And let's kick this off with Ann Coulter -- defending an openly white supremacist hate group in her new book:

[Link: www.splcenter.org...]

This seems appropriate for a Sunday afternoon...

I about to go out for some amazing sushi with the wife celebrating Valentine's Day one day late.

Please pray for me that they have toro.

re: #1 Charles

Coulter could hardly be more wrong. And even if she can’t find time to read beyond a page of the CCC’s website, she really ought to know — after all, the organization where she frequently speaks, the Conservative Political Action Committee, has publicly banned the CCC from its annual gathering because it is racist. Also in the late 1990s, Jim Nicholson, then-chairman of the Republican National Committee, asked GOP members to stay away from the CCC because of its “racist and nationalist views.”

She has jumped the shark.

Gorgeous weather here in NYC-- blue skies and '40s!

re: #1 Charles

And let's kick this off with Ann Coulter -- defending an openly white supremacist hate group in her new book:

[Link: www.splcenter.org...]

She jumped the shark long ago. Like Huckabee, she is given a platform (by left-wing producers) for the sole purpose of making "conservatives" look like intolerant buffoons. And yet, like a bufffoon, she doesn't even realize she's being used this way.

Maryland could become the first US state to ban several artificial food colorings which have been linked to hyperactivity and behavioral problems in children, if proposed legislation is approved.

Two bills are scheduled to be considered at hearings in Annapolis on Wednesday, including one that would require food manufacturers to add a warning label prior to an outright ban in 2012, and another that would prohibit the use of the colors in school foods.

If the legislation is approved, food products containing the colors would be required to carry the label: “Warning: The color additives in this food may cause hyperactivity and behavior problems in some children” effective from January 1, 2010, and be phased out by December 31, 2011.

The colors affected are Red 40, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Blue 1, Blue 2, Green 3, Orange B, and Red 3.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has given its backing to the bills, which were introduced by Senator Norman Stone, and CSPI’s senior nutritionist David Schardt has said that he will testify at the hearings in favor of their adoption.

SNIP

re: #4 Sharmuta

She has jumped the shark.

Far as I'm concerned, Coulter started by jumping the shark.

re: #1 Charles

Even when I agree with her she gives me the willies.

Ann Coulter is speaking at CPAC this year, by the way.

re: #5 quickjustice

Gorgeous weather here in NYC-- blue skies and '40s!

Howling winds, hail, pouring rain and freezing temperatures here in the SF Bay Area!

And much more on the horizon.

Global, uh...warming! Yeah -- that's the ticket.

re: #6 zombie

She jumped the shark long ago. Like Huckabee, she is given a platform (by left-wing producers) for the sole purpose of making "conservatives" look like intolerant buffoons. And yet, like a bufffoon, she doesn't even realize she's being used this way.

True dat. She comes across as completely unhinged and inhuman.

I loved the spinoffs earlier in the week yucking it up about how Coulter had called Olberman a woman. Calling someone a woman as an insult is misogynistic, and Ann was completely out of line for that.

re: #11 zombie

Howling winds, hail, pouring rain and freezing temperatures here in the SF Bay Area!

And much more on the horizon.

Global, uh...warming! Yeah -- that's the ticket.

We need the rain. Stop complaining and put on another pair of socks.

/

The Council of Conservative Citizens is unbelievably ugly and vile. It's one of the groups in the Pat Buchanan circle, and they are also connected with the Vlaams Belang and the BNP.

The phony Sen. Burris is going to give a press conference in a few mins.

re: #6 zombie

She jumped the shark long ago. Like Huckabee, she is given a platform (by left-wing producers) for the sole purpose of making "conservatives" look like intolerant buffoons. And yet, like a bufffoon, she doesn't even realize she's being used this way.

Possibly, but she does seem to continue to be invited to these conservative conferences and such. What's up with that?

re: #16 winston06

The phony Sen. Burris is going to give a press conference in a few mins.

I am sure that he didn't know anything about anything and will be completely vindicated.
*snark*

Give a party enough airtime for its Mobys and they will surely hang themselves.

re: #18 SanFranciscoZionist

Possibly, but she does seem to continue to be invited to these conservative conferences and such. What's up with that?

Red meat for the base.

re: #1 Charles

I have read her latest book. I didn't see any hate mongering in it. In fact, it is very well researched. Maybe I didn't know about CCC but the book itself is well written.

re: #20 Truck Monkey

rrriiighhhhhtttt ;-)

re: #1 Charles

And let's kick this off with Ann Coulter -- defending an openly white supremacist hate group in her new book:

[Link: www.splcenter.org...]

Have you seen their home page?

cofcc.org

NO LINK.

re: #22 Charles

Red meat for the base.

Is that 'base' as in 'core', or 'base' as in 'low-down and unclassy'?

re: #22 Charles

Red meat for the base.

In her case, "white" meat.

Just for information, Lulu (the cookbook publisher) doesn't take checks or money orders. So it'll be a while before I get mine, when my CC-using sister comes up for a visit next month. Fortunately they're publish-on-demand!

re: #18 SanFranciscoZionist

Possibly, but she does seem to continue to be invited to these conservative conferences and such. What's up with that?

I'm starting to think that it's because the right will latch onto any buffoon who says anything critical of the left without giving any consideration as to whether that person should be latched onto or not.

re: #15 Charles

The Council of Conservative Citizens is unbelievably ugly and vile. It's one of the groups in the Pat Buchanan circle, and they are also connected with the Vlaams Belang and the BNP.

They talk about the BNP as if it's just another party on their homepage.

re: #27 Bloodnok

In her case, "white" meat.

In her case, "no" meat. She is a cheeseburger shy of being anorexic.

re: #22 Charles

Red meat for the base.

More like bone and gristle.

Somebody give the woman a cheeseburger and shake.

*groan*
Walk in the door and THWACK ... I'm spindled and mutilated.

At least I've not been taste-teste ... YIKES!

And the right needs to start fact checking their own pundits. WAY too many people will believe Ann that the CCC is fine just because she said so.

re: #31 Truck Monkey

In her case, "no" meat. She is a cheeseburger shy of being anorexic.

GET OUT OF MAH HAID. Look at the times of our posts.

re: #4 Sharmuta

She has jumped the shark.

I'm bummed....she may be out of control

Wal-Mart's glow-in-the-dark mystery

It began in late 2007 as a routine audit. Retail giant Wal-Mart noticed that some exit signs at the company's stores and warehouses had gone missing.

As the audit spread across Wal-Mart's U.S. operations, the mystery thickened. Stores from Arkansas to Washington began reporting missing signs. They numbered in the hundreds at first, then the thousands. Last month Wal-Mart disclosed that about 15,800 of its exit signs – a stunning 20 per cent of its total inventory – are lost, missing, or otherwise unaccounted for at 4,500 facilities in the United States and Puerto Rico.

Poor housekeeping, certainly, but what's the big deal?

In a word: radiation.

The signs contain tritium gas, a radioactive form of hydrogen. Tritium glows when it interacts with phosphor particles, a phenomenon that has led to the creation of glow-in-the-dark emergency exit signs.

. . .

And what about exposure from thousands of signs dumped near a source of drinking water, or packed with explosives in the back of a truck that has been driven into a crowded building?

"I'm sure thousands of them would create a credible dirty bomb," says Norm Rubin, director of nuclear research at Energy Probe in Toronto. "Most experts think the main purpose of a dirty bomb is to cause panic, disruption and expensive cleanup rather than lots of dead bodies. A bunch of tritium, especially if oxidized in an explosion, would probably do that job fine."

This goes way beyond some prank. The fact that 15K of these signs, that we know of, are missing, indicates a coordinated effort.

/nothing good can come of this

I am not Ann's big fan. Never been but the link [Link: www.splcenter.org...]

doesnt provide the page numbers in which the related materials r discussed.

re: #7 MandyManners

Maryland could become the first US state to ban several artificial food colorings which have been linked to hyperactivity and behavioral problems in children, if proposed legislation is approved.

SNIP

Hmmmm. I'm of two minds about this.

First of all, I'm a "natural foods" advocate, and try myself to avoid artificial ingredients whenever possible. So, I'm glad to see a diminuation of artificial colorants put into food, which are after all totally unnecessary -- just to change the foods' appearance (often for the worse, frankly), with no effect on nutrition or taste. Artificial colors are unneeded, and ought to be reduced a minimum.

On the other hand, it is sheer hysteria to claim that they cause "hyperactivity" or other ill-defined childhood faux-disorders. It's no different from the mercury-innoculation scare: parents are looking for a biomedical excuse to explain away their children not being perfect. In reality, bad parenting techniques are to blame, and moreover, kids are rambunctious, so just roll with it and let them grow out of it naturally and stop pathologizing normal behavior.

So -- color me conflicted.

re: #37 Killian Bundy

Wal-Mart's glow-in-the-dark mystery

This goes way beyond some prank. The fact that 15K of these signs, that we know of, are missing, indicates a coordinated effort.

/nothing good can come of this

WTF?

re: #19 buzzsawmonkey

Too bad that with initials like CCC, they can't do some reforestation.

the US is getting heavily wooded already

re: #35 MandyManners

GET OUT OF MAH HAID. Look at the times of our posts.

Scary isn't it? We were thinking exactly the same thing using almost the same verbiage. Isn't someone supposed to yell JINX. 1,2,3,4,....

re: #39 zombie

Hmmmm. I'm of two minds about this.

First of all, I'm a "natural foods" advocate, and try myself to avoid artificial ingredients whenever possible. So, I'm glad to see a diminuation of artificial colorants put into food, which are after all totally unnecessary -- just to change the foods' appearance (often for the worse, frankly), with no effect on nutrition or taste. Artificial colors are unneeded, and ought to be reduced a minimum.

On the other hand, it is sheer hysteria to claim that they cause "hyperactivity" or other ill-defined childhood faux-disorders. It's no different from the mercury-innoculation scare: parents are looking for a biomedical excuse to explain away their children not being perfect. In reality, bad parenting techniques are to blame, and moreover, kids are rambunctious, so just roll with it and let them grow out of it naturally and stop pathologizing normal behavior.

So -- color me conflicted.

In my search to help The Kid battle his ADHD, diet was one of my first steps. I eliminated artificial colors as much as possible but, there was not a bit of difference.

re: #42 Truck Monkey

Scary isn't it? We were thinking exactly the same thing using almost the same verbiage. Isn't someone supposed to yell JINX. 1,2,3,4,....

PINCH. POKE. YOU OWE ME A COKE.

(I'd prefer Dr Pepper, though.)

re: #10 Charles

Ann Coulter is speaking at CPAC this year, by the way.

As what? An example of what Conservatives should NOT be?

re: #10 Charles

Ann Coulter is speaking at CPAC this year, by the way.

Isn't Ron Paul, too?

re: #14 SanFranciscoZionist

We need the rain. Stop complaining and put on another pair of socks.

/

Oh, I agree, this will stop talk of "the drought" and pile on the Sierra snowpack, and make everything peachy keen for another year. But -- I just like warm weather.

Oh, how I wish Al Gore was right after all! But alas, his global warming thesis is an anti-captialist hoax. Oh well.

re: #1 Charles

And let's kick this off with Ann Coulter -- defending an openly white supremacist hate group in her new book:

[Link: www.splcenter.org...]

To say the very least, I've become less and less fond of Coulter as time has passed. First, I began picking up vibes of hubris rather than principle. Then ...

/oh t' HELL with it ! ... don't read her columns anymore

re: #47 MandyManners

Isn't Ron Paul, too?

Yes.

Coulter limits her "research" about this group to its website. That's a red flag in and of itself.

And--taking a deep breath-- I attended Coulter's church this morning for the first time in many years out of curiosity. It's a megachurch-- thousands of worshipers under one roof. No way to tell if Coulter was present. The preacher gave a sermon about how the human heart is divided into two parts-- good and evil-- and how every human being, Christian or non-Christian, has this division, and this internal struggle.

Being Christian, he said, therefore, is no inoculation against evil. He challenged the congregation to look within their own hearts. They must understand that their primary responsibility is to look inward, and to confront their own idolatry-- worship of idols like money, fame, greed, or power-- that hardens their hearts, and turns them away from G-d.

I wonder if Coulter there, or was listening.

re: #18 SanFranciscoZionist

Possibly, but she does seem to continue to be invited to these conservative conferences and such. What's up with that?

The buffoonery, sadly, is quite widespread.

re: #33 pre-Boomer Marine brat

*groan*
Walk in the door and THWACK ... I'm spindled and mutilated.

At least I've not been taste-teste ... YIKES!

MWAH!

re: #37 Killian Bundy

It's not like you can use the Tritium in the signs for a nuclear device? Even if you drop it in a reservoir, how much harm cold it do. It does not seem to be a significant amount.

Just fucking ducky- we have insane people promoted as the face of our party.

God bless our men and women in service, and a special "Thank you!" to the new recruits.

Recruiting. All services met or exceeded recruiting goals for January.
· Army – 9,658 accessions with a goal of 9,000; 107 percent
· Navy – 2,948 accessions with a goal of 2,948; 100 percent
· Marine Corps – 3,720 accessions with a goal of 3,406; 109 percent
· Air Force – 2,600 accessions with a goal of 2,597; 100 percent

(Just a little something to pressurize Moonbat heads...)

I am an Ann Coulter victim...now what?

re: #50 Charles

Yes.

Oh FFS. Stop this party. I want to get off. What's that new one? The Afghan Whigs?

//

Charles, you forgot "bound". It had to be "bound, spindled and mutilated..."

re: #38 winston06

I am not Ann's big fan. Never been but the link [Link: www.splcenter.org...]

doesnt provide the page numbers in which the related materials r discussed.

I'm looking at it on my Kindle right now, and the SPLC's report is completely accurate.

re: #58 albusteve

I am an Ann Coulter victim...now what?

The Obamessiah will have his people talk with you.

re: #55 Sharmuta

Just fucking ducky- we have insane people promoted as the face of our party.

It's not like Dean Pelosi and Reid's sanity is up to snuff, either.

re: #53 goddessoftheclassroom

MWAH!

OW
OUCH
oh th' PAIN!
:D ... lemme get control and I'll send one back
ow ... *gasp* ...

/that's a PERFECT come-back ... *rimshot*

re: #63 calcajun

Is rationality dead? It's on the left, it's on the right.... I need a drink.

re: #61 Charles

I don't dispute their report. I just wanted to know the page number so I could check myself.

re: #56 buzzsawmonkey

Wasn't the Republican Senate Majority Leader stripped of his post some 15 years or so ago because of his connections to the CCC?

I forget who it was now.

Lott?

No.

re: #58 albusteve

I am an Ann Coulter victim...now what?

Some people would pay good money to have Coulter "victimize" them.

re: #64 pre-Boomer Marine brat

OW
OUCH
oh th' PAIN!
:D ... lemme get control and I'll send one back
ow ... *gasp* ...

/that's a PERFECT come-back ... *rimshot*

Now let me tell you how I really feel...

re: #62 Truck Monkey

The Obamessiah will have his people talk with you.

change the flavor of the kool aid!....got it...that was easy

re: #53 goddessoftheclassroom

MWAH!

Self-defense is obviously needed

re: #44 MandyManners

In my search to help The Kid battle his ADHD, diet was one of my first steps. I eliminated artificial colors as much as possible but, there was not a bit of difference.

Diet can help: simply cut down on sugar and refined flour. Way down. And encourage exercise and healthy running around as much as possible. Exhaustion is the best cure for hyperactivity.

But most of all, don't worry much, because often these things are just phases, and in the long run the kids grow up fine.

BBL. I see laundry in my immediate future.

re: #68 calcajun

Some people would pay good money to have Coulter "victimize" them.

What are you saying exactly.....
/

re: #65 Sharmuta

Is rationality dead? It's on the left, it's on the right.... I need a drink.

I'll just scoot over so that you can have a seat right next to me.

re: #71 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Self-defense is obviously needed

I'm LOLing!

re: #68 calcajun

Some people would pay good money to have Coulter "victimize" them.

shoot...all I have is bad money...oh well

re: #37 Killian Bundy

Wal-Mart's glow-in-the-dark mystery

This goes way beyond some prank. The fact that 15K of these signs, that we know of, are missing, indicates a coordinated effort.

/nothing good can come of this

Wait one second. Don't exits generally have cameras focused on them? C'mon. Look and see.

re: #75 MandyManners

I'm starting to get really depressed.

re: #72 zombie

Diet can help: simply cut down on sugar and refined flour. Way down. And encourage exercise and healthy running around as much as possible. Exhaustion is the best cure for hyperactivity.

But most of all, don't worry much, because often these things are just phases, and in the long run the kids grow up fine.

We've our first appointment with the baby shrink this week.

Fox News now has DI shill Casey Luskin on, raving about how evolution equals atheism.

He looks exactly as unevolved as I imagined.

re: #82 Charles

lol

re: #82 Charles

Heh.

re: #1 Charles

Ugh. I just looked at the CCC website. They're Vlaams Belang supporters.

re: #80 Sharmuta

I'm starting to get really depressed.

What did you say to all those Negative Nellies before the election?

re: #55 Sharmuta

Just fucking ducky- we have insane people promoted as the face of our party.

"Our party"? I don't have a party. I voted for Bush in 2004 and McCain in 2008 because they were best for the War on Terror. I didn't vote due to their party affiliation. If Lieberman had run as a Democrat or Independent, I likely would have voted for him.

re: #65 Sharmuta

Is rationality dead? It's on the left, it's on the right.... I need a drink.

I've been saying for years we are surrounded and out numbered...I have my own solutions...

re: #82 Charles

Fox News now has DI shill Casey Luskin on, raving about how evolution equals atheism.

He looks exactly as unevolved as I imagined.

I see Burris.

Off to the garage...then a hike with the I-pod. Listening to "American Creation" by Joseph Ellis. Need to go back and study more of this country's origins, especially with so much conjecture these days as to who and what our founders really were.

re: #85 Killgore Trout

Ugh. I just looked at the CCC website. They're Vlaams Belang supporters.

And, BNP.

re: #78 buzzsawmonkey

You do realize, of course, that you are describing marriage.

re: #69 goddessoftheclassroom

Now let me tell you how I really feel...

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!

MWAH!

I don't know what to think about Burris.

Now he says he had contact with Blagojevich three times to raise money for the governor's brother.

did you see this?:
Kuwaiti Professor Abdallah Nafisi Fantasizes about a Biological Attack at the White House and Prays for the Bombing of a Nuclear Plant on Lake Michigan
Al-Jazeera TV (Qatar) -
February 2, 2009 - 00:09:05

I just hope he isn't a chemistry professor. and it looks like he take his ideas from glenn beck.

she is turning into a performance artist.
each show seems to be getting more outrageous.
it starts to work like that for people who crave constant attention.

re: #95 MandyManners

Now he says he had contact with Blagojevich three times to raise money for the governor's brother.

Clintonian non-denial denial?

re: #81 MandyManners

We've our first appointment with the baby shrink this week.

Excellent step.
My Lizard in training MUST have medicine (he's 17). Even my mother didn't quite believe me until she was over when day when he didn't take it. He has NO self control--he's like a 2-year-old in the grip of a temper tantrum. I'm not advocating medicine for all children. but neither should anyone discount its efficacy until he or she has lived with a teen with ADHD. BTW, in my child's case, it's mental, not physical hyperactivity, which is why it went undiagnosed for a few years: his symptoms were atypical.

re: #87 zombie

You're right. I don't have a party any more. The GOP seems to think they don't need me and people like me, so I guess I'll give them what they want.

eeeek. I just went to the CCC website - "white pride" ads litter the edges.
I'm so removed from this way of thinking - that I find it shocking and I am very disappointed in Ann Coulter if this is what she considers OK.

Reminders of why NRO kicked her out.

re: #80 Sharmuta

I'm starting to get really depressed.

We've got your back.

oooooooooooooooo he almost fucked up!

re: #100 Sharmuta

You're right. I don't have a party any more. The GOP seems to think they don't need me and people like me, so I guess I'll give them what they want.

when you head off into the wilderness I'll be right behind you...you are definately not alone

re: #91 MandyManners

...and Glenn Beck. They don't seem to like black people much.

re: #98 Truck Monkey

Clintonian non-denial denial?

I can't figure out Democrats. Maybe that's a good thing.

re: #81 MandyManners

We've our first appointment with the baby shrink this week.

"BABY shrink"? Still a baby?

In that case, don't worry at all. It is WAY too early to diagnose any personality disorder in a child. (Except in cases of severe autism etc.) Wait til the kid is five or six before trying to medicalize his/her personality.

And, I beg you: NO PHARMACEUTICALS until the kid is 18 (if ever). No Ritalin, no Prozac, no Abilify. NOTHING. Do not let these doctors screw up your child's growing brain.

re: #103 buzzsawmonkey

So is Coulter smearing herself with yams and chocolate sauce now?

LOL, she could be moving i that direction.

re: #103 buzzsawmonkey

So is Coulter smearing herself with yams and chocolate sauce now?

Doesn't do anything for me. She is like a very tall 12 year old boy with extra long hair.

re: #100 Sharmuta

You're right. I don't have a party any more. The GOP seems to think they don't need me and people like me, so I guess I'll give them what they want.

I still consider myself a conservative. Too bad there isn't a conservative party in the US anymore that doesn't cater to crackpots

re: #110 Truck Monkey

Doesn't do anything for me. She is like a very tall 12 year old boy with extra long hair.

LOL.

re: #85 Killgore Trout

There is a convergence with all these groups, that's for sure. A rule of thumb is if they're lauded by that political cesspool radio program they pretty much share the same goals.

re: #99 goddessoftheclassroom

Excellent step.
My Lizard in training MUST have medicine (he's 17). Even my mother didn't quite believe me until she was over when day when he didn't take it. He has NO self control--he's like a 2-year-old in the grip of a temper tantrum. I'm not advocating medicine for all children. but neither should anyone discount its efficacy until he or she has lived with a teen with ADHD. BTW, in my child's case, it's mental, not physical hyperactivity, which is why it went undiagnosed for a few years: his symptoms were atypical.

Meds won't be the first step. I'm still looking into GABA. Thanks to the most excellent help of a Lizard, I've found an enormous amount of scientific information about it.

re: #108 zombie

"BABY shrink"? Still a baby?

In that case, don't worry at all. It is WAY too early to diagnose any personality disorder in a child. (Except in cases of severe autism etc.) Wait til the kid is five or six before trying to medicalize his/her personality.

And, I beg you: NO PHARMACEUTICALS until the kid is 18 (if ever). No Ritalin, no Prozac, no Abilify. NOTHING. Do not let these doctors screw up your child's growing brain.

With respect, Zombie, are you a doctor? Do you have a chlld with these symptoms? I appreciate your caution, but MandyManners has to make the decision herself.

Can we all agree to give up on Anne Coulter now? I know a lot of people like her because liberals hate her but you should consider the possibility that she's just an awful person who deserves to be hated.

re: #54 calcajun

It's not like you can use the Tritium in the signs for a nuclear device? Even if you drop it in a reservoir, how much harm cold it do. It does not seem to be a significant amount.

15,000 signs?

"I'm sure thousands of them would create a credible dirty bomb," says Norm Rubin, director of nuclear research at Energy Probe in Toronto. "Most experts think the main purpose of a dirty bomb is to cause panic, disruption and expensive cleanup rather than lots of dead bodies. A bunch of tritium, especially if oxidized in an explosion, would probably do that job fine."

/someone's collecting them for a reason

re: #106 Killgore Trout

...and Glenn Beck. They don't seem to like black people much.

More's the pity for them.

re: #101 FrogMarch

eeeek. I just went to the CCC website - "white pride" ads litter the edges.
I'm so removed from this way of thinking - that I find it shocking and I am very disappointed in Ann Coulter if this is what she considers OK.

Reminders of why NRO kicked her out.

Notice that she says in her book: "There is no evidence on its Web page that the modern incarnation of the CCC supports segregation."

So she looked at that page, and didn't see anything wrong.

BBL

Coulter needs attention to move her product. She's tried every type of shock to peddle her merchandise. She's a media whore. The only thing she isn't resorting to at this point is self-mutilation and contortionism-- except intellectually!

When will the public tire of this? When they tire of Olbermann, who's worse!

re: #103 buzzsawmonkey

So is Coulter smearing herself with yams and chocolate sauce now?

I actually was in the audience when Karen Finley first crammed a yam up her ass on stage as part of her "performance art." It was as disgusting and pointless as you might imagine.

And yet -- she was given a standing ovation.

That was my first clue that I wasn't a moonbat.

re: #95 MandyManners

Now he says he had contact with Blagojevich three times to raise money for the governor's brother.

Mandy, I think that it is the other way. Blagos brother made contact to get campaign funds for the Governor.

re: #108 zombie

"BABY shrink"? Still a baby?

In that case, don't worry at all. It is WAY too early to diagnose any personality disorder in a child. (Except in cases of severe autism etc.) Wait til the kid is five or six before trying to medicalize his/her personality.

And, I beg you: NO PHARMACEUTICALS until the kid is 18 (if ever). No Ritalin, no Prozac, no Abilify. NOTHING. Do not let these doctors screw up your child's growing brain.

Remember Johnny Carson talking about pediatricians? He refered to them as baby doctors and held up his fingers to indicate a really little person.

re: #123 zombie

I actually was in the audience when Karen Finley first crammed a yam up her ass on stage as part of her "performance art." It was as disgusting and pointless as you might imagine.

And yet -- she was given a standing ovation.

That was my first clue that I wasn't a moonbat.

isn't a yam a sweet potato?

re: #116 buzzsawmonkey

I still say she looks like a blonde Cher. They have the same long, straight hair, the same oddly birdlike way of holding the head, the same smugly pursed lips.

Has anyone seen the two of them in the same room together?

Cher pre surgery? No. Cher used to be HOT! Now she is almost un-recognizable because of how she has f*cked up her face.

re: #117 Killgore Trout

Can we all agree to give up on Anne Coulter now? I know a lot of people like her because liberals hate her but you should consider the possibility that she's just an awful person who deserves to be hated.

hated?....not good for the soul KT....ya dig?

Burris's lawyer is freaking out.

re: #108 zombie

"BABY shrink"? Still a baby?

In that case, don't worry at all. It is WAY too early to diagnose any personality disorder in a child. (Except in cases of severe autism etc.) Wait til the kid is five or six before trying to medicalize his/her personality.

And, I beg you: NO PHARMACEUTICALS until the kid is 18 (if ever). No Ritalin, no Prozac, no Abilify. NOTHING. Do not let these doctors screw up your child's growing brain.

I have one simple rule for raising my daughters. I raise my daughters. One of their teachers was worried about my oldest having attention problems. They wanted a full psych eval and to put her on meds. I worked (and still work with her) and we took care of the issue. Part of the solution was "Sit your ass down and do your homework", part of it was just taking the time to get it done and listening.

The idea that every personality quirk is an issue that needs to be drugged into certain standards is sickening.

Good grief. Burris' lawyer sounds like an illiterate. "Some questions that was asked."

Burris in the headlights. Man, I knew when this thing first erupted that he looked terrified by the press. This is jaw-dropping. How many crooked leftist politicians are we going to see melt-down like this in the coming years? There was a time when a press-conference like this would be the end for a Washington (or in this case, Chicago) swindler. Now I'm not so sure. But there must be a few of his constituents that are dumbfounded watching this. And maybe more who aren't surprised in the least.

But this is a truly pitiful spectacle.

re: #120 Charles

Notice that she says in her book: "There is no evidence on its Web page that the modern incarnation of the CCC supports segregation."

So she looked at that page, and didn't see anything wrong.

Well, I saw nothing that said, "LEBENSRAUM" in so many words but, the totality of the site just screams White Power.

re: #129 buzzsawmonkey

Finley must be a riot at family Thanksgivings.

Don't let her near the sweet potatos!

re: #123 zombie

I actually was in the audience when Karen Finley first crammed a yam up her ass on stage as part of her "performance art." It was as disgusting and pointless as you might imagine.

And yet -- she was given a standing ovation.

That was my first clue that I wasn't a moonbat.

In public?

Burris is angry, too.

re: #135 Truck Monkey

Don't let her near the sweet potatos!

Creamed corn is a definite no-no.

re: #136 MandyManners

In public?

LOL. i know. what a nasty slut. that would hurt beyond description.

re: #124 opnion

Mandy, I think that it is the other way. Blagos brother made contact to get campaign funds for the Governor.

I can't make heads or tails of this nonsense.

re: #137 Charles

Burris is angry, too.

Guilty as not yet charged?

re: #129 buzzsawmonkey

Finley must be a riot at family Thanksgivings.

gives a whole new meaning to "well I'm stuffed!"

Wow, this press conference is really getting tense.

re: #132 Charles

Good grief. Burris' lawyer sounds like an illiterate. "Some questions that was asked."

At least he didn't say axed.
//

The lawyer looks he's getting ready to jump that reporter.

re: #123 zombie

Finley-- now there's a flying monkey! ;-)

re: #143 Charles

Wow, this press conference is really getting tense.

cornered animals

re: #89 MandyManners

I see Burris.

Is that like seeing dead people? :)

I can shut my eyes and see 0bama being treated like this by our press once they realize his love for them is not true.

re: #128 albusteve

Soul? I have no soul.

re: #131 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I have one simple rule for raising my daughters. I raise my daughters. One of their teachers was worried about my oldest having attention problems. They wanted a full psych eval and to put her on meds. I worked (and still work with her) and we took care of the issue. Part of the solution was "Sit your ass down and do your homework", part of it was just taking the time to get it done and listening.

The idea that every personality quirk is an issue that needs to be drugged into certain standards is sickening.

Trust me: The Kid has full-blown ADHD. However, there's a strong suspicion that he has some issues with his IQ (in the upper range) so, that'll be tested, too.

re: #149 mean Gene

I can shut my eyes and see 0bama being treated like this by our press once they realize his love for them is not true.

Say it isn't so!

ooooooooo burris slammed the media

It doesn't even pass a laugh test. Holy crap.

He won't say he didn't lie!

re: #99 goddessoftheclassroom

Excellent step.
My Lizard in training MUST have medicine (he's 17). Even my mother didn't quite believe me until she was over when day when he didn't take it. He has NO self control--he's like a 2-year-old in the grip of a temper tantrum. I'm not advocating medicine for all children. but neither should anyone discount its efficacy until he or she has lived with a teen with ADHD. BTW, in my child's case, it's mental, not physical hyperactivity, which is why it went undiagnosed for a few years: his symptoms were atypical.

re: #115 goddessoftheclassroom

With respect, Zombie, are you a doctor? Do you have a chlld with these symptoms? I appreciate your caution, but MandyManners has to make the decision herself.

I'm not a doctor. And yes, perhaps in more severe cases such as the one you are referring to, medicine can be appropriate. But I know WAY too many parents with kids who are just slightly weird or "unique" or whatever and these parents have been scared into given powerful drugs to very young children to suppress behaviors which not very long ago were seen as being within the range of "normal."

Furthermore, there have been NO studies about the long-term effects of these drugs on childrens' brains throughout their later lives. Some anecdotal evidence is coming out that the effect may be more detrimental than previously supposed.

I just don't want Mandy to medicalize her child unnecessarily.

re: #139 bellamags

I wouldn't use that word. More like "stupid" and "delusional".

Where the hell did Burris get this lawyer?
The media types are really snarling at him now & Burris sounds almost as bad.

I am disappointed to hear about Ann Coulter. Bummer.

re: #120 Charles

Notice that she says in her book: "There is no evidence on its Web page that the modern incarnation of the CCC supports segregation."

So she looked at that page, and didn't see anything wrong.

I noticed the white supremacy in 2 seconds.
*ugh* - bye Ann.

By the way, I bought Coulter's book just to check the SPLC's claims, and not only were they completely accurate, it's even worse than they reported. She's completely whitewashing this group, when it takes about two seconds of looking at their website to see that they're a white supremacist group.

re: #153 bellamags

ooooooooo burris slammed the media

Wants 'em all to resign if they lied?
He's not a happy camper.

re: #123 zombie I gotta know: Why did she cram a yam up her ass? What was the point (or message)? OMG

re: #148 Crimsonfisted

Is that like seeing dead people? :)

Oh, no. He's alive and kicking.

re: #149 mean Gene

I can shut my eyes and see 0bama being treated like this by our press once they realize his love for them is not true.

You know it's gonna' happen.

Finley's momma never taught her which orifice into which to insert her food! So sad! ;-)

A yam up her ass thread...I never saw it coming...

re: #150 Killgore Trout

Soul? I have no soul.

but you got a lot of heart and a good mind...

re: #118 Killian Bundy

/someone's collecting them for a reason

I tend to be a bit paranoid when it comes to terrorism, but it seems to me that since you can legally buy the stuff in bulk (like the manufacturer of the signs did in the first place) it more likely just a fad amongst stoners who like glow in the dark stuff. At least I hope it is.

re: #158 MandyManners

I wouldn't use that word. More like "stupid" and "delusional".

ok. how about stupid delusional nasty woman? LOL.

re: #165 MandyManners

Oh, no. He's alive and kicking.

I just turned the conference on now.

re: #164 UberInfidel67

I gotta know: Why did she cram a yam up her ass? What was the point (or message)? OMG

She was out of carrots.

/rimshot

re: #137 Charles

Burris is angry, too.

/this isn't going to look good on the Burris monument

the press smells blood in the water. they are not letting him slide.

re: #131 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

The idea that every personality quirk is an issue that needs to be drugged into certain standards is sickening.

I fully agree.

I was a VERY strange child. And look at me now -- only a mildly strange adult.

re: #170 brookly red

I tend to be a bit paranoid when it comes to terrorism, but it seems to me that since you can legally buy the stuff in bulk (like the manufacturer of the signs did in the first place) it more likely just a fad amongst stoners who like glow in the dark stuff. At least I hope it is.

Or, is it possible that Wal Mart simply doesn't bother to replace the damn things, or install them in the first place, and are now claiming they've been 'stolen'? I mean, this is not the world's classiest company.

re: #157 zombie

I will arrive at that decision after a lot more studying. So far, I've researched this issue for about four months, and have tried all kinds of alternate approaches.

His forehead is sweaty.

He's actually handling this better than 0bama could were the press doing him this same way.

re: #175 bellamags

the press smells blood in the water. they are not letting him slide.

Whoever said "If it bleeds, it leads" wasn't just whistlin' Dixie.

re: #162 Charles

By the way, I bought Coulter's book just to check the SPLC's claims, and not only were they completely accurate, it's even worse than they reported. She's completely whitewashing this group, when it takes about two seconds of looking at their website to see that they're a white supremacist group.

It's not the case that she should have known. It's the case that she knew.

re: #136 MandyManners

In public?

On stage during a "show" -- she was actually the intermission act between two punk bands.

How many Burris "moments" until the White House cracks down on the press? Or perhaps Obama and Emanual already have Burris's successor designated, and this is no accident?

re: #140 MandyManners

I can't make heads or tails of this nonsense.

It's confusing because the brother's name is Rob.
This is Chicago corruption now running teh country

re: #170 brookly red

I tend to be a bit paranoid when it comes to terrorism, but it seems to me that since you can legally buy the stuff in bulk (like the manufacturer of the signs did in the first place) it more likely just a fad amongst stoners who like glow in the dark stuff. At least I hope it is.

I'll ask again:
Why not look at the video from the cameras that certainly were focused on all those exits where those signs were? duh!

re: #145 Charles

The lawyer looks he's getting ready to jump that reporter.

he should just get his waffle out.

re: #164 UberInfidel67

I gotta know: Why did she cram a yam up her ass? What was the point (or message)? OMG

I was once in a conversation with some dude at a college party where he told me, I think intending to shock poor little be-glassesed me, that his ex had put an eggplant up her, uh, hoo-hoo.

I said, "European or Asian eggplant?"

He ended the discussion.

re: #171 bellamags

ok. how about stupid delusional nasty woman? LOL.

I can go with that.

re: #180 mean Gene

He's actually handling this better than 0bama could were the press doing him this same way.

I agree with this statement.

re: #172 Crimsonfisted

I just turned the conference on now.

I expect his head to go *pop* soon.

re: #183 zombie

On stage during a "show" -- she was actually the intermission act between two punk bands.

Well, that's better.

re: #173 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Dork! LMAO That was a good one.

re: #185 opnion

It's confusing because the brother's name is Rob.
This is Chicago corruption now running teh country

Rod and Rob Blagojevich?

Oh, their poor teachers.

even some conservative groups, such as Conservative Political Action Conference,[12] consider the Council of Conservative Citizens a racist and homophobic organization, pointing to its purported advocacy of white supremacy.

From wikipedia. Their website's "Statement of Principles" is pretty brazen. They don't hide what they are.

re: #191 MandyManners

I expect his head to go *pop* soon.

re: #140 MandyManners

I can't make heads or tails of this nonsense.

I can't either.

He's talking fast, throwing around a lot of names, dates, details . . .

In my experience, people who do this are trying to keep the audience confused.

re: #188 SanFranciscoZionist

I was once in a conversation with some dude at a college party where he told me, I think intending to shock poor little be-glassesed me, that his ex had put an eggplant up her, uh, hoo-hoo.

I said, "European or Asian eggplant?"

He ended the discussion.

Best come-back I've heard of in a long time.

She wasn't the warm-up act? Well, at least she was staying vegetarian! ;-)

re: #79 unrealizedviewpoint

Wait one second. Don't exits generally have cameras focused on them? C'mon. Look and see.

Wow. This stuff is very costly per weight.

2003 Cost of tritium

• Old DOE price was $10,000/gm
• Present Canada price is ~$30,000/gm
• Expected cost for future US production: $100,000 to
$200,000/gm
•
[Link: fire.pppl.gov...]

re: #197 reine.de.tout

I can't either.

He's talking fast, throwing around a lot of names, dates, details . . .

In my experience, people who do this are trying to keep the audience confused.

I noticed that, too. How much you wanna' bet that later, he'll claim to not remember all those dates and details?

re: #191 MandyManners

I expect his head to go *pop* soon.

re: #186 unrealizedviewpoint

the quality of the video is not so good, & it is almost never saved more than 30 days, if that.

re: #164 UberInfidel67

I gotta know: Why did she cram a yam up her ass? What was the point (or message)? OMG

Why? Why?

To freak out squares like you.

That's the only reason. That all modern "art" really is -- transgression for the sake of transgression.

Well, that was an amusing train-wreck. Looked like Burris actually gave up on his lawyer and dived in head-first.

re: #202 unrealizedviewpoint

Ewwwwwwwwwwwww.

re: #205 zombie

Why? Why?

To freak out squares like you.

That's the only reason. That all modern "art" really is -- transgression for the sake of transgression.

Good explanation.

re: #204 buzzsawmonkey

Who says Monty Python cannot be applied to real life?

I bet he was still scratching his head the next morning.

re: #204 buzzsawmonkey

Who says Monty Python cannot be applied to real life?

No one that I know of.

re: #178 MandyManners

I will arrive at that decision after a lot more studying. So far, I've researched this issue for about four months, and have tried all kinds of alternate approaches.

Might I ask the exact age of the kid?

There was a great series marathon on the science channel this afternoon about moon vehicles.

re: #211 zombie

Might I ask the exact age of the kid?

Eight, soon to be nine.

re: #194 MandyManners

Rod and Rob Blagojevich?

Oh, their poor teachers.

Yeah, but only one has the hair. Maybe that helped her.
A college chum of Blago's had a big piece in the Chicago Tribune today.
When those wild & crazy guy's went to Northwestern they would get drunk & go to a late night diner for breakfast with classmates.
They would eat & then run out without paying the bill.
Blago has not evolved much.

re: #205 zombie
So I am a square for not stuffing yams up my ass? Huh, whodathunkit. LMAO Now I know why my kids don't think I'm cool : (

I just looked at the CCC website and they've recently redesigned it. The old website that I saw also had a link on the front page to the Holocaust-denying Institute for Historical Review.

They are also connected to the neo-Nazi radio show Political Cesspool.

re: #213 buzzsawmonkey

I would have commiserated with him; unless he was sporting a fairly remarkable bowsprit, the eggplant must have been a very hard act for him to follow.

LOL!

re: #44 MandyManners

In my search to help The Kid battle his ADHD, diet was one of my first steps. I eliminated artificial colors as much as possible but, there was not a bit of difference.

My grandkids were here for the weekend. My daughter-in-law keeps them on a strict all natural foods diet, but they were like a pack of wild beasts!

They shredded a block of styrofoam in my office. Do you know how hard it is to vacuum those little buggers out of the carpet?

re: #163 reine.de.tout

Wants 'em all to resign if they lied?
He's not a happy camper.

"I'm not going to resign until every OTHER liar resigns!"

Never cared much for Ann Coulter, now I know why. I prefer Laura Ingraham.

re: #203 brookly red

the quality of the video is not so good, & it is almost never saved more than 30 days, if that.

You can't tell me that in 15,000 cases someone didn't notice the signs missing (within the 30 days), then didn't look at the video in attempt to find out who and when?

re: #215 opnion

Yeah, but only one has the hair. Maybe that helped her.
A college chum of Blago's had a big piece in the Chicago Tribune today.
When those wild & crazy guy's went to Northwestern they would get drunk & go to a late night diner for breakfast with classmates.
They would eat & then run out without paying the bill.
Blago has not evolved much.

Despicable. Their servers had to EAT the cost of their meals.

re: #200 notutopia

Profit, well now there is a motive. But seeing as these signs cost a coupla bucks each you would need a whole bunch to make a gram... more ROI in picking up empty beer cans at a nickel a pop.

re: #219 Alouette

My grandkids were here for the weekend. My daughter-in-law keeps them on a strict all natural foods diet, but they were like a pack of wild beasts!

They shredded a block of styrofoam in my office. Do you know how hard it is to vacuum those little buggers out of the carpet?

Oh, yeah. I've had to do that. Ever had to pick up a huge container's fill of styrofoam peanuts?

re: #207 MandyManners

Ewwwwwwwwwwwww.

Shoulda labeled it maybe. sorry.

re: #223 MandyManners

Despicable. Their servers had to EAT the cost of their meals.

Exactly, thats how it works. Blago, apparently has always been a punk.

re: #226 unrealizedviewpoint

Shoulda labeled it maybe. sorry.

Is it from a movie?

re: #214 MandyManners

Eight, soon to be nine.

Oh, OK, I thought he was younger.

I still say: think long and hard before feeding your child these extremely powerful psychotropic medications given innocuous names. Do it only as a last resort. And be aware that many doctors are insufferable pill-pushers, and they may pressure you to put him on drugs simply because that's the doctor's standard answer to everything.

In order to solve some behavioral problems for the next few years, you may be causing unknown damage for distant years into the future.

re: #227 opnion

Exactly, thats how it works. Blago, apparently has always been a punk.

Stiffing others so that he can profit.

Thug.

re: #219 Alouette

My grandkids were here for the weekend. My daughter-in-law keeps them on a strict all natural foods diet, but they were like a pack of wild beasts!

They shredded a block of styrofoam in my office. Do you know how hard it is to vacuum those little buggers out of the carpet?

The kids? or the sytrofoam?

re: #216 UberInfidel67

So I am a square for not stuffing yams up my ass? Huh, whodathunkit. LMAO Now I know why my kids don't think I'm cool : (

OK, never going to buy canned yams again...

re: #219 Alouette

My grandkids were here for the weekend. My daughter-in-law keeps them on a strict all natural foods diet, but they were like a pack of wild beasts!

They shredded a block of styrofoam in my office. Do you know how hard it is to vacuum those little buggers out of the carpet?

I had no idea styrofoam was considered a natural food.

re: #216 UberInfidel67

So I am a square for not stuffing yams up my ass? Huh, whodathunkit. LMAO Now I know why my kids don't think I'm cool : (

I think you're onto something. I think people stuff yams in their cavities "to freak out squares" because freaking out "squares" is what children do to seek attention. When they grow up, they get over that sort of thing.

There's a good chunk of the left in this country that is in a state of arrested development. They whine and cry like children, they want their basic needs (food, shelter, health care) to be met by others - and they behave outrageously for attention.

re: #217 Charles

There's a banner ad on the right side for "white pride t-shirts".

re: #228 MandyManners

Is it from a movie?

Scanners

re: #233 buzzsawmonkey

Scanners. Mid-Seventies.

1981

re: #215 opnion

Yeah, but only one has the hair. Maybe that helped her.
A college chum of Blago's had a big piece in the Chicago Tribune today.
When those wild & crazy guy's went to Northwestern they would get drunk & go to a late night diner for breakfast with classmates.
They would eat & then run out without paying the bill.
Blago has not evolved much.

That's plain tacky.

re: #235 capitalist piglet
I am eagerly awaiting CNN showing the O Administration cramming yams up their asses.

re: #217 Charles

Thw White Pride t-shirt link looks like it might be run by Don Black's son.

Mmmm, I dig the new threads

re: #229 zombie

Oh, OK, I thought he was younger.

I still say: think long and hard before feeding your child these extremely powerful psychotropic medications given innocuous names. Do it only as a last resort. And be aware that many doctors are insufferable pill-pushers, and they may pressure you to put him on drugs simply because that's the doctor's standard answer to everything.

In order to solve some behavioral problems for the next few years, you may be causing unknown damage for distant years into the future.

Trust me, I have his future in the fore-front of my mind. The doctor we're seeing this week is a child psychologist so he cannot prescribe. He's conservative, in religion, politics and diagnoses--he's not someone who pushes stuff just to make a kid sit down and shut up.

If I don't help The Kid get a grip on his issues at the present, his future very well might be fucked.

re: #231 Crimsonfisted

The kids? or the sytrofoam?

LOL!

re: #230 MandyManners

Stiffing others so that he can profit.

Thug.

Blagos buddy who wrote the article is a guy named Bill Powell.
Bill is ta da! A Time Magazine correspondent in Shanghai.

re: #233 buzzsawmonkey

Scanners. Mid-Seventies.

I was just a kid then. I missed it.

re: #222 unrealizedviewpoint

You can't tell me that in 15,000 cases someone didn't notice the signs missing (within the 30 days), then didn't look at the video in attempt to find out who and when?

They noticed the missing signs during an audit, after the fact.

/the typical survielance camera, if it works, loops recording every 24-48 hours, they don't keep archives

re: #245 MandyManners

Trust me, I have his future in the fore-front of my mind. The doctor we're seeing this week is a child psychologist so he cannot prescribe. He's conservative, in religion, politics and diagnoses--he's not someone who pushes stuff just to make a kid sit down and shut up.

If I don't help The Kid get a grip on his issues at the present, his future very well might be fucked.

A good doctor is a blessing--also a sane mom, and believe me, as a teacher I've dealt with some families where you're not sure the kid needs meds, but you're quite sure the parents do...

Much luck with getting the Kid whatever he needs.

re: #247 opnion

Blagos buddy who wrote the article is a guy named Bill Powell.
Bill is ta da! A Time Magazine correspondent in Shanghai.

Was his tone one of regret or "ha-ha-look-what-we-did"?

Well, time for me to go pick up some dyed food in the state of Maryland before its too late, and I'm forced into Baltimore for the bountiful hard drugs to fuel my 'hyperactivity'.

re: #250 SanFranciscoZionist

A good doctor is a blessing--also a sane mom, and believe me, as a teacher I've dealt with some families where you're not sure the kid needs meds, but you're quite sure the parents do...

Much luck with getting the Kid whatever he needs.

Thanks!

Just ordered my LGF cookbook.

re: #229 zombie

The more reputable physicians will put the child on a trial usage...One month at dosage X, next month placebo, next month different dosage level, etc. (Teachers are told the child is on medication...but, you can't trust the teacher's reports...too often biased...so with the trials, including a placebo time, the teacher can't be influenced...then, you compare grades, results for the months...and, then, you base your decision on those results...like doing a study...and the "no medication" trial may be the best..)

Will they try ti impeach Burris? The Democrats never wanted him. He will be a real liability in 2010, the Republicans wouild have a chance.
Ya, have the race thing, very tricky.

re: #224 brookly red

Profit, well now there is a motive. But seeing as these signs cost a coupla bucks each you would need a whole bunch to make a gram... more ROI in picking up empty beer cans at a nickel a pop.

The signs run from 200.00 to 600.00 USD each.
The tridium is in gas form. If someone is stealing them, for siphoning off the tridium, they would have to have a containment system.
This sounds more like theft.

Wow. I thought it was bad when Coulter went whole hog in favor of intelligent design, but this is freaking insane.

The CCC had an 'in memoriam' section on a previous version of their web page, paying tribute to Robert E. Lee and Lester Maddox.

re: #234 unrealizedviewpoint

I had no idea styrofoam was considered a natural food.

They never saw styrofoam before. Canada is a third-world country.

re: #235 capitalist piglet

There's a good chunk of the left in this country that is in a state of arrested development. They whine and cry like children, they want their basic needs (food, shelter, health care) to be met by others - and they behave outrageously for attention.

Bingo!

re: #69 goddessoftheclassroom

Now let me tell you how I really feel...

My wee Tiger cat has me on a 9 PM Curfew...

re: #259 Charles

Wow. I thought it was bad when Coulter went whole hog in favor of intelligent design, but this is freaking insane.

The CCC had an 'in memoriam' section on a previous version of their web page, paying tribute to Robert E. Lee and Lester Maddox.

I think that's an affront to Robert E. Lee.

/only sort of