaking of which, do I have to be delinquent in my mortgage(s) to qualify for the bail-out money? I want to know, and if Uncle Sam is going to pick up the tab for the deadbeats, what about those of us that managed to pay on-time, every-time.

re: #38 DesertSage

Gas Prices Could Fall To $2 If Congress Acts, Analysts Say

Its all so simple, Don't you see... congress just has to make a new law.

But, isn't that law anti-capitalist, and pretty much a restriction on our freedoms?

re: #33 ggt

The more I know, the less I know I know.

That's the agnostics' credo!

re: #9 The Shadow Do

thanks for quoting my distant relative

plus one!

re: #32 zombie

Men as smart as Feynman aren't jerks, they are eccentric.

re: #32 zombie

You'd think, as a skeptic and an agnostic, I'd like Richard Feynman, as all my fellow skeptics do.

However, I really found him distasteful. I didn't like him at all. He was a good physicist, but to me, a first-class jerk.

Completely sanctimonious and thoroughly egotistical.

I only read "Six Easy Pieces," I never saw the lectures. The book was okay, as far as I could understand it.

re: #38 DesertSage

So the speculators take their action outside the US. What are these guys thinking?

re: #40 CyanSnowHawk

Speaking of which, do I have to be delinquent in my mortgage(s) to qualify for the bail-out money? I want to know, and if Uncle Sam is going to pick up the tab for the deadbeats, what about those of us that managed to pay on-time, every-time.

Screwed again

re: #37 jcm

There is the known, he unknown and the unknowable.

re: #41 Mars Needs Neocons

But, isn't that law anti-capitalist, and pretty much a restriction on our freedoms?

yep, I forgot my sarcasm tag.

re: #38 DesertSage

Gas Prices Could Fall To $2 If Congress Acts, Analysts Say

Its all so simple, Don't you see... congress just has to make a new law.

It's on Fox Business, the majority will never see it. All of the minority will.

re: #44 Neo Con since 9-11

Men as smart as Feynman aren't jerks, they are eccentric.

An English teacher of mine once said that rich people are not crazy, they are eccentric. Only the poor are considered crazy.

re: #49 DesertSage

yep, I forgot my sarcasm tag.

And I forgot to mention that mine was just stating the Democratic party platform.

re: #38 DesertSage

Gas Prices Could Fall To $2 If Congress Acts, Analysts Say

Its all so simple, Don't you see... congress just has to make a new law.

We could have CA coast, FL coast, and other Gulf Coast fields on line in less than a year. If Congress lifts the moratoriums.

re: #37 jcm

That is one of the most important things to know.
The other is to know what you don't know.

One of my favorite songs EVER:

Justin Hinds And The Dominoes - Save A Bread

Today can be gladness, mister, you don't know
Tomorrow can be sadness, sister, you don't know
What makes the world go round, round and round?
You'll never know, you don't know

So save a bread, mister, save it for the future
Save a bread, sister, because things will be better
You know not the minute nor the hour man shall come
You know not the minute nor the hour, the time is now

What you know, you know, and what you don't know, you don't know
The greatest thing is to know that what you don't know, you don't know
Anywhere you go, what you don't know, you don't know

re: #31 Mich-again

I wonder how many Obamadisciples are donating to his campaign and skipping mortgage payments.

Actually, I think they're behind the copper theft plague. There's a lot of campaign funding that could come from that.

Smash & Grab For Obama! ;)

have a good night every body

re: #48 Mich-again

There is the known, he unknown and the unknowable.

The trick lies in knowing the difference.

Additional quotes attributed to Richard Feynman:

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!

re: #45 angst

I only read "Six Easy Pieces," I never saw the lectures. The book was okay, as far as I could understand it.

Jack Nicholson was great in that movie. I especially liked the diner scene.

re: #48 Mich-again

There is the known, he unknown and the unknowable.

Then there's t the known, the unknown, the known unknowns and the unknown unknowns?

Donald made sense to me. I don't know why everyone thought that was so funny.

I've been reminded again this evening about the push by some moonbats to create a Department of Peace in the Exec. Branch. Silly nonsense, if you ask me. What say you fellow lizards?

[Link: my.barackobama.com...]

OOOOOOH, it's on YouTube!

Justin Hinds & The Dominoes - 'Save a Bread'

A classic!

re: #46 jaunte

who speculates the speculators?

re: #40 CyanSnowHawk

Speaking of which, do I have to be delinquent in my mortgage(s) to qualify for the bail-out money?

I'd have to say yes. Because if you can still make your house note you must be one of those evil capitalistic "winners in life's lottery".

re: #47 Creeping Eruption

Screwed again

Responsibility sucks.

re: #61 schultzw

I've been reminded again this evening about the push by some moonbats to create a Department of Peace in the Exec. Branch. Silly nonsense, if you ask me. What say you fellow lizards?

[Link: my.barackobama.com...]

I though we already had one. It is called the Department of Defense.

re: #59 DesertSage

Jack Nicholson was great in that movie. I especially liked the diner scene.

I wondered where the hell that title came from. I have to admit, popular culture is not my strong point!

re: #32 zombie

You'd think, as a skeptic and an agnostic, I'd like Richard Feynman, as all my fellow skeptics do.

However, I really found him distasteful. I didn't like him at all. He was a good physicist, but to me, a first-class jerk.

Completely sanctimonious and thoroughly egotistical.

Had a cool van though. (Feynman diagrams on the side and license place QUANTUM). It was kind of famous in the 'hood.

re: #61 schultzw

"Meaningful levels of humanitarian aid and development aid would also be central to the Dept."
Whether the taxed agree or not. Because it's for Peace!

re: #60 angst

Then there's t the known, the unknown, the known unknowns and the unknown unknowns?

Donald made sense to me. I don't know why everyone thought that was so funny.

I heard Donald on that, and said "damn straight!" Those who make fun, don't understand.

re: #61 schultzw

Department of Peace = US Marines.

We already got them.

re: #53 jcm

We could have CA coast, FL coast, and other Gulf Coast fields on line in less than a year. If Congress lifts the moratoriums.

All the congress would have to do is give the OK o drill in those areas and the speculative price of crude would drop by half.
Laws against speculation would only backfire and make things worse.

re: #66 Creeping Eruption

Some folks think that peace is the opposite of war. Therefore, due to this, they want to all hold hands and sing kumbayah while waiting for the Bush Legacy tour to come.

re: #59 DesertSage

One of the best.

re: #37 jcm

I will tell you that sometimes I suprise myself with what I know. Or rather, what I remember. It's always suprising to remember something you didn't know you knew.

It isn't what you know, it's who you blow.

monica Lewinsky

re: #38 DesertSage

Gas Prices Could Fall To $2 If Congress Acts, Analysts Say

Its all so simple, Don't you see... congress just has to make a new law.

I say pass the law - but it expires in 60 days. If it works leave it. If not - oh well.

re: #63 schultzw

I hesitate to speculate on mankind's drive to peculate.

re: #65 CyanSnowHawk
Bill Whittle posted an essay a while back showing how, at a certain point, when scofflaws become too numerous, it is in the individual's self-interest to GO WITH THEM!

/and then social order collapses...

re: #51 Creeping Eruption

An English teacher of mine once said that rich people are not crazy, they are eccentric. Only the poor are considered crazy.

Same standard applies to geniuses. Look at Einstein.

resorted to collecting cigarette butts from the streets to circumvent his doctor's effort to stop him from smoking.

In anyone else, this behavior would get them labeled a bum, but the genius was just eccentric

re: #38 DesertSage

Nothing will happen if we wait for Congress. The Private Sector has to step forward and starting the ball rolling. Flex-Fuel cars, New-type fuel stations --whatever.

It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

re: #72 DesertSage

True that. And don't forget ANWR.

But I might go a step further even and propose offshore drilling rigs alongside floating refineries that would fill up tankers of gasoline. Forget the NIMBY idiots.

re: #67 angst

I wondered where the hell that title came from. I have to admit, popular culture is not my strong point!

Again, my sense of humor is dry tonight. That was a joke, the movie was named "Five Easy Pieces".

Sorry about that.

re: #70 jcm

I heard Donald on that, and said "damn straight!" Those who make fun, don't understand.

Well, it's exactly how you have to make a diagnosis in the ER at 3am. It made perfect sense to me.

re: #59 DesertSage

Jack Nicholson was great in that movie. I especially liked the diner scene.

Classic.

re: #58 freetoken

Additional quotes attributed to Richard Feynman:
The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!

So I see he was smart enough to see where the productivity increases that were promised to us by the brave new world of computers went.

Every time I look at that background image at the BHO website, I get the strange urge to head over to IHOP for some waffles.

re: #57 jcm

Isn't that the LGF prayer?

Wisdom to know the difference?

re: #72 DesertSage

All the congress would have to do is give the OK o drill in those areas and the speculative price of crude would drop by half.
Laws against speculation would only backfire and make things worse.

The oil speculators actually moderate price spikes.

Soros has been short on the dollar for years. One of the reasons he wants Obama is to collapse the American economy. I bet that Soros is short on all future currency positions, but long on resource positions. I would be interested in his Yuan position as well as the Yen. This information is highly classified, BTW. Soros is a creep. A real strange dude that has gone bizarre. Evil.

re: #59 DesertSage

Jack Nicholson was great in that movie. I especially liked the diner scene.

My favorite, too.

re: #75 ggt

I will tell you that sometimes I suprise myself with what I know. Or rather, what I remember. It's always suprising to remember something you didn't know you knew.

It's surprising the trivial stuff the I remember, I think I've been wasting brain space on THAT!

re: #61 schultzw

I thought we already had two actually:

The Department of Justice.
&
The Department of Defense.

re: #93 ggt

AND Homeland Security

re: #88 ggt

Isn't that the LGF prayer?

Wisdom to know the difference?

Some of the ID threads lot of folks lost sight of it.

re: #90 pat

Soros has been short on the dollar for years. One of the reasons he wants Obama is to collapse the American economy. I bet that Soros is short on all future currency positions, but long on resource positions. I would be interested in his Yuan position as well as the Yen. This information is highly classified, BTW. Soros is a creep. A real strange dude that has gone bizarre. Evil.

All detailed in "The Shadow Party". He was even asked to help the dollar after 9-11 and did the opposite.

re: #73 schultzw

"Peace is not the absense of conflict, Peace is Justice"

I forgot the Rabbi who said that, I heard his lecture once.

Jack Nicholson has played the same part for the last 20 years, a slightly filthy man who repulses most. Sorry. I do not get it. Hack.

re: #90 pat

Soros has been short on the dollar for years. One of the reasons he wants Obama is to collapse the American economy. I bet that Soros is short on all future currency positions, but long on resource positions. I would be interested in his Yuan position as well as the Yen. This information is highly classified, BTW. Soros is a creep. A real strange dude that has gone bizarre. Evil.

The man who broke the Bank of England

Soros don't give a fuck as long a the buck ends in his pocket.

re: #98 pat

Jack Nicholson has played the same part for the last 20 years, a slightly filthy man who repulses most. Sorry. I do not get it. Hack.

I think that you are going to take a fair number of hits for that.

re: #83 DesertSage

Again, my sense of humor is dry tonight. That was a joke, the movie was named "Five Easy Pieces".

Sorry about that.

Right. I knew Feynman was making a play on words from something- I just didn't know what. But, of course, the movie could well have been "Six Easy Pieces," for all I know! I'm not sure I could tell Dustin Hoffman from Abby Hoffman.

re: #92 jcm

It's surprising the trivial stuff the I remember, I think I've been wasting brain space on THAT!

Up until about 15 years ago my family referred to me as an inexhaustible font of useless trivia. Now its sometimes there, and sometimes it isn't. Only my father will play me in trivial pursuit though, even after two strokes he still barely beats me and destroys the rest of the family.

re: #100 Creeping Eruption

I think that you are going to take a fair number of hits for that.

One of those hits might be with a 6 iron through the windshield.

re: #98 pat

Jack Nicholson has played the same part for the last 20 years, a slightly filthy man who repulses most. Sorry. I do not get it. Hack.

I'm not an intense movie fan but Nicholson to me is a quintessential anti-hero.

re: #90 pat

Soros has been short on the dollar for years. One of the reasons he wants Obama is to collapse the American economy. I bet that Soros is short on all future currency positions, but long on resource positions. I would be interested in his Yuan position as well as the Yen. This information is highly classified, BTW. Soros is a creep. A real strange dude that has gone bizarre. Evil.

I was thinking he wanted to crash the economy first, so we'd vote for "change".

Why do I keep seeing Soros as a villain in a Bond movie? If Obama loses, those Bond villains are pretty nasty to those minions who fail them.

re: #20 shug

One.
We are one.
One is the beginning.
Are you one , Herbert ?

I am not Herbert.   I reach.

re: #103 CyanSnowHawk

One of those hits might be with a 6 iron through the windshield.

For starters

re: #102 Mars Needs Neocons

Up until about 15 years ago my family referred to me as an inexhaustible font of useless trivia. Now its sometimes there, and sometimes it isn't. Only my father will play me in trivial pursuit though, even after two strokes he still barely beats me and destroys the rest of the family.

Years ago, I was accused of cheating at Trivial Pursuit. I wasn't; I've just picked up a huge amount of random knowledge over the years.
Shocked my wife when I knew Knut Rockne invented the forward pass (I think that was the question)

re: #101 angst

Right. I knew Feynman was making a play on words from something- I just didn't know what. But, of course, the movie could well have been "Six Easy Pieces," for all I know! I'm not sure I could tell Dustin Hoffman from Abby Hoffman.

Abbie Hoffman was one of the Chicago seven, Dustin Hoffman was The Graduate.

re: #105 Kosh's Shadow

I was thinking he wanted to crash the economy first, so we'd vote for "change".

Why do I keep seeing Soros as a villain in a Bond movie? If Obama loses, those Bond villains are pretty nasty to those minions who fail them.

I've said before, he is the real Ernesto Blofeld. The problem is we don't have a real Bond to take him down.

re: #102 Mars Needs Neocons

Up until about 15 years ago my family referred to me as an inexhaustible font of useless trivia. Now its sometimes there, and sometimes it isn't. Only my father will play me in trivial pursuit though, even after two strokes he still barely beats me and destroys the rest of the family.

My entire family is hell on wheels with Trivial Pursuit, except in the entertainment category it's rare any of us miss a question.

Balderdash is another one, we know most of the words already.

As long as it's family it's fun, guests get massacred.

Jack Nicholson looks like he does not change his underwear and his breath stinks. Easiest way to make up with my wife is to put one of his movies on a TV.

re: #108 Kosh's Shadow

Years ago, I was accused of cheating at Trivial Pursuit. I wasn't; I've just picked up a huge amount of random knowledge over the years.
Shocked my wife when I knew Knut Rockne invented the forward pass (I think that was the question)

Sports questions destroy me.

re: #90 pat
He is a guide to how we should prepare.

re: #111 jcm

My entire family is hell on wheels with Trivial Pursuit, except in the entertainment category it's rare any of us miss a question.

Balderdash is another one, we know most of the words already.

As long as it's family it's fun, guests get massacred.

We've taken to destroying each other in Uno, at least its fair all around.

re: #108 Kosh's Shadow

I am in the same type of boat. All my friends will start of a question with "Okay you might know this. . . ."

/was once called a well of useless information once.
//pointed out to same person all knowledge is useful at some period of time.

re: #108 Kosh's Shadow

Years ago, I was accused of cheating at Trivial Pursuit. I wasn't; I've just picked up a huge amount of random knowledge over the years.
Shocked my wife when I knew Knut Rockne invented the forward pass (I think that was the question)

My wife and daughter also tell me to shut up during Jeopardy so they have time to come up with the answer before I do.

re: #113 Mars Needs Neocons

Sports questions destroy me.

They usually do for me, but I remembered something from a comic book I had read years earlier.

re: #117 Kosh's Shadow

My wife and daughter also tell me to shut up during Jeopardy so they have time to come up with the answer before I do.

Tried out for Jeopardy. My damn test had 6 sports questions.

re: #112 pat

For him its been downhill since The Shining. Of course thats one of the greatest movies ever so..

re: #115 Mars Needs Neocons

We've taken to destroying each other in Uno, at least its fair all around.

Uno, another family favorite is Rook (similar to spades), some skill in playing the cards dealt, but we know each other so well bluffing doesn't work.

I know nothing. Hrummmmph

re: #16 coquimbojoe

There IS a better choice - if you have a time machine.

The PERFECT presidential candidate for our time:
Themistocles.

Tied for first place with the above:
Publius Fabius Maximus.

Home boys both, fast and true.

re: #118 Kosh's Shadow

They usually do for me, but I remembered something from a comic book I had read years earlier.

I just access one of the 8000 comics I have been hoarding on my hard drive. (Since I lost my physical collection I have been in withdrawal)

Interesting how us lizards are fountains of knowledge, while the Kos Sacks are fountains of ranting garbage.

re: #109 DesertSage

Abbie Hoffman was one of the Chicago seven, Dustin Hoffman was The Graduate.

Yes, but I was thinking of Jack Nicholson when I typed that!

re: #101 angst

I'm not sure I could tell Dustin Hoffman from Abby Hoffman.

Oh, I'm pretty sure you'd have no problem with that one.

Dustin Hoffman is alive.
Abbie Hoffman has been dead for 19 years.

re: #112 pat
Not a Nicholson fan, but LIKED him in "Wish Bucket"

re: #98 pat

Jack Nicholson has played the same part for the last 20 years, a slightly filthy man who repulses most. Sorry. I do not get it. Hack.

Nicholson has the same appeal to me that Tom Waits does. They are both crude and full of pathos, and a reasonable person would be repulsed by their rough edges and lack of polish.

But I still dig them both, and I really don't understand it, but there it is.

Sometimes I have to listen to Waits with my headphones because no one would understand why someone digs both him and Ravel or Copland.

re: #127 opilio

Oh, I'm pretty sure you'd have no problem with that one.

Dustin Hoffman is alive.
Abbie Hoffman has been dead for 19 years.

Okay, if I saw them side by side, I could do it.

I shred at Scrabble. I don't care if the rest of the room teams up against me. I don't remember losing a game.

"Dark City" is an underrated classic of a movie.

Just wanted to throw that out there.

re: #131 Mich-again

I shred at Scrabble. I don't care if the rest of the room teams up against me. I don't remember losing a game.

I put my mom (RIP) up against you! She was brutal!

re: #120 Mich-again

For him its been downhill since The Shining. Of course thats one of the greatest movies ever so..

Ditto. Good book to. Movie a bit less supernatural than the book, but an excellent performance. But we have seen the same repressed anger too many times. If he was a dog, I would have shot him by now.

How can you eat when it's snowing? That's easy, I always eat when it's snowing. How can you eat yellow snow is what I want to know.

re: #106 opilio

Are you one , Herbert ?

I gave to Hope a watch of mine: but he
an Anchor gave to me.
Then an old prayer-book I did present,
And he an optic sent.
With that, I gave a vial full of tears,
But he, a few green ears.
Ah, Loyterer, I'll no more, no more I'll bring!
I did expect a ring.

- George Herbert.

Why I loathe Hollywood:
[Link: www.startribune.com...]

re: #124 Mars Needs Neocons

I just access one of the 8000 comics I have been hoarding on my hard drive. (Since I lost my physical collection I have been in withdrawal)

Two weeks ago I went out and replaced my copy of Watchman (only comic to win the Hugo award - I think), got the itch, went online and started tracking down copies of Rogue Trooper.

re: #124 Mars Needs Neocons Ah, there you are! By the time I finished typing and posting an answer to your question in the prior thread, you'd come over here.
SO here's a repost (sorry folks)
re: #1023 Mars Needs Neocons I don't know either - you'd think that the US Department of Labor would be able to coordinate with the US DoD, but I'm not so sure.
What I AM sure about, is that 8 Vietnam Vets, all employed at very demanding, full time jobs, with precious little funding, managed to find full time -career type jobs for over 4,000 of our fellow Vietnam Vets in 11 years - and if we'd had more help, and money, we could easily have placed another 8,000 all in NYC alone.
Those figures by the Department of Labor may have been inflated, but I've known - personally - too many Vietnam Vets (real ones, not the make believe or wannabeen types) who were horribly discriminated against for at least two reasons: one, the media tended to portray us as drug addicted psychopaths (The Columbia School of Journalism, at our request, studied the characters in TV shows and found, over a period of just two years, that Vietnam Vets were ELEVEN times more likely to play drugged out or psychotic killers than they were cops) and the second is: America was truly tired by the Vietnam War - the homeland was not exactly complacent about it - and in it's rush to forget the war, also hurried did all it could to forget the warriors who fought it.
Then, of course, was the fact that the average age of a combat vet in Vietnam was 19 - very few had jobs to return to and had to start job searching as the economy went into a dive while Ford was President.

re: #126 angst

Yes, but I was thinking of Jack Nicholson when I typed that!

Well, I can't help you out with that :')

re: #112 pat

According to a friend who has socialized with him at a Hollywood party, you are correct.

re: #138 Creeping Eruption

Two weeks ago I went out and replaced my copy of Watchman (only comic to win the Hugo award - I think), got the itch, went online and started tracking down copies of Rogue Trooper.

I've got a RT graphic novel floating around here some where.

re: #113 Mars Needs Neocons

Me, too, except once. I knew that the last horse to win the Triple Crown prior to Secretariat was Citation.

re: #131 Mich-again

I shred at Scrabble. I don't care if the rest of the room teams up against me. I don't remember losing a game.

Back in grad school, my wife and I shredded the others with "squid" and "lox" (no bagels, though)

My mom was brutal at bridge. I was once a serious chess player, but had to give it up when I started dreaming chess and moving people around the room in my imagination at class or meetings. Went on to cribbage. Did well.

re: #144 Kosh's Shadow

Back in grad school, my wife and I shredded the others with "squid" and "lox" (no bagels, though)

"Penguin" wins at hangman every time.

re: #140 DesertSage
Hey Sage - how are you doing tonight?

re: #122 pat

It's actually boastful to say that you're profoundly ignorant. Or, at least it was in The Left Hand of Darkness.

re: #142 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I've got a RT graphic novel floating around here some where.

Next is to dig up some Judge Dredd. Its been so long, I'm not sure if some of this stuff is still being published.

re: #139 realwest

Ah, there you are! By the time I finished typing and posting an answer to your question in the prior thread, you'd come over here.
SO here's a repost (sorry folks)
re: #1023 Mars Needs Neocons I don't know either - you'd think that the US Department of Labor would be able to coordinate with the US DoD, but I'm not so sure.
What I AM sure about, is that 8 Vietnam Vets, all employed at very demanding, full time jobs, with precious little funding, managed to find full time -career type jobs for over 4,000 of our fellow Vietnam Vets in 11 years - and if we'd had more help, and money, we could easily have placed another 8,000 all in NYC alone.
Those figures by the Department of Labor may have been inflated, but I've known - personally - too many Vietnam Vets (real ones, not the make believe or wannabeen types) who were horribly discriminated against for at least two reasons: one, the media tended to portray us as drug addicted psychopaths (The Columbia School of Journalism, at our request, studied the characters in TV shows and found, over a period of just two years, that Vietnam Vets were ELEVEN times more likely to play drugged out or psychotic killers than they were cops) and the second is: America was truly tired by the Vietnam War - the homeland was not exactly complacent about it - and in it's rush to forget the war, also hurried did all it could to forget the warriors who fought it.
Then, of course, was the fact that the average age of a combat vet in Vietnam was 19 - very few had jobs to return to and had to start job searching as the economy went into a dive while Ford was President.

I gotcha and replied down thread. I'm double threading past my bedtime.

/Somebody stop me!

re: #136 Dianna

I gave to Hope a watch of mine: but he
an Anchor gave to me.
Then an old prayer-book I did present,
And he an optic sent.
With that, I gave a vial full of tears,
But he, a few green ears.
Ah, Loyterer, I'll no more, no more I'll bring!
I did expect a ring.

- George Herbert.

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

- Herbert Hoover

re: #124 Mars Needs Neocons

I just access one of the 8000 comics I have been hoarding on my hard drive. (Since I lost my physical collection I have been in withdrawal)

are those whole stories or covers? if stories where?

re: #135 Salem

How can you eat when it's snowing? That's easy, I always eat when it's snowing. How can you eat yellow snow is what I want to know.

Zappa had a song about that -
Watch out where the huskies go

re: #148 Dianna

It's actually boastful to say that you're profoundly ignorant. Or, at least it was in The Left Hand of Darkness.

Is that like saying, "I'm the most plain!" if you're Amish?

re: #133 jcm

Well then I'll take your word and tip my hat. As for the rest of the 6+ billion still out there, bring it on beyotches!

re: #148 Dianna

It's actually boastful to say that you're profoundly ignorant. Or, at least it was in The Left Hand of Darkness.

Lequinn

re: #125 Kosh's Shadow

Interesting how us lizards are fountains of knowledge, while the Kos Sacks are fountains of ranting garbage.

And they absolutely lack any semblance of a sense of humor. I find that awfully telling. They are very dark souls, most of 'em.

re: #151 opilio

Oh! That's GOOD!

And from null-grey-bland Herbert Hoover, no less!

re: #149 Creeping Eruption

Next is to dig up some Judge Dredd. Its been so long, I'm not sure if some of this stuff is still being published.

Kind of hard to find in the states. There was a cheap, campy version that got licensed over here which sucked. I got a few issues I scrounged up from overseas, so much better. Judge Death was one of the greatest villians ever.

re: #138 Creeping Eruption

Two weeks ago I went out and replaced my copy of Watchman (only comic to win the Hugo award - I think), got the itch, went online and started tracking down copies of Rogue Trooper.

I'm a bit nervous about that movie. Of course I've scene a few comic to scene comparisons and it looks dead on. Just wish Moore wasn't such a radical moonbat. (at least he seems to be judging by some of his comments about the US.)

re: #129 rawmuse

Not so!

I think Tom Waits is sporadically brilliant, and Ravel had about 3 moments of brilliance, and (do we mean Aaron Copeland? I hope so) could imitate brilliance well enough to fool me six times in 30.

re: #157 Cartman

And they absolutely lack any semblance of a sense of humor.

The sense of humor is proportional to intelligence. Thus explaining the dour and ignorant nature of the typical KosKid.

re: #157 Cartman

And they absolutely lack any semblance of a sense of humor. I find that awfully telling. They are very dark souls, most of 'em.

How can anyone stay sane without a sense of humor?
/rhetorical question about the Kossies - and Muslims, another group with no sense of humor.

I do know this, it getting late.
Morning comes early.
The day is long.
So it's off to bed with me.

“He who is brave is free.”
Seneca

We remain the home of the brave.
We remain the home of the free.

N☭bama.

re: #143 Dianna

Me, too, except once. I knew that the last horse to win the Triple Crown prior to Secretariat was Citation.

It always amazes me when I actually am able to answer one.

re: #152 pat

are those whole stories or covers? if stories where?

Whole, but it's not really on the up and up. I just can't help myself. I buy what I can, but I have a need to read them all.

After a home invasion murder, Three fully armed complete with body armor Mexican Military personnel arrested here in Phoenix. They were attempting to lure Phx. Police into ally ambush after allowing themselves to be chased into ally at 7TH. ST, and Mcdowell. Ran out of ammunition. This is an act of war.

re: #159 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Kind of hard to find in the states. There was a cheap, campy version that got licensed over here which sucked. I got a few issues I scrounged up from overseas, so much better. Judge Death was one of the greatest villians ever.

Was that published by AD 2000 (I think that was the outfit that put out Rouge Trooper, Strontium Dog, etc...British company?) Any suggestions where to look?

re: #161 Dianna

Well, that is why music is subjective.
And Copland has no "e".
I loves me some Copland. And Holst. And Ravel, and Stravinsky.

re: #151 opilio

Hoover was right, but don't tell anyone, or the whole imaginary structure of entitlements will collapse, and we'll actually have to find jobs for section 8 types.

re: #147 realwest

Hey Sage - how are you doing tonight?

Hey RW! Long time no speak!
We were just talking about Jack Nicholson.

re: #166 jainphx

linky?

re: #154 angst

Yes.

re: #161 Dianna

Not so!

I think Tom Waits is sporadically brilliant, and Ravel had about 3 moments of brilliance, and (do we mean Aaron Copeland? I hope so) could imitate brilliance well enough to fool me six times in 30.

Did anyone here not have to play Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man in high school band?

I like Rodeo the best. It's not often one finds classical music used to sell beef.

re: #166 jainphx

After a home invasion murder, Three fully armed complete with body armor Mexican Military personnel arrested here in Phoenix. They were attempting to lure Phx. Police into ally ambush after allowing themselves to be chased into ally at 7TH. ST, and Mcdowell. Ran out of ammunition. This is an act of war.

Link?

Armed Mexican troops in the US? Can we build the damn wall already?

re: #167 Creeping Eruption

Was that published by AD 2000 (I think that was the outfit that put out Rouge Trooper, Strontium Dog, etc...British company?) Any suggestions where to look?

Try here, though the site is undergoing maintenance right now.

I'm trying to get a hold of some of the old Games Workshop stuff myself.

re: #168 rawmuse

Stravinsky needed someone to explain that the violins don't always have to be shrilling away in alt. Really. Otherwise, he's not bad.

7 straight days of rain in the forecast here. Thunderstorms scattered like Waffle House hash browns.

We have about 50 people due here for a graduation party Saturday. If it rains, I guess we'll play Euchre and Scrabble. And drink. I almost forgot that part.

re: #169 Dianna

Hoover was right, but don't tell anyone, or the whole imaginary structure of entitlements will collapse, and we'll actually have to find jobs for section 8 types.

HEY! I'm trying my damndest. I'm jumping through all of the hoops and still looking for work.

I know you don't mean me. Just having fun with you.

Rouge Trooper

"Hey, Thweetie, got time for a Rouge Trooper? You're JUST MY TYPE, Handsome..."

"Gittaway from me, you fag!"

/or was it a typothetical mistrake?

re: #150 Mars Needs Neocons Ah, read your post in the prior thread.
I thank you for your service to our Nation.

I'm sorry you've had such a rough time of it and fear that part of it could be the unpopularity of Your war, just as mine was so unpopular.
Do ya mind me asking what you did in the service and what branch, dates and all? (my nic is in blue if you want to e-mail me directly). Don't know if I can help you with getting a job, but as one of the 8 Vietnam Vets who did in fact help so many others out, I do have some ideas as to ways you might be able to help yourself.
Oh, and as with the other work I did with Vietnam Veterans, any advice or help I can give you is for free.

re: #156 pat

LeGuin. Ursula K.

Daughter of one of the most brilliant anthropologists of the 20th Century, and it shows.

re: #174 CyanSnowHawk

Link?

Armed Mexican troops in the US? Can we build the damn wall already?

Wouldn't be the first time. There was an incident a few years back where Mexican army opened fire on U.S. police around the border.

I gotta go to sleep, Lizards!

weet dreams!

re: #173 angst

Did anyone here not have to play Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man in high school band?

I like Rodeo the best. It's not often one finds classical music used to sell beef.

Personally I like Stewart Copeland myself.

re: #166 jainphx Link?

re: #179 Carridine

"Hey, Thweetie, got time for a Rouge Trooper? You're JUST MY TYPE, Handsome..."

"Gittaway from me, you fag!"

/or was it a typothetical mistrake?

"Are those....transvestites? OH SHIT, THEY HAVE GUNS!"

- Eddie Izzard on the Transvestite Paratrooper Brigade

re: #183 ggt

I gotta go to sleep, Lizards!

weet dreams!

Were you trying to type "sweet dreams" or "wet dreams"?

re: #175 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Try here, though the site is undergoing maintenance right now.

I'm trying to get a hold of some of the old Games Workshop stuff myself.

Thanks for the link, I'll check back to see when it has been fixed. Wonder oif they have actual old issues for sale.

re: #157 Cartman

And they absolutely lack any semblance of a sense of humor. I find that awfully telling. They are very dark souls, most of 'em.

As a group, they're remarkable obtuse.

I occasionally comment over there, and the other day I left a sarcastic 2 sentence response to another commenter basically calling him an idiot. The KosKids failed to penetrate the sarcasm, and my comment received 5 up-dings, including one from the author of the original comment!

Copland was a socialist, but in those days, if you weren't, you were a rat fink.

re: #180 realwest

Ah, read your post in the prior thread.
I thank you for your service to our Nation.

I'm sorry you've had such a rough time of it and fear that part of it could be the unpopularity of Your war, just as mine was so unpopular.
Do ya mind me asking what you did in the service and what branch, dates and all? (my nic is in blue if you want to e-mail me directly). Don't know if I can help you with getting a job, but as one of the 8 Vietnam Vets who did in fact help so many others out, I do have some ideas as to ways you might be able to help yourself.
Oh, and as with the other work I did with Vietnam Veterans, any advice or help I can give you is for free.

ARNG - 1988-1990 Cannon Crewmember
Air Force 1990-1995 SP

Desert Shield (1 day)
Desert Storm
Whatever the hell we called it in 91-92

I'm getting a lot of support from the VA, but they're getting as frustrated as I am.

I'll try to email you, but I've had some problems with the system so I'll blue my nic too, just in case you don't get anything.

re: #173 angst

I had to sing the bits about "Dancing ladies, making matches, playing games, singing snatches."

I'd dearly love to forget.

re: #66 Creeping Eruption

I thought we already had one. It is called the Department of Defense.

Yep, the old Latin saying: Si Vera Pacem, Para Bellum (If you desire peace, prepare for war) has always been a truism. Works on a small scale (you aren't going to mess with the body builder down the block), works on a large scale: if we had a pair in the 70's, Iran wouldn't be pursuing nukes now.

re: #187 angst

Were you trying to type "sweet dreams" or "wet dreams"?

LOL

Too many fires in California. The air was not good today. Can we have some of your rain, Mich-again?

re: #170 DesertSage
Yeah, Sage, long time no receive e-mail from you!
LOL! Jack Nicholson - fraid I can't really add anything to the discussion; I've seen him in some great movies/roles and some crappy ones but somehow or other he seems to play the same type of person, ya know?

re: #180 realwest

Ah, read your post in the prior thread.
I thank you for your service to our Nation.

I'm sorry you've had such a rough time of it and fear that part of it could be the unpopularity of Your war, just as mine was so unpopular.
Do ya mind me asking what you did in the service and what branch, dates and all? (my nic is in blue if you want to e-mail me directly). Don't know if I can help you with getting a job, but as one of the 8 Vietnam Vets who did in fact help so many others out, I do have some ideas as to ways you might be able to help yourself.
Oh, and as with the other work I did with Vietnam Veterans, any advice or help I can give you is for free.

Yep it went to a blank page again. It's done that everytime since I upgraded to Firefox 3

re: #192 Dianna

I had to sing the bits about "Dancing ladies, making matches, playing games, singing snatches."

I'd dearly love to forget.

Thank God I just listen to the instrumentals!

re: #182 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Wouldn't be the first time. There was an incident a few years back where Mexican army opened fire on U.S. police around the border.

I remember. The corruption down there is insane, but I have to think that the crooks wouldn't be flailing so much if the Gov't. crackdowns were not having an effect. With luck, in 25 years, it might be a nice place to visit again. Until then, they don't get tourist dollar one from me or my family.

Speaking of Tom Waits, this is still my favorite. Not to get morbid or anything, but it's in my last will and testament that it be played at my service. I guess I just sorta connect with it. ;)

re: #174 CyanSnowHawk

It's happened a number of times; the trouble is, we can't tell if it's actually the Mexican army qua Mexican army, drug gangs with Mexican army equipment, or portions of the Mexican army rented out to drug gangs.

Frankly, neither can the Mexicans.

This should make you nervous.

re: #177 Mich-again

7 straight days of rain in the forecast here. Thunderstorms scattered like Waffle House hash browns.

We have about 50 people due here for a graduation party Saturday. If it rains, I guess we'll play Euchre and Scrabble. And drink. I almost forgot that part.

I feel your pain. See my number 7 above.

re: #195 rawmuse

Can we have some of your rain, Mich-again?

I haven't turned on my sprinklers once this year and yet the lawn is the best I can remember. Sorry, wish we could help you out there.

re: #200 Cartman

I'm partial to What's he building in there?

re: #201 Dianna

It's happened a number of times; the trouble is, we can't tell if it's actually the Mexican army qua Mexican army, drug gangs with Mexican army equipment, or portions of the Mexican army rented out to drug gangs.

Frankly, neither can the Mexicans.

This should make you nervous.

It does. I live within 20 miles of the border. I will not go down there.

re: #198 angst

Isn't it just awful?

By the way, any comic junkies that want to know how I do what I do, drop me an email. Just promise me that you will continue to buy, we can't read em if they can't afford to write em.

Hey Dianna, the Financial District just had a power transformer blow. No electricity right now. Bring a flashlight tomorrow.

re: #201 Dianna

It's happened a number of times; the trouble is, we can't tell if it's actually the Mexican army qua Mexican army, drug gangs with Mexican army equipment, or portions of the Mexican army rented out to drug gangs.

Frankly, neither can the Mexicans.

This should make you nervous.

Your average civilian is safer in Iraq than he is in Mexico.

Some one needs to go down there and clear house.

re: #193 AZfederalist

Yep, the old Latin saying: Si Vera Pacem, Para Bellum (If you desire peace, prepare for war) has always been a truism. Works on a small scale (you aren't going to mess with the body builder down the block), works on a large scale: if we had a pair in the 70's, Iran wouldn't be pursuing nukes now.

Is that where the term Parabellum (as in 9mm) came from?

re: #208 rawmuse

Oh, peachy.

Good night everybody.

re: #157 Cartman

And they absolutely lack any semblance of a sense of humor. I find that awfully telling. They are very dark souls, most of 'em.

I always flash on this guy who played the revolutionary in Dr. Zhivago. He never smiled once in the movie.

re: #209 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

The problem being, if we form a lizard brigade, we'd be in trouble.

re: #201 Dianna

It's happened a number of times; the trouble is, we can't tell if it's actually the Mexican army qua Mexican army, drug gangs with Mexican army equipment, or portions of the Mexican army rented out to drug gangs.

Frankly, neither can the Mexicans.

This should make you nervous.

Kill them all, and sort out the bodies. Better than watching our National Guard runaway because they are unarmed. Bush. spit.

obamessiah.blogspot.com

I knew Feynman and I'm sorry you're no Feynman.

re: #214 Dianna

The problem being, if we form a lizard brigade, we'd be in trouble.

Remember reading in history where anyone with the money and urge could form a brigade and go charging off into whatever war interested them?

re: #214 Dianna

The problem being, if we form a lizard brigade, we'd be in trouble.

I was thinking something on a slightly larger scale, but the pussies in DC are bought and paid for already,

re: #215 pat

Sigh.

re: #204 Killgore Trout

I'm partial to What's he building in there?

To each his own, I guess. ;)

I know, therefore I am not not.

Whenever I need a lift, I play
This I Dig of You.

re: #218 Mars Needs Neocons

It was a much more free-wheeling era. These days, we'd have various federal agencies descending on us so fast we'd be in jail before our heads stopped spinning.

heck, at this rate, I'd hesitate to make a date to go shooting!

re: #224 Dianna

It was a much more free-wheeling era. These days, we'd have various federal agencies descending on us so fast we'd be in jail before our heads stopped spinning.

heck, at this rate, I'd hesitate to make a date to go shooting!

That's no lie.

Excuse me a few minutes.

re: #171 BlueCanuck

Don't have, it was on the J.D. Hayworth radio program today. The house invasion was to kill the drug dealers in the house, they killed one but expended most of their ammo attacking the house. The open boarder Mayor tried to keep it quiet, should hit the media tomorrow.

We can't mention Mr Waits without Chocolate Jesus

I don't care if it rains or freezes ling as I got my chocolate Jesus glued to the back of the fridge.

re: #223 rawmuse

Whenever I need a lift, I play
This I Dig of You.

That definitely shakes the moneymaker. ;)

Night all.

Kosh, Krager, whoever else. I'm serious, drop me an email. I'll try to help on the comic front anyway I can. Comics preservation is vital.

Longtime incumbent Rep. Chris Cannon (RINO-UT) has just lost a primary against newcomer, constitution-leaning Chaffetz. Voters were pissed here and were ready for a change.
Cannon supported amnesty, as did his brother Joe Cannon of the Deseret Morning News.
Change!

...and you could hear a pin drop.

re: #233 Cartman

...and you could hear a pin drop.

and echo

Rawmuse, I can't find anything on the blown transformer.

Linkage? Help?

Home invasion, bad stuff. I have survived one.
That little incident made me get serious about security.

re: #235 Dianna

Heard on KSFO, local coverage. The transformer is on Drumm St.
No linky yet.

re: #237 rawmuse

It would tend to!

re: #233 Cartman

It's the quiet before the storm.

re: #238 rawmuse

OK. I'll go over to ksfo's website and see what they can tell me. If anything.

I may need to call my boss.

re: #191 Mars Needs Neocons I just sent you an e-mail. Hopefully it'll get through. I haven't received an e-mail from you.

re: #237 rawmuse

This seems to be a drug war that started in Mexico. The drug dealers came to Arizona to stay alive. The perpetrators were Special forces Mexican army working for the cartel.

re: #243 jainphx

Pros! That is some scary shit.
My incident was a kid on PCP, along with his pals.

re: #232 tackle

By a rather significant margin too.

re: #244 rawmuse

Pros! That is some scary shit.
My incident was a kid on PCP, along with his pals.

Outcome - if you don't mind my asking?

re: #243 jainphx

Then it's not an act of war. What precisely it ought to be defined as, I'm not sure, except as an insane level of corruption.

Well all y'all it's been an interesting night, as usual, but I gotta get some sleep!
I hope you all have a GREAT EVENING/EARLY MORNING and that I get the chance to see you down the road.

Goodnight, all!

re: #244 rawmuse

Yeah they were in full Armored outfit with Phoenix Police shirts. The scary part is this happened Sunday, if J.D. didn't find out about it we would never have known.

I give up. I can't find any word on what the blown transformer will mean for my morning commute, or my boss', so I am going to bed.

Take care, lizards.

re: #232 tackle

Longtime incumbent Rep. Chris Cannon (RINO-UT) has just lost a primary against newcomer, constitution-leaning Chaffetz. Voters were pissed here and were ready for a change.
Cannon supported amnesty, as did his brother Joe Cannon of the Deseret Morning News.
Change!

Jason Chaffetz, I believe, used to be a democrat organizer....

re: #246 Creeping Eruption

I am here, ain't I?
The unfortunate lad was last seen being carried off on a buckboard, restrained hand, chest and foot, by the SFPD.
He is serving for multiple felonies, along with his buds.

But there was about 10 minute bloody struggle in my kitchen in which the outcome was uncertain. If you have never fought an 18 year kid on PCP, I hope you never do. Adrenaline comes in handy.

It broke my heart really, I used to play basketball with him when he was a child.

re: #247 Dianna

The fact that they were Army personnel, should count for something. You may be right, but I don't want another country's military people here doing drug business killings and what have you.

re: #251 coquimbojoe

Jason Chaffetz, I believe, used to be a democrat organizer....

His dad had married Kitty Dukakis before she married Gov Dukakis....

re: #252 rawmuse

I am here, ain't I?
The unfortunate lad was last seen being carried off on a buckboard, restrained hand, chest and foot, by the SFPD.
He is serving for multiple felonies, along with his buds.

But there was about 10 minute bloody struggle in my kitchen in which the outcome was uncertain. If you have never fought an 18 year kid on PCP, I hope you never do. Adrenaline comes in handy.

It broke my heart really, I used to play basketball with him when he was a child.

Never have - hope to never have to in the future. I have been lucky. Outside a few scuffles on the playground when I was a kid, I have only been in one fight in my life when I was a bouncer in college. Not a fair fight either - he was drunk and I was stone cold sober.

Well, I seem to have misplaced my circadian rythms somewhere. I'm off to try and find 'em.

G'nite, all.

Oil prices won't come down: OPEC president

re: #255 Creeping Eruption

I hope that was my last one.

re: #257 Syrah

Drill Drill Drill, build Refineries, then Drill Drill Drill.

re: #258 rawmuse

Drugs do funny thing to otherwise descent people.

re: #257 Syrah

Oil prices won't come down: OPEC president

Did you notice this from Breitbart

Zombie Time: "World Can't Wait and various freelance America-dislikers responded [to the Star Spangled Banner] by giving the Nazi salute and screaming in protest."

re: #259 jainphx

Drill Drill Drill, build Refineries, then Drill Drill Drill.

Oh and stop wasting corn by turning it into gas. Converting sugar into gas is much more efficient unless environmental types close down 300 sq miles of sugar production

Feynman... The Einstein for the second half of the 20th. Century.

Still relevant so long after his all too short life.
What a seeker of truth... what a downright good human being.

Sadly missed

Oooh, due to the sheer numbers of linkages, I didn't see that my latest Berkeley report got linked on the lefty-ish "SFist," the local franchise of a city-by-city gossip blog empire.