Kids learn to love science by exhibits like this. The Field Museum had an awesome (I'm told) human anatomy exhibit that my daughter went to TWICE.
Long live Reason, long live Empirical Thought, long live truth.

This is really cool. I can't wait to show this to some of my science loving friends and family- some with kids, who love having a tool like this at their disposal to help teach the kids about science they might not be getting in school.

Thanks, Charles.

early morning or late night ?

sorry but that Protoplanetary disc clearly lacks Globular clusters
/

This is a cool timeline.

To read ideas on part of the future of evolution, try The Age of Spiritual Machines.

Speaking of which... I'm very excited about going to the re-built California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco with the family today. It includes the Natural History Museum, Morrison Planetarium and Steinhart Aquarium. It's always been my favorite place on Earth.

Here's the rub though, I'm going to make a little mental note of how many leftist, globalist, greenist messages there are in the various exhibits. This is in the People's Republic of San Francisco and like all lefties, they view science as a tag or validation stamp that can be put on whatever scheme for world domination they come up with. So my guess is it won't be the Leopard exhibit, it will be the: "Leopard endangered by years of Republican habitat rape for profit" exhibit.

Maybe I'm just being paranoid but this is the city that just had a ballot initiative to name a sewage treatment plant after George Bush. (Got voted down by the way)

I'll report back tonight. Maybe I'll even post pictures if it's interesting enough.

Thank you Charles ! Very nice site with good graphics.

Haar! OT and trolling for Atlanta lizards for our meet at 5 PM, click on 'me avatar for the secret pirate ID, and 'me nic is blue for those needing the location!

Makes me wonder if that's all we really boil down to in the end...

WOW - Hey Charles - is my clock broken or is it really
not even 8:00AM your time?!

re: #9 realwest

Responded to your #922 on the previous thread.

Fascinating videos and speculation, I recommend watching them all.

re: #10 laZardo
What is it that gets suggested here at LGF that has you
shivering?

re: #9 realwest

{realwest}

How are you doing?

OK, that is really, really cool

re: #1 Joan

Kids learn to love science by exhibits like this. The Field Museum had an awesome (I'm told) human anatomy exhibit that my daughter went to TWICE.
Long live Reason, long live Empirical Thought, long live truth.

I agree with you 100%.

And I hope I'm not dinged down for the next thing I'll say, but if I am so be it.

For those of us who are people of faith - how can anyone who believes in God look at that exhibit, and not be amazed at the sheer complexity of the origin and evolution of life that He provided?

How can those people deny that this amazingly brilliant and complex process exists in the first place, and then go on to basically say that God could not have created this process?

re: #5 docremulac

If you get the chance stop by the Exploratorium as well.

From the part about fatty acids.

Why are membranes so important for the RNA World? An early RNA replicase probably would not have a built-in way of differentiating between a replicase or non-replicase sequence, and as a result, will make a copy of any RNA that happens to be close by. Without some means of separating the replicases from the non-replicases, the population of replicases is unlikely to grow and prosper. This issue can be resolved if the replicases are placed within a compartment, such as a vesicle, which can physically separate the replicases from other RNAs.

There is a parallel there to the way human culture evolved.

realwest...LMAO!

Boston, huh? Maybe they could delve into the gene pool of Massachusetts politicians.

re: #13 goddessoftheclassroom Hey {goddess} I'm doing ok, but slowly losing my mind over this computer! LOL!
Uh, if y'all get a chance could you e-mail me for a minute?!
Thanks.

re: #15 Thanos

If you get the chance stop by the Exploratorium as well.

Growing up in San Francisco as a kid I could say that was definitely one local landmark I really looked forward to going to. In the days before I moved to Manila in '93 it was the Lawrence Hall of Science.

re: #17 Elcid
Hey Elcid - how are you and what did I say that was so funny?!? (I HATE it when I say something that makes folks laugh and don't have any idea of what it was I said! LOL).

re: #12 realwest

In the previous thread, it was the Obama presidency.

Sorry for going off-topic for a moment, but I don't even see how it could work out for the positive even if he fails. On one hand the people he mobilized to vote him in could just look for another 'savior of the moment,' on the other they become completely apathetic/disillusioned, pass it onto the next generation and just let their troubles overrun the country.

re: #19 laZardo
Hey my friend - my question to you in #12 was serious.
What has you shivering over here at LGF?

re: #22 realwest

Just missed the response by 1 post. [:

re: #20 realwest

Good morning real.

I think the Giants will easily beat the Eagles today. The Giants are the better team anyway. In addition, McNabb just can not read a blitz to save his life. I would blitz him all day long.

re: #22 realwest

Hey my friend - my question to you in #12 was serious.
What has you shivering over here at LGF?

I would too, I have been of line for over a week and missed the hole election thing here on LGF.

re: #21 laZardo
Good thing I remember approximately what time it is where you are, but good Lord - if (when?) Obama fails as POTUS, it will be the fault of: a)Obama b)the MSM and c) hardly irretrievable.
Things are tough right now - economically and in the WoT - Obama has had a lot to do with causing things to be so tough. He'll wind up a one term president and America will demonstrate, as we did with Jimmy Carter, that we can run without any real POTUS at all for quite some time.
However, this really is an OT for this thread which Charles either got up REALLY EARLY on a Sunday morning to put up for us, or stayed up all night to put up for us.
Let me know if you want to go back to the prior thread to discuss this some more.

re: #26 realwest

Right. Sorry for disrupting thread harmony. My #8 is the on-topic post.

Watched some of the early morning talk shows, as much as I could stomach.

Based on what the Democrats said to the softballs tossed their way, expect to see lots of big government spending programs. Expect to see a push to nationalize health care early.

They have no clue what to do about a head of the Treasury.

So far the Republican response is in being friends and finding common ground.

The MSM shows I saw are not even making a pretense at having a conservative commentator.

Mary Mitchell, an unabashed, outright racist, is seen as a middle of the road commentator.

re: #1 Joan

Kids learn to love science by exhibits like this. The Field Museum had an awesome (I'm told) human anatomy exhibit that my daughter went to TWICE.
Long live Reason, long live Empirical Thought, long live truth.

If you the Field Museum in Chicago, it was actually the Museum of Science and Industry that hosted that exhibit ("Body Wars" I believe it was called).

re: #24 3 wood
Good morning my friend! Yep, the Giants SHOULD WIN easily - and that's what scares me! LOL!
But as I said to my friend laZardo,in #26, I really don't want to go OT on this thread
I'm gonna meander back to the prior thread so as to stop going OT on a thread which Charles finds so fascinating - I really don't wish to be rude to our host.

re: #29 Dark_Falcon

If you mean the Field Museum in Chicago, it was actually the Museum of Science and Industry that hosted that exhibit ("Body Wars" I believe it was called).

PIMF

re: #5 docremulac

Please do. I remember touring those museums as a kid and I'd like to see how they've changed.

re: #11 Thanos

Fascinating videos and speculation, I recommend watching them all.

The animation is really fantastic.

re: #17 Elcid

realwest...LMAO!

Boston, huh? Maybe they could delve into the gene pool of Massachusetts politicians.

Starting with Hanoi John Kerry, and discovering what rock he slithered out from under?

re: #30 realwest

Actually, you could just e-mail me. That'd be nice.

I am back from an aborted breakfest mates! The waffle house was packed and I refuse to wait! Haar!

re: #36 LoFlyer

I am back from an aborted breakfest mates! The waffle house was packed and I refuse to wait! Haar!

So Obama would been rushed in finishing his waffle?

[snicker]

re: #24 3 wood

Good morning real.

I think the Giants will easily beat the Eagles today. The Giants are the better team anyway. In addition, McNabb just can not read a blitz to save his life. I would blitz him all day long.

I bet he could read it if it was in big print.

re: #37 Dark_Falcon

So Obama would been rushed in finishing his waffle?

[snicker]

I think we have all waffled a couple of times mates. Obama has a tough row to hoe, and I pray he does what is best for the country rather than the party. Meanwhile I am working on getting 'me last piece of weaponry before the gun ban is put in place!

re: #21 laZardo

In the previous thread, it was the Obama presidency.

Sorry for going off-topic for a moment, but I don't even see how it could work out for the positive even if he fails. On one hand the people he mobilized to vote him in could just look for another 'savior of the moment,' on the other they become completely apathetic/disillusioned, . . .

Yep -- it's already happening ... "Obsessed Backers ... Empty Lives"

re: #40 Fearless Fred

Watched that when it got posted a few threads back. Made me LOL despite its meanings.

My brother is on staff at the Museum, and he told me that this is really first class exhibit. I encourage all lizards within travelling distance to pay them a visit.

WOW - Hey Charles - is my clock broken or is it really
not even 8:00AM your time?!

re: #20 realwest

WOW - Hey Charles - is my clock broken or is it really
not even 8:00AM your time?!

WOW - Hey Charles - is my clock broken or is it really
not even 8:00AM your time?!

Zis es what made me laugh, my good man.

#34 Dustyvet

Starting with Hanoi John Kerry, and discovering what rock he slithered out from under?

Dustyvet, seems like the place went to hell in a handbasket, damn near after Plymouth Rock.

Ummm, realwest...I stutter...LOL.

How are you doing Real? A beautiful day in ATL, glad to be alive and a little hungry!

g' day all.

The Franken-o-crats in MN are attempting to steal the election.

[Link: directorblue.blogspot.com...]

re: #14 reine.de.tout

OK, that is really, really cool

I agree with you 100%.

And I hope I'm not dinged down for the next thing I'll say, but if I am so be it.

For those of us who are people of faith - how can anyone who believes in God look at that exhibit, and not be amazed at the sheer complexity of the origin and evolution of life that He provided?

How can those people deny that this amazingly brilliant and complex process exists in the first place, and then go on to basically say that God could not have created this process?

No down-dinging is appropriate. From any point of view, the Universe has the property of space, time, matter, energy - and the property of life as an intrinsic part of the nature of the Universe. One more property of the Universe, maybe the most interesting: The property of mind or of thought.

re: #47 legalpad

re: #14 reine.de.tout

Not downdinging you, but I look at it and think something of the opposite...how would it not be possible for five billion years of molecular/cellular/organism development to result in something as complex as a human mind that could conceive of a God in the first place?

I was impressed by the roll-over ribosome image that showed just how little protein was in the ribosome.

I knew that it was a ribozyme from text books but I thought that the chief evidence for its action as a ribozyme was from the comparative distances between protein parts and RNA parts from the reaction center.

But the diagram makes it clear that (almost) the whole thing is essentially RNA.

There will be more information in the follow up links but I think that the main site would benefit from having more information on the site itself. It should explain more about the role of RNA in modern cells. It should mention mRNA and transfer RNAs, how tRNAs implement the genetic code. And how RNAs are involved in control of gene expression, so people are more aware of how important RNAs are in the most basic cellular processes.

re: #14 reine.de.tout

For those of us who are people of faith - how can anyone who believes in God look at that exhibit, and not be amazed at the sheer complexity of the origin and evolution of life that He provided?

How can those people deny that this amazingly brilliant and complex process exists in the first place, and then go on to basically say that God could not have created this process?

It's kind of silly, actually, to say God could create this universe as complex as it is but not allow this complexity to arise via evolution. The more I learn about science and evolution, the more I'm amazed by Him.

Good morning Lizards, what up?
For those planning for the Dawning of the Age of Obama, I have news.
The Chicago Tribune is reporting that Michelle's Secret Service code name is "Renaissance"
Get it? The Lady Obama will lead us from the Dark Ages into the enlightened world of the "One."

By the way, last night the photographer who took those pictures of the Belgian cafe with the SS sign contacted me, and confirmed that it IS Filip DeWinter in that photo, standing with his back to the camera. He said he had more photos; I wrote back and asked if I could publish them.

re: #52 opnion

Good morning Lizards, what up?
For those planning for the Dawning of the Age of Obama, I have news.
The Chicago Tribune is reporting that Michelle's Secret Service code name is "Renaissance"
Get it? The Lady Obama will lead us from the Dark Ages into the enlightened world of the "One."

Michelle Obama is no lady.
She's a femme fatale.

Sill smoking, Barry?

Here's the email:

I have taken the picture of Filip Dewinter in front of the café the
Beast on 11/7/08. I have some more pics but this one was sharp.
Dewinter also entered the café, so did I. It was filled with old
SS-soldiers and neo-nazi's. One woman said to an old ss'er she was
missing the beautiful times of Word War II. Also Sandy Neels Vlaams
Belang was there. I found pictures of here cleaning nazitombes in
Austria and germany. Greetings and keep up the good work

Guido Joris
Brussels

re: #49 laZardo

re: #14 reine.de.tout

Not downdinging you, but I look at it and think something of the opposite...how would it not be possible for five billion years of molecular/cellular/organism development to result in something as complex as a human mind that could conceive of a God in the first place?

That's the point. It isn't possible. These things are inevitable properties of the Universe.

re: #1 Joan

Kids learn to love science by exhibits like this. The Field Museum had an awesome (I'm told) human anatomy exhibit that my daughter went to TWICE.
Long live Reason, long live Empirical Thought, long live truth.

* * *
If what you say were really true, Washington DC's kids--within walking distance of FREE world class Smithsonian Museums--would be the world's best scientists.

re: #54 Irish Rose

Michelle Obama is no lady.
She's a femme fatale.

Sill smoking, Barry?

Marlboros. I used to like them, but all over.

re: #52 opnion

Good morning Lizards, what up?
For those planning for the Dawning of the Age of Obama, I have news.
The Chicago Tribune is reporting that Michelle's Secret Service code name is "Renaissance"
Get it? The Lady Obama will lead us from the Dark Ages into the enlightened world of the "One."

Beats hell out of Code-name "Loflyer" mates! It is my fervent desire never to be on SS radar much less ID'ed. Let hope "Renaissance" leads us to real hope and change! For a start she can out-law lobbiests!

re: #53 Charles

By the way, last night the photographer who took those pictures of the Belgian cafe with the SS sign contacted me, and confirmed that it IS Filip DeWinter in that photo, standing with his back to the camera. He said he had more photos; I wrote back and asked if I could publish them.

Charles, you're up early this morning, insomnia?

I said it on the other thread but I'll say it again here: I continue to admire and appreciate your determined and thorough exposure of these vil bastards and their agenda.

I admit though, that I'm concerned for your safety at times... please be careful.

And so we hail from geyser mud and water that was spewn into the atmosphere. That explains my love of volcanic geyser mud baths!
Charles, thank you for sharing this site!
Wonderful animation for teaching purposes!

re: #55 Charles

Here's the email:

Someone was just talking about Russia's proposal of an EU-Russia security pact in the previous thread.

Russia and Germany were allies before WW2 and carved up Poland between them. The Gestapo and the Stasi cooperated in rounding up each others' political enemies.

Anti-Semitism is, of course, a common thread for the EU and Russia.

We are deep in the shit.

Oh... Here's something I just dug up from some old files:

The effectiveness of totalitarian gun control as described by the commander of the 106th Guards Airborne Division of the Soviet Army. One of the units sent to suppress an anti-Armenian pogrom in Azerbaijan. As told to Carey Schofield, author of "The Russian Elite: Inside SPETSNAZ And The Airborne Forces."

"We landed by night, and some of our aircraft came under attack as we did so. One carrying personnel from Tula landed with twenty-two holes in the fuselage. The people thronging around the airfield were armed with sub-machine guns, knives and clubs. I went over to the crowd and said, 'Look! The Army is not a cat to be swung around in the air. Clear the road!' The KPP (Control and Command Post) of the airfield was blocked with KRAZ and KAMAZ trucks loaded with boulders. People started shouting that we wouldn't get through. While I was talking to the crowds my sappers were cutting the wire fence about 200 meters to the left and right of the KPP. I gave the crowds five minutes to think things over. They began jeering and laughing. Within five minutes two companies from my Ryazan regiment had crossed through the holes in the wire. The whole crowd was ordered to lie face down. We kept them there all night, to let them think things over. When we told them to clear off, the next morning, nobody wanted to admit that he had come armed. They all just left their weapons behind. So I said, 'okay, let's just say we found them'."

If gun control doesn't keep firearms out of the hands of criminals (genocidal
criminals at that) in Soviet Russia, it is not going to do so in Soviet America.

Another site that's gone completely off the rails: Israel Insider.

re: #56 legalpad

A universe whose breadth we have yet begun to explore. It would be more reasonable to assume the "1000 monkeys on a typewriter" scenario...that for all the infinite mixes of molecules and compounds mixing under all these different conditions through the expanse of the universe we live in, eventually, one combination might be all it will take to develop "life."

And that's just the first stage...

Good morning lizards--have you all already discussed the admission by the WashPost's ombudsman that the WashPost coverage was BIASED?

NEWSFLASH: The WashPost Coverage was BIASED!--Washpost ombudsman, Sunday's Washpost.

re: #55 Charles

Here's the email:

You are a good man Guido!

re: #55 Charles

Here's the email:

re: #55 Charles

Here's the email:

Wow.

re: #60 LoFlyer

Beats hell out of Code-name "Loflyer" mates! It is my fervent desire never to be on SS radar much less ID'ed. Let hope "Renaissance" leads us to real hope and change! For a start she can out-law lobbiests!

* * *
Will she give up her $300,000 salary from a NONPROFIT?

Charles, why do you hate Christians?

///

I take my hatchling to the Museum of Science a couple times a year. He loves the hands on nature of the exhibits and experiments. They had a fantastic baseball exhibit there over the summer. A lot of items borrowed from Cooperstown and just so much history. It was amazing. We all loved it.

re: #71 Occasional Reader

Charles, why do you hate Christians?

///

I'm trying to figure why he hates nazis.

re: #52 opnion

Good morning Lizards, what up?
For those planning for the Dawning of the Age of Obama, I have news.
The Chicago Tribune is reporting that Michelle's Secret Service code name is "Renaissance"
Get it? The Lady Obama will lead us from the Dark Ages into the enlightened world of the "One."

I've never quite understood the point of the USSS having "code names" for their wards... which are publicly known.

re: #66 lazardo

It would be more reasonable to assume the "1000 monkeys on a typewriter" scenario

More reasonable than what?

ribozymes are way cool

Charles, good for you keeping the heat on the VB folks.

re: #55 Charles

In regards to re: #61 Irish Rose, I must say that I also express concern about the good Mr. Joris' safety as well.

re: #73 Sharmuta

I'm trying to figure why he hates nazis.

Indiana Jones summed it up succinctly.

re: #71 Occasional Reader

Charles, why do you hate Christians?

///

* * *
Hey Occasional, was that you screaming and reveling all night Tuesday in front of the White House & all over Metro DC, Virginia and Maryland, keeping working stiffs like me from sleep?

re: #65 Charles

Another site that's gone completely off the rails: Israel Insider.

A comment from there: X's own wife only produced daughters. Reckon that pin-head flunked Sex-Ed 101.

re: #75 legalpad

Than the possibility of a deity creating the universe and just 'letting' things happen. Even with a metaphorical analysis of Genesis the Deity would have certainly had a hand in it...

re: #49 laZardo

re: #14 reine.de.tout

Not downdinging you, but I look at it and think something of the opposite...how would it not be possible for five billion years of molecular/cellular/organism development to result in something as complex as a human mind that could conceive of a God in the first place?

That is just as true, I think, as what I said. It does work both ways . . .

re: #79 ploome hineni

#54 Irish Rose

she looks very masculine to me

at almost 6 feet tall, and that face

LOL.

re: #71 Occasional Reader

Blame his RNA!

re: #51 Sharmuta

It's kind of silly, actually, to say God could create this universe as complex as it is but not allow this complexity to arise via evolution. The more I learn about science and evolution, the more I'm amazed by Him.

Ditto.

re: #75 legalpad

More reasonable than what?

More reasonable than "all this complexity can ONLY be explained as... the work of some sort of supernatural being of INFINITE complexity, whose nature is permanently beyond our understanding [and yet somehow we "know" that fact about Him/Her/It]".

I have taken the picture of Filip Dewinter in front of the café the
Beast on 11/7/08. I have some more pics but this one was sharp.
Dewinter also entered the café, so did I. It was filled with old
SS-soldiers and neo-nazi's. One woman said to an old ss'er she was
missing the beautiful times of Word War II. Also Sandy Neels Vlaams
Belang was there. I found pictures of here cleaning nazitombes in
Austria and germany. Greetings and keep up the good work

Guido Joris
Brussels

Bless you, Guido... whoever you are. You're putting your own personal safety on the line to help expose these people for what they are... please be careful out there!

And shame on you, Robert Spencer.
SHAME!

re: #80 alegrias

* * *
Hey Occasional, was that you screaming and reveling all night Tuesday in front of the White House & all over Metro DC, Virginia and Maryland, keeping working stiffs like me from sleep?

No, I spend the evening in prayer, you know me.

But it certainly was a "big night out" in the area... I suspect a lot of it was Obamabots celebrating the fact that they won't have to fill their gas tanks or pay their mortgages any more.

re: #70 alegrias

* * *
Will she give up her $300,000 salary from a NONPROFIT?

Haar mate, I guess it depends on the definition of non-profit? Is it non-profitable to us and profitable to her? Doesn't matter because she and her husband could rob the federal reserve bank in broad daylight and full camera survey and everyone would deny the event occurred, just like the last election
/really sux mates!

OT Russian Lit geekery:

Yesterday was my birthday, and my parents gave me (by request) a DVD of a 1973 Soviet comedy called Ivan Vasil'yevich Menyaet Professiu ("Ivan Vasilevich Switches Careers.").

An appropriate English title would be Ivan the Terrible Goes Back to the Future, since it's a goofy farce about a grumpy Soviet apartment superintendent named Ivan Vasilevich who accidentally changes places with a 16th-century Ivan Vasilevich -- who happens to look just like him, and who's better known to the world as Ivan the Terrible. In other words, the Patty Duke show with a time machine.

Lowbrow physical comedy and a few peppy musical numbers (including one enduring pop-song classic) ensue. Not of any great significance from a filmmaking standpoint, but it has a pretty distinguished literary pedigree: it's based on a play by Mikhail Bulgakov [!], whose anti-Soviet satire Master and Margarita is easily in the Top 10 All-Time Greats of Russian novels, and possibly the single best Russian book of the 20th century. (And also a high point for world literature overall.)

(More Russian geekery: the blonde chick performing "January Blizzards" in the YouTube clip is the daughter of Alla Pugachova -- the Streisand of the CCCP, whom we see at the very start of the clip.)

re: #90 ploome hineni

no tatas

boob thread already?

re: #55 Charles

Well, wonders will never cease. Leopards never change their spots. Zebras never change their stripes, and fascists don't change their ideological underpinnings. These are dangerous people who have hoped to pull the wool over people's eyes, but when they think that folks aren't watching, they let slip their intentions and associations.

Charles,

why didn’t you post this and this photo in your VB Event at Neo-Nazi Pub entry?

btw: the man in the dark suit speaking with the young lady (in the foreground, first left) is Filip de Winter.

re: #90 ploome hineni

no tatas

plenty of caboose.

re: #92 Throbert McGee

I must admit that as a video game geek, my knowledge of Russian pop music is limited to this famous folk song.

/ [=

re: #89 Occasional Reader

No, I spend the evening in prayer, you know me.

But it certainly was a "big night out" in the area... I suspect a lot of it was Obamabots celebrating the fact that they won't have to fill their gas tanks or pay their mortgages any more.

* * * *
Many Obamabots spent the rest of the week figuring out how to get inaugural tickets & hitting up friends, family, anyone, to blow their wad on inaugural activities. Hotels all booked in DC. Are you going to rent out your home for $12,500 for the week to some Obamabot?
An opportunity for cashing in on those in the underground economy.

re: #96 nyc redneck

plenty of caboose.

Caboose enough for 5 of me.

re: #81 MandyManners

I think facts flew out the window along time ago. That is just the product of a segment of the internet called "Random Crap Generators" or RCGs if you will.

re: #95 zuckerlilly

Charles,

why didn’t you post this and this photo in your VB Event at Neo-Nazi Pub entry?

btw: the man in the dark suit speaking with the young lady (in the foreground, first left) is Filip de Winter.

That's just a meaningless symbol on the door.

/

re: #14 reine.de.tout

How can those people deny that this amazingly brilliant and complex process exists in the first place, and then go on to basically say that God could not have created this process?

I recall a Torah commentary that basically said God brought forth creatures from the earth, and created man in His image, but there are no details provided that would conflict with science.

I also read a comment here from somebody who said math was the universal language God used in His creations.

re: #99 reine.de.tout

Caboose enough for 5 of me.

lol, me too.
i need me some.
caboose.

re: #101 Sharmuta

I know...

/

re: #95 zuckerlilly

Charles,

why didn’t you post this and this photo in your VB Event at Neo-Nazi Pub entry?

btw: the man in the dark suit speaking with the young lady (in the foreground, first left) is Filip de Winter.

Oops! There's that completely innocuous, totally unconnected-to-anything symbol again!

re: #93 reine.de.tout

re: #90 ploome hineni

no tatas

boob thread already?

No, silly, that makes it a car thread.

re: #88 Irish Rose

I believe Spencer is in flat out raw DENIAL. It is so important for him to contribute, that he DOES NOT WISH to accept that THIS kind of contribution is
just as wrong as Jihad. Shaming him will do nothing. Name calling is just another form of shaming. If you love a person who is in denial, you just have to keep exposing them to the truth. Spencer's intellect will eventually accept that something is wrong in his logic and beliefs. Don't throw the baby out with the bath water! Dump the water and keep refilling the tub with the truth.
The baby will eventually come out clean, I promise!

Charles,
You are a brave man. . Just Be careful. Keep your head on a swivel, as they say.
I fear the neonazis more than the Islamists and neither group likes you.

You know that you are on the right side when both of these groups don't like you.

re: #97 lazardo

I must admit that as a video game geek, my knowledge of Russian pop music is limited to this famous folk song.

/ [=

My only knowledge of Soviet pop music is the rousing "Throw the Jew Down the Well".

(see Borat)

Good Morning Lizards!
How is everyone this fine day?

re: #107 notutopia

I believe Spencer is in flat out raw DENIAL. It is so important for him to contribute, that he DOES NOT WISH to accept that THIS kind of contribution is
just as wrong as Jihad. Shaming him will do nothing. Name calling is just another form of shaming. If you love a person who is in denial, you just have to keep exposing them to the truth. Spencer's intellect will eventually accept that something is wrong in his logic and beliefs. Don't throw the baby out with the bath water! Dump the water and keep refilling the tub with the truth.
The baby will eventually come out clean, I promise!

i hope you are right.

re: #110 HoosierHoops

Good Morning Lizards!
How is everyone this fine day?

{HH}
Good morning!

re: #92 Throbert McGee

An appropriate English title would be Ivan the Terrible Goes Back to the Future

What is the Russian term for "flux capacitor"?˜

re: #107 notutopia

I think you're wrong. He's not interested in looking into these parties. He's not in denial as to who these people are. He's interested in continuing to look as though he doesn't know, when the fact of the matter is he does know. He doesn't care if he's joined in "fighting jihad" by racist neo-fascists.

THe big issue on the Sunday news shows is, what kind of dog will the Obamas get? They sound rediculous, beside I think that Barry is a cat guy.

Leningrad Cowboys Goldfinger for a taste of Soviet (Finnish) pop!

re: #109 Occasional Reader

Very niii~ce!

/introduced me to Roma music as well. Artist's page here.

re: #110 HoosierHoops

Good Morning Lizards!
How is everyone this fine day?

Glorious fall day here in Our Nation's Capital. Excellent day for cycling.

Robert is not interested in being honest

re: #7 LoFlyer

Haar! OT and trolling for Atlanta lizards for our meet at 5 PM, click on 'me avatar for the secret pirate ID, and 'me nic is blue for those needing the location!

I just logged in to post this very thing, with less pirate talk. See you this afternoon!

re: #112 reine.de.tout

{HH}
Good morning!

mmm.coffee!
How are you doing today reine?

re: #105 Charles

I know, it's only misused by neo-nazis (this is NOT the symbol of the linked door!)

re: #110 HoosierHoops

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/about to go to sleep though...waking up like %P%= is an improvement.

re: #121 HoosierHoops

mmm.coffee!
How are you doing today reine?

On my second pot of coffee.

On the topic of math, music, and the divine:

I culled fascinating observation from Freeman Hunts' blog sometime back, and thought it was rather impressive.

I remember writing in a journal as a teenager and fixed atheist, "God doesn't exist, but if he did, he would be made of math." I remember thinking that thought with a great sense of clarity. Perhaps God was especially close to me in that moment, pressing in to work on turning my heart. I don't know. But I do think that that thought had some truth in it. Not that God is made of math, but that God made math, and that math is the foundation of all God's physical creation.

At the heart of every science, at the heart of every description of the universe, at the heart of every observed law of nature, there is math. It is everything. To make a very crude metaphor: it is the operating system on which the whole network of physical reality is based.

And so then it makes sense to me, the association between music and the divine. Music is math, and math is the closest we can come to describing the mind of God in reference to creation without bringing in explicit talk of the spiritual realm.

re: #115 opnion

THe big issue on the Sunday news shows is, what kind of dog will the Obamas get? They sound rediculous, beside I think that Barry is a cat guy.

And he doesn't need a dog; for utter, mindless devotion, he has the press.

re: #120 doppelganglander

I just logged in to post this very thing, with less pirate talk. See you this afternoon!

Looking forward to it 'me lassy, Haar and much less pirate talk and more real talk between mates! Mate.

i don't know if i have the strength and patience to overcome my anger at my friends and family who put the zero in office.
this is really bothering me. i don't know how to resolve being friends w/ people like this. i did pick up the phone yesterday, for the first time since the election and talked to my best friend in the city (she is an orthodox jew, mostly lapsed but should have known better. her mom voted mccain).
guess what, the election didn't even come up. that is how bad it is.

re: #124 reine.de.tout

On my second pot of coffee.

LOL
That is so me this morning...

Related - in that it's science - does anyone have an informed opinion about these new mini nuclear reactors? This is from a Toshiba ad: "The 200 kilowatt Toshiba designed reactor is engineered to be fail-safe and totally automatic and will not overheat. Unlike traditional nuclear reactors the new micro reactor uses no control rods to initiate the reaction. The new revolutionary technology uses reservoirs of liquid lithium-6, an isotope that is effective at absorbing neutrons. The Lithium-6 reservoirs are connected to a vertical tube that fits into the reactor core. The whole whole process is self sustaining and can last for up to 40 years, producing electricity for only 5 cents per kilowatt hour, about half the cost of grid energy.

Toshiba expects to install the first reactor in Japan in 2008 and to begin marketing the new system in Europe and America in 2009"[Link: www.nextenergynews.com...]

re: #126 Occasional Reader

And he doesn't need a dog; for utter, mindless devotion, he has the press.

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Lap dogs all.

re: #125 Irish Rose

I've been getting straight-A's (here we curiously use the GPA equivalent, 4.0) at my college math subjects. That makes me a crazed evangelistic fundie!

/LOL

re: #119 Sharmuta

Robert is not interested in being honest

I think you were trying to link to a comment -- you need to first click on it and open the single comment window, then copy the URL from that window.

The reason: that window is now opened via Javascript. I may switch back to the old method; I did this because it reduces the size of comments pages, but it may not be worth the decrease in usability.

Sorry- that didn't seem to work- here is what robert spencer told our own Walter L Newton.

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

Decide for yourself if he's just somehow not aware of what he's doing.

re: #133 Charles

Thanks.

re: #126 Occasional Reader

And he doesn't need a dog; for utter, mindless devotion, he has the press.

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Did you see a headline in today's Post about "Purging Rebublicans"--Stalin would be proud of his democrat imitators.

re: #132 lazardo

I've been getting straight-A's (here we curiously use the GPA equivalent, 4.0) at my college math subjects. That makes me a crazed evangelistic fundie!

/LOL

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Keep up the good work Lazardo. You've got to keep Mindanao from your jihadis in Phillipines.

re: #114 Sharmuta

Then, we're both right in this Sharmuta. Spencer needs to be shown constant validation that his "alliances" are not what is best for US! He still has a right to chose his own friends however. Spencer has become truly obsessed with Jihad. These are not just words. It is a diseased psychological condition.
When you become OBSESSED with your beliefs you do not see or live in reality any longer. He is grabbing at the worst of the worst available allies in an attempt to justify his beliefs.

re: #126 Occasional Reader

And he doesn't need a dog; for utter, mindless devotion, he has the press.

Lap dogs!

re: #95 zuckerlilly

Where did you get those photos of the door? They've been modified by someone.

re: #138 notutopia

You don't get it- he doesn't care.

/IR passes a strong cup of coffee to CJ

Donut?

What is starting to piss me off about Spencer's obfuscatory defense is that he is managing to undermine the very cause he says he is fighting.

Exactly how am I supposed to talk to serious people about how Islamists still pose a threat to our society by subtler means whenone of the leading figures in it can't make the moral distinction between "anti-jihad" and "white- supremacist".

If this election and the days afterward have demonstrated anything, it has demonstrated how powerful the counter charge of "racism" is these days.

Why give that counter charge weight by excusing (in any way) the European Neo Fascist movement?

re: #141 Sharmuta

You don't get it- he doesn't care.

Perhaps a link to the anti LGF thread over at Jihadwatch would be helpful at this juncture.

[Link: babelfish.yahoo.com...]

Here's DeWinter hanging out with the Dutch Blok

re: #142 Irish Rose

/IR passes a strong cup of coffee to CJ

Donut?

Heh. Brewing up some double-strength Kona blend right now.

re: #101 Sharmuta

oldie but goldie

re: #144 Irish Rose

They can go find it for themselves.

re: #136 alegrias

* * *
Did you see a headline in today's Post about "Purging Rebublicans"--Stalin would be proud of his democrat imitators.

No, because I've purged myself of the Washington Post, quite some time ago!

re: #128 nyc redneck

i don't know if i have the strength and patience to overcome my anger at my friends and family who put the zero in office.
this is really bothering me. i don't know how to resolve being friends w/ people like this. i did pick up the phone yesterday, for the first time since the election and talked to my best friend in the city (she is an orthodox jew, mostly lapsed but should have known better. her mom voted mccain).
guess what, the election didn't even come up. that is how bad it is.

You know, when the lines of communication have been cut off, you can have no influence.

Don't let it be you cutting off the lines of communication. Keep in touch with those folks.

When Obama takes office, and does things that you believe are not good for the country, then you can slowly and subtly start having some influence so that perhaps in the next election, we will have different results.

re: #130 Daisy

Related - in that it's science - does anyone have an informed opinion about these new mini nuclear reactors? This is from a Toshiba ad: "The 200 kilowatt Toshiba designed reactor is engineered to be fail-safe and totally automatic and will not overheat. Unlike traditional nuclear reactors the new micro reactor uses no control rods to initiate the reaction. The new revolutionary technology uses reservoirs of liquid lithium-6, an isotope that is effective at absorbing neutrons. The Lithium-6 reservoirs are connected to a vertical tube that fits into the reactor core. The whole whole process is self sustaining and can last for up to 40 years, producing electricity for only 5 cents per kilowatt hour, about half the cost of grid energy.

Toshiba expects to install the first reactor in Japan in 2008 and to begin marketing the new system in Europe and America in 2009"[Link: www.nextenergynews.com...]

Sounds cool except nothing is said about waste or the cost of decommissioning. A lot of new reactor designs have come out in the last decade or so, I am still waiting for a breakthrough in the heat to electrical conversion. We are still using steam boilers and turbo-generators to convert heat to energy. We need something better...

re: #140 rightside

Your text to link...

re: #146 Charles

Heh. Brewing up some double-strength Kona blend right now.

Never tried Kona, this is your bean of preference?
I'm an Italian Roast kinda girl myself.

re: #134 Sharmuta

"Actually, I am fighting jihad, and have no interest in or intention to investigate these groups. Insofar as they are fighting jihad, I applaud them. Insofar as they are doing anything else, my endorsement is not implied."

Nevertheless, it is inferred. His thinking on this is bad and his behavior, unscrupulous.

re: #137 alegrias

My dad actually commented that "We'll lose to the Abu Sayyaf with Obama as President" though...especially when we have US troops assisting ours down there.

Sunny California (Towercam, San Gabriel Mountains)
Chilly Yellowstone, and Old Faithful Geyser. It may go off while you watch.

Good Morning All.

Let's go camping _/_

re: #143 karmic_inquisitor

What is starting to piss me off about Spencer's obfuscatory defense is that he is managing to undermine the very cause he says he is fighting.

Exactly how am I supposed to talk to serious people about how Islamists still pose a threat to our society by subtler means whenone of the leading figures in it can't make the moral distinction between "anti-jihad" and "white- supremacist".

If this election and the days afterward have demonstrated anything, it has demonstrated how powerful the counter charge of "racism" is these days.

Why give that counter charge weight by excusing (in any way) the European Neo Fascist movement?

Very well said. And for what it's worth, I made that exact point to Robert Spencer many times, when we were emailing about this issue last year and I still thought he was being honest with me about not wanting to be associated with people like this.

re: #153 Irish Rose

Never tried Kona, this is your bean of preference?
I'm an Italian Roast kinda girl myself.

Kona is the only domestic coffee.

re: #142 Irish Rose

/IR passes a strong cup of coffee to CJ

Donut?

Good morning Irish...don't be giving Charles any donuts. He'll get fat.
I'm sure there is a fruit cup around here somewhere...
We got to keep our boy healthy!
:)
/charles is going..dang.. i wanted a donut!

Pathetic. Utterly pathetic.

From the Ombudsman at WaPo, no less.

re: #146 Charles

Heh. Brewing up some double-strength Kona blend right now.

Bayview Farms has the best Kona coffee, IMO.

Peaberry. MMM.

re: #152 zuckerlilly

I'll have to get someone who speaks dutch to translate that for me, it's obviously been photohopped. Thanks!

re: #159 HoosierHoops

Good morning Irish...don't be giving Charles any donuts. He'll get fat.
I'm sure there is a fruit cup around here somewhere...
We got to keep our boy healthy!
:)
/charles is going..dang.. i wanted a donut!

Here ya go. Donuts

re: #152 zuckerlilly

Your text to link...

Google translated page.

By the way lizards... allow me to go off topic for just a moment to announce that I am officially engaged :).

My best friend and sweetheart of nearly four years finally popped the question last night, and I accepted.

Gotta head to bed. Hope to wake up tomorrow and find a reason to look forward to things. Cheers.

re: #165 Irish Rose

By the way lizards... allow me to go off topic for just a moment to announce that I am officially engaged :).

My best friend and sweetheart of nearly four years finally popped the question last night, and I accepted.

How wonderful! I wish you both every happiness.

re: #128 nyc redneck

i don't know if i have the strength and patience to overcome my anger at my friends and family who put the zero in office.
this is really bothering me. i don't know how to resolve being friends w/ people like this. i did pick up the phone yesterday, for the first time since the election and talked to my best friend in the city (she is an orthodox jew, mostly lapsed but should have known better. her mom voted mccain).
guess what, the election didn't even come up. that is how bad it is.

May be time to find new friends. Family you do have to find some way to live with, I guess.

re: #165 Irish Rose

By the way lizards... allow me to go off topic for just a moment to announce that I am officially engaged :).

My best friend and sweetheart of nearly four years finally popped the question last night, and I accepted.

I am very happy for you.

re: #167 goddessoftheclassroom

God Bless

re: #165 Irish Rose

By the way lizards... allow me to go off topic for just a moment to announce that I am officially engaged :).

My best friend and sweetheart of nearly four years finally popped the question last night, and I accepted.

My deepest congrats Rose! Haar!

re: #165 Irish Rose

congrats!

re: #165 Irish Rose

All the best to you both

Interestingly, the Kona Coffee people are also in the national security business. Little-known fact.

Specifically, they manufacture a device for protecting top-secret conversations at the CIA and NSA. It's called the Kona Silence.

re: #165 Irish Rose

Congrats, my friend!

re: #165 Irish Rose

By the way lizards... allow me to go off topic for just a moment to announce that I am officially engaged :).

My best friend and sweetheart of nearly four years finally popped the question last night, and I accepted.

Congratulations!

re: #165 Irish Rose

By the way lizards... allow me to go off topic for just a moment to announce that I am officially engaged :).

My best friend and sweetheart of nearly four years finally popped the question last night, and I accepted.

OMG..That is fantastic news!
Wishing you happiness and joy.

My sweetie is also an anti-idiotarian.
Match made in heaven ;).

re: #82 lazardo

Than the possibility of a deity creating the universe and just 'letting' things happen. Even with a metaphorical analysis of Genesis the Deity would have certainly had a hand in it...

I have not commented on the role of a deity. I do not have conventional religious beliefs. How we imagine God and/or the Universe can be in terms of metaphors, anthropomorphic if preferred.

re: #175 Occasional Reader

LOL!

re: #175 Occasional Reader

Interestingly, the Kona Coffee people are also in the national security business. Little-known fact.

Specifically, they manufacture a device for protecting top-secret conversations at the CIA and NSA. It's called the Kona Silence.

Oh, too funny!

re: #164 Charles

Google translated page.

The facade of the cafe Lion of Flanders in Antwerp went on half time three years paint turns.

Computer translation... still in its infancy. Let's hope.

re: #165 Irish Rose

Mazel Tov!

The RNA section is pretty cool.

re: #165 Irish Rose

By the way lizards... allow me to go off topic for just a moment to announce that I am officially engaged :).

My best friend and sweetheart of nearly four years finally popped the question last night, and I accepted.

A Wild Irish Mazel Tov to you!

re: #87 Occasional Reader

More reasonable than "all this complexity can ONLY be explained as... the work of some sort of supernatural being of INFINITE complexity, whose nature is permanently beyond our understanding [and yet somehow we "know" that fact about Him/Her/It]".

See my #180

RNA world.

Maybe.

My brother did some work on this twenty years ago, and I dabbled a bit myself. I suspect if there was any RNA world, it was very very brief. RNA isn't stable enough, that's what the DNA is for. I think as soon as DNA showed up, the RNA world was over, and it's only the DNA world that became ubiquitous.

re: #165 Irish Rose

MAZEL TOV!

Thanks, everyone ;).

Sorry to sidetrack the thread with an OT, but sometimes you just gotta.

re: #164 Charles

thanks, Charles, my fault.

re: #141 Sharmuta

Sharmuta I agree he does not care. HIS Denying his alliances is not in question here. He has chosen this snake den of Neo Nazis to further his fight against Jihad.
HE is the one in a state of DENIAL. He is OBSESSED with JIHAD. And his discernment is now majorly askew. Persons who are obsessed make terrible judgements which are contra productive to their logic and intellect.
He needs to be continually bombarded with TRUTH. But, don't expect him to react or change his behavior by Shaming him. Shame and namecalling will only
cause reactions of defiance and hate. Both are just fuel for his emotional fire to continue his OBSESSION.

re: #180 legalpad

Oh. Reading and connecting the replies up, I apologize for the mix-up.

re: #128 nyc redneck

i don't know if i have the strength and patience to overcome my anger at my friends and family who put the zero in office.
this is really bothering me. i don't know how to resolve being friends w/ people like this. i did pick up the phone yesterday, for the first time since the election and talked to my best friend in the city (she is an orthodox jew, mostly lapsed but should have known better. her mom voted mccain).
guess what, the election didn't even come up. that is how bad it is.

I have friends & family that voted for Obama. It really has not disturbed any relationships except one guy at work, but we were not pals anyway.
When Obama starts acting in office the way that he signaled that he will, I just don'ty want to hear "I didn't know that he was like that."

re: #188 itellu3times

I think as soon as DNA showed up, the RNA world was over

WOO-HOO! DNA! WE KICK EVERYONE'S ASS!

re: #149 Occasional Reader

No, because I've purged myself of the Washington Post, quite some time ago!

* * *
Good for you. I only read it on weekends when I do eldercare. My elderly vet Dad is finally going to cancel his WashPost subscription too. That hateful rag has taken years off his life.

Thankfully my brother sends him The Weekly Standard to keep him sane & positive.

(Did you hear about DC black residents lining up for hours to buy $2 and scalped WashPost editions with Obama's victory on the front? They had to rip off people who don't read their rag, to make a buck!)

David Duke's EURO conference was yesterday near Memphis. Here is a Memphis station news story complete with an interview of John de Nugent.

re: #188 itellu3times

By the way, that ribosome animation looks like something that happens in my fridge from time to time.

Kay...actually heading to bed now. Cheers.

I'm not going to pretend that I can read Robert Spencers' mind or understand his motives, Charles is probably in a better position to do that at this juncture.

I'll say only that I am deepy, deeply disappointed in the man.

re: #179 Irish Rose

My sweetie is also an anti-idiotarian.
Match made in heaven ;).

And he loves despite you playing accordian...That's what? a one in a million match?
LOL
Just teasing you...

re: #165 Irish Rose

Blessings Rose, to both of you!

re: #192 notutopia

I don't expect his position to change at all in any way whether he's bombarded with the truth or not. It's quite simple. The truth about these people has been known for over a year now. If he's not repelled by nazis, then there's something more going on.

re: #196 alegrias

(Did you hear about DC black residents lining up for hours

Uh, not just the black residents. They had the "souvenir" WaPo on sale at chicer-than-thou Kramerbooks on Friday.

OT, something that might possibly help cheer y'all up:

What kind of evil are you?

Let's face it: we're all a little evil. But we're not the same evil. Some are more emotional. Some are more creative. And some are just, well, more evil.

So, what do you get with fuzzy categories that don't make much sense in the first place? A great subject for a stupid internet quiz! Yes! Come one and all, find out just what kind of evil is in you.

re: #175 Occasional Reader

Oh Max, that never works.

re: #201 HoosierHoops

And he loves despite you playing accordian...That's what? a one in a million match?< blockquote>

He sits for hours over a pint, just listening to me play.
So yeah, I'd say so :).

DNA test.

lol!

re: #160 karmic_inquisitor

Pathetic. Utterly pathetic.

From the Ombudsman at WaPo, no less.

* * *
Being ombudsman at the WaPo is an empty job, for show only.

re: #194 opnion

I have friends & family that voted for Obama. It really has not disturbed any relationships except one guy at work, but we were not pals anyway.
When Obama starts acting in office the way that he signaled that he will, I just don'ty want to hear "I didn't know that he was like that."

I'm just going to tell them that's what they voted for and either change the subject or walk away.

re: #150 reine.de.tout

You know, when the lines of communication have been cut off, you can have no influence.

Don't let it be you cutting off the lines of communication. Keep in touch with those folks.

When Obama takes office, and does things that you believe are not good for the country, then you can slowly and subtly start having some influence so that perhaps in the next election, we will have different results.

of course, that is sound and good advice. patience is a virtue.
i seem to be low on it at the moment.

re: #165 Irish Rose

By the way lizards... allow me to go off topic for just a moment to announce that I am officially engaged :).

My best friend and sweetheart of nearly four years finally popped the question last night, and I accepted.

Congratulations. :)

Set a date yet?

re: #207 Irish Rose

...tag challenged, more coffee.

re: #201 HoosierHoops

And he loves despite you playing accordian...That's what? a one in a million match?
LOL
Just teasing you...

"mama's gotta s queeze box she lays on her chest, and when Daddy gets home, he don't get no rest...cause she's playing all night...and the musics allright..."

/The Who

re: #128 nyc redneck

i don't know if i have the strength and patience to overcome my anger at my friends and family who put the zero in office.
this is really bothering me. i don't know how to resolve being friends w/ people like this. i did pick up the phone yesterday, for the first time since the election and talked to my best friend in the city (she is an orthodox jew, mostly lapsed but should have known better. her mom voted mccain).
guess what, the election didn't even come up. that is how bad it is.

It's not easy, is it? Since, at this stage of the game anyway, what I have difficulty with in terms of Moonbat friends and family, is their (mainly) indirectly conveyed assumption that the only possible reason that I didn't join their worship service of BO is because I'm a racist. I've been heading them off at the pass with this, "While I'm proud to live in a country that saw fit to elect a man of color, I only wish that our first black President could have possessed the ideals of those other 2 Republicans I so admire, Lincoln and ML King". They usually enter into a mini catatonic state upon hearing that ML King was a Republican - which has been useful in that I can then go on to dealing w/more immediate issues like, "could you please pass the salt" while building a strong reality based foundation for all future discussions.

I don't love too many Moonbats at this point, but the ones I do keep are worth keeping for one reason or another - blood ties, etc.

re: #204 Occasional Reader

Uh, not just the black residents. They had the "souvenir" WaPo on sale at chicer-than-thou Kramerbooks on Friday.

This makes me feel that much better that mine's going out in tomorrow's recycling. Maybe it'll be made into a disposable diaper.

so this is where all those lipids that circle my waist came from!...Old Faithful Cam

re: #160 karmic_inquisitor

Pathetic. Utterly pathetic.

From the Ombudsman at WaPo, no less.

* * *
Plus she couldn't have pointed out the WaPo's leftism and Obama cheering WHILE it was going on, could she have? It just wasn't obvious enough to her inside the belly of the beast...

re: #165 Irish Rose

Mazel tov!

re: #190 Irish Rose

Thanks, everyone ;).

Sorry to sidetrack the thread with an OT, but sometimes you just gotta.

You give us one happy item to discuss this afternoon at the ATL meet. We are happy for you and your mate!

re: #126 Occasional Reader

Maybe Chris Matthews' leg starts tingling when you scratch him behind the ear.

Here's some interesting commentary on the space-time continuum and its relationship to certain religious thought. The Physics of Immortality.
Combined with the ideas in my earlier link, "The Age of Spiritual Machines"

Has anyone noticed that the YouTube video of the principal of the school where the teacher bullied the students on who they were voting for is no longer there. Anyone got an active location for it now?

re: #212 Steffan

Congratulations. :)

Set a date yet?

Not yet.

We're both single parents of sons who are high school juniors this year, and we live in different school districts. So we're going to wait until our boys graduate high school before we marry... they come first right now.

I'll probably have a date set by early summer, though.

re: #197 Mich-again

At the end of the segment they mention there were representatives from the Netherlands there. I wonder if VB showed up.

re: #204 Occasional Reader

Uh, not just the black residents. They had the "souvenir" WaPo on sale at chicer-than-thou Kramerbooks on Friday.

* * *

Did not know that. (My sources were black employees in DC talking about not being able to buy WaPos at the source.)

re: #200 Irish Rose

Here is something he replied to me in the first thread on the subject.

Please show me where Fjordman has promoted the mass deportation of Muslim citizens. I have not seen him say that.

In any case, whether he says it or not, I do not support the mass deportation of Muslim citizens. You all seem to be assuming that someone who supports one thing someone else says supports everything he says. That is a false assumption.

re: #151 LoFlyer

Real good point about the waste. Thanks for the help.

re: #222 legalpad

Here's some interesting commentary on the space-time continuum and its relationship to certain religious thought. The Physics of Immortality.
Combined with the ideas in my earlier link, "The Age of Spiritual Machines"

That site has such crappy graphics...weird colors, things flashing at me...that I literally could not read it and I mean literally my eyes wouldn't focus.

re: #214 Spider Mensch

"mama's gotta s queeze box she lays on her chest, and when Daddy gets home, he don't get no rest...cause she's playing all night...and the musics allright..."

/The Who

Damn straight.

re: #223 big steve

Has anyone noticed that the YouTube video of the principal of the school where the teacher bullied the students on who they were voting for is no longer there. Anyone got an active location for it now?

I have it here.

re: #165 Irish Rose

Congrats!

re: #160 karmic_inquisitor

Pathetic. Utterly pathetic.

From the Ombudsman at WaPo, no less.

Her gift for understatement is amazing. This must be why she's the ombudsman.

MSM campaign coverage should have been reported to the FEC as in-kind contributions to the Obama campaign.

re: #216 Pullus Iulius

This makes me feel that much better that mine's going out in tomorrow's recycling. Maybe it'll be made into a disposable diaper.

* * *
Show-off! You could be making a fast buck off folks who "don't have money."

re: #29 Dark_Falcon

If you the Field Museum in Chicago, it was actually the Museum of Science and Industry that hosted that exhibit ("Body Wars" I believe it was called).

You are correct. I was too squeamish to go, but my daughter was very analytical and intrigued.

re: #164 Charles

Charles,

so do I get this right: they removed the ss-symbol for "s" and replaced it with the neo-nazi-cross on the door?

re: #231 MandyManners

I have it here.

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

thanks but that I have seen, I was looking for the principal's apology. That is no longer on YouTube.

re: #215 Daisy

It's not easy, is it? Since, at this stage of the game anyway, what I have difficulty with in terms of Moonbat friends and family, is their (mainly) indirectly conveyed assumption that the only possible reason that I didn't join their worship service of BO is because I'm a racist. I've been heading them off at the pass with this, "While I'm proud to live in a country that saw fit to elect a man of color, I only wish that our first black President could have possessed the ideals of those other 2 Republicans I so admire, Lincoln and ML King". They usually enter into a mini catatonic state upon hearing that ML King was a Republican - which has been useful in that I can then go on to dealing w/more immediate issues like, "could you please pass the salt" while building a strong reality based foundation for all future discussions.

i'm going to borrow that, in dealing w/ people in general. thank you.
I don't love too many Moonbats at this point, but the ones I do keep are worth keeping for one reason or another - blood ties, etc.

re: #203 Sharmuta

It is a Mental dysfunction. It's treatable. But, first he has to agree to treatment and I don't see that happening for a long time.
Shaming him and name calling is not healthy behavior to get anyone to hear what you are trying to say to them. Spencer has to hit bottom first himself. He's got to do it BY himself. This is his journey. He chose it.

re: #229 big steve

That site has such crappy graphics...weird colors, things flashing at me...that I literally could not read it and I mean literally my eyes wouldn't focus.

Sorry, I've never looked at that web site. I thought it would provide links to the book. Wrong choice in a Google search. Try This one.

re: #225 Killgore Trout

At the end of the segment they mention there were representatives from the Netherlands there. I wonder if VB showed up.

They mentioned Sweden and the Netherlands, but in the story last week they said some of the foreigners they were expecting had to stay on the down-low.

re: #239 notutopia

It is a Mental dysfunction. It's treatable.

A bit harsh, methinks.

re: #36 LoFlyer

I am back from an aborted breakfest mates! The waffle house was packed and I refuse to wait! Haar!

you'd have been better off with a McDonald's breakfast burrito. Or two. heh.

BBL guys!

Everybody needs to search youtube for Howard Stern interviewing Harlem residents last week.

whether or not you like Stern, it's funny ( and sad )

re: #241 Mich-again

I just read from David Duke's site that the BNP showed. No mention on VB. It;s too early for me to read Stormfront. Maybe later.

re: #223 big steve

Has anyone noticed that the YouTube video of the principal of the school where the teacher bullied the students on who they were voting for is no longer there. Anyone got an active location for it now?

I don't. But I do have a reflexive thought involving a broom, dirt and a carpet whenever a bureaucrat says he's 'investigating' a matter. You may have luck checking out Hot Air. MM had some good coverage/links - including the humiliated girl's parent's sticking up for the teacher. Could be the parental disgustingness resolved any/all "investigation" .

re: #162 rightside

you are right. It is photoshoped.

re: #238 nyc redneck

daisy,
my one line response came up in the middle of your post.
anyway,i said, i'm going to borrow your plan for dealing w/ moonbats.

re: #215 Daisy

For expressing those Carefully-Phrased Feelings About Obama Being Elected, I don't think any of us can even hope to surpass Iowahawk:

Election Analysis: America Can Take Pride In This Historic, Inspirational Disaster

Although I have not always been the most outspoken advocate of President-Elect Barack Obama, today I would like to congratulate him and add my voice to the millions of fellow citizens who are celebrating his historic and frightening election victory. I don't care whether you are a conservative or a liberal -- when you saw this inspiring young African-American rise to our nation's highest office I hope you felt the same sense of patriotic pride that I experienced, no matter how hard you were hyperventilating with deep existential dread.

Yes, I know there are probably other African-Americans much better qualified and prepared for the presidency. Much, much better qualified. Hundreds, easily, if not thousands, and without any troubling ties to radical lunatics and Chicago mobsters. Gary Coleman comes to mind...

re: #143 karmic_inquisitor

What is starting to piss me off about Spencer's obfuscatory defense is that he is managing to undermine the very cause he says he is fighting.

Exactly how am I supposed to talk to serious people about how Islamists still pose a threat to our society by subtler means whenone of the leading figures in it can't make the moral distinction between "anti-jihad" and "white- supremacist".

If this election and the days afterward have demonstrated anything, it has demonstrated how powerful the counter charge of "racism" is these days.

Why give that counter charge weight by excusing (in any way) the European Neo Fascist movement?

When you sup with the devil, you need a long spoon.

i'm going to go dig some potatoes now.
and practice being a peasant.

re: #210 Sharmuta

I'm just going to tell them that's what they voted for and either change the subject or walk away.

That's how I feel about it. It was all out there, don't tell me that you didn't know.

Sense of proportion: History Channel right now, exploring the Toba eruption supervolcano, 75,000 years ago: 10 years of winter, species extinction, famine, pestilence, near-extinction of human race. So, I guess the big picture might be, that a Democrat President isn't really a 10 on the 1 - 10 scale of disasters, after all.

re: #236 zuckerlilly

Charles,

so do I get this right: they removed the ss-symbol for "s" and replaced it with the neo-nazi-cross on the door?

I think it's the other way around -- they removed the Odin's Cross, and painted the SS symbol above the door. The picture of the SS sign is from July - the Odin's Cross picture seems to be earlier.

re: #165 Irish Rose

By the way lizards... allow me to go off topic for just a moment to announce that I am officially engaged :).

My best friend and sweetheart of nearly four years finally popped the question last night, and I accepted.

Irish Rose, I remember how that felt. And, there IS no other topic on a day like today. Best wishes. Ring? Date? :)

Stanley Ambrose, anthropologist--gotta google him.

re: #97 lazardo

I must admit that as a video game geek, my knowledge of Russian pop music is limited to this famous folk song.

Heh -- that's a very appropriate song for Tetris, since one of its traditional titles, Korobushka, means "a little box." An alternative title is Korobeiniki, meaning "the peddlers" or "the traveling salesmen" -- in other words, guys who came from the city to the countryside selling lightweight wares that would fit in a not-too-large box (korobka). As you can tell from the lyrics of Korobeiniki, traveling salesmen had the same reputation in old Russia as they do in American dirty jokes involving the farmer's daughter!

BTW, those traditional black-lacquer boxes with Russian fairytale scenes painted on them are known by the related word korobotchka -- another diminutive implying "tiny box."