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You’re a historian. Tell me if there are any bath-tubs in history. I think they’ve been frightfully neglected.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tales of the Jazz Age
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Fenway_Nation Fri, Aug 28, 2009 11:21:38pm |
Why am I getting a mental image of Cleopatra soaking in an opulent marble bathtub all of a sudden?
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Aug 28, 2009 11:21:46pm |
/no, not like that
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Opilio Fri, Aug 28, 2009 11:24:34pm |
Google “honors” Michael Jackson’s birthday with a commemorative logo, but ignored Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday back in February? What a bunch of tools.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Aug 28, 2009 11:25:50pm |
re: #1 Fenway_Nation
Have you no shame? Watching pr0n while logged onto LGF is strictly forbidden.
/without sharing the link…
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Dark_Falcon Fri, Aug 28, 2009 11:27:01pm |
re: #1 Fenway_Nation
Why am I getting a mental image of Cleopatra soaking in an opulent marble bathtub all of a sudden?
King Herod owned such a tub. He had a skin disease, and long soaks helped relieve the pain.
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iceweasel Fri, Aug 28, 2009 11:27:11pm |
re: #2 Slumbering Behemoth
/no, not like that
Major upding.
The Muppets do Beckett: Waiting for Godot
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Silvergirl Fri, Aug 28, 2009 11:27:12pm |
re: #1 Fenway_Nation
Why am I getting a mental image of Cleopatra soaking in an opulent marble bathtub all of a sudden?
I thought of Marat Sade.
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calcajun Fri, Aug 28, 2009 11:28:22pm |
re: #6 iceweasel
Major upding.
The Muppets do Beckett: Waiting for Godot
Be back in ten minutes. Please wait. — Godot
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Noam Sayin' Fri, Aug 28, 2009 11:29:19pm |
You’re a historian. Tell me if there are any bath-tubs in history. I think they’ve been frightfully neglected.
At least in Europe.
Good night, everybody.Tip your bartenders and waitresses and drive home safely.
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Noam Sayin' Fri, Aug 28, 2009 11:31:19pm |
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The Shadow Do Fri, Aug 28, 2009 11:32:00pm |
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Silvergirl Fri, Aug 28, 2009 11:32:59pm |
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pat Fri, Aug 28, 2009 11:33:31pm |
There are some women who have just the right amount of body fat. That would be Salma Hayek. An observation.
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pat Fri, Aug 28, 2009 11:38:48pm |
I see Mark Steyn is about as impressed with Teddy as i was.
Mark Steyn: Things only a Kennedy could get away with
[Link: www.ocregister.com…]
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HelloDare Fri, Aug 28, 2009 11:38:51pm |
H. L. Menchen hoax. The false history of the bathtub.
On December 20 there flitted past us, absolutely without public notice, one of the most important profane anniversaries in American history, to wit, the seventy-fifth anniversary of the introduction of the bathtub into These States. Not a plumber fired a salute or hung out a flag. Not a governor proclaimed a day of prayer. Not a newspaper called attention to the day.
True enough, it was not entirely forgotten. Eight or nine months ago one of the younger surgeons connected with the Public Health Service in Washington happened upon the facts while looking into the early history of public hygiene, and at his suggestion a committee was formed to celebrate the anniversary with a banquet. But before the plan was perfected Washington went dry, and so the banquet had to be abandoned. As it was, the day passed wholly unmarked, even in the capital of the nation.
Bathtubs are so common today that it is almost impossible to imagine a world without them. They are familiar to nearly everyone in all incorporated towns; in most of the large cities it is unlawful to build a dwelling house without putting them in; even on the farm they have begun to come into use. And yet the first American bathtub was installed and dedicated so recently as December 20, 1842, and, for all I know to the contrary, it may still be in existence and in use.
Curiously enough, the scene of its setting up was Cincinnati, then a squalid frontier town, and even today surely no leader in culture. But Cincinnati, in those days as in these, contained many enterprising merchants, and one of them was a man named Adam Thompson, a dealer in cotton and grain. Thompson shipped his grain by steamboat down the Ohio and Mississippi to New Orleans, and from there sent it to England in sailing vessels. This trade frequently took him to England, and in that country, during the ‘30s, he acquired the habit of bathing.
The bathtub was then still a novelty in England. It had been introduced in 1828 by Lord John Russell and its use was yet confined to a small class of enthusiasts. Moreover, the English bathtub, then as now, was a puny and inconvenient contrivance—little more, in fact, than a glorified dishpan—and filling and emptying it required the attendance of a servant. Taking a bath, indeed, was a rather heavy ceremony, and Lord John in 1835 was said to be the only man in England who had yet come to doing it every day.
Thompson, who was of inventive fancy—he later devised the machine that is still used for bagging hams and bacon—conceived the notion that the English bathtub would be much improved if it were made large enough to admit the whole body of an adult man, and if its supply of water, instead of being hauled to the scene by a maid, were admitted by pipes from a central reservoir and run off by the same means. Accordingly, early in 1842 he set about building the first modern bathroom in his Cincinnati home—a large house with Doric pillars, standing near what is now the corner of Monastery and Orleans streets. …
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Desert Dog Fri, Aug 28, 2009 11:45:46pm |
Obama is doing very well in Israel…
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Desert Dog Fri, Aug 28, 2009 11:48:43pm |
Do whatever you want, we are all going to die anyway…
Death Rays From Space: How Bad Are They?
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Fenway_Nation Fri, Aug 28, 2009 11:49:01pm |
Mein Gott…A little over a year ago, shares in Oshkosh Trucks plummeted from close to $40 a share to $3 a share…I think part of that was because they had neglected to hedge against rising commodity prices.
I figured Oshkosh would recover at some point, but before it occured to me to go out and get some nice, cheap Oshkosh stock, they’ve nearly recovered their value from early 2008.
FWIW, Oshkosh manufactures the HEMTT (Heavily Expanded Mobile Tactical Truck) line of trucks for the US Military…but even with a new contract, I don’t think that’s enough for their stock to increase 7X in value since this spring…
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HelloDare Fri, Aug 28, 2009 11:50:29pm |
It must be him. He doesn’t have a nose.
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iceweasel Fri, Aug 28, 2009 11:50:53pm |
re: #8 calcajun
Be back in ten minutes. Please wait. — Godot
Awesome.
Here is a true tale from iDub’s life:
I used to get in trouble as a teenager (big surprise, I know) — for leaving or going out without saying where I was going or when I’d be back. Basically I hated authority and being told what to do, or even asking permission to do something.
After one big parental fight about this (“Leave a note saying where you’ve gone and when you’ll be back!”) I left the following note the next time:
I’ve gone out. I will be back when I get here.
Obviously, a further fight ensued, in which I maintained:
“I said where I was going- out! And i said when I’d be back. You wanted a note, you got a note. What’s the problem?”
iDub. Bad girl.
I’m sure my own kids one day will do it to me as well. Assuming I have any.
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The Shadow Do Fri, Aug 28, 2009 11:52:55pm |
re: #18 Desert Dog
Obama is doing very well in Israel…
He needs to send his friend Farrakhan to mend those fences.
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Desert Dog Fri, Aug 28, 2009 11:53:48pm |
re: #24 The Shadow Do
He needs to send his friend Farrakhan to mend those fences.
Yes, what’s the deal with that 4%? Obama wants 0%!
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Aug 28, 2009 11:54:00pm |
re: #22 HelloDare
It must be him. He doesn’t have a nose.
[Video]
Dude! Micheal is totally stealing the Virgin Mary’s thunder. What a dick!
/
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Desert Dog Fri, Aug 28, 2009 11:54:26pm |
re: #26 Slumbering Behemoth
Dude! Micheal is totally stealing the Virgin Mary’s thunder. What a dick!
/
That’s no Jesus Pancake, I can tell you that
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HelloDare Fri, Aug 28, 2009 11:54:40pm |
re: #26 Slumbering Behemoth
Dude! Micheal is totally stealing the Virgin Mary’s thunder. What a dick!
/
Wonder when we’ll be hearing the first reports of the ghost of Teddy Kennedy spouting off Cape Cod.
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HelloDare Fri, Aug 28, 2009 11:55:43pm |
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Desert Dog Fri, Aug 28, 2009 11:55:48pm |
re: #28 HelloDare
Wonder when we’ll be hearing the first reports of the ghost of Teddy Kennedy spouting off Cape Cod.
The ghost of Mary Jo will be chasing him
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austin_blue Fri, Aug 28, 2009 11:56:49pm |
re: #15 pat
I see Mark Steyn is about as impressed with Teddy as i was.
Mark Steyn: Things only a Kennedy could get away with[Link: www.ocregister.com…]
Well, Nice.
As I posted on the last thread:
I guess the point was that his R colleagues *did* admire him, even if they disagreed with him. I suppose that means that they should be voted out as heretics…
The problem is that Teddy was one of the obvious targets for twenty years of Rush’s scorn. “The Drunk.” “The Swimmer.”
“I’ll rip open my shirt, got Mother Rosie on my chest, Yes, I’m a Kennedy, Yes, I’m, Ted Kennedy, The room spins round and round and round and round.”
An entire generation of conservative radio listeners got the full broadside of his scorn and never really understood the man. Shame, really. Big chunks of Republican legislation got through the Senate solely because Teddy compromised and signed off on it.
Mark Stein is a …what? He’s been elected to which? He has served in public service where? What is is his standing to comment on an individual who, despite his personal failings, may have been the single most influential Senator in history?
Despicable.
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Desert Dog Fri, Aug 28, 2009 11:57:29pm |
Keep eating the donuts! For your own health!
Bigger butt may mean fewer hip fractures
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austin_blue Fri, Aug 28, 2009 11:57:58pm |
re: #21 Fenway_Nation
Mein Gott…A little over a year ago, shares in Oshkosh Trucks plummeted from close to $40 a share to $3 a share…I think part of that was because they had neglected to hedge against rising commodity prices.
I figured Oshkosh would recover at some point, but before it occured to me to go out and get some nice, cheap Oshkosh stock, they’ve nearly recovered their value from early 2008.
FWIW, Oshkosh manufactures the HEMTT (Heavily Expanded Mobile Tactical Truck) line of trucks for the US Military…but even with a new contract, I don’t think that’s enough for their stock to increase 7X in value since this spring…
AIG is up near $50. The Gubmint owns 80% of it. Sell!
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Dancing along the light of day Fri, Aug 28, 2009 11:59:18pm |
re: #32 Desert Dog
There’s also a very usefull product called “hip savers”. They’re like football pads, for the 2 most common break point in the hips.
*waves* Hi Lizards!
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Dancing along the light of day Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:00:11am |
re: #33 austin_blue
At one point, AIG was at $1.92 a share.
Shudders at how much my elders owned of it, at one point in the recent past…
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Desert Dog Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:00:11am |
re: #34 Floral Giraffe
There’s also a very usefull product called “hip savers”. They’re like football pads, for the 2 most common break point in the hips.
*waves* Hi Lizards!
So, all those donuts I’ve been eating “for my own protection” were unnecessary?
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Dancing along the light of day Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:00:43am |
re: #36 Desert Dog
HAH!
Like you were eating donuts for “protection”!
HAH!
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The Shadow Do Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:00:59am |
re: #31 austin_blue
Mark Stein is a …what? He’s been elected to which? He has served in public service where? What is is his standing to comment on an individual who, despite his personal failings, may have been the single most influential Senator in history?
Despicable.
Thank goodness you have a sense of humor, Avati, otherwise you would be insufferable.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:01:09am |
re: #31 austin_blue
Oh please…spare me the saccharine ‘Liberal Lion’ fucking bullshit. Teddy Kennedy’s deficencies as a human being aren’t the byproduct of Rush Limbaugh or talk radio.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:01:09am |
re: #23 iceweasel
Assuming I have any.
Don’t bother. Just live the life of ease, luxury, and increased expendable income that comes with non-parenthood.
Don’t worry, there are families out there more than willing to take up the slack of non-parents, and then some.
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Killgore Trout Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:01:40am |
Bathtubs? I’ll tell ya what’s underrated; English Muffins. Probably not English, definitely not muffin. People never buy them but would you ever turn one down? They’re fantastic.
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The Shadow Do Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:02:02am |
re: #38 The Shadow Do
Austin, Avanti… I’m so confused.
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garycooper Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:02:05am |
re: #13 pat
There are some women who have just the right amount of body fat. That would be Salma Hayek. An observation.
Two more: Scarlett Johansson and Christina Hendricks (Joan Holloway on Mad Men)
Every woman has an optimal amount of bodyfat, which is perfect for her body. Probably every man does too, but who gives a shit about that?
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Desert Dog Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:03:24am |
Smells like…like…like…Capt Kirk?
Genki Wear Annouces the New Star Trek line of fragrances
When there’s a hot green chick around…splash on some Tiberius, man!
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Dancing along the light of day Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:03:40am |
re: #41 Killgore Trout
MMM, fork split, sourdough English muffins! YUM!
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Killgore Trout Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:03:53am |
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Desert Dog Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:04:13am |
re: #41 Killgore Trout
Bathtubs? I’ll tell ya what’s underrated; English Muffins. Probably not English, definitely not muffin. People never buy them but would you ever turn one down? They’re fantastic.
I lived in London for 7 months and I never saw one.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:04:34am |
re: #33 austin_blue
I don’t think Oshkosh was bailed out or taken over by the Gov’t at any point- on the other hand, the military happens to be their single biggest customer.
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garycooper Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:05:07am |
re: #41 Killgore Trout
Bathtubs? I’ll tell ya what’s underrated; English Muffins. Probably not English, definitely not muffin. People never buy them but would you ever turn one down? They’re fantastic.
They have to be the right brand though, or else they’re rubbish. I only buy Thomas English Muffins. I’ve recently experimented with their whole wheat model, with very good results.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:06:50am |
re: #49 garycooper
You can make some pretty epic mini-pizzas with those, provided you have the right ingredients.
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The Shadow Do Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:07:26am |
re: #47 Desert Dog
I lived in London for 7 months and I never saw one.
Lived in England for 8 years and didn’t know what one was until I moved to Indiana.
Do you bake them in a pie shell?
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HelloDare Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:07:44am |
re: #31 austin_blue
Mark Stein is a …what? He’s been elected to which? He has served in public service where? What is is his standing to comment on an individual who, despite his personal failings, may have been the single most influential Senator in history?
Didn’t know people had to be elected to a public office in order to comment on a politician.
I take it you must be a columnist. Otherwise you wouldn’t have standing to comment on Mark Steyn.
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garycooper Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:08:25am |
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Desert Dog Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:08:43am |
re: #51 The Shadow Do
Lived in England for 8 years and didn’t know what one was until I moved to Indiana.
Do you bake them in a pie shell?
Toaster…with butter or jam…they are like little flat scones, but not sweet…
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Desert Dog Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:09:16am |
re: #53 garycooper
Yes. Even better than an English muffin.
A Spanish tart is always better than an English muffin
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Killgore Trout Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:09:50am |
re: #49 garycooper
They have to be the right brand though, or else they’re rubbish. I only buy Thomas English Muffins.
Does anyone else even make an English muffin?
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Killgore Trout Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:10:22am |
Dogma Salma Hayek
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austin_blue Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:10:50am |
re: #39 Fenway_Nation
Oh please…spare me the saccharine ‘Liberal Lion’ fucking bullshit. Teddy Kennedy’s deficencies as a human being aren’t the byproduct of Rush Limbaugh or talk radio.
And who is speaking at his funeral?
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garycooper Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:10:51am |
re: #50 Slumbering Behemoth
You can make some pretty epic mini-pizzas with those, provided you have the right ingredients.
There’s a project for tomorrow. Then, I’m building a loft for my eldest, to go in her dorm. She’s leaving home, as the song goes. (sniff)
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austin_blue Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:11:31am |
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:11:46am |
re: #55 Desert Dog
She’s more like an empanada, full of juicy meat.
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garycooper Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:12:42am |
re: #56 Killgore Trout
Does anyone else even make an English muffin?
Yes, there are store brands here in MI, and they’re complete crap. The holes are all wrong, the texture, the flavor…awful!
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:13:33am |
Selma Hayek has that half Latina/half Lebanese thing going on…apparently alot of Lebanese made their way to Latin America after fleeing the prolonged civil war there…although some actually arrived at the turn of the last century.
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The Shadow Do Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:13:38am |
re: #54 Desert Dog
Toaster…with butter or jam…they are like little flat scones, but not sweet…
Sort of a joke. I had a Brit nanny for a period as a kid. Whatever my mom had put up in the cupboard became a pie. Green beans, cranberry sauce, you name it…if it came in a can it became a pie.
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calcajun Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:15:35am |
re: #23 iceweasel
The biggest motivational factor of grandparents? REVENGE.
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calcajun Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:16:30am |
re: #63 Fenway_Nation
Wow. I never knew she was…Oh. LEBANESE. Sorry. My mistake.
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garycooper Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:16:59am |
Mark Steyn is one of the most brilliant social commentators of our time. If you don’t know who he is, and how good he is, you might as well find a nice big mushroom to live under. Or, pick up a collection of his writings. Or, you could hang out at HuffPo and read the cream of that crop, like the one today who wrote that Mary Jo just might have felt it was worth it, the way she gave her life for her country.
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austin_blue Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:18:04am |
re: #52 HelloDare
Didn’t know people had to be elected to a public office in order to comment on a politician.
I take it you must be a columnist. Otherwise you wouldn’t have standing to comment on Mark Steyn.
My point is that he neither worked with the man or knew him personally, yet feels justified in judging him. Again, take a look at who is speaking at the funeral. I am sure Rush will be enraged.
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The Shadow Do Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:18:24am |
re: #67 garycooper
Mark Steyn is one of the most brilliant social commentators of our time. If you don’t know who he is, and how good he is, you might as well find a nice big mushroom to live under. Or, pick up a collection of his writings. Or, you could hang out at HuffPo and read the cream of that crop, like the one today who wrote that Mary Jo just might have felt it was worth it, the way she gave her life for her country.
You can’t be serious
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HelloDare Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:18:27am |
Oh, and the Atlantic Magazine hired Mark Steyn to write obituaries. So he’s had plenty of practice writing about dead people. His obits were so good the were gathered into a book.
Mark Steyn, wrote The Washington Post’s Peter Carlson, “may be the world’s wittiest obit writer.” So here, by special request, is a collection of favorites from Mark’s morgue, obituaries and appreciations of towering figures and scurvy lowlifes and all points in between. Inside you’ll find Steyn’s take on Ronald Reagan, Idi Amin, the Princess of Wales, Bob Hope, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Artie Shaw and Pope John Paul II - plus Zimbabwe’s Reverend Canaan Banana, Scotty from Star Trek, Nixon’s secretary and Gershwin’s girlfriend. It’s the passing parade of our times, from presidents and prime ministers to the guy who invented Cool Whip.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:19:44am |
re: #66 calcajun
Half Lebanese…
Another prominent Mexican- multibillionaire Carlos Slim- is of Lebanese ancestry, although his family had been in Mexico since 1911.
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calcajun Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:21:23am |
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garycooper Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:21:24am |
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:21:34am |
re: #70 HelloDare
Oh, and the Atlantic Magazine hired Mark Steyn to write obituaries. So he’s had plenty of practice writing about dead people. His obits were so good the were gathered into a book.
I read some of those. Great stuff. But his most important work in the US so far remains America Alone.
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The Shadow Do Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:22:32am |
re: #68 austin_blue
My point is that he neither worked with the man or knew him personally, yet feels justified in judging him. Again, take a look at who is speaking at the funeral. I am sure Rush will be enraged.
I did not work with Ted Kennedy. I did not know him personally. Therefore, due to my ignorance (along with 99.9999% of the population) I shall simply ignore the fact that he ever existed. Ted who?
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austin_blue Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:23:10am |
re: #67 garycooper
Mark Steyn is one of the most brilliant social commentators of our time. If you don’t know who he is, and how good he is, you might as well find a nice big mushroom to live under. Or, pick up a collection of his writings. Or, you could hang out at HuffPo and read the cream of that crop, like the one today who wrote that Mary Jo just might have felt it was worth it, the way she gave her life for her country.
I don’t disagree, but in this specific case, he is commenting out of his ass. Again, take a look at the R’s who are speaking at Teddy’s funeral. These are people who actually knew him, worked with him, and deeply respected him. Steyn has none of their insight and knowledge and feels comfortable in bloviating.
Pitiful.
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garycooper Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:23:24am |
re: #71 swamprat
Taking things a bit seriously, no?
Sure, why not? Usually I just make fun of everything. I must be having my man-period, tonight.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:24:17am |
re: #65 calcajun
The biggest motivational factor of grandparents? REVENGE.
Hardly worth it. Revenge is a bitter motivator, and quickly leaves the vengeful an empty husk of venom and spite, often without them ever achieving their bitter goal.
/just trying to be a downer, here
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garycooper Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:24:20am |
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:24:56am |
I had no idea that James Doohan- Scotty of Star Trek- stormed the beaches of Normandie on D-Day with the Canadian Infantry until I read his obituary…
He was hit multiple times and had one of his fingers shot off, but the editors at Star Trek and the Twilight Zone never showed his injured hand in any of the shots…
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HelloDare Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:24:58am |
re: #68 austin_blue
My point is that he neither worked with the man or knew him personally, yet feels justified in judging him. Again, take a look at who is speaking at the funeral. I am sure Rush will be enraged.
I never worked with Kennedy either and I feel justified in saying that if he were a Republican he would never have been elected after the drove off that bridge.
I never knew Teddy Kennedy personally and I feel justified in saying that this is despicable.
This isn’t an accusation from Ted Kennedy’s political opponents, but a nostalgic remembrance by one of his friends. Ed Klein, former Newsweek editor, tells the Diane Rehm Show:
“I dont know if you know this or not, but one of his favorite topics of humor was indeed Chappaquiddick itself. And he would ask people, have you heard any new jokes about Chappaquiddick? That is just the most amazing thing. Its not that he didnt feel remorse about the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, but that he still always saw the other side of everything and the ridiculous side of things, too.”
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iceweasel Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:25:18am |
re: #67 garycooper
Mark Steyn is one of the most brilliant social commentators of our time.
Bollocks. Mark Steyn is an ass.
Here he is calling for ethnic cleansing and genocide:
Why did Bosnia collapse into the worst slaughter in Europe since World War Two? In the thirty years before the meltdown, Bosnian Serbs had declined from 43 percent to 31 percent of the population, while Bosnian Muslims had increased from 26 percent to 44 percent. In a democratic age, you can’t buck demography — except through civil war. The Serbs figured that out — as other Continentals will in the years ahead: if you can’t outbreed the enemy, cull ‘em. The problem that Europe faces is that Bosnia’s demographic profile is now the model for the entire continent.
I don’t see how it’s possible to interpret this excerpt — given that Steyn is also contending that these demographics are inevitable throughout Europe, and he offers no solution that would accommodate or assimilate Muslims — as anything other than outright advocacy of genocide and the Bosnian model of “ethnic cleansing” for the rest of Europe.
Here he is exhibiting his usual homophobia, ignorance, and islamophobia:
How does he degrade Native American religions and homosexuality, defend monotheism (and its homophobia), yet remain the numero uno Islamophobe of world wingnuttia? How indeed: by implying that Islam alone among the “Abrahamic” religions has ever endorsed polygamy. Oooo-kay.
[Link: corner.nationalreview.com…]
He’s loathsome.
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:25:51am |
I think that Steyn’s article makes a good point. Whatever his personality, and whatever his achievements, the fact remains that Edward Kennedy left a woman to die. Nothing he did or said can mitigate that. The fact that he got away with letting someone die does say something about America.
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calcajun Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:26:18am |
re: #67 garycooper
Oh, please do not start on that. If it has happened to anyone else, they would have been tried for manslaughter. But, he then had the termitity to take Ford to task for pardoning Nixon, siting that the President was acting “above the law”. I feel for his family and those who loved him, but as we remember the positive aspects of the man, we also recall that he had no shame—or that those around him made him what he was.
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capitalist piglet Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:26:52am |
re: #79 austin_blue
I don’t disagree, but in this specific case, he is commenting out of his ass. Again, take a look at the R’s who are speaking at Teddy’s funeral. These are people who actually knew him, worked with him, and deeply respected him. Steyn has none of their insight and knowledge and feels comfortable in bloviating.
Pitiful.
Did you see the story out today about his friend, describing how Senator Kennedy used to enjoy Chappaquiddick jokes, and used to ask people if they had any new ones?
Do you think that is something someone worthy of respect would do?
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The Shadow Do Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:27:02am |
re: #79 austin_blue
I don’t disagree, but in this specific case, he is commenting out of his ass. Again, take a look at the R’s who are speaking at Teddy’s funeral. These are people who actually knew him, worked with him, and deeply respected him. Steyn has none of their insight and knowledge and feels comfortable in bloviating.
Pitiful.
I shan’t bloviate, why should you? Are you comfortable with that?
Did you have that personal relationship? Did you work with the man?
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:27:21am |
re: #79 austin_blue
No…leaving the chick you were gonna take home to drown/suffocate in your ride while you swim to shore and call your lawyers is pretty despicable.
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calcajun Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:28:02am |
re: #81 Slumbering Behemoth
Hardly worth it. Revenge is a bitter motivator, and quickly leaves the vengeful an empty husk of venom and spite, often without them ever achieving their bitter goal.
/just trying to be a downer, here
Insert “turd-A” into “punchbowl-B”. Wait for hilarity to ensue./
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swamprat Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:29:04am |
re: #83 Fenway_Nation
I had no idea that James Doohan- Scotty of Star Trek- stormed the beaches of Normandie on D-Day with the Canadian Infantry until I read his obituary…
He was hit multiple times and had one of his fingers shot off, but the editors at Star Trek and the Twilight Zone never showed his injured hand in any of the shots…
The man who played “lebeau” in Hogan’s Heroes was once a german pow.
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calcajun Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:29:09am |
re: #83 Fenway_Nation
I had no idea that James Doohan- Scotty of Star Trek- stormed the beaches of Normandie on D-Day with the Canadian Infantry until I read his obituary…
He was hit multiple times and had one of his fingers shot off, but the editors at Star Trek and the Twilight Zone never showed his injured hand in any of the shots…
He was a man, indeed. Unlike his fellow Canadian, Bill “what’s ‘is name”.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:29:38am |
re: #83 Fenway_Nation
A ballsy Canuck, that one. May he rest in peace.
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:29:54am |
re: #85 iceweasel
Here he is exhibiting his usual homophobia, ignorance, and islamophobia:
How does he degrade Native American religions and homosexuality, defend monotheism (and its homophobia), yet remain the numero uno Islamophobe of world wingnuttia? How indeed: by implying that Islam alone among the “Abrahamic” religions has ever endorsed polygamy. Oooo-kay.
[Link: corner.nationalreview.com…]
He’s loathsome.
Iceweasel, I feel compelled to point that Styen has never called for any violence whatsoever. The rise in the number of Muslims in Europe is a problem, unless they can be steered onto a path towards integration and away from Islamism.
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calcajun Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:31:03am |
re: #93 swamprat
The man who played “lebeau” in Hogan’s Heroes was once a german pow.
Not just that— Robert Clary is Jewish. Born Robert Max Widerman.
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garycooper Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:32:24am |
re: #85 iceweasel
Here he is exhibiting his usual homophobia, ignorance, and islamophobia:
How does he degrade Native American religions and homosexuality, defend monotheism (and its homophobia), yet remain the numero uno Islamophobe of world wingnuttia? How indeed: by implying that Islam alone among the “Abrahamic” religions has ever endorsed polygamy. Oooo-kay.
[Link: corner.nationalreview.com…]
He’s loathsome.
Are you crying? There, there…the bad man is gone now. We won’t talk of him anymore.
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austin_blue Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:32:45am |
re: #84 HelloDare
Look, Chappaquidick was a tragedy for everyone involved. It cost Teddy the Presidency, which turned out to be a good thing. I don’t know if if an unattributed statement on an NPR radio show is factual or not. And neither do you. But it certainly it has legs in cyberspace. ((obviously))
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:33:23am |
re: #92 calcajun
Insert “turd-A” into “punchbowl-B”. Wait for hilarity to ensue./
Ha! You should have end that with “Think you can handle that Martha Stewart”?
/Or Rachel Ray, whichever is more topically relevant now…
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iceweasel Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:33:26am |
re: #96 Dark_Falcon
Iceweasel, I feel compelled to point that Styen has never called for any violence whatsoever. The rise in the number of Muslims in Europe is a problem, unless they can be steered onto a path towards integration and away from Islamism.
DF, I just don’t know how else to interpret this statement of his:
Why did Bosnia collapse into the worst slaughter in Europe since World War Two? In the thirty years before the meltdown, Bosnian Serbs had declined from 43 percent to 31 percent of the population, while Bosnian Muslims had increased from 26 percent to 44 percent. In a democratic age, you can’t buck demography — except through civil war. The Serbs figured that out — as other Continentals will in the years ahead: if you can’t outbreed the enemy, cull ‘em. The problem that Europe faces is that Bosnia’s demographic profile is now the model for the entire continent.
And I don’t see Muslims as a problem — unless they’re the violent fringe extremist types. But that doesn’t describe most Muslims. It just doesn’t.
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iceweasel Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:34:08am |
re: #99 garycooper
Are you crying? There, there…the bad man is gone now. We won’t talk of him anymore.
I think you wish I were crying. No, I’m laughing. ;)
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The Shadow Do Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:34:16am |
re: #100 austin_blue
Look, Chappaquidick was a tragedy for everyone involved. It cost Teddy the Presidency, which turned out to be a good thing. I don’t know if if an unattributed statement on an NPR radio show is factual or not. And neither do you. But it certainly it has legs in cyberspace. ((obviously))
“tragedy”
*scoff*
It was a fucking crime.
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calcajun Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:35:23am |
re: #101 Slumbering Behemoth
Ha! You should have end that with “Think you can handle that Martha Stewart”?
/Or Rachel Ray, whichever is more topically relevant now…
Rachel Ray is too damn perky. I want what she is taking. But, I cannot imagine her using the words “turd” and “deelish” in the same sentence.
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garycooper Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:36:31am |
re: #103 iceweasel
I think you wish I were crying. No, I’m laughing. ;)
Good for you! Laughter is the best medicine. After penicillin.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:36:33am |
Werner Klemperer- the son of Jewish immigrants and a WWII Vet- went on to play Stalag 13 commandant Kol. Klink on Hogan’s Heroes.
However, he would only agree to the role if Klink was portrayed as a buffoon who was always being outsmarted…
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capitalist piglet Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:37:02am |
re: #100 austin_blue
Look, Chappaquidick was a tragedy for everyone involved. It cost Teddy the Presidency, which turned out to be a good thing. I don’t know if if an unattributed statement on an NPR radio show is factual or not. And neither do you. But it certainly it has legs in cyberspace. ((obviously))
Boo. Frigging. Hoo. It cost him the presidency!
Did he deserve it? You do know what happened at Chappaquiddick, don’t you?
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calcajun Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:37:37am |
re: #100 austin_blue
Look, Chappaquidick was a tragedy for everyone involved. It cost Teddy the Presidency, which turned out to be a good thing. I don’t know if if an unattributed statement on an NPR radio show is factual or not. And neither do you. But it certainly it has legs in cyberspace. ((obviously))
If you or I had done what he did, we would have been charged, and probably convicted, or manslaughter, if not murder. It was a whitewash that allowed him to keep his station. That only compounded his crime.
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calcajun Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:38:15am |
re: #107 Fenway_Nation
Werner Klemperer- the son of Jewish immigrants and a WWII Vet- went on to play Stalag 13 commandant Kol. Klink on Hogan’s Heroes.
However, he would only agree to the role if Klink was portrayed as a buffoon who was always being outsmarted…
You forgot that his dad was a great conductor, as well.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:38:54am |
re: #105 calcajun
I can, and it makes me cry.
/
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garycooper Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:39:46am |
Who thinks Teddy would have been elected president in 1980, if he hadn’t killed Mary Jo?
Personally, I think not. The country was ripe for Reagan, who I didn’t vote for either time he ran, btw. I was still a scum-sucking liberal Dem back then. ;)
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calcajun Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:40:18am |
re: #111 Slumbering Behemoth
I can, and it makes me cry.
/
Well, she does have a shit-eating grin…oh, God, it’s late.///
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iceweasel Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:40:20am |
re: #109 calcajun
If you or I had done what he did, we would have been charged, and probably convicted, or manslaughter, if not murder. It was a whitewash that allowed him to keep his station. That only compounded his crime.
Yeah, but that’s not a Dem vs Repub thing…that’s just the way it always is when someone rich and connected commits a crime. Regardless of party or politics. Look at Bill Ayers.
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calcajun Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:41:31am |
re: #112 garycooper
Who thinks Teddy would have been elected president in 1980, if he hadn’t killed Mary Jo?
Personally, I think not. The country was ripe for Reagan, who I didn’t vote for either time he ran, btw. I was still a scum-sucking liberal Dem back then. ;)
Huh? He was trying to unseat Carter for the nomination. He didn’t have a snowball’s chance. It was his only time to do it and he flopped.
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garycooper Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:41:49am |
Bob Crane went on to star in many indie films after “Hogan’s Heroes.” Low-budget films, with a gritty feel.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:42:05am |
re: #100 austin_blue
Look, Chappaquidick was a tragedy for everyone involved. It cost Teddy the Presidency, which turned out to be a good thing. I don’t know if if an unattributed statement on an NPR radio show is factual or not. And neither do you. But it certainly it has legs in cyberspace. ((obviously))
Interesting…wonder if I could skate like Teddy did if I drove my car into a river and left to occupants to die while I called my lawyers and family to figure out my next move…which apparently would not include entertaining any thoughts of rescuing my passengers.
Wonder if the MSM would portray such an event as a ‘tragedy’ or the byproduct of a selfish, irresponsible douchebag who killed somebody else and should be held accountable in a court of law.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:42:55am |
re: #113 calcajun
I almost went there, decided not too, and then you went and did what I hesitated to do. Awesome! This beer is on me, cheers!
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calcajun Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:43:04am |
re: #114 iceweasel
Bull puckey. If he had been a Republican, it would have been the death knell of his career. Only and Kennedy and a Democrat could have survived that debacle.
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:43:47am |
re: #119 calcajun
Bull puckey. If he had been a Republican, it would have been the death knell of his career. Only and Kennedy and a Democrat could have survived that debacle.
Quite Concur.
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garycooper Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:43:54am |
re: #115 calcajun
Huh? He was trying to unseat Carter for the nomination. He didn’t have a snowball’s chance. It was his only time to do it and he flopped.
Like a fish out of water, he flopped.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:44:49am |
re: #119 calcajun
Isn’t Larry Craig out of a job for playing footsie in a Minneapolis airport?
Yea…that’s much worse than vehicular homicide./
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swamprat Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:45:34am |
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Dancing along the light of day Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:45:58am |
re: #122 srb1976
Hi SRB! How are you doing? Shifts OK?
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calcajun Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:45:58am |
re: #123 Fenway_Nation
Isn’t Larry Craig out of a job for playing footsie in a Minneapolis airport?
Yea…that’s much worse than vehicular homicide./
Ah, dear Larry. What is behind him is not important.//
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capitalist piglet Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:46:54am |
re: #112 garycooper
Who thinks Teddy would have been elected president in 1980, if he hadn’t killed Mary Jo?
Personally, I think not. The country was ripe for Reagan, who I didn’t vote for either time he ran, btw. I was still a scum-sucking liberal Dem back then. ;)
I don’t think so either, but the idea that it was a “tragedy” for poor Ted Kennedy is just too much to stomach. To find out he often joked about it - from a close friend who thought the story was flattering, apparently - tells me everything about the man I need to know.
And don’t get us started on Venona.
He should rest in peace, but I draw the line way before all this worship.
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iceweasel Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:47:07am |
re: #119 calcajun
Bull puckey. If he had been a Republican, it would have been the death knell of his career. Only and Kennedy and a Democrat could have survived that debacle.
Oh right. I forgot. The republicans are good and innocent and unfairly victimised, and the Democrats are eeevil. And somehow it’s the Democrats who ‘get away’ with everything, never a republican.
remind me again— what were the party affiliations of the POTUS who skated on Iran-Contra, and the one who got a pardon for Watergate?
And who got impeached for a blowjob?
Yeah, filthy trickse libs are always getting away with stuff. Right.
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HelloDare Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:47:40am |
re: #100 austin_blue
Look, Chappaquidick was a tragedy for everyone involved. It cost Teddy the Presidency, which turned out to be a good thing. I don’t know if if an unattributed statement on an NPR radio show is factual or not. And neither do you. But it certainly it has legs in cyberspace. ((obviously))
Unattributed? There’s a recording of Klein saying it. Ed Klein, lefty Newsweek editor was one of Kennedy’s friends.
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:47:55am |
re: #102 iceweasel
And I don’t see Muslims as a problem — unless they’re the violent fringe extremist types. But that doesn’t describe most Muslims. It just doesn’t.
I don’t see Muslims as a problem, but I do see Islam as a problem.
Let me link to an article to help me explain:
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srb1976 Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:48:15am |
re: #127 Floral Giraffe
Hi SRB! How are you doing? Shifts OK?
FG!! Good to see ya!
We’re all doing ok here…my boss(es) have decided that I should be on day shift…like regular people…needless to say, better half and munchkins are pretty happy about that!
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SixDegrees Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:48:16am |
re: #123 Fenway_Nation
Isn’t Larry Craig out of a job for playing footsie in a Minneapolis airport?
You know, maybe I’ve led a particularly sheltered life, but I’ve never been aware of any gay foot tapping bathroom code before the Craig incident. At least, no one’s ever tapped their feet in any restroom I’ve ever been in. Maybe I should be offended?
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:48:27am |
Before this goes any further, or should I say before it get’s more heated, let’s remember that Ted is just recently dead, and that Charles has a low tolerance for those speaking horribly ill of the recently dead.
Not saying anyone has, or is coming close to crossing that line, I’m just sayin’.
/wet blanket
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:48:29am |
re: #129 calcajun
G’nite Cal! Don’t let the turduckens bite!
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:50:16am |
re: #137 Slumbering Behemoth
Before this goes any further, or should I say before it get’s more heated, let’s remember that Ted is just recently dead, and that Charles has a low tolerance for those speaking horribly ill of the recently dead.
Not saying anyone has, or is coming close to crossing that line, I’m just sayin’.
/wet blanket
That wet blanket is most welcome and quite wise.
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austin_blue Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:51:47am |
re: #91 Fenway_Nation
No…leaving the chick you were gonna take home to drown/suffocate in your ride while you swim to shore and call your lawyers is pretty despicable.
Ever run a red light and thought Holy Shit! That could have been awful! Ever drive when you probably shouldn’t have? Ever made a horrible mistake? No?
Congratulations!
Within the Catholic Church is the concept of mercy. One confesses one’s sins and is absolved, within the Church. Personal absolution takes more time. You apparently believe that there is no absolution for his action. Others obviously believe otherwise, including Orrin Hatch.
Fancy that.
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Areozol Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:52:07am |
Hi there.
What about the Rockefeller-Snowe Cybersecurity bill?
nternet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.
They’re not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed doors. CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft of S.773 (excerpt), which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency.
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calcajun Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:52:13am |
re: #132 iceweasel
And who got impeached for a blowjob?
Classic display of either ignorance or selective memory. It was perjury—he lied under oath in a deposition— which got him him disbarred from the AR Bar and the US Supreme Court Bar. The dalliance was not what stained his presidency—it was his hubris in lying to cover it up.
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calcajun Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:52:56am |
re: #138 Fenway_Nation
Ah, a pleasant thought to take to sleep.
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Dancing along the light of day Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:53:45am |
re: #135 srb1976
Congratulations! Hope it lasts!
*waves*
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:55:03am |
re: #140 austin_blue
Ever run a red light and thought Holy Shit! That could have been awful! Ever drive when you probably shouldn’t have? Ever made a horrible mistake? No?
Congratulations!
Within the Catholic Church is the concept of mercy. One confesses one’s sins and is absolved, within the Church. Personal absolution takes more time. You apparently believe that there is no absolution for his action. Others obviously believe otherwise, including Orrin Hatch.
Fancy that.
I truly do hope he repent of his grave sin and was forgiven. I don’t know the man’s heart, but I do hope his repentance was genuine. God does know what Kennedy really felt, and I leave final judgment up to him.
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Dancing along the light of day Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:55:55am |
re: #132 iceweasel
I think that attention desire is a disease. Politicians & actors are most famous/infamous for it. Many unpleasant things have been done by public & private folks for the sake of attention.
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SixDegrees Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:56:15am |
re: #141 Areozol
Hi there.
What about the Rockefeller-Snowe Cybersecurity bill?
Discussed at length yesterday. Hardly anymore exciting than already existing emergency powers such as ordering all commercial air traffic grounded, ability to seize control of highways, ships, trucks, rail transport and countless other resources in times of emergency. If anything, it’s an excellent idea to have a plan in place before anything unpleasant happens, rather than be left floundering in the midst of a crisis.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:56:36am |
re: #140 austin_blue
So far…the absolute worst of my mistakes at last count have resulted in ZERO- count ‘em- ZERO fucking fatalities.
And don’t be insulting my intelligence by suddenly finding religion so that St. Teddy the Imperfect can get ‘Get out of Accountibility Free’ card.
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iceweasel Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:57:09am |
re: #136 SixDegrees
You know, maybe I’ve led a particularly sheltered life, but I’ve never been aware of any gay foot tapping bathroom code before the Craig incident. At least, no one’s ever tapped their feet in any restroom I’ve ever been in. Maybe I should be offended?
Believe it or not, there is an extremely influential sociological work from 1970 called The Tearoom Trade. “tearoom” is Brit slang for bathroom.
It’s all about the practice of gay men having anonymous sex in public bathrooms— in the US. ‘tearoom’ was gay slang for the practice in the US; in the UK it’s called ‘cottaging’.
The book itself has caused major controversy for ethical reasons. The author admitted years later that he was gay (but then closeted), which is obviously why he was interested in the topic at all.
Check the link. Really interesting.
Anyway— there clearly is a whole subculture that is invisible to straight men. The gay men presumably know not to hit on you — or you’ve seen subtle signals and not recognised the code, so they didn’t pursue it.
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Syrah Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:57:19am |
re: #141 Areozol
Hi there.
What about the Rockefeller-Snowe Cybersecurity bill?
All that I hear about this is crickets on the left.
Do you remember the Information Awareness Office?
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:58:08am |
re: #135 srb1976
Nice- I was recently introduced to the joys of working swing shift courtesey of my temp agency. I’m looking for a way to gracefully extricate myself right about now…
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:59:19am |
re: #139 Dark_Falcon
I just don’t want to see anyone lose their posting privileges here over a discussion that could easily wait for a month or so.
Personally, I don’t have anything nice to say about the man, and that is why I am saying nothing about him in the wake of his passing.
There is a time and a place for all things.
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Aug 29, 2009 12:59:57am |
re: #150 Syrah
All that I hear about this is crickets on the left.
Do you remember the Information Awareness Office?
Yes, but its diffent when a Democrat propose an idea. When we propose something, the MSM jump on it because conservatives are evil.
/spits on the MSM
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swamprat Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:00:09am |
re: #142 calcajun
How can you cover up that which is not a crime?
jfk& Marilyn Monroe…not a crime
Thomas Jefferson and his ,(ahem*) ..slave…not a crime
I know there are others
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:00:14am |
re: #152 Slumbering Behemoth
I just don’t want to see anyone lose their posting privileges here over a discussion that could easily wait for a month or so.
Personally, I don’t have anything nice to say about the man, and that is why I am saying nothing about him in the wake of his passing.
There is a time and a place for all things.
Agreed.
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HelloDare Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:00:16am |
re: #140 austin_blue
Ever run a red light and kill somebody and thought Holy Shit! That could have been awful if I got caught or sent to prison! Ever drive when you probably shouldn’t have? Ever made a horrible mistake like leaving a woman to die and not calling the police till the next day after you consulted with your advisers and lawyer? No? Ever ask people if they have any jokes about the time you ran a red light and killed somebody?
Congratulations!
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srb1976 Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:00:16am |
re: #151 Fenway_Nation
Nice- I was recently introduced to the joys of working swing shift courtesey of my temp agency. I’m looking for a way to gracefully extricate myself right about now…
I never really minded rotating shifts…our schedule means we get a lot of time off (4 days between shifts). I’m sitting out waiting for drug test results for the next few days anyway, so probably won’t be working much next week at all…
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Jack Burton Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:01:06am |
re: #152 Slumbering Behemoth
I just don’t want to see anyone lose their posting privileges here over a discussion that could easily wait for a month or so.
Personally, I don’t have anything nice to say about the man, and that is why I am saying nothing about him in the wake of his passing.
There is a time and a place for all things.
My exact feelings. Nothing further to say that is nice so I’m in ignore mode for awhile.
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Dancing along the light of day Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:01:40am |
re: #137 Slumbering Behemoth
And, as was said the night Ted Kennedy passed, he should be respected for his many years of service to our country, if for no other reason.
(Too lazy to go find the original quote)
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iceweasel Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:02:15am |
re: #142 calcajun
Classic display of either ignorance or selective memory. It was perjury—he lied under oath in a deposition— which got him him disbarred from the AR Bar and the US Supreme Court Bar. The dalliance was not what stained his presidency—it was his hubris in lying to cover it up.
Classic— and predictable— case of Republican misdirection. I knew someone would make this claim.
The perjury only came about as the result of an extended witch-hunt digging into everything possible on Clinton — real estate deals, phony sexual harassment charges, everything.
They finally hit paydirt when they found some bint willing to tape a girl who’d given the Clenis a blowjob.
And now the claim is all “It’s the perjury! the perjury!” Bullshit. Lying about a blowjob? A lot of people have done that.
BTW, my point still stands about Iran-Contra and Watergate. You can’t pretend that Dems always get a pass and Repubs never do.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:02:27am |
re: #149 iceweasel
I found out about the whole highway restroom thing before There’s Something About Mary came out only because I was propositioned by two men at a rest stop in southeastern Georgia when I went into the men’s toom to change out of my Army BDUs into my civillian clothes.
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calcajun Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:03:14am |
re: #154 swamprat
Am off to bed. Sorry to sound terse, but did those involve lying under oath? WJC did just that — an impeachable misdemeanor. If he ad said in Feb 1998, yep— I did the nasty with Monica— he would have spared this Country ten months of a silly soap opera. Instead he tried to brass it out. It was a mistake.
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austin_blue Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:03:19am |
re: #148 Fenway_Nation
So far…the absolute worst of my mistakes at last count have resulted in ZERO- count ‘em- ZERO fucking fatalities.
And don’t be insulting my intelligence by suddenly finding religion so that St. Teddy the Imperfect can get ‘Get out of Accountibility Free’ card.
Then you have been lucky , haven’t you? Are you telling me that you have never driven when you have maybe had a little too much to drink? I know I have. I think most of us have. And there but for the grace of god we could have been in Teddy’s situation. In 19fucking69 for pity’s sake.
Just for fun, here’s the classic NatLamp ad:
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Dancing along the light of day Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:03:49am |
Good Night, Lizards of the evening.
Please treat each other with kindness & respect.
Stay ever so scaly!
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calcajun Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:05:35am |
re: #160 iceweasel
Nice that you can so easily can condone one crime while condemning others. Interesting double standard you have there.
Now— really. Night, folks.
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:05:40am |
re: #160 iceweasel
Classic— and predictable— case of Republican misdirection. I knew someone would make this claim.
The perjury only came about as the result of an extended witch-hunt digging into everything possible on Clinton — real estate deals, phony sexual harassment charges, everything.They finally hit paydirt when they found some bint willing to tape a girl who’d given the Clenis a blowjob.
And now the claim is all “It’s the perjury! the perjury!” Bullshit. Lying about a blowjob? A lot of people have done that.
BTW, my point still stands about Iran-Contra and Watergate. You can’t pretend that Dems always get a pass and Repubs never do.
If he’d lied to the press, that would be one thing. Lying under oath is quite another. I’ll also remind you that it was Janet Reno who handed the prejury issue to Ken Starr. Judge Starr did not ask for it.
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iceweasel Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:05:50am |
re: #161 Fenway_Nation
I found out about the whole highway restroom thing before There’s Something About Mary came out only because I was propositioned by two men at a rest stop in southeastern Georgia when I went into the men’s toom to change out of my Army BDUs into my civillian clothes.
Everyone loves a man in uniform, fenway. ;) Or changing out of one!
*swoon*
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SixDegrees Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:06:59am |
re: #168 Dark_Falcon
If he’d lied to the press, that would be one thing. Lying under oath is quite another.
Particularly when you’re a lawyer, and certainly ought to understand the consequences of such an action.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:07:12am |
re: #163 austin_blue
Hmm…hate to break it to you, sport, but I wasn’t even alive in 1969.
And since I’m trying to angle myself for a career in transportation, I avoid any combination of alcohol and driving my own vehicle since the trucking companies and railways tend to look down on DUIs…especially recent ones.
I typically get good and shitfaced only when I know for sure I can get a ride home or crash at a friend’s place…
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:07:24am |
re: #170 SixDegrees
Particularly when you’re a lawyer, and certainly ought to understand the consequences of such an action.
concur.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:08:26am |
re: #164 Floral Giraffe
Fare thee well, emblazoned elephant…
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austin_blue Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:08:37am |
re: #156 HelloDare
Clever! A link would be nice, as opposed to innuendo. Oh, and some backup links to show that the original link wasn’t bullshit.
Very helpfull!
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SixDegrees Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:11:10am |
re: #174 austin_blue
Clever! A link would be nice, as opposed to innuendo. Oh, and some backup links to show that the original link wasn’t bullshit.
Very helpfull!
There’s this thing called Google, if you’re that interested.
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iceweasel Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:11:23am |
re: #167 calcajun
Nice that you can so easily can condone one crime while condemning others. Interesting double standard you have there.
Now— really. Night, folks.
I see a big difference between Iran-Contra, and Watergate— vs a guy lying about a blowjob.
The first two were the nation’s business. The second just isn’t.
I could not care less what our public servants get up to in their private sexual lives (so long as it’s consensual activity). It’s none of my business. I’m not the Sex Police and I don’t think we need sex police. My opinion only.
Good night— sleep well.
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BatGuano Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:13:26am |
Good morning,everyone. This thread is very active for a Saturday morning (1:14 a.m. pst)
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Syrah Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:14:22am |
An employer receiving sexual favors from his employees.
Some people get upset over that kind of stuff.
Something about power relationships, intimidation, sexual harassment, …
It would seem that some get to play a different game.
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srb1976 Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:14:39am |
re: #177 BatGuano
Good morning,everyone. This thread is very active for a Saturday morning (1:14 a.m. pst)
Morning Bat!!
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:14:49am |
re: #169 iceweasel
Didn’t dawn on me what happened until I got back in the truck…
Wait a sec…those guys were zipping up their trousers after walking around from behind the building…yet all the stalls were open inside…so that must mean that they were-
AUUUGHHH- LALALALALALALALALALALALALA
But that means they wanted to know if I’d go and…
LALALALALALALA! TIA CARRERA! JENNIFER TILLY! FAIRUZA BALK! SELMA HAYEK! SHIRLEY MANSON!
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Areozol Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:14:55am |
re: #150 Syrah
All that I hear about this is crickets on the left.
Do you remember the Information Awareness Office?
IAO logo is probably heating up conspiracy theories wacko’s’ minds :D
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austin_blue Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:16:24am |
re: #171 Fenway_Nation
Hmm…hate to break it to you, sport, but I wasn’t even alive in 1969.
And since I’m trying to angle myself for a career in transportation, I avoid any combination of alcohol and driving my own vehicle since the trucking companies and railways tend to look down on DUIs…especially recent ones.
I typically get good and shitfaced only when I know for sure I can get a ride home or crash at a friend’s place…
Well, good for you. I was born in the 50’s when mom’s smoked cigarettes and drank cocktails while pregnant, drinks were served at 5:00 PM and the entire neighborhood had cookouts (military family). Your world was not Senator Kennedy’s world was it? Not mine either.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:18:52am |
re: #176 iceweasel
I’m not the Sex Police
Damnit!
:throws keyboard across the room:
Another evening, wasted!
/
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srb1976 Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:20:30am |
re: #184 Slumbering Behemoth
Damnit!
:throws keyboard across the room:
Another evening, wasted!
/
You were looking for the Sex Police? They are not nearly as much fun as the name would suggest = )
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haakondahl Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:20:30am |
re: #1 Fenway_Nation
Why am I getting a mental image of Cleopatra soaking in an opulent marble bathtub all of a sudden?
I get that image all the time.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:20:56am |
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srb1976 Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:22:34am |
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iceweasel Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:22:45am |
re: #180 Fenway_Nation
Didn’t dawn on me what happened until I got back in the truck…
Wait a sec…those guys were zipping up their trousers after walking around from behind the building…yet all the stalls were open inside…so that must mean that they were-
AUUUGHHH- LALALALALALALALALALALALALABut that means they wanted to know if I’d go and…
LALALALALALALA! TIA CARRERA! JENNIFER TILLY! FAIRUZA BALK! SELMA HAYEK! SHIRLEY MANSON!
hahahaha… and ooo, Jennifer Tilly. ;)
I was once in a gay bar (female) with the girl I was dating (being a lib and all, I’m heteroflexible) — we were both freaked out because it was just so strange to have women blatantly appraising you and staring at you. It was really strange.
Men in uniform!
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:23:21am |
re: #183 austin_blue
Umm…so I’m supposed to feel like a petty, vindictive dickwad because I’m holding a US Senator to the same standards I hold myself to?
Shame on me for not knowing any better…
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iceweasel Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:23:48am |
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HelloDare Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:25:48am |
re: #160 iceweasel
Classic— and predictable— case of Republican misdirection. I knew someone would make this claim.
The perjury only came about as the result of an extended witch-hunt digging into everything possible on Clinton — real estate deals, phony sexual harassment charges, everything.They finally hit paydirt when they found some bint willing to tape a girl who’d given the Clenis a blowjob.
And now the claim is all “It’s the perjury! the perjury!” Bullshit. Lying about a blowjob? A lot of people have done that.
BTW, my point still stands about Iran-Contra and Watergate. You can’t pretend that Dems always get a pass and Repubs never do.
Real-estate deals? Are you referring to Whitewater? Yeah that was nothing more than a witchhunt. That’s why a sitting governor was convicted and removed from office.
Ultimately the Clintons were never charged, but 14 other persons were convicted of more than 40 crimes, including Bill Clinton’s successor as Governor, who was removed from office.
* Jim Guy Tucker: Governor of Arkansas at the time, removed from office (fraud, 3 counts)
* John Haley: attorney for Jim Guy Tucker (tax fraud)
* William J. Marks Sr.: Jim Guy Tucker business partner (conspiracy)
* Stephen Smith (Whitewater): former Governor Clinton aide (conspiracy to misapply funds). Bill Clinton pardoned.
* Webster Hubbell: Clinton political supporter; Rose Law Firm partner (embezzlement, fraud)
* Jim McDougal: banker, Clinton political supporter: (18 felonies, varied)
* Susan McDougal: Clinton political supporter (multiple fraud) Bill Clinton pardoned.
* David Hale: banker, self proclaimed Clinton political supporter: (conspiracy, fraud)
* Neal Ainley: Perry County Bank president (embezzled bank funds for Clinton campaign)
* Chris Wade: Whitewater real estate broker (multiple loan fraud) Bill Clinton pardoned.
* Larry Kuca: Madison real estate agent (multiple loan fraud)
* Robert W. Palmer: Madison appraiser (conspiracy). Bill Clinton pardoned.* John Latham: Madison Bank CEO (bank fraud)
* Eugene Fitzhugh: Whitewater defendant (multiple bribery)
* Charles Matthews (Whitewater): Whitewater defendant (bribery)
And it wasn’t just some dumb broad who was caught on tape. Bill Clinton was. He told Monica to lie under oath. Not only that, he said he would help her. He would tell her what to say.
Clinton didn’t lie for any cause. He perjured himself and suborned purjury to save his ass. He put this country and the Presidency through hell to try and save his own ass. Over something pretty petty. How low can you get. And the thing is, he didn’t have to. If he admitted the truth when it first surfaced, nothing would have happened. Nothing happened to Gavin Newsom. Clinton has nobody to blame but himself.
Oh, and the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy meme was born on the Today Show when Hillary blamed all the Lewinsky talk on the Republicans. And the press let her keep citing the VRWC and never shoved it back in her face. All they had to do was remind her of the first time she used it. It would have had a very short life.
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haakondahl Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:26:09am |
Reagan’s missteps produced a win-win for captive Americans and embattled oppressed allies. Clinton’s actions were exclusively self-serving. That is the difference which matters to me.
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austin_blue Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:27:46am |
I am a gone pecan.
Adios, my friends.
We’ll visit tomorrow.
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BatGuano Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:27:48am |
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Jimmah Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:27:50am |
I just dinged up every post of iceweasel’s without even reading them - and I liked it.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:28:31am |
OH SNAP! Time for a Q&A…
Q: What did Jesus say to the Teamster Unions?
A: “Nice work folks, I like what I’m seeing so far. I gotta split for a while and catch a late supper with some friends, so y’all take a break. Don’t do anything until I get back”.
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srb1976 Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:28:45am |
re: #189 iceweasel
hahahaha… and ooo, Jennifer Tilly. ;)
I was once in a gay bar (female) with the girl I was dating (being a lib and all, I’m heteroflexible) — we were both freaked out because it was just so strange to have women blatantly appraising you and staring at you. It was really strange.
Men in uniform!
Even as a girl, I have to say that Jennifer Tilly is terribly under-rated (or maybe overlooked?) Better Half is a fan of hers too = )
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:28:54am |
it was just so strange to have women blatantly appraising you and staring at you. It was really strange.
Not for me, altho’ apparently I need a giant fucking neon sign that flashes ‘She wants to take you home, Fenway!’ for anybody who’s geniuinely interested…
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iceweasel Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:30:05am |
re: #192 HelloDare
All that typing amounts to “We couldn’t get Clinton for anything but lying about a blowjob. Wah, Wah, Wah.”
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srb1976 Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:30:11am |
re: #199 Fenway_Nation
Not for me, altho’ apparently I need a giant fucking neon sign that flashes ‘She wants to take you home, Fenway!’ for anybody who’s geniuinely interested…
Most straight guys I know are just not very good at subtle hints…
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:32:41am |
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HelloDare Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:34:47am |
re: #174 austin_blue
Clever! A link would be nice, as opposed to innuendo. Oh, and some backup links to show that the original link wasn’t bullshit.
Very helpfull!
A link about Chappaquiddick? I think you can figure that one out yourself.
Comment #84 had a link. Here it is again.
Better yet, here it is for everybody to see hear:
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:35:04am |
re: #201 srb1976
Why can’t a gal just hit me over the head and drag me to her cave?
/Okay, maybe that’s a bit excessive. She doesn’t actually have to drag me to her cave.
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srb1976 Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:37:21am |
re: #205 Slumbering Behemoth
Why can’t a gal just hit me over the head and drag me to her cave?
/Okay, maybe that’s a bit excessive. She doesn’t actually have to drag me to her cave.
I think we use the subtle hints because it rewards guys for paying attention = )
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:42:30am |
re: #206 srb1976
I pay lots of attention, I am just too damn dense to get the subtle signals.
Sure, hours later, long after opportunity has knocked and walked away frustrated, I start to think “Hey, that just might have been a come on”.
But right in the moment? I am an idiot savant, without the savant part.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:43:50am |
re: #189 iceweasel
re: #198 srb1976
For what it’s worth, Jennifer Tilly’s passed the half-century mark and still looks pretty damn good.
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HelloDare Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:44:24am |
re: #200 iceweasel
All that typing amounts to “We couldn’t get Clinton for anything but lying about a blowjob. Wah, Wah, Wah.”
That’s why I love LGF. All the intelligent conversation.
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iceweasel Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:48:10am |
re: #196 Jimmah
I just dinged up every post of iceweasel’s without even reading them - and I liked it.
Jimmah’s been dinging me all night- and I loved it.
On the bed, on the floor,
on a towel by the door,
in the tub, in the car,
up against the mini-bar
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iceweasel Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:50:45am |
re: #209 HelloDare
That’s why I love LGF. All the intelligent conversation.
It’s the late night Friday Drinking Thread.
Lighten up, Francis. :)
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:52:30am |
re: #207 Slumbering Behemoth
I was talking to this one girl within earshot of my bartender friend…the two of us were discussing the joys of growing up Catholic, and she actually had gone to Catholic school as well.
My pal seemed a little mystified that I didn’t eventually leave with her, since he was convinced that she was interested in me. I asked him why he thought that…
‘Well…when you asked her is she still had the Catholic schoolgirl uniform, instead of slapping you or throwing her drink in your face, she said
‘Why yes…I still do’
…’
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srb1976 Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:53:52am |
re: #212 Fenway_Nation
I was talking to this one girl within earshot of my bartender friend…the two of us were discussing the joys of growing up Catholic, and she actually had gone to Catholic school as well.
My pal seemed a little mystified that I didn’t eventually leave with her, since he was convinced that she was interested in me. I asked him why he thought that…
‘Well…when you asked her is she still had the Catholic schoolgirl uniform, instead of slapping you or throwing her drink in your face, she said
…’
Fenway…that’s not even a subtle hint!
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BatGuano Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:56:23am |
Speaking of Clinton and Lewinski ( I know some were), Jeffrey Toobin wrote a good account in “A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President (2000)”.
Toobin leans left and in this book he takes Clinton’s side and spins to make it look like the accusers, prosecutors and witnesses are part of a “Vast Conspiracy”. But if you put on your lib filters it is still a well researched ,informative account and worth the read.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:57:50am |
re: #213 srb1976
On the flipside, I didn’t think that line of inquiry was a slap or drink-thrown-in-my-face-worthy offense.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:58:41am |
re: #212 Fenway_Nation
I’ve got more than one story like that. :sigh:
re: #213 srb1976
No, it’s not. But for a dumbass like me (and apparently Fenway) that kind of thing goes right over my head when I’m in the moment.
I wonder… I also have no kind of functional gaydar what so ever. Could those two things be somehow related?
Fenway, my equally clueless brother, what say you?
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srb1976 Sat, Aug 29, 2009 2:02:30am |
I can’t believe it…the Little Man has woken up (@4am local time) and demanded the his light be turned on…He wants to watch Horton hears a Who…at 4 am?
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Aug 29, 2009 2:05:57am |
re: #219 srb1976
Tell the Little Man he needs to settle down and go back to sleep before Horton Hears an Ass-Whuppin’.
/I’m kidding, I’m kidding!
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Aug 29, 2009 2:06:11am |
re: #218 Slumbering Behemoth
9 times out of 10 I’m usually thinking along the lines of ‘How nice- she’s humoring a doofus like me…better not read too much into it, tho’
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srb1976 Sat, Aug 29, 2009 2:08:20am |
re: #220 Slumbering Behemoth
Tell the Little Man he needs to settle down and go back to sleep before Horton Hears an Ass-Whuppin’.
/I’m kidding, I’m kidding!
I think he a dream that woke him up…humoring him for the moment = )
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iceweasel Sat, Aug 29, 2009 2:08:20am |
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srb1976 Sat, Aug 29, 2009 2:15:34am |
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Aug 29, 2009 2:16:21am |
Tippy top o’ the mornin’ to ya, UncleRancher…
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Aug 29, 2009 2:16:58am |
re: #221 Fenway_Nation
Too bad we don’t live near each other, we could make a great “Wingman” team.
“Two doofuses (doofi?). They have enough game to gain the interest a woman, yet just like 7-11, they never close.
Separately, they couldn’t get laid at porn convention on the day that both AIDS and herpes were cured. Together, they will run through women like a bum runs through matches.
This Fall, on Fox, ‘Fenway and The Behemoth’”.
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UncleRancher Sat, Aug 29, 2009 2:17:52am |
What’s happnin’ out there in the wide wide world of sports this mornin’?
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Aug 29, 2009 2:19:23am |
re: #222 srb1976
Good luck to ya. Raising little ones can be tough.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Aug 29, 2009 2:19:41am |
re: #228 Slumbering Behemoth
Separately, they couldn’t get laid at porn convention on the day that both AIDS and herpes were cured.
Also would’ve accepted ‘Couldn’t get laid if they walked through a women’s prison with a bag full of pardons’
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srb1976 Sat, Aug 29, 2009 2:20:17am |
Looks like our puppy gets her stitches out next week…we have high hopes that she will be able to see out of her injured eye (yay Spokes)
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Aug 29, 2009 2:22:51am |
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UncleRancher Sat, Aug 29, 2009 2:23:12am |
He messed it up. He said “what’s a girl like you doing in a nice place like this?” She started to smile, then it hit her. She turned on her heal and walked away.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Aug 29, 2009 2:24:26am |
Now playing on XM 44
Ashes to Ashes- David Bowie
[Gold Mine for The Venture Bros. writers]
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srb1976 Sat, Aug 29, 2009 2:24:59am |
re: #228 Slumbering Behemoth
Too bad we don’t live near each other, we could make a great “Wingman” team.
“Two doofuses (doofi?). They have enough game to gain the interest a woman, yet just like 7-11, they never close.
Separately, they couldn’t get laid at porn convention on the day that both AIDS and herpes were cured. Together, they will run through women like a bum runs through matches.
This Fall, on Fox, ‘Fenway and The Behemoth’”.
I would watch that show…mostly just to laugh and point, but I would watch = )
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UncleRancher Sat, Aug 29, 2009 2:25:45am |
re: #233 Slumbering Behemoth
Yep, I missed that one. Thanks for the update.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Aug 29, 2009 2:27:18am |
re: #231 Fenway_Nation
I don’t type “LOL”, because who really Laughs Out Loud when reading something on the internet, even when it is funny? I usually just type “Ha!”
‘Couldn’t get laid if they walked through a women’s prison with a bag full of pardons’
Never heard that one before. I actually did LOL.
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BatGuano Sat, Aug 29, 2009 2:27:54am |
re: #236 srb1976
I’m picturing Cliff Clavin and Norm on the make. :)
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UncleRancher Sat, Aug 29, 2009 2:29:03am |
re: #222 srb1976
I think he a dream that woke him up…humoring him for the moment = )
More than once some strange noise outside would give all the kids the heebiejeebies and they ALL 5 come and piled into bed with us.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Aug 29, 2009 2:29:48am |
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srb1976 Sat, Aug 29, 2009 2:31:05am |
re: #240 UncleRancher
More than once some strange noise outside would give all the kids the heebiejeebies and they ALL 5 come and piled into bed with us.
Yikes…sounds crowded = ). Little Man has never jumped in bed with us in the middle of the night…odd, but he doesn’t like our room…he much prefers being allowed to crash on the couch, usually with me there with him = ).
Funny kid, but very sweet!
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Jimmah Sat, Aug 29, 2009 2:31:07am |
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Aug 29, 2009 2:32:11am |
For some reason, I’m remembering The Simpsons where Homer runs afoul of Moe for whatever reason and is looking around for a new bar to hang out at…and winds up at a lesbian bar with thumping techno music and lasers. It shows him sitting at the bar for a few moments ponering cluelessly ‘There’s something different about this bar, but I’m not sure what exactly…’ before he realizes “Aha! This lesbian bar has no fire exit! Enjoy your deathtrap, ladies…”
Two lesbian patrons at the bar watch Homer leave in a huff and ask ‘What’s her problem?’
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UncleRancher Sat, Aug 29, 2009 2:36:32am |
re: #242 srb1976
Yikes…sounds crowded = ). Little Man has never jumped in bed with us in the middle of the night…odd, but he doesn’t like our room…he much prefers being allowed to crash on the couch, usually with me there with him = ).
Funny kid, but very sweet!
Treasure every moment. My youngest is 12 now. Every day they get more independent and pretty soon they’re out on their own adventures.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Aug 29, 2009 2:37:40am |
Thanks alot, Morrisey…I never did find out How Soon is Now.
/
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iceweasel Sat, Aug 29, 2009 2:38:03am |
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Aug 29, 2009 2:43:19am |
Mark my words, some network exec is reading this right now…
re: #228 Slumbering Behemoth
… and thinking of all the comedy writers out there desperate enough for a pay check to write such an asinine sit com. Look for a trite and overworked re-tread of an “Odd Couple” theme, with a hackneyed “Fish Out of Water” sub-theme.
You heard it here first, Lizards.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Aug 29, 2009 2:45:18am |
re: #238 Slumbering Behemoth
I don’t type “LOL”, because who really Laughs Out Loud when reading something on the internet, even when it is funny? I usually just type “Ha!”
Never heard that one before. I actually did LOL.
That was a byproduct of a variation of a ‘Yo mama’ fight when I was a bored young E-3 in the Army waiting for a truck to load up. That wasn’t even one of the better ones, but just about the only one I could remember that didn’t involve some sort of necrophilia reference.
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BatGuano Sat, Aug 29, 2009 2:47:41am |
re: #247 iceweasel
Comrade? You all heard it! What a giveaway! You all saw it didn’t you?
My favorite Friday song.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Aug 29, 2009 2:48:02am |
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UncleRancher Sat, Aug 29, 2009 2:49:37am |
Something a little different:
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iceweasel Sat, Aug 29, 2009 2:56:43am |
re: #250 BatGuano
Comrade? You all heard it! What a giveaway! You all saw it didn’t you?
My favorite Friday song.
{Bat!}
I love, love, love Bowie. And that song! Never knew Bowie covered it. Fantastic.
Other lovely Bowie:
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Aug 29, 2009 2:57:06am |
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HoosierHoops Sat, Aug 29, 2009 2:58:38am |
Good Morning Lizards…
What was that song?…oh what a night!
I can’t sleep…How is everyone?
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srb1976 Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:00:11am |
re: #255 HoosierHoops
Mornin’ Hoops…sorry you can’t sleep (seems like no one here can…except better half)
Haw ya doin?
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srb1976 Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:00:40am |
re: #256 srb1976
Mornin’ Hoops…sorry you can’t sleep (seems like no one here can…except better half)
Haw ya doin?
or, ya know, HOW ya doin’?
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HoosierHoops Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:01:33am |
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:02:05am |
re: #248 Slumbering Behemoth
Don’t forget the two unbelievably hot supporting actresses who would play our strictly platonic friends…
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srb1976 Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:05:53am |
re: #258 HoosierHoops
Hey you! How is that beautiful baby doing this morning?
She’s doing very well…(we’re getting ready for birthdays for both kids in the next month)
How’s everyone in your world? Keeping in touch I hope?
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:06:47am |
re: #254 Slumbering Behemoth
‘Your mother is so ugly…it severely effects her self-esteem.’
Hank Hill- King of The Hill
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HoosierHoops Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:10:40am |
re: #260 srb1976
She’s doing very well…(we’re getting ready for birthdays for both kids in the next month)
How’s everyone in your world? Keeping in touch I hope?
We had a coming home party for our Son who came home from the marines last night at the local pub…The bar closed over 3 hours ago…When I drink I go high energy…Can’t sleep…In a couple of hours I’ll jump in the pool and sober up..until then…I’m this mornings entertainment
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:12:09am |
re: #259 Fenway_Nation
Wait and see, this will be yet another short lived sitcom on Fox. And we’re doing all their work, pro bono.
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wahabicorridor Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:13:00am |
HOOPS!
And a good time was had by all, I’m sure.
*mwah*
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:13:35am |
re: #262 BatGuano
I just got kicked off the interwebs. Weird.
And yet you are here. Doubly weird…
HE’S A WITCH! MAKE A BRIDGE OUTTA HIM!
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:13:40am |
You came in the plane? You call parking a supersonic jet in front of a titty-bar inconspicuous?! Who taught you to be a spy, fucking Gallagher!?!
[Former] Col. Hunter Gathers- The Venture Bros.
___
I think I put that one up there before, but since I’m quoting different animated shows, I figured ‘What the hell…?’
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srb1976 Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:13:54am |
re: #263 HoosierHoops
We had a coming home party for our Son who came home from the marines last night at the local pub…The bar closed over 3 hours ago…When I drink I go high energy…Can’t sleep…In a couple of hours I’ll jump in the pool and sober up..until then…I’m this mornings entertainment
I didn’t know he was home…Congrats to you and yours…bet it was a great party!!
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:16:13am |
re: #267 Fenway_Nation
Is there an online source for this watching show? Sounds damn funny.
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BatGuano Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:16:17am |
re: #266 Slumbering Behemoth
I get knocked down, but I get up again!
Wait,that doesn’t help my case does it?
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HoosierHoops Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:17:01am |
re: #268 srb1976
I didn’t know he was home…Congrats to you and yours…bet it was a great party!!
He got home Thursday at 4pm… Forever! We am very proud of him…
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Jimmah Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:17:09am |
re: #247 iceweasel
It’s Friday, Comrade! or was… ;)
Drink in your eyes
Drink in your sighs
Grass in my thighs my aching legs
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BatGuano Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:19:16am |
re: #253 iceweasel
I finally saw him at the Shark Tank in San Jose, January 2004. Very good show. He began with, ” Rebel, Rebel”. Got everyone’s attention, fast.
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srb1976 Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:19:29am |
re: #271 HoosierHoops
He got home Thursday at 4pm… Forever! We am very proud of him…
Wow, good to hear! That makes it a great week all by itself!
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HoosierHoops Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:21:13am |
Keeping with the theme that yes..The hoopster is this morning entertainment.
At 4am I watched my favorite Rap movie on MTV.. Hustle and Flow..
I had to laugh so hard…Everytime Howard would show a bag of pot MTV blurred it out..It’s like what? You blur out a bag of pot? Everybody knows its a fricking bag of pot…What do you gain from blurring it out? It’s MTV for Gawd sake…
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haakondahl Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:21:44am |
re: #228 Slumbering Behemoth
Too bad we don’t live near each other, we could make a great “Wingman” team.
“Two doofuses (doofi?). They have enough game to gain the interest a woman, yet just like 7-11, they never close.
Separately, they couldn’t get laid at porn convention on the day that both AIDS and herpes were cured. Together, they will run through women like a bum runs through matches.
This Fall, on Fox, ‘Fenway and The Behemoth’”.
Unfortunately, it will never be arranged, as they couldn’t arrange a gang rape in a gay prison.
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rwdflynavy Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:22:32am |
re: #132 iceweasel
Oh right. I forgot. The republicans are good and innocent and unfairly victimised, and the Democrats are eeevil. And somehow it’s the Democrats who ‘get away’ with everything, never a republican.
remind me again— what were the party affiliations of the POTUS who skated on Iran-Contra, and the one who got a pardon for Watergate?
And who got impeached for a blowjob?
Yeah, filthy trickse libs are always getting away with stuff. Right.
If you think Clinton was impeached for a blow job you need to go read the real history.
I think you know why he was really impeached and are being disingenuous.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:23:07am |
re: #269 Slumbering Behemoth
It is fucking hilarious, Slumbering.
I don’t know an online source for watching it, but it’s showing in re-runs from Season 1 on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim weeknights…
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BatGuano Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:24:06am |
re: #263 HoosierHoops
Hoosier, sorry I missed this post earlier.Great news. I know you are proud and happy!
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:24:43am |
re: #271 HoosierHoops
Your kid is back, safe and sound? Many beers flow in The House of The Behemoth. What a joy for you and yours. Offer my thanks.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:26:34am |
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iceweasel Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:27:00am |
re: #259 Fenway_Nation
Don’t forget the two unbelievably hot supporting actresses who would play our strictly platonic friends…
Obviously, that would be me and srb. Duh. :)
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:27:27am |
re: #276 haakondahl
Ease up, weirdo. We’re talking about a fictional sitcom, not your tortured version of a TOOL video. Get some help, dude.
/
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HoosierHoops Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:29:12am |
re: #281 Fenway_Nation
Congrats!
/I’m more of a lethargic/sleepy drunk,
I go high energy…I wonder why…Maybe It’s the dancing…
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HoosierHoops Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:29:53am |
re: #282 iceweasel
Obviously, that would be me and srb. Duh. :)
good morning Ice..Hope today finds you well
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:30:02am |
re: #282 iceweasel
Can’t your arms lift a club? Pound me a clue, will ya!
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srb1976 Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:30:12am |
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:31:38am |
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:32:13am |
re: #278 Fenway_Nation
:sigh:
Alas, I abstain from paying for television. I have not had a cable feed for over fifteen years.
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iceweasel Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:32:24am |
re: #272 Jimmah
Drink in your eyes
Drink in your sighs
Grass in my thighs my aching legs
People will say we’re in love!
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:34:27am |
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Jimmah Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:34:36am |
Black Grape - Get Higher
Heh - “Nancy and I have been abusing marijuana on a daily basis”
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BatGuano Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:37:27am |
re: #290 iceweasel
I heard “Silence of the Lambs” was scary. I like a good love story!
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:38:36am |
Well lizards…time for me to take me and my woeful tales of near-misses to bed…
G’nite!
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HoosierHoops Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:39:00am |
re: #293 BatGuano
I heard “Silence of the Lambs” was scary. I like a good love story!
It puts the lotion on the skin..
/Creepy shit
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srb1976 Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:39:08am |
re: #294 Fenway_Nation
Well lizards…time for me to take me and my woeful tales of near-misses to bed…
G’nite!
Nite Fenway…
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HoosierHoops Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:39:42am |
re: #294 Fenway_Nation
Well lizards…time for me to take me and my woeful tales of near-misses to bed…
G’nite!
sleep well…
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iceweasel Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:40:29am |
re: #291 Slumbering Behemoth
Awe-some. Upding!
My fave recut movie trailer is Brokeback to the Future.
I assume people have seen it, though…
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Jimmah Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:41:01am |
re: #290 iceweasel
People will say we’re in love!
They can say what they want (they always do!)
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UncleRancher Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:42:33am |
Yon bed is beckoning. Keep a steady strain on it for us.
*Yawn*
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BatGuano Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:44:09am |
re: #295 HoosierHoops
Ted Levine was scary in that movie as “Buffalo Bill”. I wish Anthony Hopkins had read Red Dragon and Silence of the lambs so he play the character properly.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:46:08am |
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HoosierHoops Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:51:22am |
re: #303 BatGuano
Ted Levine was scary in that movie as “Buffalo Bill”. I wish Anthony Hopkins had read Red Dragon and Silence of the lambs so he play the character properly.
I am still blown away by Heath Ledger’s part as the Joker in the Dark Knight..
Genius and tragic…
/I love the line…Why so serious? When he sticks the knife in that dudes mouth…All time classic creepy scene…
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BatGuano Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:53:22am |
re: #306 HoosierHoops
I’m ashamed to say I haven’t seen Dark Knight,
It goes in my netflix cue this very night.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:53:32am |
re: #305 Jimmah
The evolution of the text written on the note pad is quite interesting.
/imsuchastinker
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HoosierHoops Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:57:20am |
re: #307 BatGuano
I’m ashamed to say I haven’t seen Dark Knight,
It goes in my netflix cue this very night.
I hate batman/superman/summer hit movies…
I was frigging blown away… I reviewed the movie here several months ago..I normally do 1 movie review every Saturday…
I have never seen such ballsy acting…Now we know that poor Heath had demons and wasn’t acting…There are cut to the bone scenes by him in a fucking Batman movie…I watched the movie 3 times…5 star
RIP Heath
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iceweasel Sat, Aug 29, 2009 3:57:49am |
re: #306 HoosierHoops
I am still blown away by Heath Ledger’s part as the Joker in the Dark Knight..
Genius and tragic…
/I love the line…Why so serious? When he sticks the knife in that dudes mouth…All time classic creepy scene…
Hey Sir Hoops-a-lot! :)
Totally agree with you. Dark Knight is an amazing movie. Can’t believe how much it blew me away.
Also, I would argue that it’s a profoundly serious movie. Many deep themes and questions.
I loved it. Very difficult to watch, in places. But vastly more than ‘a comic book movie’ or whatever.
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HoosierHoops Sat, Aug 29, 2009 4:02:34am |
re: #311 iceweasel
Hey Sir Hoops-a-lot! :)
Totally agree with you. Dark Knight is an amazing movie. Can’t believe how much it blew me away.
Also, I would argue that it’s a profoundly serious movie. Many deep themes and questions.
I loved it. Very difficult to watch, in places. But vastly more than ‘a comic book movie’ or whatever.
Good morning Ice…
It is one of those comic book movies…Big summer hits…
And you are dead on…There was some serious shit going down in that movie…I only watched it because Heath was in it…
There was alot of cool stuff in that movie
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HoosierHoops Sat, Aug 29, 2009 4:07:12am |
re: #311 iceweasel
Remember that scene with Heath walks out of the Hospital in a nurses outfit blowing the joint up and his clicker wacks out?
Name one person on the face of the Earth that could pull that off…
The comedy he showed while he was trying to blow a hospital up was pure genius…I’m giggling just remembering that scene
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iceweasel Sat, Aug 29, 2009 4:08:44am |
re: #313 HoosierHoops
Good morning Ice…
It is one of those comic book movies…Big summer hits…
And you are dead on…There was some serious shit going down in that movie…I only watched it because Heath was in it…
There was alot of cool stuff in that movie
Extremely cool. And like you, I normally do avoid or not like a lot of the big summer blockbusters…but this one was very different, very thought-provoking. And I was amazed because everyone had raved about Heath Ledger’s performance— and if anything, they sold him short. Mindblowing.
I do wonder sometimes if maybe his experience of prepping for that role played a part in his death.
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iceweasel Sat, Aug 29, 2009 4:10:04am |
re: #314 HoosierHoops
Remember that scene with Heath walks out of the Hospital in a nurses outfit blowing the joint up and his clicker wacks out?
Name one person on the face of the Earth that could pull that off…
The comedy he showed while he was trying to blow a hospital up was pure genius…I’m giggling just remembering that scene
yes! Purest blackest comedy. Both funny and horrific, anarchic. Brilliant!
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HoosierHoops Sat, Aug 29, 2009 4:17:08am |
re: #316 iceweasel
yes! Purest blackest comedy. Both funny and horrific, anarchic. Brilliant!
just genius acting…
I usually do a movie review every saturday… in a while I’ll jump in the pool, Have breakfast and pick a movie to watch and review it here…
/I’m glad you are still here…I know it must be hard sometimes…
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BatGuano Sat, Aug 29, 2009 4:22:32am |
re: #318 srb1976
Well, they burn my mouth and they over power everything they come into contact with. As a matter of fact, I can’t swallow them anymore because I have had to eat them at all of my relatives houses because they put onions in everything including tuna sandwiches.If someone serves me onions at a social gathering, I have to spit them out into a napkin or on my neighbor. I can’t swallow them anymore because my throat constricts and I gag.
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Ojoe Sat, Aug 29, 2009 4:22:51am |
Hey President Wee wee, enjoying your vacation?
Reading that 1,000 page health care reform bill on the beach?
Don’t get sunburned now.
Oops, insensitive comment
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BatGuano Sat, Aug 29, 2009 4:25:22am |
re: #320 BatGuano
Furthermore, why do these TV chefs take something with as delicate a flavor as shrimp and cook it with white onion?
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srb1976 Sat, Aug 29, 2009 4:25:47am |
re: #320 BatGuano
Well, they burn my mouth and they over power everything they come into contact with. As a matter of fact, I can’t swallow them anymore because I have had to eat them at all of my relatives houses because they put onions in everything including tuna sandwiches.If someone serves me onions at a social gathering, I have to spit them out into a napkin or on my neighbor. I can’t swallow them anymore because my throat constricts and I gag.
Wow, that sucks! i tend to prefer cooked onions to raw ones (with a few exceptions) It seems to mellow out the flavor a bit
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HoosierHoops Sat, Aug 29, 2009 4:25:58am |
re: #321 Ojoe
Obama doesn’t need to read the Bill.. It was written years ago by lawyers.
A thousand page bill doesn’t just appear out of nowhere…I think a lot of it was on background for a long time
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Ojoe Sat, Aug 29, 2009 4:26:32am |
re: #313 HoosierHoops
Wasn’t the guy on the boat who had been in prison who came through morally at the end?
My kids watched it at home, too many explosions I thought but yes the movie said some real things.
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iceweasel Sat, Aug 29, 2009 4:26:51am |
BTW— sorry to get political here for a sec, but you know those Obama Joker posters?
My position was that I didn’t like them — exactly like I didn’t like nasty pics of Bush or pics of McCain showing him as a vampire. They’re all ugly and crass. I would never censor them, but I just dislike them and think they set a really nasty tone.
I didn’t think the Obama Joker picture was racist, just ugly. I didn’t hate it more than I did the ugly pics of Bush and Cheney, and I didn’t think it was racist. Check this out— it talks about the Dark Knight and also the prior Batman movies, and has a take on the difference.
This op-ed in the WaPo made me think a little differently about whether the poster was racist:
The new Obama poster has two basic thrusts. Obama is a socialist, or a crypto-socialist. And Obama is somehow like the Joker, unpredictable and dangerous. But joining these two messages together yields more questions and contradictions than good poster art can sustain. The Joker is violent and dangerous, but a socialist? And didn’t we see George W. Bush depicted as the Joker not so long ago?
Yes, in an image by Drew Friedman published online by Vanity Fair on July 29, 2008. That drawing at least played into a view of Bush popular among his detractors, that the former president was unpredictable and fast on the draw when it came to geopolitics. But the danger many of Obama’s detractors detect is more of calculating, long-standing deception, that he is quietly and secretly marshaling a socialist agenda, a view that would be better served by imagery that recalled “The Manchurian Candidate.”
(snip)
So why the anonymity? Perhaps because the poster is ultimately a racially charged image. By using the “urban” makeup of the Heath Ledger Joker, instead of the urbane makeup of the Jack Nicholson character, the poster connects Obama to something many of his detractors fear but can’t openly discuss. He is black and he is identified with the inner city, a source of political instability in the 1960s and ’70s, and a lingering bogeyman in political consciousness despite falling crime rates.
I’m not saying the poster is racist. I really haven’t figured out how I feel about that. I never liked it, and I never liked the ugly images of Bush etc either…but this op-ed did make me think a little differently, and help me to clarify why I think the Obama poster is so ugly.
And I think the contrast between the Jack Nicholson Joker character, and the Heath Ledger Joker, is incredible. Only one of those could have been made after 9/11, IMO. The Ledger Joker is a creature of the times and of Gotham post-9/11, IMO.
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Ojoe Sat, Aug 29, 2009 4:27:28am |
re: #324 HoosierHoops
Yes, then Mr. Obama just serves it up, he has a pretty light conception of his responsibilities I think.
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Ojoe Sat, Aug 29, 2009 4:29:17am |
re: #326 iceweasel
I did not like the derogatory poster of Obama at all, it is bad for the country in exactly the same way as the derogatory pictures of Bush.
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iceweasel Sat, Aug 29, 2009 4:30:13am |
re: #319 HoosierHoops
just genius acting…
I usually do a movie review every saturday… in a while I’ll jump in the pool, Have breakfast and pick a movie to watch and review it here…
/I’m glad you are still here…I know it must be hard sometimes…
Link me to your original review, sweetheart. You know I’d love it. ;)
I’m glad to be here and I’m still here because of all the cool folk like you. Makes it easy, not hard.
{hoops}
PS will be emailing you soon.
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HoosierHoops Sat, Aug 29, 2009 4:30:51am |
re: #327 Ojoe
Yes, then Mr. Obama just serves it up, he has a pretty light conception of his responsibilities I think.
It’s like Cap and Trade.. Anybody that doesn’t think that Dems were sitting in offices for the last 5 years working it out is crazy…That bill went through Committee faster than Danica at Indy…
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iceweasel Sat, Aug 29, 2009 4:31:21am |
re: #328 Ojoe
I did not like the derogatory poster of Obama at all, it is bad for the country in exactly the same way as the derogatory pictures of Bush.
Completely agree. Hated both. Same reasons. Bad for the country, bad for the discourse.
And just crass and tacky.
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BatGuano Sat, Aug 29, 2009 4:33:46am |
re: #326 iceweasel
Poster not good:Agreed. Don’t know if it’s racist. That determination is above my pay grade.
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HoosierHoops Sat, Aug 29, 2009 4:34:11am |
re: #332 BatGuano
Mmmm…Danica.
I met her at the track..Tiny little thing..She is cute…Very Competitive…
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srb1976 Sat, Aug 29, 2009 4:35:03am |
re: #331 iceweasel
Completely agree. Hated both. Same reasons. Bad for the country, bad for the discourse.
And just crass and tacky.
Crass and tacky I’ll buy, but not everything critical of Obama is racist. At this point, the term is nearly worthless. You’re racist for not wanting socialized medicine, you’re racist for not voting for Obama, you’re racist for (insert latest sin here)…the complaint is becoming worthless and is being made so by the people who INSIST that every disagreement with the man is somehow based on his race, no matter how convoluted the reasoning has to get to make it look that way.
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srb1976 Sat, Aug 29, 2009 4:36:41am |
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HoosierHoops Sat, Aug 29, 2009 4:37:16am |
re: #337 BatGuano
Sorry, srb: My head did spin 360.
Uh ho…Does this mean the projectile vomiting of pea soup is up on deck?
/
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BatGuano Sat, Aug 29, 2009 4:42:42am |
re: #339 HoosierHoops
No, Dammit! Just stop putting fucking onions in everything! Can’t you understand I am a people person! If I am projectile vomiting it is onions that someone has put in the lasagna! Onions in lasagna! You people make me stink.
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srb1976 Sat, Aug 29, 2009 4:44:20am |
re: #340 BatGuano
No, Dammit! Just stop putting fucking onions in everything! Can’t you understand I am a people person! If I am projectile vomiting it is onions that someone has put in the lasagna! Onions in lasagna! You people make me stink.
{quietly laughing as I cut up onions to sabotage Bat’s food}
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HoosierHoops Sat, Aug 29, 2009 4:45:52am |
Well..I said when Jordan was out of the Marines I was changing my Avatar from 1st platoon to my Dog in the swimming pool…This is a test
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iceweasel Sat, Aug 29, 2009 4:47:17am |
re: #336 srb1976
Crass and tacky I’ll buy, but not everything critical of Obama is racist. At this point, the term is nearly worthless. You’re racist for not wanting socialized medicine, you’re racist for not voting for Obama, you’re racist for (insert latest sin here)…the complaint is becoming worthless and is being made so by the people who INSIST that every disagreement with the man is somehow based on his race, no matter how convoluted the reasoning has to get to make it look that way.
I agree with you completely. I was biased against thinking those posters were racist— because that charge is being made all the time and with no evidence.
I started out thinking they weren’t racist, and being very cynical like “oh yeah all criticisms of Obama are racist, yeah right’.
That oped did make me stop and say, huh. That’s all. Still haven’t made up my mind on it. I think it’s worth reading. I’d recommend it.
I have loads of criticisms of Obama myself. And I’m really sick of everyone saying “you’re a racist” if you criticise him…
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BatGuano Sat, Aug 29, 2009 4:47:38am |
re: #341 srb1976
Well, If you served them, I might eat them.:)
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srb1976 Sat, Aug 29, 2009 4:47:56am |
re: #342 HoosierHoops
Well..I said when Jordan was out of the Marines I was changing my Avatar from 1st platoon to my Dog in the swimming pool…This is a test
Cute dog!…it still looks like marines on the page, but if you click it, you get dog and cat in swimming pool
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srb1976 Sat, Aug 29, 2009 4:50:06am |
re: #344 BatGuano
Well, If you served them, I might eat them.:)
I am one of those “onions in everything” people, but better half hates them too, so I’m learning to tone it down…some things need them though…runzas, tamale pie, hamburger stroganoff…all no good without onions…sorry = )
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HoosierHoops Sat, Aug 29, 2009 4:50:36am |
re: #345 srb1976
Cute dog!…it still looks like marines on the page, but if you click it, you get dog and cat in swimming pool
Thank you…Life tastes very sweet today…I’m going swimming now..
Love you lizards
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BatGuano Sat, Aug 29, 2009 4:52:23am |
re: #335 HoosierHoops
I met her at the track..Tiny little thing..She is cute…Very Competitive…
Did you tell her about me? You know she’s probably interested in Bat Guano. right?
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srb1976 Sat, Aug 29, 2009 4:52:59am |
re: #348 BatGuano
Did you tell her about me? You know she’s probably interested in Bat Guano. right?
After all…who isn’t = )
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3 wood Sat, Aug 29, 2009 4:58:51am |
Good morning.
I’ve had enough already of the 24/7 worship of the Late Senator Kennedy by the MSM. This is a good day to get caught up on the Honey-do list.
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3 wood Sat, Aug 29, 2009 5:00:54am |
2009 bank-failure tally climbs to 84
Three more banks were closed by regulators Friday, bringing the 2009 toll to 84.The largest of Friday’s three closures announced by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was Affinity Bank, based in Ventura, Calif.
Affinity, which had total assets of $1 billion, deposits of $922 million and 10 branches in Northern and Southern California as of July 10, will be taken over by San Diego-based Pacific Western Bank, the FDIC announced.
The FDIC said former Affinity branch offices in San Francisco and San Mateo will be-open Saturday and the rest will re-open on Sunday.
The FDIC said it and Pacific Western entered into a loss-share transaction of approximately $934 million of Affinity Bank’s assets.
The federal agency estimated the cost to the Deposit Insurance Fund at $254 million.
Earlier Friday, regulars closed Baltimore-based Bradford Bank and Forest Lake, Minn.-based Mainstreet Bank.
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opnion Sat, Aug 29, 2009 5:04:29am |
re: #352 3 wood
Good morning.
I’ve had enough already of the 24/7 worship of the Late Senator Kennedy by the MSM. This is a good day to get caught up on the Honey-do list.
Good Morning 3 Wood & all here. Yeah, the Kennedy thing has gone way over the top.
It is time to be respectful, but people are pushing the envelope, odes to his character & we owe it to his memory to support a dog of a health care bill.
There is speculation that BHO will make the case for health reform during his eulogy.
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srb1976 Sat, Aug 29, 2009 5:08:11am |
re: #354 opnion
Good Morning 3 Wood & all here. Yeah, the Kennedy thing has gone way over the top.
It is time to be respectful, but people are pushing the envelope, odes to his character & we owe it to his memory to support a dog of a health care bill.
There is speculation that BHO will make the case for health reform during his eulogy.
Now that would be both crass and tacky…there’s a time and place for everything but a eulogy is NOT the time or place for political speeches
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opnion Sat, Aug 29, 2009 5:11:28am |
re: #355 srb1976
Now that would be both crass and tacky…there’s a time and place for everything but a eulogy is NOT the time or place for political speeches
David Gerghen did the speculation & want’s Obama to exploit the death of Teddy.
Joeseph Kennedy was trying to show what a regular guy Uncle Teddy was, so he told yachting stories. That will convince the tired huddled masses.
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BatGuano Sat, Aug 29, 2009 5:12:20am |
re: #346 srb1976
When I was nine, my mom knew I hated onions. She made spaghetti one night and I could see that translucent evil in the spaghetti sauce. I said,” Why did you put onions in that!”
My Mom, said, ” You cain’t taste ‘em.”
I said, “Then why did you put them in there?”
she said, “For flavor.”
Oy!
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3 wood Sat, Aug 29, 2009 5:16:35am |
re: #354 opnion
There is speculation that BHO will make the case for health reform during his eulogy.
I would count on it.
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SasquatchOnSteroids Sat, Aug 29, 2009 5:18:09am |
re: #356 opnion
GERGEN: Anderson, as much as his friends would like to see it, right now, I — I don’t.
I think it’s — I think that Senator Kennedy’s presence was missed in the last few weeks. I think he — we would be much closer, as John McCain has said, to a bipartisan agreement had he been there to help negotiate that. And now there are Democrats who will want to rally around.
But I don’t see much evidence of Republicans coming around. The divisions in the country remain very deep. Town halls just in the last couple days have continued to be highly contentious. I — and I — I do think there’s a window for President Obama to rally Democrats. And — and he can begin doing that a little bit in his — in his eulogy on Saturday. But, most importantly, when President Obama comes back to Washington, he’s got a small window to rally Democrats in the name of Teddy Kennedy. And maybe he can move it.
But I don’t see the country moving his way. I think it’s going to be up to President Obama to assert his leadership.
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3 wood Sat, Aug 29, 2009 5:19:05am |
re: #356 opnion
Joeseph Kennedy was trying to show what a regular guy Uncle Teddy was, so he told yachting stories. That will convince the tired huddled masses.
I remember the photos being published of him cavorting on a yacht with some woman (not his them wife Joan) and obviously getting ready to do what someone else referred to as “offshore drilling”.
Think they will talk about that at his funeral?
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srb1976 Sat, Aug 29, 2009 5:19:51am |
re: #357 BatGuano
When I was nine, my mom knew I hated onions. She made spaghetti one night and I could see that translucent evil in the spaghetti sauce. I said,” Why did you put onions in that!”
My Mom, said, ” You cain’t taste ‘em.”I said, “Then why did you put them in there?”
she said, “For flavor.”
Oy!
Of course! Makes perfect sense…mom logic = )
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Aug 29, 2009 5:22:06am |
re: #358 3 wood
“You can count on it” is in BHO’s “Magic 8 Ball”.
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opnion Sat, Aug 29, 2009 5:22:56am |
re: #358 3 wood
I would count on it.
If he does, I think that it is a mistake, BHO is buring up crediblitiy.
Senator Kennedy is not a nationally revered figure, his cred was in Blue States.
Teddy unlike JFK is not a martyr. As tragic as his death is, he died of natural causes.
THe whole Wellstone memeorial turned into a pep rally/ hate fest & backfired.
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SixDegrees Sat, Aug 29, 2009 5:23:08am |
re: #354 opnion
Good Morning 3 Wood & all here. Yeah, the Kennedy thing has gone way over the top.
It is time to be respectful, but people are pushing the envelope, odes to his character & we owe it to his memory to support a dog of a health care bill.
There is speculation that BHO will make the case for health reform during his eulogy.
I’m sure it’ll be mentioned; it was one of Kennedy’s pet projects. But outright pitching would be crude and tasteless in the extreme.
Not that that’s going to stop him from doing it, of course.
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irish rose Sat, Aug 29, 2009 5:24:21am |
Good morning, lizards.
It’s a gray, damp, cool morning here along the Lake Michigan shoreline but I’m in a good mood… my Marine is home on leave, and enjoying the jacket weather. I’ve got homemade cinnamon rolls in the oven, and a cup of hazelnut coffee in my hand.
Life is good.
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3 wood Sat, Aug 29, 2009 5:24:33am |
With 14.5 million people out of work, the UAW is resisting further concessions:
Ford Said to Work to Bridge Gap With UAW Opposing Concessions
Aug. 29 (Bloomberg) — Ford Motor Co., seeking labor concessions granted to U.S. rivals, is working to bridge a gap with the United Auto Workers amid union resistance to a second round of 2009 givebacks, people familiar with the talks said.Ford’s labor chief, Joe Hinrichs, was told by UAW officials when bargaining began on Aug. 25 that members would reject further concessions, said two of the people, who asked not to be identified because the sessions are private. Senior negotiators held a daylong meeting yesterday, a third person said.
“Their differences are significant and difficult, but they’re talking,” said Harley Shaiken, labor professor at the University of California at Berkeley. “A long discussion means you have something to talk about; stalemates tend to be short.”
Ford, the only U.S. automaker to avoid bankruptcy, is trying for parity in labor costs with General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group LLC.
To help those companies restructure, the UAW agreed to a six-year pay freeze for entry-level employees, a no- strike accord until 2015 and fewer union job classifications.The UAW has been reluctant to grant more concessions to Dearborn, Michigan-based Ford after a March accord to give up annual bonuses and cost-of-living increases and accept reduced layoff benefits.
The company said the changes will produce $500 million in annual labor savings.
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opnion Sat, Aug 29, 2009 5:24:55am |
re: #364 SixDegrees
I’m sure it’ll be mentioned; it was one of Kennedy’s pet projects. But outright pitching would be crude and tasteless in the extreme.
Not that that’s going to stop him from doing it, of course.
If Obama does use the death of Kennedy to advance the ball, he had better be tasteful & that will require a teleprmpter.
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reine.de.tout Sat, Aug 29, 2009 5:27:41am |
re: #365 irish rose
Good morning, lizards.
It’s a gray, damp, cool morning here along the Lake Michigan shoreline but I’m in a good mood… my Marine is home on leave, and enjoying the jacket weather. I’ve got homemade cinnamon rolls in the oven, and a cup of hazelnut coffee in my hand.Life is good.
It sounds as if life is very good!
Glad to hear it.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Aug 29, 2009 5:31:33am |
re: #366 3 wood
I wonder if Government Motors has asked the union to make things difficult for their main competitor.
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SasquatchOnSteroids Sat, Aug 29, 2009 5:34:46am |
re: #370 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I wonder if Government Motors has asked the union to make things difficult for their main competitor.
The Japanese ?
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BatGuano Sat, Aug 29, 2009 5:36:40am |
re: #371 SasquatchOnSteroids
I’ve always said the federal government should do something to help foreign car manufacturers.
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SasquatchOnSteroids Sat, Aug 29, 2009 5:37:34am |
re: #372 BatGuano
I’ve always said the federal government should do something to help foreign car manufacturers.
It appears you’ve gotten your wish.
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opnion Sat, Aug 29, 2009 5:41:44am |
Representative Diane Watson (D) California claimed thet BHO is a Kenyan/Kansan at a Town Hall yesterday.
She then went on to praise Castro & Che Guevera,.
Her version of history is that Che led the revolution & after winning selected Castro to run things.
This woman has a staff & actually gets to introduce & vote on legislation.
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BatGuano Sat, Aug 29, 2009 5:45:13am |
Good night, lizards: The last best hope for mankind.
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SasquatchOnSteroids Sat, Aug 29, 2009 5:47:34am |
re: #375 opnion
Representative Diane Watson (D) California claimed thet BHO is a Kenyan/Kansan at a Town Hall yesterday.
She then went on to praise Castro & Che Guevera,.
Her version of history is that Che led the revolution & after winning selected Castro to run things.
This woman has a staff & actually gets to introduce & vote on legislation.
“Castro is one of the brightest leaders I have ever met.”
I hope she keeps talking.
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3 wood Sat, Aug 29, 2009 5:47:50am |
re: #370 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I wonder if Government Motors has asked the union to make things difficult for their main competitor.
Maybe Obama is looking for a campaign contribution.
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opnion Sat, Aug 29, 2009 5:48:19am |
re: #376 yesandno
Unfortunately, there are more like her…
The fact that the woman has absolutely no clue about history is a tribute to public education & the NEA.
If I remember correctly Fidel led the revolution & Che just came to Cuba to participate, which makes Fidel the Community Organizer & Che the outside agitator.
Che was the blood thirsty head case that had scores of Cibans executed without the benefit of trial.
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SasquatchOnSteroids Sat, Aug 29, 2009 5:48:19am |
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opnion Sat, Aug 29, 2009 5:49:11am |
re: #378 SasquatchOnSteroids
“Castro is one of the brightest leaders I have ever met.”
I hope she keeps talking.
She sounds like an imbecile.
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SasquatchOnSteroids Sat, Aug 29, 2009 5:50:01am |
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Aug 29, 2009 5:50:37am |
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Ojoe Sat, Aug 29, 2009 5:52:09am |
re: #378 SasquatchOnSteroids
No elections for a new presidents since 1959 in Cuba.
50 year terms there, and counting.
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midwestgak Sat, Aug 29, 2009 5:57:14am |
Morning Lizards!
Life is good, except when …
… the battery in the smoke/carbon monoxide detector is low on power and beeps every 30 seconds and is located 10 feet up in the hallway where it cannot be reached and is driving me and my cats nuts and management hasn’t responded to my phone message about it and …
Life is good, except when that happens.
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opnion Sat, Aug 29, 2009 5:59:07am |
re: #383 SasquatchOnSteroids
Yep. And the ‘it all starts with racism’ crap, too.
The charges of racism are getting tedious.
Not supporting health reform is racism. The depiction of Obama as the Joker is racist, even though it was photo shopped by a University of Illinois student of Palestinian lineage, who is a Lefist.
If you don’t think that that Michell is the new Jackie Kennedy, you are racist.
BHO was supposed to transcend race , Instead he & his minions have picked the scab.
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SasquatchOnSteroids Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:00:15am |
re: #385 Ojoe
No elections for a new presidents since 1959 in Cuba.
50 year terms there, and counting.
Now, now. You can’t blame Castro for Kennedy blockading his Russian voting machines due in for the ‘62 election.
/
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opnion Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:00:27am |
re: #387 midwestgak
Morning Lizards!
Life is good, except when …
… the battery in the smoke/carbon monoxide detector is low on power and beeps every 30 seconds and is located 10 feet up in the hallway where it cannot be reached and is driving me and my cats nuts and management hasn’t responded to my phone message about it and …
Life is good, except when that happens.
Now that’s annoying. The only thing that stops it is a fresh battery.
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yesandno Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:00:33am |
re: #380 opnion
The fact that the woman has absolutely no clue about history is a tribute to public education & the NEA.
If I remember correctly Fidel led the revolution & Che just came to Cuba to participate, which makes Fidel the Community Organizer & Che the outside agitator.
Che was the blood thirsty head case that had scores of Cibans executed without the benefit of trial.
Look…one of her BFFs is Maxine Waters.
We are judged by the company we keep.
Wonder how those millions of Cubans in Miami would think about her comments?
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irish rose Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:02:16am |
re: #387 midwestgak
Morning Lizards!
Life is good, except when …
… the battery in the smoke/carbon monoxide detector is low on power and beeps every 30 seconds and is located 10 feet up in the hallway where it cannot be reached and is driving me and my cats nuts and management hasn’t responded to my phone message about it and …
Life is good, except when that happens.
Wrap an old towel around a shoe, and throw a shoe at it to see if you can either knock the cover off or jar the battery loose.
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yesandno Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:02:35am |
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quickjustice Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:03:41am |
re: #375 opnion
Van Jones, Obama’s green “czar”, is an avowed communist. And a few decades ago, Castro made quite a scene on his annual UN visit to New York after Jack Kennedy’s CIA kept trying to assassinate him. He checked into a hotel up in Harlem, and refused cooked food, claiming the CIA was trying to poison him. He demanded that live chickens be brought to his hotel room for consumption.
The feathers literally were flying! Makes Colonel Gaddafi seem almost sane!
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opnion Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:03:59am |
re: #391 yesandno
Look…one of her BFFs is Maxine Waters.
We are judged by the company we keep.
Wonder how those millions of Cubans in Miami would think about her comments?
I have a friend who got one of the last planes out. His father was Surgeon General of the Cuban Navy before the Revolution.
His stories are not pretty. He woke up one morning with an automatic in his face held by one of his “friends.”
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:04:00am |
re: #392 irish rose
Wrap an old towel around a shoe, and throw a shoe at it to see if you can either knock the cover off or jar the battery loose.
Carefully, aim a pistol…
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cliffster Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:04:29am |
re: #387 midwestgak
Morning Lizards!
Life is good, except when …
… the battery in the smoke/carbon monoxide detector is low on power and beeps every 30 seconds and is located 10 feet up in the hallway where it cannot be reached and is driving me and my cats nuts and management hasn’t responded to my phone message about it and …
Life is good, except when that happens.
Morning all! So I’ve been wondering, the smoke detectors these days are wired into the house. And, they have batteries. Why do they need batteries, if they are plugged in? Just to preserve the annoyance factor?
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:05:31am |
re: #397 cliffster
What about if your house loses power during the fire?
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SasquatchOnSteroids Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:05:42am |
re: #397 cliffster
Morning all! So I’ve been wondering, the smoke detectors these days are wired into the house. And, they have batteries. Why do they need batteries, if they are plugged in? Just to preserve the annoyance factor?
Well, if the power goes out…
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quickjustice Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:07:43am |
IIRC, during the 1930s, the Soviet Union had several U.S. congressmen directly on its payroll.
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irish rose Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:08:53am |
So, random topic… we’re on poopwatch at my house this morning. My Jack Russell terrier ate almost a whole loaf of bread out of the trash can last night, and she’s paying for it today big time.
This dog is a lifelong garbage eater, we’ve never been able to break her of the habit… she’s a stubborn little shite, and just won’t leave it alone. You’d think over the course of her 14-year lifespan and dozens of incidents like this one she would have learned her lesson about eating out of the trash, but nooo.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:09:43am |
Gotta get rollin’. See y’all later.
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lawhawk Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:09:53am |
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. This is the 4th anniversary of the Katrina landfall and subsequent disaster up and down the Gulf Coast. Construction has been slow, there have been major problems with the levees (still!) and much of what people know happened during Katrina simply isn’t true.
This much is true: nearly 2,000 people were killed by the storm in the Gulf Coast, and many of them died when the levees around New Orleans failed miserably under conditions that shouldn’t have resulted in such massive and widespread damage. Only later do we realize that the levees were poorly designed and even more poorly maintained.
Now, we learn that the pumps that were installed after Katrina aren’t up to snuff either, and there are ongoing problems with rebuilding levees, including using salty soil that inhibits growth of grass that prevents erosion of those same levees.
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midwestgak Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:11:11am |
re: #392 irish rose
Wrap an old towel around a shoe, and throw a shoe at it to see if you can either knock the cover off or jar the battery loose.
I want to whack the plastic piece of crap with a broom handle, but I’ve made my complaint known to management. When they do come to take care of the problem and see that it has been smashed to death, they may think I had something to do with it. arg.
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SixDegrees Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:11:29am |
re: #387 midwestgak
Morning Lizards!
Life is good, except when …
… the battery in the smoke/carbon monoxide detector is low on power and beeps every 30 seconds and is located 10 feet up in the hallway where it cannot be reached and is driving me and my cats nuts and management hasn’t responded to my phone message about it and …
Life is good, except when that happens.
See, this is one of those times a gun would come in handy. From 10 feet away, a smoke detector would be an easy target.
And your management service would pay a lot more attention to your future complaints.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:11:50am |
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Locker Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:14:06am |
re: #387 midwestgak
Morning Lizards!
Life is good, except when …
… the battery in the smoke/carbon monoxide detector is low on power and beeps every 30 seconds and is located 10 feet up in the hallway where it cannot be reached and is driving me and my cats nuts and management hasn’t responded to my phone message about it and …
Life is good, except when that happens.
Can’t get a chair or step ladder out in the hall? I’d go right after it but worse comes to worse go in a bedroom with the cats, close door, put on low music and try to block it out.
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quickjustice Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:14:45am |
Limbaugh predicted that racial grievance wouldn’t end with the election of Obama, but would get worse. And the professional racial grievance-mongers, including Gates, Jackson, and Sharpton, do seem to be getting more shrill.
So the claims that we have a post-racial president diminish in credibility as the “race card” is repeatedly played by the White House and its allies in an effort to squelch the opposition.
“You’re a racist if you oppose health care reform” is the most recent manifestation of this. It’s not smart of Obama to personalize controversial public policy issues like this. It actually drives racial polarization, and highlights racial grievance as a claim, not merely of legitimacy, but of supremacy. That’s dangerous.
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SasquatchOnSteroids Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:16:30am |
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midwestgak Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:16:41am |
re: #407 SixDegrees
See, this is one of those times a gun would come in handy. From 10 feet away, a smoke detector would be an easy target.
And your management service would pay a lot more attention to your future complaints.
LOL!
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midwestgak Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:21:16am |
re: #409 Locker
Can’t get a chair or step ladder out in the hall? I’d go right after it but worse comes to worse go in a bedroom with the cats, close door, put on low music and try to block it out.
Putting the fan on Hi works pretty well. Beep. Can hardly hear it. Beep. Blasting the TV works too. Beep. I now know why Holiday Express is so popular. Beep. Making a reservation as I type. Beep. /
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reine.de.tout Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:22:41am |
re: #405 lawhawk
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. This is the 4th anniversary of the Katrina landfall and subsequent disaster up and down the Gulf Coast. Construction has been slow, there have been major problems with the levees (still!) and much of what people know happened during Katrina simply isn’t true.
This much is true: nearly 2,000 people were killed by the storm in the Gulf Coast, and many of them died when the levees around New Orleans failed miserably under conditions that shouldn’t have resulted in such massive and widespread damage. Only later do we realize that the levees were poorly designed and even more poorly maintained.
Now, we learn that the pumps that were installed after Katrina aren’t up to snuff either, and there are ongoing problems with rebuilding levees, including using salty soil that inhibits growth of grass that prevents erosion of those same levees.
In other words, life in NOLA goes on as usual …
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Ojoe Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:22:46am |
re: #410 quickjustice
Well the 2008 election rewarded the race card so to speak, and you get more of whatever you reward.
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Killian Bundy Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:24:13am |
Will Obama surrender to Russia over missile defence?
Reports in the Polish media indicate that the Obama administration is about to abandon its plans for “third site” missile defence installations in Poland and the Czech Republic. If enacted, this would represent a huge turnaround in American strategic thinking on a global missile defence system, and a massive betrayal of two key US allies in eastern and central Europe. Such a move would significantly weaken America’s ability to combat the growing threat posed by Iran’s ballistic missile program, and would hand a major propaganda victory to the Russians.
/it’s a rhetorical question, Obama only adopts policies that that are anathema to the United States’ national security interest
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SasyMomaCat Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:27:22am |
slipping out of lurking this morning - is iceweasel still around?
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irish rose Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:28:15am |
re: #417 SasyMomaCat
slipping out of lurking this morning - is iceweasel still around?
Why wouldn’t she be?
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SasquatchOnSteroids Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:30:31am |
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SasyMomaCat Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:32:28am |
re: #418 irish rose
Not saying she wouldn’t be - just wondering if she’s on this morning. Trying to get into direct contact with her. I don’t know her personally, so this is the only way I know of to reach her.
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JCM Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:32:59am |
Morning Honcos!
Rise please.
Four Fort Lewis soldiers die in action
Captain John Hallet
Captain Cory Jenkins
Sgt. Ron Sawyer
Pfc. Dennis Williams
Rest in Peace, may God grant comfort to the families.
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SasyMomaCat Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:33:21am |
I should probably clarify - I saw that iceweasel was online up thread, but didn’t see any postings within the last few …
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Truck Monkey Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:33:46am |
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HoosierHoops Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:35:49am |
re: #421 JCM
Morning Honcos!
Rise please.
Four Fort Lewis soldiers die in action
Captain John Hallet
Captain Cory Jenkins
Sgt. Ron Sawyer
Pfc. Dennis WilliamsRest in Peace, may God grant comfort to the families.
[Video]
God Bless their Souls and bring Strength and comfort to their Families…
The price of freedom is indeed high…
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HoosierHoops Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:37:06am |
re: #422 SasyMomaCat
I should probably clarify - I saw that iceweasel was online up thread, but didn’t see any postings within the last few …
Good morning…Long time lizard
Hope today finds you well
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Truck Monkey Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:37:37am |
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FrogMarch Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:38:01am |
re: #15 pat
I see Mark Steyn is about as impressed with Teddy as i was.
Mark Steyn: Things only a Kennedy could get away with[Link: www.ocregister.com…]
How many changed lives justify leaving a human being struggling for breath for up to five hours pressed up against the window in a small, shrinking air pocket in Teddy’s Oldsmobile?
But old uncle Ted liked to joke about it. The media thinks that’s cute.
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lawhawk Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:39:43am |
Good news watch:
Pakistani suicide bomber training camp blows up real good. Six Taliban terrorists died of heartbreak over yet another Cubs wasted season or high explosives, but mostly high explosives.
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Drider Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:40:34am |
An interesting snapshot makes it’s niche on the scale of time.
The sign in dispute would have been offensive for many a month ago, it should be very apparent that it is valid message now, being it points out the obvious.
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SasyMomaCat Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:41:15am |
re: #425 HoosierHoops
good morning, HH, - likewise, hope you’re having a good morning, too! Mine would be better if my weekend housework wasn’t still piling up while I’m here :-) But, then again, I suppose that’s a blessing, too, as it means I have stuff that needs to be cleaned, etc. - some aren’t so fortunate …
(I really should come out of lurking more, but I’m usually at work and Big Brother kind of frowns on posting from there)
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JCM Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:42:00am |
re: #428 lawhawk
Good news watch:
Pakistani suicide bomber training camp blows up real good. Six Taliban terrorists died of heartbreak over yet another Cubs wasted season or high explosives, but mostly high explosives.
What was the last thing that passed through their minds?
Their asses.
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realwest Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:43:53am |
Good morning y’all - from a moderate (73 degrees going up to 88 degrees) bright and sunny Charlotte!
I hope you are all doing well today!
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realwest Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:45:30am |
re: #433 Kenneth
Hey Kenneth, how are you doing this fine day?
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J.D. Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:45:34am |
re: #427 FrogMarch
But old uncle Ted liked to joke about it. The media thinks that’s cute.
I noticed a flag at half mast yesterday and I had been gone for 5 days and largely missed the news, but still I knew Kennedy had died. Nonetheless, I wondered who had died that merited… you know… that. And someone had even decided between the time I left home yesterday morning and returned late afternoon to lower the flag coming into our neighborhood.
Amazed I was.
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Kenneth Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:45:43am |
re: #428 lawhawk
Killed by Hellfire missiles and Obamacare death panels, but mostly Hellfire missiles.
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SasyMomaCat Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:45:59am |
re: #432 realwest
good morning, rw - hope you and your mom are well - may not get another chance to actually post, so wanted to let you know you guys are in my prayers.
Re temp, SE TN is at 71 on my front porch this a.m. Gotta love it!
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SasquatchOnSteroids Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:46:18am |
re: #432 realwest
Good morning y’all - from a moderate (73 degrees going up to 88 degrees) bright and sunny Charlotte!
I hope you are all doing well today!
Morning real. Hope you’re feeling well today.
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Kenneth Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:47:13am |
re: #434 realwest
I’m good, but disappointed my granddaughter’s birthday party has been canceled on account of the wee girl has a bad cold.
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FrogMarch Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:47:27am |
re: #435 J.D.
I noticed a flag at half mast yesterday and I had been gone for 5 days and largely missed the news, but still I knew Kennedy had died. Nonetheless, I wondered who had died that merited… you know… that. And someone had even decided between the time I left home yesterday morning and returned late afternoon to lower the flag coming into our neighborhood.
Amazed I was.
Do we always lower flags after US senators die? or is this just a “Kennedy ” thing?
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realwest Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:47:38am |
re: #435 J.D.
Hi {J.D.} - how are you doing today and why were you amazed that someone lowered the flag coming into your community to half-mast?
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HoosierHoops Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:47:54am |
re: #430 SasyMomaCat
good morning, HH, - likewise, hope you’re having a good morning, too! Mine would be better if my weekend housework wasn’t still piling up while I’m here :-) But, then again, I suppose that’s a blessing, too, as it means I have stuff that needs to be cleaned, etc. - some aren’t so fortunate …
(I really should come out of lurking more, but I’m usually at work and Big Brother kind of frowns on posting from there)
Nice to meet you…We had the blow out party last night at the pub for our Son returning home from the Marines…We have our son back and nothing is so sweet that God spared his life and gave him back to us…We closed down the joint last night and I’m still a little…mmm Dizzy?
I promised when Jordan came home I’d change my Avatar from 1st platoon 3/5 marines to my little doggie floating around the pool…
It’s a new day
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HoosierHoops Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:49:15am |
re: #432 realwest
Good morning y’all - from a moderate (73 degrees going up to 88 degrees) bright and sunny Charlotte!
I hope you are all doing well today!
Jordan is out of the Marines and home! Please note Avatar change…
Hi Realwest!
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realwest Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:49:26am |
re: #437 SasyMomaCat
Um, thank you, Mom and I are doing ok, thanks, but why would you not get another chance to post?
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J.D. Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:49:47am |
At the Huffington Post, Melissa Lafsky mused on what Mary Jo “would have thought about arguably being a catalyst for the most successful Senate career in history … Who knows – maybe she’d feel it was worth it.” What true-believing liberal lass wouldn’t be honored to be dispatched by that death panel?
~Steyn
Strange.
Very strange.
| 446 |
Kenneth Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:49:55am |
re: #428 lawhawk
I’m guessing turnout at Homecoming Day celebrations is pretty thin at Pakistani suicide bomber training camps. And alumni fund raising drives are less than successful.
| 447 |
realwest Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:50:39am |
re: #438 SasquatchOnSteroids
Hey howdy Sasquatch! Yeah, I’m doing ok my friend, hows about yourself?
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SasyMomaCat Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:51:09am |
re: #442 HoosierHoops
Congrats on having your hero home! That’s fantastic news! How wonderful for you and yours! Please pass along my thanks for his service. I love to hear when one of ours has made it home safely to the arms of family and friends.
Adorable doggie, btw …
| 449 |
J.D. Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:51:32am |
Oh, and blueherron downdinged pat’s #15 link to Steyn’s article.
Must have inflamed his/her/it’s delicate sensibilities… or something.
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midwestgak Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:52:51am |
re: #432 realwest
Good morning y’all - from a moderate (73 degrees going up to 88 degrees) bright and sunny Charlotte!
I hope you are all doing well today!
Morning {real}. Beep.
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J.D. Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:53:33am |
re: #428 lawhawk
Good news watch:
Pakistani suicide bomber training camp blows up real good. Six Taliban terrorists died of heartbreak over yet another Cubs wasted season or high explosives, but mostly high explosives.
Those Cubs fans do tend to take it rather hard.
| 452 |
realwest Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:53:41am |
re: #442 HoosierHoops
Good morning Hoopster! My gosh you’re up early after we all imagined last night that you and your son would be up drinking celebrating last night!
And in the event that you somehow forgot in the excitement of seeing your son again, please tell Jordan how much we ALL appreciate his service to our Nation!
| 453 |
SasquatchOnSteroids Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:55:10am |
re: #447 realwest
Hey howdy Sasquatch! Yeah, I’m doing ok my friend, hows about yourself?
Not bad. Just getting ready to head out. Glad I got a chance to say hi.
Have a good morning !
| 454 |
SasyMomaCat Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:55:26am |
re: #444 realwest
Mostly because I’m usually reading from work. If I start posting, they will end up putting LGF on the blocked site list, which I really don’t want to see happen. On weekends, I’m usually doing house work and serving as “mom’s taxi service” for my tween son who seems to have a far more active social life than I did at 10 years old. So, I don’t get on much on weekends.
| 455 |
realwest Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:55:30am |
re: #450 midwestgak
Beep,beep - morning {gak} how are you today?
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J.D. Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:55:37am |
re: #440 FrogMarch
Do we always lower flags after US senators die? or is this just a “Kennedy ” thing?
I didn’t think so, typically.
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midwestgak Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:56:07am |
re: #425 HoosierHoops
Good Morning {Hoosier}. Happy for you that your son is home!
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Lucius Septimius Sat, Aug 29, 2009 6:59:07am |
“Apparently drunk?” I wonder what set them off on that one?
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HoosierHoops Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:00:31am |
re: #452 realwest
Good morning Hoopster! My gosh you’re up early after we all imagined last night that you and your son would be up
drinkingcelebrating last night!
And in the event that you somehow forgot in the excitement of seeing your son again, please tell Jordan how much we ALL appreciate his service to our Nation!
Thank you Real…I haven’t been to bed yet…Jumped into the pool this morning..I’m wide awake now bro!
My son is a hero..I am very proud…Saw more pics from his tour in Fallujah 2 years ago…There was some bad shit that went down there…After the heroic push by 2/5 in the opening days…3/5 put down fallujah…not peep has been heard from it since..You see the pics you know why…Some day there are going to be lots of books written about the Marines in Fallujah…
Hero’s all and bad ass mofo’s don’t mess with devil dogs…
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realwest Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:00:57am |
re: #454 SasyMomaCat
Ah, geez, I’m so old that I remember when a “tween” was someone who was 12 or so!
And they wouldn’t have such an active social life if not for their chauffer! Shouldn’t they be doing homework so y’all can stay out here and play for a while?!
| 463 |
SasyMomaCat Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:03:56am |
re: #461 realwest
LOL - one would think, but he never has homework on the weekends. True, without the chauffer, he wouldn’t go and do quite so much. I agree - where’s mom and dad’s play time? Ooof … let’s not go there … in mixed company, for sure …
| 464 |
laZardo Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:04:44am |
re: #460 HoosierHoops
Did you punch a protester in the face for me? q;
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midwestgak Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:05:18am |
re: #455 realwest
Beep,beep - morning {gak} how are you today?
Doing well. Have laundry in the oven and biscuits in the dryer. Beep.
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bbuddha Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:06:16am |
Good Morning all. Rainy and cool here in the northeast. The garden needed some water though
| 467 |
FrogMarch Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:06:28am |
The guy (D) who is in charge of increasing our taxes is a tax cheat.
Oh well.
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HoosierHoops Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:07:39am |
re: #464 laZardo
Did you punch a protester in the face for me? q;
LOL
Good morning/afternoon/evening to you…
Send global warming…It’s cool today…I screamed after I jumped into the pool.. I’ll punch out Al Gore if I see him!
*wink*
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realwest Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:08:18am |
re: #459 Lucius Septimius
Hey Lucius, good morning to ya! I LOVED these last lines from your link:
“The parents were asleep in their bedroom when their 6-year-old son ran into their room, woke them up and told them a man was sleeping in his bed. The boy said he was watching television in his room when the nude Brisseaux entered, lay down on the boy’s bed and went to sleep.
Brisseaux later admitted he had been out drinking at a New Haven club, police said, but denied going into the wrong home.
He claimed that his arrest was the result of racial profiling, police said.”
[emphasis added, realwest]
Somehow I don’t think Mr. Brisseaux is gonna win this one! LOL!
Still scary shit for the kid - who’s father shoulda beat Mr. Brisseaux with a baseball bat while his wife called the cops.
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J.D. Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:08:22am |
re: #441 realwest
Hi {J.D.} - how are you doing today and why were you amazed that someone lowered the flag coming into your community to half-mast?
{realwest}
I’m good, and how are you doing today?
It just never occurred to me that I would see it.
And it’s not just me… here…
The strangest thing happened to me yesterday. Six months after I moved here, my older cat, Buddy [fifteen at the time], went out and didn’t return. I finally accepted that I would never see him again.
Yesterday, around noon, my manager from Kentucky called to tell me someone had called the business and said they had found my cat… here’s the phone number to call. He had been taken to the county animal shelter where they scanned him and found his microchip and said, “He’s black and tan striped and his name is Buddy”. And sure enough, it was him.
So my Buddy is back, two and a half years after he disappeared.
| 471 |
SasyMomaCat Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:08:24am |
re: #467 FrogMarch
eh, that’s par for the course, especially since January. Fox in charge of the hen house, etc.
| 472 |
J.D. Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:10:26am |
re: #442 HoosierHoops
Nice to meet you…We had the blow out party last night at the pub for our Son returning home from the Marines…We have our son back and nothing is so sweet that God spared his life and gave him back to us…We closed down the joint last night and I’m still a little…mmm Dizzy?
I promised when Jordan came home I’d change my Avatar from 1st platoon 3/5 marines to my little doggie floating around the pool…
It’s a new day
Hooray! Congratulations! That’s fabulous!
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Lucius Septimius Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:11:39am |
re: #469 realwest
Well, what else are you going to say? I don’t think that defense will work, but who knows in Obamerica?
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laZardo Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:12:54am |
re: #474 Lucius Septimius
Well, what else are you going to say? I don’t think that defense will work, but who knows in Obamerica?
Anything that reeks of a potential sex offense is definitely gonna land him in the slammer.
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bbuddha Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:13:24am |
re: #468 HoosierHoops
LOL
Good morning/afternoon/evening to you…
Send global warming…It’s cool today…I screamed after I jumped into the pool.. I’ll punch out Al Gore if I see him!
*wink*
Can I watch? :-) I love your new avatar, nice looking dogs
| 478 |
SasyMomaCat Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:13:25am |
Well, Lizards, it’s on to housework, etc. - no taxi duty today so I might actually get caught up on housework! Maybe we can even get caught up on our in-progress home improvement projects (if we get the floor down in the bathroom and reinstall the toilet, we’ll actually be back to having two bathrooms, which would be most welcome - then we have to finish painting and flooring the closets … and the list goes on …)
Stay scaly and have a great weekend, all! Hope to pop back in before too very long.
smc
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Lucius Septimius Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:14:06am |
re: #476 laZardo
Anything that reeks of a potential sex offense is definitely gonna land him in the slammer.
One would hope.
| 480 |
Walter L. Newton Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:14:16am |
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J.D. Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:16:14am |
re: #459 Lucius Septimius
“Apparently drunk?” I wonder what set them off on that one?
He claimed that his arrest was the result of racial profiling, police said.
Ummm hmmm.
| 482 |
Lucius Septimius Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:18:22am |
Oops! More racial profiling!
I wonder if this announcement will increase interest in camping.
| 483 |
realwest Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:19:12am |
Goddamned toilet overflowed and when I shut the water valve off it sarted leaking (at a slower pace) entire bathroom floor is about 1/2” deep in (fortunately) clean water.
Damn it.
Gotta go y’all - hope I get the chance to see y’all down the road!
| 484 |
J.D. Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:21:46am |
re: #483 realwest
If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.
— Albert Einstein, The Reporter, November 18 1954
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laZardo Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:23:08am |
re: #484 J.D.
I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.
He wouldn’t be saying that if he were alive today. For obvious reasons.
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realwest Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:25:54am |
Gah! Now my Mom’s toilet is overflowing! I HATE THIS APARTMENT COMPLEX AND IT’S CRAPPY (NO PUN INTENDED) MAINTENANCE SERVICE!!!
| 489 |
J.D. Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:26:12am |
re: #485 laZardo
He wouldn’t be saying that if he were alive today. For obvious reasons.
And to just think…
They could have skewered Al the plumber instead.
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midwestgak Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:29:33am |
re: #488 realwest
Gah! Now my Mom’s toilet is overflowing! I HATE THIS APARTMENT COMPLEX AND IT’S CRAPPY (NO PUN INTENDED) MAINTENANCE SERVICE!!!
And I complained about a dying detector battery.
| 491 |
Mad Al-Jaffee Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:31:25am |
re: #470 J.D.
I’m not a kitteh guy (dog owner here), but that deserves many updings.
| 492 |
JCM Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:31:56am |
Obama’s Diversity Czar at the FCC.
In the second clip.
State radio in Rwanda was taken over by one tribe-one group-and they began to put out propaganda so that the Tutsis were targeted. And what resulted…was essentially genocide in Rwanda. The State, or this particular tribe which controlled the radio, very purposefully moved to ensure they could ‘do things’. Uh, their social change. Uh, in Venezuela and with Chavez—really an incredible revolution ’democratic’ revolution—to begin to put in place things that are going to have an impact on the people of Venezuela.
He is one of the ones pushing “locallism” the fairness doctrine by another name.
| 493 |
HoosierHoops Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:32:22am |
re: #486 yochanan
welcome to the U.S.S.A. boys
Flew in from Miami Beach BOAC
Didn’t get to bed last night
Oh, the way the paper bag was on my knee
Man, I had a dreadful flight
I’m back in the USSA
You don’t know how lucky you are, babe
Back in the USSA, yeah
Been away so long I hardly knew the DC
Gee, it’s good to be back home
Leave it till tomorrow to unpack my case
Honey disconnect the phone
I’m back in the USSA
You don’t know how lucky you are, babe
Back in the US
Back in the US
Back in the USSa
Well the Intern girls really knock me out
They leave the west behind
And DC girls make me sing and shout
They Washington’s always on my my my my my my my my my mind
Oh, come on
Hu Hey Hu, hey, ah, yeah
yeah, yeah, yeah
I’m back in the USSA
You don’t know how lucky you are, babe
Back in the USSA
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:33:00am |
re: #493 HoosierHoops
Flew in from Miami Beach BOAC
Didn’t get to bed last night
Oh, the way the paper bag was on my knee
Man, I had a dreadful flight
I’m back in the USSA
You don’t know how lucky you are, babe
Back in the USSA, yeahBeen away so long I hardly knew the DC
Gee, it’s good to be back home
Leave it till tomorrow to unpack my case
Honey disconnect the phone
I’m back in the USSA
You don’t know how lucky you are, babe
Back in the US
Back in the US
Back in the USSaWell the Intern girls really knock me out
They leave the west behind
And DC girls make me sing and shout
They Washington’s always on my my my my my my my my my mind
Oh, come on
Hu Hey Hu, hey, ah, yeah
yeah, yeah, yeah
I’m back in the USSA
You don’t know how lucky you are, babe
Back in the USSA
LMAO!
| 495 |
midwestgak Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:33:08am |
Please don’t down ding the messenger.
August 29, 2009
The Beck Boycott’s unintended consequences
Ethel C. Fenig
The organized boycott of Glenn Beck and his program is proving the truth of two public relations fundamentals; “just about any publicity is good publicity” and “I don’t care what you say about me, just spell my name right.”
It seems the boycotters, who are giving Beck loads of free publicity, carefully spelling his name correctly while also conveniently including his network and the times his controversial show airs, have helped Beck. All for free! It turns out that although advertisers are continuing to pull ads from Beck’s program —and shifting them to other slots on the Fox network which airs it—the fallout publicity has increased his audience.
As Robert Seidman of TV by the Numbers reports
Though a little scandal might alienate advertisers, it’s pure ratings gold. Last night Glenn Beck had over 3 million viewers at 5pm, second only to O’Reilly for the night. But, Beck had more 25-54 viewers than O’Reilly (888K to 876K). (snip) Even though Beck airs before primetime, when there are fewer people watching TV, he had the most 25-54 viewers in the cable news world for the night.
In the meantime, the advertisers are missing an easy opportunity to reach the prime demographic, viewers ages 25-54, who are probably tweeting and facebooking how much they enjoy Beck’s additional comments now that the program isn’t cluttered by intrusive ads from Applebee’s to Vonage and more. Which of course draws even more viewers.
And Beck—and Fox—are giggling all the way to the bank. As are the viewers.
| 496 |
Mad Al-Jaffee Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:33:41am |
re: #477 bbuddha
Can I watch? :-) I love your new avatar, nice looking dogs
That avatar looks like the poster for an amazing action film.
| 497 |
Dark_Falcon Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:33:49am |
re: #492 JCM
Obama’s Diversity Czar at the FCC.
[Video]In the second clip.State radio in Rwanda was taken over by one tribe-one group-and they began to put out propaganda so that the Tutsis were targeted. And what resulted…was essentially genocide in Rwanda. The State, or this particular tribe which controlled the radio, very purposefully moved to ensure they could ‘do things’. Uh, their social change. Uh, in Venezuela and with Chavez—really an incredible revolution ’democratic’ revolution—to begin to put in place things that are going to have an impact on the people of Venezuela.
He is one of the ones pushing “locallism” the fairness doctrine by another name.
Somehow, I don’t think he sees the disconnect. That’s probably why Obama chose him, ‘useful idiot’ and all.
| 498 |
itellu3times Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:33:51am |
re: #493 HoosierHoops
You know the original song was gonna have USA verses.
| 499 |
bbuddha Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:34:20am |
re: #488 realwest
That really sucks, I hope you can get someone to take care of that quickly.
| 500 |
aboo-Hoo-Hoo Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:34:57am |
Saudi royal hurt by al Qaeda suicide blast - First major attack in realm since 2006
A brazen attempt to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s top counterterrorism official shows that al Qaeda has not been eliminated in its birthplace and is redirecting its efforts to target members of the Saudi royal family, analysts and U.S. counterterrorism officials say.
[…]
“They’re back,” agreed Bruce Riedel, a CIA veteran and former senior official on the White House National Security Council…{emphasis mine}
Military chief seeks new plan to woo Muslims
[…]
“To put it simply, we need to worry a lot less about how to communicate our actions and much more about what our actions communicate,” Admiral Mullen wrote in the critique…[.]
Under an experimental program in Afghanistan, teams of anthropologists and social scientists are working alongside soldiers to help win the war by winning over the Afghan people. It may seem like a brilliant idea. But in this battle, nothing is as it seems.
[…]
A 36-year-old from Texas, Paula had a wide, heart-shaped smile, degrees from Wellesley and Georgetown and years of experience as a soldier and aid worker in Afghanistan. On a lane near the bazaar, she talked to a villager about the price of the jug of gasoline he was holding. Without warning, the Afghan doused her with gas and set her on fire. The soldiers and one of Paula’s Human Terrain teammates, a 46-year-old former Army Ranger named Don Ayala, caught her attacker. When Don heard that Paula had been badly burned, he pulled out his pistol and shot the man in the head.Don pleaded guilty to manslaughter and in May was sentenced to five years of probation and fined. Paula was flown to a hospital in her home town of San Antonio, where she died in January.
Jayzuz keyrist…we’re regressing at 4 times light-speed.
hopeychangey…hopeychangey…hopeychangey…now, go make a wish.
| 501 |
Dark_Falcon Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:35:57am |
re: #495 midwestgak
Look on the bright side. More people will see what an utter loon Beck is and will pressure Beck’s regular viewer to stop watching him and get the crazy out of their lives.
/I’m hoping it works that way
| 502 |
JCM Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:36:36am |
re: #497 Dark_Falcon
Somehow, I don’t think he sees the disconnect. That’s probably why Obama chose him, ‘useful idiot’ and all.
And he is the one writing to regulations to make sure the media is “diverse” and ideological diversity is part of the goal. Diversity according to his standards.
| 503 |
bbuddha Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:37:22am |
Am I the only one that finds this ominous? [Link: newsfeedresearcher.com…]
| 504 |
Walter L. Newton Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:38:03am |
re: #495 midwestgak
Please don’t down ding the messenger.
August 29, 2009
The Beck Boycott’s unintended consequences
Ethel C. Fenig
The organized boycott of Glenn Beck and his program is proving the truth of two public relations fundamentals; “just about any publicity is good publicity” and “I don’t care what you say about me, just spell my name right.”It seems the boycotters, who are giving Beck loads of free publicity, carefully spelling his name correctly while also conveniently including his network and the times his controversial show airs, have helped Beck. All for free! It turns out that although advertisers are continuing to pull ads from Beck’s program —and shifting them to other slots on the Fox network which airs it—the fallout publicity has increased his audience.
As Robert Seidman of TV by the Numbers reports
Though a little scandal might alienate advertisers, it’s pure ratings gold. Last night Glenn Beck had over 3 million viewers at 5pm, second only to O’Reilly for the night. But, Beck had more 25-54 viewers than O’Reilly (888K to 876K). (snip) Even though Beck airs before primetime, when there are fewer people watching TV, he had the most 25-54 viewers in the cable news world for the night.
In the meantime, the advertisers are missing an easy opportunity to reach the prime demographic, viewers ages 25-54, who are probably tweeting and facebooking how much they enjoy Beck’s additional comments now that the program isn’t cluttered by intrusive ads from Applebee’s to Vonage and more. Which of course draws even more viewers.
And Beck—and Fox—are giggling all the way to the bank. As are the viewers.
And we helped…
| 505 |
bbuddha Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:38:30am |
re: #501 Dark_Falcon
He is certainly intense and tends to think (and speak) outside the box, but he isn’t a loon imho
| 506 |
itellu3times Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:39:28am |
re: #495 midwestgak
In the meantime, the advertisers are missing an easy opportunity to reach the prime demographic, viewers ages 25-54, who are probably tweeting and facebooking how much they enjoy Beck’s additional comments now that the program isn’t cluttered by intrusive ads from Applebee’s to Vonage and more. Which of course draws even more viewers.
So, just who is still advertising there?
* Lexapro
* Reynold Wrap … warp, wrap, whatever
* Grand Dragon vacations
| 507 |
J.D. Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:39:31am |
re: #491 Mad Al-Jaffee
I’m not a kitteh guy (dog owner here), but that deserves many updings.
Thanks!
I can still hardly believe it.
They took our picture with him so they could use it to promote putting a microchip in your pet, which I can highly recommend. That’s a great picture of your friend there, btw.
| 508 |
realwest Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:44:55am |
ARGGGHHH!!! The maintenance guy showed up and ALL the apartments in our complex (two above ours, one ground floor rear of us, apartment in back of ours, apartments across the floor from us and aprartments across the floor and upstairs (3 story building) all have water leaks and the maintenance dude says “Gee, I think y’all got a water leak somewhere!”
Effin Rocket scientist - guy LIVES in the apartment complex, calls the local water authority and they told him that there’a apprently a broke main somewhere - what’s the name and address and zip code of the apartment complex HE LIVES IN and He can’t remember!1111111111111111!
OY!
| 509 |
yma o hyd Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:45:51am |
Hiya, Lizard Nation!
For once, the sun is shining, and its nice and warm here - provided you can get out of the icy NW blasts …
| 510 |
JCM Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:47:01am |
re: #508 realwest
ARGGGHHH!!! The maintenance guy showed up and ALL the apartments in our complex (two above ours, one ground floor rear of us, apartment in back of ours, apartments across the floor from us and aprartments across the floor and upstairs (3 story building) all have water leaks and the maintenance dude says “Gee, I think y’all got a water leak somewhere!”
Effin Rocket scientist - guy LIVES in the apartment complex, calls the local water authority and they told him that there’a apprently a broke main somewhere - what’s the name and address and zip code of the apartment complex HE LIVES IN and He can’t remember!1111111111111111!
OY!
The main leak backing up and flooding the sewers?
GAG!
| 512 |
HoosierHoops Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:47:40am |
re: #509 yma o hyd
Hiya, Lizard Nation!
For once, the sun is shining, and its nice and warm here - provided you can get out of the icy NW blasts …
Good morning! Jordan is home and I promised you I’d change my nic from the Marines to little Winston in the pool…
Here you go dear friend…
| 513 |
Mad Al-Jaffee Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:47:49am |
re: #507 J.D.
Thank you! She’s a crazy dog, but I couldn’t imagine what I would do without her. Everyone loves her summer haircut.
| 514 |
realwest Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:48:51am |
re: #510 JCM
The main leak backing up and flooding the sewers?
GAG!
No, all the water that’s FLOODED our two bathroom floors is all clear water and we got everything coming into the apartment shut down.
| 515 |
yma o hyd Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:49:15am |
Here’s some more stuff about Lockerbie - and NuLab is looking more and more shifty and sleazy:
Britain accused of breaking promise to US over Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi
From that link:
‘A former Cabinet minister and two sources close to talks over the handover of suspects in 1999 told The Times that Robin Cook, then Foreign Secretary, promised Madeleine Albright, US Secretary of State at the time, that anyone found guilty would serve their sentence in Scotland, where the airliner exploded with the loss of 270 lives.
A senior US official said: “There was a clear understanding at the time of the trial that al-Megrahi would serve his sentence in Scotland. In the 1990s the UK had the same view. It is up to them to explain what changed.” ‘
Yep - quite a few people in Gord’s cabinet have a lot more explaining to do!
| 516 |
realwest Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:50:33am |
re: #515 yma o hyd
Hey {yma} send his ass over here - we’ll get him to digging slit trenches just in case!
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J.D. Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:50:57am |
How GE’s green lobbying is killing U.S. factory jobs
WINCHESTER, VA—“Government did us in,” says Dwayne Madigan, whose job will terminate when General Electric closes its factory next July.
Madigan makes a product that will soon be illegal to sell in the U.S. - a regular incandescent bulb. Two years ago, his employer, GE, lobbied in favor of the law that will outlaw the bulbs.
Madigan’s colleagues, waiting for their evening shift to begin, all know that GE is replacing the incandescents for now with compact fluorescents bulbs, which GE manufactures in China.
Last month, GE announced it will close the Winchester Bulb Plant 80 miles west of D.C. As a result, 200 men and women will lose their jobs. GE is also shuttering incandescent factories in Ohio and Kentucky, axing another 200 jobs.
GE blamed environmental regulations for the closing. The first paragraph of the company’s July 23 press release explained:
“A variety of energy regulations that establish lighting efficiency standards are being implemented in the U.S. and other countries, in some cases this year, and will soon make the familiar lighting products produced at the Winchester Plant obsolete.”
The U.S. legislation in question was a provision in the 2007 energy bill that required all bulbs sold in the U.S.—beginning in 2012 for some wattages—to meet high efficiency standards.
Given the steady death of U.S. manufacturing, this factory was going to close sooner or later, anyway. Workers tell me they were happy when they heard in June that the factory was staying open at least through mid-2011—a plan GE abandoned the next month.
But the light bulb law is clearly the main driver in closing this factory. After all, the product they make here will be contraband by 2014.
“That was the nail in the coffin,” Madigan says.
These men, waiting in the shade in front of the employees’ entrance to the plant on a hot afternoon, all know another pertinent fact about the light-bulb law that is killing their jobs: GE lobbied in favor of it.
Why did GE, founded by Thomas Edison, lobby to kill the incandescent light bulb?
The company said in 2007 it wanted to make sure it was working under a single federal efficiency standard, rather than a patchwork of state regulations. GE also touts its compact fluorescents as one of the green products in its “eco-magination” initiative.
The workers don’t buy the green arguments, pointing to the mercury gas that’s in the fluorescents. “It’s illegal to dump mercury in the river, but not in the landfill,” two of them say in unison—it’s become a dark joke at the factory.
Robert Pifer, who will also be laid off in July if he doesn’t find a new job by then, has an explanation for GE’s support of the light-bulb law and its shift to the more expensive fluorescents. “Are they not just trying to force-feed people stuff they don’t want to buy?”
So, GE gets environmentalist brownie points for selling “clean” light bulbs, and they also get to charge more for their bulbs. But there’s another advantage—they save on labor with fluorescents, because they make the fluorescents in China.
Not only are wages lower there, but so are the regulatory burdens, both environmental and labor. The Times of London recently reported, “Large numbers of Chinese workers have been poisoned by mercury, which forms part of the compact fluorescent lightbulbs.”.
…
So that makes sense. I guess. To someone.
I have worked at the GE bulb plant in Lexington, KY, btw.
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yma o hyd Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:51:05am |
re: #512 HoosierHoops
Good morning! Jordan is home and I promised you I’d change my nic from the Marines to little Winston in the pool…
Here you go dear friend…
Aww - thats adorable! Thats brilliant!
Thank you - he’s sooo cuddle-worthy!
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JCM Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:51:50am |
re: #514 realwest
No, all the water that’s FLOODED our two bathroom floors is all clear water and we got everything coming into the apartment shut down.
Whew, at least it clean water…
In Seattle when there is a main break the water dept. will deliver bottled water if the outage lasts longer than a few hours.
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yma o hyd Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:53:00am |
re: #513 Mad Al-Jaffee
Thank you! She’s a crazy dog, but I couldn’t imagine what I would do without her. Everyone loves her summer haircut.
She looks as if she is thoroughly enjoying whatever is happening!
Summer hair cuts are a good thing - Madame has had hers as well, not that we had any summer … but it makes the drying-off after the many rainy walks quite a bit easier.
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yochanan Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:53:02am |
[Link: www.bloomberg.com…]
gulf arab states block N.K. arm shipment to iran.
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realwest Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:53:11am |
re: #503 bbuddha
Y’all mean the “Senate Bill Would Give President Emergency Control of Internet” bill discussed here:
[Link: www.foxnews.com…]
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Stonemason Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:53:36am |
Tech question…again…I can only access LGF through AOL. I have uninstalled Firefox, installed Safari, and still can not get here. Is it Macafee, which is free with Comcast?
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vxbush Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:53:46am |
Morning, everyone. Oh, Real, water in both bathrooms? What a nightmare! You need a break, my dear.
Do we have a Lizard Emergency Response Team (LERT) that can help? I’m not close enough.
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yma o hyd Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:54:10am |
re: #516 realwest
Hey {yma} send his ass over here - we’ll get him to digging slit trenches just in case!
Hiya, {rw}!
What a good idea - can we throw in a few members of the cabinet as well?
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J.D. Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:54:33am |
re: #523 Stonemason
Tech question…again…I can only access LGF through AOL. I have uninstalled Firefox, installed Safari, and still can not get here. Is it Macafee, which is free with Comcast?
I have McAfee and Comcast and I haven’t had that problem.
| 527 |
vxbush Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:54:40am |
re: #523 Stonemason
Tech question…again…I can only access LGF through AOL. I have uninstalled Firefox, installed Safari, and still can not get here. Is it Macafee, which is free with Comcast?
What happens when you try to get to LGF via Firefox? What happens, or what do you see?
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laZardo Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:55:57am |
re: #517 J.D.
How GE’s green lobbying is killing U.S. factory jobs
So that makes sense. I guess. To someone.
I have worked at the GE bulb plant in Lexington, KY, btw.
Fluorescent lighting is becoming the new incandescent. New developments in lighting are heading in the LED direction.
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J.D. Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:56:05am |
re: #523 Stonemason
I should add, though, that I had a problem accessing realclearpolitics.com several months ago and they apparently had a glitch between an ad at their site and comcast. I e-mailed back and forth with a guy there for several days until they got it worked out.
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realwest Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:56:27am |
re: #519 JCM
Uh, jcm? Never mind the bottled water - we got beer; we’re gonna need Porta-O’potties or whatever they’re called!
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JCM Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:56:55am |
re: #522 realwest
Y’all mean the “Senate Bill Would Give President Emergency Control of Internet” bill discussed here:
[Link: www.foxnews.com…]
Internet is not like air waves, how would the government begin to control millions of servers holding internet content around the world? The could take control of the large domain servers in the US, but to want purpose?
I’d be interested in more details on how this would work.
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Stonemason Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:57:18am |
re: #527 vxbush
What happens when you try to get to LGF via Firefox? What happens, or what do you see?
Firefox can’t find the server at [Link: www.littlegreenfootballs.com…]
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vxbush Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:57:34am |
re: #530 realwest
Uh, jcm? Never mind the bottled water - we got beer; we’re gonna need Porta-O’potties or whatever they’re called!
Be careful, there; beer will dehydrate you! But if it makes the time pass easier, I can’t argue with it too much…
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vxbush Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:58:05am |
re: #532 Stonemason
Firefox can’t find the server at [Link: www.littlegreenfootballs.com…]
Are you on Windows XP or Vista (or Linux or Mac OS X)? I might be able to help you diagnose the problem. A tiny bit.
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J.D. Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:58:23am |
re: #528 laZardo
Fluorescent lighting is becoming the new incandescent. New developments in lighting are heading in the LED direction.
And then they will have something, I think.
All the signs at my businesses are LED. They cost more going in, but they use almost no power and go forever and a day!
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bbuddha Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:58:30am |
re: #522 realwest
Yep, that’s the one.
“maybe the Obama admin wont do that maybe not the next guy but down the line the more power we give the government to more likely we end up a dictatorship. I’m not blaming Obama this has nothing to do with him yet, but its got to stop somewhere.[16]”
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JCM Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:58:34am |
re: #530 realwest
Uh, jcm? Never mind the bottled water - we got beer; we’re gonna need Porta-O’potties or whatever they’re called!
After you empty the bottles, you fill ‘em up again…
//;-P
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realwest Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:58:48am |
re: #523 Stonemason
WHAT? You have Comcast but are using AOL?!?
Maybe you have one too many firewalls set up.
BTW, do y’all know anything about plumbing?
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itellu3times Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:58:54am |
re: #528 laZardo
Fluorescent lighting is becoming the new incandescent. New developments in lighting are heading in the LED direction.
You ever hear of LED “droop”?
| 540 |
Stonemason Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:59:33am |
This has happened before and the re-install took care of it. Sometimes restarting the computer takes care of it. Not this time, it has been weeks…and while I do not post much, I do lurk quite a bit. One can not lurk on AOHell, even with the comcast connection, just too damn slow and jerky.
| 542 |
realwest Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:59:46am |
re: #525 yma o hyd
Hiya, {rw}!
What a good idea - can we throw in a few members of the cabinet as well?
HELL! Throw ‘em all in!!
| 543 |
Stonemason Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:00:15am |
re: #534 vxbush
Are you on Windows XP or Vista (or Linux or Mac OS X)? I might be able to help you diagnose the problem. A tiny bit.
XP
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J.D. Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:00:26am |
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KenJen Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:00:39am |
Good morning everyone. Have we discussed google’s main page today? They sure have their priorities straight./
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itellu3times Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:00:45am |
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Kenneth Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:01:26am |
re: #521 yochanan
[Link: www.bloomberg.com…]
gulf arab states block N.K. arm shipment to iran.
That’s excellent news. Blocking that shipment hurts both of them. It’s almost as if they were part of some kind of “axis of evil arming to threaten the peace of the world”.
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realwest Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:02:00am |
re: #531 JCM
I’d bet that 90+% of all internet users in the US use one of the big internet companies (Timewarner/Comcast, etc).
That’d be enough to isoloate all those “other” servers so the government could id ‘em.
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realwest Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:03:56am |
re: #533 vxbush
I was just joshing about the beer - I’m an alcoholic who’s been dry going on 6 years now. But I wasn’t joshing about the need for porta-potties - and yeah, I can use empty wide mouth bottles, but what about mom?!?
| 552 |
laZardo Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:03:58am |
re: #546 itellu3times
[Link: www.spectrum.ieee.org…]
The science is blinding!
/helpful though, thanks
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yma o hyd Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:05:01am |
re: #542 realwest
HELL! Throw ‘em all in!!
That will give us all a great pleasure indeed!
(Bastids haven’t done one single day of honest work in all their lives .. time they did!)
| 554 |
realwest Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:05:29am |
re: #540 Stonemason
Have y’all tried to recycle your modem?
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HoosierHoops Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:05:52am |
re: #518 yma o hyd
Aww - thats adorable! Thats brilliant!
Thank you - he’s sooo cuddle-worthy!
Good morning…It’s 11am here and the sun is starting to come out…Time to float and work on the tan…I always wish you the best…cause you are the best…
Realwest…You served in Nam.. You are one of our Hero’s…A few overflowed toilets are life’s little inconveniences…You should sit back and laugh tonight…
When I got the TDY gig with the DOD to work at Pearl for 3 years.. My Supervisor was so pissed off that he made arrangements for me with his connections that I clean the Base toilets every Monday morning…After a weekend of Sailors partying in Hawaii…Overflow toilets is playschool…
You need to laugh…
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vxbush Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:06:03am |
re: #543 Stonemason
XP
Okay. Realwest’s comment about firewalls could be a legitimate problem. Do the following (I don’t have an XP box in front of me, so bear with me here, I’m doing it from memory):
1. Go to Start > Run …
2. In the dialog box that appears, type “cmd” (no quotes). A command window will appear
3. Type: tracert [Link: www.littlegreenfootballs.com…]
Tell me what it says. It should tell you how it’s finding the site by going through a variety of IP addresses.
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yma o hyd Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:06:37am |
| 559 |
bbuddha Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:07:23am |
re: #551 realwest
If she’s anything like me she’s in favor of modern, indoor, working plumbing
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vxbush Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:08:02am |
re: #559 bbuddha
If she’s anything like me she’s in favor of modern, indoor, working plumbing
She’s not the only one. I love indoor plumbing.
Real, do you not have a neighbor who would be willing to help? Or is the whole building down?
| 561 |
realwest Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:08:25am |
re: #545 KenJen
Well shoot, they’re just “celebrating” the passage of a known celebrity - in their usual “lighthearted and customary way” - why, did someone else of some celebrity status pass away recently?!?
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reine.de.tout Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:08:30am |
re: #534 vxbush
Are you on Windows XP or Vista (or Linux or Mac OS X)? I might be able to help you diagnose the problem. A tiny bit.
Stonemason - pay attention!
vxbush is awesome (helped me figure something out a few weeks ago).
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reine.de.tout Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:09:07am |
re: #558 yma o hyd
WTF is that supposed to ‘celebrate’?
Teddy Kennedy ‘going to heaven’?
(Sorry, Lizards - I really couldn’t help meself …!)
That looks like a michael jackson move.
| 564 |
laZardo Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:09:11am |
re: #556 vxbush
I’m actually trying that now. Feels a bit like some kind of counterterrorism thriller right now.
| 565 |
vxbush Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:09:18am |
re: #562 reine.de.tout
Stonemason - pay attention!
vxbush is awesome (helped me figure something out a few weeks ago).
Oh, pshaw. Seriously, what I know is pretty minimal compared to network operators.
| 566 |
Stonemason Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:09:32am |
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reine.de.tout Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:10:10am |
re: #565 vxbush
Oh, pshaw. Seriously, what I know is pretty minimal compared to network operators.
But pretty maximal compared to the rest of us!
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yma o hyd Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:10:58am |
re: #555 HoosierHoops
You made me blush, {HH}!
I hope you enjoy working on your tan - and give that winston a cwtch*) from me!
Findind something to laugh about, even when everything is pretty dark, is the best thing anybody can do, thats for sure!
*) ‘cwtch’ is welsh for cuddle, and the ‘w’ is pronounced ‘u’, as in ‘good’ …
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realwest Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:11:13am |
re: #555 HoosierHoops
“You need to laugh…”
Whaddya crazy? I’ve had two HUGE mugs of coffee, the last thing I need to do is laugh! LOL!
(crossing legs under computer desk!).
| 570 |
JCM Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:11:16am |
re: #561 realwest
Well shoot, they’re just “celebrating” the passage of a known celebrity - in their usual “lighthearted and customary way” - why, did someone else of some celebrity status pass away recently?!?
Celebrities in my little world.
re: #421 JCM
Morning Honcos!
Rise please.
Four Fort Lewis soldiers die in action
Captain John Hallet
Captain Cory Jenkins
Sgt. Ron Sawyer
Pfc. Dennis WilliamsRest in Peace, may God grant comfort to the families.
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vxbush Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:12:21am |
re: #569 realwest
“You need to laugh…”
Whaddya crazy? I’ve had two HUGE mugs of coffee, the last thing I need to do is laugh! LOL!
(crossing legs under computer desk!).
I don’t suppose there is a restaurant close enough you can use their facilities? Seriously, McDonald’s can be a lifesaver sometimes.
| 572 |
JCM Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:12:23am |
re: #569 realwest
“You need to laugh…”
Whaddya crazy? I’ve had two HUGE mugs of coffee, the last thing I need to do is laugh! LOL!
(crossing legs under computer desk!).
Just for you…
*ducks*
| 573 |
realwest Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:12:39am |
re: #560 vxbush
Apparently the whole building is down. And Mom’s real particular about using toilets that she ain’t cleaned herself!
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yma o hyd Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:12:51am |
re: #563 reine.de.tout
That looks like a michael jackson move.
Just goes to show how much that Michael-Jackson-stuff has passed me by …
Hiya, {reine}!
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itellu3times Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:13:06am |
re: #552 laZardo
The science is blinding!
/helpful though, thanks
The summary is that the brightest LEDs are the least efficient, as you push the current to get more brightness, the efficiency “droops”.
| 576 |
realwest Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:13:44am |
re: #572 JCM
I’ll get you for that, so help me!
Whoops - water companies here and they’re just standing there shooting the breeze with our handyman.
BBIAW!
| 577 |
vxbush Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:13:58am |
re: #573 realwest
Apparently the whole building is down. And Mom’s real particular about using toilets that she ain’t cleaned herself!
Ah. I understand. Well, nature will perhaps change her mind today. That, or she can take her bleach and rag with her!
| 578 |
reine.de.tout Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:14:16am |
re: #421 JCM
Morning Honcos!
Rise please.
Four Fort Lewis soldiers die in action
Captain John Hallet
Captain Cory Jenkins
Sgt. Ron Sawyer
Pfc. Dennis WilliamsRest in Peace, may God grant comfort to the families.
[Video]
One of my FB friends from high school has a son with that group of soldiers; her son is OK.
May they rest in peace.
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yma o hyd Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:15:11am |
re: #573 realwest
Apparently the whole building is down. And Mom’s real particular about using toilets that she ain’t cleaned herself!
I’m so totally with your Mom, in that respect!
Mind - the males of the human species still (and unfairly, imho!) have the option of going outside and hide behind a thick bush or tree to do the needful …
| 580 |
JCM Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:15:14am |
re: #575 itellu3times
The summary is that the brightest LEDs are the least efficient, as you push the current to get more brightness, the efficiency “droops”.
Got a group in my company working on the control side of the problem. The TAM (Total Available Market) in lighting is huge.
| 581 |
ArmyWife Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:15:43am |
Least we think the right has sole proprietorship over loons:
[Link: www.breitbart.tv…]
LA Congresswoman Praises Cuban Revolution & Castro’s Health Care System
| 582 |
Stonemason Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:16:16am |
re: #556 vxbush
When I type tracert and the adresss with no space I am told: is not recognized as an internal or external command.
when I type it with a space after tracert I get: unable to resolve target system name
| 583 |
reine.de.tout Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:16:28am |
re: #574 yma o hyd
Just goes to show how much that Michael-Jackson-stuff has passed me by …
Hiya, {reine}!
Mornin’ {yma}!
Sounds like all is well with you today.
good to hear it!
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Kenneth Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:16:57am |
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KenJen Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:18:04am |
re: #561 realwest
Well shoot, they’re just “celebrating” the passage of a known celebrity - in their usual “lighthearted and customary way” - why, did someone else of some celebrity status pass away recently?!?
I think they are celebrating M.J.s birthday. It’s stooopid.
| 586 |
vxbush Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:18:07am |
re: #582 Stonemason
When I type tracert and the adresss with no space I am told: is not recognized as an internal or external command.
when I type it with a space after tracert I get: unable to resolve target system name
Okay, can you try the following?
tracert [Link: www.google.com...]
Yes, you need a space between the tracert and the web address.
| 587 |
vxbush Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:19:01am |
re: #586 vxbush
Okay, can you try the following?
tracert [Link: www.google.com...]Yes, you need a space between the tracert and the web address.
Gah, sorry, stonemason, Charles’ autoconvert code for web sites is tripping me up here. Put in
tracert [web address]
where the web address is for Google’s site.
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yma o hyd Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:19:32am |
re: #583 reine.de.tout
Mornin’ {yma}!
Sounds like all is well with you today.
good to hear it!
Yeah - its been nice and sunny all day, albeit with a fierce and cold NW wind.
So all that sun must have gone to my head - we’re not used to this any more!
(Rain tomorrow … and Monday, which is a Bank Holiday …)
| 589 |
Kenneth Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:19:48am |
In an important development for the fight against extremist Islam in the West, the Dutch city of Rotterdam and Erasmus University Rotterdam have dismissed Tariq Ramadan, the Swiss-born Islamist academic, from his two local jobs.
…His simultaneous dismissal from the Rotterdam city post and the Erasmus appointment was announced on August 19. The specific reason: his weekly television program on PressTV, an Iranian government media network which operates studios in Britain and the U.S. in addition, of course, to the Middle East. PressTV also employs British politician George Galloway of the leftist-Islamist electoral alliance known as the Respect Party, and Yvonne Ridley, a former captive of the Taliban who became Muslim after her kidnapping.
Ramadan’s PressTV show was titled “Islam and Life” — not very different, one might note, from the notorious “Shariah and Life” feature run by al-Qaradawi on Al-Jazeera. Al-Qaradawi has used that platform for outrageous sermons against Jews and Judaism, among other objectionable opinions that support the British decision to keep him out.
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reine.de.tout Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:20:27am |
re: #588 yma o hyd
Yeah - its been nice and sunny all day, albeit with a fierce and cold NW wind.
So all that sun must have gone to my head - we’re not used to this any more!(Rain tomorrow … and Monday, which is a Bank Holiday …)
Wish we had a bit of a cool breeze.
Yma - I’ve always wondered this … what is a “Bank Holiday”?
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realwest Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:21:08am |
re: #582 Stonemason
I’m gonna suggest again that you try recycling your modem.
Now I gotta run cause Rota-Rooter or whomever is using OUR electrical out lets and we’ve got power and lights wavering and blinking!
See y’all later, I hope!
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yma o hyd Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:21:18am |
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Stonemason Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:22:46am |
re: #587 vxbush
I got it (and AOL is killing me with the herky jerks and long times for posts!)
Okay, the list for the google address is 14 steps, starting with my modem 192.168.0.1, timing out once, and ending at google through all kinds of stuff. Is there a way to copy that text for you? do you need it?
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KenJen Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:24:20am |
www.wave3.com...]>www.wave3.com…]>Louisville man arrested for death threats against witnesses/a> He had a military contract. He’s accused of defective repair on the Navy Seahawks and Army Blackhawks.
| 595 |
Kenneth Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:25:01am |
re: #592 yma o hyd
I wouldn’t want an international incident as a result of a misunderstanding of a perfectly good welsh word like “cwtch”.
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yma o hyd Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:25:35am |
re: #590 reine.de.tout
Wish we had a bit of a cool breeze.
Yma - I’ve always wondered this … what is a “Bank Holiday”?
Its a Public Holiday, one which has nothing to do with any religious holidays.
Its called ‘Bank Holiday’ because the banks are all closed on that day.
These Bank Holidays have been created by various governments, to give the workers some extra free days.
This particular August Bank Holiday used to be the first Monday in August - but the government changed it to the last one because the weather was so bad, for a few years running, when it was on the first Monday.
Well - we think that no matter what, you can bank on it that on any given Bank Holiday it will surely rain!
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yma o hyd Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:26:52am |
re: #595 Kenneth
I wouldn’t want an international incident as a result of a misunderstanding of a perfectly good welsh word like “cwtch”.
Good-oh!
:-)))
| 598 |
vxbush Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:27:06am |
re: #593 Stonemason
I got it (and AOL is killing me with the herky jerks and long times for posts!)
Okay, the list for the google address is 14 steps, starting with my modem 192.168.0.1, timing out once, and ending at google through all kinds of stuff. Is there a way to copy that text for you? do you need it?
No, I don’t need the actual list. I just wanted to make sure that you could get to Google.
So when you tried the same thing with LGF, it came back as unknown, right? So let’s try this:
tracert 74.86.198.236
That IP address maps to LGF.
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reine.de.tout Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:28:12am |
re: #596 yma o hyd
Its a Public Holiday, one which has nothing to do with any religious holidays.
Its called ‘Bank Holiday’ because the banks are all closed on that day.
These Bank Holidays have been created by various governments, to give the workers some extra free days.
This particular August Bank Holiday used to be the first Monday in August - but the government changed it to the last one because the weather was so bad, for a few years running, when it was on the first Monday.Well - we think that no matter what, you can bank on it that on any given Bank Holiday it will surely rain!
Thank you kindly!
Sounds a bit like our “labor day”, except we only have one during the year.
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KenJen Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:29:22am |
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yma o hyd Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:30:54am |
re: #599 reine.de.tout
Thank you kindly!
Sounds a bit like our “labor day”, except we only have one during the year.
We’ve got a few, the May Day holiday is one as well - its been shifted from May 1st to the first Monday in May … because it makes it easier for the working population to have a nice long weekend, and forget about the workers’ tradition!
(Yep - it usually rains on that Monday!)
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Stonemason Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:31:04am |
re: #598 vxbush
That worked…14 steps, trace complete
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vxbush Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:34:08am |
re: #602 Stonemason
That worked…14 steps, trace complete
Okay, so the problem seems to be an issue with your DNS resolution. Your computer can find the IP address, but it doesn’t know how to convert the nice name (LGF. com) to the IP address.
So: Let’s see if this fixes the problem. Type in:
ipconfig /flushdns
Wait a minute, and then try to do
tracert [web site]
Where the website is LGF.
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yma o hyd Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:34:16am |
Just found this interesting opinion:
Assisted suicide could be excuse to kill burdensome elderly, says police chief
From that link:
‘Barbara Wilding, the longest serving female chief constable, said that a growing rift between young and old generations, combined with the pressures of an ageing population, is a significant challenge for police.
“Elderly abuse is something that we have yet to really grasp,” she said in an interview with The Daily Telegraph. “It is one of the things that I think will be the next social explosion.”
She drew comparisons with the first discovery of widespread child abuse in Britain in the 1970s, and said that the abuse of the elderly was “the same sort of social issue - it can be covered up and the victims do not have a voice.”
Asked about the potential impact of changing the law of assisted suicide, which is currently illegal, Miss Wilding replied: “From a policing perspective we need to be very careful on this to make sure it does not become a way of getting rid of a burden. I will be watching any change in legislation very carefully”. ‘
(Barbara Wilding was the Chief Constable of our police force here in South Wales - she is retiring now.)
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vxbush Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:35:35am |
re: #604 yma o hyd
Just found this interesting opinion:
Assisted suicide could be excuse to kill burdensome elderly, says police chief
From that link:
‘Barbara Wilding, the longest serving female chief constable, said that a growing rift between young and old generations, combined with the pressures of an ageing population, is a significant challenge for police.“Elderly abuse is something that we have yet to really grasp,” she said in an interview with The Daily Telegraph. “It is one of the things that I think will be the next social explosion.”
She drew comparisons with the first discovery of widespread child abuse in Britain in the 1970s, and said that the abuse of the elderly was “the same sort of social issue - it can be covered up and the victims do not have a voice.”Asked about the potential impact of changing the law of assisted suicide, which is currently illegal, Miss Wilding replied: “From a policing perspective we need to be very careful on this to make sure it does not become a way of getting rid of a burden. I will be watching any change in legislation very carefully”. ‘
(Barbara Wilding was the Chief Constable of our police force here in South Wales - she is retiring now.)
Actually, I’m glad to see she’s paying attention.
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yma o hyd Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:36:45am |
re: #605 vxbush
Yep - and she does know a thing or two about policing!
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Stonemason Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:37:16am |
re: #603 vxbush
Flush successful, still not able to resolve LGF
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cliffster Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:39:01am |
re: #607 Stonemason
Flush successful, still not able to resolve LGF
Maybe you’re coming in off Time Warner and they are refusing to dns littlegreenfootballs.com! /
| 609 |
vxbush Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:41:22am |
re: #607 Stonemason
Flush successful, still not able to resolve LGF
Okay. Then I am left to conclude that, for whatever reason, Comcast doesn’t know about LGF, which is super weird. They would have multiple DNS servers across their network, so just because folks on Comcast in other areas can get to LGF doesn’t mean you can. I’m guessing AOL has it’s own DNS server when you go through AOL. It’s about the only thing that makes sense.
I would suggest you contact Comcast and let them know. I have no idea if they’ll be responsive, but it’s all I can think of.
| 610 |
vxbush Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:43:51am |
Hey, stonemason, for now, you can try putting in the IP address for LGF in Firefox, and it should still find the site:
74.86.198.236
That would allow you to get around having to use AOL.
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austin_blue Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:45:17am |
Good morning all!
Yma-
Looks like She Who Must Be Obeyed and I will be hopping the pond near Christmas this year. Her sister is finally marrying her significant other. So it’s a trip to the lovely but unfortunately named burg of Leighton Buzzard, Beds, for us.
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Stonemason Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:45:52am |
re: #609 vxbush
thank you very much for your help, if Comcast is helpful I will be back, faster…
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Stonemason Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:47:35am |
re: #610 vxbush
Hey, stonemason, for now, you can try putting in the IP address for LGF in Firefox, and it should still find the site:
74.86.198.236
That would allow you to get around having to use AOL.
I did that and it took me to:
Great Success !
Apache is working on your cPanel® and WHM™ Server
If you can see this page, then the people who manage this server have installed cPanel and WebHost Manager (WHM) which use the Apache Web server software and the Apache Interface to OpenSSL (mod_ssl) successfully. They now have to add content to this directory and replace this placeholder page, or else point the server at their real content.
ATTENTION!
If you are seeing this page instead of the site you expected, please contact the administrator of the site involved. (Try sending an email to .) Although this site is running cPanel, WebHost Manager, and Apache software it almost certainly has no other connection to cPanel Inc. or the Apache Group. Please do not send mail about this site or its contents to cPanel Inc. or the Apache Group.
About cPanel:
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About Apache HTTP Server:
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yma o hyd Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:47:38am |
How about that, then:
Poland Without Missile Defence
From that link:
‘The US plans for building elements of the missile defence system in Poland and the Czech Republic are virtually certain to be abandoned, say Gazeta’s sources in Washington.’
And:
‘Obama’s people believe that many global problems will be more easily solved together with Moscow,’ says Mr Ellison. ‘It’s about priorities. For many Democrats, disarmament is a priority and to reach a new strategic weapons reduction agreement with Russia, they are prepared to sacrifice a lot. Which doesn’t mean that they are soft and naive,’ explains the lobbyist.’
(My emphasis)
Hah!
Solve problems ‘together with Moscow’?
Naaa - not naive, of course not!
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midwestgak Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:48:20am |
Oh come on! My 19 year old Magnavox TV just died. The smell of ozone is awful.
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JCM Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:48:28am |
re: #611 austin_blue
Good morning all!
Yma-
Looks like She Who Must Be Obeyed and I will be hopping the pond near Christmas this year. Her sister is finally marrying her significant other. So it’s a trip to the lovely but unfortunately named burg of Leighton Buzzard, Beds, for us.
Morning Austin!
Merry ole England for the Holidays!
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calcajun Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:48:32am |
re: #293 BatGuano
I heard “Silence of the Lambs” was scary. I like a good love story!
It would be scarier if they made it a musical.
| 618 |
unrealizedviewpoint Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:48:41am |
re: #581 ArmyWife
Least we think the right has sole proprietorship over loons:
[Link: www.breitbart.tv…]
LA Congresswoman Praises Cuban Revolution & Castro’s Health Care System
Then she goes on to say:
LA Rep: ObamaCare Opponents Want to Destroy ‘First President Who Looks Like Me’
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JCM Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:49:31am |
re: #615 midwestgak
Oh come on! My 19 year old Magnavox TV just died. The smell of ozone is awful.
Shoot yer’ TV!
Sorry to hear that!
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laZardo Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:49:38am |
re: #618 unrealizedviewpoint
Some animals are apparently more equal than others.
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calcajun Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:49:45am |
re: #614 yma o hyd
I wonder if BHO has read Nietzsche since he acts a lot like a man trying to will things into being.
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MandyManners Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:49:53am |
re: #615 midwestgak
Oh come on! My 19 year old Magnavox TV just died. The smell of ozone is awful.
Target practice!
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laZardo Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:50:01am |
re: #615 midwestgak
Oh come on! My 19 year old Magnavox TV just died. The smell of ozone is awful.
That oughta counter a few wasted cans of aerosols. q;
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calcajun Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:50:04am |
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bbuddha Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:50:17am |
re: #614 yma o hyd
the depths of this administrations ignorance, or stupidity, still has the power to surprise me.
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JCM Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:50:29am |
re: #615 midwestgak
Oh come on! My 19 year old Magnavox TV just died. The smell of ozone is awful.
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vxbush Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:50:40am |
re: #613 Stonemason
I did that and it took me to:
Great Success !
Apache is working on your cPanel® and WHM™ ServerIf you can see this page, then the people who manage this server have installed cPanel and WebHost Manager (WHM) which use the Apache Web server software and the Apache Interface to OpenSSL (mod_ssl) successfully. They now have to add content to this directory and replace this placeholder page, or else point the server at their real content.
ATTENTION!If you are seeing this page instead of the site you expected, please contact the administrator of the site involved. (Try sending an email to .) Although this site is running cPanel, WebHost Manager, and Apache software it almost certainly has no other connection to cPanel Inc. or the Apache Group. Please do not send mail about this site or its contents to cPanel Inc. or the Apache Group.
About cPanel:cPanel is a leading provider of software for the webhosting industry. If you would like to learn more about cPanel please visit our website at [Link: www.cpanel.net…] Please be advised that cPanel Inc. is not a web hosting company, and as such has no control over content found elsewhere on this site.
About Apache HTTP Server:The Apache HTTP Server is an open source web server which powers many of the worlds web sites. The Apache HTTP server is part of the Apache Group’s many influential projects. Their efforts have helped shape much the world wide web, and they continue to be a dominating force in the web hosting industry.
Ah, sorry about that. I forgot that Charles is using a hosting provider. Most of those places can have just one IP address and they use software to control which page you see based on which DNS name you ask for.
Rats. I still say it’s Comcast’s fault, as their DNS resolver isn’t giving you the IP address for LGF. It’s not the fault of Charles or of Hosting Matters, his provider.
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calcajun Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:51:11am |
re: #615 midwestgak
Oh come on! My 19 year old Magnavox TV just died. The smell of ozone is awful.
Well, time to trade up.
And Mandy’s right—-target practice time.
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Stonemason Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:51:47am |
re: #628 vxbush
thanks again, I will keep working on it with Comcast
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realwest Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:51:48am |
re: #606 yma o hyd
Hey yma - all the more reason for y’all to give the folks over there the right own firearms.
Long as Mr. Mossburg is in residence, there won’t be any “elderly abuse” ‘round here.
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yma o hyd Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:51:50am |
re: #611 austin_blue
Good morning all!
Yma-
Looks like She Who Must Be Obeyed and I will be hopping the pond near Christmas this year. Her sister is finally marrying her significant other. So it’s a trip to the lovely but unfortunately named burg of Leighton Buzzard, Beds, for us.
Hiya - never been to that place, meself, I haven’t, so I couldn’t possibly comment!
But do pack some waterproofs, warm clothes and warm under- as well as night-wear!
Central heating has found its way to Great Britain - but the room temperatures are certainly lower than in the USA, around 65 F.
We’re used to it, sigh …
| 633 |
vxbush Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:51:50am |
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cliffster Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:52:03am |
re: #628 vxbush
Ah, sorry about that. I forgot that Charles is using a hosting provider. Most of those places can have just one IP address and they use software to control which page you see based on which DNS name you ask for.
Rats. I still say it’s Comcast’s fault, as their DNS resolver isn’t giving you the IP address for LGF. It’s not the fault of Charles or of Hosting Matters, his provider.
Put the IP into the host file.
| 635 |
Walter L. Newton Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:52:25am |
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MandyManners Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:52:47am |
re: #614 yma o hyd
I hope all those Euroweenies are fucking happy now.
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vxbush Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:53:43am |
re: #634 cliffster
Put the IP into the host file.
But will that work on Windows? And what if Hosting Matters changes IPs, for some reason? I hate hard-coding a solution when Comcast should solve it.
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yma o hyd Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:53:49am |
re: #621 calcajun
I wonder if BHO has read Nietzsche since he acts a lot like a man trying to will things into being.
Heh.
He’s probably ‘read’ a few quotations …
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calcajun Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:53:51am |
re: #631 realwest
Alas, some elderly could not wield such a weapon. A .380 or a .32 might do, though.
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realwest Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:53:56am |
re: #618 unrealizedviewpoint
Then she goes on to say:
LA Rep: ObamaCare Opponents Want to Destroy ‘First President Who Looks Like Me’
And y’all know that’s bullshit - Obama is much better looking than her!
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unrealizedviewpoint Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:54:07am |
I woke late, & now watching the funeral. I don’t know if has Obama has done his eulogy for Senator Kennedy yet? I’m curious if he mentioned ObamaCare KennedyCare?
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MandyManners Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:54:59am |
re: #581 ArmyWife
Least we think the right has sole proprietorship over loons:
[Link: www.breitbart.tv…]
LA Congresswoman Praises Cuban Revolution & Castro’s Health Care System
Mark Lloyd, FCBBHO’s “diversity officer” praised Chavez.
[Link: www.rushlimbaugh.com…]
| 643 |
laZardo Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:55:13am |
re: #626 JCM
One of my teachers from a couple semesters ago is pushing this new concept for this interactive LCD TV. I think it’s suspiciously similar to something by Samsung but a little competition never hurt anyone.
| 644 |
midwestgak Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:55:18am |
re: #619 JCM
Shoot yer’ TV!
Sorry to hear that!
Funny how life works. My neighbor gave me his JVC TV a month ago. He bought a flat screen and didn’t need the JVC anymore. Funny how life works.
| 645 |
calcajun Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:55:20am |
re: #638 yma o hyd
Heh.
He’s probably ‘read’ a few quotations …
Ha— he was probably given the most recent version of “Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations” by someone who thought it was a collection of sayings from “The West Wing”
| 646 |
Shug Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:55:38am |
I know we’re not supposed to advocate violence here so I won’t but I pray this sick motherf***er gets what he deserves
[Link: news.yahoo.com…]
| 647 |
cliffster Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:55:44am |
re: #637 vxbush
But will that work on Windows? And what if Hosting Matters changes IPs, for some reason? I hate hard-coding a solution when Comcast should solve it.
Well yeah, I’d say put it in the hostfile so it works for now, and call Comcast. And I’m only half joking saying that ISP’s might be refusing to DNS the name…
| 649 |
yma o hyd Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:56:38am |
re: #625 bbuddha
the depths of this administrations ignorance, or stupidity, still has the power to surprise me.
Well - it looks as if the whole lot seem to think that history starts with them. Anything that happened before is ‘old’ and uninteresting.
Disregarding the history of the Soviet Union, and what happened there after 1989, as well as being oblivious to Putin, is one of the biggest msitakes they can possibly make.
| 650 |
vxbush Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:57:06am |
re: #643 laZardo
One of my teachers from a couple semesters ago is pushing this new concept for this interactive LCD TV. I think it’s suspiciously similar to something by Samsung but a little competition never hurt anyone.
So it’s a computer with a giant screen. Forgive me, but whoop-de-doo.
| 651 |
midwestgak Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:57:13am |
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unrealizedviewpoint Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:57:16am |
re: #640 realwest
And y’all know that’s bullshit - Obama is much better looking than her!
When the dumb (low iq) congresscritter’s (like her) speak they tell us exactly what they think. Their socialists beliefs come right out, they don’t know how to hide it.
| 653 |
bbuddha Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:57:17am |
re: #639 calcajun
Alas, some elderly could not wield such a weapon. A .380 or a .32 might do, though.
I have a mossburg .410. It isn’t hard to handle. Not that heavy either. If you want a handgun though, a Glock 9mm is nice
| 654 |
Truck Monkey Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:57:25am |
re: #641 unrealizedviewpoint
I woke late, & now watching the funeral. I don’t know if has Obama has done his eulogy for Senator Kennedy yet? I’m curious if he mentioned
ObamaCareKennedyCare?
Not yet. One of Teds grandchildren did offer up the universal health care plea in the “lord hear our prayer” section of the mass. I found it slightly distasteful. It hasn’t been all bad. Wellstone memorial it is not.
| 655 |
vxbush Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:57:37am |
re: #647 cliffster
Well yeah, I’d say put it in the hostfile so it works for now, and call Comcast. And I’m only half joking saying that ISP’s might be refusing to DNS the name…
True, that would not surprise me.
| 656 |
bbuddha Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:58:46am |
re: #646 Shug
I know we’re not supposed to advocate violence here so I won’t but I pray this sick motherf***er gets what he deserves
[Link: news.yahoo.com…]
I’m a believer in Karma. It will catch up to him.
| 657 |
vxbush Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:59:04am |
re: #654 Truck Monkey
Not yet. One of Teds grandchildren did offer up the universal health care plea in the “lord hear our prayer” section of the mass. I found it slightly distasteful. It hasn’t been all bad. Wellstone memorial it is not.
Ah, but imagine if it had happened right before the 2010 elections…
| 658 |
austin_blue Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:59:06am |
re: #616 JCM
Morning Austin!
Merry ole England for the Holidays!
We go to Edinburgh every spring and try to get over for at least one week in summer (She is a harpist. The craft must be honed!). But this is our first Holiday season jaunt. And we have to fly into Heathrow from Houston, which is always dicey. Most of the English are all too aware that London Heathrow and the M-25 are two of the outer circles of hell made real on this earth.
| 659 |
JCM Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:59:10am |
re: #643 laZardo
One of my teachers from a couple semesters ago is pushing this new concept for this interactive LCD TV. I think it’s suspiciously similar to something by Samsung but a little competition never hurt anyone.
I know we can call it a Telescreen!
//
Pretty sweet, rolling it all in one.
| 660 |
reine.de.tout Sat, Aug 29, 2009 8:59:17am |
re: #615 midwestgak
Oh come on! My 19 year old Magnavox TV just died. The smell of ozone is awful.
{gak}
Just not your day today, is it?
The good news … if you don’t want a fancy flat-panel HD tv, you can get a regular old TV for virtually nothing.
| 661 |
laZardo Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:00:07am |
re: #650 vxbush
Least you don’t have to get a TV-In/-Out card for it.
| 662 |
unrealizedviewpoint Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:00:33am |
re: #654 Truck Monkey
Not yet. One of Teds grandchildren did offer up the universal health care plea in the “lord hear our prayer” section of the mass. I found it slightly distasteful. It hasn’t been all bad. Wellstone memorial it is not.
I don’t think they can do much damage to their cause. Saturday morning ratings can’t be too good… And folks specifically tuning in, probably support KennedyCare already.
| 663 |
yma o hyd Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:00:52am |
re: #631 realwest
Hey yma - all the more reason for y’all to give the folks over there the right own firearms.
Long as Mr. Mossburg is in residence, there won’t be any “elderly abuse” ‘round here.
The really sad thing is that our Bill of Rights 1689 gives us the right to bear arms - and this has not been superseded, afaik.
Unfortunately, its been hedged about by different administrative orders, so right now only the criminals make use of that right …
| 664 |
sattv4u2 Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:01:04am |
re: #659 JCM
I know we can call it a Telescreen!
//
Pretty sweet, rolling it all in one.
And if they make one in pastels and attach a purse to it, they can call it a TeleTubbyScreen!
| 665 |
reine.de.tout Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:01:16am |
re: #581 ArmyWife
Least we think the right has sole proprietorship over loons:
[Link: www.breitbart.tv…]
LA Congresswoman Praises Cuban Revolution & Castro’s Health Care System
Oh, golly!
Just to clarify:
that’s LA Los Angeles,
not LA Louisiana.
thank goodness.
| 666 |
calcajun Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:01:22am |
OK— let pick y’all brains on this. I built a movie room for the family ‘bout three years ago and bought an InFocus DLP projector and made a screen with screen paint and everything. It threw a pretty good 10’ image. Worked very well until earlier this year the picture started to degrade right before the bulb blew (literally). It’s almost $300 for a new bulb. But the drawback is you can only watch in a very dark room and the family wants to watch earlier in the day.
Should I buy the bulb—and risk it blowing again (the service cost is pretty high on the thing, too) or save my pennies and get a new(er) LCD/plasma—which will be smaller than the projected image?
Thoughts are welcome.
| 667 |
vxbush Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:01:49am |
re: #661 laZardo
Least you don’t have to get a TV-In/-Out card for it.
Eh, I suppose that’s true, but TVs and computers are quickly merging, so I expect all computers to have digital tuners in them before too long.
| 668 |
MandyManners Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:02:09am |
Shortly after two women gained power of attorney from a dying 83-year-old relative, they took all of her possessions and sold her house of 56 years, police said.
The pair pocketed the $235,000 from the house sale and cleaned out the elderly woman’s bank accounts and savings, sharing the money among themselves and family members, police and prosecutors say. They also arranged and pre-paid for her funeral.
However, Evelyn Roth made an amazing recovery and had no idea what her relatives were up to.
Now the two suspects, Roth’s cousin Virginia Ann Kuehn, 66, and her niece Kathleen Sue Jingling, 53, face a 35-count felony indictment charging them with first-degree criminal mistreatment, aggravated theft and first-degree theft. They’ve pleaded not guilty.
SNIP
[Link: www.oregonlive.com…]
| 669 |
realwest Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:02:24am |
re: #636 MandyManners
Well I guarantee you that the Poles and Czechs ain’t happy at all - they moved forward with the concept while the Soviet Union Russia invaded the independent Republic of Georgia and while Russia was threatening the Ukraine.
Course, since President Obama couldn’t bring himself to even use the words “democracy” and “freedom” while the Iranian dissidents were being killed and beaten and imprisoned, I reckon Russia ain’t gonna worry about doing what it wants to with Poland, Czech, or Ukraine for that matter.
In fact, I wonder how many of our “allies” now love and respect us more since President Obama took office?
| 670 |
yma o hyd Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:02:29am |
re: #636 MandyManners
I hope all those Euroweenies are fucking happy now.
Heh.
Only the Euroweenies of the same political persuasion as FCBBHO!
The Poles and Czechs definitely are not!
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calcajun Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:02:35am |
re: #653 bbuddha
Agreed. I have a Mossberg 590 and it is pretty easy to load and use—especially in the dark.
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austin_blue Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:03:33am |
re: #632 yma o hyd
Hiya - never been to that place, meself, I haven’t, so I couldn’t possibly comment!
But do pack some waterproofs, warm clothes and warm under- as well as night-wear!
Central heating has found its way to Great Britain - but the room temperatures are certainly lower than in the USA, around 65 F.We’re used to it, sigh …
Well, we have spent 65 of the last 74 days over 38 C, so a bit of cool is longed for.
| 673 |
laZardo Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:03:35am |
re: #669 realwest
Well I guarantee you that the Poles and Czechs ain’t happy at all - they moved forward with the concept while the
Soviet UnionRussia invaded the independent Republic of Georgia and while Russia was threatening the Ukraine.
Course, since President Obama couldn’t bring himself to even use the words “democracy” and “freedom” while the Iranian dissidents were being killed and beaten and imprisoned, I reckon Russia ain’t gonna worry about doing what it wants to with Poland, Czech, or Ukraine for that matter.
In fact, I wonder how many of our “allies” now love and respect us more since President Obama took office?
“Ahmadinejad is the elected leader of Iran.” - Robert Gibbs
/ HURR
| 674 |
laZardo Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:04:11am |
re: #670 yma o hyd
Heh.
Only the Euroweenies of the same political persuasion as FCBBHO!The Poles and Czechs definitely are not!
Probably not the Germans either.
Speaking of which it’s exactly 70 years since World War II started, this coming Tuesday.
| 675 |
JCM Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:04:39am |
re: #658 austin_blue
We go to Edinburgh every spring and try to get over for at least one week in summer (She is a harpist. The craft must be honed!). But this is our first Holiday season jaunt. And we have to fly into Heathrow from Houston, which is always dicey. Most of the English are all too aware that London Heathrow and the M-25 are two of the outer circles of hell made real on this earth.
We spent a couple weeks way back when in Brighton.
Sir Ian Kemp, served with US Forces in Vietnam. Wrote a hard to find book A British GI in Vietnam.
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JCM Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:05:06am |
re: #664 sattv4u2
And if they make one in pastels and attach a purse to it, they can call it a TeleTubbyScreen!
But it would make our kids gay…
///
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yma o hyd Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:05:18am |
re: #646 Shug
I know we’re not supposed to advocate violence here so I won’t but I pray this sick motherf***er gets what he deserves
[Link: news.yahoo.com…]
This is just so mind-boggling incredible, its simply beyond understanding.
Yeah - not advocating violence meself, but what about this nice wish:
‘May all your teeth fall out except one, for toothache!’
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unrealizedviewpoint Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:05:42am |
re: #665 reine.de.tout
Oh, golly!
Just to clarify:
that’s LA Los Angeles,
not LA Louisiana.
thank goodness.
She’s in the running for America’s Dumbest CongressCritters, just behind Maxine Waters.
| 680 |
calcajun Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:05:51am |
re: #673 laZardo
“Ahmadinejad is the elected leader of Iran.” - Robert Gibbs
/ HURR
And we’re cutting aid to Honduras because they deposed a tyrant elected leader.
| 681 |
realwest Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:06:10am |
re: #639 calcajun Yeah, you’re right about that, but still and all, a .32 or .380 would work just fine.
And as I said around HERE, Mr. Mossburg is in residence.
| 682 |
yma o hyd Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:06:55am |
re: #656 bbuddha
I’m a believer in Karma. It will catch up to him.
This monster, like a whole lot of other monsters, will be re-born as sardines: living in perpetual fear, chased across the oceans by sharks, gannets, dolphins - living to be eaten, living in fear.
Works for me …
| 683 |
JCM Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:07:19am |
re: #681 realwest
Yeah, you’re right about that, but still and all, a .32 or .380 would work just fine.
And as I said around HERE, Mr. Mossburg is in residence.
Mr. Mossberg is a nice friend to have.
| 684 |
MandyManners Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:07:24am |
re: #669 realwest
In fact, I wonder how many of our “allies” now love and respect us more since President Obama took office?
The treatment of Libya is the answer to that.
| 685 |
laZardo Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:07:30am |
re: #680 calcajun
And we’re cutting aid to Honduras because they deposed a
tyrantelected leader.
IMO booting him out of the country was extreme but that doesn’t excuse what he did. They could have just launched articles of impeachment against him if the Congress and Courts were really that much against the referendum.
/I think.
| 687 |
MandyManners Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:08:10am |
re: #670 yma o hyd
Heh.
Only the Euroweenies of the same political persuasion as FCBBHO!The Poles and Czechs definitely are not!
I said “Euroweenies”, not “Europeans”.
| 688 |
bbuddha Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:08:43am |
re: #682 yma o hyd
You’re good. I’m still hoping for a little payback in this lifetime but if we must wait till the next…that works!
| 689 |
kansas Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:09:07am |
Some more Hope and Change in a post racial America.
| 690 |
bbuddha Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:09:40am |
re: #681 realwest
I’m biased toward my Mossburg, it was my first
| 691 |
yma o hyd Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:09:46am |
re: #672 austin_blue
Well, we have spent 65 of the last 74 days over 38 C, so a bit of cool is longed for.
Don’t rub it in, willya!
We’re happy here with 63/65 max temp, right now.
Thats outside.
Indoors - well, who puts the heating on in August …
| 692 |
MandyManners Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:09:49am |
re: #680 calcajun
And we’re cutting aid to Honduras because they deposed a
tyrantelected leader.
When will FCBBHO host a state dinner for Daniel Ortega?
| 694 |
realwest Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:10:09am |
re: #649 yma o hyd
“Well - it looks as if the whole lot seem to think that history starts with them. Anything that happened before is ‘old’ and uninteresting.”
Y’all hit that out of the park. That’s exactly what is being exhibited here - if he can only “talk” to the Iranians, or the Norks or…
Must not have needed to take history in Occidental or Columbia.
| 695 |
calcajun Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:10:32am |
re: #681 realwest
Just the sound of racking a 12 gauge pump should do in most circumstances.
Had a friend who thought he was clever for having sabot rounds for home defense. Every cop I have talked to recommended 00 buck— it will clear a room and not go through drywall into another room.
| 696 |
bbuddha Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:10:48am |
re: #685 laZardo
IMO booting him out of the country was extreme but that doesn’t excuse what he did. They could have just launched articles of impeachment against him if the Congress and Courts were really that much against the referendum.
/I think.
Sometimes you can’t let something like that in place to fester, like a tumor he had to be excised.
| 697 |
yma o hyd Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:11:49am |
re: #674 laZardo
Probably not the Germans either.
Speaking of which it’s exactly 70 years since World War II started, this coming Tuesday.
Indeed it is - and we’ll soon see the last of the vets of that war, sadly.
If ever there was a ‘just war’ - this was the one.
| 698 |
midwestgak Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:12:55am |
re: #660 reine.de.tout
{gak}
Just not your day today, is it?The good news … if you don’t want a fancy flat-panel HD tv, you can get a regular old TV for virtually nothing.
{reine} see #644
I saw your post earlier today. I pronounced reine in my head “rain” not “wren.”
Foreign languages. Kudos to all who have studied them.
| 699 |
unrealizedviewpoint Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:13:29am |
re: #689 kansas
Some more Hope and Change in a post racial America.
Too bad this Town Hall attendee (with the distasteful sign) protesting ØbamaCare KennedyCare, didn’t raise it again…he could have gotten himself arrested… then we’d have ourselves a meaty thread.
| 700 |
yma o hyd Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:13:39am |
| 701 |
JCM Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:13:48am |
re: #695 calcajun
Just the sound of racking a 12 gauge pump should do in most circumstances.
Had a friend who thought he was clever for having sabot rounds for home defense. Every cop I have talked to recommended 00 buck— it will clear a room and not go through drywall into another room.
That’s my load out 00. SJHP for my handguns, won’t go down the block and through walls.
| 702 |
EaterOfFood Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:13:56am |
re: #3 Opilio
Google “honors” Michael Jackson’s birthday with a commemorative logo, but ignored Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday back in February? What a bunch of tools.
Michael Jackson was able to become a success in part because of Abraham Lincoln.
| 703 |
ladycatnip Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:14:11am |
Oh, golly!
Just to clarify:
that’s LA Los Angeles,
not LA Louisiana.
thank goodness.
Unfortunately I live in the greater L.A. area and believe me, our political landscape is full of these loons. Would love to ship them off somewhere - any takers?
| 704 |
bbuddha Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:14:11am |
re: #695 calcajun
Just the sound of racking a 12 gauge pump should do in most circumstances.
Had a friend who thought he was clever for having sabot rounds for home defense. Every cop I have talked to recommended 00 buck— it will clear a room and not go through drywall into another room.
I talked to a couple of policemen before I purchased mine. I got the pump action for the deterrant effect, don’t want to clean up blood unless absolutely necessary.
| 705 |
cliffster Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:14:36am |
re: #699 unrealizedviewpoint
Too bad this Town Hall attendee (with the distasteful sign) protesting
ØbamaCareKennedyCare, didn’t raise it again…he could have gotten himself arrested… then we’d have ourselves a meaty thread.
You recycled this quote. Very green of you..
| 706 |
esch Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:14:47am |
re: #699 unrealizedviewpoint
Too bad this Town Hall attendee (with the distasteful sign) protesting
ØbamaCareKennedyCareChappaquiddaCare, didn’t raise it again…he could have gotten himself arrested… then we’d have ourselves a meaty thread.
ftfy
| 707 |
debutaunt Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:15:18am |
re: #698 midwestgak
{reine} see #644
I saw your post earlier today. I pronounced reine in my head “rain” not “wren.”
Foreign languages. Kudos to all who have studied them.
I pronounce your name midwestgal.
| 708 |
JCM Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:15:27am |
re: #704 bbuddha
I talked to a couple of policemen before I purchased mine. I got the pump action for the deterrant effect, don’t want to clean up blood unless absolutely necessary.
Have a service do it and send the bill to the miscreants family.
| 709 |
laZardo Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:16:15am |
re: #703 ladycatnip
Unfortunately I live in the greater L.A. area and believe me, our political landscape is full of these loons. Would love to ship them off somewhere - any takers?
Los Angeles is proof that the South is full of racists.
/ q:
| 710 |
unrealizedviewpoint Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:16:21am |
| 711 |
avanti Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:16:48am |
re: #702 EaterOfFood
Michael Jackson was able to become a success in part because of Abraham Lincoln.
You can be assured Google will not notice Michael Jackson’s 200 birthday either.
| 712 |
midwestgak Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:16:56am |
| 713 |
Truck Monkey Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:17:11am |
re: #702 EaterOfFood
Michael Jackson was able to become a success in part because of Abraham Lincoln.
It is indeed a little known fact that Abraham Lincoln wrote ‘Beat It’.
/
| 715 |
realwest Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:17:47am |
re: #680 calcajun
And we’re cutting aid to Honduras because they deposed a
tyrantelected leader.
by an act of their duly elected Congress and the military acting under an order of the Honduran Supreme Court.
/spit.
| 716 |
laZardo Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:18:08am |
re: #713 Truck Monkey
And countered the Confederacy’s Rebel Yell with what would later become the Thriller Dance.
/
| 718 |
austin_blue Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:18:34am |
re: #701 JCM
That’s my load out 00. SJHP for my handguns, won’t go down the block and through walls.
I load up 2-shot in my Mossburg pump for home defense. Nice spread, won’t kill the neighbors…
And Yma, constant temps over 38C is not bragging. It’s brutal. I envy the folks in the upper midwest of the US who are having one of the coolest summers on record. The drought down here is hellish. Stage two water restrictions, dead lawns, &c.
| 720 |
debutaunt Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:19:27am |
re: #712 midwestgak
Well pronounced.
However, if I need to clear my throat, I say it the original way.
| 721 |
Ojoe Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:19:37am |
re: #697 yma o hyd
Also the American Civil War was just. And in fact if the Union had not persisted, and paid the price to get rid of the evil of slavery & keep the country together, the USA would not have been there to help stop Hitler. Only 80 years separate the two conflicts.
Everything you do counts for good or evil in ways that you cannot possibly imagine.
| 722 |
esch Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:20:28am |
re: #715 realwest
by an act of their duly elected Congress and the military acting under an order of the Honduran Supreme Court.
/spit.
For me Honduras was the real acid test of Obama, and he failed in the worst way possible. I can’t wait to see how he retaliates against his ‘enemies’ once his poll numbers crater into Congressional territory. It’s not going to be pretty.
| 723 |
midwestgak Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:20:49am |
| 724 |
realwest Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:21:09am |
re: #695 calcajun
Um, I don’t know that I agree with the idea of 00 buck not going through drywall; but a 20 guage sounds just like a 12 gauge when you rack in a round!
| 725 |
bbuddha Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:22:29am |
re: #724 realwest
Um, I don’t know that I agree with the idea of 00 buck not going through drywall; but a 20 guage sounds just like a 12 gauge when you rack in a round!
And if the sound doesn’t make them run, just consider yourself chlorine for the gene pool.
| 726 |
realwest Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:22:41am |
re: #696 bbuddha
Sometimes you can’t let something like that in place to fester, like a tumor he had to be excised.
Not to mention he defied the order of the Honduran Supreme Court to step down from office - he hadda be escorted outta the Presdiential Palace in his jammies to get his ass outta there.
| 727 |
JCM Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:23:31am |
re: #721 Ojoe
Also the American Civil War was just. And in fact if the Union had not persisted, and paid the price to get rid of the evil of slavery & keep the country together, the USA would not have been there to help stop Hitler. Only 80 years separate the two conflicts.
Everything you do counts for good or evil in ways that you cannot possibly imagine.
You can even to back to the 3/5ths compromise of the Constitutional convention. Without that there would not have been a Union, there would have been two nations. The compromise set the stage for the eventual showdown over slavery as it could not last.
While the compromise allowed for slavery and we paid a price for it. It also allowed for the Union to form, and everything that has come from it.
| 728 |
realwest Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:24:33am |
re: #702 EaterOfFood
Michael Jackson was able to become a success in part because of Abraham Lincoln.
Not to mention the lives of hundreds of thousands of Union soldiers.
| 729 |
Ojoe Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:24:39am |
re: #727 JCM
I had never thought of the 3/5 compromise that way, you make a great point.
| 730 |
yma o hyd Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:25:43am |
re: #721 Ojoe
Also the American Civil War was just. And in fact if the Union had not persisted, and paid the price to get rid of the evil of slavery & keep the country together, the USA would not have been there to help stop Hitler. Only 80 years separate the two conflicts.
Everything you do counts for good or evil in ways that you cannot possibly imagine.
Yes, the Civil War was just indeed!
Mind, I was thinking more of wars between nation states, where each and every opponent swore they alone were fighting the ‘just war’.
| 731 |
laZardo Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:25:49am |
re: #721 Ojoe
Also the American Civil War was just. And in fact if the Union had not persisted, and paid the price to get rid of the evil of slavery & keep the country together, the USA would not have been there to help stop Hitler. Only 80 years separate the two conflicts.
Everything you do counts for good or evil in ways that you cannot possibly imagine.
On the other hand, we would have had the Kaiser’s help in defeating the British and Russians.
/ah, turtledove.
| 732 |
Racer X Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:25:50am |
re: #726 realwest
Not to mention he defied the order of the Honduran Supreme Court to step down from office - he hadda be escorted outta the Presdiential Palace in his jammies to get his ass outta there.
Honduras came this close to having another life long dictator like Hugo in place. They will NOT regret their actions.
| 733 |
Ojoe Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:26:26am |
| 734 |
yma o hyd Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:27:22am |
Aww - Madame has gone to the kitchen, yep, its see CARTOON!
BIAB!
| 735 |
austin_blue Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:27:34am |
re: #666 calcajun
OK— let pick y’all brains on this. I built a movie room for the family ‘bout three years ago and bought an InFocus DLP projector and made a screen with screen paint and everything. It threw a pretty good 10’ image. Worked very well until earlier this year the picture started to degrade right before the bulb blew (literally). It’s almost $300 for a new bulb. But the drawback is you can only watch in a very dark room and the family wants to watch earlier in the day.
Should I buy the bulb—and risk it blowing again (the service cost is pretty high on the thing, too) or save my pennies and get a new(er) LCD/plasma—which will be smaller than the projected image?
Thoughts are welcome.
LCDs have come *way* down in price. I’ve got a 40” Sony Bravia that is killer bee. You can pick up a 1080 native for around $800 now. That’s Blue Ray definition and highly recommended.,
| 736 |
realwest Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:27:38am |
re: #716 laZardo
And countered the Confederacy’s Rebel Yell with what would later become the Thriller Dance.
/
I thought it was the “moonwalk”?!
/
| 737 |
bbuddha Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:28:00am |
re: #726 realwest
Not to mention he defied the order of the Honduran Supreme Court to step down from office - he hadda be escorted outta the Presdiential Palace in his jammies to get his ass outta there.
Hopefully our country will take the proper steps in 2012 and we won’t have a similar situation develop.
| 738 |
SixDegrees Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:28:08am |
re: #614 yma o hyd
How about that, then:
Poland Without Missile Defence
From that link:
‘The US plans for building elements of the missile defence system in Poland and the Czech Republic are virtually certain to be abandoned, say Gazeta’s sources in Washington.’And:
‘Obama’s people believe that many global problems will be more easily solved together with Moscow,’ says Mr Ellison. ‘It’s about priorities. For many Democrats, disarmament is a priority and to reach a new strategic weapons reduction agreement with Russia, they are prepared to sacrifice a lot. Which doesn’t mean that they are soft and naive,’ explains the lobbyist.’
(My emphasis)Hah!
Solve problems ‘together with Moscow’?
Naaa - not naive, of course not!
How is this going to play with Moscow’s announcement that they’ll be deploying a missile defense system to guard against North Korean attacks?
| 739 |
cliffster Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:29:10am |
re: #727 JCM
You can even to back to the 3/5ths compromise of the Constitutional convention. Without that there would not have been a Union, there would have been two nations. The compromise set the stage for the eventual showdown over slavery as it could not last.
While the compromise allowed for slavery and we paid a price for it. It also allowed for the Union to form, and everything that has come from it.
That’s an interesting take on it - temporary fix while we get our moral ducks in a row.
Although I’m not big on the Aggression of the Northerners, and I think it was way more than just “Southerners want slaves”, I’m glad that neither side of the mason dixon line has had slaves in a very long time and it may not have happened without northern aggression.
| 740 |
realwest Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:29:34am |
re: #722 esch
“I can’t wait to see how he retaliates against his ‘enemies’ once his poll numbers crater into Congressional territory.”
I can.
| 741 |
calcajun Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:30:27am |
re: #726 realwest
Not to mention he defied the order of the Honduran Supreme Court to step down from office - he hadda be escorted outta the Presdiential Palace in his jammies to get his ass outta there.
Not to mention the fact that they did not summarily execute the guy—the drove him to the border.
| 742 |
SixDegrees Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:30:31am |
re: #735 austin_blue
LCDs have come *way* down in price. I’ve got a 40” Sony Bravia that is killer bee. You can pick up a 1080 native for around $800 now. That’s Blue Ray definition and highly recommended.,
Also, there are LED screens beginning to come on the market that blow LCDs out of the water in terms of dynamic range - something like 2 million to 1. This will drive down the costs of LCD screens significantly.
| 743 |
JCM Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:30:45am |
re: #729 Ojoe
I had never thought of the 3/5 compromise that way, you make a great point.
What many forget it was the Southern slave states that wanted to count slaves, to increase their power not for any consideration of slaves as people, if they had succeeded slavery would have been much harder to eradicate. The Northern state did not want to count slaves, not because they weren’t people but because they were not free, thereby decreasing the power of the south, and eventually eliminated slavery, which the South wasn’t going to tolerate.
However neither side would would concede that much, hence the compromise.
| 744 |
calcajun Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:31:42am |
re: #735 austin_blue
Thanks— looking for 52” or so— got spoiled with a 10’ screen.
| 745 |
bbuddha Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:31:55am |
re: #739 cliffster
That’s an interesting take on it - temporary fix while we get our moral ducks in a row.
Although I’m not big on the Aggression of the Northerners, and I think it was way more than just “Southerners want slaves”, I’m glad that neither side of the mason dixon line has had slaves in a very long time and it may not have happened without northern aggression.
Slavery would have gone away even without the war. It would have become unsustainable from an economic viewpoint. less agrarian society and increased machinazation (no I can’t spell)
| 746 |
JCM Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:32:33am |
re: #739 cliffster
That’s an interesting take on it - temporary fix while we get our moral ducks in a row.
Although I’m not big on the Aggression of the Northerners, and I think it was way more than just “Southerners want slaves”, I’m glad that neither side of the mason dixon line has had slaves in a very long time and it may not have happened without northern aggression.
The Civil War was more complex in origins, very true.
| 750 |
cliffster Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:35:28am |
re: #745 bbuddha
Slavery would have gone away even without the war. It would have become unsustainable from an economic viewpoint. less agrarian society and increased machinazation (no I can’t spell)
Yeah I know the argument, and it’s probably true. Reckon we’ll never know. Reckon it’s just as well.
| 753 |
austin_blue Sat, Aug 29, 2009 9:45:38am |
re: #744 calcajun
Thanks— looking for 52” or so— got spoiled with a 10’ screen.
Check out the Samsungs. Same digital engine and screen that the Sony’s have, but at a discount.
| 754 |
Drider Sat, Aug 29, 2009 10:38:51am |
Yes sir Kansas, the video you showed is snap shot of the New America’s security force in action not too far down the line.
Every liberty we have is under relentless assault.
An individual’s personal information of Americans is gone if this “health bill” is passed.
1.Gov. has all medical records on everyone.
2.Gov has instant access to an individual’s back accounts via the IRS.
3.4.5.6…7…8…etc, etc.Gov will have control on anything and everything from food staples to luxuries that they feel will risk overburdening the system such as fat or sugar in foods as well as cigarettes and cigars and on and on and on not to mention an individuals activities that could be seen as a risk to ones (now the systems) health and on and on and on.
Liberties under assault outside the health care realm are geared towards thought or the suppression of it as they will go after radio, whats left of television and the Internet to simply turn off “all” programs that have opposing views to the system.
The video of this security guard is what I refer to as a snap shot, there are millions of these types of people who don’t need to be told or led to carry out orders from those who control the system, imagine if the powers in complete control at the moment “did” set up an organized legion f these types of people.
2 years ago we all heard wild prophecies from some people and we all laughed and joked about them, it is chilling to see many of these things actually being played out.
I suggest town hall meetings, attend them and hope that we aren’t in a “changed” political environment where the usual red flags that these crooks heed are ignored.
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The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ... Cheechako
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Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
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