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SasquatchOnSteroids Thu, Jul 9, 2009 7:43:46pm |
That might be reality a year from now.
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Arby Dwiar Thu, Jul 9, 2009 7:48:14pm |
They say that all good comedy involves an element of truth...
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The Left Thu, Jul 9, 2009 7:48:15pm |
re: #2 SasquatchOnSteroids
That might be reality a year from now.
I'm not convinced it's not already reality. That's about the level of analysis we already get on the Sunday am shows.
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Erik The Red Thu, Jul 9, 2009 7:48:41pm |
Sounds just like 44 and his cabinet. Arseholes.
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freetoken Thu, Jul 9, 2009 7:49:03pm |
I wish I could up-ding this video more than one.
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SasquatchOnSteroids Thu, Jul 9, 2009 7:50:08pm |
re: #4 iceweasel
I'm not convinced it's not already reality. That's about the level of analysis we already get on the Sunday am shows.
I haven't seen the Birch eyes yet, but it's getting close.
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FurryOldGuyJeans Thu, Jul 9, 2009 7:54:55pm |
re: #8 Erik The Red
Hello Lizards. Where has everyone gone?
Hiding from you; they left me here to tell you that.
*Zoit*
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Erik The Red Thu, Jul 9, 2009 7:55:56pm |
re: #9 FurryOldGuyJeans
Hiding from you; they left me here to tell you that.
*Zoit*
OK. I have a bottle of great single malt scotch. Care to join me?
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Erik The Red Thu, Jul 9, 2009 7:56:52pm |
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FurryOldGuyJeans Thu, Jul 9, 2009 7:58:01pm |
re: #10 Erik The Red
OK. I have a bottle of great single malt scotch. Care to join me?
*Snag* Oooh, just enough scotch for me! ;)
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albusteve Thu, Jul 9, 2009 7:58:25pm |
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DirtyDog Thu, Jul 9, 2009 7:59:20pm |
Wonder if the Big O has that tracker thing on his teleprompter?
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tradewind Thu, Jul 9, 2009 7:59:32pm |
You'd think this came from The Onion, but nooo.... someone actually phoned it in...
[Link: bighollywood.breitbart.com...]
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JacksonTn Thu, Jul 9, 2009 7:59:59pm |
re: #11 albusteve
looks like my cardiogram at the hospital
albusteve ... shut up! ...
Eddie Hinton ...
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Mich-again Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:00:24pm |
Lovin the Onion. Its become one of the best sites out there.
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FurryOldGuyJeans Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:00:38pm |
re: #16 DirtyDog
Wonder if the Big O has that tracker thing on his teleprompter?
Our Man Obama got the Mark I model last month, and is looking to the Mark II upgrades next week.
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Digital Display Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:01:02pm |
Royal pains was great tonight...Best new show of the summer...
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albusteve Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:01:25pm |
re: #18 JacksonTn
yer so nice....if I was half the woman you are my name would be Stephanie
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hous bin pharteen Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:01:30pm |
We are going to invade Sweden?
It must be with Obamo's takeover of GM.
I think they are after SAAB now!
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hous bin pharteen Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:03:18pm |
re: #16 DirtyDog
Telepromter, cell phone, portable lap top
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Walter L. Newton Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:05:05pm |
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albusteve Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:06:03pm |
District 9 looks kinda cool....should I get a sitter and go see it?
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Erik The Red Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:06:14pm |
re: #25 Walter L. Newton
It's not LOST.
Hey Walter, I may just catch up in the next couple of weeks now that I am here.
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Walter L. Newton Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:06:32pm |
re: #19 Mich-again
Lovin the Onion. Its become one of the best sites out there.
The skits are 100 times better than anything SNL has managed to barf up in the last few years and I am so surprised that they don't have some sort of show on cable or something (or did I miss it, I don't watch much TV).
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albusteve Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:06:50pm |
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Digital Display Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:07:00pm |
re: #25 Walter L. Newton
It's not LOST.
Lost isn't a summer show...Summer shows are mostly fun stuff...:) Like Royal pains
I like burn notice also...
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Walter L. Newton Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:07:29pm |
re: #27 Erik The Red
Hey Walter, I may just catch up in the next couple of weeks now that I am here.
Oh, please do, please do. You would be a lot of fun yapping about it with during the season coming up.
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Walter L. Newton Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:08:14pm |
re: #30 HoosierHoops
Lost isn't a summer show...Summer shows are mostly fun stuff...:) Like Royal pains
I like burn notice also...
I like skin viruses myself.
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Walter L. Newton Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:08:57pm |
re: #29 albusteve
thank god...one LOST is enough
Hey, are you one of those fuckers who are trying to squabble with me and tell me about LOST revisionism?
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:09:38pm |
re: #24 hous bin pharteen
Telepromter, cell phone, portable lap top
Well, Blackberries can handle real-time data feeds. So, yes he could have such a program, if it exsisted, on his Blackberry.
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FurryOldGuyJeans Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:10:19pm |
Colombian coffee comes with smuggled cocaine
Jul. 9, 2009 03:40 PM
Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS - Customs agents discovered an extra ingredient in a shipment of Colombian coffee: nearly a half-ton of cocaine.
U.S. Customs officer Troy Simon said Thursday it was his agency's biggest cocaine find at the Port of New Orleans since more than two tons turned up in a transformer shipment about 10 years ago.
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:10:42pm |
re: #30 HoosierHoops
Lost isn't a summer show...Summer shows are mostly fun stuff...:) Like Royal pains
I like burn notice also...
Royal Pains is OK, but Burn Notice is superb. I never miss it (I Tivo every new episode).
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albusteve Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:10:43pm |
re: #33 Walter L. Newton
Hey, are you one of those fuckers who are trying to squabble with me and tell me about LOST revisionism?
extreme squabble fucker
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SasquatchOnSteroids Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:11:08pm |
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:11:17pm |
re: #35 FurryOldGuyJeans
Colombian coffee comes with smuggled cocaine
Jul. 9, 2009 03:40 PM
Associated Press
For those who need an extra kick to wake up it the morning. :D
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:11:39pm |
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Digital Display Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:12:02pm |
re: #36 Dark_Falcon
Royal Pains is OK, but Burn Notice is superb. I never miss it (I Tivo every new episode).
I always TIVO Burn Notice.. I did again tonight but missed it.Going to watch it soon...Great show.
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3 wood Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:12:39pm |
Good evening.
I laughed out loud when I saw this item:
New York Times Considers $5 Monthly Web-Access Fee
July 9 (Bloomberg) -- New York Times Co. said in a survey of print subscribers that it’s considering a $5 monthly fee for access to its namesake newspaper’s Web site.
Times Co. also asked whether subscribers would be willing to pay a discounted fee of $2.50 a month for access to the site, in the poll confirmed today by Catherine Mathis, a company spokeswoman. Nytimes.com, the most visited among newspapers’ sites, is currently free.
Times Co. is contemplating additional sources of revenue as marketers slow spending on the Internet. Ad sales at the publisher’s sites, also including about.com and boston.com, fell 8 percent and 3.5 percent in the first quarter and fourth quarter of 2008 respectively.
Hey NYT executives! Please start charging your customers on the web. In fact don't stop at $5, that's for pikers. Go the full monty and demand $20 a month...., and raise your news stand price too...., double it in fact. That's the ticket.
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SteveC Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:13:25pm |
Florida Eliza Update!
The anesthesiologist says everything went as planned, operation concluded about 2240 Eastern time!
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jaunte Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:13:44pm |
re: #42 3 wood
You're right. They should do it simply to defend the honor of the Newspaper of Record!
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FurryOldGuyJeans Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:13:57pm |
re: #42 3 wood
The quicker they go broke the better, I say.
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jcm Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:14:34pm |
Confusion in the Administration?
Johnson Opens the Door to Post-Acquittal Detentions
Johnson said that “as a matter of legal authority,” the administration’s powers to detain someone under the law of war don’t expire for a detainee after he’s acquitted in court. “If you have authority under the law of war to detain someone” under the Supreme Court’s Hamdi ruling, “that is true irrespective of what happens on the prosecution side.”
So what's the point of sticking them in the civilian system if your going to hang on to them anyway? Why all the effort and cost of a trial?
Sounds like wanting to have their cake and eat it too.
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Walter L. Newton Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:14:55pm |
re: #43 SteveC
Florida Eliza Update!
The anesthesiologist says everything went as planned, operation concluded about 2240 Eastern time!
Good. Stable?
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SasquatchOnSteroids Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:15:00pm |
re: #39 Dark_Falcon
For those who need an extra kick to wake up it the morning. :D
HONEYI'M GOING TO WORK!HAVEYOUSEENMYKEYS?WHERE'SMYFUCKINGKEYS?SHITSHIT!INMYHANDS!BYEEE!
/collapse
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Killgore Trout Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:16:10pm |
re: #42 3 wood
They had a subscription plan last year that flopped. Web traffic is driven by the blogs and nobody's going to link to articles that people can't read.
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albusteve Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:17:34pm |
should anyone ask....Right Said Steve
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3 wood Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:18:22pm |
You could see this coming:
Roland Burris won't run for Senate seat in 2010
U.S. Sen. Roland Burris has decided NOT to seek election to the seat he fought the government to keep.Sen. Burris is planning to announce his decision Friday by issuing a statement to the press. But he’s reportedly not planning to field any questions from the press.
The decision by Burris was based on his inability to raise campaign funds; campaign disclosures with the Federal Election Commission are expected to be filed next week...and he has reportedly only raised approximately $20,000
Actually, I have it from a pretty good source that he only raised $750 in real money, the rest was dough he funneled to himself through friends to try to make it look better.
The Chicago Machine will find another hump out of the sewer to run.
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SteveC Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:18:35pm |
re: #48 Walter L. Newton
Good. Stable?
VERY short email I got implies that she is. Probably sent in a rush - I'll find out more tomorrow, I'm sure.
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sngnsgt Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:18:39pm |
LOL! I'm still laughing at the Obooty pic at Drudge!
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:19:38pm |
re: #47 jcm
Confusion in the Administration?
Johnson Opens the Door to Post-Acquittal Detentions
So what's the point of sticking them in the civilian system if your going to hang on to them anyway? Why all the effort and cost of a trial?
Sounds like wanting to have their cake and eat it too.
Obama wants to talk about trials so he doesn't look like he's doing a '180 on enemy combatants. He's figured out that he can't let some of these men go, ever, but his base would go even more crazy than usual if he admitted it.
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3 wood Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:19:52pm |
re: #44 jaunte
You're right. They should do it simply to defend the honor of the Newspaper of Record!
I think they should go all out to disprove the Law of Demand and Supply.
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Killgore Trout Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:19:57pm |
Parody?
Comments
After long consideration, COMMENTARY’s editors have decided to end the policy of publishing comments.
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Ojoe Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:20:15pm |
And:
"The old nations of the earth creep on at a snail's pace; the Republic thunders past with the rush of the express. The United States, the growth of a single century, has already reached the foremost rank among nations, and is destined soon to outdistance all others in the race. In population, in wealth, in annual saving and public credit, in freedom from debt, in agriculture and in manufactures, America already leads the civilized world."
—Andrew Carnegie, 1890s.
..."in freedom from debt"...
..."in public credit"...
Good night all.
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Walter L. Newton Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:20:20pm |
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:20:46pm |
re: #53 3 wood
You could see this coming:
Roland Burris won't run for Senate seat in 2010
Actually, I have it from a pretty good source that he only raised $750 in real money, the rest was dough he funneled to himself through friends to try to make it look better.The Chicago Machine will find another hump out of the sewer to run.
They can run their hump. Mark Kirk will blow their goon out of the water, and Illinois will finally have a sane senator again.
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jcm Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:20:50pm |
re: #56 Dark_Falcon
Obama wants to talk about trials so he doesn't look like he's doing a '180 on enemy combatants. He's figured out that he can't let some of these men go, ever, but his base would go even more crazy than usual if he admitted it.
Look we're having trials! I'm nice! Can I be popular too?
//
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jaunte Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:21:00pm |
re: #59 Killgore Trout
Commentary don't need no stinkin' commentary!
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SteveC Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:21:06pm |
re: #53 3 wood
Actually, I have it from a pretty good source that he only raised $750 in real money, the rest was dough he funneled to himself through friends to try to make it look better.
Damn. I think the average "man on the street" could raise $750 for any worthy cause with their eyes closed.
WORTHY cause, of course.
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The Left Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:21:22pm |
re: #47 jcm
Confusion in the Administration?
Johnson Opens the Door to Post-Acquittal Detentions
So what's the point of sticking them in the civilian system if your going to hang on to them anyway? Why all the effort and cost of a trial?
Sounds like wanting to have their cake and eat it too.
That's exactly what's going on. They want to shift them to the civilian system in order to give lip service to the promise of closing Guantanamo, while at the same time Obama's admin is asserting the right of the POTUS to detain people indefinitely, even if acquitted.
Meet the new NewSpeak, same as the Old NewSpeak.
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3 wood Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:22:03pm |
re: #51 Killgore Trout
They had a subscription plan last year that flopped. Web traffic is driven by the blogs and nobody's going to link to articles that people can't read.
Shhhh.
*whispering*
You know that, and I know that, and anybody with a functioning brain knows that, but I'm hoping they find that out the hard way.
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SasquatchOnSteroids Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:22:05pm |
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:22:41pm |
If I were in the Secret Service, I would be looking at whether it were in my legal power to keep Michelle from seeing the Drudge picture.
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The Left Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:22:46pm |
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Killgore Trout Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:23:23pm |
re: #64 jaunte
My first reaction is that it must be a parody but it's really hard to keep comments on right leaning sites clean these days. Maybe they just figured it isn't worth the effort.
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livefreeor die Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:23:39pm |
re: #55 sngnsgt
LOL! I'm still laughing at the Obooty pic at Drudge!
What a great name for it!
And here I hoped he'd be a change from the last Democrat who was President.
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jaunte Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:25:03pm |
re: #71 Killgore Trout
Too expensive to pay the night monitors.
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The Left Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:25:11pm |
NRO is considering comments at the Corner. (allegedly) Lowry had a post up a while back saying that.
I'll be surprised if it happens though.
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Walter L. Newton Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:25:32pm |
re: #71 Killgore Trout
My first reaction is that it must be a parody but it's really hard to keep comments on right leaning sites clean these days. Maybe they just figured it isn't worth the effort.
You got that. I noticed that the left blog are as clean as a whistle these days, must be the wonderful Obama administration who has calmed the liberal beast, and peace and love abound.
Give me a break.
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:25:32pm |
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jcm Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:25:47pm |
re: #69 EmmmieG
If I were in the Secret Service, I would be looking at whether it were in my legal power to keep Michelle from seeing the Drudge picture.
She won't kill, him..... maybe just a Lorena moment.
////
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livefreeor die Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:25:54pm |
re: #69 EmmmieG
If I were in the Secret Service, I would be looking at whether it were in my legal power to keep Michelle from seeing the Drudge picture.
And keep Hillary from sidling up to her with a big smirk on her face and saying, "Welcome to the club!"
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SasquatchOnSteroids Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:26:17pm |
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:26:37pm |
re: #75 iceweasel
NRO is considering comments at the Corner. (allegedly) Lowry had a post up a while back saying that.
I'll be surprised if it happens though.
I hope not. I was really proud the day I had an email partially quoted in the Corner, mostly because I knew they got a lot of email.
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jcm Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:28:07pm |
re: #80 SasquatchOnSteroids
I always lose at paper, rock, scissors.
NYT always loses at paper, rock, scissors.
FIFY
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FurryOldGuyJeans Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:30:00pm |
*ALERT* *ALERT*
Troll flounce in progress in previous thread!
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SteveC Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:30:06pm |
re: #69 EmmmieG
If I were in the Secret Service, I would be looking at whether it were in my legal power to keep Michelle from seeing the Drudge picture.
She does have it going on, though. Repugs, Demoncrats, treehuggers, redstate rednecks, moonbats, and The Sons of Katie Elder can all agreee on that one!
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Walter L. Newton Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:30:13pm |
re: #81 EmmmieG
I hope not. I was really proud the day I had an email partially quoted in the Corner, mostly because I knew they got a lot of email.
That's nothing, the FBI and the CIA are constantly quoting my emails.
///
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Mad Al-Jaffee Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:30:20pm |
I told you all that Charles would post this soon!
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The Left Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:30:48pm |
re: #81 EmmmieG
I hope not. I was really proud the day I had an email partially quoted in the Corner, mostly because I knew they got a lot of email.
WOW! That's cool!
You're right, they get tons of mail!
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Mad Al-Jaffee Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:32:06pm |
re: #28 Walter L. Newton
The skits are 100 times better than anything SNL has managed to barf up in the last few years and I am so surprised that they don't have some sort of show on cable or something (or did I miss it, I don't watch much TV).
The Onion did some work with the Dana Carvey Show (brilliant sketch comedy show that only lasted about 6 episodes) but what they did was never aired. There's a clip of one segment on the dvd that recently was released.
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The Left Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:32:14pm |
re: #76 Walter L. Newton
You got that. I noticed that the left blog are as clean as a whistle these days, must be the wonderful Obama administration who has calmed the liberal beast, and peace and love abound.
Give me a break.
DU remains a freakshow-- the Free Republic of the left, and Kos and HuffPo have always had pockets of insanity and nastiness.
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3 wood Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:33:08pm |
AIG back in the news:
AIG Seeks Clearance For More Bonuses
Friday, July 10, 2009American International Group is preparing to pay millions of dollars more in bonuses to several dozen top corporate executives after an earlier round of payments four months ago set off a national furor.
The troubled insurance giant has been pressing the federal government to bless the payments in hopes of shielding itself from renewed public outrage.
The request puts the administration's new compensation czar on the spot by seeking his opinion about bonuses that were promised long before he took his post.
AIG doesn't actually need the permission of Kenneth R. Feinberg, who President Obama appointed last month to oversee the compensation of top executives at seven firms that have received large federal bailouts. But officials at AIG, whose federal rescue package stands at $180 billion, have been reluctant to move forward without political cover from the government.
"Anytime we write a check to anybody" it is highly scrutinized, said an AIG official, who declined to speak on the record because the negotiations with Feinberg are ongoing. "We would want to feel comfortable that the government is comfortable with what we are doing."
The payments coming due next week include $2.4 million in bonuses for about 40 high-ranking executives at AIG, according to administration documents from earlier this year. Though the actual sum may have changed since then, the payments are much smaller than those that caused the upheaval in March.
Still, officials at AIG and within the government see them as a land mine.
How is Bush going to get blamed for this by the Democrats? You know he will, I'm just curious how they do it.
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freetoken Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:33:28pm |
re: #83 FurryOldGuyJeans
Looks like an old returnee finally snuck back in...
Not as fun as the meltdowns over crashed world-views.
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The Shadow Do Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:34:47pm |
re: #53 3 wood
You could see this coming:
Roland Burris won't run for Senate seat in 2010Actually, I have it from a pretty good source that he only raised $750 in real money, the rest was dough he funneled to himself through friends to try to make it look better.
The Chicago Machine will find another hump out of the sewer to run.
Talk about a tough job, how would you like to be the guy running the search for a machine-friendly candidate that is not blatently tattood with the 'I am totally corrupt' mark of the Daley's?
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FurryOldGuyJeans Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:34:51pm |
re: #91 freetoken
Looks like an old returnee finally snuck back in...
Not as fun as the meltdowns over crashed world-views.
Then forget I told you all about it.
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Mad Al-Jaffee Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:35:25pm |
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yochanan Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:36:27pm |
nice tocukas
first normal male reaction out of the zero so far was thinking he was the first black female POTUS
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_RememberTonyC Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:38:02pm |
congratulations to iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad on the birth of his new twins. here's the first photo of the newborns:
[Link: news.yahoo.com...]
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freetoken Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:38:27pm |
re: #95 yochanan
...first normal male reaction out of the zero so far was thinking he was the first black female POTUS
You're not doing one of the deep, cultural misogyny things, of which was discussed earlier, are you?
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avanti Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:38:34pm |
For the few that like Nate Silver of 538.com or poker in general, here's the hand he lost on after almost making day 3 of the worlds series of poker. It's a good primer on how much math goes into poker at the tournaments.
Nate finished in the top 700 or so out of 6500, but still a few 100 from the money.
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yochanan Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:38:44pm |
re: #92 The Shadow Do
Talk about a tough job, how would you like to be the guy running the search for a machine-friendly candidate that is not blatently tattood with the 'I am totally corrupt' mark of the Daley's?
BLOGO'S chief crook just flipped for the feds i think that is the real reason he isn't running
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3 wood Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:38:47pm |
re: #71 Killgore Trout
My first reaction is that it must be a parody but it's really hard to keep comments on right leaning sites clean these days. Maybe they just figured it isn't worth the effort.
Hmmm, I seem to recall someone with your nic dropped the f-bomb the other night out of the blue.
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SteveC Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:39:29pm |
AIG doesn't actually need the permission of Kenneth R. Feinberg, who President Obama appointed last month to oversee the compensation of top executives at seven firms that have received large federal bailouts. But officials at AIG, whose federal rescue package stands at $180 billion, have been reluctant to move forward without political cover from the government.
Plant a pecan tree and grow some nutz!
"What was the reaction of Executive Compensation Czar Feinburg to the news that AIG was contemplating new bonuses?"
"Mr. Feinburg is not an employee of AIG and has no input regarding our compensation policies. His opinion was not taken into consideration. Next question?"
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yochanan Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:39:58pm |
re: #97 freetoken
that would depend on if the wifie is asleep or not
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3 wood Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:40:41pm |
re: #92 The Shadow Do
Talk about a tough job, how would you like to be the guy running the search for a machine-friendly candidate that is not blatently tattood with the 'I am totally corrupt' mark of the Daley's?
They have no shame. I'm sure they have 3 or 4 candidates they are lining up already.
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Killian Bundy Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:40:54pm |
Teen pregnant after ‘swimming in pool’
A WOMAN is suing an Egyptian hotel claiming her daughter got pregnant - from using the swimming pool.
Magdalena Kwiatkowska's 13-year-old returned to Poland from their holiday expecting a baby.
Magdalena believes the teenager conceived from stray sperm after taking a dip in the hotel's mixed pool. She is now seeking compensation from the hotel.
A travel industry source said: "The mother is adamant that her daughter didn't meet any boys while she was there.
"She is determined to go ahead with the case."
Tourist authorities in Warsaw, Poland, have confirmed they received the bizarre complaint.
/m'kay . . .
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Racer X Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:42:13pm |
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3 wood Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:42:25pm |
re: #89 iceweasel
DU remains a freakshow-- the Free Republic of the left, and Kos and HuffPo have always had pockets of insanity and nastiness.
That, I can agree with.
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SteveC Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:43:37pm |
re: #104 Killian Bundy
A travel industry source said: "The mother is adamant that her daughter didn't meet any boys while she was there.
"Out in the back seat of my '57 Chevy... "
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Racer X Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:43:48pm |
re: #100 3 wood
Hmmm, I seem to recall someone with your nic dropped the f-bomb the other night out of the blue.
Dudes a Moby! I knew it!
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Walter L. Newton Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:43:55pm |
re: #100 3 wood
Hmmm, I seem to recall someone with your nic dropped the f-bomb the other night out of the blue.
Winged him!
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The Shadow Do Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:45:44pm |
re: #103 3 wood
They have no shame. I'm sure they have 3 or 4 candidates they are lining up already.
What are the odds Illinois elects a conservative Senator in 2010?
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Mad Al-Jaffee Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:46:07pm |
re: #105 Racer X
Ahh... just finishing dinner and a Paulaner Salvator Double Bock.
Life is good!
burp.
I had a Stone 13th Anniversary Ale tonight. One of the best beers I've had in a long time.
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livefreeor die Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:46:52pm |
re: #111 The Shadow Do
What are the odds Illinois elects a conservative Senator in 2010?
Dit-ka! Dit-ka!
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FurryOldGuyJeans Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:47:02pm |
For your dining pleasure tonight fresh roast troll buttocks are now being served in the previous thread.
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sngnsgt Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:47:31pm |
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ShanghaiEd Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:47:35pm |
re: #104 Killian Bundy
Teen pregnant after ‘swimming in pool’
/m'kay . . .
Unlikely, but is it technically impossible? Just askin'.
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MandyManners Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:48:04pm |
re: #83 FurryOldGuyJeans
*ALERT* *ALERT*
Troll flounce in progress in previous thread!
"Looks like meat's back on the menu, boys!"
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zombie Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:48:41pm |
That Onion video (which I just watched) is actually extremely funny -- but, tragically, it is no different from reality, since the network pundits do nothing but pander exactly as depicted in the skit. The only difference being, they don't need real-time feedback -- they already know ahead of time which buzzphrases will resonate with which audience.
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SteveC Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:49:17pm |
re: #114 FurryOldGuyJeans
For your dining pleasure tonight fresh roast troll buttocks are now being served in the previous thread.
Mess Hall, this is the bridge, you've got INCOMING!
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:49:39pm |
re: #111 The Shadow Do
What are the odds Illinois elects a conservative Senator in 2010?
Fairly good. Mark Kirk did vote for cap-and-trade, but given his district he had to (the North Shore is quite liberal on climate issues). But on taxes and defense, he's as solid as they come. He'll be the GOP candidate, and he'll win!
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yochanan Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:49:41pm |
re: #111 The Shadow Do
frankly given the cesspool I would be happy just to get a moderate republican.
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ShanghaiEd Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:50:24pm |
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3 wood Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:50:55pm |
re: #111 The Shadow Do
What are the odds Illinois elects a conservative Senator in 2010?
Given that the Illinois Republican party is still dysfunctional and the media is still in bed with the Democrats, don't hold your breath.
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:51:29pm |
re: #116 ShanghaiEd
Unlikely, but is it technically impossible? Just askin'.
No, it could happen, but the odds of it are infinitesimally small. Most likely she just felt like having some fun while away from home, and came back with more than she planned.
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:52:10pm |
re: #123 3 wood
Given that the Illinois Republican party is still dysfunctional and the media is still in bed with the Democrats, don't hold your breath.
I disagree. Mark Kirk can win, and I think he will. (says the Cubs fan)
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3 wood Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:52:12pm |
re: #116 ShanghaiEd
Unlikely, but is it technically impossible? Just askin'.
With the chemicals you have in a pool, no way this can happen.
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3 wood Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:53:30pm |
re: #125 Dark_Falcon
I disagree. Mark Kirk can win, and I think he will. (says the Cubs fan)
I did not say they couldn't just don't hold your breath.
Did you her about Dempster? Broke his toe goofing off
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Mad Al-Jaffee Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:53:49pm |
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Killian Bundy Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:54:20pm |
re: #116 ShanghaiEd
Unlikely, but is it technically impossible? Just askin'.
/hotel pools are chlorinated, kills fish, don't see why sperm would be any different
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realwest Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:55:53pm |
Good evening y'all - hope everyone is doing ok tonight!
What all are we talking about?
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jaunte Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:57:07pm |
re: #131 realwest
Hi realwest. Commentary has disabled comments, and the NYT is thinking of raising its prices for online content.
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FurryOldGuyJeans Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:57:31pm |
re: #131 realwest
Good evening y'all - hope everyone is doing ok tonight!
What all are we talking about?
Having boring troll fest in the previous thread from a returnee.
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SteveC Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:58:31pm |
re: #131 realwest
Good evening y'all - hope everyone is doing ok tonight!
What all are we talking about?
getting preggo in the hotel pool
getting ready to carve up some fresh gamey buttocks in the previous thread.
a 16 year old with a heart defect who has been in the hospital for almost a month came through a pretty delicate procedure - looks good so far
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The Shadow Do Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:59:03pm |
re: #123 3 wood
Given that the Illinois Republican party is still dysfunctional and the media is still in bed with the Democrats, don't hold your breath.
Thanks 3, I'll leave the suppresion of respiratory emissions to the libs thank you.
heh
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Gretchen G.Tiger Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:59:11pm |
Hello Night Lizards! It was kinda balmy today in Near Iowa.
Did anyone famous die today?
How are you-all and what are we talking about?
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Mich-again Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:00:22pm |
Calling 3 Wood, (I have a baseball question..)
What's better for a young hitter, an aluminum or wood bat? Common knowledge is the ball has more pop from an aluminum bat, but I think the wood bat has a bigger sweet spot because they are heavier.
Odd thing is I haven't seen a single wood bat in watching and coaching LL for 4 years. But my 14 YO tried one today at BP and loved it for the pop and distance. Could it be the aluminum bats the team has are old and lost their pop?
Just wondering..
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realwest Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:02:47pm |
re: #132 jaunte Hey my friend. Why did Commentary disable it's contents?
And the NYT won't get it - as Charles said on a radio interview about 6 months ago, they are dropping readers and revenues because of the LEFT bias in their reporting, not just in editorials and Op Ed. So raising their cost isn't gonna stop the financial bleeding.
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Mad Al-Jaffee Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:03:46pm |
Another good one from The Onion:
[Link: www.theonion.com...]
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realwest Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:03:52pm |
re: #133 FurryOldGuyJeans
Having boring troll fest in the previous thread from a returnee.
Yeah, I noticed when I went to the Bottom comments - Madistan or something like that? I was surprised Charles didn't ban his ass again. So I down dinged him anyway!
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jaunte Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:04:49pm |
re: #138 realwest
No explanation from Podhoretz on Commentary's new policy; I was encouraging the NYT to increase their prices, if only to defend their 'honor.'
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Steffan Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:05:03pm |
re: #137 Mich-again
I'd think wood bats are better. They're less expensive, and you may have noticed that MLB has a carpet ban on aluminum bats. You wanna argue that point, go talk to the Commissioner.
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FurryOldGuyJeans Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:05:10pm |
re: #140 realwest
Yeah, I noticed when I went to the Bottom comments - Madistan or something like that? I was surprised Charles didn't ban his ass again. So I down dinged him anyway!
The only good thing with this troll is getting my ding finger some exercise. ;)
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The Shadow Do Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:05:22pm |
Why in hell are there aluminum bats?
I never understood this.
*ping* vs *crack*
Why is this a good thing? I truly don't get this.
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Killgore Trout Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:05:29pm |
re: #83 FurryOldGuyJeans
He's a freeper. Probably upset about the traffic I sent their way about the racist Free Republic thread I linked to earlier. I think it should probably be a thread here on LGF. That shit's just inexcusable.
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realwest Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:06:27pm |
re: #134 SteveC
getting preggo in the hotel pool
getting ready to carve up some fresh gamey buttocks in the previous thread.
a 16 year old with a heart defect who has been in the hospital for almost a month came through a pretty delicate procedure - looks good so far
Hi SteveC - uh, YOU'RE getting preggo in a hotel room! What?
And I know about the idiot Madistan and don't know why Charles hasn't banned his ass - again.
I'm REALLY glad to hear about that 16 year old and will be praying for her/him.
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SteveC Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:08:29pm |
re: #144 The Shadow Do
Why in hell are there aluminum bats?
I never understood this.
*ping* vs *crack*
Why is this a good thing? I truly don't get this.
Nor do I. The ball comes off of an aluminum bat so fast, that in the hands of a MLB level player, the pitcher's life is literally at risk.
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FurryOldGuyJeans Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:08:56pm |
re: #145 Killgore Trout
He's a freeper. Probably upset about the traffic I sent their way about the racist Free Republic thread I linked to earlier. I think it should probably be a thread here on LGF. That shit's just inexcusable.
Then suggest it to our fearless blog owner, why don't ya?
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Killian Bundy Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:09:07pm |
Forget gas, batteries — pee is new power source
Urine-powered cars, homes and personal electronic devices could be available in six months with new technology developed by scientists from Ohio University.
Using a nickel-based electrode, the scientists can create large amounts of cheap hydrogen from urine that could be burned or used in fuel cells. "One cow can provide enough energy to supply hot water for 19 houses," said Gerardine Botte, a professor at Ohio University developing the technology. "Soldiers in the field could carry their own fuel."
/why do we need cap and tax again?
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JacksonTn Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:10:02pm |
re: #148 FurryOldGuyJeans
Then suggest it to our fearless blog owner, why don't ya?
FOJG ... I don't see how that is a great idea ... why even give them the exposure? ... most know what goes on over there ...
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Mich-again Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:10:15pm |
re: #142 Steffan
I'd think wood bats are better. They're less expensive, and you may have noticed that MLB has a carpet ban on aluminum bats. You wanna argue that point, go talk to the Commissioner.
No one would play 3rd base.
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Killgore Trout Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:10:36pm |
re: #148 FurryOldGuyJeans
He's aware and commented on it earlier.
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Racer X Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:10:38pm |
re: #144 The Shadow Do
Why in hell are there aluminum bats?
I never understood this.
*ping* vs *crack*
Why is this a good thing? I truly don't get this.
OK. When you whack a troll with an aluminum bat, does it still go "ping"? Or does it just whimper off into a corner and expire?
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realwest Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:11:07pm |
re: #144 The Shadow Do
Well I'm no expert - good field, no hit former second baseman here! - but the aluminum bats do supposedly make the ball go farther than the wood bats and also are lighter, enabling little leaguers to get the bat speed they need to really hit the ball.
I hate em, personally. But then again I hate the Designated Hitter Rule and the Baseball commissioner seems able to live with my stated dislikes so...................! LOL!
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SteveC Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:11:49pm |
re: #149 Killian Bundy
Urine-powered cars, homes and personal electronic devices could be available in six months with new technology developed by scientists from Ohio University.
Those diuretics I take are gonna make me a rich man! Wonder if I can start a retail outlet?
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The Shadow Do Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:11:49pm |
re: #147 SteveC
Nor do I. The ball comes off of an aluminum bat so fast, that in the hands of a MLB level player, the pitcher's life is literally at risk.
Pre aluminum, a friend of mine in little league, a pticher, caught a hot smash back to the mound that hit him in the head. He was blinded for life. And aluminum bats are a good thing? I don't get it.
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realwest Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:12:26pm |
re: #136 ggt
Hey hi ggt! Hope all is well - right now we seem to be talking about Steve C's getting pregnant in a hotel room and aluminum baseball bats vs wooden - sorry, I just got here myself!
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JacksonTn Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:13:18pm |
re: #155 SteveC
Those diuretics I take are gonna make me a rich man! Wonder if I can start a retail outlet?
SteveC .... hahaha ... who knew old men getting up in the middle of the night to go pee would save us all! ... you know there could be some sort of pee saving container ...
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SteveC Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:14:02pm |
re: #157 realwest
Hey hi ggt! Hope all is well - right now we seem to be talking about Steve C's getting pregnant in a hotel room and aluminum baseball bats vs wooden - sorry, I just got here myself!
It wasn't the room, it was the pool! And it wasn't me, it was some Egyptian girl!
What have I started!
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realwest Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:17:00pm |
re: #149 Killian Bundy
Hey Killian - does that mean that with certain special hydrogen type vehicles y'all could just pull over to the side of the road, whip off the gas cap and uh, fill 'er up?
Cool!
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The Left Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:20:25pm |
The only way you can get pregnant from swimming in a hotel pool is if you're having sex in that pool.
People have mentioned the chemicals in the pool, but another issue is temperature. Sperm can stay viable inside the vagina for (i think) up to 3 days,(yikes!), but sperm rapidly degrades if not 'stored' at the right temperature.
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realwest Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:21:06pm |
re: #156 The Shadow Do
Say, did you catch my #154 to you? Major league players - or for that matter college and single through triple A level players could never use those metal bats - I mean they really do give MUCH faster bat speed and pitchers, third basemen and second basemen would be putting their lives on the line if they allowed aluminum bats to be used. 8-14 year olds, not so much!
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Racer X Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:21:46pm |
re: #161 iceweasel
I once impregnated a girl simply by looking at her. Yes, I am that good.
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realwest Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:22:12pm |
re: #159 SteveC
It wasn't the room, it was the pool! And it wasn't me, it was some Egyptian girl!
What have I started!
Well some strange (and frankly a few nasty) rumors about yourself, for one thing! LOL!
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MandyManners Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:22:31pm |
re: #163 Racer X
I once impregnated a girl simply by looking at her. Yes, I am that good.
Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude.
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realwest Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:23:26pm |
re: #163 Racer X
I once impregnated a girl simply by looking at her. Yes, I am that good.
and obviously, that fast!
;)
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The Left Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:23:33pm |
re: #138 realwest
Hey my friend. Why did Commentary disable it's contents?
And the NYT won't get it - as Charles said on a radio interview about 6 months ago, they are dropping readers and revenues because of the LEFT bias in their reporting, not just in editorials and Op Ed. So raising their cost isn't gonna stop the financial bleeding.
I'd disagree only slightly to point out that many on 'the left' have despised the Times for years now and they (we) are also part of the reason why it's tanking. The content sucks, and people on the progressive left have agreed with that assessment for years now.
The right was never subscribing to the times in the first place. It's the prog left leaving them in droves.
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Steffan Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:24:59pm |
re: #144 The Shadow Do
They came out when I was in high school -- I was the equipment manager for the team. They were supposedly better than plain wood, and Saved The Trees.
There were a couple of players who liked them -- everyone else went with the plain ol' standard, wood. Scroll down to Rule 1.10 (a) if you doubt me. :p
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RunningBare Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:25:13pm |
re: #89 iceweasel
DU remains a freakshow-- the Free Republic of the left, and Kos and HuffPo have always had pockets of insanity and nastiness.
DU and FR are both fun to read, because it's like watching a train wreck in progress. Good times.
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Mich-again Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:25:37pm |
re: #154 realwest
- but the aluminum bats do supposedly make the ball go farther than the wood bats and also are lighter, enabling little leaguers to get the bat speed they need to really hit the ball.
From physics, the amount of energy the ball gets from the bat is a function of both the bat and ball speed and mass, the angle of the impact and how much energy is absorbed by the bat and the ball in the collision. You want an elastic collision but that isn't possible in the real world. Somewhere there is a maximum value of bat speed, weight and elasticity, a perfect match of bat and batter.
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Racer X Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:25:45pm |
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Mich-again Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:26:43pm |
re: #154 realwest
- but the aluminum bats do supposedly make the ball go farther than the wood bats and also are lighter, enabling little leaguers to get the bat speed they need to really hit the ball.
From physics, the amount of energy the ball gets from the bat is a function of both the bat and ball speed and mass, the angle of the impact and how much energy is absorbed by the bat and the ball in the collision. You want an elastic collision but that isn't possible in the real world. Somewhere there is a maximum value of bat speed, weight and elasticity, a perfect match of bat and batter.
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Mich-again Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:27:18pm |
That might just be my first double post ever. Sorry.
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RunningBare Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:27:56pm |
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realwest Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:29:01pm |
re: #167 iceweasel
Well when the NY Herald Tribune went under I switched to the NY Times (yes, I am that old!) for about six months and - except for the Sunday edition it just sucked. Now even the Sunday editions sucks.
So if the Left doesn't like it and the Right doesn't like it, who the hell is buying the NYTimes? Other than the Onion and Iowahawk, perhaps, looking for fresh material I mean!
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RunningBare Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:29:50pm |
re: #173 Mich-again
That might just be my first double post ever. Sorry.
So, if I understand you right, you're trying to say that from physics, the amount of energy the ball gets from the bat is a function of both the bat and ball speed and mass, the angle of the impact and how much energy is absorbed by the bat and the ball in the collision. You want an elastic collision but that isn't possible in the real world. Somewhere there is a maximum value of bat speed, weight and elasticity, a perfect match of bat and batter.
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SteveC Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:30:40pm |
re: #162 realwest
Say, did you catch my #154 to you? Major league players - or for that matter college and single through triple A level players could never use those metal bats - I mean they really do give MUCH faster bat speed and pitchers, third basemen and second basemen would be putting their lives on the line if they allowed aluminum bats to be used. 8-14 year olds, not so much!
Hit Baseball to the chest at the precise moment can trigger Ventricular
Defibrillation - throw the heart's electrical system out of sync and causes the heart to beat uncontrollably. You've got about a minute to figure out what is going on and SLAM your fist down into the ribcage over the heart as hard as possible to reset it.
Thankfully, it has to happen at the exact moment between beat when the heart's electrical system is reloading itself for the next beat to trigger Vent Defib, which is why 99.99% of all baseball strikes to the chest leave the player rolling on the ground thinking that a mule just kicked him.
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livefreeor die Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:31:14pm |
re: #175 realwest
Well when the NY Herald Tribune went under I switched to the NY Times (yes, I am that old!) for about six months and - except for the Sunday edition it just sucked. Now even the Sunday editions sucks.
So if the Left doesn't like it and the Right doesn't like it, who the hell is buying the NYTimes? Other than the Onion and Iowahawk, perhaps, looking for fresh material I mean!
My father is a conservative but he is still bound and determined to believe that the NYTimes publishes facts. I think he's mostly obsessed with their crossword puzzles.
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realwest Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:31:36pm |
re: #168 Steffan
Really? They use aluminum bats in High School? Man, I'd want to play center field or left field - deep center and deep left for that matter if I was back in HS again.
Geebus, some HS hitters in my day, using wooden bats, could crush the ball - shudder to think of playing second base when those dudes used metal bats!
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realwest Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:33:19pm |
re: #170 Mich-again
From physics, the amount of energy the ball gets from the bat is a function of both the bat and ball speed and mass, the angle of the impact and how much energy is absorbed by the bat and the ball in the collision. You want an elastic collision but that isn't possible in the real world. Somewhere there is a maximum value of bat speed, weight and elasticity, a perfect match of bat and batter.
Um, hi ya Mitch! If you say so!
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Steffan Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:33:30pm |
re: #161 iceweasel
The only way you can get pregnant from swimming in a hotel pool is if you're having sex in that pool.
People have mentioned the chemicals in the pool, but another issue is temperature. Sperm can stay viable inside the vagina for (i think) up to 3 days,(yikes!), but sperm rapidly degrades if not 'stored' at the right temperature.
I recall a story -- it may be a "sea story" -- about a couple in the ACW. He was wounded in a place which is guaranteed to make all of us mere males cringe. The bullet supposedly went through one of his family jewels and finally lodged in the abdomen of a spectator, an otherwise virgin girl.
Got her right in the Fallopian tubes. As she recuperated, it was noticed that she was pregnant. The story I heard said that the soldier hunted down and married the girl, and they lived more or less Happily Ever After.
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Pvt Bin Jammin Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:33:45pm |
Hi there lizards. I caught a little bit of that troll action on the previous thread. OMG
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RunningBare Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:33:49pm |
re: #175 realwest
Well when the NY Herald Tribune went under I switched to the NY Times (yes, I am that old!) for about six months and - except for the Sunday edition it just sucked. Now even the Sunday editions sucks.
So if the Left doesn't like it and the Right doesn't like it, who the hell is buying the NYTimes? Other than the Onion and Iowahawk, perhaps, looking for fresh material I mean!
Well, they gotta make those giant paper-mache puppets for all the protests out of something.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:35:03pm |
re: #181 Steffan
I recall a story -- it may be a "sea story" -- about a couple in the ACW. He was wounded in a place which is guaranteed to make all of us mere males cringe. The bullet supposedly went through one of his family jewels and finally lodged in the abdomen of a spectator, an otherwise virgin girl.
Got her right in the Fallopian tubes. As she recuperated, it was noticed that she was pregnant. The story I heard said that the soldier hunted down and married the girl, and they lived more or less Happily Ever After.
Mythbusters did a show on this one. It was supposed to be a Civil war soldier. Anyway, not possible. Viable sperm do not survive.
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livefreeor die Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:35:10pm |
re: #182 Pvt Bin Jammin
Hi there lizards. I caught a little bit of that troll action on the previous thread. OMG
It looked like the troll had been marinating awhile before it showed up.
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freetoken Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:35:12pm |
re: #145 Killgore Trout
Probably upset about the traffic I sent their way about the racist Free Republic thread I linked to earlier.
Not just that thread. I checked out the FR last night and there were a couple of threads over their that had some rather choice comments.
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stuck in california Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:35:26pm |
re: #170 Mich-again
Ohhh, I saw Dave Kingman do that once....
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pat Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:35:56pm |
OK. That is a true classic. A wonderful skit. Should be in every college Poli Sci and Marketing class room.
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RunningBare Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:36:38pm |
re: #178 livefreeor die
My father is a conservative but he is still bound and determined to believe that the NYTimes publishes facts. I think he's mostly obsessed with their crossword puzzles.
I think there is still a certain element of the population that believes the newspapers, and evening news as being 100% trustworthy fact - elderly people in my family would have sworn that Dan Rather was as trustworthy as Jesus, for example.
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realwest Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:36:57pm |
re: #178 livefreeor die
My father is a conservative but he is still bound and determined to believe that the NYTimes publishes facts. I think he's mostly obsessed with their crossword puzzles.
Hey livefreeor die! I understand the obsession with the crossword puzzles - still pisses me off that an old girlfriend used to do em with an ink pen, not a pencil but how could he have been conservative and not have noticed the bias of the NYT? I mean I guess it HAS gotten more leftward over the years, but it was always "leftward" - at least since The Vietnam War anyway.
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jaunte Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:37:28pm |
re: #188 pat
I've seen that same dynamic happen with an outspoken, opinionated person in focus group research. It tended to skew the whole group if the moderator wasn't on their toes.
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pat Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:37:32pm |
re: #137 Mich-again
I thought wood bats were outlawed in Little League and most High Schools?
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sngnsgt Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:39:52pm |
re: #35 FurryOldGuyJeans
Colombian coffee comes with smuggled cocaine
Jul. 9, 2009 03:40 PM
Associated Press
I thought that Splenda tasted different!
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realwest Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:40:24pm |
re: #182 Pvt Bin Jammin
Hey hi there PBJ - how are you doing tonight?
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SteveC Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:40:31pm |
re: #181 Steffan
Got her right in the Fallopian tubes. As she recuperated, it was noticed that she was pregnant. The story I heard said that the soldier hunted down and married the girl, and they lived more or less Happily Ever After.
A child that was into everything was plundering in his brother's closet and found a tube of little golden candies. He ate one - hard as a rock, but didn't taste that bad. He had another and another, and finally just poured the entire tube into his mouth.
"JUNIOR!" his mother screamed, and the next thing he knows, he's sitting on the exam table at the doctors office.
"Doctor, my son swallowed an entire tube of B-Bs!" So the doctor checks the boy out, takes x rays, and finally says "Mam, I think he's going to be ok. They just have to work his way through his system like anything would. Bring him back next week and we'll do a follow up x ray and make sure nothing is stuck."
They hadn't been home an hour when the little boy came running into the room. "MOM! I was playing with my wee-wee and shot the dog!"
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freetoken Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:40:34pm |
The FR has merged with the VDARE crowd, if indeed there was ever much of a difference.
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livefreeor die Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:40:42pm |
re: #190 realwest
Hey livefreeor die! I understand the obsession with the crossword puzzles - still pisses me off that an old girlfriend used to do em with an ink pen, not a pencil but how could he have been conservative and not have noticed the bias of the NYT? I mean I guess it HAS gotten more leftward over the years, but it was always "leftward" - at least since The Vietnam War anyway.
It continually baffles me and my husband. I can only explain it as heavy denial-my grandparents always swore by the NYT when he was growing up. I'm constantly pointing out how biased they are to him-and we've banned it from our house. Maybe it's some weird variation of Stockholm syndrome!
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Noam Sayin' Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:40:54pm |
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RunningBare Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:41:07pm |
re: #193 sngnsgt
I thought that Splenda tasted different!
Either way, sounds like the columbian coffee farmers have figured out a way to sell more coffee during these tough economic times.
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Killgore Trout Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:42:04pm |
re: #186 freetoken
It's a cesspool. Even on blogs like Hot Air they refer to Michelle as "the First Wookie". Malkin's place and Crazy Pam are even worse. Frankly I'm disgusted at what has happened to the right wing blogoshpere. I'm embarrassed that I ever took these people seriously.
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GGMac Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:42:08pm |
re: #175 realwest
Well when the NY Herald Tribune went under I switched to the NY Times (yes, I am that old!) for about six months and - except for the Sunday edition it just sucked. Now even the Sunday editions sucks.
So if the Left doesn't like it and the Right doesn't like it, who the hell is buying the NYTimes? Other than the Onion and Iowahawk, perhaps, looking for fresh material I mean!
Hi. realwest - your comment sparked a memory from late 1940s into 1950s: do you remember the Tribune's Fresh Air Fund? And wasn't that a great thing...
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Bobblehead Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:42:49pm |
Damn, I posted this on the previous thread in error. Here we go again:
Big Stick Diplomacy
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realwest Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:43:12pm |
re: #183 RunningBare
ROTFL! Great one RunningBare!
Pretty soon - if things don't pick up for the NYT they'll close the Boston Globe and then what will all the Massachussetts folks do for Paper Mache puppets! And having elected Ted Kennedy about 6 or 7 times and John Kerry for at least two terms and Patrick Deval govenor, y'all know that they've got a LOT of moonbats in that state!
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Gretchen G.Tiger Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:43:58pm |
re: #153 Racer X
OK. When you whack a troll with an aluminum bat, does it still go "ping"? Or does it just whimper off into a corner and expire?
I think you'd have to run that by Mandy. She may not approve of aluminum bats.
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Steffan Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:44:30pm |
re: #175 realwest
Well when the NY Herald Tribune went under I switched to the NY Times (yes, I am that old!) for about six months and - except for the Sunday edition it just sucked. Now even the Sunday editions sucks.
So if the Left doesn't like it and the Right doesn't like it, who the hell is buying the NYTimes? Other than the Onion and Iowahawk, perhaps, looking for fresh material I mean!
Their target audience is the yuppies and preppies living east of the Hudson River. Everything else is flyover country. The NYT has become the local paper for the West Side of Manhattan. (With all that's going on in Manhattan lately, you'd think Peter Stuyvesant would want to sell it back to the Canarsie Indians.)
IMNSHO, the WSJ does a better job with far less bias and smug posturing.
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livefreeor die Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:44:34pm |
re: #202 Bobblehead
Damn, I posted this on the previous thread in error. Here we go again:
Big Stick Diplomacy
At least she's not ogling it the way her husband was checking out the ladies.
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Mich-again Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:44:34pm |
re: #192 pat
I thought wood bats were outlawed in Little League and most High Schools?
Maybe? We'll ask before the game..
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SteveC Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:45:15pm |
re: #192 pat
I thought wood bats were outlawed in Little League and most High Schools?
I think they are.
Mich, buy him two wood bats - one about 3 ounces heavier than the other. Practice with the heavier bat. During games, use the lighter bat. He'll get around on the pitch so fast it will scare him!
Pick a bat weight by handing him a bat and telling him to hold it with one hand, and extend that arm away from his body (like he'd hold his arms if he were pretending to fly.) The other arm is in it's normal position. When he gets a bat that feels comfortable being held like that, that's the one. Then pick the heavier bat.
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realwest Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:45:34pm |
re: #189 RunningBare
Really? Even after Charles pwned Dan Rather and "60 Minutes" with Rathergate?
(shakes head with dismay).
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freetoken Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:45:51pm |
re: #200 Killgore Trout
No kidding. Well, Malkin is loved by the VDARE crowd, so that should be a clue. I was very surprised though that both Ed M. and Allahpundit put up with the comments - they could stop them if they wanted to.
Here for instance is just one of the FR comments:
The only "solution" (and it's only partial) is to "laager up" in a region that is predominated by your own folk tribe.
Move to a region where the savages are vastly outnumbered, and are afraid of the dominant, more civilized culture.
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RunningBare Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:45:57pm |
re: #200 Killgore Trout
It's a cesspool. Even on blogs like Hot Air they refer to Michelle as "the First Wookie". Malkin's place and Crazy Pam are even worse. Frankly I'm disgusted at what has happened to the right wing blogoshpere. I'm embarrassed that I ever took these people seriously.
That's why I dont' do stuff like that. I watched and read a lot of the left wing blogosphere the past 8 years or so, and was impressed by the sensible decorum, fair-minded discussions, and the tremendous respect they showed for the president and his wife. They set an example that we should all aspire to.
;)
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Pvt Bin Jammin Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:46:04pm |
re: #194 realwest
Hey hi there PBJ - how are you doing tonight?
Can't complain, I guess. Hope you are doing better.
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RunningBare Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:47:26pm |
re: #203 realwest
ROTFL! Great one RunningBare!
Pretty soon - if things don't pick up for the NYT they'll close the Boston Globe and then what will all the Massachussetts folks do for Paper Mache puppets! And having elected Ted Kennedy about 6 or 7 times and John Kerry for at least two terms and Patrick Deval govenor, y'all know that they've got a LOT of moonbats in that state!
Dont' worry. The people of Boston will be fine. There's always the Herald. I wish they'd use John Tomase for paper mache, though.
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RunningBare Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:48:14pm |
re: #210 realwest
Really? Even after Charles pwned Dan Rather and "60 Minutes" with Rathergate?
(shakes head with dismay).
Most probably never even heard about it, frankly.
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realwest Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:48:55pm |
re: #196 freetoken
Uh, I know what FR is (made the mistake of going there twice) but what is VDARE ?
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livefreeor die Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:49:06pm |
re: #216 RunningBare
Most probably never even heard about it, frankly.
And that was on one of them newfangled blogs.
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esch Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:49:30pm |
re: #163 Racer X
I once impregnated a girl simply by looking at her. Yes, I am that good.
"Here's looking at you, kid"
/
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Steffan Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:50:36pm |
re: #179 realwest
Really? They use aluminum bats in High School? Man, I'd want to play center field or left field - deep center and deep left for that matter if I was back in HS again.
Geebus, some HS hitters in my day, using wooden bats, could crush the ball - shudder to think of playing second base when those dudes used metal bats!
High school and college. Also Little League.
The Louisville Slugger website offers quite a number of aluminum and composite bats. IMHO, though, nothing will replace wood.
Incidentally, the Louisville Slugger company is celebrating its 125th anniversary.
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realwest Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:50:54pm |
re: #198 Noam Sayin'
HEY NOAM! Good to see you my friend! Yeah, every once in a while I get off a good one - even Racer X liked it!
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Gretchen G.Tiger Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:51:01pm |
Well, Lizards, I have a pile of books I've committed to finishing by the end of summer.
Have a great evening all!
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RunningBare Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:51:23pm |
re: #218 livefreeor die
And that was on one of them newfangled blogs.
Well, when peope have only access to limited news sources, they dont' see what's going on. In this age of news everywhere, 24/7/365, it's harder to spread bullshit without it being ferreted out.
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realwest Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:52:37pm |
re: #201 GGMac
Hi. realwest - your comment sparked a memory from late 1940s into 1950s: do you remember the Tribune's Fresh Air Fund? And wasn't that a great thing...
My gosh - I had forgotten that Fresh Air Fund and yes it surely was a very good thing! Thanks for the memories!
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SasquatchOnSteroids Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:55:23pm |
what does the double spinning wheel mean ?
Keep staring, idiot, maybe it'll grow into three ?
hypnotic....cheeeeeesebeeeerrrggggeeeerrr.
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freetoken Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:55:32pm |
re: #217 realwest
Uh, I know what FR is (made the mistake of going there twice) but what is VDARE ?
It is a racist project (and website) of one Mr. Steve Sailer, a true persona non grata here at LGF.
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livefreeor die Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:56:09pm |
Well, I better get some sleep-I'm going to make strawberry jam tomorrow during the baby's naps and if he sleeps really well, I'll be able to make currant jam too.
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The Shadow Do Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:56:10pm |
re: #220 Steffan
High school and college. Also Little League.
The Louisville Slugger website offers quite a number of aluminum and composite bats. IMHO, though, nothing will replace wood.
Incidentally, the Louisville Slugger company is celebrating its 125th anniversary.
I took the tour of the Louisville Slugger bat factory. Very cool. Racks of bats made for the stars past and present. Very, very cool.
I have no interest in visiting the Alcoa bat factory.
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realwest Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:56:47pm |
re: #206 Steffan
"IMNSHO, the WSJ does a better job with far less bias and smug posturing." I agree with that one - a lot. The WSJ however has a major advantage over the NYT; the WSJ uses, you know, editors. Most of their news is fairly straight forward reporting - and that's what I hate so much about the NYT and AP and Rueters - they'll report ANY story, for example, about the Palestinians and even though totally unrelated to the story, they'll get a shot in at Israel.
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ArchangelMichael Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:57:02pm |
re: #179 realwest
Really? They use aluminum bats in High School? Man, I'd want to play center field or left field - deep center and deep left for that matter if I was back in HS again.
Geebus, some HS hitters in my day, using wooden bats, could crush the ball - shudder to think of playing second base when those dudes used metal bats!
When I played in Little League, wood bats were not banned but no one would use them because when you got a hit with one it hurt your hands almost as bad as getting hit by a pitch. Perhaps this is only a problem when you are a 4th grader though.
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ShanghaiEd Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:57:22pm |
re: #217 realwest
Uh, I know what FR is (made the mistake of going there twice) but what is VDARE ?
Basically, VDARE is about "racial purity." If you know what I mean.
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Gus Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:57:26pm |
re: #212 RunningBare
That's why I dont' do stuff like that. I watched and read a lot of the left wing blogosphere the past 8 years or so, and was impressed by the sensible decorum, fair-minded discussions, and the tremendous respect they showed for the president and his wife. They set an example that we should all aspire to.
;)
I've always been kind of sympathetic to first ladies. I say ladies since we have yet to elect a woman as POTUS. They're sort of cast into the spotlight. You can't really gauge the ideology of a spouse in the end. Hillary was the first to push that envelope with me but she did back off from the Evitaisms in the end.
More or less. My favorite to date is Laura Bush. I really liked Betty Ford and Nancy Reagan. I even think that Rosalynn Carter has much to admire. Imagine having a husband like Jimmy?
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FurryOldGuyJeans Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:59:10pm |
re: #212 RunningBare
That's why I dont' do stuff like that. I watched and read a lot of the left wing blogosphere the past 8 years or so, and was impressed by the sensible decorum, fair-minded discussions, and the tremendous respect they showed for the president and his wife. They set an example that we should all aspire to.
;)
I want some of whatever you been ingesting that warps reality so completely. ;)
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freetoken Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:59:27pm |
re: #226 freetoken
Indeed, as a follow up to FR... one of the recent disgusting threads over there includes a comment with posts to one of Mr. Sailer's VDARE essays on IQ.
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Jul 9, 2009 9:59:31pm |
re: #233 ShanghaiEd
Basically, VDARE is about
"racial purity"Bad Craziness.fixed
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realwest Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:00:02pm |
re: #213 Pvt Bin Jammin
I am doing better, thanks for asking! Glad to hear about how you're doing too.
So what's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?
Woops, just remembered that PBJ is married to a really big, strong guy.
nevermind!
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Steffan Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:00:05pm |
re: #169 RunningBare
DU and FR are both fun to read, because it's like watching a train wreck in progress. Good times.
Actually, if you want something fun to watch, check out DUmmie Funnies.
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freetoken Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:00:23pm |
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Gus Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:00:25pm |
re: #233 ShanghaiEd
Basically, VDARE is about "racial purity." If you know what I mean.
I see it like this. VDARE is akin to the BNP and David Duke. I could say more if prodded.
/
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Pvt Bin Jammin Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:01:13pm |
re: #238 realwest
I am doing better, thanks for asking! Glad to hear about how you're doing too.
So what's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?
Woops, just remembered that PBJ is married to a really big, strong guy.
nevermind!
;-) Glad your are felling better, RW.
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mrshankly01 Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:02:03pm |
re: #232 ArchangelMichael
Haha, naw, I hurt my hands the other day at a batting cage with a wooden bat. It was fun, though.
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realwest Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:02:20pm |
re: #219 esch
Hey esch! Nice entrance there - I reckon you're still in a good mood from talking to that contract employee hiring dude!
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Pvt Bin Jammin Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:02:31pm |
re: #236 freetoken
Indeed, as a follow up to FR... one of the recent disgusting threads over there includes a comment with posts to one of Mr. Sailer's VDARE essays on IQ.
I am aware of VDARE, freaky. Has FR always been as bad as they seem to be now?
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RunningBare Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:02:56pm |
re: #234 Gus 802
I've always been kind of sympathetic to first ladies. I say ladies since we have yet to elect a woman as POTUS. They're sort of cast into the spotlight. You can't really gauge the ideology of a spouse in the end. Hillary was the first to push that envelope with me but she did back off from the Evitaisms in the end.
More or less. My favorite to date is Laura Bush. I really liked Betty Ford and Nancy Reagan. I even think that Rosalynn Carter has much to admire. Imagine having a husband like Jimmy?
I can pretty much agree with all that. With one caveat - Michelle Obama has said some things that have really worried and irritated me (like the "for the first time..." comment, etc...) but even I wouldn't refer to her by terms that could be construed as racial. Being a minority myself, I am, perhaps, more sensitive about that sort of thing. The "First Wookie" crap? There's a lot to criticize her for, politically, but it has nothing to do with race, or her appearance, and everything to do with being ugly on the inside, IMHO.
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fat bastard vegetarian Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:03:04pm |
Anybody seen the pic of Obama staring at the rather nice ass on Drudge right now?
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FurryOldGuyJeans Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:03:56pm |
re: #247 fat bastard vegetarian
Anybody seen the pic of Obama staring at the rather nice ass on Drudge right now?
Nope, never, only been on drudge for at least 6 hours.
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RunningBare Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:04:08pm |
re: #239 Steffan
Actually, if you want something fun to watch, check out DUmmie Funnies.
I've read that before. Some gems there, for sure!
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esch Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:04:47pm |
re: #244 realwest
Hey man.
Lol yeah it just kind of slipped out.
/ba-dum-bum
We're having beers tomorrow afternoon to try to talk me into going back there. No chance of that, but hey, FREE BEER!
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fat bastard vegetarian Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:05:15pm |
re: #234 Gus 802
I thought Rosalynn was an excellent First Lady. The First Man? Not so much.
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realwest Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:05:22pm |
re: #226 freetoken
It is a racist project (and website) of one Mr. Steve Sailer, a true persona non grata here at LGF.
Ah, thanks a lot - I was tempted to ask what kind of a racist project, but then realized I didn't care. If you and KT hate it, that's good enough for me.
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fat bastard vegetarian Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:05:37pm |
re: #249 FurryOldGuyJeans
Just got on the interweaves...sorry.
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pat Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:05:50pm |
re: #247 fat bastard vegetarian
Set up pic. Frog was looking at butt. Obama was looking at what Frog was. Watching the irises.
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The Shadow Do Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:06:19pm |
re: #247 fat bastard vegetarian
Anybody seen the pic of Obama staring at the rather nice ass on Drudge right now?
From me he gets a pass on this. And only on this.
Nice ass!
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esch Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:06:30pm |
re: #247 fat bastard vegetarian
Anybody seen the pic of Obama staring at the rather nice ass on Drudge right now?
The 16 year old ass?
Yep. Talk about an opportunity. Will the right run with it?
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Pvt Bin Jammin Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:06:31pm |
re: #252 fat bastard vegetarian
I am sure Rosalyn has had her hands full with that one.
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fat bastard vegetarian Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:06:52pm |
re: #255 pat
Frog looks like he's laughing that the Bammer is lookin'!
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SasquatchOnSteroids Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:07:28pm |
Early TEE Party tomorrow.
Loser pays the entire loop.
We all agreed while enjoying 4th of July beverages.
There will be screaming and gnashing of teeth.
Nite.
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fat bastard vegetarian Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:07:51pm |
re: #257 esch
No. She's not 16. Please tell me she is not 16.
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Charles Johnson Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:08:10pm |
By the way, Robert Spencer spewed a bunch of venom in my direction today. Yawn.
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Steffan Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:08:12pm |
re: #214 RunningBare
Dont' worry. The people of Boston will be fine. There's always the Herald. I wish they'd use John Tomase for paper mache, though.
I'm sure they could get enough fish wrap and birdcage linings if they use the press releases from Teddy the Aquanaut and Lurch.
What's to miss about the Boston Globe?
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FurryOldGuyJeans Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:08:14pm |
re: #239 Steffan
Actually, if you want something fun to watch, check out DUmmie Funnies.
Thank you, thank you, thank you so very much for that link. Now I can get a whiff from the cesspool without actually having to dive all the way in.
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Gus Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:08:31pm |
re: #246 RunningBare
I can pretty much agree with all that. With one caveat - Michelle Obama has said some things that have really worried and irritated me (like the "for the first time..." comment, etc...) but even I wouldn't refer to her by terms that could be construed as racial. Being a minority myself, I am, perhaps, more sensitive about that sort of thing. The "First Wookie" crap? There's a lot to criticize her for, politically, but it has nothing to do with race, or her appearance, and everything to do with being ugly on the inside, IMHO.
I hear you. Knowing that she's friends with Bernardine Dohrn has that effect on me. Then there's the "for the first time I am proud" comment and her association with Rev. Wright's church. If she manages to lay low in light of this then I think things will be acceptable to an extent. Otherwise I'm not too happy about the current status.
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freetoken Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:08:38pm |
re: #245 Pvt Bin Jammin
Has FR always been as bad as they seem to be now?
Don't know. I only started to view FR a couple of months ago when I started to skim a variety of "right wing" blogs, trying to feel which way the wind was blowing.
And an ill wind it is.
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fat bastard vegetarian Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:08:42pm |
re: #256 The Shadow Do
Just what I was thinkin'. But, PLEASE TELL ME SHE IS NOT 16!
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MrPaulRevere Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:08:55pm |
The hyperventilation of the day award goes to good ole Ace of Spades, for posting this on its front page: "More Stuff About the Pedodent: Vid of the child Obama ogled at 0:13. Pretty clear she's not an adult." [Link: ace.mu.nu...]
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FurryOldGuyJeans Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:09:12pm |
re: #263 Charles
By the way, Robert Spencer spewed a bunch of venom in my direction today. Yawn.
He must be feeling neglected so spewed some venom to get some attention from the fever swamp denizens.
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MandyManners Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:09:31pm |
re: #246 RunningBare
I can pretty much agree with all that. With one caveat - Michelle Obama has said some things that have really worried and irritated me (like the "for the first time..." comment, etc...) but even I wouldn't refer to her by terms that could be construed as racial. Being a minority myself, I am, perhaps, more sensitive about that sort of thing. The "First Wookie" crap? There's a lot to criticize her for, politically, but it has nothing to do with race, or her appearance, and everything to do with being ugly on the inside, IMHO.
I prefer WAB.
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FurryOldGuyJeans Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:10:08pm |
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Sheila Broflovski Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:10:15pm |
re: #245 Pvt Bin Jammin
I am aware of VDARE, freaky. Has FR always been as bad as they seem to be now?
I was a regular poster on FR for many years. When I first joined, the admins were playing whackamole with neo-nazis. About 6 years ago they really cracked down in a mass purge, but the whole forum descended into crazypants Nirfer, ODS meltdowns after the election.
I do not post there any more, but I sometimes lurk.
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esch Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:10:56pm |
re: #268 fat bastard vegetarian
Just what I was thinkin'. But, PLEASE TELL ME SHE IS NOT 16!
Sure looks like it to me from the pics Ace has up.
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Gus Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:11:59pm |
re: #273 Alouette
I was a regular poster on FR for many years. When I first joined, the admins were playing whackamole with neo-nazis. About 6 years ago they really cracked down in a mass purge, but the whole forum descended into crazypants Nirfer, ODS meltdowns after the election.
I do not post there any more, but I sometimes lurk.
They used to actually be pretty good with getting news tips. I don't know what happened. I guess I do know what happened but you know how that goes.
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Pvt Bin Jammin Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:12:01pm |
re: #267 freetoken
Don't know. I only started to view FR a couple of months ago when I started to skim a variety of "right wing" blogs, trying to feel which way the wind was blowing.
And an ill wind it is.
I feel it is probably an ill wind as well. I've never spent any time over there, really, but ended up there a few times while researching. I guess I should scratch them off of my "credible" list.
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Steffan Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:12:06pm |
re: #231 realwest
"IMNSHO, the WSJ does a better job with far less bias and smug posturing." I agree with that one - a lot. The WSJ however has a major advantage over the NYT; the WSJ uses, you know, editors. Most of their news is fairly straight forward reporting - and that's what I hate so much about the NYT and AP and Rueters - they'll report ANY story, for example, about the Palestinians and even though totally unrelated to the story, they'll get a shot in at Israel.
The other advantage that the WSJ has over the NYT is that the WSJ likes to use something called "facts." I don't think the NYT even knows what those are.
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fat bastard vegetarian Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:12:22pm |
re: #274 esch
Sure looks like it to me from the pics Ace has up.
That poor girl then. She's known...she'll take shit about this for the rest of her life.
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RunningBare Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:12:49pm |
re: #264 Steffan
What's to miss about the Boston Globe?
Absolutely nothing. My choices were the NYT, the Globe, or the Manchester Union when I was growing up. I chose the Union.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:12:52pm |
re: #277 Steffan
The other advantage that the WSJ has over the NYT is that the WSJ likes to use something called "facts." I don't think the NYT even knows what those are.
Grey is the new black.
Opinions are the new facts.
/See? It's easy.
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pat Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:12:57pm |
Too cheap for me. It is like catching a guy looking at boobs. Every Human Sexuality textbook will tell you males cannot help them selves. Hardwired. So the instant pic means nothing. Tits, Butt, Eyes, Mouth. Can't be changed.
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esch Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:13:16pm |
re: #278 fat bastard vegetarian
That poor girl then. She's known...she'll take shit about this for the rest of her life.
Just imagine how her father feels. What the hell can he do? Nothing.
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realwest Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:13:31pm |
re: #232 ArchangelMichael
When I played in Little League, wood bats were not banned but no one would use them because when you got a hit with one it hurt your hands almost as bad as getting hit by a pitch. Perhaps this is only a problem when you are a 4th grader though.
Ah, no. When I played in High School, even though I infrequently made contact with the ball, there were times when I'd get stingers, too.
I'm just an old coot - I don't like artificial turf, I don't like the Designated Hitter and Night Baseball always makes me feel a little weird. And the smell of reisin on the bat handles, the smell of a grass diamond, and not watching guys playing at night while still wearing either sunglasses or smearing that black anti-glare crap under their eyes is all baseball for me.
BTW, no less a GREAT ballplayer than Ted Williams said that night baseball was SO BAD, that even the greatest hitters would NEVER break the .400 BA ever again.
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FurryOldGuyJeans Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:13:33pm |
re: #281 EmmmieG
Grey is the new black.
Opinions are the new facts./See? It's easy.
The WSJ uses RealFacts, the NYT uses GoodFacts.
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Killgore Trout Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:13:46pm |
re: #263 Charles
I would love to support free speech but private organizations have the right to not invite racist assholes to speak. I support the right for racist assholes to have blogs. His own actions discredit him. He's just pissed at the people who dug it up. A-boo-hoo.
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freetoken Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:14:26pm |
re: #276 Pvt Bin Jammin
I guess I should scratch them off of my "credible" list.
Credibility in the age of the internet has become very difficult to grasp... how easy it is to start a rumor, astroturf, or troll compared to the good old days!
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Steffan Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:15:12pm |
re: #233 ShanghaiEd
Basically, VDARE is about "racial purity." If you know what I mean.
What, do they sing songs about raising the flag high and closing the ranks?
/it wouldn't surprise me
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Killgore Trout Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:15:25pm |
re: #267 freetoken
I've been watching them for a while now. They've always been a little over the top but I'm starting to notice that there were a lot of things I didn't always recognize for what they were.
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realwest Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:15:25pm |
re: #233 ShanghaiEd
Thanks ShanghaiEd - but Freetoken already clued me in at #226.
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Racer X Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:15:28pm |
re: #278 fat bastard vegetarian
That poor girl then. She's known...she'll take shit about this for the rest of her life.
She and all of her girlfriends are squealing in delight right now.
"Obama was totally checking out my ass! Like OMG!"
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Gus Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:15:36pm |
re: #279 RunningBare
Absolutely nothing. My choices were the NYT, the Globe, or the Manchester Union when I was growing up. I chose the Union.
I used to always get the Sunday Times for the magazine. I sometimes refer to it for political news which is rare but sometimes you can find the rare gem. They're still rather good for popular science news, architecture, design, the arts, etc.
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esch Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:15:55pm |
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fat bastard vegetarian Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:17:23pm |
re: #293 Racer X
I think that "Right Now" is the operative word.
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Gus Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:18:32pm |
re: #295 esch
er,
Yeah, but you have to admit. Uncle Jimbo's interview with the Code Pink gals was pretty good.
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realwest Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:18:47pm |
re: #241 Gus 802
I see it like this. VDARE is akin to the BNP and David Duke. I could say more if prodded.
/
Hi Gus! Uh, please don't say more, even if prodded. Scum racists bastards are best left along to marinate in their own hate.
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FurryOldGuyJeans Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:18:53pm |
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Killgore Trout Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:19:20pm |
re: #269 MrPaulRevere
I'm confused. They don't have video. They show the same still as everyone else. No indication of who it is. The following Pics are not actually of the Obama's fighting. What's with the rap music? I'm at a total loss here.
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capitalist piglet Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:19:48pm |
re: #256 The Shadow Do
From me he gets a pass on this. And only on this.
Nice ass!
I think it turned out to be a teen girl...just in case you weren't aware.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:19:56pm |
re: #302 Killgore Trout
I'm confused. They don't have video. They show the same still as everyone else. No indication of who it is. The following Pics are not actually of the Obama's fighting. What's with the rap music? I'm at a total loss here.
Click the link, not the video.
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Gus Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:20:43pm |
re: #300 realwest
Hi Gus! Uh, please don't say more, even if prodded. Scum racists bastards are best left along to marinate in their own hate.
Like I said, I just refer to them. Guess I should say for the sheer lunacy of it all.
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fat bastard vegetarian Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:21:39pm |
re: #282 pat
I was not faulting him in the least. Like a freaking magnet for me, I just can not help myself.
Once was at a dinner with the wife of my Minister of Music. The wife (a very large breasted woman) caught me staring at her cleavage... she said, "Hey! What are you staring at!" Which came out of nowhere, because I had not been staring at her face (obviously). I said, "Well, hell! They're impressive!" The Minister fell out of his chair laughing...as did I.
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capitalist piglet Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:21:40pm |
re: #269 MrPaulRevere
The hyperventilation of the day award goes to good ole Ace of Spades, for posting this on its front page: "More Stuff About the Pedodent: Vid of the child Obama ogled at 0:13. Pretty clear she's not an adult." [Link: ace.mu.nu...]
I think the caption of the still photo identifies her as part of a teen delegation to the Summit. I don't have the link handy, but I just saw it somewhere. If I need to dig it up, I think I can.
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esch Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:21:57pm |
re: #282 pat
Too cheap for me. It is like catching a guy looking at boobs. Every Human Sexuality textbook will tell you males cannot help them selves. Hardwired. So the instant pic means nothing. Tits, Butt, Eyes, Mouth. Can't be changed.
Mature men with self-discipline can control those impulses. Especially when you know there are 500 cameras on you.
Yes, I'm a red-blooded male that enjoys seeing attractive women. But it has to be appropriate.
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Steffan Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:22:46pm |
re: #246 RunningBare
Eleanor Roosevelt
Bess Truman
Jackie Kennedy
Linda Bird Johnson
Pat Nixon
Betty Ford
Rosalynn Carter
Nancy Reagan
Barbara Bush
Hillary Clinton
Laura Bush
Michelle Obama
70+ years. And of them all, my favorite has to be Laura Bush.
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capitalist piglet Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:23:25pm |
re: #302 Killgore Trout
I'm confused. They don't have video. They show the same still as everyone else. No indication of who it is. The following Pics are not actually of the Obama's fighting. What's with the rap music? I'm at a total loss here.
I think I might be able to clear this up for you - there is another still, where she is in a group shot (with Obama and others), all facing the front, and in that she is identified as a teen member of a delegation to the Summit. I just saw it an hour ago - I'll see if I can find it and link it up here.
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realwest Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:23:27pm |
re: #251 esch FREE BEER? Man he must want need you badly!
Well enjoy the beer and try to talk him into like a three-fold increase in contractor fees - just in case, I mean!
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fat bastard vegetarian Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:24:06pm |
re: #310 Steffan
Both of the Bush women were fantastic.
Heck, they put Barbara on the one dollar bill!
(sorry, old joke, couldn't help myself)
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fat bastard vegetarian Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:24:47pm |
re: #310 Steffan
Bess Truman was kind of cool to. Gave a big old "eff you" to the press.
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ArchangelMichael Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:25:14pm |
re: #286 Killgore Trout
I would love to support free speech but private organizations have the right to not invite racist assholes to speak. I support the right for racist assholes to have blogs. His own actions discredit him. He's just pissed at the people who dug it up. A-boo-hoo.
I love how they continue to howl about the background in that photo as if it matters, but overlook the fact that there are eurofascists shaking hands which was the whole point. They could have been dropped on to photos from the Mars rover and the main point would still remain.
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legalpad Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:25:25pm |
re: #310 Steffan
Eleanor Roosevelt
Bess Truman
Jackie Kennedy
Linda Bird Johnson
Pat Nixon
Betty Ford
Rosalynn Carter
Nancy Reagan
Barbara Bush
Hillary Clinton
Laura Bush
Michelle Obama70+ years. And of them all, my favorite has to be Laura Bush.
You forgot Mamie Eisenhower.
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:25:35pm |
re: #307 capitalist piglet
I think the caption of the still photo identifies her as part of a teen delegation to the Summit. I don't have the link handy, but I just saw it somewhere. If I need to dig it up, I think I can.
Check out the amused look on Nicholas Sarkozy's face. But then again, he doesn't have to dream about gorgeous woman, he's married to Carla Bruni.
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fat bastard vegetarian Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:25:53pm |
Why am I up at 1:24 A.M. after waking up at 4:15am yesterday morning.
Why did I even turn my computer on?
Why am I asking you?
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Gus Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:26:09pm |
re: #307 capitalist piglet
I think the caption of the still photo identifies her as part of a teen delegation to the Summit. I don't have the link handy, but I just saw it somewhere. If I need to dig it up, I think I can.
Junior 8 which is the junior membership representation of the G8. There's more but I don't want to belabor it. ;)
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Killgore Trout Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:26:14pm |
re: #304 EmmmieG
I don't see any proof (aside from wavy hair) that it's the same chick. Even if it is I'm not outraged. Teen girls are hot: Alert the Media! Breaking News Story!
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fat bastard vegetarian Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:26:46pm |
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ArchangelMichael Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:26:49pm |
re: #319 fat bastard vegetarian
Insomnia? I think it spreads like H1N1.
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realwest Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:26:53pm |
re: #255 pat Nah, Obama was looking and frankly I can't see anything wrong with that. I see nothing wrong with a married guy looking at the menu, just so long as he keeps ordering the same thing, ya know?
Hey, even Jimmy Carter confessed to having "lusted in my heart" (I think he was talking about Playboy or something).
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MrPaulRevere Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:27:10pm |
re: #302 Killgore Trout
The point is that Ace posts nonsense: 'OMG Obama looked at a 16 year old girl, and by God we can prove it'...that sort of thing.
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Gus Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:27:20pm |
re: #321 Killgore Trout
I don't see any proof (aside from wavy hair) that it's the same chick. Even if it is I'm not outraged. Teen girls are hot: Alert the Media! Breaking News Story!
OK Elvis.
//
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esch Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:27:52pm |
re: #309 fat bastard vegetarian
You're cool. But... nope!
I'll be the first to agree no one's perfect. If it was some delegate's wife, I'd just laugh along with you.
The thing that I think is really going to hurt him is it was obviously an underage girl. It's the Clintonian perverted horndog thing coming back around.
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legalpad Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:27:56pm |
re: #319 fat bastard vegetarian
What's the matter with you? Go to bed
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jcm Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:28:27pm |
re: #324 realwest
Nah, Obama was looking and frankly I can't see anything wrong with that. I see nothing wrong with a married guy looking at the menu, just so long as he keeps ordering the same thing, ya know?
Hey, even Jimmy Carter confessed to having "lusted in my heart" (I think he was talking about Playboy or something).
Picture cracked me up, definitely worth a look IMHO.
What Michelle thinks, now that's another matter.......
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Steffan Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:28:40pm |
re: #263 Charles
By the way, Robert Spencer spewed a bunch of venom in my direction today. Yawn.
Truth to tell, that's like saying the sun rose in the east this morning. I'm beginning to think that those idiots would object if you chose oatmeal over eggs for your breakfast.
Do they think you're Ming the Merciless or Retik the Moon Menace? What are they smoking, and why aren't they sharing?
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Gus Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:29:56pm |
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The Shadow Do Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:31:19pm |
re: #303 capitalist piglet
I think it turned out to be a teen girl...just in case you weren't aware.
Oh, that ain't good.
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Gus Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:32:16pm |
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:32:37pm |
re: #321 Killgore Trout
I don't see any proof (aside from wavy hair) that it's the same chick. Even if it is I'm not outraged. Teen girls are hot: Alert the Media! Breaking News Story!
Apropos of nothing: In Italy (where the summit is being held), Obama would not legally be eying someone under the age of consent. That age is a maximum of 16 there. He's still a married man and should not be doing that, but I just wanted to know the legalities of what he was doing.
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Pvt Bin Jammin Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:32:47pm |
re: #330 jcm
Picture cracked me up, definitely worth a look IMHO.
What Michelle thinks, now that's another matter.......
He's probably out in the doghouse with the pup.
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Macker Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:33:00pm |
re: #332 Gus 802
Hey. Like it or not, Michael Jackson once postulated he'd end up like Elvis. And he did. Therefore, he's the 21st Century version.
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The Left Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:33:20pm |
re: #169 RunningBare
DU and FR are both fun to read, because it's like watching a train wreck in progress. Good times.
That I agree with. I look because I can't help it, and I make fun of both.
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Pvt Bin Jammin Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:33:39pm |
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capitalist piglet Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:33:56pm |
re: #321 Killgore Trout
I don't see any proof (aside from wavy hair) that it's the same chick. Even if it is I'm not outraged. Teen girls are hot: Alert the Media! Breaking News Story!
Did you see this?
[Link: www.daylife.com...]
It's the same girl, quite obviously. Look at the dress.
But, I guess it's moot, since even if she's 16, you don't care...so, nevermind. (Just posted the pic because I said I would.)
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jcm Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:33:59pm |
re: #338 Pvt Bin Jammin
He's probably out in the doghouse with the pup.
Sarkozy's look is even funnier.......
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ArchangelMichael Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:35:02pm |
re: #331 Steffan
Do they think you're Ming the Merciless or Retik the Moon Menace? What are they smoking, and why aren't they sharing?
If he's Ming then is Spenser the Hawkman ruler or Flash Gordon?
Kilgore must be Klytus and Sharmuta would be General Kala.
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Killgore Trout Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:35:30pm |
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Gus Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:35:33pm |
re: #339 Macker
Hey. Like it or not, Michael Jackson once postulated he'd end up like Elvis. And he did. Therefore, he's the 21st Century version.
Good call on his part. Honestly, it's good news.
Fade to Al Shrapton and Jesse Jackson.
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Sheila Broflovski Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:35:39pm |
Goodnight Lizardia, it's was past my bed time.
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Macker Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:36:29pm |
re: #348 Alouette
Goodnight Lizardia, it's was past my bed time.
I much rather prefer your term than "Lizlam".
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:36:45pm |
re: #344 Macker
He's snickering.....
Because he knows he's got the supermodel to go home to, while Barack is stuck with the shrew.
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Sheila Broflovski Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:37:17pm |
re: #349 Macker
I much rather prefer your term than "Lizlam".
It's not my term, Jaunte put it on the cover of the cookbook.
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Killgore Trout Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:37:18pm |
A Tribute to Men Staring at Boobs
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jcm Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:37:31pm |
re: #342 capitalist piglet
Did you see this?
[Link: www.daylife.com...]
It's the same girl, quite obviously. Look at the dress.
But, I guess it's moot, since even if she's 16, you don't care...so, nevermind. (Just posted the pic because I said I would.)
Brazil's Mayora Tavares...
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Steffan Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:37:52pm |
re: #317 legalpad
You forgot Mamie Eisenhower.
You're absolutely right. PIMF.
I recall a picture of the Eisenhowers, likely not long after they were married. He was wearing a WWI-era uniform (I think he was a lieutenant at the time), and she was in cold-weather flapper garb -- IIRC, it was during the early '20s.
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Gus Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:38:07pm |
I stay focused though. I know who the enemy is.
Obama was leering at a 16 year old girl.
End of story.
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realwest Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:39:23pm |
re: #298 jcm
Hey jcm! That's just GREAT NEWS! Thank you very much my friend - how are you doing tonight?
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jcm Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:40:05pm |
re: #355 Steffan
You're absolutely right. PIMF.
I recall a picture of the Eisenhowers, likely not long after they were married. He was wearing a WWI-era uniform (I think he was a lieutenant at the time), and she was in cold-weather flapper garb -- IIRC, it was during the early '20s.
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FurryOldGuyJeans Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:40:17pm |
re: #356 Gus 802
I stay focused though. I know who the enemy is.
Obama was leering at a 16 year old girl.
End of story.
He could have been leering at someone who was 26 or older, I still would find it crass.
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esch Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:40:44pm |
re: #337 Dark_Falcon
Apropos of nothing: In Italy (where the summit is being held), Obama would not legally be eying someone under the age of consent. That age is a maximum of 16 there. He's still a married man and should not be doing that, but I just wanted to know the legalities of what he was doing.
The point isn't that it was illegal or impeachable or any of that nonsense. It's that it was stunningly boorish and creepy behavior on the part of our President. If I caught a 40-something man checking out my obviously underage 16 year old daughter like that, I'd have words with him.
Yes I have 2 daughters, so I'm not just talking out of my ass.
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Syrah Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:41:25pm |
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legalpad Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:41:40pm |
re: #355 Steffan
Met Laura Bush one time. She's a warm and friendly lady.
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jcm Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:42:37pm |
re: #357 realwest
Hey jcm! That's just GREAT NEWS! Thank you very much my friend - how are you doing tonight?
Beat.... long week little sleep, kids, work, getting the bathroom done, should be in bed, but need to wind down before I can go to sleep. Cold Trippel on hand.
Listened to a couple cuts on the CD, good stuff.
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Steffan Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:42:48pm |
re: #334 The Shadow Do
Looking isn't the problem -- he'd have to be blind to not see what she's wiggling in his face, and he'd have to be mostly dead to not react to it.
What he does about it, OTOH, is the kicker. That's where Bubba screwed the pooch.
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eddiespaghetti Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:43:40pm |
Go Lance, tomorrow in the Pyrenees, white unicorn Lance, white unicorn!
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:46:06pm |
re: #360 esch
The point isn't that it was illegal or impeachable or any of that nonsense. It's that it was stunningly boorish and creepy behavior on the part of our President. If I caught a 40-something man checking out my obviously underage 16 year old daughter like that, I'd have words with him.
Yes I have 2 daughters, so I'm not just talking out of my ass.
Didn't say you were. If I caught any of my co-workers staring like he was staring, I would call them out on it (though I'd do so privately). It was indeed boorish and if Michelle were to knee him in the nads, I would not fault her.
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esch Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:46:12pm |
re: #313 realwest
FREE BEER? Man he must
wantneed you badly!
Well enjoy the beer and try to talk him into like a three-fold increase in contractor fees - just in case, I mean!
I think he's had a whole bunch laid off recently, so he's hurting too.
Too bad. Part time and mo' money babay! Took them 6 months and 25 interviewees to find 2 guys last time.
Um, I sure hope they don't read this blog LOL.
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Gus Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:46:20pm |
re: #359 FurryOldGuyJeans
He could have been leering at someone who was 26 or older, I still would find it crass.
Yep. I'm realistic about these reports. I know sometimes I feel intrinsically that it doesn't matter to me personally. However, I realize the potential that these news reports can have. You ride it. Obama was leering at a 16 year old girl. It might not be something that really bothers you but you expose it as much as you can.
No great loss. We are talking about Obama anyway. It's worth it to have him fail.
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Steffan Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:46:27pm |
re: #346 Killgore Trout
Hey, he might be old, but he's certainly not dead.
If that attracts his attention, maybe the Viagra is actually working.
/
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Racer X Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:46:54pm |
If Bush or McCain would have taken a peak at that 16 year old the MFM and lefty blogs would be going berserk right about now with cries of "hypocrite!" and "pervert!"
Am I wrong?
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realwest Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:47:12pm |
Well y'all it's been fun but I gotta go to sleep NOW!
Hope you all have a great evening/early morning and that I get the chance to see you all down the road!
Good night, all.
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jcm Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:48:00pm |
re: #371 Steffan
Hey, he might be old, but he's certainly not dead.
If that attracts his attention, maybe the Viagra is actually working.
/
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Gus Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:48:15pm |
re: #373 Racer X
If Bush or McCain would have taken a peak at that 16 year old the MFM and lefty blogs would be going berserk right about now with cries of "hypocrite!" and "pervert!"
Am I wrong?
Nope. You are not wrong. The lefty blogs would have had a field day. They live for this.
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Steffan Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:48:25pm |
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esch Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:48:52pm |
re: #368 Dark_Falcon
Agreed.
Sorry if I went off half-cocked. I've gotten plenty of attempted liberal lectures from people with NO KIDS over the years so I'm jumpy about it.
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Fenway_Nation Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:48:57pm |
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NY Nana Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:49:30pm |
re: #363 legalpad
Met Laura Bush one time. She's a warm and friendly lady.
I wish that I had! She and President Bush looked like the kind of people that you could sit down in your kitchen with, have a cup of coffee, etc., and just chat with, and feel like you were with friends.
Just the sight of Michelle gives me the creeps...that perennial frown.
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Pvt Bin Jammin Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:50:36pm |
re: #363 legalpad
Met Laura Bush one time. She's a warm and friendly lady.
How lucky you are. I really liked Barbara, too
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esch Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:50:43pm |
re: #370 Gus 802
Yep. I'm realistic about these reports. I know sometimes I feel intrinsically that it doesn't matter to me personally. However, I realize the potential that these news reports can have. You ride it. Obama was leering at a 16 year old girl. It might not be something that really bothers you but you expose it as much as you can.
No great loss. We are talking about Obama anyway. It's worth it to have him fail.
Hey, it only took a helmet to neuter Dukakis. Gotta go with what they give you.
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kateca Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:50:58pm |
re: #310 Steffan
Eleanor Roosevelt
Bess Truman
Jackie Kennedy
Linda Bird Johnson
Pat Nixon
Betty Ford
Rosalynn Carter
Nancy Reagan
Barbara Bush
Hillary Clinton
Laura Bush
Michelle Obama70+ years. And of them all, my favorite has to be Laura Bush.
Always a lady. Always gracious. And how lovely to see a POTUS in love with his wife.
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The Left Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:52:15pm |
re: #196 freetoken
The FR has merged with the VDARE crowd, if indeed there was ever much of a difference.
Townhall is NOT far behind anymore.
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legalpad Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:52:19pm |
re: #380 NY Nana
I wish that I had! She and President Bush looked like the kind of people that you could sit down in your kitchen with, have a cup of coffee, etc., and just chat with, and feel like you were with friends.
Just the sight of Michelle gives me the creeps...that perennial frown.
Dittos on your whole post. I was just a contractor passing through but she stopped her conversation to talk to me. She was so warm she could have been my sister.
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Pvt Bin Jammin Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:53:03pm |
re: #380 NY Nana
I wish that I had! She and President Bush looked like the kind of people that you could sit down in your kitchen with, have a cup of coffee, etc., and just chat with, and feel like you were with friends.
Just the sight of Michelle gives me the creeps...that perennial frown.
I truly believe that she has anger issues. I hope her mom is not like that. She seems to be very helpful in raising those beautiful little girls.
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Syrah Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:53:07pm |
re: #374 realwest
*waves old pocket watch on a chain in front of RW in a slow pendulum moment*
Sleep Now.
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:53:30pm |
re: #378 esch
Agreed.
Sorry if I went off half-cocked. I've gotten plenty of attempted liberal lectures from people with NO KIDS over the years so I'm jumpy about it.
You were fine. I was only looking at legal facts. Something can be legal to do, but still very wrong. And that is what Obama did: He was being a pig.
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jcm Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:54:08pm |
re: #387 Syrah
*waves old pocket watch on a chain in front of RW in a slow pendulum moment*
Sleep Now.
Pfft, I'm old school I rock 'em to sleep.....
I use a rock about this big!
/;-)
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GGMac Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:54:14pm |
re: #284 realwest
Ah, no. When I played in High School, even though I infrequently made contact with the ball, there were times when I'd get stingers, too.
I'm just an old coot - I don't like artificial turf, I don't like the Designated Hitter and Night Baseball always makes me feel a little weird. And the smell of reisin on the bat handles, the smell of a grass diamond, and not watching guys playing at night while still wearing either sunglasses or smearing that black anti-glare crap under their eyes is all baseball for me.
BTW, no less a GREAT ballplayer than Ted Williams said that night baseball was SO BAD, that even the greatest hitters would NEVER break the .400 BA ever again.
And another terrific memory: high school classes coming to a halt during the World Series. We were in our scheduled classrooms - each teacher, or a well-off student, would bring in a huge old portable radio (holding about 16 lbs of batteries!), and everyone would listen to the game(s). When baseball was clean - and was still America's game, and teachers, principals, and knew what really mattered
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Gus Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:54:24pm |
re: #382 esch
Hey, it only took a helmet to neuter Dukakis. Gotta go with what they give you.
The libs will just sit there and try to figure it all out.
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esch Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:55:05pm |
re: #388 Dark_Falcon
You were fine. I was only looking at legal facts. Something can be legal to do, but still very wrong. And that is what Obama did: He was being a pig.
Think I'm going to go make a pedObama bumper sticker to irritate my neighbors.
It just looks right.
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capitalist piglet Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:57:04pm |
Wow...you know that cemetary where they arrested people for digging up graves? I just read it's where Emmett Till was buried.
I have a personal interest in this story, as a (now deceased) musician friend of mine named Roby Duke was the son of one of the defense witnesses in the trial (very unfortunately); the murder happened very near the house he grew up in. I'd known Roby for fifteen years, and the last time we performed together, we spent a lot of time talking backstage and he told me all about it.
He has written an incredible Mississippi blues-style song about it, that is definitely worth hearing - if you want to listen, click on the track called demodraft at myspace.com/robydukemusic.
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Syrah Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:57:07pm |
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eddiespaghetti Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:57:14pm |
That is a sweet boo-tay, got to admit, nice job Drudge:
[Link: www.drudgereport.com...]
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:57:29pm |
re: #392 esch
Think I'm going to go make a pedObama bumper sticker to irritate my neighbors.
It just looks right.
I'd advise against that. Bumper stickers with a message that hostile could get your car keyed. You would not be wrong to put up that sticker, but it might be unwise.
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Pvt Bin Jammin Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:58:00pm |
re: #392 esch
Think I'm going to go make a pedObama bumper sticker to irritate my neighbors.
It just looks right.
ROTFLMAO Your neighbors might just bring in Al Sharpton.
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NY Nana Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:58:35pm |
re: #385 legalpad
Dittos on your whole post. I was just a contractor passing through but she stopped her conversation to talk to me. She was so warm she could have been my sister.
I believe it....and you are not 'just a contractor'! Where would people be without you? Building gingerbread houses? ;)
Seriously, I can beleive it, as after 9/11, she would come unannounced to NYC, to go to the primary schools in the area, when they re-opened, and read to the kids, who must have been so traumatized. It was a lovely thing to do, and I bet those kids will tell their own kids about this lovely lady, even if they did not realize that she was the First lady, and a lady she was and is!
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Fenway_Nation Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:58:56pm |
re: #393 capitalist piglet
When I think Mississippi blues, I think RL Burnside.
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jvic Thu, Jul 9, 2009 10:59:07pm |
Oh, for pity's sake.
1. I agree with the person who said that Obama should have had the presence of mind not to stare.
2. But an attractive young woman walked by and, like Sarkozy, he didn't have the presence of mind not to look. What was he supposed to do, ask for her ID? Would it make any difference if she was 18?
3. I'm thinking that on the 19th-century frontier, that young woman would be being courted and might be married. Arbitrary age boundaries might be necessary in modern society, but they are arbitrary. They are not grounded in some fundamental reality.
4. Making an issue of her age makes as much sense to me as getting exercised over whether or not Alexander the Great was gay.
5. Tell me that this is evidence Obama is not ready for prime time and I ask what else is new. Tell me that his behavior is somehow depraved and...I don't know what to say.
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Jul 9, 2009 11:02:48pm |
re: #400 jvic
I agree. His actions were boorish, but not depraved.
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Pvt Bin Jammin Thu, Jul 9, 2009 11:03:00pm |
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legalpad Thu, Jul 9, 2009 11:03:20pm |
re: #398 NY Nana
I believe it....and you are not 'just a contractor'! Where would people be without you? Building gingerbread houses? ;)
LOL! - Thanks. I meant I wasn't sitting there having coffee with them, and of course, her action in that context points out a quality that so many public figures lack, but the great ones don't.
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capitalist piglet Thu, Jul 9, 2009 11:03:57pm |
re: #399 Fenway_Nation
When I think Mississippi blues, I think RL Burnside.
It has never been so much my thing and I can't say I'm familiar with RL Burnside (will check it out though), but Roby was outstanding. When I found out the backstory about his family connection to this famous murder, I was shocked. Roby, of course, didn't have a racist bone in his body.
I was thinking about this very thing the other day, especially when I read a great post buzz wrote about the indignities black people suffered before the Civil Rights Movement, as contrasted with the bullhorn-loving Al Sharpton who, in contrast, just doesn't have it that bad.
Poor Emmett Till. He was just a kid. Just a child, really. His picture is stunning, when you put it together with his story.
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esch Thu, Jul 9, 2009 11:04:19pm |
re: #396 Dark_Falcon
re: #397 Pvt Bin Jammin
Thanks for the advice. I have a security camera, but wouldn't tweak my neighbors that much, anyways. We're all owners here.
But let's see...my President is Obama, one of my Senators is Franken, and my Representative is Ellison..could it really get worse? Funny enough, virtually all of the Obama stickers and signs (scores 8 months ago) are gone from my neighborhood.
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BatGuano Thu, Jul 9, 2009 11:06:11pm |
re: #401 Dark_Falcon
I agree. His actions were boorish, but not depraved.
Agreed. But is too much to expect an American President to conduct himself as a gentleman?
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NY Nana Thu, Jul 9, 2009 11:06:41pm |
re: #386 Pvt Bin Jammin
I truly believe that she has anger issues. I hope her mom is not like that. She seems to be very helpful in raising those beautiful little girls.
Anger issues, yes, and she looks like a beyatch. During this recession, the amount of money she spends on her clothing, and her daughters is obscene. I cannot imagine Laura Bush doing the same. And she always looked like a lady.
Taking the girls on all the trips must be a concern to the battallion of guards, etc., and I wonder just how much her mother actually does for the little girls.
Children are usually a result of their parenting, and she brought up a snotty daughter who 'never liked America until The One was elected dictator. Can her mother really be that different?
/Michelle should have been a member of the Diplomatic Corps.
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The Left Thu, Jul 9, 2009 11:07:06pm |
re: #388 Dark_Falcon
You were fine. I was only looking at legal facts. Something can be legal to do, but still very wrong. And that is what Obama did: He was being a pig.
DF-- do you really think Obama was a pig for checking out that girl's booty?
I checked it out myself, believe me.
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Pvt Bin Jammin Thu, Jul 9, 2009 11:08:06pm |
re: #405 esch
You might just be worse than me, but I doubt it. Can you say Pelosi, Boxer and Feinstein? The People's Republic of Californika here. Unfortunately I think Sharpton is still here. No doubt we will have more Michael Jackson specials.
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Gus Thu, Jul 9, 2009 11:08:25pm |
Odd how some of the anti-VDARE crowd reminds me of VDARE.
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ArchangelMichael Thu, Jul 9, 2009 11:10:08pm |
re: #411 Gus 802
Odd how some of the anti-VDARE crowd reminds me of VDARE.
I loathe both the Freepers and the KOSsaks/DUmmies so that makes sense.
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The Left Thu, Jul 9, 2009 11:11:56pm |
re: #406 BatGuano
Agreed. But is too much to expect an American President to conduct himself as a gentleman?
but Bat, if 'being a gentleman' means never ever doing a doubletake when you see something like that....let's put it this way, stealing from dorothy parker:
"he was every other inch an gentlemen."
:)
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Gus Thu, Jul 9, 2009 11:13:01pm |
re: #412 ArchangelMichael
I loathe both the Freepers and the KOSsaks/DUmmies so that makes sense.
First rule of men. You don't quote Daily Kos. Maybe one could if they're half gendered.
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Jul 9, 2009 11:15:08pm |
re: #409 iceweasel
DF-- do you really think Obama was a pig for checking out that girl's booty?
I checked it out myself, believe me.
If it had just been a glance, I'd be forgiving. But staring like that is rude.
I have to turn in, I'm afraid. I must get up at 7, so I'll be getting less than 6 hours of sleep as it is.
Goodnight, iceweasel. And goodnight everyone!
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esch Thu, Jul 9, 2009 11:15:33pm |
re: #410 Pvt Bin Jammin
You might just be worse than me, but I doubt it. Can you say Pelosi, Boxer and Feinstein? The People's Republic of Californika here. Unfortunately I think Sharpton is still here. No doubt we will have more Michael Jackson specials.
Oof.
I think it's a toss up. You have the IOU's, but remember all the young Somali muslim men around here who have 'disappeared' lately? I'm waiting for our own 'specials'.
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kateca Thu, Jul 9, 2009 11:15:36pm |
re: #400 jvic
The man's wreaking havoc on the ecomomy. Who care's if he looks at a skirt?
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Jul 9, 2009 11:15:37pm |
re: #413 iceweasel
but Bat, if 'being a gentleman' means never ever doing a doubletake when you see something like that....let's put it this way, stealing from dorothy parker:
"he was every other inch an gentlemen."
:)
LOL! That was good!
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NY Nana Thu, Jul 9, 2009 11:16:43pm |
re: #402 Pvt Bin Jammin
Too true, and I had to listen to Lionel Ritchie...that voice! I am saving it, as I am making a serious attempt to go to sleep.
Laura Bush is a lady....a true lady. And that she and the President look so happy together? They could not fake it. I miss them soooo much.
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legalpad Thu, Jul 9, 2009 11:16:45pm |
re: #413 iceweasel
The way men learn not to look is two things: Expect it and peripheral vision. It's not hard if you practice. I have people watching me, sometimes taking pictures, sometimes I work around lots of security cameras. if I was a public figure with the press on me all the time, I would certainlyhave it down. This guy is just inexperienced.
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avanti Thu, Jul 9, 2009 11:17:21pm |
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esch Thu, Jul 9, 2009 11:17:53pm |
re: #408 mrshankly01
wow, unfortunate representation
Looking at my area, you'd say 'Ok yeah that makes sense'.
Lots of easily dazzled middle-class 'moderates' (read squishy liberals) in MN District 5.
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legalpad Thu, Jul 9, 2009 11:19:50pm |
re: #422 avanti
Looking at pretty girls is pretty normal. Charle even had a thread on the Bush Volleyball pictures.
lol! What was he doing? Not just looking! Look, you have to be able to converse with attractive women without giving them a hard time about their looks. Sometimes they just want a break from it.
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NY Nana Thu, Jul 9, 2009 11:22:18pm |
re: #403 legalpad
I meant I wasn't sitting there having coffee with them, and of course, her action in that context points out a quality that so many public figures lack, but the great ones don't.
Bet that Mrs. Bush would have invited you to the family quarters for a cup of coffee if you had asked!
And Mrs. Bush is an example of a lady, and IMHO, after living through Presidents and their families since 1938? Laura Bush was the first real First Lady we had, and she complimented the President, who we all could see adored her.
Oh, how I miss them.
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esch Thu, Jul 9, 2009 11:22:33pm |
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avanti Thu, Jul 9, 2009 11:23:25pm |
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BatGuano Thu, Jul 9, 2009 11:24:26pm |
re: #413 iceweasel
Iceweasel, as a heterosexual male who has been taught all my life that women do not want to be ogled, I thought that that photo showed that President Obama has learned nothing from the women's movement of the last 40 years. Personally, I was scopin' out the booty.
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legalpad Thu, Jul 9, 2009 11:28:16pm |
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eddiespaghetti Thu, Jul 9, 2009 11:29:46pm |
re: #429 BatGuano
Indeed, it was a nice boo-tay. Not lying, nor involved in any way with politics. Ogle away!
However, that was very oppressive of women in general and I am very oppressed and intend to file a lawsuit, I am shocked, SHOCKED!
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NY Nana Thu, Jul 9, 2009 11:30:37pm |
re: #425 legalpad
Same to you! Sweet dreams. I really am half asleep. Shhh, please don't tell Albore, but in what is nearly mid-July, we have to use a light duvet on the bed, as it is 54 degrees here, and a bit windy. We have not hit 80 yet in our suburb...very strange, and the metro NYC are is usually hazy, hot, and humid. We have had enough rain to mail it to anyone who needs it!
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avanti Thu, Jul 9, 2009 11:33:34pm |
re: #430 legalpad
I'm really enjoying the end of this thread! But you don't have to be president to have perks!
The most interesting part to me is how the Bush volleyball thread was basically "go George" , not as much when a BHO did it.
I'll admit, I've been caught looking without even knowing I was doing it.
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BatGuano Thu, Jul 9, 2009 11:36:55pm |
re: #431 eddiespaghetti
Indeed, it was a nice boo-tay. Not lying, nor involved in any way with politics. Ogle away!
However, that was very oppressive of women in general and I am very oppressed and intend to file a lawsuit, I am shocked, SHOCKED!
I share you shockedness.
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The Left Thu, Jul 9, 2009 11:45:45pm |
re: #419 BatGuano
Decorum, young lady, decorum. :)
:( I'll try.
Seriously, it's ok to be looked at and us third-wave feminists like it, I promise. Just make sure to keep your eyes on our face when we're talking to you, and we're ok.
/true story: once had to tell a colleague a complicated story about something we (the company) had to do. Guy never looked above my neck, kept nodding.
At the end of this I turn to leave and he says ---wait wait, Ice, I'm so sorry but I didn't hear a word you said. Laughing!
// Granted, I was younger then, but believe me, this kind of shit happens all the time to women.
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kateca Thu, Jul 9, 2009 11:47:16pm |
Dear President Obama:
Keep doing what you're doing because your approval ratings are dropping and more and more people are sorry that they voted for you.
I personally don't care that you ogled a woman but I admit I take some perverse delight at your amateur mistakes. I keep hoping your blind supporters will get their wake-up call and see you for the fraud you are.
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BatGuano Fri, Jul 10, 2009 12:00:01am |
re: #436 iceweasel
I know it does. I've heard similar stories. Maybe I'm guilty.
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pat Fri, Jul 10, 2009 12:02:16am |
And the funny thing is (my wife told me this), if you ever get caught looking at tits, when asked you say "eyes". Then you are off the hook.
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pat Fri, Jul 10, 2009 12:06:06am |
re: #346 Killgore Trout
That is pretty weak. I would have had a pic with my arm around her and commenting how she could be on my staff.
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The Left Fri, Jul 10, 2009 12:21:23am |
re: #438 BatGuano
I know it does. I've heard similar stories. Maybe I'm guilty.
Well, I'm sure Mrs Bat knows that in your case it's only a sign you're a Boy Bat. Nothing to be worried about, just a healthy response, and nothing sexist or nasty about it either. :)
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ShanghaiEd Fri, Jul 10, 2009 12:21:34am |
re: #434 avanti
The most interesting part to me is how the Bush volleyball thread was basically "go George" , not as much when a BHO did it.
I'll admit, I've been caught looking without even knowing I was doing it.
Good point. I've also been puzzled lately when public figures (not just BHO) are said to be "glaring," "staring," or "ogling" in a still photograph. All these actions, by definition, require a duration of at least a second or two, don't they? (At least, I've argued that to my wife before.)
With outdoor photos often using shutter speeds of 1/000 second or faster, how do you know where a person's eyes were focusing 1/000 second before or after the one shot? Wouldn't it take a video to tell a glance from an ogle?
I have the self-control not to glare, stare, or ogle inappropriately in public. But I glance at everything in my field of view. Everything. Young, elderly, animal, vegetable, mineral. With a still camera pointed at you, all it takes is a glance and you're sunk. Trust me on this.
Let he/she who is without glance cast the first stone.
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ShanghaiEd Fri, Jul 10, 2009 12:24:57am |
re: #439 pat
And the funny thing is (my wife told me this), if you ever get caught looking at tits, when asked you say "eyes". Then you are off the hook.
pat: Eye's not sure how this works. Whose eyes does this explanation refer to?
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The Left Fri, Jul 10, 2009 12:36:18am |
re: #442 ShanghaiEd
Good point. I've also been puzzled lately when public figures (not just BHO) are said to be "glaring," "staring," or "ogling" in a still photograph. All these actions, by definition, require a duration of at least a second or two, don't they? (At least, I've argued that to my wife before.)
With outdoor photos often using shutter speeds of 1/000 second or faster, how do you know where a person's eyes were focusing 1/000 second before or after the one shot? Wouldn't it take a video to tell a glance from an ogle?
I have the self-control not to glare, stare, or ogle inappropriately in public. But I glance at everything in my field of view. Everything. Young, elderly, animal, vegetable, mineral. With a still camera pointed at you, all it takes is a glance and you're sunk. Trust me on this.
Let he/she who is without glance cast the first stone.
It's very easy to snap a pic now catching that one second that's unflattering to a public figure. I'm thinking of that photo all the crazy right wing blogs loooove to claim show that Michelle 'glared' at Carla Bruni. Despite the fact that they got along well, and the literally thousands of photos attesting to that, and all the evidence attesting that they did.
I had a similar feeling every time a lefty site posted a photo 'proving' Bush was a moron, btw, because they caught him making an odd face.
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