New Dinos Down Under

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The Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum and Queensland Museum have announced some new dinosaur finds — and these are big ones: New Dinosaurs!

WINTON: Premier Anna Bligh today announced the discovery of three new species of Australian dinosaur discovered in a prehistoric billabong in Western Queensland. …

“The dinosaurs have been nicknamed after characters created by poet Banjo Paterson who is said to have written Waltzing Matilda in Winton in 1885,” she said.  

Banjo (carnivorous theropod) and Matilda and Clancy (giant plant-eating sauropods) were found in a vast geological deposit near Winton that dates from 98-95 million years ago.”

The creatures were unearthed during the State Government funded joint Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum and Queensland Museum digs in Western Queensland.

“The Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum and Queensland Museum have successfully partnered to uncover this greatest concentration of dinosaur bones ever found in Australia,” Ms Bligh said.

“This State Government funded initiative has revealed to the world the first new sauropods to be named in Australia in over 75 years and the most complete carnivorous dinosaur skeleton ever found in our country.”

The meat-eating Australovenator wintonensis (Banjo)  has been coined Australia’s answer to Velociraptor – which was brought to terrifying life by Stephen Spielberg in the Jurassic Park films.

“Banjo possessed similar speed, razor-sharp teeth and had three large slashing claws on each hand. This was a terrifying creature,” said the Premier.

“The two plant-eating, four-legged sauropod species unveiled today are new types of titanosaurs – the largest animals ever to walk the earth.”

Palaeontologists say that the Diamantinasaurus matildae (Matilda) was a solid and robust animal, filling a niche similar to the hippopotamus today.

The second new species, Wintonotitan wattsi (Clancy) represented a tall animal that may have been Australia’s prehistoric answer to the giraffe.

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292 comments
1 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:21:34pm

Er....not to insult the Aussies, but...they look just like the ones up here.

2 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:22:01pm
“Banjo (carnivorous theropod) and Matilda and Clancy (giant plant-eating sauropods) were found in a vast geological deposit near Winton that dates from 98-95 million years ago.”

Must have been a mistake, they mean 6000 years ago, don't they?
/

3 rwmofo  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:22:10pm

Why don't we name him Robert Byrd?

4 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:22:53pm

That's not a dinosaur.

*Pulls out Really, Really Big Dinosaur*

This is a dinosaur.

5 WinterCat  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:23:30pm

Oh, I love dinos. Read Tyrannosaurus Sue a few years ago. Great book.

6 [deleted]  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:23:41pm
7 Sharmuta  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:27:48pm

Lies! Darwinist lies!

8 Bobblehead  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:29:17pm

They look kinda cute except for little Banjo. He looks like he might take a good sized chunk out of you.

9 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:29:26pm

They have sweet expressions. I think.

Not as cute as Ida. Of course, she's family, so I'm a little biased.

10 hans ze beeman  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:30:08pm
The meat-eating Australovenator wintonensis (Banjo) has been coined Australia’s answer to Velociraptor – which was brought to terrifying life by Stephen Spielberg in the Jurassic Park films.

The second new species, Wintonotitan wattsi (Clancy) represented a tall animal that may have been Australia’s prehistoric answer to the giraffe.

Australia has many answers, obviously, but what was the question again?

11 calcajun  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:30:37pm

Why did they not name them the "Bruce" and "Shelia" They could have named the foul-tempered little raptor "Mel".

12 calcajun  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:31:18pm

re: #5 WinterCat

Tyrannosaurus Sue ?

Is this a carry-over from the Palin lawsuit thread?

13 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:31:24pm

If they were discovered in Australia, are they marsupial dinosaurs or monotreme dinosaurs?

14 Achilles Tang  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:32:16pm

re: #1 EmmmieG

Er....not to insult the Aussies, but...they look just like the ones up here.

So do the people.......

15 MacDuff  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:33:16pm

re: #8 Bobblehead

They look kinda cute except for little Banjo. He looks like he might take a good sized chunk out of you.

Yeah, and he looks to be eying the, shall we say, "tender parts" of the big one in front of him. Ouch.

16 Bobblehead  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:35:00pm

re: #14 Naso Tang

So do the people.......

Funny thing, that. hmmm.

17 pat  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:35:26pm

Now day's Clancy can't even sing.

18 Spare O'Lake  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:35:56pm

What a carbon footprint those suckers would've had.
Turds the size of small towns.

19 dapperdave  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:36:39pm

Charles, do mean they found a bigger lizard then you?

20 Bobblehead  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:37:16pm

re: #18 Spare O'Lake

What a carbon footprint those suckers would've had.
Turds the size of small towns.

Think of the farts. OMG The planet must have stunk to high heavens during the age of dinosaurs.

21 callahan23  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:37:53pm

re: #19 dapperdave

Charles, do mean they found a bigger lizard then you?

And THEY ruled the world.

22 DEZes  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:38:39pm

re: #21 callahan23

And THEY ruled the world.

23 Giant Foreign Devil  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:38:53pm

Did they find him at the overflow?

24 Russkilitlover  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:39:33pm

Sorta, in a big stretch, related:

Climate Change Regulations to Target Rich

Just in case anyone thought Climate Change or AGW or whatever isn't just another way to redistribute wealth....

25 MacDuff  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:39:44pm

re: #16 Bobblehead

That reminds me of when I was a kid, I liked to watch for license plates from different, far-away states. When my father would eventually pass them, I always looked to see what these people looked like - I guess that I expected people from some place like Nebraska to, somehow, look different. Naturally, they always looked the same.

26 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:39:46pm

re: #23 Giant Foreign Devil

Did they find him at the overflow?

Could you explain your question?

27 baier  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:39:54pm

I hope before I die, I get to meet a dinosaur and go into space...Go scientist, GO!

28 calcajun  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:40:21pm

Not really OT if you think about it:

[Link: www.alertnet.org...]

They want to tax the emissions of the rich--presumably not the nocturnal kinds. Yep, this country will look like Americathon real soon now.

29 calcajun  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:41:10pm

re: #20 Bobblehead

Think of the farts. OMG The planet must have stunk to high heavens during the age of dinosaurs.

It wasn't a meteor or asteroid, the atmosphere ignited from all the methane in it.

30 Racer X  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:41:26pm

Speaking of bloated extinct dinosaurs, I wrote all of my elected officials (CA) to request they figure out the budget mess immediately or I will come down there and do it for them.

Awaiting a response.

31 MacDuff  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:41:36pm

re: #24 Russkilitlover

Sorta, in a big stretch, related:

Climate Change Regulations to Target Rich

Just in case anyone thought Climate Change or AGW or whatever isn't just another way to redistribute wealth....

Well, knock me over with a dinosaur feather!

32 martinsmithy  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:42:05pm

Have they found the bones of any cavemen inside Banjo's skeletal gut?

33 calcajun  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:42:13pm

re: #27 baier

I hope before I die, I get to meet a dinosaur and go into space...Go scientist, GO!

If you meet a dinosaur, the only space into which you are apt to go will be its gullet.

34 theheat  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:42:31pm

Somewhere, Huckabilly and his ilk are strumming a banjo to all this, singing "La la la la - Ha ha! I can't hear you."

35 Russkilitlover  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:42:33pm

re: #28 calcajun

Not really OT if you think about it:

[Link: www.alertnet.org...]

They want to tax the emissions of the rich--presumably not the nocturnal kinds. Yep, this country will look like Americathon real soon now.


[Video]

Heh. Same post, same thought behind posting the post on this thread. Now that's syncronicity!

36 Eowyn2  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:43:16pm

littlefoot
sharptooth
littlefoot
three horn
flyer

37 Bobblehead  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:43:35pm

re: #29 calcajun

It wasn't a meteor or asteroid, the atmosphere ignited from all the methane in it.

Think of the amount of gas a humongous plant eating dinosaur would produce. It boggles the mind.

38 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:44:11pm

re: #37 Bobblehead

Think of the amount of gas a humongous plant eating dinosaur would produce. It boggles the mind.

Jokes about family members in 3...2....1...

39 ErnieG  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:44:33pm

re: #1 EmmmieG

Er....not to insult the Aussies, but...they look just like the ones up here.

Yes, but do they talk Strine?

40 dapperdave  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:44:35pm

re: #21 callahan23

They ruled! bawhahahahahaha!

41 calcajun  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:44:36pm

re: #37 Bobblehead

Think of the amount of gas a humongous plant eating dinosaur would produce. It boggles the mind.

Cripes--it would be a grain elevator with legs.

42 Achilles Tang  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:45:02pm

re: #37 Bobblehead

Think of the amount of gas a humongous plant eating dinosaur would produce. It boggles the mind.

Probably at least the same amount as herd of pygmy goats that weighed the same.........

{runs}

43 CynicalConservative  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:46:05pm

re: #37 Bobblehead

Think of the amount of gas a humongous plant eating dinosaur would produce. It boggles the mind.

Probably about the same amount as a congressional debate or hearing.

44 Eowyn2  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:46:11pm

re: #28 calcajun

Not really OT if you think about it:

[Link: www.alertnet.org...]

They want to tax the emissions of the rich--presumably not the nocturnal kinds. Yep, this country will look like Americathon real soon now.

- To fairly divide the climate change fight between rich and poor, a new study suggests basing targets for emission cuts on the number of wealthy people, who are also the biggest greenhouse gas emitters, in a country.
Because they have been tracking "the rich" and know that "the rich" are creating more carbon footprints than us peasants. Isn't it nice to see the adjectives 'rich' and 'wealthy' used as numbers?

45 albusteve  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:46:44pm

Dino-ed learning tool

46 Eowyn2  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:46:52pm

re: #37 Bobblehead

Think of the amount of gas a humongous plant eating dinosaur would produce. It boggles the mind.


all that "natural gas" had to come from somewhere.

47 _RememberTonyC  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:47:10pm

we don't need to talk to Russia about reducing our (and Russia's) nuclear weapons. we need to talk to them about reducing IRAN's capacity to produce nuclear weapons.

48 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:47:53pm

Ill wind 'killed dinosaurs'

Dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago. The dinosaurs were not wiped out by a comet or asteroid impact or some other planetary catastrophe but by a serious flatulence problem, according to research quoted in a Chinese news report.

[Link: news.bbc.co.uk...]

49 calcajun  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:48:01pm

re: #44 Eowyn2

- To fairly divide the climate change fight between rich and poor, a new study suggests basing targets for emission cuts on the number of wealthy people, who are also the biggest greenhouse gas emitters, in a country.
Because they have been tracking "the rich" and know that "the rich" are creating more carbon footprints than us peasants. Isn't it nice to see the adjectives 'rich' and 'wealthy' used as numbers?

Well, it would give serious meaning to the taunt of "farting in your general direction."

50 pat  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:48:54pm

Of course Obama trusts Putin. He is a fascist.

51 calcajun  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:49:03pm

re: #48 Walter L. Newton

Ill wind 'killed dinosaurs'

Dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago. The dinosaurs were not wiped out by a comet or asteroid impact or some other planetary catastrophe but by a serious flatulence problem, according to research quoted in a Chinese news report.

[Link: news.bbc.co.uk...]

Either that or they developed prehensile manners and died from shame and embarrassment.

52 DEZes  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:49:22pm

re: #48 Walter L. Newton

Ill wind 'killed dinosaurs'

Dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago. The dinosaurs were not wiped out by a comet or asteroid impact or some other planetary catastrophe but by a serious flatulence problem, according to research quoted in a Chinese news report.

[Link: news.bbc.co.uk...]

53 reloadingisnotahobby  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:49:41pm

re: #45 albusteve
Incomplete video............Where's Barney and why are none of them purple? Racist much?
( I hate Barney)

54 Bobblehead  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:49:58pm

re: #45 albusteve

Dino-ed learning tool


Dinosaurs..endlessly fascinating.

55 baier  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:50:48pm

re: #33 calcajun

If you meet a dinosaur, the only space into which you are apt to go will be its gullet.

Nah, I bet dinosaurs would want to be our friends if they were around. We could send Obama to find out.

56 Bobblehead  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:51:16pm

I feel the need to watch "Jurassic Park" coming on.

57 calcajun  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:51:39pm

re: #48 Walter L. Newton

Ill wind 'killed dinosaurs'

Dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago. The dinosaurs were not wiped out by a comet or asteroid impact or some other planetary catastrophe but by a serious flatulence problem, according to research quoted in a Chinese news report.

[Link: news.bbc.co.uk...]

It conjures images of a saurian Slim Pickens wandering into the herd and yelling "What in the Wide World of Sports is going on here!"

58 albusteve  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:51:44pm

re: #53 reloadingisnotahobby

Incomplete video............Where's Barney and why are none of them purple? Racist much?
( I hate Barney)

this one is more colorful...folksy song to explain them

59 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:52:13pm

re: #44 Eowyn2

- To fairly divide the climate change fight between rich and poor, a new study suggests basing targets for emission cuts on the number of wealthy people, who are also the biggest greenhouse gas emitters, in a country.
Because they have been tracking "the rich" and know that "the rich" are creating more carbon footprints than us peasants. Isn't it nice to see the adjectives 'rich' and 'wealthy' used as numbers?

But "the rich" can afford to drive those brand new fancy shmancy new fangled "hybrid" SUVs, whereas we poor folk are stuck with our old gas guzzlers.

60 Racer X  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:52:29pm

re: #52 DEZes

[Video]

ROFLMAO!

61 CynicalConservative  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:53:28pm

re: #59 Alouette

But "the rich" can afford to drive those brand new fancy shmancy new fangled "hybrid" SUVs, whereas we poor folk are stuck with our old gas guzzlers.

I think "Rich" will soon be defined as "having a pulse and living in America; (pulse optional in Illinois)"

62 reloadingisnotahobby  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:53:44pm

I find it all facinating!
But do I want to confront one in the wilderness?
No!
I am a Dinophobe,Grizzlyphobe,Rattlesnakephobe
Lionphobe..etc....

63 Achilles Tang  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:54:32pm

re: #48 Walter L. Newton

Ill wind 'killed dinosaurs'

Dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago. The dinosaurs were not wiped out by a comet or asteroid impact or some other planetary catastrophe but by a serious flatulence problem, according to research quoted in a Chinese news report.

[Link: news.bbc.co.uk...]

I'm not sure how serious anyone wants to get on this topic, but I think that is farting in the wind.

Dinosaurs or mammals have a balance in terms of food supply. There is no reason to think there were more farting dinosaurs by weight than, say, American Bison that covered the plains. Too many dinosaurs and they starve, long before the ozone layer goes and methane is not a long lasting gas in the atmosphere.

64 yochanan  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:54:54pm

re: #43 CynicalConservative

Probably about the same amount as a congressional debate or hearing.

the congresscritters win hands down.

65 Throbert McGee  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:55:23pm

re: #1 EmmmieG

Er....not to insult the Aussies, but...they look just like the ones up here.

They may outwardly look the same, but their circulatory systems and other internal structures would've been a mirror-image of Northern Hemisphere dinosaurs, because of the Coriolanus Effect.

66 quickjustice  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:55:46pm

True dinosaurs: Obama's retro ideas about government takeovers of industries, already proven failures, dating back to the New Deal.

67 Bobblehead  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:55:58pm

re: #58 albusteve

They seem so friendly. I want one for a pet.

68 Achilles Tang  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:56:28pm

re: #65 Throbert McGee

They may outwardly look the same, but their circulatory systems and other internal structures would've been a mirror-image of Northern Hemisphere dinosaurs, because of the Coriolanus Effect.

You mean they were left leaning, instead of right?

69 quickjustice  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:56:44pm

So are modern birds descendants of dinosaurs or not?

70 Achilles Tang  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:56:59pm

re: #69 quickjustice

So are modern birds descendants of dinosaurs or not?

Yes

71 callahan23  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:57:01pm

re: #62 reloadingisnotahobby

I find it all facinating!
But do I want to confront one in the wilderness?
No!
I am a Dinophobe,Grizzlyphobe,Rattlesnakephobe
Lionphobe..etc....

I'll add, I am a Hyenaphobe, came up close to them buggers. And not to forget I absolutely friggin' hate mosquitoes.

72 FurryOldGuyJeans  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:57:19pm

re: #69 quickjustice

So are modern birds descendants of dinosaurs or not?

Yes, and no.

73 quickjustice  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:57:25pm

re: #68 Naso Tang

And if I move south of the equator, my blood circulation reverses?

74 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:57:25pm

re: #57 calcajun

It conjures images of a saurian Slim Pickens wandering into the herd and yelling "What in the Wide World of Sports is going on here!"

Really?

For me, it conjure up images of dinosaurs lying on their backs and sides, skin rotting with disease, bellies distended from lack of nourishment, wailing loudly. A feeble fight going on between two stegosaurus at one side of a parched valley over a few measly sick looking stalks of pampas grass. Dead dinosaurs are littered everywhere, the corpse's pick to the bone by smaller carnivores.

75 yochanan  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:57:34pm

re: #69 quickjustice

just think of all the bird shit

76 MacDuff  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:57:51pm

re: #48 Walter L. Newton

Ill wind 'killed dinosaurs'

Dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago. The dinosaurs were not wiped out by a comet or asteroid impact or some other planetary catastrophe but by a serious flatulence problem, according to research quoted in a Chinese news report.

[Link: news.bbc.co.uk...]

The line between parody and news becomes thinner by the day.

77 jvic  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:58:09pm

Where are the saddles? The Darwinists always destroy the saddles!

Seriously, I approve that the results are published in an open-access online journal. IMHO all publications of publicly funded unclassified research should be required by law to be open-access. After peer review, of course.

78 Achilles Tang  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:58:14pm

re: #73 quickjustice

And if I move south of the equator, my blood circulation reverses?

No, but you have to watch your political compass carefully.

79 Achilles Tang  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:58:46pm

re: #72 FurryOldGuyJeans

Yes, and no.

What's no?

80 quickjustice  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:59:02pm

re: #76 MacDuff

Back in the days of the dinosaurs, "Who farted" was a deadly serious question.

81 reloadingisnotahobby  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 3:59:22pm

re: #74 Walter L. Newton

Thanks for that image Walter!
LOL
Oh! Look ...It's time for dinner.............

82 FurryOldGuyJeans  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:00:11pm

Interesting that his new discovery from Down Under is of new, unknown species. Shows just how little we do know of past life on the planet.

83 albusteve  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:00:17pm

another theory

84 Achilles Tang  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:01:15pm

re: #74 Walter L. Newton

Really?

For me, it conjure up images of dinosaurs lying on their backs and sides, skin rotting with disease, bellies distended from lack of nourishment, wailing loudly. A feeble fight going on between two stegosaurus at one side of a parched valley over a few measly sick looking stalks of pampas grass. Dead dinosaurs are littered everywhere, the corpse's pick to the bone by smaller carnivores.

The script from Apocalypse Now.

85 reloadingisnotahobby  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:01:27pm

re: #83 albusteve

Your havin some fun with this aren't ya?
8>)

86 [deleted]  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:01:35pm
87 albusteve  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:02:25pm

along the lines of Walter's thoery?


88 MarineGrunt  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:02:33pm

re: #15 MacDuff

"tender parts"

Outback Oysters ?

89 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:03:08pm

re: #84 Naso Tang

The script from Apocalypse Now.

Er, no, I just wrote that myself, now. I've never seen Apocalypse Now, so I am not sure what your reference means. Was I channelling that movie or that script?

90 Bobblehead  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:03:21pm

re: #86 buzzsawmonkey

Caveman I: Meet you later for a drink?

Caveman II: Yes; I'll be at the Farting Dinosaur around 9 PM.

LOL Actually, though. that would be a great name for a bar.

91 Achilles Tang  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:04:06pm

re: #89 Walter L. Newton

Er, no, I just wrote that myself, now. I've never seen Apocalypse Now, so I am not sure what your reference means. Was I channelling that movie or that script?

You were indeed. See it when you are really in a black mood sometime.

92 [deleted]  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:04:13pm
93 Bobblehead  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:04:39pm

re: #87 albusteve

along the lines of Walter's thoery?

LOL That's good.

94 Achilles Tang  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:05:23pm

re: #89 Walter L. Newton

Er, no, I just wrote that myself, now. I've never seen Apocalypse Now, so I am not sure what your reference means. Was I channelling that movie or that script?

Of course maybe you should just see the Passion first, to get in the mood.

95 calcajun  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:05:39pm

re: #74 Walter L. Newton

Really?

For me, it conjure up images of dinosaurs lying on their backs and sides, skin rotting with disease, bellies distended from lack of nourishment, wailing loudly. A feeble fight going on between two stegosaurus at one side of a parched valley over a few measly sick looking stalks of pampas grass. Dead dinosaurs are littered everywhere, the corpse's pick to the bone by smaller carnivores.

Pepperidge Farms has now captured that flavor...

96 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:06:01pm

re: #91 Naso Tang

You were indeed. See it when you are really in a black mood sometime.

I'm still confused. Are you saying that my little one paragraph narrative is the same or similar to something that someone else wrote? Or are you saying what I wrote had the tone and tenor of something from that movie?

I don't like to plagiarize.

97 MacDuff  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:06:10pm

re: #74 Walter L. Newton

Really?

For me, it conjure up images of dinosaurs lying on their backs and sides, skin rotting with disease, bellies distended from lack of nourishment, wailing loudly. A feeble fight going on between two stegosaurus at one side of a parched valley over a few measly sick looking stalks of pampas grass. Dead dinosaurs are littered everywhere, the corpse's pick to the bone by smaller carnivores.

Yummy. Thanks Walter, I was just about to eat dinner, now, perhaps not. I could lose a few pounds anyway. :)

98 albusteve  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:06:26pm

re: #91 Naso Tang

You were indeed. See it when you are really in a black mood sometime.

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning"

99 Buster  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:06:41pm

re: #2 Walter L. Newton

They are using metric years.

100 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:06:58pm

re: #94 Naso Tang

Of course maybe you should just see the Passion first, to get in the mood.

I don't have any idea what you are talking about.

101 Achilles Tang  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:07:28pm

re: #86 buzzsawmonkey

Caveman I: Meet you later for a drink?

Caveman II: Yes; I'll be at the Farting Dinosaur around 9 PM.

Sheesh. Cavemen and Dinos didn't coexist, let alone know about each other. Anyone else want more pedantic comments?

102 Killian Bundy  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:07:33pm

Dem Senator: Second Stimulus ‘Probably Needed’

Today on ABCNews.com’s “Top Line,” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., said a second stimulus is “probably needed,” and predicted that Congress is likely to act before the end of the year to inject even more federal dollars into the economy.

Said Whitehouse: “I think that it is probably needed. We’re going to need to have some further discussion. It will probably take place towards the end of the year and we want to take a look at the economic conditions at the time. But it certainly should be on the table at this point.”

You can't stop them, you can't even hope to contain them.

/thank your sir, may I have another?

103 Throbert McGee  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:08:43pm
Palaeontologists say that the Diamantinasaurus matildae (Matilda) was a solid and robust animal, filling a niche similar to the hippopotamus today.


♪♫ "Stomping Matilda,
Stomping Maltida,
You'll come a-stomping the cavemen with me..." ♪♫

(Really lovely version of "Waltzing Matilda" by Aussie folk group The Seekers, in 1994.)

104 MacDuff  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:08:58pm

re: #101 Naso Tang

Sheesh. Cavemen and Dinos didn't coexist, let alone know about each other. Anyone else want more pedantic comments?

Eh. That was a joke.

105 Achilles Tang  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:09:30pm

re: #96 Walter L. Newton

I'm still confused. Are you saying that my little one paragraph narrative is the same or similar to something that someone else wrote? Or are you saying what I wrote had the tone and tenor of something from that movie?

I don't like to plagiarize.

As I write this I suspect someone is posting a link to a trailer. Maybe just me, but that was the image I got. I suppose it's a compliment in that you evoked an image.

106 VioletTiger  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:09:48pm

re: #20 Bobblehead

Think of the farts. OMG The planet must have stunk to high heavens during the age of dinosaurs.


And think of the global warming./
Say, I wonder if a prehistoric Cap and Trade is what really killed off the dinos.....;)

107 Achilles Tang  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:10:07pm

re: #104 MacDuff

Eh. That was a joke.

Yes, and my comment was the pedantic one, in case of misunderstanding.

108 Bobblehead  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:10:43pm

re: #92 buzzsawmonkey

I think so, too.

I picture it off a dusty western highway, run by a retired dino digger and frequented by the next generation of professional diggers, geologists and amateur diggers. Lots of beat up pick ups in the parking lot filled with shovels and pick axes. I feel a mystery novel coming on.

109 [deleted]  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:12:11pm
110 Buster  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:12:32pm

re: #101 Naso Tang

Sheesh. Cavemen and Dinos didn't coexist, let alone know about each other. Anyone else want more pedantic comments?

Excuse me, but Someone hasn't been to the Creation Museum.

111 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:12:33pm

re: #105 Naso Tang

As I write this I suspect someone is posting a link to a trailer. Maybe just me, but that was the image I got. I suppose it's a compliment in that you evoked an image.

Ok, tone and tenor, got you. Really, I wasn't sure what you were referring to, and I was concerned that maybe I was typing something that was lodged in the bottomless recesses of my mind, some dialog or narrative written by someone else.

And I wasn't fishing for compliments, but thank you.

112 Achilles Tang  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:12:49pm

re: #109 buzzsawmonkey

Picky, picky, picky. Cavemen wouldn't have called them "dinosaurs," either--even if knowledge of them had been handed down from that Common Ancestor back in the mists of time.

Good one. That was even more pedantic than my original.

113 MacDuff  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:13:42pm

re: #107 Naso Tang

Yes, and my comment was the pedantic one, in case of misunderstanding.

Pendanic:
1. ostentatious in one's learning.
2. overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, esp. in teaching.

114 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:13:42pm

re: #108 Bobblehead

I picture it off a dusty western highway, run by a retired dino digger and frequented by the next generation of professional diggers, geologists and amateur diggers. Lots of beat up pick ups in the parking lot filled with shovels and pick axes. I feel a mystery novel coming on.

The script from Apocalypse Now. :)

115 Spare O'Lake  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:14:30pm

re: #106 VioletTiger

And think of the global warming./
Say, I wonder if a prehistoric Cap and Trade is what really killed off the dinos.....;)

They got into deep shit.

116 Achilles Tang  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:14:32pm

re: #113 MacDuff

Pendanic:
1. ostentatious in one's learning.
2. overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, esp. in teaching.

Bingo. My kids know the word well.

117 SixDegrees  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:15:53pm

re: #73 quickjustice

And if I move south of the equator, my blood circulation reverses?

No. But you'll get the bedspins in the opposite direction.

118 [deleted]  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:17:13pm
119 FurryOldGuyJeans  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:17:50pm

A journalist talking science, an Oxymoron if there ever was one:

New climate strategy: track the world's wealthiest
06 Jul 2009 21:00:13 GMT
Source: Reuters
* World's richest emit about half of Earth's carbon

* Tracking the wealthy could break climate impasse

* New method would follow individual greenhouse emissions

By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent

WASHINGTON, July 6 (Reuters) - To fairly divide the climate change fight between rich and poor, a new study suggests basing targets for emission cuts on the number of wealthy people, who are also the biggest greenhouse gas emitters, in a country.

Since about half the planet's climate-warming emissions come from less than a billion of its people, it makes sense to follow these rich folks when setting national targets to cut carbon dioxide emissions, the authors wrote on Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

As it stands now, under the carbon-capping Kyoto Protocol, rich countries shoulder most of the burden for cutting the emissions that spur global warming, while developing countries -- including fast-growing economies China and India -- are not required to curb greenhouse pollution.

Rich countries, notably the United States, have said this gives developing countries an unfair economic advantage; China, India and other developing countries argue that developed countries have historically spewed more climate-warming gases, and developing countries need time to catch up.

The study suggests setting a uniform international cap on how much carbon dioxide each person could emit in order to limit global emissions; since rich people emit more, they are the ones likely to reach or exceed this cap, whether they live in a rich country or a poor one.

120 Buster  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:18:35pm

re: #69 quickjustice

So are modern birds descendants of dinosaurs or not?

Watch a Blue Heron take flight and you will have no doubt.

121 [deleted]  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:19:24pm
122 VioletTiger  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:21:27pm

re: #120 Buster

Watch a Blue Heron take flight and you will have no doubt.


My husband and I just spotted three hen turkeys on our walk this evening. The way they move is how I picture those big sauropods walking, with their heads moving back and forth, balanced on their long necks.

123 FurryOldGuyJeans  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:22:09pm

* JULY 7, 2009
Honduras Closes Main Airport

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- Honduras's interim government closed its main airport to all flights on Monday after blocking the runway to prevent the return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya. Clashes with his supporters caused the first death in a week of protests.

Police and soldiers blanketed the streets of the capital early Monday, enforcing a sunset-to-sunrise curfew with batons and metal poles. Civil aviation authorities announced a 24-hour ban on all flights at the country's main airport starting Monday morning.

Soldiers clashed Sunday with thousands of Zelaya backers massed at the airport in hopes of welcoming home the deposed leader removed a week earlier.

124 Bobblehead  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:22:55pm

re: #114 Walter L. Newton

The script from Apocalypse Now. :)

For the movie I see Robert Duvall as the owner with maybe Brendan Fraser as a smart ass geologist. Let's see who could play the brainy yet alluring female grad student?

125 Cannadian Club Akbar  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:23:19pm

OT- if I put my email in the "My Account" spot, can everyone see it or just those registered? Or is there a better way?

126 albusteve  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:23:59pm

re: #123 FurryOldGuyJeans

* JULY 7, 2009
Honduras Closes Main Airport

left wing extremism is strong juju...one can only hope Honduras does not slide into that black hole

127 VioletTiger  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:24:01pm

re: #119 FurryOldGuyJeans

What a crock that is. 'Scuse me while I shake off my shoes.

128 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:24:59pm

re: #124 Bobblehead

For the movie I see Robert Duvall as the owner with maybe Brendan Fraser as a smart ass geologist. Let's see who could play the brainy yet alluring female grad student?

Helen Thomas.

129 drool  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:25:50pm

Show them to Sarah Palin and ask her how old she thinks the earth is.

130 Achilles Tang  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:26:35pm

re: #129 drool

Show them to Sarah Palin and ask her how old she thinks the earth is.

Uh oh. Trouble.

131 alegrias  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:26:40pm

OT
Speaking of Old Dinosaurs, how does crack former DC Mayor for Life Marion Barry avoid getting bogged & petrified in the old primordial swamp in which he prowls, lurks, beds women? He's still on the DC public payroll while trolling for women in parks at night, at seventy some years.

132 MacDuff  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:27:03pm

re: #116 Naso Tang

Bingo. My kids know the word well.

I have no doubt that they do.

133 Achilles Tang  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:27:54pm

re: #132 MacDuff

I have no doubt that they do.

Paying attention you are.

134 Bobblehead  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:28:03pm

re: #128 Walter L. Newton

Helen Thomas.

A true dinosaur. She could play the reclusive dino scientist with a big secret.

135 Spare O'Lake  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:28:14pm

Oy, do I know tsoriss?

136 Roger  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:28:22pm

From drudge
[Link: www.thestate.com...]

Looks like they got the Gaffney serial-killer. No trial required

137 drool  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:29:13pm

#69
"So are modern birds descendants of dinosaurs or not?"

Don't know if you have seen it but they have found preserve velociraptor remains that show they had feathers.

138 calcajun  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:29:31pm

re: #128 Walter L. Newton

Helen Thomas.

You are very ill man./

139 The Shadow Do  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:29:38pm

re: #131 alegrias

OT
Speaking of Old Dinosaurs, how does crack former DC Mayor for Life Marion Barry avoid getting bogged & petrified in the old primordial swamp in which he prowls, lurks, beds women? He's still on the DC public payroll while trolling for women in parks at night, at seventy some years.

Dirtbag extraordinaire. But that is just my opinion. His constituency thinks otherwise. Only in America!

140 Bobblehead  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:29:57pm

re: #136 Roger

From drudge
[Link: www.thestate.com...]

Looks like they got the Gaffney serial-killer. No trial required

Glad they got him.

141 Mithrax  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:30:03pm

re: #83 albusteve

another theory


My ex!

142 Spare O'Lake  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:31:12pm

Dino saur?
Try a million tubes of Ben-Gay.

143 rightymouse  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:31:44pm

re: #134 Bobblehead

A true dinosaur. She could play the reclusive dino scientist with a big secret.

When I see Helen Thomas I think of transitional fossils.

144 alegrias  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:31:47pm

re: #128 Walter L. Newton

Helen Thomas.

* * * *
Shhh, Helen Thomas is one of the first White House correspondents to say the Emperor has No Clothes, and his press conferences are STAGED & PHONY!

Helen Thomas may be a dinosaur, but for ripping off the mask of the fake White House townhalls, she is DYNOMITE!

145 albusteve  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:32:59pm

re: #136 Roger

From drudge
[Link: www.thestate.com...]

Looks like they got the Gaffney serial-killer. No trial required

he's been slain...chalk one up for the good guys

146 Buster  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:33:21pm

re: #48 Walter L. Newton

Ill wind 'killed dinosaurs'

Dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago. The dinosaurs were not wiped out by a comet or asteroid impact or some other planetary catastrophe but by a serious flatulence problem, according to research quoted in a Chinese news report.

[Link: news.bbc.co.uk...]

Does the intelligent design crowd think that flatulence, and it's odiferous inter-species variations (hell intra-species variations for that matter), were designed in?

147 MacDuff  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:33:23pm

re: #136 Roger

From drudge
[Link: www.thestate.com...]

Looks like they got the Gaffney serial-killer. No trial required

One less needless carbon footprint.

148 alegrias  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:34:18pm

re: #143 rightymouse

When I see Helen Thomas I think of transitional fossils.

* * * *
Nice double entendre! Yes she is! I'm glad Helen Thomas is beginning to walk upright and getting off her knees at the White HOuse.

149 yochanan  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:34:59pm

re: #128 Walter L. Newton

Helen Thomas.

what's the popular name for the meat eating dino

150 alegrias  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:35:42pm

re: #149 yochanan

what's the popular name for the meat eating dino

* * *
Tyranosaurus Rex or Regina, in Helen Thomas' case!

151 MacDuff  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:36:25pm

re: #133 Naso Tang

Paying attention you are.

More than you may think, Yoda. I bid you a good evening.

152 Buster  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:36:36pm

re: #149 yochanan

what's the popular name for the meat eating dino

Meat eater :)

153 Stuart Leviton  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:36:48pm

re: #114 Walter L. Newton

The script from Apocalypse Now. :)

Walter, I am sure you know T.S.Eliot's The Hollow Men. Apocalypse Now mixes Joseph Conrad's The Heart of Darkness and Eliot's poem. The images in Apoc Now are like Eliot's words

This is the dead land
This is cactus land
Here the stone images
Are raised, here they receive
The supplication of a dead man's hand
Under the twinkle of a fading star.

Is it like this
In death's other kingdom
Waking alone
At the hour when we are
Trembling with tenderness
Lips that would kiss
Form prayers to broken stone.

...
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow

...
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.


Your words caught the feeling of ruin. Hardly plagiarism, you wrote truth. I think you've got a good reader in Naso.
Thanks both of you. I know what I'll reread tonight!

154 rightymouse  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:37:38pm

re: #148 alegrias

* * * *
Nice double entendre! Yes she is! I'm glad Helen Thomas is beginning to walk upright and getting off her knees at the White HOuse.

Could be that her ego is more bruised than actually standing up for any ethical issue. Time will tell, eh? :)

155 Achilles Tang  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:39:23pm

re: #137 drool

#69
"So are modern birds descendants of dinosaurs or not?"

Don't know if you have seen it but they have found preserve velociraptor remains that show they had feathers.

All I need is to listen to a Grey Heron call at night as it flies by. Just like in Jurassic Park. What more evidence does one need, really?

156 rightymouse  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:40:29pm

Time to go spend some time with my mastadons.

See ya later.

157 alegrias  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:40:29pm

re: #154 rightymouse

Could be that her ego is more bruised than actually standing up for any ethical issue. Time will tell, eh? :)

* * * * *
Perhaps. HOWEVER,

Helen Thomas deserves credit for expressing her professional opinion that the White House is stage managing the news and telling the whole world on live tv.

Thomas has seen every administration up close for the last 60 years.

158 Racer X  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:40:49pm

re: #147 MacDuff

One less needless carbon footprint.

dibs on the credits!

159 alegrias  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:42:11pm

Time to go hunt down dinner & tear into it carnivorously.

160 Bobblehead  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:42:24pm

re: #155 Naso Tang

All I need is to listen to a Grey Heron call at night as it flies by. Just like in Jurassic Park. What more evidence does one need, really?

Watching the way herons move when they hunt for fish you get a feeling of something ancient.

161 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:44:23pm

re: #143 rightymouse

When I see Helen Thomas I think of transitional fossils.

Helen Thomas was a hottie back in the day. Whose face do you think "launched a thousand ships"?

162 Bobblehead  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:45:01pm

re: #155 Naso Tang

All I need is to listen to a Grey Heron call at night as it flies by. Just like in Jurassic Park. What more evidence does one need, really?

/Then again, "Jurassic Park" shows that Hollywood always gets it right. No need for further study.

163 capitalist piglet  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:45:49pm

re: #129 drool

Show them to Sarah Palin and ask her how old she thinks the earth is.

Did she make some sort of claim I am not aware of, or is this some idea you picked up at the Palin Memes Warehouse?

Maybe I need to be enlightened on this one.

164 Spare O'Lake  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:47:39pm

Thunderous farts
Volcanic belches
Rivers of diarrhea
Swamp the gagging firmament.

165 The Shadow Do  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:48:33pm

re: #164 Spare O'Lake

Thunderous farts
Volcanic belches
Rivers of diarrhea
Swamp the gagging firmament.

Loverly

166 Achilles Tang  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:48:39pm

re: #160 Bobblehead

Watching the way herons move when they hunt for fish you get a feeling of something ancient.

My favorite is The Little Blue, and they spend as much time hunting lizards (Anoles) and bugs as fish. Sneaky stalkers looking under overhangs, leaves and branches. If they had teeth and came in groups I would be scared.

167 Killgore Trout  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:48:56pm

re: #163 capitalist piglet

Sarah Palin on faith, life and creation
She later backtracked on calling for it to be taught in schools but her personal belief is creationist. Not sure if she's a young earth creationist. I wouldn't be surprised.

168 Achilles Tang  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:49:24pm

re: #162 Bobblehead

/Then again, "Jurassic Park" shows that Hollywood always gets it right. No need for further study.

Did I miss a sarc in my post? Sorry.

:=)

169 Spare O'Lake  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:49:57pm

re: #165 The Shadow Do

Loverly

And that's just the first bailout package.

170 capitalist piglet  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:52:18pm

re: #167 Killgore Trout

Sarah Palin on faith, life and creation
She later backtracked on calling for it to be taught in schools but her personal belief is creationist. Not sure if she's a young earth creationist. I wouldn't be surprised.

Are we working with the same definition of creationist? It sounds like you might mean that what we do know is she believes in a divine Creator...this is often a point of confusion for me here, and I've needed to ask for clarification before.

171 The Shadow Do  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:52:20pm

re: #169 Spare O'Lake

And that's just the first bailout package.

Oh! That's different, I thought we were talking foreign policy.

172 ladycatnip  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:52:56pm

OT

Now we're getting to the crux of the climate change sham - target the rich for their personal emmisions. This entire farce has always been about how to control people - where they live, how they live and of course by taking their money from them.

Just a snippet of this drivel:

Rich people's lives tend to give off more greenhouse gases because they drive more fossil-fueled vehicles, travel frequently by air and live in big houses that take more fuel to heat and cool.

By focusing on rich people everywhere, rather than rich countries and poor ones, the system of setting carbon-cutting targets based on the number of wealthy individuals in various countries would ease developing countries into any new climate change framework, Chakravarty said by telephone.

Pray tell, how are they going to determine how much each person is emitting? Of course, I assume Algore will have to move into a smaller home and stop taking private jets wherever he goes.

173 albusteve  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:53:39pm

the obvious solution to CAs financial woes

[Link: www.foxnews.com...]

174 The Shadow Do  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:54:34pm

Michael Jackson died, and I don't care.

Robert McNamara died, and I don't care.

I am an uncaring so and so.

175 ladycatnip  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:55:36pm

#119 FurryOldGuyJeans

Sorry, Furry, I hadn't read upthread when I posted my #172.

;-)

176 Killgore Trout  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:56:04pm

Obama tackles the serious issues.....
Kumar goes to the White House


Today Kal Penn, the actor who starred in Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, started his new job as liaison between the Obama administration and Asian communities in America. Penn also starred in Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantánamo Bay and the American television series House.

Penn's new role is associate director in the office of public liaison, in which he will focus on connecting the president with arts groups and Asian-American and Pacific Islander communities.

The actor, who backed Obama in the presidential election, described the public liaison office as the "front door to the White House" and said his job would be engaging with constituents to make sure they feel they have a seat at the table.

Well, at least there aren't more important things to focus on. Actors are very important in making people feel good so I'm sure this will work out great.

177 Kragar  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:56:34pm

Bastards Alert:

Last thursday, the city plastered a flier around our neighborhood stating our street would be closed from 7am till 6pm because they were resurfacing it and stated the designated side streets to park on. I got home and found a place and as I'm walking home, the cops are walking along and issuing parking tickets to every car parked on one side of the street because it wasn't "the designated area".

178 _RememberTonyC  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:59:04pm

there will be very few Lizards surprised at this, but here are some writings from the POTUS when he was a tender young thing at Columbia in the early 1980s ...

[Link: corner.nationalreview.com...]

All I can say is .... f*ck the MSM. Why didn't they bother to do this work last year?

179 Gus  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:59:20pm

re: #174 The Shadow Do

Michael Jackson died, and I don't care.

Robert McNamara died, and I don't care.

I am an uncaring so and so.

Well, I woke up in the morning heard that Michael Jackson died,
Hubba hubba hubba hubba hubba
A feeling in my bones that McNamara died
Hubba hubba hubba hubba hubba

Well, I'm a happy boy (happy boy!)
I'm a happy boy (happy boy!)
Oh ain't it good when things are going your way? Hey! Hey!

//

180 Mad Al-Jaffee  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:59:45pm

OT - another good one from the Onion News Network. In espanol.

[Link: www.theonion.com...]

181 Killgore Trout  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 4:59:53pm

re: #170 capitalist piglet

Ah, I was wrong. I was out of the country for the Katie Couric interview. She is in favor of teaching creationism in the classroom...
Sarah Palin on Evolution and Climate Change

Couric: Do you believe evolution should be taught as an accepted scientific principle or one of several theories?

Palin: Oh, I think it should be taught as an accepted principle.

182 Killgore Trout  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:01:38pm

re: #180 Mad Al-Jaffee

Lol

183 Racer X  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:01:47pm

re: #172 ladycatnip

OT

Now we're getting to the crux of the climate change sham - target the rich for their personal emmisions. This entire farce has always been about how to control people - where they live, how they live and of course by taking their money from them.

Just a snippet of this drivel:

Pray tell, how are they going to determine how much each person is emitting? Of course, I assume Algore will have to move into a smaller home and stop taking private jets wherever he goes.

*Hollywood shudders*

184 The Shadow Do  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:01:47pm

re: #176 Killgore Trout

Working on book titles, something like:
"All the Idiots Men"
"Team of Fools"
"The Lucicrous Presidency"
Etc

185 Roger  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:03:11pm

In the McNair case:
[Link: www.usatoday.com...]
Kazemi bought the gun 2 days before froma private individual. Poliece haven't ruled on her death yet.

186 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:03:40pm

re: #153 Stuart Leviton

Your words caught the feeling of ruin. Hardly plagiarism, you wrote truth. I think you've got a good reader in Naso.
Thanks both of you. I know what I'll reread tonight!

Thank you, I hardly thought of any of that when I wrote that paragraph, just funnin' around.

187 Racer X  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:04:45pm

re: #173 albusteve

the obvious solution to CAs financial woes

[Link: www.foxnews.com...]


From your link:

"The whole state [of California] seems to be saturated with marijuana farms, and it's a marijuana economy, so if they want to do it, it doesn't bother me," says New Jersey personal-injury lawyer Nicholas Kowalchyn. "It's probably out of control already. That's why the state is in the predicaments it's in. They're all stoned on marijuana."

Not ALL. Just the politicians.

188 [deleted]  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:05:16pm
189 Mad Al-Jaffee  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:05:51pm

re: #185 Roger

I keep wondering where Ray Lewis was at the time. :)

(too soon?)

190 Racer X  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:06:37pm

re: #176 Killgore Trout

Obama tackles the serious issues.....
Kumar goes to the White House

Well, at least there aren't more important things to focus on. Actors are very important in making people feel good so I'm sure this will work out great.

Unfuckingbelievable.

191 Killgore Trout  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:07:33pm

re: #188 buzzsawmonkey

I wonder what they're paying him. I looked through a few articles and nobody mentions his salary. Wasn't there something about tightening belts and such mentioned recently? I'd guess the guy is probably getting $100,000 or more to be the resident White house actor.

192 Roger  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:08:46pm

re: #189 Mad Al-Jaffee

I don't know. There is chatter that she did it but not officially stated. Yet. She bought the gun after the DUI; there is something strange about the DUI incident (need more details on it) and what made her go in this crazed direction.

193 capitalist piglet  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:08:59pm

re: #181 Killgore Trout

Ah, I was wrong. I was out of the country for the Katie Couric interview. She is in favor of teaching creationism in the classroom...
Sarah Palin on Evolution and Climate Change

Do I need coffee or something?

The quote you presented said she thought evolution should be taught as an accepted principle.

Couric: Do you believe evolution should be taught as an accepted scientific principle or one of several theories?

Palin: Oh, I think it should be taught as an accepted principle.

I guess I need to dig into the article to see what you're referring to.

194 Killian Bundy  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:09:06pm

Michael Jackson to be buried sans his brain

Michael Jackson, who died of a suspected cardiac arrest at his Beverly Hills mansion on June 25, is going to be buried - without his brain.

As the late King of Pop's family prepares for the singer's funeral on Tuesday, they have been told his brain would be held back for tests.

The family was given the choice of either waiting up to three weeks for Jackson's brain to be returned to them or go ahead and bury him without it - which they have decided to do.

/it's a no-brainer

195 Mad Al-Jaffee  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:09:27pm

re: #192 Roger

This video always cracks me up:

196 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:10:14pm

re: #194 Killian Bundy

Michael Jackson to be buried sans his brain

/it's a no-brainer

Creepy... a real thriller.

197 Killgore Trout  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:10:54pm

re: #193 capitalist piglet

Read the whole thing.

198 aboo-Hoo-Hoo  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:11:34pm

re: #176 Killgore Trout

Your in good hands with All-Obama©

199 Racer X  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:11:36pm

re: #194 Killian Bundy

Michael Jackson to be buried sans his brain

/it's a no-brainer

Where's zombie?

200 irongrampa  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:14:15pm

re: #193 capitalist piglet

No, you don't need coffee. Reading the WHOLE article clears things up nicely.

Nothing like context.

201 JacksonTn  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:14:25pm

re: #193 capitalist piglet

I guess I need to dig into the article to see what you're referring to.

CP ... some other reading on the subject ... from this blog ...

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

it was discussed here during the campaign ... but maybe it is being seen differently now ...

202 [deleted]  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:16:03pm
203 Macker  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:16:23pm

re: #144 alegrias

* * * *
Shhh, Helen Thomas is one of the first White House correspondents to say the Emperor has No Clothes, and his press conferences are STAGED & PHONY!

Helen Thomas may be a dinosaur, but for ripping off the mask of the fake White House townhalls, she is DYNOMITE!

Still, this doesn't take away from the fact that:

"She's a Grand Old Bag!
She's a Nasty Old Hag!"....

204 ArmyWife  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:16:47pm

Evening, group!

205 Bobblehead  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:17:44pm

re: #199 Racer X

Where's zombie?

OMG How much freakier can this side show get?

206 Bobblehead  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:18:09pm

re: #204 ArmyWife

Evening, group!

Evening AW!

207 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:19:08pm

re: #204 ArmyWife

Evening, group!

Hi... looky, looky at me new avatar, it's Maisey and Me. (shameless self-promotion).

Somebody mentioned a few weeks ago they would like to see a picture of both of us, so, I took this today.

Click on my avatar, you may have to clear your cache.

208 Bobblehead  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:19:42pm

re: #188 buzzsawmonkey

From White Castle to White House--an American success story, with grilled onions.

He should have stuck with his gig on "House". Idiot.

209 [deleted]  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:20:15pm
210 Achilles Tang  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:21:45pm

re: #172 ladycatnip

You have a valid argument regarding fairness, but why you have to mention Al Gore when China or India would be more relevant, I don't know. As to the rest, you make no argument whatsoever regarding the validity of AGW, except that you think it is a political sham. There are creationists who use the same methodology in their arguments. Are you that too?

211 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:22:03pm

re: #209 buzzsawmonkey

Kumar chameleons--they come and go.

What's a Kumar Chameleon. Wiki doesn't have any such thing.

212 Roger  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:22:08pm

re: #195 Mad Al-Jaffee

Wonder if Lewis ever saw it; bet he would get a kick out of it.

We need to know more about the Kazemi DUI. She has it in the [early] morning and then in the evening she buys a gun illegally. I wonder if they'll pursue the seller.

213 Bobblehead  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:22:24pm

re: #209 buzzsawmonkey

Kumar chameleons--they come and go.

LOL. I mean really! How many young actors get a chance to work with someone like Hugh Laurie? I say it again. Idiot.

214 irongrampa  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:22:40pm

re: #204 ArmyWife

Good evening-hope your Independence Day was as fine as ours was.

215 Gus  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:22:52pm

re: #211 Walter L. Newton

What's a Kumar Chameleon. Wiki doesn't have any such thing.

I think it's a "Boy George" thing.

216 [deleted]  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:23:15pm
217 ArmyWife  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:23:28pm

re: #201 JacksonTn

by whom? As most of you know, I am not a creationist and I firmly believe evolution ought to be taught as the science that it is. I do not believe evolution somehow means I can't believe in G-d. It reaffirms the existence to me, in fact. That said, I also believe that it is certainly someone's right to believe in creationism, again so long as they don't make this mandatory teaching in a science class in public school. All bets are off for private schools, however.

I must also note the finding of new dinosaurs is so cool and should remind us all there is so much out there we don't know...yet!

218 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:23:39pm

re: #215 Gus 802

I think it's a "Boy George" thing.

Oh, I see. Buzz didn't strike me as a King George fan.

219 ArmyWife  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:25:29pm

re: #207 Walter L. Newton

So cute! You know self promotion is a-ok with me!

220 JacksonTn  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:25:56pm

re: #217 ArmyWife

by whom? As most of you know, I am not a creationist and I firmly believe evolution ought to be taught as the science that it is. I do not believe evolution somehow means I can't believe in G-d. It reaffirms the existence to me, in fact. That said, I also believe that it is certainly someone's right to believe in creationism, again so long as they don't make this mandatory teaching in a science class in public school. All bets are off for private schools, however.

I must also note the finding of new dinosaurs is so cool and should remind us all there is so much out there we don't know...yet!

AW ... I am not sure what you are asking ... I am not posting the thread as a for or against evolution ... I was posting the thread for CapitalistPiglet to look over ... she was given a link to something about Palin and I wanted her to have another alternative ... to see what we had found out about her during the primary at this blog ... there was much research during the campaign here and I think it is a great source ...

221 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:26:04pm

re: #219 ArmyWife

So cute! You know self promotion is a-ok with me!

Thanks, and what did you think of Maisey? :)

222 Racer X  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:27:37pm

re: #205 Bobblehead

OMG How much freakier can this side show get?

Much more. Just wait - tomorrow will be a clown show in L.A. The freaks will be out in force.

223 ArmyWife  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:28:04pm

re: #214 irongrampa

It was - went to a picanic at the SGM's house. I played the roll of the 1SGs wife to the best of my ability. ;)

224 ArmyWife  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:29:05pm

re: #220 JacksonTn

Ok, I misunderstood. I thought you were saying some people may have changed their minds about Sarah Palin and her stance on creationism. Forgive me for jumping the gun!

225 Gus  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:29:17pm

re: #222 Racer X

Much more. Just wait - tomorrow will be a clown show in L.A. The freaks will be out in force.

Another day of "mourning" for the aimless class.

226 A Man for all Seasons  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:29:47pm

re: #223 ArmyWife

It was - went to a picanic at the SGM's house. I played the roll of the 1SGs wife to the best of my ability. ;)

Hi You! Hope today finds you well

227 ArmyWife  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:30:22pm

re: #226 HoosierHoops

Hi! I felt like I was talking to myself for minute there. It was great conversation, mind you, but glad you jumped in!

228 irongrampa  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:30:53pm

re: #223 ArmyWife


We spent the weekend with one of our adoptees from Soldier's Angels-his family & ours,kids and all. Whole houseful of people,they're so nice, we plan on another get together later this summer.

229 Racer X  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:30:55pm

re: #225 Gus 802

Another day of "mourning" for the aimless class.

Michael Jackson died a long time ago. Some freak has been inhabiting his body for several years now.

230 dmandman  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:31:38pm

re: #226 HoosierHoops


After all the drugs he allegedly was taking....the question is begged to be asked "don't you have to have a brain to be buried with one?"

231 Bobblehead  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:32:09pm

re: #230 dmandman

After all the drugs he allegedly was taking....the question is begged to be asked "don't you have to have a brain to be buried with one?"

Good point.

232 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:32:10pm

re: #178 _RememberTonyC

there will be very few Lizards surprised at this, but here are some writings from the POTUS when he was a tender young thing at Columbia in the early 1980s ...

[Link: corner.nationalreview.com...]

All I can say is .... f*ck the MSM. Why didn't they bother to do this work last year?

Once again, his nickname is vindicated. He was and remains a Commie Bastard.

233 ArmyWife  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:32:15pm

re: #228 irongrampa

Very cool! I love people like you who do so much for our soldiers.

234 ArmyWife  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:32:58pm

re: #232 Dark_Falcon

I need to go through some archives, but didn't someone here post to some writings of his that were equally bad, if not this very thing? Shocking the MSM is just now getting around to this.

235 Gus  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:33:12pm

re: #229 Racer X

Michael Jackson died a long time ago. Some freak has been inhabiting his body for several years now.

It's all weird. He was weird. His "devout" fans are weird. This whole obsession for almost a week now is weird and getting old really fast.

236 A Man for all Seasons  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:33:32pm

re: #227 ArmyWife

Hi! I felt like I was talking to myself for minute there. It was great conversation, mind you, but glad you jumped in!

Hey AW...
I spent most of the day on the deck blogging here....The Tan is working out...Golfing in the morning....Hope Tiger doesn't mind about the beer. :)
*wink*
How is your day going?

237 Bobblehead  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:33:52pm

re: #235 Gus 802

It's all weird. He was weird. His "devout" fans are weird. This whole obsession for almost a week now is weird and getting old really fast.

It was old on day 1.

238 Gus  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:35:36pm

re: #237 Bobblehead

It was old on day 1.

True. I'm lucky in that I don't have a TV. It's easy to avoid online. Although I do remember when it seemed like all I ever saw was Britney Spears ugly mug online for a time there. It's all garbage.

239 ArmyWife  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:36:22pm

re: #236 HoosierHoops

Good. Mr. Armywife went back to MD today (after hanging cieling fans in all the bedrooms of the new house). Our household goods get packed up next week, and then he has a report date to Ft. Lee 9/10. He is taking 30 days of leave, first so he should be here in August. It will be nice to have the family together again!

Work on a tan for me, will ya? My legs are glowing in the dark right now!

240 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:36:38pm

re: #234 ArmyWife

I need to go through some archives, but didn't someone here post to some writings of his that were equally bad, if not this very thing? Shocking the MSM is just now getting around to this.

Not shocking really. The Times is likely starting to get worried about Obama. If they've fallen out of love with him, then they can wound him a good deal with some fairly simple digging.

241 ArmyWife  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:37:31pm

re: #240 Dark_Falcon

I believe we are the cusp of the end of the honeymoon - it began with the dinosaur trainer herself, and now this. Stay tuned.

242 Racer X  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:38:22pm

Its funny how people get so upset over pedophiles but then give Michael a pass. I know, he was never "convicted". C'mon. Really? did we need a court to tell us what everybody knew?

Dude.
Was.
Sick.

243 ArmyWife  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:39:08pm

re: #242 Racer X

so tell me why any mother would allow their son sleep overs? And one was for a year, wasn't it? Egads. Not my children, not ever.

244 Bobblehead  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:40:08pm

re: #242 Racer X

Its funny how people get so upset over pedophiles but then give Michael a pass. I know, he was never "convicted". C'mon. Really? did we need a court to tell us what everybody knew?

Dude.
Was.
Sick.

Waiting for the obligatory "South Park" episode.

245 calcajun  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:41:11pm

re: #203 Macker

Still, this doesn't take away from the fact that:

"She's a Grand Old Bag!
She's a Nasty Old Hag!"....

That's not nice. Afterall, Pebbles on the Flinstones was patterned after Ms. Thomas' early childhood. So, she was once cute and adorable./

246 BARACK THE VOTE  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:42:27pm

re: #240 Dark_Falcon

Not shocking really. The Times is likely starting to get worried about Obama. If they've fallen out of love with him, then they can wound him a good deal with some fairly simple digging.

At the NYT -- Maureen Dowd has never been an Obama fan, and even Bob Herbert (MAJOR obama cultist) woke up and wrote a critical OpEd of Obama over there a couple of weeks ago.

I'd like to see more criticism of Obama from the left (Dowd doesn't count, as she's merely a hack who attacks anyone when convenient), but unfortunately the WaPo just fired the one liberal blogger/columnist who consistently was harsh on Obama from the left.

The WaPo editorial page does feature many people critical of Obama (such as Krauthammer) but it's a real loss that they don't also present lefty/prog criticisms of Obama as well.

247 Gus  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:42:41pm

re: #242 Racer X

Its funny how people get so upset over pedophiles but then give Michael a pass. I know, he was never "convicted". C'mon. Really? did we need a court to tell us what everybody knew?

Dude.
Was.
Sick.

Amazing how it goes from zero tolerance to that "deer in the headlights" "oh my God Michael Jackson died" response. I'm pretty sure half of the response is due to seem politically correct genuflecting. Don't forget who's playing overlord on this whole embarrassing event: Al Sharpton.

248 Racer X  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:42:44pm

re: #243 ArmyWife

so tell me why any mother would allow their son sleep overs? And one was for a year, wasn't it? Egads. Not my children, not ever.

Blinded by stardom. Thats the only thing I can figure. Intentionally looking the other way, hoping the rumors were not true.

But it is funny - every person I talk to that says he was never convicted, they all say the same thing: "I would not let him near my kids."

That says all you need to know.

249 A Man for all Seasons  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:42:55pm

re: #239 ArmyWife

Good. Mr. Armywife went back to MD today (after hanging cieling fans in all the bedrooms of the new house). Our household goods get packed up next week, and then he has a report date to Ft. Lee 9/10. He is taking 30 days of leave, first so he should be here in August. It will be nice to have the family together again!

Work on a tan for me, will ya? My legs are glowing in the dark right now!

Hope you guys are doing well.....It was raining all weekend and now it is hot and clear...High 80's to low 90's Tuesday....
Golf city tuesday
*wink*

250 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:43:15pm

re: #244 Bobblehead

Waiting for the obligatory "South Park" episode.

Parker and Stone already did an episode on Micheal Jackson. I doubt it'll be shown anytime soon. It gave play to the molestation allegations and Comedy Central won't want to air something like that so soon.

251 Macker  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:45:34pm

re: #229 Racer X

Michael Jackson died a long time ago. Some freak has been inhabiting his body for several years now.

You sure it wasn't one of these?

252 big steve  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:46:33pm

I had a real lizard experience today. Down here we have these small lizards called anole and they can change colors. We have a screened in back porch but a door broke a few months ago and we just removed it. As a result all sorts of insects get in but can't get out. I watched this anole this morning on the screen catching bugs. There were so many bugs which were sluggish from having been bashing themselves against the screen for hours, the the anole could just walk right up to them and eat them. He, and he was male because he had a colored throat, was so full that his stomach was distended but he couldn't stop eating. After a while he clearly didn't even want to eat any more because he stopped moving and just hung on the screen. Even so, occasionally a bug would literally land in his mouth and he would with complete disinterest still snack on it. It was quite entertaining which means I probably need to find more interesting things for myself.

253 The Shadow Do  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:47:16pm

Walter, Maisy is a very nifty bird! I imagined her much smaller, looks not much smaller than our yellow nape. Parrots are, to say the least, interesting. They inspire a lot of amusement and an oddly interesting insight into the bird world which is sorta different.

Our yellow nape talks (a lot) and we also have our first parrot, a spectacled amazon, that we bought from an individual whose wife was terrified of him. Justifiably so. He is a one person bird with the visage and the attitude of Heckle/Jekyll. My wife belongs to him and he will bite the crap out of me given half the chance. He does not talk, to the best of my knowledge - I don't speak Spanish. He is not banded which means he is a wetback from Mexico but I will not call the INS in spite of the fact that I would like to kill him most days!

254 ArmyWife  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:47:57pm

re: #252 big steve

A Golden Corral buffet for lizards! How kind of you to host such a thing.

255 The Shadow Do  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:47:58pm

re: #242 Racer X

Its funny how people get so upset over pedophiles but then give Michael a pass. I know, he was never "convicted". C'mon. Really? did we need a court to tell us what everybody knew?

Dude.
Was.
Sick.

A predator. But famous!

256 Killian Bundy  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:49:13pm

DC Comics' superheroes join forces with characters inspired by Allah

They are superheroes battling injustice and fighting evil the Islamic way, and they are teaming up with some of the west's biggest comic book icons. Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman are among those joining forces with The 99, who personify the 99 attributes of Allah, according to Islamic tradition.

What will unfold on the pages of the collaboration between DC Comics in the US and Teshkeel Comics in Kuwait is yet to be seen, but the appearance of The 99 – who already appear in comics in the Muslim world – alongside archetypal American heroes would have been unlikely during the Bush years. DC Comics' president and publisher, Paul Levitz, believes the cross-cultural project is unprecedented.

/see, it's Bush's fault!

257 Kenneth  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:51:24pm

On Obama's nuclear weapons policy:


“We tried the unilateral way, in the Bush years, and it didn’t work,” a senior administration official said recently. “What we are trying is a fundamental change, a different view that says our security can be enhanced by arms control. There was a view for the past few years that treaties only constrained the good actors and not the bad actors.”

Wow. There is so much that is dead wrong in that small paragraph.

First: Bush consistently pursued nuclear disarmament through multi-lateral negotiations. With North Korea it was the Six Party Talks. With Iran it was through European partners including Russia. What past unilateralism? What about Obama's pledge to hold direct talks with both those regimes without precondition? That sure sounds like unilateralism to me, isn't it?

Secondly, the treaties the Clinton administrations signed with North Korea, a "bad actor" if there ever was one, did fail to constrain them. Iran is similarly unconstrained. Could Obama please explain how on earth does a nuclear reduction treaty with Russia will constrain either Iran or North Korea?

What universe do Obama & his advisers live in?

258 The Shadow Do  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:51:43pm

Wish I could vote for Peter King.

259 ArmyWife  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:52:10pm

re: #256 Killian Bundy

Wonder Woman? Isn't that against code? She runs around in a teddy, for pete's sake! Of course, she does keep her wrists covered...

260 Mad Al-Jaffee  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:52:20pm

re: #250 Dark_Falcon

You can watch it here:

[Link: www.southparkstudios.com...]

261 big steve  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:52:37pm

re: #254 ArmyWife

A Golden Corral buffet for lizards! How kind of you to host such a thing.

We also get these in the porch....they are meanest looking hornet you ever saw....called a cicada killer...Cicada Killer

262 Achilles Tang  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:53:07pm

re: #255 The Shadow Do

A predator. But famous!

I'm inclined to think that was just, as he said, Peter Pan incarnate, but too sick to realize the danger and damage that could be in the real world.

If he had true sexual capability, one would have thought he could have provided at least a test tube to get his "children" started, but perhaps he didn't want them to be black.......................

{I swore I wouldn't start on Jackson again. Crap}

263 The Shadow Do  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:53:22pm

re: #257 Kenneth


What universe do Obama & his advisers live in?


Candyland?

264 brookly red  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:53:30pm

re: #256 Killian Bundy

DC Comics' superheroes join forces with characters inspired by Allah

/see, it's Bush's fault!

Oh, freakin great! ... "my x-ray vision detects a jew behind that stone..."

265 Mad Al-Jaffee  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:53:34pm

re: #229 Racer X

Michael Jackson died a long time ago. Some freak has been inhabiting his body for several years now.

[Link: www.theonion.com...]

266 Gus  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:53:59pm

Interesting cartoon with Medvedev and Putin with a feeble Obama looking on.

[Link: www.flickr.com...]

267 J.D.  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:55:02pm

re: #252 big steve

LOL!
I hear ya!

268 ArmyWife  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:55:13pm

re: #261 big steve

Now I am going to have nightmares.

269 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:55:16pm

re: #253 The Shadow Do

Walter, Maisy is a very nifty bird! I imagined her much smaller, looks not much smaller than our yellow nape. Parrots are, to say the least, interesting. They inspire a lot of amusement and an oddly interesting insight into the bird world which is sorta different.

Our yellow nape talks (a lot) and we also have our first parrot, a spectacled amazon, that we bought from an individual whose wife was terrified of him. Justifiably so. He is a one person bird with the visage and the attitude of Heckle/Jekyll. My wife belongs to him and he will bite the crap out of me given half the chance. He does not talk, to the best of my knowledge - I don't speak Spanish. He is not banded which means he is a wetback from Mexico but I will not call the INS in spite of the fact that I would like to kill him most days!

Maisey is a red-lored Amazon, although due to her age, her red tuff is more like a washed out orange. She is over 20 years old.

Parrot can bond to a single owner, and they will be very protective of their owner. Maisey is a female, and as far as she is concerned, I am her mate.

Amazons are not noted as talkers, but they can be great imitators of sounds. Maisey does everything from a crow to a chicken, laughs along with you and has a nice selection of screeches.

No one should own a parrot unless they have the time to give the bird a lot of attention. Parrots are VERY social, and need sounds, input, talking, noise all sorts of stimulus.

270 [deleted]  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:55:48pm
271 [deleted]  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:55:51pm
272 The Shadow Do  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:56:01pm

re: #262 Naso Tang

I'm inclined to think that was just, as he said, Peter Pan incarnate, but too sick to realize the danger and damage that could be in the real world.

If he had true sexual capability, one would have thought he could have provided at least a test tube to get his "children" started, but perhaps he didn't want them to be black.......................

{I swore I wouldn't start on Jackson again. Crap}

Many people hold that opinion. It may even be true. But take it from a child victim of a really nice guy, I really, reallly doubt it.

The music does not take away the evil for some of us.

273 Achilles Tang  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:56:13pm

re: #265 Mad Al-Jaffee

[Link: www.theonion.com...]

Ooooh. That's bad.

274 Macker  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:56:41pm

re: #260 Mad Al-Jaffee

Ugh!

275 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:57:47pm

re: #270 buzzsawmonkey

She's known as Uncovered Meat Woman in the Ummah.

You mean, she's known as Uncovered Meat Woman who will kick your puny butt across the Ummah. (Well, it would be nice.)

276 Macker  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:57:58pm

re: #270 buzzsawmonkey

She's known as Uncovered Meat Woman in the Ummah.

Somehow "Get Us Out from under...Uncovered Meat Woman" just doesn't sound right....

277 ArmyWife  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:58:12pm

re: #271 Iron Fist

Palin is a fabulous diversion to the imbecile administration the press gave us.

278 calcajun  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:58:44pm

re: #262 Naso Tang

I think of him as more a singing Howard Hughes. Stories told by Lisa Marie Presley indicate he had little grasp of how the real world ran and he had been famous for so long that he never knew what normal was. And, his elevator certainly stopped shy of the top floor.

279 Achilles Tang  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 5:59:27pm

re: #272 The Shadow Do

The music does not take away the evil for some of us.

I think my first sentence acknowledged that. No excuse was intended.

280 KingKenrod  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 6:01:39pm

re: #69 quickjustice

So are modern birds descendants of dinosaurs or not?

The most recent theory I have heard is that dinosaurs and birds have a common ancestor - a pre-dinosaur reptile (which are called archosaurs). So the answer is maybe not.

[Link: www.examiner.com...]

281 The Shadow Do  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 6:01:55pm

re: #269 Walter L. Newton

No one should own a parrot unless they have the time to give the bird a lot of attention. Parrots are VERY social, and need sounds, input, talking, noise all sorts of stimulus.


That's exactly right Walter. So many people, some of them relatives, have had parrots for simple amusement. But they do demand, and deserve, attention from their owners. Those people either make their animals miserable or get rid of them.

As pissed as I get at the spectacled one - I will cuss him and he will threaten me - it is a sort of understanding and even a meaningful interchange as far as his bad ass is concerned. "Fucking back off Emmitt!" "Scree" "Scree" "Scree"! (which means fuck you too gringo!)

282 The Shadow Do  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 6:03:47pm

re: #279 Naso Tang

I think my first sentence acknowledged that. No excuse was intended.


touchy subject

283 alegrias  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 6:12:41pm

re: #278 calcajun

I think of him as more a singing Howard Hughes. Stories told by Lisa Marie Presley indicate he had little grasp of how the real world ran and he had been famous for so long that he never knew what normal was. And, his elevator certainly stopped shy of the top floor.

* * * *
Howard Hughes could fly a plane & run a big business enterprise.
According to Katharine Hepburn's account, Hughes was crazy about her & wanted to marry her.

Also according to Katharine Hepburn, Michael Jackson didn't know how to make a bed. (Jane Fonda introduced Jackson to Hepburn on the set of "On Golden Pond", then ran off & left the old lady with the fruitcake)

284 HC4BO  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 6:15:41pm

For a second there I thought the article was about Blue Dog Democrats ...

285 OldLineTexan  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 6:19:51pm

re: #280 KingKenrod

The most recent theory I have heard is that dinosaurs and birds have a common ancestor - a pre-dinosaur reptile (which are called archosaurs). So the answer is maybe not.

[Link: www.examiner.com...]

I am going to be completely bummed if chickens are not really just modern dinosaurs.

/

286 Gearhead  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 6:51:44pm

Crikey, we're gonna need bigger barbie.

287 J.S.  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 6:52:58pm

re: #269 Walter L. Newton

The other day I saw a parrot at the humane society -- it looked fairly young -- but the poor thing -- it was obviously disturbed...it would sit on its perch and begin rotating its head, circling its head around and around, eyes closed -- looked really bizarre...it wasn't up for adoption...(someone said that they were trying to "socialize" the bird, by allowing it to see other birds...I'm assuming that this parrot had been completely isolated or spent far too many hours alone in a cage...)

288 kynna  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 8:23:01pm

I'm going to have nightmares about Banjo. *gulk*

289 kynna  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 8:26:51pm

re: #287 J.S.

The other day I saw a parrot at the humane society -- it looked fairly young -- but the poor thing -- it was obviously disturbed...it would sit on its perch and begin rotating its head, circling its head around and around, eyes closed -- looked really bizarre...it wasn't up for adoption...(someone said that they were trying to "socialize" the bird, by allowing it to see other birds...I'm assuming that this parrot had been completely isolated or spent far too many hours alone in a cage...)

There's a lady in our neighborhood who rescued a parrot that had been kept most of the time in a covered cage and had pulled all its own feathers out. The poor thing is so mangy and probably won't ever grow all its feathers back. Very sad, although it has a very nice home now, at least.

And kids are advised to stay well away from the big ol' finger eating cutie.

290 Giant Foreign Devil  Mon, Jul 6, 2009 10:24:18pm

Explanation of my question, "Clancy" is taken from Banjo Paterson's poem "Clancy of the Overflow" which begins:

"I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better
Knowledge, sent to where I met him down the Lachlan, years ago,
He was shearing when I knew him, so I sent the letter to him,
Just `on spec', addressed as follows, `Clancy, of The Overflow'"

291 Annar  Tue, Jul 7, 2009 4:02:53am

I must have missed it; which section of the Ark was reserved for this species?

292 Yashmak  Tue, Jul 7, 2009 7:22:00am

re: #291 Annar

I must have missed it; which section of the Ark was reserved for this species?

They forgot to phone in their reservations, and got left behind with the unicorns.


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