I am Mandy!

I am Mandy.

I am a meat popscicle.

I am Mandy.

I am incoherent.

have a good night folks

Amen Mr. Winchell.

I am Drunk!

Isn't this nation a Republic?

It's hard to tell these days.

Life is what happens on all those days that weren't special occasions.

we are all mandy

I AM MANDY

re: #9 Mich-again

I thought life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

I am Mandy

(Wheee! very different.)

Good night all

re: #9 Mich-again

Life is what happens on all those days that weren't special occasions.

You mean like my niece's wedding yesterday?

I am Mandy. I am also tired, so g'nite Lizards!

re: #2 Catttt
Just finished playing Super Bounce Out. Fun!

I am Mandy!

/at work and sober. What did I just jump into by the way. :)

re: #13 solomonpanting

Shweet. How many people came and did you dance to any Bob Seger songs?

re: #16 BlueCanuck
Some troll was after Mandy on the last thread. He already got the stick.

What a champion quote.

Not bad for a gossip reporter.

;)

Is Mandy the Final Cylon?

re: #16 BlueCanuck

I am Mandy!

/at work and sober. What did I just jump into by the way. :)

Troll thread back, took out after Mandy......

re: #18 Pvt Bin Jammin

A troll after Mandy? The poor soul. Obviously he wasn't around long enough to know not to go after her.

/seen her smack downs, even with fellow lizards.

I yam what I yam.

Yeah, I like Mandy too, but now I've got that damned Manilow song going on in my head and it won't go away.........."Oh Mandy.........."

/we all love one another, right?

re: #22 BlueCanuck
One of those sleeper trolls, less than 100 posts.

I am, I said.

I want to be the inspector of slave girls that turns out not to be a dud eunach.

re: #20 Macker

Is Mandy the Final Cylon?

I'm thinking Starbuck........gosh I'm such a nerd.

re: #26 Occasional Reader

I am, I said.

Oh, no! Not that!

re: #24 IslandLibertarian
Same here. I almost posted it but then didn't want everybody hearing that song in their head all night. LOL

Or was that turned to be a ? oh hell g'nite ladies.

As the sun sets gently over the Pacific, we bid farewell to the smoldering wreckage of the last thread...

re: #26 Occasional Reader

I am, I said.

I like Neil's "Love on the Rocks" skins up your butt.

So..... we're going for a writ of Mandymus.
Well done!

re: #24 IslandLibertarian

Yeah, I like Mandy too, but now I've got that damned Manilow song going on in my head and it won't go away.........."Oh Mandy.........."

/we all love one another, right?

Everything was going along well, until I read your post. Now? I'll go to bed hearing that song over and over.

"War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want."

re: #17 Mich-again

I'd guess seventy to eighty people at the event. No Bob Seger, but I was the guy at my table "selected" by the others to, uh, um, peform a five second Chippendales-type routine for the bride who was seated in the middle of the floor. You have no idea how conflicted I was to make a fool of myself.

Democracy is a time that has not yet come. It requires the acceptence of reponsibility for one's vote that should extend further then skin deep. In this election coming up, how are the blind to choose?

.

My keen powers of observation tell me there's been a disturbance in LGFland.

re: #27 lifeofthemind

I want to be the inspector of slave girls that turns out not to be a dud eunach.

The piano has been drinking...

re: #34 tradewind

So..... we're going for a writ of Mandymus.
Well done!

Pops back in
San Dimas? Waterslide!

re: #35 rightwinger3

so......stay up, put on some Stones, "Can't You Hear Me Knockin'" should do the trick.......tequila, straight up, ice water back...you'll be fine.......

re: #39 Cognito

Some troll pushing MandyManners to the brink...

Um, why is everbody Mandy?!

I'm going to start deleting spinoff links about that ridiculous, delusional "Obama's birth certificate is forged" story. This has gone way past stupid and into conspiracy theory territory.

so Today, Sunday I am listening on Cable news and the female anchor says, "lets go to 'so-and-so',who is travelling with the Obama Campaign in Iraq...Bob what was President Obama doing today in Iraq..."
that is what I heard, I think, I heard that as there was a lot of laughter and talking over each other after that...

so the enemedia is working on it. Too bad there are such really stupid people with these high pd jobs.
Wait til they see what that jug-eared dope is going to do to their paychecks, marxist nincompoop.

i think charles needs to revise his headline about non peer review of the monckton paper. he is doing a disservice by saying it was not peer reviewed

the actual review can be seen here, in case someone has missed it

[Link: www.webcommentary.com...]

the only question is who asked for this reviewer: Lord monckton or the APS

by the way the reviewer is an APS member

re: #39 Cognito

My keen powers of observation tell me there's been a disturbance in LGFland.

A mere ripple.

re: #39 Cognito
Yes, be very, very careful now. We are all Mandys. LOL

re: #47 ecor1

i think charles needs to revise his headline about non peer review of the monckton paper. he is doing a disservice by saying it was not peer reviewed

the actual review can be seen here, in case someone has missed it

[Link: www.webcommentary.com...]

the only question is who asked for this reviewer: Lord monckton or the APS

by the way the reviewer is an APS member

The article was not peer reviewed. If you keep posting this, you're going to lose your account.

I am Mandy

re: #44 realwest

Um, why is everbody Mandy?!

Some troll decided to take a swipe at Mandy.
Bad move.

re: #37 solomonpanting

but I was the guy at my table "selected" by the others to, uh, um, peform a five second Chippendales-type routine for the bride who was seated in the middle of the floor.

Anyone could do that for 5 seconds. Ha.

Yes, troll on last thread caused all lizards to become one with Mandy.

re: #42 IslandLibertarian

so......stay up, put on some Stones, "Can't You Hear Me Knockin'" should do the trick.......tequila, straight up, ice water back...you'll be fine.......

I may have to...I hate Manilow and not just his music.

re: #44 realwest

Um, why is everbody Mandy?!

We just want to feel pretty. Is that too much to ask?!

resistance is futile,you will be assimilated...we are
the Mandy-borg...

re: #56 Occasional Reader

We just want to feel pretty. Is that too much to ask?!

And fluff the cashmere.

And I don't even know what is going on...

As much as I would like to be a Mandy you all do NOT want to see me in a dress.

the main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything...or nothing

Lady Astor

re: #45 Charles

I'm going to start deleting spinoff links about that ridiculous, delusional "Obama's birth certificate is forged" story. This has gone way past stupid and into conspiracy theory territory.

Great news!

re: #44 realwest
First he went after Mandy. Then made another rude swipe at "all of the Mandys".

re: #58 JCM

And fluff the cashmere.

Glenn ...or Glenda?

re: #60 FurryOldGuyJeans

As much as I would like to be a Mandy you all do NOT want to see me in a dress.

And how would you know how you look in a dress?
/ ;-P

re: #52 JCM
Where? I mean, where is the trolls body or body parts laid out?!

re: #56 Occasional Reader

We just want to feel pretty. Is that too much to ask?!

No it's not.

Play Mandy for me....... sorry Misty.

re: #65 JCM

And how would you know how you look in a dress?
/ ;-P

Because I have worn a dress. Any other stupid questions?

///

re: #65 JCM
hahahahahahahahahahahahah...snort..hahahahahah

re: #66 realwest

Where? I mean, where is the trolls body or body parts laid out?!

Spread all over the last thread. Ripped up a bit at a time.

Is there a full moon tonight or something?

I am Mandy,

No really, I am. Not the Mandy, but a Mandy.

I am Mandy

in sensible shoes.

re: #63 Pvt Bin Jammin
Hi ya PBJ!
WHO DID and where PBJ?

I thought it was because Mandy got NICE lungs...

re: #54 Capitalistincharge

Yes, troll on last thread caused all lizards to become one with Mandy.

No wonder I have been having this strange urge to *whack* people.

/wonder if I should follow through. Oh minion, yes you minion. . . . . .

re: #66 realwest

Where? I mean, where is the trolls body or body parts laid out?!

Last thread nic of brinks, 4 year old reg and under a hundred posts.
Not enough left to make sausage.
Stinky put it out of it's misery.

re: #45 Charles

Good idea.... before you know it, some troll will jump in with the ' McCain's not a natural born citizen' schtick and the whole thing goes downhill.

71 charles, there was last night! a big fat one.

re: #71 Charles

Is there a full moon tonight or something?

NO, I have my belt on....

re: #68 FurryOldGuyJeans

Because I have worn a dress. Any other stupid questions?

///

ROFLMAO!

re: #66 realwest

Where? I mean, where is the trolls body or body parts laid out?!

I don't know if you'd find much.
The Weapon Of Dumbass Destruction is rather "comprehensive."

re: #73 itellu3times

I am Mandy

in sensible shoes.

I was going to use an avatar like yours at one time. Except at the bottom it had MARXISM in big letters.

In fact, ecor is now blocked. I'm getting very sick of zealots posting disinformation.

Obama gaffe alert!

Today on CBS's Face the Nation, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in Afghanistan, told the paparazzi-pursued correspondent Lara Logan that "the objective of this trip was to have substantive discussions with people like President Karzai or Prime Minister Maliki or President Sarkozy or others who I expect to be dealing with over the next eight to 10 years.

re: #77 JCM Ah, good ole Stinky! Thanks.
How are you doing tonight JCM?

re: #71 Charles

Is there a full moon tonight or something?

Missed it by a couple of days.

26 hours now, it's still up

re: #77 JCM

Last thread nic of brinks, 4 year old reg and under a hundred posts.
Not enough left to make sausage.
Stinky put it out of it's misery.

At least for now. Blocked

re: #71 Charles

I know there was one a couple of nights ago. Call it a lingering after effect.

/or there's a lot of people breaking the Iron Fist rule.

re: #82 Dar ul Harb

Not even enough left for a car swarm, really.

re: #71 Charles

Is there a full moon tonight or something?

Here's what my computer says:

bash-3.1$ pom
The Moon is Waning Gibbous (92% of Full)
bash-3.1$

re: #85 gmsc

Obama gaffe alert!

That's an old one.

re: #84 Charles

In fact, ecor is now blocked. I'm getting very sick of zealots posting disinformation.

I was just trying to sort out whether ecor is a zealot, or simply doesn't understand what 'peer review' means, regarding the science journals.

re: #83 Mars Needs Neocons

Some blog you got there!

re: #87 The Other Les

Missed it by a couple of days.

Forgot the link.

[Link: aa.usno.navy.mil...]

re: #83 Mars Needs Neocons

I was going to use an avatar like yours at one time. Except at the bottom it had MARXISM in big letters.

You could still use John Lennon.

I wanted to use one of the Tenniel's illustrations, but I couldn't find one that looked good shrunk to avatar size, so ... I have no idea how I ended up with this instead, and how that elephant got into my pajamas I'll never know!

re: #85 gmsc 8-10 years? That must mean either that he's hoping those "other" 7 states help push through a constitutional amendment or we now know why he wants a Civilian Defense Corps the same size and as well armed as the US Military!
What an absolute Putz.

re: #85 gmsc

And here the nutroots have been theorizing that Bush will suspend the election and try to stay in office.......

re: #63 Pvt Bin Jammin

First he went after Mandy. Then made another rude swipe at "all of the Mandys".

Who is this asshole of which you speak?

re: #95 SpartanWoman

Some blog you got there!

Read the first word of each sentence. Haven't gotten around to changing it after the first joke. Just got boring after a while and haven't had the urge to start again. (had a pretty good one thought up that used the second word of every sentence in reverse)

re: #94 Cognito

I was just trying to sort out whether ecor is a zealot, or simply doesn't understand what 'peer review' means, regarding the science journals.

A lot of people, reading that stuff, would do likewise... but ecor posts DIS-information. Period.

Its difficult enough to sort through conflicting information without having disinformation and propaganda and subtle lies to deal with at the same time, Cog...

re: #74 realwest

Hi ya PBJ!
WHO DID and where PBJ?

Last thread, #452 is where he said something to "All of the Mandys". There is probably still more above that.

re: #99 tradewind

And here the nutroots have been theorizing that Bush will suspend the election and try to stay in office.......

I fear he and Cheney will resign and leave it to Condoleeza for the last six months. Or is it Pelosi? Wotever.

re: #99 tradewind

MUST you feed the moonbats?

/snicker

Must bid all a good night. Tomorrow morning is photo shoot for cover of my new cookbook. :) Sweet Dreams all...

re: #97 itellu3times

You could still use John Lennon.

I wanted to use one of the Tenniel's illustrations, but I couldn't find one that looked good shrunk to avatar size, so ... I have no idea how I ended up with this instead, and how that elephant got into my pajamas I'll never know!

lol

Love the Marx Brothers. Too bad we haven't had anything like them in ages. (Except for the movie Brain Donors, one of my all time favorites.)

re: #102 Carridine

Agreed.

re: #71 Charles

Is there a full moon tonight or something?

Awhoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

_{(ducks and runs...)}

re: #98 realwest

8-10 years? That must mean either that he's hoping those "other" 7 states help push through a constitutional amendment or we now know why he wants a Civilian Defense Corps the same size and as well armed as the US Military!
What an absolute Putz.

You know, since it was posted here, I haven't heard one reference to the Civilian Defense Corps...not even on radio....

It is so offensive, I cannot believe it is going unnoticed.

re: #100 Macker
Some troll named Brinks. See my post to realwest.

re: #12 Ojoe

I am Mandy

(Wheee! very different.)

Good night all

I am Mandy hear me roar ... No! Wait, I already did that and it didn't go over well.

re: #100 Macker
Long gone, Macker... but his Nom de Spewm was Brinks...

All that digging into Obama's birth certificate reminds me a bit of the Danny Amonte episode.

re: #101 Mars Needs Neocons

Very clever.

re: #103 Pvt Bin Jammin
Ah thanks! But now that Stinky's done his work on him, I'm not gonna bother going to look.

re: #114 Carridine

Long gone, Macker... but his Nom de Spewm was Brinks...

Ha. Maybe it was a nom de grrrrrrrr....

re: #86 realwest

Ah, good ole Stinky! Thanks.
How are you doing tonight JCM?

Pleasant day. Wife had an extra day of work, so Mr. Mom, got the kitchen cleaned up in between crises. Munchette now 19 months discovered climbing onto the table, unfortunately getting down is problematic. Nice bruise on her forehead. The 3 year tried jumping off the back of the couch over his brother, one bit tongue and minor abrasions.

All in a day's work.

re: #116 SpartanWoman

Very clever.

Thank you. But a joke like that does no good if it doesn't get victims, so I'm thinking of closing up shop there.

re: #109 wolfie

Awhoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

re: #15 snowcrash

Just finished playing Super Bounce Out. Fun!

Uh oh. Now you're hooked. /Yes, it is fun.

re: #106 Capitalistincharge

Must bid all a good night. Tomorrow morning is photo shoot for cover of my new cookbook. :) Sweet Dreams all...

Cookbook? Yum

I am Oz, the great and powerful.

The Australian has a great op-ed piece on AGW by Dr. David Evans, who spent six years in the Australian Greenhouse Office.

When I started that job in 1999 the evidence that carbon emissions caused global warming seemed pretty good: CO2 is a greenhouse gas, the old ice core data, no other suspects.

The evidence was not conclusive, but why wait until we were certain when it appeared we needed to act quickly? Soon government and the scientific community were working together and lots of science research jobs were created. We scientists had political support, the ear of government, big budgets, and we felt fairly important and useful (well, I did anyway). It was great. We were working to save the planet.

But since 1999 new evidence has seriously weakened the case that carbon emissions are the main cause of global warming, and by 2007 the evidence was pretty conclusive that carbon played only a minor role and was not the main cause of the recent global warming. As Lord Keynes famously said, "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?"

He makes four points:

1. The greenhouse signature is missing. We have been looking and measuring for years, and cannot find it.

Each possible cause of global warming has a different pattern of where in the planet the warming occurs first and the most. The signature of an increased greenhouse effect is a hot spot about 10km up in the atmosphere over the tropics. We have been measuring the atmosphere for decades using radiosondes: weather balloons with thermometers that radio back the temperature as the balloon ascends through the atmosphere. They show no hot spot. Whatsoever.

If there is no hot spot then an increased greenhouse effect is not the cause of global warming. [....]

(snip)

2. There is no evidence to support the idea that carbon emissions cause significant global warming. None. There is plenty of evidence that global warming has occurred, and theory suggests that carbon emissions should raise temperatures (though by how much is hotly disputed) but there are no observations by anyone that implicate carbon emissions as a significant cause of the recent global warming.

3. The satellites that measure the world's temperature all say that the warming trend ended in 2001, and that the temperature has dropped about 0.6C in the past year (to the temperature of 1980). Land-based temperature readings are corrupted by the "urban heat island" effect: urban areas encroaching on thermometer stations warm the micro-climate around the thermometer, due to vegetation changes, concrete, cars, houses. Satellite data is the only temperature data we can trust, but it only goes back to 1979. NASA reports only land-based data, and reports a modest warming trend and recent cooling. The other three global temperature records use a mix of satellite and land measurements, or satellite only, and they all show no warming since 2001 and a recent cooling.

4. The new ice cores show that in the past six global warmings over the past half a million years, the temperature rises occurred on average 800 years before the accompanying rise in atmospheric carbon. Which says something important about which was cause and which was effect.

None of these points are controversial. The alarmist scientists agree with them, though they would dispute their relevance.

The last point was known and past dispute by 2003, yet Al Gore made his movie in 2005 and presented the ice cores as the sole reason for believing that carbon emissions cause global warming. In any other political context our cynical and experienced press corps would surely have called this dishonest[.]

re: #71 Charles

Is there a full moon tonight or something?

There is no science that supports the notion that people act crazier on the nights in which there is a full moon than they do on any other random night.

re: #121 solomonpanting

My theme song ! :D

re: #109 wolfie

Awhoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Last night.

re: #110 Salamantis

[Link: www.youtube.com...]

_{(ducks and runs...)}

SMACK!

re: #119 JCM Ah, a never ending circus of fun, hey?! LOL!

re: #118 Cognito
Nom de Grrr... *ding-ding!* LMAO, Cog...

So much for Brinks' warfarin... heartless rat

re: #71 Charles

Is there a full moon tonight or something?

Naaah, that was Friday. I think it's a Sunday-night thing.

re: #107 Mars Needs Neocons

lol

Love the Marx Brothers. Too bad we haven't had anything like them in ages. (Except for the movie Brain Donors, one of my all time favorites.)

Oh, Steve Martin has been very Marxist, the original SNL humor was somewhat in that vein, modernized, of course, it's hard to do straight vaudeville in the twenty-first century! I suppose you can even say Mel Brooks movies were sufficiently absurd and wordy, and I knew there was something you can't burn at both ends, and I thought it was a candle!

re: #125 Mich-again

There is no science that supports the notion that people act crazier on the nights in which there is a full moon than they do on any other random night.

Hah! You've never worked EMS!

I don't care what science says.
/

Hey real!

See y'all for morning watch.

re: #132 itellu3times

Oh, Steve Martin has been very Marxist, the original SNL humor was somewhat in that vein, modernized, of course, it's hard to do straight vaudeville in the twenty-first century! I suppose you can even say Mel Brooks movies were sufficiently absurd and wordy, and I knew there was something you can't burn at both ends, and I thought it was a candle!

To a degree. But, if you've never seen Brain Donors I'd highly recommend it. Closest thing to a Marx script in modern times. Rapid fire delivery, wordplay, innuendo, it was all there.

re: #127 JCM

Last night.

Hey ! Close enough for a wild animal !

re: #129 realwest

Ah, a never ending circus of fun, hey?! LOL!

3 rings of fun! Raising 'em tough - brush 'em off, tell 'em they're fine, send 'em on their way.

re: #133 JCM

Hah! You've never worked EMS!

I don't care what science says.
/

Sounds like a concept for a spinoff from COPS, or at least an episode for CSI.

re: #134 Typicalwhitey
Hey Typicalwhitey! How are ya doing tonight?

Full moon or no, what the hell.... perfect mood music for tonight's thread...

re: #68 FurryOldGuyJeans

Because I have worn a dress. Any other stupid questions?

///

must scrub mind picture ... must scrub mind picture .....

re: #132 itellu3times

You mean Marx Bros., right?

DO NOT CLICK!

re: #144 Typicalwhitey
Why not?

re: #139 itellu3times

Sounds like a concept for a spinoff from COPS, or at least an episode for CSI.

I think 3 day weekends corresponding to major employer paid days is probably more accurate indicator of whackiness.

But it sure seems the whackier is more pronounced around a full moon.

re: #144 Typicalwhitey

Okay!

re: #144 Typicalwhitey

DO NOT CLICK!

AAHH you could have warned us....oh, yeah, you did.

So, is Obama getting only glowing coverage ... no critique?

re: #132 itellu3times
I'll underscore THAT, Tell-U... Steve Martin may not be everyone's cup of tea, but he and Robin Williams and Billie Crystal are comedic geniuses, par excellence!

re: #125 Mich-again

There is no science that supports the notion that people act crazier on the nights in which there is a full moon than they do on any other random night.

I don't have a link, but I believe there are crime statistics that do bolster the full moon behavioral phenom.

itellu3times,

I am Mandy

in sensible shoes.

I am Mandy

with an enormous schwanzstucker.

Did you see on Drudge that he painted on his plane, "CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN."

I guess that's so the media sees his slogan and puts it on air. Clever, really.

re: #136 Mars Needs Neocons

To a degree. But, if you've never seen Brain Donors I'd highly recommend it. Closest thing to a Marx script in modern times. Rapid fire delivery, wordplay, innuendo, it was all there.

[Link: www.imdb.com...]

Although is not said in the official description of the movie, the screenplay and characters are based on the classic comedy masterpiece by the Marx Brothers - A Night at the Opera (1935).

In 1991, Paramount Pictures was preparing to release the film under the title "Lame Ducks" with a major ad campaign, playing up the fact that it was produced by David and Jerry Zucker who produced Airplane (1980) and The Naked Gun (1988), but when the brothers bailed on the project, the movie was shelved, the publicity campaign was scrapped and the title was changed to "Brain Donors". It was released in a few theaters to some positive reviews, but it really made it's money on home video where it has attracted a small cult following.

OK, thanx!

You know, when money comes innuendo, love goes out the door.

re: #125 Mich-again

There is no science that supports the notion that people act crazier on the nights in which there is a full moon than they do on any other random night.

Tell that to the bartenders that dal with them;-P

just read the last thread and all i can say is"wow!"
the speed with which everyone came together and then stomped a mudhole in that little turd and walked it dry was just amazing.

LIZARDS ROCK!

re: #151 Cartman

I don't have a link, but I believe there are crime statistics that do bolster the full moon behavioral phenom.

I worked for about a year and a half in a casino when I was young. Believe me, we got nothing but loons and outright creeps coming in when the moon was full.

re: #124 Steffan

In any other political context our cynical and experienced press corps would surely have called this dishonest

Objective reporting by MSM last occurred around 1945.

re: #143 Macker

You mean Marx Bros., right?

Yessir.

re: #149 hermeneutics
Some of the Brit press is ticked that he seems a tad inaccessible to them...i.e., no unscripted moments.
Duh.

re: #133 JCM

I don't care what science says.

They say the full moon makes people act crazier, truth is it just makes it easier to watch crazy people do stuff.

re: #151 Cartman

I don't have a link, but I believe there are crime statistics that do bolster the full moon behavioral phenom.

That's been debunked somewhere.

I thought there were jellyfish, or some other sea critters, that only reproduced during full moons. If true, the full moon has some sort of impact on this species.

re: #117 realwest

Ah thanks! But now that Stinky's done his work on him, I'm not gonna bother going to look.

Mandy graciously stepped back and let the other lizards get in their whacks.

The full moon myth is not unprovable!

re: #160 tradewind

Some of the Brit press is ticked that he seems a tad inaccessible to them...i.e., no unscripted moments.
Duh.

That is it? That is the sum total of their critique?

This is sickening. He's going to try to look like an international hero. I sure hope it backfires at home.

re: #161 Mich-again

They say the full moon makes people act crazier, truth is it just makes it easier to watch crazy people do stuff.

And before gas and electric light. that's when the crazies could see enough to do crazy stuff at night.

re: #161 Mich-again

They say the full moon makes people act crazier, truth is it just makes it easier to watch crazy people do stuff.

And it's easier to see what's in the back yards as the loonies try to make their getaway.

re: #154 itellu3times

Classic

re: #162 Kosh's Shadow

That's been debunked somewhere.

Doesn't the word lunacy come from lunar?

re: #125 Mich-again

There is no science that supports the notion that people act crazier on the nights in which there is a full moon than they do on any other random night.

Ah yes, but talk to anyone who has ever worked in an emergency room on the night of a full moon. I thought it was all a superstition until my first rising full moon night covering psychiatric emergencies. Yikes!

re: #157 Pvt Bin Jammin

I was a bartender on and off for several years, and I can attest to the same. They seemed to come out of the woodwork, and it was totally predictable. I used to down an extra shot or two before the shift.

The word Lunatic, is based on Lunar.

re: #156 rain of lead

just read the last thread and all i can say is"wow!"
the speed with which everyone came together and then stomped a mudhole in that little turd and walked it dry was just amazing.

LIZARDS ROCK!

There was a lot of love in the room.

(none of it directed at Brinks of course.)

re: #163 hermeneutics

I thought there were jellyfish, or some other sea critters, that only reproduced during full moons. If true, the full moon has some sort of impact on this species.

Light and tides do have effects on sea (actually, near shore) creatures.

Just watched a Obama story on TV. Obama has nothing to say. Obama won't talk because he is an ignorant fool. The Harvard Law Review must be the new baby sitter for the slow and stubborn .

re: #170 Pvt Bin Jammin

Doesn't the word lunacy come from lunar?

Moonbat, doodly do de doo de, moonbat.

(to the tune of: Ragmop)

When I was an automation engineer in a manufacturing facility I was convinced even the machines knew it was a full moon.

re: #174 Mars Needs Neocons

There was a lot of love in the room.

(none of it directed at Brinks of course.)

tru dat!

re: #175 Kosh's Shadow

Light and tides do have effects on sea (actually, near shore) creatures.

Yes, I'm sure I watched a nature show on television several years ago that showed animals, perhaps jellyfish, literally blanketing the shoreline with eggs and sperm in an almost random attempt to mate ... under a full moon.

re: #172 Cartman
Absolutely. I had trouble sneeking a shot but sure wish I could have. It didn't just happen once in while, like you said, but like clockwork.

Psychiatric Emergency Department Visits on Full-Moon Nights

Our finding agrees with those of other studies that showed no association between the full moon and increased patient contacts. These studies varied in samples and methods—some counted crisis center telephone calls (2), and others counted the full moon's effects in terms of days or quarters (3). Our study focused on overnight patient contacts in a psychiatric emergency department and a three-night full-moon effect. We did not control for potentially confounding variables such as day of the week, month, year, weekend, holiday, or cloudy nights.

Hey all, won the last spider game.

How you doin RW?

FAmily saw the new Bat Man today. Said it was awewsome.

re: #153 hermeneutics

Did you see on Drudge that he painted on his plane, "CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN."

I guess that's so the media sees his slogan and puts it on air. Clever, really.

There is now amazing advance footage of Obama arriving to give his post convention speech to 75,000 adoring believers in Denver. The wonders of technology never cease to amaze!

re: #163 hermeneutics

I thought there were jellyfish, or some other sea critters, that only reproduced during full moons. If true, the full moon has some sort of impact on this species.

The sea turtles' mating cycle is timed so that the eggs will hatch during the new moon, when it's most difficult to see the hatchlings on their way to the water.

re: #176 pat

Just watched a Obama story on TV. Obama has nothing to say. Obama won't talk because he is an ignorant fool. The Harvard Law Review must be the new baby sitter for the slow and stubborn .

Can a presidential candidate plead the 5th amendment when a reporter asks a question? I refuse to answer on the grounds that I might incriminate myself.

re: #177 itellu3times
LOL Maybe they need tin foil hats to keep out the moonbeams.

re: #159 itellu3times
"You mean Marx Brothers, right?"

Yessir.

I can just see it now, Karl Marx scrivening away, his wife and kids hungry and whining around him, as he seeks to lift their spirits with devastating Klass Kombat one-liners:

"Last night, I saw a proletarian in my pajamas!" ...

"Class structures oppress all workers... except berserkers... get it?"

"Arise, workers of the world, you can be TRULY REVOLTING!"
(Ohh, Daddy! That's bad!)

"Wait, I have more..."
(Then share it with your comrades, Daddy!) *slam!*

Peer review is usually more than one scientist who works in the field the paper is about. In this case climatology. One Physics professor as peer review is a stretch. The shame of it is that the paper could have been peer reviewed, there are parts that are good, there are parts that are at the edge. With real peer review the at the edge parts would have been fixed, and the math issue that Tim Lambert points out wouldn't be an issue, but the finding might not be as extreme.

That said it is time for some sleeps.

Charles, not finding traces of A or tons of Exxon in the background for Monckton's group, and this Wallop guy doesn't look terrible with a surface scratch at least. He's cut like Bush, blue blood + Western. Big on property rights, reduced gov't, strong on defense. He did speak up for this group on a water rights case, but they are def. not Dominionists.

re: #186 Mich-again

Can a presidential candidate plead the 5th amendment when a reporter asks a question? I refuse to answer on the grounds that I might incriminate myself.

"On de advice of my lawyah, I am refusing to anser dat question, on da grounds dat it will incriminate me."

/dumm mafioso

re: #188 Carridine

Now that was some brilliant commiedey.

re: #163 hermeneutics

I thought there were jellyfish, or some other sea critters, that only reproduced during full moons. If true, the full moon has some sort of impact on this species.

coral? I think I saw/read that somewhere.

Heil!

re: #184 lifeofthemind

There is now amazing advance footage of Obama arriving to give his post convention speech to 75,000 adoring believers in Denver. The wonders of technology never cease to amaze!
[Link: www.youtube.com...]

re: #183 ggt
Are you playing the difficult version? I hardly ever win at that. LOL I am kind of hooked too.

re: #176 pat

Just watched a Obama story on TV. Obama has nothing to say. Obama won't talk because he is an ignorant fool. The Harvard Law Review must be the new baby sitter for the slow and stubborn .

The Law Review is clearly only about politics now, like the Nobel Peace Prize. Obama never wrote a single article or essay.
Unbelievable.

re: #185 victor_yugo

re: #192 jcw46

yes, I think it was coral.

And yes, sea turtles, too.

SO THERE ARE CRITTERS IMPACTED BY THE FULL MOON.

re: #194 Pvt Bin Jammin

I am only on 2 suits at a time. BUT it is getting easier.

re: #189 Thanos

What are we discussing re: Wallop.

He was one of Wyomings greats when I lived there. Wy has a history of great senators and congresspeople.

re: #164 jcw46 Well, it was nice of Mandy to share!

Yup, it was coral. Quite beautiful, really. I'd love to see it someday.

Science 19 October 2007:
Vol. 318. no. 5849, pp. 467 - 470
DOI: 10.1126/science.1145432
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REPORTS
Light-Responsive Cryptochromes from a Simple Multicellular Animal, the Coral Acropora millepora
O. Levy,1 L. Appelbaum,2 W. Leggat,1 Y. Gothlif,3 D. C. Hayward,4,6 D. J. Miller,5,6 O. Hoegh-Guldberg1,5
Hundreds of species of reef-building corals spawn synchronously over a few nights each year, and moonlight regulates this spawning event. However, the molecular elements underpinning the detection of moonlight remain unknown. Here we report the presence of an ancient family of blue-light–sensing photoreceptors, cryptochromes, in the reef-building coral Acropora millepora. In addition to being cryptochrome genes from one of the earliest-diverging eumetazoan phyla, cry1 and cry2 were expressed preferentially in light. Consistent with potential roles in the synchronization of fundamentally important behaviors such as mass spawning, cry2 expression increased on full moon nights versus new moon nights. Our results demonstrate phylogenetically broad roles of these ancient circadian clock–related molecules in the animal kingdom.

All Hail Marx Lennon
How can you be two places at once when you are not anywhere at all?
[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

re: #182 JCM Spoilsport!

re: #196 hermeneutics

re: #192 jcw46

yes, I think it was coral.

And yes, sea turtles, too.

SO THERE ARE CRITTERS IMPACTED BY THE FULL MOON.

Worked at the hospitals in College and on Fri or Sat with a New or Full moon the nurses told me they packed in an extra supply of plasma.

re: #183 ggt Hey ggt, I'm doing ok, just sorta counting the hours until I get my "consult" with the oral surgeon. Damn.
Yep, I heard the new Batman was a box office smash, but don't know if it was cause the movie was so good, or because it was the last flic that Heath Ledger made before his death.

re: #197 ggt
I loved all the levels but since I'm on the highest level don't want to go back to the others. I hardly ever win now. I'm lucky to get one or two decks moved down below. It sure is fun.LOL

re: #203 lifeofthemind

Worked at the hospitals in College and on Fri or Sat with a New or Full moon the nurses told me they packed in an extra supply of plasma.

It is amazing, when you stop to think about it, that our minds are impacted by such a small magnetic force.

re: #184 lifeofthemind
I'm still hoping that when he walks up to the mic, an eagle flying by drops a load of poop on him and then the Heavens open up and it POURS RAIN on the assembled masses! LOL!

re: #204 realwest

Hey ggt, I'm doing ok, just sorta counting the hours until I get my "consult" with the oral surgeon. Damn.
Yep, I heard the new Batman was a box office smash, but don't know if it was cause the movie was so good, or because it was the last flic that Heath Ledger made before his death.

Maybe Batman will cut into Obama's impact? We can hope.

re: #186 Mich-again ROFL! Hey Mich, how are you doing, my friend?

M-o-o-n-b-a-t-t Moonbatt!

Raggmopp:

... I was really thinking of the Beany and Cecil version, but I don't see it on youtube.

re: #206 hermeneutics

It is amazing, when you stop to think about it, that our minds are impacted by such a small magnetic force.

I think you mean gravitic force. It doesn't take much magnetic force to mess with the mind at all.

re: #206 hermeneutics

It is amazing, when you stop to think about it, that our minds are impacted by such a small magnetic force.

Believe it is a tidal effect, we have an ocean in each of us.

re: #201 lifeofthemind

All Hail Marx Lennon
How can you be two places at once when you are not anywhere at all?
[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

You haven't seen the last of me, Danger!

Maybe not, but the first of you, turns my stomach.

re: #207 realwest

You forgot, Hillary would win at the convention, and it would be his concession speech.

re: #207 realwest

I'm still hoping that when he walks up to the mic, an eagle flying by drops a load of poop on him and then the Heavens open up and it POURS RAIN on the assembled masses! LOL!

Is Rove that good?

In the E.R. we used to say the full moon effects the tide and the un-tied.

re: #211 BlueCanuck

I think you mean gravitic force. It doesn't take much magnetic force to mess with the mind at all.

I didn't even know gravitic was a word. Sigh.

re: #40 Cartman

"the barstools are on fire...."

Thank you Cartman for getting a better song than "Mandy" into my noggin.

re: #211 BlueCanuck

I think you mean gravitic force. It doesn't take much magnetic force to mess with the mind at all.

The mind you say? Other organs may be involved, yer parasympathetic and endocrine systems, fer example.

re: #214 Tarkus289
Ya know, I NEVER thought I'd say this, but I hope she somehow sneaks the nomination away from him!
First of all McCain would win in a walk since I can't imagine ANY Black voters even bothering to go to the polls.
Secondly, as much as I detest her, I don't think she dislikes nor disrepects American the way Obama does.

re: #218 Grok the Fullness

Manilow and Waits are quite the polar opposites, are they not? ;)

re: #217 hermeneutics

I didn't even know gravitic was a word. Sigh.

Well it is now.

Humpty Dumpty: When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.
Alice: The question is, whether you can make words mean so many different things.
Humpty Dumpty: The question is: which is to be master - that's all.

Well, time for this Mandy to shuffle herself to bed. Weet dreams, Lizards!

re: #215 lifeofthemind
Oh yeah, he is!
At least I hope he is! Obviously if they think it's gonna rain, they'll change the venue, but one can hope!

re: #221 Cartman

Indeed they are turned 90 degrees from each other ;p

re: #196 hermeneutics

re: #192 jcw46

yes, I think it was coral.

And yes, sea turtles, too.

SO THERE ARE CRITTERS IMPACTED BY THE FULL MOON.

Only if we throw them hard enough.

re: #220 realwest

Secondly, as much as I detest her, I don't think she dislikes nor disrepects American the way Obama does.

Personally, I thinks she's just so much more savvy at disguising it. After all, she and Slick have had years of practice honing that skill, R-Dubs.

re: #221 Cartman Hey my friend, how goes it?

re: #203 lifeofthemind

Worked at the hospitals in College and on Fri or Sat with a New or Full moon the nurses told me they packed in an extra supply of plasma.

They didn't just come in crazy on full moons, they were really crazy. The security guards were extra jumpy on those nights and would not leave the room.

re: #224 realwest

Now if it was the Republican convention having an outdoor speech Friends of Plame Democratic Underground CIA operatives would be busy training squads of attack pigeons.

If you were advising McCain, what would you suggest he do to get around the Obama-worshiping media. Specifically, what should he be doing while Obama is flitting around Europe?

re: #215 lifeofthemind

Is Rove that good?

Infidel! You dare to question Rove?

re: #229 livefreeor die

They didn't just come in crazy on full moons, they were really crazy. The security guards were extra jumpy on those nights and would not leave the room.

That's just weird. Do you have an explanation?

Bad news, I just heard that a B-52 has crashed on Guam, I believe there were six on board.

About 12 days after the full moon, Box Jellyfish start showing up in Waikiki.....and those muthers sting like HELLLLLLLL!
Not fun for the tourists.
And in my party days, we made sure that we got good and wild on the full moon.
It's a tribal thing, I think.

PTTCP
OOOOWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

re: #228 realwest

Not too bad this evening, R-Dubs. That tooth's gotta be makin' you nuts by now, eh?

re: #229 livefreeor die

They didn't just come in crazy on full moons, they were really crazy. The security guards were extra jumpy on those nights and would not leave the room.

Yes great days.
Man comes in with a pool cue in his head.
Bored triage nurse asks "So what happened?"
"Well, he looked at me."

re: #227 Cartman Well I can understand your suspicions, but I really believe that Obama really doesn't LIKE America and I know for damn sure he doesn't respect her. I really don't think you can say that about the Clintons.
And what would be really sweet would be if she got the nomination - didn't offer VP to Obama - and then started the well known, but apparently tired out, Clinton Pay Back machine on the MSM and on some pretty damn powerful uber liberal Dems, too!
And I could make a case for her winning the nominaton, too!

re: #234 Tarkus289

Bad news, I just heard that a B-52 has crashed on Guam, I believe there were six on board.

Prayer is appropriate.

re: #230 lifeofthemind
Ha! It wouldn't bother me at all if the Friends of Plame Democratic Underground CIA operatives decided to play cause they are all elitist incompetents, not unlike Obama himself!

re: #231 hermeneutics

If you were advising McCain, what would you suggest he do to get around the Obama-worshiping media. Specifically, what should he be doing while Obama is flitting around Europe?

Analyze the video of O's meetings with soldiers. Watch the reactions. Compare/contrast w/ the reactions to McCain's visits.

Ask, "Who will be the more effective leader of our national defense?"

re: #220 realwest

Ya know, I NEVER thought I'd say this, but I hope she somehow sneaks the nomination away from him!
First of all McCain would win in a walk since I can't imagine ANY Black voters even bothering to go to the polls.
Secondly, as much as I detest her, I don't think she dislikes nor disrepects American the way Obama does.

I used to have arguments with my mom about her.
I detested Hillary.
But I would take her in a heartbeat over obambi.
For the same reasons you stated.

re: #233 hermeneutics

That's just weird. Do you have an explanation?

None. I completely scoffed at the whole thing until I saw it first hand. It was strange. My undergraduate and graduate degrees were from programs with very strong research foci (no Freudian crap) and it goes completely against my training but damn if there isn't something going on on those nights!

jUST WON another game and am going to bed while I can.

weet dreams all!

re: #243 livefreeor die

None. I completely scoffed at the whole thing until I saw it first hand. It was strange. My undergraduate and graduate degrees were from programs with very strong research foci (no Freudian crap) and it goes completely against my training but damn if there isn't something going on on those nights!

The DD clients I worked with had far more behaviors over the full moon than normal. (documented in their casebooks and confirmed)

re: #231 hermeneutics

If you were advising McCain, what would you suggest he do to get around the Obama-worshiping media. Specifically, what should he be doing while Obama is flitting around Europe?

I would tell him to pound it over and over about gas prices and what he wants to do about it.
That is local and obambi is out kissing ass in foreign countries.

Make it McCain looking out for US!

re: #231 hermeneutics
To be honest with ya, I think McCain is doing just what he ought to be doing, given that it IS July, neither one of them has been officially nominated and, since Obama decided to forgoe public funding of his campaign - the first candidate for POTOUS to do that in what - 24 years (once again the rules don't apply to Obama)- he has to conserve his money and take his shots when he can.
Lord, I just hope and pray that there will be at least three unmoderated debates between the two of them.

re: #241 victor_yugo

Analyze the video of O's meetings with soldiers. Watch the reactions. Compare/contrast w/ the reactions to McCain's visits.

Ask, "Who will be the more effective leader of our national defense?"

Good. Very good.

McCain is husbanding his money. Carefully. Perhaps he intends on making lots of ads. So far, though, his ads were mediocre.

Perhaps McCain can paint Obama as an internationalist with little concern or knowledge of the USA. Mock him as running for world czar, for example.

re: #248 hermeneutics

Did you see the "love" ad?
GREAT!

re: #234 Tarkus289
SHIT! Where did you hear it?

re: #250 realwest

Top of the hour news on WABC. in New York.

re: #245 Mars Needs Neocons

I blame it on pheramones (and the cat).

/you know, it's really part of the cat conspiracy to subjugate humanity and dogs.

re: #238 realwest

I guess the bottom line for me is that the thought of either one of them at the helm scares the crap out of me. BHO much more so, but Ms. Clinton might well prove to be nearly as destructive. I sure hope we are able to dodge both bullets there.

re: #252 ggt

I blame it on pheramones (and the cat).

/you know, it's really part of the cat conspiracy to subjugate humanity and dogs.

Humanity first. The dogs will fall easily thereafter.

The cats told me so.

i like the idea of pounding Obama with gas prices. Ask him, point blank, "WILL YOU DRILL FOR OIL IN ALASKA AND OFFSHORE IN THE LOWER 48?" If he answers with qualifications, mock him for his unwillingness to give Americans what they want. Paint him as the elitist he is.

If he answers "yes," his own wild-eyed constituents will be angry.

re: #249 Typicalwhitey

Did you see the "love" ad?
GREAT!

Yes, that one was pretty good. Agreed.

re: #254 victor_yugo

and somewhere in there I might remember how to spell pheramones. (I know that isn't correct, but am too lazy to look it up)

re: #250 realwest
Never mind - here it is (I put it in the spinoff links, too):
B-52 bomber crashes off Guam

HONOLULU - The Air Force says a B-52 bomber carrying six crew members has crashed off the island of Guam.

The Coast Guard says two people have been recovered from the waters. Their condition was not immediately available.

Rescue crews from the Navy, Coast Guard and local fire department are searching for the others.

Officials say the crashed occurred about 25 miles northwest of Apra Harbor.

The accident is the second for the Air Force this year on Guam.

In February, a B-2 crashed at Andersen Air Force Base in the first-ever crash of a stealth bomber. The military estimated the loss of the aircraft at $1.4 billion.

re: #252 ggt

I blame it on pheramones (and the cat).

/you know, it's really part of the cat conspiracy to subjugate humanity and dogs.

lol

Pheromones.

re: #255 hermeneutics

i like the idea of pounding Obama with gas prices. Ask him, point blank, "WILL YOU DRILL FOR OIL IN ALASKA AND OFFSHORE IN THE LOWER 48?" If he answers with qualifications, mock him for his unwillingness to give Americans what they want. Paint him as the elitist he is.

If he answers "yes," his own wild-eyed constituents will be angry.

And either way, he'll be sleeping on the couch.

re: #257 ggt

and somewhere in there I might remember how to spell pheramones. (I know that isn't correct, but am too lazy to look it up)

It's late. So a couple of cats get offended.

re: #258 realwest

Is it still daylight in Guam?

re: #253 Cartman

I guess the bottom line for me is that the thought of either one of them at the helm scares the crap out of me. BHO much more so, but Ms. Clinton might well prove to be nearly as destructive. I sure hope we are able to dodge both bullets there.

Preface: Never speak ill of the dead.
Rabbi at the funeral: Looks at the coffin, looks at the congregation, looks at heaven.

His brother was worse.

re: #236 Cartman Well, nutzier, anyway! It's really screwing with me -can't sleep a full night, can't nap the way I usually do, makes me short tempered and evil minded.
Crap.

re: #265 realwest

Well, nutzier, anyway! It's really screwing with me -can't sleep a full night, can't nap the way I usually do, makes me short tempered and evil minded.
Crap.

Is it getting any better, Realwest?