Another classic cover from the Lizard Collection’s Marvel section: Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Dick Ayers at the height of their talents, originally published in January 1966.
This great team of artists would re-imagine the same concept two years later, on a smaller scale, in Captain America #104.
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Soap_Man Mon, Aug 9, 2010 6:54:15pm |
I'm sure this question has been answered, but where the hell did Charles get all the kick-ass comic books?
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Nimed Mon, Aug 9, 2010 6:55:01pm |
Will this comment end up in my email account? Stay tuned, folks.
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Nimed Mon, Aug 9, 2010 7:02:18pm |
Hmm, not getting anything. Charles, did you set up the mail bot to filter one's own comments?
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Four More Tears Mon, Aug 9, 2010 7:04:19pm |
re: #3 Nimed
Hmm, not getting anything. Charles, did you set up the mail bot to filter one's own comments?
Literally just wants to hear himself talk...
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Kragar Mon, Aug 9, 2010 7:06:20pm |
I don't know why, but never really followed the Avengers much.
Freak Force was cool though.
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Racer X Mon, Aug 9, 2010 7:07:01pm |
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Nimed Mon, Aug 9, 2010 7:07:15pm |
re: #4 JasonA
Literally just wants to hear himself talk...
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:D
Thanks, man. It's working. I got comment #3 and your comment.
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Aug 9, 2010 7:07:43pm |
re: #1 Soap_Man
I'm sure this question has been answered, but where the hell did Charles get all the kick-ass comic books?
That issue has the Avengers fighting Kang the Conquerer, if memory serves.
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Aug 9, 2010 7:08:14pm |
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Cato the Elder Mon, Aug 9, 2010 7:12:45pm |
Sawah Pawin soon on Discovewy Channew!
We wiww show you the reaw Amewica, with aww the wawts and bwemishes! But you won't see me getting my asshowe wipped wide open by "peopwe" who don't wike me, because that's not what I'm getting paid fow. I'm hewe to show you an Amewica wike you've nevew seen befowe, one that Pamewa Gellew would be pwoud of, if she ever ventuwed beyond the safety of hew apawtment in Bigotville, NY, wewe she gets gawanteed vodka dewivewies, or youw money back!"
This message brought to you by Citizens for Universal Brain-Death.
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Gus Mon, Aug 9, 2010 7:14:21pm |
re: #12 Cato the Elder
Sawah Pawin soon on Discovewy Channew!
We wiww show you the reaw Amewica, with aww the wawts and bwemishes! But you won't see me getting my asshowe wipped wide open by "peopwe" who don't wike me, because that's not what I'm getting paid fow. I'm hewe to show you an Amewica wike you've nevew seen befowe, one that Pamewa Gellew would be pwoud of, if she ever ventuwed beyond the safety of hew apawtment in Bigotville, NY, wewe she gets gawanteed vodka dewivewies, or youw money back!"
This message brought to you by Citizens for Universal Brain-Death.
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jamesfirecat Mon, Aug 9, 2010 7:16:16pm |
re: #12 Cato the Elder
Sawah Pawin soon on Discovewy Channew!
We wiww show you the reaw Amewica, with aww the wawts and bwemishes! But you won't see me getting my asshowe wipped wide open by "peopwe" who don't wike me, because that's not what I'm getting paid fow. I'm hewe to show you an Amewica wike you've nevew seen befowe, one that Pamewa Gellew would be pwoud of, if she ever ventuwed beyond the safety of hew apawtment in Bigotville, NY, wewe she gets gawanteed vodka dewivewies, or youw money back!"
This message brought to you by Citizens for Universal Brain-Death.
I have nothing more to say.
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Aug 9, 2010 7:19:32pm |
re: #13 Gus 802
The Latin in the background is "vox veritas vita" which can be translated as "Speak the truth as a way of life.", which is not a motto that fits well with Sarah Palin. I'll leave to Cato to find a fitting Latin motto for her.
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Gus Mon, Aug 9, 2010 7:21:45pm |
re: #16 Dark_Falcon
The Latin in the background is "vox veritas vita" which can be translated as "Speak the truth as a way of life.", which is not a motto that fits well with Sarah Palin. I'll leave to Cato to find a fitting Latin motto for her.
Sarah Palin's teleprompter is really a See 'n Say.
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Nimed Mon, Aug 9, 2010 7:23:32pm |
re: #7 Charles
Patience, grasshoppers. Patience.
The feature works really well in gmail.
1- Each LGF blog post originates a single thread in gmail (every comment is treated as a reply). So it's not actually necessary to create a filter to keep your gmail account from getting swamped;
2- The header of each comment has a link to the corresponding comment in LGF. Very handy if you want to see the html tags that aren't processed in your email.
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Aug 9, 2010 7:29:35pm |
re: #19 Gus 802
Ugh, another one.
[Video]
Nasty little snot. He'd fit right in alongside Snooki.
/spits
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Killgore Trout Mon, Aug 9, 2010 7:30:25pm |
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Cato the Elder Mon, Aug 9, 2010 7:30:59pm |
When challenged by an Alaskan woman who asks what she's been doing since she quit her job, Sawah Pawin says:
"What am I dewing? To ewect candidates hew undewstand teh constitewshun, tew pwotect ouw miwitawy intewests, so dat we can keep on fightin' fow ouw constitewshun an' those pwotections an' fweedubs that..."
More word salad from the twitter twat (in the British sense).
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Gus Mon, Aug 9, 2010 7:31:39pm |
re: #21 Killgore Trout
Well, at least he won a beer bong.
Yeah. Looks a little young for a beer bong. His voice is still breaking.
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Gus Mon, Aug 9, 2010 7:32:40pm |
re: #22 Cato the Elder
When challenged by an Alaskan woman who asks what she's been doing since she quit her job, Sawah Pawin says:
"What am I dewing? To ewect candidates hew undewstand teh constitewshun, tew pwotect ouw miwitawy intewests, so dat we can keep on fightin' fow ouw constitewshun an' those pwotections an' fweedubs that..."
More word salad from the twitter twat (in the British sense).
Shouldn't that be candiwates?
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Killgore Trout Mon, Aug 9, 2010 7:33:03pm |
re: #23 Gus 802
Yeah. Looks a little young for a beer bong. His voice is still breaking.
Bullshit. You're never too young for a beer bong.
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Cato the Elder Mon, Aug 9, 2010 7:33:35pm |
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Cato the Elder Mon, Aug 9, 2010 7:35:00pm |
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Gus Mon, Aug 9, 2010 7:35:06pm |
re: #25 Killgore Trout
Bullshit. You're never too young for a beer bong.
Yeah, but he'll probably use as an enema.
//
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Gus Mon, Aug 9, 2010 7:36:49pm |
re: #28 Cato the Elder
Funny. I still pwefew beew fwom weaw gwass bottwes.
Fwom Wisconsin wor a bwewery in Whode Whyland?
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Soap_Man Mon, Aug 9, 2010 7:39:34pm |
re: #19 Gus 802
Ugh, another one.
[Video]
First of all, why is the Burger King, um, King there? Is he a villain too?
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Soap_Man Mon, Aug 9, 2010 7:40:12pm |
re: #32 Soap_Man
First of all, why is the Burger King, um, King there? Is he a villain too?
I probably should have included a "second" in there somewhere.
Oh, PBR.
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Stanghazi Mon, Aug 9, 2010 7:40:16pm |
Hilarious story
A frustrated JetBlue flight attendant allegedly fled his plane via emergency chute -- beer in hand -- after getting into a fight with a passenger and then cursing out the entire cabin over a loudspeaker.
Quitting in style.
[Link: abcnews.go.com...]
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Aug 9, 2010 7:40:30pm |
re: #31 Gus 802
Fwom Wisconsin wor a bwewery in Whode Whyland?
Wisconsin, of course!
(I'm from Illinois, gotta show regional pride.)
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Gus Mon, Aug 9, 2010 7:40:40pm |
re: #32 Soap_Man
First of all, why is the Burger King, um, King there? Is he a villain too?
Probably a McDonald's fan.
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Aug 9, 2010 7:41:42pm |
re: #34 Stanley Sea
Hilarious story
Quitting in style.
[Link: abcnews.go.com...]
He'll laugh at that till he tries to get unemployment, then he'll start crying. That counts as a Stupid Flounce in my book.
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Soap_Man Mon, Aug 9, 2010 7:42:01pm |
re: #34 Stanley Sea
Hilarious story
Quitting in style.
[Link: abcnews.go.com...]
Did he do a cartwheel when he got down to the tarmac?
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Gus Mon, Aug 9, 2010 7:42:30pm |
re: #37 Dark_Falcon
He'll laugh at that till he tries to get unemployment, then he'll start crying. That counts as a Stupid Flounce in my book.
And prison time.
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bratwurst Mon, Aug 9, 2010 7:43:07pm |
re: #34 Stanley Sea
Hilarious story
Quitting in style.
[Link: abcnews.go.com...]
Whoa, my ex is a FA for JetBlue...will have to hit her up for the details!
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Stanghazi Mon, Aug 9, 2010 7:44:55pm |
re: #40 bratwurst
Whoa, my ex is a FA for JetBlue...will have to hit her up for the details!
I want to see a photo of him going down the chute, beer in hand.
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Charles Johnson Mon, Aug 9, 2010 7:46:40pm |
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Ojoe Mon, Aug 9, 2010 7:46:41pm |
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Ojoe Mon, Aug 9, 2010 7:47:28pm |
re: #44 Ojoe
The dome on the 100 inch Hale telescope is opening too.
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Aug 9, 2010 7:55:41pm |
And since James is here, its time for tonight's D&D LGF crossover. Tonight's segment is not a monster encounter, but rather an interlude.
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You pass down a corridor and come to another door. Unlike the one's you've seen so far, this one is smaller and made of iron, not stone. You push it open and emerge into a shop. A rack to your right has an assortment of ranged weapons, from crossbows to rifles, while a display case ahead of you contains an assortment of rings. To the left is a statue of Dorkus, Prince of Blogstalking. The statue's butt has a glowing red shoeprint of the player who struck the killing blow against the Aspect of Dorkus in the first encounter of this chapter. The shopkeeper, a jovial goblin figure, sits behind the ring case. He says "Welcome to my shop. Feel free to look at anything, but don't touch anything you aren't prepared to buy." Players may look at items and buy those they like. The weapons conform to normal stats, but the rings are unique in many cases. The Unique rings are described below for the Dungeon Master, who should describe the phisical appearance of each such ring to the players, along with their prices. Players may ask the shopkeeper about the rings and haggle about the price, wit the DM deciding on the difficulty rating of any needed roles based on the cost of the ring and the player characters skills.
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Gus Mon, Aug 9, 2010 7:57:24pm |
re: #43 Charles
Weird. The whole thing looks like it's been rehearsed. Including the person questioning them.
And Alan Keyes? lol Too much.
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jamesfirecat Mon, Aug 9, 2010 7:58:32pm |
re: #46 Dark_Falcon
And since James is here, its time for tonight's D&D LGF crossover. Tonight's segment is not a monster encounter, but rather an interlude.
---You pass down a corridor and come to another door. Unlike the one's you've seen so far, this one is smaller and made of iron, not stone. You push it open and emerge into a shop. A rack to your right has an assortment of ranged weapons, from crossbows to rifles, while a display case ahead of you contains an assortment of rings. To the left is a statue of Dorkus, Prince of Blogstalking. The statue's butt has a glowing red shoeprint of the player who struck the killing blow against the Aspect of Dorkus in the first encounter of this chapter. The shopkeeper, a jovial goblin figure, sits behind the ring case. He says "Welcome to my shop. Feel free to look at anything, but don't touch anything you aren't prepared to buy." Players may look at items and buy those they like. The weapons conform to normal stats, but the rings are unique in many cases. The Unique rings are described below for the Dungeon Master, who should describe the phisical appearance of each such ring to the players, along with their prices. Players may ask the shopkeeper about the rings and haggle about the price, wit the DM deciding on the difficulty rating of any needed roles based on the cost of the ring and the player characters skills.
Umm... I know narrative convenience but why is there a shop right in the middle of this deadly dangerous dungeon? Does this Goblin make his living selling weapons to the crazy pants people you've just had to fight through?
If not then who?
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Cato the Elder Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:00:43pm |
re: #43 Charles
And shit still stinks.
Andy sez:
By the way, my dad called me wanting to know when a DVD of the press conference would be available. Praise God!
Why, in the name of Allah/God/Gott/Dieu/Dio/Dios/Dominus/Wittgenstein/Socrates/Cthulhu and Shaitan keep their fucking families out of this shite?
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Kragar Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:01:25pm |
re: #49 jamesfirecat
Umm... I know narrative convenience but why is there a shop right in the middle of this deadly dangerous dungeon? Does this Goblin make his living selling weapons to the crazy pants people you've just had to fight through?
If not then who?
Step 2) disbelieve illusion
Step 3) Fireball, just in case
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goddamnedfrank Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:01:40pm |
re: #41 Stanley Sea
I want to see a photo of him going down the chute, beer in hand.
It really is a beautiful story.
re: #37 Dark_Falcon
He'll laugh at that till he tries to get unemployment, then he'll start crying. That counts as a Stupid Flounce in my book.
Booo. Getting struck in the head is not part of the job description. Most people would lose their shit.
This is modern America, so let's not lose perspective. He didn't murder anybody and went out hilariously, win-win.
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MandyManners Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:01:52pm |
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Ojoe Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:01:53pm |
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:02:33pm |
re: #49 jamesfirecat
Umm... I know narrative convenience but why is there a shop right in the middle of this deadly dangerous dungeon? Does this Goblin make his living selling weapons to the crazy pants people you've just had to fight through?
If not then who?
He has sold guns to some of the foes players have faced. In fact, he's just sold a GPMG to a character the players will encounter next. He also has something of value in his shop that explains why it isn't attacked. More on that in a minute.re: #47 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Step one) Charm Person on the shopkeeper
If a player has such a spell, they can use it. They may not however, harm the shopkeeper without dire consequences. Those will be detailed below.
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Cato the Elder Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:03:58pm |
re: #52 Cato the Elder
PIMF: "...why can't these people..."
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webevintage Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:04:10pm |
Oh goody Jon Stewart and the 14 amendment......
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Cato the Elder Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:04:29pm |
re: #55 MandyManners
Go change your avatar, you falsely pious piece of feces.
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Killgore Trout Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:04:39pm |
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Gus Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:05:03pm |
re: #52 Cato the Elder
Why, in the name of Allah/God/Gott/Dieu/Dio/Dios/Dominus/Wittgenstein/ Socrates/Cthulhu and Shaitan keep their fucking families out of this shite?
Lloyd Marcus's dad.
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:05:45pm |
re: #54 goddamnedfrank
Booo. Getting struck in the head is not part of the job description. Most people would lose their shit.
This is modern America, so let's not lose perspective. He didn't murder anybody and went out hilariously, win-win.
It was funny, but he'd still not get unemployment after quitting like that. And its not a good idea to quit a job without another lined up. It makes you look flaky. But now I'm taking the story too seriously. I'll stop, because it really is quite funny.
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Charles Johnson Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:06:39pm |
I see that David Yerushalmi is now being quoted by newspapers as an opponent of the Park51 project.
This is a formerly open white supremacist wacko, who tried to hide the evidence of his racist views when exposed.
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]
[Link: www.talk2action.org...]
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Kragar Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:07:26pm |
Great D+D moment
DM: "OK, you come across a small, well tended log cabin. There is a garden patch full of herbs and vegetables. An old woman is making her way off the porch to greet you."
Barbarian: "I unlimber my battle axe and move to attack."
DM: "WHAT?!"
Barbarian: "We've been fighting Orcs and Ogres for 2 days, there are signs of a Werewolf and the villagers in the last town were all scared shitless of the woods. And we're supposed to believe this old lady is fine like this on her own out here?"
DM: "sigh...roll for initiative."
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Spare O'Lake Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:08:04pm |
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Four More Tears Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:10:10pm |
Crikey. Jon Stewart's on vacation again? Who does this guy think he is? Obama?
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Walter L. Newton Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:11:12pm |
re: #66 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Great D+D moment
DM: "OK, you come across a small, well tended log cabin. There is a garden patch full of herbs and vegetables. An old woman is making her way off the porch to greet you."
Barbarian: "I unlimber my battle axe and move to attack."
DM: "WHAT?!"
Barbarian: "We've been fighting Orcs and Ogres for 2 days, there are signs of a Werewolf and the villagers in the last town were all scared shitless of the woods. And we're supposed to believe this old lady is fine like this on her own out here?"
DM: "sigh...roll for initiative."
Barbarian: You're about to be eaten by a grue.
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Kragar Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:13:09pm |
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A Man for all Seasons Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:16:06pm |
re: #58 MandyManners
Hi Mandy! I had the weirdest lunch tonight in Oklahoma.. I go to the Cafe to have a Chicken fried steak and Veggies.. I'm sitting by myself when the VP sat next to me..Then then GM sat at my table..Then the project leader sits down.
I was terrified..What that hell? I don't recall ever being so intimidated in my life...I have never been so scared when the VP of one of the largest companies in the world sits down across from me and asks how everything is going...Terrified...I spent an hour explaining the issues...
Good Lord...I hope I did ok..Cause if not...Uh oh.. I think I did ok...
Scared the living F*ck out of me...
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MandyManners Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:16:51pm |
re: #62 Killgore Trout
The hips that haunt my dreams.
Oh, I get it.
How are thd frogs?
Wh have a wild situation here!
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:17:28pm |
Unique Rings
The Flaming Ring
This ring features a large ruby cut in the shape of a flame.
Power: the Flaming Ring gives the user the power to flame those who anger him or her. It may be used intentionally twice per adventure. When the user triggers it by insulting the target and pointing the ring at them, it ring shoots out a stream of fire that does 5D10 points of damage to the target and automatically stuns it. Double this effect against Trolls, Wingnuts and Moonbats.
Weakness: If the user gets very angry at someone, there is a chance they will lose control of the ring and have it go off accidentally (representing a loss of temper). If the DM thinks such a case is happening, he should secretly roll 2D6. On a roll of 8+, the ring attacks the object of the player's ire on its own. The target takes 3D10 damage, but may reduce it by 25% and avoid being stunned with a save (only for unintentional attacks, deliberate uses of the rings cannot be lessened with a save). An unintentional use of the ring costs the user 3D6 Karma points plus they are also flamed for 1D10 damage (no save possible).
Price: $30,000 gold.
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Gus Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:18:18pm |
re: #65 Charles
I see that David Yerushalmi is now being quoted by newspapers in connection with the Park51 project.
This is an open white supremacist wacko, who tried to hide the evidence of his racist views when exposed.
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]
[Link: www.talk2action.org...]
Looks like he got Wayback to block the archive now. I was able to find the following:
Here’s some more from Saneworks for you:
Jew Hatred? Why do some conservatives focus so much criticism and even vitriol on the Jews?
Example Quote: “The conservative variety simply professes to uncover the many and varied ways Jews destroy their host nations like a fatal parasite, especially when the host is a Western nation-state. But, the focus on this menacing and accursed people is only thinly disguised and one can well understand why. ”The Christian Science Monitor: Young Black Men at Risk
Example quote: “Is it possible that the culture of blacks in America is just not appropriate for America?”Don Imus and PC Hypocrisy
Example quote:”After Jewish comics like Lenny Bruce and other entertainers broke the initial barriers and when the ugliest of the African American culture became mainstream, the dammed waters were let loose to flood our society with filth.”Israel: The Advanced Case of Western Affliction
“There is yet to be an important and vitally interesting analysis to be done to understand why typically non-religious Jews in Israel and in the West, mostly in the US, lead the charge for this world state. Is it rooted in a statelessness history much the way the blacks in this country look toward slavery as a source for so much of their cultural failings or is there something else at work for these liberal Jews?”Pushing the Envelope on Racism and Immigration: Is It Worth Even Thinking About?
Example quote :”The whole subject of racism or bigotry is important because it has become the bogeyman of modern times. But, it is just that, a bogeyman. This essay will try and get those of you who recoil from “racism” and “bigotry” to understand that you are a racist and a bigot, unless you are a fool or evil.”Murders in New York City and the Race Card
Example quote: “That the African-American sub-culture promotes crime and violence, illiteracy, sexual domination, and social irresponsibility is no secret.”How to destroy race in America
Example quote: “4/13: Well, just think. The Don Imus types of the world will soon be a thing of the past. America will know no race. Whites will intermarry with blacks. Blacks from Africa and the Caribbean and Latinos from south of the border will continue to pour over our borders and whites will continue to intermarry. Before you know it, Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow will be grey-brown. One color fits all. The white man will be dead, at least in America.”
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Gus Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:18:39pm |
re: #74 Gus 802
Couple more:
On Race: A Tentative Discussion, Part I
Example quote: “With all of the liberal talk of evolution and biology, why do people find it so difficult to confront the facts that some races perform better in sports, some better in mathematical problem solving, some better in language, some better in Western societies and some better in tribal ones?”On Race: A Tentative Discussion, Part II
Example quote:” There is a reason the founding fathers did not give women or black slaves the right to vote. You might not agree or like the idea but this country’s founders, otherwise held in the highest esteem for their understanding of human nature and its affect on political society, certainly took it seriously. Why is that? Were they so flawed in their political reckonings that they manhandled the most important aspect of a free society – the vote? If the vote counts for so much in a free and liberal democracy as we “know” it today, why did they limit the vote so dramatically?”
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Charles Johnson Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:18:43pm |
It's incredibly creepy to see these people who tried so hard to enlist me, crawling out of the woodwork and pushing their bigoted agendas harder than ever.
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Cato the Elder Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:19:00pm |
re: #73 Dark_Falcon
Be that as it may, Mandy's avatar still openly celebrates torture.
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:21:40pm |
re: #77 Cato the Elder
Be that as it may, Mandy's avatar still openly celebrates torture.
That has nothing to do with my post, Cato. It's just a riff on flaming in general. It's not directed at anyone on LGF.
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Charles Johnson Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:22:35pm |
re: #74 Gus 802
Yes, he got the Internet Archive to delete their copies of his shockingly racist and misogynist article.
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jaunte Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:23:00pm |
re: #75 Gus 802
Another one:
David Yerushalmi, is the president and founder of the Society of Americans for National Existence (SANE), a group that has advocated imposing prison terms for "adherence to Islam" and questions whether women and African-Americans should be allowed to vote.In February of last year, [2007] Yerushalmi's group offered a policy proposal that stated in part:
"Whereas, adherence to Islam as a Muslim is prima facie evidence of an act in support of the overthrow of the U.S. Government through the abrogation, destruction, or violation of the U.S. Constitution and the imposition of Shari'a on the American People...It shall be a felony punishable by 20 years in prison to knowingly act in furtherance of, or to support the, adherence to Islam." (The final reference to "adherence to Islam" has since been changed to "adherence to Shari'a" in the text.)
[Link: www.chasingevil.org...]
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Gus Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:23:11pm |
Ah, here's something. (PDF)
Got to page 7 and you'll find: David Yerushalmi -- On Race: A Tentative Discussion
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Spare O'Lake Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:23:44pm |
re: #65 Charles
I see that David Yerushalmi is now being quoted by newspapers in connection with the Park51 project.
This is a formerly open white supremacist wacko, who tried to hide the evidence of his racist views when exposed.
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]
[Link: www.talk2action.org...]
Wow. Is there anyone this guy doesn't hate? His mother maybe?
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Walter L. Newton Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:25:09pm |
Ok... so, how do I come up with an extra thousand dollars for my trip to Paris in Jan. 2011? The trip to Paris and back, for two, is paid for thanks to the fact that the girlfriend has a real IT job, and my off an on Kaiser project put about 1500 into my pocket through July to make some modifications to the application I wrote for them.
But, I want to go from Paris to Bochum Germany for one day.
You see, we were sitting around the supper table tonight and the conversation turned to Andrew Lloyd Webber and some of his shows, and I mentioned "Starlight Express" which I consider one of his most "fun" shows, but not often seen in this country. It toured twice in the 90's, but it is a very expensive and technically large show to travel, and rarely does. And it only ran 700 odd performances in NYC. I saw both tours of the road show.
In short, it's about a bunch of railroad engines and cars competing for the "big race," which of course is finally won by the little steam engine. It is a pop opera, totally sung, various styles of pop music and the entire show is performed on roller skates. There are races and trestles and ramps and all sorts of high tech stage craft.
The show was a rage in Europe since the day it opened in 1984 in London. And then in 1988, a special special venue was built for the show in Bochum Germany, with multiple skating tracks all around the audience and multiple levels of bridges and skating bowls and all the works, a dedicated installation of the show.
It's still playing, 22 years later and it's a spectacle to say the least. I saw some clip on You Tube, and it looks like a really fun evening of music and theatre.
So, I started to look up the prices of getting from Paris to Bochum and back by train, and the ticket prices and all, and for two people, it would be about 1000 US dollars.
Just throwing that out there, Christmas is coming up, my birthday is the day before Christmas... I would be willing to work for it... convert to liberalism maybe... :)
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Walter L. Newton Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:25:47pm |
re: #77 Cato the Elder
Be that as it may, Mandy's avatar still openly celebrates torture.
And look at your avatar... look at what it celebrates.
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:28:21pm |
The Actors Ring
This ring features two masks, the class happy and sad masks of theater. The happy one is made of opal, with the sad on is topaz.
Power: This ring increases all Acting skills (including Dissembling) by three levels as long as it is worn. It also gives the user a +5 bonus on top of that when interpreting any form of performance art.
Weakness: none.
Special: If a character with Level 30 acting skills or higher (i.e. Walter) wears the ring, double the ring's bonuses.
Cost: $40,000 gold.
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Buck Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:29:07pm |
re: #77 Cato the Elder
Be that as it may, Mandy's avatar still openly celebrates torture.
That is what you see. I don't see that. I see a villain being captured.
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Gus Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:30:30pm |
A fuller quote from crazy David Yerushalmi.
There is a reason the founding fathers did not give women or black slaves the right to vote. You might not agree or like the idea but this country’s founders, otherwise held in the highest esteem for their understanding of human nature and its affect on political society, certainly took it seriously. Why is that? Were they so flawed in their political reckonings that they manhandled the most important aspect of a free society – the vote? If the vote counts for so much in a free and liberal democracy as we “know” it today, why did they limit the vote so dramatically?
Indeed, the transformation from what this country was and what it is today has been wholesale. The highest good is now not political virtue, personal responsibility, and national existence but RIGHTS. Rights are of the highest order of political value precisely because they are about Method or Process. The extrapolation of this trend is now clear for even those who refuse to look beyond the day’s headlines in a vain effort to avoid the political horizon. The fact that a retarded person can vote [i.e., literacy tests have been outlawed] but a child cannot is not sustainable and eventually the ACLU will successfully challenge this baseless age discrimination. Just like the laws against “consensual” sex with minors, or animals, or polygamy will eventually be challenged and held to be
unconstitutional in the same way sodomy has been transformed into a “right,” when it once was an absolute abomination to the vast, vast majority of Americans. But it was (and is) an abomination not because of the “vast, vast majority of Americans” who held it to be, it was so because Americans knew it to be morally repugnant. When Process and Rights replace the moral compass supplied by this country’s Judeo-Christian
foundings, nothing, absolutely nothing can be morally repugnant anymore, at least not in the eyes of the law. (See especially Justice Scalia’s dissent in Lawrence v. Texas.)
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Charles Johnson Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:31:03pm |
re: #82 Gus 802
Ah, here's something. (PDF)
Got to page 7 and you'll find: David Yerushalmi -- On Race: A Tentative Discussion
Good find. I saved a copy, because it could come in handy in light of this:
MTA approves bus ads opposing Ground Zero mosque.
Ads opposing a planned mosque near Ground Zero should soon be seen on city buses after the MTA signed off on their controversial design today.
A lawyer for the New Hampshire group behind the campaign called the decision "a victory not just for free speech but against political correctness and Mayor Bloomberg's bullying."
Lawyer David Yerushalmi said the ads would be printed up and posted on city buses within the next 10 days.
The American Freedom Defense Initiative sued the MTA in Manhattan federal court last week to force it to accept the ads.
They feature an image of an airplane headed toward the burning World Trade Center, along with a high-rise that's labeled "WTC Mega Mosque" and the words "Why There?"
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:32:01pm |
re: #88 Gus 802
A fuller quote from crazy David Yerushalmi.
Wow. Dominionism, sexism, racism, and anti-gay bigotry all in the same paragraph. Pure insanity.
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Cato the Elder Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:32:14pm |
re: #85 Walter L. Newton
And look at your avatar... look at what it celebrates.
Inevitable death and potential resurrection? Or did you have something else in mind?
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Gus Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:32:21pm |
re: #89 Charles
I saved one too. Might be good to email this out to the NYC press. Let them know what this guy's all about.
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blueraven Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:32:43pm |
re: #50 MandyManners
That's pretty darn awesome. Thanks for posting!
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Cato the Elder Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:32:43pm |
re: #87 Buck
And every time you post here, I see dumb people.
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jamesfirecat Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:35:49pm |
re: #87 Buck
That is what you see. I don't see that. I see a villain being captured.
Take a look at the quote that pops up when you click on it.....
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cliffster Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:35:54pm |
just went to a movie with my little girl. "Despicable Me". hehe, great flick. Go see it soon.
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jaunte Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:37:37pm |
re: #90 Dark_Falcon
And after that, anti-science, euthanasia, amorphous world government!
And, having gone this far, we might just come to
recognize just how dangerous the whole scientific edifice
becomes. Might we realize that science and its method operate
on the principle that no thing, and that includes all animals,
which of course includes man, has the free will to remove
himself from the determinism of mathematical physics? Even the
modern philosophic scientists/mathmeticians who speak of a
quantum free will consisting of probabilities, simply replace the
old scientific fixed determinism with a statistical one that still
must maintain that humans like electrons or quarks are without
any moral choice only a kind of randomness fitted within the
probabilities of outcomes. If the old school or the new school
certainty of science is true, what does that mean for any kind of
national existence? Of resistance to a culture of death, abortion,
and euthanasia? Would it all not be an irrational “mental” or
“social construct” separating people and nations? If, on the other
hand, science, meaning liberal scientists with the Elites’ agenda
firmly in hand, don’t allow for an inquiry into the differences
between peoples, races and sexes, and scientists carefully guard
the boundaries that keep science in control, democracy and the
Open Society, multiculturalism and the remainder of the trendsetters
on the way to an amorphous World State, remain
unchallenged. Unchallenged that is, except by another world
state viewpoint that is prepared to challenge the West and its
freedoms with existential threats from within and without. But
that is another discussion; or is it?
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Racer X Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:37:38pm |
"Your avatar hurts my feelings. Change it or I'll pout incessantly."
LOL!
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Stanghazi Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:38:59pm |
re: #100 Racer X
"Your avatar hurts my feelings. Change it or I'll pout incessantly."
LOL!
No, cheerleading torture in the US of A hurts my feelings and actually scares me because I realize how easily people go to the other side.
Cato is not alone.
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:39:00pm |
re: #65 Charles
I see that David Yerushalmi is now being quoted by newspapers in connection with the Park51 project.
This is an open white supremacist wacko, who tried to hide the evidence of his racist views when exposed.
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]
[Link: www.talk2action.org...]
I never heard of this guy before. Why is this stupid little Jewboy hanging out with neo-nazis? Does he hope they will kill him last?
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Racer X Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:40:12pm |
Coming Soon: A $26 Trillion National Debt
Last week was a nail-biter for anyone concerned about the consequences of our rapidly increasing national debt (If you’re not concerned, click here to find out why you should be).
* First, the President’s Office of Management and Budget released updated budget numbers (pdf) projecting a record $1.47 trillion deficit for 2010. That means our government has enough money in 2010 to pay for entitlement programs (like Social Security and Medicare) and interest on the debt. Everything else – from transportation to education, from homeland security to NASA – is going on the nation’s credit card.
* Next, the Congressional Budget Office released an analysis (pdf) warning of a sudden and devastating financial crisis that could be caused by our mounting debt. Their stern warning to big-spenders in Congress: “…the higher the debt, the greater the risk of such a crisis.”
* Finally, a top analyst for Moody’s – a prominent credit rating agency – warned the United States that it needs to spell out a plan to reduce its national debt. Otherwise, Moody’s could lower our credit rating, an event whose consequences will ripple throughout the economy and impact everyone (think: hundreds of dollars added to your monthly mortgage payment).
Despite these dire warnings, our national debt is still on track to double from $13 trillion to $26 trillion in the next ten years.
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:40:34pm |
re: #102 Alouette
I never heard of this guy before. Why is this stupid little Jewboy hanging out with neo-nazis? Does he hope they will kill him last?
Or (I'm creeping myself out) he thinks Pam is hot?
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Eclectic Infidel Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:40:42pm |
re: #87 Buck
That is what you see. I don't see that. I see a villain being captured.
Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink.
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:42:04pm |
The Counter-Stalker's Ring
This ring features a large blue diamond crushing an image of a troll made out of tiny emeralds.
Power: Once per adventure, the player can use this ring to send an aspect of himself into an area ahead of himself or herself. The Aspect has the same skills as the player but is 2/3rds as strong in those skills. Any enemies killed by the Aspect gain the player half the normal amount of experience and Karma. The Aspect may attempt to open doors and chests the same way as the player character. The Aspect takes damage as normal but its destruction does not inflict any damage to the player. Essentially, the player sends the aspect ahead to soften up the enemy or trigger traps.
Weakness: The only weakness to the ring is that sending the Aspect is considered trolling. As such, if the aspect is hit by a Fact-Based Attack, it is automatically destroyed and the player character takes 7 pain points directly to their butt.
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cliffster Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:42:31pm |
re: #103 Racer X
Don't worry about all that - HCR is going to reduce the deficit. The CBO said so.
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Walter L. Newton Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:42:36pm |
re: #91 Cato the Elder
Inevitable death and potential resurrection? Or did you have something else in mind?
Execution... I wonder if Christianity had more contemporary roots, you know, like started in the last century, you Christians go around with little electric chairs on chains around their necks. Disgusting.
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A Man for all Seasons Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:42:42pm |
re: #77 Cato the Elder
Be that as it may, Mandy's avatar still openly celebrates torture.
Would you shut the fuck up? Mandy have never celebrated Torture here you fuck.. Franky I'm sick of your attacking women here...You got nothing...When you said last week you were leaving us forever .. You should have kept your promise and just gone away forever instead of waking up with a hang over and forgetting you said what you said...Stop attacking people here you old fuck..Cause some day I promise you..I will shred you like you have never been shredded.. Allow differences of opinion without getting ugly Cato..
Lest you piss me off..Then it's all over...Now back the fuck off from Mandy..
She is who she is....
Fuck!Don't reply to this...Take your lumps you jerk
| 110 |
Racer X Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:42:53pm |
Lavish Obama vacation in time of economic turmoil raises eyebrows
As the U.S. economy endures high unemployment and a jittery stock market, President Obama has preached sacrifice and fiscal discipline. But the pictures coming out of a sunsplashed Spanish resort this week may be sending a different message.
First lady Michelle Obama is on a five-day trip to a luxury resort along with a handful of friends, her younger daughter, Sasha, aides and Secret Service personnel. Her office said the first family will pay for personal expenses, but declined to reveal the taxpayer cost for the government employees. The president stayed home in the United States, as did daughter Malia, 12, who is at camp.
The trip provided plenty of fodder for television news shows, talk-show hosts and bloggers.
Critics portrayed the foreign getaway as tone deaf to the economic anxiety back home. Earlier in the week, the first lady was photographed walking through the streets of the Costa del Sol region wearing a one-shouldered Jean Paul Gaultier top.
Every first family takes vacations. The criticism aimed at Michelle Obama is that she chose to visit a foreign country rather than remain in the United States and support its fragile economy.
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prairiefire Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:42:57pm |
re: #84 Walter L. Newton
How could you expect money from a liberal/commie?//
We would be happy to have you join, I'm just thinking the position is an intern level.
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Spare O'Lake Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:43:31pm |
re: #102 Alouette
I never heard of this guy before. Why is this stupid little Jewboy hanging out with neo-nazis? Does he hope they will kill him last?
Using that anti-Semitic term is not necessary, is it?
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:43:40pm |
re: #99 jaunte
And after that, anti-science, euthanasia, amorphous world government!
Sounds like Glen Beck trying (and failing) top sound profound.
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Walter L. Newton Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:44:19pm |
re: #111 prairiefire
How could you expect money from a liberal/commie?//
We would be happy to have you join, I'm just thinking the position is an intern level.
Just a baby-liberal... I could do that. I already know how to whine :)
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cliffster Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:44:35pm |
re: #108 Walter L. Newton
Execution... I wonder if Christianity had more contemporary roots, you know, like started in the last century, you Christians go around with little electric chairs on chains around their necks. Disgusting.
Because I'm a Christian, I forgive you for being a fucking asshole.
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jaunte Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:44:45pm |
re: #88 Gus 802
Maybe the Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest will open up a political commentary section. Yerushalmi's writing needs an appropriate venue.
Unchallenged that is, except by another world
state viewpoint that is prepared to challenge the West and its
freedoms with existential threats from within and without. But
that is another discussion; or is it?
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webevintage Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:45:00pm |
re: #110 Racer X
Lavish Obama vacation in time of economic turmoil raises eyebrows
Every first family takes vacations. The criticism aimed at Michelle Obama is that she chose to visit a foreign country rather than remain in the United States and support its fragile economy.
Stupid story.
When they take vacations in the US people bitch too.
| 119 |
Gus Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:45:25pm |
This is part of some anti-science screed he wrote:
David Yerushalmi - Slippery Slope Or The Destruction Of Being?
PDF/Page 16
[...]
So when science cannot quantify something, how is the uncertainty resolved? The sociologists and the anthropologists have answered that, have they not? We vote on it. In a word, democracy. Scientists vote on whether Pluto with size X should be called a planet; we vote on every other uncertainty.
Thus we vote on whether homosexuals should be allowed to marry and have the imprimatur of the nation’s civil and legal blessings. And we vote on whether life exists inside a woman’s womb because she has raised a claimed “right” to destroy it at will. And this makes perfectly good sense now because we see that science cannot answer the question when life
begins. That is, science cannot tell the difference between animate objects, except of course by counting things and seeing how they are laid down one next to another.[...]
A cartoonist has captured the next step in the degradation of what it means to be human. He has simply applied the slippery slope argument to the current assault on homosexual marriages. What would have surprised us is if he had indicated that this degradation was the quite natural outcome of a perfectly legal and rational democratic vote to sanction human-canine relationships on par with human marriage.
As a slippery slope, the argument might be funny if not a bit silly. As it turns out — now that we understand that for science to work, for it to hold any certainty, we are confronted with the choice of tyranny simply or democracy as the arbiter of the radical uncertainty of human existence not subject to quantification — it is not so funny after all.
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Walter L. Newton Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:45:51pm |
re: #115 cliffster
Because I'm a Christian, I forgive you for being a fucking asshole.
Tough. Cato goes picking on Mandy, no problem, I go do the same thing, you shit in your pants... ha... my point has been made.
| 121 |
Racer X Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:45:54pm |
Battle Looms Over Huge Costs of Public Pensions
There’s a class war coming to the world of government pensions.
The haves are retirees who were once state or municipal workers. Their seemingly guaranteed and ever-escalating monthly pension benefits are breaking budgets nationwide.
The have-nots are taxpayers who don’t have generous pensions. Their 401(k)s or individual retirement accounts have taken a real beating in recent years and are not guaranteed. And soon, many of those people will be paying higher taxes or getting fewer state services as their states put more money aside to cover those pension checks.
At stake is at least $1 trillion. That’s trillion, with a “t,” as in titanic and terrifying.
The figure comes from a study by the Pew Center on the States that came out in February. Pew estimated a $1 trillion gap as of fiscal 2008 between what states had promised workers in the way of retiree pension, health care and other benefits and the money they currently had to pay for it all. And some economists say that Pew is too conservative and the problem is two or three times as large.
So a question of extraordinary financial, political, legal and moral complexity emerges, something that every one of us will be taking into town meetings and voting booths for years to come: Given how wrong past pension projections were, who should pay to fill the 13-figure financing gap?
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prairiefire Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:46:16pm |
re: #105 eclectic infidel
Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink.
When I first read it, I took it as "all the boards did shrink", meaning the LGF board was shrinking due to the exodus of conservative posters. Duh, I'm pretty literally minded.
| 123 |
Walter L. Newton Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:46:45pm |
re: #118 Cato the Elder
Ahem.
Ahem nothing... Christianity CELEBRATES an execution... that's a little sick in my mind.
| 124 |
Cato the Elder Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:46:52pm |
| 126 |
Dark_Falcon Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:47:22pm |
re: #105 eclectic infidel
Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink.
It's a quote from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The full rhyme is:
Water, water, everywhere,
And not a drop to drink.
Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink.
The context of its use is waterboarding, though.
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Cato the Elder Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:47:52pm |
re: #123 Walter L. Newton
Ahem nothing... Christianity CELEBRATES an execution... that's a little sick in my mind.
You and Hoosier can both go jump in the Sparrow Lake.
| 128 |
A Man for all Seasons Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:47:52pm |
re: #109 HoosierHoops
You don't have enough down dings Cato..
Think of something else
| 129 |
Dark_Falcon Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:48:17pm |
re: #106 Dark_Falcon
The Counter-Stalker's Ring
This ring features a large blue diamond crushing an image of a troll made out of tiny emeralds.
Power: Once per adventure, the player can use this ring to send an aspect of himself into an area ahead of himself or herself. The Aspect has the same skills as the player but is 2/3rds as strong in those skills. Any enemies killed by the Aspect gain the player half the normal amount of experience and Karma. The Aspect may attempt to open doors and chests the same way as the player character. The Aspect takes damage as normal but its destruction does not inflict any damage to the player. Essentially, the player sends the aspect ahead to soften up the enemy or trigger traps.
Weakness: The only weakness to the ring is that sending the Aspect is considered trolling. As such, if the aspect is hit by a Fact-Based Attack, it is automatically destroyed and the player character takes 7 pain points directly to their butt.
Cost: $50,000 Gold.
Oops.
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prairiefire Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:48:32pm |
re: #114 Walter L. Newton
Just a baby-liberal... I could do that. I already know how to whine :)
Mainly, I'm hearing conservative whining in the zeitgeist at the moment. : )
A grand sounds kind of steep for a show. No Can Can girls?
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:48:36pm |
re: #112 Spare O'Lake
Using that anti-Semitic term is not necessary, is it?
What do you call Jews who hang out with anti-Semites? Fig Leafs?
| 132 |
Stanghazi Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:48:38pm |
re: #122 prairiefire
When I first read it, I took it as "all the boards did shrink", meaning the LGF board was shrinking due to the exodus of conservative posters. Duh, I'm pretty literally minded.
It cheerleads a time in our history that will end up infamous. Unless it becomes widespread.
| 133 |
A Man for all Seasons Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:48:52pm |
re: #124 Cato the Elder
Bite me you falsity.
Am I attacking a woman here? No. I'm calling you out.
Call me out,...please
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Gus Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:49:08pm |
re: #110 Racer X
I think the humans spent more bandwidth, time, and money (including adding carbon emissions) worrying about the trip then was actually spent on the FLOTUS trip to Spain.
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Walter L. Newton Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:49:17pm |
re: #127 Cato the Elder
You and Hoosier can both go jump in the Sparrow Lake.
HH is mad at me too... I'm not sure he is interested in sharing a lake with me.
Anyway... your avatar offends me.
| 136 |
Racer X Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:49:41pm |
Maxine Waters accused of three ethics violations
A House report gives more details of its allegations against the Los Angeles Democrat. Her chief of staff and grandson is accused of being 'actively involved' in helping a bank with ties to her husband.
| 137 |
Racer X Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:50:29pm |
re: #117 webevintage
Stupid story.
When they take vacations in the US people bitch too.
Indeed.
But eyebrows have been raised.
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:50:37pm |
re: #136 Racer X
Maxine Waters accused of three ethics violations
A House report gives more details of its allegations against the Los Angeles Democrat. Her chief of staff and grandson is accused of being 'actively involved' in helping a bank with ties to her husband.
[DF does the Happy Dance.]
| 140 |
Vicious Babushka Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:50:50pm |
Does my avatar offend anyone?
I once had a really offensive avatar, but I removed it. Once I found out how much the stalkers loved it, I deleted it from my server.
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freetoken Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:50:54pm |
re: #77 Cato the Elder
Be that as it may, Mandy's avatar still openly celebrates torture.
I'm tending to agree with you. Yet other people find my "avatars" offensive to them, so I feel as if I shouldn't insert myself into managing other peoples'.
However, I feel pretty confident in saying that the viciousness of the squabbles lately are not sitting happy with the management.
| 142 |
Eclectic Infidel Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:50:55pm |
re: #123 Walter L. Newton
Ahem nothing... Christianity CELEBRATES an execution... that's a little sick in my mind.
Anti-life.
| 143 |
Walter L. Newton Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:51:45pm |
re: #130 prairiefire
Mainly, I'm hearing conservative whining in the zeitgeist at the moment. : )
A grand sounds kind of steep for a show. No Can Can girls?
The grand would cover the round trip train from Paris to Bochum Germany and the show seats. Of course it's steep, it's steep for just wanting to see a show. Actually, it was just a little reminiscing from the days when I was making the kind of dough that I would have had no problem booking a side trip like that, at a whim.
My girlfriend looked at me tonight like I was crazy, when she saw me looking up the train routes and prices... I told her I was just dreaming...
But then again...
| 145 |
Racer X Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:52:09pm |
Does my avatar offend you?
Call one eight hundred bite me.
| 146 |
windsagio Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:52:29pm |
re: #140 Alouette
I actually asked cordell to change his too, because he still had one making fun of Mandy's really bad one. >>
Balance!
| 147 |
Eclectic Infidel Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:52:56pm |
re: #126 Dark_Falcon
The context of its use is waterboarding, though.
I once really liked that poem. Studied it in secondary school for a good week as I remember.
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Cato the Elder Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:53:20pm |
re: #126 Dark_Falcon
The context of its use is waterboarding, though.
Nothing to see there. Move along. If'n you brings it up, youse be attackin' wymyns.
| 149 |
Walter L. Newton Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:53:29pm |
re: #145 Racer X
Does my avatar offend you?
Call one eight hundred bite me.
If you are addressing me, I think you are missing my point, and my sarcasm, and who my point is for... missing a lot... huh?
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A Man for all Seasons Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:54:02pm |
re: #135 Walter L. Newton
HH is mad at me too... I'm not sure he is interested in sharing a lake with me.
Anyway... your avatar offends me.
I have never been mad at you...We have disagreed on some silly points...
I really respect you
| 152 |
prairiefire Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:54:06pm |
re: #141 freetoken
freetoken, I really enjoy your posts. Also, thanks for calling me out if I can be too vague at times.
Night, lizards.
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cliffster Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:54:31pm |
re: #134 Gus 802
I think the humans spent more bandwidth, time, and money (including adding carbon emissions) worrying about the trip then was actually spent on the FLOTUS trip to Spain.
The chief role of the president: surfacing the people that REALLY need to get a life.
| 154 |
Cato the Elder Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:54:34pm |
| 155 |
Gus Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:54:41pm |
I forgot the name but someone had an avatar which was of someone's arm with the word Jesus carved out and it showed the blood red scabbing.
| 156 |
windsagio Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:54:51pm |
re: #149 Walter L. Newton
So walter, why did this dissolve into weird wrangling?
Something in the water?
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webevintage Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:55:46pm |
re: #137 Racer X
Indeed.
But eyebrows have been raised.
Of course they have...it is the Obamas...no matter what they do eyebrows would be raised.
And they are raised a bit more because of the BS that has been reported.
Even MoDo had to go there in a most sexist way.
| 158 |
Cato the Elder Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:55:47pm |
re: #145 Racer X
Does my avatar offend you?
Call one eight hundred bite me.
That number is one digit too short.
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Political Atheist Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:55:57pm |
There is so little real news or genuine debates to be had out there in the real world that we suddenly have nothing to focus on but one anothers avatars and online habits. Well 'scuse me while I step away from the implosion here tonight. Sheesh.
| 160 |
windsagio Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:56:00pm |
re: #156 windsagio
Oh nevermind, its a combination of Crustiness, and the cult of mandy. Gotcha >
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Racer X Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:56:16pm |
Why Obama is not first 'imposter' president and won't be the last
One American president's legitimacy was questioned because he was accused of wearing women's underwear.
Another's qualifications were questioned because he got drunk at an inaugural ball.
A third president didn't belong in office because critics said his rich daddy stole the election.
A recent CNN poll revealed that one out of four Americans doubt that President Obama is a citizen. Many are "birthers" who believe he is an illegitimate president because he wasn't born in this country.
But historians say Americans have long accused their presidents of being illegitimate officeholders for all sorts of dark, and bizarre, reasons.
"Heavens, where do I start?" says David Crockett, an associate professor of political science at Trinity University in Texas.
"No one wants to admit that they got spanked in an election contest. It's always nicer to think the opponent somehow cheated the system. So yes -- Obama wasn't born here, Bush stole the election, Clinton won only because Ross Perot screwed up Bush's [the elder's] chances, Bush the elder won only because he demagogued Willie Horton. ... I could go back further."
You can go back to the 19th century, where calling a president illegitimate was a common -- and often nasty -- practice, says Thomas Alan Schwartz, a presidential historian at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee.
President John Tyler was known as "His Accidency" because in 1841 he became the first president to assume office due to the death of his predecessor.
Rutherford B. Hayes was dubbed "His Fraudulency" because he assumed office after losing the popular vote in 1876 in a disputed election that he won by one electoral vote.
Though questioning a president's legitimacy is common, it can turn dangerous, Schwartz says.
Foes accused Thomas Jefferson, our third president, of not being a legitimate American because of his foreign ties as well. They said he was too French -- he spoke French and had a French cook.
They also said he had a slave mistress (a charge that a DNA analysis later suggested might be true), Crockett says.
Some other presidential "imposters" included Martin Van Buren, who was accused of not being fit for office because he allegedly wore a woman's corset, Crockett says.
Some claims of presidential illegitimacy rested on nothing but open dislike of the man in the Oval Office.
Theodore Roosevelt deemed his successor, William Howard Taft, illegitimate because he didn't like the man or his policies.
"Teddy Roosevelt called Taft a fathead," Crockett says.
"On the extreme side, it encourages nut cases to take the law in their own hand."
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cliffster Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:56:18pm |
re: #120 Walter L. Newton
Tough. Cato goes picking on Mandy, no problem, I go do the same thing, you shit in your pants... ha... my point has been made.
would you like for me to email you a picture of the shit in my underpants?
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Walter L. Newton Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:56:30pm |
re: #146 windsagio
I actually asked cordell to change his too, because he still had one making fun of Mandy's really bad one. >>
Balance!
My avatar probably offends Native-Americans, since it show me costumed in the traditional stereotype of an "injun." It's a picture from a performance of "The Fantastiks." Maybe that's ok, since it's a character from a very popular stage musical, heck, Colorado Shakespeare Festival is doing a production of the show right now, complete with the "injun."
I'm serious, I wonder if my avatar is offensive, in light of what seems to offend people now a days.
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Nimed Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:56:31pm |
re: #123 Walter L. Newton
Ahem nothing... Christianity CELEBRATES an execution... that's a little sick in my mind.
AND THEY DRINK THE BLOOD OF CHRIST TOO!
Your militant atheism is annoying.
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Dancing along the light of day Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:56:34pm |
re: #156 windsagio
So walter, why did this dissolve into weird wrangling?
Something in the water?
Phase of the moon, maybe?
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Racer X Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:56:59pm |
re: #149 Walter L. Newton
If you are addressing me, I think you are missing my point, and my sarcasm, and who my point is for... missing a lot... huh?
I was not addressing you.
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freetoken Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:57:31pm |
re: #165 Floral Giraffe
Phase of the moon, maybe?
It's in the drinking water... a Chinese plot probably.
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windsagio Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:58:09pm |
re: #164 Nimed
AND THEY DRINK THE BLOOD OF CHRIST TOO!
Your militant atheism is annoying.
My mind just exploded.
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Political Atheist Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:58:10pm |
re: #165 Floral Giraffe
Hello Floral how are you?
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Gus Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:58:18pm |
re: #167 freetoken
It's in the drinking water... a Chinese plot probably.
Next thing you know they'll be lobbying for polygamy.
//
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windsagio Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:58:40pm |
re: #165 Floral Giraffe
I don't know, I'm usually in the middle of it, and even have gotten some zingers in this thread, but it just feels kinda...
kinda icky tonight.
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freetoken Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:58:53pm |
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Dancing along the light of day Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:58:58pm |
re: #167 freetoken
It's in the drinking water... a Chinese plot probably.
Flouride!
Runs about screaming & waving hands in the air!
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Walter L. Newton Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:59:02pm |
re: #160 windsagio
Oh nevermind, its a combination of Crustiness, and the cult of mandy. Gotcha >
Right... I was just making a point, in a way I knew would offer maximum offensiveness. You know I rarely paint a bulls-eye on any religion. But, considering the dust up, I found my snark appropriate.
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windsagio Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:59:10pm |
re: #168 windsagio
Oops context: I thought you were all THERE IS NO GOD!ey too, Nim :)
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A Man for all Seasons Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:59:11pm |
re: #154 Cato the Elder
There is nothing to call out, phony.
How have I ever been phony here? I have only posted my true feelings..
You really don't want a piece of me...You should just shut the fuck up sometimes...Let's not start a fight.. I'll embarrass you...
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:59:27pm |
re: #161 Racer X
Why Obama is not first 'imposter' president and won't be the last
One American president's legitimacy was questioned because he was accused of wearing women's underwear.
Another's qualifications were questioned because he got drunk at an inaugural ball.
A third president didn't belong in office because critics said his rich daddy stole the election.
A recent CNN poll revealed that one out of four Americans doubt that President Obama is a citizen. Many are "birthers" who believe he is an illegitimate president because he wasn't born in this country.
But historians say Americans have long accused their presidents of being illegitimate officeholders for all sorts of dark, and bizarre, reasons.
"Heavens, where do I start?" says David Crockett, an associate professor of political science at Trinity University in Texas.
"No one wants to admit that they got spanked in an election contest. It's always nicer to think the opponent somehow cheated the system. So yes -- Obama wasn't born here, Bush stole the election, Clinton won only because Ross Perot screwed up Bush's [the elder's] chances, Bush the elder won only because he demagogued Willie Horton. ... I could go back further."
You can go back to the 19th century, where calling a president illegitimate was a common -- and often nasty -- practice, says Thomas Alan Schwartz, a presidential historian at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee.
President John Tyler was known as "His Accidency" because in 1841 he became the first president to assume office due to the death of his predecessor.
Rutherford B. Hayes was dubbed "His Fraudulency" because he assumed office after losing the popular vote in 1876 in a disputed election that he won by one electoral vote.
Though questioning a president's legitimacy is common, it can turn dangerous, Schwartz says.
Foes accused Thomas Jefferson, our third president, of not being a legitimate American because of his foreign ties as well. They said he was too French -- he spoke French and had a French cook.
They also said he had a slave mistress (a charge that a DNA analysis later suggested might be true), Crockett says.
Some other presidential "imposters" included Martin Van Buren, who was accused of not being fit for office because he allegedly wore a woman's corset, Crockett says.
Some claims of presidential illegitimacy rested on nothing but open dislike of the man in the Oval Office.
Theodore Roosevelt deemed his successor, William Howard Taft, illegitimate because he didn't like the man or his policies.
"Teddy Roosevelt called Taft a fathead," Crockett says."On the extreme side, it encourages nut cases to take the law in their own hand."
Yeah, I read that. Good article, well worth a read.
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Dancing along the light of day Mon, Aug 9, 2010 8:59:38pm |
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cliffster Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:00:12pm |
hey, anyone have a good recipe/methodology for making ice cream? I have an ice cream maker that I got about a year ago, but haven't used because we stopped giving my kid dairy for a little while. Now he's eating a little dairy, and I'm ready to fire that sucker up. Anyone have experience?
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Walter L. Newton Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:00:59pm |
re: #164 Nimed
AND THEY DRINK THE BLOOD OF CHRIST TOO!
Your militant atheism is annoying.
It only comes out when I feel the need to drive home a point. "They drink the blood... too" I like that.
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Dancing along the light of day Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:00:59pm |
re: #179 cliffster
No, but I bet the machine came with an instruction manual...
*poke*
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Interesting Times Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:02:28pm |
re: #179 cliffster
hey, anyone have a good recipe/methodology for making ice cream?
Well, the Chemistry Club at the university where I work once whipped up a batch of this... :)
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webevintage Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:02:43pm |
re: #161 Racer X
Why Obama is not first 'imposter' president and won't be the last
Theodore Roosevelt deemed his successor, William Howard Taft, illegitimate because he didn't like the man or his policies.
"Teddy Roosevelt called Taft a fathead," Crockett says.
hahahahahaha
awesome.....
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Walter L. Newton Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:03:01pm |
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:03:01pm |
re: #163 Walter L. Newton
My avatar probably offends Native-Americans, since it show me costumed in the traditional stereotype of an "injun." It's a picture from a performance of "The Fantastiks." Maybe that's ok, since it's a character from a very popular stage musical, heck, Colorado Shakespeare Festival is doing a production of the show right now, complete with the "injun."
I'm serious, I wonder if my avatar is offensive, in light of what seems to offend people now a days.
You can get the rape fantastic
You can get the rape polite
You can get the rape with Indians
A very charming sight
You can get the rape on horseback
They all say it's distingue!
But you see the kind of rape depends on what you pay
It depends on what you pay
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Political Atheist Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:04:02pm |
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Racer X Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:04:04pm |
re: #179 cliffster
hey, anyone have a good recipe/methodology for making ice cream? I have an ice cream maker that I got about a year ago, but haven't used because we stopped giving my kid dairy for a little while. Now he's eating a little dairy, and I'm ready to fire that sucker up. Anyone have experience?
Don't go with Cantaloupe ice cream (voice of experience). It wasn't bad; peach or strawberry is just easier and tastes better. You can use less sugar than the recipe calls for too. Most ice cream recipes make the stuff way too sweet.
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Cato the Elder Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:04:36pm |
re: #176 HoosierHoops
How have I ever been phony here? I have only posted my true feelings..
You really don't want a piece of me...You should just shut the fuck up sometimes...Let's not start a fight.. I'll embarrass you...
You'll embarrass me? Bring it. Ask Ice first, though.
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freetoken Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:04:37pm |
In the queue for tonight:
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Maltese Falcon
Unforgiven
SwingTime
Hmmm... wonder which one I should start with...
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windsagio Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:05:00pm |
re: #186 Walter L. Newton
I'll try later, gotta go prep for work.
I note that GSC/Bethesda has homes in your area (I think), so you could pick up some easy extra shifts :D
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Walter L. Newton Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:05:03pm |
re: #187 Alouette
You can get the rape fantastic
You can get the rape polite
You can get the rape with Indians
A very charming sight
You can get the rape on horseback
They all say it's distingue!
But you see the kind of rape depends on what you pay
It depends on what you pay
Do you know that the authors actually wrote a replacement song for that number in the middle 90's just in case a theatre could not bring themselves to do "It Depends On What You Pay"
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Racer X Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:05:37pm |
re: #184 webevintage
hahahahahaha
awesome...
I particularly enjoyed that as well. Didn't Johnson once say "a vote for Nixon was a vote for the devil"?
Politics have always been nasty.
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Cato the Elder Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:05:46pm |
re: #179 cliffster
hey, anyone have a good recipe/methodology for making ice cream? I have an ice cream maker that I got about a year ago, but haven't used because we stopped giving my kid dairy for a little while. Now he's eating a little dairy, and I'm ready to fire that sucker up. Anyone have experience?
If you stop being pretentious and calling a "method" a "methodology" (the study of methods), I'll oblige you with a recipe from my maternal granny.
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A Man for all Seasons Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:05:53pm |
re: #185 Floral Giraffe
*smooch*
Hi cutie! I am deeply sorry for the previous posts...I'm sick of the attacks on Mandy...You know when I first came here she showed me great kindness..
I would wish she gets the same consideration from others
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freetoken Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:06:09pm |
re: #194 Racer X
I particularly enjoyed that as well. Didn't Johnson once say "a vote for Nixon was a vote for the devil"?
Was he wrong?
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cliffster Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:06:10pm |
re: #181 Floral Giraffe
No, but I bet the machine came with an instruction manual...
*poke*
It did. I'm looking for real world experience though.
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Nimed Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:06:18pm |
re: #175 windsagio
Oops context: I thought you were all THERE IS NO GOD!ey too, Nim :)
Well, I am usually all "there is no God". But I'm also pissed off by smart-assed, sophomoric takes on religious practices. Is it really necessary to go out of your way to offend people?
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Dancing along the light of day Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:07:13pm |
re: #188 Rightwingconspirator
I did my 5 miles today.
Sore, but it's all good!
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Mich-again Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:07:30pm |
I have to crack up at some of the Palin haters here. As the story goes, she's a complete idiot moron imbecile buffon.. but if by chance she ever gets a whiff of power we're all doomed because she's really an evil genius and she'll figure out some way to steal all our freedom! haha.
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Dancing along the light of day Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:08:10pm |
re: #196 HoosierHoops
Yes, you are always kind.
It's appreciated, by some...
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:08:32pm |
re: #193 Walter L. Newton
Do you know that the authors actually wrote a replacement song for that number in the middle 90's just in case a theatre could not bring themselves to do "It Depends On What You Pay"
Not to mention the fact that "The Fantasticks" is a very popular high school drama selection.
My high school performed it in the 1960's and no parents or administrators complained, and the song was performed as is. But I heard of another high school that was not allowed to perform that song.
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cliffster Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:08:38pm |
re: #195 Cato the Elder
If you stop being pretentious and calling a "method" a "methodology" (the study of methods), I'll oblige you with a recipe from my maternal granny.
Good point. With bread-making, I've reached "methodology". Having never made ice cream before, I'm just looking for a method. There, pretty please, will you give me grandma cato's recipe?
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freetoken Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:09:49pm |
re: #201 Mich-again
... but if by chance she ever gets a whiff of power we're all doomed because she's really an evil genius and she'll figure out some way to steal all our freedom! haha.
No she is not. If she ever did get a whiff of power on a national stage then she'd just do stupid things and cause harm by the vacuousness of her decision-making and the positioning of like-minded idiots into subordinate decision making positions.
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Dancing along the light of day Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:09:50pm |
re: #205 cliffster
Now, THERE is an opening!
Big enough to drive a truck through.
I will watch & refrain.
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Eclectic Infidel Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:10:06pm |
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b_sharp Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:10:10pm |
re: #201 Mich-again
I have to crack up at some of the Palin haters here. As the story goes, she's a complete idiot moron imbecile buffon.. but if by chance she ever gets a whiff of power we're all doomed because she's really an evil genius and she'll figure out some way to steal all our freedom! haha.
No, you're all doomed because she's an idiot and is sure to make very bad decisions.
Please, put those straw bales back in the barn when you are finished playing with them.
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Cato the Elder Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:10:23pm |
re: #199 Nimed
Well, I am usually all "there is no God". But I'm also pissed off by smart-assed, sophomoric takes on religious practices. Is it really necessary to go out of your way to offend people?
Badger: You think you're better than other people!
Mal: Just the ones I'm better than.
[gratuitous "Firefly" quote]
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Walter L. Newton Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:11:19pm |
re: #204 Alouette
Not to mention the fact that "The Fantasticks" is a very popular high school drama selection.
My high school performed it in the 1960's and no parents or administrators complained, and the song was performed as is. But I heard of another high school that was not allowed to perform that song.
The replacement song is called "Abductions," which of course is the Latin meaning of the word rapere... which of course is what the song is about. "Abductions basically uses the musical section of "It Depends On What You Pay" called the "Rape Ballet" for a shortened version of the same idea.
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cliffster Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:11:26pm |
re: #196 HoosierHoops
Hi cutie! I am deeply sorry for the previous posts...I'm sick of the attacks on Mandy...You know when I first came here she showed me great kindness..
I would wish she gets the same consideration from others
No, Mandy is an awful, awful person. Fall in line you bastard...
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jamesfirecat Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:13:08pm |
re: #201 Mich-again
I have to crack up at some of the Palin haters here. As the story goes, she's a complete idiot moron imbecile buffon.. but if by chance she ever gets a whiff of power we're all doomed because she's really an evil genius and she'll figure out some way to steal all our freedom! haha.
No its more like we're all doomed because if she becomes president she'll do stupid things like get us into another war, make no attempts to balance the budget, f*** over our environment increasing the rate at which global warming takes place, and otherwise most/all all the same things I hated Bush for doing...
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Racer X Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:13:19pm |
I'm thinking a president who triples the budget deficit in one year, and is on track to double the national debt to over 26 Trillion within 10 years, is probably not the smartest president we've had.
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Mich-again Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:13:36pm |
re: #209 b_sharp
The point is, she won't be elected. Of course not. Why even sit around fretting over scenarios. Its like wondering what dogs do if they ever took over the world.
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palomino Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:13:55pm |
OT: On the Cordoba House, Bush could do a lot of good by speaking out. Your text to link...
Of course the left won't listen to him, but they already support Cordoba. It's the neocon right that opposes it most vociferously, and they still respect Bush because of his efforts post-9/11. Maybe they would at least reconsider their current position. Anyway, I don't think Bush sees Muslims as inherently evil, unlike much of the far right today. Hey, it would shake up the discourse which otherwise is going nowhere.
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Interesting Times Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:13:58pm |
re: #209 b_sharp
No, you're all doomed because she's an idiot and is sure to make very bad decisions.
If nothing else, the BP disaster should have shown that far more damage can be done from incompetence and stupidity than any kind of "evil genius" (Hanlon's razor, and all that...)
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:14:01pm |
re: #211 Walter L. Newton
The replacement song is called "Abductions," which of course is the Latin meaning of the word rapere... which of course is what the song is about. "Abductions basically uses the musical section of "It Depends On What You Pay" called the "Rape Ballet" for a shortened version of the same idea.
I was too short to play Louisa. :(
Every girl wants to be Louisa!
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Political Atheist Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:14:25pm |
re: #196 HoosierHoops
Hi cutie! I am deeply sorry for the previous posts...I'm sick of the attacks on Mandy...You know when I first came here she showed me great kindness..
I would wish she gets the same consideration from others
Mandy, Sharmuta and of course Reine were all very cool to me here as I got started. Mandy with some well timed up dings, Sharmuta with a deserved slap, and Reine helped my understanding of the big picture.
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jamesfirecat Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:14:38pm |
re: #215 Mich-again
The point is, she won't be elected. Of course not. Why even sit around fretting over scenarios. Its like wondering what dogs do if they ever took over the world.
She was almost elected VP.
John McCain is looking more and more haggard these days... imagine what he might look like with the weight of the Presidency on his shoulders....
Palin was not a "can't possibly happen" because if you were around for the 2008 election, it almost did!
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Gus Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:15:26pm |
re: #201 Mich-again
I have to crack up at some of the Palin haters here. As the story goes, she's a complete idiot moron imbecile buffon.. but if by chance she ever gets a whiff of power we're all doomed because she's really an evil genius and she'll figure out some way to steal all our freedom! haha.
Actually, no. I have to crack up at all of the people that admire this undereducated dolt and think this fool could someday become president.
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Mich-again Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:15:57pm |
re: #213 jamesfirecat
No its more like we're all doomed because if she becomes president she'll do stupid things like get us into another war, make no attempts to balance the budget, f*** over our environment increasing the rate at which global warming takes place, and otherwise most/all all the same things I hated Bush for doing...
And how would that happen? Palin express is going to steamroll the world?? Will the GOP really have 60 votes in the Senate to stop a Dem fillibuster? A lot of the stuff GWB did, the Dems could have stopped even though they didn't have a majority. If they had really wanted to.
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:16:36pm |
re: #214 Racer X
I'm thinking a president who triples the budget deficit in one year, and is on track to double the national debt to over 26 Trillion within 10 years, is probably not the smartest president we've had.
And I agree.
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Racer X Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:17:00pm |
re: #222 Mich-again
And how would that happen? Palin express is going to steamroll the world?? Will the GOP really have 60 votes in the Senate to stop a Dem fillibuster? A lot of the stuff GWB did, the Dems could have stopped even though they didn't have a majority. If they had really wanted to.
Not a chance. Bush had the evil mind control ray thingy going on, and made them vote for things they were really against.
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A Man for all Seasons Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:17:16pm |
re: #190 Cato the Elder
You'll embarrass me? Bring it. Ask Ice first, though.
Don't you dare hide behind Ice's skirt...I will never reveal our background emails about you..
You deal with me..Stop the attacks on mandy..It's that simple...I'm done with you..Next time you flounce..Just effen flounce boy
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jamesfirecat Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:17:25pm |
re: #222 Mich-again
And how would that happen? Palin express is going to steamroll the world?? Will the GOP really have 60 votes in the Senate to stop a Dem fillibuster? A lot of the stuff GWB did, the Dems could have stopped even though they didn't have a majority. If they had really wanted to.
"If they had really wanted to"
I really don't trust my own side to do what's best politically.
I know the Dems mean well but they are really, REALLY, REALLY bad about follow through.
I don't think that Palin is likely to get elected any time soon, but your previous post about how Palin could/would f*** us up if elected and I stand by that she would be a disaster for the US.
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cliffster Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:17:31pm |
re: #219 Rightwingconspirator
Mandy, Sharmuta and of course Reine were all very cool to me here as I got started. Mandy with some well timed up dings, Sharmuta with a deserved slap, and Reine helped my understanding of the big picture.
All three of them hated me for a long time. Nothing about me changed; I'm still a dick, but ultimately my irresistible good looks and charm came shining through my posts and Mandy and Reine love me to death now.
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albusteve Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:17:51pm |
this place sounds like a dive tavern along some unused state highway...skimming the posts is almost embarrassing
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Racer X Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:18:08pm |
re: #223 Dark_Falcon
And I agree.
Ya know, I really feel kinda slighted. You gave another poster a hearty "Quite Concur™" recently.
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Stanghazi Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:18:56pm |
re: #214 Racer X
I'm thinking a president who triples the budget deficit in one year, and is on track to double the national debt to over 26 Trillion within 10 years, is probably not the smartest president we've had.
Image: 12-16-09bud-rev6-28-10-f1.jpg
And again, we must review the chart.
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b_sharp Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:19:01pm |
re: #215 Mich-again
The point is, she won't be elected. Of course not. Why even sit around fretting over scenarios. Its like wondering what dogs do if they ever took over the world.
The point is, you built a straw man that had no resemblance to any real complaint about Palin.
If you were trying to say she will never get in, then that is what you should have started with. It would have made your comment much easier to accept and less likely to prompt snarky responses.
In a rational world it would be a no brainer to assume she had no chance, but this world isn't terribly rational right now and what can and will happen is becoming more difficult to predict.
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Mich-again Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:19:04pm |
re: #224 Racer X
Not a chance. Bush had the evil mind control ray thingy going on, and made them vote for things they were really against.
Exactly.. He was a complete idiot in every sense of the world yet the superintelligent ones who opposed him kept letting him get his way. That seems to be the lesson.
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Dancing along the light of day Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:19:09pm |
re: #227 cliffster
So, THAT's what happened.
LOL!
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cliffster Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:19:25pm |
re: #229 Racer X
Ya know, I really feel kinda slighted. You gave another poster a hearty "Quite Concur™" recently.
racer - maybe he's just not that into you
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Racer X Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:20:19pm |
re: #230 Stanley Sea
Image: 12-16-09bud-rev6-28-10-f1.jpg
And again, we must review the chart.
At some point, blaming Bush is going to lose all meaning.
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Dancing along the light of day Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:20:58pm |
re: #235 Racer X
At some point, blaming Bush is going to lose all meaning.
It did, when Obama got elected...
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Walter L. Newton Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:20:59pm |
re: #218 Alouette
I was too short to play Louisa. :(
Every girl wants to be Louisa!
I always wanted to play Mortimer, since the first time (of many) times I saw the show at the Sullivan Street Theatre in New York. We had mounted the show twice at the theatre I use to work for, in the 12 years I was associated with he theatre. It was a sort of a special treat for our audience having Rick Bernstein play Henry and me play Mortimer, since him and I were know for our ability to play "Abbot and Costello" type roles so tightly. That was the third show that him and myself portrayed a comic team like that.
And typical of a good production of The Fantasticks, we couldn't close it, we had to extend the run into a third month, and probably could have done 6 full months if it wasn't for the fact we had other productions of other shows scheduled.
I love the show, the story, the songs...
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Eclectic Infidel Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:21:01pm |
re: #225 HoosierHoops
Don't you dare hide behind Ice's skirt...I will never reveal our background emails about you..
You deal with me..Stop the attacks on mandy..It's that simple...I'm done with you..Next time you flounce..Just effen flounce boy
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:21:05pm |
re: #229 Racer X
Ya know, I really feel kinda slighted. You gave another poster a hearty "Quite Concur™" recently.
Sorry: Quite Concur, then.
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freetoken Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:21:14pm |
re: #214 Racer X
I'm thinking a president who triples the budget deficit in one year, and is on track to double the national debt to over 26 Trillion within 10 years, is probably not the smartest president we've had.
It's all part of his Pigovian plot to take down the United States of America.
Did you know that the previous head of the GAO, David Walker, tried over and over to raise the issue of the debt with the Bush administration and the Republican Congress, but they didn't seem to care.
You know why?
Because in American politics actually trying to balance the budge is not a rewarding process. For all the attacks (many spurious and unfounded in fact) on President Obama about this year's deficit the peanut gallery of critics have yet to come up with anything better to try than what the current Administration has done.
Simply put, taxes have to go up. Try selling that to the Tea Partying electorate.
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Cato the Elder Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:21:37pm |
re: #205 cliffster
Good point. With bread-making, I've reached "methodology". Having never made ice cream before, I'm just looking for a method. There, pretty please, will you give me grandma cato's recipe?
Well then.
There are many.
But I believe peaches are in season all over the place right now, so how about this one? (Who doesn't like peach ice cream?)
Take six fine free-range eggs and beat them till they scream for ice cream. Add 3 or 3-1/2 cups of sugar. Take the ten fresh peaches you've wisely diced in advance, or pureed, if you like your ice cream smooth, add four (!) cups of heavy cream (what Grandma Cato would have just called "cream"), two cups of half-and-half (what Grandma Cato would have called "skimmed milk"), two or three teaspoons of vanilla extract (drink the remainder), and 1/2 to 3/4 teaspoons salt.
That's the recipe. I don't know about these fancy 'lectronic ice-cream makers; Grandma Cato taught me to do it with an old crank-handled device. Read your manufacturer's instructions for further enlightenment.
Sit back. Relax. Eat. Enjoy. Get fat. Be happy.
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Racer X Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:21:47pm |
From what I understand, all of the TARP money paid out under Bush's watch has been repaid. With interest.
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Stanghazi Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:21:59pm |
re: #235 Racer X
At some point, blaming Bush is going to lose all meaning.
I'll trust the actual history. Not the folks who want to wish it away under the "blame" description. Seriously, no matter how shitty the truth is, it's the truth.
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Racer X Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:22:12pm |
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jamesfirecat Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:22:38pm |
re: #232 Mich-again
Exactly.. He was a complete idiot in every sense of the world yet the superintelligent ones who opposed him kept letting him get his way. That seems to be the lesson.
Because Dems are spineless well meaning wimps.
I'm a Dem and I've seen far too much activity in my party to believe anything but this as the truth.
It explains too many things like why Bush did all he did and why Joe Liberman gets to keep his chairs even through threatening to filibuster one of the party's major campaign promises....
(Granted her campaigned against the party he now caucuses with in the last election it wasn't too much of a surprise but he really should have gotten slapped down a peg or two in the who is the bigger big wig department over that...)
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Nimed Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:23:15pm |
re: #235 Racer X
At some point, blaming Bush is going to lose all meaning.
Well, you brought up the deficit. It's hard to discuss the topic while pretending the Bush tax cuts never happened.
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Dancing along the light of day Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:23:24pm |
re: #241 Cato the Elder
Eat them up, YUM!
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jamesfirecat Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:23:25pm |
re: #236 Floral Giraffe
It did, when Obama got elected...
Because Obama being elected magically erased everything that came before him?
Christ would you say that FDR had no right to blame Hoover for the Depression?
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Mich-again Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:24:02pm |
re: #231 b_sharp
The point is, you built a straw man that had no resemblance to any real complaint about Palin.
I see you really like to drop the term "straw man" even if you don't care enough to check to see if its true. lay-zeee.
My response was to a ridiculous post from earlier tonite from the broken record. I'll quote it, you get one guess who posted it...
"If this prancing porker ever got power, you could count your fweedoms on your one remaining testicle."
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Racer X Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:24:43pm |
re: #243 Stanley Sea
I'll trust the actual history. Not the folks who want to wish it away under the "blame" description. Seriously, no matter how shitty the truth is, it's the truth.
The truth is out of style.
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tradewind Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:24:47pm |
re: #224 Racer X
Well, he did have all that backup from the rest of the BushCrimeFamily.
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b_sharp Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:25:05pm |
re: #223 Dark_Falcon
And I agree.
From my perspective as an outsider with an interest in US politics, he seems to be the most intelligent president you have had in a while. I think his greatest failing is his naive belief decisions can be made in a bipartisan manner if he extends his hand out to the Republicans. If anything he needs to be less intellectual and more predatory to deal with the anti-intellectual right wing.
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A Man for all Seasons Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:25:05pm |
re: #228 albusteve
this place sounds like a dive tavern along some unused state highway...skimming the posts is almost embarrassing
Hi Steve..I so wanted to talk to you about Joel Scott Hill all day..I know you know his music...Somebody pissed me off..Jeez that just never happens..Sorry
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Racer X Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:25:37pm |
re: #246 Nimed
Well, you brought up the deficit. It's hard to discuss the topic while pretending the Bush tax cuts never happened.
What was the impact of the Bush tax cuts to our national debt?
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Cato the Elder Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:26:11pm |
re: #225 HoosierHoops
Don't you dare hide behind Ice's skirt...I will never reveal our background emails about you..
You deal with me..Stop the attacks on mandy..It's that simple...I'm done with you..Next time you flounce..Just effen flounce boy
Va te faire foutre.
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Stanghazi Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:27:02pm |
re: #255 Racer X
What was the impact of the Bush tax cuts to our national debt?
re: #230 Stanley Sea
Image: 12-16-09bud-rev6-28-10-f1.jpg
And again, we must review the chart.
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Racer X Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:28:06pm |
re: #257 Stanley Sea
re: #230 Stanley Sea
Image: 12-16-09bud-rev6-28-10-f1.jpg
And again, we must review the chart.
Do not distract me with your facts.
;-)
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webevintage Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:28:42pm |
re: #255 Racer X
What was the impact of the Bush tax cuts to our national debt?
[Link: www.cbpp.org...]
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Political Atheist Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:29:13pm |
For my SoCal friends-Check out this road.
Bicycle / motorcycle heaven...
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Stanghazi Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:29:25pm |
re: #258 Racer X
Do not distract me with your facts.
;-)
ha! See that dark orange area? Well, imagine it gone! poof! Exactly when it was set up to expire.
Why was it set up to expire I wonder...?
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:29:42pm |
Wraith-Wrecker's Ring
This ring has a large green diamond in the shape of a skull (with yellow diamonds for eye sockets.
Power: Usable only three times ever (no more than twice per adventure), this ring automatically destroys any Undead creature below level 20, and inflicts 4D20 on all Undead creatures at level 20 or above. After its third use, its diamons turn black and the ring falls off the user's hand.
Weakness: The ring attacks all things that are not living, even friendly ghosts. It's the supernatural equivalent of a WMD, and should be used accordingly.
Cost: $75,000 Gold.
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tradewind Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:29:51pm |
re: #253 b_sharp
I think his greatest failing is his naive belief decisions can be made in a bipartisan manner if he extends his hand out to the Republicans.
Giving new definition to ' faith as the belief in something unseen '.
Not to mention untried.
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albusteve Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:30:30pm |
re: #253 b_sharp
From my perspective as an outsider with an interest in US politics, he seems to be the most intelligent president you have had in a while. I think his greatest failing is his naive belief decisions can be made in a bipartisan manner if he extends his hand out to the Republicans. If anything he needs to be less intellectual and more predatory to deal with the anti-intellectual right wing.
intelligence is over rated, BO is proof of that as well as this blog half the time...make that three quarters of the time
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freetoken Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:30:49pm |
re: #253 b_sharp
I think his greatest failing is his naive belief decisions can be made in a bipartisan manner if he extends his hand out to the Republicans.
Hmmm... I don't think it is naiveté as much as pure Democratic party politics - the President's party is too diverse (and at conflict with itself) for him to muster a filibuster-busting 60 votes in the Senate.
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Mich-again Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:30:54pm |
re: #253 b_sharp
If anything he needs to be less intellectual and more predatory to deal with the anti-intellectual right wing.
I think some articulate ridicule would work better than being "more predatory" with the extremists.
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Dancing along the light of day Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:31:47pm |
re: #260 Rightwingconspirator
Ortega highway.
Have you driven it?
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tradewind Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:31:56pm |
re: #259 webevintage
It's going to be rich watching the democrats who couldn't wait to demagogue those evil tax cuts try desperately to avoid even talking about them this fall.
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cliffster Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:32:01pm |
re: #241 Cato the Elder
hehe, thanks Cato. I don't know if Fredericksburg peaches get the kind of national recognition as the deserve, but when they're in season it's like heaven melting on your tongue.
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Racer X Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:32:01pm |
re: #259 webevintage
[Link: www.cbpp.org...]
Thanks.
This was interesting:
Furthermore, under the new CBO projections, total federal spending will remain lower in 2005, as a share of the economy, than in any year from 1975-1996. As this indicates, federal spending is not at an unusually high level, even with the large increases in spending for Iraq and anti-terrorism efforts. The deficits that the nation now faces reflect not an unusually high level of spending, but rather an unusually low level of revenue. Indeed, CBO projects that federal revenues will be lower as a share of the economy in 2005 than in all years of the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s, and the 1990s.
How are we doing now on federal spending?
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A Man for all Seasons Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:32:43pm |
re: #256 Cato the Elder
Va te faire foutre.
You talk to me..You speak English.. I will be the man here and say I'm sorry we got into a tiff tonight.. I'm Sorry Cato
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tradewind Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:33:45pm |
re: #266 Mich-again
I'm sure that POTUS' IQ is well above average, but his EQ ( emotional intelligence quotient) appears subpar.
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webevintage Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:34:11pm |
re: #268 tradewind
It's going to be rich watching the democrats who couldn't wait to demagogue those evil tax cuts try desperately to avoid even talking about them this fall.
Why?
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cliffster Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:34:21pm |
re: #253 b_sharp
From my perspective as an outsider with an interest in US politics, he seems to be the most intelligent president you have had in a while. I think his greatest failing is his naive belief decisions can be made in a bipartisan manner if he extends his hand out to the Republicans. If anything he needs to be less intellectual and more predatory to deal with the anti-intellectual right wing.
Blah blah blah Obama extending his hand to the Republicans, blah blah blah.
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b_sharp Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:35:25pm |
re: #250 Mich-again
Here is part of the post I responded to.
but if by chance she ever gets a whiff of power we're all doomed because she's really an evil genius and she'll figure out some way to steal all our freedom! haha.
The bolded part is the straw man.
Freedoms can be lost through stupidity as easily as through genius intent.
I have no interest in who wrote the original comment, I skip over pigeon speak when I see it.
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blueraven Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:35:41pm |
re: #224 Racer X
Not a chance. Bush had the evil mind control ray thingy going on, and made them vote for things they were really against.
Just like healthcare reform, I guess...the republicans shoulda/coulda stopped it, even thought they are in the minority. /
How did that happen?
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Walter L. Newton Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:35:50pm |
re: #271 HoosierHoops
You talk to me..You speak English.. I will be the man here and say I'm sorry we got into a tiff tonight.. I'm Sorry Cato
You don't want to know what that was in English. You are the man... nice move on your part.
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Gus Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:36:27pm |
Don't worry folks. The GOP is hard at work in congress.
Going after the 14th Amendment.
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tradewind Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:36:51pm |
re: #274 webevintage
Because it exposes the soft underbelly (and the glaring hypocrisy) of class warfare as a political strategy.
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Political Atheist Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:37:04pm |
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Cato the Elder Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:37:51pm |
re: #262 Dark_Falcon
Wraith-Wrecker's Ring
This ring has a large green diamond in the shape of a skull (with yellow diamonds for eye sockets.
Power: Usable only three times ever (no more than twice per adventure), this ring automatically destroys any Undead creature below level 20, and inflicts 4D20 on all Undead creatures at level 20 or above. After its third use, its diamons turn black and the ring falls off the user's hand.
Weakness: The ring attacks all things that are not living, even friendly ghosts. It's the supernatural equivalent of a WMD, and should be used accordingly.
Cost: $75,000 Gold.
Sawah Pawin Wing:
This Wing has the shape of a Nut, made of faux cat's-eye. There are no eye sockets because this Wing is bwind.
Power: When someone asks you about youw liberry, point the Wing at them and click your wuby swippers together thwee times, chanting, "There's no pwace like Awaska!" Your opponent will immediately experience amnesia and forget the question.
Weakness: Can only be used if Tina Fey is not in the audience. Don't count on that.
Cost: 24 pre-1970s Krugerrands, or check for $1.4 million in gold, payable to Glenn Beck.
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albusteve Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:38:09pm |
re: #275 cliffster
Blah blah blah Obama extending his hand to the Republicans, blah blah blah.
BO is the most partisan POTUS ever...his brief senate voting record proves it...and then of course to seal the deal on hid blind partisanship, he refused to believe the Surge was successful...a bizarre and frightening tell...he is way over his head and is Pelosi's sissy...not cool
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:38:44pm |
Ring of the Demi-Litch
This ring seems to be a pure white diamond without any impurities. Players who have the ability to feel the magic of an object will sense intense Bad Craziness flowing through the ring.
Power (negative): A character who puts it on begins to spout lunacy in the manner of the Silver Gopher, while beginning to age quickly. While infecting the wearer with BC, the ring suck his or her life force away (10 points of damage per turn), as it is the last of Palindrome's Soul Gems. If it reduces the wearer's hit points to zero in this way, the player is consumed from within by the Bad Craziness and suffers the True Death (no resurrection possible and Palindrome eats the character's soul). If the ring is not put on a character's hand, or if it removed from their hand, players may cats it on the ground and destroy it to eliminate the Soul Gem and its power.
Cost: $90,000 Gold.
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Mich-again Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:38:55pm |
re: #276 b_sharp
Freedoms can be lost through stupidity as easily as through genius intent.
Well that would take stupidity on the part of the people losing the freedom, not stupidity from the leader who was taking it away.
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webevintage Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:39:25pm |
re: #279 Gus 802
Don't worry folks. The GOP is hard at work in congress.
Going after the 14th Amendment.
Personally I am looking forward to all the investigations into all those liberty
hating amendments.
Oh and whatever impeachment tomfoolery Issa/Bachman/King can come up with if they get the House back.
Should be good times of crazy.
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:40:06pm |
re: #273 tradewind
I'm sure that POTUS' IQ is well above average, but his EQ ( emotional intelligence quotient) appears subpar.
I don't see that at all. He has trouble relating to some concerns, but he does empathize with people and he understands what they are feeling. He just fails to understand why.
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Buck Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:40:11pm |
re: #105 eclectic infidel
Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink.
If you don't like the quote, then ask to have the quote changed, not the icon.
Anyway, you can see what you want to see. I see a really bad guy being arrested by the proper authorities.
Read into it what you want to read into it. I read a quote, and a harmless one at that.
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Gus Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:40:39pm |
re: #286 webevintage
Personally I am looking forward to all the investigations into all those liberty
hating amendments.
Oh and whatever impeachment tomfoolery Issa/Bachman/King can come up with if they get the House back.
Should be good times of crazy.
Yeah. Whew. Can't wait for November. Maybe someday we can look forward to the possibility of Sharron Angle even replacing Harry Reid as Senate Majority Leader. She's a sharp woman.
/
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Soap_Man Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:40:41pm |
re: #265 freetoken
Hmmm... I don't think it is naiveté as much as pure Democratic party politics - the President's party is too diverse (and at conflict with itself) for him to muster a filibuster-busting 60 votes in the Senate.
I've been lurking but I have to jump on for a second. I don't think it is so much the Dem pols, but the Obama supporters.
Conservatives stuck behind Bush up until maybe the last few years of his presidency. Obama's supporters, meanwhile, have blasted what he has done as "not liberal enough" or "not far enough" etc. Read Kos or HuffPo.
There is this, dare I say, a spoiled look at it. They should be generally happy with the fact that they have a leader who can be considered to be well within mainstream liberal thought on most issues.
So of course he feels like he has to "water down" legislation. The left seems like its going to bitch and moan no matter what. What "progressives" want is unpassable anyway. Might as well see if you can pick off some moderates.
Now I know many will argue the critique of Obama from the left is better than the unconditional support of Bush from the right. But fuck it people, he's a better Democrat than most. He is only going to be weaker for your party if you get all up in arms because there was no government option or that he isn't pulling out of Afgan immediately or didn't strike down DADT or whatever bullshit pipedream is out there.
The support from his base is shaky. He knows it, his opponents know it. That weakens him. Stop expecting everything and the moon and his presidency will be smoother. Take the small victories and be satisfied with it.
(Rant off)
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Stanghazi Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:40:54pm |
re: #288 Buck
If you don't like the quote, then ask to have the quote changed, not the icon.
Anyway, you can see what you want to see. I see a really bad guy being arrested by the proper authorities.
Read into it what you want to read into it. I read a quote, and a harmless one at that.
Torture apologist.
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blueraven Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:41:27pm |
re: #268 tradewind
It's going to be rich watching the democrats who couldn't wait to demagogue those evil tax cuts try desperately to avoid even talking about them this fall.
Its more fun watching the republicans try to explain how they pay for themselves. Not!
What is this, a spectator sport? How about governing?
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Cato the Elder Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:41:30pm |
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albusteve Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:41:39pm |
re: #287 Dark_Falcon
I don't see that at all. He has trouble relating to some concerns, but he does empathize with people and he understands what they are feeling. He just fails to understand why.
how do you know that?...it sure doesn't seem that way...to me he is an elitists pol, no more, no less
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b_sharp Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:41:43pm |
re: #266 Mich-again
I think some articulate ridicule would work better than being "more predatory" with the extremists.
He needs the aggressive attitude to actually put out that ridicule, but you are right, well placed ridicule can move mountainous meat heads. (sorry)
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:41:44pm |
re: #282 Cato the Elder
Sawah Pawin Wing:
This Wing has the shape of a Nut, made of faux cat's-eye. There are no eye sockets because this Wing is bwind.
Power: When someone asks you about youw liberry, point the Wing at them and click your wuby swippers together thwee times, chanting, "There's no pwace like Awaska!" Your opponent will immediately experience amnesia and forget the question.
Weakness: Can only be used if Tina Fey is not in the audience. Don't count on that.
Cost: 24 pre-1970s Krugerrands, or check for $1.4 million in gold, payable to Glenn Beck.
Great one, Cato. But Palin (as Palindrome) is already the arch-villain of this adventure and her ring is detailed on post #284.
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tradewind Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:42:14pm |
re: #277 blueraven
There are yellow-dog dyed-in-the wool democrats, and then there are democrats who were swept in on the Anybody But Bush tide. They won't be re-elected if they vote with Pelosi & Co. against the more moderate-to-conservative convictions of their constituents , and they know it.
Obama is probably secretly looking forward to at least a Republican House. It will give him a lot more cover to actually work in a bipartisan manner to get things done.
On second thought......there's that subpoena thingy. So maybe not so much.
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Buck Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:42:24pm |
re: #94 Cato the Elder
And every time you post here, I see dumb people.
and your best is usually just to call people names.
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Soap_Man Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:42:35pm |
re: #265 freetoken
Hmmm... I don't think it is naiveté as much as pure Democratic party politics - the President's party is too diverse (and at conflict with itself) for him to muster a filibuster-busting 60 votes in the Senate.
To clarify. That wasn't directed at you. Mostly at the people I know in the analog world.
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webevintage Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:42:45pm |
re: #280 tradewind
Because it exposes the soft underbelly (and the glaring hypocrisy) of class warfare as a political strategy.
Again with the class warfare...
sheesh.
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Eclectic Infidel Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:43:13pm |
re: #288 Buck
If you don't like the quote, then ask to have the quote changed, not the icon.
Anyway, you can see what you want to see. I see a really bad guy being arrested by the proper authorities.
Read into it what you want to read into it. I read a quote, and a harmless one at that.
Mandy is free to have whatever icon and quote she wishes. When all is said and..well, said, it's of no consequence.
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jamesfirecat Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:43:55pm |
re: #273 tradewind
I'm sure that POTUS' IQ is well above average, but his EQ ( emotional intelligence quotient) appears subpar.
Based on the fact that?
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b_sharp Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:44:01pm |
re: #285 Mich-again
Well that would take stupidity on the part of the people losing the freedom, not stupidity from the leader who was taking it away.
Both.
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blueraven Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:46:51pm |
re: #298 tradewind
There are yellow-dog dyed-in-the wool democrats, and then there are democrats who were swept in on the Anybody But Bush tide. They won't be re-elected if they vote with Pelosi & Co. against the more moderate-to-conservative convictions of their constituents , and they know it.
Obama is probably secretly looking forward to at least a Republican House. It will give him a lot more cover to actually work in a bipartisan manner to get things done.
On second thought...there's that subpoena thingy. So maybe not so much.
The tax cuts were voted in for 10 years. If the republicans had the votes to make them permanent they would have.
Its all politics about politics for you isn't it? The tax cuts were bad then and bad now.
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tradewind Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:47:18pm |
re: #302 webevintage
Couldn't agree more. It needs to be put to rest with a stake through the heart.
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Gus Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:48:33pm |
Government has become the great big cop out for people. A cop out in how people expect it to do everything and a cop out in how it is seen as negatively affecting everything in this country. There's more to this country then the Feds. It's the private sector and it is also its the people.
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albusteve Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:49:07pm |
re: #305 jamesfirecat
Based on the fact that?
heresay...same as your assumptions about his IQ in the first place...where do you get your info?
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albusteve Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:50:37pm |
re: #310 Gus 802
Government has become the great big cop out for people. A cop out in how people expect it to do everything and a cop out in how it is seen as negatively affecting everything in this country. There's more to this country then the Feds. It's the private sector and it is also its the people.
yes, I was gonna say something like that soon
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Nimed Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:51:05pm |
re: #255 Racer X
What was the impact of the Bush tax cuts to our national debt?
Approximately $2.3 trillion over 10 years. So, something like 1.8 trillion in 8 years.
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albusteve Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:52:49pm |
somebody prove to me BO is a real smart guy, that his IQ is above average, or that he can peel a potato without any help...where does this 'intelligence' shit come from?...his handlers?
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Nimed Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:53:15pm |
re: #283 albusteve
BO is the most partisan POTUS ever...his brief senate voting record proves it...and then of course to seal the deal on hid blind partisanship, he refused to believe the Surge was successful...a bizarre and frightening tell...he is way over his head and is Pelosi's sissy...not cool
Sigh. You really want to go after Obama's positions on the Iraq War? Because he was one of the very few politicians with the balls to oppose that massive clusterfuck.
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Walter L. Newton Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:53:27pm |
re: #310 Gus 802
Government has become the great big cop out for people. A cop out in how people expect it to do everything and a cop out in how it is seen as negatively affecting everything in this country. There's more to this country then the Feds. It's the private sector and it is also its the people.
I know... I wish people would start taking credit for themselves and the position they are in. It's not always the governments fault and the government shouldn't be expected to fix everything for a person.
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Guanxi88 Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:54:08pm |
Ni hao, mein scaly amigos!
Busier than a one-armed paper-hanger of late, but a quick update.
My Bitter Half came down with Book of Job type boils. After noting the justice of the thing, I then proceeded to haul her drippy carcass down to a TCM practitioner who was also an MD.
He checks her out, draws a culture, and prescribes silver ointment until the results come back. Not MRSA, thank goodness, so he says "Knock off the silver. Yunnan Baiyao - capsules and powder.. Oh, and go ahead and give the boils a cupping when they come to a head."
Yech - pulled quite a bit of pus out from the cupping. Cleansed the area, then dusted - coated - it with Yunnan Baiyao - stopped bleeding immediately, reduced swelling. Damned things are healing up and it looks like no scars, either.
A lot of folk need to remember there ARE options to Western care, but western med is always your first line of defense for really weird stuff.
Otherwise, all's well.
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albusteve Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:55:19pm |
re: #315 Nimed
Sigh. You really want to go after Obama's positions on the Iraq War? Because he was one of the very few politicians with the balls to oppose that massive clusterfuck.
so what...he's a buffoon and his campaign crap proved it...why don't you call him out for his foolery in all fairness?...fuck you sigh, it wasn't a massive clusterfuck, Astan is
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lostlakehiker Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:55:35pm |
re: #121 Racer X
Battle Looms Over Huge Costs of Public Pensions
There’s a class war coming to the world of government pensions.
The haves are retirees who were once state or municipal workers. Their seemingly guaranteed and ever-escalating monthly pension benefits are breaking budgets nationwide.
The have-nots are taxpayers who don’t have generous pensions. Their 401(k)s or individual retirement accounts have taken a real beating in recent years and are not guaranteed. And soon, many of those people will be paying higher taxes or getting fewer state services as their states put more money aside to cover those pension checks.
At stake is at least $1 trillion. That’s trillion, with a “t,” as in titanic and terrifying.
The figure comes from a study by the Pew Center on the States that came out in February. Pew estimated a $1 trillion gap as of fiscal 2008 between what states had promised workers in the way of retiree pension, health care and other benefits and the money they currently had to pay for it all. And some economists say that Pew is too conservative and the problem is two or three times as large.
So a question of extraordinary financial, political, legal and moral complexity emerges, something that every one of us will be taking into town meetings and voting booths for years to come: Given how wrong past pension projections were, who should pay to fill the 13-figure financing gap?
When the bottom falls out of a private retirement, the private retiree loses. When the bottom falls out of a public retirement, the private retiree loses...he must ante up however much extra it takes in new taxes. A minor town official in some minor CA town can "earn" $500 000 in his final year, and that becomes the base for his pension, which must be paid by the taxpayers of CA.
CA has gone from being near the top in K-12 education, to near dead last. CA has gone from being an economic leader, to being barely able to keep the lights on. The only thing that has not suffered under liberal rule of CA is liberal self-confidence. Supremely sure that anyone who thinks differently on any of their pet topics is an "ignorant bigot", or for simplicity's sake, a "shit", they forge ahead.
No matter. The Red States can be nicked for however much taxes it takes to shore up CA's finances. The sharecropper in MS can pay his bit toward that $300K pension, and the innumerable other profligate expenditures that characterize CA's finances.
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Gus Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:55:47pm |
I better recharge my private sector by hitting the futon.
Hasta later.
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Cato the Elder Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:57:15pm |
re: #300 Soap_Man
To clarify. That wasn't directed at you. Mostly at the people I know in the analog world.
A sorry young blade known as Buck
thought he was full o' the pluck
for challenging Cato.
His ebb was his spate. Oh!
Curse the poor bastard's dumb luck.
Note, please, that I just took two minutes to write a limerick on your nick without using the obvious rhyme.
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Guanxi88 Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:57:45pm |
re: #319 lostlakehiker
When the bottom falls out of a private retirement, the private retiree loses. When the bottom falls out of a public retirement, the private retiree loses...he must ante up however much extra it takes in new taxes. A minor town official in some minor CA town can "earn" $500 000 in his final year, and that becomes the base for his pension, which must be paid by the taxpayers of CA.
CA has gone from being near the top in K-12 education, to near dead last. CA has gone from being an economic leader, to being barely able to keep the lights on. The only thing that has not suffered under liberal rule of CA is liberal self-confidence. Supremely sure that anyone who thinks differently on any of their pet topics is an "ignorant bigot", or for simplicity's sake, a "shit", they forge ahead.
No matter. The Red States can be nicked for however much taxes it takes to shore up CA's finances. The sharecropper in MS can pay his bit toward that $300K pension, and the innumerable other profligate expenditures that characterize CA's finances.
Failed state, with parasitic tendencies.
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cliffster Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:58:22pm |
re: #315 Nimed
Sigh. You really want to go after Obama's positions on the Iraq War? Because he was one of the very few politicians with the balls to oppose that massive clusterfuck.
My, how quickly it went from "clusterfuck" to "victory". Obama's claiming credit for victory in that war, given his position in it the whole time and the fact that it was won before he took office, shows complete lack of class and a sworn dedication to partisanship. Not surprising, but sickening nonetheless.
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Cato the Elder Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:58:51pm |
re: #321 Cato the Elder
Whoops again! That ditty was meant in reply to Buck's #299.
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
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Buck Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:58:52pm |
re: #321 Cato the Elder
A sorry young blade known as Buck
thought he was full o' the pluck
for challenging Cato.
His ebb was his spate. Oh!
Curse the poor bastard's dumb luck.Note, please, that I just took two minutes to write a limerick on your nick without using the obvious rhyme.
Or challenging Ned, or defending Mandy....
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tradewind Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:59:18pm |
re: #315 Nimed
Yeah, and he's taking credit for the rousing success.
Which is really egregious since he loudly opposed and denounced the surge as ' bound to fail '.
Summoning help from the very general who crafted that surge to take over in Afghanistan must have been a little surreal.
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Walter L. Newton Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:59:24pm |
It's 52 degrees (f) outside right now... that will require a blanket tonight. Guess summer is over up here. I saw a light snowfall last year in Aug. Would be surprised to see one again before the end of the month.
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Cato the Elder Mon, Aug 9, 2010 9:59:56pm |
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A Man for all Seasons Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:00:13pm |
I'm getting sleepy.. I have woke up every morning at 4am struggling with issues of Multiple SSID's on Cisco WAPS without corrupting Certs on 802.1x security...I have tossed and turned every morning..When I solve this issue I get to go home and pack my stuff up and bring my dog with me and move here...I'm sorry but this is really hard for me...I'm stressed beyond belief...
I'll be waking up at 4am again trying to find a solution to this problem...
It really bothers me lizards..I just can't sleep
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Guanxi88 Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:00:19pm |
re: #327 Walter L. Newton
It's 52 degrees (f) outside right now... that will require a blanket tonight. Guess summer is over up here. I saw a light snowfall last year in Aug. Would be surprised to see one again before the end of the month.
had a string of 100 degree days here. This lack of auto a/c is about killing me, but think of all the money I save on sauna fees.
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Buck Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:00:56pm |
re: #328 Cato the Elder
I see you are a reader of the trollblog, as you seem to know my real name.
Hmm.
Everyone knows your real name..... I don't think it is a secret.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:00:56pm |
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Nimed Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:01:21pm |
re: #318 albusteve
so what...he's a buffoon and his campaign crap proved it...why don't you call him out for his foolery in all fairness?...fuck you sigh, it wasn't a massive clusterfuck, Astan is
The Afghanistan War was not only, and unlike the Iraq War, justified, but it still has a lot to go before it reaches the costs of the Iraq War, both financially and in American lives. I would also mention the horrendous cost in Iraqui civilian lives, but I doubt you care very much about those.
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albusteve Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:01:32pm |
re: #323 cliffster
My, how quickly it went from "clusterfuck" to "victory". Obama's claiming credit for victory in that war, given his position in it the whole time and the fact that it was won before he took office, shows complete lack of class and a sworn dedication to partisanship. Not surprising, but sickening nonetheless.
and yet, these posters stroke themselves to orgasm considering BOs intelligence and remarkable, once in a lifetime leadership qualities...what a hoot
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Walter L. Newton Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:03:03pm |
re: #332 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Still admiring you.
(FWIW)
I like you too... very much... I don't want to bring up a personal subject, but please, hows the kid? SHort answer if you need to.
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Buck Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:03:05pm |
re: #335 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I don't.
FWIW
Well, now you do, and you didn't have to read any other blog.
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albusteve Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:03:18pm |
re: #326 tradewind
Yeah, and he's taking credit for the rousing success.
Which is really egregious since he loudly opposed and denounced the surge as ' bound to fail '.
Summoning help from the very general who crafted that surge to take over in Afghanistan must have been a little surreal.
it's brazen hypocricy...he's a rube
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cliffster Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:03:27pm |
re: #329 HoosierHoops
Get some sleep, my dual-H friend. The certificates will get no sleep at all while you are resting up, and you need every advantage you can get. 'night..
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albusteve Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:03:54pm |
re: #328 Cato the Elder
I see you are a reader of the trollblog, as you seem to know my real name.
Hmm.
yes, interesting eh?
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Cato the Elder Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:04:03pm |
A manboy who called himself Buck
decided it would bring him luck
to call out a Lizard
by his real name. The blizzard
that followed left him thunderstruck.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:04:38pm |
re: #327 Walter L. Newton
Can I find a place on the planet where the temperature never varies from 74 degrees F with 40 percent humidity?
If it's not in some cave, I want to move there.
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Nimed Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:04:51pm |
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:04:51pm |
Ring of the Lizard King
This ring has a large green emerald, with two rows of small diamonds running across it like stitching on a football.
Power: This ring increases the damage done by the wearer to Stalker Wraiths, Wingnuts, Trolls, and anyother minion of Dorkus by 50%. It may also be used twice (only once per adventure), to summon an Aspect of the Lizard King, who will aid the players for 5 turns. The Aspect's stats are below:
Aspect of the Lizard King
Level 50 Brilliant Blog Host and Musician (The real Lizard King is Level 500)
Armor: Plate of truth and honesty, immune to any attacks from nutcases enemies and malfactors. Only fact-based attacks have any effect (and even then, the Lizard King's careful study of the facts will generally allow him to parry the blow).
Spells:
Great Music: The Lizard King plays a great new song either with his guitar, or with an image he conjures. Either way, 20 points of damage is undone from any Good-Aligned character.
Banish: Can be used once per turn to send any one Evil character to the Fever Swamp, never to return. Cannot be used against Level 25 characters or higher (this is to prevent the Aspect from simply banishing a 'Big Bad').
Weapons:
Lesser Ban Hammer: Automatically destroys any Evil character below level 20. Any above level 20 take 5D20 damage.
Clue-by-Four: 6D10 Damage, and counts as a Fact-Based Attack automatically.
Special (effects against Dorkus and any manifestations of him):
Any creature killed by the Lesser Ban Hammer becomes a Stalker Wraith the whines alongside Dorkus. Any manifestation of Dorkus (including Dorkus himself) that catches sight of the Aspect of the Lizard King immediately suffers 20 pain points to the butt, scream with butthurt rage and charges full tilt at the Lizard King, only to be easily defeated. The defeat causes Dorkus to post a Pathetic Screed. If the Ring of the Lizard King is purchased, when the player puts it on, a bright red mark in the shape of a man's bicycle cleat appears on the butt of the statue of Dorkus.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:05:21pm |
re: #336 Walter L. Newton
I like you too... very much... I don't want to bring up a personal subject, but please, hows the kid? SHort answer if you need to.
Not dead.
That makes us very happy at this point in time.
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Guanxi88 Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:05:48pm |
re: #342 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Can I find a place on the planet where the temperature never varies from 74 degrees F with 40 percent humidity?
If it's not in some cave, I want to move there.
The archives at Mugar memorial Library, at Boston University, meet all your criteria, and feature the original ruby slippers from the Wizard of oz, among other treasures.
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:06:03pm |
re: #331 Buck
Everyone knows your real name... I don't think it is a secret.
It is still wrong to post it without his permission. Would you want Cato to do that to you?
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Nimed Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:06:28pm |
re: #334 albusteve
and yet, these posters stroke themselves to orgasm considering BOs intelligence and remarkable, once in a lifetime leadership qualities...what a hoot
Sorry if you haven't been paying attention, but I'm actually pretty critical of Obama. It's not my fault that you're stupid enough to criticize his stand on the Iraq War.
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Cato the Elder Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:06:50pm |
re: #337 Buck
Well, now you do, and you didn't have to read any other blog.
Thanks for confirming your status as a stealth stalker, Buck.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:07:15pm |
re: #337 Buck
I don't visit other blogs.
Walter's name? Walter.
Cato's name? Cato.
Your name? Buck.
If they care to tell me their name? Fine.
Otherwise? I don't really care.
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Walter L. Newton Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:07:31pm |
re: #345 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Not dead.
That makes us very happy at this point in time.
That's all I need to know for now... thanks.
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albusteve Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:07:41pm |
re: #333 Nimed
The Afghanistan War was not only, and unlike the Iraq War, justified, but it still has a lot to go before it reaches the costs of the Iraq War, both financially and in American lives. I would also mention the horrendous cost in Iraqui civilian lives, but I doubt you care very much about those.
you make me laugh....justify the Astan war for me, in contrast to the Iraq gig...and btw, your bard about lives exposes you as an imbecile
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cliffster Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:07:53pm |
re: #349 Nimed
Sorry if you haven't been paying attention, but I'm actually pretty critical of Obama. It's not my fault that you're stupid enough to criticize his stand on the Iraq War.
"Sigh. You really want to go after Obama's positions on the Iraq War? Because he was one of the very few politicians with the balls to oppose that massive clusterfuck."
Condescending, and hypocritical at the same time, then. Congratulations.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:07:57pm |
re: #346 Guanxi88
They won't let me live there. I've asked.
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Walter L. Newton Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:08:55pm |
re: #351 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I don't visit other blogs.
Walter's name? Walter.
Cato's name? Cato.
Your name? Buck.If they care to tell me their name? Fine.
Otherwise? I don't really care.
My real name is Altier Desmond... but you can call me Al Desmond.
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albusteve Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:09:18pm |
re: #343 Nimed
re: #326 tradewind
"Winning" a war doesn't justify starting that war in the first place. This is really not a hard concept.
And it was a clusterfuck -- it was much, much, MUCH more expensive and bloody than it was ever predicted. And it still isn't over, by the way.
so what?...that's the way it goes...justify BOs affair with Astan
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Buck Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:09:48pm |
re: #348 Dark_Falcon
It is still wrong to post it without his permission. Would you want Cato to do that to you?
Really? We are hiding from people? I didn't know that. I have been here for more than seven years, and I didn't know that we had anything to hide.
My name is very available. My website link takes you to my FACEBOOK page.
I am not hiding. I read the ned thing on THIS site awhile ago... I didn't know it was a secret. It is a stupid secret, IMO....
I didn't post his phone number or anything...
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cliffster Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:09:50pm |
re: #348 Dark_Falcon
It is still wrong to post it without his permission. Would you want Cato to do that to you?
yeah, Buck, that really was being an asshole. I'd report that post to have it deleted, and cut that shit out. Just me, though..
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Buck Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:11:30pm |
re: #351 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I don't visit other blogs.
Walter's name? Walter.
Cato's name? Cato.
Your name? Buck.If they care to tell me their name? Fine.
Otherwise? I don't really care.
So now I read some other blog (not a crime as far as I know...) but you base this crime on what Cato the name caller says.
He has called me a slew of names...
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A Man for all Seasons Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:11:38pm |
re: #339 cliffster
Get some sleep, my dual-H friend. The certificates will get no sleep at all while you are resting up, and you need every advantage you can get. 'night..
Thank you..I'll be awake in 4 hours..Tossing and turning.. I Think the private keys aren't working..(PVK keys).. I just don't get it...Love you guys
I need to sleep for sure
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Guanxi88 Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:11:41pm |
re: #355 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
They won't let me live there. I've asked.
Your mistake was asking. I camped out in microforms and current periodicals there for days at a stretch, when I was "between opportunities". Nice couches.
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albusteve Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:11:51pm |
re: #349 Nimed
Sorry if you haven't been paying attention, but I'm actually pretty critical of Obama. It's not my fault that you're stupid enough to criticize his stand on the Iraq War.
getting ornery?....when you have to call people stupid to defend your own willful ignorance, you've lost the debate
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Nimed Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:12:09pm |
re: #354 cliffster
"Sigh. You really want to go after Obama's positions on the Iraq War? Because he was one of the very few politicians with the balls to oppose that massive clusterfuck."
Condescending, and hypocritical at the same time, then. Congratulations.
Since I do it myself, I don't mind a bit of name-calling. But next time you could probably accompany that with an actual argument. Without one, you just look angry and silly.
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tradewind Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:12:16pm |
re: #305 jamesfirecat
What, you want examples?
Bitter Clingers, the Stupidly-Acting Cops, shoot hoops instead of meeting with the troops......the Gulf indifference for days, etc, etc, ad nauseum, ad infinitum. Maybe it's a touch of Asperger's, maybe it's really that he is not enjoying this job.
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albusteve Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:12:28pm |
re: #348 Dark_Falcon
It is still wrong to post it without his permission. Would you want Cato to do that to you?
bad news indeed
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albusteve Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:14:14pm |
re: #359 Buck
Really? We are hiding from people? I didn't know that. I have been here for more than seven years, and I didn't know that we had anything to hide.
My name is very available. My website link takes you to my FACEBOOK page.
I am not hiding. I read the ned thing on THIS site awhile ago... I didn't know it was a secret. It is a stupid secret, IMO...
I didn't post his phone number or anything...
you fucked up out of frustration and anger....pretty small of you and you lost any respect i had for you...dirt
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Cato the Elder Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:14:57pm |
re: #361 Buck
So now I read some other blog (not a crime as far as I know...) but you base this crime on what Cato the name caller says.
He has called me a slew of names...
But none of them your own, unless your mother was actually drunk enough to name you Buck.
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:15:02pm |
Final Notes:
1. If players levitated through the skylight in the Chamber of the Golden Waters, skip this Interlude.
2. If a player decides to attack the shopkeeper, the DM should dissuade them very strongly, reminding them that good individuals never do such things. If the player(s) ignore the advice and attack anyway, the Ring of the Lizard Ling summons the Aspect of the Lizard King, who proceeds to Ban Hammer those who attacked into oblivion.
3. If the players have destroyed all of Palindrome's Soul Gems or have only missed one of them, her Astral Engine shuts down. In that case, player's next Encounter will be the field of Jackassery. If however, the players have left two or more such Gems behind (by not visiting this shop or failing to buy the Demi-Litch's Ring, by escaping the Chamber of the Golden Waters without winning the battle, or by talking their way past Berlin Inferno), then the players must shut the Astral Engine down by main force. Their next battle is in Civil War Woods.
Tomorrow, Civil War Woods will be detailed.
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Nimed Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:15:16pm |
re: #358 albusteve
so what?...that's the way it goes...justify BOs affair with Astan
By all means, criticize his decision to double down on the war in Afghanistan. He definitely owns that one, and I'm pretty on the fence on that decision myself. I was referring about the initial justification for both wars.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:16:02pm |
re: #357 Walter L. Newton
My real name is Altier Desmond... but you can call me Al Desmond.
I was sure it was Mike Hunt.
/
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Buck Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:16:31pm |
re: #368 albusteve
you fucked up out of frustration and anger...pretty small of you and you lost any respect i had for you...dirt
Oh no! I lost the respect of someone who never respected me...
I was never frustrated or angry... and this is some kind of joke that you think some kind of insult is calling a person by his name.
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:17:19pm |
re: #361 Buck
So now I read some other blog (not a crime as far as I know...) but you base this crime on what Cato the name caller says.
He has called me a slew of names...
Calling someone names online is much less severe than posting their real name without their permission. Stop it, Buck.
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Walter L. Newton Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:18:51pm |
re: #373 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I was sure it was Mike Hunt.
/
Just kidding... Al Desmond that was my stage name when I was active as a magician and magical producer... I just googled it and actually found on of my magic books I wrote in the 70's still for sale on some used book list.
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albusteve Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:19:50pm |
re: #378 Walter L. Newton
Just kidding... Al Desmond that was my stage name when I was active as a magician and magical producer... I just googled it and actually found on of my magic books I wrote in the 70's still for sale on some used book list.
save me one!
cool
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:20:06pm |
re: #375 Dark_Falcon
Calling someone names online is much less severe than posting their real name without their permission. Stop it, Buck.
Now.
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:20:16pm |
re: #344 Dark_Falcon
Price of the Ring of the Lizard King: $120,000 Gold.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:21:41pm |
I am sooo behind my sleep allotment. Must bid you adieu (but I'm not a Canadian) so, I'll say, G'NIGHT KNUCKLEHEADS!
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cliffster Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:24:17pm |
re: #382 Buck
Good grief, just shut the fuck up already. You were being a jackass and you know it.
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:26:13pm |
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Walter L. Newton Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:26:24pm |
re: #379 albusteve
save me one!
cool
I have two personal copies... and those I got back in the 90's off a used magic book list... some how over the years, since the middle 70's when the booklet was published in Fort Worth, I had lost or sold all of my personal copies... I was surprised to see ANYONE had a copy left for sale.
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albusteve Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:28:20pm |
re: #388 Walter L. Newton
I have two personal copies... and those I got back in the 90's off a used magic book list... some how over the years, since the middle 70's when the booklet was published in Fort Worth, I had lost or sold all of my personal copies... I was surprised to see ANYONE had a copy left for sale.
I jest about wanting a copy, but you are full of surprises...where's the comet you were gonna send me?
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Nimed Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:28:46pm |
re: #372 albusteve
you breathless twit...is there anything more stupid you can say?...tell me about BOs love affair with Astan, make an actual argument pinhead
re: #376 albusteve
nice defense...you are on the fence...duh
airhead
LOL. You were, I repeat, stupid to criticize Obama on his stance on the Iraq War -- virtually everything that happened since that war started justified his position in 2003. You and a bunch of others just like to ignore the facts and cling to a childish "we won the war!" non-argument. You don't like to talk about the costs, you don't like to talk about the lives lost, you don't like to talk about the meager and still very shaky rewards we got out of it.
What can I say? It's not like the war didn't have overwhelming public and political support when it started. Over the years, most of the country slowly recognized it was a mistake. You and a handful of people didn't. Boo-freaking-hoo.
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albusteve Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:29:37pm |
re: #390 Nimed
LOL. You were, I repeat, stupid to criticize Obama on his stance on the Iraq War -- virtually everything that happened since that war started justified his position in 2003. You and a bunch of others just like to ignore the facts and cling to a childish "we won the war!" non-argument. You don't like to talk about the costs, you don't like to talk about the lives lost, you don't like to talk about the meager and still very shaky rewards we got out of it.
What can I say? It's not like the war didn't have overwhelming public and political support when it started. Over the years, most of the country slowly recognized it was a mistake. You and a handful of people didn't. Boo-freaking-hoo.
I scroll you...you got nothing
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:30:35pm |
re: #388 Walter L. Newton
I have two personal copies... and those I got back in the 90's off a used magic book list... some how over the years, since the middle 70's when the booklet was published in Fort Worth, I had lost or sold all of my personal copies... I was surprised to see ANYONE had a copy left for sale.
Do you know any tricks for making an obnoxious jerk disappear? Because that would be handy right now.
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Walter L. Newton Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:31:00pm |
re: #389 albusteve
I jest about wanting a copy, but you are full of surprises...where's the comet you were gonna send me?
If you mean meteorite... I don't think you ever sent me your actual mailing address... I wouldn't have forgotten to do that... send your mailing address to me and I'll send you a package full of fun items that you can play with and learn about over the next few weeks... meteorite, ancient roman coins, fossils, rocks, fun stuff... do it... pronto.
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Walter L. Newton Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:31:43pm |
re: #392 Dark_Falcon
Do you know any tricks for making an obnoxious jerk disappear? Because that would be handy right now.
I knew a magician once, who was walking down the street and sudden;y turned into a drug store.
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cliffster Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:32:16pm |
re: #390 Nimed
LOL. You were, I repeat, stupid to criticize Obama on his stance on the Iraq War -- virtually everything that happened since that war started justified his position in 2003. You and a bunch of others just like to ignore the facts and cling to a childish "we won the war!" non-argument. You don't like to talk about the costs, you don't like to talk about the lives lost, you don't like to talk about the meager and still very shaky rewards we got out of it.
What can I say? It's not like the war didn't have overwhelming public and political support when it started. Over the years, most of the country slowly recognized it was a mistake. You and a handful of people didn't. Boo-freaking-hoo.
2004 along with its buddy John Kerry called - they want their ignorant rhetoric back.
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:32:32pm |
re: #394 Walter L. Newton
I knew a magician once, who was walking down the street and sudden;y turned into a drug store.
[smiles] Thanks, I needed that.
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Nimed Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:32:53pm |
re: #391 albusteve
I scroll you...you got nothing
Projection is a bitch, stevie. But thanks for playing.
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Cato the Elder Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:33:09pm |
Of course we won the war. You always win a war you're still waging.
Wait.
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avanti Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:34:47pm |
re: #393 Walter L. Newton
If you mean meteorite... I don't think you ever sent me your actual mailing address... I wouldn't have forgotten to do that... send your mailing address to me and I'll send you a package full of fun items that you can play with and learn about over the next few weeks... meteorite, ancient roman coins, fossils, rocks, fun stuff... do it... pronto.
BTW, I gave my best friend one of your meteorites, and you'd have thought it was the Hope diamond. She takes it to the casino and uses it for a lucky card holder while we play poker. About half the poker players up there have to listen to her talk about her "space rock."
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albusteve Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:34:53pm |
re: #393 Walter L. Newton
If you mean meteorite... I don't think you ever sent me your actual mailing address... I wouldn't have forgotten to do that... send your mailing address to me and I'll send you a package full of fun items that you can play with and learn about over the next few weeks... meteorite, ancient roman coins, fossils, rocks, fun stuff... do it... pronto.
I intend on coming up there, and you can buy me a taco in the deal
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Nimed Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:34:54pm |
re: #395 cliffster
2004 along with its buddy John Kerry called - they want their ignorant rhetoric back.
"Kerry said it in 2004, so IT MUST BE WRONG."
Is that really all you've got? Man, that's weak sauce even comparing to the usual pro-Iraq War arguments.
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cliffster Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:36:43pm |
re: #397 Nimed
Projection is a bitch, stevie. But thanks for playing.
You should post more. It's nice having you voicing your support of the things that I would otherwise have to argue against.
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albusteve Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:36:43pm |
re: #395 cliffster
2004 along with its buddy John Kerry called - they want their ignorant rhetoric back.
these brainiacs forget how the dems called for Husseins head...not worth my effort...idiots
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Walter L. Newton Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:37:47pm |
re: #399 avanti
BTW, I gave my best friend one of your meteorites, and you'd have thought it was the Hope diamond. She takes it to the casino and uses it for a lucky card holder while we play poker. About half the poker players up there have to listen to her talk about her "space rock."
That's certainly what it is... one of the best general guides to meteorites is called "Rocks from Space."
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Walter L. Newton Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:38:54pm |
re: #400 albusteve
I intend on coming up there, and you can buy me a taco in the deal
Fine... I'll save the "toys" for when you finally manage to stop by here.
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Nimed Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:40:33pm |
re: #403 albusteve
these brainiacs forget how the dems called for Husseins head...not worth my effort...idiots
You keep making these lateral points. The dems who supported the war were as wrong as the GOPers. But I thought you were criticizing Obama's stance on the war?
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jamesfirecat Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:41:04pm |
re: #344 Dark_Falcon
Ring of the Lizard King
This ring has a large green emerald, with two rows of small diamonds running across it like stitching on a football.
Power: This ring increases the damage done by the wearer to Stalker Wraiths, Wingnuts, Trolls, and anyother minion of Dorkus by 50%. It may also be used twice (only once per adventure), to summon an Aspect of the Lizard King, who will aid the players for 5 turns. The Aspect's stats are below:
Aspect of the Lizard King
Level 50 Brilliant Blog Host and Musician (The real Lizard King is Level 500)
Armor: Plate of truth and honesty, immune to any attacks from nutcases enemies and malfactors. Only fact-based attacks have any effect (and even then, the Lizard King's careful study of the facts will generally allow him to parry the blow).
Spells:
Great Music: The Lizard King plays a great new song either with his guitar, or with an image he conjures. Either way, 20 points of damage is undone from any Good-Aligned character.
Banish: Can be used once per turn to send any one Evil character to the Fever Swamp, never to return. Cannot be used against Level 25 characters or higher (this is to prevent the Aspect from simply banishing a 'Big Bad').
Weapons:
Lesser Ban Hammer: Automatically destroys any Evil character below level 20. Any above level 20 take 5D20 damage.
Clue-by-Four: 6D10 Damage, and counts as a Fact-Based Attack automatically.
Special (effects against Dorkus and any manifestations of him):
Any creature killed by the Lesser Ban Hammer becomes a Stalker Wraith the whines alongside Dorkus. Any manifestation of Dorkus (including Dorkus himself) that catches sight of the Aspect of the Lizard King immediately suffers 20 pain points to the butt, scream with butthurt rage and charges full tilt at the Lizard King, only to be easily defeated. The defeat causes Dorkus to post a Pathetic Screed. If the Ring of the Lizard King is purchased, when the player puts it on, a bright red mark in the shape of a man's bicycle cleat appears on the butt of the statue of Dorkus.
Hey wasn't it Linkara of Atop the fourth wall who came up with the phrase "clue by four" or is it used a lot here also?
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Cato the Elder Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:41:40pm |
re: #404 Walter L. Newton
That's certainly what it is... one of the best general guides to meteorites is called "Rocks from Space."
I thought that was an early 1980s movie about crack...
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cliffster Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:41:47pm |
re: #393 Walter L. Newton
If you mean meteorite... I don't think you ever sent me your actual mailing address... I wouldn't have forgotten to do that... send your mailing address to me and I'll send you a package full of fun items that you can play with and learn about over the next few weeks... meteorite, ancient roman coins, fossils, rocks, fun stuff... do it... pronto.
Is that offer good for a slightly-less-old but just-as-crotchety dude from Texas?
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Nimed Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:42:19pm |
re: #402 cliffster
You should post more. It's nice having you voicing your support of the things that I would otherwise have to argue against.
Well, judging from your posts on this discussion, when it comes to arguing you need all the help you can get.
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albusteve Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:42:20pm |
re: #405 Walter L. Newton
Fine... I'll save the "toys" for when you finally manage to stop by here.
finally?...sounds ominous
I'll be up, bet on it...I'll trade you for an adobe brick, an authentic piece of NM culture and history
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cliffster Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:43:23pm |
re: #410 Nimed
Well, judging from your posts on this discussion, when it comes to arguing you need all the help you can get.
haha! you sure are clever.
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:43:59pm |
re: #407 jamesfirecat
Hey wasn't it Linkara of Atop the fourth wall who came up with the phrase "clue by four" or is it used a lot here also?
It's often used here, and in fact a piece of wood labeled "Clue-by-Four" can be seen in the cover illustration of Volume One of the LGF Cookbook.
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Walter L. Newton Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:44:51pm |
re: #409 cliffster
Is that offer good for a slightly-less-old but just-as-crotchety dude from Texas?
That offer has been open to all Lizards... all you have to do is click on my name... it goes to my theatre website... you see a email link there... send me your mailing address... and my general disclaimer... as all Lizards will tell you, your personal info is safe with me... I've been collecting (voluntarily from Lizards) Lizards names and addresses and personal information for years, and never broken anyones trust.
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Walter L. Newton Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:45:26pm |
re: #411 albusteve
finally?...sounds ominous
I'll be up, bet on it...I'll trade you for an adobe brick, an authentic piece of NM culture and history
I want one from Kit Carson hut.
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jamesfirecat Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:46:13pm |
re: #370 Dark_Falcon
Final Notes:
1. If players levitated through the skylight in the Chamber of the Golden Waters, skip this Interlude.
2. If a player decides to attack the shopkeeper, the DM should dissuade them very strongly, reminding them that good individuals never do such things. If the player(s) ignore the advice and attack anyway, the Ring of the Lizard Ling summons the Aspect of the Lizard King, who proceeds to Ban Hammer those who attacked into oblivion.
3. If the players have destroyed all of Palindrome's Soul Gems or have only missed one of them, her Astral Engine shuts down. In that case, player's next Encounter will be the field of Jackassery. If however, the players have left two or more such Gems behind (by not visiting this shop or failing to buy the Demi-Litch's Ring, by escaping the Chamber of the Golden Waters without winning the battle, or by talking their way past Berlin Inferno), then the players must shut the Astral Engine down by main force. Their next battle is in Civil War Woods.
Tomorrow, Civil War Woods will be detailed.
Civil War Woods sounds like such a wonderful and ripe opportunity for parody that it really is a shame it has to be optional encounter if you ask me...
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albusteve Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:47:40pm |
re: #415 Walter L. Newton
I want one from Kit Carson hut.
yes, a federal offense....
I'm on it bro
you interested in a Billy the Kid six shooter?
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Nimed Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:49:23pm |
re: #412 cliffster
haha! you sure are clever.
Clever enough not to write something as idiotic as this:
My, how quickly it went from "clusterfuck" to "victory". Obama's claiming credit for victory in that war, given his position in it the whole time and the fact that it was won before he took office, shows complete lack of class and a sworn dedication to partisanship. Not surprising, but sickening nonetheless.
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:49:59pm |
re: #416 jamesfirecat
Civil War Woods sounds like such a wonderful and ripe opportunity for parody that it really is a shame it has to be optional encounter if you ask me...
It represents the idea of a modern Civil War existing in the fantasies of really nasty wingnuts. It's s penalty stage and very hard to win. The party that has to go through it will very likely lose members. There will be some fun parody, but its a pretty nasty fight.
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albusteve Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:52:04pm |
re: #418 Nimed
it's true bone head...give it up
BO is a weasle and a Chicago cheat...
even he knows that, you dupe
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jamesfirecat Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:52:06pm |
re: #419 Dark_Falcon
It represents the idea of a modern Civil War existing in the fantasies of really nasty wingnuts. It's s penalty stage and very hard to win. The party that has to go through it will very likely lose members. There will be some fun parody, but its a pretty nasty fight.
Okay I do agree on the entire you have to miss two or more thing, because while most of those stones are pretty freaking obvious and will be found by standard D&D adventure logic (kill everything that is in any way hostile, take everything not nailed down) the demi-lich ring soul gem would be a bit hard to find/figure out.
I mean if you point at yhe lich ring, what is the goblin going to tell you it does if you ask to buy it?
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Walter L. Newton Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:53:47pm |
re: #417 albusteve
yes, a federal offense...
I'm on it bro
you interested in a Billy the Kid six shooter?
Sure.
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Cato the Elder Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:54:07pm |
re: #411 albusteve
finally?...sounds ominous
I'll be up, bet on it...I'll trade you for an adobe brick, an authentic piece of NM culture and history
When Michael Palin (he of Monty Python) agreed to attempt the replication of the fictional Phileas Fogg's feat of rounding the world in 80 days, he had two requests from friends.
The first friend asked for an authentic Oriental horoscope for his soon-to-be-born baby.
The other asked for a real glazed tile from a Chinese roof.
How Michael fulfilled those requests, I leave it up to you to discover.
But if you ever want a brick from the notorious Baltimore Brick Company, which made such horrible bricks that a half-century later everyone who bought one of the houses faced with their product had to cover it in Formstone™ (a Baltimore specialty which you will hardly see anywhere else besides Philly), you have only to ask.
I will deliver it, gift-wrapped and dedicated, to your front door, in person.
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blueraven Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:54:14pm |
re: #383 Buck
Wow, now who is frustrated and angry?
Steve's not frustrated, he always talks like that, You are clueless.
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Buck Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:55:54pm |
re: #426 blueraven
Steve's not frustrated, he always talks like that, You are clueless.
OMG... You used his first name!
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Nimed Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:56:23pm |
re: #421 albusteve
it's true bone head...give it up
BO is a weasle and a Chicago cheat...
even he knows that, you dupe
Look, it's the utterly predictable "Chicago cheat" wingnut talking point.
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Cato the Elder Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:57:21pm |
re: #427 Buck
OMG... You used his first name!
My first name, as far as you're concerned, here, on this blog, is
Cato.
Stalker fuck.
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cliffster Mon, Aug 9, 2010 10:58:38pm |
re: #428 albusteve
nothing...he digs name calling over any reasonable debate
almost like a Mad Libs of liberal kneejerk. Blog Libs, I suppose.
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cliffster Mon, Aug 9, 2010 11:01:42pm |
re: #427 Buck
OMG... You used his first name!
Yes, and people call me Cliff. If I didn't want people to know my name was Cliff, I'd use the nickname "longdick" instead of "cliffster". A lot of the female posters would probably suspect they knew who I really was, but I'd be otherwise anonymous.
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Walter L. Newton Mon, Aug 9, 2010 11:03:56pm |
re: #434 cliffster
Yes, and people call me Cliff. If I didn't want people to know my name was Cliff, I'd use the nickname "longdick" instead of "cliffster". A lot of the female posters would probably suspect they knew who I really was, but I'd be otherwise anonymous.
So that email I just got from you wasn't a joke... Your last name is really Longdick? Thank goodness, I thought I was getting gay porn spam again :)
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albusteve Mon, Aug 9, 2010 11:05:33pm |
re: #425 Cato the Elder
When Michael Palin (he of Monty Python) agreed to attempt the replication of the fictional Phileas Fogg's feat of rounding the world in 80 days, he had two requests from friends.
The first friend asked for an authentic Oriental horoscope for his soon-to-be-born baby.
The other asked for a real glazed tile from a Chinese roof.
How Michael fulfilled those requests, I leave it up to you to discover.
But if you ever want a brick from the notorious Baltimore Brick Company, which made such horrible bricks that a half-century later everyone who bought one of the houses faced with their product had to cover it in Formstone™ (a Baltimore specialty which you will hardly see anywhere else besides Philly), you have only to ask.
I will deliver it, gift-wrapped and dedicated, to your front door, in person.
you are welcome at my door, brick or not...as for Philly, never mind, I don't have the energy at the moment
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Buck Mon, Aug 9, 2010 11:05:57pm |
re: #434 cliffster
Yes, and people call me Cliff. If I didn't want people to know my name was Cliff, I'd use the nickname "longdick" instead of "cliffster". A lot of the female posters would probably suspect they knew who I really was, but I'd be otherwise anonymous.
I wonder if you realize that you are still anonymous. It's just your first name. I did some research and there is at least two other Cliffs in the world.
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Nimed Mon, Aug 9, 2010 11:08:03pm |
re: #433 albusteve
it's only a talking point for BOs dreamy eyed supporters, you drooler
to some of us background and history have significance
Shrug. I'm not even going to get into that, because I know in advance you've got nothing to support your accusations.
I'll leave you to your weird emotional attachment to a war that costed us and others a lot by almost any measure and from which we got close to nothing in return.
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albusteve Mon, Aug 9, 2010 11:08:48pm |
re: #437 Buck
I wonder if you realize that you are still anonymous. It's just your first name. I did some research and there is at least two other Cliffs in the world.
you've been pinned
stalker fuck
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Buck Mon, Aug 9, 2010 11:09:12pm |
re: #430 Cato the Elder
My first name, as far as you're concerned, here, on this blog, is
Cato.Stalker fuck.
Delusional much? Now I am stalking you? Funny you really think you are much more important that you really are.
You certainly have a thin skin for a guy who talks so big and ferocious. I think I will call you "the Cowardly Lion". Yes, that is much more appropriate. From this day froward your first name, as far as I am concerned is "the Cowardly Lion".
You attack me, and me, and make it all about you, and then don't like it when someone fires back.
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cliffster Mon, Aug 9, 2010 11:13:37pm |
re: #437 Buck
I wonder if you realize that you are still anonymous. It's just your first name. I did some research and there is at least two other Cliffs in the world.
It's about respecting boundaries. Lord, I can only imagine the arguments you must have with your girlfriend/wife/whatever...
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jamesfirecat Mon, Aug 9, 2010 11:14:23pm |
re: #440 Buck
Delusional much? Now I am stalking you? Funny you really think you are much more important that you really are.
You certainly have a thin skin for a guy who talks so big and ferocious. I think I will call you "the Cowardly Lion". Yes, that is much more appropriate. From this day froward your first name, as far as I am concerned is "the Cowardly Lion".
You attack me, and me, and make it all about you, and then don't like it when someone fires back.
"You certainly have a thin skin for a guy who talks so big and ferocious. I think I will call you "the Cowardly Lion". Yes, that is much more appropriate. From this day froward your first name, as far as I am concerned is "the Cowardly Lion".
Wow, you can't even mock right. A cowardly lion is someone who thinks that they've afraid all the time when in point of fact despite being afraid they still do what needs to be done, like the Cowardly Lion from Wizard of Oz...
The feline turn of phrase you're looking for of someone who talks a big game but can't live up to it is "Paper Tiger"
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Walter L. Newton Mon, Aug 9, 2010 11:16:43pm |
re: #445 jamesfirecat
"You certainly have a thin skin for a guy who talks so big and ferocious. I think I will call you "the Cowardly Lion". Yes, that is much more appropriate. From this day froward your first name, as far as I am concerned is "the Cowardly Lion".
Wow, you can't even mock right. A cowardly lion is someone who thinks that they've afraid all the time when in point of fact despite being afraid they still do what needs to be done, like the Cowardly Lion from Wizard of Oz...
The feline turn of phrase you're looking for of someone who talks a big game but can't live up to it is "Paper Tiger"
Holy shit James... that was rather lucid for you at this time of night.
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Cato the Elder Mon, Aug 9, 2010 11:17:00pm |
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jamesfirecat Mon, Aug 9, 2010 11:18:25pm |
re: #446 Walter L. Newton
Holy shit James... that was rather lucid for you at this time of night.
Its only because Cowardly Lion is a TV trope, and at the moment I'm wearing a pair of mismatched socks and all conscious intelligence has left my head, but inane bits of trivia like Simpons Quotes and TV tropes linger on....
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Walter L. Newton Mon, Aug 9, 2010 11:20:27pm |
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jamesfirecat Mon, Aug 9, 2010 11:22:25pm |
re: #449 cliffster
nice work
Thanks, giving the number of arguments me and Buck had had during our time at LGF I want to be hear to watch when his Karma finally dips into the red....
Yes its a selfish bit of Schadenfreude but its not like he hasn't earned it through his behavior concerning John Lewis, Shirley Sherrod and now Cato...
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cliffster Mon, Aug 9, 2010 11:28:35pm |
re: #450 Walter L. Newton
Don't forget my email if you want your "toys."
I going to bed.
I sent your email and I'll follow up with my actual whereabouts when you reply. nighty night walter.
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tnguitarist Mon, Aug 9, 2010 11:36:15pm |
Knock-down, drag-out up in here. I say we all meet behind the internet for fisticuffs!
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Tue, Aug 10, 2010 2:14:36am |
re: #454 tnguitarist
Knock-down, drag-out up in here. I say we all meet behind the internet for fisticuffs!
wowsers, what the balls happened in here
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Tue, Aug 10, 2010 2:15:54am |
re: #434 cliffster
Yes, and people call me Cliff. If I didn't want people to know my name was Cliff, I'd use the nickname "longdick" instead of "cliffster". A lot of the female posters would probably suspect they knew who I really was, but I'd be otherwise anonymous.
Okay this was pretty great :D
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Charles Johnson Tue, Aug 10, 2010 10:21:25am |
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