As I walk through
This wicked world
Searchin’ for light in the darkness of insanity.
I ask myself
Is all hope lost?
Is there only pain and hatred, and misery?
And each time I feel like this inside,
There’s one thing I wanna know:
What’s so funny ‘bout Peace, Love, and Understanding?
— Nick Lowe
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William Barnett-Lewis Wed, Sep 15, 2010 10:33:40pm |
Ah...
Mr. Lowe's greatest moment even if most people associate it with Elvis Costello.
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Cato the Elder Wed, Sep 15, 2010 10:35:10pm |
The plain meaning of the text:
Let all witless tools be vex'd.
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Cato the Elder Wed, Sep 15, 2010 10:45:28pm |
The funny part about it all is that as monkeys with too-large brains we find those things tedious beyond endurance.
Humans would rather bathe in blood than suffer five minutes' boredom.
Thank God for cable.
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Summer Seale Wed, Sep 15, 2010 10:58:58pm |
RE: The kooky mail thread.
As a lot of people know, I just moved to France. I'm totally American though. And yes, you see a ton of Muslims in various garb from different cultures in the Paris metro and in some parts of Paris.
But... "...they will take away our freedom and they will do to America what they did to Europe."
What exactly have they done to Europe? I sure have seen a lot of them, but I haven't seen what they've "done" yet.
Maybe it's just me? But as an American non-European/French person living here recently, you'd think I'd be even more sensitive to some sort of majorly anti-democratic change. And again, I'm not seeing it....
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Cato the Elder Wed, Sep 15, 2010 11:06:55pm |
In Christine the Anti-Wanker, the Jacobins among the GOP have chosen an unelectable liar. Her financial prevarications alone will be enough to bring her to her knees.
It will be fun to watch.
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freetoken Wed, Sep 15, 2010 11:08:31pm |
re: #5 Cato the Elder
I thought they already did that with Sharron Angle.
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Kragarghazi Wed, Sep 15, 2010 11:12:24pm |
Christine O'Donnell is a Tolkienite
in 2003, she wrote a paper and later gave a lecture at The Heritage Foundation expounding upon the role of women in the books.
...
O'Donnell calls Arwen "the epitomy of femininity. She is beautiful, gentle, long-suffering. When her beloved goes out to battle she demonstrates devotion and faith, utterly believing that they will be reunited. She is there for him. Her greatest contribution to the war of the rings is the strength that she provides to the future king.Now, to me, that says a lot about women and a lot about the role of supporting your man. Yet, in the movie, Peter Jackson had to change that, as if her softer side was offensive to women."
...
Sadly, O'Donnell's Tolkienism probably does not extend into Elvish-speaking, New Zealand-touring territory, since she revealed in her lecture that she had not seen the third movie. She also admitted that the real force behind the paper was her niece, who was working as her intern at the time and exhibited a truly impressive breadth of Tolkien expertise when she supplemented O'Donnell's commentary during the lecture.
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Cato the Elder Wed, Sep 15, 2010 11:27:02pm |
Tolkien abuse.
What fun times we live in.
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Eclectic Infidel Wed, Sep 15, 2010 11:28:16pm |
Price tag for culinary school = $47K+change. Federal loans cover half. And the dance begins.
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freetoken Wed, Sep 15, 2010 11:28:50pm |
The lecture courtesy of C=SPAN:
[Link: www.c-spanvideo.org...]
The intern/niece is kind of a babe... alas...
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freetoken Wed, Sep 15, 2010 11:30:19pm |
re: #9 eclectic infidel
I checked into the tuition of the local culinary school - I think it was around $25k/yr. Not a cheap education.
BTW, the local community college has a culinary program - $19/credit.
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freetoken Wed, Sep 15, 2010 11:33:52pm |
I think I'm feeling some pity for Ms. O'Donnell.
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Kragarghazi Wed, Sep 15, 2010 11:37:27pm |
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Summer Seale Wed, Sep 15, 2010 11:38:23pm |
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Cannadian Club Akbar Wed, Sep 15, 2010 11:40:13pm |
re: #11 freetoken
I checked into the tuition of the local culinary school - I think it was around $25k/yr. Not a cheap education.
BTW, the local community college has a culinary program - $19/credit.
Culinary Institute of America will run you 80K.
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freetoken Wed, Sep 15, 2010 11:42:03pm |
re: #13 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
She's set herself up for this.
Watching that video from 2003, part of me wants to believe that if she had had a good, solid mentor in her young adulthood she would have turned out much better.
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Cato the Elder Wed, Sep 15, 2010 11:46:20pm |
re: #12 freetoken
I think I'm feeling some pity for Ms. O'Donnell.
Self-righteousness is supposed to hurt. May she suffer as much as Sawah Pawin surely will.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Wed, Sep 15, 2010 11:46:40pm |
re: #9 eclectic infidel
Price tag for culinary school = $47K+change. Federal loans cover half. And the dance begins.
The French Culinary Institute has a program where you do 4 or 5 weeks in NYC and 6 or so in Italy. Not sure on the price.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Wed, Sep 15, 2010 11:53:54pm |
re: #18 Cannadian Club Akbar
The French Culinary Institute has a program where you do 4 or 5 weeks in NYC and 6 or so in Italy. Not sure on the price.
Also good.
[Link: www.jwu.edu...]
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, Sep 16, 2010 12:07:23am |
re: #4 Summer
RE: The kooky mail thread.
As a lot of people know, I just moved to France. I'm totally American though. And yes, you see a ton of Muslims in various garb from different cultures in the Paris metro and in some parts of Paris.
But... "...they will take away our freedom and they will do to America what they did to Europe."
What exactly have they done to Europe? I sure have seen a lot of them, but I haven't seen what they've "done" yet.
Maybe it's just me? But as an American non-European/French person living here recently, you'd think I'd be even more sensitive to some sort of majorly anti-democratic change. And again, I'm not seeing it...
Genuinely, not sure. I sure hear a lot about Europe's suffering under the Horde, but I am never sure how seriously to take it, seeing as it comes from the same sort of people who believe that their essential freedoms have been stripped from them by the Obama administration. I certainly do not see evidence that there's been any move away from democracy in Europe, certainly not one caused by Muslim immigrants.
Also, a lot of this crap is verbatim what they were saying about Hindu immigrants to England in the 80s, which was generally BS.
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Cato the Elder Thu, Sep 16, 2010 12:07:35am |
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, Sep 16, 2010 12:08:11am |
re: #4 Summer
RE: The kooky mail thread.
As a lot of people know, I just moved to France. I'm totally American though. And yes, you see a ton of Muslims in various garb from different cultures in the Paris metro and in some parts of Paris.
But... "...they will take away our freedom and they will do to America what they did to Europe."
What exactly have they done to Europe? I sure have seen a lot of them, but I haven't seen what they've "done" yet.
Maybe it's just me? But as an American non-European/French person living here recently, you'd think I'd be even more sensitive to some sort of majorly anti-democratic change. And again, I'm not seeing it...
Also, a question. Do you see a lot of women wearing face covering in Paris?
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, Sep 16, 2010 12:08:38am |
re: #5 Cato the Elder
In Christine the Anti-Wanker, the Jacobins among the GOP have chosen an unelectable liar. Her financial prevarications alone will be enough to bring her to her knees.
It will be fun to watch.
I was informed earlier today that we're not comprehending the anger among the voters.
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, Sep 16, 2010 12:10:20am |
re: #7 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
What exactly should Peter Jackson have done to show her superfeminine sweet submissiveness? Arwen in the movies is not exactly Rosie the Riveter.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Thu, Sep 16, 2010 12:13:17am |
re: #21 Cato the Elder
My ideal woman:
[Video]
The cello player is also hot and the base player just smoked a doobie.
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Summer Seale Thu, Sep 16, 2010 12:14:32am |
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Eclectic Infidel Thu, Sep 16, 2010 12:16:36am |
re: #11 freetoken
I checked into the tuition of the local culinary school - I think it was around $25k/yr. Not a cheap education.
BTW, the local community college has a culinary program - $19/credit.
This is what I don't know...
The Associates degree at the SF CCA is 47K but the cretificate is a 'mere' 22K. What I need to find out is if it is absolutely necessary to get the Associates degree or am I safe with the certificate (re: finding work - do employers demand the degree or does the certificate suffice).
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Eclectic Infidel Thu, Sep 16, 2010 12:17:54am |
re: #27 eclectic infidel
pimf - certificate
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Cannadian Club Akbar Thu, Sep 16, 2010 12:18:14am |
re: #27 eclectic infidel
Learn to Chef.
Learn to manage.
Start with dishwashing. (That never ends)
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boredtechindenver Thu, Sep 16, 2010 12:18:34am |
The Republican's of Colorado have elected two TP candidates in the primary. The establishment Repubs weren't much better, the establishment candidate for Gov was outed as a plagiarist. In a year where CO could have gone Republican again, the Tea Party had pretty much guaranteed that the Democratic candidates will win. I love this state. I like having a family friend for a US Senator.
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Cato the Elder Thu, Sep 16, 2010 12:21:15am |
re: #26 Summer
Dress up for me like a flamenca, baby.
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freetoken Thu, Sep 16, 2010 12:21:48am |
re: #24 SanFranciscoZionist
Arwen in the movies is not exactly Rosie the Riveter.
Let's compare:
No doubt, different.
Indeed, Jackson's portrayal is 90% romantic and only 10% warrior princess.
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freetoken Thu, Sep 16, 2010 12:24:05am |
re: #27 eclectic infidel
Well, private (for profit) schools often promise help with job placement, but YMMV. So who can tell if the price difference between the AA and Cert. is worth the money?
Seems to me if you want an AA the community college would save you tons of dough. Isn't the point of going to a fancy professional private school making the right contacts? (As well as being trained by the best.)
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Cato the Elder Thu, Sep 16, 2010 12:25:35am |
re: #25 Cannadian Club Akbar
Favorited for later wanking.
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Steve Thu, Sep 16, 2010 12:26:46am |
OT on an Overnight Open Thread:
[Link: galaxytab.samsungmobile.com...]
If this has already been. Sorry.
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Areozol Thu, Sep 16, 2010 12:27:28am |
Good morning, Lizaroids.
When I daily browse LGF, I have a a bad feeling about America's future. I'm really scared, what would happen, if Tea Party or other wingnuts would seize power in (still) sole superpower.
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Eclectic Infidel Thu, Sep 16, 2010 12:27:56am |
re: #33 freetoken
Well, private (for profit) schools often promise help with job placement, but YMMV. So who can tell if the price difference between the AA and Cert. is worth the money?
Seems to me if you want an AA the community college would save you tons of dough. Isn't the point of going to a fancy professional private school making the right contacts? (As well as being trained by the best.)
Well, yeah. All the instructors are seasoned chefs and something like 80% of instruction is hands on, plus there's the reputation of the school itself that carries its own weight.
While I completely agree that I'd save $$ at a community college, is that enough to at least get my foot in the door. In other words, is the education taken seriously by employers. What would you suggest I do to determine this? Seeking your advice (or anyone reading) is all.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Thu, Sep 16, 2010 12:28:27am |
re: #33 freetoken
Well, private (for profit) schools often promise help with job placement, but YMMV. So who can tell if the price difference between the AA and Cert. is worth the money?
Seems to me if you want an AA the community college would save you tons of dough. Isn't the point of going to a fancy professional private school making the right contacts? (As well as being trained by the best.)
A kid I work with is getting a free education at a local technical skool. When he graduates he will be working at a car wash as the vacuum guy.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Thu, Sep 16, 2010 12:30:14am |
re: #38 eclectic infidel
1. How old are you.
2. Why do you want to be a chef.
3. Not trying to be an asshole.
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freetoken Thu, Sep 16, 2010 12:31:01am |
re: #38 eclectic infidel
Well, if I were you I'd call around to some of the local better establishments (restaurants, hotels) and talk to the head chefs and ask them their opinion on your proposed school.
Again, the point of spending the big bucks is to open doors for you later, besides the time spent with true masters (which is necessary too.)
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freetoken Thu, Sep 16, 2010 12:32:04am |
re: #38 eclectic infidel
You could also ask the school for references to graduates of their program.
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Eclectic Infidel Thu, Sep 16, 2010 12:34:00am |
re: #41 Cannadian Club Akbar
1. How old are you.
2. Why do you want to be a chef.
3. Not trying to be an asshole.
1. 40 - refuse to start out as a dishwasher.
2. It's truly my passion. I probably have others but this is something I've seriously thought about for some time now. I'm also not wed to the idea of working exclusively at a fine dining establishment (open to hotels, resorts, cruise lines, etc.)
3. No offense taken.
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Steve Thu, Sep 16, 2010 12:34:00am |
re: #38 eclectic infidel
Well, yeah. All the instructors are seasoned chefs and something like 80% of instruction is hands on, plus there's the reputation of the school itself that carries its own weight.
While I completely agree that I'd save $$ at a community college, is that enough to at least get my foot in the door. In other words, is the education taken seriously by employers. What would you suggest I do to determine this? Seeking your advice (or anyone reading) is all.
My oldest son (now 21) has wanted to be a chef since he was 7 years old. He is going to the local Community College and also working on a business management degree there. I tried to get him to enlist in the Navy for subs since they send all their chefs to the best cooking schooles in the U.S. but he said no. Oh well, he will still do very well.
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freetoken Thu, Sep 16, 2010 12:35:45am |
re: #44 eclectic infidel
More power to you. It's great that people want to follow their dreams. The world would be a worse place if people didn't try that.
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Eclectic Infidel Thu, Sep 16, 2010 12:37:14am |
re: #46 freetoken
More power to you. It's great that people want to follow their dreams. The world would be a worse place if people didn't try that.
Thanks. I'm still recovering from the sticker shock, but it's probably prudent to call a few restaurants in the area to see what their head chefs look for in candidates.
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Cato the Elder Thu, Sep 16, 2010 12:38:30am |
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Cannadian Club Akbar Thu, Sep 16, 2010 12:39:55am |
re: #44 eclectic infidel
Just to let you know. When I was 26, I was an assistant General Manager for a steak house that did 3 million a year. On Fridays I had 3 bartenders, 15 wait staff, 11 cooks, 3 dishwashers and 6 hostesses. I just turned 43. And my bonus check every month payed my rent. And I had a high salary. But I still did dishes, waited on tables when needed. Cooked and bar tended. You can't be a one trick pony.
If you want to learn, go to the CIA. You can learn everything in 2 years.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Thu, Sep 16, 2010 12:44:18am |
Eclectic, most dishwashers have jets with plugs to make them work. What happens when a plug breaks?
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Cannadian Club Akbar Thu, Sep 16, 2010 12:45:54am |
re: #51 Cannadian Club Akbar
Eclectic, most dishwashers have jets with plugs to make them work. What happens when a plug breaks?
The plugs keeps the water pressure up. Forgot to add that.
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Summer Seale Thu, Sep 16, 2010 12:54:30am |
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Cato the Elder Thu, Sep 16, 2010 1:01:07am |
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Areozol Thu, Sep 16, 2010 1:05:19am |
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Cannadian Club Akbar Thu, Sep 16, 2010 1:07:52am |
re: #57 Areozol
I'm not American, BTW.
Then mind your own business!! J/k. We always somehow balance stuff here.
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Areozol Thu, Sep 16, 2010 1:12:24am |
re: #58 Cannadian Club Akbar
Then mind your own business!! J/k. We always somehow balance stuff here.
OK, but what about the obvious fact, that US is like 800-lb gorilla - it's hard to ignore it's actions, because it is so powerful and influential?
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freetoken Thu, Sep 16, 2010 1:13:10am |
Looks the Pope's visit to the UK has started off on the wrong foot:
Pope to begin visit amid row over aide's "third world" comments
Pope Benedict XVI will arrive in Britain today to begin the first ever papal state visit to the UK.
[...]
But the visit has been overshadowed by Cardinal Walter Kasper, a senior aide to the Pope, who has pulled out of the trip after saying arriving at Heathrow airport was like landing in a "Third World country". He told a German newspaper: "England today is a secularised and pluralist country. When you land at Heathrow airport, you sometimes think you've landed in a Third World country." He also complained of an "aggressive new atheism" that had spread through Britain.
The Vatican insisted that the cardinal had not intended "any kind of slight" and had simply pulled out due to illness. Officials claimed his "Third World" comment referred to the UK's multiethnic society.
In a statement, the Pope's spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said Kasper "had meant to refer to the fact that from the moment of arrival in London airport - as happens in many big metropolises of the world today, but in London particularly because the unique role played over time by the UK's capital - you realise from the outset that you are in a country in which many human realities of the most diverse provenances and conditions meet and mingle; a crucible of today's humanity, with its diversity and problems".
Got that?
"England today is a secularised and pluralist country. When you land at Heathrow airport, you sometimes think you've landed in a Third World country."
=
"[F]rom the moment of arrival in London airport - as happens in many big metropolises of the world today, but in London particularly because the unique role played over time by the UK's capital - you realise from the outset that you are in a country in which many human realities of the most diverse provenances and conditions meet and mingle; a crucible of today's humanity, with its diversity and problems."
Hehehe....
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Cannadian Club Akbar Thu, Sep 16, 2010 1:15:10am |
re: #59 Areozol
OK, but what about the obvious fact, that US is like 800-lb gorilla - it's hard to ignore it's actions, because it is so powerful and influential?
We will take care of internals, then move on. And China is smart. They won't make a move. We are too tied together with economics to mess things up.
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freetoken Thu, Sep 16, 2010 1:15:12am |
"Father Federico Lombardi said ...many human realities of the most diverse provenances and conditions meet and mingle; a crucible of today's humanity, with its diversity and problems."
I think that Newt could use that guy.
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Cato the Elder Thu, Sep 16, 2010 1:18:46am |
re: #61 Cannadian Club Akbar
We will take care of internals, then move on. And China is smart. They won't make a move. We are too tied together with economics to mess things up.
The Chinese own us, in other words.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Thu, Sep 16, 2010 1:19:59am |
re: #63 Cato the Elder
The Chinese own us, in other words.
And Japan was gonna take over in the 1980's.
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Cato the Elder Thu, Sep 16, 2010 1:22:21am |
re: #64 Cannadian Club Akbar
Never mind, we'll pay them in assignats.
I'm enjoying the claims of eternity from another fucking stupid Empire.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Thu, Sep 16, 2010 1:25:44am |
re: #65 Cato the Elder
Never mind, we'll pay them in assignats.
I'm enjoying the claims of eternity from another fucking stupid Empire.
So, do you think we're headed for hyperinflation? Or a double dip recession?
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freetoken Thu, Sep 16, 2010 1:26:25am |
re: #65 Cato the Elder
Never mind, we'll pay them in assignats.
.
Yeah, but instead of confiscating churches' properties what will be taken instead - breast implants?
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Cato the Elder Thu, Sep 16, 2010 1:31:39am |
re: #66 Cannadian Club Akbar
I think the American Empire has about 40 years to go before it devolves into chaos and barbarism.
We're a fart in the whirlwind by Roman standards, not to mention Chinese.
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freetoken Thu, Sep 16, 2010 1:34:00am |
Meg Whitman breaks US campaign spending records
Meg Whitman, the Republican candidate for California governor, has surpassed New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg for the highest personal contribution in American campaign history.
Whitman's campaign reported another $15 million contribution late Tuesday, bringing her personal donation to $119 million.
The billionaire former eBay chief executive's spending surpasses the previous record of $108 million set by Bloomberg in his bid for a third term last year. [...]
Mid-term elections here turn out a little over 8 million votes for the Governor's office. Even if she does as well as Arnold (and I don't expect her to do so) and gets 4.8 million votes, that means she would have already spent about $25/vote.
If the woman would just send me a check for $25 it'd be more efficient and less annoying and I'd bend.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Thu, Sep 16, 2010 1:34:50am |
re: #68 Cato the Elder
I think the American Empire has about 40 years to go before it devolves into chaos and barbarism.
We're a fart in the whirlwind by Roman standards, not to mention Chinese.
It can be fixed by smart people. Not the little booger eating morons playing X Box or what ever. Wait a second...
//
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Cannadian Club Akbar Thu, Sep 16, 2010 1:39:41am |
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freetoken Thu, Sep 16, 2010 1:41:34am |
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Cato the Elder Thu, Sep 16, 2010 1:42:23am |
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Cannadian Club Akbar Thu, Sep 16, 2010 1:43:03am |
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freetoken Thu, Sep 16, 2010 1:53:56am |
The GOP civil war continued on Fox News prime time Wednesday night (9/15/10) as Sarah Palin threw some jabs at Karl Rove for not supporting Delaware’s Palin-blessed, Republican Senate primary winner, Christine O’Donnell. Palin, obviously feeling like a queen maker who had just unseated King Rove, went on to offer O’Donnell advice to ignore her handlers and “speak to the American people… through Fox News.” Then, recounting the bad old days of the 2008 campaign, Palin said to O'Reilly, “Remember I used to have to sneak in my phone calls to you?” O’Reilly did not point out that while the 2008 campaign may have been a boon for Palin, personally, Palin going rogue did nothing to help McCain actually get elected.Palin began by talking tough. “It wouldn’t be prudent of me… to get into a tussle with Karl Rove… but what the heck, let’s go ahead and do it.” Of course, Palin makes a habit of attacking people and institutions when she doesn’t have to face them.
Palin continued, “Some of these good old boys – and I have nothing against Karl Rove personally, you know he’s the (she made quotation marks in the air with her hands) expert but Bill, some of these folks, they are saying that people like Christine O’Donnell and others, Tea Party Americans, can’t win because they don’t want them to win. Because they know that a Christine O’Donnell, a Joe Miller from Alaska and gubernatorial races like Susana Martinez and Nikki Haley – these folks are gonna shake it up and they are going to do what is right for America, not necessarily what is right for a political party machine.”
Palin completely rejected Rove’s argument, made via O’Reilly, that O’Donnell is unelectable. “Some of those in the hierarchy of the political machine… they are very much into control and titles and egos and everything else. I’m not saying that, again, about, personally, Karl Rove, but I think that that’s just inherently in the nature of the hierarchy of a political machine.”
Palin also insisted that O’Donnell is not extreme but “just wants a smaller, smarter government.”
Then Palin broke out her advice for candidate O’Donnell. After O’Reilly complained that O’Donnell’s “people” had turned down his invitation for her to come on his show (she later appeared on Hannity), Palin said, “She’s going to have to learn very quickly to dismiss what some of her handlers want. Remember what happened to me in the VP? Remember I used to have to sneak in my phone calls to you?”
O’Reilly said he remembered getting calls from her late at night, thinking it was a prank.
“(O'Donnell's) going to have to learn that," said newly minted "strategist" Palin. "Yeah, very quickly. She’s going to have to dismiss that. Go with her gut. Get out there, speak to the American people. Speak through Fox News and let the independents who are tuning into you, let them know what it is that she stands for.”
Video at the link (I dare you to watch it, Cato!)
So, Palin wants O'Donnell to be herself... and ignore handlers.
Obviously Palin thinks O'Donnell can handle herself... um, oh wait...
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Cato the Elder Thu, Sep 16, 2010 2:02:52am |
re: #77 freetoken
Sawah Pawin pwns Karl Rove?
I wish Mandy were here so I could watch her shit her knickers.
Otherwise, fuck "Tea Party America" in the ear.
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sagehen Thu, Sep 16, 2010 2:03:04am |
As much as I want Sharon Angle and Rand Paul and Christine O'Donnell to lose because they'd be bad at their jobs and we're better off without them in the Senate... almost more than, I want them to lose because it will be egg on Sarah Palin's face.
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Cato the Elder Thu, Sep 16, 2010 2:13:38am |
Did I just hear an admission from Sawah Pawin that Fox News is the tool of the Tit Party?
Ow is it the othew way wound, Sawah?
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freetoken Thu, Sep 16, 2010 2:31:26am |
re: #80 Cato the Elder
She thinks that her disciples out to use Fox. Period.
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Cato the Elder Thu, Sep 16, 2010 2:31:48am |
How does quitting your job as governor earn you the honorific of "Governor" from Bill "Suck the Ass of the Ruling Class" O'Reilly, by the way?
Oh, wait.
Interviewer and interviewee, bought and paid for.
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freetoken Thu, Sep 16, 2010 2:39:52am |
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Cannadian Club Akbar Thu, Sep 16, 2010 3:04:26am |
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freetoken Thu, Sep 16, 2010 3:33:33am |
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BongGhazi Thu, Sep 16, 2010 3:45:25am |
What's so funny 'bout Peace, Love and Masturbation?
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, Sep 16, 2010 4:08:59am |
re: #84 Cannadian Club Akbar
"That's Eye-gore."
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Varek Raith Thu, Sep 16, 2010 4:15:26am |
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, Sep 16, 2010 4:25:00am |
I haven't been following this real closely... are we making fun of that lady in Delaware for something she said on MTV when she was twelve about masturbation? Or is it something from more recent?
I saw the clip last night. Holy fuck! We aren't going back that far are we? I've been joking about it too.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Thu, Sep 16, 2010 4:27:15am |
I just went across the street to see if the cop at the neighbors house needed help. The neighbors wife was there. The officer asked if I knew where the guy was. This should end well.
//He also has a crack whore GF. And OLD!! I miss my house.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Thu, Sep 16, 2010 4:28:07am |
re: #91 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I haven't been following this real closely... are we making fun of that lady in Delaware for something she said on MTV when she was twelve about masturbation? Or is it something from more recent?
I saw the clip last night. Holy fuck! We aren't going back that far are we? I've been joking about it too.
i'm jerking off to that clip right now.
//
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Varek Raith Thu, Sep 16, 2010 4:28:11am |
re: #92 Cannadian Club Akbar
I just went across the street to see if the cop at the neighbors house needed help. The neighbors wife was there. The officer asked if I knew where the guy was. This should end well.
//He also has a crack whore GF. And OLD!! I miss my house.
Ruh-roh.
Is he in trouble...
Again?
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Cannadian Club Akbar Thu, Sep 16, 2010 4:29:12am |
re: #94 Varek Raith
Ruh-roh.
Is he in trouble...
Again?
He has a pending gun charge. Again, not near my house.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Thu, Sep 16, 2010 4:32:55am |
re: #95 Cannadian Club Akbar
He has a pending gun charge. Again, not near my house.
My actual neighbor hid from the cops on his roof. But I live on 5 acres. And they caught him. Idiot douche.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Thu, Sep 16, 2010 4:34:36am |
re: #96 Cannadian Club Akbar
My actual neighbor hid from the cops on his roof. But I live on 5 acres. And they caught him. Idiot douche.
And the neighbor on my North side is listing his property for 750K.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Thu, Sep 16, 2010 4:36:00am |
| 100 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Thu, Sep 16, 2010 4:38:40am |
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Cannadian Club Akbar Thu, Sep 16, 2010 4:45:50am |
re: #100 Cannadian Club Akbar
If I can get 335K before the bank closes, I'll be good.
If I can jam 28K on a house before this disaster finishes out, I'll be good.
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Lidanghazi Thu, Sep 16, 2010 5:29:39am |
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Taqyia2Me Thu, Sep 16, 2010 5:39:48am |
re: #105 Lidane
Why doesn't it surprise me that this happened in Texas? Heh.
Coming to a state fair near you!
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Ericus58 Thu, Sep 16, 2010 5:40:38am |
Shooting the Horse
by David Shumate
I unlatch the stall door, step inside, and stroke the silky neck
of the old mare like a lover about to leave. I take an ear in
hand, fold it over, and run my fingers across her muzzle. I
coax her head up so I can blow into those nostrils. All part of
the routine we taught each other long ago. I turn a half turn,
pull a pistol from my coat, raise it to that long brow with the
white blaze and place it between her sleepy eyes. I clear my
throat. A sound much louder than it should be. I squeeze the
trigger and the horse's feet fly out from under her as gravity
gives way to a force even more austere, which we have named
mercy.
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Taqyia2Me Thu, Sep 16, 2010 5:54:07am |
re: #107 Ericus58
Whoa!
And a fine how are ya to you too, Ericus...
*would not want to be in any part of that story...*
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Guanxi88 Thu, Sep 16, 2010 6:32:57am |
re: #102 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
To work... y'all have fun...
Show off! Rubbing your gainful employment in the faces of so many idled reptiles.
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rhino2 Thu, Sep 16, 2010 6:47:35am |
re: #106 Taqyia2Me
Coming to a state fair near you!
We have had deep fried ice cream in the NC state fair for a few years now
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Guanxi88 Thu, Sep 16, 2010 6:48:31am |
re: #109 Guanxi88
Show off! Rubbing your gainful employment in the faces of so many idled reptiles.
[Link: www.bls.gov...]
[Link: www.bls.gov...]
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rhino2 Thu, Sep 16, 2010 6:48:53am |
re: #109 Guanxi88
Show off! Rubbing your gainful employment in the faces of so many idled reptiles.
I'm already at work, does that count?
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Guanxi88 Thu, Sep 16, 2010 6:50:06am |
re: #110 rhino2
We have had deep fried ice cream in the NC state fair for a few years now
I'm rather enthused by the deep-fried beer thing, myself:
[Link: www.telegraph.co.uk...]
A fellow could use that to wash down the deep-fried Frito Pie:
[Link: www.telegraph.co.uk...]
And have a great story to tell the guys in the Cardiac unit.
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Taqyia2Me Thu, Sep 16, 2010 6:51:45am |
re: #110 rhino2
We have had deep fried ice cream in the NC state fair for a few years now
If you can fry it or put it on a stick, it's state fair food!
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Jadespring Thu, Sep 16, 2010 6:52:53am |
re: #110 rhino2
We have had deep fried ice cream in the NC state fair for a few years now
Sort of related.
Our town fall fair is this weekend and I'm going to enter something for the first time.
Lizards cheer on my squash! LOL
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Daniel Ballard Thu, Sep 16, 2010 6:56:07am |
re: #116 Jadespring
Good luck!
All we need to do is find some shapely carrots for a cheerleading squad!
:)
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Guanxi88 Thu, Sep 16, 2010 6:58:35am |
re: #116 Jadespring
.
Lizards cheer on my squash! LOL
may its unworthy foes tremble in terror, may frost befall them, may a butterfingered porter bring their plans to ruin.
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rhino2 Thu, Sep 16, 2010 7:01:45am |
re: #116 Jadespring
Sort of related.
Our town fall fair is this weekend and I'm going to enter something for the first time.
Lizards cheer on my squash! LOL
Is it deep fried?!
/
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Taqyia2Me Thu, Sep 16, 2010 7:06:17am |
re: #116 Jadespring
Sort of related.
Our town fall fair is this weekend and I'm going to enter something for the first time.
Lizards cheer on my squash! LOL
Go Jadespring squash, go!
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Guanxi88 Thu, Sep 16, 2010 7:11:42am |
re: #119 rhino2
Is it deep fried?!
/
One of my favorite treats, at least in the arena of squash and such, were the breaded and fired zucchini made by my mother. That was some good - if unhealthful - eating.
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Guanxi88 Thu, Sep 16, 2010 7:16:17am |
In continuing developments, Guanxi88's long-term plan to establish himself as the booze & baccy baron of Guadalupe County continue to move forward. This week, he unwrapped the first of the carottes of some longer-term stored baccy, and found it had converted, by pressure and the absence of oxygen, to a dense, dark, head-spinning tobacco, suitable for the post-apocalyptic man-about-town.
Experiments with pressure-fermentation of tobacco using a hydraulic press and rock-maple forms show great promise of reducing processing time and manpower, with a two-pound plug requiring only 20 minutes from de-stemming to final storage, shaving weeks off the time required by the slower carotte/perique process.
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Alouenghazi Thu, Sep 16, 2010 7:16:34am |
re: #24 SanFranciscoZionist
What exactly should Peter Jackson have done to show her superfeminine sweet submissiveness? Arwen in the movies is not exactly Rosie the Riveter.
Arwen in the movies kicks more ass than Arwen in the books. In the books Arwen just sat around and moped. At least Peter Jackson gave her a sword and let her beat some Nazgul ass.
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Felineghazi, Caliph of the Conservative Jihad Thu, Sep 16, 2010 7:17:02am |
Deep-fried zucchini and chili from Niko's Recovery Room in Shady Side (Pittsburgh neighborhood) [drool] :-p~~~
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Obdicut Thu, Sep 16, 2010 7:20:13am |
re: #123 Alouette
Good point.
Tolkein's attitude towards women can be most generously described as "chivalrous".
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, Sep 16, 2010 7:21:04am |
Good morning lizards!
How serious are the Palis with peace?
Police: Terrorists fired 2 phosphorus shells into Israel
The attacks from the Gaza Strip escalated on Wednesday with 10 rockets and mortar shells fired into Israel – including two containing phosphorus – as defense officials predicted that the violence would quiet down after Succot.
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Guanxi88 Thu, Sep 16, 2010 7:25:06am |
re: #126 NJDhockeyfan
Good morning lizards!
How serious are the Palis with peace?
Deadly serious, perhaps?
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Summer Seale Thu, Sep 16, 2010 7:25:08am |
Yet another altered photo story:
[Link: www.bbc.co.uk...]
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Obdicut Thu, Sep 16, 2010 7:28:20am |
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Taqyia2Me Thu, Sep 16, 2010 7:30:46am |
re: #126 NJDhockeyfan
Peace?
With Hamas, Hizbollah, al Qaeda, Muslim brotherhood, Taliban, et al --- not likely at all.
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Varek Raith Thu, Sep 16, 2010 7:34:38am |
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lawhawk Thu, Sep 16, 2010 7:43:02am |
re: #123 Alouette
In fact, she presaged Eoywn's killing of the Witch-King of Angmar when Arwen conjured up the wave that swept the Nazgul away while being chased.
The thing that made such little sense is that they appeared on horseback in the Fellowship, but then took to the skies thereafter.
Of course, Gandalf could have saved everyone a whole lot of time and effort if he simply decided to use the eagles.
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Big Steve Thu, Sep 16, 2010 7:43:46am |
Put this in the spin-off links as well......but our illustrious Texas SBOE is at it again (Texas SBOE Spots pro-Islam bias). It is rooted out bias for Islam in text books. Some real interesting points if you read deep into the article. The alleged bias is in texts that Texas currently doesn't even buy. Second, the SBOE members bruting this about are concerned that the evils of Christianity are pejoratively (disparagingly) mentioned while the same evils in Islam are mentioned mildly or in a positive light.
Well at least they are not advocating that Christianity's evils be toned down only Islam's be made to look dastardly as well.
And oh by the way, in case you haven't figured it out, several of the more prominent conservative SBOE members are up for re-election in November!
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Summer Seale Thu, Sep 16, 2010 7:45:52am |
re: #132 lawhawk
Of course, Gandalf could have saved everyone a whole lot of time and effort if he simply decided to use the eagles.
[Video]
This would have meant they could have just flown over Gorgoroth and dropped the ring inside like from a bomber over head.
And then, in this day and age, that very short story (as it wouldn't have taken three books to tell) would have devolved into some sort of "Angry Hobbits" game on a slingshot instead of "Angry Birds". =)
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cliffster Thu, Sep 16, 2010 7:48:13am |
re: #135 Summer
angry birds is a weapon created by the chinese to drastically reduce productivity among professionals in the US.
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Varek Raith Thu, Sep 16, 2010 7:49:16am |
re: #132 lawhawk
I like the catapult idea...
:)
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lawhawk Thu, Sep 16, 2010 7:49:39am |
re: #135 Summer
You could have still had the three volumes - as a what might have been had Gandalf not shown keen intellect and foresight to conduct the sneak attack of all time in Middle Earth's long history. Heck, it could have been a coming of age story for Aragorn - how he had to deal with the ongoing mess with the orcs and Sauroman.
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Stanghazi Thu, Sep 16, 2010 7:51:09am |
Good morning everyone! Who called it? Rove walked it back already.
lol
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Varek Raith Thu, Sep 16, 2010 7:52:40am |
re: #139 Stanley Sea
Good morning everyone! Who called it? Rove walked it back already.
lol
He did?
Heh.
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brownbagj Thu, Sep 16, 2010 7:54:43am |
re: #38 eclectic infidel
Sorry I am late for this, but the advice I would give is find people that are hiring now and research what they are looking for. Contact them, let them know you are thinking about different approaches to education and ask what the consequences would be.
Also, find chefs who will talk with you about what they would do.
First hand information is always best. Talk with potential employers. They will give you sound advice plus you are making contacts for the future.
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Stanghazi Thu, Sep 16, 2010 7:55:23am |
[Link: tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com...]
He went on Fox this morning. Too early for me to use the salty language this deserves.
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Varek Raith Thu, Sep 16, 2010 7:56:58am |
re: #142 Stanley Sea
[Link: tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com...]
He went on Fox this morning. Too early for me to use the salty language this deserves.
Rove, you chickenshit.
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Killgore Trout Thu, Sep 16, 2010 7:57:23am |
re: #142 Stanley Sea
I've given her a campaign contribution, I'm sending her an internet contribution,'" Rove said.
lol
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cliffster Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:00:06am |
re: #142 Stanley Sea
[Link: tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com...]
He went on Fox this morning. Too early for me to use the salty language this deserves.
What exactly is the problem? He didn't think she was the best candidate, and he said so. But now that she's in, he wants her to win, so he's supporting her. I'm missing the awfulness here.
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Varek Raith Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:00:58am |
re: #145 cliffster
What exactly is the problem? He didn't think she was the best candidate, and he said so. But now that she's in, he wants her to win, so he's supporting her. I'm missing the awfulness here.
He said she couldn't win.
That she didn't embody the truthfulness required for the job.
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Stanghazi Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:04:18am |
re: #145 cliffster
What exactly is the problem? He didn't think she was the best candidate, and he said so. But now that she's in, he wants her to win, so he's supporting her. I'm missing the awfulness here.
The awfulness is the chickenshittedness of it all (tks Varek) I guess I'm looking for someone in the GOP to take a stand against the crazy and stick with it. For a moment it looked like it happened.
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rhino2 Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:04:38am |
re: #146 Varek Raith
He said she couldn't win.
That she didn't embody the truthfulness required for the job.
Is that only reason he said she couldn't win? Because I can think of a few others...
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cliffster Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:05:16am |
re: #146 Varek Raith
He said she couldn't win.
That she didn't embody the truthfulness required for the job.
hmmm, '08 primaries.. Hilary Clinton supporters.. "who do you want answering the phone at 3am?"
think those people were chickenshit for supporting Obama after he won?
** carry on with the Karl Rove Is the Devil narrative
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gehazi Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:05:31am |
re: #142 Stanley Sea
So Rush does win again. If Rove can't, I can't see any Republican anywhere standing up to him.
Maybe Zombie Reagan. But probably not.
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Daniel Ballard Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:05:43am |
Paged
Rebel DeMint sparks GOP civil war
By MANU RAJU | 9/16/10 8:33 AM
The South Carolina lawmaker has gone against the grain of the tradition-bound Senate.
The fracture lines are there to see-Tea Party vs Old School GOP
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Gus Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:06:53am |
re: #142 Stanley Sea
[Link: tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com...]
He went on Fox this morning. Too early for me to use the salty language this deserves.
The Stepford Wives. Now that they're all on the same page.
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Daniel Ballard Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:07:13am |
re: #143 Varek Raith
Rove, you chickenshit.
Never walked back Iraq, WMD's, but walks this back ? Wow.
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cliffster Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:07:21am |
re: #147 Stanley Sea
The awfulness is the chickenshittedness of it all (tks Varek) I guess I'm looking for someone in the GOP to take a stand against the crazy and stick with it. For a moment it looked like it happened.
she won the republican nomination. republicans want republicans to win, democrats want democrats to win. That's how it works.
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rhino2 Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:08:45am |
re: #154 cliffster
she won the republican nomination. republicans want republicans to win, democrats want democrats to win. That's how it works.
Principles be damned, right we know. I think that's the point of what he's saying.
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laZardo Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:12:12am |
Where's a properly left-wing 3rd party to step up when we need it?
/emphasis on PROPER.
//also good evening
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cliffster Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:12:26am |
re: #155 rhino2
Principles be damned, right we know. I think that's the point of what he's saying.
it's called politics, and it's the way it has been, consistently, across the board, forever. but feel free to think that it's only Evil Karl and his band of Crazy Republicans
| 158 |
gehazi Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:13:21am |
re: #157 cliffster
it's called politics, and it's the way it has been, consistently, across the board, forever. but feel free to think that it's only Evil Karl and his band of Crazy Republicans
So Democrats should throw their full support behind Alvin Greene?
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Obdicut Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:14:05am |
Hre: #149 cliffster
"who do you want answering the phone at 3am?"
think those people were chickenshit for supporting Obama after he won?
Yes. Or rather, I think they're fuckers for using such a lame campaign tactic in the first place.
In this case, however, Rove was right. O'Donnell is a moronic candidate with no fitness for office at all. And now he's endorsing her.
Republicans have not realized that the Eleventh Commandment has a coda:
11a. And if you let total whackjobs be Republican candidates, you will lose all credibility and elections.
| 160 |
Stanghazi Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:14:34am |
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Ericus58 Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:14:38am |
Russia and Canada seek UN ruling on Lomonosov Ridge
[Link: www.bbc.co.uk...]
"Each argued that the ridge was an extension of their country's continental shelf, allowing them to exploit any mineral resources there.
Arctic resources are becoming more accessible due to melting ice.
The five Arctic powers - Russia, the US, Canada, Norway and Denmark - are engaged in a scramble to claim them.
..........
Russia's foreign minister also warned that Nato, of which Canada and the three other Arctic powers are members, should not become involved in settling territorial disputes in the Arctic."
ICE STATION ZEBRA!
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joe90 Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:15:44am |
This makes me just a little more optimistic.
[Link: 30mosques.com...]
The sign read, “Heartsong Church welcomes the Memphis Islamic Center to the neighborhood.”
The Muslim community was taken aback by the sign. Soon enough, they paid their visit to the pastor of the church.
“Steven Stone is an incredibly generous and hospitable man.” Danish says with excitement.
Dr. Steve Stone is the pastor of the Heartsong Church, affiliated with the United Methodist Church and has been instrumental in being hospitable to his new neighbors.
“Last Ramadan the church had a family day and organized a ‘no pork bbq’ for us.” Danish tells me.
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rhino2 Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:15:47am |
re: #157 cliffster
it's called politics, and it's the way it has been, consistently, across the board, forever. but feel free to think that it's only Evil Karl and his band of Crazy Republicans
Oh thanks, I had forgotten what to call it.
I don't think anyone is disputing that or calling him "Evil Karl", I certainly wasn't, so feel free to stop telling me what I think. Being disappointed in someone you thought might have been taking a stand against status quo "politics" isn't the same as calling him Evil and saying he should be cast into a lake of fire.
But please, continue extrapolating nonsense.
| 165 |
Killgore Trout Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:16:40am |
Today's episode of Republicans' vs The Constitution....
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:16:44am |
re: #130 Taqyia2Me
Peace?
With Hamas, Hizbollah, al Qaeda, Muslim brotherhood, Taliban, et al --- not likely at all.
They are such peaceful folks.
Hamas marks peace talks with terror film
Hamas has made a film showing the imagined destruction of Israel.
The terrorist organisation chose the launch of the second stage of the revived peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians to release the video.
"Apocalypse Tomorrow", created by Hamas operatives, has had more than 45,000 views. It depicts Israeli sites such as the Supreme Court falling to missile attacks and the streets of Tel Aviv laid to waste.
A Palestinian says: “Inshallah, the Jihad will take back the homeland", while students tell a teacher they want to join the fight for “liberation”.
Towards the end of the footage cars waving Palestinian flags drive triumphantly down a main road in Tel Aviv and a Hamas presenter takes a seat on an Israeli news channel.
Hamas has vowed to launch concerted attacks on Israel to ensure the peace talks do not succeed.
These are the people Jimmy Carter trusts.
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lawhawk Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:20:54am |
re: #147 Stanley Sea
I guess that means Al D'Amato is the guy? He, along with Ed Koch and Carl McCall have come out against Carl Paladino - all but saying the guy is a nutjob who has no business being governor of New York.
Paladino turned around and called him a tool of Andy Cuomo, which can't be further from the truth, but that's what he's going with.
| 168 |
darthstar Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:21:22am |
Mornin' lizards...lots of articles on O'Donnell today...this one I find interesting, from that liberal rag The New Republic:
Does Christine O'Donnell think Dinosaur Bones are Fake?
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cliffster Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:21:35am |
re: #159 Obdicut
H
Yes. Or rather, I think they're fuckers for using such a lame campaign tactic in the first place.
In this case, however, Rove was right. O'Donnell is a moronic candidate with no fitness for office at all. And now he's endorsing her.
Republicans have not realized that the Eleventh Commandment has a coda:
11a. And if you let total whackjobs be Republican candidates, you will lose all credibility and elections.
This may be true, but the topic was about Rove "walking it back" and singling out this situation as if it were anything other than what always happens in politics. Hilary supporters bashed Obama, but when Obama won they got behind him. It is silly to act like Rove is behaving in any way outside the norm in politics.
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gehazi Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:21:44am |
re: #165 Killgore Trout
Today's episode of Republicans' vs The Constitution...
My favorite show!
I can't wait for the episodes on abolishing the 13th, 19th, 21st, 23rd, and 24th ammendments!
| 171 |
Walter L. Newton Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:22:00am |
re: #159 Obdicut
H
Yes. Or rather, I think they're fuckers for using such a lame campaign tactic in the first place.
In this case, however, Rove was right. O'Donnell is a moronic candidate with no fitness for office at all. And now he's endorsing her.
Republicans have not realized that the Eleventh Commandment has a coda:
11a. And if you let total whackjobs be Republican candidates, you will lose all credibility and elections.
Rosen: Party trumps person in real politics
[Link: www.denverpost.com...]
| 172 |
Taqyia2Me Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:22:51am |
re: #166 NJDhockeyfan
Jimmy Carter, Hamas enabler supreme.
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Stanghazi Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:22:52am |
re: #169 cliffster
This may be true, but the topic was about Rove "walking it back" and singling out this situation as if it were anything other than what always happens in politics. Hilary supporters bashed Obama, but when Obama won they got behind him. It is silly to act like Rove is behaving in any way outside the norm in politics.
But the candidate is crazy.
No Dem support for Alvin Green, remember?
It's sleazy politics, yes we understand that.
| 174 |
Obdicut Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:24:03am |
re: #169 cliffster
This may be true, but the topic was about Rove "walking it back" and singling out this situation as if it were anything other than what always happens in politics.
It is different. See Lawhawks post above. There have been plenty of times where the Democratic or Republican primary-selected candidate has not been supported by the party at large. Lots of times. So, I'm sorry, but what you're saying is not true. It does not always happen.
Hilary supporters bashed Obama, but when Obama won they got behind him. It is silly to act like Rove is behaving in any way outside the norm in politics.
It is silly of you to ignore that O'Donnell is a whackaloon and Obama is not.
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ReamWorks SKG Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:24:54am |
re: #69 freetoken
This election is a big problem for me. Jerry Brown, while I admire him personally, doesn't understand how awful the tax situation in California is. I don't think California will survive if they raise the state tax any more, past 10%.
But Meg Whitman is a ****. I just can't vote for her. So I guess I'll vote for Brown.
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Gus Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:25:11am |
re: #168 darthstar
Mornin' lizards...lots of articles on O'Donnell today...this one I find interesting, from that liberal rag The New Republic:
Does Christine O'Donnell think Dinosaur Bones are Fake?
Check your link. Has some extra text in it.
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ReamWorks SKG Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:25:51am |
re: #170 gehazi
That's the dumbest idea I ever heard! We'd have slavery back in Alabama!
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Gus Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:27:00am |
CHRISTINE O'DONNELL: Now, he said that it's based on fact. I just want to point out a couple things. First of all, they use carbon dating, as an example, to prove that something was millions of years old. Well, we have the eruption of Mt. Saint Helens and the carbon dating test that they used then would have to then prove that these were hundreds of millions of years younger, when what happened was they had the exact same results on the fossils and canyons that they did the tests on that were supposedly 100 millions of years old. And it's the kind of inconsistent tests like this that they're basing their 'facts' on.
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gehazi Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:27:06am |
re: #172 Taqyia2Me
Jimmy Carter, Hamas enabler supreme.
Too bad he's not still President, am I right?
//
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Killgore Trout Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:27:17am |
Hot Air readers are still using the usual racial slurs for Mrs. Obama.....
The feeling is mutual Chewy.SirGawain on September 16, 2010 at 9:20 AM
....
I have a quick and easy solution for you, Lt. Worf. Encourage your husband to resign immediately.Felonious Monk on September 16, 2010 at 9:21 AM
That's just 2 of the first 3 comments. I won't read the rest of the thread.
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darthstar Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:28:46am |
His neighbors call it "Cabbagegate." And it cost Steve Miller a lot of green. The Clarkston, Ga., man was fined $5,200 for growing too many vegetables in his backyard.
That's almost enough to make a person want to jump on a big ole jet airliner...
| 182 |
Gus Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:29:00am |
re: #180 Killgore Trout
Hot Air readers are still using the usual racial slurs for Mrs. Obama...
...
That's just 2 of the first 3 comments. I won't read the rest of the thread.
Let me guess. This is about the Carla Bruni book right? Yeah, Drudge has that plastered on the front page for all of the mouth breathers to hyperventilate.
| 183 |
cliffster Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:29:29am |
re: #167 lawhawk
hey lawhawk - Chrome is telling me that your site is hosting malware and that I shouldn't go to it. just an FYI
| 184 |
Killgore Trout Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:29:34am |
re: #182 Gus 802
Let me guess. This is about the Carla Bruni book right? Yeah, Drudge has that plastered on the front page for all of the mouth breathers to hyperventilate.
Yup. That's it.
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darthstar Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:29:48am |
re: #170 gehazi
My favorite show!
I can't wait for the episodes on abolishing the 13th, 19th, 21st, 23rd, and 24th ammendments!
You can have the 21st Amendment when you pry it off my fancy cocktail toothpick.
| 186 |
Obdicut Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:29:55am |
re: #175 reuven
At least when Brown spends money it's on things worth spending it on.
And he does understand that the budget process itself is insanely out of control and needs fixorating. And he understands the importance of the energy market in California
Whitman, on the other hand, is likely to approve Enron II: Electric Boogaloo.
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:30:07am |
On the Advice of the FBI, Cartoonist Molly Norris Disappears From View
You may have noticed that Molly Norris' comic is not in the paper this week. That's because there is no more Molly.
The gifted artist is alive and well, thankfully. But on the insistence of top security specialists at the FBI, she is, as they put it, "going ghost": moving, changing her name, and essentially wiping away her identity. She will no longer be publishing cartoons in our paper or in City Arts magazine, where she has been a regular contributor. She is, in effect, being put into a witness-protection program—except, as she notes, without the government picking up the tab. It's all because of the appalling fatwa issued against her this summer, following her infamous "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" cartoon.
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gehazi Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:31:02am |
re: #183 cliffster
hey lawhawk - Chrome is telling me that your site is hosting malware and that I shouldn't go to it. just an FYI
Ditto. Probably SQL injection attack, had something similar happen to my wordpress blog. Very nasty.
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darthstar Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:31:09am |
re: #176 Gus 802
Check your link. Has some extra text in it.
[Link: www.tnr.com...]
Here, the raw text...damn Sleestaks got me.
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cliffster Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:31:36am |
re: #170 gehazi
My favorite show!
I can't wait for the episodes on abolishing the 13th, 19th, 21st, 23rd, and 24th ammendments!
The 19th amendment should be repealed. That's when it all started going to shit.
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Walter L. Newton Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:31:50am |
re: #184 Killgore Trout
Yup. That's it.
What's the big deal? I imagine being a presidents wife is "hell" considering that a good portion of you life is now in the public eye, you have constant security shadowing you, you can't just pack up and disappear... and so on and so on...
I think that is a very human response, and what the fuck does that have to do with politics or policy?
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Killgore Trout Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:32:02am |
Fauxtography: Egyptian newspaper under fire over altered photo
Egypt's state-run newspaper has come under fire for altering a photograph to suggest President Hosni Mubarak was leading the Middle East peace talks.
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cliffster Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:32:15am |
I'm sorry, lawhawk, I'm going to have to report you to the FBI
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Varek Raith Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:32:21am |
re: #189 darthstar
[Link: www.tnr.com...]
Here, the raw text...damn Sleestaks got me.
Someone, please send this woman to Jurassic Park.
Kthxbai.
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Obdicut Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:33:21am |
re: #187 NJDhockeyfan
Meanwhile, Salman Rushdie continues to smirk at the fatwa against him.
I love that dude. Kickass writer and doesn't back down under a death threat.
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Gus Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:34:09am |
re: #189 darthstar
[Link: www.tnr.com...]
Here, the raw text...damn Sleestaks got me.
I saw the error in the URL and got to the page. Christine O'Donnell makes Sarah Palin seem like Einstein. They got a real winner in Delaware. Of all the candidates up for election in November I'm hoping she'll lose.
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Stanghazi Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:34:58am |
re: #189 darthstar
CHRISTINE O'DONNELL: Well, creationism, in essence, is believing that the world began as the Bible in Genesis says, that God created the Earth in six days, six 24-hour periods. And there is just as much, if not more, evidence supporting that.
Crazy Theocrat.
Just read where she also said we CAN legislate morality.
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Benghazzy Ben Ross Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:35:44am |
re: #196 Gus 802
I saw the error in the URL and got to the page. Christine O'Donnell makes Sarah Palin seem like Einstein. They got a real winner in Delaware. Of all the candidates up for election in November I'm hoping she'll lose.
I find myself wondering what Sarah's masturbation position is...
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Ericus58 Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:35:44am |
re: #187 NJDhockeyfan
On the Advice of the FBI, Cartoonist Molly Norris Disappears From View
"We're hoping the religious bigots go into full and immediate remission, and we wish her the best."
They just can't bring themselves to actually name them - Islamic Extremists.
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Varek Raith Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:35:57am |
re: #196 Gus 802
I saw the error in the URL and got to the page. Christine O'Donnell makes Sarah Palin seem like Einstein. They got a real winner in Delaware. Of all the candidates up for election in November I'm hoping she'll lose.
Good grief what's wrong with me???
I'm starting to feel sorry for her.
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Walter L. Newton Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:36:08am |
re: #197 Stanley Sea
CHRISTINE O'DONNELL: Well, creationism, in essence, is believing that the world began as the Bible in Genesis says, that God created the Earth in six days, six 24-hour periods. And there is just as much, if not more, evidence supporting that.
Crazy Theocrat.
Just read where she also said we CAN legislate morality.
I didn't know there was a "religious test" in order to run as a candidate for any office?
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Killgore Trout Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:36:13am |
Pope offers 'hand of friendship' to UK
He added: "Today, the United Kingdom strives to be a modern and multicultural society. In this challenging enterprise, may it always maintain its respect for those traditional values and cultural expressions that more aggressive forms of secularism no longer value or even tolerate."
The Pope also praised Britain's fight against Hitler's "atheist extremism", saying that "Britain and her leaders stood against a Nazi tyranny that wished to eradicate God from society and denied our common humanity to many, especially the Jews, who were thought unfit to live".
The Church's child abuse has created more atheists than anything else in history. Maybe he should focus on that.
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Gus Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:37:04am |
re: #197 Stanley Sea
CHRISTINE O'DONNELL: Well, creationism, in essence, is believing that the world began as the Bible in Genesis says, that God created the Earth in six days, six 24-hour periods. And there is just as much, if not more, evidence supporting that.
Crazy Theocrat.
Just read where she also said we CAN legislate morality.
Is she going to do any debates with Coons? Press conferences? My guess is that she does only one press conference. Sort of like what they're doing with Sharron Angle. Maybe we can get Katie Couric to interview her.
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darthstar Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:37:21am |
re: #198 JasonA
I find myself wondering what Sarah's masturbation position is...
Sitting up, I'm guessing.
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darthstar Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:38:12am |
re: #203 Gus 802
Is she going to do any debates with Coons? Press conferences? My guess is that she does only one press conference. Sort of like what they're doing with Sharron Angle. Maybe we can get Katie Couric to interview her.
If going on Good Morning America or Fox News counts as a press conference.
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:38:23am |
re: #199 Ericus58
"We're hoping the religious bigots go into full and immediate remission, and we wish her the best."
They just can't bring themselves to actually name them - Islamic Extremists.
They have to walk on egg shells when they write these article. They don't want a death fatwa against themselves like that girl has.
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jaunte Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:38:29am |
re: #198 JasonA
I find myself wondering what Sarah's masturbation position is...
It's just sympathy on the part of these politicians for T-Rex, whose arms were too short. [Link: nymag.com...]
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Benghazzy Ben Ross Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:39:34am |
re: #202 Killgore Trout
Shame the Pope at the time didn't fight against Hitler's "Atheist extremism."
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MrSilverDragon Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:39:37am |
re: #198 JasonA
I find myself wondering what Sarah's masturbation position is...
Standing up in the shower that has the "magic pulse".
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darthstar Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:39:50am |
re: #207 jaunte
It's just sympathy on the part of these politicians for T-Rex, whose arms were too short. [Link: nymag.com...]
That's so sad...I never realized T-Rex wasn't able to masturbate.
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Varek Raith Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:40:19am |
re: #210 MrSilverDragon
Standing up in the shower that has the "magic pulse".
Gosh, that's awfully...
Specific.
/
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cliffster Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:40:22am |
re: #202 Killgore Trout
Pope offers 'hand of friendship' to UK
The Church's child abuse has created more atheists than anything else in history. Maybe he should focus on that.
It's like listening to Gingrich lecture people on fidelity
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darthstar Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:41:43am |
re: #212 Varek Raith
Gosh, that's awfully...
Specific.
/
As much as I dislike Sarah Palin as a person/political figure, the image, surprisingly, isn't all that unpleasant.
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Varek Raith Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:41:44am |
re: #209 JasonA
Shame the Pope at the time didn't fight against Hitler's "Atheist extremism."
The Pope needs to shut up and fix his own Vatican's problems.
Then, he needs to educate himself on Hitler.
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Obdicut Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:41:51am |
re: #202 Killgore Trout
Pope offers 'hand of friendship' to UK
The Church's child abuse has created more atheists than anything else in history. Maybe he should focus on that.
He also is pushing the very false Nazi atheism meme.
The Nazis, especially Hitler, were crazy-ass mystics. They believed wholeheartedly in the supernatural. They had a few atheists in high positions; but Hitler was against an atheist state.
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darthstar Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:42:31am |
Okay...it's getting late...time to wake up the wife, make her some tea, and head off to work...laters.
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Benghazzy Ben Ross Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:42:39am |
re: #215 Varek Raith
The Pope needs to shut up and fix his own Vatican's problems.
Then, he needs to educate himself on Hitler.
You'd think he would have learned about him, all things considered...
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Varek Raith Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:42:41am |
re: #216 Obdicut
He also is pushing the very false Nazi atheism meme.
The Nazis, especially Hitler, were crazy-ass mystics. They believed wholeheartedly in the supernatural. They had a few atheists in high positions; but Hitler was against an atheist state.
Yeah, he had this whole Atlantis thing going on, IIRC.
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Benghazzy Ben Ross Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:45:30am |
re: #202 Killgore Trout
Scrolling down to the end of the article I find myself wondering... not that I want any harm befalling the guy, but shouldn't he of all people have enough faith to not drive around encased in plexiglass?
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Obdicut Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:49:42am |
re: #219 Varek Raith
Yeah, he had this whole Atlantis thing going on, IIRC.
He had a ton of mystical claptrap going on, and he very clearly saw himself as an agent of God.
Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord
- A Hitler, scumsucking chief asshole of assholes.
Give the German Catholic Church's complicity with the Nazi regime, this attack by the pope on atheists is just eye-rollingly tiresome.
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Gus Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:51:14am |
re: #216 Obdicut
He also is pushing the very false Nazi atheism meme.
The Nazis, especially Hitler, were crazy-ass mystics. They believed wholeheartedly in the supernatural. They had a few atheists in high positions; but Hitler was against an atheist state.
The usual revisionism meant to deflect attention to Pope Pius XII and the German people during the time. So instead of blaming the German culture of the time he blames a nebulous atheist culture which was almost non-existent. Most of the anti-Semitism of the 3rd Reich and Germany had its roots with Martin Luther.
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Daniel Ballard Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:52:10am |
re: #221 Obdicut
If you please, I made a little something to continue our chat perhaps.
Just lurking at work at bit..
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:52:52am |
BREAKING:
Doctor Shot at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore
Baltimore police say a doctor has been shot at Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore and a suspect is holed up inside.
A police department spokesman says the hospital is being evacuated.
He said he didn't know the doctor's condition.
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Gus Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:54:34am |
re: #221 Obdicut
He had a ton of mystical claptrap going on, and he very clearly saw himself as an agent of God.
- A Hitler, scumsucking chief asshole of assholes.
Give the German Catholic Church's complicity with the Nazi regime, this attack by the pope on atheists is just eye-rollingly tiresome.
I see he's making quite a splash. He's an idiot and possibly one of the worst Popes ever in modern times. By doing this he is acting like a politician by trying to raise fear about atheists. This is a concerted effort in order to deflect any attention to the never ending cycle of Catholic sex scandal that he is largely ignoring.
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Benghazzy Ben Ross Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:56:07am |
re: #225 Gus 802
I see he's making quite a splash. He's an idiot and possibly one of the worst Popes ever in modern times. By doing this he is acting like a politician by trying to raise fear about atheists. This is a concerted effort in order to deflect any attention to the never ending cycle of Catholic sex scandal that he is largely ignoring.
Didn't anyone tell you Popes were infallible?
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Gus Thu, Sep 16, 2010 8:56:39am |
re: #226 JasonA
Didn't anyone tell you Popes were infallible?
Yep. My mom did for a time but I converted her.
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Taqyia2Me Thu, Sep 16, 2010 9:00:16am |
re: #179 gehazi
Too bad he's not still President, am I right?
//
Unfortunately, however, he is still a very dangerous man.
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Interesting Times in Benghazi Thu, Sep 16, 2010 9:02:15am |
re: #225 Gus 802
I see he's making quite a splash. He's an idiot and possibly one of the worst Popes ever in modern times.
Perhaps this explains it :P
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Walter L. Newton Thu, Sep 16, 2010 9:02:53am |
re: #229 wee fury
Page unavailable. ??
I got it...
Baltimore police say a doctor has been shot at Johns Hopkins hospital and the shooter is holed up inside.
Police department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi says the gunman has barricaded himself in a room.
Guglielmi says the hospital is being evacuated.
He said he doesn't know the doctor's condition.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Thu, Sep 16, 2010 9:03:22am |
re: #195 Obdicut
Meanwhile, Salman Rushdie continues to smirk at the fatwa against him.
I love that dude. Kickass writer and doesn't back down under a death threat.
Also, he has some sort of female mind control beam or something.
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Felineghazi, Caliph of the Conservative Jihad Thu, Sep 16, 2010 9:03:45am |
re: #230 publicityStunted
Perhaps this explains it :P
So Ferengi Catholics would have a set of rules for acquiring souls?
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Gus Thu, Sep 16, 2010 9:03:48am |
Somehow, I doubt Ratzinger ever spoke out as strongly against Islamist extremism as he is against atheism.
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Felineghazi, Caliph of the Conservative Jihad Thu, Sep 16, 2010 9:07:37am |
re: #237 wee fury
It is his job.
And like Michael Steele, ignoring real issues and instead simply trying to deflect criticism towards various selected scapegoat outsider groups is no way to lead. The more knowledgeable (both insiders and outsiders) realize what you are doing and are thus more wary of your organization as a result since it shows a complete lack of principles. (Not to mention the utter hypocrisy if the group ever tries to claim the moral higher ground.)
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