Something witty.

Is that a supertanker in the back?

More words mean less.

re: #2 Sharmuta

Catalina Island!
Where the buffalo roam.

Best Youtube could do...

OK, has anyone here been to Florence?

re: #6 SanFranciscoZionist

The one in Italy?

re: #6 SanFranciscoZionist

OK, has anyone here been to Florence?

Spent some time there in my youth.

re: #5 Floral Giraffe

Good night, Dear Lizards.
Play nicely, or play in a most NASTY fashion.
Enjoy &
See you all laters!

re: #8 Bagua

Spent some time there in my youth.

Which way does the Arno go through town?

re: #4 Floral Giraffe

There's something past that middle sailboat.

re: #11 SanFranciscoZionist

Which way does the Arno go through town?

Downstream of course.

re: #13 Bagua

Downstream of course.

Thank you. Is the Ponte Vecchio downstream of the Ponte Santa Trinita, or the other way round?

re: #6 SanFranciscoZionist

In 2000

It's "a mockery of all that is good, decent and wholesome" time again. Infamous moment from 'Catchphrase', a UK game show that went out at 5:30pm on a saturday evening on ITV:

re: #15 McJenny50

In 2000

Cool. Do you know if the Vecchio is downstream of the Santa Trinita or vice versa? I'm trying to fact-check something here, and Google is not being my neat friend.

I believe the Arno flows west, which would make the Ponte Sante Trinita downstream, and the Ponte alla Carraia next.

re: #18 Bagua

I believe the Arno flows west, which would make the Ponte Sante Trinita downstream upstream, and the Ponte alla Carraia next.

pimf:

re: #17 SanFranciscoZionist

Don't think I am going to be much help :)

re: #16 Jimmah

OMG! LMAO!

Maybe this will help

[Link: www.lonelyplanet.com...]

Ponte Vecchio is to the east of Ponte Santa Trinita, and Ponte all Carraia is to the west. The Arno flows west into the Lingurian Sea.

re: #18 Bagua

I believe the Arno flows west, which would make the Ponte Sante Trinita downstream, and the Ponte alla Carraia next.

Bless you. I'm sitting here wondering if this bloody novel had the river running backward.

Thanks!

re: #16 Jimmah

Oh, you kooky Brits and your ability to laugh at goofy stuff instead of completely losing your shit. What would we do without you?

I fear that if something like that were to air here in the states at 5:30pm, so many sphincters across the nation would tighten so thoroughly that Ex-Lax shareholders would become multi-billionaires overnight.

re: #19 Bagua

pimf:

Good grief, #18 was the correct answer.

re: #25 Slumbering Behemoth

Oh, you kooky Brits and your ability to laugh at goofy stuff instead of completely losing your shit. What would we do without you?

I fear that if something like that were to air here in the states at 5:30pm, so many sphincters across the nation would tighten so thoroughly that Ex-Lax shareholders would become multi-billionaires overnight.

It's 'dork saahded' ah tell 'ee!

re: #25 Slumbering Behemoth

Oh, you kooky Brits and your ability to laugh at goofy stuff instead of completely losing your shit. What would we do without you?

I fear that if something like that were to air here in the states at 5:30pm, so many sphincters across the nation would tighten so thoroughly that Ex-Lax shareholders would become multi-billionaires overnight.

Are you kidding? The US is still investigating NippleGate, apparently.

Since November 2004, CBS has challenged its fine for the halftime show on the grounds that the broadcast was unintentional and thus exempt from indecency regulation.[11] In July 2008, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit voided the FCC's fine,[12] but in May 2009 the Supreme Court vacated that judgment and sent the case back to the Third Circuit for reconsideration.[13]

I'm certainly glad SCOTUS is spending its time on this.

Devil Got My Woman

re: #27 Jimmah

It's 'dork saahded' ah tell 'ee!

DAHRK! SAAAHDID!

All laughing aside, I feel horrified whenever I watch this. The woman has some kind of mental condition. Her poor kids are completely terrified and her husband just stands there while she works herself up even further to new heights of screechy madness.

re: #30 iceweasel

Wow...

re: #28 iceweasel

Well it is a mockery of everything that is good, decent, and wholesome you know.

re: #27 Jimmah

It's 'dork saahded' ah tell 'ee!

Damn you man! Get out of my head. GET OUT!

When I was typing that post, I was thinking of what could be a good visual example of someone "completely losing their shit" if I were ever asked what that meant.

Immediately my mind gravitated to this.

re: #30 iceweasel

You too, demon-witch! GET OUT OF MY HEAD!

re: #28 iceweasel

Ugh! Another great example of the proper use of the taxpayer's dollars and American judicial resources.

:facepalm:

re: #30 iceweasel

DAHRK! SAAAHDID!

All laughing aside, I feel horrified whenever I watch this. The woman has some kind of mental condition. Her poor kids are completely terrified and her husband just stands there while she works herself up even further to new heights of screechy madness.

I totally agree. And notice the way she shrinks from her husband and family - no doubt feeling they have all been contaminated by the presence of the other wife in her home. They're now dork saahded too.

re: #34 Slumbering Behemoth

You too, demon-witch! GET OUT OF MY HEAD!

That's what he said.
/

re: #37 iceweasel

That's what he said.
/

in bed.
/

re: #36 Jimmah

I've never seen the full episode of that show. Did Mrs. Koo Koo Bananas stay with it through the entire week or however long the Wife Swap thing is supposed to last?

re: #30 iceweasel

You're obviously a nut

LoL that was an easy call even for Hannity.

re: #30 iceweasel

You don't know the power of the dork side!

re: #40 Bagua

LoL that was an easy call even for Hannity.

This is what should have happened to that woman:

(I plan on using this video again whenever a flounce is in the offing, or someone is getting overwrought, lol)

re: #33 Slumbering Behemoth

[...]

Immediately my mind gravitated to this.

Chilling, imagine living with someone with those sorts of issues.

re: #30 iceweasel

DAHRK! SAAAHDID!

All laughing aside, I feel horrified whenever I watch this. The woman has some kind of mental condition. Her poor kids are completely terrified and her husband just stands there while she works herself up even further to new heights of screechy madness.

I'm fascinated to learn that you can make putting someone on your prayer list sound like a curse.

re: #36 Jimmah

I totally agree. And notice the way she shrinks from her husband and family - no doubt feeling they have all been contaminated by the presence of the other wife in her home. They're now dork saahded too.

'Dork sahd'. Sounds much better than 'sitra achra'.

Why would someone this culturally inflexible ever agree to be on such a show to begin with?

re: #41 ArchangelMichael

You don't know the power of the dork side!

Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hatred. Hatred leads to.. WTF?

re: #44 SanFranciscoZionist

I'm fascinated to learn that you can make putting someone on your prayer list sound like a curse.

Charles' hatemail seems to have quite a few examples of that.

re: #39 Slumbering Behemoth

I've never seen the full episode of that show. Did Mrs. Koo Koo Bananas stay with it through the entire week or however long the Wife Swap thing is supposed to last?

I seem to remember there was a drama about her cutting the thing short, but can't remember if she actually did.

re: #42 iceweasel

This is what should have happened to that woman:

(I plan on using this video again whenever a flounce is in the offing, or someone is getting overwrought, lol)

AWESOME :)

re: #36 Jimmah

I totally agree. And notice the way she shrinks from her husband and family - no doubt feeling they have all been contaminated by the presence of the other wife in her home. They're now dork saahded too.

It is painful to watch not merely for the crazy religious stuff, but the emotional manipulation. Watching it you get the sense that her total meltdown is partly about punishing her family-- and her hate for the other woman has at least as much to do with the fear that she could somehow be replaced, as it does with the religion issue.

That's how it seemed to me. The main point of her shrieking inquisition of her family -- it felt to me like nothing less than "we all hated, hated, hated that woman" was going to satisfy her-- and religion was just the excuse.

Ish. Yoos.

re: #45 SanFranciscoZionist

'Dork sahd'. Sounds much better than 'sitra achra'.

Why would someone this culturally inflexible ever agree to be on such a show to begin with?

She's a "warrior for God". Duty and all that...

re: #50 iceweasel

It is painful to watch not merely for the crazy religious stuff, but the emotional manipulation. Watching it you get the sense that her total meltdown is partly about punishing her family-- and her hate for the other woman has at least as much to do with the fear that she could somehow be replaced, as it does with the religion issue.

That's how it seemed to me. The main point of her shrieking inquisition of her family -- it felt to me like nothing less than "we all hated, hated, hated that woman" was going to satisfy her-- and religion was just the excuse.

Ish. Yoos.

There's a lot of that. When the older girl says "So it's my fault," you can tell she's expecting that. This is where every discussion ends up. And the anger at the husband for not being 'the warrior'.

I've seen people throw fits like this who were pagan spirituality types, but emotional sisters to this lady. It's a way of using religion to exalt yourself.

re: #52 SanFranciscoZionist

There's a lot of that. When the older girl says "So it's my fault," you can tell she's expecting that. This is where every discussion ends up. And the anger at the husband for not being 'the warrior'.

I've seen people throw fits like this who were pagan spirituality types, but emotional sisters to this lady. It's a way of using religion to exalt yourself.

And provide cover for your psychosis.

re: #51 Jimmah

She's a "warrior for God". Duty and all that...

The warrior for God rhetoric always sets off alarm bells for me. Someone needs to remind the Christians who espouse it that Jesus is supposed to be the Prince of Peace.
I think maybe they skip over all that stuff and go straight to Tim LaHaye's fantasies about the End Times.

ome practicing Christians, evangelical and otherwise, along with nonchristians have shown concern that the social perspectives promoted in the Left Behind series unduly sensationalize the death and destruction of masses of people. Harvey Cox, a professor of divinity at Harvard, says part of the appeal of the books lies in the "lip-licking anticipation of all the blood," and theologian Barbara Rossing, author of The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation, said the books glorify violence.[17][18] Time magazine said "the nuclear frights of, say, Tom Clancy's The Sum of All Fears wouldn't fill a chapter in the Left Behind series. (Large chunks of several U.S. cities have been bombed to smithereens by page 110 of Book 3.)"[17]

More than one critic[who?] has pointed to a passage in Glorious Appearing in which Jesus, who is portrayed as a lamb in the Book of Revelation, slaughters millions of people:

The riders not thrown leaped from their horses and tried to control them with the reins, but even as they struggled, their own flesh dissolved, their eyes melted, and their tongues disintegrated. As Rayford watched, the soldiers stood briefly as skeletons in now-baggy uniforms, then dropped in heaps of bones as the blinded horses continued to fume and rant and rave.

Seconds later the same plague afflicted the horses, their flesh and eyes and tongues melting away, leaving grotesque skeletons standing, before they too rattled to the pavement. (pp. 273-274)

Paul Nuechterlein accused the authors of re-sacralizing violence, adding that "we human beings are the ones who put our faith in superior firepower. But in the Left Behind novels the darkness of that human, satanic violence is once again attributed to God."[19] In that same book Jesus merely speaks and the bodies of his enemies are ripped open, forcing the Christians to drive carefully to avoid "hitting splayed and filleted bodies of men and women and horses."[20]

[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

re: #50 iceweasel

It is painful to watch not merely for the crazy religious stuff, but the emotional manipulation. Watching it you get the sense that her total meltdown is partly about punishing her family-- and her hate for the other woman has at least as much to do with the fear that she could somehow be replaced, as it does with the religion issue.

That's how it seemed to me. The main point of her shrieking inquisition of her family -- it felt to me like nothing less than "we all hated, hated, hated that woman" was going to satisfy her-- and religion was just the excuse.

Ish. Yoos.

Yes, she clearly ruled that family through fear. Perhaps she felt that her family being exposed to a more normal person in her role would illuminate her own 'dork-saahd' for them, making that outburst a hysterical fit of projection more than anything else.

re: #49 Jimmah

AWESOME :)

Theme song nominee for The Movie: The Flounce Stalkers

re: #52 SanFranciscoZionist

There's a lot of that. When the older girl says "So it's my fault," you can tell she's expecting that. This is where every discussion ends up. And the anger at the husband for not being 'the warrior'.

I've seen people throw fits like this who were pagan spirituality types, but emotional sisters to this lady. It's a way of using religion to exalt yourself.

Exactly. I've seen people throw these kinds of fits regardless of what religion they espouse, if any. The emotional sisterhood of the manipulator. She's not happy until she reduces all her kids to tears.

Emotional abuse.

re: #57 iceweasel

Bad weirdness was definitively a factor, but I couldn't get the plot, what was she actually mad about and why was there a film crew in her house?

My husband just wandered through looking for a Coke, and got the short version. His comment: "not everyone is a warrior. Some people are farmers for God."

re: #58 Bagua

Bad weirdness was definitively a factor, but I couldn't get the plot, what was she actually mad about and why was there a film crew in her house?

Reality show.

Two families, usually from vastly different social classes and lifestyles, swap wives/mothers (and sometimes husbands) for two weeks. In fact, the program will usually deliberately swap wives with extreme, polar opposite lifestyles, such as a dramatically messy wife swapping with a fastidiously neat one. Despite using a phrase from the swinging lifestyle, couples participating in the show do not share a bed with the "swapped" spouse while "swapping" homes.

During the first week, the new wife must adhere to exactly the same rules and lifestyle of the wife she is replacing. Each wife leaves a house manual which explains her role in the family and the duties she holds. This almost always determines what rules the wives will apply at the "rules change ceremony".

During the second week, the new wives are allowed to establish their own rules, and their new families must adhere to these new household rules. It usually takes a while for the families to adjust to this policy.

At the end of the two weeks, the two couples all meet together for the first time, and the wives, along with their husbands, discuss how they felt about the two weeks. This often descends into personal insults and has degenerated into violence at least twice. More often than not, however, both families reach toward a middle ground and express that they have learned from the experience. Sometimes, the table meeting is a very heartfelt and emotional time for the two families who sometimes have complete and mutual respect for each other.

She was a fundie Christian, the 'other mother' was a pagan IIRC with an interest in astrology. They deliberately match these things up for maximum culture clash, so I'm guessing the 'other mother' was also a vegetarian tofu eating type while this one was not. Etc.

re: #58 Bagua

Bad weirdness was definitively a factor, but I couldn't get the plot, what was she actually mad about and why was there a film crew in her house?

That was a clip from an episode of Wife Swap. If you're unfamiliar, it is yet another 'reality' tv show where two families swap wives for a period of time. Not for sex, but for sparking tensions that grab television ratings from a certain subset of tv viewers.

I swore off 'reality' tv many, many years ago after seeing the first few episodes of the one that started it all: MTV's Real World.

re: #58 Bagua

Bad weirdness was definitively a factor, but I couldn't get the plot, what was she actually mad about and why was there a film crew in her house?

Reality tv show - "Wife Swap". Two 'contrasting' families swap wives for a week - camera follows to capture the resulting mayhem. From what I remember, she freaked out about anything that had any reference to anything outside christianity while in the other famillies house. And they were new age type hippies, so there was plenty of that there.

re: #59 SanFranciscoZionist

My husband just wandered through looking for a Coke, and got the short version. His comment: "not everyone is a warrior. Some people are farmers for God."

Hey, Isaiah would agree with that:

And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

re: #30 iceweasel

Did she happen to eat any of the children, or the other spouse?

re: #60 iceweasel

She was a fundie Christian, the 'other mother' was a pagan IIRC with an interest in astrology. They deliberately match these things up for maximum culture clash, so I'm guessing the 'other mother' was also a vegetarian tofu eating type while this one was not.

That is an incredibly unfair broad brush you are using there, Ice. I mean, how could you tell that the "God Warrior" was not a vegetarian just by looking at her? For shame!
/

re: #65 Slumbering Behemoth

That is an incredibly unfair broad brush you are using there, Ice. I mean, how could you tell that the "God Warrior" was not a vegetarian just by looking at her? For shame!
/

Heh. No really, I think I remember food being part of the clash! I swear!

re: #64 theheat

Did she happen to eat any of the children, or the other spouse?

And several other people. *shudder*

re: #65 Slumbering Behemoth

That is an incredibly unfair broad brush

If the brush fits...

I call the shrieky fundies howler monkeys.

Let me just say that whatever this lady's achievements in the fight for holiness, I do not imagine any of her borrowed children will be inspired by her example to explore Christianity. It will be a wonder if don't have intense Christianophobia requiring therapy in adulthood, or perhaps a move to Thailand.

Not only is this from the Dork Side, it is also incredibly wrong. Oh, so very wrong.

re: #63 iceweasel

Isaiah 2:4 iz kommunizm!!1! I noe, becuz Glnn Bck told mi so.

re: #66 iceweasel

Heh. No really, I think I remember food being part of the clash! I swear!

I'm sure that food of any kind always results in battle with that one.

re: #71 Slumbering Behemoth

I'm sure that food of any kind always results in battle with that one.

Not all food is friendly. :(

re: #68 SanFranciscoZionist

Let me just say that whatever this lady's achievements in the fight for holiness, I do not imagine any of her borrowed children will be inspired by her example to explore Christianity.

I'll wager that she'll have the same affect on her very own children.

re: #72 iceweasel

Linoleum Knife Bitches!

I noticed something sinister and devious about the direction of the blog,

With the active thread open on the left display and LGF Spy on the right,

The left eye follows the thread downstream

and the right eye follows Spy upstream

This leftward counter rotation operates at a random frequency,
with staccato dings

The resulting neuro-hypnosis causes an unusual tolerance for scandalous logic and reason

The effect is so startling that the weak minded snap, and join a stalker blog.

re: #73 Slumbering Behemoth

I had a shrieky fundie friend, that finally went so batshit nuts one of her kids ran away and was put in protective custody (later, the next in line also ran away). She followed the Dobson doctrine as far as discipline went. Beat, and shriek, and pray in tongues while whomping on them. No shit.

But she thought I was a bad parent because Little Heat listened to Rob Zombie, and we were letting Satan in our house.

I told her that's because Satan has all the best music. What are ya, schtoopid?

re: #61 Slumbering Behemoth

That was a clip from an episode of Wife Swap. If you're unfamiliar, it is yet another 'reality' tv show where two families swap wives for a period of time. Not for sex, but for sparking tensions that grab television ratings from a certain subset of tv viewers.

I swore off 'reality' tv many, many years ago after seeing the first few episodes of the one that started it all: MTV's Real World.

Wise move. There was a recent article about television shows that lasted a single episode, and the preponderance of reality shows is telling.

My personal fave: "Who's Your Daddy?" in which a woman adopted at birth tries to pick her biological father out of a group of eight men, with a prize of $100,000.

How the hell does this crap ever even crawl out of the concept binge, let alone into production?

Going to sleep. Night all.

/hey, always wanted to be a DJ, and now I can play one on the internet!

re: #78 SanFranciscoZionist

Good night, catch some zzzs.

re: #77 SixDegrees

I'll add that, of all the doggy shows discussed, only Jackie Gleason had the class to take an entire half-hour of prime time following the airing of his bowser, "You're In The Picture," to apologize, and to assure his audience that such an offense would never, ever happen again.

re: #78 SanFranciscoZionist

Going to sleep. Night all.

re: #65 Slumbering Behemoth

That is an incredibly unfair broad brush you are using there, Ice. I mean, how could you tell that the "God Warrior" was not a vegetarian just by looking at her? For shame!
/

Any fool can see that the self professed "God Warriors" are a little silly, but the ones that really fill me with disgust while simultaneously making me reach for my thesaurus are the loathsome, godless snark fuelled imbeciles - and those so called 'believers' who truckle to them so obsequiously - who are motivated entirely by their seething hatred (and I'm not projecting here I hasten to add - not at all) of a God they claim not to believe in. //

re: #70 Sharmuta

Isaiah 2:4 iz kommunizm!!1! I noe, becuz Glnn Bck told mi so.

Jesus was a leftie!
Collectivism!

Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.

Pacifism!

And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take thy coat also.

Community Organiser!

And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

Get a real job, hippies!

And they straightway left their nets, and followed him.

Redistribution of Wealth! Commie!

And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

Hater of the free market!

And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,

re: #84 iceweasel

And where exactly does 'Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's' fit into all of this?

re: #84 iceweasel

Jesus loves you!

Everyone else thinks you're an asshole.

re: #77 SixDegrees

How the hell does this crap ever even crawl out of the concept binge, let alone into production?

Your guess is as good as mine, but people seem to really love this 'reality' tv crap. I don't see it going away any time soon.

Oh well, silver lining? Even less time spent watching tv for me.

re: #86 Bagua

Jesus loves you!

Everyone else thinks you're an asshole.

Sounds about right.

re: #84 iceweasel

Stop it! Stop it, you big mean libruhl! I'm so confused. Stop it! I'm telling Jesus on you, and he'll send you to hell for this!1! I want my blankie. *sob*

re: #77 SixDegrees

I have no idea how they get funded, but the network and cable channels are so filled with them, sometimes I leave the TV on the music-only channels for days at a time.

re: #85 Fenway_Nation

And where exactly does 'Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's' fit into all of this?

I guess it proves that Jesus pays his income tax.

re: #85 Fenway_Nation

And where exactly does 'Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's' fit into all of this?

Paying taxes is patriotic?

re: #77 SixDegrees

Lowered standards? Lowered expectations? The Dumbing Down of America?

re: #93 Fenway_Nation

I see a Christmas train, if I'm not mistaken.

re: #93 Fenway_Nation

I think a certain demographic of people enjoy watching the misery of others on display, which is what most of these 'reality' shows boil down too IMO.

Jesus is coming. Look busy.

re: #94 theheat

Off by a month, theheat.

Think of the ice and snow as 'agents of rust'.

/No gratuitous Jennifer Tilly tie-in.

re: #93 Fenway_Nation

Lowered standards? Lowered expectations? The Dumbing Down of America?

The dumbing down of idiots. Were will this molestation of the countries values lead us... will we be no better than the Dutch? {shudder}

re: #94 theheat

I see a Christmas train, if I'm not mistaken.

Did you know you only have 73 more shopping days until Christmas?

re: #89 Sharmuta

Stop it! Stop it, you big mean libruhl! I'm so confused. Stop it! I'm telling Jesus on you, and he'll send you to hell for this!1! I want my blankie. *sob*

My favourite religious blankie moment:

re: #97 Fenway_Nation

No, what I see is the equivalent of a train that forgot to put away the Christmas swag. I have neighbors that do the same thing. But their trailers aren't shiny red.

re: #97 Fenway_Nation

/No gratuitous Jennifer Tilly tie-in.

Fine then, lazy! Do I have to do all the work for you?
/

re: #99 freetoken

That may be true, but I'm counting down the 19 days until my holiday, Halloween. I'm emotionally spent by the time Christmas rolls around.

re: #91 iceweasel

More than you can say for various levels of Barack Obama's Cabinet, I guess.

re: #102 Slumbering Behemoth

Link no worky...

Besides- already did some work along those lines.

re: #90 theheat

I have no idea how they get funded, but the network and cable channels are so filled with them, sometimes I leave the TV on the music-only channels for days at a time.

I understand the attraction to producers: they're incredibly cheap to make. No sets, no star salaries, no scriptwriters, no studio time...they cost a tiny, tiny fraction of what it costs to do even a simple sitcom of the same length.

But that doesn't excuse the abyssal quality of even the concepts involved. It's like the producers are inspired by those free diving competitions, where swimmers without breathing gear grab hold of a big hunk of lead and see how deep they can go and how fast, trying to beat each other in their race to the bottom.

re: #104 TheMatrix31

More than you can say for various levels of Barack Obama's Cabinet, I guess.

Are you calling them unpatriotic!?

//

re: #107 Fenway_Nation

Nah man, it's just a wingnut outrage.

re: #104 TheMatrix31

More than you can say for various levels of Barack Obama's Cabinet, I guess.

Don't spoil the fun with minor details. The important thing is, are these honourable men who will serve the President and carry out his agenda?

re: #103 theheat

That may be true, but I'm counting down the 19 days until my holiday, Halloween.

re: #105 Fenway_Nation

Yes. I see you've already done a lot of... er... heavy lifting there.

re: #109 Bagua

Maybe. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go lead the Bulls to another championship.

Signed,
Michael Jordan

re: #110 freetoken

It bothers me that you can do that the day it's deployed and it took me six months to figure out how to post a video.

re: #108 TheMatrix31

Nah man, it's just a wingnut outrage.

Yeppers...us right-winger are surely overreacting, since the President's done his job flawlessly so far and brought forth nothing but good legislation that will most assuredly benefit Americans from all walks of life while solidifying our economic well-being and military strength.

/By the way, I come from the planet Zombor 8, have purple skin and can part my hair with my tongue.

re: #104 TheMatrix31

More than you can say for various levels of Barack Obama's Cabinet, I guess.

hee.

re: #85 Fenway_Nation

And where exactly does 'Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's' fit into all of this?

Damn it - on top of everything else he was some species of secularist. It's people like him who are eroding religious life in America today./

re: #106 SixDegrees

Whatever they're hawking, I'm not buying. The only thing I found along those lines to follow this year was some of the boxing behind-the-scenes programs on HBO. Those I enjoyed. The other crap - crazy moms on crack, women that claimed they didn't know they were pregnant, cage fighting - I won't waste a minute of my life on those. I feel dumber just for watching them.

re: #111 Slumbering Behemoth

Yes. I see you've already done a lot of... er... heavy lifting there.

It's hard work [giggity] but somebody's gotta do it.

re: #113 Bagua

It bothers me that you can do that the day it's deployed and it took me six months to figure out how to post a video.

Ralph and Ted - it's Ted's birthday, and the tension in the local pub is palpable:

re: #115 iceweasel

hee.

The triumphalism of the sinister Left is blinding to its detractors

You may be giggling now cold one, but when Jed Bush takes back America in 2012 you’ll be put in your place.

re: #121 Bagua

Gulp.

Okay, Fenway, here's a train with balls. Literally.

Any idea whatever happened to this critter?

re: #120 Jimmah

Ralph and Ted - it's Ted's birthday, and the tension in the local pub is palpable:

That was so painful to watch...another painful pub moment. Awkward!

re: #121 Bagua

The triumphalism of the sinister Left is blinding to its detractors

You may be giggling now cold one, but when Jed Bush takes back America in 2012 you’ll be put in your place.

Methought I heard a voice cry "Sleep no more!
Bagua does murder sleep," the innocent sleep,
Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care,
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast—

re: #123 theheat

The USSR in 1934? That goes back a ways. My guess is that was probably one of the first things they scrapped to salvage materiels from when the Germans invaded.

/Definitely not safe for work

re: #126 Fenway_Nation

Too sad. It was a really cool concept. I can't find much of anything about it at all.

re: #128 theheat

Also keep in mind who was running the show in Russia back then. There probably was a bit of *erm* exaggeration on how succesful the balls train was.

Oh, the infantile nonsense that makes me laugh. I fear I will never grow up.

re: #130 Slumbering Behemoth

Oh, the infantile nonsense that makes me laugh. I fear I will never grow up.

Bookmarked. I've embraced my inner juvenile.

re: #129 Fenway_Nation

Definitely a male.

On last one from the Dork Side before I go.

G'nite, Lizards.

Morning Lizards! The East Coast Morning crew is awake.

Yeah, I think there was a theme with balls and... some other stuff. These had to be designed by men.

re: #134 rwdflynavy

Morning!

re: #136 Fenway_Nation

Morning!

Almost noon, here.

We're leaving tomorrow night. It's been a great vacation. I'm going to the shouk to get one last falafel.

(*singing at the top of my voice*)

"THERE'S A BOAT ON THE LINE; WHERE THE SEA MEETS THE SKY!"

(*Manilow in the morning*)

Just trying to write an obituary for the Red Sox season on my blog.

Tim Hawkins sings "Fire Ants"

re: #139 Fenway_Nation

Just trying to write an obituary for the Red Sox season on my blog.

What happened with Wake and Daisuke? I am thinking Theo might do a major overhaul after the lackluster finish.

Tim Hawkins homage to Creed

re: #141 soxfan4life

There's already talk of ditching Papelbon...who I can safely blame for today's loss. However, I can't blame him for only 8 hits and one run in the first two games.

re: #143 Fenway_Nation

A-Rod and Texiera would have been a nice 3-4 combo. Maybe Theo can close a deal this offseason, I know he wasn't around for the A-Rod debacle. Are they going to resign Jason Bay?

re: #144 soxfan4life

Not sure...we have all winter and fall to brood and second guess

re: #145 Fenway_Nation

Not sure...we have all winter and fall to brood and second guess

And yet we will all get excited when the equipment truck heads for Ft. Myers.

...anyone but LA.

re: #147 TheMatrix31

Anyone but NY.

You've got the Patriots.

re: #149 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

The ones that are one game above .500?

re: #150 Fenway_Nation

The ones that are one game above .500?

Well, they're still playing.

I see Red Sox Lizards are contemplating the off season...well, take heart, the team still has a great core of players though I do think the pitching staff needs adjustment. Not Papelbon though...it's not like its his fault the bats were virtually silenced by the Angels.

Team does need a catcher. Martinez won't cut it behind the plate.

re: #152 Leonidas Hoplite

Hastily Written postmordem by yours truly.

It was really cool to watch Denver's coach's celebration in his win over his old boss.

Enthusiasm is fun.

Two Americans won the Nobel prize for Economics. (see spin-off). That means the only category which didn't have at least one American winner was literature.

Say what you want to about Europeans dissing Americans, but the Nobel committee seems to think this country has produced the most brain-product.

re: #153 Fenway_Nation

Nice article. Bookmarked your blog. BTW- I agree with you about the Patriots throwback uniforms. I like the modern version much better.

If it makes you feel any better (it won't) I was at Yankee Stadium a couple of weeks back when the Evil Empire clinched the Division playing against the Sox. My son (he's 7) got his first taste of Red Sox fan bitterness and didn't care for it! It didn't help that a few Yankee idiots (and stadium staff - very nice) took the opportunity to show their true colors. Very brave of them taunting a dad with his young son.

s'ok though - they still have the mantle of the most colossal choke in sports history to wear.

Wonder how our friend laZardo is holding up...

Extra coffins needed in storm-hit Philippine area

Authorities sent more than 200 coffins Monday to the typhoon-battered northern Philippines for the grim task of burying the storm's victims, including a family of eight whose house was buried under a torrent of mud.

The nationwide death toll from landslides and flooding stood at more than 600 back-to-back storms started pounding the northern Philippines on Sept. 26. Hundreds of thousands were still displaced, and the damage from the worst flooding in 40 years ran into hundreds of millions of dollars.

The death toll was so high that some areas ran out of coffins. More than 200 wooden caskets assembled in neighboring provinces were expected in Baguio, where more funerals were planned, said regional disaster-relief director Olive Luces.

re: #155 freetoken

Two Americans won the Nobel prize for Economics.

Please tell me that actually did something.

re: #157 freetoken

Thanks.

I'm curious as to what the general consensus around here is on Alan Grayson.

re: #156 Leonidas Hoplite

Don't get me wrong- I like the throwback unis...but what was the biggest triumph in the Patriot Pat era? Getting steamrolled by the Bears in Superbowl...what- 20?

Three Vince Lombardi trophys later, I can live with the 'Flying Elvis'...

Safe to say the economics who won the Nobel Prize don't work in Congress or are the President of the United States.

re: #158 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Please tell me that actually did something.

Well, it added to the pocket money of the two winners...

re: #158 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Please tell me they actually did something.

PIMF

re: #161 Fenway_Nation

Don't get me wrong- I like the throwback unis...but what was the biggest triumph in the Patriot Pat era? Getting steamrolled by the Bears in Superbowl...what- 20?

Three Vince Lombardi trophys later, I can live with the 'Flying Elvis'...

Could be worse, those Seahawk uni's the other week were horrible.

re: #161 Fenway_Nation

I'm guessing the Denver players were pretty pissed when they saw what they had to wear yesterday. Perhaps that helped motivate them. Maybe that's why they played angry.

re: #166 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

San Diego Padres of the gridiron...

re: #161 Fenway_Nation

Flying Elvis? Funny.

Heard someone on ESPN call the Tennessee Titans the "Flaming Thumbtacks" from their logo. That was flippin' funny!

Sounds like the Spfd, IL power plant is having major problems again...

Sounds like a jet engine revving, for about 20 minutes now...

Lil' Kim fired off two more missiles.

re: #171 MandyManners

Lil' Kim fired off two more missiles.

I love the sound of rockets in the morning. It sounds like...a fist unclenching.

re: #172 Leonidas Hoplite

I love the sound of rockets in the morning. It sounds like...a fist unclenching.

Which is louder than one hand clapping.

Good morning, Lizards. It is officially winter, as the inch or so of snow on the ground will testify. Happy global warming to all.

I am very sad.

Mr. Polanski's say that he is depressed in jail.
/
(thought the idea of jail is that it is not supposed to be comfortable)

re: #171 MandyManners

Lil' Kim fired off two more missiles.

Good morning Mandy.

Here is a link.

SEOUL, Oct 12 (Reuters) - North Korea has fired five short-range missiles off its east coast and declared a 'no sail' zone in the area from Oct. 10-20, South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted a government source as saying on Monday.

South Korean government officials were not immediately available for comment.

The latest launches, the first in about three months, come as Pyongyang has said it is ready to return to international talks on its nuclear weapons programme, though it has insisted it holds talks first with the United States.

It was not clear whether these were routine military exercises.

But they coincided with local media reports that the United States is planning to send its aircraft carrier USS George Washington to the South Korean port of Busan on Tuesday.

re: #176 njdhockeyfan

Makes me all warm and fuzzy.

re: #175 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I am very sad.

Mr. Polanski's lawyers say that he is depressed in jail.
/
(thought the idea of jail is that it is not supposed to be comfortable)

I am PIMF'n this morning...

re: #177 MandyManners

Makes me all warm and fuzzy.

Come on, Mandy. You just gotta HOPE a little harder. Then he'll CHANGE. You'll see.

/It's too early to play Hopenchange (tm) drinking games

re: #179 thedopefishlives

Come on, Mandy. You just gotta HOPE a little harder. Then he'll CHANGE. You'll see.

/It's too early to play Hopenchange (tm) drinking games

It's 5:00 p.m. somewhere.

re: #177 MandyManners

Makes me all warm and fuzzy.

The president will issue a statement saying he is 'deeply concerned' later.

re: #180 MandyManners

It's 5:00 p.m. somewhere.

Yes, but in the cold and snowy north country, it's 7:30 and I didn't sleep well. Kim Jong Il can chew on the end of a Minuteman III for all I care.

re: #170 Taqyia2Me

Sounds like a jet engine revving, for about 20 minutes now...

Still going on...

Good morning lizards.

Morning all.

Morning Irish Rose and Danny.

re: #184 Irish Rose

Good morning Rose,
I hope you had a wonderful time on your birthday

re: #184 Irish Rose

Good morning lizards.

Morning, {Rose}. I trust everything is okay over on the other big lake?

"In my wildest dreams," declared Vice President Joe Biden, painting the stimulus as an unqualified success in a speech to the nation's governors on September 24, "I never thought it would work this well.

[Link: spectator.org...]

the economy has lost 2.7 million jobs since the "most sweeping" stimulus bill was signed into law in February.

re: #188 thedopefishlives

Morning, {Rose}. I trust everything is okay over on the other big lake?

Cold and gloomy, I'm bringing in the lawn furniture today... battening down the hatches for winter.

And thanks reggie, I had a wonderful birthday.
Did the usual color tour with sweetie, and my children treated me to a birthday dinner at Red Lobster.

re: #189 albusteve

"In my wildest dreams," declared Vice President Joe Biden, painting the stimulus as an unqualified success in a speech to the nation's governors on September 24, "I never thought it would work this well.

[Link: spectator.org...]

the economy has lost 2.7 million jobs since the "most sweeping" stimulus bill was signed into law in February.

Maybe Joe could define complete f***ing abstract failure for us.///

re: #190 Irish Rose

At least it's not snowing on your side of the shore. Here in the Twin Cities area, we're getting blanketed with the stuff. Granted, it'll probably disappear by tomorrow and it looks to warm up next week, but it's the principle of the thing.

re: #191 soxfan4life

Maybe Joe could define complete f***ing abstract failure for us.///

Joe and his red rubber nose...cap and trade would be the nail in the coffin...and it's all intentional

re: #192 thedopefishlives

At least it's not snowing on your side of the shore. Here in the Twin Cities area, we're getting blanketed with the stuff. Granted, it'll probably disappear by tomorrow and it looks to warm up next week, but it's the principle of the thing.

Snow sux.

re: #193 albusteve

Joe and his red rubber nose...cap and trade would be the nail in the coffin...and it's all intentional

For all of her faults, it amazes me that the RNC let the press and everyone else beat up on Sarah Palin while this freakin idiot gets a free pass.

Whoa, someone is up early.

re: #194 Irish Rose

Snow sux.

Honestly, I like the stuff. It's just that I like fall more. Plus, I'm worried what this is going to do with the Midwest crop harvest this year. I've been worried about it ever since the late planting due to the monsoon-like spring.

re: #195 soxfan4life

For all of her faults, it amazes me that the RNC let the press and everyone else beat up on Sarah Palin while this freakin idiot gets a free pass.

what a miserable combination of factors...the donks have been set up as Golden

I would like add a quick response to the previous Dobson thread. I would love to stick around, but I have a frosty roof I have to get and and nail down some plywood (only 20 square). I disagree with Charle's terminology, Dobson suggested that the Civil War divided the country, which I believe not to necessarily mean blowin stuff up and brother killing brother, just divisive. My main point, respectfully Charles, is that you are way too hard Repubs and the religious right, such that when a news story comes out, I can predict your response. I appreciate you outing the loons, but when it's down to nuttin up and shuttin up (Zombieland is a good movie!) The liberals will do that 24-7, regardless, on prime time tv, all day, no matter how small the matter, no matter if we out them first. United we stand, divided we fall.
Thanks for letting me vent a little. Anyone not afraid of heights come on by, gotta get this roof done before the snow flies.

re: #199 Shropshire_Slasher
I'm there in spirit!
Be safe!Gravity sucks!

re: #199 Shropshire_Slasher

[...] United we stand, divided we fall.
Thanks for letting me vent a little. [...]

Whose this "we" paleface?

You may wish to unite with a partisan group and ignore their faults, others are more open minded.

Do you have a list of acceptable topics you'd like to post for guidance? Here's the email address for you to use:

blogtopics@deleted-rants.com