Video: Undercity

Rev. Tom Daniels is pastor of the Rio Linda Baptist Church, a fundamentalist church in northern California. He was also an activist who urged the passage of Proposition 8, to ban gay couples from being allowed to marry one another. Somehow preventing gay people from marrying is supposed to protect children, from something…. what is never quite made clear to me.

Rev. Daniels in in jail and charged with lewd and lascivious acts with a child under the age of 14 as well three or more acts of sexual conduct with a child. But, the good news, Rev. Daniels isn’t gay so the kid was protected! The molestations supposedly took place between 2004 and 2007. Originally Daniels was investigated in 2008 for molestation charges but police said they couldn’t find enough evidence. A second child has since come forward with similar accusations and the two together apparently were sufficient to file charges this time.

Killgore Trout Tue, Jan 4, 2011 3:56:27pm

Green skeletons lurk in GOP closets

It may be heresy to conservatives, but a trip down memory lane shows nearly all of the top-tier Republican presidential contenders want to save the planet from global warming.

On the campaign stump, in books, speeches and nationally-televised commercials, aspiring GOP White House candidates such as Tim Pawlenty, Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney have warned in recent years about the threats from climate change and pledged to limit greenhouse gases. Some have even committed the ultimate sin, endorsing the controversial cap-and-trade concept that was eventually branded “cap and tax.”

Now, as they prepare for a wide-open primary season, many of the Republicans are searching for ways to explain themselves to a conservative voting base full of hungry tea party activists and climate skeptics who don’t take kindly to environmental issues so closely linked with Al Gore.

“They’re in an odd place,” Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, told POLITICO. “They better have an explanation, an excuse or a mea culpa for why this won’t happen again.”

Semper Fi Tue, Jan 4, 2011 3:57:50pm

It’s amazing how many climbers are out while most people are sleeping: buildings, bridges, highway signs, etc., all because they can. I prefer this fellow because he didn’t feel the need to paint his ‘calling card’. Good film

albusteve Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:00:51pm

pretty cool, off the beaten path…the cameraman deserves big credit

SanFranciscoZionist Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:05:43pm

I woke up this morning with a headache, and while the pain has gone, I still feel shaky and vague. I think this may be one of my semi-annual not-exactly-a-migraines.

Bleah.

Kronocide Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:07:01pm

re: #10 SanFranciscoZionist

Really spicy vindaloo works for that. And beer. Lotsa beer.

CuriousLurker Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:08:35pm

Insanity break? No such thing. Effective as of today:

Saudis must apply for govt license to start blogging
[Link: www.alarabiya.net…]

Licenses are now required for starting any e-publishing site in Saudi Arabia, after a regulatory change made by the country’s culture and information ministry.

The new conditions for anyone to open a blog, an online newspaper, or any similar forms for e-publishing, must be of a Saudi nationality, over 20 in age, and must have a high school or higher qualification aided with a good record of appropriate bahvior conduct, and a license from the ministry.

All license holders must publicly display their license information on their websites. Editors must receive a special approval from the ministry, in addition to having to require obtaining a license.

[…]

Abd al-Rahman Huza’, spokesman of the ministry, told AlArabiya.net that the new change is made to bridge communication between the ministry and individuals using the various forms of the e-publishing sites, adding that “it is for organizational supervision and not to supervise or censor.”

Huza’ emphasized that supervising and censoring contents were before the change, and it will not stop.

[…]

SanFranciscoZionist Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:08:43pm

re: #11 BigPapa

Really spicy vindaloo works for that. And beer. Lotsa beer.

Last time I had one, I got home from a late class, and took one of my husband’s Vicodin. Didn’t touch the pain, so an hour later I took another one.

When my husband got home, the pain was gone, but I was walking around the house picking things up and smiling at them.

CuriousLurker Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:09:22pm

re: #10 SanFranciscoZionist

I woke up this morning with a headache, and while the pain has gone, I still feel shaky and vague. I think this may be one of my semi-annual not-exactly-a-migraines.

Bleah.

Hope you feel better soon.

albusteve Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:14:34pm

re: #13 SanFranciscoZionist

Last time I had one, I got home from a late class, and took one of my husband’s Vicodin. Didn’t touch the pain, so an hour later I took another one.

When my husband got home, the pain was gone, but I was walking around the house picking things up and smiling at them.

vicodin is the best all purpose pain killer out there…it works fast, lasts for a reasonable time, and has manageable side effects…do yourself a favor and get a script

CuriousLurker Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:14:54pm

re: #12 CuriousLurker

Insanity break? No such thing. Effective as of ~~today~~ yesterday:

CuriousLurker Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:16:16pm

re: #13 SanFranciscoZionist

Last time I had one, I got home from a late class, and took one of my husband’s Vicodin. Didn’t touch the pain, so an hour later I took another one.

Wow, that sounds really bad. You should see a doctor.

reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:16:38pm

oooh, OK.
Not sure I can watch the end of this video; him climbing that bridge is making me very very nervous (scared of heights, here).

reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:17:21pm

It’s official, I’m dizzy as hell.

Gus Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:18:17pm

Interesting video. Although the ending got my acrophobia moving.

This will get you going.

Youtube Video

SanFranciscoZionist Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:18:39pm

re: #17 CuriousLurker

Wow, that sounds really bad. You should see a doctor.

They happen very, very rarely, and the doctor tells me it’s an occasional tension headache—might be a migraine, who knows—and to take pain killers and lie down.

Gus Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:20:16pm

re: #20 Gus 802

Interesting video. Although the ending got my acrophobia moving.

This will get you going.

[Video]

Warning on this video. That’s a 1700 foot tall tower. He also does some free climbing.

albusteve Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:23:01pm

re: #20 Gus 802

Interesting video. Although the ending got my acrophobia moving.

This will get you going.

[Video]

you couldn’t pay me enough

CuriousLurker Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:24:48pm

re: #18 reine.de.tout

oooh, OK.
Not sure I can watch the end of this video; him climbing that bridge is making me very very nervous (scared of heights, here).

Heh, me too. Just looking at photos can trigger vertigo. I can’t even stand on a kitchen chair and keep my balance long enough to reach up to change a light bulb. Glass elevators are a major problem.

webevintage Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:26:07pm

re: #6 Killgore Trout

Save-the-Kid- from-Gays Pastor Arrested

These stories don’t even surprise me anymore…they appall me, but they don’t surprise me.

Gus Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:26:18pm

OK. I won’t post the video of some guy doing pull ups on a 70 story high crane.

compound idaho Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:26:32pm

re: #23 albusteve

you couldn’t pay me enough

I have a friend who has a business servicing communication towers etc. Turns out you can make a pretty good living changing a light bulb.

reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:27:07pm

re: #24 CuriousLurker

Heh, me too. Just looking at photos can trigger vertigo. I can’t even stand on a kitchen chair and keep my balance long enough to reach up to change a light bulb. Glass elevators are a major problem.

I’ve been known to close my eyes, crouch, and hang onto the handrails for dear life in glass elevators.

*shiver*

CuriousLurker Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:27:16pm

re: #20 Gus 802

Interesting video. Although the ending got my acrophobia moving.

This will get you going.

[Video]

Will. Not. Click. No way.

Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:28:12pm

re: #28 reine.de.tout

My dad has extreme fear of heights but still has gone mountain-climbing with me frequently. He’s a brave man when totally terrified.

His vertigo is especially bad because it robs him of his sense of up and down— he needs a guiding hand when it’s really hitting him.

CuriousLurker Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:28:22pm

re: #21 SanFranciscoZionist

They happen very, very rarely, and the doctor tells me it’s an occasional tension headache—might be a migraine, who knows—and to take pain killers and lie down.

Well, okay, as long as you’ve seen a doctor.

webevintage Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:29:54pm

Daily Show: Barack Obama Is Luke Skywalker
The Democrats defeat the Republican empire with stones, vines and a well-placed log to gain legislative victories.

Comedy Central Video

reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:30:38pm

re: #30 Obdicut

My dad has extreme fear of heights but still has gone mountain-climbing with me frequently. He’s a brave man when totally terrified.

His vertigo is especially bad because it robs him of his sense of up and down— he needs a guiding hand when it’s really hitting him.

I do too, Obdi. If I’m in the shower and close my eyes, I will fall unless I have an elbow on the wall.

However, I did manage to go ziplining above the treetops (and over a river!) in Roatan, Honduras without completely losing it. The guide however, was very much aware that I was scared witless, and so on the last line down, he had me go last, and then he followed me and twisted me around as I was going down the line. I hated it, and loved it all at the same time.

Gus Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:30:49pm

re: #30 Obdicut

My dad has extreme fear of heights but still has gone mountain-climbing with me frequently. He’s a brave man when totally terrified.

His vertigo is especially bad because it robs him of his sense of up and down— he needs a guiding hand when it’s really hitting him.

It’s weird but I only get queasy when I’m seeing people climb stuff like towers, a bridge, a crane, etc. I don’t mind mountains, flying or watching people sky diving. So if I see a video of someone peering over a cliff I’m fine. But if they’re peering over a 1700 foot tower I kind of freak.

Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:31:37pm

Save a kid from gays pastor arrested for child molestation

reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:33:29pm

re: #34 Gus 802

It’s weird but I only get queasy when I’m seeing people climb stuff like towers, a bridge, a crane, etc. I don’t mind mountains, flying or watching people sky diving. So if I see a video of someone peering over a cliff I’m fine. But if they’re peering over a 1700 foot tower I kind of freak.

It may have to do with the control factor.
If you feel like they’re in control and won’t accidentally fall, it’s OK.
However, if it looks like they’re somewhere where an accidental fall could occur at any moment - scary as hell. At least that’s been my experience. Which is why I was able to allow myself be attached to a zipline, but can’t look over the wall in the state capitol observation tower.

Gus Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:34:29pm

re: #36 reine.de.tout

It may have to do with the control factor.
If you feel like they’re in control and won’t accidentally fall, it’s OK.
However, if it looks like they’re somewhere where an accidental fall could occur at any moment - scary as hell. At least that’s been my experience. Which is why I was able to allow myself be attached to a zipline, but can’t look over the wall in the state capitol observation tower.

Yep. Like watching that tower climb. When he’s free climbing I’m thinking “what if that hand grip breaks!”

reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:35:47pm

re: #37 Gus 802

Yep. Like watching that tower climb. When he’s free climbing I’m thinking “what if that hand grip breaks!”

Or his foot slips.
Yeah.

CuriousLurker Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:36:31pm

re: #34 Gus 802

It’s weird but I only get queasy when I’m seeing people climb stuff like towers, a bridge, a crane, etc. I don’t mind mountains, flying or watching people sky diving. So if I see a video of someone peering over a cliff I’m fine. But if they’re peering over a 1700 foot tower I kind of freak.

There’s some skyscraper, I can’t remember where, with these ceiling high windows that protrude out from the building and you can stand literally IN the window and look down. IIRC even the platform you stand on is glass, but I’m not sure as I only looked at the photos for a few seconds. *feeling queasy*

Killgore Trout Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:37:27pm

Ron Paul Tweets…

scheduled to talk about the gold standard with Stephen Colbert tonight… should be interesting!

I’m looking forward to it.

Gus Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:37:36pm

re: #39 CuriousLurker

There’s some skyscraper, I can’t remember where, with these ceiling high windows that protrude out from the building and you can stand literally IN the window and look down. IIRC even the platform you stand on is glass, but I’m not sure as I only looked at the photos for a few seconds. *feeling queasy*

Sears Tower.

reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:37:47pm

re: #39 CuriousLurker

There’s some skyscraper, I can’t remember where, with these ceiling high windows that protrude out from the building and you can stand literally IN the window and look down. IIRC even the platform you stand on is glass, but I’m not sure as I only looked at the photos for a few seconds. *feeling queasy*

I saw photos of that!
Had me shaking in my boots …

WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:37:57pm

Can I just say for the record I don’t care about that Enterprise gay video aircraft carrier thing, it’s not that big a deal IMHO

CapeCoddah Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:38:27pm

re: #36 reine.de.tout

It may have to do with the control factor.
If you feel like they’re in control and won’t accidentally fall, it’s OK.
However, if it looks like they’re somewhere where an accidental fall could occur at any moment - scary as hell. At least that’s been my experience. Which is why I was able to allow myself be attached to a zipline, but can’t look over the wall in the state capitol observation tower.

Hey everyone!
I don’t know what it is Reine, I dont like heights, but I love mountain climbing. No headwalls for me, but, hiking there is no immediate, extreme height terror thing. Your feet are always on the ground no matter how high you climb.

SanFranciscoZionist Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:38:30pm

re: #25 webevintage

These stories don’t even surprise me anymore…they appall me, but they don’t surprise me.

What a mess.

That said, AFAIK, this guy preached for Prop 8 and gave a few hundred bucks to one of the organizations pushing it. I profoundly disagree with his stance, but I’m not sure that his role in Prop 8 was so great that it really warrants headline mention.

What’s far more disturbing to me is that this guy was apparently a foster parent and a daycare provider, before moving on to being a pastor. Seeing a little pattern here. I have a bad feeling that this is just the tip of the iceberg.

reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:38:48pm

re: #39 CuriousLurker

There’s some skyscraper, I can’t remember where, with these ceiling high windows that protrude out from the building and you can stand literally IN the window and look down. IIRC even the platform you stand on is glass, but I’m not sure as I only looked at the photos for a few seconds. *feeling queasy*

CL, here’s one.

SanFranciscoZionist Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:39:58pm

re: #43 WindUpBird

Can I just say for the record I don’t care about that Enterprise gay video aircraft carrier thing, it’s not that big a deal IMHO

You can say that. For the record, even.

reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:40:10pm

re: #44 CapeCoddah

Hey everyone!
I don’t know what it is Reine, I dont like heights, but I love mountain climbing. No headwalls for me, but, hiking there is no immediate, extreme height terror thing. Your feet are always on the ground no matter how high you climb.

Yes, CC, but my feet are prone to slipping, even on level ground.
LOL.

Gus Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:40:12pm

re: #46 reine.de.tout

CL, here’s one.

Official site.

[Link: www.theskydeck.com…]

See. I look at that and think, “hmm, looks like it could break.” Then you might get some idiot jumping up and down on it.

WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:40:33pm

re: #12 CuriousLurker

Insanity break? No such thing. Effective as of today:

Saudis must apply for govt license to start blogging
[Link: www.alarabiya.net…]

crazy to us, probably makes a lot of sense if you just simply want NO INFORMATION TO LEAVE YOUR COUNTRY ALL STREETS CLOSED AFTER 9PM AND ELECTRIFIED

More creepy Dark Future stuff, every day our society and that written of in Gibson and Sterling novels inch closer to one another

WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:40:53pm

re: #47 SanFranciscoZionist

You can say that. For the record, even.

awesome! I’m saying it. :D

CapeCoddah Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:41:21pm

re: #48 reine.de.tout

Yes, CC, but my feet are prone to slipping, even on level ground.
LOL.

Ha. They call me Grace.

reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:41:34pm

re: #49 Gus 802

Official site.

[Link: www.theskydeck.com…]

See. I look at that and think, “hmm, looks like it could break.” Then you might get some idiot jumping up and down on it.

This page at that site has a video *shudder*, and also a photo of how the floor of the ledge is constructed. Supposed to make you feel safe, I suppose.

Usually refered to as anyways Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:42:03pm

re: #39 CuriousLurker

There’s some skyscraper, I can’t remember where, with these ceiling high windows that protrude out from the building and you can stand literally IN the window and look down. IIRC even the platform you stand on is glass, but I’m not sure as I only looked at the photos for a few seconds. *feeling queasy*

We have one in Melbourne Australia

Eureka Tower

reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:42:40pm

re: #52 CapeCoddah

Ha. They call me Grace.

They call me Not Grace.

Kragar (Antichrist ) Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:43:11pm

re: #43 WindUpBird

Can I just say for the record I don’t care about that Enterprise gay video aircraft carrier thing, it’s not that big a deal IMHO

The general consensus at the base where I work was the videos were harmless enough, but an officer of his experience should have known better.

Navy guys are already saying “Hey, this isn’t the Enterprise” when guys tell a stupid joke or grab ass.

CapeCoddah Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:43:16pm

re: #53 reine.de.tout

Someone mentioned recently that the have one at the Grand Canyon, also. I could not do it.

albusteve Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:43:27pm

I feel so left out…heights don’t bother me

CapeCoddah Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:44:13pm

re: #55 reine.de.tout

They call me Not Grace.

Believe me, it is said withe utmost sarcasm!
I can walk thru an empty room and knock 3 things over. Without fail.

CuriousLurker Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:44:24pm

re: #41 Gus 802

Sears Tower.

Yes, that’s it!

re: #46 reine.de.tout

CL, here’s one.

E GAD! You’d have to stun gun me and bodily drag me onto that platform

I inadvertently clicked on this one at Wikipedia. *whimper*

Kragar (Antichrist ) Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:45:02pm

re: #58 albusteve

I feel so left out…heights don’t bother me

I don’t really mind heights. Planes, highrises, etc, I’m fine, but I have a phobia when confronted with falling.

reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:45:26pm

re: #57 CapeCoddah

Someone mentioned recently that the have one at the Grand Canyon, also. I could not do it.

Grand Canyon Skywalk

CapeCoddah Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:46:10pm

re: #62 reine.de.tout

Yep, was just gonna post it. Are they insane?

reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:46:12pm

re: #60 CuriousLurker

Yes, that’s it!

re: #46 reine.de.tout

E GAD! You’d have to stun gun me and bodily drag me onto that platform

I inadvertently clicked on this one at Wikipedia. *whimper*

I’m dizzy again. And my palms are wet.
whew.

albusteve Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:46:45pm

re: #61 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I don’t really mind heights. Planes, highrises, etc, I’m fine, but I have a phobia when confronted with falling.

I want to do this bad boy…
[Link: tlc.howstuffworks.com…]

CapeCoddah Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:47:00pm

4,000 feet. No thank you.

reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:47:31pm

re: #66 CapeCoddah

4,000 feet. No thank you.

I might look at that skywalk from a distance.

CuriousLurker Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:48:01pm

re: #49 Gus 802

Official site.

[Link: www.theskydeck.com…]

See. I look at that and think, “hmm, looks like it could break.” Then you might get some idiot jumping up and down on it.

*closes eyes, sticks fingers in ears… “la-la-la-la-la I can’t hear you…”

CapeCoddah Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:48:10pm

re: #67 reine.de.tout

With binoculars, safely from the bottom of the canyon.

Kragar (Antichrist ) Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:48:17pm

re: #65 albusteve

I want to do this bad boy…
[Link: tlc.howstuffworks.com…]

No. I’m not a roller coaster person. I really don’t like them.

albusteve Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:48:19pm

re: #63 CapeCoddah

Yep, was just gonna post it. Are they insane?

not at all…and it’s an engineering marvel

Gus Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:48:51pm

re: #68 CuriousLurker

*closes eyes, sticks fingers in ears… “la-la-la-la-la I can’t hear you…”

What if we set you up with a safety harness and a parachute?

CuriousLurker Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:50:01pm

re: #50 WindUpBird

Definitely very creepy.

CapeCoddah Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:51:09pm

re: #71 albusteve

I will marvel from my desk, thanks, Steve!
I closest I want to be when that thing collapses like a paper clip is at the dinner table watching the 6 o’clock news.

reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:51:09pm

re: #72 Gus 802

What if we set you up with a safety harness and a parachute?

//

then you’d be on a zipline (‘cept for the parachute) For some reason - that, I can do.
Weird phobias, eh?

Gus Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:51:29pm

Freak out like the skydiving cat!

Youtube Video

albusteve Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:52:15pm

re: #70 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

No. I’m not a roller coaster person. I really don’t like them.

heh…I’m considered a junkie…the High Roller at the Stratosphere Tower in Vegas had you dangling in space over a thousand feet up….yowza!

CuriousLurker Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:52:29pm

re: #72 Gus 802

What if we set you up with a safety harness and a parachute?

//

Only if you bring tranquilizer darts. Heh.

CapeCoddah Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:53:23pm

re: #77 albusteve

Maybe you are just insane? :)

reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:53:43pm

re: #76 Gus 802

Freak out like the skydiving cat!

[Video]

That cat looked remarkably calm to me.
Confused, but calm. But I can’t believe they did that to that cat.

re: #77 albusteve

heh…I’m considered a junkie…the High Roller at the Stratosphere Tower in Vegas had you dangling in space over a thousand feet up…yowza!

I can’t even look at photos of that thing.

CuriousLurker Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:53:56pm

re: #62 reine.de.tout

Grand Canyon Skywalk

Oh, HELL NO. Uh-uh.

Gus Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:55:02pm

re: #80 reine.de.tout

That cat looked remarkably calm to me.
Confused, but calm. But I can’t believe they did that to that cat.

re: #77 albusteve

I can’t even look at photos of that thing.

Yeah. Cat look OK until he got to the door and was about ready to jump. He was thinking, “oh noz this nut is going to jump out of this noisy thing high up in the sky!”

albusteve Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:56:40pm

what a bunch of sissies….stay in the bar and order the drinks then, while I have all the fun…
neener
neener

Kragar (Antichrist ) Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:56:46pm

re: #77 albusteve

heh…I’m considered a junkie…the High Roller at the Stratosphere Tower in Vegas had you dangling in space over a thousand feet up…yowza!

I drive over a bridge or freeway over pass and I imagine what it would be like if it gave way or I went over the railing, plunging hundreds of feet into a cold watery grave while still strapped into my car.

That might just be a side effect from driving on this almost every day for 8 years.

Image: 386483-San_Diego_and_Coronado_Bridge-San_Diego.jpg

CapeCoddah Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:57:40pm

re: #83 albusteve

what a bunch of sissies…stay in the bar and order the drinks then, while I have all the fun…
neener
neener

We will send flowers.

albusteve Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:58:21pm

re: #84 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I drive over a bridge or freeway over pass and I imagine what it would be like if it gave way or I went over the railing, plunging hundreds of feet into a cold watery grave while still strapped into my car.

That might just be a side effect from driving on this almost every day for 8 years.

Image: 386483-San_Diego_and_Coronado_Bridge-San_Diego.jpg

yeah man…I love bridges too…then don’t think about falling, think about bridge sex

Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:58:54pm

re: #84 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I miss California Highway 1.

Image: IH128604.jpg

Image: image-aHR0cDovL2JsdWJlZGJ1aWEwMTo4My9pLzUzLzEwOTAzQTMwREVBQThCNDQ3MTJGNUM3NDQ3NEEuanBn.jpg

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CuriousLurker Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:58:54pm

re: #80 reine.de.tout

But I can’t believe they did that to that cat.

Same here.

albusteve Tue, Jan 4, 2011 4:59:26pm

re: #85 CapeCoddah

We will send flowers.

do you snow ski?…black diamonds?
yeeeeeehaaa!

WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:00:16pm

re: #56 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

The general consensus at the base where I work was the videos were harmless enough, but an officer of his experience should have known better.

Navy guys are already saying “Hey, this isn’t the Enterprise” when guys tell a stupid joke or grab ass.

I watched enough to realize that my own sense of humor is way more offensive :D

albusteve Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:00:32pm

re: #87 Obdicut

I miss California Highway 1.

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who wouldn’t…gorgeous drive, world class in fact

reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:01:25pm

re: #84 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I drive over a bridge or freeway over pass and I imagine what it would be like if it gave way or I went over the railing, plunging hundreds of feet into a cold watery grave while still strapped into my car.

That might just be a side effect from driving on this almost every day for 8 years.

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That’s a beautiful bridge.

Here in La., we have the Huey P Long bridge across the Mississippi River near New Orleans. It’s got two very narrow lanes of traffic each side (each lane is about as wide as an 18-wheeler, no wider), and then railroad tracks between the auto/truck traffic lanes.

Some brilliant person decided, when this was being constructed, to save time by building the bridge from each bank at the same time, and having it all meet in the middle.

Well, they were off in their calculations by several inches, so when you get to the top of the bridge, there’s a sharp jag in the road where they had to make the bridge fit together. And you’re travelling next to an 18-wheeler that is literally one inch from your car, at 50 mph and there’s a train in the center, and you have to anticipate this jag in the road coming up.

The only time I drive that bridge, I make sure there’s nothing behind me, and I straddle the lanes ‘til I’m over it. It’s awful.

reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:01:59pm

re: #92 reine.de.tout

Huey Long Bridge

reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:02:34pm

re: #91 albusteve

who wouldn’t…gorgeous drive, world class in fact

Yes, that’s one of the road trips I want to do one of these days.

Gus Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:02:54pm

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Kragar (Antichrist ) Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:03:18pm

re: #90 WindUpBird

I watched enough to realize that my own sense of humor is way more offensive :D

Oh, I agree, but there is a hell of a lot of difference between a junior enlisted man or new officer making a stupid joke and a senior officer with the experience to know better.

reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:03:25pm

re: #95 Gus 802

That’s a beautiful bridge, also!

Gus Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:03:43pm

re: #97 reine.de.tout

That’s a beautiful bridge, also!

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CapeCoddah Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:03:58pm

I hear they pay bridge builders well..

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Stanley Sea Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:04:01pm

re: #6 Killgore Trout

Save-the-Kid- from-Gays Pastor Arrested

OMG. And I read today on hot air that it was slander to suggest that anti-gay folk should “look under their own beds” Also that it was a librul plot.

(I’m pulling an SFZ, bear w/me)

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reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:05:04pm

Well, I need to make a run for dessert (no chocolate in the house, again).
BBL.
Ya’ll stay safe on them bridges now.

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albusteve Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:05:15pm

re: #99 CapeCoddah

I hear they pay bridge builders well..

wow!…what a view!….gotta do that one

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Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:05:30pm

re: #98 Gus 802

There is a reason it’s the classic:

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Ah my city. I’ll be back. Seven years.

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Gus Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:08:13pm

re: #103 Obdicut

There is a reason it’s the classic:

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Ah my city. I’ll be back. Seven years.

I walked across it and biked a few times. I miss the smell of the eucalyptus trees in the area.

Not to be a downer but did you ever watch The Bridge?

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Stanley Sea Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:09:11pm

re: #77 albusteve

heh…I’m considered a junkie…the High Roller at the Stratosphere Tower in Vegas had you dangling in space over a thousand feet up…yowza!

You went on that??? I know folks who did, crazy.

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Kragar (Antichrist ) Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:10:26pm

re: #101 reine.de.tout

Well, I need to make a run for dessert (no chocolate in the house, again).
BBL.
Ya’ll stay safe on them bridges now.

I got to swing by this restaurant around the corner and get their waffle ala mode. Fat Belgian Waffle with french vanilla ice cream and spiced apples topping.

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compound idaho Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:10:46pm

Bridge over the Snake River, Twin Falls, Idaho.

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Very popular with base jumpers.

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Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:10:47pm

re: #104 Gus 802

Yep. I can’t imagine it. I can’t imagine being somewhere that beautiful and wanting death.

I’m a really unsuicidal person, though.

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Stanley Sea Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:11:19pm

re: #87 Obdicut

I miss California Highway 1.

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I got car sick on PCH that rout. And I was the DRIVER.

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Killgore Trout Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:12:33pm

AllahPundit the atheist wingnut is outraged about blasphemous Doritos ad….
Video: The obligatory “fan-created Doritos Super Bowl ad mocks Christian rite” clip

Even to an ex-Catholic like me, it feels cheap. Blasphemy in defense of principle, like free speech, is welcome; blasphemy in the service of humor can be fun. Blasphemy to sell bags of Cool Ranch chips? Eh.

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Gus Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:12:42pm

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Kragar (Antichrist ) Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:13:04pm

re: #108 Obdicut

Yep. I can’t imagine it. I can’t imagine being somewhere that beautiful and wanting death.

I’m a really unsuicidal person, though.

I can’t wrap my mind around suicide.

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Stanley Sea Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:13:18pm

re: #96 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Oh, I agree, but there is a hell of a lot of difference between a junior enlisted man or new officer making a stupid joke and a senior officer with the experience to know better.

He was a misogynistic, homosexual bashing idiot. I’m glad he’s disgraced. Honor is his last name right? karma

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CuriousLurker Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:13:59pm

re: #105 Stanley Sea

You went on that??? I know folks who did, crazy.

This is about the only roller coaster you could ever get me on. I went on a regular roller coaster as a teen. Once. Cured me of ever wanting to do it again.

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Kragar (Antichrist ) Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:14:38pm

re: #113 Stanley Sea

He was a misogynistic, homosexual bashing idiot. I’m glad he’s disgraced. Honor is his last name right? karma

It was his job to stop people doing the stupid shit he was actively producing.

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Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:14:41pm

re: #110 Killgore Trout

We use ‘blasphemy’ to sell stuff all the time. Nobody’s ever really minded before.

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Gus Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:14:52pm

re: #110 Killgore Trout

AllahPundit the atheist wingnut is outraged about blasphemous Doritos ad…
Video: The obligatory “fan-created Doritos Super Bowl ad mocks Christian rite” clip

Even to an ex-Catholic like me, it feels cheap. Blasphemy in defense of principle, like free speech, is welcome; blasphemy in the service of humor can be fun. Blasphemy to sell bags of Cool Ranch chips? Eh.

Oh brother. Good thing these people don’t follow me around.

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Gus Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:15:21pm

re: #117 Gus 802

Oh brother. Good thing these people don’t follow me around.

Oops. No, wait. Some of them actually do. But only on the internet.

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Stanley Sea Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:17:09pm

re: #114 CuriousLurker

This is about the only roller coaster you could ever get me on. I went on a regular roller coaster as a teen. Once. Cured me of ever wanting to do it again.

hahaha! It does have curves though!

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Gus Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:18:18pm

re: #110 Killgore Trout

AllahPundit the atheist wingnut is outraged about blasphemous Doritos ad…
Video: The obligatory “fan-created Doritos Super Bowl ad mocks Christian rite” clip

Even to an ex-Catholic like me, it feels cheap. Blasphemy in defense of principle, like free speech, is welcome; blasphemy in the service of humor can be fun. Blasphemy to sell bags of Cool Ranch chips? Eh.

Commercial For He’Brew - The Chosen Beer “Doctor”

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Stanley Sea Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:18:23pm

re: #114 CuriousLurker

This is about the only roller coaster you could ever get me on. I went on a regular roller coaster as a teen. Once. Cured me of ever wanting to do it again.

You know what’s the best? Fair rides. When you see the carney’s operating them. no way in hell. Ok, every once in awhile, but damn.

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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:19:16pm

re: #96 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Oh, I agree, but there is a hell of a lot of difference between a junior enlisted man or new officer making a stupid joke and a senior officer with the experience to know better.

Oh i agree it’s way unprofessional, it’d be unprofessional at a dev studio or my health care job. it’s inappropriate, totally. Just like I was totally not supposed to be watching GWAR videos at work (but I totally did)

But there’s a lot of political hay and outrage about it that i feel is misplaced

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Killgore Trout Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:19:44pm

re: #116 Obdicut

We use ‘blasphemy’ to sell stuff all the time. Nobody’s ever really minded before.

The whole christmas thing is marketing.
This reminds me that when I went to an Eastern Orthodox type christams service last year the communion was a table with real slices of homemade bread and glasses of wine. You could just walk up and help yourself.
The Christians ripped the ceremony off from the Mithra worshipers who used bull’s blood. I think it’s silly to pretend that god gives a shit about any of this.

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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:19:53pm

re: #116 Obdicut

We use ‘blasphemy’ to sell stuff all the time. Nobody’s ever really minded before.

Blasphemy is really one of the four food groups of pop music

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Gus Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:20:16pm

Commercial Coke Priest

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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:20:22pm

re: #121 Stanley Sea

You know what’s the best? Fair rides. When you see the carney’s operating them. no way in hell. Ok, every once in awhile, but damn.

I like the “Zipper” myself

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Kragar (Antichrist ) Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:20:38pm

Holy crap, listen to this guy.

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CuriousLurker Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:20:50pm

re: #109 Stanley Sea

I got car sick on PCH that rout. And I was the DRIVER.

It sure is beautiful though. I’ve been on narrow mountain roads in Colorado… in November… in the snow (slippery)… beautiful and terrifying.

I’d love to visit Cali again some day and see San Francisco & he PCH, but airplanes are to be avoided unless it’s a matter of life or death. Maybe via train someday…

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Charles Johnson Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:20:55pm

re: #110 Killgore Trout

AllahPundit the atheist wingnut is outraged about blasphemous Doritos ad…
Video: The obligatory “fan-created Doritos Super Bowl ad mocks Christian rite” clip

Even to an ex-Catholic like me, it feels cheap. Blasphemy in defense of principle, like free speech, is welcome; blasphemy in the service of humor can be fun. Blasphemy to sell bags of Cool Ranch chips? Eh.

Well, as an ex-Catholic, it didn’t bother me in the slightest and I don’t consider it “blasphemy.” In fact, I don’t even believe in “blasphemy.”

The new year is only four days old and already there’s a stupid right nontroversy.

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Gus Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:20:58pm

Nike Priest Running Ad

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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:21:15pm

re: #127 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

whoa o_o

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What, me worry? Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:21:27pm

re: #120 Gus 802

Commercial For He’Brew - The Chosen Beer “Doctor”

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Good beer. Hubby drinks it!

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Killgore Trout Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:22:18pm

re: #120 Gus 802

WASSUP HAHA FISH AD

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Outrageous!

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What, me worry? Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:23:06pm

re: #120 Gus 802

And if I’m not mistaken, that’s the fellow who brews the beer. It’s his company and those are his relatives. It’s funny as hell :)

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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:23:36pm

I’m mocking a Christian rite right….

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now

“Allahpundit”, can I just say, that is one of the worst pseudonyms for a blogger or an internet opinion dude or whatever that I’ve ever heard, it’s like…I’m embarrassed for the guy, it makes me cringe

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Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:24:13pm

re: #133 Killgore Trout

In a county where preachers get on the TV and ask directly for people to send them their money and then use it on opulent mansions, I think money is pretty much already directly tied to commercialization.

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What, me worry? Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:24:21pm

re: #124 WindUpBird

Blasphemy is really one of the four food groups of pop music

lol Name the other 3. One is sex, the other is women, the other is sex ?

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Killgore Trout Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:24:24pm

re: #129 Charles

Well, as an ex-Catholic, it didn’t bother me in the slightest and I don’t consider it “blasphemy.” In fact, I don’t even believe in “blasphemy.”

The new year is only four days old and already there’s a stupid right nontroversy.

I just skimmed the comments and even most of the readers are failing to seethe. Nontroversey fail.

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Gus Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:24:51pm

LEBRON JAMES CHURCH COMMERCIAL .NIKE AD

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Gus Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:25:36pm

re: #139 Gus 802

LEBRON JAMES CHURCH COMMERCIAL .NIKE AD

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And Bernie Mac was great. RIP

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CuriousLurker Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:26:10pm

Speaking of Doritos, I’m hungry. BBL

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BishopX Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:28:41pm

re: #137 marjoriemoon

Youth
Sex
Love

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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:28:49pm

conservative blogging is sorta like just trying to be the loudest crier so the nurse picks you up more often

it’s gotten so far afield from actual thought that it’s like hair metal as applied to opinion writing. it’s kabuki facepaint, but virtual. They dress up total bullshit, just the most vapid grade-school nonsense like it’s sincere outrage, and it’s still obvious that it’s synthetic nonsense, but NOBODY CARES. They just play that character and try and get people to hit their blog and sell their ads so they don’t have to work for a living

man, people are great

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reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:29:18pm

re: #114 CuriousLurker

This is about the only roller coaster you could ever get me on. I went on a regular roller coaster as a teen. Once. Cured me of ever wanting to do it again.

CL, that looks almost exactly like the one in City Park of NO, which is the only one I’ll ride.
LOL.
We’d be a team, eh?

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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:29:26pm

re: #137 marjoriemoon

lol Name the other 3. One is sex, the other is women, the other is sex ?

the last is DRUGS

Seriously, you walked right into that one :D

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Charles Johnson Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:29:30pm

re: #135 WindUpBird

“Allahpundit”, can I just say, that is one of the worst pseudonyms for a blogger or an internet opinion dude or whatever that I’ve ever heard, it’s like…I’m embarrassed for the guy, it makes me cringe

Not to mention that someone using the name “Allahpundit” whining about “blasphemy” seems insanely ironic.

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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:30:10pm

re: #146 Charles

Not to mention that someone using the name “Allahpundit” whining about “blasphemy” seems insanely ironic.

I just can’t begin to keep up, it’s like digital vertigo watching them all do their thing

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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:30:46pm

re: #141 CuriousLurker

Speaking of Doritos, I’m hungry. BBL

only the original or spicy nacho for me, can’t stand the ranch

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What, me worry? Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:30:51pm

re: #127 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

re: #133 Killgore Trout

Kinda silly. I like the He-Brews better!

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albusteve Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:31:12pm

re: #143 WindUpBird

conservative blogging is sorta like just trying to be the loudest crier so the nurse picks you up more often

it’s gotten so far afield from actual thought that it’s like hair metal as applied to opinion writing. it’s kabuki facepaint, but virtual. They dress up total bullshit, just the most vapid grade-school nonsense like it’s sincere outrage, and it’s still obvious that it’s synthetic nonsense, but NOBODY CARES. They just play that character and try and get people to hit their blog and sell their ads so they don’t have to work for a living

man, people are great

huh?..there are literally thousands of posts here dramatizing this stuff…when you say nobody cares, you must mean me

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Killgore Trout Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:32:14pm

re: #146 Charles

Not to mention that someone using the name “Allahpundit” whining about “blasphemy” seems insanely ironic.

Ha!

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What, me worry? Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:33:08pm

re: #149 marjoriemoon

Oh sorry, Kragar, you’re not silly. That guy was pretty awesome. Just goes to show you how drastically your life can change.

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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:33:43pm

re: #150 albusteve

huh?..there are literally thousands of posts here dramatizing this stuff…when you say nobody cares, you must mean me

I mean nobody cares in the other sense. Not you, the guy who reads WND or redstate loyally. The sense of the believers having too much inertia to question it. Like say, a follower of Hot Air or World Net Daily, some of them must know it’s schlock deep down, that the outrage drumbbeat is not real, that it’s transparent carnival barking, but they go along.

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Kragar (Antichrist ) Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:34:28pm

re: #152 marjoriemoon

Oh sorry, Kragar, you’re not silly. That guy was pretty awesome. Just goes to show you how drastically your life can change.

I hope he finds some work.

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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:35:11pm

re: #145 WindUpBird

also, sex and women is redundant, women falls under sex when it comes to pop music, so does love, so do all interpersonal dealings of any kind

so it’s blasphemy, sex, drugs, and what else…

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Gus Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:35:20pm

Oh. I get it now. It was just an excuse on Allahpundit’s part to get this jab in:

And yes, needless to say, before we get 500 comments making this point, they wouldn’t have dared pull this with any other faith. Especially the one in which liberal crusaders against blasphemy laws occasionally end up murdered in cold blood by their own security.

No, they wouldn’t have made a Muslim version of this commercial because it wouldn’t have made much sense. They used the Catholic theme because it is more culturally relevant in the United States. I already showed a few examples of that. Maybe in a couple of years we might see Muslim versions of this commercial. Perhaps a decade.

Also. Point of note. I don’t know where Allahpundit gets his information but Salman Taseer wasn’t a “liberal crusader” but instead he was a moderate Muslim. It’s also a bit of an insult to call him a “liberal crusader”.

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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:35:54pm

re: #156 Gus 802

arguments so dumb you wonder how he can type them without blushing furiously

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SanFranciscoZionist Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:38:34pm

re: #70 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

No. I’m not a roller coaster person. I really don’t like them.

I can get myself to go on a roller coaster. What I can’t do is figure out why.

If I needed to get on a roller coaster to save someone’s life, or for God and country and such, sure, I’d do it. But to me it is a profoundly unpleasant experience, and when I get off, all I feel is a profound relief that I’m back on the ground and can so something pleasant now.

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Kragar (Antichrist ) Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:39:01pm

The GOP’s Michele Bachmann problem

Bachmann presents a particular headache for the GOP. The Tea Party helped propel Republicans into office by attacking Democrats; now, with the dirty work done and popular support for centrist compromise growing, wild cable TV statements are looking more like a liability. And Bachmann is Exhibit A. But by withholding from her the formal power she believes she has earned, the GOP has probably compounded the problem. As Bachmann’s time in the Minnesota state senate made clear, rejection by party elders has a way of energizing her. If things had gone her way, Bachmann might have been tempted to move past Mama Grizzly extremism, but now, she’ll be sticking with it. Boehner should have seen this coming.

The new dynamic is already in effect: After the GOP put the less tea-stained Jeb Hensarling of Texas in the conference chair position, Bachmann moved rapidly from faux-graciousness to promising an insurrection “against our own leadership” if it failed to accomplish what the Tea Party had asked for. In a November interview with the New York Times, she came across as almost thuggish, pointing out both her street cred (“I’ve been willing to take on my own party, my own leadership, my own president before, so I would be willing to do that again, if I felt there’s a principled reason to do so”) and her movement’s might.

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Gus Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:39:47pm

re: #157 WindUpBird

arguments so dumb you wonder how he can type them without blushing furiously

Such oversimplification too. Taseer was a member of the Pakistan Peoples Party. Which is a socialist party in Pakistan. That doesn’t make him a liberal in the American sense. Perhaps a liberal in the Pakistani sense. He was certainly not a “liberal crusader” as defined by our standards let alone whatever is going on in Allahpundit’s head. But you know the drill. They see socialist and they think “teh librul!”

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What, me worry? Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:39:58pm

re: #155 WindUpBird

also, sex and women is redundant, women falls under sex when it comes to pop music, so does love, so do all interpersonal dealings of any kind

so it’s blasphemy, sex, drugs, and what else…

Eeep, how could I forget drugs.

I was making a small attempt at humor, sex, women and sex (basically it’s all the same thing).

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Kragar (Antichrist ) Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:40:03pm

re: #158 SanFranciscoZionist

I can get myself to go on a roller coaster. What I can’t do is figure out why.

If I needed to get on a roller coaster to save someone’s life, or for God and country and such, sure, I’d do it. But to me it is a profoundly unpleasant experience, and when I get off, all I feel is a profound relief that I’m back on the ground and can so something pleasant now.

Oh, I’ve gone on them with the kids and such, but I find them an uncomfortable waste of time at best.

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SanFranciscoZionist Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:40:17pm

re: #80 reine.de.tout

That cat looked remarkably calm to me.
Confused, but calm. But I can’t believe they did that to that cat.

re: #77 albusteve

I can’t even look at photos of that thing.

I know PETA is flipping out because dogs get brought into areas in combat zones by parachute. But they’re not house pets, they get trained to do it, and they go down strapped to their handler.

Doing it with a cat makes NO sense to me.

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Killgore Trout Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:40:22pm

was this a real ad?
German Engineering vs. Muslim Terrorist Technology

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SanFranciscoZionist Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:40:55pm

re: #90 WindUpBird

I watched enough to realize that my own sense of humor is way more offensive :D

Yes, but you’re not captain of the Enterprise.

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albusteve Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:41:36pm

blasphemy is a made up descriptor…if god considers something blasphemous, he’d say so, he’s the umpire, not some well versed guy in a robe handing out crackers…til then fuck it, but I like the word and used to shout it out here once in a while

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Gus Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:41:39pm

BIAB. Think I’ll pick up a bag of Doritos while I’m out.

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SanFranciscoZionist Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:42:14pm

re: #104 Gus 802

I walked across it and biked a few times. I miss the smell of the eucalyptus trees in the area.

Not to be a downer but did you ever watch The Bridge?

I have walked across the Golden Gate once. My now-husband and I made a date of it. Beautiful, even with the cars going by you.

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What, me worry? Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:42:35pm

re: #163 SanFranciscoZionist

I know PETA is flipping out because dogs get brought into areas in combat zones by parachute. But they’re not house pets, they get trained to do it, and they go down strapped to their handler.

Doing it with a cat makes NO sense to me.

I won’t watch it. I don’t dig making animals do thinks they wouldn’t do on their own, except maybe, getting off my kitchen counter.

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albusteve Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:42:58pm

re: #158 SanFranciscoZionist

I can get myself to go on a roller coaster. What I can’t do is figure out why.

If I needed to get on a roller coaster to save someone’s life, or for God and country and such, sure, I’d do it. But to me it is a profoundly unpleasant experience, and when I get off, all I feel is a profound relief that I’m back on the ground and can so something pleasant now.

no problem…I bet it’s a genetic thing

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SanFranciscoZionist Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:44:00pm

re: #110 Killgore Trout

AllahPundit the atheist wingnut is outraged about blasphemous Doritos ad…
Video: The obligatory “fan-created Doritos Super Bowl ad mocks Christian rite” clip

Even to an ex-Catholic like me, it feels cheap. Blasphemy in defense of principle, like free speech, is welcome; blasphemy in the service of humor can be fun. Blasphemy to sell bags of Cool Ranch chips? Eh.

I do think the ad is tasteless. I don’t know if I’d go so far as ‘blasphemy’, having heard the ‘daily chicken’ joke from several Catholic priests.

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albusteve Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:44:06pm

re: #162 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Oh, I’ve gone on them with the kids and such, but I find them an uncomfortable waste of time at best.

oh man….I just cannot even relate to that…riding with the kids is the most fun of all

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albusteve Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:45:26pm

re: #164 Killgore Trout

was this a real ad?
German Engineering vs. Muslim Terrorist Technology

[Video]

that’s a classic…been around a few years now….VW pulled it of course

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SanFranciscoZionist Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:46:17pm

re: #123 Killgore Trout

The whole christmas thing is marketing.
This reminds me that when I went to an Eastern Orthodox type christams service last year the communion was a table with real slices of homemade bread and glasses of wine. You could just walk up and help yourself.
The Christians ripped the ceremony off from the Mithra worshipers who used bull’s blood. I think it’s silly to pretend that god gives a shit about any of this.

At the Catholic elementary school I used to work at, the second graders made their own bread for First Communion, with help from the principal’s mom, who used her own mother’s recipe from Sicily. The kids absolutely loved it.

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Bear Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:48:22pm

re: #168 SanFranciscoZionist

As a small boy my parents, grandparents and I walked across the Golden Gate Bridge the day before it opened to autos.

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SanFranciscoZionist Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:48:33pm

re: #146 Charles

Not to mention that someone using the name “Allahpundit” whining about “blasphemy” seems insanely ironic.

He’s part of the wing of the wingnuts that feel that you can say anything, as long as you say it about Islam.

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SanFranciscoZionist Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:50:18pm

re: #156 Gus 802

Oh. I get it now. It was just an excuse on Allahpundit’s part to get this jab in:

No, they wouldn’t have made a Muslim version of this commercial because it wouldn’t have made much sense. They used the Catholic theme because it is more culturally relevant in the United States. I already showed a few examples of that. Maybe in a couple of years we might see Muslim versions of this commercial. Perhaps a decade.

Also. Point of note. I don’t know where Allahpundit gets his information but Salman Taseer wasn’t a “liberal crusader” but instead he was a moderate Muslim. It’s also a bit of an insult to call him a “liberal crusader”.

And another moderate Muslim gets shot. Convenient for those who would like to pretend they don’t exist.

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SanFranciscoZionist Tue, Jan 4, 2011 5:51:39pm

re: #175 Bear

As a small boy my parents, grandparents and I walked across the Golden Gate Bridge the day before it opened to autos.

Way cool.

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reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 4, 2011 6:01:31pm

re: #123 Killgore Trout

The whole christmas thing is marketing.
This reminds me that when I went to an Eastern Orthodox type christams service last year the communion was a table with real slices of homemade bread and glasses of wine. You could just walk up and help yourself.
The Christians ripped the ceremony off from the Mithra worshipers who used bull’s blood. I think it’s silly to pretend that god gives a shit about any of this.

The symbols and rituals of any religion are the glue that binds together a faith community. I suspect there are many atheists who celebrate a secular Christmas tradition with their Christian relatives, and that’s a glue that binds that family.

I don’t know if God gives a shit about our rituals and symbols.
As to the ad - no Catholic church I’ve ever been to serves Communion wine that way; it’s obviously and Episcopal church! And I don’t like Doritos and won’t be buying them anyhow.

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reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 4, 2011 6:04:03pm

re: #179 reine.de.tout

The symbols and rituals of any religion are the glue that binds together a faith community. I suspect there are many atheists who celebrate a secular Christmas tradition with their Christian relatives, and that’s a glue that binds that family.

I don’t know if God gives a shit about our rituals and symbols.
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Just my .02, I suspect God is much more interested in where we are as honest, ethical moral people, rather than in the rituals we’ve put together.

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Stanley Sea Tue, Jan 4, 2011 6:05:07pm

re: #168 SanFranciscoZionist

I have walked across the Golden Gate once. My now-husband and I made a date of it. Beautiful, even with the cars going by you.

I’ve crossed it by car before. OK.

But a really memorable experience was going under it on a cruise ship. It was a 5 am passing. We all got up for it. The ship actually has to gear to reverse to sink low enough to go under. I have photos of the smoke stack thingy barely passing underneath. It was actually quite an amazing experience. (they also had coffee with kaluha to get you going)

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Stanley Sea Tue, Jan 4, 2011 6:07:21pm

RE: Roller Coaster photos, you must must look at these - hilarious

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Kragar (Antichrist ) Tue, Jan 4, 2011 6:10:53pm

re: #180 reine.de.tout

Just my .02, I suspect God is much more interested in where we are as honest, ethical moral people, rather than in the rituals we’ve put together.

Unless the proper combinations of standing, kneeling, bending and sitting are performed every 7 days, you are doomed to eternal damnation.

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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Tue, Jan 4, 2011 6:55:10pm

re: #161 marjoriemoon

Eeep, how could I forget drugs.

I was making a small attempt at humor, sex, women and sex (basically it’s all the same thing).

^_^

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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Tue, Jan 4, 2011 6:56:35pm

re: #163 SanFranciscoZionist

I know PETA is flipping out because dogs get brought into areas in combat zones by parachute. But they’re not house pets, they get trained to do it, and they go down strapped to their handler.

Doing it with a cat makes NO sense to me.

hahahaha do it with a goldfish

just like, skydiving with the stereotypical goldfish bowl

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