And that's why I drink.

Good night, all.

FNDT - time for some petty vices...

Anyone who claims to be perfect is either not paying attention or he's lying.

"Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated."

Honor a Fallen Soldier...amazing video

Too d@mned tired to post.

Weet Dreams all!

'Tolerant' progressives sharpening their knives for New Haven, CT firefighter Frank Ricci in advance of Sotoymayor hearings.

/Hmm....let me guess. 'We support the troops firefighters, as long as they're the right skin color or ethnicity' ?

I wish I had Dave Davies '57 3 pickup Les paul...

*sigh*

re: #3 The Other Les

Anyone who claims to be perfect is either not paying attention or he's lying.

These days, a smart man wouldn't admit to being perfect. Fortunately, I'm not.
;)

OK, music video fans, we've already posted 80 of the top 100 music videos of the 20th century. Here's the recap, after which we'll get into #20 through #11 tonight!

100 - Green Day, Basket Case
99 - DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, Parents Just Don't Understand
98 - REM, Everybody Hurts
97 - Human League, Don't You Want Me
96 - The Replacements, Bastards of Young
95 - George Michael, Faith
94 - Wyclef Jean, Gone 'Til November
93 - U2, Sunday Bloody Sunday
92 - LL Cool J, Going Back to Cali
91 - Prince and the Revolution, 1999
90 - Lenny Kravitz, Are You Gonna Go My Way
89 - They Might Be Giants, Don't Let's Start
88 - Janet Jackson, Love Will Never Do (Without You)
87 - The Prodigy, Firestarter
86 - Billy Idol, Cradle of Love
85 - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Don't Come Around Here No More
84 - Method Man & Mary J. Blige, 84-I'll Be There For You / You're All I Need To Get By
83 - Godley & Creme, Cry
82 - Def Leppard, Pour Some Sugar on Me
81 - Twisted Sister, We're Not Gonna Take It
80 - The Cure, Close to Me
79 - Fiona Apple, Criminal
78 - Adam Ant, Goody Two Shoes
77 - Radiohead, Fake Plastic Trees
76 - Devo, Whip It
75 - Public Enemy, Fight the Power
74 - C+C Music Factory, Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)
73 - Band Aid, Do They Know It's Christmas
72 - The Chemical Brothers, Setting Sun
71 - M. C. Hammer, U Can't Touch This
70 - New Order, True Faith
69 - Smashing Pumpkins, 1979
68 - Duran Duran, Girls on Film
67 - Don Henley, Boys of Summer
66 - The Beastie Boys, Fight For Your Right
65 - Garbage, Stupid Girl
64 - Beck, Loser
63 - Tone-Loc, Wild Thing
62 - U2, Where The Streets Have No Name
61 - Van Halen, Right Now
60 - 'til tuesday, Voices Carry
59 - En Vogue, My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)
58 - David Bowie, Ashes To Ashes
57 - Björk, It's Oh So Quiet
56 - Metallica, Enter Sandman
55 - David Lee Roth, Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody
54 - Marilyn Manson, The Beautiful People
53 - Madness, Our House
52 - Lauryn Hill, Everything Is Everything
51 - Golden Earring, Twilight Zone
50 - Madonna, Lucky Star
49 - Paula Abdul, Straight Up
48 - Aerosmith, Janie's Got A Gun
47 - Talking Heads, Once In A Lifetime
46 - Fatboy Slim, Praise You
45 - Guns N' Roses, November Rain
44 - Janet Jackson, Rhythm Nation
43 - ZZ Top, Gimme All Your Lovin'
42 - Alanis Morisette, Ironic
41 - Bon Jovi, Wanted Dead or Alive
40 - TLC, Waterfalls
39 - Cyndi Lauper, Girls Just Want To Have Fun
38 - Metallica, One
36 - Red Hot Chili Peppers, Give It Away
35 - Michael Jackson, Billie Jean
34 - Sinead O'Connor, Nothing Compares 2 U
33 - Van Halen, Jump
32 - Dr. Dre with Snoop Doggy Dogg, Nuthin' But A 'G' Thang
31 - The Eurythmics, Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
30 - Korn, Freak on a Leash
29 - Dire Straits, Money For Nothing
28 - Herbie Hancock, Rockit
27 - LL Cool J, Mama Said Knock You Out
26 - Guns N' Roses, Welcome To The Jungle
25 - The Cars, You Might Think
24 - Jamiroquai, Virtual Insanity
23 - The Notorious B.I.G. with Puff Daddy & Mase, Mo' Money Mo' Problems
22 - Blind Melon, No Rain
21 - INXS, Need You Tonight / Mediate

re: #6 Racer X

The RC SR-71 Video is freakin' awesome. But someone needs to tell the controller that he's grown out of those pants.

Our first artist tonight had trouble getting a concept he liked for his music video.

Fortunately, someone popped in a tape of Eddie Murphy's "Coming To America" movie, and the concept was born!

#20 is Busta Rhymes with Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See:

Muahahahahahah! Jonathan Sanchez with a no-hitter! I witnessed it!

You know when you have a nice big sundae, and it's certainly delicious, but the one last thing that would make it perfect is a cherry on top?

Well, I just found my cherry -- the Maraschino Cherry of Hypocrisy:

John Holdren has FIVE children.

Eighteen months ago, I eventually asked Mr Bush's representative whether he ever lay awake at night worrying about what he would tell his grandchildren if he proved to be wrong. "I have no children," he shot back, "therefore I will have no grandchildren."

Professor Holdren, I'm glad to reveal, has five.

Oh, sweet irony.

re: #14 traderjoe9

Muahahahahahah! Jonathan Sanchez with a no-hitter! I witnessed it!

Too bad about that one stupid error. Would have been a perfect game!

Now I can just call it "gaining Mark Twains' confidence."

re: #14 traderjoe9

Congrats! I was definitely nowhere near the ballpark when Lester or Buchholz threw their no-hitters.

re: #6 Racer X

Honor a Fallen Soldier...amazing video

Man, I'm tearing up here.

Thank you Staff Sgt. John Beale. RIP.

#19, an affluent suburb, 3:30 in the afternoon, 64 degrees and cloudy.

It's Pearl Jam, singing about the time "Jeremy spoke in class today":

Uh oh, Mark Twain smoked a corn cob pipe as well!

//It's a corn cob conspiracy!

/

#18 is unembeddable, which is unfortunate, due to all the sexy models in this video.

For his only other appearance after #95 on this list, George Michael returns with Freedom '90!

Comments on youtube page of an "internet badass" (I think it's funny, so there).

NukaColaCupCake (6 days ago)
Hey you can talk shit over then internet you must be the coolest guy ever wow.

1031nozome (6 days ago)
Can you speak Japanese?

CanSBarakaldo (2 weeks ago)
sorry I am Spanish and do not deal very well English but alone you say the same thing and do not justify your response "peace"

ChrisGugliuzza (2 weeks ago)
punk ass bitch. you must be an internet thug.

sirmoalot (1 month ago)
MY! aren't you an internet bad ass?

I rarely give a negative ding. I did on the last thread. I should be ashamed.

re: #11 gmsc

I have a question: Are these just your personal picks, or or they based on a published list?

re: #1 Noam Sayin'

And that's why I drink.

Good night, all.

i drink so i'm dumb enough to fit in with everyone else........

re: #25 pat

I rarely give a negative ding. I did on the last thread. I should be ashamed.

You can go back and reverse it. :D

What's a negative ding?

There's 2 versions of our next video. So much of the video as it was had to be cut out for broadcast that the censored version has actually become the more famous of the two.

It Nine Inch Nails, with Closer, coming at #17:

re: #29 DesertSage

What's a negative ding?

It's when you play the glockenspiel backwards.

Goodnight Moon

What's a glockenspiel?

I'm drunk :(

re: #26 zombie

I have a question: Are these just your personal picks, or or they based on a published list?

They're in the order assigned by VH1, which released them in 1999 as their choices for "The Best Music Videos Ever". Being a 10-year-old list, I figured it was fair to redub them as "The Best Music Videos of the 20th Century".

re: #30 gmsc

:D

re: #33 DesertSage

What's a glockenspiel?

I'm drunk :(

It's basically a xylophone for a marching band.

re: #16 zombie

Too bad about that one stupid error. Would have been a perfect game!

Ehh. I'm not to sore about it. A no-hitter is still an incredible accomplishment.

re: #33 DesertSage

What's a glockenspiel?

I'm drunk :(

Sort of like a kid's toy xylophone, but you hold it upright and play it while dressed in a ridiculous costume.

re: #36 gmsc

It's basically a xylophone for a marching band.

re: #38 zombie

Sort of like a kid's toy xylophone, but you hold it upright and play it while dressed in a ridiculous costume.

See?

re: #33 DesertSage

It's a polymer Austrian pistol going off on a tangent.

re: #30 gmsc

That played on the radio the other day - found a good station! They didn't bleep it.

Saturday night in SoCal! :')

[Link: www.astro.ucla.edu...]

re: #18 Fenway_Nation

Congrats! I was definitely nowhere near the ballpark when Lester or Buchholz threw their no-hitters.

Thanks. I also went last night when Lincecum had a no-hitter going into the seventh.

Giants are 48-38...second best team in the NL. If we trade for a big bat...I think we can make the playoffs.

re: #35 Catttt

:D

NIN fan, eh?

re: #38 zombie

Sort of like a kid's toy xylophone, but you hold it upright and play it while dressed in a ridiculous costume.

Such as lederhosen?

re: #44 gmsc

NIN fan, eh?

Oh, yes. :D

Moving on to #16, we have yet another of the most definitive '80s videos out there.

This one is The Police, singing Every Breath You Take:

re: #27 redc1c4

i drink so i'm dumb enough to fit in with everyone else........

Hey red,

Here's to a meeting in the NLCS in October.

re: #43 traderjoe9

Best I can do in terms of historic milestones I saw in person was David Ortiz getting his first home run with the Red Sox back in '03 or Trevor Hoffman tying Lee Smith's all-time saves record.

re: #38 zombie

Sort of like a kid's toy xylophone, but you hold it upright and play it while dressed in a ridiculous costume.

I dress in ridicules costumes every day!

Robert Fisk protests that the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibited currently at Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum are "looted", claims the Palestinian Authority is actually demanding their return to Palestine!

Fisk says: "Now, I have to say that I looked at these original texts in the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto [...] At no point in the exhibition, jointly arranged with the professional (and brilliant) assistance of the Israel Antiquities Authority, is there any mention, hem hem, of the West Bank or occupation. Or how the documents found there came to be in the hands of the Israelis."

re: #34 gmsc

They're in the order assigned by VH1, which released them in 1999 as their choices for "The Best Music Videos Ever". Being a 10-year-old list, I figured it was fair to redub them as "The Best Music Videos of the 20th Century".

Ah. A VH1 list.

The I won't feel guilty interrupting it with some even more entertaining videos...such as:

Halcali doing Tandem

Our next two videos are both unembeddable, but they're both definitely worth the clicks to see.

#15 is Missy Elliott singing I Can't Stand The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly).

re: #21 Gus 802

Uh oh, Mark Twain smoked a corn cob pipe as well!

//It's a corn cob conspiracy!

/

For some reason, the Ty Cob pipe never caught on. :)

re: #43 traderjoe9

Or Jason Bay's first career post-season homerun.

re: #49 Fenway_Nation

Best I can do in terms of historic milestones I saw in person was David Ortiz getting his first home run with the Red Sox back in '03 or Trevor Hoffman tying Lee Smith's all-time saves record.

Well, before this no-hitter, the only milestone I witnessed was Bond's 755. Which isn't a bad milestone to witness.

Don't feel too bad about not having seen a great milestone. At least you've won several world series recently...

Funny thing about the "internet badass" - the one with the comments I pasted above - he has one video - him - it's called "Me Singing Kris Allen The Way You Look Tonight" with a sappy oceanscape background. Really pitiful.

I think he means he's singing it TO Kris Allen (a guy), yet he posts gay-bashing stuff all over the place.

Youtube is a whole lotta weird. Interesting, though.

re: #51 GNIDAthe#seCond

Robert Fisk protests that the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibited currently at Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum are "looted", claims the Palestinian Authority is actually demanding their return to Palestine!

From the link:

"This would anger Canada's Turkish community, who are holocaust deniers. And in turn, it would anger the Israel Antiquities Authority, who do not acknowledge that the Armenian Holocaust ever happened, there being only one True Holocaust, which is that of the Jews of Europe.

Fisk is an incredibly disgusting person.

re: #52 zombie

I gotta find that Korean breakdancing video now.

in re Sen. Ensign and the Hamptons, Josh Marshall wonders,

"Which is more emasculating? Getting paid a hundred grand by the guy who screwed your wife? Or being a fifty-something United States senator and still needing mom and dad to cut the check to pay off your mistress and her husband?"

Discuss.

(also celebrate that I finally learned how to do html links!)

Considering #14 is still so highly regarded, it's probably not surprising that you can't find an embeddable version.

Here's A-ha! with, yep, you guessed it, Take On Me!

re: #54 ShanghaiEd

For some reason, the Ty Cob pipe never caught on. :)

Yeah, but peaches did. ;)

re: #52 zombie

Ah. A VH1 list.

The I won't feel guilty interrupting it with some even more entertaining videos...

If you find any entertaining videos, please post them.

/I'm better now

BatGuano? BatGuano, where are you?

Since I started this list, you've been asking about 1 video, and it's coming up now!

#13 is also #1 on the BatGuano hit parade.

It's REM with Losing My Religion:

re: #54 ShanghaiEd

For some reason, the Ty Cob pipe never caught on. :)

I apologize.

/I get it now

re: #65 Killian Bundy

/I'm better now

Are you sure?

re: #16 zombie

Too bad about that one stupid error. Would have been a perfect game!

too bad it was the Giants....pitching the game.

/white smoke

Cow Bell

re: #68 DesertSage

Are you sure?

/yes, everything's fine now

re: #63 gmsc

If you find any entertaining videos, please post them.

Well, your life is not complete until you have seen the legendarily bizarre

Watermelon Love:

Yes, there are still some Michael Jackson videos on the list, and we're going to get one out of the way right now.

#12 is Beat It:

re: #42 DesertSage

Saturday night in SoCal! :')

[Link: www.astro.ucla.edu...]

on a finally a KMET fryday?

re: #15 zombie

Well, I just found my cherry -- the Maraschino Cherry of Hypocrisy:

John Holdren has FIVE children.

Oh, sweet irony.

Um, Zombie, you really are slipping up these days...

[Link: www.harvardscience.harvard.edu...]

He now resides with his wife of 42 years, biologist Dr. Cheryl E. Holdren, in Falmouth, Massachusetts. They have two grown children and five grandchildren ages 3 to 17.

re: #75 gmsc

Yes, there are still some Michael Jackson videos on the list, and we're going to get one out of the way right now.

#12 is Beat It:

[Video]

that's what the one paramedic said to the other when he heard they didn't have a pulse.....

re: #67 Killian Bundy

I apologize.

/I get it now

No more shit?

re: #48 traderjoe9

Hey red,

Here's to a meeting in the NLCS in October.

are you buying the drinks?

Never trust a man who drinks too much on Saturday night and prys too loud on Sunday morning.--Harry S. Truman

Watching Harry Potter I. Clearly one of the best directed movies of all time. Right up there with The Wizard Of Oz, for recreating a contemporaneous novel with a film.

re: #81 calcajun

Never trust a man who drinks too much on Saturday night and prys too loud on Sunday morning.--Harry S. Truman

prays, dammit. Prays.

PIMF

re: #56 traderjoe9

Well, before this no-hitter, the only milestone I witnessed was Bond's 755. Which isn't a bad milestone to witness.

asterisk and all.......

Don't feel too bad about not having seen a great milestone. At least you've won several world series recently...

FTFY!

So.....Red Sox are back in 1st place with two games to go before the 2009 Boston Red Sox MLB All-Star break...

All this supposed drama of a tie for first place between the Sox and the Yankees is kind of moot, since the Red Sox own the tiebreaker (head-to-head record versus the team you're tied with).

I remember it well- that was the difference between a Wild Card berth and the AL East pennant back in '05.

re: #80 redc1c4

are you buying the drinks?

Yessir.

We started tonight with a video that drew its inspiration from the movie Coming To America, so we'll finish with a video that seems to be inspired by the Indiana Jones movies.

#11 is Duran Duran's Hungry Like the Wolf:

Tomorrow, we'll conclude with the final 10 videos!

re: #83 calcajun

prays, dammit. Prays.

PIMF

Freudian PIMF? Hmmmmm......

re: #77 freetoken

Gee -- I was just quoting that article! Guess the Sydney Morning Herald got it wrong -- or somebody got it wrong!

I have a feeling it was a sloppy reporter.

Yet more confirmation to NEVER trust what a reporter says without first verifying it.

One of my petty vices is solo hiking.

/and good afternoon to ye

re: #43 traderjoe9

Thanks. I also went last night when Lincecum had a no-hitter going into the seventh.

Giants are 48-38...second best team in the NL. If we trade for a big bat...I think we can make the playoffs.

you can order your tickets now..... it's much easier.

re: #86 traderjoe9

Yessir.

then i don't give a damn who's playing.... pour up.

/practical to the end %-)

re: #88 Catttt

Freudian PIMF? Hmmmmm......

Just what I was thinking. My church used to pry, and pry, and pry...

Today in History, July 11th:

Highlights of this day in history: America normalizes diplomatic ties with Vietnam; Aaron Burr mortally wounds Alexander Hamilton in a duel; Skylab makes a fiery return to Earth; Babe Ruth's major league debut; Laurence Olivier dies.

Other notable July 11th events include:

1735 – Mathematical calculations suggest that it is on this day that Pluto moved from the ninth to the eighth most distant planet from the Sun for the last time before 1979.

1859 – A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is published.

1889 – Tijuana, Mexico, is founded.

1895 – The Lumière brothers demonstrate film technology to scientists.

1921 – Former U.S. President William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person to ever be both President and Chief Justice.

1960 – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published.

1977 – Martin Luther King Jr. is posthumously awarded the Medal of Freedom.

1987 – According to the United Nations, the world population crosses the 5,000,000,000 (5 billion) mark.

2006 – 209 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.

OT: What's up with David Brooks?

David Brooks: A Republican senator put ‘his hand on my inner thigh’ for a ‘whole’ dinner party.

O’DONNELL: What, what’s happened?

BROOKS: You know, all three of us spend a lot of time covering politicians and I don’t know about you guys, but in my view, they’re all emotional freaks of one sort or another. They’re guaranteed to invade your personal space, touch you. I sat next to a Republican senator once at dinner and he had his hand on my inner thigh the whole time. I was like, ehh, get me out of here.

HARWOOD: What?

BROOKS: I can only imagine what happens to you guys.

O’DONNELL: Sorry, who was that?

BROOKS: I’m not telling you, I’m not telling you. But so, a lot of them spend so much time needing people’s love and yet they are shooting upwards their whole life, they’re not that great in normal human relationships. And so, they’re like freaks, they don’t know how to, they’re lonely. They reach out. I’ve spoken to a lot of young women who are Senate staffers and they’ll have these middle age guys who are sort of in the middle of a mid-life crisis. Emotionally needy, they don’t know how to do it and sort of like these St. Bernards drooling everywhere. And you find a lot of this happens in mid-life and among very powerful people who are extremely lonely.

re: #89 zombie

Gee -- I was just quoting that article! Guess the Sydney Morning Herald got it wrong -- or somebody got it wrong!

I have a feeling it was a sloppy reporter.

Yet more confirmation to NEVER trust what a reporter says without first verifying it.

It's close. The five number in the article you mention refers to Holdren's grandchildren:

It's also about future generations. Eighteen months ago, I eventually asked Mr Bush's representative whether he ever lay awake at night worrying about what he would tell his grandchildren if he proved to be wrong. "I have no children," he shot back, "therefore I will have no grandchildren."

Professor Holdren, I'm glad to reveal, has five.

The article is correct.

re: #79 ShanghaiEd

No more shit?

no, just different shit.

re: #93 ShanghaiEd

Just what I was thinking. My church used to pry, and pry, and pry...

Now, just...stop that. Dammit.// To much friggin Scotch and it's too late.

re: #89 zombie

Yet more confirmation to NEVER trust what a reporter says without first verifying it.

The best research almost always relies on original sources, or at least information of which the provenance is known.

Zombie, if I may be so bold, may I suggest you set aside the whatever is driving you when you do research, and instead approach the endeavor in a colder, more impassioned manner? I get the feeling you are rushing things too much lately.

Dang, the Internet is an amazing thing.

Just a few short hours after posting the excerpts from "Ecoscience," my report is already the 9th-ranked result for "John Holdren" in a Google search.

Top ten out of 115,000 hits.

How'd that happen so fast?

PIMF "less" passion, not more...

re: #84 redc1c4

FTFY!

I bet you cheered for Manny when he came back too, didn't you?

You can't see beyond your hatred for the Giants that Bonds did nothing different than an enormous amount of ballplayers this decade. Teams would mercilessly boo Bonds every time he stepped up to the batter box, completely ignoring the fact that a substantial number of players on their own team were also juiced up. And that certainly does not exclude Los Angeles.

If you insist on putting an asterik next to Bond's record, then you should also insist on putting an asterik next to Boston's 2004 and 2007 WS championships. Boy, were those teams juiced.

Hypocrites.

re: #99 freetoken

The best research almost always relies on original sources, or at least information of which the provenance is known.

Zombie, if I may be so bold, may I suggest you set aside the whatever is driving you when you do research, and instead approach the endeavor in a colder, more impassioned manner? I get the feeling you are rushing things too much lately.

maybe you mean "...colder, less impassioned manner...", he asked the sock.

re: #100 zombie

How'd that happen so fast?

Malkin is pimping it.

re: #96 Gus 802

The article is correct.

But it's confusingly written. Once again:

'It's also about future generations. Eighteen months ago, I eventually asked Mr Bush's representative whether he ever lay awake at night worrying about what he would tell his grandchildren if he proved to be wrong. "I have no children," he shot back, "therefore I will have no grandchildren."

Professor Holdren, I'm glad to reveal, has five."

Could be interpreted either way -- that he has five children, or grandchildren. Bad writing.

Anyway, I'll drop the issue now, whichever way they intended! Just thought it was a bit ironic, but sigh, tis not to be.

re: #105 zombie

But it's confusingly written. Once again:

'It's also about future generations. Eighteen months ago, I eventually asked Mr Bush's representative whether he ever lay awake at night worrying about what he would tell his grandchildren if he proved to be wrong. "I have no children," he shot back, "therefore I will have no grandchildren."

Professor Holdren, I'm glad to reveal, has five."

Could be interpreted either way -- that he has five children, or grandchildren. Bad writing.

Anyway, I'll drop the issue now, whichever way they intended! Just thought it was a bit ironic, but sigh, tis not to be.

OK, I was going with the "declarative" of "therefore I will have no grandchildren."

re: #76 redc1c4

on a finally a KMET fryday?

That's right, it is Friday.

I told you I was drunk!

:')

re: #79 ShanghaiEd

No more shit?

About your origins, no.

/defend stupid TOTUS policies, you bet

OMG. Found a vid from the Vancouver show with an accidental (I think) close up of Adam's - um - bumping and grinding - crotch - during Fame. /fans self

re: #95 iceweasel

I apologize.

/I get it now

OK--taking kids to the beach and need some ZZ"s. C'yall later.

re: #95 iceweasel

Another Andy Sullivan.
Everything explained.

re: #99 freetoken

The best research almost always relies on original sources, or at least information of which the provenance is known.

Zombie, if I may be so bold, may I suggest you set aside the whatever is driving you when you do research, and instead approach the endeavor in a colder, more impassioned manner? I get the feeling you are rushing things too much lately.

I have very limited free time. I actually spent several days on that report, on and off, with hours spent here and there when i could. It's not that I'm rushing, it's that I have a limited amount of time before I need to say, "OK, roll this one out the door." Because if I wait until something is "perfect" and "complete," I'll never get anything done.

I'm only one person -- not an entire news network with a staff of hundreds. My skills and time are circumscribed! Plus, I'm not getting paid for this -- it's just a "hobby" if you will.

I do what I do, and that's all I can do.

Not good enough for you? Then do something better yourself!

re: #100 zombie

re: #102 traderjoe9

I bet you cheered for Manny when he came back too, didn't you?

You can't see beyond your hatred for the Giants that Bonds did nothing different than an enormous amount of ballplayers this decade. Teams would mercilessly boo Bonds every time he stepped up to the batter box, completely ignoring the fact that a substantial number of players on their own team were also juiced up. And that certainly does not exclude Los Angeles.

If you insist on putting an asterik next to Bond's record, then you should also insist on putting an asterik next to Boston's 2004 and 2007 WS championships. Boy, were those teams juiced.

Hypocrites.

fuck Manny, and all the other fake players, starting with Barry, and all his lies, and everyone who covered for him, then and now.....

i haven't gone to a MLB game in years, and i'm not likely to before i die. the last game i attended was the last home Dodger game, when the O'Malley's still owned the team.

put an asterisk on all of them, or better yet, throw them all out of the sport, and bring back athletes we can be proud of to root for.

until then, who cares?

re: #102 traderjoe9

I was looking through this photo essay earlier this week. A couple of captions were going to great lengths to explain that Boston's two World Series titles were 'tainted' by the presence of Manny.

OK....ponder the irony of that argument being made by fans of a team that have rostered Andy Pettitte, Jason Giambi, Roger Clemens, Gary Sheffield and Alex Rodriguez for most of that same timeframe....

re: #95 iceweasel

OT: What's up with David Brooks?

David Brooks: A Republican senator put ‘his hand on my inner thigh’ for a ‘whole’ dinner party.

How does somebody get to be that age and not recognize such a blatant pass? I'd love to see Brooks' face when somebody informs him that by not removing the Senator's hand, he'd been leading him on.

re: #49 Fenway_Nation

Best I can do in terms of historic milestones I saw in person was David Ortiz getting his first home run with the Red Sox back in '03 or Trevor Hoffman tying Lee Smith's all-time saves record.

I was there in Cincy when Pete Rose (mgr/player) got poked in the eye by umpire Dave Pallone and then tossed for pushing Pallone. The ensuing 1 hour delay of people throwing crap on the field after he tossed Rose was top-notch entertainment.

re: #95 iceweasel

He uses the word "freaks" a couple times. What's up indeed. Don't know much about Brooks.

Hey everyone. It's been a long time since I've been here. Got a question. Is that automatic scrolling thingy still working and if it is, what do I have to click?

re: #116 sagehen

Yes, interesting admission on Brooks' part.

re: #120 Soona'

Hey everyone. It's been a long time since I've been here. Got a question. Is that automatic scrolling thingy still working and if it is, what do I have to click?

I think you click the "Auto" box directly underneath this comment at the end of the thread.

in keeping with tonight's topics, i'm gonna go see if i can shoot a rat....

brb!

re: #116 sagehen

How does somebody get to be that age and not recognize such a blatant pass? I'd love to see Brooks' face when somebody informs him that by not removing the Senator's hand, he'd been leading him on.

For real. "Take you hand off my leg" always works for me. Favorite response - "Oh. I didn't know it would bother you." Reply - "Well, now you do."

re: #120 Soona'

Hey everyone. It's been a long time since I've been here. Got a question. Is that automatic scrolling thingy still working and if it is, what do I have to click?

yes.

re: #120 Soona'

Hey everyone. It's been a long time since I've been here. Got a question. Is that automatic scrolling thingy still working and if it is, what do I have to click?

The "Auto" box. I'm afraid of it, myself.

Zelaya Returns to Washington After Honduras Peace Talks Stall

Deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya traveled to Washington yesterday to meet officials from the U.S. State Department after negotiations in Costa Rica ended inconclusively casting doubt on a return to power in Honduras.

Honduran Cardinal puts the blame on President Chávez for the crisis

In an interview released on Honduras media, the top representative of the Catholic Church in Honduras, Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez, put the blame on Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez for the crisis in the Central American country and recommended him to refrain himself from "putting his hands here."

/what the hell are we doing, who's side are we on?

re: #108 Killian Bundy

About your origins, no.

/defend stupid TOTUS policies, you bet

OK, works for me. Let's start fresh?

re: #122 zombie

Thanks.

I love this place.

Let's just do it.
Don't Fear The Reaper.

re: #127 Killian Bundy

Guess 'Revolution Theology' isnt Cardinal Rodriguez's thing...

re: #116 sagehen

How does somebody get to be that age and not recognize such a blatant pass? I'd love to see Brooks' face when somebody informs him that by not removing the Senator's hand, he'd been leading him on.

Hard to tell, but I figured he did recognize it as a blatant pass but didn't do anything about it for whatever reason.

re: #121 Flyers1974

Yes, interesting admission on Brooks' part.

He obviously enjoyed it if he let it go on so long. I would of knocked the dude out, Senator or not.

re: #105 zombie

But it's confusingly written. Once again:

'It's also about future generations. Eighteen months ago, I eventually asked Mr Bush's representative whether he ever lay awake at night worrying about what he would tell his grandchildren if he proved to be wrong. "I have no children," he shot back, "therefore I will have no grandchildren."

Professor Holdren, I'm glad to reveal, has five."

Could be interpreted either way -- that he has five children, or grandchildren. Bad writing.

Anyway, I'll drop the issue now, whichever way they intended! Just thought it was a bit ironic, but sigh, tis not to be.

Just to go further, it is ironic. Ironic that Holden even had two children and now has five grandchildren. Maybe, just maybe we can toss up his writing to youthful environut hubris.

re: #118 CommonCents

I bet there's 125,000 Southsiders who swear they were in Comiskey for Disco Demolition night some 30 years later.

re: #95 iceweasel

OT: What's up with David Brooks?

David Brooks: A Republican senator put ‘his hand on my inner thigh’ for a ‘whole’ dinner party.

I'm curious. For one, Brooks claims that this man had his hand on his inner thigh throughout the dinner. Why didn't he express his displeasure with that? More importantly, how did the other man eat if this was a dinner? With one hand? Something doesn't add up.

re: #126 Catttt

The "Auto" box. I'm afraid of it, myself.

It's an overnight thread. I figure I can keep up with that. If it were, say, a speech by the zero concerning his wife's fashion sense, it would be impossible.

re: #137 Gus 802

re: #95 iceweasel
More importantly, how did the other man eat if this was a dinner? With one hand? Something doesn't add up.

He had the soup and asked for a silly straw?

re: #113 zombie

Not good enough for you?

Actually no, it isn't. Then again, you aren't asking anything ($) from me for it, so it doesn't really matter very much.

Then do something better yourself!

Zombie, your writings affect your reputation, not mine.

I'm not being too harsh on you, only giving you heads up (such as when on both occasions you posted the drafts to your Holdren article here and in those threads I posted about the testimony at the Senate). If you had added that bit about Holdren having 5 children to your zombietimes article it would finally come out that you were wrong, and (for those who care about such things) lead one to believe your article isn't to trusted.

The rush to print is a definite problem that newspapers get into... and then all of us in the penny gallery get to throw barbs at the "media" for their errors.

re: #134 CommonCents

In the regular world, I agree. In that world, power is everything, I think.

re: #139 Fenway_Nation

He had the soup and asked for a silly straw?

Yeah. That would work. Cream of mushroom soup.

"Excuse me! But could someone cut my steak for me please? Seems as though my other hand is occupied!"

//

re: #115 Fenway_Nation

I was looking through this photo essay earlier this week. A couple of captions were going to great lengths to explain that Boston's two World Series titles were 'tainted' by the presence of Manny.

OK....ponder the irony of that argument being made by fans of a team that have rostered Andy Pettitte, Jason Giambi, Roger Clemens, Gary Sheffield and Alex Rodriguez for most of that same timeframe....

Hey, I'm not only taking a shot at the Red Sox. It's just that the Red Sox did win two world series. But it should also be pointed out that every single World Series winner this decade has a number of their better players juiced. If the Giants won in 2002 - there would be a push to put an asterik next to it, despite the fact that the Angels were loaded with juicers that year.

re: #136 Fenway_Nation

I bet there's 125,000 Southsiders who swear they were in Comiskey for Disco Demolition night some 30 years later.

I watched it on TV. I remember George Kell saying "These aren't baseball fans!"

re: #110 Killian Bundy

I apologize.

/I get it now

Thanks for apologising. Let's start fresh, shall we?

re: #69 Iron Fist

This one has been troubling me

[Video]

Um, why?

re: #114 redc1c4

re: #102 traderjoe9

fuck Manny, and all the other fake players, starting with Barry, and all his lies, and everyone who covered for him, then and now.....

i haven't gone to a MLB game in years, and i'm not likely to before i die. the last game i attended was the last home Dodger game, when the O'Malley's still owned the team.

put an asterisk on all of them, or better yet, throw them all out of the sport, and bring back athletes we can be proud of to root for.

until then, who cares?

The last decade really was a dark cloud over baseball...Selig and other MLB personel should really be scrutinized for the pathetic drug testing system in place...Manny is really an idiot for being caught. I'm sure theres plenty of juicers still out there, beating the pathetic system.

Interesting to note. Glowing praise from Obama and David Axelrod regarding David Brooks:

Axelrod on Brooks: ‘true public thinker’

Note the chummy image of Brooks standing next to Axelrod after receiving an award.

re: #131 pat

Let's just do it.
Don't Fear The Reaper.

[Video]

I'm not hearing enough cowbell on that take!

re: #8 Fenway_Nation

'Tolerant' progressives sharpening their knives for New Haven, CT firefighter Frank Ricci in advance of Sotoymayor hearings.

/Hmm....let me guess. 'We support the troops firefighters, as long as they're the right skin color or ethnicity' ?

Just find proof that Sotoymayor is a practicing Christian. She'll be dropped by the Dems faster than a hot potato.

re: #137 Gus 802

I'm curious. For one, Brooks claims that this man had his hand on his inner thigh throughout the dinner. Why didn't he express his displeasure with that? More importantly, how did the other man eat if this was a dinner? With one hand? Something doesn't add up.

Agreed. The comments on the article say the same thing. How did Brooks sit through all that.
Although I've been in that situation and it's quite possible for the other to eat with one hand. :)

But like Iron Fist, I'm not a fan of Brooks anyway.

re: #131 pat

Let's just do it.
Don't Fear The Reaper.

[Video]

re: #149 zombie

I'm not hearing enough cowbell on that take!

Don't let it bug you, pat. Zombie's tastes are too high and mighty to enjoy music the rest of us enjoy freely.

re: #147 traderjoe9

The last decade really was a dark cloud over baseball...Selig and other MLB personel should really be scrutinized for the pathetic drug testing system in place...Manny is really an idiot for being caught. I'm sure theres plenty of juicers still out there, beating the pathetic system.

There are. I wonder if there'll ever be a 'roid test for the NBA? If there is I've never heard of it.

re: #128 ShanghaiEd

OK, works for me. Let's start fresh?

/I See The Light

re: #143 traderjoe9

Hey, I'm not only taking a shot at the Red Sox. It's just that the Red Sox did win two world series. But it should also be pointed out that every single World Series winner this decade has a number of their better players juiced. If the Giants won in 2002 - there would be a push to put an asterik next to it, despite the fact that the Angels were loaded with juicers that year.

then, for as much as we're paying for these players, they should test everyone, prior to every game, no exceptions.

re: #151 iceweasel

Agreed. The comments on the article say the same thing. How did Brooks sit through all that.
Although I've been in that situation and it's quite possible for the other to eat with one hand. :)

But like Iron Fist, I'm not a fan of Brooks anyway.

Ah good, I'm glad about the comments. It's kind of troubling too. Brook's words is a bit of slander and a feeble attempt at outing. Let's say the man did put his hand on his thigh a few times. It's been my experience that some older men are what I would call "touchy guys." I've experienced it before and they'll talk with you and put there hand on your shoulder or even leg from time to time. It's a little off putting and never saw any harm in it. Maybe I'm wrong.

H.I.M. - Solitary Man cover.

re: #155 redc1c4

then, for as much as we're paying for these players, they should test everyone, prior to every game, no exceptions.

Well, you obviously can't do each player before every game. What I would promote is that each player in baseball gets tested at least once a week before a game, as you suggested - but at random, so the players don't know when they're getting tested.

Something like this is completely feasible IMO. Only 25 players on a team...test 5 players before each game.

Viola!

re: #150 gmsc

I thought it was one of those unspoken rules that both sides adhered to that first responders were more or less off-limits (especially after 9/11) unless they were doing something blatantly wrong or indefensible.

I don't see how passing a city-mandated exam (and overcoming dyslexia in the process) and filing a grievance when the city tells you the results don't count counts as something indefensible.

But by all means- I hope the left and Sotomayor's race-baiting backers run with it. Taking a big steaming dump all over firefighters goes over about as well as taking a big steaming dump all over our troops with most Americans.

I only ask that the 'progressives' hold off on hatcheting Ricci and other firefighters until the autumn of 2010....

re: #95 iceweasel

Y'know, what's weirder to me than the fact that he didn't move his thighs away is how he segues into a metaphor about lonely Senate guys and female staffers, as if it's the equivalent to a male/male thigh encounter. Surely even Brooks is smarter, or at least more sophisticated, than this.

Also, he doesn't say if the dinner party was last week or 25 years ago. As Gus says, something don't add up.

re: #156 Gus 802

Ah good, I'm glad about the comments. It's kind of troubling too. Brook's words is a bit of slander and a feeble attempt at outing. Let's say the man did put his hand on his thigh a few times. It's been my experience that some older men are what I would call "touchy guys." I've experienced it before and they'll talk with you and put there hand on your shoulder or even leg from time to time. It's a little off putting and never saw any harm in it. Maybe I'm wrong.

Well, there I have to disagree with you somewhat. The inner thigh under the table is pretty damn different than someone putting a hand on your shoulder.

Some of the comments over there are hilarious, talking about Bernaise sause shooting every which way. Yeech.

They eventually asked Brooks if he'd had a couple of drinks at lunch before giving this interview:

BROOKS: Yeah, I wish I could think of sort of St. Bernards, sloppy women who are licking their aides, but but no, I can’t think of any.

HARWOOD: I’m not going there.

O’DONNELL: Did you have a couple drinks at lunch, David? I mean, this is clearly....

BROOKS: No, you’ve hit me…I’m trying not to be too dignified and stuffy.

O’DONNELL: Well, David Brooks as always, thank you very much. That was a lot of fun. You may not have gotten best column of the week, but you got best appearance of the week, certainly.

re: #156 Gus 802

Ah good, I'm glad about the comments. It's kind of troubling too. Brook's words is a bit of slander and a feeble attempt at outing. Let's say the man did put his hand on his thigh a few times. It's been my experience that some older men are what I would call "touchy guys." I've experienced it before and they'll talk with you and put there hand on your shoulder or even leg from time to time. It's a little off putting and never saw any harm in it. Maybe I'm wrong.

Yeah, I agree. There's a great short story about this subject: "Hands," by Sherwood Anderson. The character is a gifted teacher of young kids, who apparently loses his career because of rumors about him being too hands-on, even though there's nothing sexual about it.

re: #158 traderjoe9

Well, you obviously can't do each player before every game. What I would promote is that each player in baseball gets tested at least once a week before a game, as you suggested - but at random, so the players don't know when they're getting tested.

Something like this is completely feasible IMO. Only 25 players on a team...test 5 players before each game.

Viola!

25 players, 25 cups, and, to be fair, all the other on field staff, coaches, etc, plus the umpires.

you wanna play, you gotta piss. every game, every time. do the hair samples at random, for a backup.

it's not like pissing in a cup is hard, or that MLB doesn't have the money....

re: #140 freetoken

I don't care about my reputation. I don't want people to trust me. I want them to trust their own eyes. I just toss the evidence into the great meat grinder of American society and see how (or whether) it gets chewed up and digested. Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail -- but in no instance is my success or failure based on my reputation or who I am, but rather on the evidence I provide for the reader to assess.

In fact, I would prefer to have remained completely meta-anonymous -- I had no plans to develop the "zombie" name into a brand "that you can trust." I want and need to start from scratch every time.

And lastly -- many articles and products are not "perfected" until they're out in the wild and "road-tested" for a while. One can't see what is lacking until the thing in question in manhandled by the public. Only then can one release "version 2.0" or add an update or whatever. Even the best companies with huge teams release imperfect products all the time, and later refine them. So I don't expect myself to hit a perfect home run with every single post, on the first swing each time.

Ankle-biters don't bother me. I have respect for people who create, not for people who gripe that others' creations are imperfect.

re: #161 iceweasel

I suppose. But without a video! I'm trying to think where I've had that kind of happen. Like they'll do it while your driving down the road and they're talking away about something they did in the 1940s and then they'll put their hand on the top of the thigh. Back and forth. Then there's the "arms around your shoulders guys" that also used to common.

re: #164 zombie

this was not the best post you've ever put up here.......

/just so you know. %-)

Feels like I cannot emphasise this enough- soxfanforlife, remembertonyC and Cape Coddah would concur.

They hate us- they really hate us.
/And I couldn't be happier.

re: #165 Gus 802

I suppose. But without a video! I'm trying to think where I've had that kind of happen. Like they'll do it while your driving down the road and they're talking away about something they did in the 1940s and then they'll put their hand on the top of the thigh. Back and forth. Then there's the "arms around your shoulders guys" that also used to common.

we'll take your word for it........

/shudder

re: #162 ShanghaiEd

Yeah, I agree. There's a great short story about this subject: "Hands," by Sherwood Anderson. The character is a gifted teacher of young kids, who apparently loses his career because of rumors about him being too hands-on, even though there's nothing sexual about it.

I'm trying to find some references to this phenomenon.

Chris Cuomo can bite.........something.

FOX news' resident priest, Father Jonathan Morris, is on Red Eye - he found it interesting that the media doesn't believe Obama eyed the 16 year old's tukus; looked to him like the O was doing what everyone knows he was doing.

yes...paraphrased :)

Seems Father Jonathan knows Obama's not the messiah, in spite of the MSM.

re: #161 iceweasel

True, "inner thigh" and "entire dinner party" is a far cry from a pat on the shoulder or a single squeeze of the leg in passing.

re: #170 GGMac

Chris Cuomo can bite.........something.

FOX news' resident priest, Father Jonathan Morris, is on Red Eye - he found it interesting that the media doesn't believe Obama eyed the 16 year old's tukus; looked to him like the O was doing what everyone knows he was doing.

yes...paraphrased :)

Seems Father Jonathan knows Obama's not the messiah, in spite of the MSM.

Ear Leader's bib was soaked...... if he'd have drooled anymore, the folks on the lower level would have drowned.

re: #171 ShanghaiEd

True, "inner thigh" and "entire dinner party" is a far cry from a pat on the shoulder or a single squeeze of the leg in passing.

and it also sounds like horseshit at first listen.

re: #165 Gus 802

I suppose. But without a video! I'm trying to think where I've had that kind of happen. Like they'll do it while your driving down the road and they're talking away about something they did in the 1940s and then they'll put their hand on the top of the thigh. Back and forth. Then there's the "arms around your shoulders guys" that also used to common.

Either way, it just creeps me out anytime a guy gets too physically close to me.

re: #165 Gus 802

Like they'll do it while your driving down the road and they're talking away about something they did in the 1940s and then they'll put their hand on the top of the thigh. Back and forth.

I feel like I'm destroying your innocence or something here, but that sounds like a pass. Especially if this happened to you while hitch-hiking. Just sayin'.

I think it may not be obvious to a heterosexual male that this is a pass, but it is.

:(

hey Zombie: you're on Ace of Spades too.......

re: #174 Soona'

Either way, it just creeps me out anytime a guy gets too physically close to me.

Yeah, my response is to repel.

re: #160 ShanghaiEd

Y'know, what's weirder to me than the fact that he didn't move his thighs away is how he segues into a metaphor about lonely Senate guys and female staffers, as if it's the equivalent to a male/male thigh encounter. Surely even Brooks is smarter, or at least more sophisticated, than this.

Also, he doesn't say if the dinner party was last week or 25 years ago. As Gus says, something don't add up.

I have trouble believing a senator - even one dumb or horny enough to make a pass at a reporter - would keep his hand there through an entire dinner. Most people need both arms to eat dinner.

re: #174 Soona'

Either way, it just creeps me out anytime a guy gets too physically close to me.

lighten up Francis.....

re: #178 Catttt

I have trouble believing a senator - even one dumb or horny enough to make a pass at a reporter - would keep his hand there through an entire dinner. Most people need both arms to eat dinner.

thank you.

re: #179 redc1c4

lighten up Francis.....

Is that you Sergeant Hulka?

re: #175 iceweasel

I feel like I'm destroying your innocence or something here, but that sounds like a pass. Especially if this happened to you while hitch-hiking. Just sayin'.

I think it may not be obvious to a heterosexual male that this is a pass, but it is.

:(

I've never really gone hitch hiking much. Once and this guy just showed us this big old silver long barrel .45. We were shocked and impressed is all. I know what a pass is having lived in San Francisco for 4 years. Maybe those other events were or weren't.

re: #178 Catttt

I have trouble believing a senator - even one dumb or horny enough to make a pass at a reporter - would keep his hand there through an entire dinner. Most people need both arms to eat dinner.

Exactamundo. That one armed eating thing is the key.

So one would have to ask Brooks, what side was he sitting and if the person in question is left handed or right handed.

re: #181 Mich-again

Is that you Sergeant Hulka?

naw......... i'm the SP4 in charge of the arms room.

/of course, that means they never would have gotten anything signed out to fulfill the script, but why ruin a good plot?

re: #174 Soona'

Either way, it just creeps me out anytime a guy gets too physically close to me.

You're going to love this video. :D

re: #183 Gus 802

Exactamundo. That one armed eating thing is the key.

So one would have to ask Brooks, what side was he sitting and if the person in question is left handed or right handed.

actually, one would simply have to say "bullshit", and let him substantiate the claim or STFU.

re: #182 Gus 802

I've never really gone hitch hiking much. Once and this guy just showed us this big old silver long barrel .45. We were shocked and impressed is all. I know what a pass is having lived in San Francisco for 4 years. Maybe those other events were or weren't.

To me, what's funny about all this isn't what Brooks said-- I have no idea if it's true and don't care, and it certainly sounds like he exaggerated at least-- but the fact that the interviewer asked him if he'd had a couple of drinks before doing the show. (I'm not a Brooks fan at all, so any opportunity to laugh at him is fine with me)

re: #187 iceweasel

To me, what's funny about all this isn't what Brooks said-- I have no idea if it's true and don't care, and it certainly sounds like he exaggerated at least-- but the fact that the interviewer asked him if he'd had a couple of drinks before doing the show. (I'm not a Brooks fan at all, so any opportunity to laugh at him is fine with me)

Brooks is single no? Hmm, I'm wondering now. Maybe there's a reason he let that senator put his hand on his thigh throughout the dinner? He's a nice dresser and still wears those "Annie Hall" glasses. Hmmm.

re: #188 Gus 802

Brooks is single no? Hmm, I'm wondering now. Maybe there's a reason he let that senator put his hand on his thigh throughout the dinner? He's a nice dresser and still wears those "Annie Hall" glasses. Hmmm.

No, he's married.

re: #176 redc1c4

hey Zombie: you're on Ace of Spades too.......

Cool!

Google Blog search reveals about 40 more links to my report, though it's strangely incomplete -- it only seems to catch about one-third of the actual links (LGF and Michelle Malkin, for example, are not on there, nor are many others I know about). Technorati reveals more...and then there are the "secondary links" of people who don't link to me directly, but rather to some other blog's coverage of the topic.

Overall, I'm probably way past 100 links by now. Maybe the "Hundredth Blog" principle will kick in and the MSM will take notice.

re: #189 Catttt

No, he's married.

Ah, OK. Was looking at Wiki and it didn't say.

re: #190 zombie

Cool!

Google Blog search reveals about 40 more links to my report, though it's strangely incomplete -- it only seems to catch about one-third of the actual links (LGF and Michelle Malkin, for example, are not on there, nor are many others I know about). Technorati reveals more...and then there are the "secondary links" of people who don't link to me directly, but rather to some other blog's coverage of the topic.

Overall, I'm probably way past 100 links by now. Maybe the "Hundredth Blog" principle will kick in and the MSM will take notice.

Check out a Twitter search.

It's using "zombietime."

re: #189 Catttt

No, he's married.

Maybe he's homophobic? I can imagine that this guy accidentally stepped on his foot or something under the table and Brooks has now blown it up into a fullblown pass.

I've known straight guys before who were utterly paranoid and convinced that gay men were hitting on them when they weren't-- and when the men supposedly hitting on them weren't even gay.

re: #145 iceweasel

Let's start fresh

Probably would have been better if I hadn't just seen that exact phrase from someone else, but sure.

/don't get any ideas that TOTUS isn't wrecking the U.S. economy and we'll be fine

re: #190 zombie

Overall, I'm probably way past 100 links by now. Maybe the "Hundredth Blog" principle will kick in and the MSM will take notice.

Not until Monday.

re: #190 zombie

it only seems to catch about one-third of the actual links (LGF and Michelle Malkin, for example, are not on there, nor are many others I know about)

Those sites probably don't allow Google's bot to just look around and grab stuff, so it doesn't see whats in there.

re: #170 GGMac

Dubya had his 'It's good to be the king' moment with the Women's Olympic Beach Volleyball players in Beijing last year.

I don't begrudge him for that, and I don't begrudge 0 for having a look-see at some teenage Brazilian girl who was well put-together. I will however begrudge those in the MSM who adamantly deny that 0 wasn't doing what was so obvious he was doing....

I'd like to think that the 0 and his reign could be derailed on account of his disastrous economic policies that will result in massive job losses- not taking a gander at some Brazilian boo-tay

re: #197 Fenway_Nation

I think before I can rule on the topic I need to see exhibits A and B.

re: #185 Catttt

I can't identify with any of those "metro" looking guys. Man-hugs, handshakes, an arm across the shoulder don't bother me, unless the other guy decides to linger with it. Hands on the thigh is something completely different.

re: #183 Gus 802

That one armed eating thing is the key

Like I said- two words:

Silly Straw

re: #194 Killian Bundy

Probably would have been better if I hadn't just seen that exact phrase from someone else, but sure.

Hadn't even seen that when I answered you; it's a cliche, what can I say. Sometimes the simplest explanation (coincidence) is also the right one.

re: #191 Gus 802

Ah, OK. Was looking at Wiki and it didn't say.

Well, he's mentioned a wife "Sarah" somewhere, and kids - don't remember how many.

I'm out for now, guys. Hope to be back over the weekend. See you then.

re: #199 Soona'

I can't identify with any of those "metro" looking guys. Man-hugs, handshakes, an arm across the shoulder don't bother me, unless the other guy decides to linger with it. Hands on the thigh is something completely different.

Poor baby. /cheeky grin

re: #200 Fenway_Nation

Like I said- two words:

Silly Straw

"Yes, I'll have the rehydratable filet mignon, and rehydratable salad. And a Tang to drink please. Also, plenty of straws."

//

re: #203 ShanghaiEd

I'm out for now, guys. Hope to be back over the weekend. See you then.

Hasta later Ed.

re: #205 Gus 802

"Yes, I'll have the rehydratable filet mignon, and rehydratable salad. And a Tang to drink please. Also, plenty of straws."

//

Oh - maybe he was using that new fast-food bag The Onion was talking about last week! :D

My cats say I should be in bed, so goodnight.

re: #193 iceweasel

I didn't get paranoid about that sort of thing until.....well....a gay man made a pass at me.

/I found the whole thing awkward and he was upset at my not being gay.

re: #202 Catttt

Well, he's mentioned a wife "Sarah" somewhere, and kids - don't remember how many.

Found a reference, he has a wife and three kids.

re: #207 Catttt

Oh - maybe he was using that new fast-food bag The Onion was talking about last week! :D

My cats say I should be in bed, so goodnight.

Good night-morning.

re: #205 Gus 802

"Yes, I'll have the rehydratable filet mignon, and rehydratable salad. And a Tang to drink please. Also, plenty of straws."

//

Either that or a Cream of Wheat dinner.

re: #207 Catttt

/Must.....obey.......feline.....

re: #203 ShanghaiEd

I'm out for now, guys. Hope to be back over the weekend. See you then.

Later Ed! take care

re: #190 zombie

Cool!

Google Blog search reveals about 40 more links to my report, though it's strangely incomplete -- it only seems to catch about one-third of the actual links (LGF and Michelle Malkin, for example, are not on there, nor are many others I know about). Technorati reveals more...and then there are the "secondary links" of people who don't link to me directly, but rather to some other blog's coverage of the topic.

Overall, I'm probably way past 100 links by now. Maybe the "Hundredth Blog" principle will kick in and the MSM will take notice.

i believe the 'Unpleasant Truth' rule will override that, and they will either ignore you, or out you as a purveyor of outre gay smut, based upon your previous reports.

/experienced

re: #211 Soona'

Either that or a Cream of Wheat dinner.

Gerber's turkey-vegetable.

//

re: #207 Catttt

Oh - maybe he was using that new fast-food bag The Onion was talking about last week! :D

My cats say I should be in bed, so goodnight.

I'm usually at work this time of the night. My cats are looking at me right now with that "what the........" look on their faces.

re: #193 iceweasel

Maybe he's homophobic? I can imagine that this guy accidentally stepped on his foot or something under the table and Brooks has now blown it up into a fullblown pass.

I've known straight guys before who were utterly paranoid and convinced that gay men were hitting on them when they weren't-- and when the men supposedly hitting on them weren't even gay.

and the paranoids were actually in the closet?

re: #211 Soona'

We're overlooking the possibility that this sentaor could've been eating his dinner through an IV.

re: #215 Gus 802

Gerber's turkey-vegetable.

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Strained peas. :p

re: #215 Gus 802

Gerber's turkey-vegetable.

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re: #219 Soona'

Strained peas. :p

Peas . . . Peas . . . Peas . . . eating Gerber's Peas . . .

/Oops, I think that was Goober's peas.

re: #197 Fenway_Nation

Dubya had his 'It's good to be the king' moment with the Women's Olympic Beach Volleyball players in Beijing last year.

I don't begrudge him for that, and I don't begrudge 0 for having a look-see at some teenage Brazilian girl who was well put-together. I will however begrudge those in the MSM who adamantly deny that 0 wasn't doing what was so obvious he was doing....

I'd like to think that the 0 and his reign could be derailed on account of his disastrous economic policies that will result in massive job losses- not taking a gander at some Brazilian boo-tay

i call bull.... start to finish.

re: #217 redc1c4

and the paranoids were actually in the closet?

I couldn't tell you that. Certainly one of the typical psychoanalytic explanations for that level of 'gay panic' is that they're closeted.

The two guys I'm thinking of identified as straight; at least one is married now. They weren't overtly bigoted; they supported gay rights. But they both seemed excessively paranoid about being hit on by gay men, they both seemed to have a LOT of stories about being hit on by gay men (which I found improbable for various reasons), and I had even witnessed them insisting to me someone was making a pass at them when it was abundently clear no such pass had been made. ("Did you see how that guy looked at me when he was giving me my change?" type of rant. WEIRD.)

re: #220 gmsc

re: #215 Gus 802

/Oops, I think that was Goober's peas.

Jimmy Carter has his own line of strained peas?

re: #220 gmsc

Peas . . . Peas . . . Peas . . . eating Gerber's Peas . . .

/Oops, I think that was Goober's peas.

[Video]

Gobber's peas and hardtack.

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re: #220 gmsc

Peas . . . Peas . . . Peas . . . eating Gerber's Peas . . .

/Oops, I think that was Goober's peas.

Youtube Video

Burl Ives your not. ;)

re: #224 Gus 802

Gobber's peas and hardtack.

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Goober's.

re: #220 gmsc

Peas . . . Peas . . . Peas . . . eating Gerber's Peas . . .

/Oops, I think that was Goober's peas.

[Video]

"peas, peas, the musical fruit......."

re: #223 Fenway_Nation

Jimmy Carter has his own line of strained peas?

He's had it for years. He tried to make peas with Israel and the PLO, which didn't exactly work out. He was even called a peaNUT farmer!

re: #225 Soona'

Burl Ives your not. ;)

Burl Ives my not?

re: #224 Gus 802

Gobber's peas and hardtack.

/Peas And Carrots

re: #229 gmsc

Oops. Wrong comment #.

re: #230 Killian Bundy

[Video]

/Peas And Carrots

That's pretty cool.

re: #225 Soona'

Burl Ives your not. ;)

Burl Ives is always good:

re: #233 gmsc

Burl Ives is always good:

Youtube Video

My dad listened to his albums so much that the rest of us in the family hid the albums so we could listen to something else. I still don't think I could make it through a complete album now.

re: #234 Soona'

My dad listened to his albums so much that the rest of us in the family hid the albums so we could listen to something else. I still don't think I could make it through a complete album now.

:)

That's OK, I can through in some variety:

re: #235 gmsc

:)

That's OK, I can through throw in some variety:

[Video]

re: #233 gmsc

Burl Ives is always good:

[Video]

Look at this image...

[Link: images.google.com...]

Does that look like Burl Ives? And in 1982?

re: #236 gmsc

Now that your comment has past; you through in some variety.

re: #237 Gus 802

Look at this image...

[Link: images.google.com...]

Does that look like Burl Ives? And in 1982?

It could be someone else named Burl Ives.

re: #238 Soona'

Now that your comment has past; you through in some variety.

true variety even if they are moonbats....

re: #237 Gus 802

Look at this image...

[Link: images.google.com...]

Does that look like Burl Ives? And in 1982?

I don't think so. Burl Ives was an old codger even back in the fifties.

re: #239 gmsc

It could be someone else named Burl Ives.

Yeah. It's all wrong. They even name his real wife, Dorothy Koster Paul on that image.

re: #241 Soona'

I don't think so. Burl Ives was an old codger even back in the fifties.

I think they bunked it up.

re: #237 Gus 802

Look at this image...

[Link: images.google.com...]

Does that look like Burl Ives? And in 1982?

In 1892, maybe. In 1982, never.

re: #244 gmsc

In 1892, maybe. In 1982, never.

"The secret life of Burl Ives! Pictures reveal he's much younger!"

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re: #245 Gus 802

"The secret life of Burl Ives! Pictures reveal he's much younger!"

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There's two concepts you never hear together - "Burl Ives" and "scandal".

re: #246 gmsc

There's two concepts you never hear together - "Burl Ives" and "scandal".

LOL!

I just got here so I must ask, what is all the hub bub about Burl Ives?

re: #246 gmsc

There's two concepts you never hear together - "Burl Ives" and "scandal".

Nope, you don't. He lived a rather ling time, 85 years.