Cue coming out today, tittering and acting coy "Oh no! I didnt' think of it that way! (fake blush)'

There's a pill for that.

I swear, trying to read that just cost me a few IQ points. At best, it cost 90 seconds I'll never get back.

and my mother thinks this woman is like the second coming *facepalm*

Turgid Trout, reporting for duty.
/TMI, I know.

Word Salad is the best description.

Add some low cal sexual vinaigrette and it's complete.

Using the royal "we" now, Sawah?

One of these days, she's just going to start spouting out "Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!" and the whole gig will be up.

Sarah hails from Babel on.

"I don’t read some of it because I know that those that are impotent and limp and gutless, "

I thought you read all the newspapers Sarah!

Is she complaining about her critics or rightwing outrage?

re: #11 Jeff In Ohio

Is she complaining about her critics or rightwing outrage?

I think she spent a little too much quality time with Beck and it just kind of slipped out.

re: #12 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I think she spent a little too much quality time with Beck and it just kind of slipped out.

Ouch!

How does she know it's citing anonymous sources if she hasn't read it?

"So, when a story especially is filled with those and we know it’s bogus and we’re not going to read it."

What exactly was she trying to say?

re: #14 elbruce

How does she know it's citing anonymous sources if she hasn't read it?

I think she's still trying to figure out who this Anne Nonymous person is. Sounds foreign.

re: #12 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I think she spent a little too much quality time with Beck and it just kind of slipped out.

That can happen after 5 kids.

"Oh noes!!! She insulted my manhoods, I must slither away and cry".

High School bullshit.

re: #17 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I think she's still trying to figure out who this Anne Nonymous person is. Sounds foreign.

I hear she's the cousin of Abby... somebody or other...

I don’t read some of it because I know that those that are impotent and limp and gutless, and then they go on, they’re anonymous, they’re sources that are anonymous, and impotent, limp and gutless reporters take anonymous sources and cite them as being factual references.

Wait, is she talking about Fox News?
/

I hear there’s some pretty ugly stuff right now coming out and what we predict, we always see a pattern. We’ve got some victories under the belt. Things are, things are going well, and then, then there is that public slam of us.

Us?
Who is this US she talks about?
Does she have a fucking mouse in her pocket...or is she trying to use the royal "we"?

re: #22 webevintage

Us?
Who is this US she talks about?
Does she have a fucking mouse in her pocket...or is she trying to use the royal "we"?

WE ARE NOT AMUSED!

re: #22 webevintage

Us?
Who is this US she talks about?
Does she have a fucking mouse in her pocket...or is she trying to use the royal "we"?

The ghosts of the Founding Fathers, Baby Jesus and the her Wolf spirit guide.

This person could be Vice President of the United States right now, next in line to a septuagenarian President with known health issues.
Worse, of course, is that many of us here supported that very scenario and tried mightily to bring it about.
We were wrong, of course, but at least we have learned from the experience, while many millions of Americans obviously have not.
If anything, the destructive forces that put Palin on the GOP ticket in 2008 are stronger than ever. Indeed, they appear to have taken over the party completely.

Quick! Register ImpotentLimpAndGutless.com !

re: #26 reuven

Quick! Register ImpotentLimpAndGutless.com !

Beck and Rush are currently in a dispute over who gets the name space.

re: #24 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

The ghosts of the Founding Fathers, Baby Jesus and the her Wolf spirit guide.

Who used to be a living wolf, but then she shot him from a helicopter and hired a witch doctor to force his spirit to serve her from the great beyond.

re: #16 reine.de.tout

What exactly was she trying to say?

I think she's talking about the recent Vanity Fair article:
[Link: voices.washingtonpost.com...]

"Gutless" we know about, but I will have to find some media groupies to confirm the other attributions.

Being so used to all that "yellow journalism" she mentions, I must've forgotten to look for the bibliographies, external links and validated back up materials she references with each of her Facebook/Twitter/Fox News attacks. I'm sure she has those all filed away somewhere in a folder marked "Proof".

re: #28 jamesfirecat

Who used to be a living wolf, but then she shot him from a helicopter and hired a witch doctor to force his spirit to serve her from the great beyond.

"To know the beast, you must devour the still beating heart of the beast, and make it serve you"

"But that really doesn't explain why I have to be naked while I do this."

"Just go with it."

re: #29 jaunte

I think she's talking about the recent Vanity Fair article:
[Link: voices.washingtonpost.com...]

That's what happens to mean girl bullies.
Sooner or later the folks you push around start talking even if they are afraid to use their names.

Here's a hint.
If you ever become famous or a celebutard politician never, ever, ever be a shitting tipper.
It always comes out.

That was mind-bottling...

Thousand islands
Rogue fart (how do you spell Roquefurt?)
Vinegarette
Ranch
Olive oil

These improve any salad.

re: #33 webevintage

Here's a hint.
If you ever become famous or a celebutard politician never, ever, ever be a shitting tipper.
It always comes out.

wow...so unintentionally funny in an embarrassing way.
That should be shitty tipper.

Yeah, I'd like a little more context to decipher this "we" thing...

re: #35 Ojoe

Thousand islands
Rogue fart (how do you spell Roquefurt?)
Vinegarette
Ranch
Olive oil

These improve any salad.

Seasoned Taco meat

re: #34 tnguitarist

That was mind-bottling...

I stuck the babel fish in my ear to translate that and his head exploded.

re: #25 Shiplord Kirel

Worse, of course, is that many of us here supported that very scenario and tried mightily to bring it about.
We were wrong, of course, but at least we have learned from the experience, while many millions of Americans obviously have not.

I promise to add 3 more seconds to preview time before posting.

1000 Islands =
Mayo
Ketchup
Sweet pickle relish

There you go, a penny-pinching tip for these lean times.

re: #40 avanti

I stuck the babel fish in my ear to translate that and his head exploded.

Can I have one? I need it to disprove the existence of God on the floor of the US senate...

re: #43 jamesfirecat

Can I have one? I need it to disprove the existence of God on the floor of the US senate...

How the hell will an exploding fish help with that???

OT but Judge refuses to make Obama testify in court martial of deserter and "birther" Lakin

Had Palin used only one of those adjectives, she'd be perceived as making a point. After all, the media is not always held in the highest regard.

Instead, her over the top remarks will be rightly perceived as contrived and whiny.

re: #44 Varek Raith

How the hell will an exploding fish help with that???

How it is such a bizarrely impossible coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the nonexistence of God. The arguement goes something like this:
"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," say Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't though of that" and promply vanishes in a puff of logic.

re: #34 tnguitarist

That was mind-bottling...

Mind Bottling.

BBL

Damn, I need to get up in 6 hours. Insomnia.

I'll watch some Hardball. Chris Matthews usually makes me drowsy.

re: #45 Dreggas

Who the fuck does that douche (Lakin) think he is?

re: #42 Ojoe

1000 Islands =
Mayo
Ketchup
Sweet pickle relish

There you go, a penny-pinching tip for these lean times.

Now I'd really be impressed if you made real mayo (I like mine with olive oil), with ketchup and pickles from the garden.

...impotent, limp and gutless reporters...

Wow.

I had to read that a couple of times. There are dog whistles going off I have never even considered playable before. The commie. un-American, treasonous "lamestream media" reporter thing is GOP boilerplate...but limp and impotent?

WTF??

The new standard for red blooded, Bible Belt "REAL AMERICAN" manhood now includes being throbbingly erect and virile when Sarah comes on stage in her black leather tit zipper jacket, red Naughty Monkey pumps and back seamed block stockings??

Ahem.

Well, Rich Lowry at The National Review can ejaculate some more Starbursts at his TV screen...

re: #35 Ojoe

Thousand islands
Rogue fart (how do you spell Roquefurt?)
Vinegarette
Ranch
Olive oil

These improve any salad.

Roguefart with the word salad. LOL

re: #34 tnguitarist

That was mind-bottling...

LMAO!

re: #49 Winny Spencer

Damn, I need to get up in 6 hours. Insomnia.

I'll watch some Hardball. Chris Matthews usually makes me drowsy.

He usually makes me violently ill. But than again, so does viewing most bags of scum and putrid waste.

re: #52 celticdragon

...impotent, limp and gutless reporters...

Wow.

I had to read that a couple of times. There are dog whistles going off I have never even considered playable before. The commie. un-American, treasonous "lamestream media" reporter thing is GOP boilerplate...but limp and impotent?

WTF??

The new standard for red blooded, Bible Belt "REAL AMERICAN" manhood now includes being throbbingly erect and virile when Sarah comes on stage in her black leather tit zipper jacket, red Naughty Monkey pumps and back seamed block stockings??

Ahem.

Well, Rich Lowry at The National Review can ejaculate some more Starbursts at his TV screen...

HAHAHAHAHA!

Newt wants the government to oppress religious freedom by any means necessary...
Gingrich: Make Ground Zero A National Battlefield To Stop The Supposed Mosque

The majority of New Yorkers want the developers of Park51, known to its opponents as the "Ground Zero mosque," to voluntarily move the community center further from Ground Zero -- but the majority also acknowledges the developers' right to build there if they want.

Newt Gingrich doesn't feel that way. In a radio interview today, he said he wants the national government to step in and stop the developers from building the Islamic community center by whatever means necessary.

He has a whole bunch of ideas.

re: #57 Killgore Trout

Newt wants the government to oppress religious freedom by any means necessary...
Gingrich: Make Ground Zero A National Battlefield To Stop The Supposed Mosque

He has a whole bunch of ideas.

That would mean evicting the New York Dolls strip club and the Amish Market as well.

re: #33 webevintage

That's what happens to mean girl bullies.
Sooner or later the folks you push around start talking even if they are afraid to use their names.

Here's a hint.
If you ever become famous or a celebutard politician never, ever, ever be a shitting tipper.
It always comes out.

The entire GOP establishment in Alaska seems to hate her guts. Really, really hate her. She likes to play it off that she took on the good ol' boys establishment and stepped on toes, but everybody seems to say she is a back stabbing, conniving liar who cuts her own friends' throats when it suits her.

re: #58 Shiplord Kirel

That would mean evicting the New York Dolls strip club and the Amish Market as well.

And everything else within three blocks of the WTC site...

Well, given that she hangs around Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, and Bill O'Reilly, is it any wonder Sarah is obsessed with impotent, limp, and gutless?

re: #57 Killgore Trout

Newt wants the government to oppress religious freedom by any means necessary...
Gingrich: Make Ground Zero A National Battlefield To Stop The Supposed Mosque

He has a whole bunch of ideas.

Hey the subject is impotent and limp, not throbbing boner.

On Topic
"A watched pot never boils"
Heh
Seen Teapartytracker.org? I paged it..

Oh Sarah, you are being watched like never before, and so are your TP fans.

re: #57 Killgore Trout

If the republicans take over expect this to be the next Terri Schiavo moment.

re: #57 Killgore Trout

Newt wants the government to oppress religious freedom by any means necessary...
Gingrich: Make Ground Zero A National Battlefield To Stop The Supposed Mosque

He has a whole bunch of ideas.

His official title is Unprincipled Former Speaker Gingrich.

re: #64 Dreggas

If the republicans take over expect this to be the next Terri Schiavo moment.

If... ha.

Whine baby whine

re: #64 Dreggas

If the republicans take over expect this to be the next Terri Schiavo moment.

That's a possibility. It would certainly be high on their priority list.

re: #64 Dreggas

If the republicans take over expect this to be the next Terri Schiavo moment.

It doubtlessly makes me feel brain dead reading about them doing it day after day...

re: #57 Killgore Trout

re: #58 Shiplord Kirel

re: #60 Varek Raith

Hey, I thought I may have said it first here that if Ground Zero is so sacrosanct as to deny the CI from building Cordoba House/Park51 two blocks away, why hadn't anyone suggested that all of Lower Manhattan be cleared and turned in to a park.

Newt, you crazy bastard...

///

re: #57 Killgore Trout

Newt wants the government to oppress religious freedom by any means necessary...
Gingrich: Make Ground Zero A National Battlefield To Stop The Supposed Mosque

He has a whole bunch of ideas.

Newt always has a bunch of ideas. So does the crackpot wino I pass on the way to school who thinks he is John The Baptist.

re: #57 Killgore Trout

Newt wants the government to oppress religious freedom by any means necessary...
Gingrich: Make Ground Zero A National Battlefield To Stop The Supposed Mosque

He has a whole bunch of ideas.

Yeah... all other considerations aside, I don't think that making a huge chunk of lower Manhattan unavailable for commercial purposes is ever gonna happen.

For any wingnuts who might be reading this who are concerned about how close Park51 is to the WTC site, I am currently accepting donations for my project to move ground zero somewhere else.

Actually even if Newt got what he wanted that wouldn't stop the Park51 project at all.

So the lady who writes on her hand describes critics as "impotent, limp and gutless".

Nothing a hand job can't fix?

re: #72 elbruce

Yeah... all other considerations aside, I don't think that making a huge chunk of lower Manhattan unavailable for commercial purposes is ever gonna happen.

For any wingnuts who might be reading this who are concerned about how close Park51 is to the WTC site, I am currently accepting donations for my project to move ground zero somewhere else.

The National Park Service can't even afford to buy land and protect the dozens and dozens of battlefields form the Rev War, 1812 and the Civil War as it is. I will be re-enacting this weekend at Guilford Courthouse in Greensboro, North Carolina, and only a small fraction of that battlefield is preserved as a National Battlefield. They (the NPS) are trying to buy out the property owners around, but it actually takes decades.

A couple of choice quotes from Newt:

"The Attorney General of New York, Andrew Cuomo, could intervene because frankly he has the ability to slow it down for decades if he wants to."
[...]
"There are a number of different steps that could be taken. There's no reason this has to occur and whether it's city, state, or federal there are plenty of ways for America to stop it," Gingrich said.

What a fucking douche, pandering to bigots and xenophobes...

re: #74 karmic_inquisitor

So the lady who writes on her hand describes critics as "impotent, limp and gutless".

Nothing a hand job can't fix?

Okay this is a little naughty, but there are no pictures at all, dirty or otherwise:

How To Give A Proper Handjob

re: #76 talon_262

A couple of choice quotes from Newt:

What a fucking douche, pandering to bigots and xenophobes...

Newt has been accused of quite a few things, but he has never been accused of fidelity, honesty or integrity.

It would take billions to buy out the commercial property in lower Manhattan, if it could be done at all.
Maybe Newt and his buddies are already buying up property there on speculation.

Once again, Jon Stewart is on vacation somewhere screaming, "Why this week!?" I could see him bringing out three of his reporters wearing t-shirts reading "Impotent", "Limp", and "Gutless" to defend themselves.

John Oliver would say, "Yes, Sarah, it's true. I 'ave no guts." (ooh, did Oliver drop an h there?)

this has been amusing me for the past few minutes:
[Link: www.youtube.com...]
A hunter ___ a bear
(fill in the blank)

re: #79 Shiplord Kirel

It would take billions to buy out the commercial property in lower Manhattan, if it could be done at all.
Maybe Newt and his buddies are already buying up property there on speculation.

I think to give proper deference to the Ground Zero Holy Ground, all buildings in a 50 mile radius of Ground Zero should be razed to the ground and the entire area should be made into a nature preserve.

//really needed?

re: #80 darthstar

Once again, Jon Stewart is on vacation somewhere screaming, "Why this week!?" I could see him bringing out three of his reporters wearing t-shirts reading "Impotent", "Limp", and "Gutless" to defend themselves.

John Oliver would say, "Yes, Sarah, it's true. I 'ave no guts." (ooh, did Oliver drop an h there?)

You won't find it on a sign.

re: #79 Shiplord Kirel

It would take billions to buy out the commercial property in lower Manhattan, if it could be done at all.
Maybe Newt and his buddies are already buying up property there on speculation.

Nope. It is just the next round in keeping speculation going on Fox and Redstate etc for another 5 or 6 news cycles. Let's see who the first idiot will be to submit a bill for this on the House floor(which would be the next step up). I think it will be Michelle Bachmann.

re: #81 deranged cat

this has been amusing me for the past few minutes:
[Link: www.youtube.com...]
A hunter ___ a bear
(fill in the blank)

hahahahahaha
fun.

re: #80 darthstar

Once again, Jon Stewart is on vacation somewhere screaming, "Why this week!?" I could see him bringing out three of his reporters wearing t-shirts reading "Impotent", "Limp", and "Gutless" to defend themselves.

John Oliver would say, "Yes, Sarah, it's true. I 'ave no guts." (ooh, did Oliver drop an h there?)

TDS ALWAYS misses several major events when they take vacation. The past three years, August and September have been prime political comedy months instead of end-of-summer dumping grounds.

re: #80 darthstar

Once again, Jon Stewart is on vacation somewhere screaming, "Why this week!?" I could see him bringing out three of his reporters wearing t-shirts reading "Impotent", "Limp", and "Gutless" to defend themselves.

John Oliver would say, "Yes, Sarah, it's true. I 'ave no guts." (ooh, did Oliver drop an h there?)

I believe you mean "Team Limp" "Team Gutless" and "Team Impotent" they've been using that Twilight joke a lot before they left.

bbl

re: #84 celticdragon

Nope. It is just the next round in keeping speculation going on Fox and Redstate etc for another 5 or 6 news cycles. Let's see who the first idiot will be to submit a bill for this on the House floor(which would be the next step up). I think it will be Michelle Bachmann.

"Damn, where are those Marxist ACORN squatters when we need them?"
-Bachmann

It's been a while since I read Betty Bowers...now she's got videos. This one explains biblical marriage.

She has an opinion on yellow journalism *chortle*.

If she doesn't speak the language, she should just go back to whatever country she comes from! These pesky illegal aliens with their... Spanish?

///

This woman is such an idiot.

I was so FREAKING excited when McCain named this woman to the ticket. I didn't think she was the second coming of Ronald Reagan, but I really thought she was a good, solid, intelligent Conservative woman. I mean, hey, she was the governor of a state, and by most accounts had done a decent job. She couldn't be stupid, right?

I went door to door for this woman. I liked McCain OK, but it was Sarah Palin who lit a fire under me, convinced me to volunteer and devote my time to trying to get this pair elected.

I've been wrong about lots of things in my life, but this is number one. With a bullet.

re: #25 Shiplord Kirel

This person could be Vice President of the United States right now, next in line to a septuagenarian President with known health issues.
Worse, of course, is that many of us here supported that very scenario and tried mightily to bring it about.
We were wrong, of course, but at least we have learned from the experience, while many millions of Americans obviously have not.
If anything, the destructive forces that put Palin on the GOP ticket in 2008 are stronger than ever. Indeed, they appear to have taken over the party completely.

Not so fast there. A recent poll put Romney ahead of Pawlenty, and Pawlenty in turn far ahead of Palin.

Real world support is far more sober than cybersphere. Keep in mind how Ron Paul melted away when real votes rolled in.

re: #95 lostlakehiker

and both of those two are racing to be the male sarah palin.

re: #26 reuven

Quick! Register ImpotentLimpAndGutless.com !

What a sweet target for ch3ep v!a9rA and 1ncr3a5e ur P3N!S spammers!

re: #94 Tigger2005

I was so FREAKING excited when McCain named this woman to the ticket. I didn't think she was the second coming of Ronald Reagan, but I really thought she was a good, solid, intelligent Conservative woman. I mean, hey, she was the governor of a state, and by most accounts had done a decent job. She couldn't be stupid, right?

I went door to door for this woman. I liked McCain OK, but it was Sarah Palin who lit a fire under me, convinced me to volunteer and devote my time to trying to get this pair elected.

I've been wrong about lots of things in my life, but this is number one. With a bullet.

I'm amazed she managed to fool so many people for so long (and continues to fool for some people (none hear that I know of luckily) for that matter...).

re: #81 deranged cat

this has been amusing me for the past few minutes:
[Link: www.youtube.com...]
A hunter ___ a bear
(fill in the blank)

Great find!

Did you try the word fart? It's hilarious.

re: #90 darthstar

One of my all time favs. Very funny stuff.

The thing about Palin is that she's such a petty person. She doesn't see her opponents as being wrong but instead as being evil and a threat.

re: #95 lostlakehiker

Not so fast there. A recent poll put Romney ahead of Pawlenty, and Pawlenty in turn far ahead of Palin.

Real world support is far more sober than cybersphere. Keep in mind how Ron Paul melted away when real votes rolled in.

Pawlenty is solidly in the crazy camp, as documented here, here, and here at LGF alone.
Romney, for his part, has taken up pandering to crazies.

re: #101 HappyWarrior

Honestly, that's a major problem with partisan politics everywhere.

re: #18 Jeff In Ohio

That can happen after 5 kids.

I like ya, Jeff.
but that was just not right man.

re: #103 Slumbering Behemoth

Honestly, that's a major problem with partisan politics everywhere.

Yeah this is true. Just seems like Palin is one of the biggest guilty parties of this.

re: #24 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

The ghosts of the Founding Fathers, Baby Jesus and the her Wolf spirit guide.

Upding for the Spirit Guide.

re: #104 Ericus58

Pffft.

re: #99 Reginald Perrin

Great find!

Did you try the word fart? It's hilarious.

Heh...type 'screw' and you get a Parental Advisory splash blocking the action. Type 'eat' and you get a hunter eating a bear (safe for work). Type asdf or something and you get the bear holding a 404 error poster.

Type "spank" and the bear comes up to the camera and shakes his head "no way"

re: #105 HappyWarrior

One of the biggest, anyway. She has quite a lot of company.

re: #109 Slumbering Behemoth

One of the biggest, anyway. She has quite a lot of company.

Yep and frankly it's shit like that has kept me out of being active in politics for a while now.

re: #99 Reginald Perrin

Great find!

Did you try the word fart? It's hilarious.

proposes to

re: #105 HappyWarrior

Yeah this is true. Just seems like Palin is one of the biggest guilty parties of this.

You take that back! You take that back! You take that back! You take that back! You take that back! You take that back! You take that back! You take that back! You take that back! You take that back! You take that back! You take that back!

/Sarah Palin fan mode off

re: #29 jaunte

I think she's talking about the recent Vanity Fair article:
[Link: voices.washingtonpost.com...]

It seemed very well done to me - it's Ms Barracuda's fault the sources in it aren't named - after what she did to that trooper and all.

What sets this article aside from others with un named sources - and i reckon the commisioning ed must have seen some of the evidence - is the corroboration of the sources (and how well iit synchs with what Steve Schmidt wrote)

re: #104 Ericus58

I like ya, Jeff.
but that was just not right man.

Yeah. Guilty of going over the line.

re: #57 Killgore Trout

Newt wants the government to oppress religious freedom by any means necessary...
Gingrich: Make Ground Zero A National Battlefield To Stop The Supposed Mosque

He has a whole bunch of ideas.

Oh for the love of all that's holy... really?!?!
Get a grip, Newt.
This ass and others that are continuing to push this a a "Religious" war will get more than they are bargaining for.

re: #111 negativ

proposes to

I wonder how many different endings exist?

re: #110 HappyWarrior

No kidding. With all the bullshit and noise flying in from all points of the political spectrum 24/7, it becomes nearly impossible to separate the wheat from the chaff.

re: #102 Shiplord Kirel

Pawlenty is solidly in the crazy camp, as documented here, here, and here at LGF alone.
Romney, for his part, has taken up pandering to crazies.

I think the biggest problem is that they seem to think they have to pander to the crazies. Worse, they might be right. Anyone who eases up just a little on the rhetoric risks being castigated and drummed out of the Big Tent (snort). The sane conservatives keep silent and/or ride the coat tails of the Clownpants Brigade. The line between the mere panderers and the genuinely crazy grows ever fuzzier, too, what with the likes of Louie Gohmert and his time-traveling terrorist baby conspiracy theory.

re: #79 Shiplord Kirel

It would take billions to buy out the commercial property in lower Manhattan, if it could be done at all.
Maybe Newt and his buddies are already buying up property there on speculation.

Related side note to the economically minded... What happens when that is underwater in 50-75 years?

re: #115 Ericus58

Oh for the love of all that's holy... really?!?!
Get a grip, Newt.
This ass and others that are continuing to push this a a "Religious" war will get more than they are bargaining for.

You are right - it seems that these people are actually begging for an actual real two sided religious war. the christian west against the moslem east... shame they don't know the law of the land really.

Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen,—and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

And - "they started it" - isn't a good enough reason.

re: #117 LudwigVanQuixote

I know this may sound crass, but Sarah leaves me a little limp. I wouldn't do her with someone else's cock.

Yes, it's a little crass, but you're not alone. Read the Vanity Fair article that just came out. Todd's quoted as saying, "I don't know how that woman gets pregnant"...and according to "impotent, limp, and gutless" sources in the article, they don't even share the same bedroom (NTTAWWT)...

re: #94 Tigger2005

I was so FREAKING excited when McCain named this woman to the ticket. I didn't think she was the second coming of Ronald Reagan, but I really thought she was a good, solid, intelligent Conservative woman. I mean, hey, she was the governor of a state, and by most accounts had done a decent job. She couldn't be stupid, right?

I went door to door for this woman. I liked McCain OK, but it was Sarah Palin who lit a fire under me, convinced me to volunteer and devote my time to trying to get this pair elected.

I've been wrong about lots of things in my life, but this is number one. With a bullet.

I feel ya... My wife and I both feel betrayed.

re: #119 negativ

I think the biggest problem is that they seem to think they have to pander to the crazies. Worse, they might be right. Anyone who eases up just a little on the rhetoric risks being castigated and drummed out of the Big Tent (snort). The sane conservatives keep silent and/or ride the coat tails of the Clownpants Brigade. The line between the mere panderers and the genuinely crazy grows ever fuzzier, too, what with the likes of Louie Gohmert and his time-traveling terrorist baby conspiracy theory.

Its going to keep getting worse till 2012 when they discover that in the words of Zell Miller they are "A National Party No More"

re: #117 LudwigVanQuixote

I would, and that "someone else's" would be yours. I'd give it back dirty, too.
:P

People notice Sarah Palin's delusional psychology (it's out there for everyone to see, after all), but it's important to also appreciate how very angry she is. In the word salad quoted by Charles, anger seems to leap right out. If she is elected Vice President in 2012 (which worries me the most; I think President is unlikely, but Vice President is a real possibility) the country will be treated to four years of observing a very, very bitter person. Thank you John McCain, but America does not need this problem!

re: #125 Slumbering Behemoth

I would, and that "someone else's" would be yours. I'd give it back dirty, too.
:P

That's heartless.

re: #117 LudwigVanQuixote

And then there's always the possibility of someone else making my language look moderate.

And while we are at it, let's look at the projection of this...

Her entire movement revolves around people who over compensate for their fears and failures by overcompensating with jingoism and overt displays of machismo.

Which side is the limp dicked one?

Our nation is not only being torn down by the stupid - but mewling betas with inferiority complexes.

re: #126 Ming

People notice Sarah Palin's delusional psychology (it's out there for everyone to see, after all), but it's important to also appreciate how very angry she is. In the word salad quoted by Charles, anger seems to leap right out. If she is elected Vice President in 2012 (which worries me the most; I think President is unlikely, but Vice President is a real possibility) the country will be treated to four years of observing a very, very bitter person. Thank you John McCain, but America does not need this problem!

she will make Joe Biden look like Abe Lincoln.

re: #123 Ericus58

I feel ya... My wife and I both feel betrayed.

I just don't get how she even managed to have this effect on so many here on LGF... was it because you were prone to look favorable on whoever McCain picked...?

I just don't get how Sarah Palin EVER appealed to anybody who hadn't drunk the wingnut koolaid...

Would anyone like to explain or is it too painful to think about?

re: #107 negativ

Pffft.

If you got something to say that's intelligent, then say it.
I don't think we here have to devolve in our postings.

Jeff, you're still solid.

re: #126 Ming

If she is elected Vice President in 2012 (which worries me the most; I think President is unlikely, but Vice President is a real possibility)

That would require her to resist burning bridges during a primary. Not gonna happen. It would also require whoever got the nomination to get amnesia over how she tanked the McCain ticket.

re: #97 Alouette

What a sweet target for ch3ep v!a9rA and 1ncr3a5e ur P3N!S spammers!

I don't necessarily want to increase the size of my penis, I can usually find it if I dig hard and long enough, but I could use a second penis.

Amazingly, Palin's suggestive word salad is not enough to carry the day, Jan Brewer was just too strong.

re: #122 darthstar

Yes, it's a little crass, but you're not alone. Read the Vanity Fair article that just came out. Todd's quoted as saying, "I don't know how that woman gets pregnant"...and according to "impotent, limp, and gutless" sources in the article, they don't even share the same bedroom (NTTAWWT)...

Dude would you? Aside from having to listen to her pontificate in that screechy voice, everything I have read marks her as a vindictive, cruel malignant narcissist who takes vengeance on all slights real or imagined and who generally treats people like dirt.

Back in college we used to have a saying:

"She isn't pretty enough to have that much attitude, and even if she were, I still wouldn't do her."

re: #130 wozzablog

she made Joe Biden look like Abe Lincoln in 2008.

FTFY

I had my issues with Obama picking Biden as his Veep, but when I saw McCain lose his goddamn mind and choose Caribou Baribe, suddenly Biden didn't look that bad in comparison.

re: #130 wozzablog

she will make Joe Biden look like Abe Lincoln.

They hate Abe Lincoln now, remember?

One thing's for sure, she's going to find out real fast if she runs in 2012 that her fellow Republicans will be just as if not nasty to her than any liberals. She's going to find out that not every Republican thinks that Sarah is the best thing since pizza and beer. And of course she'll blame the media and accuse them of persecuting her even though she has no one but herself to blame for her low image amongst most Americans.

re: #119 negativ

The sane conservatives keep silent and/or ride the coat tails of the Clownpants Brigade.

Not this one. If I have to vote dem, I will. I am not afraid of that, nor am I so hyper-partisan as to believe that a (D) stands for "Death of America".

Just because I self-identify as conservative (mostly) does not mean a republican will automatically get my vote. They have to work for that, and most of the top vocal ones right now are doing a lousy job of it.

re: #117 LudwigVanQuixote

I know this may sound crass, but Sarah leaves me a little limp. I wouldn't do her with someone else's cock.

word on the street is that you'd have to use someone else's ...
/

Thank you, please tip your server. I'll be here at least another 15 minutes...

re: #123 Ericus58

I feel ya... My wife and I both feel betrayed.

I think she played into a few elements that American conservatives are suckers for. Mostly I think it was the simple folksy gimmick that was her biggest appeal. Fred Thompson did the same thing. Even Bush, who I don't think was an idiot, had to pretend to be a simple hick from Texas because that's what the conservative base reacts to. A lot of the anti-intellectual rhetoric from the right against science and education has really taken its toll on the instincts of conservative voters.

re: #133 elbruce

That would require her to resist burning bridges during a primary. Not gonna happen. It would also require whoever got the nomination to get amnesia over how she tanked the McCain ticket.

It would also require appearing with her regularly, travelling with her, appearing on TV with her...there's only so much a Republican will put up with (John McCain notwithstanding, but he put up with the Hanoi Hilton for five and a half years, so campaigning with Sarah was probably not so terrible by comparison...bad, but not that bad).

re: #138 LudwigVanQuixote

They hate Abe Lincoln now, remember?

DOH!

my bad.

worst republican president EVAH!""ty

re: #127 darthstar

That's heartless.

I do what I can, thanks for noticing. :)

re: #121 wozzablog

You are right - it seems that these people are actually begging for an actual real two sided religious war. the christian west against the moslem east... shame they don't know the law of the land really.

And - "they started it" - isn't a good enough reason.

Interesting quote.
Where from? I must plead ignorance.

re: #142 Killgore Trout

I think she played into a few elements that American conservatives are suckers for. Mostly I think it was the simple folksy gimmick that was her biggest appeal. Fred Thompson did the same thing. Even Bush, who I don't think was an idiot, had to pretend to be a simple hick from Texas because that's what the conservative base reacts to. A lot of the anti-intellectual rhetoric from the right against science and education has really taken its toll on the instincts of conservative voters.

as far as i recall - Fred Thompson didn't do anything ;-)

re: #147 wozzablog

as far as i recall - Fred Thompson didn't do anything ;-)

His campaign was doing great... right up until the point he officaly began his campaign...

re: #117 LudwigVanQuixote

I know this may sound crass, but Sarah leaves me a little limp. I wouldn't do her with someone else's cock.

How about with a frozen trout?

re: #144 wozzablog

DOH!

my bad.

worst republican president EVAH!""ty

Emancipating the slaves and putting down hard working slave owners and denying them their hard earned "property rights" really pisses them off.

People wonder why I have gotten so angry lately.

These people are scum. Just scum,. They represent everything vile about America distilled into a hateful little bolus.

re: #146 Ericus58

Interesting quote.
Where from? I must plead ignorance.

Treaty Of Tripoli ratified by the Senate June 7 1797. Affirmed by John Adams but a few days later.

re: #148 jamesfirecat

His campaign was doing great... right up until the point he officaly began his campaign...

Haha true story here but I remember talking to some conservatives about him and they were like oh man Democrats should be scared to death of this guy and then he actually campaigned and I just had to laugh. Of course it reminded me of fellow liberals back in 2004 who thought that Wesley Clark was going to be this amazing candidate.

re: #131 jamesfirecat

I just don't get how she even managed to have this effect on so many here on LGF... was it because you were prone to look favorable on whoever McCain picked...?

I just don't get how Sarah Palin EVER appealed to anybody who hadn't drunk the wingnut koolaid...

Would anyone like to explain or is it too painful to think about?

I'm still in therapy...
but I'm making progress!

re: #148 jamesfirecat

His campaign was doing great... right up until the point he officaly began his campaign...

I wasn't even sure if he was sure he had a campaign...

re: #99 Reginald Perrin

Great find!

Did you try the word fart? It's hilarious.

"Football" is very weird, and has a naked chick running around.

re: #148 jamesfirecat

His campaign was doing great... right up until the point he officaly began his campaign...

Was Fred ever awake enough to have a campaign? He looked like he was sleepwalking most of the time, at least IMO.

re: #147 wozzablog

as far as i recall - Fred Thompson didn't do anything ;-)

But he did nothing with small words delivered with a rural accent. That's all it takes.

re: #149 b_sharp

How about with a frozen trout?

Dude, I am not even going to touch that with a ten foot pole.

All I am saying is that she respells me to such an extent, that those who are attracted by her seriously confuse me. Of course, I have never been attracted to women on the basis of looks alone - and she isn't even that pretty.

Honestly, as a heterosexual man, I would likely be more attracted to Harvey Weinstein in drag. He at least, would be less hateful - and about as sexy.

re: #149 b_sharp

How about with a frozen trout?

Why do you hate America frozen trout?

/

This hunter and bear video is an upgrade of the creepy "subservient chicken" that was popular a couple of years ago.

"We have some victories under the belt."

What the hell does that mean? Don't tell me Sawah has succeeded in learning algebra!

re: #131 jamesfirecat

How is the "too partisan" idea squared with actually thinking your own party has better ideas and principles. Serious question. These Republican leaders are being found wanting because of faults in their character. I start with the assumption they won't be helpful to the country because they are Republicans.
Now do I have to do the magical equivalence fairy dance and say there are some good things in the Republican platform, because I really don't know if there are.
What is the appeal of the Republican party?

re: #158 LudwigVanQuixote

Dude, I am not even going to touch that with a ten foot pole.

All I am saying is that she respells me to such an extent, that those who are attracted by her seriously confuse me. Of course, I have never been attracted to women on the basis of looks alone - and she isn't even that pretty.

Honestly, as a heterosexual man, I would likely be more attracted to Harvey Weinstein in drag. He at least, would be less hateful - and about as sexy.

the shoes man!!! harvey wouldn't have nearly as nice shoes...!!!

/

re: #161 Cato the Elder

"We have some victories under the belt."

What the hell does that mean? Don't tell me Sawah has succeeded in learning algebra!

maybe she means Hayworth in Arizona or the NY23...or how Brown turned tail on them after he was elected in Mass.

Why is this Ethiopian monastery in a hole?

re: #147 wozzablog

as far as i recall - Fred Thompson didn't do anything ;-)

Fred Thompson wasn't even able to achieve an anticlimax. He remains a dull wooden character of a politician.

re: #165 Killgore Trout

Oops, wrong thread.
/I stink

re: #163 wozzablog

the shoes man!!! harvey wouldn't have nearly as nice shoes...!!!

/

I don't know about that. Gay men frequently have better fashion sense than anyone. He also isn't trailer trash from Alaska.

re: #166 Gus 802

Fred Thompson wasn't even able to achieve an anticlimax. He remains a dull wooden character of a politician.

Talk about limp and impotent.

re: #165 Killgore Trout

Why is this Ethiopian monastery in a hole?

It is still a cool link.

re: #155 Alouette

"Football" is very weird, and has a naked chick running around.

Put shoot back in and they face off in a duel.

re: #169 LudwigVanQuixote

Talk about limp and impotent.

The interest in Thompson was generated by his fan base. Which isn't very big. He had nothing to say.

re: #131 jamesfirecat

I just don't get how she even managed to have this effect on so many here on LGF... was it because you were prone to look favorable on whoever McCain picked...?

I just don't get how Sarah Palin EVER appealed to anybody who hadn't drunk the wingnut koolaid...

Would anyone like to explain or is it too painful to think about?

Some of us saw it as the weak pandering McCain intended. Then she spoke. hahaha. Seriously? Oh, and then I read all about troopergate, and how she was found guilty of abusing the power of her office. She came out and said she was "cleared"

I mean, come on!

Oh, then the turkey massacre happened.

I remember Limbaugh loved Thompson. I actually shudder had to listen to Rush's show since the bus driver when I was commuting to school at the time played his show. Remember him spinning and stuff and then McCain crushed Thompson in SC and Rush pretty much shut up after that. God he was an awful candidate. I mean I don't get why people like that "folksyness" in their candidiates. To me it just feels so lame and being talked down to. Person says "I'm one of y'all" but you're just shaking your head saying no way dude you are not anything like me or my neighbors despite what you may try to do. Of course running Thompson while the right complains about Hollywood was also funny to me.

re: #170 LudwigVanQuixote

It is still a cool link.

I was so caught up in the pictures I didn't notice there's an explanation if you scroll down the page a bit.

re: #161 Cato the Elder

"We have some victories under the belt."

What the hell does that mean? Don't tell me Sawah has succeeded in learning algebra!

Pity you don't see the irony of that.

re: #174 HappyWarrior

I remember Limbaugh loved Thompson. I actually shudder had to listen to Rush's show since the bus driver when I was commuting to school at the time played his show. Remember him spinning and stuff and then McCain crushed Thompson in SC and Rush pretty much shut up after that. God he was an awful candidate. I mean I don't get why people like that "folksyness" in their candidiates. To me it just feels so lame and being talked down to. Person says "I'm one of y'all" but you're just shaking your head saying no way dude you are not anything like me or my neighbors despite what you may try to do. Of course running Thompson while the right complains about Hollywood was also funny to me.

Sarah Palin and Fred Thompson would make great extras in a movie set during the Great Depression.

DeMint is another one they go gaga over. Heck, they're even trying to reinvent Santorum.

re: #176 LudwigVanQuixote

Ludwig, can I ask you to recommend a "Physics for Dummies" book for my son? He is a rabbi in Huntsville and most of his Shabbat guests and attendees at his seminars are rocket scientists, and he wants to take part in the chit chat.

re: #177 Gus 802

Sarah Palin and Fred Thompson would make great extras in a movie set during the Great Depression. a zombie apocalypse.

re: #175 Killgore Trout

I was so caught up in the pictures I didn't notice there's an explanation if you scroll down the page a bit.

It is architecturally really cool.

The Ethiopian link to the House of David has always been a source of fascination to me.

They have an entire religious creed based on the notion that the Queen of Sheeba came back from visiting Solomon with child. Their line of kings claims direct, unbroken descendance from David through Solomon.

I have no idea if it is true.

However, it is certainly plausible.

re: #180 tnguitarist

Hey. Zombie could be an extra in One Flew Over a Cuckoo's Nest.

re: #180 tnguitarist

TAX CUTS... TAX CUTS... TAX CUTS... MUST HAVE TAX CUTS!!!

re: #131 jamesfirecat

I just don't get how she even managed to have this effect on so many here on LGF... was it because you were prone to look favorable on whoever McCain picked...?

I just don't get how Sarah Palin EVER appealed to anybody who hadn't drunk the wingnut koolaid...

Would anyone like to explain or is it too painful to think about?

I'm still in therapy...
but I'm making progress!re: #165 Killgore Trout

Why is this Ethiopian monastery in a hole?

dude! Great stuff!

But the loading of the Microsoft software crashed me :(
heh, I'm replacing this computer soon - all good.

re: #183 jamesfirecat

TAX CUTS... TAX CUTS... TAX CUTS... MUST HAVE TAX CUTS!!!

need...welfare queen...brains...

re: #177 Gus 802

Sarah Palin and Fred Thompson would make great extras in a movie set during the Great Depression.

Ha, to me they're two different kinds of political animal. Palin is more of a demeogue while Fred is the cure for insomnia. I loved seeing people who mocked John Kerry and Al Gore for being boring embrace Thompson.

re: #179 Alouette

Ludwig, can I ask you to recommend a "Physics for Dummies" book for my son? He is a rabbi in Huntsville and most of his Shabbat guests and attendees at his seminars are rocket scientists, and he wants to take part in the chit chat.

A Brief History of Time is a good place to start. It's actually a very accessible book, easy to read for novices but will still bend your mind.

re: #179 Alouette

Ludwig, can I ask you to recommend a "Physics for Dummies" book for my son? He is a rabbi in Huntsville and most of his Shabbat guests and attendees at his seminars are rocket scientists, and he wants to take part in the chit chat.

Hmmm, ok a few questions that I need to ask first before making a recommendation.

1. What is his educational level, can he handle calculus?

2. What sort of physics? Do you mean actual rocket science, or do you mean QM or GR, or just some sort of general mishmash of neat things to talk about?

3. Is he interested in actually learning physics or is this strictly social?

re: #187 Killgore Trout

HAWKING IS THE ANTI-CHRIST!

re: #181 LudwigVanQuixote

It is architecturally really cool.

The Ethiopian link to the House of David has always been a source of fascination to me.

They have an entire religious creed based on the notion that the Queen of Sheeba came back from visiting Solomon with child. Their line of kings claims direct, unbroken descendance from David through Solomon.

I have no idea if it is true.

However, it is certainly plausible.

I think I saw a documentary on the genetic DNA results and it's apparently a very possible theory.

re: #155 Alouette

"Football" is very weird, and has a naked chick running around.

That wasn't weird. They were playing football (soccer) and the bear scored when the naked lady ran between them. That's why he is doing the victory dance. You got distracted by the man chasing the naked lady.

re: #184 Ericus58

I'm still in therapy...
but I'm making progress!re: #165 Killgore Trout

dude! Great stuff!

But the loading of the Microsoft software crashed me :(
heh, I'm replacing this computer soon - all good.

wow!
I think my comp just caught the big I've been battling for the past 3 days...

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There's real football on!

OMG!

re: #192 Ericus58

Those bigs can be kuller.

re: #187 Killgore Trout

A Brief History of Time is a good place to start. It's actually a very accessible book, easy to read for novices but will still bend your mind.

If you want a more accessible version of that, Hawking also published A Briefer History of Time:

[Link: www.amazon.com...]

re: #178 Gus 802

DeMint is another one they go gaga over. Heck, they're even trying to reinvent Santorum.

Odeous odeous odeous man - who in his time in the senate did nothing but promote culture war.

Someone may be able to set me straight on that - but Anti-Homosexuality, forefront on Schiavo and obscenity - etc

re: #185 tnguitarist

need...welfare queen...brains...

zombie eat brains - but zomebie can not swallow this injustice...

re: #197 wozzablog

Odeous odeous odeous man - who in his time in the senate did nothing but promote culture war.

Someone may be able to set me straight on that - but Anti-Homosexuality, forefront on Schiavo and obscenity - etc

He's reminds me of a funeral director.

re: #188 LudwigVanQuixote

Hmmm, ok a few questions that I need to ask first before making a recommendation.

1. What is his educational level, can he handle calculus?

2. What sort of physics? Do you mean actual rocket science, or do you mean QM or GR, or just some sort of general mishmash of neat things to talk about?

3. Is he interested in actually learning physics or is this strictly social?

For now it's just social and for fun, but if he really gets into it, who knows.

re: #187 Killgore Trout

A Brief History of Time is a good place to start. It's actually a very accessible book, easy to read for novices but will still bend your mind.

Particularly the updated edition.

Dreams of a Final Theory (Weinberg) and Elegant Universe (Brian Greene, as opposed to David, Both are great guys BTW) are also great reads.

So, for that matter, is the original Cosmos by Carl Sagan.

But with more information, I can give a better recommendation.

re: #179 Alouette

Ludwig, can I ask you to recommend a "Physics for Dummies" book for my son? He is a rabbi in Huntsville and most of his Shabbat guests and attendees at his seminars are rocket scientists, and he wants to take part in the chit chat.

For some good conversational chit-chat, I'd recommend Feynman's "Surely You Must Be Joking, Mr. Feynman." It's light on the science, but heavy on anecdotes and fun thought experiments. It won't get him up to speed on physics, but it'll inform him about one of the more colorful physicists.

re: #195 Obdicut

Those bigs can be kuller.

I claim the meds made me type that...

re: #178 Gus 802

DeMint is another one they go gaga over. Heck, they're even trying to reinvent Santorum.

I can't think of Santorum without immediately thinking of Dan Savage. Heh.

Sarah Palin has been saying the same thing for the past two years. She's also always employing the same tricks one of which is always coming out with some fake line or two about honoring the troops.

re: #1 windsagio

Cue coming out today, tittering and acting coy "Oh no! I didnt' think of it that way! (fake blush)'

Exactly

re: #189 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

HAWKING IS THE ANTI-CHRIST!

"Don't look into the comments ."
"I looked into the comments, Ray."

re: #193 Charles

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re: #202 Obdicut

I am now intrigued as to what a "colorful" physicist is like.

re: #165 Killgore Trout

Why is this Ethiopian monastery in a hole?

So THAT'S what 'monolithic' means.

There used to be some weird wingnut blogger that would always say "real American..." in 2008. I don't remember the name but I think she was from the Northwest. It would go something like "real Americans are concerned about the direction our schools are going."

re: #134 b_sharp

I don't necessarily want to increase the size of my penis, I can usually find it if I dig hard and long enough, but I could use a second penis.

Um, you're doing it wrong.

re: #181 LudwigVanQuixote

It is architecturally really cool.

The Ethiopian link to the House of David has always been a source of fascination to me.

They have an entire religious creed based on the notion that the Queen of Sheeba came back from visiting Solomon with child. Their line of kings claims direct, unbroken descendance from David through Solomon.

I have no idea if it is true.

However, it is certainly plausible.

Let's just say that it does not strike me as implausible that Solomon would have been happy and willing to knock up a stunning fellow monarch.

:)

re: #193 Charles

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re: #209 prairiefire

I am now intrigued as to what a "colorful" physicist is like.

He was a polymath. An extreme one. For example, he became an expert percussionist and safecracker.

He was really valuable at Los Alamos because he was never awestruck. He'd tell other physicists, no matter how senior, what he really thought of their idea, instead of trying to ingratiate himself.

One of my heroes.

re: #209 prairiefire

I am now intrigued as to what a "colorful" physicist is like.

depends which spectrum you're using at the time...

re: #200 Alouette

For now it's just social and for fun, but if he really gets into it, who knows.

OK, but what about the other two questions... Help me out here. Imagine someone asked you, "I have a really well educated friend who wants to know more about Judaism, because he has a lot of Jewish friends..."

Judaism is a rather vast topic.

I am assuming that your son, a rabbi, is a cut above average. I don't want to recommend something so basic he will get bored. On the other hand, I don't want to recommend something that will be so narrow that he only learns one tidbit, unless it is a tidbit he is interested in.

If he wan't to know a little of the flavor os string theory or GR sure.

There are great books on those for almost any level.

Help me out a little more and I will happily recommend something.

re: #200 Alouette

For now it's just social and for fun, but if he really gets into it, who knows.

If he's conversing with actual rocket scientists then I can recommend a non-textbook that I'll bet most if not all of them will have also read, Richard Feynman's What do you care what other people think?. The last half or so of the book deals with Feynman's experience on the Rogers Commission investigating the Challenger Shuttle disaster. Feynman is one of the major deities of modern physics, and one of its best writers.

re: #208 LudwigVanQuixote

Ohh Dear G-d. I once again hold out that a real eduction system in America is the only possible inoculation. Even then it is a faulty one.

Until the churches stop using terms like "Christian America" and similar phrases, it's going to be hard to overcome the brainwashing. It's starts young, and then the conservative politicians parrot those ideas, and Christian schools add a veneer of legitimacy to the concepts and before you know it... you have little Christian robots (some would say "soldiers") ready to defend Christian America against all comers... especially those of a differing religious tradition.

You have to stop it in the churches first.

re: #207 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

This one destroyed my Irony Meter:

I dont believe in atheist, i dont believe that anyone is really that dumb! If we evolved from monkeys, then why didnt all of them evolve.

I, on the other hand, have absolutely no problem believing the level of stupidity some can sink too.

Oh this is great.
The guy who wrote the Vanity Fair piece on The Palin wanted to write a positive article, but couldn't find anyone who said anything nice about her.

The author of the blistering Vanity Fair profile on Sarah Palin says he wanted to write a positive piece, but was shocked by what he learned as he researched his story.

"The worst stuff isn't even in there," Michael Joseph Gross said on "Morning Joe" Thursday. "I couldn't believe these stories either when I first heard them, and I started this story with a prejudice in her favor. I have a lot in common with this woman. I'm a small-town person, I'm a Christian, I think that a lot of her criticisms of the media actually have something to them. And I think she got a bum ride, but everybody close to her tells the same story."

[Link: www.huffingtonpost.com...]

re: #201 LudwigVanQuixote

What do you think of "The Dancing Wu Li Masters"

re: #148 jamesfirecat

His campaign was doing great... right up until the point he officaly began his campaign...

Which is a shame, because, as a Tennessean, I liked Fred.

New random title:

"Then, then there is that public slam of us."

re: #213 SanFranciscoZionist

Let's just say that it does not strike me as implausible that Solomon would have been happy and willing to knock up a stunning fellow monarch.

:)

That part does not even come close to surprising me. Solomon's downfall was his love of women. Come to think of it, that is the general tragic flaw of the line...

What interests me though is if it is true in this case.

It very well may well be. I am inclined to think it is even likely.

As to the stunningness of Ethiopian Ladies, an interesting point.

Many Jews are under the false impression that Moses's wife Tziporrah, was black, because she was called a Kushite (Eithiopian). But we know she was from Midian ( present day Jordan/Iraq). Her father was Yitro (Jethro, preist of Midian).

So why call Tzipporah a Kushite?

Well even back then, the tall, leggy, slender, and high breasted women of Eithiopia were considered fabulously beautiful. The Torah is saying that Tziporrah was hot.

re: #214 Reginald Perrin

Pajamas Media has a thing for stalkers, three of the intellectual midgets from the cesspool are "contributors" at PJ Media.
I often wonder what the stalker/trolls have to do to earn and maintain that title. The astro-turf spin machine works in mysterious ways.

It's a strange site. They try to be hip (or something) but still come off really dorky and still spread the same homogeneous right wing talking points one will find at other blogs. Klaven and Zo are super goofy. Then there's the pseudo science and typical denialist talking points.

re: #219 Walter L. Newton

Until the churches stop using terms like "Christian America" and similar phrases, it's going to be hard to overcome the brainwashing. It's starts young, and then the conservative politicians parrot those ideas, and Christian schools add a veneer of legitimacy to the concepts and before you know it... you have little Christian robots (some would say "soldiers") ready to defend Christian America against all comers... especially those of a differing religious tradition.

You have to stop it in the churches first.

In the churches, but not in the mosques?

Or are you being sarcastic? Because to stop anything in church, synagogue, or mosque, is forbidden to us.

On the other hand, if you gave Ludwig enough real power as algebra czar, he might be able to counter some of the brainwashing with brainwashing of his own.

re: #126 Ming

People notice Sarah Palin's delusional psychology (it's out there for everyone to see, after all), but it's important to also appreciate how very angry she is. In the word salad quoted by Charles, anger seems to leap right out. If she is elected Vice President in 2012 (which worries me the most; I think President is unlikely, but Vice President is a real possibility) the country will be treated to four years of observing a very, very bitter person. Thank you John McCain, but America does not need this problem!

The thing that actually scared me about the Vanity Fair article--most of it sounded, well, sort of ordinary--was the part where supposedly after the election she yelled at one of the kids "We weren't good enough for America. We'll never be good enough for America."

What does that mean? It creeps me out.

re: #221 webevintage

Oh this is great.
The guy who wrote the Vanity Fair piece on The Palin wanted to write a positive article, but couldn't find anyone who said anything nice about her.

[Link: www.huffingtonpost.com...]

HOLY HECK

i'm sighing quite contentedly...

re: #222 Alouette

What do you think of "The Dancing Wu Li Masters"

I think it is new age garbage that is appropriate for wiping if you take the time to soften the paper.

Electrons do not have consciousness.

re: #228 SanFranciscoZionist

The thing that actually scared me about the Vanity Fair article--most of it sounded, well, sort of ordinary--was the part where supposedly after the election she yelled at one of the kids "We weren't good enough for America. We'll never be good enough for America."

What does that mean? It creeps me out.

She's right.
Palin and the mouse in her pocket will never be good enough for America.

The Hay Rake

by Kate Barnes

One evening I stopped by the field to watch the hay rake
drawn toward me by two black, tall, ponderous horses
who stepped like conquerors over the fallen oat stalks,
light-shot dust at their heels, long shadows before them.
At the ditch the driver turned back in a wide arc,
the off-horse scrambling, the near-horse pivoting neatly.
The big side-delivery rake came about with a shriek—
its tines were crashing, the iron-bound tongue groaned aloud—
then, Hup, Diamond! Hup, Duke! and they set off west,
trace-deep in dust, going straight into the low sun.

The clangor grew faint, distance and light consumed them;
a fiery chariot rolled away in a cloud of gold
and faded slowly, brightness dying into brightness.
The groaning iron, the prophesying wheels,
the mighty horses with their necks like storms—
all disappeared; nothing was left but a track
of dust that climbed like smoke up the evening wind.

This felt like a good time to post this and enjoy the late afternoon/even ing here...

Evening lizards!

re: #225 LudwigVanQuixote

That part does not even come close to surprising me. Solomon's downfall was his love of women. Come to think of it, that is the general tragic flaw of the line...

What interests me though is if it is true in this case.

It very well may well be. I am inclined to think it is even likely.

As to the stunningness of Ethiopian Ladies, an interesting point.

Many Jews are under the false impression that Moses's wife Tziporrah, was black, because she was called a Kushite (Eithiopian). But we know she was from Midian ( present day Jordan/Iraq). Her father was Yitro (Jethro, preist of Midian).

So why call Tzipporah a Kushite?

Well even back then, the tall, leggy, slender, and high breasted women of Eithiopia were considered fabulously beautiful. The Torah is saying that Tziporrah was hot.

There is another opinion that Moshe had been married previously, after he ran away from Egypt and before arriving in Midian, he spent some time in Ethiopia and had a wife there. This is what Miriam supposedly gossiped about and was struck with tza'rat (translated as "leprosy" but has nothing to do with the modern disease of Hansen's Syndrome)

re: #222 Alouette

What do you think of "The Dancing Wu Li Masters"

If you are interested in a book about QM and the basics of QM, you simply can not beat:

In Search of Schrodinger's Cat, by John Gribbon.

[Link: www.amazon.com...]

This book is not technical, but it give the absolute best, in words discussion of QM, I have ever seen. It is so good, I recommend it as a supplement to students learning QM. It not only develops the ideas of the topic, but does so in the historical context of the interactions of the various players in the field.

You simply can not beat this book as a ley person.

re: #230 LudwigVanQuixote

I think it is new age garbage that is appropriate for wiping if you take the time to soften the paper.

Electrons do not have consciousness.

OK.

I read it years ago and just wanted to know if it was worth searching the basement.

night lizards.

I think it is totally cool that the big stuff in the universe does not behave exactly like the small stuff, and it amuses me to no end that scientists still don't know why.

re: #234 Alouette

There is another opinion that Moshe had been married previously, after he ran away from Egypt and before arriving in Midian, he spent some time in Ethiopia and had a wife there. This is what Miriam supposedly gossiped about and was struck with tza'rat (translated as "leprosy" but has nothing to do with the modern disease of Hansen's Syndrome)

I've also heard it suggested that the Kushi woman is a second wife, and that Miriam actually speaks out in defense of Tziporah, who is not happy about having a new woman in the family.

So many interpretations, so little time...

re: #234 Alouette

There is another opinion that Moshe had been married previously, after he ran away from Egypt and before arriving in Midian, he spent some time in Ethiopia and had a wife there. This is what Miriam supposedly gossiped about and was struck with tza'rat (translated as "leprosy" but has nothing to do with the modern disease of Hansen's Syndrome)

True, but that is a minority opinion. Most hold that Miriam was complaining about Moses's divorce from Tzipporrah.

re: #238 Racer X

It's simple, really. The Big Stuff doesn't have to behave like the Small Stuff. It's Big, it can do whatever it wants. You gonna tell it otherwise? Didn't think so.
/

re: #227 Cato the Elder

In the churches, but not in the mosques?

Or are you being sarcastic? Because to stop anything in church, synagogue, or mosque, is forbidden to us.

On the other hand, if you gave Ludwig enough real power as algebra czar, he might be able to counter some of the brainwashing with brainwashing of his own.

Well... my comment had nothing to do with algebra, and really nothing directly to do with Ludwig, I was simply adding my opinion about why I feel the "Christian America" idea is still so hard to shake, even after all these years of evidence that our founding fathers, while wise enough to respect certain religious sensibilities, they were not creating a church/country/state government, or any combination there of.

If we were able to counter that sort of rhetoric right at the source, the Christian churches (well, let's say the more conservative Christian churches), that would be one way to put a stop to this kind of faulty thinking.

These are uneducated people who think like this, and it's a shame that we waste the amount of time we do having to correct this Christian America crap over and over and over.

It needs to stop.

re: #224 Charles

New random title:

"Then, then there is that public slam of us."

Luckily, "they" are being slammed by feckless, gutless reporters with their tiny, soft, flaccid batons. It can't hurt that much.

re: #235 LudwigVanQuixote

If you are interested in a book about QM and the basics of QM, you simply can not beat:

In Search of Schrodinger's Cat, by John Gribbon.

[Link: www.amazon.com...]

This book is not technical, but it give the absolute best, in words discussion of QM, I have ever seen. It is so good, I recommend it as a supplement to students learning QM. It not only develops the ideas of the topic, but does so in the historical context of the interactions of the various players in the field.

You simply can not beat this book as a l[a]y person.

I love his books.

re: #234 Alouette

There is another opinion that Moshe had been married previously, after he ran away from Egypt and before arriving in Midian, he spent some time in Ethiopia and had a wife there. This is what Miriam supposedly gossiped about and was struck with tza'rat (translated as "leprosy" but has nothing to do with the modern disease of Hansen's Syndrome)

And also, how would that make Tzipporah a Kushite?

Hahahaha! I think this was already mentioned early today.

Christine O'Donnell, Tea Party Senate Candidate, Hammered By Delaware Republicans

2nd WASHINGTON — Delaware Republicans call Senate hopeful Christine O'Donnell a liar who "could not be elected dog catcher" in a fierce attack that underscores GOP fears of the tea party-backed candidate knocking off top recruit Rep. Mike Castle and winning the nomination.

Stunned by tea partier Joe Miller's upset of Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Republicans are taking no chances in Delaware, which holds its primary Sept. 14. The party sees Castle, the state's lone congressman since 1993, as the best candidate for the seat long held by Vice President Joe Biden.

Republicans circulated audio of a testy, 22-minute interview that O'Donnell had with radio station WGMD on Thursday. Party officials also have said she inflated her resume and made flat-out untrue statements while being dogged by questions about tax liens and foreclosures. Castle says she has misrepresented his record.

"She's not a viable candidate for any office in the state of Delaware," state party chairman Tom Ross, who is backing Castle, said in a telephone interview. "She could not be elected dog catcher."

...

re: #236 Alouette

OK.

I read it years ago and just wanted to know if it was worth searching the basement.

Only if you run out of TP.

And in other news...

(from TIME magazine... Thursday, Sep. 02, 2010)

"A sense of disappointment, bordering on betrayal, has been growing across the country, especially in moderate states like Indiana, where people now openly say they didn't quite understand the President they voted for in 2008. The fear most often expressed is that Obama is taking the country somewhere they don't want to go. "We bought what he said. He offered a lot of hope," says Fred Ferlic, an Obama voter and orthopedic surgeon in South Bend who has since soured on his choice."

[Link: www.time.com...]

re: #244 b_sharp

I love his books.

You can't go wrong.

And Alouette,

Get him this:

[Link: www.amazon.com...]

re: #226 Gus 802

It's a strange site. ...

It might be strange, but I consider it all too typical of what passes as "reporting", "analysis", and "thought" in so much of the internet (not just in the nut-o-sphere) and even television (especially cable only channels.)

re: #248 Walter L. Newton

And in other news...

(from TIME magazine... Thursday, Sep. 02, 2010)

"A sense of disappointment, bordering on betrayal, has been growing across the country, especially in moderate states like Indiana, where people now openly say they didn't quite understand the President they voted for in 2008. The fear most often expressed is that Obama is taking the country somewhere they don't want to go. "We bought what he said. He offered a lot of hope," says Fred Ferlic, an Obama voter and orthopedic surgeon in South Bend who has since soured on his choice."

[Link: www.time.com...]

If Republicans had anything approaching a credible Presidential candidate coming up for 2012 I might be concerned about this...

re: #245 LudwigVanQuixote

And also, how would that make Tzipporah a Kushite?

I think the point is that it does not, but that there is another Mrs. Moses who was, and it is about her that Aaron and Miriam are getting cranky. That does rather assume, however, that she is still married to Moses, in which case it seems rather odd that we have no name or other information for her. Tzipporah makes a decided little name for herself in the narrative.

re: #250 freetoken

It might be strange, but I consider it all too typical of what passes as "reporting", "analysis", and "thought" in so much of the internet (not just in the nut-o-sphere) and even television (especially cable only channels.)

Well yeah. It's a commentary site masquerading as a news and/or science site. Pure junk.