well, at least i can safely post to this thread...

He quoted Dickinson !

Wow .. he is a well read gent .. he is !

Has Charles ever quoted Machievelli?

for those LNDT regulars that have indulged and/or commented on my Eng Comp submissions over the last few weeks, i got an "A" in the class, and the only point i dropped was an "extra credit" one...

thanks for the feed back!

A raving psychotic on YouTube has been leaving violence-tinged threatening comments on my videos. When I deleted a few of them, he responded by sending menacing messages to my YouTube account and leaving this comment (among others) on one of my videos:

"FeatureLengthFilms (4 hours ago)

"zombietimedotcom", If you're so much about defending our freedoms (which really means fighting the Jews' enemies for them and has nothing to do with freedom), why did you delete several of my comments? Looks like you don't believe in freedom at all, hypocrite. Pull the Jewish dick out of your asses and grow some balls, traitors.

You sheep don't even know about the "Kosher Tax", do you?

Watch "Kosher Tax" videos (on YouTube) and find out how you all paying a hidden tax to you Jew masters."

His YouTube User account is "FeatureLengthFilms," and his user page reveals he:

1. Is a 9/11 Truther
2. Doesn't believe Al Qaeda exists
3. Thinks the "chemtrails" are coming to get us
4. Wants to legalize marijuana and other drugs
5. Thinks devil-Jews control the "ZOG" US government
...among other things.

Thanks to the Internet, I get to meet so many nice people!

re: #3 Buster Bunny

Has Charles ever quoted Machievelli?

Charles *is* Machiavelli...

/now we have to shoot you.

re: #5 zombie

lucky you... i still say a trip to the gun store and the shooting range are reasonable precautions for you to consider.

re: #7 redc1c4

lucky you... i still say a trip to the gun store and regular trips to the shooting range are reasonable precautions for you to consider.

FTFM!

I hope everybody had a nice Easter. I personally find it to be a better holiday than Christmas, less commercial without the gift-giving and all, and the Resurrection is far more significant in my mind than the birth of the Savior. Go to church, one of the days its filled with the most people even, eat some food with family and meditate on life. An underrated holiday if you ask me.

re: #5 zombie

You sheep don't even know about the "Kosher Tax", do you?

How else am I to receive my Zionist checks?

re: #7 redc1c4

lucky you... i still say a trip to the gun store and the shooting range are reasonable precautions for you to consider.

Still not my thang. Just my personality trait, I guess.

Oh lookee, check my email again and another new friend has sent me a love note:

---

"From: "Ashraf J. Awadalla" ...@habtoorengg.co.ae
Subject: hi
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:52:15 +0300

What r u issuing of garbage about our prophet is your sick thinking, your empty soul, your dramatic destiny."

---

It feels wonderful to be so popular!

Where the hell is ".ae"?

re: #9 Lacus Odii

I hope everybody had a nice Easter. I personally find it to be a better holiday than Christmas, less commercial without the gift-giving and all, and the Resurrection is far more significant in my mind than the birth of the Savior. Go to church, one of the days its filled with the most people even, eat some food with family and meditate on life. An underrated holiday if you ask me.

my 6 element and i spent the afternoon trimming trees in the back yard... nothing like using a chainsaw 30 feet up a ladder. %-)

re: #13 zombie

Where the hell is ".ae"?

I'd guess UAE - United Arab Emirates.

re: #13 zombie

UAE

re: #13 zombie

Where the hell is ".ae"?

arab emerites?

re: #5 zombie

Is he aware that every time you eat a slice of pizza, the Mafia makes seven cents?

/

Repost from downstairs:

Just an observation, but I have a feeling that if this scenario played out in the Bush administration, we'd be hearing about the increase in hate-crimes against somalis or muslims.

Best possible outcome in that scenario and 0bama deserves credit for letting the SEALS do what they do best, but it's not like 0bama stealthily walked across the waves with a silenced H&K USP pistol and plugged the three remaining pirates himself.

It's a little like giving Ford credit for me using my turn signal when I'm gonna change lanes.

re: #10 BryanS

How else am I to receive my Zionist checks?

direct deposit?

re: #13 zombie

Where the hell is ".ae"?

I was thinking UAE but from the way he posts .. its more likely Alternate Earth.

Yeah, so it's not earth-shattering, but still... such a metaphor for the BHO bullshiite:
As soon as I saw the breed I knew Teddy the K had a hand in this one. Not a problem if they weren't such liars about it.
[Link: www.breitbart.com...]

re: #15 Buster Bunny

I'd guess UAE - United Arab Emirates.

re: #17 redc1c4

arab emerites?

Good guess -- I just traced his IP:

Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

...Put another pin in the map.

re: #23 zombie

Good guess -- I just traced his IP:

Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

...Put another pin in the map.

make it a red pin... %-)

re: #13 zombie

Where the hell is ".ae"?

Arab Emirates? Shit, Red beat me...

re: #18 SanFranciscoZionist

Is he aware that every time you eat a slice of pizza, the Mafia makes seven cents?

/

Seven cents -- that's old info. Get with the times, baby! They make $1.38 per slice these days!

re: #25 Pietr

Arab Emirates? Shit, Red beat me...

that';s ok: i got beat by two other lizards, and i misspelled it. %-)

re: #5 zombie

One of my hobbies is studying Holocaust revisionism. For at least a year I would post detailed rebuttals on ridiculous Neo-Nazi Youtube videos for the benefit of other viewers and, hopefully, the person posting the video. what I have learned is that they are, quite literally, mentally ill. Something akin to cult members, where any contrary information is rejected no matter how precise and thorough a factual rebuttal is given. So I guess I have two things to say, that they are mentally ill and it's impossible to reason with them.

Systematically all of my rebuttals have been deleted :-/

re: #26 zombie

Seven cents -- that's old info. Get with the times, baby! They make $1.38 per slice these days!

i found a way to avoid paying them: i tell the store i want mine unsliced.

no pieces, no tax.

/genius!

re: #18 SanFranciscoZionist

Is he aware that every time you eat a slice of pizza, the Mafia makes seven cents?

/

That pizza better not have any fucking pineapple on it!

re: #13 zombie

Looking at the regulations regarding registration of a domain name with .ae,

2. Any Israeli individual or entity shall not be eligible for the registration of domain name(s) under .ae. The UAEnic shall have the right to remove any domain name which the Israeli Boycott Office Rules and Regulations in the UAE decide that it is similar or identical to an Israeli’s, or any Intellectual Property Right belonging to person(s) under an interdict by virtue of a decision to that effect

Wow...just wow.

UAE's good for only one thing... they do run one hell of an airline.

re: #28 Lacus Odii

One of my hobbies is studying Holocaust revisionism. For at least a year I would post detailed rebuttals on ridiculous Neo-Nazi Youtube videos for the benefit of other viewers and, hopefully, the person posting the video. what I have learned is that they are, quite literally, mentally ill. Something akin to cult members, where any contrary information is rejected no matter how precise and thorough a factual rebuttal is given. So I guess I have two things to say, that they are mentally ill and it's impossible to reason with them.

Systematically all of my rebuttals have been deleted :-/

never try to teach a pig to sing: it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

re: #22 tradewind

Yeah, so it's not earth-shattering, but still... such a metaphor for the BHO bullshiite:
As soon as I saw the breed I knew Teddy the K had a hand in this one. Not a problem if they weren't such liars about it.
[Link: www.breitbart.com...]

We can file that somewhere in between Pizzagate and Sandwichgate. //

re: #26 zombie

Seven cents -- that's old info. Get with the times, baby! They make $1.38 per slice these days!

Is it less if I only order veggie toppings?

re: #30 Fenway_Nation

That pizza better not have any fucking pineapple on it!

we substituted zucchini on yours...

re: #29 redc1c4

i found a way to avoid paying them: i tell the store i want mine unsliced.

no pieces, no tax.

/genius!

Yea...but the triads get $2.14 for every pizza slicer sold.

/vicious cycle

re: #34 Gus 802

We can file that somewhere in between Pizzagate and Sandwichgate. //

Why Charles *really* moved...

re: #38 redc1c4

Why Charles *really* moved...

Bo can type!

Bogate! //

re: #37 Fenway_Nation

Yea...but the triads get $2.14 for every pizza slicer sold.

/vicious cycle

i use my Ek

Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening Lizards.

I trust all had a great weekend. I think I put on 10 pounds this weekend:(

re: #12 zombie

You should have an autoreply that reads
Thanks for your comments. Allahooey-ack-barf!

re: #41 Erik The Red

Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening Lizards.

I trust all had a great weekend. I think I put on 10 pounds this weekend:(

it's just the shorts that make you look fat: now give them back to Surfer Doc!

re: #28 Lacus Odii

One of my hobbies is studying Holocaust revisionism. For at least a year I would post detailed rebuttals on ridiculous Neo-Nazi Youtube videos for the benefit of other viewers and, hopefully, the person posting the video. what I have learned is that they are, quite literally, mentally ill. Something akin to cult members, where any contrary information is rejected no matter how precise and thorough a factual rebuttal is given. So I guess I have two things to say, that they are mentally ill and it's impossible to reason with them.

Systematically all of my rebuttals have been deleted :-/

Sorry you had to "learn the hard way." I've known for years that these types of people are seriously mentally ill, and facts and logic are of no interest to them.

Don't try to rebut them, or convince them. Just take as wide a berth as possible...

My only "interest" in them is to what extent their OCD is focused on me personally. Hopefully not too much in this case. But if he decided to devote his energies to going after me, he'll have to get in the back of the long line of stalkers who seethe in the shadows behind me.

re: #31 BryanS

Looking at the regulations regarding registration of a domain name with .ae,

Wow...just wow.

But but but -- AMERICA IS A RACIST NATION! We need to learn tolerance from our Muslim brothers!

A horny young man went to a brothel... The lady at the counter asked him
what his choice would be. The man wanted to know what was available.
Madam, "On the first floor, we have the ex-models... they are all slinky
and sexy... On the second floor, we have our ex-actresses...they are all
buxom and beautiful... On the third floor, we have our ex-teachers...
they..."
Man, "Say no more! Lead me to the third floor."
Madam, "Are you sure... I'm surprised that you would prefer ex-teachers to
ex-models and ex-actresses."
Man, "It's obvious, ma'am, teachers always make you do a thing over and
over again, until you're perfect at it."

re: #1 redc1c4

well, at least i can safely post to this thread...

/you're going to love this

re: #47 Killian Bundy

/you're going to love this

i haven't had the heart to watch that all the way through yet, but it sounds like some of the teachers at the school i'm attending...

re: #45 zombie

But but but -- AMERICA IS A RACIST NATION! We need to learn tolerance from our Muslim brothers!

It does go on to cover the usual things you'd expect it would--defaming allah, criticizing the government, etc, but boy they sure hate their Jews there in the UAE.

Today in History, April 14th:

Today's Highlight in History:

On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth while attending the comedy "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington. (Lincoln died the following morning.)

On this date:

In 1759, German-born English composer George Frideric Handel died in London at age 74.

In 1775, the first American society for the abolition of slavery was formed in Philadelphia.

In 1828, the first edition of Noah Webster's "American Dictionary of the English Language" was published.

In 1902, James Cash Penney opened his first store, The Golden Rule, in Kemmerer, Wyo.

In 1909, Armenians in Adana Province in the Ottoman Empire became targets of violence during an uprising by counterrevolutionaries seeking to restore Sultan Abdul Hamid II to power; the number of Armenians killed has been put at up to 30,000.

In 1912, the British liner RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic and began sinking.

In 1939, the John Steinbeck novel "The Grapes of Wrath" was first published.

In 1949, at the conclusion of the so-called "Wilhelmstrasse Trial," 19 former Nazi Foreign Office officials were sentenced by an American tribunal in Nuremberg to prison terms ranging from four to 25 years.

In 1956, Ampex Corp. demonstrated the first successful videotape recorder at the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters Convention in Chicago.

In 1989, former winery worker Ramon Salcido went on a rampage in Sonoma County, Calif., killing seven people, including his wife and two of his daughters; he is currently on death row.

Today's Birthdays:
Actor Bradford Dillman is 79.
Actor Jay Robinson is 79.
Country singer Loretta Lynn is 74.
Actress Julie Christie is 69.
Former baseball player Pete Rose is 68.
Rock musician Ritchie Blackmore is 64.
Actor John Shea is 60.
Actor-race car driver Brian Forster is 49.
Actor Brad Garrett is 49.
Actor Robert Carlyle is 48.
Rock singer-musician John Bell (Widespread Panic) is 47.
Actor Robert Clendenin is 45.
Actor Lloyd Owen is 43.
Baseball player Greg Maddux is 43.
Rock musician Barrett Martin is 42.
Actor Anthony Michael Hall is 41.
Actor Adrien Brody is 36.
Classical singer David Miller is 36.
Rapper DaBrat is 35.
Actor Antwon Tanner is 34.
Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar is 32.
Actor-producer Rob McElhenney is 32.
Actress Vivien Cardone is 16.
Actress Abigail Breslin is 13.

re: #47 Killian Bundy

/you're going to love this

Easy red. Wow Killian,did you tag that or is it still up. I saw this the other day and Penn State pulled it and apologized.

It is sick, and something you'd think Berzerkley would run. I'm sad to say I come from the same state that this garbage was spewed.

re: #5 zombie

S(He)'s insane.

re: #42 tradewind

You should have an autoreply that reads
Thanks for your comments. Allahooey-ack-barf!

I've learned the hard way: Never ever ever reply to any email from any of these people. They're just itchin' to get their hands on my IP address.

(Though, to my great glee, something about the way my ISP has recently rerouted their servers or whatever causes my IP to show up [if anyone were to search] as being in Los Angeles. Heh heh heh! It used to say some obscure industrial city here in the SF Bay Area, and that was good enough, but LA is even more misleading. I think those must be just the locations of the server farms...)

re: #48 buzzsawmonkey

Zombie--glad you're here. Some jerk hijacked my nic at post #121 on the Zomblog bisexuality thread.

Please be aware, and please delete if possible. Thanks.

Will do. I'll check right now.

I was going to post this comment in the last thread but I knew that the LNDT was coming up soon.

After 9-11, and especially after the beginning of the Iraq war, I found that most of my friends at the time were insufferable lefties or borderline troofers. They were just about impossible to be around, and it was not possible for me to do anything with them and avoid a political conversation at some point during the evening and there was no arguing with them. Eventually I just dropped off the map as far as they were concerned. Cut off almost all contact with all of them. I have gotten back in touch with a few of them, mostly high school friends and a few that were slightly more reasonable.

I'm having a similar problem now with my (far fewer in number) friends that are on the right. They all seem to have various severities of ODS. Some of them are nirthers. One is a kook on just about every scale imaginable except for trooferism (thinking we are in the "End Times" is reasonable to him, trooferism is too wacky). They can't seem to go 10 minutes without getting political about something and saying things that totally embarrass or irritate me and have no sense of right place/time for such things.

For example. Over dinner recently, one of my friends (friend A) said that the Mayor's wife works with him in his office. So friend B immediately chimes in with "ask her why her husband is (doing some thing perceived as 'lefty')." He was dead serious as if friend A should go hound the Mayor's wife about this. Totally inappropriate time and place, and a silly suggestion regardless.

It's gotten to the point where I'm almost more comfortable spending time with the Obamabots than I am the "conservatives." The Obamabots seem to be easier to derail the conversation into less controversial stuff. I'm getting annoyed. Are other Lizard's dealing with the same shit? Is just about everyone a fucking kook now?

re: #51 gmsc

On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth while attending the comedy "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington. (Lincoln died the following morning.)

"But how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?"

/MSM

re: #52 x-wing

I saw this the other day and Penn State pulled it and apologized.

/think that makes a difference?

re: #58 buzzsawmonkey

You forgot one: April 14, 1935; major Dust Bowl dust storm, commemorated in song by Woody Guthrie.

What? Commemorated by who?
;)

re: #51 gmsc

For you, Amigo:

Don't tell me your age;
-but the Hershey Man will know! YOUR AGE BY CHOCOLATE MATH

This is pretty neat.

DON'T CHEAT BY SCROLLING DOWN FIRST!
It takes less than a minute .
Work this out as you read .
Be sure you don't read the bottom until you've worked it out!
This is not one of those waste of time things, it's fun.

1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to have chocolate (more than once but less than 10)

2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold)

3. Add 5

4. Multiply it by 50 -- I'll wait while you get the calculator

5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1759 ..
If you haven't, add 1758.

6. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born.

You should have a three digit number

The first digit of this was your original number
(i.e., how many times you want to have chocolate each week).

The next two numbers are

YOUR AGE! (Oh YES, it is!)

THIS IS THE ONLY YEAR (2009) IT WILL EVER WORK, SO SPREAD IT AROUND WHILE IT LASTS.
chocolate Calculator.

re: #56 ArchangelMichael

i'm the only normal person i know.

re: #44 zombie

So far the only threat I have received (and it was a real, bald-faced physical threat) was from a mentally unhinged blogger on stoptheaclu. Hopefully your stalker is also an impotent Internet Tough Guy.

re: #61 Pietr

For you, Amigo:

Don't tell me your age;
-but the Hershey Man will know! YOUR AGE BY CHOCOLATE MATH

This is pretty neat.

DON'T CHEAT BY SCROLLING DOWN FIRST!
It takes less than a minute .
Work this out as you read .
Be sure you don't read the bottom until you've worked it out!
This is not one of those waste of time things, it's fun.

1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to have chocolate (more than once but less than 10)

2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold)

3. Add 5

4. Multiply it by 50 -- I'll wait while you get the calculator

5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1759 ..
If you haven't, add 1758.

6. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born.

You should have a three digit number

The first digit of this was your original number
(i.e., how many times you want to have chocolate each week).

The next two numbers are

YOUR AGE! (Oh YES, it is!)

THIS IS THE ONLY YEAR (2009) IT WILL EVER WORK, SO SPREAD IT AROUND WHILE IT LASTS.
chocolate Calculator.

I like it, and it did work – but it will work next year. You'll just have to change this line:

5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1759 ..
If you haven't, add 1758.

To this:

5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1760 ..
If you haven't, add 1759.

re: #56 ArchangelMichael

Yes- to some extent. The thing is, ever since the $787 billion in kickback stimulus was passed, we've consciously tried avoiding the subject altogether.

But on the flip side, it's very difficult to avoid the subject altogether with BH0 in front of all the cameras behaving as though he's still campaiging.

re: #61 Pietr

For you, Amigo:

Don't tell me your age;
-but the Hershey Man will know! YOUR AGE BY CHOCOLATE MATH

Here's another one, to return the favor.

fox alert the crew and ship mv irene captured by "pirates" in gulf of aden

re: #48 buzzsawmonkey

Zombie--glad you're here. Some jerk hijacked my nic at post #121 on the Zomblog bisexuality thread.

Please be aware, and please delete if possible. Thanks.

OK, check the end of the thread now.

You were right -- it was Squanto. I deleted all his comments, and also your comment which referred to his comment (since it no longer would make any sense).

Thanks for bring that to my attention.

I replaced his comment with this one:

"120 zombie on Apr 13, 2009 at 11:05 pm

Squanto:

Nick-jacking is totally out of line and beyond unethical. I have, as a result of your antics, now deleted all your comments — both under your name and others — and will delete any in the future should they come to my attention."

re: #64 gmsc

I had that hunch, but waited for my Resident Expert to confirm; similiar to what I said the other day on squaring #s...:>))

re: #56 ArchangelMichael

I keep to myself but from the few encounters with acquaintances the nirther stuff comes up a lot: "and he wasn't even born in the United States." That or that he's a secret Muslim that's going to take over America when the time is right. Another women has a friend that claims Obama is Satan. Really off the wall stuff sometimes and none of it rational.

With my family they're pretty left and my folks tend to listen to me a lot of times. Usually it's common ground conversations dealing with taxes, property taxes, interest rates, fees and such. There's always a common bond with people and it's the day to day stuff that keeps things normal.

People tend to react according to human behavior according to ideological beliefs. What I mean is that a good deal of those on the left were irrational during Bush term and now it's reversed. Different ideologies but similar human responses.

re: #59 Killian Bundy

/think that makes a difference?

No! believe me, that video is disgusting in every way. I hate to see this happening in our colleges and especially in my own home state college. I thought they were above this. I thought wrong.

re: #56 ArchangelMichael

I had the same experience after 9/11 (lefties going bananas), but since I don't know any conservatives, I've haven't shared any of your more recent experiences.

re: #66 gmsc

Here's another one, to return the favor.

It did it-but it's over my head...LOL.

re: #74 buzzsawmonkey

BTW, zombie--again, my apologies for getting sucked into the marriage thing on that thread. Hope that most of my stuff was more on target/topic--but I figure that if you had a problem with anything, you'd let me know.

or just delete you... %-)

re: #56 ArchangelMichael

You wouldn't believe how many of my friends have turned into Alex Jones RONPAUL obamasecretmuslim endtimes anti-vaccinationist NWO monkeys. The number of people insinuating or openly suggesting armed revolution has freaked me the hell out. OK, I know this won't be popular to say, but between THAT and the complete disintegration of rationality and civility from the remaining Republican members of Congress, it's hard for me to see the light at the end of the tunnel for the Republican party.

re: #61 Pietr

For you, Amigo:

Don't tell me your age;
-but the Hershey Man will know! YOUR AGE BY CHOCOLATE MATH

This is pretty neat.

DON'T CHEAT BY SCROLLING DOWN FIRST!
It takes less than a minute .
Work this out as you read .
Be sure you don't read the bottom until you've worked it out!
This is not one of those waste of time things, it's fun.

1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to have chocolate (more than once but less than 10)

2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold)

3. Add 5

4. Multiply it by 50 -- I'll wait while you get the calculator

5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1759 ..
If you haven't, add 1758.

6. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born.

You should have a three digit number

The first digit of this was your original number
(i.e., how many times you want to have chocolate each week).

The next two numbers are

YOUR AGE! (Oh YES, it is!)

THIS IS THE ONLY YEAR (2009) IT WILL EVER WORK, SO SPREAD IT AROUND WHILE IT LASTS.
chocolate Calculator.

Replace chocolate with Sex. :)

re: #67 JimmyTheClaw

fox alert the crew and ship mv irene captured by "pirates" in gulf of aden

Grrreat. What is it we,er I mean, the U.S. government is calling the War on Terror now?

Houston, we have a problem.

re: #74 buzzsawmonkey

BTW, zombie--again, my apologies for getting sucked into the marriage thing on that thread. Hope that most of my stuff was more on target/topic--but I figure that if you had a problem with anything, you'd let me know.

No problem -- comments sections are comments sections, and usually go off topic. Par for the course. I just wanted to remind him (and all readers) that the marriage jousting was specifically limited to the comments, and no to get confused and think I had posted about it in any way.

De nada. Carry on!

The old priest lay dying in the hospital. For years He had faithfully
served the people of the nation's capital.

He motioned for his nurse to come near.

"Yes, Father?" said the nurse.

"I would really like to see Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi before I
die", whispered the priest.

"I'll see what I can do, Father" replied the nurse.

The nurse sent the request to them and waited for a response.

Soon the word arrived. Harry and Nancy would be delighted to visit the
priest. As they went to the hospital, Harry commented to Nancy "I don't
know why the old priest wants to see us, but it will certainly help our
images." Nancy couldn't help but agree.

When they arrived at the priest's room, the priest took Nancy 's hand in
his right hand and Harry's hand in his left. There was silence and a look
of serenity on the old priest's face.

Finally Nancy spoke.. "Father, of all the people you could have chosen, why
did you choose us to be with you as you near the end?"

The old priest slowly replied "I have always tried to pattern my life
after our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ." The old priest
continued..."He died between two lying thieves. I would like to do
the same."

re: #79 Erik The Red

Ewww-I'm not a Hershey Highway Cowboy...LOL.

re: #79 Erik The Red

Replace chocolate with Sex. :)

Yeah, but it kind of kills the desire to do math.

Good lord- this Dove chocolate easter egg is so rich that not even light can escape!

/someone went shopping for overstocked leftover Easter candy.

re: #78 Lacus Odii

You wouldn't believe how many of my friends have turned into Alex Jones RONPAUL obamasecretmuslim endtimes anti-vaccinationist NWO monkeys. The number of people insinuating or openly suggesting armed revolution has freaked me the hell out. OK, I know this won't be popular to say, but between THAT and the complete disintegration of rationality and civility from the remaining Republican members of Congress, it's hard for me to see the light at the end of the tunnel for the Republican party.

Suddenly, I don't feel so bad living in hyper-liberal-land. It's quite the reverse around here: Everyone is mellow, listless, and have completely run out of things to complain about.

Just recently was watching a documentary about the culture wars in the early '90s when Clinton was elected. Militias, abortion-clinic bombings, Reconstructionist movement, etc. I had totally forgotten about that era -- seems so far in the past now. But it looks like the far-right is going through the exact same type of convulsions -- going off the deep end in response to a big election loss.

Just as the Left did in 2000 and 2004, but the other direction.

I think America has become a nation of Sore Losers.

Actually, more than just "sore" -- Crazed Losers.

re: #84 gmsc

Yeah, but it kind of kills the desire to do math.

no matter which values i plug in, the answer keeps coming out as "69"...

/white smoke

Grandma's Feather Bed
John Denver & The Muppets

First look and see the Whale under the water.

Keep your cursor OUT of the picture until you see the Whale.

Then move your mouse cursor onto the picture, but stand back, you might get wet (it's like it's3D). click on the picture when it loads completely and be sure that your sound is on

CLICK ON:

Whale

re: #72 x-wing

No! believe me, that video is disgusting in every way. I hate to see this happening in our colleges and especially in my own home state college. I thought they were above this. I thought wrong.

I watched the report. At least Penn State pulled it and maybe there will be an effort to handle this properly. Seems ironic but I'm sure it was the workings of the counseling department and they should know better that anti-social behavior is not really occupationally specific. Then to add a political slant to the message they added salt to that wound.

This is the environment we live in today however. The buzz word in the past was related to anger management. They applied this in office environments and put people on watch for even using a curse word once which was an indication (if reported) and according to them of a possibly violent individual.

re: #89 Pietr

First look and see the Whale under the water.

Keep your cursor OUT of the picture until you see the Whale.

Then move your mouse cursor onto the picture, but stand back, you might get wet (it's like it's3D). click on the picture when it loads completely and be sure that your sound is on

CLICK ON:

Whale

:P~~~

re: #90 Gus 802

I watched the report. At least Penn State pulled it and maybe there will be an effort to handle this properly. Seems ironic but I'm sure it was the workings of the counseling department and they should know better that anti-social behavior is not really occupationally specific. Then to add a political slant to the message they added salt to that wound.

This is the environment we live in today however. The buzz word in the past was related to anger management. They applied this in office environments and put people on watch for even using a curse word once which was an indication (if reported) and according to them of a possibly violent individual.

i had one or more cow-orkers approach my boss at a j*b a few years back, worried because i was perceived as "angry"* and they knew i was in the military... they were afraid i was going to come in one day and kill them all.(*i'd been hosed over my position, duties, pay and other items, so yeah, i wasn't likely to be employee of the month anytime son, but please...)

my boss told them not to flatter themselves, because i didn't care about any, or even all of them enough to even think about them after w*rk, let alone go to jail because of them... i actually smiled at w*rk for the rest of the day.

re: #87 redc1c4

no matter which values i plug in, the answer keeps coming out as "69"...

/white smoke

A mathematician's guide to numerical sex positions.

re: #86 zombie

Yeah, in the 1990's I was majorly into conspiracy theories, not because I believed them, but because it was a uniquely modern American folk mythology. Obviously I was on to something because the X-Files came along and became a monster hit. Now I am seeing the same shit all over again as an adult and it's not so funny. I have to learn things on my own, and I learned everything I could about conspiracy theories. Same as the holocaust denial I mentioned, there are tricks to conspiracy theories. they are designed to shift your acceptance as plausible to probable by eating away at your perception that you can really know anything, and by mixing general facts and very specific conclusions. Attempts to explain this have gone unheeded. Many of us are not that far from holocaust revisionists, and that horrifies me.

re: #94 Lacus Odii

Yeah, in the 1990's I was majorly into conspiracy theories, not because I believed them, but because it was a uniquely modern American folk mythology. Obviously I was on to something because the X-Files came along and became a monster hit. Now I am seeing the same shit all over again as an adult and it's not so funny. I have to learn things on my own, and I learned everything I could about conspiracy theories. Same as the holocaust denial I mentioned, there are tricks to conspiracy theories. they are designed to shift your acceptance as plausible to probable by eating away at your perception that you can really know anything, and by mixing general facts and very specific conclusions. Attempts to explain this have gone unheeded. Many of us are not that far from holocaust revisionists, and that horrifies me.

After learning about the various conspiracy theories about who really "runs the world", I've come to the conclusion that there are 5 groups, each of whom are so busy fighting with each other about who really runs the world, that none of them have the time to actually do anything remotely close to running the world.

re: #95 gmsc

After learning about the various conspiracy theories about who really "runs the world", I've come to the conclusion that there are 5 groups, each of whom are so busy fighting with each other about who really runs the world, that none of them have the time to actually do anything remotely close to running the world.

i'm pretty sure that Murphy is running things...

For Erik:

There is this guy who walks into a bar and notices a man 12 inches tall playing the piano. He asks what it is all about and the barman tells him he'll tell him later.

So he asks the barman for a drink and the barman says,
'Before you get your drink you get to rub the magic beer bottle and make a wish.'

'OK,' says the guy.

He goes to the bottle and rubs it and, boom, out comes a genie, who says,
'You have one wish.'

The man thinks about it and then wishes for a million bucks. A cloud of smoke fills the room and when the smoke clears there are a million ducks crowding the bar.

He tells the barman,
'Hey, I didn't want a million ducks.'

The barman replies, 'You think I wanted a 12-inch pianist?'

Sure, we've all heard it. Have you ever heard the same joke in reverse?

re: #92 redc1c4

i had one or more cow-orkers approach my boss at a j*b a few years back, worried because i was perceived as "angry"* and they knew i was in the military... they were afraid i was going to come in one day and kill them all.(*i'd been hosed over my position, duties, pay and other items, so yeah, i wasn't likely to be employee of the month anytime son, but please...)

my boss told them not to flatter themselves, because i didn't care about any, or even all of them enough to even think about them after w*rk, let alone go to jail because of them... i actually smiled at w*rk for the rest of the day.

People can be on a hair trigger in how they react. Fortunately I work at home now but in the last office environment I worked in I spoke my mind once to some fool and from then on she acted as though it happened the very same day. To shed some light on this I used the f-word and oh my that's like committing a violent act with some people. The odd thing is that I'm also a forgiving person and forgave her for causing me to explode yet she didn't reciprocate. I figure that's life. People will interact in fierce ways sometimes which is not unlike growing up in a loud family.

re: #56 ArchangelMichael

I have had the same kind of experience. Some of my conservative associates are as crazed as any Chomsky disciple or Ward Churchill fan. ODS and Nirth Certifacatry are rampant among people who models of sanity and reason just a year ago, while trooferism continues to make inroads of its own.

I think this is a terminal phase of mass media culture.

In my theory of media warfare, conspiracy theories are a militant branch of commercial pop-culture. The latter, in turn, has tended to become more and more extreme over the years because of the well-known pressure to replace once shocking but now familiar memes with new ones in order to attract an increasingly jaded audience. This has driven all pop-culture conformity toward the most extreme branch, paranoid delusions about the real world. The conspiracist extreme has now reached the conservative population on a very large scale. This is likely to represent a saturation point, at which no further extremes are possible, at least within the mass market consensus.
The result will be a comprehensive and (I predict) sudden collapse in response to the well-documented pressure resulting from the availability of alternatives to the traditional media-industrial complex.

re: #98 Gus 802

People can be on a hair trigger in how they react. Fortunately I work at home now but in the last office environment I worked in I spoke my mind once to some fool and from then on she acted as though it happened the very same day. To shed some light on this I used the f-word and oh my that's like committing a violent act with some people. The odd thing is that I'm also a forgiving person and forgave her for causing me to explode yet she didn't reciprocate. I figure that's life. People will interact in fierce ways sometimes which is not unlike growing up in a loud family.

i believe it's a combination of over sensitivity and self-absorption: they have all been told they are special for so long that they believe it.

i was walking down the aisle of the local supermarket this afternoon carrying a 30 pack of beer, using the right hand side where i belonged.

coming at me where two young (late teen/early 20's) women, self-assured in their cuteness and that the world was theirs, taking their half out of the middle. they were aware of me, but figured the old guy could just make way for the princesses...

the bruise on her thigh where she walked into my beer will go away in a week or two: the damage to her psyche may take years of therapy to repair.

re: #100 redc1c4

They are SPAYSHAL SNOWFLAKES!

re: #100 redc1c4

LOL!

Serves them right... ;-P

re: #99 Shiplord Kirel

The conspiracist extreme has now reached the conservative population on a very large scale. This is likely to represent a saturation point, at which no further extremes are possible, at least within the mass market consensus.

The result will be a comprehensive and (I predict) sudden collapse in response to the well-documented pressure resulting from the availability of alternatives to the traditional media-industrial complex.

I suggest reading Michael Shermer's Why People Believe Weird Things and Malcom Gladwell's Tipping Point before proceeding with any predictions on this matter.

re: #101 ArchangelMichael

I think that was a Sharmuta original BTW. Didn't mean to copy and not give credit there.

re: #100 redc1c4

i believe it's a combination of over sensitivity and self-absorption: they have all been told they are special for so long that they believe it.

i was walking down the aisle of the local supermarket this afternoon carrying a 30 pack of beer, using the right hand side where i belonged.

coming at me where two young (late teen/early 20's) women, self-assured in their cuteness and that the world was theirs, taking their half out of the middle. they were aware of me, but figured the old guy could just make way for the princesses...

the bruise on her thigh where she walked into my beer will go away in a week or two: the damage to her psyche may take years of therapy to repair.

Self absorption is the big one. The me generation just gets worse.

re: #102 talon_262

LOL!

Serves them right... ;-P

she howled something on impact, but i never broke stride or acknowledged her existence... which is what she had been doing moments earlier. %-)

re: #105 Gus 802

Self absorption is the big one. The me generation just gets worse.

everyone in my neighborhood is special... it's exhausting dealing with them.

re: #100 redc1c4

i believe it's a combination of over sensitivity and self-absorption: they have all been told they are special for so long that they believe it.

i was walking down the aisle of the local supermarket this afternoon carrying a 30 pack of beer, using the right hand side where i belonged.

coming at me where two young (late teen/early 20's) women, self-assured in their cuteness and that the world was theirs, taking their half out of the middle. they were aware of me, but figured the old guy could just make way for the princesses...

the bruise on her thigh where she walked into my beer will go away in a week or two: the damage to her psyche may take years of therapy to repair.

red – I was once shocked at how radically different we were when I first joined the board.

I've come to see that our styles our different, but we're very similar in attitude.

Good going!

re: #106 redc1c4

she howled something on impact, but i never broke stride or acknowledged her existence... which is what she had been doing moments earlier. %-)

The sad thing is she will not even realise who was in the wrong. She will blame it on some old fart and carry on the same way in the future.

I'm watching YouTube videos of these people trying to make my favorite Middle Eastern appetizer called muhammara, and man, these people don't know shit!

re: #107 redc1c4

everyone in my neighborhood is special... it's exhausting dealing with them.

"When everyone is special, then no one will be."
-Syndrome, The Incredibles

re: #109 Erik The Red

The sad thing is she will not even realise who was in the wrong. She will blame it on some old fart and carry on the same way in the future.

not if she sees me coming her way... %-)

re: #107 redc1c4

everyone in my neighborhood is special... it's exhausting dealing with them.

You must be in California. I used to shop at a certain Safeway in Denver and stopped going there after I told someone to go f-himself after he called me stupid for taking to long with the credit card reader. The thing was freaking out and I turned around and this guy was staring me down because I was holding up his 100th viewing of the Wizard of Oz if you know what I mean. Everyone else was the "special" types and that got so old I stopped going there. Now I go to a more down to earth Safeway and it's much cooler. No more pseudo liberal yuppies which I like.

re: #56 ArchangelMichael

Amen to that. I have been barraged with an onslaught of the most outlandish emails - ever - since Obama took office. All kinds of crap about my guns being taken away, nirthers, ranting Jesus kooks, and some really, really tasteless and outright offensive racist stuff. Oh, plus I'm supposed to be on guard - I guess - for abortion doctors knocking on my door, threatening to abduct me and kill my unborn children.

These people are completely unhinged. If I didn't know better, I'd think I somehow wound up on Stormfront's mailing list, who in turn sold their mailing list to the Paulians, who in turn sold their mailing list to Rev. Warren. It's the socons' version of BDS, and it's thriving everywhere you look - print, TV, radio, etc.

Scares the shit outta me! You'll be having a conversation with someone you thought was pretty normal, then some batshit crazy ODS comes out of their mouth, and you have to pinch yourself to know it isn't a bad dream.

re: #111 gmsc

"When everyone is special, then no one will be."
-Syndrome, The Incredibles

i just use my standard line:"i'm sorry but your mommy and your therapist lied: you're not specia.: even if you are 1 in a million there's about 6000 other assholes just like you on earth, so get over yourself."

the predictable reply is "you're an asshole", to which i always say "yes, but you're a moron and i can always be nice if i choose to be."

when they go for "you're fat" the default is "yes, but you're stupid, and i can diet."

/sabot mouth

Small Cars Get Poor Marks in Collision Tests

Yeah this makes sense. The test are to stringent for smaller cars. Lets make the test easier. Fucking lib logic.

In crash tests released Tuesday, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that drivers of 2009 versions of the Smart "fortwo," Honda Fit and Toyota Yaris could face significant leg and head injuries in severe front-end crashes with larger, mid-size vehicles.

The problem with these SPAYSHUL SNOWFLAKES (Is that right?) is that their self-esteem has been built on nothing. Like anything worth having, itmust be truly earned.

re: #108 gmsc

red – I was once shocked at how radically different we were when I first joined the board.

I've come to see that our styles our different, but we're very similar in attitude.

Good going!

so there's hope for you, eh?

/white smoke

re: #118 redc1c4

so there's hope for you, eh?

/white smoke

I don't know if I'd go that far . . .
;)

Well, Lizard Nation, I need to finish my chores and seek some warm sand...See y'all l8rs...:>))

re: #116 Erik The Red

Small Cars Get Poor Marks in Collision Tests

Yeah this makes sense. The test are to stringent for smaller cars. Lets make the test easier. Fucking lib logic.

In crash tests released Tuesday, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that drivers of 2009 versions of the Smart "fortwo," Honda Fit and Toyota Yaris could face significant leg and head injuries in severe front-end crashes with larger, mid-size vehicles.

well there's an attack of the blindingly obvious...

file that story under "Duh"

re: #117 gmsc

The problem with these SPAYSHUL SNOWFLAKES (Is that right?) is that their self-esteem has been built on nothing. Like anything worth having, itmust be truly earned.

You know what part of the problem is? That self-empowerment drivel. They've driven it into so many peoples minds that everyone is special and worthy regardless of qualifications. Most of it is even based on external looks or potential to be a super model. Or something.

re: #100 redc1c4

ii was walking down the aisle of the local supermarket this afternoon carrying a 30 pack of beer, using the right hand side where i belonged.

Were you driving a car?

/pedestrian traffic always, by law, belongs on your left side of the right of way

re: #120 Pietr

Well, Lizard Nation, I need to finish my chores and seek some warm sand...See y'all l8rs...:>))

Later Pietr. Watch out for the special folks!

re: #120 Pietr

Well, Lizard Nation, I need to finish my chores and seek some warm sand...See y'all l8rs...:>))

G'Nite, Pietr!

Fenway's Overseas Market Update:

Australia's All Ordinaries- up 2.22%

Shanghai Composite- up 0.54%

Mumbai's SENSEX- up 1.51%

Taiwan Weighted- up 0.6%

Nikkei- down 0.92%

Johannesburg's JSE Limited- up 1.62%

KOSPI Seoul Composite- up 0.33%

Hang Seng- up 4.34%

New Zealand's NZSE50- up 1.12%

[Tel Aviv's TA100 is closed today for Passover.]

Irrational Exhuberance in some of the Pacific Rim markets?

re: #113 Gus 802

You must be in California. I used to shop at a certain Safeway in Denver and stopped going there after I told someone to go f-himself after he called me stupid for taking to long with the credit card reader. The thing was freaking out and I turned around and this guy was staring me down because I was holding up his 100th viewing of the Wizard of Oz if you know what I mean. Everyone else was the "special" types and that got so old I stopped going there. Now I go to a more down to earth Safeway and it's much cooler. No more pseudo liberal yuppies which I like.

LA in the SFV... home of the Valley Girl and too many "entertainment" types.

re: #123 Killian Bundy

Were you driving a car?

/pedestrian traffic always, by law, belongs on your left side of the right of way

since the aisles are where you drive your cart, motor vehicle rules apply, and if you're hand carrying stuff, you're a motor cyclist.

however, under your reading, the only difference would have been which bimbo got smacked, since they were still straddling the traffic lanes.

re: #125 gmsc

Almost forgot, Amigo-How is the Cough? LoL was threatening Anti Biotics when she and I spoke about that codeine fruitcup...

re: #123 Killian Bundy

Were you driving a car?

/pedestrian traffic always, by law, belongs on your left side of the right of way

and, IIRC, only if there isn't a sidewalk.

/i'm sure you'll correct me if i'm wrong %-)

re: #127 redc1c4

LA in the SFV... home of the Valley Girl and too many "entertainment" types.

Yikes. We're getting them here now. Denver used to be nice an laid back. Now we're getting these account executives (salesmen) and everyone else that thinks they can win the latest American Idol competition. Or they all write rap songs. It's kind of strange. Sort of reminds me of all of those bike messengers in San Francisco that weren't bike messengers but movie director or producers. A deep entertainment based fantasy mindset.

Pietrre: #122 Gus 802

You know what part of the problem is? That self-empowerment drivel. They've driven it into so many peoples minds that everyone is special and worthy regardless of qualifications. Most of it is even based on external looks or potential to be a super model. Or something.

Maybe if the people teaching this could recognize the difference between building narcissism and building true self-esteem, this wouldn't be happening.

re: #126 Fenway_Nation

How 'bout that copper?

/making lots of money on copper lately, PCU, FCX (under $20 earlier just this year)

re: #122 Gus 802

You know what part of the problem is? That self-empowerment drivel. They've driven it into so many peoples minds that everyone is special and worthy regardless of qualifications. Most of it is even based on external looks or potential to be a super model. Or something.

the "or something" is what's commonly known as "bullshit".

re: #103 gmsc

I suggest reading Michael Shermer's Why People Believe Weird Things and Malcom Gladwell's Tipping Point before proceeding with any predictions on this matter.

I've read both of these books. My prediction is actually influenced by Gladwell's idea of the "tipping point" in social trends, analogous to the tipping point in epidemics of literal disease. I believe the mass media culture has reached the tipping point, with widespread acceptance of conspiracy theories as a primary symptom. To stretch the analogy a little further, the media culture is running a fever, with the delirium of conspiracism as the inevitable manifestation.

re: #129 Pietr

Almost forgot, Amigo-How is the Cough? LoL was threatening Anti Biotics when she and I spoke about that codeine fruitcup...

It's getting better – it actually interefered less with work today. I can still feel it in my chest when I cough, but the symptoms have died down quite a bit.

Thanks for asking.

I'm going to try and stay up for fruitcup tonight!

re: #132 gmsc

Pietr

Maybe if the people teaching this could recognize the difference between building narcissism and building true self-esteem, this wouldn't be happening.

since the teachers don't know, how could they possibly teach it? the Penn State video shows the disconnect.

re: #132 gmsc

Pietr

Maybe if the people teaching this could recognize the difference between building narcissism and building true self-esteem, this wouldn't be happening.

Right, and self-esteem comes from performance and less so ability. It's not what people can do it's what people do. In the end they've created this environment based on ability and not on performance. Which means the bigger they bullshit their way through life the more attention and reward they get. Paris Hilton is the ultimate example.

re: #136 gmsc

It's getting better – it actually interefered less with work today. I can still feel it in my chest when I cough, but the symptoms have died down quite a bit.

Thanks for asking.

I'm going to try and stay up for fruitcup tonight!

a couple of menthol cigarettes or a nice cigar should help you get the rest of the junk out of your lungs...

re: #136 gmsc

Tell her your allergic to pennicillin...Heh, heh...and I'm gone now...

re: #137 redc1c4

since the teachers don't know, how could they possibly teach it? the Penn State video shows the disconnect.

The Penn State Video, Gracie?

re: #138 Gus 802

Right, and self-esteem comes from performance and less so ability. It's not what people can do it's what people do. In the end they've created this environment based on ability and not on performance. Which means the bigger they bullshit their way through life the more attention and reward they get. Paris Hilton is the ultimate example.

they don't even actually "do" anything... Paris Hilton only does two things:

1. be Paris Hilton
2. anyone dumb enough to sleep with her.

re: #140 Pietr

Tell her your allergic to pennicillin...Heh, heh...and I'm gone now...

Uh . . . oh.

Hmmm . . .

re: #115 redc1c4

i just use my standard line:"i'm sorry but your mommy and your therapist lied: you're not specia.: even if you are 1 in a million there's about 6000 other assholes just like you on earth, so get over yourself."

Upding!

re: #141 gmsc

The Penn State Video, Gracie?

the one with the "psycho veteran"... i thought it was Penn State, but ICBW.

re: #144 victor_yugo

Upding!

thank you: i usually only get splutters and dirty looks. %-)

re: #128 redc1c4

however, under your reading, the only difference would have been which bimbo got smacked, since they were still straddling the traffic lanes.

/I have no doubt there was no escape either way

re: #142 redc1c4

they don't even actually "do" anything... Paris Hilton only does two things:

1. be Paris Hilton
2. anyone dumb enough to sleep with her.

They don't. I think they're learning this from TV. People have become characters instead of actual people. They emulate someone that's not even real. It all becomes something like a costume party. Especially with the MTV generation or whatever the younger ones are called now.

re: #146 redc1c4

thank you: i usually only get splutters and dirty looks. %-)

You should be honored. I rarely give updings (or downdings).

re: #133 Killian Bundy

How 'bout that copper?

/making lots of money on copper lately, PCU, FCX (under $20 earlier just this year)

It's insane what's happening around here. Burglars are breaking into houses not to steal the owners' possessions but instead to rip out the copper plumbing, for resale to metal wholesalers. It's s total epidemic. One group of thieves took to going into cemeteries at night and chiseling out the copper plaques on headstones. Copper handrails in front of public buildings are disappearing as well.

This is exactly what happened in the pre-medieval era when all the Greek and Roman statuary and architectual ornaments which contained gold or silver elements were stripped away and melted down, as the price of precious metals had risen with the collapse of international trade.

History is happening right in front of our eyes.

Just the markets in Islamic countries now!

Amman's ASE Weighted- down 0.17%

Jakarta Composite- up 1.79%

Dubai's ADX- up 0.7%

Malaysia's KLSE Composite- up 1.12%

How goes it this evening/morning lizards?

re: #149 victor_yugo

You should be honored. I rarely give updings (or downdings).

as soon as i figure out which one is yours, i'll have it framed and hang it on the wall here at Asshole HQ. %-)

re: #145 redc1c4

the one with the "psycho veteran"... i thought it was Penn State, but ICBW.

Where do I find this video?

re: #150 zombie

Yeah, but you have to admit that when they go for the copper wiring at some electrical utility box and get to experience a live Tesla Coil that is rather entertaining.

re: #151 Fenway_Nation

Just the markets in Islamic countries now!

Amman's ASE Weighted- down 0.17%

Jakarta Composite- up 1.79%

Dubai's ADX- up 0.7%

Malaysia's KLSE Composite- up 1.12%

Do companies have to be shariah-compliant to be listed on those exchanges? (E.g. no investments in or profiting from gambling, alcohol, loans/interest, no trade with Israel, no tobacco products, etc. etc.?)

Bzzzt. Boom! No copper!

re: #154 gmsc

Where do I find this video?

Is this what ya'll are looking for?

[Link: abclocal.go.com...]

re: #142 redc1c4

they don't even actually "do" anything... Paris Hilton only does two things:

1. be Paris Hilton
2. anyone dumb enough to sleep with her.

Don't forget her campaign ad.

Goodevening, everyone!

Red, congrats on your A, I never doubted your for a second!

gmsc, glad to hear you are feeling better! I would ignore that stogie/kools advice, though ...

re: #159 victor_yugo

Don't forget her campaign ad.

i'm trying to forget her, all the others like her, and the fact that i know where Brittney lives.

re: #155 Gus 802

Yeah, but you have to admit that when they go for the copper wiring at some electrical utility box and get to experience a live Tesla Coil that is rather entertaining.

You can stand at a viewpoint overlooking the city at night and get quite a show just watching the copper-wire-thieves light up the evening sky at random intervals here and there across the urban landscape! Sort of like Fourth of July, but with Schadenfreuede.

re: #158 pink freud

Is this what ya'll are looking for?

[Link: abclocal.go.com...]

Ah - OK, I heard about this from Glenn Reynolds the other day, but didn't put it together with what red was talking about.

Thanks!

Fenway's Overnight Precious Metals Update:

Gold- $895.3 an ounce (up 0.03%)
Silver $12.64 an ounce (down 0.08%)
Platinum $1230 an ounce (down 0.05%)
Palladium $237 an ounce (down 0.04%)

re: #150 zombie

FCX is the world's third largest copper miner.

/the gold and molybdenum production are icing on the corporate cake

re: #163 gmsc

You're welcome. Killian posted it earlier and it was still up in its own tab up there.

re: #164 Fenway_Nation

Fenway's Overnight Precious Metals Update:

Gold- $895.3 an ounce (up 0.03%)
Silver $12.64 an ounce (down 0.08%)
Platinum $1230 an ounce (down 0.05%)
Palladium $237 an ounce (down 0.04%)

how about copper, brass and lead?

re: #162 zombie

You can stand at a viewpoint overlooking the city at night and get quite a show just watching the copper-wire-thieves light up the evening sky at random intervals here and there across the urban landscape! Sort of like Fourth of July, but with Schadenfreuede.

The night of the dead! Actually, if you listen closely you can hear the Mariachi music from their cars.

Ay loook, cohper.

//I know, not PC. :)

re: #150 zombie

It's just the price of copper, Zombie. We've had it good in recent decades. Now, copper is more expensive again. There was a time when a copper penny bought dinner. Now, the same amount of copper wouldn't buy a candy bar.

Other metals, such as nickel, are also in short supply. The best and easiest to mine ores are gone. It's an economic issue, not a social one.

Maybe we'll soon be mining the ocean floors...

re: #159 victor_yugo

Don't forget her campaign ad.

I thought this was her campaign ad:

re: #169 mardukhai

It's just the price of copper, Zombie. We've had it good in recent decades. Now, copper is more expensive again. There was a time when a copper penny bought dinner. Now, the same amount of copper wouldn't buy a candy bar.

Other metals, such as nickel, are also in short supply. The best and easiest to mine ores are gone. It's an economic issue, not a social one.

Maybe we'll soon be mining the ocean floors...

we could mine all the old landfills here in the us...

re: #133 Killian Bundy

I missed out on those particular companies.

That's not to say I missed out- I'm up 17% this month on my stock holdings. I didn't have enough scratch to take advantage of some of the real bargains last month or back in December. I think if I picked just about any of the companies I was looking at, I'd be up 15% at least...

Look at a copper chart for the last six months.

/just sayin', did gold double?

re: #171 redc1c4

They'd have to destroy the apartment building I live in to get to the one it was built on...

re: #174 rhino2

They'd have to destroy the apartment building I live in to get to the one it was built on...

and here we thought it was just thre residents that were trashy...

/white smoke

re: #171 redc1c4

Mining landfills -- good idea, but by weight, most of that stuff is newsprint.

re: #170 gmsc

I thought this was her campaign ad:

[Video]

There are so many women that are more attractive then that skank. Most with more IQ points and talent too. But hey, she's a role model for the media minded. :)

re: #172 Fenway_Nation

I didn't have enough scratch to take advantage of some of the real bargains last month or back in December. I think if I picked just about any of the companies I was looking at, I'd be up 15% at least...

Your broker will give you margin, if you qualify.

/not for the casual investor

re: #160 pink freud

Goodevening, everyone!

Red, congrats on your A, I never doubted your for a second!

gmsc, glad to hear you are feeling better! I would ignore that stogie/kools advice, though ...

well, aren't you just the wet blanket for humorous medical advice... a quick dip in the tear gas chamber w*rks wonders also...

thanks for the dancing rodents: my favorite comment from her was: "Brilliant. And just imagine, hard work does pay off. Oh, for these ethics to be standard again.

It remains a pleasure to read your writing."

Look at this Facebook status for one of my friends...

___is anxiously awaiting a great deal of change.

...she was an 0bama supporter. Are these people ALWAYS looking for change?

re: #177 Gus 802

I need a peneicilin shot if I just hear her name...

re: #178 Killian Bundy

Your broker will give you margin, if you qualify.

/not for the casual investor

/is a casual investor.

re: #176 mardukhai

Mining landfills -- good idea, but by weight, most of that stuff is newsprint.

i was being silly... but can't yuo just envision getting al the moonbats fired up for the project?

besides, undersea mining was why they built the Glomar Explorer

re: #181 Fenway_Nation

I need a peneicilin shot if I just hear her name...

Paris Hilton, Septic is thy name.

I should ask my brother he works with waste water facilities. //

re: #177 Gus 802

There are so many women that are more attractive then that skank. Most with more IQ points and talent too. But hey, she's a role model for the media minded. :)

I remember back in 2007, she came into the store where I worked. She was wearing a black wig, apparently to avoid attracting attention.

You know what she looked like? Paris Hilton in a black wig! Yes, Ma'am, I'm sure you're just another anonymous shopper in Las Vegas traveling with 5 bodyguards.

*rolling eyes*

re: #181 Fenway_Nation

I need a peneicilin shot if I just hear her name...

"i wouldn't touch her with a heat treated, vaccinated tanker's bar..."

re: #185 gmsc

I remember back in 2007, she came into the store where I worked. She was wearing a black wig, apparently to avoid attracting attention.

You know what she looked like? Paris Hilton in a black wig! Yes, Ma'am, I'm sure you're just another anonymous shopper in Las Vegas traveling with 5 bodyguards.

*rolling eyes*

That's a good one. "Hey look it's Paris Hilton in a black wig!" Her parents are kind of nutz too.

re: #186 redc1c4

"i wouldn't touch her with a heat treated, vaccinated tanker's bar..."

If another person as touching her with a ten foot pole, I wouldn't touch that person with a ten foot pole!

re: #186 redc1c4

I wouldn't fuck her with Jeanine Garaffalo's dick.

re: #185 gmsc

I remember back in 2007, she came into the store where I worked. She was wearing a black wig, apparently to avoid attracting attention.

You know what she looked like? Paris Hilton in a black wig! Yes, Ma'am, I'm sure you're just another anonymous shopper in Las Vegas traveling with 5 bodyguards.

*rolling eyes*

i've not knowingly seen her, but there are so many others in the AO, it doesn't really matter... i went to dinner with my folks last week, and, if he hadn't been running late, i would have had the opportunity (wooo-fucking hoo) to be in the same small room as Dougie Howser, MD.

re: #188 gmsc

If another person as touching her with a ten foot pole, I wouldn't touch that person with a ten foot pole!

well, maybe if it had a satchel charge on the end of it...

re: #189 Fenway_Nation

I wouldn't fuck her with Jeanine Garaffalo's dick.

You know how you can always find Paris Hilton? Just follow the trail of maggots. //

Paris Hilton, or Michelle Obama?

re: #179 redc1c4

So what you're telling me is your moonbat professor is longing for the good old days of hard work and ethics? I find that so hard to believe ...

/and I like your humorous medical advice

(I'm with gmsc ...I used to think you were rather abrasive had a style much different than my own, but I now find myself thinking your attitude is very similar to my own (not sure if that is good or bad, though).

re: #190 redc1c4

Who's Dougie, Howser, MD?

re: #195 pink freud

Oh come on. You're not THAT young!

;-)

pink! :-)

re: #187 Gus 802

That's a good one. "Hey look it's Paris Hilton in a black wig!" Her parents are kind of nutz too.

re: #190 redc1c4

i've not knowingly seen her, but there are so many others in the AO, it doesn't really matter... i went to dinner with my folks last week, and, if he hadn't been running late, i would have had the opportunity (wooo-fucking hoo) to be in the same small room as Dougie Howser, MD.

The manager thanked me for showing restraint by not trying to help her (and possibly annoying her). I don't think he realized I was standing back to bite my lip and keep from laughing.

BTW – Neil Patrick Harris has a nice little side career going as a magician. I'm not talking, "Look, I'm Doogie Howser doing magic", but as an impressive stage illusionist with a professional presence (That acting gig may have helped there)!

Another actor with a suprisingly good magic act? Jason Alexander (Seinfeld's George Kostanza), who has already appeared at the Magic Castle in Hollywood numerous times to critical acclaim.

re: #196 littleoldlady

Oh come on. You're not THAT young!

;-)

pink! :-)

Doogie Howser was my favorite show when I was like, 4. I had no idea what it was, I just loved it!

re: #194 pink freud

So what you're telling me is your moonbat professor is longing for the good old days of hard work and ethics? I find that so hard to believe ...

/and I like your humorous medical advice

(I'm with gmsc ...I used to think you were rather abrasive had a style much different than my own, but I now find myself thinking your attitude is very similar to my own (not sure if that is good or bad, though).

i've come to the conclusion that she's actually fairly rational. she has intimated that she has a fair bit of exposure to the military, including some drama now. she is also going to research my suggestion about considering adding "Scratch Beginnings" to the reading, so students can compare on contrast the two.

call it "Lizard army FTW!"

obviously, i've ground off all differences between us.

(me? abrasive? %-)

All you Lizards have been having to much of reds fruitcup. He put mind altering drugs in it.///

re: #196 littleoldlady

Oh come on. You're not THAT young!

;-)

pink! :-)

{lol} Good Morning.

re: #196 littleoldlady

Oh come on. You're not THAT young!

;-)

pink! :-)

Hey you cute thang, you! Young? Me? Old as dirt, ma'am. :-)

Good to see you! Alls' well, I hope?

re: #195 pink freud

Who's Dougie, Howser, MD?

maybe i got the name wrong: TV show from years ago about a kid/teen who was a doctor... whoever the lead actor in that series was.

i never watched it, so i don't member for shit.

re: #175 redc1c4

It's actually a really nice neighborhood, I think they depend mostly on people not knowing what was here before.

/It's certainly not advertised.

{Littleoldlady!}

My condolances to you, Wyatt Earp, Stonemason and any of the other Philly-area lizards.

red,

I don't get it. I've always found you fuzzy, cuddly and lovable.

/...yet another indication why it's been recommended that I seek professional help

;-)

re: #202 pink freud

Things are...the same. :-)

You?

re: #204 rhino2

It's actually a really nice neighborhood, I think they depend mostly on people not knowing what was here before.

/It's certainly not advertised.

well, if you start a rumor/scare campaign, maybe you can get your rent lowered...

re: #196 littleoldlady

Oh come on. You're not THAT young!

;-)

pink! :-)

Howdy!

I'm on the mend, and I've been given special permission to stay up for fruitcup!

(Oh, and my mom has caught it from me now. She requested some of your special codeine-enhanced fruitcup.)

re: #205 Fenway_Nation

Fenway,

Thanks. What a SHOCKER.

re: #209 gmsc

Howdy!

I'm on the mend, and I've been given special permission to stay up for fruitcup!

(Oh, and my mom has caught it from me now. She requested some of your special codeine-enhanced fruitcup.)

give here *this* one...

re: #199 redc1c4

"ground off all the differences..." LOL!

I've suspected that under that brash exterior lies a charmer extraordinaire.

Hows da rat killin?

re: #210 littleoldlady

Fenway,

Thanks. What a SHOCKER.

Excuse my ignorance. What has happened in Philly?

re: #211 redc1c4

give here *this* one...

I don't think she's ready for your fruitcup, yet, red.
;)

re: #206 littleoldlady

red,

I don't get it. I've always found you fuzzy, cuddly and lovable.

/...yet another indication why it's been recommended that I seek professional help

;-)

reputation status: ruined

re: #208 redc1c4

Not a bad idea! Only here until August though anyway.

re: #203 redc1c4

so i don't member for shit.

The call that Old Timers. Be thankful it's not Mental Pause.

re: #213 Erik The Red

Excuse my ignorance. What has happened in Philly?

They fired up the street sweepers?

re: #212 pink freud

"ground off all the differences..." LOL!

I've suspected that under that brash exterior lies a charmer extraordinaire.

Hows da rat killin?

none again tonight... we're beginning to think that i've decimated the local cell, and that all i'm getting is the occasional transient from outlying areas who notice that there's no population here... a couple of nights with nothing, then a bit of traffic, with casualties, then nothing again.

re: #209 gmsc

I was about to medicate you, young man!

/and red is here so I won't have to make a trip to the pharmacy.

Glad you are feeling better!

re: #210 littleoldlady

Even tho' I'm not a Phillies fan, I still have some fond memories of Harry Kalas- perhaps most significantly, he narrarated all those New England Patriots Superbowl DVDs I have.

I also remember listening to him do the play-by-play for Kevin Millwood's no-hitter, the Cole Hammels/Roger Clemens matchup during Hammels rookie year and...of course, the '08 World Series.

/Would've loved to have heard him announce the starting lineup for the Red Sox for the 2008 World Series.

re: #217 pink freud

The call that Old Timers. Be thankful it's not Mental Pause.

the proper term is "Halfzimer's"

re: #207 littleoldlady

Now somehow I have the sense you've worked yourself into an absolute tizzy over Passover. :-) I've been thinking of you.

Here, about the same. I put off a research paper until the last minute, knowing it was due tomorrow. I finished it about two hours ago. I wonder why I do this. Perhaps the huge sense of relief I feel when it's over, contrasted with that scrambling urgency to meet the deadline. Whatever the reason, I can tell myself I will use the whole six weeks allowed to do it and damned if I don't wait until three days before its due.

/flaw in mah character, I suppose

re: #213 Erik The Red

Erik,

We lost the voice of the Phillies. :-(

/...kinda hard to explain how devastating that is

re: #213 Erik The Red

Excuse my ignorance. What has happened in Philly?

Longtime announcer for the Philadelphia Phillies passed away before today's game.

re: #224 littleoldlady

Erik,

We lost the voice of the Phillies. :-(

/...kinda hard to explain how devastating that is

it'll be like that here the day we lose Vin Scully.

re: #224 littleoldlady

Erik,

We lost the voice of the Phillies. :-(

/...kinda hard to explain how devastating that is

Sorry.

re: #220 littleoldlady

I was about to medicate you, young man!

/and red is here so I won't have to make a trip to the pharmacy.

Glad you are feeling better!

So, Pietr tells me!

I've been taking 1,000 mg. of theobromine regularly (OK, in the form of a 2 oz. stick of dark chocolate, but still . . . ).

Hey – it's been found to be 33% more effective that codeine!

re: #228 gmsc

So, Pietr tells me!

I've been taking 1,000 mg. of theobromine regularly (OK, in the form of a 2 oz. stick of dark chocolate, but still . . . ).

Hey – it's been found to be 33% more effective that codeine!

and it won't stop you up...

re: #216 rhino2

Will be looking for a house soon - It's amazing some of the things are out for rent in this area nowadays

re: #228 gmsc

So, Pietr tells me!

I've been taking 1,000 mg. of theobromine regularly (OK, in the form of a 2 oz. stick of dark chocolate, but still . . . ).

Hey – it's been found to be 33% more effective thatn codeine in combating coughs!

PIMF

re: #230 rhino2

Will be looking for a house soon - It's amazing some of the things are out for rent in this area nowadays

if you can afford that rent, you should buy something...

re: #223 pink freud

Nah. The usual Passover craziness. I've learned to stop eating on Day 4 or end up at the doctor's office. ;-)

I wonder why I do this.

Procrastinators 'R Us!

re: #233 littleoldlady

Nah. The usual Passover craziness. I've learned to stop eating on Day 4 or end up at the doctor's office. ;-)

Procrastinators 'R Us!

i was going to join the group, but i never filled out the paperw*rk...

re: #232 redc1c4

if you can afford that rent, you should buy something...

I am looking for something North of Orlando and was hoping to pay in the $1500.00 region.

Heh...listening to a tape-delay of the Lars Larsen show just now and a caller suggested (in the same vein as 0bama changing the name of the 'War on Terror') that pirates should be referred to as 'Mobilized Aquatic Community Organizers'...

re: #228 gmsc

CHOCOLATE CURES ALL!

I wish I could have sent you some of my matzoh ball soup. That'll kill cure anything! ;-)

Harry Kalas David Henderson Humanitarian Award Video

re: #192 Gus 802

You know how you can always find Paris Hilton? Just follow the trail of maggots. //

That's disgusting. Mind if I steal it?

Remember the outbreak of paparrazi crotch-shots when Hilton, Britney Spears and the other Hollywood strumpets stopped wearing panties a few years ago? Someone had told them that California law requires public utilities to be open for inspection at all times.

(I've used that joke before but there may be hatchlings who haven't seen it yet.)

Charles, I love that LGF is on Twitter.

re: #235 Erik The Red

I am looking for something North of Orlando and was hoping to pay in the $1500.00 region.

i dunno about either of those two areas, but the little shotgun shack behind my neighbor's house (front room, kitchenette, bedroom and mint bath, maybe 400 SQF) rents for more than that.

re: #232 redc1c4

Hah - I couldn't afford that rent, half that would be stretching it. I was just surprised at that house being for rent, and there are a lot more like it 'round these parts.

re: #239 Shiplord Kirel

That's disgusting. Mind if I steal it?

Remember the outbreak of paparrazi crotch-shots when Hilton, Britney Spears and the other Hollywood strumpets stopped wearing panties a few years ago? Someone had told them that California law requires public utilities to be open for inspection at all times.

(I've used that joke before but there may be hatchlings who haven't seen it yet.)

Go for it. My alternate was a trail of dead flies.

I'm out, everyone ...nice seeing you all. Eyes are not obeying my commands any longer.

Littleoldlady, as always, a special treat to see you live and in action :-)

Ya'll all take care and I hope to see ya'll tomorrow.
(sheesh ...now I feel like Realwest)

Goodnight, all. Sleep well. :-)

re: #237 littleoldlady

CHOCOLATE CURES ALL!

I wish I could have sent you some of my matzoh ball soup. That'll kill cure anything! ;-)

I'll have to seek you out in Pennsylvania one of these days for proof of that statement!
;)

How do you do, zulu!?

fruitcup QC has gotten to me also.

hasta, y'all...

L8r!

'Night, pink! :-) :-) :-)

Hiya, zulubaby! :-) :-) :-)