Nice to see, but I've spent my Christmas budget. No more.

Posted downstairs, but if anyone missed it, here is the GOP at Copenhagen:

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Joe Barton, lecturing on the scientific method.

Joe Barton...

While I'm sure those are nice deals, I got the coolest gift for my wife... two tickets to the stage production of "Young Frankenstein".

Husband win!

Hmmm, might have to go look!

I bought the Logitech Harmony One Universal Remote (It's $10 less today than I paid for it yesterday, grr!) and the Yamaha YAS-71BL Front Surround System. Great deals to be had!

re: #3 MrSilverDragon

While I'm sure those are nice deals, I got the coolest gift for my wife... two tickets to the stage production of "Young Frankenstein".

Husband win!

Put. The. Candle. Back.

re: #5 baier

I bought the Logitech Harmony One Universal Remote (It's $10 less today than I paid for it yesterday, grr!) and the Yamaha YAS-71BL Front Surround System. Great deals to be had!

Good heavens. Any more buttons on that remote and you'll have the access code to NORAD.

re: #5 baier

I bought the Logitech Harmony One Universal Remote (It's $10 less today than I paid for it yesterday, grr!) and the Yamaha YAS-71BL Front Surround System. Great deals to be had!

That remote is forking awesome. I'm holding one right...now.

Iraqis say Iran has seized oil well in Southern Iraq

Iranian security forces seized an oil well in southern Iraq on Thursday night, two senior Iraqi government officials said Friday.

re: #7 vxbush

Good heavens. Any more buttons on that remote and you'll have the access code to NORAD.

I've been eying it for awhile, and Locker and Charles both gave it the thumbs up, so I decided to go for it!

re: #9 Locker

Iraqis say Iran has seized oil well in Southern Iraq

According to Bloomberg, it's well number 4 in the al-Fakah region. It's an old oil field that is no longer producing.

re: #6 Mad Al-Jaffee

Put. The. Candle. Back.

Give him the sedagive?!?!?

Meanwhile, back in Copenhagen...

Ban Ki Moon was supposed to give a press conference, along with the head of the UNFCCC, on what I suppose was a summary of what, if anything, was concluded after the day's negotiations.

It's an hour late, and now only lists the UNFCCC as the briefer... so I take it Ban won't show up. Wonder if that is an attempt at face saving, or if he is in a hurry to get to some photo-op.

The worker bees are still going at it in the plenary, planning for next year's meeting in Mexico. Any odds on if they will have worked out a treaty by then?

re: #3 MrSilverDragon

While I'm sure those are nice deals, I got the coolest gift for my wife... two tickets to the stage production of "Young Frankenstein".

I never saw the stage production. Does it follow the plan of the movie? There's one particular line in that movie that has many applications in the world today and is in no danger of being overworked. "You are talking about the nonsensical ravings of a lunatic mind."

re: #10 baier

I've been eying it for awhile, and Locker and Charles both gave it the thumbs up, so I decided to go for it!

So if we change DEFCON in the next week, I can put the blame on you.

I'm watching you.

/

re: #14 John Neverbend

I never saw the stage production. Does it follow the plan of the movie? There's one particular line in that movie that has many applications in the world today and is in no danger of being overworked. "You are talking about the nonsensical ravings of a lunatic mind."

I think it's a musical, like The Producers. I'm not sure though.

re: #11 John Neverbend

According to Bloomberg, it's well number 4 in the al-Fakah region. It's an old oil field that is no longer producing.

So this is basically 'capture the flag' for heavily armed grown men?

re: #8 Locker

My in-laws have it, and I don't think they have a clue as to its true power and intent. It makes the Dark Side of the Force look like child's play.

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re: #16 Mad Al-Jaffee

I think it's a musical, like The Producers. I'm not sure though.

Well, sure. We have to have "Puttin' on the Ritz."

re: #12 John Neverbend

Give him the sedagive?!?!?

Abby who?

re: #14 John Neverbend

Yes, it was very much like the movie. Saw it on Broadway and thought it was quite good and a homage to the original.

re: #18 lawhawk

My in-laws have it, and I don't think they have a clue as to its true power and intent. It makes the Dark Side of the Force look like child's play.

How easy would it be to nab the codes to control your neighbor's TV, DVD player, and satellite dish? And then program them into your controller?

/wicked, I is

re: #18 lawhawk

That reminds me of the South Park episode where Chef gets a fancy new tv and can't figure out how to use it.

re: #13 freetoken

Any odds on if they will have worked out a treaty by then?

The answer to that is often the first sentence of a proof in mathematical analysis "given any epsilon > 0, no matter how small..."

re: #9 Locker

Iraqis say Iran has seized oil well in Southern Iraq

Source says it's a fairly common occurance. Like two rival street gangs spray painting their "colors" on a brick wall. One does it, then while they're not looking, the other comes in and paints over it

re: #24 Mad Al-Jaffee

That reminds me of the South Park episode where Chef gets a fancy new tv and can't figure out how to use it.

I just saw a rerun of the episode where Chef almost gets married. I love that episode. The running gag with Chef's parents and the Loch Ness monster is absolutely amazing.

re: #27 SanFranciscoZionist

I just saw a rerun of the episode where Chef almost gets married. I love that episode. The running gag with Chef's parents and the Loch Ness monster is absolutely amazing.

"He wanted three fiddy."

re: #21 brookly red

Abby who?

A few years before Young Frankenstein, Marty Feldman had his own comedy show on British TV. It was fairly good, as I recall.

Arab Paper: Iran to target Netanyahu if nuclear sites attacked

The Kuwaiti newspaper al-Sayissa reported Wednesday that Iran has urgently summoned either Syrian Vice President Farouk Sharaa or Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem and Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah. They are apparently being called to the Iranian capital to receive orders to be carried out in the event of Iranian nuclear sites being targeted in war, Israel Radio reported.

The newspaper quoted a Gulf state diplomat as saying that Nasrallah will travel to Teheran in the coming days in order to receive his marching-orders.

Iranian opposition organizations in Paris told the newspaper that the Iranian intelligence apparatus has established a bank of targets including political leaders and others, who would be targeted if the Iranian sites are attacked.

According to the report, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is among those who would be targeted for assasination, as well as Defense Minister Ehud Barak and others from the UK, France, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

The Jerusalem Post could not independently confirm the report.

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re: #31 Thanos

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Passed.

re: #28 Mad Al-Jaffee

"He wanted three fiddy."

"I gave him a dollar."

re: #31 Thanos

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What did you win?

re: #29 John Neverbend

A few years before Young Frankenstein, Marty Feldman had his own comedy show on British TV. It was fairly good, as I recall.

His episode of The Muppet Show is hilarious.

re: #31 Thanos

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Alabama?

Ok you can log in from Blackberries if you enable cookies, and you can comment. You can't use "reply" or the other buttons unless you have java enabled in your mobile browser.

re: #26 sattv4u2

Source says it's a fairly common occurance. Like two rival street gangs spray painting their "colors" on a brick wall. One does it, then while they're not looking, the other comes in and paints over it

I'm sure it's just my day off wake n bake but that made me laugh. Thanks man. I need to make a "Colors" spoof starring Iraq and Iran.

Time to move along, I have the last scraps of Christmas shopping to complete, back later.

I think the Spy mode works better for most mobile phones because the HTML page is much smaller. (Not the "Master Spy," the thread spy -- the green magnifying glass at bottom right of each post.)

re: #23 vxbush

How easy would it be to nab the codes to control your neighbor's TV, DVD player, and satellite dish? And then program them into your controller?

/wicked, I is

All you have to know is what brand/model of TV they have and real good batteries in your remote
Would also depend on the sensor of their device. If it's infrared, you would need to sneak up to their window and aim the remote at the TV. If the device has little antenna on it to pick up the signal without aiming right at it ,, you're in bidness

re: #37 Thanos

Ok you can log in from Blackberries if you enable cookies, and you can comment. You can't use "reply" or the other buttons unless you have java enabled in your mobile browser.

Crackberries also will not load long comment threads

re: #30 NJDhockeyfan

Iran as Khan? They're working on their own "genesis" device - a nuke that would wipe out Israel, and they don't have to hit just Bibi; they can take out the whole country.

/You've managed to kill everyone else, but like a poor marksman, you keep missing the target! - JT Kirk

re: #40 Charles

I think the Spy mode works better for most mobile phones because the HTML page is much smaller. (Not the "Master Spy," the thread spy -- the green magnifying glass at bottom right of each post.)

Thanks, I'll give that a try

re: #23 vxbush

Seeing how most electronics use a 3 or 4 digit code, it should take 9999 combinations to get the right ones, or if you know the brands, you can find cheat sheets that give you the generally used codes.

re: #37 Thanos

The standard browser?

re: #45 lawhawk

Seeing how most electronics use a 3 or 4 digit code, it should take 9999 combinations to get the right ones, or if you know the brands, you can find cheat sheets that give you the generally used codes.

I just have this huge mean streak that would love to control a neighbor's TV, just for an evening, so they can freak out trying to figure out why their remote isn't working, why the TV keeps changing channels, etc.

re: #24 Mad Al-Jaffee

That reminds me of the South Park episode where Chef gets a fancy new tv and can't figure out how to use it.

Such a shame that Isaac Hayes couldn't take a joke like the rest of us. How many times has Jesus been on that show - the rest of us laugh every time. Scientologists may not kill many folks, but they do have a Taliban-esque sensitivity to jokes...

OT, but this long-overdue decision just gives me the holiday fuzzies:

(from WBAL.com)

Baltimore public arts officials have finally decided on where to place a statue of the late Baltimore-born rock musician, Frank Zappa.

The site chosen is in front of the Southeast Anchor library in Highlandtown, according to Roswell Encina, Director of Communications for the Enoch Pratt Free Library.

"One of our hurdles is to try to get new people to come into the Pratt library and we're hoping with the Frank Zappa statue, we'll attract Frank Zappa fans and people who normally wouldn't go to the library," said Encina.

The statue of Zappa was donated over a year ago by a Lithuanian Zappa fan club. Since that time, city officials have looked at various places to put the 15-foot piece of art, including Fells Point and Patterson Park.

Encina said the bust will be placed right in front of the library at Eastern and Conkling. He is not sure when the actual dedication will happen.

Encina added that he is hopeful that both locals and tourists from around the country will find it relatively easy to get to Zappa.

"If anybody was given directions how to find it, it's easier to say it's right in front of the library."

The statue is valued at around $50,000, according to reports. Zappa died in 1993 from prostate cancer at the age of 52.

re: #48 Aceofwhat?

Oh, I could not agree more. I used to love watching Chef, and often thought "there's a guy with a healthy sense of humor about himself".

Now, not so much.

Still got about 100 minutes to get Tom Waits' Glitter and Doom Live for $5.

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