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1 Dancing along the light of day  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 6:59:41pm

Fraud, what fraud?
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Might get them an increase in ratings, is what they were thinking.

2 (I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was)  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:00:06pm

Maybe he’ll be their token “conservative” until moving to Fox, just like Stossel.

3 Kronocide  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:00:13pm

I’m shocked it’s not Fox. WTF was ABC thinking?

4 researchok  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:00:37pm

Lots of Tea Party voters will tune in. They believe Breitbart is a hero and they are counting on a big Tea Party sweep.

It’s business.

So much for journalistic integrity, ABC.

5 Political Atheist  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:00:44pm

I will not allow that on my television. Anyone but ABC at this point, and I’ll be writing a letter/email to the network. This should be a big re-tweet, maybe with a link to the threads about the Shirley Sherrod fraud.

6 researchok  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:01:51pm

re: #5 Rightwingconspirator

I will not allow that on my television. Anyone but ABC at this point, and I’ll be writing a letter/email to the network. This should be a big re-tweet, maybe with a link to the threads about the Shirley Sherrod fraud.

I’ll switch off between FOX and CNN.

I like Brit Hume.

7 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:03:09pm

Here to speak for the Sturmabteilung on tonight’s elections is Andrew Breitbart.

/

8 researchok  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:03:48pm

re: #7 Gus 802

Here to speak for the Sturmabteilung on tonight’s elections is Andrew Breitbart.

/

Repost that after midnight.

You can only win once a day.
/

9 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:08:18pm

re: #8 researchok

Repost that after midnight.

You can only win once a day.
/

Thanks. Had to looks that up of course. I can only remember SA.

Where did everybody go? The pumpkin patch or are we in between shifts?

10 researchok  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:10:46pm

re: #9 Gus 802

Thanks. Had to looks that up of course. I can only remember SA.

Where did everybody go? The pumpkin patch or are we in between shifts?


No idea where the crowds are. Friday night blues, maybe?

My post on the previous thread has me going down memory lane. I was really tight with my grandfather. All these years later and I still miss him.

11 Dancing along the light of day  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:11:48pm

re: #9 Gus 802

FOOD FIGHT!
/sorta

12 122 Year Old Obama  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:12:19pm

Tell me this isn’t happening.

13 researchok  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:12:45pm

re: #12 SteelPH

Tell me this isn’t happening.

OK.

It isn’t happening.

14 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:12:53pm

re: #10 researchok

No idea where the crowds are. Friday night blues, maybe?

My post on the previous thread has me going down memory lane. I was really tight with my grandfather. All these years later and I still miss him.

Might be a Halloween thing. Parties, kids, and such.

15 Mr Pancakes  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:13:12pm

Well….. when you’re in the toilet, I guess you have to take drastic measures to improve ratings.

16 researchok  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:15:50pm

OK, pretend you read this

Lessons from a Decent Man.

17 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:17:37pm

Just think though. Andrew Breitbart always manages to beclown himself in front of a video camera. Here we get another chance to see Breitbart become unhinged about something or another. It’s kind of funny to watch because usually Breitbart starts out being calm and slowly builds up steam. All they have to do is utter “Niagara Falls” and Breitbart goes into crazy mode: slowly I turned, step by step, inch by inch…

18 freetoken  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:17:55pm
Words fail.

Controversy sells. Integrity… well, if it were a common stock, in today’s society would be traded as a penny-stock on NASDAQ.

re: #15 Mr Pancakes

The competition for TV ratings ought to be pretty fierce on Tuesday night. I expect NBC to come out on top, but perhaps ABC can pull it off.

19 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:19:02pm

Just what he needs, more widespread exposure. May he be-clown and be-spittle himself out of a career with it.

20 Surabaya Stew  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:19:06pm

re: #15 Mr Pancakes

Well… when you’re in the toilet, I guess you have to take drastic measures to improve ratings.

Seems like the drastic measure ABC news is taking involves flushing.

21 Varek Raith  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:19:58pm

Sound business decision.
Considering how many on the right think highly of Breadbasket…
Still, it’s stupid to higher this fraud.

22 122 Year Old Obama  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:20:26pm

re: #13 researchok

Now if only that were true..

23 Dom  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:20:29pm

That is pretty incredible. I haven’t visited his or Drudge’s website once since then. I don’t get ABC News in the UK but I’m making a mental note not to watch it anywhere else.

24 researchok  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:21:00pm

re: #22 SteelPH

Now if only that were true..

Have you clicked your heels 3 times yet?

25 122 Year Old Obama  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:21:42pm

re: #24 researchok

Yup. Sadly, all it did was take me home.

26 researchok  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:21:53pm

re: #21 Varek Raith

Sound business decision.
Considering how many on the right think highly of Breadbasket…
Still, it’s stupid to higher this fraud.

Money versus integrity.

Not a hard call for ABC, obviously.

27 researchok  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:22:16pm

re: #25 SteelPH

Yup. Sadly, all it did was take me home.

It’s official: You are SOL.

28 Intenzity  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:22:17pm

What’s next, O.J Simpson as their legal analyst?

29 122 Year Old Obama  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:24:11pm

re: #27 researchok

Well darn.

30 researchok  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:24:49pm

re: #29 SteelPH

Well darn.

Reality is a cold mistress.

Now go do a load of laundry.

31 Killgore Trout  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:27:14pm

re: #17 Gus 802

Just think though. Andrew Breitbart always manages to beclown himself in front of a video camera. Here we get another chance to see Breitbart become unhinged about something or another. It’s kind of funny to watch because usually Breitbart starts out being calm and slowly builds up steam. All they have to do is utter “Niagara Falls” and Breitbart goes into crazy mode: slowly I turned, step by step, inch by inch…

Yeah, Maybe he’ll freak out and start screaming about stolen elections or something. It’s kinda like MSNBC using Buchanan. Lefties keep these freaks around to make conservatives look ugly/crazy.

32 calochortus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:28:16pm

Gee, if I ever actually watched ABC, I could quit doing so.

33 Killgore Trout  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:30:10pm

If you think about it: What sane and reasonable right wing pundit could they book for the evening? They’re pretty much all loons and the top tier crazies are booked on FOX. Everybody else gets the leftovers.

34 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:31:54pm

Ever notice how the only thing that everyone agrees on, no matter if they’re far-left moonbats, far-right wingnuts, small and large “L” libertarians, centrists, Alex Jones conspiracy kooks, or patrio-psychotic anarcho-materialists is that the mainstream media sucks?

35 freetoken  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:32:40pm

re: #33 Killgore Trout

Well, Newt will always go to the highest bidder.

36 Mr Pancakes  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:32:41pm

re: #33 Killgore Trout

If you think about it: What sane and reasonable right wing pundit could they book for the evening? They’re pretty much all loons and the top tier crazies are booked on FOX. Everybody else gets the leftovers.

Being loony is “in” right now Killgore……. don’t cha know?

37 Political Atheist  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:32:44pm

re: #31 Killgore Trout

It’s kinda like MSNBC using Buchanan. Lefties keep these freaks around to make conservatives look ugly/crazy.

Now it makes sense. You nailed it there Killgore.

38 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:33:20pm

re: #33 Killgore Trout

If you think about it: What sane and reasonable right wing pundit could they book for the evening? They’re pretty much all loons and the top tier crazies are booked on FOX. Everybody else gets the leftovers.

They could have booked David Frum.

39 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:34:43pm

Apparently ABC is also going to have Big Government’s Dana Loesch for election night analysis. Here’s her blogroll:

These blogs are cool
o American Power
o Dr. Helen
o Fausta
o Founding Bloggers
o Hip Hop Republican
o Hummers and Cigarettes
o Instapundit
o Jammie Wearing Fool
o Jay Stewart
o Jim Hoft
o Michelle Moore
o Missourah
o Pat Dollard
o Patch Adams
o Quincy Pundit
o Reboot Congress
o RepUrblican
o Sharp Elbows
o Stone Zone

Now there’s a collection of crazies. Heck, at this rate ABC might as well invite Rodan to the show.

40 Killgore Trout  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:35:22pm

re: #38 negativ

They could have booked David Frum.

I’m sure he’s booked somewhere for election night. There’s only one Frum to go around.

41 Political Atheist  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:35:46pm

re: #33 Killgore Trout

Looks to me like an opening for some new talent. Anyone want to send a CV? A young right leaning Lizard would be perfect.

42 Mr Pancakes  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:37:21pm

re: #38 negativ

They could have booked David Frum.

David Frum…. where is he from?

43 Killgore Trout  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:39:40pm

Another reason to grow your own: Are we having another food crisis?

The world food price index is at its highest since 2008, when food prices rocketed and millions of people suffered. This year the crisis seems to be happening again. Prices for the staple grains that underpin the world’s food supply soared after forecasts for the US and Chinese maize harvests fell in October, Pakistan lost its wheat to floods, and crop losses to drought and wildfire led Russia to ban grain exports until 2011. Food prices have soared in India, Egypt and elsewhere and are being blamed for riots in Mozambique.

Are we having another food crisis? New Scientist investigates.


Buy a cookbook while you’re at it

44 freetoken  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:39:50pm

Prepare for revenge!

GOP plans attacks on the EPA and climate scientists

If the GOP wins control of the House next week, senior congressional Republicans plan to launch a blistering attack on the Obama administration’s environmental policies, as well as on scientists who link air pollution to climate change.

The GOP’s fire will be concentrated especially on the administration’s efforts to use the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority over air pollution to tighten emissions controls on coal, oil and other carbon fuels that scientists say contribute to global warming.

The attack, according to senior Republicans, will seek to portray the EPA as abusing its authority and damaging the economy with needless government regulations.

[…]


All that will be up for scrutiny in the event of a Republican takeover of the House, which political analysts are predicting. The Republican Party has hammered at the administration’s environmental agenda during the campaign. And rejecting the work of climate scientists has become increasingly common among conservatives.

Several key Republican Congressmen — most notably Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Vista), who could take over the chairmanship of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee — have said they plan to investigate climate scientists they contend manipulated data to prove the case that human activity is contributing to global warming.


[…]


House Republicans like Issa and James F. Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-Wis.) of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming have criticized the EPA for basing its endangerment finding on what they consider flawed research. Republicans assert that the science on climate change is not yet “settled,” despite the vast global scientific consensus about its human causes.

Specifically, Issa has said he wants to investigate the “Climategate” scandal that broke late last year, when hackers illegally obtained and released thousands of emails of climate scientists working with a leading British laboratory.

[…]

Issa named Mann in a letter to the EPA as a scientist whose work was not “unbiased, accurate or reliable.”

[…]

Sigh.. Issa is one of the local wingnut/theocrats Reps from SD county (the other such Rep is mine, Duncan the Lesser).

45 Mr Pancakes  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:40:58pm

re: #44 freetoken

Prepare for revenge!

GOP plans attacks on the EPA and climate scientists

Sigh.. Issa is one of the local wingnut/theocrats Reps from SD county (the other such Rep is mine, Duncan the Lesser).

Don’t leave out Bilbray dude.

46 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:41:57pm

This is from TPM:

ABC News’ David Ford told Media Matters, “He will be one of many voices on our air, including Bill Adair of Politifact. If Andrew Breitbart says something that is incorrect, we have other voices to call him on it.”

Wow, Bill Adair of Politifact. Is that suppose to be some kind of equivalence or balance? Bill Adair will call out Breitbart? Hmmm.

47 freetoken  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:42:00pm

re: #45 Mr Pancakes

Ooops, forgot one. I guess Bilbray has never come across to me as frothing… unlike Issa and Hunter.

48 Varek Raith  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:43:08pm

Apparently those suspicious devices today contained PETN.

49 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:43:42pm

re: #44 freetoken

Prepare for revenge!

GOP plans attacks on the EPA and climate scientists

Sigh.. Issa is one of the local wingnut/theocrats Reps from SD county (the other such Rep is mine, Duncan the Lesser).

What a nightmare to be on the business end of an inquisition headed up by people who think the planet is ~6000 years old.

50 reine.de.tout  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:43:49pm

re: #9 Gus 802

Thanks. Had to looks that up of course. I can only remember SA.

Where did everybody go? The pumpkin patch or are we in between shifts?

I think I may be the only wingnut left.
Hard to have a “shift” all by my lonesome.

51 Mr Pancakes  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:44:06pm

re: #47 freetoken

Ooops, forgot one. I guess Bilbray has never come across to me as frothing… unlike Issa and Hunter.

He took over for Randy “Duke” Cunningham I believe….. VERY conservative.

52 freetoken  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:44:26pm

re: #48 Varek Raith

Really? But the packages were not set up as bombs, were they?

53 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:45:24pm

re: #50 reine.de.tout

I think I may be the only wingnut left.
Hard to have a “shift” all by my lonesome.

I meant shift in general. You? A wingnut? Nah.

54 Varek Raith  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:45:28pm

re: #52 freetoken

Really? But the packages were not set up as bombs, were they?



According to CNN.com,

Two suspicious packages found abroad that were bound for Jewish organizations in the U.S. contained a massive amount of explosive material, a source said Friday.
55 Mr Pancakes  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:46:10pm

re: #50 reine.de.tout

I think I may be the only wingnut left.
Hard to have a “shift” all by my lonesome.

Nah…… there are a few still here…… Me? I just stay out of the political fray.

56 Varek Raith  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:46:10pm

re: #50 reine.de.tout

I think I may be the only wingnut left.
Hard to have a “shift” all by my lonesome.

Lol, if you’re a wingnut, I’m Captain Caveman!
:)

57 freetoken  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:46:14pm

re: #51 Mr Pancakes

Oh yeah, Cunningham and his sweet deals… for which he was convicted.

I realize Bilbray is a self declared “conservative”, however I’ve not kept up with him. Has he gone on crusades like Issa and Hunter?

58 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:46:17pm

re: #50 reine.de.tout

You ain’t no wingnut, don’t even say that.

59 freetoken  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:46:45pm

re: #54 Varek Raith

But, were they constructed as bombs, to detonate either on route or at their destination?

60 Varek Raith  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:47:18pm

re: #59 freetoken

But, were they constructed as bombs, to detonate either on route or at their destination?

Unknown.
This whole thing is odd.

61 Mr Pancakes  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:47:25pm

re: #57 freetoken

Oh yeah, Cunningham and his sweet deals… for which he was convicted.

I realize Bilbray is a self declared “conservative”, however I’ve not kept up with him. Has he gone on crusades like Issa and Hunter?

Well…. I’m a conservative so I might not call them crusades.

62 Killgore Trout  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:47:34pm

re: #59 freetoken

But, were they constructed as bombs, to detonate either on route or at their destination?

Some of them had cell phones attached. Probably used as a trigger after the device was delivered.

63 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:47:45pm

re: #52 freetoken

Really? But the packages were not set up as bombs, were they?

The last thing I heard said that they “could have been assembled” into bombs. Also that they were bound for synagogues. That makes no sense to me at all. Did they include a note saying “Dear Jews: Clamp the red alligator clamp onto the red wire, and the green clamp onto the green wire, then press the button marked “Detonate”. Thanks.”

64 Varek Raith  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:48:00pm

re: #62 Killgore Trout

Some of them had cell phones attached. Probably used as a trigger after the device was delivered.

They did?
Most interesting.

65 freetoken  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:48:27pm

From the Wiki entry on PETN:


The most common use of PETN is as an explosive with high brisance. It is more difficult to detonate than primary explosives, so dropping or igniting it will typically not cause an explosion (at atmospheric pressure it is difficult to ignite and burns relatively slowly), but is more sensitive to shock and friction than other high explosives such as TNT or tetryl.[8] Under certain conditions deflagration to detonation transition can occur.

It is rarely used alone, but primarily used in booster and bursting charges of small caliber ammunition, in upper charges of detonators in some land mines and shells, and as the explosive core of detonation cord.[9]

66 Killgore Trout  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:48:51pm
67 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:50:00pm

re: #44 freetoken

Prepare for revenge!

GOP plans attacks on the EPA and climate scientists

Sigh.. Issa is one of the local wingnut/theocrats Reps from SD county (the other such Rep is mine, Duncan the Lesser).

Gee, can’t wait. Climategate hearings and the return of Christopher “CO2 is Pland Food” Monckton. And who knows what else. Another round of the GOP undoubtedly making fools of themselves in science. Maybe they’ll trot out Roy Spencer. Who knows, maybe they’ll even have hearings on evolution.

68 Varek Raith  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:50:15pm

re: #66 Killgore Trout

Intercepted device likely a cell phone, photo analysis shows

re: #65 freetoken

From the Wiki entry on PETN:

Now, the question.
Could that have been enough to actually detonate it?

69 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:51:46pm

re: #67 Gus 802

Guaranteed Obama win in ‘12.

70 freetoken  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:51:50pm

re: #67 Gus 802

Who knows, maybe they’ll even have hearings on evolution.

Don’t laugh… what do you think the End-The-Dept-of-Education/Return-Control-to-the-Community noise is all about?

71 Varek Raith  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:51:56pm

PETN is also what the underwear idiot used.
They have access to high grade explosives, but they seem to lack a viable means of detonating it.

72 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:53:01pm

yep, America’s full of morons all right

I wonder if ABC would just outright hire a klansman if they thought it would boost their ratings and pull in a certain demo, I think we all know the answer

73 Dancing along the light of day  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:53:13pm

re: #33 Killgore Trout

If you think about it: What sane and reasonable right wing pundit could they book for the evening? They’re pretty much all loons and the top tier crazies are booked on FOX. Everybody else gets the leftovers.

If they were smart, they’ be approaching Killgore Trout. But, they’re not that smart!
LOL!

74 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:53:25pm

re: #68 Varek Raith

re: #65 freetoken

Now, the question.
Could that have been enough to actually detonate it?

If there’s a battery, yes (in theory). Most of the IEDs put together in Iraq use cell phones as remote triggers.

A call to the phone sends an electrical signal to the ring/vibrate doodads (that is the technical term) but the circuit is routed to a detonator instead.

75 Killgore Trout  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:53:27pm

re: #68 Varek Raith

re: #65 freetoken

Now, the question.
Could that have been enough to actually detonate it?

Here’s my theory: They were attached to printer cartridges filled with some (at least slightly) radioactive liquid. I think the plan was to splatter the radioactive liquid. The synagogues might have to remodel a room or two, replace the carpet, etc. I don’t think it was a very good plot.

76 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:53:27pm

re: #66 Killgore Trout

Intercepted device likely a cell phone, photo analysis shows

Pretty simple to guess then that there are cells and/or individuals within the vicinity of the synagogues. That is if the plan was for remote detonation? Doesn’t really make much sense to have a remote detonator on a package. Would make more sense for using it for in-flight detonation.

77 efuseakay  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:53:42pm

I think it’s a good move… I bet he acts out when O’Donnell/Angle etc. lose…

78 Varek Raith  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:54:16pm

re: #74 negativ

If there’s a battery, yes (in theory). Most of the IEDs put together in Iraq use cell phones as remote triggers.

A call to the phone sends an electrical signal to the ring/vibrate doodads (that is the technical term) but the circuit is routed to a detonator instead.

True, but PETN is a bit different with regards to setting it off, if I’m reading the wiki entry on it right.

79 Varek Raith  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:55:07pm

re: #77 efuseakay

I think it’s a good move… I bet he acts out when O’Donnell/Angle etc. lose…

VOTER FRAUD
ACORN
SEIU THUGS
OOGA BOOGA

80 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:55:15pm

re: #72 WindUpBird

yep, America’s full of morons all right

I wonder if ABC would just outright hire a klansman if they thought it would boost their ratings and pull in a certain demo, I think we all know the answer

I’m sure the Phelps clan could spare someone.

81 Killgore Trout  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:55:20pm

re: #73 Floral Giraffe

If they were smart, they’ be approaching Killgore Trout. But, they’re not that smart!
LOL!

When I’m near cameras I’m overwhelmed with the urge to pull my shirt over my head and run away screaming “No comment!”
I’m not suited to public speaking much less TV.

82 Varek Raith  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:56:10pm

re: #81 Killgore Trout

When I’m near cameras I’m overwhelmed with the urge to pull my shirt over my head and run away screaming “No comment!”
I’m not suited to public speaking much less TV.

Most unexpected of the Frog Overlord….
/

83 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:56:39pm

BIAW

84 Killgore Trout  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:56:56pm

re: #76 Gus 802

Pretty simple to guess then that there are cells and/or individuals within the vicinity of the synagogues. That is if the plan was for remote detonation? Doesn’t really make much sense to have a remote detonator on a package. Would make more sense for using it for in-flight detonation.

Probably. They could have fucked up/irradiated an entire plane instead of a mailroom.

85 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:58:04pm

Could this be from a possible OOTS fan?

86 Varek Raith  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:59:55pm

re: #84 Killgore Trout

Probably. They could have fucked up/irradiated an entire plane instead of a mailroom.

There plan was stupidly haphazard at best.

87 researchok  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:00:25pm

re: #86 Varek Raith

There plan was stupidly haphazard at best.

For which I am most grateful.

88 jaunte  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:00:36pm

Tweet from Rachel Maddow:

maddow Rachel Maddow MSNBC
People believe this stuff. RT @jazzlaro WHY DON’T YOU INTERVIEW OBAMA AND ASK WHY MUSLIMS ARE EXEMPT FROM THE HEALTH CARE BILL?
89 Dancing along the light of day  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:00:49pm

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90 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:01:37pm

re: #15 Mr Pancakes

Well… when you’re in the toilet, I guess you have to take drastic measures to improve ratings.

Yeah, but Breitbart is too much. He’s a fraudster. It’s like if Fox hired Jayson Blair to do media commentary. News organizations should not give fraudsters a platform, ever.

91 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:02:22pm

re: #88 jaunte

Tweet from Rachel Maddow:

My God. Where did that piece of insanity come from?

92 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:02:37pm

re: #81 Killgore Trout

I’m sorta the same way. I steer clear of news crews with cameras and similar things. Not that I am afraid of such things, but there is no way in hell I’m gonna let them use a pretty face like mine for free. The Behemoth’s got to get paid.

93 Dancing along the light of day  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:03:10pm

re: #89 Floral Giraffe

Messed that up, rather well.

So, KT, if you had to be on camera for 20 minutes, but they’d pay to keep your house TOASTY warm this winter, would you try to keep the shirt off you face, or isn’t it worth it to you?

94 Dancing along the light of day  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:04:40pm

re: #92 Slumbering Behemoth

I thought it was laid, but well, if you say paid…
Paid it must be!
LOL!

95 freetoken  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:05:15pm

re: #78 Varek Raith

One wonders if the phone is set to “vibrate” if the pressure waves would be enough to detonate? I tend to be skeptical of that just because the simple loading/unloading of the package is likely to cause more shock.

96 jaunte  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:05:40pm

re: #91 Dark_Falcon

Don’t know precisely, but @jazzlaro follows tweets from Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, and Sean Hannity among others. Sounds like a watercooler rumor.

97 freetoken  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:06:50pm

BTW, I left a comment at that LA Times article. The first four comments are from what appear to be denialists who think they’ve somehow scored blog-points by their snark. Most of them are too ignorant to know they’re ignorant, and the rest don’t care - they just want to vent.

98 jaunte  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:15:31pm

It’s Friday night, so here’s some music:
Crazy ‘Bout An Automobile

99 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:15:36pm

re: #94 Floral Giraffe

I thought it was laid, but well, if you say paid…
Paid it must be!
LOL!

Well, if you’ve got the money, honey…

100 Intenzity  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:15:53pm

He is either going to have to be medicated, or I dont think he will make through the entire evening. I have never seen this guy not look like he is on meth, and just completely go bug-eyes ranting crazy at some point.

Either he is going to be very sedated, or he is going to give them exactly what they paid for, and I dont think they will be able to let him make it through the entire night he will just start saying such crazy stuff - this election is stolen, blah blah. Especially if anyone in the same room challenges him on anything, he does NOT like people to say things he disagrees with, and will go non-linear on them fast.

It very well might be a huge backfiring train wreck.

We can hope.

101 nines09  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:16:29pm

Guess this proves shit floats.

102 HoosierHoops  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:18:05pm

re: #94 Floral Giraffe

I thought it was laid, but well, if you say paid…
Paid it must be!
LOL!

Hi you! Hope today finds you well

103 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:18:12pm

re: #100 Intenzity

He is either going to have to be medicated, or I dont think he will make through the entire evening. I have never seen this guy not look like he is on meth, and just completely go bug-eyes ranting crazy at some point.

Either he is going to be very sedated, or he is going to give them exactly what they paid for, and I dont think they will be able to let him make it through the entire night he will just start saying such crazy stuff - this election is stolen, blah blah. Especially if anyone in the same room challenges him on anything, he does NOT like people to say things he disagrees with, and will go non-linear on them fast.

It very well might be a huge backfiring train wreck.

We can hope.

That would be somewhat funny though: Watching Breitbart go nuts and then be dragged away screamibg “Eleventy!!1”

104 krypto  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:19:14pm

I would have expected Fox to hire him instead for their election coverage. Is Rupert Murdoch also taking over ABC?

105 darthstar  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:20:44pm

ABC fucked up. I hope this decision hurts them where it counts…ad revenue.

106 HoosierHoops  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:24:26pm

re: #105 darthstar

ABC fucked up. I hope this decision hurts them where it counts…ad revenue.

Doubt it..The big three networks suck so much in news that It wouldn’t surprise me if one of them hired Mickey Mouse to cover the Afghanistan war

107 jaunte  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:25:57pm

John Hiatt: Feels Like Rain

108 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:28:12pm

re: #104 krypto

I would have expected Fox to hire him instead for their election coverage. Is Rupert Murdoch also taking over ABC?

Fox has Karl Rove, who is much more of a draw, and is much more knowledgeable about elections than Breitbart. They don’t need Breitbart in a major role.

109 Political Atheist  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:28:53pm

re: #50 reine.de.tout

Count me in there my friend. I’m still a right leaner.

110 freetoken  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:29:00pm

re: #108 Dark_Falcon

They don’t need Breitbart in a major role.

When they already have Glenn Beck as the class clown, why would they need another?

111 Varek Raith  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:29:05pm

re: #108 Dark_Falcon

Fox has Karl Rove, who is much more of a draw, and is much more knowledgeable about elections than Breitbart. They don’t need Breitbart in a major role.

That and I think Fox would like nothing more than to distance themselves from him and O’Keefe.

112 Varek Raith  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:29:32pm

re: #109 Rightwingconspirator

Count me in there my friend. I’m still a right leaner.

So am I.
Surprised?
:)

113 Mr Pancakes  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:29:49pm

re: #112 Varek Raith

So am I.
Surprised?
:)

I am

114 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:32:50pm

re: #109 Rightwingconspirator

Shut up, you ain’t no wingnut neither.

115 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:33:43pm

re: #112 Varek Raith

You? I don’t know what the hell it is you are, but it ain’t a wingnut.

116 webevintage  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:34:04pm

Dana Loesch and Andrew fucking Breitbart.
Luckily we normally do PBS and MSNBC (when Patrick J is not spewing) on election nights with a bit of CNN.

117 Killgore Trout  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:34:24pm

re: #93 Floral Giraffe

No dice. I crumble in front of an audience, I was a passable musician but a terrible performer. Just more stress than I could cope with. Once I started developing OCD’s to deal with the stress of performance I realized it’s just not for me. I could play music in front of an audience but it was painful. Public speaking was a different matter. I failed undergrad philosophy 3 times because I refused to do a presentation in front of the class.

118 b_sharp  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:34:45pm

re: #50 reine.de.tout

I think I may be the only wingnut left.
Hard to have a “shift” all by my lonesome.

There’s a difference between being a right winger and a wingnut, just like there is a difference between being a left winger and a loon. It’s a matter of both degree and kind.

119 reine.de.tout  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:34:56pm

re: #114 Slumbering Behemoth

Shut up, you ain’t no wingnut neither.

No he isn’t, nor am I, really.
But sometimes, heheheheh, it’s amusing to poke a little fun at myself, ya know?
LOL.

120 reine.de.tout  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:36:02pm

re: #117 Killgore Trout

No dice. I crumble in front of an audience,… .

Do you really?
I would not have guessed that.

121 Varek Raith  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:36:03pm

re: #113 Mr Pancakes

Seriously.
I tend to be a smidge right of center

122 Mr Pancakes  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:36:40pm

re: #119 reine.de.tout

No he isn’t, nor am I, really.
But sometimes, heheheheh, it’s amusing to poke a little fun at myself, ya know?
LOL.

“Sometimes I feel like a wingnut sometimes I don’t”

123 reine.de.tout  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:37:40pm

re: #122 Mr Pancakes

“Sometimes I feel like a wingnut sometimes I don’t”

Now that seriously made me laugh out loud.

BTW - where the heck is everybody?
Busy with real life?

124 jamesfirecat  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:38:12pm

Maybe ABC’s plan is to listen to Brietbar and consider exactly the oposite of whatever he says to be the truth… or maybe they want to play “who can hire the bigger wing nut” with CNN I like the first expliantion better…

125 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:38:45pm

re: #80 negativ

I’m sure the Phelps clan could spare someone.

They seem to have isolated the “bulging crazyeyes” gene in that family, so if they ever need to have a staredown on ABC…

126 b_sharp  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:39:01pm

re: #123 reine.de.tout

Now that seriously made me laugh out loud.

BTW - where the heck is everybody?
Busy with real life?

Getting married to our furniture.

127 Killgore Trout  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:39:12pm

re: #120 reine.de.tout

Do you really?
I would not have guessed that.

Yeah, really. It’s an odd phobia. I can’t stand to be the center of attention. I’ve always been like that and I suspect it’s genetic. Ever since I can remember.

128 prairiefire  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:39:25pm

Thanks to you lizards who make LGF a sane place to get through the election season.
Lefties and Righties.

129 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:39:29pm

re: #123 reine.de.tout

Now that seriously made me laugh out loud.

BTW - where the heck is everybody?
Busy with real life?

Halloween parties :D

(I’m going to one tonight in an hour or two, then another one tomorrow, then another one Sunday OMG birdcrazy)

130 Varek Raith  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:39:51pm

re: #127 Killgore Trout

Yeah, really. It’s an odd phobia. I can’t stand to be the center of attention. I’ve always been like that and I suspect it’s genetic. Ever since I can remember.

I don’t like elevators.
Being on one is just wrong!

131 b_sharp  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:40:53pm

re: #128 prairiefire

Thanks to you lizards who make LGF a sane place to get through the election season.
Lefties and Righties.

Lefties and Righties and Fencies.

132 jamesfirecat  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:40:54pm

re: #128 prairiefire

Thanks to you lizards who make LGF a sane place to get through the election season.
Lefties and Righties.

I love it so much my sign will be encouraging people to visit it at the Rally to Restore Sanity in about 12 hours from now…

133 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:41:05pm

re: #121 Varek Raith

I’m right handed, but I use my left hand to hold my… when I pee. What does that mean?

134 researchok  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:41:13pm

Schalit protest tent in J’lem defaced by vandals


In response to the incident, the family released a statement saying, “The Schalit family condemns the vandalism and cowardice which was perpetuated overnight in the protest tent near the Prime Minister’s residence by those who are apparently bothered by our presence and struggle in support of Gilad and would like to see Gilad abandoned to his fate with his Hamas captors. The family will continue to sit in the protest tent in front of the Prime Minister’s residence with an uncompromising demand to bring Gilad home immediately and end the four-and-a-half years of darkness in Hamas captivity.”
135 jaunte  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:41:25pm

Halloween’s coming:
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins I Put a Spell on You

136 jamesfirecat  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:41:28pm

re: #131 b_sharp

Lefties and Righties and Fencies.

I’m not a Frenchy I’m a Beligy!

(name the movie)

137 Varek Raith  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:41:38pm

re: #133 Slumbering Behemoth

I’m right handed, but I use my left hand to hold my… when I pee. What does that mean?

You’re a weirdo, that’s what!
/

138 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:42:07pm

re: #126 b_sharp

Getting married to our furniture.

Do you, Gay Caricature, take this Sybian to be your lawful wedded husband

139 Mr Pancakes  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:42:20pm

re: #136 jamesfirecat

I’m not a Frenchy I’m a Beligy!

(name the movie)

Bill and Ted’s Great Adventure?

140 b_sharp  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:43:11pm

re: #133 Slumbering Behemoth

I’m right handed, but I use my left hand to hold my… when I pee. What does that mean?

Depends on what the other hand is doing.

141 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:43:28pm

re: #135 jaunte

Halloween’s coming:
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins I Put a Spell on You

It sure is :D

blind boys don’t lie

142 Political Atheist  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:43:42pm

Looks like a few more folks have arrived since the last thread. So I’ll repeat my offer- The next person who buys a cookbook can (if they like)order up a free 8x10 color print of any of my LGF Page photographs. We have arrangements so my lab can send the print to you directly, I never see anyone’s address. Give away a cookbook for the holiday and keep the print. Everybody wins. :)

143 jamesfirecat  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:43:50pm

re: #139 Mr Pancakes

Bill and Ted’s Great Adventure?


It would be “Excellent Adventure” if it was the movie you’re thinking of, and no it isn’t that one nor was Keanu Reeves in this movie….

144 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:43:51pm

re: #135 jaunte

Hehehe, whazzup!

145 freetoken  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:43:52pm

re: #138 WindUpBird

That honeymoon would be… interesting…

146 prairiefire  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:44:17pm

re: #132 jamesfirecat

I love it so much my sign will be encouraging people to visit it at the Rally to Restore Sanity in about 12 hours from now…

You are going to the rally? Please post about it when you have a chance.

147 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:44:46pm

Back.

Yipee! After Tuesday the price of gasoline, food and rent will start going down!

//

148 Mr Pancakes  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:44:57pm

re: #143 jamesfirecat

It would be “Excellent Adventure” if it was the movie you’re thinking of, and no it isn’t that one nor was Keanu Reeves in this movie…

On Golden Lake?

149 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:45:15pm

re: #134 researchok

Schalit protest tent in J’lem defaced by vandals

That’s a rotten thing to do. I hope the asshole who did gets a nice term in jail.

150 jamesfirecat  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:45:18pm

re: #146 prairiefire

You are going to the rally? Please post about it when you have a chance.

Sure I’ve already done one LGF page in the past so I’ve got a semi okay understanding of how that works….

I wonder how many other lizards are going…. I know Charles willl be doing a post about it what with how it starts at exactly the time he does his first major post of the day….

151 researchok  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:45:37pm

re: #147 Gus 802

Back.

Yipee! After Tuesday the price of gasoline, food and rent will start going down!

//

Stimulus success story??

//

You laughed.

152 reine.de.tout  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:45:40pm

re: #127 Killgore Trout

Yeah, really. It’s an odd phobia. I can’t stand to be the center of attention. I’ve always been like that and I suspect it’s genetic. Ever since I can remember.

I don’t much like being the center of attention, I’m a “behind the scenes” sort of person. But I can speak in front of a group when I have to - a moment or two of utter panic, and then I’m OK. Oddly, for some reason, I’m more comfortable in front of a group of strangers than I am in front of a group of folks I know.

But my daughter is like you - she really really HATES to speak in front of a group. She just cannot stand it, is an absolute wreck if she knows she’ll have to make a presentation in front of a group.

I think it has to do with being an introvert, in the sense that we tend to process information internally, in our own minds, rather than through interactions with scads of people which is what my extrovert friend does. I can’t deal with too much “noise” - I do much better relating to people one on one than in a group setting or, God forbid, a party - ew. Whereas my extrovert friend likes nothing better than to be with a huge group of people.

153 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:45:47pm

re: #147 Gus 802

Back.

Yipee! After Tuesday the price of gasoline, food and rent will start going down!

//

And after Tuesday everyone will get a new luxury car.

//

154 b_sharp  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:45:51pm

re: #145 freetoken

That honeymoon would be… interesting…

And messy.

155 jamesfirecat  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:45:57pm

re: #148 Mr Pancakes

On Golden Lake?

Nope.


A second clue….


“Your lover?”

“My poodle.”

156 Varek Raith  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:46:10pm

re: #147 Gus 802

Back.

Yipee! After Tuesday the price of gasoline, food and rent will start going down!

//

Not to mention that 5 million jobs will be instantly created.
The Dow will surge eleventy million points.
The GDP will grow exponentially.

157 reine.de.tout  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:46:21pm

re: #133 Slumbering Behemoth

I’m right handed, but I use my left hand to hold my… when I pee. What does that mean?

It means that you are giving out way too much information.

158 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:47:04pm

re: #151 researchok

Stimulus success story??

//

You laughed.

Hey! [Thwack] They all do it.

159 prairiefire  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:47:07pm

re: #155 jamesfirecat

A Fish called Wanda?

160 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:47:10pm

re: #140 b_sharp

Depends on what the other hand is doing.

Scratching my ass, usually. On some nights, pressing against the wall for stability.

161 jamesfirecat  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:47:16pm

re: #156 Varek Raith

Not to mention that 5 million jobs will be instantly created.
The Dow will surge eleventy million points.
The GDP will grow exponentially.

///You wake up and discover that your manhood is an inch larger.

162 researchok  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:47:24pm

re: #153 Gus 802

And after Tuesday everyone will get a new luxury car.

//

Not EVERYONE.

//

Sarah and Christine have made that quite clear.

163 reine.de.tout  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:47:27pm

re: #130 Varek Raith

I don’t like elevators.
Being on one is just wrong!

I was once on an elevator that got stuck.
I about lost my mind.

164 Mr Pancakes  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:47:31pm

re: #155 jamesfirecat

Nope.

A second clue…

“Your lover?”

“My poodle.”

I’m trying to do this without Google…….. “Beverly Hills Dalmatian”

165 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:47:33pm

re: #156 Varek Raith

Not to mention that 5 million jobs will be instantly created.
The Dow will surge eleventy million points.
The GDP will grow exponentially.

Children will once again be allowed to pray in schools.

/

166 jamesfirecat  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:48:06pm

re: #159 prairiefire

A Fish called Wanda?

No, but closer….

167 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:48:30pm

re: #142 Rightwingconspirator

Looks like a few more folks have arrived since the last thread. So I’ll repeat my offer- The next person who buys a cookbook can (if they like)order up a free 8x10 color print of any of my LGF Page photographs. We have arrangements so my lab can send the print to you directly, I never see anyone’s address. Give away a cookbook for the holiday and keep the print. Everybody wins. :)

I wish I could. At present, though, that will need to wait till December. At that time, I plan to buy a copy for my mother.

168 jamesfirecat  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:48:38pm

re: #164 Mr Pancakes

I’m trying to do this without Google… “Beverly Hills Dalmatian”

Nope.

“I’m the greatest, I’m number one!”

“From here you look like number two…”

169 researchok  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:48:40pm

re: #165 Gus 802

Children will once again be allowed to pray in schools.

/

I sure did pray.

On exam days.

170 researchok  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:49:33pm

re: #153 Gus 802

And after Tuesday everyone will get a new luxury car.

//

I have it on good authority you will be the proud owner of a brand new bus pass.

171 Mr Pancakes  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:50:02pm

re: #168 jamesfirecat

Nope.

“I’m the greatest, I’m number one!”

“From here you look like number two…”

“The Mike Tyson Story”?

172 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:50:08pm

re: #152 reine.de.tout

I am sort of an introverted extrovert, I can either be the center of attention, play gigs, do art demos, karaoke whatever, song and dance, neon weird costumes, or I’m just a total hermit who wants nothing but solitude and space to work and doesn’t want to speak to anyone for days :D

173 SanFranciscoZionist  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:50:12pm

re: #48 Varek Raith

Apparently those suspicious devices today contained PETN.

Could they have gone off?

(My mother got the heads-up from the ADL, went downstairs at her Jewish place of employment, and found two freshly delivered toner cartridges on the desk.

Luckily, they had no mysterious postmarks or anything.)

174 Killgore Trout  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:50:40pm

re: #142 Rightwingconspirator

Looks like a few more folks have arrived since the last thread. So I’ll repeat my offer- The next person who buys a cookbook can (if they like)order up a free 8x10 color print of any of my LGF Page photographs. We have arrangements so my lab can send the print to you directly, I never see anyone’s address. Give away a cookbook for the holiday and keep the print. Everybody wins. :)

Bumped!

175 researchok  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:50:49pm

re: #157 reine.de.tout

It means that you are giving out way too much information.

I’m not touching that.

176 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:50:50pm

re: #170 researchok

I have it on good authority you will be the proud owner of a brand new bus pass.

To where? You mean after I go homeless and get stopped by a cop for vagrancy and then given a bus pass out of town?

/

177 SanFranciscoZionist  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:51:09pm

re: #60 Varek Raith

Unknown.
This whole thing is odd.

This is going to sound totally paranoid.

Is it possible they were meant to be received by someone at this end?

178 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:51:11pm

re: #153 Gus 802

And after Tuesday everyone will get a new luxury car.

//

File that under “BS politicos spew”. Every election you hear grand claim of how “This election will change everything!”. After a while, you come to realize how little most things actually change.

179 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:51:12pm

re: #153 Gus 802

And after Tuesday everyone will get a new luxury car.

//

hee:

180 jamesfirecat  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:51:24pm

re: #171 Mr Pancakes

“The Mike Tyson Story”?

“That cat? You feed cat dogfood?”

181 SanFranciscoZionist  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:51:56pm

re: #63 negativ

The last thing I heard said that they “could have been assembled” into bombs. Also that they were bound for synagogues. That makes no sense to me at all. Did they include a note saying “Dear Jews: Clamp the red alligator clamp onto the red wire, and the green clamp onto the green wire, then press the button marked “Detonate”. Thanks.”

Well, remember the computer virus that worked on the honor system? After receiving it, you were supposed to voluntarily delete your hard drive.

182 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:51:57pm

re: #179 WindUpBird

hee: [Link: www.theonion.com…]

GM can offer the Omni.

/

183 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:52:07pm

re: #157 reine.de.tout

I’ve just thought it was always weird that I do just about everything else with my right hand but that. Does that make me a freak?

184 Killgore Trout  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:52:08pm

re: #152 reine.de.tout

I think it has to do with being an introvert, in the sense that we tend to process information internally, in our own minds, rather than through interactions with scads of people which is what my extrovert friend does.


Very good observation. That’s probably it.

185 SanFranciscoZionist  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:52:27pm

re: #71 Varek Raith

PETN is also what the underwear idiot used.
They have access to high grade explosives, but they seem to lack a viable means of detonating it.

I’m OK with that second part.

186 researchok  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:52:40pm

re: #176 Gus 802

To where? You mean after I go homeless and get stopped by a cop for vagrancy and then given a bus pass out of town?

/

Glenn will be glad to help, I’m sure.

Sheriff Joe can hardly wait.
//

187 b_sharp  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:52:55pm

re: #160 Slumbering Behemoth

Scratching my ass, usually. On some nights, pressing against the wall for stability.

Eventually, when your eyes start taking a long time to adapt to light, going from dark to light hurts, and going from light to dark leaves you blind for too long, you’ll start sitting down in the dark. Then both hands are free.

188 Mr Pancakes  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:52:57pm

re: #180 jamesfirecat

“That cat? You feed cat dogfood?”

Was Nick Nolte in it?

189 jaunte  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:52:59pm

Ry Cooder - Down In Mississippi

190 SanFranciscoZionist  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:53:15pm

re: #73 Floral Giraffe

If they were smart, they’ be approaching Killgore Trout. But, they’re not that smart!
LOL!

Really, if they want high-grade conservative political analysts, they should hire some Lizards. I would totally tune in to watch Reine give her commentary.

191 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:53:26pm

re: #182 Gus 802

GM can offer the Omni.

/

Oh God the Omni!


GM has really been making some badass cars lately, which is why it’s so hilarious to me that they’ve become a talking point hlghblghg Gubment Motorzz, they’re making some of the most incredible vehicles

192 reine.de.tout  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:53:38pm

re: #177 SanFranciscoZionist

This is going to sound totally paranoid.

Is it possible they were meant to be received by someone at this end?

That doesn’t sound paranoid at all, to me, except it seems those items would be available locally here, and not need to be mailed in.
But I wonder if that’s something they’re investigating?
Which may be why we don’t know much, yet.

193 SanFranciscoZionist  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:53:44pm

re: #75 Killgore Trout

Here’s my theory: They were attached to printer cartridges filled with some (at least slightly) radioactive liquid. I think the plan was to splatter the radioactive liquid. The synagogues might have to remodel a room or two, replace the carpet, etc. I don’t think it was a very good plot.

Ha! We will force the Jews to redecorate!

That is not a very good plot at all.

194 Political Atheist  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:53:59pm

Last year I did the concert photography for these guys. They have a wonderful new song out, that you can enjoy right here… My friends Toby and Dave Juke Kartel.

Just put the web site up in a tab and enjoy the music. Heh. I am.

195 reine.de.tout  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:54:05pm

re: #190 SanFranciscoZionist

Really, if they want high-grade conservative political analysts, they should hire some Lizards. I would totally tune in to watch Reine give her commentary.

You are so sweet!

196 SanFranciscoZionist  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:54:45pm

re: #88 jaunte

Tweet from Rachel Maddow:

Wow.

Congress and Muslims, eh?

//

197 Mr Pancakes  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:55:03pm

re: #191 WindUpBird

Oh God the Omni!

GM has really been making some badass cars lately

My first car was a 62 Chevy Corvair.

198 prairiefire  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:55:07pm

re: #180 jamesfirecat

“That cat? You feed cat dogfood?”

The Hangover

199 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:55:25pm

re: #88 jaunte

Tweet from Rachel Maddow:

hah WOW

200 b_sharp  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:55:25pm

re: #163 reine.de.tout

I was once on an elevator that got stuck.
I about lost my mind.

Well, at least in an elevator your mind can’t get out so finding it and stuffing it back in isn’t too difficult. I once lost my mind in a friends house. It took me days to find it.

201 SanFranciscoZionist  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:55:27pm

re: #95 freetoken

One wonders if the phone is set to “vibrate” if the pressure waves would be enough to detonate? I tend to be skeptical of that just because the simple loading/unloading of the package is likely to cause more shock.

Yeah. If it remains stable after being thrown on a truck, I don’t think a phone on vibrate will do it.

202 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:55:39pm

re: #197 Mr Pancakes

My first car was a 62 Chevy Corvair.

Mine was a 1975 Firebird :D

203 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:55:41pm

re: #191 WindUpBird

Oh God the Omni!

GM has really been making some badass cars lately, which is why it’s so hilarious to me that they’ve become a talking point hlghblghg Gubment Motorzz, they’re making some of the most incredible vehicles

Finally. But I was looking at prices a couple of months ago. Seems like today’s tin cans cost about 12,000 dollars. A normal average car is about 20,000.

204 SanFranciscoZionist  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:55:55pm

re: #103 Dark_Falcon

That would be somewhat funny though: Watching Breitbart go nuts and then be dragged away screamibg “Eleventy!!1”

I’d watch that.

205 reine.de.tout  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:56:14pm

re: #183 Slumbering Behemoth

I’ve just thought it was always weird that I do just about everything else with my right hand but that. Does that make me a freak?

I dunno.
Shall I ask the Roi?
I prolly better not.

206 jamesfirecat  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:56:22pm

re: #188 Mr Pancakes

Was Nick Nolte in it?

Not to my knowledge.

I think you probably haven’t seen the movie in question since it’s not exactly well knwon.


“Where’s my Dickie? ….. Sorry. Where’s my husband? “

207 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:56:55pm

re: #135 jaunte

Halloween’s coming:
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins I Put a Spell on You

BTW, here is an olde timey style video someone made for that song, as well as a Marilyn Manson cover, both of which are pretty awesome.

208 jamesfirecat  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:56:55pm

re: #198 prairiefire

The Hangover

Not even close that guess….

209 jaunte  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:56:56pm

re: #196 SanFranciscoZionist

Shariah’s gonna take away our meds.

210 HoosierHoops  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:57:13pm

re: #172 WindUpBird

I am sort of an introverted extrovert, I can either be the center of attention, play gigs, do art demos, karaoke whatever, song and dance, neon weird costumes, or I’m just a total hermit who wants nothing but solitude and space to work and doesn’t want to speak to anyone for days :D

I have never been shy..In person or on the internet…When I walk into a room I like to meet everybody and talk to them…I have been told I’ve never met a stranger

211 Varek Raith  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:57:41pm

re: #205 reine.de.tout

I dunno.
Shall I ask the Roi?
I prolly better not.

It’s SB.
We’ll just leave it at that.
/

212 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:58:08pm

re: #203 Gus 802

Finally. But I was looking at prices a couple of months ago. Seems like today’s tin cans cost about 12,000 dollars. A normal average car is about 20,000.

Yeah, that’s about right. I think the cheapest thing new is a Hyundai Accent hatch?

I never buy new, though. For the price of a new Yaris or a used Corolla, I can get a lightly used 400HP 2005 Pontiac GTO with leather everything. And give the finger to badge snobs as they see nothing but taillights

213 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:58:29pm

re: #197 Mr Pancakes

My first car was a 62 Chevy Corvair.

AMC Hornet. Although I did have a VW Squareback once that lasted a day. Got ripped off for something like $500. Engine seized. I hate New Jersey.

214 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:58:32pm

re: #210 HoosierHoops

I have never been shy..In person or on the internet…When I walk into a room I like to meet everybody and talk to them…I have been told I’ve never met a stranger

I would have guessed you’d be a very social person ^_^

215 reine.de.tout  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:58:36pm

re: #200 b_sharp

Well, at least in an elevator your mind can’t get out so finding it and stuffing it back in isn’t too difficult. I once lost my mind in a friends house. It took me days to find it.

You sure you found it?

216 Political Atheist  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:58:39pm

re: #201 SanFranciscoZionist

I think the phone ringer sets off an explosive designed to set off the PETN. Binary bomb. Stuff is very powerful for its bulk. CNN ran some test video. Ugh.

217 SanFranciscoZionist  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:59:07pm

re: #156 Varek Raith

Not to mention that 5 million jobs will be instantly created.
The Dow will surge eleventy million points.
The GDP will grow exponentially.

And no one will ever have to pay taxes again. This will lead to general prosperity and happiness.

218 Mr Pancakes  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:59:18pm

re: #206 jamesfirecat

Not to my knowledge.

I think you probably haven’t seen the movie in question since it’s not exactly well knwon.

“Where’s my Dickie? … Sorry. Where’s my husband? “

Ok I Googled……. nope never saw it.

219 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:59:21pm

re: #175 researchok

I’m not touching that.

Not to worry, I have the situation well in hand.

220 b_sharp  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:59:25pm

re: #215 reine.de.tout

You sure you found it?

Shhhh! My wife doesn’t know.

221 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:59:26pm

re: #193 SanFranciscoZionist

Ha! We will force the Jews to redecorate!

That is not a very good plot at all.

Thankfully, this plot wasn’t a well-thought out one.

222 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:59:36pm

re: #213 Gus 802

AMC Hornet. Although I did have a VW Squareback once that lasted a day. Got ripped off for something like $500. Engine seized. I hate New Jersey.

My father had an AMC AMX, which almost killed him because he fell asleep at the wheel. He said the car “went like a bat out of hell”. :D I think it had the same power to weight ratio as a Porsche 911, 3000lbs and 300hp.

223 reine.de.tout  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:59:55pm

re: #210 HoosierHoops

I have never been shy..In person or on the internet…When I walk into a room I like to meet everybody and talk to them…I have been told I’ve never met a stranger

good grief.
I walk into a room with a lot of people, I’m paralyzed.
It’s not that I’m unfriendly.
I just have no clue what to do or say.

224 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:01:03pm

re: #222 WindUpBird

My father had an AMC AMX, which almost killed him because he fell asleep at the wheel. He said the car “went like a bat out of hell”. :D I think it had the same power to weight ratio as a Porsche 911, 3000lbs and 300hp.

Really? My uncle fells asleep in a Ford Bronco. Rolled it like 3 times. No major damage. To him that is. He’s got a thick skull.

225 Mr Pancakes  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:01:06pm

re: #222 WindUpBird

My father had an AMC AMX, which almost killed him because he fell asleep at the wheel. He said the car “went like a bat out of hell”. :D I think it had the same power to weight ratio as a Porsche 911, 3000lbs and 300hp.

Before it was known as AMC what were they called? No peeking.

226 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:01:27pm

re: #223 reine.de.tout

good grief.
I walk into a room with a lot of people, I’m paralyzed.
It’s not that I’m unfriendly.
I just have no clue what to do or say.

With me, it depends on the people. if it’s my karaoke bar or a convention or a concert or whatever, i can strike up a conversation with anyone, because it’s my comfort zone. But if I’m at a party full of unfamiliar people in an unfamiliar line of work, and I’m sort of the strange nerdy guy amongst “normal people”, I don’t do so great :D

227 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:01:34pm

re: #225 Mr Pancakes

Before it was known as AMC what were they called? No peeking.

You mean American Motors?

228 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:01:51pm

re: #225 Mr Pancakes

Before it was known as AMC what were they called? No peeking.

Dammit, you got me, no idea :D

229 Mr Pancakes  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:01:54pm

re: #227 Gus 802

You mean American Motors?

Yes

230 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:01:54pm

re: #187 b_sharp

Half the time I just do it with my eyes closed. I’ve got good instinctual aim.

231 Mr Pancakes  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:02:16pm

re: #228 WindUpBird

Dammit, you got me, no idea :D

RAMBLER

232 reine.de.tout  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:02:26pm

re: #230 Slumbering Behemoth

Half the time I just do it with my eyes closed. I’ve got good instinctual aim.

TMI, again!

233 Varek Raith  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:02:28pm

re: #230 Slumbering Behemoth

Half the time I just do it with my eyes closed. I’ve got good instinctual aim.

You must be a blast at parties.
:P

234 jamesfirecat  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:02:41pm

Okay its midnight here on the east cost so i’m for bed.

The movie in question was “Murder By Death” consider picking it up over Amazon.com or ebay sometime since you’re unlikely to find it anywhere else.

It is quite amusing if your into parodies of mystery stories….

235 Mr Pancakes  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:03:20pm

re: #234 jamesfirecat

Okay its midnight here on the east cost so i’m for bed.

The movie in question was “Murder By Death” consider picking it up over Amazon.com or ebay sometime since you’re unlikely to find it anywhere else.

It is quite amusing if your into parodies of mystery stories…

I have Netflix……. I’ll put it in que.

236 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:03:56pm

re: #229 Mr Pancakes

Yes

Guess they were also Nash before. And Kelvinator something. That I had to look up.

237 Dancing along the light of day  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:04:24pm

re: #50 reine.de.tout

I think I may be the only wingnut left.
Hard to have a “shift” all by my lonesome.

I’ll stand with you anytime, anywhere.
Let them bring it !
*smooch*

238 SanFranciscoZionist  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:04:39pm

re: #209 jaunte

Shariah’s gonna take away our meds.

Shariah doesn’t want to do that. I’m off my meds now. When not weeping hysterically, I am very, very dangerous.

239 Varek Raith  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:04:49pm

re: #236 Gus 802

Guess they were also Nash before. And Kelvinator something. That I had to look up.

“I’ll be back!…when it’s warmer”

240 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:04:49pm

re: #229 Mr Pancakes

Yes

Mitt Romney’s father was the CEO of American Motors for a few years.

241 jamesfirecat  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:04:54pm

re: #235 Mr Pancakes

I have Netflix… I’ll put it in que.

Good man, it shouldn’t disapoint.

242 jaunte  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:05:18pm

Nate Silver:
Senate Update: California May Be Out of Reach for G.O.P.

A new poll from Field Research, highest-rated polling firm in our database, gives Barbara Boxer an 8-point lead, 49 to 41, over her Republican challenger, Carly Fiorina

243 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:05:35pm

re: #239 Varek Raith

“I’ll be back!…when it’s warmer”

Mmmm. Mmmm. One of the ugliest cars ever made.

Image: 800px-1977-Matador_Barcelona-front_left.JPG

244 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:06:34pm

re: #243 Gus 802

Mmmm. Mmmm. One of the ugliest cars ever made.

Image: 800px-1977-Matador_Barcelona-front_left.JPG

hahah,yes! that’s Aztek ugly

245 Mr Pancakes  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:06:42pm

re: #236 Gus 802

Guess they were also Nash before. And Kelvinator something. That I had to look up.

And they were also Jeep.

Maybe you remember this song… probably not.

246 Dancing along the light of day  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:06:55pm

re: #102 HoosierHoops

Hello, you!
How’s the new digs?
And Mr. Winston?

247 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:07:02pm

re: #244 WindUpBird

hahah,yes! that’s Aztek ugly

That’s not a car! That’s a boat! OK, maybe a landing craft.

/

248 Varek Raith  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:07:30pm

re: #247 Gus 802

That’s not a car! That’s a boat! OK, maybe a landing craft.

/

“THIRTY SECONDS!”

249 jaunte  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:08:11pm

re: #243 Gus 802

Ad copywriters are calling it “America’s sportiest new car.”
Image: 74mat-ad.jpg

250 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:08:11pm

re: #247 Gus 802

That’s not a car! That’s a boat! OK, maybe a landing craft.

/

I actually really dig the Eagle, the off road wagon that sorta foreshadowed the Subarus that would come later

251 freetoken  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:08:38pm

re: #243 Gus 802

It was ok in black.

252 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:09:18pm

re: #211 Varek Raith

It’s SB.
We’ll just leave it at that.
/

I have no boundaries when it comes to discussing everyday stuff like this. I even buy “that time of the month” lady products for my girlfriends without shame or embarrassment. That’s just how I roll.

253 prairiefire  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:09:25pm

re: #251 freetoken

Dig that groovy coat and tie combo.

254 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:09:32pm

re: #245 Mr Pancakes

And they were also Jeep.

Maybe you remember this song… probably not.

[Video]

Song was before my time but I’ve heard it many times before.

255 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:09:35pm

God help me this Pacer looks AWESOME Image: 2875000091_large.jpg

256 Dancing along the light of day  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:09:49pm

re: #117 Killgore Trout

We’re not a scary bunch, I don’t do public speaking well, either.
I find it easier in front of supportive friends.
Be well, KT.

257 Varek Raith  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:10:09pm

re: #255 WindUpBird

God help me this Pacer looks AWESOME Image: 2875000091_large.jpg

Hey, do you still have a pic of that fugly Corvette?

258 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:10:18pm

re: #251 freetoken

It was ok in black.

That’s night time assault version.

/

259 b_sharp  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:10:21pm

re: #230 Slumbering Behemoth

Half the time I just do it with my eyes closed. I’ve got good instinctual aim.

Riiight.

260 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:10:52pm

re: #257 Varek Raith

Hey, do you still have a pic of that fugly Corvette?

which one, the Dragon corvette that was totally butchered with like house paint?

261 Varek Raith  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:11:18pm

re: #260 WindUpBird

which one, the Dragon corvette that was totally butchered with like house paint?

Yeah, that one.
XD

262 Dancing along the light of day  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:11:18pm

re: #119 reine.de.tout

No he isn’t, nor am I, really.
But sometimes, heheheheh, it’s amusing to poke a little fun at myself, ya know?
LOL.

reaches in to really *poke*hard!
LOL!
*waves, nicely!*

263 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:11:26pm

re: #223 reine.de.tout

good grief.
I walk into a room with a lot of people, I’m paralyzed.
It’s not that I’m unfriendly.
I just have no clue what to do or say.

I have never had a problem with ‘public speaking’. I have no problem at all speaking in front of a large group, SO LONG AS I’m talking about something I know about, or at least think I know about.

I do have a problem meeting new people, talking to strangers one-on-one, etc. I’m actually very shy. I am also preternaturally disposed to distrust and dislike of people in general.

264 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:12:13pm

re: #181 SanFranciscoZionist

Well, remember the computer virus that worked on the honor system? After receiving it, you were supposed to voluntarily delete your hard drive.

Yeah, I do remember that! It was called “Windows 95” I think.

265 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:12:15pm

re: #253 prairiefire

Dig that groovy coat and tie combo.

Somewhere a sofa is missing some fabric.

/

266 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:12:16pm

re: #261 Varek Raith

Yeah, that one.
XD

[Link: jalopnik.com…]

267 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:13:07pm

re: #233 Varek Raith

Your potted plants are not safe.

268 Dancing along the light of day  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:13:49pm

re: #157 reine.de.tout

It means that you are giving out way too much information.

AND THE WINNAH IS!
DING DING DING!
LOL

269 HoosierHoops  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:14:06pm

re: #223 reine.de.tout

good grief.
I walk into a room with a lot of people, I’m paralyzed.
It’s not that I’m unfriendly.
I just have no clue what to do or say.

I understand..But nothing bothers me..I talk to everybody.. I’ve always been that way…well before I was adopted at 12 years old I hated everybody with a passion…But mom and dad healed me and taught me to love and enjoy other people and become the man I am..I owe them everything..
i was thinking the other day..When I was a little kid I judged people and judged them with extreme prejudice… I pretty much hated mankind..My mom healed me..I love people now..I hated them then….I don’t use the word hate lightly

270 Mr Pancakes  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:14:20pm

re: #255 WindUpBird

God help me this Pacer looks AWESOME Image: 2875000091_large.jpg

The AMC Javelin may have given your Firebird a run for the money.

There was no way they could have called that car a Rambler…. hence the name change.

[Link: www.flickr.com…]

271 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:14:27pm

re: #264 negativ

Yeah, I do remember that! It was called “Windows 95” I think.

[chuckle]

272 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:14:36pm

Speaking of the 70s the original “Death Wish” is on Hulu.

273 freetoken  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:14:48pm

re: #266 WindUpBird

Yeah, but would you dare be caught in this… Ferarri?

274 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:14:51pm

re: #259 b_sharp

All right, all right… truth be told, I can only pull that off in my own bathroom. You don’t want me doing that at your house.

275 HoosierHoops  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:15:01pm

re: #268 Floral Giraffe

AND THE WINNAH IS!
DING DING DING!
LOL

What up girl? Hope you are well

276 reine.de.tout  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:15:03pm

re: #269 HoosierHoops

I understand..But nothing bothers me..I talk to everybody.. I’ve always been that way…well before I was adopted at 12 years old I hated everybody with a passion…But mom and dad healed me and taught me to love and enjoy other people and become the man I am..I owe them everything..
i was thinking the other day..When I was a little kid I judged people and judged them with extreme prejudice… I pretty much hated mankind..My mom healed me..I love people now..I hated them then…I don’t use the word hate lightly

{{{hoops}}}

277 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:15:50pm

re: #270 Mr Pancakes

The AMC Javelin may have given your Firebird a run for the money.

There was no way they could have called that car a Rambler… hence the name change.

[Link: www.flickr.com…]

Oh I’m sure it did, 1975 was a bleak year for muscle :( My car felt fast to me! But I don’t think it was any faster than my GTI now.

278 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:16:02pm
279 Dancing along the light of day  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:16:27pm

re: #210 HoosierHoops

You never called some of them either.
Hello, you!
Work load lightening yet?

280 Varek Raith  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:16:52pm

re: #278 Gus 802

This one always looked decent.

Image: 1970_AMC_Javelin_SST_in_bitter_sweet_orange.jpg

Feh, old cars are old.
Image: 10580-2005-Lotus-Elise.jpg
:P

281 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:16:59pm

re: #273 freetoken

Yeah, but would you dare be caught in this… Ferarri?

Oh I would ABSOLUTELY drive that :D Massive grand touring muscle, and it’s hot pink, and it’ll enrage car snobs. YES

282 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:17:24pm

re: #280 Varek Raith

Feh, old cars are old.
Image: 10580-2005-Lotus-Elise.jpg
:P

One day, I’ll have one of those o_o

283 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:18:11pm

re: #280 Varek Raith

Especially now that the newer faster-but-also-heavier Elise is coming out, wait a few years, you’ll be able to find an Elise in the sub $20,000 range.

284 Varek Raith  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:18:23pm

re: #281 WindUpBird

Oh I would ABSOLUTELY drive that :D Massive grand touring muscle, and it’s hot pink, and it’ll enrage car snobs. YES

I’m shocked.
No, not really.
But, still.
I’m shocked!
:P

285 Max  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:19:09pm

George Galloway’s band of malevolent moonbats are hooking up with Palestinian Islamic Jihad on their way to Gaza.

286 HoosierHoops  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:19:38pm

re: #279 Floral Giraffe

You never called some of them either.
Hello, you!
Work load lightening yet?

Not yet..Couple of more weeks…Winston hates me…He thinks I left him alone everyday…No day off since Oct 1st…I’m punchy

287 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:19:51pm

re: #280 Varek Raith

Feh, old cars are old.
Image: 10580-2005-Lotus-Elise.jpg
:P

Aston Martin is the only way to go.

Image: cygnet-china.jpg

Bwow!

288 Varek Raith  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:20:32pm

re: #287 Gus 802

Aston Martin is the only way to go.

Image: cygnet-china.jpg

Bwow!

I prefer their more…tankier cars.
;)

289 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:20:55pm

re: #284 Varek Raith

I’m shocked.
No, not really.
But, still.
I’m shocked!
:P

I actually legitmately, no bullshit really like a magenta+hot pink stripes color scheme. I built a 80’s Trans Am with that color scheme in Forza 3, and I just go all weak in the knees when I look at it :D There’s just something about hot pink I like, it’s very obnoxious and punk. And I currently drive a grey car, and I’m sorta sick of grey :D

290 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:21:14pm

re: #287 Gus 802

Aston Martin is the only way to go.

Image: cygnet-china.jpg

Bwow!

Gah, the Aston Fiat thing :(

291 b_sharp  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:21:19pm

re: #269 HoosierHoops

I understand..But nothing bothers me..I talk to everybody.. I’ve always been that way…well before I was adopted at 12 years old I hated everybody with a passion…But mom and dad healed me and taught me to love and enjoy other people and become the man I am..I owe them everything..
i was thinking the other day..When I was a little kid I judged people and judged them with extreme prejudice… I pretty much hated mankind..My mom healed me..I love people now..I hated them then…I don’t use the word hate lightly

You have good parents.

I’ve never liked meeting people. Until I’ve been around them a long time I have no idea how to read them and frequently say the wrong thing.

I was a good looking kid and young adult and I suspect there were quite a few confused young ladies because of my inability to pick up their signals. I had to rely on a friend telling me whether a girl liked me or not, and if I made a move on her, I was told I was ‘fast’.

I still don’t know what that means.

292 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:21:22pm

re: #288 Varek Raith

I prefer their more…tankier cars.
;)

Yeah, I was kidding.

Image: villa1.jpg

293 Dancing along the light of day  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:21:31pm

Uh, Oh. Smell of the skunk.
BBIAB.

294 Varek Raith  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:21:50pm

re: #293 Floral Giraffe

Uh, Oh. Smell of the skunk.
BBIAB.

SB?
/

295 Killgore Trout  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:22:06pm

Do not want the lotus and it will be yours…
Image: lotus-buddha.jpg
Git some!

296 Political Atheist  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:22:36pm

For some reason Google Earth of all things will not install and launch in my computer. Very odd.

297 Mr Pancakes  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:23:23pm

re: #293 Floral Giraffe

Uh, Oh. Smell of the skunk.
BBIAB.

I don’t mind the smell of skunk…… I like Mickey’s Big Mouth’s malt liquor.

298 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:24:03pm

re: #285 Max D. Reinhardt

Galloway isn’t even a POS, he’s a pile.

299 tradewind  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:24:46pm

It’s ABC. They understood they’d be needing an interpreter.//

300 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:24:47pm

re: #292 Gus 802

ee *_*

301 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:24:48pm

re: #280 Varek Raith

Feh, old cars are old.
Image: 10580-2005-Lotus-Elise.jpg
:P

It’s a shame avanti isn’t here tonight. This conversation would be right up his alley.

302 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:25:08pm

re: #294 Varek Raith

I’m RIGHT HERE, hello!

303 Varek Raith  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:26:02pm

re: #302 Slumbering Behemoth

I’m RIGHT HERE, hello!

Image: You-Are-Here-Poster-(4072).jpg

304 SanFranciscoZionist  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:27:04pm

re: #285 Max D. Reinhardt

George Galloway’s band of malevolent moonbats are hooking up with Palestinian Islamic Jihad on their way to Gaza.

Why don’t these guys just move to Gaza full-time, and occasionally process back to their original homes, instead?

305 SanFranciscoZionist  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:29:26pm

re: #297 Mr Pancakes

I don’t mind the smell of skunk… I like Mickey’s Big Mouth’s malt liquor.

One of the best SCA stories I ever heard involved an empty Mickey’s bottle being used as masturbation device. Please note, this is NOT a good idea.

306 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:29:51pm

re: #280 Varek Raith

Feh, old cars are old.
Image: 10580-2005-Lotus-Elise.jpg
:P

No.

1938 Alfa Romeo.

Image: fairfield-country-concours-alfa-romeo-2300-b.jpg

307 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:30:00pm

TFK is feeling frisky on the Stalker Blog tonight. He went and flung insults at 4 of us: freetoken for his comment about using a cell phone’s vibrate feature to detonate a bomb, and Reine, Varek and RWC for saying they are still right-wing. He’s in full hate mode tonight.

308 Varek Raith  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:30:33pm

re: #306 negativ

No.

1938 Alfa Romeo.

Image: fairfield-country-concours-alfa-romeo-2300-b.jpg

All I would need is a Tommy Gun.
;)

309 Mr Pancakes  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:30:57pm

re: #305 SanFranciscoZionist

One of the best SCA stories I ever heard involved an empty Mickey’s bottle being used as masturbation device. Please note, this is NOT a good idea.

I can’t imagine…. the opening is way too small.

310 Varek Raith  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:31:23pm

re: #307 Dark_Falcon

Awww, the poor wittle baybee!

311 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:32:14pm

re: #307 Dark_Falcon

TFK is feeling frisky on the Stalker Blog tonight. He went and flung insults at 4 of us: freetoken for his comment about using a cell phone’s vibrate feature to detonate a bomb, and Reine, Varek and RWC for saying they are still right-wing. He’s in full hate mode tonight.

Awe. Another night of anger with the pathetic one. Must suck for them being on the outside looking in. Ha!

Igloo white!
John Kerry!
Earth First!

Where’s my Metamucil!?

/

312 b_sharp  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:32:36pm

re: #309 Mr Pancakes

I can’t imagine… the opening is way too small.

And the bottle is way too short.

313 Dancing along the light of day  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:32:58pm

re: #294 Varek Raith

Skunks like to live under houses in Ca. Its warmer than outside, and safer too.
Humans, well, this one in particular, dislike the scent of skunks.
I live in a very urban area, not like the last neighborhood, of the Hollywood Hills, but still try to keep the skunks from nesting under my home.
Sorry, but the bottom line is, skunks stink.

314 SanFranciscoZionist  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:34:19pm

re: #309 Mr Pancakes

I can’t imagine… the opening is way too small.

:)

That was actually the problem—it wasn’t when it went on, but then it became too small, if you know what I mean…

315 Varek Raith  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:35:03pm

re: #307 Dark_Falcon

TFK is feeling frisky on the Stalker Blog tonight. He went and flung insults at 4 of us: freetoken for his comment about using a cell phone’s vibrate feature to detonate a bomb, and Reine, Varek and RWC for saying they are still right-wing. He’s in full hate mode tonight.

Of course I’m not “right wing” as much as I am “right of center”.
Though, that tent is probably way too big for the wingnuts.

316 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:35:14pm
317 Political Atheist  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:35:38pm

re: #307 Dark_Falcon

Drunkbloggers.

318 b_sharp  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:36:02pm

re: #316 Gus 802

Image: chevy-vega.jpg

Needs a small block.

319 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:36:08pm

re: #285 Max D. Reinhardt

George Galloway’s band of malevolent moonbats are hooking up with Palestinian Islamic Jihad on their way to Gaza.

What a shitbird. And that asshole who wants to play with the RPG is even worse. If you are playing with an anti-tank weapon that Hamas has imported to kill Jews with Hamas terrorists surrounding, you clearly don’t mind their murderous designs.

320 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:36:20pm

re: #317 Rightwingconspirator

HEY! Don’t blame the drink.

321 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:36:41pm

New camera! New camera!

*doing the new camera boogie*

322 Varek Raith  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:36:42pm

re: #318 b_sharp

Needs a small block.

The chick???

Oh, you mean the car.
Just noticed it.
/

323 Dancing along the light of day  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:37:54pm

re: #307 Dark_Falcon

They stink worse than a skunk!
We just need to sic Ludwig & Reginald after them.
They do put their tails between their legs, when they run.
Oh, HAI stalkerz.

324 SanFranciscoZionist  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:38:01pm

re: #319 Dark_Falcon

What a shitbird. And that asshole who wants to play with the RPG is even worse. If you are playing with an anti-tank weapon that Hamas has imported to kill Jews with Hamas terrorists surrounding, you clearly don’t mind their murderous designs.

Galloway doesn’t mind at all. He’s made that absolutely clear.

325 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:38:27pm

re: #317 Rightwingconspirator

Drunkbloggers.

He’s not drunk, just nasty. He’s a hater, through and through.

326 Dancing along the light of day  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:38:50pm

re: #321 EmmmieG

WOOT!
Shoot this!
LOL!

327 HoosierHoops  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:39:29pm

re: #313 Floral Giraffe

Skunks like to live under houses in Ca. Its warmer than outside, and safer too.
Humans, well, this one in particular, dislike the scent of skunks.
I live in a very urban area, not like the last neighborhood, of the Hollywood Hills, but still try to keep the skunks from nesting under my home.
Sorry, but the bottom line is, skunks stink.

floral..I’ll be at the OU game saturday night ( If the tik comes through)
I’ll call you at 8:21 pm at kickoff so you can hear 81000 people cheering like crazy…LOL

328 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:39:37pm
329 reine.de.tout  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:39:38pm

re: #307 Dark_Falcon

TFK is feeling frisky on the Stalker Blog tonight. He went and flung insults at 4 of us: freetoken for his comment about using a cell phone’s vibrate feature to detonate a bomb, and Reine, Varek and RWC for saying they are still right-wing. He’s in full hate mode tonight.

We are WINOs?
(Wingnuts in Name Only)
hahahaha.

330 Mr Pancakes  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:39:52pm
331 Max  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:39:57pm

Apparently, there was a rally of 100,000 wannabe shahids today in Gaza.

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332 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:40:23pm

re: #326 Floral Giraffe

WOOT!
Shoot this!
LOL!

Just in time to take pictures of my kids in Halloween costumes.

333 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:40:43pm
334 Max  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:40:54pm

The death cult is alive and well.

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335 SanFranciscoZionist  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:42:17pm

re: #334 Max D. Reinhardt

The death cult is alive and well.

Image: 108660.jpg

And the cult of Western admiration and justification for this waste of life is also doing very well.

336 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:42:58pm

re: #324 SanFranciscoZionist

Galloway doesn’t mind at all. He’s made that absolutely clear.

And that’s why he’s a shitbird.

337 b_sharp  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:43:36pm

re: #330 Mr Pancakes

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That looks like a 1970 Camaro SS with split front bumper.

338 Max  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:43:39pm

re: #335 SanFranciscoZionist

And the cult of Western admiration and justification for this waste of life is also doing very well.

Growing that gang of losers is Galloway’s raison d’être. And unfortunately, he does a pretty good job at it.

339 Mr Pancakes  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:44:21pm

re: #333 Gus 802

[Video]

If I could buy a muscle car today……… it would be this. I’ve always been a Mopar fan.

[Link: www.automotivestylings.com…]

340 Dancing along the light of day  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:44:26pm

re: #327 HoosierHoops

LOL!
I hope your tix come through!
*smooch*
(Like that’s a conversation…///)

341 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:47:23pm

re: #339 Mr Pancakes

If I could buy a muscle car today… it would be this. I’ve always been a Mopar fan.

[Link: www.automotivestylings.com…]

Not a Camaro?

Image: hpp-camaro.jpg

342 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:47:49pm

re: #338 Max D. Reinhardt

Growing that gang of losers is Galloway’s raison d’être. And unfortunately, he does a pretty good job at it.

Well, they have to be shrunk, then. Those bastards pervert the values of the UK and the West in general just as badly as the EDL. They may say “Long Live Palestine!” but they really want to say “Death to Israel.”

343 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:49:59pm

re: #339 Mr Pancakes

If I could buy a muscle car today… it would be this. I’ve always been a Mopar fan.

[Link: www.automotivestylings.com…]

You might like this…

[Link: www.hppcars.com…]

344 SanFranciscoZionist  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:50:57pm

re: #338 Max D. Reinhardt

Growing that gang of losers is Galloway’s raison d’être. And unfortunately, he does a pretty good job at it.

Friend of mine spends a lot of his time taking on boycott-and-divestment-from-Israel activists on Facebook. They’re scary, screwed-up people.

345 Max  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:51:00pm

re: #342 Dark_Falcon

Well, they have to be shrunk, then. Those bastards pervert the values of the UK and the West in general just as badly as the EDL. They may say “Long Live Palestine!” but they really want to say “Death to Israel.”

If you look at British teens, they love wearing keffiyeh scarves and listening to 9/11 Truther rappers like Immortal Technique and Lowkey because they want to feel like militants, rebels with a cause. They may as well get a tattoo of a totenkompf and goose step; it would look the same to me.

346 Dancing along the light of day  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:51:10pm

re: #341 Gus 802

Oh, come now, how could you NOT want a Sunbeam Tiger?
[Link: www.google.com…]

Vroom, vroom!

347 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:51:50pm

re: #305 SanFranciscoZionist

One of the best SCA stories I ever heard involved an empty Mickey’s bottle being used as masturbation device. Please note, this is NOT a good idea.

In The Real Frank Zappa Book, there’s a tour story about an unnamed band member having an encounter with a groupie (not revealed in the book, but known to insane Zappa fanatics to have been a nun*) that involved a bottle of ginger ale being agitated so that the carbonated pressure could be released at rhythmic intervals controlled by the thumb of said anonymous band member. Of course, FZ tells it with much more hilarity than this.

* thus inspiring the song “Penguin in Bondage”

348 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:52:58pm

re: #346 Floral Giraffe

Oh, come now, how could you NOT want a Sunbeam Tiger?
[Link: www.google.com…]

Vroom, vroom!

With the original glow plug engine.

/

349 Max  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:53:23pm

re: #344 SanFranciscoZionist

Friend of mine spends a lot of his time taking on boycott-and-divestment-from-Israel activists on Facebook. They’re scary, screwed-up people.

This little piece of nonsense might interest your friend then.

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These idiots actually think that Coca-Cola is a piggy bank for da evol Zionists

350 Mr Pancakes  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:54:34pm

re: #341 Gus 802

Not a Camaro?

Image: hpp-camaro.jpg


I like it….. but I’m Mopar through and through……. owned two 69 Superbees.

351 Eclectic Infidel  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:55:06pm

Now, why would ‘the liberal media’ hire this jerk off?

352 Mr Pancakes  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:55:47pm

re: #346 Floral Giraffe

Oh, come now, how could you NOT want a Sunbeam Tiger?
[Link: www.google.com…]

Vroom, vroom!

Yep….. the Get Smart car…. they had a V8 model……. Vroom is right.

353 freetoken  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:56:36pm

re: #307 Dark_Falcon


I don’t even give them a second thought. I’m surprised anyone over there even noticed me.

354 SanFranciscoZionist  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:58:16pm

re: #349 Max D. Reinhardt

This little piece of nonsense might interest your friend then.

Image: n70984578464_406.jpg

These idiots actually think that Coca-Cola is a piggy bank for da evol Zionists

Yes, and every time you buy a slice of pizza, the mob makes seven cents.

355 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:58:28pm

Here’s the first video in a series of videos of a debate between Galloway and Hitchens, if you can stomach the crap coming from Galloway’s shit-gob.

I tried to watch the whole thing a year or so ago, but I just couldn’t make all the way through due to Galloway’s segments.

I normally don’t wish ill on people I disagree with, but…

356 SanFranciscoZionist  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:58:50pm

re: #351 eclectic infidel

Now, why would ‘the liberal media’ hire this jerk off?

The theory being bounced about above is that it’s a cunning plot to make conservatives look bad.

357 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:59:27pm

re: #355 Slumbering Behemoth

Here’s the first video in a series of videos of a debate between Galloway and Hitchens, if you can stomach the crap coming from Galloway’s shit-gob.

I tried to watch the whole thing a year or so ago, but I just couldn’t make all the way through due to Galloway’s segments.

I normally don’t wish ill on people I disagree with, but…

Oh God I’ve seen those. Poor Hitchens had to deal with a hostile audience.

358 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 10:01:00pm

re: #357 Gus 802

Oh God I’ve seen those. Poor Hitchens had to deal with a hostile audience.

Maybe I’m thinking of another debate.

359 Political Atheist  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 10:02:04pm

re: #353 freetoken

That’s my reaction too.

360 Political Atheist  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 10:03:58pm

Well I was hoping to get out for a good hike and photo excursion Saturday, but the weather may just close it out.

361 Max  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 10:05:03pm

re: #355 Slumbering Behemoth

Here’s the first video in a series of videos of a debate between Galloway and Hitchens, if you can stomach the crap coming from Galloway’s shit-gob.

I tried to watch the whole thing a year or so ago, but I just couldn’t make all the way through due to Galloway’s segments.

I normally don’t wish ill on people I disagree with, but…

I love Christopher Hitchens. He’s articulate and he makes me want to be better read, better educated, and just better. He’s an inspiration for me.

362 Killgore Trout  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 10:06:03pm

Fuck shit stack


NSFW
/Namaste, y’all
363 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 10:11:47pm

re: #361 Max D. Reinhardt

I love Christopher Hitchens. He’s articulate and he makes me want to be better read, better educated, and just better. He’s an inspiration for me.

The left will never forgive Hitchens for his support of the Iraq War. His support was like an act of heresy to the committed anti-war contingent. George Galloway is a mere speck when compared to the intelligence of Christopher Hitchens.

364 Max  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 10:14:20pm

re: #363 Gus 802

The left will never forgive Hitchens for his support of the Iraq War.

And that is one thing I will never understand about the Left.

365 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 10:15:44pm

re: #362 Killgore Trout

It’s taking forever for that vid to load, but the title reminded me of a George Carlin cheer/chant from back in the day:

Rat shit, bat shit, dirty old twat!
69 assholes tied in a knot!
Hooray! Lizard shit! Fuck!

366 Max  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 10:15:51pm

re: #363 Gus 802

Though back in the 90s, Hitch was a big peace nick. He called Clinton’s bombing of AQ’s chemical factories in Sudan a “war crime” and if I recall, he did not have much sympathy for the Bosnian mission.

367 Max  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 10:16:56pm

Good night, Lizards!

368 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 10:17:33pm

re: #364 Max D. Reinhardt

And that is one thing I will never understand about the Left.

Neither do I since I felt the same type of rejection for having done the same. There is an intensity to it that hard to describe. It’s a personal intensity in which one is rejected and one loses friends. I don’t know the personal aspect of Hitchens’s case. I do know that there are several Hitchen’s stalker sites that bang the same drum against him as they did in 2004.

369 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 10:20:36pm

Everything You Need To Know About The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear In D.C… And L.A.

Saturday is expected to bring an estimated 60,000 participates to Washington, D.C.’s National Mall for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. The main event is scheduled to last for two hours, from 1:00-3:00 p.m., with entertainment for another two hours on each end to keep attendees entertained for longer.

The event will be held on the eastern end of the Mall between 3rd and 7th Street. Attendance is free and open to the public.

The National Park Service, which administers the National Mall, has released the following schedule of events for the event, which will go from 10:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.:

10:00 a.m. - Noon: Jumbotron entertainment

Noon: The Roots entertain the audience

12:40: Comedian (not announced, but not Stewart or Colbert) entertains the audience

12:57: Video countdown/introduction

1:00 The event begins! National anthem sung by TBD artist.

1:05: Jon Stewart arrives

1:20 Stephen Colbert arrives

1:40 Performances by Jeff Tweedy and Mavis Staple

1:50 Back to Stewart and Colbert

2:15 Performance by Sheryl Crow

2:40 Taped presentation of the Sanity and Fear Awards

3:00 Stewart and Colbert conclude the event, with two hours of TBD entertainment following the official conclusion by the two comedians.

370 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 10:20:51pm

re: #363 Gus 802

Lock-step, Animal Farm Ideologues. Bleat “Four legs good, two legs bad” without question, or be an anathema.

371 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 10:23:42pm

re: #370 Slumbering Behemoth

Lock-step, Animal Farm Ideologues. Bleat “Four legs good, two legs bad” without question, or be an anathema.

Yeah. You could call them the 100 percenters. You have to be 100 percent like them or forget about it. Screw it. I know two contractors and one is left and the other’s on the right. They’ve know each other for years now and they work together occasionally and are good friends. Let me tell you that politically they are almost the complete opposites.

372 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 10:27:37pm

re: #355 Slumbering Behemoth

Here’s the first video in a series of videos of a debate between Galloway and Hitchens, if you can stomach the crap coming from Galloway’s shit-gob.

I tried to watch the whole thing a year or so ago, but I just couldn’t make all the way through due to Galloway’s segments.

I normally don’t wish ill on people I disagree with, but…

Hitchens to the audience at large:

“Bear in mind, if you had been listened to, Bosnia would part of greater Serbia, Afghanistan would be run by the Taliban, and Saddam Hussein would still be in charge of Iraq.”

373 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 10:34:02pm

re: #371 Gus 802

100%ers. I like that. Let’s make that meme-worthy.

Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they’re sure trying to do so, it’s going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can’t and won’t compromise. I know, I’ve tried to deal with them.

Heh, but it ain’t just the friggin’ socons who suffer from the “My way or the highway” disease. Those on the far left have their 100%ers as well. Reasonable people will keep watch on all fronts.

374 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 10:36:32pm

re: #373 Slumbering Behemoth

100%ers. I like that. Let’s make that meme-worthy.

Heh, but it ain’t just the friggin’ socons who suffer from the “My way or the highway” disease. Those on the far left have their 100%ers as well. Reasonable people will keep watch on all fronts.

Yep. Because those on the extreme left and the right take the 100 percent position. Sometimes when I hear some news and it doesn’t seem clear I usually think to myself, “the answer (or truth) probably lies somewhere in the middle.”

375 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 10:39:07pm

re: #374 Gus 802

Sometimes Occam’s Razor grows dull from lack of use. Sometimes people much prefer Occam’s Fluffy Pillow, or Occam’s Warm Blanket.

376 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 10:42:24pm

re: #375 Slumbering Behemoth

Sometimes Occam’s Razor grows dull from lack of use. Sometimes people much prefer Occam’s Fluffy Pillow, or Occam’s Warm Blanket.

True. Like and our interactions should be more like a marriage. We compromise. We find middle ground and often tolerate the things we don’t like. Of course being single I do not say this out of personal experience.

377 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 10:45:24pm

re: #357 Gus 802

Oh God I’ve seen those. Poor Hitchens had to deal with a hostile audience.

Hitchens, being the very model of a modern day contrarian, thrives on audience hostility. I’m not going to watch it again, but I seem to recall that he characterized the audience response at one point as “zoo noises” and “bleating acquiescence”.

378 friarstale  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 10:47:24pm

what fraud was Breitbart involved in?

379 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 10:48:16pm

re: #378 friarstale

what fraud was Breitbart involved in?

ACORN, Shirley Sherrod, et al.

380 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 10:49:12pm

re: #376 Gus 802

True. Like and our interactions should be more like a marriage. We compromise. We find middle ground and often tolerate the things we don’t like. Of course being single I do not say this out of personal experience.

If our interactions on a national scale become like a marriage, then the entire country is a smoldering ruin within two years that makes Somalia look like Disneyland.

381 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 10:50:28pm

re: #380 negativ

If our interactions on a national scale become like a marriage, then the entire country is a smoldering ruin within two years that makes Somalia look like Disneyland.

Well, I meant a good marriage. :)

382 friarstale  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 10:51:49pm

re: #379 Gus 802

ACORN, Shirley Sherrod, et al.


that was not fraud
she really said all that stuff

383 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 10:52:29pm

re: #382 friarstale

that was not fraud
she really said all that stuff

Uh huh. Yep. Sure she did.

384 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 10:53:13pm

re: #381 Gus 802

Well, I meant a good marriage. :)

Sort of like a good cancer.

385 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 10:54:05pm

Born Near The USA

Samantha Bee predicts that Canadians will be welcomed by their counterparts in the USA, except that American conservatives don’t like immigrants.

386 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 10:54:13pm

Occam’s Razor: A concept that, if you’re not aware of it, I should hope you’d look it up.

Shit I made up on the fly (because Occam sounds like some kind of legendary D&D character):

Occam’s Fluffy Pillow: Conformation Bias; Upon hearing or reading something that appeals to your point of view, you accept it as fact, refuse to research the issue any further, and lay your head (objective thought) down to sleep.

Occam’s Warm Blanket: Denial Bias; Failing the successful use of Occam’s Fluffy Pillow, or in conjunction with it, you accept the lie that confirms your bias, and wrap it around you like a warm blanket in an effort to shield you from the truth.

387 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 10:55:37pm

re: #382 friarstale

that was not fraud
she really said all that stuff

What stuff? Linky?

388 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 10:57:58pm

re: #382 friarstale

that was not fraud
she really said all that stuff

Here we go.

389 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 10:58:48pm

re: #387 Slumbering Behemoth

What stuff? Linky?

It’s all here in this video.

390 Amory Blaine  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 11:01:06pm
Words fail.

They sure do.

391 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 11:06:05pm

re: #389 Gus 802

I couldn’t get that link to load. My internet seems sluggish tonight, could just be extra traffic and network load due to the impending election. :(

Anyway, here’s an alternate source with the video I think you might have linked, which loads much faster, in case anyone is having the same problem I am with your link.

392 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 11:08:44pm

re: #391 Slumbering Behemoth

I couldn’t get that link to load. My internet seems sluggish tonight, could just be extra traffic and network load due to the impending election. :(

Anyway, here’s an alternate source with the video I think you might have linked, which loads much faster, in case anyone is having the same problem I am with your link.

That’s funny. Mine was Rick Astley.

393 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 11:09:23pm

re: #388 negativ

Here we go.

Guess the Friar went stale.

/

394 Amory Blaine  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 11:09:40pm

A judge on Dancing With The Stars maybe, but election analysis?

395 FriarsTale  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 11:11:09pm

Breitbart selectively edited Shirley’s speech to make it seem “worse”
here’s the full clip, for those who may not have watched it
It’s courtesy of the NAACP
(it’s not another rickoll; you got me, Gus!)

http://www.naacp.org/news/entry/video_sherrod/

396 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 11:12:14pm

re: #395 FriarsTale

Breitbart selectively edited Shirley’s speech to make it seem “worse”
here’s the full clip, for those who may not have watched it
It’s courtesy of the NAACP
(it’s not another rickoll; you got me, Gus!)

http://www.naacp.org/news/entry/video_sherrod/

OK Pardon me then. I seemed to have been momentarily cornfused.

397 Amory Blaine  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 11:12:31pm
398 Amory Blaine  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 11:22:10pm

OMG!!!! George Soros giving away FREE PIZZAS for every democratic vote!!!

News and coupon here!!!

399 freetoken  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 11:23:05pm

re: #398 Amory Blaine

You must have a thing for Rick Astley?

400 freetoken  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 11:23:56pm

re: #396 Gus 802

OK Pardon me then. I seemed to have been momentarily cornfused.

You’ve been cornfed with extra corn-syrup your whole life, as an American must in our society…

401 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 11:26:43pm

re: #392 Gus 802

Oh, I knew exactly what your link was. Why do you think I responded with the link I did? I just had to throw up enough BS to trick you into clicking on it.

402 FriarsTale  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 11:30:30pm

re: #393 Gus 802

Guess the Friar went stale.

/

where are u Gus?
did u go stale?
or staler, I should say

403 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 11:31:07pm

re: #392 Gus 802

BTW, WTF happened to Racer X? I see he hasn’t flounced or been banned. Is he dealing with something personal, or is it a case of “Haven’t heard from my bud ‘cuz he’s in love with a new gal”?

/Also… IT’S ON, BITCH!!! THE ON-EST!!!

404 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 11:33:02pm

re: #403 Slumbering Behemoth

BTW, WTF happened to Racer X? I see he hasn’t flounced or been banned. Is he dealing with something personal, or is it a case of “Haven’t heard from my bud ‘cuz he’s in love with a new gal”?

/Also… IT’S ON, BITCH!!! THE ON-EST!!!

Haven’t seen Racer X for a long time. Don’t know what happened. He’s been gone for months now. If he did get a gal all the better.

405 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 11:34:50pm

re: #402 FriarsTale

where are u Gus?
did u go stale?
or staler, I should say

Forget about it. Seemed like you were trolling with your first comment. Then you went quite so I did a pun on your nom de plume.

406 Varek Raith  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 11:36:01pm

re: #403 Slumbering Behemoth

re: #404 Gus 802

His last post was,

Thanks for all the fish!
407 Varek Raith  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 11:46:20pm

Need more coffee…
Stupid sleep cycle.
Stupid doctor’s visit at 7am this morning for a blood test.
Stupid possible Hypothyroidism.

408 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 11:47:38pm

re: #406 Varek Raith

Correct. Ugh. At least it wasn’t a “Fuck you all and fuck this blog” kinda thing. I was even on that thread, can’t believe I missed it.

Who now shall I torture with obscure, disturbing music videos. Hmm

409 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 11:53:04pm

re: #407 Varek Raith

Need more coffee…
Stupid sleep cycle.
Stupid doctor’s visit at 7am this morning for a blood test.
Stupid possible Hypothyroidism.

Does it affect your heart rate?

410 Varek Raith  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 11:56:09pm

re: #409 Gus 802

Does it affect your heart rate?

Somewhat.
It’s in the 60 to 70ish range.
Though, I get palpitations. As in, I can sometimes hear my heart beat loudly. Annoying as hell, that.
Nothing abnormal with my heart though.

411 Gus  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 11:57:51pm

re: #410 Varek Raith

Somewhat.
It’s in the 60 to 70ish range.
Though, I get palpitations. As in, I can sometimes hear my heart beat loudly. Annoying as hell, that.
Nothing abnormal with my heart though.

Oh. That’s a good heart rate. Mine beats like a hummingbird sometimes. It’s actually gotten better though over the past few years. One of the few things that has.

412 mikhailtheplumber  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 11:59:03pm

And to comment on the issue of lawlessness and mobster control in Tatooine, we have hired Jabba the Hutt, an independent political analyst.

413 Varek Raith  Fri, Oct 29, 2010 11:59:04pm

re: #411 Gus 802

Oh. That’s a good heart rate. Mine beats like a hummingbird sometimes. It’s actually gotten better though over the past few years. One of the few things that has.

My palpitations are in my head.
If I don’t worry about my health, I don’t get them.
If I do worry about my health, I do get them. Then, get a panic attack.
:/

414 Gus  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 12:01:43am

re: #413 Varek Raith

My palpitations are in my head.
If I don’t worry about my health, I don’t get them.
If I do worry about my health, I do get them. Then, get a panic attack.
:/

Do you have an exercise program?

415 Varek Raith  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 12:03:13am

re: #414 Gus 802

Do you have an exercise program?

Yep.
Walk a mile or two a day, various weight exercises.

416 Gus  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 12:04:35am

re: #415 Varek Raith

Yep.
Walk a mile or two a day, various weight exercises.

OK. Just wondering. I know that exercising can cause exhaustion which ironically leads to better sleep — so to speak. 7 AM for a blood test sounds pretty early.

417 Varek Raith  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 12:07:11am

re: #416 Gus 802

OK. Just wondering. I know that exercising can cause exhaustion which ironically leads to better sleep — so to speak. 7 AM for a blood test sounds pretty early.

I know.
All the way in Arlington, Va.
25 miles from me.
Oy, good thing it’s a Saturday, otherwise rush hour would be a bitch.

418 freetoken  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 12:07:20am

re: #415 Varek Raith

I’d say you need a work out partner

420 Varek Raith  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 12:11:43am

re: #418 freetoken

I’d say you need a work out partner

Hawt.
Maybe she can also help with my sleeping problem…
/Bad Varek, bad!

421 Gus  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 12:11:53am
422 Gus  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 12:19:04am

re: #421 Gus 802

Ebi Chan 蛯原 友里 Super Mighty Power!!!

[Video]

That movie is on Hulu with subtitles.

[Link: www.hulu.com…]

Have to finish watching it.

423 Varek Raith  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 12:24:07am

re: #422 Gus 802

That movie is on Hulu with subtitles.

[Link: www.hulu.com…]

Have to finish watching it.

Heh, I just realized that I almost watch nothing in English anymore.

424 Gus  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 12:27:22am

re: #423 Varek Raith

Heh, I just realized that I almost watch nothing in English anymore.

Really? Of course with that you can’t take your eyes of the screen unless you know the language. Not many foreign movies on Hulu.

425 Varek Raith  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 12:31:51am

re: #424 Gus 802

Really? Of course with that you can’t take your eyes of the screen unless you know the language. Not many foreign movies on Hulu.

TV’s kind of boring.
I watch news.
Then, I watch anime.
That’s about it.
Did I mention that TV’s mostly boring?
:)

426 Gus  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 12:34:33am

re: #425 Varek Raith

TV’s kind of boring.
I watch news.
Then, I watch anime.
That’s about it.
Did I mention that TV’s mostly boring?
:)

TV sucks. It’s become too much of social force. I don’t want to watch a program, movie or show to define my life but to be entertained and/or educated. Then you have to be subjected to countless banal commercials.

427 Gus  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 12:35:03am

On that note I better head towards the bed. Night all!

428 Varek Raith  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 12:39:54am

Later gators.
:)

429 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 12:48:11am

re: #423 Varek Raith

Heh, I just realized that I almost watch nothing in English anymore.

Figures. Friggin’ commie.

430 Sol Berdinowitz  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 1:37:59am

I generally hate watching anything dubbed. To me the voices and the intonation of the language are important, and I will accept having to read the subtitles in order to keep that aspect of the film.

The only movies I enjoyed dubbed into German were “The Blue Max” and “Seven Years in Tibet” (in which most or all of the characters would have spoken German in any case).

And my favorite dubbed TV show is “Ein Käfig voller Helden” (A Cage Full of Heroes) which is the German title for “Hogan’s Heroes”.

Hearing Schultz speak his Bavarian dialect against Klink’s Saxon accent is a truly sublime experience. In an ideal world, I would have it in stereo so I could switch back to English for the scenes with the prisoners…

431 EdDantes  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 2:16:41am

re: #430 ralphieboy

I read the Blue Max when I was fourteen. I saw the film starring George Peppard a year later.I loved both.

432 deranged cat  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 3:37:15am

what up g’s. 3:37am here and i really shouldve slept 3 hours ago. getting up at 8am to go watch the Rally for Sanity/Fear at a local pub!

ok. going to sleep now.

433 rwdflynavy  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 3:43:57am

It’s easy being a humorist when you’ve got the whole government working for you.
Will Rogers

Good Morning to Charles Personal Private Unnecessarily Capitalized Lizard Army!!!

434 Sol Berdinowitz  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 3:47:08am

re: #431 EdDantes

I read the Blue Max when I was fourteen. I saw the film starring George Peppard a year later.I loved both.

In the original, George Peppard tells his commander that he learned to fly in “an old Rumpler”, which sent me to the encyclopedia to look up the Rumpler Taube, one of the first German fighters in WWI.

In the dubbed version, he says he learned to fly in “ein alter Fatz”, which basically means “something you would rumple your nose at”.

In any case, I learned never to trust a dubbed version ever since I saw a dubbed film of a lady playing golf. She knocked the ball downrange and shouted “Vier!”

435 researchok  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:20:47am

Morning, all!

436 sattv4u2  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:27:13am

re: #435 researchok

Morning, all!

Prove it!!
/

437 researchok  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:28:28am

I am here.

How much better can it get?

438 researchok  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:29:27am

And rwdflynavy is here as well.

That is cause enough for you to be overjoyed.

439 sattv4u2  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:33:33am

re: #438 researchok

And rwdflynavy is here as well.

That is cause enough for you to be overjoyed.

There goes the neighborhood!

440 rwdflynavy  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:35:36am

re: #439 sattv4u2

There goes the neighborhood!

Hell Yeah!!

441 NC Gray  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:36:22am

re: #33 Killgore Trout

George Will maybe?

442 sattv4u2  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:41:21am

re: #441 NC Gray

George Will maybe?

Maybe George will what ??

443 Sol Berdinowitz  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:44:28am

George Will Triumph

444 RogueOne  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:56:47am

Morning All, It’s a beautiful day!

445 sattv4u2  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:59:56am

re: #444 RogueOne

Morning All, It’s a beautiful day!

I’ll withhold judgment.
Still have 15 hours to go!

15 hours,,,,, billions of assholes in the world ,, YOU do the math!!!

///

446 RogueOne  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:01:04am

Pure Brilliance:

Attack Ads, Circa 1800


John Adams is a hideous hermaphroditical character with neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman. - T. Jefferson. (That man sure had a way with words!)

Sources:
[Link: reason.com…]

448 RogueOne  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:05:37am

re: #447 NJDhockeyfan

Someone on the “D” side of the aisle should have thought through their plan to call voters too stupid, ill-informed, and afraid to understand that the Dems are doing a wonderful job and deserve to be re-elected. I don’t think it’s going over very well.

449 sattv4u2  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:06:02am

re: #446 RogueOne

Pure Brilliance:

Attack Ads, Circa 1800

[Video]
John Adams is a hideous hermaphroditical character with neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman. - T. Jefferson. (That man sure had a way with words!)

Sources:
[Link: reason.com…]

heh

Politicians today only have to worry about enduring a debate

Politicians back then had to endure a duel!!

450 RogueOne  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:07:28am

re: #449 sattv4u2

I love a good flame war and those old guys weren’t afraid to pile it on. Hilarious and vicious.

451 sattv4u2  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:09:48am

re: #450 RogueOne

I love a good flame war and those old guys weren’t afraid to pile it on. Hilarious and vicious.

Crowds would heckle and throw tomatoes at a candidate back then. Legend has it that someone yelled at Lincoln

“Abe ,, tell us everything you know. It won’t take long”

Abes response

“I’ll tell everything we both know and it won’t take any longer!”

452 RogueOne  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:13:58am

re: #451 sattv4u2

Ahhh, the good ol’ days when people didn’t act like pantie waisted little girls just because someone got called a bad name. “ZOMG, He called his opponent “socialist-lite”! It’s the end of the democracy! We’re all gonna DIE!”

453 RogueOne  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:15:12am

re: #451 sattv4u2

Crowds would heckle and throw tomatoes at a candidate back then. Legend has it that someone yelled at Lincoln

“Abe ,, tell us everything you know. It won’t take long”

Abes response

“I’ll tell everything we both know and it won’t take any longer!”

Walter was probably there, he might have even been the heckler. You should ask.

454 sattv4u2  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:16:50am

re: #452 RogueOne

Ahhh, the good ol’ days when people didn’t act like pantie waisted little girls just because someone got called a bad name. “ZOMG, He called his opponent “socialist-lite”! It’s the end of the democracy! We’re all gonna DIE!”

Offshoot of the Doctor Spock/ PC world/ don’t keep score, the kids will be sad if they “lose” attitude imho.

Growing up we called each other every name in the book and to this day we’re still the closest of friends

455 sattv4u2  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:17:20am

re: #453 RogueOne

Walter was probably there, he might have even been the heckler. You should ask.

Will do

456 sattv4u2  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:18:05am

re: #453 RogueOne

Walter was probably there, he might have even been the heckler. You should ask.

Me ,, I had the rotten tomato concession stand !

(ever the capitalist!!)

457 RogueOne  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:20:14am

I’m working on an election nite playlist. Just started so I only have one song:

Other suggestions anyone? rock/metal genre only, TYVM.

458 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:24:47am

re: #446 RogueOne

And yet they somehow managed to become friends later in life. The surviving correspondence between them is among the most satisfying material I’ve ever read.

A couple of examples. Jefferson’s letter of condolence to Adams on the death of Abigail:

MONTICELLO, November 13, 1818.

The public papers, my dear friend, announce the fatal event of which your letter of October the 20th had given me ominous foreboding. Tried myself in the school of affliction, by the loss of every form of connection which can rive the human heart, I know well, and feel what you have lost, what you have suffered, are suffering, and have yet to endure. The same trials have taught me that for ills so immeasurable, time and silence are the only medi­cine. I will not, therefore, by useless condolences, open afresh the sluices of your grief, nor, although mingling sincerely my tears with yours, will I say a word more where words are vain, but that it is of some comfort to us both, that the term is not very distant, at which we are to deposit in the same cerement, our sorrows and suffering bodies, and to ascend in essence to an ecstatic meeting with the friends we have loved and lost, and whom we shall still love and never lose again. God bless you and support you under your heavy affliction.


and a letter from Jefferson to Adams on the subject of religion, specifically Calvinism.

The truth is that the greatest enemies to the doctrines of Jesus are those calling themselves the expositors of them, who have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely incomprehensible, and without any foundation in his genuine words. And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with all this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human errors.

You must read the whole thing.

It’s impossible to conceive of any two currently living politicians conversing on that level.

459 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:26:23am

re: #448 RogueOne

Do you deny that voters are stupid, ill-informed, and afraid?

460 sattv4u2  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:28:34am

re: #459 negativ

Do you deny that voters are stupid, ill-informed, and afraid?

Funny how she seems to only think that because they are “leaning republican”, huh!

I wonder what she said when they were voting for those well defined issues of “Hope” and “Change”

461 sattv4u2  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:30:03am

re: #459 negativ

re: #460 sattv4u2

Funny how she seems to only think that because they are “leaning republican”, huh!

I wonder what she said when they were voting for those well defined issues of “Hope” and “Change”

Oh ,, wait ,, the answer was right there all along!!
Although challenged by MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough Friday that the 2008 election of Obama was out of fear, Huffington responded that it was driven by “hope” and that Bush won in 2004 because of fear.

‘Magine that!

462 RogueOne  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:30:12am

re: #458 negativ

Very good point and therein lies the problem with modern society. We’ve learned to take care of the stupid and infirm which just allows them to pass on their bad genes. Every generation gets even dumber and more unintentionally self-destructive. Before I die I firmly believe sharp corners will be outlawed so morons can quit hurting themselves running into walls.

463 RogueOne  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:30:41am

re: #459 negativ

Do you deny that voters are stupid, ill-informed, and afraid?

Only the ones that insist on voting Dem. See my last post about running into walls.//

464 sattv4u2  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:31:18am

re: #462 RogueOne

Very good point and therein lies the problem with modern society. We’ve learned to take care of the stupid and infirm which just allows them to pass on their bad genes. Every generation gets even dumber and more unintentionally self-destructive. Before I die I firmly believe sharp corners will be outlawed so morons can quit hurting themselves running into walls.

don’t know when the last time you were in a school building, but you would be surprised!!

465 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:31:19am

re: #460 sattv4u2

“No one ever lost money overestimating the bad taste of the American public.” — some rich guy

466 sattv4u2  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:35:01am

re: #465 negativ

“No one ever lost money overestimating the bad taste of the American public.” — some rich guy

Government should step in and protect people with bad taste for those evil rich guys!

467 RogueOne  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:38:21am

Fire In The Streets: Taddy Porter

468 rwdflynavy  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:39:37am

re: #457 RogueOne

I’m working on an election nite playlist. Just started so I only have one song:


[Video]Other suggestions anyone? rock/metal genre only, TYVM.

How bout this one?

469 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:39:57am

Dismantle OSHA! Repeal child labor laws! Destroy the EPA! Down the the FDA! Rat shit in every sandwich; benzine in every water supply! They may take our lives, but they can’t take our freeeeeedome!

470 RogueOne  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:40:57am

BTW, I highly recommend the Taddy Porter album.

[Link: www.amazon.com…]

Great all the way through.

471 RogueOne  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:41:41am

re: #468 rwdflynavy

Old school, good idea.

472 sattv4u2  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:44:00am

re: #469 negativ

Dismantle OSHA! Repeal child labor laws! Destroy the EPA! Down the the FDA! Rat shit in every sandwich; benzine in every water supply! They may take our lives, but they can’t take our freeedome!

Yup , thats EXACTLY what conservatives/ Tea Party/ Republicans want

NO gov’t at all,, NONE ,, NADA ,, ZIP,, ZERO ,, GONZO !!

473 RogueOne  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:44:16am

Stereoside: Crazy and Paranoid

474 RogueOne  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:44:41am

re: #469 negativ

Dismantle OSHA! Repeal child labor laws! Destroy the EPA! Down the the FDA! Rat shit in every sandwich; benzine in every water supply! They may take our lives, but they can’t take our freeedome!

We’re all gonna die?

475 sattv4u2  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:45:34am

re: #474 RogueOne

We’re all gonna die?

Not those of us that have our own guns, water, seeds and gold!

476 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:50:09am

Hell of a fight for the Bottom 10. I guess I will have to try harder. And good morning.

477 RogueOne  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:51:05am

Perfect,

Stand For Something! - Skindred

478 sattv4u2  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:51:09am

re: #476 Cannadian Club Akbar

Hell of a fight for the Bottom 10. I guess I will have to try harder. And good morning.

Looks like a clear cut winner to me!

479 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:53:51am

re: #474 RogueOne

We’re all gonna die?

Well, of course.

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.

The present moves from the past to the future, like a tiny spotlight, inching its way along a gigantic ruler of time. Everything behind the spotlight is in darkness, the darkness of the dead past. Everything ahead of the spotlight is in the darkness of the unknown future. The odds of your century being the one in the spotlight are the same as the odds that a penny, tossed down at random, will land on a particular ant crawling somewhere along the road from New York to San Francisco. In other words, it is overwhelmingly probable that you are dead.

In spite of these odds, you will notice that you are, as a matter of fact, alive. People whom the spotlight has already passed over, and people whom the spotlight has not reached, are in no position to read a book.

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked — as I am surprisingly often — why I bother to get up in the mornings. To put it the other way round, isn’t it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be a part of it?

Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor’s Tale

480 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:55:44am

re: #479 negativ

Well, of course.

Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor’s Tale

Can’t I just eat my waffle?

481 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:57:05am

re: #480 Cannadian Club Akbar

Don’t just eat that waffle, eat the hell out of it.

482 sattv4u2  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:57:32am

And on that note, the long quiet ride hoem awaits

(yup ,, started my turn of working the overnight shift!!)

483 RogueOne  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:58:19am

It ain’t over till it’s over - Airbourne

484 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:58:49am

re: #482 sattv4u2

And on that note, the long quiet ride hoem awaits

(yup ,, started my turn of working the overnight shift!!)

Whats a hoem?

485 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 7:00:30am

re: #484 Cannadian Club Akbar

Whats a hoem?

It’s a place you might find this guy:

Image: im_a_horse.jpg

486 RogueOne  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 7:02:27am

It’s not the end of the world, but I can see it from here - Lost Prophets

487 sattv4u2  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 7:02:27am

re: #484 Cannadian Club Akbar

Whats a hoem?

Same thing as a home, only different

(feh ,,, I’m lucky thats the only typo I made ,,, I’ve been awake for 27 hours now and I still have an hour (+) ride home ,, HOEM ,, HMOE !!!

488 KenJen  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 7:03:21am

re: #484 Cannadian Club Akbar

Whats a hoem?

I think it is a poem written by ladies of the night.

489 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 7:05:01am

re: #483 RogueOne

Phooey upon that.

Probably not relevant to anyone who has no first or second-hand experience with addiction.

490 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 7:06:42am

re: #487 sattv4u2

Same thing as a home, only different

(feh ,,, I’m lucky thats the only typo I made ,,, I’ve been awake for 27 hours now and I still have an hour (+) ride home ,, HOEM ,, HMOE !!!

Lack of sleep is the best drug there is. Part of the reason is that you come down from it by means of the second best drug there is: sleeping.

491 RogueOne  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 7:09:22am

Vengeance is mine - Alice Cooper

492 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 7:13:25am

I am pretty sure I hit the 5 mile walking marker withing 36 hours. Starting to feel it. It is hell getting old.

493 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 7:14:30am

re: #492 Cannadian Club Akbar

I am pretty sure I hit the 5 mile walking marker withing 36 hours. Starting to feel it. It is hell getting old.

within, not withing, geez. See what I mean? PIMF

494 RogueOne  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 7:16:18am

re: #489 negativ

Phooey upon that.

[Video]

Probably not relevant to anyone who has no first or second-hand experience with addiction.

I only had the opportunity to see them once. Too bad about Steele, he had one of the best quotes. He said something like “never confuse anger and volume with talent”.

495 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 7:18:34am

re: #491 RogueOne

I like an awful lot of Alice Cooper’s stuff from the 70s. After that, not so much.

496 RogueOne  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 7:22:45am

re: #495 negativ

I’ve seen Alice at least 30x. I was looking for a youtube version of “Make That Money” off of “Zipper Catches Skin”, which might be the weirdest Cooper album ever, but I guess it’s even too obscure for youtube.

I got to see him in the early 80’s on his “Raise Your Fist and Yell” tour. I was 3rd row dead center. I left with some girl, both of us covered in fake blood, and I was hooked.

497 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 7:23:30am

re: #495 negativ

I like an awful lot of Alice Cooper’s stuff from the 70s. After that, not so much.


[Video]

I looked for a “Billion Dollar Babies” video, but they all sucked.

498 RogueOne  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 7:27:58am

re: #496 RogueOne

From that tour:

Alice Cooper - Chop,chop,chop - Gail - Roses on white lace

Nothing like a show involving killing hookers.

499 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 7:32:05am

It is “cool” outside. After a week of hot, I am digging this.

500 RogueOne  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 7:33:13am

Not only is alice perfect for Halloween this weekend, but also for the election:

I wanna be elected:

501 Walter L. Newton  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 7:35:15am

re: #499 Cannadian Club Akbar

It is “cool” outside. After a week of hot, I am digging this.

How come “cool” waited until after I left?

502 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 7:37:44am

re: #494 RogueOne

I saw them in Dallas a bunch of years ago. Notable memories include Josh Silver hanging out and casually shooting the shit with the people standing in line before the doors opened (a lot of people didn’t realize he was part of the band); Pete drinking red wine from the bottle throughout the show (the not-quite-empty bottle being eventually launched like javelin into the audience); Dimebag Darrell making an appearance during the last song of the set (Black No. 1). After the show, much debauchery ensued at The Clubhouse, about which no more shall be said, because I’m not entirely sure about the statute of limitations on such things.

503 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 7:37:45am

re: #501 Walter L. Newton

How come “cool” waited until after I left?

I know. It has been fricking brutal as of late. Orlando really sucks. No Atlantic or Gulf to keep you cool.

504 Ojoe  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 7:38:08am

Very beautiful Towercam Dawn. San Gabriel Mountains of California, Pacific time zone.

ABC would do well to hire Grocho Marx, or better yet Harpo.

Too bad they’re gone.

4 days to Refudiation Day.

505 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 7:39:26am

re: #504 Ojoe

My votes have been launched.

506 Ojoe  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 7:40:55am

re: #505 Cannadian Club Akbar

Sidewinders.

BBL

507 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 7:44:07am

re: #497 Cannadian Club Akbar

I looked for a “Billion Dollar Babies” video, but they all sucked.

Billion Dollar Babies, Go to Hell, Eighteen, Sick Things/Mary Ann/I Love the Dead are my favorite Alice Cooper songs.

508 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 7:52:01am

re: #507 negativ

Billion Dollar Babies, Go to Hell, Eighteen, Sick Things/Mary Ann/I Love the Dead are my favorite Alice Cooper songs.

Oh, and also: Cold Ethyl

509 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 7:52:16am

out for a bit. BBIAW.

510 RogueOne  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 7:52:38am

Speaking of the election…The man I intend to vote for local state rep is a good guy and run a fairly positive campaign but his party has run nothing but attack ads against his opponent. Not even good attack ads but weak, weak, weak. “(*Que dark music*) Did you know candidate X didn’t even live in the district his entire life? (*darken screen, turn up volume*) Why does he hate the children?” It’s so weak and annoying if I didn’t know more I’d end up voting for the opponent.

511 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 7:54:28am

re: #510 RogueOne

You mean like these?

512 RogueOne  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 7:58:29am

re: #511 negativ

You mean like these?
[Video]

Those are great, I’m voting “Yes”. We should be tossing more children off of tall buildings, it’s good for the environment. If you disagree you’re an anti-science denialist. Plus, I hate peoples kids.

513 deranged cat  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 7:58:43am

re: #504 Ojoe

Very beautiful Towercam Dawn. San Gabriel Mountains of California, Pacific time zone.

ABC would do well to hire Grocho Marx, or better yet Harpo.

Too bad they’re gone.

4 days to Refudiation Day.

wow. that is some beautiful low lying fog.
link for those who didnt get to see it:
Image: 2i6gak9.jpg

well, i never went to sleep. im so stupid. going to a pub to go watch the rally for sanity in an hour!

514 RogueOne  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 8:00:06am

re: #513 deranged cat

Crap, thanks for the reminder. I need to get busy before it starts. Anyone showing the crowds yet?

515 RogueOne  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 8:02:18am

The shot they just showed on MSNBC looks like a pretty big crowd.

516 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 8:03:37am

Anyone have a source for streaming video? I don’t have TV (yes, I’m one of those, deal with it.)

517 deranged cat  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 8:04:45am

re: #516 negativ

Anyone have a source for streaming video? I don’t have TV (yes, I’m one of those, deal with it.)

who needs tv when EVERYTHING is streaming nowadays?

518 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 8:05:23am

re: #517 deranged cat

Exactly.

519 RogueOne  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 8:06:50am

re: #518 negativ

The cable company puts food on my table, why do you hate my table so much? Get cable, pay your bill, shut up//

520 Walter L. Newton  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 8:08:41am

re: #516 negativ

Anyone have a source for streaming video? I don’t have TV (yes, I’m one of those, deal with it.)

May I suggest a “blue” razor blade, a safety pin, a cardboard roll of paper, some magnet wire and you can make a foxhole radio and listen to it over the air waves…

[Link: blog.makezine.com…]

521 RogueOne  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 8:09:30am

Gotta run. The future is so bright… I gotta work on the weekend. Luckily modern technology has given me a slingbox and a smart phone so I can still watch the rally. Hurray for science!

522 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 8:11:00am

re: #519 RogueOne

I get my 20 Mbit/s intertubes connection from my local cable company, thankyouverymuchgoodnight. They keep calling me up and insisting that I could have 130 channels of shit I don’t care about (plus a DVR to make sure I don’t miss any of it!) for just $50 more.

523 darthstar  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 8:15:10am

Mornin’…what’s for breakfast?

The assassin bug (Stenolemus bituberus) is a spider-hunter. Sometimes, it simply sneaks up to spiders on their own webs before striking, plunging its dagger-like mouthparts into its prey. But it also has a subtler technique. Sitting on the web, it plucks the silken threads with its legs, mimicking the frequency of weakly struggling prey. These deceptive vibes are an irresistible draw to the spider, who rush towards their own demise. The bug effectively has a way of ordering for delivery when it doesn’t want to go out for a meal.

524 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 8:17:39am

re: #520 Walter L. Newton

May I suggest a “blue” razor blade, a safety pin, a cardboard roll of paper, some magnet wire and you can make a foxhole radio and listen to it over the air waves…

[Link: blog.makezine.com…]

I’m afraid I haven’t got any extra razor blades. Been using the same one for weeks. Did you hear that they increased the chocolate ration to 25 grams per week?

525 darthstar  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 8:18:49am
526 Political Atheist  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 8:27:51am

Weather News from NOAA
Apologies for all caps

.CLIMATE…(DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES)

THERE HAS BEEN MEASURABLE RAIN (0.01 INCHES OR GREATER) ON 9 DAYS DURING THE MONTH OF OCTOBER 2010. THIS IS A NEW RECORD FOR DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES SINCE RECORDS BEGAN IN 1877. AS OF 600 AM THIS MORNING…THERE HAS BEEN 0.94 INCHES FOR THE ENTIRE MONTH. THIS WOULD RATE AS THE 22ND WETTEST OCTOBER ON RECORD.

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES RECORDED 8 DAYS OF MEASURABLE RAIN FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER BACK IN 1907.

THE RECORD RAINFALL FOR THE ENTIRE MONTH OF OCTOBER OCCURRED IN 1889 WITH 6.96 INCHES. THE SECOND MOST RAINFALL FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER
WAS WAS 4.56 INCHES IN 2004.

527 prairiefire  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 8:30:18am

re: #525 darthstar

Happy Halloween

{{darthstar}} Thank you! Happy halloween!

528 Walter L. Newton  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 8:31:59am

re: #524 negativ

I’m afraid I haven’t got any extra razor blades. Been using the same one for weeks. Did you hear that they increased the chocolate ration to 25 grams per week?

Like this (shameless self promotion, from my play 1984

529 prairiefire  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 8:32:12am

re: #520 Walter L. Newton

May I suggest a “blue” razor blade, a safety pin, a cardboard roll of paper, some magnet wire and you can make a foxhole radio and listen to it over the air waves…

[Link: blog.makezine.com…]

Hi, Walter! What were your two favorite rides at Disney World? We have not been, yet.

530 Walter L. Newton  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 8:32:35am

(what happened to my text?) (again)

Pre-show speech 1

Telescreen(s) Voice and face:
Here is the latest news from the Ministry of Plenty. As of today, the Ministry of Plenty is happy to announce that overall production has increased by 35 percent. As compared to last year on this date, there is more food, more clothes, more houses, more furniture, more cooking pots, more fuel, more ships, more helicopters, more books and even more babies. We thank Big Brother for the new, happy life which his wise leadership has bestowed upon us. Long Live Big Brother.

(The Telescreen goes out)

Pre-show speech 2

Telescreen(s) Voice and face:
Here is the latest news from the Ministry of Plenty. As of today, the Ministry of Plenty is sad to announce that overall production has decreased by 35 percent. As compared to last year on this date, there is less food, less clothes, less houses, less furniture, less cooking pots, less fuel, less ships, less helicopters, less books and even less babies. We hold the traitor Emmanuel Goldstein responsible for this new depressing life which his vile insurgency has bestowed upon us. Death to Emmanuel Goldstein.

(The Telescreen goes out)

Pre-show speech 3

Telescreen(s) Voice and face:
Here is the latest news from the Ministry of Plenty. As of today, the Ministry of Plenty is cautious to announce that overall production may increase to 35 percent. As compared to last year on this date, there is a upsurge in food, in clothes, in houses, in furniture, in cooking pots, in fuel, in ships, in helicopters, in books and even in babies. We thank Big Brother for the future, happy life which his wise leadership has promised us. Long Live Big Brother.

(The Telescreen goes out)

531 Walter L. Newton  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 8:41:59am

re: #529 prairiefire

Hi, Walter! What were your two favorite rides at Disney World? We have not been, yet.

I’m working on my answer to you… some detail, ready in a few minutes.

532 Killgore Trout  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 8:44:02am

U.K. official: Aircraft was likely target of attack


A suspicious package discovered at the United Kingdom’s East Midlands airport contained “viable explosives,” and could have brought down an aircraft upon detonation, British Home Secretary Theresa May said Saturday.

The devices were “professionally” loaded and connected using an electric circuit to a mobile phone chip tucked in a printer, Dubai police told WAM, the official news agency for the United Arab Emirates.

They were packed in toner cartridges and designed to be detonated by a cell phone, a source close to the investigation told CNN.

533 Kronocide  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 8:51:28am

Damn this iPad harder to blog

Funny how a rally driven by two satirists (Colbert Stewart) is based in a sounder reality than a real rally.

534 KenJen  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 8:56:29am
535 Walter L. Newton  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 8:57:09am

re: #529 prairiefire

Hi, Walter! What were your two favorite rides at Disney World? We have not been, yet.

Well… I’ll put it this way… my favorite ride of all the rides I rode was Epoct Center’s “Mission:Space”

Monday morning, while my girlfriend was at her conference, I took the free bus to the Magic Kingdom… bought my own ticket for entrance to that park… and I spent 4 hours there, from about 9-1, and then the crowds got so big, I left. Managed to ride everything I wanted to during that time, waiting time was under 10 minutes for most rides at that time, I rode Space Mountain twice in a row (that was the first ride I headed for). Managed to ride Splash Mountain, Big Thunder, PeopleMover, Small World (rode that first time at the 1964 Worlds Fair in Queens NYC.), Pirates, Haunted Mansion, train, Century of Progress (rode that first time at the 1964 Worlds Fair in Queens NYC.)… and others.

That afternoon, I was at guest services, checking on tickets for Epcot for the next morning, and found out that they had a “after 4” ticket for half price. So I cell phoned my girlfriend at the conference and asked her if she was interested in going over to the Magic Kingdom for the evening, my treat. And on top of that, they had a special 9-12 midnight extended evening for guests of any Disney Resort hotel, so, se were able to go back (my ticket was good for multiple entries all day)… and we/I rode everything again… plus some more, like Jungle Cruise.

Conference over… Tuesday we had to leave at 2:00 pm for the airport. We hit Epcot early, this was my girlfriends treat, she paid for those tickets, and we stayed about 4 hours.

Rode Test Track, Soarin’ (a hang glider simulation), some minor ride/exhibits… had lunch at a Canadian styled restaurant… and rode Mission:Space twice.

Mission:Space is certainly the most interesting ride at Epcot. It is a simulation of a astronaut trainer, a quick trip to a base on Mars. You get two training sessions, info on the “mission,” (Gary Sinise plays the CapCom)… and then you are put inside a 4 person capsule, four seats, four monitors and four windows. All the requisite controls and lights and sounds.

The front of the capsule closes against you, so the cockpit “window” is directly in front of you, the bay door open, the whole capsule lays on it’s back as the “spaceship” is placed upright against the launch pad, and then you take off…

As you take off, you suddenly feel about 2g’s of pressure against you (space shuttle is about 3g’s from what I read)… this is simulater by the fact that the whole capsule is now spinning at 35 miles per hour. Since you are facing forward, to the center of the “axis,” you don’t feel the same movement as you would if you were sitting sideways to the “axis,” as in you standard “spin and puke” ride. You are facing the center, you can’t really turn you head right or left, you are looking a a video of “rising upward” and the whole multimedia experience is enough to fool you into thinking you are ascending upward with massive G force.

And when you breakthrough into weightlessness, the capsule stop spinning very suddenly, tilts forward, and these two actions give you a very convincing feel of weightlessness.

I won’t give away the rest… but there are some emergencies and thrills, but you finally make it to “Mars”.

It’s the first ride I’ve ever been on that has more warnings then a nuclear plant. At least 3 times they try to convince you NOT to ride the ride if you have any problems with movement, tight spaces, flashing lights etc. Or if you are too heavy or have heart or blood pressure problems.

A great ride… you can check out YouTube videos of the visual parts of the ride.

536 HoosierHoops  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 8:57:34am

re: #534 KenJen

Frankenstein for President

Good morning..Good to see you!

537 KenJen  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 9:00:23am

re: #536 HoosierHoops

Good morning..Good to see you!

Good to see you. Just checked out the top ten. Wow! How does it feel being a Dem? Did you plaster bumper stickers all over the back of your car yet?///

538 Killgore Trout  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 9:00:43am
539 bratwurst  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 9:01:13am
540 Killgore Trout  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 9:02:38am

The music is definitely better than a wingnut rally

541 HoosierHoops  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 9:03:49am

re: #537 KenJen

Good to see you. Just checked out the top ten. Wow! How does it feel being a Dem? Did you plaster bumper stickers all over the back of your car yet?///

heheh…No bumper stickers on the car…Yes.. I joined the dems yesterday..
I’m living in Oklahoma now.. Love this town!

542 Killgore Trout  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 9:06:46am

Nirthers at the rally
Image: 610x.jpg

543 Kronocide  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 9:07:47am

re: #541 HoosierHoops

heheh…No bumper stickers on the car…Yes.. I joined the dems yesterday..
I’m living in Oklahoma now.. Love this town!

I understand and respect your move. I’d like to do a GOP Flounce myself.

In Hawaii it’s between Abercrombie or Aiona: the key thoughts I have in this race is ‘is he a birthed creationist denier wing nut’?

544 Sol Berdinowitz  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 9:08:07am

re: #542 Killgore Trout

Hard to tell if this is ironic or nirther-serious

I like the Great Kazoo headgear, though.

545 wrenchwench  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 9:09:36am

re: #542 Killgore Trout

Nirthers at the rally
Image: 610x.jpg

I might ask the same of her.

546 KenJen  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 9:10:54am

re: #545 wrenchwench

I might ask the same of her.

I bet she is from Whales. I mean Wales. Just a guess.

547 reine.de.tout  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 9:11:18am

re: #526 Rightwingconspirator

Weather News from NOAA
Apologies for all caps

.CLIMATE…(DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES)

THERE HAS BEEN MEASURABLE RAIN (0.01 INCHES OR GREATER) ON 9 DAYS DURING THE MONTH OF OCTOBER 2010. THIS IS A NEW RECORD FOR DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES SINCE RECORDS BEGAN IN 1877. AS OF 600 AM THIS MORNING…THERE HAS BEEN 0.94 INCHES FOR THE ENTIRE MONTH. THIS WOULD RATE AS THE 22ND WETTEST OCTOBER ON RECORD.

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES RECORDED 8 DAYS OF MEASURABLE RAIN FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER BACK IN 1907.

THE RECORD RAINFALL FOR THE ENTIRE MONTH OF OCTOBER OCCURRED IN 1889 WITH 6.96 INCHES. THE SECOND MOST RAINFALL FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER
WAS WAS 4.56 INCHES IN 2004.

ROFL!

Less than an inch of rain makes it the 22nd wettest October on record?
Sorry RWC - to me, where I live - that’s hilarious.

548 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 9:11:59am

re: #535 Walter L. Newton

Well… I’ll put it this way… my favorite ride of all the rides I rode was Epoct Center’s “Mission:Space”

I went to Epcot in 1984, at the ripe old age of 10. The “Morocco” pavilion hadn’t been fully constructed yet. The unbridled futurism was so inspiring and awe-inducing. Then I had to go back to shitty old Perryton, Texas where I was routinely beaten up for the crime of not caring about football.

549 jaunte  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 9:12:35am

re: #547 reine.de.tout

Seems like a pretty average day around here, too!

550 reine.de.tout  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 9:16:01am

re: #549 jaunte

Seems like a pretty average day around here, too!

October is our driest month.
We have had about an inch and a half of rain this October and we’re in a DROUGHT condition.

Normal BR rainfall thru September is 49 inches or so - we had 44 inches through September, so we’re minus 5 from normal, putting us into a drought.

551 prairiefire  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 9:20:35am

re: #535 Walter L. Newton

Wow, we are going to go one day.

552 prairiefire  Sat, Oct 30, 2010 9:21:24am

re: #548 negativ

Who are in your avatar?


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