Prickly pears?

Is that a metaphor for Lizards?

We knew you had some pods containing aliens around…

re: #2 Thanos

We knew you had some pods containing aliens around…

///All right Mr. McCain, what did the “pod” the version of you who claimed he wasn’t a Maverick emerged from look like?

Now I wish I had some radishes.

Are those really prickly pears? I always wondered what they looked like.

re: #3 jamesfirecat

///All right Mr. McCain, what did the “pod” the version of you who claimed he wasn’t a Maverick emerged from look like?

No, that’s a Prickly Pear Cactus. McCain would know of it, since it grows in the desert. McCain recently shoved one of its fruits down JD Hayworth’s throat, figuratively speaking. And aren’t you glad he morphed like he did? Whatever the cost of his veering right, it spared Arizona being represented by a teabagger.

Not quite ripe yet.

re: #6 Dark_Falcon

No, that’s a Prickly Pear Cactus. McCain would know of it, since it grows in the desert. McCain recently shoved one of its fruits down JD Hayworth’s throat, figuratively speaking. And aren’t you glad he morphed like he did? Whatever the cost of his veering right, it spared Arizona being represented by a teabagger.

I’ll respect McCain more if he starts to act like a reasonable and rational man again now that he no longer has captain crazy leaning over his shoudler from the right.

He could start by helping break the filibuster on Obama’s attempt to help small businesses.

Comedy entertainment via pink moonbats…

Here’s what’s going on behind the scenes in the “peace negotiations” between Israeli and Palestinian officials, announced by Secretary Clinton for September 1st, 2010.

A Rush and a Pushback and the Land is Ours

What a nice cactus. We have succulents around here too, though I’m partial to the Agave. *wink*

re: #8 jamesfirecat

I’ll respect McCain more if he starts to act like a reasonable and rational man again now that he no longer has captain crazy leaning over his shoudler from the right.

He could start by helping break the filibuster on Obama’s attempt to help small businesses.

Why? i don’t support it either. Ever since the Shoreside Bank mini-scandal here in Chicago, I’ve been very skeptical of Obama’s community lending. Nor do i want to add more bad government debt. It’s a bad idea, and Obama’s promises on it are just unicorn farts as far as I’m concerned.

Fortunately, I took “Math for Poets 101” in college, so I can appreciate the natural Fibonacci numbers inherent in a photo like this! You betcha!

Great pic, Charles!
Thanks for one of your picture threads!

Here’s some more Sinfest for ya:

Image: 2010-08-16.gif

re: #10 Jimmah

A Rush and a Pushback and the Land is Ours

Did not watch. The lead singer’s voice always gives me a contact depression.

re: #12 Dark_Falcon

Why? i don’t support it either. Ever since the Shoreside Bank mini-scandal here in Chicago, I’ve been very skeptical of Obama’s community lending. Nor do i want to add more bad government debt. It’s a bad idea, and Obama’s promises on it are just unicorn farts as far as I’m concerned.

How do you support helping Small Businesses then?

The photo is thought provoking …

re: #13 Cato the Elder

Fortunately, I took “Math for Poets 101” in college, so I can appreciate the natural Fibonacci numbers inherent in a photo like this! You betcha!

Wrong again… not the Fibonacci number… the Valenzetti Equation.

The Valenzetti Equation is the mathematical equation developed by the reclusive Princeton University mathematician Enzo Valenzetti. Its creation was the result of efforts made following the Cuban Missile Crisis by the United States and the Soviet Union to find a solution to the hostility and danger of imminent global disaster created by the Cold War. The equation was secretly commissioned through the UN Security Council and is used to predict the time of human extinction.

Bwa-ha-ha-haa! Oh, yes they can.

re: #9 NJDhockeyfan

it’s too sad to be comedy. these people are whackjobs.

re: #12 Dark_Falcon

Why? i don’t support it either. Ever since the Shoreside Bank mini-scandal here in Chicago, I’ve been very skeptical of Obama’s community lending. Nor do i want to add more bad government debt. It’s a bad idea, and Obama’s promises on it are just unicorn farts as far as I’m concerned.

Also let me rephrase my statement in a less confrontational way…

Maybe now that he’s won his party’s primary he’ll go back to being reasonable on immigration and looking for rational long term solutions instead of shouting/chanting/whispering meaningless catch phrases.

Wouldn’t it be nice if he did that DF?

Purty. But every time I try to smell em I get a nose bleed.

Pretty color.

re: #19 Walter L. Newton

Wrong again… not the Fibonacci number… the Valenzetti Equation.

The Valenzetti Equation is the mathematical equation developed by the reclusive Princeton University mathematician Enzo Valenzetti. Its creation was the result of efforts made following the Cuban Missile Crisis by the United States and the Soviet Union to find a solution to the hostility and danger of imminent global disaster created by the Cold War. The equation was secretly commissioned through the UN Security Council and is used to predict the time of human extinction.

FTFY (Plagiarism is a crime)

re: #19 Walter L. Newton

Wrong again… not the Fibonacci number… the Valenzetti Equation.

The Valenzetti Equation is the mathematical equation developed by the reclusive Princeton University mathematician Enzo Valenzetti. Its creation was the result of efforts made following the Cuban Missile Crisis by the United States and the Soviet Union to find a solution to the hostility and danger of imminent global disaster created by the Cold War. The equation was secretly commissioned through the UN Security Council and is used to predict the time of human extinction.

Speaking of that… I wonder if Ludwig is familiar with the Valenzetti Equation?

re: #17 jamesfirecat

How do you support helping Small Businesses then?

Cut captial gains tax
Tort reform
Reduce environmental regs
Make the Girl Scouts sell their damn cookies somewhere else

re: #25 darthstar

FTFY (Plagiarism is a crime)

You never let me have any fun.

I decided I’d take a stab at growing cactus here in the rainy Northwest, so I mail ordered some prickly pear starts. First thing I figured out the hard way: use BBQ tongs to plant them. These are nasty critters. They have about a million spiny little hairs on them, so small you can’t see even them.

re: #25 darthstar

FTFY (Plagiarism is a crime)

Oh, great…so the Valenzetti Equation is where they get the numbers for that stupid show about the people from the plane crash stuck on Turd Island (I know, it’s true name is Bulamanganao).

This video reminds me that I really shouldn’t be wearing my good clothes while I’m decorating:

Night folks :)

re: #11 Rightwingconspirator

What a nice cactus. We have succulents around here too, though I’m partial to the Agave. *wink*

You get sunburnt?

re: #31 Jimmah

This video reminds me that I really shouldn’t be wearing my good clothes while I’m decorating:

[Video]Night folks :)

Heh. Decorating = painting.
LOL!

re: #19 Walter L. Newton

Wrong again… not the Fibonacci number… the Valenzetti Equation.

The Valenzetti Equation is the mathematical equation developed by the reclusive Princeton University mathematician Enzo Valenzetti. Its creation was the result of efforts made following the Cuban Missile Crisis by the United States and the Soviet Union to find a solution to the hostility and danger of imminent global disaster created by the Cold War. The equation was secretly commissioned through the UN Security Council and is used to predict the time of human extinction.

So…

[Cato gulps, gasps, reaches for a beer]

…they know the date, and are keeping it from us for our own peace of mind?!?!!?

[calls dealer, puts in emergency order]

A-and, t-there’s nothing we can d-d-do about it?!?!?

Are you saying we’re all lost, or will my Shield of Algebra protect me in the end?

re: #28 Walter L. Newton

You never let me have any fun.

There’s nothing wrong with citing your sources. It’s called being honest, and makes you look smarter than if you pass information off as if it’s something you actually know…and then get caught. Besides, your writing style is easy enough to spot, so when you pull from someone else, it stands out quite clearly.

re: #30 darthstar

Oh, great…so the Valenzetti Equation is where they get the numbers for that stupid show about the people from the plane crash stuck on Turd Island (I know, it’s true name is Bulamanganao).

The Valenzetti Equation is part of a online extension of the TV show called The Lost Experience, which was “played” between season 3 and 4… it’s backstory to a lot of what was going on on The Island.

re: #27 Decatur Deb

Cut captial gains tax
Tort reform
Reduce environmental regs
Make the Girl Scouts sell their damn cookies somewhere else

That reminds me of the poster with the girl scout in the forefront of a burning house….

“Next time, you buy the damn cookies”

re: #32 Floral Giraffe

You get sunburnt?

I use Aloe for that. Agave makes my tequila. Blue Agave I think. Or so the jimador told me.

How are ya Floral?

re: #35 darthstar

There’s nothing wrong with citing your sources. It’s called being honest, and makes you look smarter than if you pass information off as if it’s something you actually know…and then get caught. Besides, your writing style is easy enough to spot, so when you pull from someone else, it stands out quite clearly.

Cake-brain… it was meant to be found, I wasn’t trying to pass it off as my own, as indicative of the fact that Cato and yourself commented on the origins.

Except Cato had fun with it, you’re anal tight-assed attitude took it as some affront to you senibilities.

re: #34 Cato the Elder

will my Shield of Algebra protect me in the end?

Let x=x

re: #36 Walter L. Newton

The Valenzetti Equation is part of a online extension of the TV show called The Lost Experience, which was “played” between season 3 and 4… it’s backstory to a lot of what was going on on The Island.

Is there a Lost Porn Experience as well? I didn’t notice it was from a site called “lostopedia”…I do hope you don’t get this involved in next season’s “Dancing with the Stars”

re: #17 jamesfirecat

How do you support helping Small Businesses then?

Keep taxes low instead. Leave the income tax rates at the Bush level for at least one more year. Lower taxes allow a business owner to funnel his money back into his business. It doesn’t have a dragging effect over time. Loans, by contrast, have conditions and require repayment. They are preferential, while low tax rates are universal. By letting tax rates rise, Obama is taking money from small business owners, which will leave them less able to qualify for or repay loans.

re: #34 Cato the Elder

So…

[Cato gulps, gasps, reaches for a beer]

…they know the date, and are keeping it from us for our own peace of mind?!?!!?

[calls dealer, puts in emergency order]

A-and, t-there’s nothing we can d-d-do about it?!?!?

Are you saying we’re all lost, or will my Shield of Algebra protect me in the end?

Yes… but you there are opposing mathematical opinions… you may want to take this hypothesis into consideration…

“Denoting by N the total number of humans who were ever or will ever be born, the Copernican principle suggests that humans are equally likely (along with the other N − 1 humans) to find themselves at any position n[dubious – discuss], so humans assume that our fractional position f = n/N is uniformly distributed on the interval (0, 1] prior to learning our absolute position.”

[Link: en.wikipedia.org…]

re: #31 Jimmah

Cool video. Her voice reminds me of Leigh Nash of Sixpence None the Richer.

re: #34 Cato the Elder

So…

[Cato gulps, gasps, reaches for a beer]

…they know the date, and are keeping it from us for our own peace of mind?!?!!?

[calls dealer, puts in emergency order]

A-and, t-there’s nothing we can d-d-do about it?!?!?

Are you saying we’re all lost, or will my Shield of Algebra protect me in the end?

It’s no secret… the date is in Dec 2012.
/

re: #39 Walter L. Newton

Cake-brain… it was meant to be found, I wasn’t trying to pass it off as my own, as indicative of the fact that Cato and yourself commented on the origins.

Except Cato had fun with it, you’re anal tight-assed attitude took it as some affront to you senibilities.

That hurts, Walter. You cut me deep. I don’t know if I can go on any more. I don’t know if I can go on any less, either, but that’s beside the point.

re: #46 darthstar

That hurts, Walter. You cut me deep. I don’t know if I can go on any more. I don’t know if I can go on any less, either, but that’s beside the point.

We can only hope…

Supper… I’ll be back.

re: #41 darthstar

Is there a Lost Porn Experience as well? I didn’t notice it was from a site called “lostopedia”…I do hope you don’t get this involved in next season’s “Dancing with the Stars”

Cato will. Bristol Palin will be on it, so Cato will be rooting for her to fall on her backside. He regards her as a grifter like her mother.

What, someone said something about Dancing with the Porn Stars?

re: #38 Rightwingconspirator

I use Aloe for that. Agave makes my tequila. Blue Agave I think. Or so the jimador told me.

How are ya Floral?

Peachy keen, and you?
I see your Lady tomorrow!

re: #48 Dark_Falcon

Cato will. Bristol Palin will be on it, so Cato will be rooting for her to fall on her backside. He regards her as a grifter like her mother.

Bristol isn’t a grifter. Her mom’s a grifter. Bristol’s simply taking advantage of the publicity she got for being related to her mother. She’ll either get a manager who will make her a celebrity in her own right, or she’ll hook up with Levi and go back to nursing school in a couple of years when her mother’s star burns out.

re: #49 Irenicum

What, someone said something about Dancing with the Porn Stars?

They did, but, um, well, er, um, I don’t think Porn stars, well, dance…
If you know what I mean…

re: #21 zora

it’s too sad to be comedy. these people are whackjobs.

I like this comment at YouTube…

What, no suicide bombers and cardboard Qassam rockets? At least be realistic…

re: #52 Floral Giraffe

Those are some crazy dance floor moves. How did he get her to spin like that?

re: #48 Dark_Falcon

Cato will. Bristol Palin will be on it, so Cato will be rooting for her to fall on her backside. He regards her as a grifter like her mother.

I would hope that most will let Bristol live her life - mistakes and all.
Bristol has a rough road ahead, and I hope she becomes her own Woman.
Who here has not had the experience of having a sister/daughter/friend in similar situation?
Bad “husband”, difficult Mom… newborn child.

She is that child’s best defender. I wish her the best.

Insane and sane political ad letters contrasted.

re: #55 Ericus58

I would hope that most will let Bristol live her life - mistakes and all.
Bristol has a rough road ahead, and I hope she becomes her own Woman.
Who here has not had the experience of having a sister/daughter/friend in similar situation?
Bad “husband”, difficult Mom… newborn child.

She is that child’s best defender. I wish her the best.

Quite Concur.

re: #55 Ericus58

Well put.

re: #55 Ericus58

Bad “husband”, difficult Mom… newborn child.

If the latest Vanity Fair article is true, “difficult” is a bit of an understatement when it comes to The Sarah.

re: #53 NJDhockeyfan

I like this comment at YouTube…

So, were those people doing the street theatre pro-Israel or pro-Palestine? Honestly, I can’t tell the difference between the two sides. Basically, they’re calling for the status quo.

Morning honcos.

Waiting around to be interviewed by my school paper. Also, new LGF page.

re: #48 Dark_Falcon

Cato will. Bristol Palin will be on it, so Cato will be rooting for her to fall on her backside. He regards her as a grifter like her mother.

Show you what happens when you make assumptions about me.

I regard Bristol as primarily a victim. Of her mother’s hubris and ambition.

This is a mother who loved her daughter so much that she would have and did marry her off to a completely unworthy baby daddy all for the sake of presenting a nice wholesome Christian family to the rubes at the GOP convention.

Sawah Pawin is the worst mother in America, and would sell any member of her family for more money, a bigger Lear jet, or just attention.

re: #54 Irenicum

Those are some crazy dance floor moves. How did he get her to spin like that?

It’s amazing what those Palins will do when you start pulling out the FIVE dollar bills.

re: #63 darthstar

Lol that was cold.

Funny, but cold.

re: #40 jaunte

Let x=x

Mega-giga-tera-updings for Laurie Anderson.

re: #60 darthstar

So, were those people doing the street theatre pro-Israel or pro-Palestine? Honestly, I can’t tell the difference between the two sides. Basically, they’re calling for the status quo.

You never heard of Coke Pink? That’s who made the video and posted it. They are not friends of Israel at all.

re: #42 Dark_Falcon

Keep taxes low instead. Leave the income tax rates at the Bush level for at least one more year. Lower taxes allow a business owner to funnel his money back into his business. It doesn’t have a dragging effect over time. Loans, by contrast, have conditions and require repayment. They are preferential, while low tax rates are universal. By letting tax rates rise, Obama is taking money from small business owners, which will leave them less able to qualify for or repay loans.

Repeal health care, reduce taxes, stop talking cap and trade. Small businesses do not need more loans/debt. We need more customers and a growing economy. Banks do not want and should not make loans to companies just trying to stay afloat meet payroll etc. Debt is to fund expansion in a growing economy.

re: #62 Cato the Elder

Sawah Pawin is the worst mother in America, and would sell any member of her family for more money, a bigger Lear jet, or just attention.

Cato, did you see the Betty Bowers video I posted in the previous thread?

Linky goodness, in case you issed it.

re: #68 darthstar

Cato, did you see the Betty Bowers video I posted in the previous thread?

Linky goodness, in case you issed it.

missed, not issed…PIMF

re: #62 Cato the Elder

Show you what happens when you make assumptions about me.

I regard Bristol as primarily a victim. Of her mother’s hubris and ambition.

This is a mother who loved her daughter so much that she would have and did marry her off to a completely unworthy baby daddy all for the sake of presenting a nice wholesome Christian family to the rubes at the GOP convention.

Sawah Pawin is the worst mother in America, and would sell any member of her family for more money, a bigger Lear jet, or just attention.

Please excuse the assumption and consider my contention withdrawn.

re: #66 NJDhockeyfan

You never heard of Coke Pink? That’s who made the video and posted it. They are not friends of Israel at all.

Coke Zero, yes. Coke Pink, no.

re: #67 compound idaho

Repeal health care, reduce taxes, stop talking cap and trade. Small businesses do not need more loans/debt. We need more customers and a growing economy. Banks do not want and should not make loans to companies just trying to stay afloat meet payroll etc. Debt is to fund expansion in a growing economy.

Why repeal health care?

Or are you being sarcastic?

re: #66 NJDhockeyfan

Is that New Coke Pink, cuz it sucks. I stick with Original Coke Pink. Better formula.

re: #67 compound idaho

Repeal health care, reduce taxes, stop talking cap and trade. Small businesses do not need more loans/debt. We need more customers and a growing economy. Banks do not want and should not make loans to companies just trying to stay afloat meet payroll etc. Debt is to fund expansion in a growing economy.

Agreed. Obama will not repeal his health care plan, but he could do that latter two. Make it clear that cap-and-trade is dead, and that the tax cuts will be extended for at least a year. These are measures that would pass with bipartisan support.

re: #71 darthstar

Coke Zero, yes. Coke Pink, no.

Code Pink. You might like them.

re: #72 jamesfirecat

I like how its not ‘repeal health care reform’, but ‘repeal health care!

SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST!

Love this iPhone photo! Who in the past would’ve thought that our cellular devices could produce equal images??? Done.

re: #73 Irenicum

Is that New Coke Pink, cuz it sucks. I stick with Original Coke Pink. Better formula.

I got pink coke from a dealer once…I was like, WTF? Did you cut this while washing your colors in the laundry? (I still did the shit, though…but those were some dark days in my youth)

Somebody start a fight.

re: #73 Irenicum

Is that New Coke Pink, cuz it sucks. I stick with Original Coke Pink. Better formula.

I still love how New Coke cause Pepsi to declare “Victory Over Coke Day” as a corporate holiday. It was perhaps the best corporate diss ever.

re: #78 darthstar

You made me snort with laughter.

re: #74 Dark_Falcon

so is the new angle ‘we shouldn’t help small business but only big business’?

Generally saying that the right wants to only help the very rich is a smear, but now I”m wondering.

What a relief to have a thread about something other than craziness.

Here is the approach of the gloaming for the second of September, A.D. 2010, in the San Gabriel Mountains of California.

— Tonight’s towercam.

re: #80 Dark_Falcon

I still love how New Coke cause Pepsi to declare “Victory Over Coke Day” as a corporate holiday. It was perhaps the best corporate diss ever.

Maybe IBM can have “V-A” day…

re: #50 Floral Giraffe

Peachy keen, and you?
I see your Lady tomorrow!

We are well here looking forward to a long fun weekend.
D_L says hasta manana from the seekrit garden!

re: #79 b_sharp

Somebody start a fight.

*throws a left punch*

re: #84 jamesfirecat

That would be MS, no?

“We beat them so hard we had to lend them money because we had to have someone to beat!”

re: #83 Ojoe

I look at these every.fucking.time.you.post.them. Ojoe. Thanks.

re: #79 b_sharp

Somebody start a fight.

You’re going to have to come up with a competing towercam.

re: #88 darthstar

took me a while, but set them as the screen on my phone. Only problem is its pretty boring in the middle of the night >>

re: #87 windsagio

That would be MS, no?

“We beat them so hard we had to lend them money because we had to have someone to beat!”

I’ve seen that used to explain the Pirates.

re: #79 b_sharp

Somebody start a fight.

OK.

This one goes out to Ludwig:

Science will save humanity!

The same science that fucked it.

re: #86 Floral Giraffe

*throws a left punch*

Duck!

re: #88 darthstar

It’s my default browser window. I grew up down in So Cal & hiked those mountains a lot, so I get to spy on them with the Towercam. When it’s pretty I post it. Glad you like it.

re: #75 NJDhockeyfan

Code Pink. You might like them.

puleeze. I had no knowledge of those impressive strong political affect-ors on US life till I arrived on LGF.

booga booga

re: #82 windsagio

so is the new angle ‘we shouldn’t help small business but only big business’?

Generally saying that the right wants to only help the very rich is a smear, but now I”m wondering.

No. My argument is that small business owners (many of whom own a good bit more than a mom-and-pop store, given how the term is defined) will get hit by the rise in taxes and this will cancel out any stimulative effect of small business loans. In fact, I think the combination likely to have a net negative effect. So I argue for holding tax rates down instead.

re: #9 NJDhockeyfan

Comedy entertainment via pink moonbats…

[Video]

Medea Benjamin is auditioning for her very own reality show.

re: #89 jaunte

You’re going to have to come up with a competing towercam.

I don’t have one. Would a buttcam be OK.

re: #96 Dark_Falcon

No. My argument is that small business owners (many of whom own a good bit more than a mom-and-pop store, given how the term is defined) will get hit by the rise in taxes and this will cancel out any stimulative effect of small business loans. In fact, I think the combination likely to have a net negative effect. So I argue for holding tax rates down instead.

How about if we only raises taxes on people making less than 250,000 in PROFIT per year?

re: #95 Stanley Sea

Same here. I never even heard of them till I got here and found out “they” were everywhere!!!

re: #98 b_sharp

Thomas Merton is giving you such a look.

re: #95 Stanley Sea

puleeze. I had no knowledge of those impressive strong political affect-ors on US life till I arrived on LGF.

booga booga

They were fun to watch for a while in Senate hearings where they’d hold up signs saying, “Liar” without disrupting the process…Almost got C-SPAN to change the angle of their camera on the people testifying.

re: #92 Cato the Elder

Be careful with that science, you might go…

re: #76 windsagio

I like how its not ‘repeal health care reform’, but ‘repeal health care!

SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST!

The health care legislation will increase my cost of doing business near as I can tell. The irony is that one of my employees is sure the whole health care industry is out to kill him or rather keep him and all of us sick as long as possible. So on his behalf “repeal health care” although I meant 0bamacare.

re: #98 b_sharp

OK, enough of the cracks!

Пиз”ец мне!

re: #92 Cato the Elder

OK.

This one goes out to Ludwig:

[Video]Science will save humanity!

The same science that fucked it.

Yup. There was no suffering before science.

re: #98 b_sharp

I don’t have one. Would a buttcam be OK.

Googled it…you gotta be 18, but there is a buttcam dot net site out there…penetrating pics, they promise.

re: #104 compound idaho

The health care legislation will increase my cost of doing business near as I can tell. The irony is that one of my employees is sure the whole health care industry is out to kill him or rather keep him and all of us sick as long as possible. So on his behalf “repeal health care” although I meant 0bamacare.

What do you say to the CBO’s statements that Obamacare will decrease the national debt?

re: #101 jaunte

Thomas Merton is giving you such a look.

Is he dead?

re: #109 jamesfirecat

What do you say to the CBO’s statements that Obamacare will decrease the national debt?

I have some land in FL for sale.

re: #99 jamesfirecat

How about if we only raises taxes on people making less than 250,000 in PROFIT per year?

Did you mean to say “more than” instead of “less than”?

re: #109 jamesfirecat

What do you say to the CBO’s statements that Obamacare will decrease the national debt?

I’m guessing “Debts don’t matter”…but that’s a phrase that’s waiting for the Republicans to retake the White House.

re: #111 compound idaho

I have some land in FL for sale.

Who doesn’t. Shit won’t sell.

re: #112 Dark_Falcon

Did you mean to say “more than” instead of “less than”?

Yeah my bad.

re: #110 b_sharp

I pray… pray that that’s a Mark Twain reference.

re: #114 darthstar

Who doesn’t. Shit won’t sell.

That was sarc, CCA and Ace!

re: #107 b_sharp

Yup. There was no suffering before science.

Of course there was.

Science merely rationalized and industrialized it.

re: #118 Cato the Elder

Neoluddite trip again, eh?

Things have gone to hell since last Wednesday!

re: #111 compound idaho

I have some land in FL for sale.

What do you say to the idea that keeping people from being forbidden due to Pre-existing conditions will dramatically increase the standard of living?

re: #110 b_sharp

Is he dead?

Since 1968, Jim.

re: #120 jamesfirecat

He knows personally because healthcare reform will dramatically increase costs for his small business!

Really!

re: #117 darthstar

That was sarc, CCA and Ace!

/

For your trouble. (:

re: #120 jamesfirecat

What do you say to the idea that keeping people from being forbidden due to Pre-existing conditions will dramatically increase the standard of living?

That law could have been one page long.

re: #106 Killgore Trout

That was rather scary.

re: #124 compound idaho

That law could have been one page long.

The law SHOULD have been one sentence long: “We hereby extend Medicare coverage to all United States citizens.” Done. Health care reform complete. Insurance companies, feel free to compete.

re: #125 Cato the Elder

That was rather scary.

Scary cat is scary.

re: #124 compound idaho

That law could have been one page long.

Do you realize what would happen to the insurance industry if the law was one page long and just said that and only that?

re: #126 darthstar

The law SHOULD have been one sentence long: “We hereby extend Medicare coverage to all United States citizens.” Done. Health care reform complete. Insurance companies, feel free to compete.

OMG CREEPING SOCIALISM!!!!!!

re: #106 Killgore Trout

Пиз”ец мне!

[Video]

Stealth kitteh.

re: #127 Killgore Trout

Scary cat is scary.

indeed

break time…bbl

re: #131 darthstar

Is that the music from Lost? Nice touch.

re: #127 Killgore Trout

How is your “kitty with issues” doing?
Zoe, IIRC?

re: #126 darthstar

And once again, I want to date you.

re: #115 jamesfirecat

Yeah my bad.

OK, good. My answer would still be “no”. That would still have a negative effect. Remember, just because the small business made $300,000, doesn’t mean the own kept all that profit. Much of it, maybe most of it, would go towards upgrading the business’s products and services, paying bonuses, charitable giving, etc. It’s better to keep the taxes lower all the way around.

re: #128 jamesfirecat

Do you realize what would happen to the insurance industry if the law was one page long and just said that and only that?

If convicted drunk drivers can buy auto insurance, I am sure we could fix the pre-existing conditions problems without fucking everything else up. If being a drunk is not a pre-existing condition with regard in auto insurance, I don’t know what is. No offense to anyone here.

re: #106 Killgore Trout

Пиз”ец мне!

[Video]

:3

OT: What do you mix with coffee infused vodka?

I’ve gotta try it, but I’m not one to drink stuff straight >>

re: #134 Floral Giraffe

How is your “kitty with issues” doing?
Zoe, IIRC?

She’s doing much better. A little extra attention and some additional play time and all her behavior problems have all gone. Thanks for asking.

Gonna get interview’d bbl.

Once again, I posted a new LGF page. O:

re: #140 Killgore Trout

She’s doing much better. A little extra attention and some additional play time and all her behavior problems have all gone. Thanks for asking.

Well, what I’m curious about is your froggies.

re: #92 Cato the Elder

OK.

This one goes out to Ludwig:

[Video]Science will save humanity!

The same science that fucked it.

The video and that gal’s voice…. awesome.

Not getting into the bickering between you guys.
I appreciate you both… just in prescribed doses ;)

re: #136 Dark_Falcon

OK, good. My answer would still be “no”. That would still have a negative effect. Remember, just because the small business made $300,000, doesn’t mean the own kept all that profit. Much of it, maybe most of it, would go towards upgrading the business’s products and services, paying bonuses, charitable giving, etc. It’s better to keep the taxes lower all the way around.

How about businesses that make over a million dollars in profit?

An update on the environmentalist nut case… he used to be a smuggler…

Discovery Gunman James Lee’s Sordid Past as a Human Smuggler

James Lee, the bomb-laden gunman who was killed by police in the lobby of the Discovery Channel, was once convicted and imprisoned for smuggling illegal immigrants into the country from Mexico.

The revelation that Lee had once smuggled illegals contrasts sharply with a hate-filled manifesto he left behind in which he describes illegal immigrants as “disgusting filth” and their children as “anchor baby filth.”

re: #142 reine.de.tout

Well, what I’m curious about is your froggies.

LOL!
They’re out there, he just needs to get out the flashlight & go looking!
(Leaving the kitties in the house!)
*waves*

re: #137 compound idaho

If convicted drunk drivers can buy auto insurance, I am sure we could fix the pre-existing conditions problems without fucking everything else up. If being a drunk is not a pre-existing condition with regard in auto insurance, I don’t know what is. No offense to anyone here.

You completely miss my point

If you just make it so that people with pre-existing conditions can buy health insurance, then no one will buy insurance EVER until something has gone wrong with them and they need insurance to fit the bill…

That’s why there has to be a tax on people who don’t buy insurance to keep them from jumping on the bandwagon only when they actually need it.

So what about “Obamacare” do you find so objectionable exactly?

re: #142 reine.de.tout

Well, what I’m curious about is your froggies.

They are still around. I haven’t spotted one for a week or so but I can hear them chirping at night. They seem to be sticking around.

Random photo sanity break…

Okay not really random.

re: #139 windsagio

OT: What do you mix with coffee infused vodka?

I’ve gotta try it, but I’m not one to drink stuff straight >>

Fra Angelica?

re: #145 NJDhockeyfan

An update on the environmentalist nut case… he used to be a smuggler…

Discovery Gunman James Lee’s Sordid Past as a Human Smuggler

Wow this guy really was all over the crazy roadmap….

re: #137 compound idaho

If convicted drunk drivers can buy auto insurance, I am sure we could fix the pre-existing conditions problems without fucking everything else up. If being a drunk is not a pre-existing condition with regard in auto insurance, I don’t know what is. No offense to anyone here.

I cannot stand the comparison of health insurance to car insurance.

Wrecked Toyota Avalon? Please compare to chemotherapy for stage 4 breast cancer.

re: #145 NJDhockeyfan

An update on the environmentalist nut case… he used to be a smuggler…

Discovery Gunman James Lee’s Sordid Past as a Human Smuggler

Fucking wingnut.

re: #150 prairiefire

I appreciate the advice, but I have absolutely no idea what that is :p

re: #145 NJDhockeyfan

An update on the environmentalist nut case… he used to be a smuggler…

Discovery Gunman James Lee’s Sordid Past as a Human Smuggler

Ahem.
Check “pages” every now and then.

re: #153 Walter L. Newton

Fucking wingnut.

Damn teabaggers!

re: #139 windsagio

OT: What do you mix with coffee infused vodka?

I’ve gotta try it, but I’m not one to drink stuff straight >>

Coke? straight.

re: #152 Stanley Sea

You randomly remind me of a NPR story I heard (I think yesterday). Apparently a double masectomy GREATLY decreases your chance of getting Breast Cancer.

re: #148 Killgore Trout

They are still around. I haven’t spotted one for a week or so but I can hear them chirping at night. They seem to be sticking around.

Great!
‘cept it’s crickets that chirp.
Frogs croak.
uh-oh.

[Link: www.theatlantic.com…]

Digby argues that Moulitsas should have some kind of poetic license,and shouldn’t be taken literally. That strikes me as squishy. This statement—“in their tactics and on the issues, our homegrown American Taliban are almost indistinguishable from the Afghan Taliban”—is quite literal, and one is obliged to ask if it’s true or not.

The notion that “slut-shaming” and “nose-cutting” have the same deeper meaning—presumably a fear of women’s sexuality, though Digby doesn’t say this—is true as far as it takes you. Likewise the notion that black people should be slaves, the notion that they should be shipped back to Africa, that they should be segregated in communities, that they should not be allowed to intermarry, also have the same root cause—that blacks are unequal to whites. At varying points, Abraham Lincoln, John C. Calhoun, William T. Sherman, and Ulysses Grant held one or all of these views, and all probably died thinking blacks were unequal to whites. But that doesn’t make them interchangeable. Lincoln and Grant aren’t “less evil” versions of Calhoun.

good read. coates from the atlantic regarding the comparison of the religious right to the taliban and markos moulitsas new book, american taliban

re: #157 Stanley Sea

I’ll try coke first :D

re: #149 Rightwingconspirator

Random photo sanity break…

Okay not really random.

re: #146 Floral Giraffe

LOL!
They’re out there, he just needs to get out the flashlight & go looking!
(Leaving the kitties in the house!)
*waves*

*waves back*
Hey, Flo.
The only thing I hunt with a flashlight is sand crabs when I’m at the beach.
gah.
I was soooo happy when the young ‘uns finally outgrew it.

re: #155 reine.de.tout

Ahem.
Check “pages” every now and then.

Sorry about that. They didn’t load so I didn’t see it. I have the worst internet service. It’s very slow….when I am connected. It disconnects constantly.

re: #149 Rightwingconspirator

Random photo sanity break…

Okay not really random.

I love your fire photos!

re: #159 reine.de.tout

Great!
‘cept it’s crickets that chirp.
Frogs croak.
uh-oh.

They don’t seem to give the familiar croak until they’re mature. I can track them down in the garden by their chirping.

re: #154 windsagio

I appreciate the advice, but I have absolutely no idea what that is :p

Spelled it wrong. Frangelico, a hazelnut liqueur~yummy.[Link: www.frangelico.com…]

KT: Earlier I was playing Alien Ant Farm’s version of Smooth Criminal that you turned me onto a while bacfk and my wife said “Hey, that sounds like a song Michael Jackson could have done… “

re: #159 reine.de.tout

Great!
‘cept it’s crickets that chirp.
Frogs croak.
uh-oh.

They are really little.

re: #119 windsagio

Neoluddite trip again, eh?

Things have gone to hell since last Wednesday!

Not a Luddite bone in my body.

Merely reflecting upon how science has made mass murder a job for video gamers sitting in uniform in a sub-sub-sub-basement somewhere in Idaho.

re: #158 windsagio

Well, DUH.
Didn’t mean to sound cruel, but no place to have the cancer = no cancer…

re: #167 prairiefire

awesome! Thanks!

re: #100 Irenicum

Same here. I never even heard of them till I got here and found out “they” were everywhere!!!

They’re not everywhere. I used to know exactly where they were, but they sold the cottage.

re: #152 Stanley Sea

I cannot stand the comparison of health insurance to car insurance.

Wrecked Toyota Avalon? Please compare to chemotherapy for stage 4 breast cancer.

Not to mention that drunk driving is a choice.

re: #171 Floral Giraffe

Haha exactly, they were very serious about it too, didnt’ get why it was a little absurd.

…

Altho’ with research it turns out they were talking about women with a particular mutation that makes getting cancer almost a certainty, and that they should just cut ‘em off early. Still, its a huge ‘DUH”!

re: #171 Floral Giraffe

Well, DUH.
Didn’t mean to sound cruel, but no place to have the cancer = no cancer…

I look forward to the day when I can abandon this pathetic meatbag form and ascend in a body made of glorious disease proof metal!

re: #165 reine.de.tout

Those are from a new set of a few dozen. Went for a magazine cover shoot assignment and could not resist firing up big blue as we call it. I’m such a pyro!

re: #174 CuriousLurker

Not to mention that drunk driving is a choice.

ding ding

Hi CL!

re: #145 NJDhockeyfan

An update on the environmentalist nut case… he used to be a smuggler…

Discovery Gunman James Lee’s Sordid Past as a Human Smuggler

A lot of ‘coyotes’ have contempt for the people they smuggle. Many abuse and exploit them quite badly.

re: #139 windsagio

OT: What do you mix with coffee infused vodka?

I’ve gotta try it, but I’m not one to drink stuff straight >>

Cream and sugar?

re: #177 Rightwingconspirator

LOL!
Pyro’s are HOT!

re: #175 windsagio

Haha exactly, they were very serious about it too, didnt’ get why it was a little absurd.

…

Altho’ with research it turns out they were talking about women with a particular mutation that makes getting cancer almost a certainty, and that they should just cut ‘em off early. Still, its a huge ‘DUH”!

I’m going to look for the story on NPR. You, as a dude are not relating it well to us wimmen.

re: #153 Walter L. Newton

Fucking wingnut.

Fucking moonwingbatnut.

re: #171 Floral Giraffe

Well, DUH.
Didn’t mean to sound cruel, but no place to have the cancer = no cancer…

I hear that’s one of the main reasons women don’t have prostate cancer.
/

re: #178 Stanley Sea

ding ding

Hi CL!

Hiya, Sea! *waves*

re: #162 Killgore Trout

[Video]

That was hilarious, really fun. “Let it burn” circa 2010 lol

re: #168 Thanos

KT: Earlier I was playing Alien Ant Farm’s version of Smooth Criminal that you turned me onto a while bacfk and my wife said “Hey, that sounds like a song Michael Jackson could have done… “

They were kind of a one hit wonder band but they did some good stuff….

Hm. Latest on the platform fire, if anyone’s interested. It appears stored barrels caught fire, not any of the 7 wells on the platform:

VERMILION BAY, LA (WAFB/AP) - An oil platform exploded and burned off the Louisiana coast Thursday, the second such disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in less than five months.

Coast Guard Petty Officer Bill Coklough said Mariner Energy, Inc., the Houston company that owns the rig, had deployed three firefighting vessels to the site and one already was in place fighting the blaze. The Coast Guard had reported that a 100-foot-wide oil sheen had been spotted near the platform, but now says there is no sign of an oil leak.

According to the Coast Guard, 13 people were on the platform when it caught fire Thursday morning. All 13 are accounted for and one injury was reported.

The workers will be taken to Terrebonne General Medical Center in Houma by helicopter to be fully checked out.
…
The Coast Guard said it received a call at 9:19 a.m. from a neighboring rig that Vermilion 380 was on fire. A helicopter pilot then reported at about 10 a.m. he saw 13 people floating in the water in special suits near a burning oil rig platform.

Rescue helicopters and Coast Guard cutters were immediately sent to the scene. The rig is in water about 340 feet deep. Mariner said this is a platform rig, not a drilling rig.

The company reported there were seven active wells on the platform and one caught fire, but all are now shut in. Mariner also reported the platform produced an average of 1,400 barrels of oil per day, as well as 1,800 barrels of natural gas each day.

Mariner says stored barrels were the ones that caught fire and that dispersants are on standby if needed.

‘Nite, all.

re: #182 Stanley Sea

Here’s the story from Reuters

re: #188 reine.de.tout

So far…
It’s in my prayers, that this “news” is the same tomorrow.
And the next day & the next…

re: #188 reine.de.tout

So the next question becomes: how did the stored barrels catch fire?

More Laurie Anderson for the freeks:

re: #190 windsagio

Here’s the story from Reuters

HORRIBLE prevention.

re: #191 Floral Giraffe

So far…
It’s in my prayers, that this “news” is the same tomorrow.
And the next day & the next…

They say the wells are shut in. So that’s it. Thank goodness everyone survived.

re: #192 jaunte

So the next question becomes: how did the stored barrels catch fire?

Yeah, I’m wondering about that, too.

re: #194 Stanley Sea

HORRIBLE prevention.

reading further. It’s successful.

What a choice.

re: #196 Stanley Sea

reading further. It’s successful.

What a choice.

Not one I would want to have to make.

re: #196 Stanley Sea

I just, just don’t get why its a surprise that that works.

OF COURSE YOU CAN”T GET CANCER IN TISSUE YO UDONT” HAVE!!!

As the drunken geezers relive the musical hay day circa 2000….
sweater song

re: #199 Killgore Trout

That would be fun; “Everybody post the top song when you were in Highschool! (you choose the year)”

Mine:

re: #193 Cato the Elder

More Laurie Anderson for the freeks:

[Video]

Love her in measured doses.

re: #198 windsagio

I should have gotten skinned years ago.

re: #200 windsagio

That would be fun; “Everybody post the top song when you were in Highschool! (you choose the year)”

Mine:

I have no idea… I was taking accordion lessons… play damn good too!

re: #198 windsagio

I just, just don’t get why its a surprise that that works.

OF COURSE YOU CAN”T GET CANCER IN TISSUE YO UDONT” HAVE!!!

Yeah, no breasts by choice. ugh

I have a good friend who lost her mom to breast cancer. She got tested, and has the “gene” she also has a daughter.

All I can say is I’m lucky as hell so far. I cannot imagine what she’s going through. I’m with her on her journey, no decisions made. But it sucks.

re: #199 Killgore Trout

As the drunken geezers relive the musical hay day circa 2000…
sweater song

[Video]
Namaste, y’all

I love this song. just love it.

re: #203 Walter L. Newton

I have no idea… I was taking accordion lessons… play damn good too!

Here you are Walter:

re: #204 Stanley Sea

See that’s brutal, and tragic.

re: #200 windsagio

That would be fun; “Everybody post the top song when you were in Highschool! (you choose the year)”

Mine:

[Video]

Yeah I know, I was “weird” as a high school kid…..

re: #197 reine.de.tout

Not one I would want to have to make.

My sister in law had an elective hysterectomy because her breast cancer was from too much estrogen. Her reconstructive surgery for her breast was not successful, unfortunately. Her body rejected the plastic form for her new boobie. So, she last 30 pounds, has a fab hair style and has moved on.

re: #204 Stanley Sea

Reading things like this just breaks my heart. I wish humanity could quit finding inventive ways to kills each other and solve this very solvable issues.

My best to your friend and her daughter.

re: #200 windsagio

Next.

I’m pulling the thread as he walks away at the moment.

Ugh. I cannot type with a kid on my lap. Sorry for all the typos.

re: #210 brownbagj

Reading things like this just breaks my heart. I wish humanity could quit finding inventive ways to kills each other and solve this very solvable issues.

My best to your friend and her daughter.

Thank you.

Support the Susan G. Komen whatever, whenever.

Man, never mention breast cancer. All the ladies have crazy tragic stories they know >>

re: #9 NJDhockeyfan

Believe it or not, I once had respect for Code Pink until they jumped on the Israel bashing bandwagon, then I lost all possible respect. I actually thought they had developed a decent niche for themselves. Now the pink clad cretins stand alongside “right to return” groups that chant nasty things at us from across the street. One of the reasons I’ve ceased identifying as a liberal (now it’s just ‘nonpartisan’ - my views no longer fall dead smack into one camp) is because I don’t want to be lumped in with the jerks of Code Pinko or other left-wing kooks.

Even more Laurie Anderson. This one goes out to all the Superior People.

re: #209 prairiefire

Yeah for her!
Good job!

re: #208 jamesfirecat

That’s… kinda… grim >>

OK, I’m finished with Weezer. On to Nirvana.

HeLLO!

re: #216 Cato the Elder

Dejavu.

re: #213 Stanley Sea

Thank you.

Support the Susan G. Komen whatever, whenever.

We actually do. One of my wife’s friends barely survived. We walk, sponsor and donate.

re: #214 windsagio

You want to tell us your prostate stories?
They’re not any better.
It’s a matter of perspective.
And whether they’re YOUR parts….
It sucks to have these issues…

re: #218 windsagio

That’s… kinda… grim >>

Simple Plan often is. That may be why they didn’t truly ‘catch on’. They don’t produce cotton candy pop, much of their stuff has pain shot right though it.

re: #222 Floral Giraffe

I don’t know any prostate stories sadly >> ALl my friends are still healhy so far.

re: #223 Dark_Falcon

Simple Plan often is. That may be why they didn’t truly ‘catch on’. They don’t produce cotton candy pop, much of their stuff has pain shot right though it.

I like happy stuff… like Jim Morrison.

re: #222 Floral Giraffe

You want to tell us your prostate stories?
They’re not any better.
It’s a matter of perspective.
And whether they’re YOUR parts…
It sucks to have these issues…

We better not scare him, Floral. He won’t want to grow old.

re: #218 windsagio

That’s… kinda… grim >>

Its hard for me to pick what I was listening to in high school and what I was in college.

I had brief Simple Plan phase but pretty soon I moved onto stuff like this

And this…

re: #224 windsagio

I don’t know any prostate stories sadly >> ALl my friends are still healhy so far.

I can tell you about a pain in the ass.

re: #221 brownbagj

We actually do. One of my wife’s friends barely survived. We walk, sponsor and donate.

Kudos

oh this has to be shared, brilliant!

re: #227 jamesfirecat

argh, AMV! MY BRAIN!

re: #215 eclectic infidel

Believe it or not, I once had respect for Code Pink until they jumped on the Israel bashing bandwagon, then I lost all possible respect. I actually thought they had developed a decent niche for themselves. Now the pink clad cretins stand alongside “right to return” groups that chant nasty things at us from across the street. One of the reasons I’ve ceased identifying as a liberal (now it’s just ‘nonpartisan’ - my views no longer fall dead smack into one camp) is because I don’t want to be lumped in with the jerks of Code Pinko or other left-wing kooks.

Thanks for that. Code Pink has made the same mistake many on the right have made (Yes, I know its much more widespread on the right, but its the same kind of error): They’ve decided to try to bulk up their organization by allying with evil people they should avoid.

Can this day get any @#$#@ worse!? I shut down the bad PC, rebooted my old one and it started giving me grief. I finally got it back up and running.
Tomorrow I go look at a $1500 “cash” car so hopefully I’ll have transportation and then I[‘m going to go buy a @#$#@ motherboard and try to make the rest of my day go a little better.

re: #200 windsagio

Brass Monkey

re: #215 eclectic infidel

Believe it or not, I once had respect for Code Pink until they jumped on the Israel bashing bandwagon, then I lost all possible respect. I actually thought they had developed a decent niche for themselves. Now the pink clad cretins stand alongside “right to return” groups that chant nasty things at us from across the street. One of the reasons I’ve ceased identifying as a liberal (now it’s just ‘nonpartisan’ - my views no longer fall dead smack into one camp) is because I don’t want to be lumped in with the jerks of Code Pinko or other left-wing kooks.

You should stay away from lefty blogs as well. I went over to HuffPo the other day reading comments on a thread about Hamas murdering 4 Israelis. The anti-Semitism and hate of Israel was unreal to read. I had to leave, it made my head hurt.

re: #234 zora

[Video]Brass Monkey

I’ll see your Brass Monkey and raise you Brass in Pocket

re: #236 PT Barnum

I thought you were older than that for some reason :D

re: #223 Dark_Falcon

Simple Plan often is. That may be why they didn’t truly ‘catch on’. They don’t produce cotton candy pop, much of their stuff has pain shot right though it.

I like happy stuff too honestly, but you tend to get into punk/pop via listening to grunge first…

So yeah I was into Simple Plan and Bad Religion before I discovered Blink 182, Bowling For Soup, Savage Garden, and every so often Relient K.

Still posting our grad year songs?

Try this one then:

a year before my real date ;)
but was on pic…. the committee went with “Stairway to Heaven” ugh!

re: #239 Ericus58

The more the better man!

Of course they did too, stupid Stairway :p

Its like the terrifying revival of “Bohemian Rhapsody” after waynes world came out. My friends used to sing it when gaming >>

re: #231 windsagio

argh, AMV! MY BRAIN!

The sad thing is that after the fact I just realized its a REALLY REALLY bad AMV in that’s just the song played over the show’s normal opening credits.

Here.

re: #216 Cato the Elder

Even more Laurie Anderson. This one goes out to all the Superior People.

re: #220 Racer X

Dejavu.

Dammit! Copypaste error.

Here’s Laurie Anderson for Superior People: “O Superman!”

“O Superman! O Judge! O Mom and Dad!”

For the connoisseurs among you, this is also a great video, not just a great song. Long live Art Rock!

re: #239 Ericus58

I have to say ACDC has stood the test of time. If you think about how long ago they first came out, they still seem current.

re: #237 windsagio

I thought you were older than that for some reason :D

I graduated in 1980.

I like Bowling for Soup. They do the theme song for one of my favorite cartoons: Phineas and Ferb. Cause I do have Squirrels in my Pants

re: #224 windsagio

I don’t know any prostate stories sadly >> ALl my friends are still healhy so far.

Ah! The blind insouciance of youth!

re: #243 prairiefire

I have to say ACDC has stood the test of time. If you think about how long ago they first came out, they still seem current.

I have Back in Black as my ringtone.

re: #224 windsagio

I don’t know any prostate stories sadly >> ALl my friends are still healhy so far.

Meh, you’re young.
Time will catch up with you all!
May it be light, and easy!

re: #244 PT Barnum

I’m going to 49 this year. You, too?

re: #200 windsagio

That would be fun; “Everybody post the top song when you were in Highschool! (you choose the year)”

Mine:

Mine:

re: #246 PT Barnum

I have Back in Black as my ringtone.

She’s Got the Jack for me!

I’m up and running btw. Yea me!

re: #244 PT Barnum

KINKY!