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More Iranian Fauxtography Discovered

Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 1:12:07 pm PDT

(Hat tip: Fluffster.)

UPDATE at 7/11/08 1:54:59 pm:

Also see:
Attack of the Photoshopped Missiles (Updated).

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1 zombie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:12:25pm

Classic! Hahahaha!

2 Honorary Yooper  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:12:46pm

Looks more like the 4th of July on my street this year.

3 Sharmuta  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:12:46pm

LMAO!

4 rlevitin  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:12:53pm

OMG ITS THE END OF THE WORLD!

/
LMAO!

Someone is having too much fun with photoshop!

5 zombie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:13:02pm

Charles, it looks like you were removing a LOT of dust particles "under poor lighting conditions."

6 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:13:15pm

Here's the original.

7 Iron Fist  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:13:35pm

It's a Cluster Fuck Bomb!

8 Creeping Eruption  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:13:37pm

LOL

9 Leonidas Hoplite  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:13:38pm

Missile Command!

10 Killgore Trout  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:13:53pm

Heh. Drudge is reporting that they faked a video too.
Is this the one he's talking about?

11 lawhawk  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:13:57pm

Hmmm... fake you say? That's not possible. I saw it on the Internet and it must be true. /

12 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:14:07pm
13 Occasional Reader  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:14:09pm

Every Shahab is sacred
every Shahab is great
If a Shahab is wasted
Allah's quite irate

14 hoffmonster  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:14:19pm

hahahaha...
This has been an outstandingly funny week for pictures!

Now where are my monitor wipes..

15 kingphin  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:14:43pm

Funny shit there lmao

16 brainpimp  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:14:47pm

I don't care who ya are, that's funny!

17 Iron Fist  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:14:55pm

re: #13 Occasional Reader,

Shahab the Arab, Shiek of the Burning Sands...

18 lawhawk  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:15:03pm

re: #10 Killgore Trout

Well, I don't know about faked, but they definitely looped the same two missile launches several times to fill up the space...

19 zombie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:15:10pm

I see you used the "lasso tool" to outline one of the rockets, copy it, then paste it in everywhere at different sizes, and smoothed out the blue sky transition-edges.

20 Honorary Yooper  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:15:14pm

re: #12 buzzsawmonkey

Does Macy's have the Iranian defense contracts?

If they do, then it's overpriced and poorly constructed.

/Muck Facy's

21 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:15:29pm

Godzilla was there!

22 gopninja  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:15:57pm

hahahahahaahah

23 Charles  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:16:02pm

I just got off the phone with documentary filmmaker Errol Morris, who's an LGF fan and is planning to write a piece on fauxtography for the NYT.

24 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:16:04pm
25 Sounder  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:16:08pm

So, looks like they aimed them at themselves. LOL!

26 reloadingisnotahobby  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:16:23pm

THE GUIDIANCE SYSTEMS CAME FROM WHERE?
DUCK!

27 Catttt  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:16:51pm

Lol!

But where's Godzilla?

28 Charles  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:16:58pm

re: #19 zombie

I see you used the "lasso tool" to outline one of the rockets, copy it, then paste it in everywhere at different sizes, and smoothed out the blue sky transition-edges.

I didn't do this one -- Fluffster posted the imgshack link. There's no way of telling who did it.

29 looking closely  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:17:04pm

That's what its going to look like for real if Iran doesn't cease and desist with its nuclear program.

30 zombie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:17:05pm

re: #10 Killgore Trout

Heh. Drudge is reporting that they faked a video too.
Is this the one he's talking about?

I think the "faked" video was the one pointed out yesterday in which they used a freezeframe from a old rocket-launch video and passed it off as a rocket lauched two days ago.

I think.

31 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:17:08pm
32 Killgore Trout  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:17:20pm

Ah Here's the video Drudge must be talking about. It's such poor quality that I can't tell if it's fake or not.

33 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:17:23pm
34 zombie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:17:24pm

re: #23 Charles

I just got off the phone with documentary filmmaker Errol Morris, who's an LGF fan and is planning to write a piece on fauxtography for the NYT.

Seriously?

Whoo-hoo!

35 looking closely  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:17:40pm

re: #23 Charles

I just got off the phone with documentary filmmaker Errol Morris, who's an LGF fan and is planning to write a piece on fauxtography for the NYT.

/Are they going to acknowledge you this time?

36 just another four-letter word  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:17:40pm

Bottle rockets, awaaaaaaaay!

(Nice job, fluffster!)

JAFLW

37 Kosh's Shadow  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:17:45pm

re: #18 lawhawk

Well, I don't know about faked, but they definitely looped the same two missile launches several times to fill up the space...

They took that from the Soviets in the 1950's, where they'd fly the same few planes over the May Day parade over and over again to make it look like they had a lot of planes.

It backfired. The US built up our defenses, and the Rooskies couldn't keep up.

38 Intimidator  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:17:52pm

Israel better Photoshop a defense quick LOL!

39 Miss Trixie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:17:56pm

re: #23 Charles

I just got off the phone with documentary filmmaker Errol Morris, who's an LGF fan and is planning to write a piece on fauxtography for the NYT.

Excellent! Way to go, Charles. *mwah*

40 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:17:57pm

re: #27 Catttt

Lol!

But where's Godzilla?

Here.

41 astronmr20  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:18:17pm

Supposedly the entire video was old footage.

42 CheDub  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:18:22pm

re: #23 Charles

For the NYT? I expect to see black lines erasing any mention of you, Charles, or LGF.

43 zombie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:18:28pm

re: #23 Charles

I still quote a line from his best-ever documentary, "Gates of Heaven," about pet cemeteries:

"Neutered."

I'm stilling laughing over that line 15 years later!

44 just another four-letter word  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:18:34pm

re: #9 Leonidas Hoplite

Missile Command!

Y'know, that's EXACTLY what it looks like. :)

JAFLW

45 DeafDog  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:18:45pm

Anyone else think it look like a screen on the old "space invaders" video game?

46 Fenway_Nation  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:19:09pm

And I'm sure every one of them launched without a hitch....

47 Catttt  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:19:09pm

It's impossible not to start thinking Iranian honcho penis envy is heavily involved in this.

48 jaunte  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:19:10pm

Time to throw in for more LGF server hardware...

49 CheDub  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:19:15pm

All your (fake) missiles now belong to us!

50 SasquatchOnSteroids  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:19:31pm

ROFLMAO, that's good stuff right there.

51 Catttt  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:19:38pm

re: #40 NJDhockeyfan

Here.

Thanks. I was worried there for a minute. ;D

52 itellu3times  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:19:42pm

Outstanding!

53 faraway  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:20:03pm

Repost from when I was all alone in an old thread:

DinnerJacket: Hey, Achmed. Piece together some pics of old missiles and post them on one of our news sites.
Achmed: Yes, of course, Dear Leader. What about a nice video of some ancient rocket?
DinnerJacket: Excellent idea, Achmed. That should make those infidels wet their pants in fear.

54 ChefJeff  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:20:20pm

Spew alert!..all over my monitor when I saw that.....

That made my day... Thanks Fluffster!

55 zombie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:20:23pm

Charles, in case you missed it last thread:

---------

Charles, regarding your thread yesterday about a "Disturbance in the Intarwebs":

Today Apple had a complete meltdown of all their servers worldwide as 7.8 gajillion people from Tokyo to Kalamazoo all tried to buy and activate their iPhone 3Gs at the same time. The biggest traffic surge in Apple's history, and even their inconceivably massive server bank was unable to handle it. Some of the articles on the topic say the surge actually started yesterday as people began to download the various widgets for the iPhone ahead of time. I was wondering: could this have been the cause of the "disturbance" you detected?
-----
... if you wanted a non-AP story on the iTunes/Apple meltdown, here's one:

ABC: Ipocalypse?

56 kansas  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:20:48pm

Fake but accurate?

57 mfarmer1  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:20:54pm

Wow, and I thought Iowahawk's latest was going to give me today's biggest belly laugh! Very good!

I wonder why Iran's great Photoshop experts didn't do anything with Ahmadinejad's wife?

58 just another four-letter word  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:21:05pm

re: #23 Charles

I just got off the phone with documentary filmmaker Errol Morris, who's an LGF fan and is planning to write a piece on fauxtography for the NYT.

Nice work, Charles. Are you going to be featured prominently?

JAFLW

59 Creeping Eruption  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:21:16pm

re: #56 kansas

Fake but accurate?

Fakcurate?

60 faraway  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:21:30pm

re: #57 mfarmer1

I wonder why Iran's great Photoshop experts didn't do anything with Ahmadinejad's wife?

They did. They blacked her out.

61 jill e  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:21:57pm
62 Creeping Eruption  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:22:08pm

re: #57 mfarmer1

Wow, and I thought Iowahawk's latest was going to give me today's biggest belly laugh! Very good!

I wonder why Iran's great Photoshop experts didn't do anything with Ahmadinejad's wife?

Hell, they could start by making him taller.

63 Gordon Marock  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:22:37pm

NEWS FLASH- Iran releases video of its Army of Psychic Warriors.

64 Occasional Reader  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:22:38pm

Call it "free association", but this photo reminds me of the "help is on the way!" sequence from Duck Soup.

65 zombie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:22:56pm

re: #59 Creeping Eruption

Fakcurate?

I came up with

Motography (fauxtography in the service of Islam), also spelled Mauxtography, yesterday.

66 Catttt  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:23:10pm

Fluffster - thank you for the huge laugh. Luckily, I wasn't sipping my coffee when the thread opened.

67 kansas  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:23:16pm

re: #55 zombie
---------

ABC: Ipocalypse?

I'm not a wizard, but my kid has had an ipod nano and a 4 gig ipod and I have itunes on my phone. I've always thought the things always did whatever the hell they felt like doing.

68 reloadingisnotahobby  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:23:21pm

re: #62 Creeping Eruption

Works for Tom Cruzzzz!

lol

69 astronmr20  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:23:31pm

We must all realize that the Iranain fakery of this "missile launch" coming to light- is just more fodder for leftists.

"..but the poor dears couldn't even make real Shahabs! We can't bomb them now!"

70 twincitiesgirl  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:23:36pm

Good one!

Thanks for sharing this Charles

71 davida  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:24:08pm

I hate to bring this up under such a hilarious photo, but what if the looney left concludes from this tomfoolery that Iran is engaging in, that they are not a real threat and we should be nicey nice with them?

I'm just sayin'....

72 astronmr20  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:24:30pm

re: #71 davida

Exactly.

73 keithgabryelski  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:24:30pm

more collected from a wired blog:
[Link: blog.wired.com...]

and boingboing

[Link: www.boingboing.net...]

74 Creeping Eruption  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:24:39pm

re: #65 zombie

I came up with

Motography (fauxtography in the service of Islam), also spelled Mauxtography, yesterday.

Love it. Have you thought of Mouxtography?

75 RaiderDan  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:25:03pm

Isn't that the "Death Blossom" from the "Last Starfighter?"

Grig: Remember, Death Blossom delivers only one massive volley at close range... theoretically.
Alex Rogan: What do you mean "theoretically?"
Grig: After all, D.B. has never been tested. It might overload the systems, blow up the ship!
Alex Rogan: What are you worried about, Grig? Theoretically, we should already be dead!


Alex Rogan: [discussing battle strategy] Wait a minute. We knock out the turret to get the fighters. But to get to the turret, we gotta get THROUGH the fighters. We're dead.
Grig: [reassuringly] I'll have it all figured out by the time we reach the Frontier.
[alarm sounds and Grig's face falls]
Alex Rogan: What's that?
Grig: The Frontier.

76 Kosh's Shadow  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:25:04pm

Someone make a Photoshop of missiles heading down, with Magen David on their side, and the next frame a bunch of mushoom clouds.
Then one more frame, from Hell, as Amadmanonjihad meets his virgin Helen Thomases. Or worse

77 HelloDare  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:25:08pm

Enough of this silliness. Here's the real photo.

78 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:25:10pm
79 CyanSnowHawk  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:25:12pm

re: #71 davida

I hate to bring this up under such a hilarious photo, but what if the looney left concludes from this tomfoolery that Iran is engaging in, that they are not a real threat and we should be nicey nice with them?

I'm just sayin'....

And that is different from the way they are treating the threat now, how?

80 just another four-letter word  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:25:28pm

re: #57 mfarmer1

Wow, and I thought Iowahawk's latest was going to give me today's biggest belly laugh! Very good!

I wonder why Iran's great Photoshop experts didn't do anything with Ahmadinejad's wife?

How much photoshopping can you do with a "hag in a bag"?

JAFLW

81 zombie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:26:10pm

re: #71 davida

I hate to bring this up under such a hilarious photo, but what if the looney left concludes from this tomfoolery that Iran is engaging in, that they are not a real threat and we should be nicey nice with them?

I'm just sayin'....

That is EXACTLY the meme they've been pushing frenziedly since yesterday:

"See? This just proves that the threat from Iran is non-existent, since they can't even launch their own missiles properly. The wingnuts have shot themselves in the foot this time, since they just debunked the case for war against Iran!"

83 faraway  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:26:58pm

Ok, several options here:
1. The launch took place and these are the doctored photos.
2. The launch never took place and they pieced together some crap for the NY Times to pee its pants.
3. The launch took place and the missiles are Shahab-3 missile, able to reach Israel. (don't show those infidels our real rockets)

84 Gordon Marock  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:27:12pm

re: #71 davida

I hate to bring this up under such a hilarious photo, but what if the looney left concludes from this tomfoolery that Iran is engaging in, that they are not a real threat and we should be nicey nice with them?

I'm just sayin'....

Not a concern, because the media already interprets apocalyptic threats of destruction made by the President of Iran to be evidence that Iran is not a threat.

85 pegcity  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:27:14pm

re: #37 Kosh's Shadow

They took that from the Soviets in the 1950's, where they'd fly the same few planes over the May Day parade over and over again to make it look like they had a lot of planes.

It backfired. The US built up our defenses, and the Rooskies couldn't keep up.

what you mean the soviets didn't have 5000 Tupolev -TU4's ?

im shocked

86 opnion  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:27:25pm

THe thing would be complete with the Mahdi riding a missle & Mahmoud on another, ala Slim Pickins in Doctor Strangelove

87 jill e  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:27:31pm

re: #71 davida

I was thinking the same thing, but maybe it just tells us how totally untrustworthy they are under ANY circumstance.

88 HelloDare  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:27:34pm

The seventh missile from the left is definitely a clone.

89 ModerateWolverine  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:27:37pm

Great work on this Charles. This is awesome.

By the way, I almost hurt myself laughing so hard at this photo.

90 Iron Fist  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:27:58pm

re: #71 davida,

I don't know how much more nicey nice we can get than Obama. Maybe if Obama offered Dinnerjacket a blowjob...

91 Golem Akbar  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:28:13pm

re: #23 Charles

I just got off the phone with documentary filmmaker Errol Morris, who's an LGF fan and is planning to write a piece on fauxtography for the NYT.


Please post it when comes out. I can't wait to share it with others.

92 WriterMom  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:28:18pm

re: #83 faraway

4. A launch took place at some point and pictures were taken. Iran is having wet dreams of outfitting these missiles with nuclear war heads, which is exactly what could happen if the world (or Israel more specifically) doesn't shit or get off the pot and do something about it.

93 nikis-knight  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:28:28pm

re: #81 zombie

That is EXACTLY the meme they've been pushing frenziedly since yesterday:

"See? This just proves that the threat from Iran is non-existent, since they can't even launch their own missiles properly. The wingnuts have shot themselves in the foot this time, since they just debunked the case for war against Iran!"

Achmadinajad should ask Saddam how well his "Bluff America" worked out for him in the end.

94 Cygnus  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:28:38pm

It looks like they're trying to (ahem) compensate for something...

95 Charles  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:29:00pm

re: #81 zombie

That is EXACTLY the meme they've been pushing frenziedly since yesterday:

"See? This just proves that the threat from Iran is non-existent, since they can't even launch their own missiles properly. The wingnuts have shot themselves in the foot this time, since they just debunked the case for war against Iran!"

If you really want to chase this line of reasoning down the rabbit hole, you could surmise that Iran deliberately released an obvious fake, knowing it would be caught, to create the impression that the threat wasn't really urgent and give themselves more time for their nuke program.

But a much more likely explanation is -- stupidity.

96 kansas  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:29:04pm

re: #61 jill e

Iran: You Suck At Photoshop

There, juvenile humor.

97 Killgore Trout  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:29:12pm

re: #30 zombie

Drudge is claiming that one of the videos is faked....

And a video showing what appeared to be many missiles being fired -- is actually one missile, filmed from different angles!

I can't tell which video they're referring to.

98 Intimidator  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:29:15pm

This stuff is a riot. It's almost like an extension of the impotent NO-DONG missiles that N. Korea and that sawed off, inbred, insane, run has!

99 Miss Trixie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:29:28pm

BTW, new avatar, Charles. :)

100 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:29:41pm

Its like a Where's Waldo. Find the hidden Mahdi in the picture

101 Kailen  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:29:56pm

Awww, how nice. Iran was helping celebrate the US's birthday!

Great picture.

102 grumpy old codger  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:30:06pm

re: #90 Iron Fist
Monica? The next ambassador to Iran?

103 Occasional Reader  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:30:14pm

re: #14 hoffmonster

hahahaha...
This has been an outstandingly funny week for pictures!

Now where are my monitor wipes..


Ask and you shall receive.

104 WriterMom  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:30:15pm

re: #98 Intimidator

Impotent "NO DONG" Missiles?

Are you making that up?

105 lawhawk  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:30:21pm

re: #32 Killgore Trout

Crummy quality indeed. That's the video I posted, courtesy of Danger Room.

I think you can spot a couple of looped launches in there as well, and the quality is so poor as to render any other analysis futile.

However, given the way many of those missiles were launched, one might be able to rule out certain claims by Iran - the ones that said they tested their longest range missiles.

The ones in the video appear to be shorter range missiles or rockets.

106 kansas  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:30:33pm

What's really kind of sad is that they're gonna scare us and get whacked really bad.

107 Golem Akbar  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:30:38pm

re: #71 davida

I hate to bring this up under such a hilarious photo, but what if the looney left concludes from this tomfoolery that Iran is engaging in, that they are not a real threat and we should be nicey nice with them?

I'm just sayin'....


More likely it's time for all of us to point out that Iran lies about it's peaceful intentions.

108 gop_patriot  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:31:06pm

Holy crap that's funny. :)

109 kansas  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:31:07pm

re: #104 WriterMom

Impotent "NO DONG" Missiles?

Are you making that up?


It's the long range Long Dong.

110 snowcrash  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:31:19pm

Glad to see Charles "the debunker" Johnson get the recognition he deserves. Congrats.

111 faraway  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:31:24pm

Iran was lying? OMG

112 itellu3times  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:31:38pm

re: #78 buzzsawmonkey

I gets it.

113 HelloDare  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:31:44pm

What's really, really scary...Mahmoud's wife was photoshopped.

114 WriterMom  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:31:50pm

re: #109 kansas

Impotent Long Dong Jong Missiles?

ROFL.

115 nikis-knight  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:32:08pm

re: #95 Charles

Seriously, what are people trying to say? "We'd support military strikes, or at least sanctions, if they were able to launch four long range missles, but a mere three war-head nuclear strike? Hardly worth getting worked up about."

Iran's weapons program is a different, though related issue, than their lying, likewise the gulibility of western media.

116 Occasional Reader  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:32:17pm

re: #95 Charles

But a much more likely explanation is -- stupidity.


As a general rule, one should never ascribe to fiendishly brilliant malevolence that which can be easily attributed to mere incompetence.

117 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:32:33pm

re: #73 keithgabryelski

more collected from a wired blog:
[Link: blog.wired.com...]

I LOVED the one with Wiley Coyote! Thanks!

118 nyc redneck  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:33:04pm

LOL
i love it.
that looks like when i lighted up a hundred bottle rockets at the beach one night. we ran for our lives.
those things were going everywhere.

119 zombie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:33:04pm

re: #116 Occasional Reader

As a general rule, one should never ascribe to fiendishly brilliant malevolence that which can be easily attributed to mere incompetence.

That sounds like a good summation of the Bush presidency.

120 kansas  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:33:05pm

re: #114 WriterMom
The later version, the Long Dong Silver.

121 Cygnus  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:33:10pm

re: #73 keithgabryelski

more collected from a wired blog:
[Link: blog.wired.com...]

and boingboing

[Link: www.boingboing.net...]

OMG, that is too funny! I love the Wiley E. Coyote one. We need a LGF Photoshop contest on this picture.

122 Creeping Eruption  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:33:11pm

re: #109 kansas

It's the long range Long Dong.

Silver?

123 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:33:15pm

re: #27 Catttt

Lol!

But where's Godzilla?

Godzirra!

124 pegcity  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:33:23pm

I don't get Iran's missles, aren't they merely Type 2 nodongs?

[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

sound like a shitty plan to deliver death to israel, more likely to nuke syria or themselves, thats if it dosen't explode on the launchpad.

And what happens if they launch the damn thing, and it dosen't work?

125 faraway  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:33:39pm

If DinnerJacket was unaware of the PhotoShop, look for Iranian general parts washed up on shore somewhere.

126 akak  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:33:41pm

I love firewworks daddy!

US praises new Lebanese unity (Hezbashitza veto power and all) government

Great George a radicalized gov't, so much for moral authority!

/Flush

127 macofromoc  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:33:49pm

Ron Paul

128 faraway  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:34:20pm

Hi O Silver Away

129 pegcity  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:34:40pm

re: #125 faraway

If DinnerJacket was unaware of the PhotoShop, look for Iranian general parts washed up on shore somewhere.

or Irans favorite trick, crashed airliner full of journo's

130 CyanSnowHawk  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:34:50pm

re: #120 kansas

The later version, the Long Dong Silver.

They were cheap and couldn't spring for the Gold or Platinum contract.

/Whatever happened to that guy anyway?

131 Occasional Reader  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:35:01pm

Okay, do NOT click on my link in #103. What worked perfectly fine as recently as last night as a pretty durn cute "pug dog licking your monitor clean from the inside" link, today instead crashes your browser.

132 yochanan  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:35:05pm

re: #26 reloadingisnotahobby

THE GUIDIANCE SYSTEMS CAME FROM WHERE?
DUCK!

you said the secret word.

133 HelloDare  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:35:12pm

Some Revolutionary Guard Photoshop "expert" is probably having his head handed to him.

134 kansas  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:35:15pm

re: #129 pegcity

or Irans favorite trick, crashed airliner full of journo's


That's probably not a bad idea.

135 bosforus  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:35:32pm

That photo isn't fake. The plumes of smoke all look the same because when the ignition process occurs the chemicals all react in exactly the same way. Of course they're going to produce the same clouds smoke, they were all engineered in the same way.

136 lawhawk  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:35:38pm

re: #116 Occasional Reader

Ahmadinejad is just pissed that Israel doesn't force women to cover up.

137 Creeping Eruption  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:35:46pm

re: #131 Occasional Reader

Okay, do NOT click on my link in #103. What worked perfectly fine as recently as last night as a pretty durn cute "pug dog licking your monitor clean from the inside" link, today instead crashes your browser.

Worked for me.

138 itellu3times  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:35:58pm

re: #124 pegcity

And what happens if they launch the damn thing, and it dosen't work?

Blame it on the Joos stealing their no dong mojo.

139 Occasional Reader  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:35:59pm

re: #117 pre-Boomer Marine brat

I LOVED the one with Wiley Coyote! Thanks!

That was the hands-down winner.

140 gop_patriot  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:36:03pm

re: #117 pre-Boomer Marine brat

I LOVED the one with Wiley Coyote! Thanks!

That was my favorite too. :D

141 Golem Akbar  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:36:04pm

re: #125 faraway

If DinnerJacket was unaware of the PhotoShop, look for Iranian general parts washed up on shore somewhere.


They know, they know.
Remember, this is the country that funds Hezbollah.

142 Iron Fist  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:36:05pm

re: #95 Charles,

I think that's giving too much credit to the Iranians for intellegence. They've done nothing incredibly bright in their actions for the last 30 or so years. It's just that they've had the unstinting support of the Democratic Party ever since Jimmy put the Ayatollah in office.

143 macbrooks  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:36:18pm

I laughed out loud when I saw that pic! Thanks, Charles. :D

mac :]

144 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:36:28pm
145 Creeping Eruption  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:36:41pm

re: #136 lawhawk

Ahmadinejad is just pissed that Israel doesn't force women to cover up.

Back to Esti are we? Much more pleasant topic.

146 HelloDare  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:36:42pm

The photo is missing one thing. The Ron Paul Blimp.

147 kansas  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:36:45pm

re: #135 bosforus

That photo isn't fake. The plumes of smoke all look the same because when the ignition process occurs the chemicals all react in exactly the same way. Of course they're going to produce the same clouds smoke, they were all engineered in the same way.


Yeah, and my alka selzter always looks exactly the same. I always wondered why.

148 zombie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:37:37pm

Speaking of incompetence...this is a serious question:

Why didn't the US Department of Defense catch this Photoshop job and debunk Iran's missile test during a live TV news conference three days ago? Why is Charles Johnson doing the DoD's job?

Is our government so embarrassingly "out of it" that it is actually up to us bloggers to affect international relations? Don't they have a single person on staff in the government who knows how to spot fake propaganda news being used against the US?

149 Occasional Reader  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:38:00pm

re: #137 Creeping Eruption

Worked for me.

Really? Huh. It's crashed my browser twice in the last few minutes when I tried it. Wierod.

150 faraway  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:38:09pm

re: #141 Golem Akbar

They know, they know.
Remember, this is the country that funds Hezbollah.

The Generals may have told Dinnerjacket they have the Shahab-3 missiles up and running already. (and they weren't quite ready)

151 Shug  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:38:41pm

Those missiles are Fake but accurate

152 Defector01  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:38:43pm

SHALL WE PLAY A GAME?


Someone call Mathew Broderick FAST, WOP-R's gone mad!


Hilarious picture

153 faraway  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:38:55pm

re: #148 zombie

That is the question of the decade.

154 pegcity  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:39:10pm

Try this on for size Iran

[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]


7000km range.

155 Creeping Eruption  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:39:15pm

re: #149 Occasional Reader

Really? Huh. It's crashed my browser twice in the last few minutes when I tried it. Wierod.

Just tried it again. Try to right click and open in a new tab if you are using Firefox.

156 Charles  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:39:19pm

If anyone knows who created the image above, let me know so I can credit him/her.

157 Golem Akbar  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:39:24pm

re: #148 zombie

Speaking of incompetence...this is a serious question:

Why didn't the US Department of Defense catch this Photoshop job and debunk Iran's missile test during a live TV news conference three days ago? Why is Charles Johnson doing the DoD's job?

Is our government so embarrassingly "out of it" that it is actually up to us bloggers to affect international relations? Don't they have a single person on staff in the government who knows how to spot fake propaganda news being used against the US?

Truth? You can't handle....oh well....you know the rest....

158 Haole  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:39:24pm

Check here...[Link: www.freerepublic.com...]

incomming

Had me in tears (Laughing) yesterday before I left work.

159 Intimidator  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:39:26pm
160 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:39:37pm
161 WayDownSouthInBama  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:39:43pm

Rumor has it that these "KnowDung 1+1=3" missiles were supposed to go up and write "death to the infidels" in smoke as they left....but something must have went wrong. Instead they spell "Oh $h!t" in Arabic.

162 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:39:53pm

re: #116 Occasional Reader

re: #95 Charles

But a much more likely explanation is -- stupidity.


As a general rule, one should never ascribe to fiendishly brilliant malevolence that which can be easily attributed to mere incompetence.

The Farce News Agency

163 lawhawk  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:40:11pm

re: #144 buzzsawmonkey

You do like that photo, don't you?

Yes, I like the photo. I like it even more that Mrs. Lawhawk pointed it out to me. :)

164 Occasional Reader  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:40:15pm

re: #144 buzzsawmonkey

You do like that photo, don't you?

I don't exactly have any serious problem with it, either.

(I'd like someone to translate the Hebrew text she's holding, though, just on the off chance that it says "I AM TOTALLY FANTASIZING ABOUT OCCASIONAL READER, WHO CAN CONTACT ME AT THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS".)

165 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:40:34pm
166 lawhawk  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:41:08pm

Charles:

No EXIF data on the photo?

167 pegcity  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:41:16pm

So are these Shabbibby missles really nothing more than Scud C's?

168 Creeping Eruption  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:41:32pm

re: #158 Haole

Check here...[Link: www.freerepublic.com...]

incomming

Had me in tears (Laughing) yesterday before I left work.

Oh my god is there some funny shit there. I was choking with laughter.

169 lawhawk  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:41:40pm

re: #164 Occasional Reader

I think she's holding the Ten Commandments, and may have trumped Charlton Heston at that!

170 HelloDare  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:41:50pm

re: #156 Charles

If anyone knows who created the image above, let me know so I can credit him/her.

I think it was this guy.

171 reloadingisnotahobby  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:41:55pm

re: #148 zombie
re: #154 pegcity
COOL!
I want one!

172 Killgore Trout  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:42:40pm

re: #148 zombie

I suspect they knew what was going on. I think this was propaganda for domestic rather than international consumption.

173 Occasional Reader  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:42:57pm

re: #161 WayDownSouthInBama

Actually they spell out "SURRENDER DOROTHY".

174 Kosh's Shadow  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:43:03pm

re: #124 pegcity

I don't get Iran's missles, aren't they merely Type 2 nodongs?

[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

sound like a shitty plan to deliver death to israel, more likely to nuke syria or themselves, thats if it dosen't explode on the launchpad.

And what happens if they launch the damn thing, and it dosen't work?

I've said before, there is a section in the Prophets that describes an enemy army about to invade Israel, getting destroyed from the air. It sound a lot like what would happen if Syria were going to invade after Iran nukes Israel, but the missiles end up on the Syrian army instead.

175 cardiacmont  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:43:04pm

re: #158 Haole

Check here...[Link: www.freerepublic.com...]

incomming

Had me in tears (Laughing) yesterday before I left work.

Thanks for the link, Freepers rock!

176 Seaberry  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:43:05pm

Ditto on Classic! Perhaps Israel and the US should surrender now...that was just a small display, imagine what they really have available, and what their true capabilities are!

177 Occasional Reader  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:43:42pm

re: #169 lawhawk

I think she's holding the Ten Commandments, and may have trumped Charlton Heston at that!

Dang. I might finally have to start paying attention to them.

178 faraway  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:43:57pm

re: #168 Creeping Eruption

Thank you. My eyes are watering. Thats funny.

179 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:44:05pm

re: #165 buzzsawmonkey

That's spelled "Farsi," I think.

SHEESH!
Going serious on me!

180 opnion  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:44:52pm

Apparently there is a techno gap vis a vis the U. S & Iran.
I would guess the Obama finds that "embarassing."
After he forces all of the children to learn Spanich & all adults to master a foreign language, he will equalise the technology.
See that we can all live in peace. It's so simple

181 3 wood  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:46:00pm

OT:

I know some people who are holding Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac bonds have been getting nervous lately. Bernanke opened Fed discount window to Fanny and Freddie this afternoon.

U.S. stock indexes tank as crude touches new high


NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stocks on Friday lapsed back into the cellar to close with weekly losses after a late-day burst into positive turf that followed reports that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke offered the central bank's discount window to battered mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Upshot is, the Fed's are not going to let Fannie Mae of Freddy Mac go under.

I do expect to see a few more banks or brokerage firms go under, though before this is done.

182 Da_Beerfreak  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:46:10pm

A lone traveler arrives in Tehran...
Hi, I'm from Adobe and I'm here to revoke your Photo Shop license.
// {;-)™

183 bosforus  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:46:18pm

re: #147 kansas

Yeah, and my alka selzter always looks exactly the same. I always wondered why.


Yesterday someone actually used that defense in the comments section of the digg article that credited LGF for the Iranian photoshopping.
[Link: digg.com...]
Search for shadowspawn's comment for a good laugh.

184 kansas  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:46:29pm

re: #180 opnion

Is it the dawning of the Age of Aquarius again? If so, I'm glad, I was drunk during the first one.

185 faraway  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:46:30pm

It's clear to me now that we should all learn Photoshop. (not Spanish)

186 Kosh's Shadow  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:46:32pm

re: #173 Occasional Reader

Actually they spell out "SURRENDER DOROTHY".

Was that Amadmanonjihad flying around spelling it out?

187 taxfreekiller[deleted]  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:46:50pm
188 Pyrocles  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:46:56pm

Really... I wish our CIA and other intelligence services were as good and omniscient as they're depicted in movies like the Bourne series. In reality, I think they're way overrated; at least since the cold war ended.

re: #148 zombie

Speaking of incompetence...this is a serious question:

Why didn't the US Department of Defense catch this Photoshop job and debunk Iran's missile test during a live TV news conference three days ago? Why is Charles Johnson doing the DoD's job?

Is our government so embarrassingly "out of it" that it is actually up to us bloggers to affect international relations? Don't they have a single person on staff in the government who knows how to spot fake propaganda news being used against the US?

189 kansas  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:48:00pm

re: #188 Pyrocles

Really... I wish our CIA and other intelligence services were as good and omniscient as they're depicted in movies like the Bourne series. In reality, I think they're way overrated; at least since the cold war ended.


Refer to Valerie Plame.

190 abolitionist  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:48:09pm

Bet they didn't have their carbon offsets in order. Just wait til Al Gore hears about this. They are going to be in truuuhh-buullll.
/

191 gunslingah  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:48:26pm

What's interesting to me (aside from the hilarious Photoshop fiasco) is the Iranians' choice of weaponry with which they chose to "intimidate" us. The missiles have been widely reported as SA-2s. The SA-2 is a Soviet-designed anti-aircraft missile dating to the 1950s. It is probably most famous for shooting down Francis Gary Powers and his U-2 way back in 1960. Basically, we're talking about obsolescent technology, several generations behind the current state-of-the-art. The SA-2 shouldn't pose much concern to modern, sophisticated air forces such as those possessed by, oh, say, the U.S. and Israel. Is this the best the Iranians can do to look tough and intimidating, fire off several geriatric, 50-year-old Russian piece-of-crap missiles? And they couldn't even get them all to go off on schedule? I'm thinking the Iranians maybe aren't as smart as they like to think they are...

192 DeafDog  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:48:30pm

re: #136 lawhawk

Ahmadinejad is just pissed that Israel doesn't force women to cover up.

nice missles

193 kahall  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:49:21pm

Very very funny.

194 kansas  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:49:36pm

re: #192 DeafDog

nice missles

How does one convert?

195 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:49:47pm

re: #165 buzzsawmonkey

(There is one called the Fars News Agency, a sort of stalking horse for the theocracy. That's what the play on words was about, not the Farsi language.)

196 Iron Fist  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:49:55pm

Boy, Obambi just plain ain't bright, is he? Check this out:

Obama: Oil price is among most dangerous weapons

Calling the price of oil one of the world’s most “dangerous weapons,” Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) on Friday painted a doomsday picture of $12-a-gallon gas to highlight the importance of ridding the U.S. of its addiction to foreign oil.
“The price of a barrel of oil is now one of the most dangerous weapons in the world,” Obama said in remarks prepared for a speech in Ohio. “Tyrants from Caracas to Tehran use it to prop up their regimes, intimidate the international community and hold us hostage to a market that is subject to their whims.”


True enough, as far as it goes. It is one good reason to drill here, and drill now! But I'm more interested as to why he wants Saddam Hussein to be able to use this weapon against the United States. Isn't he really validating that we should have gone to war for oil?

Like most everything else Obambi says, he's rather short on details as to what, exactly, he'd do about this:


The Democrat noted that “it won’t be easy” to kick the oil addiction.

“Achieving energy independence is one of the greatest challenges we’ve ever faced, and it will be the great project of our generation,” he stated.

“The challenge we face from our energy dependence is great. Meeting it will take time, and it will not be easy,” Obama concluded. “But if we’re willing to work at it, and invest in it, and sacrifice for it; if we’re willing to summon the same spirit of optimism and possibility that has defined this country’s greatest progress, then I believe that we too will be able to do it if we really try.”


Maybe he means to start riding his bicycle on the campaign trail. Oh, right. That is for you little clingy people.

197 sngnsgt  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:50:09pm

LOL! That's looks like a Wile E. Coyote scene from a Roadrunner cartoon.

198 DeafDog  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:50:12pm

re: #148 zombie

The CIA has been incompetent for years. Two words: Valerie Plame

199 Haole  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:50:44pm

The great satan is really gonna get it when Iran gets ahold of CS2

200 TOWM  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:50:45pm
#7 It's a Cluster Fuck Bomb!

Or, in another language, for all the Obamessiah fans:

"Jebo lud zbunjen" ("the crazy f*cking the confused")

201 zombie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:51:23pm

re: #191 gunslingah

I'm wondering if the Iranians are even aware that the FIRST thing the US Air Force takes out of commission during any strike on any target is the enemy's radar, then their missile defenses, then their communications and targetting systems....THEN and only then do we actually blow up what we want to blow up.

Iran's missiles will be molten hunks on the ground before they even know an attack happened.

202 yochanan  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:51:26pm

[Link: blog.wired.com...]

send in the creeps clowns

203 Cygnus  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:52:54pm

re: #109 kansas

It's the long range Long Dong.

The Long John Ding Dong.

204 yochanan  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:53:07pm

re: #145 Creeping Eruption

she looks like a shicksa to me burn a hole right into my screen.

205 maddogg  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:53:18pm

Dang! When it first came up on the screen I thought it was a closeup of a porcupine!

206 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:53:27pm
207 kahall  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:53:36pm

This makes a nice desktop background but it would be better if they photoshopped it in HD.....heh!

208 kansas  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:53:55pm

[Link: www.freedomszone.com...]re: #196 Iron Fist

can_e.php

209 Cygnus  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:54:09pm

re: #207 kahall

This makes a nice desktop background but it would be better if they photoshopped it in HD.....heh!

3D HD would be even better!

210 winston06  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:54:20pm

Hilarious

211 mean Gene  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:54:49pm

The Russians were so scared of displeasing their royalty that they created their Potempkin Village.
One wonders if Ahmadinejad's Republican Guard have him so insulated that he actually still thinks Iran had the launch the world first heard about from a sympathetic media?

212 Fluffster  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:54:58pm

wheee hat tip! :D

213 Occasional Reader  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:55:11pm

re: #206 buzzsawmonkey

Phooey on me.

That's spelled "Pharsi", I think.

214 maddogg  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:55:14pm

re: #23 Charles

I just got off the phone with documentary filmmaker Errol Morris, who's an LGF fan and is planning to write a piece on fauxtography for the NYT.

So what are the chances it will actually make it into the paper, or appear in section ZZ-36?

215 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:55:51pm

re: #206 buzzsawmonkey

I missed that. Phooey on me.

It's esoteric. (I get my hair cut in a salon run by emigres from Iran.)

216 opnion  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:56:02pm

re: #184 kansas

Is it the dawning of the Age of Aquarius again? If so, I'm glad, I was drunk during the first one.

Me too. When the Moon Is in the Seventh House & Jupiter aligns with Mars.......hic

217 yochanan  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:56:07pm

re: #161 WayDownSouthInBama

Rumor has it that these "KnowDung 1+1=3" missiles were supposed to go up and write "death to the infidels" in smoke as they left....but something must have went wrong. Instead they spell "Oh $h!t" in .

arabic[Link: blog.wired.com...]

218 nyc redneck  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:56:14pm

the photo is so fabulous.
it's a strong statement of how foolish the iranians appear to the world.
when dinjac and the mullahs see it and the rest of the m.e. too, the seething will begin.
i guess funny photos of their missile launches are islamophobic.
hey, it's like we flushed a koran or something.

219 Toosmoky  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:56:20pm

I'm off to work in an hour and that photo made my day.

Legend!

220 itellu3times  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:56:30pm

re: #201 zombie

I'm wondering if the Iranians are even aware that the FIRST thing the US Air Force takes out of commission during any strike on any target is the enemy's radar, then their missile defenses, then their communications and targetting systems....THEN and only then do we actually blow up what we want to blow up.

Iran's missiles will be molten hunks on the ground before they even know an attack happened.

They know, that's why Hizbullah hides rockets in residential houses, elementary schools, etc.

221 yochanan  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:56:56pm

re: #217 yochanan

add in farsi not arabic

222 granitebill  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:57:15pm

I never laughed so hard.... hilarious! : )

-granite

223 Cygnus  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:58:29pm

re: #212 Fluffster

wheee hat tip! :D

Great job, Fluffster! A thousand updings for that great bit of Photoshop.

224 Deseeded  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:58:53pm

This is awesome! Hahahaha!

225 BBev  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:58:54pm

Form the update ,,, I like the last pic the best

226 debutaunt  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:59:27pm

re: #37 Kosh's Shadow

They took that from the Soviets in the 1950's, where they'd fly the same few planes over the May Day parade over and over again to make it look like they had a lot of planes.

It backfired. The US built up our defenses, and the Rooskies couldn't keep up.

The USSR also had parades with trucks carrying cardboard rockets.

227 kansas  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 1:59:35pm

Just found this....off topic but a real shocker nonetheless:

'Kung Fu Panda' star Jack Black admits he tried cocaine and acid.

Wow, who woulda thought that.

228 jcbunga  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:00:15pm

...that's the Iranian Space Agency trying to restock the Virgin inventory.

229 Quintus_Arius  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:00:17pm

Laughing my FA off!

230 itellu3times  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:00:20pm

re: #181 3 wood

OT:

I know some people who are holding Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac bonds have been getting nervous lately. Bernanke opened Fed discount window to Fanny and Freddie this afternoon.

Upshot is, the Fed's are not going to let Fannie Mae of Freddy Mac go under.

I do expect to see a few more banks or brokerage firms go under, though before this is done.

But they don't actually need any right now, do they?

This missile picture could represent the current stock market, actually.

231 kahall  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:00:27pm

LOL at the update...I mean really LOL not a fake one. heh!

232 debutaunt  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:00:59pm

re: #42 CheDub

For the NYT? I expect to see black lines erasing any mention of you, Charles, or LGF.

Little Green [redacted]...

233 Quintus_Arius  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:01:00pm

Tears are in my way.

234 gop_patriot  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:01:04pm

re: #203 Cygnus

re: #109 kansas

It's the long range Long Dong.

The Long John Ding Dong.

Long Duk Dong

235 marjoriemoon  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:01:06pm

re: #204 yochanan

she looks like a shicksa to me burn a hole right into my screen.

That's not nice. You don't know any blonde haired blue eyed Jews? You know we come in Black too....

236 big L  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:01:20pm

too bad the Iranians don't announce the launch. then we could arrange for one to "go off course" (heh Heh) and shoot a mullah off the pot.
/total laugh-out-loud funny when I saw it.

237 BBev  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:01:35pm

re: #227 kansas

Just found this....off topic but a real shocker nonetheless:

'Kung Fu Panda' star Jack Black admits he tried cocaine and acid.

Wow, who woulda thought that.

I have never inhaled and thats the truth. But I would bet very soon Imadinnerjacket will be smoking something.

238 mobaby  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:03:11pm

Freakin' Hilarious. I do believe you sank my battleship.

239 freedomplow  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:03:30pm

re: #148 zombie

I saw someone from from the State Dept say the pic was photoshopped at that press conference.

240 big L  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:03:30pm

226--debutaunt-- and when they got rid of Malenkov they airbrushkyied him out of da photo --except for his brown shoes...ha ha...
/aprpos of nothing --there are reports of a raise in the Lenin-cult over there now.

241 akak  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:03:32pm

Hagel going with Obama to Iraq?

At least Obama didn't pick a conservative!

242 big L  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:04:59pm

LIke the candidate for higher offfice at theSenate hearing was confronted with the video he brought in allegedly: "Long Dong silver"

243 kansas  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:05:18pm

re: #232 debutaunt
NYT might think about replacing LGF with this:
A vicious radical right wing hate mongering website.

244 kansas  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:06:07pm

re: #237 BBev

I have never inhaled and thats the truth. But I would bet very soon Imadinnerjacket will be smoking something.


I am hoping that very soon something will be smoking him.

245 sngnsgt  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:06:48pm

DinnerJacket is trying to make up for the fact he is vertically challenged.

246 kansas  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:06:59pm

re: #242 big L

LIke the candidate for higher offfice at theSenate hearing was confronted with the video he brought in allegedly: "Long Dong silver"

That was Clarence Thomas being trashed by Democrats.

247 taxfreekiller[deleted]  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:07:15pm
248 BBev  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:08:09pm

re: #243 kansas

NYT might think about replacing LGF with this:
A vicious radical right wing hate mongering website.

I don't get it how is LGF considered far right wing web site I think it leans to the right but no where near far right.

249 zombie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:10:06pm

re: #242 big L

re: #246 kansas

What happened was that Anita Hill testified during Clarence Thomas's confirmation hearings that he once came up to her desk and informed her that he was as well endowed as Long Dong Silver.

BTW, Long Dong Silver was a real person, and he really was that well-endowed. He was from somewhere unexpected, as I remember -- somewhere like Bermuda or Barbados. Rumor is he died quite some time ago, though.

250 pegcity  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:10:17pm

re: #248 BBev

I don't get it how is LGF considered far right wing web site I think it leans to the right but no where near far right.

remember to the left anyone who support's gun rights is a far rightwinger.

251 jaunte  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:10:22pm

I'd like to see the next upgrade of Photoshop with a mongering tool.

252 Pullus Iulius  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:12:03pm

OT-I'm just getting ready to sign a contract with my town stating that for the duration of said contract I will not "engage in the development, research, testing, evaluation, production, maintenance, storage, transportation, and/or disposal of nuclear weapons or their components." It's good to know I'm not competing with any short iranian dictators for future work here in town.

253 Hooray for Captain Spaulding  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:12:03pm

They were aiming towards the globular clusters

254 goddessoftheclassroom  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:12:11pm

Good (late) afternoon, Lizards!

255 yochanan  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:13:24pm

re: #249 zombie

its truw its truw!

256 BBev  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:13:48pm

re: #250 pegcity

remember to the left anyone who supports gun rights is a far rightwinger.

Oh ya I almost forgot about my guns and my religion and I have a job and I drive an American made truck that loves to drink gas.

257 Hooray for Captain Spaulding  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:14:13pm

re: #227 kansas


'Kung Fu Panda' star Jack Black admits he tried cocaine and acid.

You say that like its a bad thing

258 debutaunt  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:15:07pm

re: #148 zombie

Speaking of incompetence...this is a serious question:

Why didn't the US Department of Defense catch this Photoshop job and debunk Iran's missile test during a live TV news conference three days ago? Why is Charles Johnson doing the DoD's job?

Is our government so embarrassingly "out of it" that it is actually up to us bloggers to affect international relations? Don't they have a single person on staff in the government who knows how to spot fake propaganda news being used against the US?

Our government is made up of government workers.

259 BBev  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:15:11pm

re: #252 Pullus Iulius

OT-I'm just getting ready to sign a contract with my town stating that for the duration of said contract I will not "engage in the development, research, testing, evaluation, production, maintenance, storage, transportation, and/or disposal of nuclear weapons or their components." It's good to know I'm not competing with any short iranian dictators for future work here in town.

May I ask why you would even need to sign something like that?

260 kansas  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:15:19pm

re: #248 BBev

I don't get it how is LGF considered far right wing web site I think it leans to the right but no where near far right.

I see this site as leaning to reasonable and pragmatic. But thats way to whatever direction away from Libs.

261 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:15:28pm
262 kansas  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:15:53pm

re: #257 Hooray for Captain Spaulding

I kinda said it like it was an obvious thing.

263 Haole  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:15:59pm

There's a college grad web designer with an old black market version of Photoshop swinging from a crane right now in Tehran.

264 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:16:14pm
265 CheDub  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:17:04pm

re: #258 debutaunt

That's the best summary I've seen in a while.

266 karmic_inquisitor  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:17:09pm

Let us remember that all of this has been precisely calculated by AhMyDinnerJacket ahead of time.

He foresaw the fauxtos

He foresaw our ridicule.

It is all part of his masterful plan.

/I know this because AFP has proof.

267 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:17:18pm

re: #254 goddessoftheclassroom

Good (late) afternoon, Lizards!

ARF!

Hey, see Charles' update above -- Attack of the Photoshopped Missiles. There's a Lolcat among them.

268 zombie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:18:22pm

If anybody's looking up the Long Dong Silver entry on wikipedia, know that it is totally inaccurate -- just some person who typed up rumors they heard. There are no citations for any of the "facts." Most of it is wrong.

269 Kosh's Shadow  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:18:48pm

re: #252 Pullus Iulius

OT-I'm just getting ready to sign a contract with my town stating that for the duration of said contract I will not "engage in the development, research, testing, evaluation, production, maintenance, storage, transportation, and/or disposal of nuclear weapons or their components." It's good to know I'm not competing with any short iranian dictators for future work here in town.

Living in Cambridge, Moonbattachusetts?

Actually, I think that ban didn't pass when MIT and Draper Labs said they'd have to move a lot of their research outside.

270 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:19:44pm
271 Sir Napsalot  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:20:23pm

Is that General Salami or Colonel Bratwurst?

272 BBev  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:20:40pm

re: #269 Kosh's Shadow

Living in Cambridge, Moonbattachusetts?

Actually, I think that ban didn't pass when MIT and Draper Labs said they'd have to move a lot of their research outside.

I feel sorry for you, las time I was in Cambridge was when "Jacks" was still around.

273 David IV of Georgia  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:20:44pm

I just got home from work.

I think I laughed up a lung.

274 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:20:53pm
275 BBev  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:21:15pm

Has anyone seen Realwest around?

276 Kosh's Shadow  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:22:27pm

re: #272 BBev

I feel sorry for you, las time I was in Cambridge was when "Jacks" was still around.

I worked there a couple of years ago, but never lived there.

277 Truck Monkey  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:22:39pm

re: #249 zombie

re: #246 kansas

What happened was that Anita Hill testified during Clarence Thomas's confirmation hearings that he once came up to her desk and informed her that he was as well endowed as Long Dong Silver.

BTW, Long Dong Silver was a real person, and he really was that well-endowed. He was from somewhere unexpected, as I remember -- somewhere like Bermuda or Barbados. Rumor is he died quite some time ago, though.

England. Still alive and retired to England.

278 zombie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:22:39pm

re: #270 buzzsawmonkey

Zombie: emailed you re yours from yesterday.

OK, I'll check.

279 zombie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:23:10pm

re: #277 Truck Monkey

England. Still alive and retired to England.

That wikipedia entry is all balderdash.

280 Pullus Iulius  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:23:31pm

re: #259 BBev

May I ask why you would even need to sign something like that?

Standard operating procedure. I'm an artist fer pete's sake.
/Though I once had a friend who still used the old uranium oxide glazes. Makes a beautiful orange.

281 formercorpsman  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:24:35pm

re: #268 zombie

Uh, Zombie, how is it you posses such a catalog of knowledge for the likes of a Long Don Silver?

I think I'm at a loss for words.

282 yochanan  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:25:03pm

why is congress saying one thing and doing nothing TRADITION MOSTLY.

283 quickjustice  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:25:32pm

It looks like the Israelis finally hacked into the Iranian missile guidance systems! ;-)

284 filetandrelease  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:26:29pm

Little late here, busy these days, but that is a classic. I pray to Allah that Mullah sees it, or, ahh, I pray to Mullah that Allah see's it... no wait, shit, Dinnerjacket, take a look, we are all LAUGHING at you!

285 BBev  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:28:08pm

re: #280 Pullus Iulius

Standard operating procedure. I'm an artist fer pete's sake.
/Though I once had a friend who still used the old uranium oxide glazes. Makes a beautiful orange.

Well only thing I can think of is that they don't want you to be making any glow art or a velvet Elvis that glows. I have been in the real estate biz for 30 years and have been on zoning boards and I have never come across nything like that.

286 BBev  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:28:26pm

pimf/ anything

287 goddessoftheclassroom  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:30:01pm

re: #267 pre-Boomer Marine brat

ARF!

Hey, see Charles' update above -- Attack of the Photoshopped Missiles. There's a Lolcat among them.

Thanks--how funny!

288 amphibian  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:30:02pm

Cute.

But we should keep in mind that even if they guy you're facing is a jackass, and the thing he's pointing at you is a .25 cal. Saturday night special he picked up at the pawnshop, if the damned thing doesn't miss fire when he pulls the trigger, you're still screwed. If Iran is weak enough to try to save itself with bluster until it gets stronger (or Hussein is elected President in the US), the indicated remedy is not to give it more time!

289 zombie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:30:48pm

re: #281 formercorpsman

Uh, Zombie, how is it you posses such a catalog of knowledge for the likes of a Long Don Silver?

I think I'm at a loss for words.

There are no remaining topics on Earth about which I have anything less than encyclopedic knowledge!

I actually know someone who knows someone who starred in a pornographic film with him. According to her, he was 100% all real, and was not "wearing a penile sheath" as it says on wikipedia. Also, he was physically incapable of getting, uh, "engorged" enough to actually complete the act. There just wasn't enough blood in his body.

He was truly a freak of nature.

290 goddessoftheclassroom  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:30:56pm

re: #275 BBev

Has anyone seen Realwest around?

He was on this morning.

291 pegcity  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:32:13pm

re: #289 zombie

gross, gives new meaning to hung like a horse.

292 aboo-Hoo-Hoo  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:32:22pm

YEOW!

lmao...

293 debutaunt  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:32:23pm

re: #265 CheDub

That's the best summary I've seen in a while.

I blue-penciled the hell out of it.

294 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:33:14pm

OT fyi: Here's a round-up on what's been released on the Consulate attack in Instanbul. Not much new data, but it pulls several things I've seen into one report. Apparently the attackers came under fire from a police officer down the street (one of those who was wounded.) He was the one who killed them. They surprised the guards at the gatehouse, and he surprised the attackers. Good man.

295 karmic_inquisitor  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:33:52pm

re: #248 BBev

I don't get it how is LGF considered far right wing web site I think it leans to the right but no where near far right.

What makes it "right wing" is that leftists have a hard time refuting what is posted here.

296 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:34:23pm

re: #287 goddessoftheclassroom

Thanks--how funny!

(Goddess will post the photo in her classroom. Her students will cring and grovel.)

297 bosforus  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:35:17pm

re: #196 Iron Fist

When pioneers went west and ran out of water do you think the suggestion to dig a well for water was ever vetoed in favor of trading supplies to Indians?

298 BBev  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:35:34pm

re: #290 goddessoftheclassroom

He was on this morning.

Thank You. I was getting concerned.

299 goddessoftheclassroom  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:35:39pm

re: #296 pre-Boomer Marine brat

(Goddess will post the photo in her classroom. Her students will cring and grovel.)

When my students are getting on my last nerve, I say, "My tail is twitching."

300 Truck Monkey  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:38:54pm

re: #279 zombie

That wikipedia entry is all balderdash.

It's in Wikipedia so It's bound to be true (snark, snark, snark)..... I hate to say it but I do remember some of his films. I wonder whatever happened to Seka. I've, um, remember several of her films as well. There are some benefits to having a mis-spent youth.

301 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:39:01pm

re: #299 goddessoftheclassroom

When my students are getting on my last nerve, I say, "My tail is twitching."

I remembered that. Hence, ... my immediate prior.
*grin*

302 karmic_inquisitor  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:39:04pm

re: #289 zombie

There are no remaining topics on Earth about which I have anything less than encyclopedic knowledge!

Please explain leftism and spontaneous combustion, and why they don't coincide often enough.

Thank you.

303 Is it me?  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:39:55pm

LMAO
I'm so glad I wasn't eating anything when I saw that photo. Too funny.

The freerepublic ones had me crying with laughter.
Made my day.

304 Truck Monkey  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:41:08pm

re: #289 zombie

There are no remaining topics on Earth about which I have anything less than encyclopedic knowledge!

I actually know someone who knows someone who starred in a pornographic film with him. According to her, he was 100% all real, and was not "wearing a penile sheath" as it says on wikipedia. Also, he was physically incapable of getting, uh, "engorged" enough to actually complete the act. There just wasn't enough blood in his body.

He was truly a freak of nature.

I know the feeling.......

305 karmic_inquisitor  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:41:56pm

So here is a photoshop frontier that needs to be explored - What will the first meeting of a president Obama and Ahmadinejad look like?

306 VegasRick  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:41:59pm

re: #304 Truck Monkey

I know the feeling.......

You made a movie with him as well?
/

307 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:42:43pm

re: #306 VegasRick

You made a movie with him as well?
/

LOL

308 VegasRick  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:43:23pm

re: #307 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

LOL

Could not resist.

309 Truck Monkey  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:43:55pm

re: #306 VegasRick

You made a movie with him as well?
/


No..... I too tend to pass out when fully aroused, due to the lack of blood left in my circulatory system.

310 goddessoftheclassroom  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:44:44pm

re: #301 pre-Boomer Marine brat

I remembered that. Hence, ... my immediate prior.
*grin*

You have no idea how much your remembering that makes my day/!

MWAH!

311 bosforus  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:45:44pm

I'm not convinced Hannity knows where the term 'kool-aid drinker' comes from?

312 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:46:19pm
313 karmic_inquisitor  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:46:45pm

re: #309 Truck Monkey

No..... I too tend to pass out when fully aroused, due to the lack of blood left in my circulatory system.

Get some EPO, like the boys on the TDF do. Enables blood to hold more oxygen. Amgen developed it for dialysis patients.

314 zombie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:49:26pm

Speaking of Long Dong and his mammalian counterparts:

Cetacean urologist.

Gives new meaning to the term Free Willy.

That's got to be the worst job in the world.

315 taxfreekiller[deleted]  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:50:21pm
316 zombie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:50:42pm

Oh, and comment #314 is NSFH -- Not Safe For Humans.

317 razorbacker  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:50:55pm

In other news tonight, a monkey has just flown out of my butt, jumped on her menstral cycle, and ran my behind over.

When I initiated my complaint against Mr. Levant, I saw human rights commissions as a non-violent means of resolving differences among Canadians.

I was not aware of the controversies between the commissions and Canada’s faith communities. I am thinking specifically of my friend Fred Henry, the Roman Catholic bishop of Calgary.

Upon learning about the difficulties he and other faith communities have encountered with the commissions, I withdrew my complaint against Mr. Levant.

One of the reasons I chose Canada as my adopted homeland is because of our country’s great respect for religious freedom.

In Canada, I am free to be good Canadian and a good Muslim. There is no contradiction between the two.

In listening to the experiences of Bishop Henry and Pastor Boissoin, I realized how precious religious freedom is to our country and how easily freedom is lost.

I chose not to believe Syed Soharwardy. I think that he is still an idiot seeking the destruction of the civilized West.

318 karmic_inquisitor  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:51:37pm

re: #312 buzzsawmonkey

Like his bicycle, his "energy policy" has a flat tire.

"Energy independence" on the Left always means "stop buying/using oil"--including that which we have and can access without going overseas. We're supposed to burn buffalo chips or something until the New Magic Source of Energy That Defies the Laws of Physics and of Supply and Demand becomes widely available.

The need of the left to "save us" from the eeeeeveeeel of industrialized society just pisses me off. I produce my own electricity with solar panels, but I can afford to. The working people that these assholes pretend to represent will be utterly decimated economically if we simply priced ourselves into "green power" (the democratic strategy).

There just isn't enough green power for a base load for an industrial society, and to try to operate on a crash oil diet will screw over the people with lower incomes, like those who commute long distances so that they can afford the house they bought.

319 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:52:17pm

re: #310 goddessoftheclassroom

BTW, my daughter & family had a safe, and great, trip. You can scrub that entry from the prayer list. Many thanks from Dad.

320 bosforus  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:52:56pm

re: #314 zombie

Speaking of Long Dong and his mammalian counterparts:

Cetacean urologist.

Gives new meaning to the term Free Willy.

That's got to be the worst job in the world.

That's probably not exactly what he had in mind when he grew up wanting to work at Sea World.

321 Charles  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:53:14pm

An article at NPR notices that I posted about the fake photo long before the NYT did their story, but claims that the NYT was aware of it hours before I posted:

[Link: www.npr.org...]

322 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:54:08pm

re: #315 taxfreekiller

Gotta be John Wiley Price. Whotta dingleberry.

323 goddessoftheclassroom  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:54:26pm

re: #321 Charles

An article at NPR notices that I posted about the fake photo long before the NYT did their story, but claims that the NYT was aware of it hours before I posted:

[Link: www.npr.org...]

That may be true, but you PUBLISHED first, and therefore have the scoop.

324 zombie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:55:27pm

re: #321 Charles

An article at NPR notices that I posted about the fake photo long before the NYT did their story, but claims that the NYT was aware of it hours before I posted:

[Link: www.npr.org...]

Charles, you better start searching your room in a paranoid frenzy! The NY Times must have a web-cam focused on you at all times. They know what you're going to do before you do!

325 karmic_inquisitor  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:55:33pm

re: #321 Charles

Where does the name Folkenflik come from? Sounds like he should make documentaries in the old country...

326 BBev  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:55:51pm

re: #312 buzzsawmonkey

I had a conversation yesterday with one of my moonbat brothers that is voting for Obama, I told him that we need to drill more oil here at home and now, his comment was that we are already at capacity now. OK we are as far as refining goes but if we drill and get a million more barrels a day as we are part of OPEC that will be a million more barrels on the market thus allowing the foreign oil to go to China and India by doing this it would bring down the price of raw crude. He did not get it. As I said he is an Obama supporter.

327 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:56:23pm

re: #317 razorbacker

In other news tonight, a monkey has just flown out of my butt, jumped on her menstral cycle, and ran my behind over.


I chose not to believe Syed Soharwardy. I think that he is still an idiot seeking the destruction of the civilized West.

taqiyya

328 Charles  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:56:25pm

It seems odd to me that the Times would delay publishing their story, knowing that the fake photo might be published in the meantime by other papers.

329 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:59:20pm
330 wolfie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 2:59:31pm

re: #326 BBev

We could also build more refineries while we're at it.
IIRC, we haven't built a single one since the 70's.

331 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:00:31pm
332 zombie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:00:35pm

re: #321 Charles

An article at NPR notices that I posted about the fake photo long before the NYT did their story, but claims that the NYT was aware of it hours before I posted:

[Link: www.npr.org...]

I don't believe it. They just hated getting scooped so came up this this unverifiable tale after the fact.

And even if it is true (which I doubt): While they dithered, you aced them. Game over.

I've had a million great ideas that someone else had later than I did, but they actually published/produced before me. And that's the way the world works: You snooze, you lose. It happens all the time, to me and to others.

Deal with it, NY Times. You want to enter the new media world, you've got to act within minutes -- seconds -- and not wait for the next day's morning edition.

333 zombie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:01:44pm

came up this this = came up with this

334 BBev  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:01:55pm

re: #330 wolfie

We could also build more refineries while we're at it.
IIRC, we haven't built a single one since the 70's.

A agree. I have a cousin that built the first electric that went cross country and that was also in the 70's. I thought by now we would all be driving electric car.

335 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:02:41pm

re: #321 Charles

An article at NPR notices that I posted about the fake photo long before the NYT did their story, but claims that the NYT was aware of it hours before I posted:

[Link: www.npr.org...]

Of course, it's certainly possible. In a bureaucracy, decisions take time. However, I'm inclined to be skeptical about the oh-my-god-we've-got-to-correct-this-as-soon-as-we- can-get-verification tone of the NPR account. IF the story is factually true, was the NYT really THAT concerned?

/sure, right ... daddy, read me another bedtime story

336 razorbacker  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:03:12pm

re: #321 Charles

An article at NPR notices that I posted about the fake photo long before the NYT did their story, but claims that the NYT was aware of it hours before I posted:

[Link: www.npr.org...]

'Twas a faint smudge on the penumbra of their consciousness.

And you can't prove otherwise.

Funny how that works.

337 karmic_inquisitor  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:03:32pm

re: #326 BBev

I had a conversation yesterday with one of my moonbat brothers that is voting for Obama, I told him that we need to drill more oil here at home and now, his comment was that we are already at capacity now. OK we are as far as refining goes but if we drill and get a million more barrels a day as we are part of OPEC that will be a million more barrels on the market thus allowing the foreign oil to go to China and India by doing this it would bring down the price of raw crude. He did not get it. As I said he is an Obama supporter.

Sometimes it is useful to point this out to the moonbats -

1) high fuel prices hurts the bottom of the economic ladder far more than the top. who is Obama "helping" by preventing supply from reaching the market?

2) when we buy foreign oil, it still gets pumped from Gaia. Same planet. Except that inferior environmental regulations are in place with less oversight. A barrel of US oil is extracted much more cleanly than a barrel of Saudi Oil (or Iranian, Venezuelan, Kenyan, etc).

3) when dollars go overseas for oil, our trade deficit expands and places more downward pressure on the dollar, which discourages dollar holders from buying US securities - specifically mortgages. So the "subprime meltdown" is exacerbated by the oil trade deficit.

When we pump our own we get a cleaner planet, working guys get a break, and the economy firms so that we can all keep our jobs.

Obama's plan is not a plan - it is a typical Democrat plan to do nothing, much like congress has done nothing for the last 2 years (except make small problems larger and blame Republicans).

338 Deafdog  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:04:03pm

re: #321 Charles

An article at NPR notices that I posted about the fake photo long before the NYT did their story, but claims that the NYT was aware of it hours before I posted:

[Link: www.npr.org...]

I often wonder how Elisha Gray felt being second with a Telephone patent to Alexander Graham Bell...second is sawdust.

339 karmic_inquisitor  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:04:41pm

re: #328 Charles

It seems odd to me that the Times would delay publishing their story, knowing that the fake photo might be published in the meantime by other papers.

Almost as odd as it would be if they withheld a CIA operatives identity to protect the lives of government employees.

/Oh - that didn't happen either. Never mind.

340 Deafdog  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:07:55pm

re: #326 BBev

Environmentalists Block Shale

The Environmentalists block everything energy related. There are billions of barrels of shale oil available right now! A million barrels from domestic sources is the tip of the iceberg.

341 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:08:04pm
342 zombie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:08:46pm

Y'know, in early 1905 I came up with these equations that proved time and space were, like, relative, and not absolutes. I thought, "Hey, this is a pretty nifty little proof!", and I ran through the streets of Zurich waving my papers in excitement. But I felt I needed confirmation before publishing them or anything, so while I sat on my butt for several months wondering what to do, this amateur named Einstein comes along and publishes the same thing! The gall of that man! And now he gets all the credit.

But it was me, I tell you, ME! I swear!

343 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:09:10pm

re: #340 Deafdog

Environmentalists Block Shale

The Environmentalists block everything energy related. There are billions of barrels of shale oil available right now! A million barrels from domestic sources is the tip of the iceberg.

Most enviroweenies are staunch leftists. Blocking energy resources hurts the US, so they consider it a two-fer.

344 BBev  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:09:18pm

re: #337 karmic_inquisitor

Yes you are correct but even if I tell him that I Will still get the same gaze.

345 karmic_inquisitor  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:09:34pm

re: #341 buzzsawmonkey

All true.

Plenty of toxins on this planet are naturally synthesized.

346 goddessoftheclassroom  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:10:54pm

Lizard Prayer List 7/11/08
Prayers for thanks, praise, comfort, strength, healing, and hope

Seeking Updates
Many thanks to Ben Z and Cap'n Doc for starting this.

Thanksgivings
loppyd: nephew with Type I Diabetes doing well
The Albatross: enough clients to cover medical expenses

Health issues:
MiguelinMexico: recovering from stroke
Noamsayin: niece and dad battling cancer
Truck Monkey: Brady (11-year-old with brain cancer who is on the football team he coaches)
Pvt Bin Jammin: best friend is terminally ill with COPD
Shaky Louie: chronic pancriatitis, and an (as yet) undiagnosed liver problem.
loppyd: step-father undergoing treatment for colon cancer
Macker: health issues and treatment
newsjunkie_ky: Step-Dad
Sarah: dad (cancer);
Zonie: cancer and renal failure
Jorline: father who has colon cancer
Pro-Bush Canuck: sister’s illness
LanceKates: dad’s continued recovery from surgery
Ma Sands: daughter dealing with postpartum issues
Tarkus289: father is in hospital; may have pneumonia after two strokes and stage 7 Alzheimer'
kcladderman: father’s throat cancer; just finisher second round of radiation
Clutch: 82-year-old mom’s recovery from eye surgery
realwest: cancer; mom Type II diabetes
BBev: wife’s illness; recovering from surgery
Kenneth: beloved daughter "M" serious chronic illness.
Babbazee: ancillary health problems
Cartman: liver and other health problems
Irene NYC: mom’s cancer
EC Marm: wife is hurt
Lucius Septimius: mother
Storagemanager: copd (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
BenZacharia: wifffeee’s recovery from surgery
USMC1968: cancer

Family, friend, and life situations:
Jammiewearingfool: sister’s passing
Typicalwhitey: family & neighbors dealing with flooding
CoCo: mother paralyzed (due to strokes) and is now having new health problems
SavageNation
Lucius Septimus: healing of hurts
David Simon: mom (Alzheimer's)
Sarah: and her husband in the process of moving to Arizona for husband’s schooling
Intrepid: Mom has Alzheimer's and Intrepid is caretaker
wolfie: nephew (USAR) who is being sent into the thick of things in Iraq.
conservgirl: atheist SPM, that he finds the Lord
Lizards with family issues
Hayseed: extended family challenges
Maximus: son reports for active duty in August.
Noraono: colleagues laid off in building industry
antiislamist: in need of prayers
lone_wolf_in_illinois: friends and family in Israel
GotC: EH/kids; losing cousin and aunt within 4 months
Danger close: general
zulubaby, Carl in Jerusalem, Mr Pol, Golden Jerusalem, basically all the minion in eretz Yisrael
noam sayin': comfort for a lost brother
DorianGrey: much sorrow
Buckeye Abroad: in the belly of the beast of Eurabia
ChildOfMary: job for hubby and health for self
nonic: general
yank in EU: general
MdiM: general
Suzette: general

Community issues:
Those dealing with the flooding in the Midwest
Gilad Schalit, Ehud Goldwasser, Eldad Regev, for their release.
The families of John Young and Ron Withrow and those of the contractors still held hostage
Ezra Levant and Brian at Snapped Shot: for justice

347 Deafdog  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:11:15pm

re: #345 karmic_inquisitor

All true.

Plenty of toxins on this planet are naturally synthesized.

I eat lots of beans

348 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:12:12pm

re: #342 zombie

I believe you.

Our un-dead lizard!

349 Lucius Septimius  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:12:15pm

I see the fauxtography thing made the headline of Drudge. Also that it was actually only one missile, which I had kind of been suspecting my own self.

I have half a mind to start my own "news" wire service and start sending stuff to the NYT for shits and giggles.

350 zombie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:12:39pm

re: #341 buzzsawmonkey

It's like you're reading my mind!

The same people that want everyone to "eat local" all live in New York and other urban metropolises, where it is physically impossible to feed even 1% of the population with locally grown food, no matter how "environmental" their intentions. Furthermore, those very same people want tomatoes on their salads in winter, orange juice in the summer, lychee nuts from China, olives from Greece, and grapes from Chile. Hypocrites!

351 karmic_inquisitor  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:12:48pm

re: #344 BBev

Yes you are correct but even if I tell him that I Will still get the same gaze.

I hear you. Some response from my siblings.

They think we can somehow "feel" our way out of our problems.

It is a psychosis, really.

I think it all stems from an inherent inability to recognize the wars we have been fighting for the last 7 years as necessary. They just think "violence is not civilized" and that they therefore must follow some Gandhi route to industrial prosperity. Gandhi rejected industrial prosperity.

352 Lucius Septimius  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:12:49pm

re: #346 goddessoftheclassroom

Hey Goddess.

Let me just say, the prayers seem to be working, and keep 'em coming.

353 BBev  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:13:35pm

re: #340 Deafdog

Environmentalists Block Shale

The Environmentalists block everything energy related. There are billions of barrels of shale oil available right now! A million barrels from domestic sources is the tip of the iceberg.

I know and the left knows also. I spend $700.00 a month on gas right now. That is about $400.00 more then I should be spending and $400.00 less that I can now spend on thing that will help my local economy. The left just wants America to go to hell in a hand basket.

354 goddessoftheclassroom  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:14:52pm

re: #352 Lucius Septimius

Hey Goddess.

Let me just say, the prayers seem to be working, and keep 'em coming.

{Lucius Septimus}

I am rejoicing--I have tears of hope in my eyes and goosebumps.


Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.

Romans 12:12

355 vxbush  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:15:40pm

re: #346 goddessoftheclassroom

Goddess, please add the following for me:
Daughter traveling overseas (mom trying not to be frantic); also I may have a wheat allergy. Testing now.

356 GeeWiz  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:16:24pm

re: #321 Charles

Charles, I live with that type of mentality on a daily basis. I own a small corporation that services large national ones. When a dispute erupts, they are always right because they are big and I am tiny. They know they are wrong but it's the old "might makes right" thingy. One difference, I have to capitulate in order to keep their business, you don't and have the lizard nation behind ya! Once again, kudos for the scoop!

357 BBev  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:17:56pm

re: #346 goddessoftheclassroom

You can change my wifes to "It did not help" she is in more pain now then before.

358 bill-tb  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:18:47pm

Looks like you really pissed them off this time.

359 Killgore Trout  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:18:53pm

re: #346 goddessoftheclassroom

Miguel had a stroke? Is he ok?

360 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:19:08pm
361 wolfie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:19:12pm

re: #334 BBev

A agree. I have a cousin that built the first electric that went cross country and that was also in the 70's. I thought by now we would all be driving electric car.

Neat ! What a pity we haven't been working on that over the last few decades...........and building nuclear facilities to provide electricity.

My lefty sister and my fullmoonbat BIL have OIL heat.
How well I remember them protesting at a nearby nuclear power station when there was talk of expanding it in the 70's! How well I remember the years and years they have dismissed nuclear-power advocates of "not caring" about "the children!"

Then they complain about the cost of their heat. I am sufficiently petty and mean-spirited to look forward to the inevitable whining they'll be doing about the cost of filling that oil tank this fall.
(Yeah, I know they'll blame the oil companies and will learn nothing, but.............as I say, I have NO sympathy.)

362 wolfie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:21:32pm

re: #337 karmic_inquisitor

"Hearted" into the ol' Talking Points File! :)

363 gop_patriot  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:21:59pm

re: #359 Killgore Trout

Miguel had a stroke? Is he ok?

Holy cow! I had no idea, and was wondering where he's been! =:-O

I pray that he recovers completely...

364 goddessoftheclassroom  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:22:30pm

re: #357 BBev

You can change my wifes to "It did not help" she is in more pain now then before.

I am so sorry. I will continue to pray for her relief and your strength.

365 sngnsgt  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:22:30pm

The NYT was hoping someone would debunk the "real" photo-shoppers so it wouldn't look like Dinnerjacket had anything to do with it so they could blame war-mongering Rethuglicans for trying to invoke a war with Iran.

366 Eowyn2  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:23:04pm

we know this is not fake.

yes, all of the smoke plumes look alike but the missiles are all being shot in the same environmental conditions and have the same chemical makeup in their fuel.

367 Lucius Septimius  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:23:36pm

re: #360 buzzsawmonkey


-the people advocating "local and organic" have no idea what their dream really looks like,

I have a former student who works for the USDA; he's their "man in Armenia" and a big part of his job is to explain to them how to re-eliminate things like brucellosis and other common livestock maladies that don't exist in the west anymore.

Local and organic can mean tony and pricey; it can also mean stuff grown in shit by people who place ideological purity over hygiene. I know those sorts of people and, trust me, I wouldn't eat what they serve me.

Rousseauian fantasies -- back to the land -- it all looks good from the perspective of an air-conditioned split-level ranch.

368 BBev  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:23:53pm

re: #351 karmic_inquisitor

I hear you. Some response from my siblings.

They think we can somehow "feel" our way out of our problems.

It is a psychosis, really

Remember we die from our feelings and live from the facts.

369 zombie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:24:01pm

re: #360 buzzsawmonkey

Have those "local food" bozos ever stopped to ponder this:

You can't grow wheat anywhere within 1000 miles of New York or New England. So they (and just about everyone east of Nebraska) would have to permanently give up bread, pasta, cookies, crackers, cakes and the million-and-one things in our diet made from wheat and wheat by-products.

Nor can you grow rice in these cold climates. So all rice products would be out as well.

Etc. etc. etc.

Their dilettantish idiocy is mind-boggling!

370 wolfie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:24:26pm

re: #344 BBev

Yes you are correct but even if I tell him that I Will still get the same gaze.

And I'll bet that he, like my BIL, is basically an intelligent guy,
maybe even brilliant in certain fields.
Sigh.

371 BBev  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:25:41pm

re: #359 Killgore Trout

Miguel had a stroke? Is he ok?

He said he was doing ok but was still having a hard time from what I read from some of his posts.

372 goddessoftheclassroom  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:25:51pm

FYI:

realwest emailed me the following:

"someone nicnamed Mel Lono on LGF said that Miguel of Late Night Dead Thread fame on LGF had a "minor" stroke and wants to be added to The LIST."

That's all I know right now, but of course I will let you know info as I have it.

373 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:25:52pm
374 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:26:23pm

re: #367 Lucius Septimius

Rousseauian fantasies

Spot on.
Masturbation of the Intellect.

375 BBev  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:27:23pm

re: #370 wolfie

And I'll bet that he, like my BIL, is basically an intelligent guy,
maybe even brilliant in certain fields.
Sigh.

No he's not brilliant but he is a good provider for his family but he is the type that always see's the glass half empty.

376 Killgore Trout  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:27:28pm

re: #372 goddessoftheclassroom

Thanks for passing that along.

377 wrenchwench  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:27:39pm

re: #321 Charles

An article at NPR notices that I posted about the fake photo long before the NYT did their story, but claims that the NYT was aware of it hours before I posted:

[Link: www.npr.org...]

In this other NPR story, they saw fit to issue a correction, crediting Little Green Footballs:

Correction: In some broadcasts, we did not note that the Web site Little Green Footballs had posted an item Wednesday evening declaring that the photograph of the Iranian missile launch had been doctored -- before The New York Times published its analysis Thursday morning.
378 Lucius Septimius  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:28:38pm

re: #374 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Spot on.
Masturbation of the Intellect.

Watch it -- that's what I do for a living ...

379 Eowyn2  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:29:31pm

re: #350 zombie

It's like you're reading my mind!

The same people that want everyone to "eat local" all live in New York and other urban metropolises, where it is physically impossible to feed even 1% of the population with locally grown food, no matter how "environmental" their intentions. Furthermore, those very same people want tomatoes on their salads in winter, orange juice in the summer, lychee nuts from China, olives from Greece, and grapes from Chile. Hypocrites!

oh c'mon. you know they can turn that dilapidated housing project in the east bronx into a greenhouse victory garden. All they need are lots and lots of grow lights, seeds, soil, water, gardeners, shifting weather patterns (nobody can grow good wheat in 85% humidity)

380 pat  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:30:31pm

Iran seems incapable of fighting a conventional war. Very dangerous.

381 steve  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:30:33pm

Since we are looking at saterical pieces I came across this one from Seattle. OT but what the hey!

[Link: nakedloon.com...]

382 yochanan  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:30:36pm

re: #369 zombie

IN CHICAGO THE WHOLE FOODS STORE GOT CLOSED DOWN BECAUSE OF MICE DROPPINGS organic mouse shit.

383 Eowyn2  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:31:48pm

re: #361 wolfie


you can always tell them that the reason chernobyl blew up was because the russians were down to 9 cooling rods in the reactor.

384 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:32:19pm
385 vxbush  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:32:31pm

re: #382 yochanan

IN CHICAGO THE WHOLE FOODS STORE GOT CLOSED DOWN BECAUSE OF MICE DROPPINGS organic mouse shit.

Oh, my. That's way too funny. Heh.

386 wrenchwench  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:33:02pm

This is Miguel's most recent post:

#974 MigueldowninMexico 7/10/2008 3:35:51 am PDT

Dear friends, I do have news.
I ha d a stroke a few days ago. I was lucky, consequences were light in my case. if I'm slow on replying, please bear with me, as my ability to type is quite diminished,

387 Lucius Septimius  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:33:07pm

re: #384 buzzsawmonkey

"Conventional war" reminds me; start saving popcorn for Denver.

Trust me -- I am. It's going to be the best thing since Jerry Springer went off the air.

388 razorbacker  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:33:39pm

re: #382 yochanan

IN CHICAGO THE WHOLE FOODS STORE GOT CLOSED DOWN BECAUSE OF MICE DROPPINGS organic mouse shit.

So what was the problem? Perhaps the droppings weren't organic enough?

389 zombie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:33:53pm

Did I mention soy beans?

You can't grown soy beans in NY's climate either. So the entire panoply of soy-based protein and tofu and soy-meat this and soy-that would also be out of the picture, causing massive starvation among the elitist vegetarian hordes (of which I am a member, by the way!).

So for protein they'd have to turn to either factory farming (that's a no-no!), or, since we're out of options, hunting.

Coffee? In North America? Sorry, Charlie. No coffee for you. The Local Food Police forbid it.

Chocolate? What, are you kidding me? No chocolate either.

Coffee and chocolate only grow in tropical climates.

No vanilla. No pineapples. Strawberries for two weeks out of the year, tops, if you can afford it.

Basically, we'd quickly revert to a pre-medieval Socttish diet of oats, mutton and seaweed.

Stick that in your arugula and smoke it!

390 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:35:13pm
391 Lucius Septimius  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:35:25pm

re: #382 yochanan

IN CHICAGO THE WHOLE FOODS STORE GOT CLOSED DOWN BECAUSE OF MICE DROPPINGS organic mouse shit.

I published an article a couple of years back on a woman tried for witchcraft in the 17th century for having mice droppings in the food she was selling. I guess they hired too many wiccans.

392 Eowyn2  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:35:38pm

re: #382 yochanan

IN CHICAGO THE WHOLE FOODS STORE GOT CLOSED DOWN BECAUSE OF MICE DROPPINGS organic mouse shit.

Its very difficult to keep pests out of anywhere. They follow each other's urine trail. Rodents will eat through re-bar and concrete to get into warehouses. its a never ending, constant vigil. I can see them being reprimanded but the USDA wouldn't close them down for one mouse. they would have given them time to clean up and get some real pest control people in there. I'm guessing that they did not comply with the local gov on the issue.

393 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:35:43pm
394 Lucius Septimius  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:36:31pm

re: #389 zombie

Basically, we'd quickly revert to a pre-medieval Socttish diet of oats, mutton and seaweed.

Yum!

395 zombie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:36:57pm

re: #393 buzzsawmonkey

You get six months' probation for even mentioning tea.

396 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:37:17pm
397 vxbush  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:37:24pm

re: #389 zombie


Basically, we'd quickly revert to a pre-medieval Socttish diet of oats, mutton and seaweed.

That's basically going to be my diet now, if this wheat allergy thing turns out to be right.

398 Lucius Septimius  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:37:27pm

re: #394 Lucius Septimius

I made (vegetarian) sushi for dinner on Wednesday, so I've had my weekly allotment of seaweed.

399 VegasRick  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:38:11pm

re: #374 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Spot on.
Masturbation of the Intellect.

Careful, Truck Monkey might pass out!

400 GeeWiz  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:38:31pm

re: #354 goddessoftheclassroom

I can testify to the help the prayer list brings. One day after my granddaughter was born, I was visiting them in the hospital when two doctors came into the room and told my daughter and her husband that Avery had some complications that might be life-threatning. They then took her away to ICU saying that she would have to stay one to two weeks for more testing. My daughter fell apart when they left with her and me and my SIL spent over and hour comforting her.

That night I asked you to add my grandaughter to the list. You did. The lizard nation's prayers worked and my grand daughter went home five days later to, up to then, a very disappointed brother. The doctors' only explaination was that the conditions the initial tests exposed had dis-appeared. Nothing like the power of prayer. Thank You All very, very much!

401 BBev  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:38:41pm

re: #389 zombie

Thank God I live here in New Hampshire. I can eat dear, moose and bear. and I love them all. I have about 5 lbs of moose in the freezer right now, Yum dead animals.

402 pat  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:38:42pm

I guess I will stick with the pork roast tonite.

403 BeckoningChasm  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:38:44pm

That picture is hilarious. Thank you!

404 yochanan  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:39:48pm

re: #386 wrenchwench

will ad him to my prayers. hope he gets better soon i missed him

405 Eowyn2  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:40:00pm

re: #328 Charles

The only reason I can think of for NYT to decline publication of a known photoshopped picture with appropriate subtext is because they
were hoping nobody would notice it.

406 gop_patriot  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:40:23pm

re: #389 zombie

Oats, mutton, and seaweed, too funny! Down here in the mid-South, our choices are a little better...

But no seaweed, unless it can be grown in freshwater lakes. Dang! Locally grown here would mean I'd have to do without much of the sushi and sashimi that I like. Nooooo!

407 karmic_inquisitor  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:40:35pm

re: #401 BBev

Thank
God I live here in New Hampshire. I can eat dear, moose and bear. and I
love them all. I have about 5 lbs of moose in the freezer right now,
Yum dead animals.

Reminds me of a shirt I saw:

Meat is Murder (and yummy too).

408 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:40:39pm
409 goddessoftheclassroom  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:40:44pm

re: #400 GeeWiz

I can testify to the help the prayer list brings. One day after my granddaughter was born, I was visiting them in the hospital when two doctors came into the room and told my daughter and her husband that Avery had some complications that might be life-threatning. They then took her away to ICU saying that she would have to stay one to two weeks for more testing. My daughter fell apart when they left with her and me and my SIL spent over and hour comforting her.

That night I asked you to add my grandaughter to the list. You did. The lizard nation's prayers worked and my grand daughter went home five days later to, up to then, a very disappointed brother. The doctors' only explaination was that the conditions the initial tests exposed had dis-appeared. Nothing like the power of prayer. Thank You All very, very much!

Thank you so much for sharing this. I meant to add you to "thanksgivings," but I forgot--you're there now!

410 goddessoftheclassroom  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:41:41pm

Is pre-Boomer Marine Brat still around?

411 gop_patriot  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:41:46pm

re: #395 zombie

You get six months' probation for even mentioning tea.

LOL

I'd die without my daily sweet tea run to Sonic.

/die, I tell you

412 Gordon Marock  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:41:52pm

I am as pleased as every Lizard here that Charles broke another big story and made many in Big Media fess up and eat crow. We are justified in dancing a collective jig. However, we should quickly move on and, through redoubled efforts, somehow shame Big Media into covering the recent developments with the Al-Dura Hoax, and every other piece of deception regarding the Middle East that is firmly embedded in Big Media's 'story line' about the region. Hopefully, Charles will get some good Cable time with this story where he can make some expanded points about the media that we Lizards take for granted.

413 captain joe  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:42:04pm

"Missile swarm"

Captain Joe
inventer of the term "Fauxtography" during the Beirut fake smoke incident.

414 wolfie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:42:33pm

re: #408 buzzsawmonkey

Or because they didn't really know it was photoshopped, and are playing the Sour Grapes Card.

Locally grown?

415 Atman  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:42:48pm
416 Ojoe  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:42:54pm

rocket
rocket
bo bocket
banana fana
fo fock it

mock it

rocket

417 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:42:58pm
418 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:43:32pm
419 gop_patriot  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:43:38pm

re: #407 karmic_inquisitor

Reminds me of a shirt I saw:

Meat is Murder (and yummy too).


This one? :)

420 Eowyn2  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:44:06pm

re: #389 zombie

Did I mention soy beans?

You can't grown soy beans in NY's climate either. So the entire panoply of soy-based protein and tofu and soy-meat this and soy-that would also be out of the picture, causing massive starvation among the elitist vegetarian hordes (of which I am a member, by the way!).

So for protein they'd have to turn to either factory farming (that's a no-no!), or, since we're out of options, hunting.

Coffee? In North America? Sorry, Charlie. No coffee for you. The Local Food Police forbid it.

Chocolate? What, are you kidding me? No chocolate either.

Coffee and chocolate only grow in tropical climates.

No vanilla. No pineapples. Strawberries for two weeks out of the year, tops, if you can afford it.

Basically, we'd quickly revert to a pre-medieval Socttish diet of oats, mutton and seaweed.

Stick that in your arugula and smoke it!

You cannot grow oats in NY either. At least not good oats. Nor wheat, rye, barley, spelt, kamut, triticale, quinua, or teff. You can grow sweet corn in upstate NY and lots of dairy.

HOWEVER to feed all of the people of the five buroughs, you'd have to pretty much turn the rest of the state into a farm.
Special of the day: East River Fish on a bed of wilted lettuce from Poughkeepsie.

421 wolfie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:44:18pm

re: #415 Atman

Here's another one......

:D !

422 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:44:48pm

re: #410 goddessoftheclassroom

Is pre-Boomer Marine Brat still around?

Yes. off-and-on.

423 Cognito  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:44:49pm

More Iranian Fauxtography Discovered

The incoming one made me laugh.

424 Eowyn2  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:44:57pm

re: #407 karmic_inquisitor

Bumpersticker:
Vegetarian: Old Indian word for Lousy Hunter

425 pat  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:45:18pm

Did i mention Hawaii has local coffee, chocolate, pineapple, vanilla, etc. :)

426 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:45:41pm

re: #425 pat

poi

427 goddessoftheclassroom  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:45:51pm

re: #422 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Yes. off-and-on.

[Link: icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com...]

(I think the two in the foreground are dogs, which makes this even better, at least from YOUR point of view!)

428 Gordon Marock  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:45:56pm

Here is the quote of the day from the NPR article:

"Second, even stringers or photographers abroad may have grown up in cultures without free presses or especially rigorous standards about accuracy. Others may think it is OK to stage scenes captured in photographs."

NO F'ing SH*T!

429 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:45:58pm
430 pat  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:46:09pm

re: #426 pre-Boomer Marine brat

heh,heh

431 eaglewingz08  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:46:14pm

Funny photo, perhaps the creator can get a job with the Iranian Free Press.

Also would like to put myself and my sister down for prayer circle, me for intestinal cancer and my sister with bad case of graves disease,
thyroid disorder. Thanks.

432 jorline  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:46:33pm

re: #314 zombie

Speaking of Long Dong and his mammalian counterparts:

Cetacean urologist.

Gives new meaning to the term Free Willy.

That's got to be the worst job in the world.

I didn't see a problem with that, zombie.

They're getting ready to play jump-rope...the monkeys are just out of the picture. I've seen this act at Sea World before.

433 pat  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:47:08pm

re: #429 buzzsawmonkey

Not enough chocolate. Lots of the rest. We would have to grow more chocolate

434 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:47:16pm

re: #427 goddessoftheclassroom

[Link: icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com.. .]

(I think the two in the foreground are dogs (yes), which makes this even better, at least from YOUR point of view!)

LOL!

435 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:48:29pm

re: #430 pat

heh,heh

You sound like you do not like it.

/tried it ONCE, in high school ... STILL remember!

436 wrenchwench  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:48:38pm

re: #428 Gordon Marock

Here is the quote of the day from the NPR article:

"Second, even stringers or photographers abroad may have grown up in cultures without free presses or especially rigorous standards about accuracy. Others may think it is OK to stage scenes captured in photographs."

NO F'ing SH*T!

OH, so it's cultural. We should not be so judgmental...

/

437 efuseakay  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:48:53pm

If only Iranian rockets haven't killed so many US troops in Iraq... I can see the attempt at humor here... but...

438 wolfie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:48:56pm

re: #425 pat

No kidding! And that Kona coffee is great stuff!
My son went on a choir trip to Hawaii and brought me back some.
I'd never had Hawaiian coffee before. :)

439 BBev  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:49:01pm

re: #425 pat

Did i mention Hawaii has local coffee, chocolate, pineapple, vanilla, etc. :)

I love Kona coffee and coffee covered macadamia nuts

440 Josephine  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:49:23pm

re: #428 Gordon Marock

Here is the quote of the day from the NPR article:

"Second, even stringers or photographers abroad may have grown up in cultures without free presses or especially rigorous standards about accuracy. Others may think it is OK to stage scenes captured in photographs."

NO F'ing SH*T!

Are they saying it's their culture, so we can't judge them?

441 vxbush  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:49:39pm

re: #427 goddessoftheclassroom

[Link: icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com.. .]

(I think the two in the foreground are dogs, which makes this even better, at least from YOUR point of view!)

HA! Gorgeous!

442 wrenchwench  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:49:53pm

re: #440 Josephine

GMTA!

443 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:50:02pm
444 Eowyn2  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:50:04pm

re: #396 buzzsawmonkey

Come along pests
Follow after my tail
I'll tell you of my troubles on the old urine trail
Come a ti yi yippy yippy i yippy ay
Come a ti yi yippy yippy ay

thats pretty good. I hear there are rats the size of cats in NYC. Me, I've never seen one.

Field mice are another matter.

445 Eowyn2  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:50:32pm

re: #425 pat

Did i mention Hawaii has local coffee, chocolate, pineapple, vanilla, etc. :)

but not grain for bread.

446 Eowyn2  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:51:05pm

re: #443 buzzsawmonkey

We have locally grown academia nuts in New York.

They are all too sustainable.


do they taste like chicken

447 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:51:23pm

re: #443 buzzsawmonkey

We have locally grown academia nuts in New York.

They are all too sustainable.

Fortunately, I was not eating or drinking ....

/rampant envy!

448 BBev  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:51:37pm

re: #433 pat

Not enough chocolate. Lots of the rest. We would have to grow more chocolate

As long as there is enough Grog I will be happy

449 Gordon Marock  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:51:53pm

re: #440 Josephine

Are they saying it's their culture, so we can't judge them?

They are saying that if you grew up in a 'culture' that allows journalists to shill for terrorist causes, then, you are not really a bad journalist if you lie for terrorist causes.

450 yochanan  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:52:06pm

re: #392 Eowyn2

the complaint was back in march seems nothing was done about it. I used to work in butcher shop frankly keeping them out in a urban enviroment is impossible but i guess they found old mouse shit and dead mice on glue boards, a live mouse on a glue board would not be as much of a problem

451 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:52:26pm
452 Josephine  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:52:55pm

re: #431 eaglewingz08

I'm sending good thoughts your way.

My brother had his thyroid zapped years ago because he had Graves and it was interfering with his diabetes. I hope your sister's gets under control soon.

I don't know what kind of cancer you have but my cousin had metastatic non-hodgkins lymphoma and he was successfully treated with surgery and chemo. He's doing well, three or so years later.

All the best to you both.

453 instantnemesis  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:53:06pm

The pic is great. Any one remember the game scorched earth from the early 90's. Reminded me of that for some reason.

454 zombie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:53:30pm

As for my seaweed reference, this is what Iw as talking about:

Dulse

Dulse is a good source of minerals and vitamins compared with other vegetables and it contains all trace elements needed for humans with a high protein content.[11]
It is commonly found from June to September and can be collected by hand when the tide is out. When collected, small snails, shell pieces and other small particles can be washed or shaken off and the plant then spread to dry. Some collectors may turn it once and roll it into large bales to be packaged later. It is also used as fodder for animals in some countries.
Dulse is commonly used in Northern Ireland,[12] Iceland and Atlantic Canada both as food and medicine. It can be found in many health food stores or fish markets and can be ordered directly from local distributors. In Ballycastle, Northern Ireland it is traditionally sold at the Ould Lammas Fair. A variety of dulse is cultivated in Nova Scotia and marketed as Sea Parsley, sold fresh in the produce section. Dulse is now shipped around the world. In Northern Ireland it is particularly popular along the Causeway Coast. Although a fast dying tradition, there are many who still gather their own dulse.

Until the industrial revolution, it was a main dietary supplement in the far northern British Isles.

455 Josephine  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:53:40pm

re: #442 wrenchwench

GMTA!

Ha!

456 Mike in Georgia  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:55:13pm

re: #451 buzzsawmonkey

Well that would solve NY's locally grown meat problem.

457 rlevitin  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:55:39pm

re: #148 zombie

Speaking of incompetence...this is a serious question:

Why didn't the US Department of Defense catch this Photoshop job and debunk Iran's missile test during a live TV news conference three days ago? Why is Charles Johnson doing the DoD's job?

Is our government so embarrassingly "out of it" that it is actually up to us bloggers to affect international relations? Don't they have a single person on staff in the government who knows how to spot fake propaganda news being used against the US?

I prefer to hope that it WAS caught by the DoD, and just not sufficiently advertised.

458 yochanan  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:55:43pm

re: #444 Eowyn2

have seen rats on mich. ave right on the mag mile.

if whole foods did not act so high and mighty i could cut them some slack but they are a-holes.

459 Josephine  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:56:28pm

re: #454 zombie

Dulse is also popular in New Brunswick. I'm not crazy about it but my down-east family members all loved it.

We bought a bag at the grocery store when we visited a couple of years ago but I couldn't convince my husband or daughter to try it.

460 Gordon Marock  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:56:59pm

re: #457 rlevitin

I prefer to hope that it WAS caught by the DoD, and just not sufficiently advertised.

No sh*t. I HOPE the DoD or someone in our government would know IMMEDIATELY if a long range missile was launched anywhere from Iran.

461 BBev  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:57:04pm

re: #451 buzzsawmonkey

Yes there are.

My girlfriend and I were leaving her apartment building in the East Village several decades ago, and we saw what we thought was someone's cat that had been locked out in the hallway.

But it didn't move like a cat. It was slithering and slinking along the walls.

Then we noticed the hairless tail.

It was after that that she decided to move. Soon.

They are not just in NY, I remember seeing one the size of a small dog on Peaks Island, Portland Maine way away from any city.

462 yochanan  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:57:57pm

re: #456 Mike in Georgia

rat on a stick?

463 goddessoftheclassroom  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:58:45pm

re: #431 eaglewingz08

{eaglewingz08}

You and your sister are both on the list.

464 ContraJihadi  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:58:46pm

I like the cat. It looks like mine chasing his favorite toy, a feather I twirl on a string.

465 Eowyn2  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:59:05pm

re: #451 buzzsawmonkey

Yes there are.

My girlfriend and I were leaving her apartment building in the East Village several decades ago, and we saw what we thought was someone's cat that had been locked out in the hallway.

But it didn't move like a cat. It was slithering and slinking along the walls.

Then we noticed the hairless tail.

It was after that that she decided to move. Soon.

I would have moved or bought a snake. Probably a snake. Just a little python or something similar.

466 MandyManners  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:59:25pm

My mom asked me this afternoon, "Is Charles Johnson that young man whose blog you read?" I told yes. She said, "I heard all about him this morning on Fox. He sounds very smart. Tell him I said to keep up the good work."

Charles, your fame is far and wide.

467 Eowyn2  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:59:31pm

okay, i'm going home
Have a good weekend.

468 Josephine  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 3:59:58pm

re: #449 Gordon Marock

They are saying that if you grew up in a 'culture' that allows journalists to shill for terrorist causes, then, you are not really a bad journalist if you lie for terrorist causes.

Yikes.

Would they also excuse Chinese people for not respecting intellectual property and copyright laws when building products for North American companies and/or consumers (whether in China or North America)?

469 David IV of Georgia  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:00:05pm

There is a reason that regional foods and ethnic foods came about. If you are stuck with only the dozen or so edible and cultivatable plants of your region to eat, you'll try every conceivable way to cook them.
Irish potatoes.
Mexican beans and peppers.
Oriental rice.
Southern peas, greens and cornbread.
And so on.

Growing up I ate lots of locally grown foods simply because my extended family had been growing food for themselves for centuries. It's also cheaper and you know exactly how it was grown and processed.

I still hate the thought of drinking milk after the cow got into some goatweed. Growing up, my milk always had chunks of cream floating in it. I hated it and always wanted store bought milk. But, then again, I've never broken a bone and have no cavities.

470 goddessoftheclassroom  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:00:09pm

re: #466 MandyManners

My mom asked me this afternoon, "Is Charles Johnson that young man whose blog you read?" I told yes. She said, "I heard all about him this morning on Fox. He sounds very smart. Tell him I said to keep up the good work."

Charles, your fame is far and wide.

My mom just knows us as "that lizard place."

471 Eowyn2  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:00:36pm

re: #458 yochanan

have seen rats on mich. ave right on the mag mile.

if whole foods did not act so high and mighty i could cut them some slack but they are a-holes.

You should see the hoops they put the vendors through if you think being a customer is bad.

472 yochanan  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:00:42pm

all hail the lizard king

473 gop_patriot  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:00:42pm

re: #466 MandyManners

That's very cool. :)

474 RIGHT_ON_TARGET  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:01:11pm

The Gimp did it! Not Photoshop. The rascal!

475 goddessoftheclassroom  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:02:40pm

re: #469 David IV of Georgia

There is a reason that regional foods and ethnic foods came about. If you are stuck with only the dozen or so edible and cultivatable plants of your region to eat, you'll try every conceivable way to cook them.
Irish potatoes.
Mexican beans and peppers.
Oriental rice.
Southern peas, greens and cornbread.
And so on.

Growing up I ate lots of locally grown foods simply because my extended family had been growing food for themselves for centuries. It's also cheaper and you know exactly how it was grown and processed.

I still hate the thought of drinking milk after the cow got into some goatweed. Growing up, my milk always had chunks of cream floating in it. I hated it and always wanted store bought milk. But, then again, I've never broken a bone and have no cavities.

I used to buy raw milk from an Amish farm and make my own yogurt. The cream was separate at the top. She made DIVINE butter, too. Then she told me she wasn't allowed to sell it because it wasn't pasteurized and she would be fined. I was FURIOUS because as there's no deception, I should be allowed to buy what I want from a farm!

476 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:03:12pm

re: #470 goddessoftheclassroom

My mom just knows us as "that lizard place."

Ask her if she wants you to bring her some flies.

477 gop_patriot  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:03:55pm

re: #469 David IV of Georgia

You sound exactly like my mom and my husband's parents. They all grew up in the country/small towns drinking fresh milk straight from the cow. My dad grew up in the city, and had store bought milk. Mom and in-laws families thought they were rich when they could finally afford to buy store-boughten milk. ;)

/wow, boughten is a correct spelling. who'd a thunk it?

478 MandyManners  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:04:01pm

re: #456 Mike in Georgia

Well that would solve NY's locally grown meat problem.

From today's DT. Magic chicken.

479 Whiterasta  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:04:42pm

re: #475 goddessoftheclassroom

They made pasteurization law, because it killed of TB and E. Coli.

480 MandyManners  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:04:56pm

re: #470 goddessoftheclassroom

My mom just knows us as "that lizard place."

The Kid calls us "lizards".

481 Josephine  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:04:57pm

re: #470 goddessoftheclassroom

My mom just knows us as "that lizard place."

My husband calls me "LGF Woman".

I'll never forget the look on his face the night I said, "Oooooo, Charles Johnson plussed me up!"

"He did what?!"

482 MandyManners  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:05:15pm

re: #473 gop_patriot

That's very cool. :)

Not bad for a Yellow-Dog Democrat.

483 yochanan  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:05:29pm

re: #471 Eowyn2

i buy my fruits and veg at the local Greek guys store, frankly to me a tomato is a tomato not going to pay extra for organic as i remember reading a study that organic has almost the same level of chem pesticides as reg. stuff and you can get food poisoning from organic shit as well.

bad enough that kosher costs more than traif.

484 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:05:33pm

re: #478 MandyManners

From today's DT. Magic chicken.

LOL!

485 Render  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:05:37pm

re: #470 goddessoftheclassroom

My Mom reads LGF. She's just never registered...

I
THINK,
R

486 MandyManners  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:06:50pm

re: #469 David IV of Georgia

Didn't the potato come from America?

487 Alouette  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:07:00pm

re: #470 goddessoftheclassroom

My mom just knows us as "that lizard place."

My mom gets all her information from the LA Times, CNN and NPR.

488 Whiterasta  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:07:19pm

We used to call okra, "Lizard Tails" when I was growing up.

(Honey, finish your lizard tails, or you can't leave the table....")

489 gop_patriot  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:07:29pm

re: #481 Josephine

HA! Mine did the same, when I said "Hey cool, Charles dinged me up..." ROFLMAO

/The Lizard King, making husbands insecure the world over hahaha

490 yochanan  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:07:34pm

re: #478 MandyManners

suprised me though it was going to be DOG

491 ec marm  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:07:35pm

re: #23 Charles

I just got off the phone with documentary filmmaker Errol Morris, who's an LGF fan and is planning to write a piece on fauxtography for the NYT.


Hehehe. Since I got the hat tip for the last big Iran Fauxto can you describe ec marm as "young, handsome, with lots of hair"?
Seriously, while I have my own (tiny) blog I brought the picture here because of the intelligence of the posters, their knowledge of weapons, and my two grandsons had me as busy as a one legged....

492 Whiterasta  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:07:56pm

re: #486 MandyManners

South America. Peru, I believe......

493 gop_patriot  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:08:07pm

re: #482 MandyManners

Not bad for a Yellow-Dog Democrat.

Nice. Did you mention before that she does NOT like Obama?

494 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:08:12pm

re: #485 Render

My Mom reads LGF. She's just never registered...

I
THINK,
R

You hope

READING ON THE SLY ....

AWSHIT!
R

495 MandyManners  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:08:56pm

re: #484 pre-Boomer Marine brat

LOL!

Glad you laughed. It freaked me out this morning.

496 MandyManners  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:09:34pm

re: #481 Josephine

My husband calls me "LGF Woman".

I'll never forget the look on his face the night I said, "Oooooo, Charles Johnson plussed me up!"

"He did what?!"

ROFLMAO!

497 nyc redneck  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:10:25pm

re: #386 wrenchwench

This is Miguel's most recent post:

i am so sorry miguel is having problems.
he is such a delightful hot head. lol
hope you're reading this miguel. come back soon.

498 goddessoftheclassroom  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:10:25pm

re: #479 Whiterasta

They made pasteurization law, because it killed of TB and E. Coli.

Sigh. I know. But I still wish I could have signed a waiver or something...

499 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:10:43pm

re: #495 MandyManners

Glad you laughed. It freaked me out this morning.

Well, somehow, as I began scrolling down thru the photos, I had a hunch that "something was coming". It was all too innocuous.

500 MandyManners  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:10:49pm

re: #490 yochanan

suprised me though it was going to be DOG

I've heard (here, I think) that dog's been taken off the menu in the area around the Olympic stadium in China.

501 Render  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:10:59pm

re: #494 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Close. Mom's an Army Air Corp/Air Force brat.

Keeps me on my posting toes.

MOM
APPROVED,
R

502 Whiterasta  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:10:59pm

Where do potatoes origin?

[Link: www.potato2008.org...]

( I don't need no steenking edjacahun! I have the internet!)

503 MandyManners  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:11:32pm

re: #492 Whiterasta

South America. Peru, I believe......

We took it back there, then when it failed, we came here. Pretty interesting.

504 BBev  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:12:08pm

re: #485 Render

My Mom reads LGF. She's just never registered...

I
THINK,
R

You will never know will ya. You had better be nice.

505 yochanan  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:12:16pm

re: #497 nyc redneck

miguel if you see this you are missed

506 MandyManners  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:12:24pm

re: #493 gop_patriot

Nice. Did you mention before that she does NOT like Obama?

He scares the snot out of her. She thinks he's vain, a liar and anti-American. His wife...well, she has an even lower opinion of her.

507 bellamags  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:12:39pm

re: #330 wolfie

We could also build more refineries while we're at it.
IIRC, we haven't built a single one since the 70's.

new refinery

508 Whiterasta  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:13:06pm

re: #498 goddessoftheclassroom

Never mind that! You don't want a dose of E. Coli, or TB. Seriously.

509 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:13:29pm

re: #501 Render

Close. Mom's an Army Air Corp/Air Force brat.

Keeps me on my posting toes.

MOM
APPROVED,
R

heh
I can well imagine.
Army Air Corps? She must be my pre-Boomer generation.

510 David IV of Georgia  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:13:32pm

re: #486 MandyManners

Didn't the potato come from America?

Yes, but they grow nicely in Ireland.

511 gop_patriot  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:13:37pm

re: #506 MandyManners

He scares the snot out of her. She thinks he's vain, a liar and anti-American. His wife...well, she has an even lower opinion of her.

Your mom sounds very lizard-like... ;)

512 MandyManners  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:13:40pm

re: #499 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Well, somehow, as I began scrolling down thru the photos, I had a hunch that "something was coming". It was all too innocuous.

I was expecting an honest-to-goodness recipe, a new way to cook some chicken.

513 goddessoftheclassroom  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:13:58pm

re: #506 MandyManners

He scares the snot out of her. She thinks he's vain, a liar and anti-American. His wife...well, she has an even lower opinion of her.

My mom hates Hillary even more. She wanted me to reregister Democrat so that I could vote for Obama/against Hillary in the PA primary, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. Thank God she won our precinct by more than one vote!

514 MandyManners  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:14:20pm

re: #502 Whiterasta

Where do potatoes origin?

[Link: www.potato2008.org...]

( I don't need no steenking edjacahun! I have the internet!)

Lake Titicaca.

Is it now the boob thread?

515 wolfie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:14:53pm

re: #507 bellamags

Let's all hope the good voters of SD have taken the first step in our recovery of common sense !

516 BBev  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:15:01pm

re: #505 yochanan

miguel if you see this you are missed

I get up at 4 am and always read here but almost never post, It's nice to read what is going on in the world at that time of the morning,

517 MandyManners  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:15:22pm

re: #510 David IV of Georgia

Yes, but they grow nicely in Ireland.

Best potato soup I ever had was made by a Sicilian mother of 10 deep in the heart of the Smokey Mountains.

518 bellamags  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:15:45pm

re: #481 Josephine

LOL

519 debutaunt  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:15:46pm

re: #496 MandyManners

ROFLMAO!

Upding me baby!

520 gop_patriot  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:15:52pm

re: #514 MandyManners

Lake Titicaca.

Is it now the boob thread?

Better than the penis* thread it was before.

*human and cetacean, omg

521 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:16:02pm

re: #512 MandyManners

I was expecting an honest-to-goodness recipe, a new way to cook some chicken.

double ... triple quadruple HEH!

522 MandyManners  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:16:16pm

re: #511 gop_patriot

Your mom sounds very lizard-like... ;)

She's getting a bumper-sticker made: ANOTHER DEMOCRAT FOR MCCAIN.

523 Whiterasta  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:16:17pm

re: #507 bellamags

We have not built a single refinery since the 70's, because of the green-loonies......

524 yochanan  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:16:42pm

my son's mother in law spent ww2 in Shanghai what i hear is she is glad to be in America because America is free and clean. I remember asking an Indian woman what her first impression of Chicago was in her words IT IS SO CLEAN HERE.

MOST 3RD WORLD COUNTRIES ARE DUMPS.

525 opnion  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:16:52pm

re: #502 Whiterasta

Where do potatoes origin?

[Link: www.potato2008.org...]

( I don't need no steenking edjacahun! I have the internet!)

All & All , your just another brick in the wall.

526 nyc redneck  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:17:02pm

re: #517 MandyManners

Best potato soup I ever had was made by a Sicilian mother of 10 deep in the heart of the Smokey Mountains.

well then, mine would be second best.

527 MandyManners  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:17:33pm

re: #513 goddessoftheclassroom

My mom hates Hillary even more. She wanted me to reregister Democrat so that I could vote for Obama/against Hillary in the PA primary, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. Thank God she won our precinct by more than one vote!

Mom despises her but, the thought of an Obama administration terrifies her.

528 Josephine  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:17:46pm

re: #517 MandyManners

Best potato soup I ever had was made by a Sicilian mother of 10 deep in the heart of the Smokey Mountains.

I loved my mother's corn chowder. Thanks for reminding me; I'm going to make some soon.

529 opnion  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:17:46pm

re: #505 yochanan

miguel if you see this you are missed


What is his prognosis?

530 goddessoftheclassroom  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:18:13pm

re: #527 MandyManners

Mom despises her but, the thought of an Obama administration terrifies her.

That's how I felt, but my mom's loathing of the Clintons knows no end.

531 MandyManners  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:18:13pm

re: #519 debutaunt

Upding me baby!

I just did.

532 gop_patriot  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:18:18pm

re: #505 yochanan

miguel if you see this you are missed

AMEN! We love you Miguel. Get well soon! (((HUGS)))

533 MandyManners  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:18:46pm

re: #520 gop_patriot

Better than the penis* thread it was before.

*human and cetacean, omg

The Tour de France thread? Wowza.

534 debutaunt  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:18:53pm

re: #528 Josephine

I loved my mother's corn chowder. Thanks for reminding me; I'm going to make some soon.

Recipe?

535 MandyManners  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:19:18pm

Gotta' go sling some hash. bbl

536 Ojoe  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:19:36pm

re: #532 gop_patriot

Having read Miguel's posts, I think he would especially like small candles lit for him in churches.

537 nyc redneck  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:20:00pm

re: #528 Josephine

I loved my mother's corn chowder. Thanks for reminding me; I'm going to make some soon.

i just love soup. i make a roasted red pepper salmon corn chowder.
i never follow recipes. i just sort of throw it all in there.

538 BBev  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:20:26pm

re: #513 goddessoftheclassroom

I voted for Hillary in the New Hampshire primary because I knew that McCain had a lock on it I wanted blood in the water for the rest of the primary's and we did get blood. I also think that once Obama record comes out to America and debates are done Obama will go by the way of the Dodo.

539 debutaunt  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:20:26pm

re: #531 MandyManners

I just did.

Ooops - I meant it as a reference to Charles plussing another lizard.

540 Whiterasta  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:22:43pm

re: #524 yochanan

I have a friend who works for an airline. He flew standby to Mumbai and got stuck there for 7 days, before he could get a flight back to Canada.

The guy is MR. Johnny Whitebread. He was shocked and appalled at the poverty in India.

The poor guy drank nothing but bottled water and refused to eat anything, till he got back to civilization...

541 bellamags  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:22:47pm

re: #523 Whiterasta

I totally agree with you. However, a lot of conservatives sat on their hands previously because our gas prices have always been relatively cheap. Now that it is hitting us in the wallets we are taking action and for the first time I can remember our conservative leaders are listening. I believe it is because of Newt's petition.

542 Dolphin  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:24:58pm

re: #536 Ojoe

You could light one here:

[Link: light-a-candle.org...]

I thought about doing it, but wasn't sure how to link it back here because it askes for an e-mail addy.

543 Whiterasta  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:25:26pm

re: #541 bellamags

I'd love for us to say to the barbarians of the Soddomite "Kingdom" to take their oil and go screw.

544 gop_patriot  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:25:47pm

re: #533 MandyManners

Nope, this one, further up. Zombie even posted a picture. :X

545 Josephine  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:26:12pm

re: #524 yochanan

my son's mother in law spent ww2 in Shanghai what i hear is she is glad to be in America because America is free and clean. I remember asking an Indian woman what her first impression of Chicago was in her words IT IS SO CLEAN HERE.

MOST 3RD WORLD COUNTRIES ARE DUMPS.

I've got a very good book, written by a Canadian woman about her mother's family:

Ten Green Bottles; Vienna to Shanghai - Journey of Fear and Hope

The living conditions were awful.

546 David IV of Georgia  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:27:07pm

Back in the days when people were stuck with eating regional cuisine because little else was available, my grandmother became friends with an Italian immigrant. This Italian immigrant had learned how to make reasonable approximations of Italian food using ingredients common in Texas. My grandmother learned some of her recipes. Not exactly what you would think of as Italian, or Southern, but still tasty.

547 Whiterasta  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:27:38pm

re: #545 Josephine

..."The living conditions were awful..."

And so lives 4/5ths of the world.........

548 BBev  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:27:57pm

re: #543 Whiterasta

I'd love for us to say to the barbarians of the Soddomite "Kingdom" to take their oil and go screw.

We have our own oil and do not need them if only Congress would let us get it, I am all for alt energy and eclectic cars but for right now oil rules and is the fuel of industry.

549 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:28:32pm

re: #546 David IV of Georgia

Haven't started supper yet!
I'm heading over!

550 wolfie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:29:13pm

re: #536 Ojoe

Having read Miguel's posts, I think he would especially like small candles lit for him in churches.

My thoughts exactly. I don't have a church w/ votive candles nearby, so maybe a big city lizard could visit one for him. (?)

Oramos por ti, MIGUEL, que Dios te bendiga y que recobres completamente la salud.

551 yochanan  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:30:14pm

Linda Jaivin's Eat me is a fun read.

[Link: www.amazon.com...]

552 bellamags  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:30:35pm

re: #543 Whiterasta

Yes. when my little Altima costs $72 to fill the tank with REGULAR its time to drill for our own oil.

553 opnion  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:31:13pm

re: #548 BBev

We have our own oil and do not need them if only Congress would let us get it, I am all for alt energy and eclectic cars but for right now oil rules and is the fuel of industry.

Do everything. Drill, Wind, Wave ,Nuclear everything.
This Democrat talking point that 'We can't drill our way out of it" is silly.
That would be like , you can't hit your way out of a batting slump.

554 wolfie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:31:17pm

re: #542 Dolphin

I never knew of that site, cyber-slow as I am!
Thanks!

555 Dolphin  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:32:07pm

re: #554 wolfie

You're welcome :)

556 Josephine  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:32:38pm

re: #534 debutaunt

Recipe?

I'm going to have to hunt for it, unfortunately. I put my recipes away in despair after I was diagnosed with Celiac Disease and I don't know where I stashed them.

All I remember is: Boiled potatoes (cut into small pieces), corn, onions (quartered), water, milk, pepper to taste. It was sweet and potato-y and it always tasted better after it had sat in the fridge overnight.

557 Kosh's Shadow  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:33:15pm

re: #538 BBev

I voted for Hillary in the New Hampshire primary because I knew that McCain had a lock on it I wanted blood in the water for the rest of the primary's and we did get blood. I also think that once Obama record comes out to America and debates are done Obama will go by the way of the Dodo.

Obama's polls are dropping like flies.

In the latest NEWSWEEK Poll, the Illinois senator leads Republican nominee John McCain by just 3 percentage points, 44 percent to 41 percent. The statistical dead heat is a marked change from last month's NEWSWEEK Poll, where Obama led McCain by 15 points, 51 percent to 36 percent.

This kind of change gives me hope!

558 Whiterasta  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:33:28pm

re: #548 BBev

re: #548 BBev

..."but for right now oil rules and is the fuel of industry...."

And Oil and coal will power civilization for the next ten thousand years.

Interesting fact: A windmill does not provide enough energy to build another windmill........

559 itellu3times  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:34:28pm

re: #454 zombie

As for my seaweed reference, this is what Iw as talking about:

Dulse

Until the industrial revolution, it was a main dietary supplement in the far northern British Isles.

Does it make good ethanol?

560 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:34:29pm

re: #550 wolfie

My thoughts exactly. I don't have a church w/ votive candles nearby, so maybe a big city lizard could visit one for him. (?)

Wolfie, there's a RC church near my place. Don't know anything about the drill, but I assume one can do it there. (Even Protestants.) I will go tomorrow and light TWO. You have my word.

561 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:35:55pm

re: #553 opnion

Dammit, only ONE up-ding allowed!

562 Ojoe  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:35:59pm

re: #553 opnion

Don't forget the passive solar heating of buildings, especially houses. I have designed modest sized houses which gather the energy equivalent of 300 gallons of heating oil per season.

How many houses in the USA eventually could save this much oil every year? Millions of houses.

This book explains how:
The Passive Solar Energy Book, Professsional Edition.

563 GeeWiz  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:36:17pm

re: #409 goddessoftheclassroom

Sorry I'm so late but I had to forage for food. I forgot to tell you the best part of the story. I was able to comfort my daughter by telling her about you and the prayer list. I told her that I would ask you to add Avery to the list and there would be people from all over the country and the world praying for her. When I said that there was no way God could ignore that many prayers on Avery's behalf, she asked me to thank everyone for their efforts. So once again I Thank You All, this time from my daughter!

564 yochanan  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:36:25pm

currently solar and wind is marginal at best. Depending on were you are. We used solar in Israel back in 1982 but it was just to heat water and in jerusalem it mostly did not work in the winter.

565 Josephine  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:36:38pm

re: #547 Whiterasta

..."The living conditions were awful..."

And so lives 4/5ths of the world.........

I'm grateful to live in Canada.

566 Oh no...Sand People!  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:37:29pm

Late to the party, but that photo is ROFL funny.

567 pat  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:39:09pm

re: #435 pre-Boomer Marine brat

You sound like you do not like it.

/tried it ONCE, in high school ... STILL remember!

I love poi and fried taro even better. But i was raised on it, so i understand. As we say, more for us.

568 Racer X  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:39:34pm

re: #558 Whiterasta

Interesting fact: A windmill does not provide enough energy to build another windmill........


I've heard that one before. Any linkage? I love throwing that quote out there but want to back it up.

569 justdanny  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:39:45pm

Hey Charles,

Take five.

570 wolfie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:40:34pm

re: #524 yochanan

my son's mother in law spent ww2 in Shanghai what i hear is she is glad to be in America because America is free and clean. I remember asking an Indian woman what her first impression of Chicago was in her words IT IS SO CLEAN HERE.

MOST 3RD WORLD COUNTRIES ARE DUMPS.


I was born and raised in a 3rd World country.

That is why, from the moment I came here to go to college, I have despised the left. They are spoiled brats.

571 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:41:47pm

re: #567 pat

I love poi and fried taro even better. But i was raised on it, so i understand. As we say, more for us.

Never heard of frying taro. Hmmm. ... Maybe it's because I was a teenage boy then?

/braindead

572 itellu3times  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:42:15pm

re: #558 Whiterasta

And Oil and coal will power civilization for the next ten thousand years.

Not really. Ten years, yeah. A hundred years, we will be well past "peak oil", and I presume total energy demand worldwide will be several times current levels, so I'm guessing new hydrocarbon production will be less than half of total energy use, maybe a lot less.

A thousand years, who knows, but it won't be oil or coal. Space-based solar will probably be the major source of energy a thousand years from now, unless we figure out efficient fusion in the meantime. Could probably build space-based solar in under a hundred. Can use some ground-based solar in the meantime, but space-based is 5x more efficient, probably at least 2x more even after beaming it down to the ground.

573 Hard Right  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:42:18pm

Maybe I mised it elsewhere in the thread, but is it possible the reason for the launch was two fold?

1) Saber rattling
2) Drive the price of oil back up.

574 ec marm  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:42:51pm

re: #562 Ojoe

Don't forget the passive solar heating of buildings, especially houses. I have designed modest sized houses which gather the energy equivalent of 300 gallons of heating oil per season.


I live in one of them. The seller described it to me as siting the house X# of degrees west of south, or something. Bright sunny days in the coldest part of winter and the furnace never kicks on. (I burn wood mainly, the oil furnance hasn't seen serious duty since Saddamn was in Kuwait and oil was .65/gallon) Good insulation and tight windows is the key, though.

575 wolfie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:42:55pm

re: #560 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Wolfie, there's a RC church near my place. Don't know anything about the drill, but I assume one can do it there. (Even Protestants.) I will go tomorrow and light TWO. You have my word.

Bless your heart! :)

576 Ojoe  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:43:01pm

re: #564 yochanan

To get the benefits of solar for a building, the design of the building has to start out with the solar factors, it is difficult to put them in later.

Basically:

exposure to the low winter sun

stretch the building somewhat in the east-west direction

insulate well

weather strip well against drafts

put the glass on the south side, mostly

have some reflective ground surfaces outside the south windows (optional)

shade the glass with overhangs that block out the higher summer sun

have enough mass inside the building so that it heats up slowly & retains the heat at night

have a small back-up heater for stretches of cloudy days

And there you have it, you will save lots of fuel in mid latitudes.

577 David IV of Georgia  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:43:18pm

re: #548 BBev

We have our own oil and do not need them if only Congress would let us get it, I am all for alt energy and eclectic cars but for right now oil rules and is the fuel of industry.

We used to think that a lot of our oil was too expensive to extract from the ground, so we focused on oil that was easy to get to. In Kilgore, Texas there used to be some pockets just a couple of hundred feet down. Oil, though pricey, was abundant at these easy to get to sites, so the drillers were lazy and careless with it and polluted. With prices way over $120 a barrel, most all of our oil can be extracted for huge profits. With prices so high, waste and pollution are far less likely to happen.

While I am all for energy efficient transportation and research, we have to deal with our current situation. People who make less than $20,000 a year are being devastated. People who make less than $40K per year are having to alter their lifestyles significantly. My company is going to a 4 day work week starting next week. This is no longer merely an academic issue.

578 Josephine  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:43:39pm

re: #537 nyc redneck

i just love soup. i make a roasted red pepper salmon corn chowder.
i never follow recipes. i just sort of throw it all in there.

I have to follow recipes or I end up with something inedible every time. My husband is the cook in our family (because I overcook almost everything).

579 yochanan  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:43:55pm

re: #569 justdanny

his wood working skills SUCK BIG TIME not the way to do that at all.

580 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:45:31pm

re: #575 wolfie

Bless your heart! :)

And I have a note to put your name on one of them (along w/ MinM's). Maybe that's what one does? I'll find out, I guess.

581 yochanan  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:45:43pm

re: #576 Ojoe

in Jerusalem it is cloudy and rain in the winter no sun. 3/4 of the year is sunny.

582 cinnabar  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:46:42pm

Now that is some funny Shiite there... thats what I'm sayin.

583 justdanny  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:47:29pm

re: #579 yochanan Rgr that Yoc. It obviously isnt a serious attempt at installing a floyd rose. Look at the background of his work area, all of the guitars hanging on an outside wall. Guy is just having fun. Plus, the idea of a floyd rose on an acoustic is just wrong.

584 Hard Right  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:48:23pm

From looking at the backblast, I'd say the guy with the match who lit those rockets is toast.

585 goddessoftheclassroom  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:49:48pm

re: #580 pre-Boomer Marine brat

And I have a note to put your name on one of them (along w/ MinM's). Maybe that's what one does? I'll find out, I guess.

Lighting candles is a wonderful way of focusing on prayer and it's a comforting symbol. I remember lighting on in Sacre Coeur in Paris long ago.

586 yochanan  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:50:14pm

re: #583 justdanny

don't know a damn thing about music just got a hearing test and the i am all but deaf in the higher pitchs. I do know something about wood working though.

587 Gozer the Carpathian  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:51:22pm

ROFL. That's great. I like the Wiley E Coyote version best though. :)

588 WhiteRasta  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:52:41pm

re: #572 itellu3times

I disagree with you there. I have no links to back up my arguement, but there is all kinds of oil and coal in the ground, still.

Scads and scads of it. Not to mention Uranium.....

589 Render  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:53:00pm

re: #573 Hard Right

Three fold. Your two and...

The No Dong missile series has an extremely poor use and reliability record, so the various owners demand to see working versions from time to time.

BOTTLE
ROCKETS,
R

590 justdanny  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:55:40pm

re: #586 yochanan
You are right. Pitiful example of woodworking. I know a little about wood working. I know more about guitars though. That type of tremelo, a floyd rose, is for solid body electric guitars only. Putting it on an acoustic is nothing but a joke. I play guitar, but I dont take guitar serious. So its fun to see someone else have fun not taking guitar serious.

591 Ojoe  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:55:45pm

re: #581 yochanan

Well solar house heating won't work too well in Jerusalem then.

But you may get some idea of the potential energy savings in the USA when you realize that there are about 1,000,000 new houses built in the USA each year.

if only a third of them used passive solar heating, and perhaps saved only 150 gallons of heating oil each, that is
900,000 barrels of oil per year; if over time it became common to design for solar energy, the accumulated savings would be very great.

592 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:56:12pm

re: #585 goddessoftheclassroom

Lighting candles is a wonderful way of focusing on prayer and it's a comforting symbol. I remember lighting on in Sacre Coeur in Paris long ago.

Symbols are important.

Was sent to Nice on company business 2 years ago. Yuck! Stayed in the hotel evenings.

Now if it'd been Paris (though I don't care much for Fwance), I'd have gone to see Sacre Coeur, Notre Dame, the Louvre.

593 Kosh's Shadow  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:58:03pm

re: #589 Render

Three fold. Your two and...

The No Dong missile series has an extremely poor use and reliability record, so the various owners demand to see working versions from time to time.

BOTTLE
ROCKETS,
R

So, is this the reason Kim Jong Il is so ronery? He has No Dong?

594 ec marm  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 4:58:48pm

re: #576 Ojoe
I agree with you exactly. However, in my state (Penna.), everyone wants to buy a McMansion look-alike Colonial style house. I have the overhangs, the large areas of south facing glass, 100 foot roofline running east to west, and everything else. But buyers look at it like it is a three dollar bill. I'm not sure who has to do a better job at educating buyers, but your average one is clueless about designing for energy efficiency and only cares about the final appearance of the home. Maybe that will change.

595 itellu3times  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 5:00:25pm

re: #591 Ojoe

Well solar house heating won't work too well in Jerusalem then.

But you may get some idea of the potential energy savings in the USA when you realize that there are about 1,000,000 new houses built in the USA each year.

if only a third of them used passive solar heating, and perhaps saved only 150 gallons of heating oil each, that is
900,000 barrels of oil per year; if over time it became common to design for solar energy, the accumulated savings would be very great.

Out of 21m/day?

That's 5% of 1/365, ... um work out the decimal points but it's not all that much. I'm still in favor of it, I have a thirty year old book on solar homes around here somewhere, ...

596 Ojoe  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 5:01:37pm

re: #595 itellu3times

all approaches will need to be used for the accumulated effect to tell upon the health of our country.

597 itellu3times  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 5:06:38pm

re: #588 WhiteRasta

I disagree with you there. I have no links to back up my arguement, but there is all kinds of oil and coal in the ground, still.

Scads and scads of it. Not to mention Uranium.....

Uranium is another topic, because you can build breeders to make plutonium.

On the oil and coal, look it anywhere, WR, it's no secret. About 100 years of oil, and 300 years of coal (mostly in the USA!), another few hundred years of oil shale at higher prices, at current demand or with some growth. Nobody says 1000 years, even with fluorescent bulbs.

Question is if we can stretch it some, with nuclear, solar, wind, biomass, and of course conservation.

Again, unless something serendipitous comes along, we'll be seeing higher prices every year, starting last year, for the next millenium.

Welcome to the future!

598 Truck Monkey  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 5:06:46pm

re: #524 yochanan

my son's mother in law spent ww2 in Shanghai what i hear is she is glad to be in America because America is free and clean. I remember asking an Indian woman what her first impression of Chicago was in her words IT IS SO CLEAN HERE.

MOST 3RD WORLD COUNTRIES ARE DUMPS.

My next door neighbor worked with Russian Jewish immigrants in the late 70's and early 80's and he told me that they would go to the grocery store and take pictures and cry out loud because they'd never seen such bounty and couldn't believe it was real.

599 Naso Tang  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 5:07:33pm

LOL (I don't print that often) re the photoshop. I wish I had thought of that.

Beautiful.

600 boofar  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 5:08:25pm

Yo! Charles!

[Link: www.whistlestopper.com...]

Check that out.

601 Manster  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 5:08:36pm

That's the laugh I needed before heading into work. :)

602 BBev  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 5:09:17pm

re: #573 Hard Right

Maybe I missed it elsewhere in the thread, but is it possible the reason for the launch was two fold?

1) Saber rattling
2) Drive the price of oil back up.

OK if they want to play it that way why don't we make it for real, I'm sick of this shit and would rather it be now rather them later!

603 boofar  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 5:09:24pm

re: #23 Charles

I just got off the phone with documentary filmmaker Errol Morris, who's an LGF fan and is planning to write a piece on fauxtography for the NYT.

Oh snap.

604 So?  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 5:10:30pm

re: #6 NJDhockeyfan

Here's the original.

They couldn't get it up.

605 BBev  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 5:12:54pm

re: #595 itellu3times

Out of 21m/day?

That's 5% of 1/365, ... um work out the decimal points but it's not all that much. I'm still in favor of it, I have a thirty year old book on solar homes around here somewhere, ...

I designed a passive solar home in 1980 (I was 17) and 5 homes of my plans were built.

606 boofar  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 5:14:43pm

re: #148 zombie

Speaking of incompetence...this is a serious question:

Why didn't the US Department of Defense catch this Photoshop job and debunk Iran's missile test during a live TV news conference three days ago? Why is Charles Johnson doing the DoD's job?

Is our government so embarrassingly "out of it" that it is actually up to us bloggers to affect international relations? Don't they have a single person on staff in the government who knows how to spot fake propaganda news being used against the US?

It's a massive bureaucracy that moves at 2 miles per month?

You want a stapler? Here, fill out a form.

607 itellu3times  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 5:18:12pm

re: #573 Hard Right

Maybe I mised it elsewhere in the thread, but is it possible the reason for the launch was two fold?

1) Saber rattling
2) Drive the price of oil back up.

Sure.

Also (3) Potlatch.

BTW, where did they all land, or doesn't anybody know - or care?

608 George guy  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 5:18:13pm

re: #606 boofar

It's a massive bureaucracy that moves at 2 miles per month?

You want a stapler? Here, fill out a form.

What if I don't like the Department-issued staplers and want to use my own red Swingline stapler that doesn't bind up as much?

609 itellu3times  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 5:21:24pm

re: #605 BBev

I designed a passive solar home in 1980 (I was 17) and 5 homes of my plans were built.

Well, I live in a flat-roofed apartment building with no insulation at all, with a freon-based air-conditioner that hasn't worked since the Ford administration. Could put some solar cells or hot water on the roof, the neighboring almost-twin building has the hot-water, Los Angeles so we have reasonable sun 250+ days/year, mostly could use a white or mirror shade on the roof the hottest 10 or 20 days per year ... would show up better on Google Earth, too!

610 boofar  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 5:23:16pm

re: #570 wolfie

I was born and raised in a 3rd World country.

That is why, from the moment I came here to go to college, I have despised the left. They are spoiled brats.

Me? Born in the USSR. Came here in '92. I was raised an obedient little commie. Then I went to college and 9/11 happened. I started *gasp* thinking. My parents were and are displeased. They had such a nice obedient socialist son, but he turned into a young capitalist neo-con israel-supporting rascal.

Kids...

611 boofar  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 5:25:33pm

re: #608 George guy

What if I don't like the Department-issued staplers and want to use my own red Swingline stapler that doesn't bind up as much?

Here's another form you need to fill out in order to bring it on government property, to be able to put it on your desk and register it so you can use it.

Exaggerating. But everyone understands how slow this moves. The first counter-terrorist propaganda was launched how long after al-Jazeera?

612 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 5:30:25pm

re: #610 boofar

Glad to have you here.

613 profitsbeard  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 5:30:45pm

ROTFLMAO x 36!

My new screensaver!

A rocking great job!

614 cybermonk  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 5:34:43pm

re: #230 itellu3times

Indy bank bit the dust today. Feds took it over.

615 Peter Verkooijen  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 5:39:06pm

Are you sure it's faked?

/ reprising my perceptive comment from the original thread

616 DeathtotheSwiss  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 5:43:29pm

Oh my goodness, it's obvious to me NOW that Iran is a threat. /wool falling from eyes

617 boofar  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 5:46:33pm

re: #612 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Glad to have you here.

Thanks. Glad to be over. Not making any long-term international travel plans, if you know what I mean. But Nevada looks like a good place.

/bleh
//new england
///nice buildings, but 80-100% humidity sucks

618 itellu3times  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 5:56:02pm

re: #614 cybermonk

Indy bank bit the dust today. Feds took it over.

Hadn't heard that. Not a surprise at this point, still, one more casualty.

619 J'accuzzi  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 5:58:15pm

Oh father of a thousand camels! What did you say to our North Korean missile advisors?

620 BBev  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 6:03:41pm

re: #619 J'accuzzi

Oh father of a thousand camels! What did you say to our North Korean missile advisors?

He said wow are we fucked when the real American nukes come raining down on us.(Iran)

621 Pigtown Water Dog  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 6:14:23pm

So sorry to hear about Miguel. He and gotc/lol/red/ blue canuck et al on the am thread kept me rivited all year. My thoughts and prayers are with you, Miguel.

Miguel, if you are reading this, please know that people are out there pulling for you.

God bless.

622 Pigtown Water Dog  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 6:17:35pm

re: #536 Ojoe

I am lighting small candles for Miguel on my bar right now. Good enough. God sees.

623 Genexer  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 6:17:36pm

Funniest picture I've seen all year!

624 Pigtown Water Dog  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 6:18:42pm

re: #610 boofar

Boofar... They'll get over it. Hooray for freedom.

625 Winslow  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 6:21:26pm

Fauxtochrome
(With apologies to Paul Simon)

When I think back on all the crap the media fed me,
It’s a wonder I still have a clue.
But now with LGF and zombietime to help me,
Propaganda I can see right through.

Fauxtochrome
It gives us those nice thick smoke trails,
It gives us “green helmet” showing entrails,
Makes you think all Beirut was blown away.
They got a P-shop program,
They love to make a fauxtograph,
Oh mama, please take their Fauxtochrome away.

If you took all the phony pictures propagated,
And brought them all together in one file,
’Twould be a testament to treason unabated;
’Twould be a monumental steaming pile.

Fauxtochrome
It gives us such fake destruction,
It gives us a staged production,
Makes us think day is night, and night is day.
They got a Fauxto-program,
They love to make a fauxtograph.
Oh mama, please take their Fauxtochrome away.

626 Pigtown Water Dog  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 6:24:54pm

re: #598 Truck Monkey


One of the people writing the Lithuanian Constitution stayed with mom and me-- We took him to K-mart, and he bawled like a baby. I get teary -eyed thking about that. God bless America, and every freedom-loving person in the world.

627 noelUSAF  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 6:52:11pm

Holly shit! now...listen .....if IRAN has to resort to photo shopping missile launches............OMG how utterly pathetic to say the least...don't you see boys and girls....these people are children...pouting..pissed off. stomping their feet and they are toothless... FUNNY! GO BIG BLUE ....................USAF

628 Mambo Bananapatch  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 6:54:21pm

God, it must piss them off to know we're laughing at them and mocking them like this.

629 psyop  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 6:55:36pm

Now... that...

That is awesome.

630 Blazer in RIC  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 7:02:27pm

Mahmoud Cat Is Not Amused !

631 akak  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 7:40:41pm

We all know Iran/IRG/MuslimBrotherhood/Hamas/Fatah/
Hezbashitzah/al Qaeda is serious about media & propaganda, is it possible the creator is the same one that created the billowing smoke from Beirut bombing fauxtography?

632 tradewind  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 7:48:56pm

re: #148 zombie

Zombie, just a random thought, but maybe for the same reason or reasons that they say nothing about Usama's being deader 'n a doornail.
Must be no upside to it for them.

633 Arbalest  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 7:51:12pm

In case anyone hasn’t mentioned this, the Iranian rocket that failed to launch (top photo of this thread) appears to be a FROG-derivative, not a SCUD-derivative. The launch rail on the rocket transporter is a major clue. Additionally, the design of the transporter fits the FROG transporter description, not the SCUD transporter description.

This, then, brings up an interesting question: given that the launch crew knew the script of the exercise, and saw all of the other rockets launch, how is it that this one failed?

The FROG family of rockets isn’t exactly a “point-in-a-safe-direction,-light-fuse,-then -get-away” rocket, but for a military weapon, it isn’t much beyond.

It seems unlikely that the crew forgot.

634 illegal upchuck  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 8:15:12pm

re: #139 Occasional Reader

That was the hands-down winner.

It's also my new desktop picture.

635 Irving  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 8:19:04pm

That is an absolute riot. I love it.

I feel foolish now for asking "You sure they photoshopped this? I can't figure out why..." but it's good to know why.

Here's another interesting question. Why did Iran try to poke the hornet's nest with this little piece of propaganda?

It could be an internal reason, or an impenetrable Islamic one. "Immanutjob", as my wife refers to him, is not particularly well seated on his place of power, so some, er, martial ejaculation might help him out with the imams.

The paranoid thought that occurs to me, though, isn't even remotely funny. Maybe Iran did to to spike oil prices. The bubble was showing some signs of deflation before this test.

Saudi Arabia's trying very hard to modulate oil prices. They're not fools. They fully understand that too-high prices will make people look for an alternative to their product, and they're trying to play for the long term. (Yes, they are acting like a drug pusher - but to be fair, Saudi Arabia's got nothing but oil and sand, so it make sense that they would think hard about how to get the maximum value out of their sole national asset.)

Iran, however, doesn't seem to be interested in the long term. I wonder if they're trying to get a lot of cash on short notice - and if so, what they want it for.

636 zombie  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 8:24:39pm

re: #625 Winslow

Fauxtochrome
(With apologies to Paul Simon)

When I think back on all the crap the media fed me,
It’s a wonder I still have a clue.
But now with LGF and zombietime to help me,
Propaganda I can see right through.

Fauxtochrome
...etc.


BRAVO!

637 yesandno  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 8:42:53pm

Been out of the loop most of the day.......so I know this is a late, late post to this thread.......

But I laughed out loud when I saw it! This is great....

Hey, why just do it when you can over do it!

638 barry the baptist  Fri, Jul 11, 2008 9:00:17pm

Just saw this whilst eating and nearly choked to death!


LMFAO!

639 jaydee  Sat, Jul 12, 2008 5:10:40am

Pmsl at that website with the faux pics

640 zulubaby  Sat, Jul 12, 2008 6:16:03am

Oh my G-d, is that funny!

641 GGMac  Sat, Jul 12, 2008 9:32:57am

#640 zulubaby

Nice to see you!

642 Ariana  Sat, Jul 12, 2008 12:09:38pm

LMAO Made my day. I love the one with wily coyote too. That umbrella cracks me up

643 aikidoka  Sat, Jul 12, 2008 2:19:24pm

Unfortunately, the usual suspects tend to say this only proves that the threat from Iraq is overstated. Seems to me it's proof that they cannot be trusted.

644 grahamski  Sat, Jul 12, 2008 4:18:22pm

IN COMING!....LMFAO!

645 Dr. Shalit  Mon, Jul 14, 2008 8:56:31am

re: #32 Killgore Trout

Ah Here's the video Drudge must be talking about. It's such poor quality that I can't tell if it's fake or not.

K-T -

Now I know who stole my old VHS-C vidcam. Think it was also dropped in the sand a few times.

-S-


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