weet dreams all!

Working nights sucks. I gots lotsa reading to do in the morning.

Uncanny timing...

Greetings all, from the sunny, jasmine-scented suburbs of Bangkok :D

The last thread discussion has left me speechless in disgust at these people and their attrocious tactics. I have to go to bed.

re: #2 Cannadian Club Akbar

Working nights sucks. I gots lotsa reading to do in the morning.

Hey, I'm working.

re: #5 BignJames

Hey, I'm working.

Sucks, don't it?

re: #3 Karridine

Hey there Karradine. How have you been?

Charles, can you be our William F. Buckley today and lead the charge to get people like "the other McCain" out of the Republican party? It's starting to make me feel really sick...

re: #4 Blue Belle
At least, America is AWARE of the existence of widespread racism and many Americans have engaged in serious dialogue with friends, co-workers, family and peers about racist attitudes and racism...

Try living in countries where people THINK 'we're racially pure, WE are the only real US' and haven't even BEGUN to really examine race, racism and racists...

Real quick. Any flounces of the known lizards tonight? I don't need to hear about the ones with 20 comments in 4 years.

re: #7 Fenway_Nation

Working like crazy, earning like little...

Howza favorite Fenway?

So the achilles heel of the right is 'racism', race-baiting, 'racism apologetics', spending money like drunk sailors (no offense to drunk sailors), shoving 'creationism' into schools, picking and choosing which 'values' to shove in people's faces, and a sad push, if not any push, for 'science'.

But hey, that's ok, at least this isn't the majority and at least future elections will not be affected by it...uh...WAIT!
/

re: #10 Cannadian Club Akbar

I think tonight's flouncers had even less than 20, CCA.

re: #13 Fenway_Nation

I think tonight's flouncers had even less than 20, CCA.

Good. Thin the herd.

re: #10 Cannadian Club Akbar

Real quick. Any flounces of the known lizards tonight? I don't need to hear about the ones with 20 comments in 4 years.

JWA was the only flounce worth noting. He hadn't been active very much lately, but he had over a thousand karma and more than 300 posts.

re: #11 Karridine

Working much less and earning slightly less, Karradine.

re: #16 Fenway_Nation

Working much less and earning slightly less, Karradine.

Yowtch!
"Jane! Get me sommit to cut a hole in me belt, gotta tighten it ONE MORE KNOTCH"

re: #15 Dark_Falcon

When I first got in, I never posted because there were always 500 comments and my window for getting home from work and bed time was very limited. Now that I have been out of work for a while, I've done better. In fact, I might not work anymore.
/

re: #18 Cannadian Club Akbar

In fact, I might not work anymore.

Tell me more? Sounds potentially GREAT!

re: #19 Karridine

Tell me more? Sounds potentially GREAT!

Well, first you need a cardboard box...

re: #20 Canadian Club Akbar

ROFL!!
You GOT me! :D

re: #10 Cannadian Club Akbar

In the end... we all get to flounce.

re: #6 Cannadian Club Akbar

Sucks, don't it?

Pays the bills...most of 'em, anyway.

This is Why You're Fat Blog: Food Porn for the masses
[Link: thisiswhyyourefat.com...]

re: #23 BignJames

Pays the bills...most of 'em, anyway.

I got a temp job for 4 weeks. I work in the heat and when it rains, I work in the rain. Washington should watch how tight assed I am with the money I will make. They might learn something. I actually watch my friends waste money then complain they have none. Fiscal conservative? Yes I am.

re: #24 idioma

This is Why You're Fat Blog: Food Porn for the masses
[Link: thisiswhyyourefat.com...]

BOOKMARKED!!! The meat baby...I'm making that!!

re: #25 Cannadian Club Akbar

Washington? Ever notice who gets paid first?

re: #3 Karridine

Greetings all, from the sunny, jasmine-scented suburbs of Bangkok :D

Yeah yeah, we know... in Bangkok... in fact, we found some footage smuggled out of your apartment... the real reason you're in Thailand.

/even though on youtube, most explicitly NSFW!

re: #28 freetoken

Yeah yeah, we know... in Bangkok... in fact, we found some footage smuggled out of your apartment... the real reason you're in Thailand.

/even though on youtube, most explicitly NSFW!

That depends on where you work...

re: #28 freetoken

Ah, fletch!

That's my WIFE!

re: #29 SixDegrees

That depends on where you work...

I talked to a guy once about becoming the manager at a strip club, but they couldn't come close to what I was making at the time.

re: #30 Karridine

Bangkok... indeed.

I still think of returning there... California is so boring at times, and I miss Asia. Probably prefer Japan over Thailand, but the land of the Thai's has its... attractions.

re: #32 freetoken

I hear you, Kiddo... and in truth, I married one of those attractions, 18 years ago now, and am enjoying my investments of time, resources and love in our two sons, 16 and 14...

I hear you... a soft breeze mediates the afternoon sun, Lao-Thai music on the tube, great grub when my wife cooks, and other benefits too numerous to mention... IF you also speak the lingo, heh!

re: #33 Karridine

Speak the lingo... eek. Japanese is hard enough to learn (too hard really), and while with Thai one doesn't have to learn ideograms as with Japanese/Chinese, I'm too old to attempt another truly foreign language.

re: #34 freetoken

You'd be surprised... the real difficulty is in Thai-language's simplicity... no articles, little tense, word-order and context being key...

But I hear you, Free, although Thai grammar resembles French (dog black) and the word order is English (I want eat food) it IS another language, and has nuances and pitfalls peculiar to, well, Thai...

re: #8 davinvalkri

Charles, can you be our William F. Buckley today and lead the charge to get people like "the other McCain" out of the Republican party? It's starting to make me feel really sick...

Interesting that you mention this. Many people here and elsewhere ask "Where is our Buckley? Where is our Goldwater?"

Thinking about these questions earlier today as I was about my daily business, I came to the conclusion that they are here. Not just our host, but many of the commenters and contributors here. And not just here, but many other places.

There are many such people carrying those torches among us, many of them can be found right here.

re: #36 Slumbering Behemoth

My conservative friend sent me an email yesterday urging me to vote for Dr Bill Cosby and if he runs, I SHALL!

re: #37 Karridine

How've you been?

Um... Who's Dr. Bill Cosby?

re: #38 Slumbering Behemoth

I think he meant Dr. Cliff Huxtible.

re: #36 Slumbering Behemoth

I haven't worked for a candidate since '04, but we have a guy in FLA that I have heard on the radio (interviews) that I like. I need to do more homework on him before making any commitment. And I would like to speak with him personally.

I'm going to bed. Goodnight, all.

re: #41 Dark_Falcon

G'nite Dark!

re: #38 Slumbering Behemoth

He's a gentle genius who began professional life as a stand-up comedian, black in a white society, and made MILLIONS by making people laugh, with and at ourselves... all this without any cursing or foul-mouth at all!

He earned a doctorate in education, and uses his speaking opportunities these days to urge young black Americans (and blacks in general) to get an education, make something of yourselves, earn a living, lift up yr community and stand on their own two feet...

And for this, he's 'Uncle Tom!'-slapped, criticized as Oreo (black outside, white inside) and otherwise heaped with insult by some black Americans...

re: #39 Fenway_Nation

"In today's network television news, Dr. Cliff Huxtible [crazy colored sweater redacted] weighed in on the controversial new sitcom 'Fenway and The Behemoth', known for it's raunchy imagery, salty language, and depictions of irresponsible behavior. Dr. Huxtible stated such programing is responsible for the 'decline of American values' and the 'perversion of America's youth', citing it's regular usage of 'filth, flarn, and filth'.

When reached for comment, sitcom star Fenway was quoted as saying 'Tell Cliff to have a Coke, and a Jello Pudding Pop, and a smile, and STFU."

re: #35 Karridine

Well, the Japanese might say:

"black dog eat want"

except of course it is the Koreans who eat dogs, not Japanese.

The Thai friends I made in Japan tried to convince me that learning Thai would be easy because of its limited grammar... but to me that just makes it all the more complicated in trying to communicate.

re: #43 Karridine

He pissed me off the other day, I can't remember what he said though.

re: #43 Karridine

He earned a doctorate in education

This I did not know.

And for this, he's 'Uncle Tom!'-slapped, criticized as Oreo (black outside, white inside) and otherwise heaped with insult by some black Americans...

This I certainly did not know. Horribly shameful and inaccurate, if true. Bill Cosby is an awfully cool dude, IMO.

re: #45 freetoken

Well, the Japanese might say:

except of course it is the Koreans who eat dogs, not Japanese.

The Thai friends I made in Japan tried to convince me that learning Thai would be easy because of its limited grammar... but to me that just makes it all the more complicated in trying to communicate.

When I was stationed in Yokosuka, years back, I quickly learned that Japanese grammar is just "Yoda grammar", just deliberately order your words the way you would if you were impersonating Yoda, and you cannot go wrong.

re: #44 Slumbering Behemoth

Sitcom star, series producer and head writer Fenway

//

re: #48 idioma

Linguistically racist, you are.
///totally kidding.

re: #46 TheMatrix31

He pissed me off the other day, I can't remember what he said though.

Didn't he say something about Obama and racism?

re: #44 Slumbering Behemoth

Got any episode fodder besides the mistaken identity/firefighter's wife one?

re: #51 Cannadian Club Akbar

Didn't he say something about Obama and racism?

Something like that. It was absurd.

[Link: sports.yahoo.com...]

Holy shit.

re: #48 idioma

That learned, In Japan the time I was.

re: #53 TheMatrix31

Something like that. It was absurd.

[Link: freedomeden.blogspot.com...]

re: #46 TheMatrix31

re: #51 Cannadian Club Akbar

I think he weighed in on Jimmah's side of the racism argument.

re: #48 idioma

Yes, hai!
The verb, at the end of the sentence, comes!

As with Korean, where the verb, at the end of the sentence, with modifying infixes for intent, tense and social-position, comes.

Years back, when stationed in Yokosuka I was, quickly I learned grammar Japanese just is "grammar Yoda", your words just order deliberately you would if Yoda you were impersonating, go wrong you can not.

年はあなたが扮していたYoda慎重にあなたが、うまくいかないできないことをちょうど文法が日本語「文法Yoda」、ワードちょうど順序であることを、私によってがあった横須賀で配置されたとき、すぐに私学んだ支持する。

re: #55 freetoken

That learned, In Japan the time I was.

Rest already give it a!

re: #56 Cannadian Club Akbar

re: #57 Fenway_Nation

Yeah, thats it. Makes no sense though, considering how he usually is.

Nifty! Smithereens on XM.

re: #59 idioma

Unfortunately the parsing hamster hasn't been trained yet to let long strings of Unicode go by...

So, bytes it bites.

re: #61 TheMatrix31

Yea...wasn't too happy with him on that, but he got it right a bunch of other times on similar issues; imho- so he gets a pass from me.

Besides, can't blame Cliff Huxtable for helping install the bloodthirsty theocratic regime in Tehran or giving away the Panama Canal.

/Altho' Cosby might've taken Rabbit Bait's advice on wearing a sweater.

re: #63 freetoken

Unfortunately the parsing hamster hasn't been trained yet to let long strings of Unicode go by...

So, bytes it bites.

It's a bit mystifying, considering that Charles is a mac user; macs have always had native Unicode.

A confession of sorts:
I thought I was pretty well-informed about the former right-wing fringe, fast becoming the mainstream. I knew not just about Birchers, of course, but about the CCC, VDare, and American Renaissance. It is still quite shocking to learn just how deeply these openly racist groups have managed to embed themselves and their influence into the Republican base and, especially, into the right wing of the internet. They worked away behind the scenes for years, always cultivating an image of respectability; constantly expanding, one convert at a time.
In this, they were helped by mainstream GOP politicians and pundits who either ignored them or who helped sanitize them by openly courting them, trading away the credibility of the Party of Lincoln for the votes of a mob of bigots.

night all, see you in 5 hours.

re: #47 Slumbering Behemoth

This I certainly did not know. Horribly shameful and inaccurate, if true. Bill Cosby is an awfully cool dude, IMO.

From a more leftist perspective than most of y'all, I certainly see that as true.

I'm out too. Good night lizards.

re: #52 Fenway_Nation

1. Cigars
2. Booze
3. Hookers

It's easy from there.

"Next week, The Behemoth get's into a fist fight with a tranny hooker over the last "forty" at the local liquor store. A drunken do-gooder, mistaking the tranny for a woman, decides to defend 'her' honor by pressing his lit cigar into The Behemoth's neck. Fenway, being drunk beyond reason, decides to beat the shit out of everyone.

Local police arrive on the scene, stating 'You two assholes. Again?'"

re: #67 Cannadian Club Akbar

re: #69 idioma

G'nite!

re: #66 Shiplord Kirel

Charles is doing terrific work in this regard. I've BEEN a hostile watcher of the GOP and its ties to extremism, as well as the rise of exterminationist rhetoric on the right, for years, and some of this has still been new to me.

re: #66 Shiplord Kirel

Sir, I agree with you, and for this reason (and a dozen others) I believe we're seeing a transition from a multi-party system to something we Americans can be UNITED behind...

Law and Order, we got.

But Justice? and Courtesy?
We have not!

re: #70 Slumbering Behemoth

1. Cigars
2. Booze
3. Hookers

It's easy from there.

"Next week, The Behemoth get's into a fist fight with a tranny hooker over the last "forty" at the local liquor store. A drunken do-gooder, mistaking the tranny for a woman, decides to defend 'her' honor by pressing his lit cigar into The Behemoth's neck. Fenway, being drunk beyond reason, decides to beat the shit out of everyone.

Local police arrive on the scene, stating 'You two assholes. Again?'"

Just so you know, that's spelled f'oty. Just wanna help you blend in and stuff.

re: #70 Slumbering Behemoth

Hijinx and Family Unfriendly Aesops ensue.

I just read the post at Hotair following the link on the front page. It is quite sickening. I'm not disappointed to see the state of that blog though, I always saw it as second rate and derivative and rarely read any posts there, the comments in particular have always been a sewer.

But these personal attacks on a main post, insults and demonisations are beyond the pale. Attacking Shamuta like that is petty, gratuitous and more than a little spooky. They really reveal ignorance and avarice.

They are also simply wrong in their criticisms, wether this is from ignorance, bias or just bold faced lying I can't say, but it is obvious.

re: #72 iceweasel

Charles is doing terrific work in this regard. I've BEEN a hostile watcher of the GOP and its ties to extremism, as well as the rise of exterminationist rhetoric on the right, for years, and some of this has still been new to me.

The real breaking point for me was when Ann Coulter publicly defended the CCC. I thought "now hold on there, snake lady, I know these guys and they are nothing but the Klan with coats, ties, and some basic literacy."

Fuckin power surge. Ugh. Killed my DirecTV receiver. Now this shit's going to take 10 minutes to restart.

re: #65 idioma

It's a bit mystifying, considering that Charles is a mac user; macs have always had native Unicode.

As I understand it, the problem is one of keeping long strings within the borders of the entries column. That is, very long strings call spill over into the side column, and make a page go crazy wide.

To keep that from happening, the parsing hamster is trained to breakup long strings. That is why, when you type in a string of more than 3 of any one character that string gets chomped down to a string of just 3 characters.

The problem with typing in a long string of Unicode is that the hamster doesn't know it is supposed to be a long string of Unicode, and so chomps away.

At least that is what I gathered from Charles' explanation.

re: #68 ~Fianna

The Cosby Show from the '80s was cheesy. Cheesy as all hell, but I still enjoy watching it. It avoided racial stereotypes like the plague, and presented sitcom scenarios that any one could relate to regardless of their skin color.

Wow, fastest restart ever.

re: #62 Fenway_Nation

Nifty! Smithereens on XM.

Damn that takes me back...

Well she held a bass guitar and she was playing in a band
And she stood just like Bill Wyman
Now I am her biggest fan.
Now I know i'm one of many who would like to be your friend
And I've got to find a way to to let you know I'm not like them.

Speaking of coding, does anyone out there use Dreamweaver?

I'm just starting to explore it... and my, what an abomination of a User Interface experience it is! It's as if Adobe figured on putting every one of their bad UI ideas into one program.

Gaaacckk...

re: #80 Slumbering Behemoth

The Cosby Show from the '80s was cheesy. Cheesy as all hell, but I still enjoy watching it. It avoided racial stereotypes like the plague, and presented sitcom scenarios that any one could relate to regardless of their skin color.

The Cosby Show was one of the hallmarks of growing up in the 80s. Bill Cosby has had a lot of really good stuff to say since then. I don't know why he's so controversial in some quarters. From where I stand, most of what he says is good, common sense advice and commentary.

re: #74 ~Fianna

I'm not a blender, really. I'll stick with "forty".

re: #83 freetoken

Speaking of coding, does anyone out there use Dreamweaver?

I'm just starting to explore it... and my, what an abomination of a User Interface experience it is! It's as if Adobe figured on putting every one of their bad UI ideas into one program.

Gaaacckk...

Adobe is a morass of bad things. And it's a security nightmare.

For my favourite insomniac...

Okay, this rocks - the literal version of Total Eclipse of the Heart

re: #84 ~Fianna

Just eggs ackley what I was striving to say.

Cosby's humor, painstakingly studied from real-life, is based on HUMANITY, not racism.

Cosby's suggestions to today's youth are based on solid, common sense, and NOT on Victim Theater or Ad Hominem

re: #88 ~Fianna

Okay, this rocks - the literal version of Total Eclipse of the Heart

THAT
WAS
AWESOME.

re: #89 Karridine

Just eggs ackley what I was striving to say.

Cosby's humor, painstakingly studied from real-life, is based on HUMANITY, not racism.

Cosby's suggestions to today's youth are based on solid, common sense, and NOT on Victim Theater or Ad Hominem

*nod* Unfortunately there's a fair bunch of people on both sides who make money or headlines or get a fair amount of self-aggrandizement when they can keep people divided.

There is real racism, sexism and homophobia in society, but it's not found in every criticism of a person of color, woman or GLBT person.

To say so diminishes the situation when someone encounters and is hurt by real racisim, sexism or homophobia.

re: #90 iceweasel

THAT
WAS
AWESOME.

It started out as Hogwarts, now it's Lord of the Flies gets me every time.

That and the line about the gayest men on earth.

You've seen the Meatloaf one, yes?

Did you know Obamas are now a fandom, getting vidded and fanficced?

(for those who don't like Obama... this vid is too sappy for you, don't watch. Even though it's a great song.)

re: #91 ~Fianna

The reason I stay HERE, modifying my participation to meet the requirements emplaced by our host, who has asked that the historical context NOT be discussed here, but hasn't outlawed the principle of the Oneness of Humankind, the central pivotal point around which all other Teachings revolve...

To flounce, or to mindlessly fling epithets denigrates real suffering and is an expression of personal arrogance, as in "I am a more perfect human than YOU are, so I can stand in judgment of YOU, Vulgar Peon!"

urk... even spelling it out is repulsive...

/now, back to VITAL ISSUES, like "started out as Hogwarts now its Lord of the Flies"

Vader-Voldemort 2012!

re: #93 sagehen

re: #92 ~Fianna

Both of those rocked!

Sagehen, the idea that there is Obama fanfic should not surprise me, but still vaguely nauseates me.

re: #95 Sharmuta

Vader-Voldemort 2012!

Cheney/Rove?

/

(not really /)
heh

re: #88 ~Fianna

Hilarious...like the 'Lord Privy Seal' method of video making in reverse:

Silly iDub- Vader and Voldemort get wee-weed at the mere thought of Cheney.

re: #96 iceweasel

re: #92 ~Fianna

Both of those rocked!

Sagehen, the idea that there is Obama fanfic should not surprise me, but still vaguely nauseates me.

Me too, and I voted for the man - key word, there - man. He's not a god, a cult leader or the healer of us all. He's a guy. He's done some good stuff, he's done some stuff that I hate. Like any guy.

re: #92 ~Fianna

"My mattress is made of gypsy sluts. Craftmatic charged me extra for that."

*spew*

re: #96 iceweasel

re: #97 iceweasel

re: #98 Jimmah

re: #100 ~Fianna

Some music you might like, but I must now to bed...

re: #99 Sharmuta

Silly iDub- Vader and Voldemort get wee-weed at the mere thought of Cheney.

very true.

This is fun. hee. For fans of ABBA, and not so much fans of Cheney or the war...

re: #95 Sharmuta

Vader-Voldemort 2012!

That's just unrealistic, Sharmuta. Come back down to earth and get behind my candidate:

Image: 2012CHANGE.jpg

;-)

re: #96 iceweasel

Wait 'til you see the 0bama/Van Jones slash fics.

///

Cthulu, why choose the lesser of evils?

re: #94 Karridine

You are a truly strange sort, but I dig you.

re: #104 Jimmah

That's just unrealistic, Sharmuta. Come back down to earth and get behind my candidate:

[Link: i238.photobucket.com...]

;-)

Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.

re: #107 Slumbering Behemoth

I grok you, B. He-Moth

re: #87 iceweasel

For my favourite insomniac...

Hi iceweaselski :)

When did spazzing out qualify as a dance! LMAO!

re: #101 Slumbering Behemoth

"My mattress is made of gypsy sluts. Craftmatic charged me extra for that."

*spew*

This one really gets to me because as a wee gothling, I totally loved this video. I wanted gypsy sluts in my mattress and tons of candles.

The giggles are totally at my own expense.

For fans of Eddy Grant and supporters of the troops in Iraq:

re: #106 LudwigVanQuixote

Cthulu, why choose the lesser of evils?

Ya! Ya ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

re: #105 Fenway_Nation

Wait 'til you see the 0bama/Van Jones slash fics.

///

Oh, no. Just. No.

re: #111 Sharmuta

When did spazzing out qualify as a dance! LMAO!

Looking at that video realistically just makes you aware of how many levels of wrong there are.

Imagine that video with schoolgirls.

Let's hear it for gays in teh military, and the IDF!

re: #115 ~Fianna

I'm being sarcastic, but there probably is some 0bama slash out there now that it's an 'official' fandom.

/I'll leave the searching for it to somebody else.

I love this post from P.J. Myers at Pharyngula -

Fear the atheist

The results of yet another poll are out, showing that the godless are rising and promise to rise for years to come. In 1990, we made up 8% of the population; now in 2009, we're 15%. They're extrapolating forward and estimating that we will make up 25% of the country in 20 years.

It's not enough, is all I can say. I suppose it's good news, but I am disappointed in my fellow Americans. I will not be content until the number is 100%. (OK, 95%. It's not fair to demand rationality from people who are brain damaged or locked up in asylums.)

The really bizarre news here is the way people are squirming to put a twist to the data to reassure the believers. They've got a label for that 15% that isn't "godless atheist unbelievers": they are "Nones". Don't panic, they say, only 10% of them call themselves "atheists"! They're mostly agnostics and skeptics of organized religion! You don't have to stockpile food and ammo, bar the doors and windows, and prepare for the anarchy and evil that would follow if all those people were atheists.

continued...

[Link: scienceblogs.com...]

re: #112 ~Fianna

Trust me, if Craftmatic offered a mattress of such design, I would sell my car, my :ouch: music collection, my computer, and my video games just to buy it.

It would be seriously uncomfortable to sleep on, but totally worth it for the recreational exercise.

re: #114 ~Fianna

Ya! Ya ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

Thats easy for you to say.

re: #114 ~Fianna

Ya! Ya ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

Of course, talking about Cthulu requires me to pitch the best Christmas album ever - A Very Scary Solstice and an Even Scarier Solstice [Link: www.cthulhulives.org...]

re: #120 Slumbering Behemoth

Trust me, if Craftmatic offered a mattress of such design, I would sell my car, my :ouch: music collection, my computer, and my video games just to buy it.

It would be seriously uncomfortable to sleep on, but totally worth it for the recreational exercise.

i think we've got a business idea here...

re: #121 Jimmah

Thats easy for you to say.

Not really. :)

re: #120 Slumbering Behemoth

On the next Fenway & The Behemoth, the fur flies when Fenway breaks in Behemoth's fancy new customized matress...

re: #118 Fenway_Nation

I'm being sarcastic, but there probably is some 0bama slash out there now that it's an 'official' fandom.

/I'll leave the searching for it to somebody else.

oh definitely. *shudder*

re: #125 Fenway_Nation

On the next Fenway & The Behemoth, the fur flies when Fenway breaks in Behemoth's fancy new customized matress...

Can I get a guest spot on that episode? I'll work below union rates.

re: #126 iceweasel

oh definitely. *shudder*

Totally not it.

re: #118 Fenway_Nation

I'm being sarcastic, but there probably is some 0bama slash out there now that it's an 'official' fandom.

/I'll leave the searching for it to somebody else.

Most of the 0bama fic is gen (lots of Stargate crossovers), but I did run across one Rahm Emmanuel/Tony Stark (Ironman)...

Everyone wave to Kirk Cameron!

re: #114 ~Fianna

Open your own damn portal, please. Trying to get some sleep here. kthxbai

re: #131 Slumbering Behemoth

Open your own damn portal, please. Trying to get some sleep here. kthxbai

Admit it - this would make Glenn Beck much, much less scary, no?

re: #127 ~Fianna

I'm still doing the casting-couch thing for the firefighter's wife that Behemoth beds before Fenway gets his ass kicked by the jealous husband in a case of mistaken identity.

re: #119 Jimmah

I love this post from P.Z. Myers at Pharyngula -

Fear the atheist

continued...

[Link: scienceblogs.com...]

I love P-Zed.

It's rather annoying. Every article I see on this subject makes this desperate rush to reassure their readers that this growing cohort of Americans aren't really those goddamned atheists — they're nice people, unlike those cold-hearted, soulless beasts called atheists, and they aren't planning to storm your churches and rape the choir boys and boil babies in the baptismal fonts, unlike the scary atheistic monsters. They're special. And most of all, they aren't French.

"American nones are kind of agnostic and deistic, so it's a very American kind of skepticism," says Barry Kosmin, director of Trinity's Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture. "It's a kind of religious indifference that's not hostile to religion the way they are in France. Franklin and Jefferson would have recognized these people."

Oh, please. All the low frequency of self-reported atheists in the survey tells you is that the long-running campaign in American culture to stigmatize atheism has been highly successful — and it's an attitude that we still see expressed in reports like this. The most important news they try to transmit is not the increase in unbelievers, it's "Thank God they aren't atheists! They're just rational skeptics, instead!"

Atheism is not a state to be avoided. It does not distort your features so that the founding fathers would throw you out of the country as an undesirable alien. It does not give you a French accent. It doesn't even make you want to bomb churches. We are "rational skeptics," too, we're just the ones who aren't afraid to confront the social conventions that insist that you must be churched or in some way pious in order to be a good person — we are just the ones who will get in beatifically complacent faces and tell them they're wallowing in bullshit.

re: #133 Fenway_Nation

I'm still doing the casting-couch thing for the firefighter's wife that Behemoth beds before Fenway gets his ass kicked by the jealous husband in a case of mistaken identity.

Not sure I'd make a convincing firefighter's wife... but that does sound like a worthy sitcom.

re: #135 ~Fianna

Your guyz are sick, twisted people, he said.

"We try," Fianna rejoined.

re: #127 ~Fianna

Are you familiar with the casting couch? Fenway's is deceptively more forgiving than mine.

re: #135 ~Fianna

Not sure I'd make a convincing firefighter's wife... but that does sound like a worthy sitcom.

Already cobbled together some dialogue here.

re: #136 Karridine

Your guyz are sick, twisted people, he said.

"We try," Fianna rejoined.

I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.

re: #130 Sharmuta

This Romanian chick seems to dig him. (Not.)

re: #137 Slumbering Behemoth

Are you familiar with the casting couch? Fenway's is deceptively more forgiving than mine.

Eh, forgiving's over-rated.

re: #138 Fenway_Nation

Already cobbled together some dialogue here.

That's hilarious.

re: #132 ~Fianna

Beck? Scary? Nothing more than tainted junk-food. Do not want.

re: #140 theheat

This Romanian chick seems to dig him. (Not.)

That.
Was.
Fucking.
Amazing.

re: #144 ~Fianna

I know. I especially love how she says horseshit, which is one of my favorite descriptors.

re: #145 theheat

I know. I especially love how she says horseshit, which is one of my favorite descriptors.

Who is she and what else has she vlogged?

re: #142 ~Fianna

Also, depending on what Fenway's occupation is supposed to be in the series, I was gonna throw this line in:

The Behemoth [still obfuscating]: Of course firefighters are heroes! Who else is going to clean up and evacuate half the city when your stupid ass wrecks while hauling a tanker of...what was it again? Chlorine?
Fenway: Yellow phosphorous...
The Behemoth: Yellow Phosphorous

re: #146 ~Fianna

I have no idea. The video popped up on a celebrity gossip blog, and I thought it was Academy Award material. Especially since LGF has been all over this.

re: #134 iceweasel

They're Atheists In Name Only - the only group where being 'in name only' is supposedly a good thing! They believe in god really - they just don't like to use the word, or perhaps they're shy. But they're not atheists. This is America!

re: #148 theheat

I have no idea. The video popped up on a celebrity gossip blog, and I thought it was Academy Award material. Especially since LGF has been all over this.

I recommended it to Charles. I think he'll appreciate it. I also xposted it to my live journal, where I know it will be appreciated.

re: #147 Fenway_Nation

Also, depending on what Fenway's occupation is supposed to be in the series, I was gonna throw this line in:

The Behemoth [still obfuscating]: Of course firefighters are heroes! Who else is going to clean up and evacuate half the city when your stupid ass wrecks while hauling a tanker of...what was it again? Chlorine?
Fenway: Yellow phosphorous...
The Behemoth: Yellow Phosphorous

*roflmao*

That might almost make me get a TV.

re: #149 Jimmah

They're Atheists In Name Only - the only group where being 'in name only' is supposedly a good thing! They believe in god really - they just don't like to use the word, or perhaps they're shy. But they're not atheists. This is America!

AINO?

Well, time to post that song of ours again:

This little England, it's dingy and it's mean
I've flirted with her mewling gods and petty jelousies
These edited-reader rebels with their simulated causes
Their weak-chinned snarls and red guitars I disregard them all

When they pin me to the wall I'll say:
I'm with America
With godless America, I'll stand and I'll fall
Though it cuts me to my soul that
It must be America
It must be America
Or nothing at all.

:-)

re: #140 theheat

I think I'm in love.

re: #153 Slumbering Behemoth

She's a gal after my own heart. I've watched the video several times, and every time I'm gagging, I'm laughing so hard.

She totally PWND them.

re: #153 Slumbering Behemoth

PS - maybe she's available for your casting call.

re: #153 Slumbering Behemoth

re: #155 theheat

Next week on Fenway & The Behemoth, the two cads consipre to dupe an educational agency into letting them sponsor a voluptuous 19-year old Eastern European exchange student.

[Serious, ominous tone] Then...60 Hours investigates the proliferation of 0bama slash fanfiction on underground websites. Harmless fun or hate crimes?

re: #156 Fenway_Nation

re: #155 theheat

Next week on Fenway & The Behemoth, the two cads consipre to dupe an educational agency into letting them sponsor a voluptuous 19-year old Eastern European exchange student.

[Serious, ominous tone] Then...60 Hours investigates the proliferation of 0bama slash fanfiction on underground websites. Harmless fun or hate crimes?

Does ACORN sponsor her scholarship for you?

//

re: #156 Fenway_Nation

Be careful, Fenway. You may end up meeting this Romanian vixen, and falling hard. You know, like be off the market for good. Your single days would be behind you.

Happened to my brother...

BTW, MMFA does a good glenn beck smackdown here. It's a smackdown of Time's disingenuous piece.

Harper's smackdown here.

re: #157 iceweasel

Nah, she's too old. I believe the target age is under 18 for ACORN-friendly pimpin'.

//

Well off my nut. It's log out time. G'nite Lizards.

For obvious reasons. NSF EPILEPTICS.

re: #152 iceweasel

AINO?

Well, time to post that song of ours again:

This little England, it's dingy and it's mean
I've flirted with her mewling gods and petty jelousies
These edited-reader rebels with their simulated causes
Their weak-chinned snarls and red guitars I disregard them all

When they pin me to the wall I'll say:
I'm with America
With godless America, I'll stand and I'll fall
Though it cuts me to my soul that
It must be America
It must be America
Or nothing at all.

:-)

Though it cuts me to my soul, it must be America...Fuck Yeah! :)

re: #157 iceweasel

re: #158 theheat

Well...the Fenway spends the first half of the episode telling the Behemoth he won't go along with this week's zany scheme unless it's an Aisan exchange student but comes around eventually.

re: #161 Slumbering Behemoth

Goodnight!

re: #163 Fenway_Nation

Hot Asian exchange students and a stash of train pron mags. I can see where this episode is headed.

Will there be anything of particular interest for "the ladies", like hot guys to mow our lawns or ?

re: #161 Slumbering Behemoth

G'nite Behemoth! I'm not long for this thread myself, as I'm back to staring down the barrell of my harsh 1-day work week.

/Hooray double-digit unemployment!

re: #164 theheat

Hmmm? A 'Ladies! Watch our show and hot guys (likely not cast members) will come over and mow your lawn!! promotion?

Not sure if that's feasable. Altho' that could be an upside of nobody watching...

re: #166 Fenway_Nation

Hmmm? A 'Ladies! Watch our show and hot guys (likely not cast members) will come over and mow your lawn!! promotion?

Not sure if that's feasable. Altho' that could be an upside of nobody watching...

You need an awesome opening credit sequence where you're mowing lawns with your tshirts off, fighting fires, working in construction...all half naked and slo-mo and glistening, with something like this playing in the background:

Then it can end with you both waking up on your respective casting couches, and you-- and us ladies watching-- simultaneously realising it was all a dream. :(

re: #166 Fenway_Nation

You throw some sessy mens to mow our lawns, or even show them mowing other people's lawns, and I guarantee your female viewing audience will launch you to superstar-dome.

Back to reality. I must make some (commie) art so I get a paycheck this week. Gotta go. Good night, everyone.

re: #165 Fenway_Nation

G'nite Behemoth! I'm not long for this thread myself, as I'm back to staring down the barrell of my harsh 1-day work week.

/Hooray double-digit unemployment!

But isn't the economy recovering? Hope things pick up for you soon.

Off to the salt mines, have a good day all.

Hey y'all.

I was loaded the other day... the money's gone.

I think I'll stop paying bills.

Bureaucracy foils a dictator. No tent for you, Khadaffy.

re: #24 idioma

This is Why You're Fat Blog: Food Porn for the masses
[Link: thisiswhyyourefat.com...]

Speaking of which, you've just latched on to my Rant of the Day.

Last night I went to buy some ice cream (one of the six or seven basic Geek food groups). Now it was bad enough when the reduced the size of containers from 2 quarts to 1.75 quarts, but they've done it again and put ice cream on a diet and reduced it to 1.5 quarts!

If we the rest of us could only lose that much 15% of our weight that quickly or easily, then the dairy industry would be going gang busters...

Good Morning LGF.

re: #173 bofhell

Speaking of which, you've just latched on to my Rant of the Day.

Last night I went to buy some ice cream (one of the six or seven basic Geek food groups). Now it was bad enough when the reduced the size of containers from 2 quarts to 1.75 quarts, but they've done it again and put ice cream on a diet and reduced it to 1.5 quarts!

If we the rest of us could only lose that much 15% of our weight that quickly or easily, then the dairy industry would be going gang busters...

Was it the same price as the previous size? Which brand?

re: #174 Spare O'Lake

Good Morning LGF.

Good morning!

A grim column on what Obama has accomplished in foreign policy with Russia and Iran.

Failing the test

re: #177 Dar ul Harbarian

My 2009 Obama World Appeasment Tour shirt is here somewhere.

re: #177 Dar ul Harbarian

A grim column on what Obama has accomplished in foreign policy with Russia and Iran.

Failing the test

Helprin's spot-on.

re: #178 TheMatrix31

My 2009 Obama World Appeasment Tour shirt is here somewhere.

I borrowed it to clean up my unicorn's poop. Don't worry--it smells like petunias.

Ain't nothing like an idealist neophyte working on international security.

re: #181 taxfreekiller

So, could it be that A.C.O.R.N. ,,rather than being the ugly tax fraud/fake voter registration underbelly of the Democrat party,,, is in fact the brains of the operation.

Who are on the board of directors? What are their histories? Any former SDS or WU?

re: #180 MandyManners

Yay

Since the new version, 3.5, of Picasa is out, now for the Mac as well as the PC, I just downloaded it and started it... Program wants to search my computer for images it can recognize, so I clicked the box to tell it to go for it.

I have almost a terabyte of still and video images... this could take a while...

Good morning! A different take on one of my favorite songs (with a killer guitar solo).

America - Yes

ACORN's About page.

[Link: www.acorn.org...]

If I knew nothing about ACORN, the following at the end of the About page would freak me out.

ACORN is a non-profit, non-partisan social justice organization with national headquarters in New York, New Orleans and Washington, D.C.

re: #188 MandyManners

ACORN's About page.

[Link: www.acorn.org...]

"Voter participation: Since 2004, ACORN has helped more than 1.7 million low- and moderate-income and minority citizens apply to register to vote."

...some of whom are actually alive and legally qualified to vote./

Allied Organizations.

[Link: www.acorn.org...]

[Link: www.acorninstitute.org...]

[Link: www.acornhousing.org...]

[Link: www.livingwagecampaign.org...]

[Link: www.acornlaw.org...]

[Link: www.kabf.org...]

[Link: www.knon.org...]

[Link: www.projectvote.org...]

[Link: sitefighters.org...]

[Link: www.socialpolicy.org...]

Look at sitefighters [Link: sitefighters.org...]

It's focused against "big box" stores such as Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Lowe's, Target and K-Mart. Do they plan to picket? Disrupt operations?

KABF, one of its two radio outlets. [Link: www.kabf.org...]

[Link: www.kabf.org...]

The People Speak -hosted by Arkansas ACORN Mondays 4PM-5PM

Check out their new upcoming shows about health care reform, employee free choice, foreclosures and other local issues.

re: #175 MandyManners

Was it the same price as the previous size? Which brand?

Same price, all brands -- Breyer's, Edy's, and Lucerene/Safeway.

re: #197 bofhell

Same price, all brands -- Breyer's, Edy's, and Lucerene/Safeway.

I'll have to check that out. It's a sneaky way to raise prices.

re: #198 taxfreekiller

now go to all the Sec.'s of State in all 50 states and check to see if
all these org.'s State Charters are in good standing.

As in if you do not keep your Corporate Charter in good standing,
your not operating with the protection of the corp. the acts are
individual,,, ie, the illegal acts of the board of directors in those states
would be such that if they directed others to do so and so, and that act is illegal,, RICO reaches each one of them individually.

like that
what the Justice Dept. will not do

That'll take a long, long time. I'll try to do 10 states today.

re: #201 taxfreekiller

in return, I will try to be nice today...

Don't strain yourself, darlin'.

I can find no listing of the board of directors of ACORN at their site. I'll have to look elsewhere.

ACORN Housing Board of Directors.

[Link: acornhousing.org...]

re: #199 MandyManners

I'll have to check that out. It's a sneaky way to raise prices.

What's more intriguing is that ALL the brands seem to have done this overnight.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for capitalism and competition, but this looks to be collusion in some manner (even if it is only indirectly) which is not capitalism...

ACORN Wins Big By Selling Out To NYC Developer Bruce Ratner

Good morning! (It is afternoon here)

I'm having a great time even though I have over exerted myself and have to use a cane in addition to the cast. Thank G-D for painkillers.

ACORN Housing Corporation, Inc.

ACORN in Alabama
940 - 751
Corporation Type Foreign Non-Profit
Principal Address 209 W JACKSON STE 301
CHICAGO, IL 60606
Status Exists
Place of Incorporation Louisiana
Incorporation Date 3-20-1985
Qualify Date 12-15-2008
Registered Agent NATIONAL REGISTERED AGENTS INC
150 S PERRY ST
MONTGOMERY, AL 36104
Nature of Business
Capital Authorized
Capital Paid In

re: #207 bofhell

re: #199 MandyManners

I'll have to check that out. It's a sneaky way to raise prices.

What's more intriguing is that ALL the brands seem to have done this overnight.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for capitalism and competition, but this looks to be collusion in some manner (even if it is only indirectly) which is not capitalism...

They are definitely doing this and it makes me mad, especially since dairy prices are way down from a year or two ago. I don't think it is collusion at all, just a visible dumb idea being copied. Capitalism should take care of it since someone can use the lower costs this year and trumpet what the others are doing while they go back to the original size.

re: #207 bofhell

What's more intriguing is that ALL the brands seem to have done this overnight.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for capitalism and competition, but this looks to be collusion in some manner (even if it is only indirectly) which is not capitalism...

That is very strange. Are you sure they're not owned by the same company?

Roll Call Vote to Defund ACORN: Prostitution as “Performing Art”

re: #209 Alouette

Good Morning, Alouette. I've got some very disturbing and clueless comments from a Pali-lover to run by you and maybe Kosh's Shadow if you don't mind. Settlements are a bit of a weakness of mine compared to other Israeli issues.

re: #210 MandyManners

Their registered agents get around.

[Link: li-public.fmcsa.dot.gov...]

re: #214 Spenser (with an S)

Good Morning, Alouette. I've got some very disturbing and clueless comments from a Pali-lover to run by you and maybe Kosh's Shadow if you don't mind. Settlements are a bit of a weakness of mine compared to other Israeli issues.

I give it my best shot, but for your benefit, because the stupid Pali shill wouldn't acknowledge the truth if you blackened both his eyes with it.

And a wunnerful wunnerful Fall morning to everyone from Washington Da Capital (and all of you wondered what DC stood for...)

Of course, the first fall day will get up to 80-something. Fall has apparently been delayed because of a bat flying around the hearing room according to ONN source Charles Johnson...

Happy Birthday, Mr. Coltrane!

Gotta' git.

re: #216 Alouette

Thanks, it would be more for the people reading a blog that my denomination maintains that he has written on so the lie doesn't stick. It has to do with Tel Aviv being a "settlement" in some Pali's eyes.

Heartache: Bertha Lewis’s Rolodex Ends Up At Redstate

I don’t know how that happened, but it could prove awkward for the President who said just the other day, that he wasn’t following the ACORN scandal at all, and feigned surprise that they receive loads of federal money..who knew!?

See Redstate for the list of contacts, which include Patrick Gaspard:

Patrick Gaspard was the Executive Vice President for the SEIU until Barack Obama asked Gaspard to become his Presidential Campaign’s National Political Director. Once in the White House, Gaspard became Barack Obama’s Director of the Office of Political Affairs. He is Barack Obama’s Karl Rove, but unlike Rove, eschews the spotlight, which is why so many compare David Axelrod to Rove.

Bertha Lewis has the office, cell phone, home number, and private personal email address of Patrick Gaspard.

re: #207 bofhell

What's more intriguing is that ALL the brands seem to have done this overnight.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for capitalism and competition, but this looks to be collusion in some manner (even if it is only indirectly) which is not capitalism...

Interesting. I wonder if smaller containers is a trend also being driven by stores - they can carry more SKUs. Didn't this happen with cereal boxes recently?

re: #222 Leonidas Hoplite

Interesting. I wonder if smaller containers is a trend also being driven by stores - they can carry more SKUs. Didn't this happen with cereal boxes recently?

It's happened with a lot of things in the last year or so. Bags of chips, too.

re: #222 Leonidas Hoplite

Interesting. I wonder if smaller containers is a trend also being driven by stores - they can carry more SKUs. Didn't this happen with cereal boxes recently?

Yes, it has happened with cereal too, although I don't think it was as severe as what I saw with ice cream. I doubt it is driven by the markets though, as the trend there has been to push stocking cost (i.e. labor) to vendors / suppliers. In addition, when the first round occurred (2 qt to 1.75 qt) the footprint of the container really didn't change, so there was no change in shelf space allocation. With this downshift, there is a small change in footprint though.

If this were a driver however, you would expect brands like Edys and Breyers to revert to traditional rectilinear packaging (which allows for the densest packing of a given space) rather than trapezoidal (Breyers) or cylindrical (Edy's).

re: #222 Leonidas Hoplite

Interesting. I wonder if smaller containers is a trend also being driven by stores - they can carry more SKUs. Didn't this happen with cereal boxes recently?

This got rolling last year, when food prices spiked along with oil prices; rather than raise prices, a lot of companies started reducing package size.

Food prices have since dropped, but why let a good scam go to waste now that they know consumers aren't really paying attention?

It's a money thing. I recall seeing some corporate guy asked about it earlier this year. He blamed the economy, and said that they had to either raise prices or reduce quantities.

Exotic clunkers also fueled recent program

At its creation, a 1997 Bentley Continental R was one of the most powerful and exclusive cars in the world, with every hand-built copy from the English countryside valued at $300,000 and beyond.

A few weeks back, the owner of one such Continental R decided it wasn’t worth more than $4,500, had its engine destroyed and shipped it to a junkyard with the rest of America’s clunkers.

It’s one of several rare or surprisingly new vehicles destroyed under the Obama administration’s cash for clunkers program designed to sweep old gas guzzlers off U.S. roads. According to new government data, the rebates of $3,500 or $4,500 were enough to doom the Continental and a ’97 Aston Martin DB7 Volante that once had a sticker price of $135,000 to the crusher.

And 37 people decided to clunk models that were less than a year old.

re: #226 JamesTKirk

But why doesn't somebody take a competitive advantage now that commodity prices are down to make a very public return to original sizes? It's what I would do.

Good morning friends.
How is everyone today?
Kinda quiet this morning.

re: #229 VioletTiger

Morning, VT. Yes, it is.

re: #228 Spenser (with an S)

"Now with 20% MORE!"

re: #231 JamesTKirk

"Now with 20% MORE!"

Oh sure, it sounds stupid when you say it that way. Don't you remember on Mr. Mom when she suggested that they keep their tuna prices low during the recession "for America"? It worked great.

/

re: #229 VioletTiger

Good morning friends.
How is everyone today?
Kinda quiet this morning.

OK, let's role-play. I'll be avanti and you be Walter.

//

re: #229 VioletTiger

Kinda quiet this morning.

First post of the day is always difficult for me. Morning.

Conservative commentator Glenn Beck caused a bit of a stir this week, saying on the debut of @katiecouric, Katie Couric's new web-only interview show, that Sen. John McCain "would have been worse for the country than Barack Obama."

Beck also told Couric that McCain was a "weird progressive" like Theodore Roosevelt.

Well, McCain took that as a compliment, saying on the "The Early Show" Wednesday that "any time my name is mentioned in the same breath as Teddy Roosevelt, I am honored. Teddy Roosevelt's my hero."

Gosh, Theodore Roosevelt or Glenn Beck? Aargh, the GOP has lost its mind.

[Link: www.cbsnews.com...]

re: #233 Spenser (with an S)

OK, let's role-play. I'll be avanti and you be Walter.

//

I think Walter is already here!
Good morning Walter.

re: #232 Spenser (with an S)

re: #231 JamesTKirk

"Now with 20% MORE!"

Oh sure, it sounds stupid when you say it that way.

A lot of things sound stupid when I say them. I wonder why that is.

Anyway, that's the way they'd sell it. They wouldn't want to admit that they'd reduced the quantities in the the first place (for the people who hadn't noticed) nor would they get as much mileage from just telling you "we're back to giving you what we gave you before." If/when quantities are raised again, they will be marketed solely as "Look at this! You're getting more than you did yesterday!"

Don't you remember on Mr. Mom when she suggested that they keep their tuna prices low during the recession "for America"? It worked great.

"Mr. Mom" - old Michael Keaton film from the 80s? Don't think I ever saw it.

25 Passive Aggressive Office Kitchen Notes

No one place on Earth harbors more passive aggression than an office kitchen. This can lead to some pretty interesting and potentially relationship crushing passive aggressive notes. Here are the 25 most passive aggressive notes found in office kitchens.

re: #235 funky chicken

Teddy Roosevelt was a progressive?

re: #233 Spenser (with an S)

OK, let's role-play. I'll be avanti and you be Walter.

Can anyone essplian to me why EVERYTHING this President
does is"HISTORIC"???
Hmmm?
Goodmorning all!!

re: #235 funky chicken

Gosh, Theodore Roosevelt or Glenn Beck? Aargh, the GOP Glen Beck has lost its mind.

To be fair to the GOP, not that they've got a lot going for them, but Beck said this, right? They didn't.

re: #220 Spenser (with an S)

Thanks, it would be more for the people reading a blog that my denomination maintains that he has written on so the lie doesn't stick. It has to do with Tel Aviv being a "settlement" in some Pali's eyes.

Well of course it is. My husband has been to Tel Aviv and he says it is absolutely beautiful. The "palestinians" are incapable of creating anything but death, hatred, and squalor...so of course they want to force the Israelis to hand Tel Aviv to them.

re: #239 VioletTiger

Teddy Roosevelt was a progressive?

One of the original ones, actually. That's when the word hadn't been hijacked by the leftists, of course.

He proudly called himself a Progressive.

re: #238 NJDhockeyfan

lol
I've seen notes like this.

re: #241 reloadingisnotahobby

Can anyone essplian to me why EVERYTHING this President does is"HISTORIC"???

Can anyone tell me why EVERYTHING his disciples do is HISTRIONIC???

re: #243 funky chicken

Well of course it is. My husband has been to Tel Aviv and he says it is absolutely beautiful. The "palestinians" are incapable of creating anything but death, hatred, and squalor...so of course they want to force the Israelis to hand Tel Aviv to them.

So they can give it the old "greenhouse" treatment?

re: #35 Karridine

You'd be surprised... the real difficulty is in Thai-language's simplicity... no articles, little tense, word-order and context being key...

When I was in Bangkok, I noticed that some of the Thai letters resemble Hebrew letters. I'm sure it's coincidence, but it did make for some amusing sounding words, when I misread them as Hebrew.

re: #227 NJDhockeyfan

Exotic clunkers also fueled recent program

Can he write off the difference between appraised value and the $4500 he got for the trade-in?

Comparing someone to Teddy Roosevelt is considered a compliment by people who like Teddy Roosevelt, and I believe he's generally held in good esteem.

Remember a couple of elections ago when the Democrats thought that they'd hammer Bush by comparing him to Reagan, blissfully unaware of how popular Reagan still was despite their decades of propaganda? THAT backfired on them. (Unfortunately, they were -- big surprise -- not being particularly honest in any event. If anything, Bush could have used more of Reagan's qualities.)

re: #250 JamesTKirk

Comparing someone to Teddy Roosevelt is considered a compliment by people who like Teddy Roosevelt, and I believe he's generally held in good esteem.

Remember a couple of elections ago when the Democrats thought that they'd hammer Bush by comparing him to Reagan, blissfully unaware of how popular Reagan still was despite their decades of propaganda? THAT backfired on them. (Unfortunately, they were -- big surprise -- not being particularly honest in any event. If anything, Bush could have used more of Reagan's qualities.)

I always thought Teddy R. was one of the good guys.

re: #239 VioletTiger

Teddy Roosevelt was a progressive?

In the eyes of the Birchers, Teddy was somewhere around Satan and Stalin.

re: #119 Jimmah

I love this post from P.J. Myers at Pharyngula -

Great posting. Did you ever see the interview between Dawkins and Myers about Myers' expulsion from "Expelled"? It's very funny.

re: #251 VioletTiger

I always thought Teddy R. was one of the good guys.

He's one of the four on Mount Rushmore, and Cracked.com has rated him the #1 Most Badass President of All-Time.

re: #252 SixDegrees

In the eyes of the Birchers, Teddy was somewhere around Satan and Stalin.

I would love to read-take US and even world history with the knowledge I have gained over the past year.

re: #248 John Neverbend

When I was in Bangkok

Image: roommate2.jpg

LMFAO.

re: #254 JamesTKirk

Kirk, I downloaded the sampe of Shatnerquake to Kindle for iPhone. Haven't read any of it yet, but it's published by Eraser head Press, whose website is [Link: www.eraserheadpress.com...] When I went to that site, it redirected me here.

re: #257 TheMatrix31

[Link: cdn.holytaco.com...]

LMFAO.