Here’s a Thursday evening music break featuring a ridiculously great performance of “Rope,” from the new album by the Foo Fighters, Wasting Light. (With Beatlesque trappings.)
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albusteve Thu, Apr 28, 2011 5:34:30pm |
at least they pay tribute to their elders....that's important to me
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reine.de.tout Thu, Apr 28, 2011 5:39:15pm |
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 28, 2011 5:40:52pm |
P.S. LGF registration is currently open for a limited time…
*Lays out troll traps*
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Kragar Thu, Apr 28, 2011 5:42:26pm |
re: #3 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
*Lays out troll traps*
Sets the bait;
GOP pivots on ‘birther’ questions, blames Obama for media attention
“We’re borrowing four and half billion dollars a day and this president is more worried about birth certificates, Oprah Winfrey and fundraisers at the Waldorf Astoria,” Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Preibus said on “CNN Newsroom,” referring to Obama’s decision to release his long-form birth certificate before flying to Chicago for an interview with Winfrey and later to New York for a fundraiser. “It’s maddening and I just wish the president would engage in the real issues that are affecting America.”
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Daniel Ballard Thu, Apr 28, 2011 5:42:27pm |
re: #2 reine.de.tout
My Drunk Kitchen? That's new to me. Heh. This great.
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albusteve Thu, Apr 28, 2011 5:42:28pm |
re: #3 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
*Lays out troll traps*
I prefer they wander about disguised, develope a myth, then crash when you least expect it....just me tho, what's the harm?
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albusteve Thu, Apr 28, 2011 5:43:45pm |
Dallas is gonna draft a monster player at #9....probably a DE
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albusteve Thu, Apr 28, 2011 5:45:56pm |
re: #7 albusteve
Dallas is gonna draft a monster player at #9...probably a DE
whoops...Nick Fairey, Auburn
book it
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 28, 2011 5:46:00pm |
re: #6 albusteve
I prefer they wander about disguised, develope a myth, then crash when you least expect it...just me tho, what's the harm?
Eh, every now and then, I like to see one crash & burn on the first try. Kind of a little Darwinism in action, with those simply too stupid to live flouncing right off the bat, the smarter ones holding it in awhile.
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albusteve Thu, Apr 28, 2011 5:46:42pm |
re: #9 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
Eh, every now and then, I like to see one crash & burn on the first try. Kind of a little Darwinism in action, with those simply too stupid to live flouncing right off the bat, the smarter ones holding it in awhile.
you're new...all noobs think that way
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Killgore Trout Thu, Apr 28, 2011 5:46:50pm |
re: #2 reine.de.tout
KILLGORE, are you here?
My Drunk Kitchen has a new episode, "Not Easy, Bake Oven".[Video]
Hooray! Just in time for my first glass of wine!
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Killgore Trout Thu, Apr 28, 2011 5:47:47pm |
re: #5 Rightwingconspirator
My Drunk Kitchen? That's new to me. Heh. This great.
Watch some of her other episodes when you get a chance. They're usually pretty funny.
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albusteve Thu, Apr 28, 2011 5:47:54pm |
re: #11 Killgore Trout
Hooray! Just in time for my first glass of wine!
should Dallas take a tight end?
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Charles Johnson Thu, Apr 28, 2011 5:51:34pm |
Portal 2 is a really great game! Having a blast with it.
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Kragar Thu, Apr 28, 2011 5:51:37pm |
re: #7 albusteve
Dallas is gonna draft a monster player at #9...probably a DE
I have exactly as much interest in the draft as it has for me...a nice unsymbiosis
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William of Orange Thu, Apr 28, 2011 5:51:55pm |
Welcome to all new posters here!!!
Welcome to the usual sock puppets!!! (And goodbye again. ;) )
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 28, 2011 5:52:51pm |
re: #10 albusteve
you're new...all noobs think that way
I haven't been a n00b here in ages. Hell, I'm one of a dying breed, the last of the dinosaurs. I remember a time when trolls ran wild, when much sport was made of running them out of here on a rail.
Ah, those were the days.
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albusteve Thu, Apr 28, 2011 5:52:58pm |
re: #15 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
I have exactly as much interest in the draft as it has for me...a nice unsymbiosis
well just poop
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Kragar Thu, Apr 28, 2011 5:53:21pm |
re: #14 Charles
Portal 2 is a really great game! Having a blast with it.
I've decided to give The Old Republic a chance when it comes out later this year.
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albusteve Thu, Apr 28, 2011 5:55:15pm |
re: #17 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
I haven't been a n00b here in ages. Hell, I'm one of a dying breed, the last of the dinosaurs. I remember a time when trolls ran wild, when much sport was made of running them out of here on a rail.
Ah, those were the days.
by bad, I was confused, or are you two people?
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 28, 2011 5:56:52pm |
re: #20 albusteve
by bad, I was confused, or are you two people?
My name is Legion, for we are many.
/
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goddamnedfrank Thu, Apr 28, 2011 5:58:13pm |
re: #7 albusteve
Dallas is gonna draft a monster player at #9...probably a DE
A Dark Eldar monster eh? Aberrations have lots of attacks but terrible leadership.
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Kragar Thu, Apr 28, 2011 5:58:50pm |
re: #22 goddamnedfrank
A Dark Eldar monster eh? Aberrations have lots of attacks but terrible leadership.
Maybe a Talos Pain engine?
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Kragar Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:00:31pm |
Dark Eldar on the field would almost make football worth watching.
Have them play versus Orks and I'm down.
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albusteve Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:00:42pm |
re: #22 goddamnedfrank
A Dark Eldar monster eh? Aberrations have lots of attacks but terrible leadership.
and here he is...
[Link: www.warseer.com...]
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:02:41pm |
re: #24 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Orcs go down to easily.
They looked totally bad ass... but hell... I'm harder to kill than an Orc.
But, please don't try.
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Killgore Trout Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:02:55pm |
re: #13 albusteve
should Dallas take a tight end?
They could prance through Westminster Abbey in the Queen's panties for all I care.
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Killgore Trout Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:04:06pm |
re: #14 Charles
Portal 2 is a really great game! Having a blast with it.
The voice of Weatley is done by Steven Merchant (Ricky Gervais' sidekick). Very funny guy.
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Killgore Trout Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:05:07pm |
A very nice posting in the pages: Open Letter to the Jewish Members of LGF
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Kragar Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:05:40pm |
re: #26 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Orcs go down to easily.
They looked totally bad ass... but hell... I'm harder to kill than an Orc.
But, please don't try.
I'm thinking Nobz, Meganobz or some Dreads on the field.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:06:09pm |
re: #30 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
I don't know what that means, but has to be badder than an Orc.
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:07:05pm |
re: #28 Killgore Trout
The voice of Weatley is done by Steven Merchant (Ricky Gervais' sidekick). Very funny guy.
Aperture Science, forever breaking new ground, surpassed other companies by creating the first Artificial Stupidity.
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Simply Sarah Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:08:22pm |
I really need to get my eyes and/or brain checked. I thought the last o in the title was a different vowel for a moment and was wondering what the hell that was about. x_x
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:08:24pm |
re: #27 Killgore Trout
They could prance through Westminster Abbey in the Queen's panties for all I care.
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albusteve Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:09:01pm |
re: #29 Killgore Trout
A very nice posting in the pages: Open Letter to the Jewish Members of LGF
thanks for that
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Daniel Ballard Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:10:12pm |
re: #29 Killgore Trout
A very nice posting in the pages: Open Letter to the Jewish Members of LGF
Glad you pointed that out.
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Kragar Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:10:23pm |
re: #31 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I don't know what that means, but has to be badder than an Orc.
Mega-Nobz
Image: MegaNobz.jpg
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goddamnedfrank Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:10:31pm |
re: #30 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
I'm thinking Nobz, Meganobz or some Dreads on the field.
A gang of Cybered up gretchin combined Mad Doc Grotsnik's Feel No Pain rule are hilarious. Best tar pit ever, they just don't die. Throw in some Grot tanks from IA8 with their invulnerable save and you've got the cutest little mech infantry division ever.
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:10:33pm |
re: #29 Killgore Trout
A very nice posting in the pages: Open Letter to the Jewish Members of LGF
Thank you for the alert. I completely missed this earlier.
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Kragar Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:11:22pm |
re: #32 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
Aperture Science, forever breaking new ground, surpassed other companies by creating the first Artificial Stupidity.
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Kragar Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:13:35pm |
re: #38 goddamnedfrank
A gang of Cybered up gretchin combined Mad Doc Grotsnik's Feel No Pain rule are hilarious. Best tar pit ever, they just don't die. Throw in some Grot tanks from IA8 with their invulnerable save and you've got the cutest little mech infantry division ever.
Got 30 'ard Boyz, with a Warp 'ead attached to them, upgraded so I can re-roll the psychic power.
'ERE WE GO! 'ERE WE GO! 'ERE WE GO!
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ProGunLiberal Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:22:38pm |
To the Military Wonks on this blog: I was wondering if the Grad Rockets used by Libya are guided or not.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:24:40pm |
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Kragar Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:25:14pm |
re: #43 ProLifeLiberal
To the Military Wonks on this blog: I was wondering if the Grad Rockets used by Libya are guided or not.
No, they're a dumb rocket system
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William Barnett-Lewis Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:25:36pm |
re: #43 ProLifeLiberal
To the Military Wonks on this blog: I was wondering if the Grad Rockets used by Libya are guided or not.
BM-21 - 122mm diameter unguided & barely stabilized rockets.
[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:27:29pm |
re: #45 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
No, they're a dumb rocket system
Yep, just a newer version of the WWII-era Katyusha rockets. More for saturating a target than precision strikes. Point in general direction of target, set the angle, and then cross your fingers as you hit the fire button.
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Charles Johnson Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:28:44pm |
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Kragar Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:29:18pm |
re: #47 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
Yep, just a newer version of the WWII-era Katyusha rockets. More for saturating a target than precision strikes. Point in general direction of target, set the angle, and then cross your fingers as you hit the fire button.
It can provide a very heavy barrage in a relatively short amount of time.
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William Barnett-Lewis Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:29:49pm |
Hey RWC, after talking about bottom feeders the other day in our last gun thread, I found myself at my favorite local gunshop yesterday. I missed a LNIB S&W Model 10 heavy barrel buy about 10 minutes. That turned out ok becuase the pusher, er, clerk put a .45 ACP Ruger P97DC in front of me instead. So much for my budget...
Layaway is both a blessing and a curse... LOL
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:33:21pm |
re: #48 Charles
Looks Like Trump's Right: How the Hell Did This President Get Into Those Ivy League Schools?
Fuck yeah.
This whole thing disgusts me greatly. De legitimizing an actual legitimate huge success, based on race and hatred.
It's been a hard 2 days.
Charles, you did see that vid that went viral from @baratunde, I'm assuming.
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Kragar Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:36:55pm |
Major benefit of the GRAD system for the Libyans.
You can load it, drive it into position, fire off an entire barrage in less than 20 seconds, pack up and be moving again in 2 minutes
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Simply Sarah Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:43:55pm |
re: #51 Stanley Sea
Fuck yeah.
This whole thing disgusts me greatly. De legitimizing an actual legitimate huge success, based on race and hatred.
It's been a hard 2 days.
Charles, you did see that vid that went viral from @baratunde, I'm assuming.
You know, I have to admit that I'm finding myself somewhat startled by all the racism directed towards Obama. I mean, I know and knew that there is still a lot of it left in the U.S., but I had didn't realize just how wide and deep it remained. I'm a bit amazed he was actually able to get elected with all the bigots out there.
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reine.de.tout Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:45:14pm |
re: #12 Killgore Trout
Watch some of her other episodes when you get a chance. They're usually pretty funny.
I've "subscribed" to her you tube channel, and get an e-mail whenever something new is uploaded. It looks like she posts something new on THURSDAYS.
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:45:20pm |
re: #53 Simply Sarah
You know, I have to admit that I'm finding myself somewhat startled by all the racism directed towards Obama. I mean, I know and knew that there is still a lot of it left in the U.S., but I had didn't realize just how wide and deep it remained. I'm a bit amazed he was actually able to get elected with all the bigots out there.
We are the counters to that bigotry. But damn I agree. It really came to the surface, and actually it's growing.
I'm disgusted.
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:47:33pm |
So, what information that is relevant to determining if Obama is a natural-born US citizen is on the "long form" that wasn't on the "short form"?
Better question might be what's not there that the birthers were absolutely convinced would be, as a reason for him to "hide" it from them? I remember a couple nattering on about "Father's Religion," out of some perverse hope that it'd read "Muslim."
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Lidane Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:47:38pm |
John Cole is being awesome about this, as usual:
Finding Fault Where There Is None
Good Thing He Released the Long Form, Ehh Sully?
More Evidence That We Are Doomed
His smackdowns of Andrew Sullivan are fantastic. Really, Balloon Juice as a whole has been great on slapping down the birthers.
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makeitstop Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:50:41pm |
re: #1 albusteve
at least they pay tribute to their elders...that's important to me
Pretty amazing, eh? :-)
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Simply Sarah Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:51:31pm |
re: #55 Stanley Sea
We are the counters to that bigotry. But damn I agree. It really came to the surface, and actually it's growing.
I'm disgusted.
I'm wondering if it's growing or if people are just feeling more and more comfortable letting it show on the surface (The latter is obviously the case). And you toss that in with the hatred of Democrats and non-radicals in general and it's all the worse. I mean, even back in early 2009 I heard some people in a social setting I was trying out saying that the only reason they might not want someone to assassinate Obama is because that would make Biden president (Obviously, I rather quickly got out of there). And this was before things had really started to boil.
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ProGunLiberal Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:52:03pm |
re: #45 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Terror Bombings. To my (admittedly different) mind, I see a rockets with a low likelihood to hit me and my positions. Perhaps little groups of rebels could go out and destroy the launchers with RPGs? Gaddafi's troops are strained, meaning there may not be a huge amount of protection, and Gaddafi's men's morale is low.
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:52:21pm |
re: #57 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
So, what information that is relevant to determining if Obama is a natural-born US citizen is on the "long form" that wasn't on the "short form"?
Better question might be what's not there that the birthers were absolutely convinced would be, as a reason for him to "hide" it from them? I remember a couple nattering on about "Father's Religion," out of some perverse hope that it'd read "Muslim."
The only thing different from the short to long form was the name of the hospital, the Doctor who delivered him (The deceased Dr.'s wife - THRILLED HE DELIVERED THE FUTURE PRESIDENT)
Read that link!
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Killgore Trout Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:52:34pm |
Somebody posted the changes in their healthcare coverage on Reddit.
Image: ARJt0.png
What has Obama ever done for us?
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austin_blue Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:53:37pm |
re: #53 Simply Sarah
You know, I have to admit that I'm finding myself somewhat startled by all the racism directed towards Obama. I mean, I know and knew that there is still a lot of it left in the U.S., but I had didn't realize just how wide and deep it remained. I'm a bit amazed he was actually able to get elected with all the bigots out there.
Hey, hey! It's not hate, it's heritage, dontcha know.
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Lidane Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:55:17pm |
re: #64 austin_blue
Hey, hey! It's not hate, it's heritage, dontcha know.
Heh.
STATES' RIGHTS! FREEDOM!
///
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Kragar Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:55:21pm |
re: #61 ProLifeLiberal
Terror Bombings. To my (admittedly different) mind, I see a rockets with a low likelihood to hit me and my positions. Perhaps little groups of rebels could go out and destroy the launchers with RPGs? Gaddafi's troops are strained, meaning there may not be a huge amount of protection, and Gaddafi's men's morale is low.
Not likely. The missiles have a range of about 12 miles. Unless the rebels already have launch sites staked out, they really wont be able to respond with anything they have.
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Kragar Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:55:59pm |
re: #63 Killgore Trout
Somebody posted the changes in their healthcare coverage on Reddit.
Image: ARJt0.png
What has Obama ever done for us?
The Aqueduct?
Sorry, force of habit.
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:57:02pm |
re: #62 Stanley Sea
The only thing different from the short to long form was the name of the hospital, the Doctor who delivered him (The deceased Dr.'s wife - THRILLED HE DELIVERED THE FUTURE PRESIDENT)
Read that link!
Exactly, the only items were the hospital and the doctor, whose wife no doubt has had more than a few calls since the news broke from some rather..."irate" birthers by this point.
So we just spent 2 years hearing about a mythical document that apparently doesn't exist. No wonder the birthers don't want to accept this as the genuine article, they still think the "real" one is out there with all the juicy "secrets" that they've been hopin' and prayin' for all this time.
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Lidane Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:57:07pm |
re: #53 Simply Sarah
You know, I have to admit that I'm finding myself somewhat startled by all the racism directed towards Obama. I mean, I know and knew that there is still a lot of it left in the U.S., but I had didn't realize just how wide and deep it remained. I'm a bit amazed he was actually able to get elected with all the bigots out there.
Just wait until November 2012, especially if he wins a second term.
Sadly, we haven't seen anything yet.
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ProGunLiberal Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:58:53pm |
In 2 hours the death toll from the Tornado outbreak yesterday went from 282 to 295. It is the Top Story on Al-Jazeera English too.
The death toll from this will most likely pass that of the Super Outbreak in 1974, which killed 315-330 people. And that's not counting the additional dead from the Arkansas event earlier, which puts the total death toll at 299.
That's not even counting combined damage. St. Louis suffered an EF3-EF4 through the northern edge of the city (around the airport), Tuscaloosa got crushed, and Birmingham took a nasty lick. This may be the costliest tornado event of all time.
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Simply Sarah Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:59:32pm |
re: #69 Lidane
Just wait until November 2012, especially if he wins a second term.
Sadly, we haven't seen anything yet.
Oh, I expect next summer and fall to be brutal and depressing, regardless of the election results.
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:59:43pm |
re: #69 Lidane
Just wait until November 2012, especially if he wins a second term.
Sadly, we haven't seen anything yet.
That's when they'll truly let their hair down. So many of them have been trying to declare '08 a fluke, blaming it on McCain and saying he wasn't "conservative enough." If they get their wish and get a "true believer" on the top of the ticket, only for him to get his ass handed to him on Election Day, then you'll truly see the dark underbelly of the Right. We may find ourselves wishing for the days when the worst we got was a bunch of salty language from internet tough guys.
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austin_blue Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:00:27pm |
re: #69 Lidane
Just wait until November 2012, especially if he wins a second term.
Sadly, we haven't seen anything yet.
Well, that's a terrifying comment. The only thing more the wingnuts can do is go postal.
I surely hope you're wrong, but you may be right.
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ProGunLiberal Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:01:18pm |
re: #66 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
I wasn't even thinking of artillery. I was thinking of attacking the sites outright with manpower. Gaddafi's troops are strung out, with 3,000 on the eastern front, and many more being used to just hold down the cities still in his control.
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Charles Johnson Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:01:25pm |
We have some real winners trying to register tonight.
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:02:02pm |
re: #75 Charles
We have some real winners trying to register tonight.
Let me guess, they're not even trying to hide it?
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Simply Sarah Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:03:02pm |
re: #75 Charles
We have some real winners trying to register tonight.
The whole birth certificate thing seems to be doing a good job of making them flood out of the woodwork,
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jaunte Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:03:51pm |
re: #77 ProLifeLiberal
They're just simple farmers... people of the land... the common clay of the new West. You know...
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:04:50pm |
re: #79 jaunte
They're just simple farmers... people of the land... the common clay of the new West. You know...
Morons.
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austin_blue Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:05:14pm |
re: #75 Charles
We have some real winners trying to register tonight.
Don't we always? Why not let a couple through for entertainment value so we can mock them vociferously before Stinky whacks them upside their li'l puddin' heads?
Gamey buttocks. The bacon of the blogosphere.
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Lidane Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:06:16pm |
re: #73 austin_blue
Well, that's a terrifying comment. The only thing more the wingnuts can do is go postal.
I surely hope you're wrong, but you may be right.
More than anything, I want to be wrong about that. I really, really do.
Thing is, given how freaked out these people have gotten over the last three years, I'm not so sure I'm off base. I mean, the guy went to Easter services. Had a prayer breakfast for Easter. They STILL ripped him apart for not "proclaiming" Easter, even though no POTUS ever has. They've threatened a church he attended once for things the pastor said away from the pulpit.
On top of that, after being humiliated by the real "long form" birth certificate, they're now switching to calling him an affirmative action baby and questioning his education, along with calling the real long form a fake too, and blaming him for letting them work themselves into a santorum about the whole thing.
I can't even imagine the depths of fail they will hit should he win a second term. At this rate, they'll be calling him an [n-word] openly on Fox News.
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ProGunLiberal Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:06:51pm |
re: #79 jaunte
I was wondering about names, but your description is awesome.
About the Tornado Death Toll: Someone on Wikipedia can't count. Five people died in Arkansas before the major events yesterday. So the total death toll from this outbreak is a flat 300.
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prairiefire Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:06:56pm |
re: #73 austin_blue
Well, that's a terrifying comment. The only thing more the wingnuts can do is go postal.
I surely hope you're wrong, but you may be right.
They have been hinting at bringing out the guns on Redstate for months. They actually think they can bring about an armed resistance, and that it will be deserved.
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Kragar Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:07:09pm |
re: #74 ProLifeLiberal
I wasn't even thinking of artillery. I was thinking of attacking the sites outright with manpower. Gaddafi's troops are strung out, with 3,000 on the eastern front, and many more being used to just hold down the cities still in his control.
When dealing with forces spread out over a front like that, artillery is necessary. Any major push will require a consolidation of forces. Artillery can break up defenders or be used break up rebel forces attempting to exploit a weakness on the line. We're not dealing with trained, disciplined troops on the rebel's side. The threat of artillery can serve as a deterrence even if its not present.
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:09:02pm |
re: #68 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
Exactly, the only items were the hospital and the doctor, whose wife no doubt has had more than a few calls since the news broke from some rather..."irate" birthers by this point.
So we just spent 2 years hearing about a mythical document that apparently doesn't exist. No wonder the birthers don't want to accept this as the genuine article, they still think the "real" one is out there with all the juicy "secrets" that they've been hopin' and prayin' for all this time.
I just listened to her and her son's phone conversation on TMZ. They are Obama supporters and just thrilled to fucking death of this notification.
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ProGunLiberal Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:09:53pm |
re: #85 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Forgot about that. Then I guess we just wait for ammo on Qaddafi's side to run dry.
But the line in Qaddafi's men have between Brega and Adjabiya can be handled. Their dug in there, meaning it's hard to move. I say, bomb them with bunker busters and the like. Just splatter that force.
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prairiefire Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:10:02pm |
re: #84 prairiefire
They have been hinting at bringing out the guns on Redstate for months. They actually think they can bring about an armed resistance, and that it will be deserved.
I will clarify that is seems to be 1 poster out of 5.
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ProGunLiberal Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:10:24pm |
re: #84 prairiefire
An American version of The Troubles?
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Lidane Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:10:38pm |
re: #68 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
No wonder the birthers don't want to accept this as the genuine article, they still think the "real" one is out there with all the juicy "secrets" that they've been hopin' and prayin' for all this time.
This is what they want to see:
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austin_blue Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:10:44pm |
re: #82 Lidane
More than anything, I want to be wrong about that. I really, really do.
Thing is, given how freaked out these people have gotten over the last three years, I'm not so sure I'm off base. I mean, the guy went to Easter services. Had a prayer breakfast for Easter. They STILL ripped him apart for not "proclaiming" Easter, even though no POTUS ever has. They've threatened a church he attended once for things the pastor said away from the pulpit.
On top of that, after being humiliated by the real "long form" birth certificate, they're now switching to calling him an affirmative action baby and questioning his education, along with calling the real long form a fake too, and blaming him for letting them work themselves into a santorum about the whole thing.
I can't even imagine the depths of fail they will hit should he win a second term. At this rate, they'll be calling him an [n-word] openly on Fox News.
[sigh]
I agree with everything you post. It absolutely sucks.
How did we get here?
Never mind, rhetorical question.
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prairiefire Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:10:50pm |
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:10:55pm |
re: #70 ProLifeLiberal
In 2 hours the death toll from the Tornado outbreak yesterday went from 282 to 295. It is the Top Story on Al-Jazeera English too.
The death toll from this will most likely pass that of the Super Outbreak in 1974, which killed 315-330 people. And that's not counting the additional dead from the Arkansas event earlier, which puts the total death toll at 299.
That's not even counting combined damage. St. Louis suffered an EF3-EF4 through the northern edge of the city (around the airport), Tuscaloosa got crushed, and Birmingham took a nasty lick. This may be the costliest tornado event of all time.
I heard on the evil NPR today on my way home, in Tuscaloosa the police fleet (all the cars) and the garbage fleet was destroyed. OMG, they are like decimated.
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:11:09pm |
re: #86 Stanley Sea
I just listened to her and her son's phone conversation on TMZ. They are Obama supporters and just thrilled to fucking death of this notification.
Yeah, I'd read that last night. One of those brushes with history that nobody thinks about until years or even decades after the fact.
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Simply Sarah Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:12:10pm |
re: #88 prairiefire
I will clarify that is seems to be 1 poster out of 5.
Well, I tend to try and avoid reading too much into a website, if only because they tend to distill and focus extreme views which are probably less widespread than might be made to appear. Which isn't to say I don't have worries. I just know that if it actually came to that, it would be a disaster.
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prairiefire Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:12:24pm |
re: #93 Stanley Sea
I heard on the evil NPR today on my way home, in Tuscaloosa the police fleet (all the cars) and the garbage fleet was destroyed. OMG, they are like decimated.
The (black) mayor of Birmingham was on NPR. He said the folks need clothes and water.
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ProGunLiberal Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:12:47pm |
re: #93 Stanley Sea
That's gonna require fixing. I assume U of A has suffered horrifying damage based on that.
Federal Intervention here is a must.
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:12:49pm |
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Velvet Elvis Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:14:04pm |
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Daniel Ballard Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:14:29pm |
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austin_blue Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:15:09pm |
re: #97 ProLifeLiberal
That's gonna require fixing. I assume U of A has suffered horrifying damage based on that.
Federal Intervention here is a must.
Actually the U of A escaped. It was over a mile to the south.
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Simply Sarah Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:15:37pm |
I just hope the storms let up now. There's enough damage already and people need a chance to take stock of it all and recover. I'm still having trouble totally fathoming the scope of the destruction and loss of life in such a short time in this country.
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ProGunLiberal Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:15:42pm |
re: #101 austin_blue
They are one the luckiest places on Earth right now then.
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ProGunLiberal Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:16:40pm |
re: #99 Conservative Moonbat
What kind of thought process leads to doing that exactly? Was there any thought involved to begin with.
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prairiefire Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:16:52pm |
William A. Bell mayor of Birmingham, African American:[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]
Mayor of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, white. OMG, frickin American diversity!
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Velvet Elvis Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:16:55pm |
re: #97 ProLifeLiberal
That's gonna require fixing. I assume U of A has suffered horrifying damage based on that.
Federal Intervention here is a must.
Obama is checking it out first hand tomorrow.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:16:57pm |
Who has two thumbs and does not give a shit about the Royal Wedding?
FBV, nice to meet you.
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goddamnedfrank Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:17:05pm |
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:17:27pm |
re: #94 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
Yeah, I'd read that last night. One of those brushes with history that nobody thinks about until years or even decades after the fact.
Birth Certificate win.
The only part of the whole fiasco.
I saw photos of POTUS and FLOTUS walking to the helicopter for their fundraising trip. (his arm around her) I could just imagine her sadness that they are still going through what they have always gone through. And he's the President.
It was sad to me.
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prairiefire Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:17:56pm |
re: #107 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Who has two thumbs and does not give a shit about the Royal Wedding?
FBV, nice to meet you.
I have two thumbs and I care!!!!! Thank goodness for the DVR and BBC America.
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:18:47pm |
re: #97 ProLifeLiberal
That's gonna require fixing. I assume U of A has suffered horrifying damage based on that.
Federal Intervention here is a must.
President there tomorrow. Auburn canceled finals (yay the students are saying, between their shock) and graduation postponed till August.
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austin_blue Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:18:54pm |
re: #101 austin_blue
Actually the U of A escaped. It was over a mile to the south.
Clarifying:
The tornado was south of the U of A.
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Surabaya Stew Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:19:45pm |
re: #107 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Who has two thumbs and does not give a shit about the Royal Wedding?
FBV, nice to meet you.
As a borderline Anglophile who does give a tiny shit about the Royal Wedding, that cracked me up! Upding for you, my good sir.
:-D
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:22:28pm |
Condie Rice is on 30 Rock tonight!
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prairiefire Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:23:11pm |
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Obdicut Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:23:37pm |
re: #107 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
You'll like this, then:
[Link: www.somethingawful.com...]
What is royalty?
When a boss has a baby and makes his baby the boss and that baby has a baby and makes it the boss and they just keep on doing that and marrying each other until they're all turd-ugly and dumb as pigeons.
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:26:40pm |
re: #107 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Who has two thumbs and does not give a shit about the Royal Wedding?
FBV, nice to meet you.
I care enough about it to know it's happening...and I care about that because every frakin' media outlet says I should.
Beyond that, I am ever so thankful that Washington decided not become George the First, nor to treat the presidency as a form of hereditary office.
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:26:51pm |
re: #110 prairiefire
I have two thumbs and I care!!! Thank goodness for the DVR and BBC America.
My Mom, so proud to tell me she's setting her alarm tomorrow a.m.
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reine.de.tout Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:28:20pm |
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reine.de.tout Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:28:43pm |
re: #119 Stanley Sea
My Mom, so proud to tell me she's setting her alarm tomorrow a.m.
I'm just gonna stay up all night.
(not really; wish I could tho)
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:28:44pm |
re: #116 prairiefire
Please don your fancy hat at 5:00AM. That is all.
Actually, it's a special kind of ... puppet ... if you will...
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:29:43pm |
re: #120 reine.de.tout
As I said... tsk... chicks...
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Sheila Broflovski Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:30:35pm |
I baked Key Challah!
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sattv4u2 Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:31:35pm |
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prairiefire Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:32:38pm |
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sattv4u2 Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:32:42pm |
re: #121 reine.de.tout
I'm just gonna stay up all night.
(not really; wish I could tho)
feh,,, I've been busting my tail at work since 8 this morning (and yes, I'm still here,, 10:30 at night) setting things up for the networks for the weding!
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:32:49pm |
re: #84 prairiefire
They have been hinting at bringing out the guns on Redstate for months. They actually think they can bring about an armed resistance, and that it will be deserved.
of course they are :(
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prairiefire Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:33:28pm |
re: #127 sattv4u2
feh,,, I've been busting my tail at work since 8 this morning (and yes, I'm still here,, 10:30 at night) setting things up for the networks for the weding!
Woot! See, it is a big deal.
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researchok Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:34:24pm |
re: #121 reine.de.tout
I'm just gonna stay up all night.
(not really; wish I could tho)
I take it your invitation got lost in the mail as well.
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:34:46pm |
re: #128 WindUpBird
Did you see CL's page? [Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]
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reine.de.tout Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:35:12pm |
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sattv4u2 Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:35:18pm |
re: #129 prairiefire
Woot! See, it is a big deal.
Not for me
Heading home in an hour or so and right to bed. Don't know why, however
Have to be back here by 7 in the morning
SO,,, by the time I drive home, and the time it takes me to shower and drive back in in the morning,, I'll get all of ,, ummm,, errr,, carry the 4 ,, about 5 hours sleep!
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researchok Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:36:32pm |
re: #132 reine.de.tout
It appears so.
Well, I;ll watch on TV of course, but I won't wear the aubergine outfit.
I don;t want to take attention away from the bride.
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austin_blue Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:36:41pm |
re: #127 sattv4u2
feh,,, I've been busting my tail at work since 8 this morning (and yes, I'm still here,, 10:30 at night) setting things up for the networks for the weding!
Hopefully, you're not on salary?
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sattv4u2 Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:37:06pm |
re: #122 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Actually, it's a special kind of ... puppet ... if you will...
Is that a puppet head in your pocket or are you just happy to see me??
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:37:33pm |
re: #134 researchok
Well, I;ll watch on TV of course, but I won't wear the aubergine outfit.
I don;t want to take attention away from the bride.
How about your Sufi outfit?
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researchok Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:37:34pm |
re: #134 researchok
Nor do I want to clash with Elton John's get up.
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:37:57pm |
re: #133 sattv4u2
Not for me
Heading home in an hour or so and right to bed. Don't know why, however
Have to be back here by 7 in the morningSO,,, by the time I drive home, and the time it takes me to shower and drive back in in the morning,, I'll get all of ,, ummm,, errr,, carry the 4 ,, about 5 hours sleep!
Hey, give us the times. East Coast and West Coast por favor?
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prairiefire Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:38:37pm |
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researchok Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:38:42pm |
re: #137 SanFranciscoZionist
How about your Sufi outfit?
The whirling dervish costume? I would have but I lost my Fez isn't formal enough
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Interesting Times Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:38:53pm |
re: #123 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
As I said... tsk... chicks...
Not this one :P
...though I might be tempted to watch if the Royal Couple pulled something like this:
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researchok Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:40:14pm |
re: #137 SanFranciscoZionist
How about your Sufi outfit?
You know, I could go with my Larry the Cable Guy get up...
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Sheila Broflovski Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:40:22pm |
I was able to talk to my son this afternoon. He said the twister touched down 2 blocks away, there is massive destruction throughout the neighborhood but his house and car are not damaged. Power is out and so is web access but you can follow him on Twitter @rocketrabbi.
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reine.de.tout Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:40:41pm |
re: #134 researchok
Well, I;ll watch on TV of course, but I won't wear the aubergine outfit.
I don;t want to take attention away from the bride.
Aubergine? I didn't know you knew about aubergine. I bet you can tell the difference between pink, fuschia and red, as well! I'm impressed.
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:40:44pm |
re: #142 publicityStunted
Not this one :P
...though I might be tempted to watch if the Royal Couple pulled something like this:
[Video]
I'm praying her dress is SEXY! lol, at least modern.
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sattv4u2 Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:40:47pm |
re: #139 Stanley Sea
Hey, give us the times. East Coast and West Coast por favor?
East (Atlanta)
Arrived at work at about 8 am
It's a tad after 10:30 pm now ,,, I have about another 1 1/4 hours to go
An hour (+) drive home ,,so that will be about 1 am
Have to be back here at 7 am (up by 5:30 to shower and drive in)
Oh ,,, joy!!
An hour + drive home
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sattv4u2 Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:41:39pm |
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researchok Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:41:56pm |
re: #147 reine.de.tout
Aubergine? I didn't know you knew about aubergine. I bet you can tell the difference between pink, fuschia and red, as well! I'm impressed.
Naw... I was faking it.
Though I am partial to eggplant
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researchok Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:42:24pm |
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sattv4u2 Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:42:30pm |
re: #152 researchok
Naw... I was faking it.
Though I am partial to eggplant
I make a great parmagian!
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reine.de.tout Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:42:37pm |
re: #152 researchok
Naw... I was faking it.
Though I am partial to eggplant
Me too.
Esp. fried with lump crabmeat and mornay sauce on top.
YUMMY!
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researchok Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:43:03pm |
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prairiefire Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:43:24pm |
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researchok Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:44:09pm |
re: #155 reine.de.tout
Me too.
Esp. fried with lump crabmeat and mornay sauce on top.
YUMMY!
I put on weight just thinking about that
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reine.de.tout Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:44:38pm |
re: #146 Alouette
I was able to talk to my son this afternoon. He said the twister touched down 2 blocks away, there is massive destruction throughout the neighborhood but his house and car are not damaged. Power is out and so is web access but you can follow him on Twitter @rocketrabbi.
Hm.
He doesn't have many followers. If he wonders about this weirdo tootie - c'est moi.
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sattv4u2 Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:44:58pm |
re: #157 prairiefire
For the wedding!!!
OH ,,,, I dunno
We start ramping things up at about 2 am
Actaully, We're already doing multiple open camera shots from London to CNN, FOX and the CBC in Canada
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researchok Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:45:37pm |
The Daily Beast will be live streaming the wedding.
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researchok Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:46:32pm |
re: #161 researchok
Fewer cameras now of course since reine won't be there.
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:47:08pm |
re: #142 publicityStunted
Not this one :P
...though I might be tempted to watch if the Royal Couple pulled something like this:
[Video]
Oh my dog. That was the most joyous wedding I've ever seen.
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Lidane Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:47:31pm |
Creeping Sharia! ZOMG!
Frank Gaffney Accuses General David Petraeus Of ‘Submission’ To Sharia Law
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Gus Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:48:17pm |
re: #165 Lidane
Creeping Sharia! ZOMG!
Frank Gaffney Accuses General David Petraeus Of ‘Submission’ To Sharia Law
What a crock of shit. Frank Gaffney needs to get his head examined.
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sattv4u2 Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:48:39pm |
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researchok Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:48:41pm |
re: #166 Gus 802
What a crock of shit. Frank Gaffney needs to get his head examined.
Or exchanged for an updated model
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:48:54pm |
re: #149 sattv4u2
East (Atlanta)
Arrived at work at about 8 am
It's a tad after 10:30 pm now ,,, I have about another 1 1/4 hours to go
An hour (+) drive home ,,so that will be about 1 amHave to be back here at 7 am (up by 5:30 to shower and drive in)
Oh ,,, joy!!
An hour + drive home
NO, THE TIMES WE SHOULD TURN ON THE TV.
Holy crap!
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Lidane Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:49:16pm |
Also, more GOP minority outreach:
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reine.de.tout Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:49:32pm |
re: #158 researchok
I put on weight just thinking about that
Actually - it's a dill hollandaise sauce, I just looked it up. Can't find a recipe, but it's Eggplant Camellia and a staple at many restaurants here. Fried eggplant medallions, lump crabmeat and the sauce. To die for.
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sattv4u2 Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:49:37pm |
re: #169 Stanley Sea
NO, THE TIMES WE SHOULD TURN ON THE TV.
Holy crap!
oh ,, ummm,,, NOW!!
(that way, you won't be late!)
Who the heel do I look like,, TV Guide !?!?!
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:50:06pm |
re: #165 Lidane
Creeping Sharia! ZOMG!
Frank Gaffney Accuses General David Petraeus Of ‘Submission’ To Sharia Law
"Submission"...that would be a great name for a Muslim rock band.
/
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researchok Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:50:13pm |
re: #171 reine.de.tout
Actually - it's a dill hollandaise sauce, I just looked it up. Can't find a recipe, but it's Eggplant Camellia and a staple at many restaurants here. Fried eggplant medallions, lump crabmeat and the sauce. To die for.
Three pounds.
I just put on three pounds.
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reine.de.tout Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:50:34pm |
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Kragar Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:51:07pm |
re: #165 Lidane
Creeping Sharia! ZOMG!
Frank Gaffney Accuses General David Petraeus Of ‘Submission’ To Sharia Law
Thats perfectly understandable once you factor in that Gaffney is full of shit.
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jaunte Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:51:10pm |
re: #166 Gus 802
Some bearded dude named Gaffney makes pathetic bid for attention.
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:51:31pm |
re: #170 Lidane
Also, more GOP minority outreach:
Oh I saw this one. Trump is a fucking piece of work that the right wing, due to no one else, loves him.
Fucking asshole tarnish on our democratic process.
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researchok Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:51:47pm |
re: #175 reine.de.tout
*sob*
I don't know why they just didn't postpone the event until your invitation came.
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researchok Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:52:25pm |
re: #178 Stanley Sea
Oh I saw this one. Trump is a fucking piece of work that the right wing, due to no one else, loves him.
Fucking asshole tarnish on our democratic process.
I'm a big fan of your subtlety and nuance.
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sattv4u2 Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:52:34pm |
And on that note,, another hour of work then the long quiet drive home beckons!
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prairiefire Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:53:13pm |
The Queen mum is just like my Grandma Beulah, I am not kidding.
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Surabaya Stew Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:53:20pm |
Thought LGF registration was open; where are the hatchlings?
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prairiefire Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:53:33pm |
re: #181 sattv4u2
And on that note,, another hour of work then the long quiet drive home beckons!
Be careful, tomorrow is a big day!!!
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researchok Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:54:06pm |
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:54:13pm |
re: #178 Stanley Sea
Oh I saw this one. Trump is a fucking piece of work that the right wing, due to no one else, loves him.
Fucking asshole tarnish on our democratic process.
Come now, haven't you heard from The Donald? He's got a great relationship with "the blacks."
//
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:54:22pm |
re: #172 sattv4u2
oh ,, ummm,,, NOW!!
(that way, you won't be late!)
Who the heel do I look like,, TV Guide !?!?!
Uh yeah. What time for California?? Pretty please?
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sattv4u2 Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:54:36pm |
re: #184 prairiefire
Be careful, tomorrow is a big day!!!
Yup
PAYDAY
AND ,,, I get to pay the mortgage
AND,, I only have to work 11 hours !!!
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prairiefire Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:54:57pm |
re: #175 reine.de.tout
*sob*
It's ok, I don't think the Palace recorded my hostel address from South Westminster, 1982, either.
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Gus Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:54:59pm |
re: #177 jaunte
Some bearded dude named Gaffney makes pathetic bid for attention.
"Gus_802 Accuses Frank Gaffney Of ‘Submission’ To The Crazy Voices in his head."
//
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sattv4u2 Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:55:07pm |
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:55:18pm |
re: #180 researchok
I'm a big fan of your subtlety and nuance.
Obviously I'm not a candidate for office, or any type of negotiation.
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researchok Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:55:28pm |
re: #190 prairiefire
It's ok, I don't think the Palace recorded my hostel address from South Westminster, 1982, either.
What an oversight!
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:55:35pm |
The Condie scene on 30 Rock. Short and hysterical.
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prairiefire Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:55:42pm |
re: #189 sattv4u2
Yup
PAYDAY
AND ,,, I get to pay the mortgage
AND,, I only have to work 11 hours !!!
Cry me a river.
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Killgore Trout Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:55:52pm |
You suck
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researchok Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:56:19pm |
re: #193 Stanley Sea
Obviously I'm not a candidate for office, or any type of negotiation.
Actually, I LOL'd when I read your comment.
It was refreshing
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prairiefire Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:57:27pm |
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freetoken Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:57:27pm |
re: #191 Gus 802
BTW, your new avatar is strikingly similar to one I've been thinking of doing for myself. Now I may have to reconsider...
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Gus Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:57:54pm |
re: #201 freetoken
BTW, your new avatar is strikingly similar to one I've been thinking of doing for myself. Now I may have to reconsider...
This one?
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Killgore Trout Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:58:02pm |
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:59:01pm |
re: #201 freetoken
It looks like the last thing that you see just before Luke Skywalker slashes your head in half.
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Gus Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:59:30pm |
re: #201 freetoken
BTW, your new avatar is strikingly similar to one I've been thinking of doing for myself. Now I may have to reconsider...
Some psychopath lifted the P-51 avatar. What a freak. I actually took that photo of the P-51 which sort of adds to the psychotic smell this guy reeks of. Anyhow, I've got my own life to worry about not some low life internet loser.
:)
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researchok Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:00:20pm |
re: #206 Gus 802
Some psychopath lifted the P-51 avatar. What a freak. I actually took that photo of the P-51 which sort of adds to the psychotic smell this guy reeks of. Anyhow, I've got my own life to worry about not some low life internet loser.
:)
Nice preamble.
You found another video, didn't you?
/
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Gus Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:00:55pm |
re: #208 researchok
Nice preamble.
You found another video, didn't you?
/
Video? Oh. That. Not now. :)
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researchok Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:01:28pm |
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freetoken Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:01:29pm |
re: #206 Gus 802
The problem with mine is that it now looks derivative. When I switched, before the 2008 election, it was novel. Now everyone has used the sunbeam stuff the past few years for all sorts of images.
re: #207 Gus 802
Makes it easy to find myself. :)
Yup. It's one reason mine is designed as it is.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:02:07pm |
re: #197 Killgore Trout
That video should've talked about the little boy born in Kenya only to become President of the U...
Mebbe not.
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Gus Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:04:36pm |
re: #211 freetoken
The problem with mine is that it now looks derivative. When I switched, before the 2008 election, it was novel. Now everyone has used the sunbeam stuff the past few years for all sorts of images.
re: #207 Gus 802
Yup. It's one reason mine is designed as it is.
Steelers!!
Nah, it not for the Steelers. Yellow against black stands out though.
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:07:28pm |
re: #201 freetoken
BTW, your new avatar is strikingly similar to one I've been thinking of doing for myself. Now I may have to reconsider...
No!
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:08:02pm |
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Gus Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:09:33pm |
re: #217 Gus 802
From 2009...
[Video]
Probably at or before 2008 since he mentions "abstinence only education" from "the president".
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:09:57pm |
re: #217 Gus 802
HANK!
I saw Henry's spoken word show acouple years back, it was astonishing, that guy started and it was like he didn't take a breath for four hours
wrapped the mic cord around his wrist 3 times, assumed the Black Flag stance and JUST TOOK OFF
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:10:56pm |
re: #218 Gus 802
Probably at or before 2008 since he mentions "abstinence only education" from "the president".
HR's spoken word is a huge influence
always try new things, always explore, if you want to get stronger, gotta lift a bigger weight
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Gus Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:11:10pm |
re: #219 WindUpBird
HANK!
I saw Henry's spoken word show acouple years back, it was astonishing, that guy started and it was like he didn't take a breath for four hours
wrapped the mic cord around his wrist 3 times, assumed the Black Flag stance and JUST TOOK OFF
Yeah. I like what he has to say from time to time.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:11:36pm |
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Gus Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:11:49pm |
re: #220 WindUpBird
HR's spoken word is a huge influence
always try new things, always explore, if you want to get stronger, gotta lift a bigger weight
Abstinence only education...
Just say NO to sex.
Yaeah, right.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:12:53pm |
re: #223 Gus 802
only the Bush administration could be so stupid and clueless, hahah
it's all just sucking up to fundies who are afraid of their own junk, but hey
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Gus Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:14:40pm |
re: #224 WindUpBird
only the Bush administration could be so stupid and clueless, hahah
it's all just sucking up to fundies who are afraid of their own junk, but hey
Fundies are usually trying to control in others what they can't control themselves. They have no understanding of the meaning of MYOB.
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:15:55pm |
re: #223 Gus 802
Abstinence only education...
Just say NO to sex.
Yaeah, right.
And it might actually be more of a convincing message...if it wasn't being pushed by the "Free Love" generation.
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makeitstop Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:16:13pm |
re: #219 WindUpBird
HANK!
I saw Henry's spoken word show acouple years back, it was astonishing, that guy started and it was like he didn't take a breath for four hours
wrapped the mic cord around his wrist 3 times, assumed the Black Flag stance and JUST TOOK OFF
Yeah, we saw the show here last year. He's an incredible extemporaneous speaker, and funny as hell to boot.
We hung out with him by his 'Bon Jovi bus' (heh) after the how, where he talked, signed stuff and took pictures with hi fan for another hour.
He definitely looks older and smaller in real life, though. I always thought he was a big dude. He looked like a smaller version of himself.
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Gus Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:17:33pm |
re: #227 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
And it might actually be more of a convincing message...if it wasn't being pushed by the "Free Love" generation.
Oh yeah. A lot of "born agains" are like ex-smokers.
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makeitstop Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:18:11pm |
re: #229 Gus 802
Oh yeah. A lot of "born agains" are like ex-smokers.
Nothing worse than a reformed sinner, my old man used to say.
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:19:16pm |
re: #229 Gus 802
Oh yeah. A lot of "born agains" are like ex-smokers.
"Yeah, you kids should wait til marriage, just like we...well, you should at least use protec...all life is sacred...you know what, just read this pamphlet and get out of my office."
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:19:31pm |
White house meeting with TG activists: [Link: www.bluecollarphilosophy.com...]
I'm sure the snake handlers and the dried up fossils will protest
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Gus Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:19:58pm |
re: #232 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
"Yeah, you kids should wait til marriage, just like we...well, you should at least use protec...all life is sacred...you know what, just read this pamphlet and get out of my office."
I'm not going to let you make the same mistakes I made!
/
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:20:07pm |
re: #231 Gus 802
hahaha how can it be on the rise?! I figured everyone who wanted to be an idiot in texas already was
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:20:50pm |
re: #234 Gus 802
I'm not going to let you make the same mistakes I made!
/
"No, that doesn't mean I don't love you. It just means that I shouldn't have been banging anything that moved...for days at a time...without a condom in sight...and enough drugs to kill a rhinoceros...this isn't sounding all that good, is it?"
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makeitstop Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:21:45pm |
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:21:45pm |
re: #229 Gus 802
Oh yeah. A lot of "born agains" are like ex-smokers.
BORN AGAINS!
Those people are comedy
and their kids were always great, when i knew them in school, they were the hooligans, they would always be the ones who knew how to steal their mother's car, access to booze, shoplifting, and they were all into evil music
I guess if you're a smart kid who has a parent who's totally insane, you just decide not to care
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:22:16pm |
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Gus Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:22:47pm |
What is it doctor?
Well, you won't believe this but I'm afraid we're looking at a creationist mutation. They're evolving into a more resistant strain of creationism.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:23:42pm |
re: #239 makeitstop
Reproducing. (Shudder)
there'll never be an end to it, they have their culture, we have ours. ^_^ They wouldn't last a day in Portland, the first topless bicyclist would make them fall to one knee and weep for the madness and chaos all around them
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:24:22pm |
re: #242 Gus 802
What is it doctor?
Well, you won't believe this but I'm afraid we're looking at a creationist mutation. They're evolving into a more resistant strain of creationism.
what WOULD be the most creationist version of Christanity? Which ones are ONLY about creationism?
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:24:42pm |
re: #244 WindUpBird
cults don't count
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Gus Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:25:54pm |
re: #244 WindUpBird
what WOULD be the most creationist version of Christanity? Which ones are ONLY about creationism?
That might require some study.
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jaunte Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:26:36pm |
re: #242 Gus 802
Looks like a Harkonnen
Image: 090326-texasScience-hmed-510p.photoblog600.jpg
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RadicalModerate Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:26:52pm |
re: #231 Gus 802
Yeesh...
Not really on the rise per se, but the creationist proponents are getting more brazen and bold since the worst of them got tossed out of the Texas Board of Education in the last election cycle. Now, its state legislators who are trying to ram thru things like requiring equal time and research funding for creationists at the college/university level. Which the regents with the University of Texas system responded by informing the legislators that if that happened, then the Biology departments run the risk of losing accreditation (UT-Austin currently has one of the top 5% Life Sciences departments in the country).
Of course, the creationists ignored this.
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:28:32pm |
Creationism isn't so much on the rise as it is coming out in the spotlight after decades in the shadows. It's not as though these people adopted creationism yesterday, it's just that they're now in a position where they believe they have the power and the approval of the people to ram through such insanity.
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jaunte Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:30:13pm |
Ken Mercer, wedging:
I noted, on the public record, that the SBOE was in 99% agreement with the science experts’ new standards document. The only point of contention was whether students should have the right to ask questions and discuss the “strengths & weaknesses” of any theory, including the theory of evolution.At the March 2009 SBOE public hearing, I asked several science experts if they believe we created “world-class standards for each area of science including Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Environmental Science.” They agreed.
However, various experts in evolution opposed giving students the freedom to discuss and honestly question all scientific theories, especially evolution.
Fifteen thousand (15,000) constituent emails, and 700 scientists disagreed with those experts.
[Link: www.texasinsider.org...]
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Kragar Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:31:19pm |
Syrian Baath Party members resigning, reports of large scale desertions
About 200 people have resigned from the Baath Party in the last two days to protest the government's violent response to the unrest. Most of the resignations came from party members in the cities of Dara and Baniyas, which have been opposition hot spots.
"My resignation was a message and duty," former party member Mohammad Sheghri said in Baniyas. "Security officials clearly abused peaceful and unarmed protesters. This ruthless violation and oppression of citizens has never been something the Baath Party stood for."
There were also continuing reports of dissent within the armed forces. A Dara resident said an entire army unit, either a division or brigade, had broken off and was hiding among the people.
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Gus Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:34:08pm |
Poll: Belief in supreme being strong across globe
NEW YORK — Belief in a god, or a supreme being, and some sort of afterlife is strong in many countries around the globe, according to a new Ipsos/Reuters poll.
Fifty-one percent of the 18,829 people across 23 countries who took part in the survey said they were convinced there is an afterlife and a divine entity, while 18 percent said they don't believe in a god and 17 percent weren't sure.
But only 28 percent believe in creationism, the belief that a god created humans, compared to 41 percent who believe in human evolution and 31 percent who simply don't know what to believe.
I'm posting this just for the evolution stuff. ;)
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:35:09pm |
re: #252 Gus 802
Poll: Belief in supreme being strong across globe
I'm posting this just for the evolution stuff. ;)
Not exactly encouraging, that 59% of the world population either believes that the world was created by some supreme being or are too apathetic to care either way.
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Walter L. Newton Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:36:28pm |
re: #252 Gus 802
Poll: Belief in supreme being strong across globe
I'm posting this just for the evolution stuff. ;)
Not as good as Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes and Who is this God Person Anyway?
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Gus Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:36:39pm |
re: #253 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
Not exactly encouraging, that 59% of the world population either believes that the world was created by some supreme being or are too apathetic to care either way.
I don't think it's 59 percent:
But only 28 percent believe in creationism, the belief that a god created humans, compared to 41 percent who believe in human evolution and 31 percent who simply don't know what to believe.
Looks like the majority believes in evolution.
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:38:38pm |
re: #255 Gus 802
I don't think it's 59 percent:
Looks like the majority believes in evolution.
I was lumping in the 31% who "simply don't know what to believe" with the creationists, because that honestly reads to me like people who either don't give enough of a damn either way or do believe in one, but are afraid to openly voice it for fear of being ostracized.
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Gus Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:39:23pm |
More here...
Ipsos Global @dvisory: Supreme Being(s), the Afterlife and Evolution
Belief in Supreme Being(s) and Afterlife Accepted By Half (51%) of Citizens in 23 Country Survey, But Only 28% Are ‘Creationists’Monday, April 25, 2011
New York — A poll conducted by global research company Ipsos for Reuters News finds that one half (51%) of global citizens definitely believe in a ‘divine entity’ compared to 18% who don’t and 17% who just aren’t sure.
Similarly, half (51%) believe in some kind of afterlife while the remaining half believe they will either just ‘cease to exist’ (23%) or simply ‘don’t know’ (26%) about a hereafter. Lastly, the survey revealed that four in 10 (41%) believe in human evolution compared to 28% who believe in creationism and 31%of the global population who is unsure what to believe.
The findings are from a survey conducted in 23 countries among 18,829 adults (see list and methodology below)...
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prairiefire Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:40:24pm |
Lara Logan speaks out: "They raped me with their hands"[Link: www.huffingtonpost.com...]
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Gus Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:41:04pm |
re: #256 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
I was lumping in the 31% who "simply don't know what to believe" with the creationists, because that honestly reads to me like people who either don't give enough of a damn either way or do believe in one, but are afraid to openly voice it for fear of being ostracized.
Ah, OK. The 31 percent could go in any direction. My first inclination would be that they just don't care or give it any thought. They could also be conflicted not leaning in one direction or another. I imagine there could be something like a hybrid of thought where a person can be part evolutionist and part creationist.
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Interesting Times Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:41:30pm |
re: #255 Gus 802
I don't think it's 59 percent:
Looks like the majority believes in evolution.
Wasn't China one of the countries with the highest rate of evolution acceptance?
Perhaps that's why they'll soon evolve to be a larger economy than their creationist counterpart...
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RadicalModerate Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:42:34pm |
One other tidbit on Mr. Mercer.
Not only is he a creationist, he likes blowing the dogwhistle of identity politics too.
Texas Board Of Ed Wants To Scrub Textbooks Of Muslim History
The social conservatives on the board, who earlier this year set new standards requiring textbooks to include sections on anti-Equal Rights Amendment crusader Phyllis Schafly, the Contract with America and the Christian beliefs of the Founders, want to pass a resolution warning textbook makers not to include “gross pro-Islamic, anti-Christian distortions” in their books.
According to board member Ken Mercer, many world history books are rife with such “Muslim propaganda.”
“One of the books I reviewed has 120 lines referencing Christian beliefs, but has 248 lines referencing Muslim beliefs,” Mercer told WOAI News Radio.
A draft of the resolution obtained by the Dallas Morning News reads, in part, that “diverse reviewers have repeatedly documented gross pro-Islamic, anti-Christian distortions in social studies texts,” including “sanitized definitions of ‘jihad’ that exclude religious intolerance or military aggression against non-Muslims … which undergirds worldwide Muslim terrorism.”
This is in part due, the resolution argues, to “Middle-Easterners” infiltrating the textbook market.
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Gus Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:43:04pm |
re: #260 publicityStunted
Wasn't China one of the countries with the highest rate of evolution acceptance?
Perhaps that's why they'll soon evolve to be a larger economy than their creationist counterpart...
This is from my last link...
Seven Days or Millions of Years…
Much debate has focused on whether humans were the products of either a spiritual force creation or the force of nature by way of a gradual evolution.
* Four in ten (41%) identify as “as 'evolutionist's' and believe that human beings were in fact created over a long period of time of evolution growing into fully formed human beings they are today from lower species such as apes.” Those most likely to believe in this are from Sweden (68%), Germany (65%), China (64%), Belgium (61%) and Japan (60%).
* Three in ten (28%) global citizens refer to themselves as “creationists and believe that human beings were in fact created by a spiritual force such as the God they believe in and do not believe that the origin of man came from evolving from other species such as apes” led by those from Saudi Arabia (75%), Turkey (60%), Indonesia (57%), South Africa (56%) and Brazil (47%).* Almost one third (31%) of the global population indicate they “simply don't know what to believe and sometimes agree or disagree with theories and ideas put forward by both creationists and evolutionists”. Those from Russia (40%) are most likely to be unsure followed by those from Italy (39%), Argentina (38%), Poland (37%), Spain (37%) and France (36%).
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:43:32pm |
re: #259 Gus 802
Ah, OK. The 31 percent could go in any direction. My first inclination would be that they just don't care or give it any thought. They could also be conflicted not leaning in one direction or another. I imagine there could be something like a hybrid of thought where a person can be part evolutionist and part creationist.
Considering myself a Deist, I'm willing to believe that there's a higher power, but I don't believe he/she/it had any overt part in the creation of the universe. At best, I think that whoever or whatever that power was "flicked the switch," then turned and left. Hell, I'm more inclined to believe that we as sentient life are the product of genetic manipulation by a forerunner race than I am that some omnipotent and omniscient being created everything in the course of a week 6000 years ago.
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prairiefire Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:45:23pm |
re: #258 prairiefire
Sorry to leave the thread on a down beat. I admire her willingness to speak out. No "nasty little secrets" for Lara!
Night, lizards.
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Interesting Times Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:48:37pm |
re: #265 Gus 802
Cool. Here's the complete poll...
[Link: www.ipsos-na.com...]
But does it have layers?
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ProGunLiberal Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:49:12pm |
re: #251 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
I thought that it would be a cold day in hell before the Syrian Gov't fell a month ago because of the brutality that it puts against its people. Now, I'm thinking I might have to eat my words.
If Syria does fall, this revolutionary wave may continue and surge.
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Gus Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:49:39pm |
Excerpt:
41 percent - Some people are referred to as 'evolutionist's' and believe that human beings were in fact created over a long period of time of evolution growing into fully formed human beings they are today from lower species such as apes.
31 percent - Some people simply don't know what to believe and sometimes agree or disagree with theories and ideas put forward by both creationist's and evolutionist's.
28 percent - Some people are referred to as 'creationist's' and believe that
human beings were in fact created by a spiritual force such as the God they believe in and do not believe that the origin of man came from evolving from other species such as apes.
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jaunte Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:49:50pm |
re: #261 RadicalModerate
“One of the books I reviewed has 120 lines referencing Christian beliefs, but has 248 lines referencing Muslim beliefs,” Mercer told WOAI News Radio.
The kindest interpretation of that would be that it didn't occur to him that the students reading the books would have vast familiarity with Christian beliefs, and almost no information about Muslims. However, he's not an advocate for education, he's a religious bigot.
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:51:18pm |
re: #267 ProLifeLiberal
I thought that it would be a cold day in hell before the Syrian Gov't fell a month ago because of the brutality that it puts against its people. Now, I'm thinking I might have to eat my words.
If Syria does fall, this revolutionary wave may continue and surge.
Syria falls, then be prepared for the rest of the Middle East leaders to shit a collective brick. If a regime like Assad's can be brought down by revolutionaries, then all bets are off.
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Gus Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:54:55pm |
Ugh. Again...
From: Some people are referred to as 'creationist's' and believe that human beings were in fact created by a spiritual force such as the God they believe in and do not believe that the origin of man came from evolving from other species such as apes - Countries
Nation results in percent:
Saudi Arabia 75
Turkey 60
Indonesia 57
South Africa 56
Brazil 47
United States 40
Russia 34
India 33
Mexico 32
Argentina 26
Poland 25
And it continues. On page 20.
Oddly enough the USA has more creationists than Poland which is typically seen as a highly Catholic country.
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ProGunLiberal Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:56:24pm |
re: #270 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
You'd better believe it. At that point, it'd be duck and cover. The only the gov'ts willing to listen to their people will survive if that happens. Right now, aside from the obvious (Hi Israel) we have only Jordan and Morocco as definites. Oman and Kuwait are plausibles. Not sure what would happen in UAE, Iraq, or Qatar.
If Syria falls, I would pull the troops and forces out of the Persian Gulf until the new order settles out. It could turn ugly.
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Digital Display Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:56:53pm |
Belief in God is by faith..And it is hard
If it was easy we'd all believe
I often wonder..If God would just reveal himself to mankind there would be less killing and hate in this world..
But in a Universe that stretches out to infinity..He hides himself to us.. Why? I don't understand...But only by Faith is salvation and I don't pretend to judge him...
I am just a drop of water in the Ocean and try the best I can to live by his example..
/Man that was heavy
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Kragar Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:57:38pm |
re: #273 ProLifeLiberal
You'd better believe it. At that point, it'd be duck and cover. The only the gov'ts willing to listen to their people will survive if that happens. Right now, aside from the obvious (Hi Israel) we have only Jordan and Morocco as definites. Oman and Kuwait are plausibles. Not sure what would happen in UAE, Iraq, or Qatar.
If Syria falls, I would pull the troops and forces out of the Persian Gulf until the new order settles out. It could turn ugly.
Syria falls, Iran is going to get nasty fast.
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 28, 2011 9:01:55pm |
re: #275 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Syria falls, Iran is going to get nasty fast.
Yep, we've seen shades of that since Egypt, when they had to start crackdowns of their own. Syria falls, not only do they lose a proxy, but they will find themselves dealing with much bolder revolutionaries. When that happens, $140/bbl oil is going to seem like a golden memory.
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ProGunLiberal Thu, Apr 28, 2011 9:02:10pm |
re: #275 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Yeah. The only way Iran will fall is through a Civil War. And Iran has more weaponry in it, so it would get bad in a hurry.
Yemen's government will be gone within the month. 3rd Government to fall. There are rumors on Twitter and Al-Jazeera Live Blog of fighting in Tripoli (Little pockets of rebels there have been trouble for Qaddafi for a while now. Attacking Checkpoints in the city, then running off, poisoning the food Qaddafi's troops are using, and the like).
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Kragar Thu, Apr 28, 2011 9:10:56pm |
re: #277 ProLifeLiberal
Yeah. The only way Iran will fall is through a Civil War. And Iran has more weaponry in it, so it would get bad in a hurry.
There are also a lot more competing factions in Iran.
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jaunte Thu, Apr 28, 2011 9:14:43pm |
Goodnight all. Off to read...
I always tried to help Leon and you see the thanks I got. I hired him to drive for me right after his rat died. He was with the Murrell Brothers Shows at that time, exhibiting a fifty-pound rat from the sewers of Paris, France. Of course it didn't really weigh fifty pounds and it wasn't your true rat and it wasn't from Paris, France, either. It was some kind of animal from South America. Anyway, the thing died and I hired Leon to drive for me. I was selling birthstone rings and vibrating jowl straps from door to door and he would let me out at one end of the block and wait on me at the other end
[Link: www.amazon.com...]
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ProGunLiberal Thu, Apr 28, 2011 9:20:47pm |
re: #277 ProLifeLiberal
Oh forgot to mention, there are now battles between the Qaddafyites and the Rebels are going on in Tunisia now. From Wikipedia:
Muammar Gaddafi brings the 2011 Libyan civil war over the border into Tunisia. The Tunisian foreign ministry warns of a "dangerous military escalation" and makes its "extreme indignation known" in a statement referring to "Shots fired at a populated area on Tunisian territory" as "a violation of Tunisia's territorial integrity and a violation of the security of the residents of this region".
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, Apr 28, 2011 9:23:53pm |
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Lidane Thu, Apr 28, 2011 9:39:10pm |
So my boyfriend just told me Letterman called Trump a racist tonight.
I need to find a clip of this. I'd love to see it.
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Apr 28, 2011 9:42:13pm |
re: #61 ProLifeLiberal
Terror Bombings. To my (admittedly different) mind, I see a rockets with a low likelihood to hit me and my positions. Perhaps little groups of rebels could go out and destroy the launchers with RPGs? Gaddafi's troops are strained, meaning there may not be a huge amount of protection, and Gaddafi's men's morale is low.
Not really possible. BM-21s have a maximum range of more than 10 miles. They can be fired from safely within your own lines.
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freetoken Thu, Apr 28, 2011 9:43:08pm |
re: #282 Lidane
FYI, guess who is the featured speaker at the Iowa GOP "Lincoln Dinner" in a few weeks.
That's right - The Donald.
$100/plate.
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Apr 28, 2011 9:45:04pm |
re: #284 freetoken
FYI, guess who is the featured speaker at the Iowa GOP "Lincoln Dinner" in a few weeks.
That's right - The Donald.
$100/plate.
Lincoln, of course, would have no love for Trump. He'd have worked with him if he needed to (Lincoln was entirely willing to tolerate assholes to save the Union) but he'd never like Trump.
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ProGunLiberal Thu, Apr 28, 2011 9:47:22pm |
Death Toll for Yesterday's Tornado event is now 301. The overall event since the 25th has killed 306. Now just 24-29 from passing the number killed by the Super Outbreak in 1974. If it passes that, it will also pass a 1932 outbreak, making this the deadliest Outbreak in the US since the 1925 St. Louis Tornado. It's likely this single tornado is one of the nation's deadliest on record.
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Lidane Thu, Apr 28, 2011 9:47:32pm |
re: #284 freetoken
FYI, guess who is the featured speaker at the Iowa GOP "Lincoln Dinner" in a few weeks.
That's right - The Donald.
$100/plate.
I thought the teabaggers and birthers hated Lincoln. Isn't he a genocidal tyrant or something? Worst preznit EVAR, according to the loons? Why would they be hosting a Lincoln dinner?
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tnguitarist Thu, Apr 28, 2011 9:55:47pm |
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Apr 28, 2011 9:57:07pm |
re: #287 Lidane
I thought the teabaggers and birthers hated Lincoln. Isn't he a genocidal tyrant or something? Worst preznit EVAR, according to the loons? Why would they be hosting a Lincoln dinner?
///
Those are the Neo-Confederates. The northern wingnuts don't have a beef with Lincoln, they just ignore his legacy. In Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana and Illinois, Lincoln Days are kept faithfully. But in Oowa, they've been taken over as an occasion to spew Bad Craziness.
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MittDoesNotCompute Thu, Apr 28, 2011 9:59:25pm |
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Apr 28, 2011 10:05:13pm |
re: #289 tnguitarist
I understand why Tilly said that, and why he was wrong to say it. And to be fair, at least he made a genuine apology, rather than a "I'm sorry if people took my words out of context and were offended". I'm going to accept his apology and call it a day on that one. We all have moments when we act like a jerk.
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Kragar Thu, Apr 28, 2011 10:05:47pm |
After several months, I've finally completed my last of my grenadiers, so I can now field my IG assault brigade of 40 Grenadiers in Chimera APCs and 2 Squads of Stormtroopers in Valkyries.
I'll take the silence as awestruck appreciation.
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tnguitarist Thu, Apr 28, 2011 10:11:53pm |
re: #292 Dark_Falcon
Some folks just don't have that certain filter built into their brain. You know, the filter that says "maybe I shouldn't suggest flooding an entire town and be smarmy about it".
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tnguitarist Thu, Apr 28, 2011 10:13:15pm |
re: #293 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
After several months, I've finally completed my last of my grenadiers, so I can now field my IG assault brigade of 40 Grenadiers in Chimera APCs and 2 Squads of Stormtroopers in Valkyries.
I'll take the silence as awestruck appreciation.
No pics?
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Apr 28, 2011 10:17:17pm |
re: #294 tnguitarist
Some folks just don't have that certain filter built into their brain. You know, the filter that says "maybe I shouldn't suggest flooding an entire town and be smarmy about it".
Hell, I'm one of them. It wasn't long ago I said if we left Afghanistan we should nuke it as we did so. That wasn't any better than what Tilly said. Tilly screwed up, but I'm going to accept that a screw-up was all it was. And I hope the rains stop too. Because I understand what he's worried about:
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Kragar Thu, Apr 28, 2011 10:17:29pm |
re: #295 tnguitarist
No pics?
Small models and the detail work and cammie patterns don't really show up well on my camera, too blurry. I might try and borrow my buddies this weekend.
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Kragar Thu, Apr 28, 2011 10:23:02pm |
And now I'm stuck looking at my desk thinking which ones to do next
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windsagio Thu, Apr 28, 2011 10:27:05pm |
so WUB dragged me kicking and screaming into the twitters. I feel kinda dirty :(
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Kragar Thu, Apr 28, 2011 10:30:09pm |
re: #299 windsagio
so WUB dragged me kicking and screaming into the twitters. I feel kinda dirty :(
Thats because you are dirty.
Oh so very dirty.
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windsagio Thu, Apr 28, 2011 10:31:38pm |
re: #300 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Thats because you are dirty.
Oh so very dirty.
Ooh say more! This is gonna be so hot!!
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Kragar Thu, Apr 28, 2011 10:34:00pm |
re: #301 windsagio
Ooh say more! This is gonna be so hot!!
You know this weekend is the first of May?
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windsagio Thu, Apr 28, 2011 10:35:08pm |
re: #302 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
that brings up some memories of the shadier parts of my past, thanks >>
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Kragar Thu, Apr 28, 2011 10:39:40pm |
re: #303 windsagio
that brings up some memories of the shadier parts of my past, thanks >>
The shady parts are ever so more interesting than the brightly lit parts
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Apr 28, 2011 10:41:58pm |
re: #304 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
The shady parts are ever so more interesting than the brightly lit parts
And with that, I'm heading off to bed. Goodnight.
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Kragar Thu, Apr 28, 2011 10:42:23pm |
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windsagio Thu, Apr 28, 2011 10:43:03pm |
re: #304 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
The shady parts are ever so more interesting than the brightly lit parts
You know how it is, for a while I played WoW on a RP server ;)
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Kragar Thu, Apr 28, 2011 10:44:11pm |
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windsagio Thu, Apr 28, 2011 10:46:01pm |
re: #308 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Sinner.
I actually had to leave because people were getting to clingy and weird. You want to spend your time playing the game, not 'entertaining'.
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Kragar Thu, Apr 28, 2011 10:47:13pm |
re: #309 windsagio
I actually had to leave because people were getting to clingy and weird. You want to spend your time playing the game, not 'entertaining'.
Heh, you pay 15 gold for 15 minutes, you better get 15 minutes.
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Varek Raith Thu, Apr 28, 2011 10:47:22pm |
re: #309 windsagio
I actually had to leave because people were getting to clingy and weird. You want to spend your time playing the game, not 'entertaining'.
Man, some people just take gaming way too seriously.
Lol.
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windsagio Thu, Apr 28, 2011 10:51:07pm |
anybody feel uncomfortable yet? :D
But no, it was a weird scene. And I have no idea why I felt hte need to tell everyone that, lol.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Thu, Apr 28, 2011 11:25:28pm |
re: #304 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
The shady parts are ever so more interesting than the brightly lit parts
The shady parts are reality :)
the brightly lit parts are Vegas. Fake everything. Fake facades, fake air, fake people, fake tits, fake
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Thu, Apr 28, 2011 11:26:27pm |
re: #312 windsagio
anybody feel uncomfortable yet? :D
But no, it was a weird scene. And I have no idea why I felt hte need to tell everyone that, lol.
hahah everyone of our generation of a certain online bent has typefucked, it's great!
hell, they now sell those USB dildos that people control remotely. Seems like too much work!
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freetoken Thu, Apr 28, 2011 11:29:07pm |
We have all placed our bets on what the dress and shoes will look like, no? The unveiling is only hours away!
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Mocking Jay Thu, Apr 28, 2011 11:29:44pm |
Sooo... has anyone noticed this little gem?
Supreme Court Allows Contracts That Prohibit Class-Action Arbitration
Brought to you by JayCorp.
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windsagio Thu, Apr 28, 2011 11:30:31pm |
re: #317 JasonA
60 years of stacking the court with free-market nutjobs at work >>
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Mocking Jay Thu, Apr 28, 2011 11:32:04pm |
re: #318 windsagio
60 years of stacking the court with free-market nutjobs at work >>
Prepare to get nickled and dimed. More than you already are.
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freetoken Thu, Apr 28, 2011 11:53:55pm |
Paleo-Pat's new column is up at Townhall, in which Buchanan trumpets Trump's pursuit of and success wrt the birth certificate. Buchanan is objecting to people calling Trump racist for wanting to see Obama's papers, and he goes on to encourage Trump in the pursuit of the college stuff, etc.
And of course the crowd over there is loving it.
You may say "But it's Buchanan, he's supposed to be racist" and yes, of course he approves of Trump's maneuverings (on this issue.)
The point is how Trump has indeed continued to put himself into the good graces of all sorts of creeps in the far right of this nation's polity.
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freetoken Thu, Apr 28, 2011 11:55:55pm |
Oh, and to top it off Paleo-Pat starts off his essay discussing the Tucson shooting, as if calling Trump on his racism is somehow violating the spirit of Obama's call to turn down the heated rhetoric.
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Mocking Jay Thu, Apr 28, 2011 11:58:02pm |
re: #317 JasonA
Sooo... has anyone noticed this little gem?
Supreme Court Allows Contracts That Prohibit Class-Action Arbitration
Brought to you by JayCorp.
Before I go to bed I should mention one thing: I think I'm on the corporation's side on this particular case. AT&T was being sued for trying to collect the taxes that the State of California expects of them for the value for the phone. I think the decision itself was bullshit because of the implications, but I am trying to be fair here.
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Wozza Matter? Fri, Apr 29, 2011 12:33:23am |
I am a Britisher - and don't care one jot about the wedding today, other than that taxpayers are footing the bill.
IMHO - if the American people want the royals, they can have them.
You need a dysfunctional media whorish family to replace the Palins.
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freetoken Fri, Apr 29, 2011 12:35:03am |
For all those who need to watch, the Royal Channel on Youtube is officially streaming the wedding:
[Link: www.youtube.com...]
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windsagio Fri, Apr 29, 2011 12:38:49am |
re: #324 wozzablog
I am a Britisher - and don't care one jot about the wedding today, other than that taxpayers are footing the bill.
IMHO - if the American people want the royals, they can have them.
You need a dysfunctional media whorish family to replace the Palins.
We don't want them thx.
There was an interview on the NPR/BBC news thing yesterday about a British organization that wants to abolish the monarchy. He put it nicer but his reason was basically 'it makes us look like backwards retards'.
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freetoken Fri, Apr 29, 2011 12:40:16am |
And of course the UStream video:
[Link: www.ustream.tv...]
which is already running, showing the D-listers arriving.
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freetoken Fri, Apr 29, 2011 12:49:26am |
Feathers - appears to be the the fashion in hats.
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Varek Raith Fri, Apr 29, 2011 12:54:02am |
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 12:58:09am |
ahh con stories on twitter
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freetoken Fri, Apr 29, 2011 12:58:16am |
re: #330 Varek Raith
Well, it's not every occasion that one can wear what looks like a dead bird from an alien planet on one's head.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 12:58:25am |
re: #329 freetoken
Feathers - appears to be the the fashion in hats.
you stay away from my butt! ^_^
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AK-47% Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:01:28am |
re: #326 windsagio
We don't want them thx.
There was an interview on the NPR/BBC news thing yesterday about a British organization that wants to abolish the monarchy. He put it nicer but his reason was basically 'it makes us look like backwards retards'.
I never understood why the Monarchy was not privatised (with an "s" as they are British) along with the rest of the country's infrastructure.
British Royal plc: I think it would be a great idea. it would help keep them in line - if they behave like arrogant philandering dicks, then nobody will hire them for gala appearances or supermarket openings.
And every British Royal (TM) wedding would be a source of revenue enough to keep them in the black until the next Royal Baby (TM) is born.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:01:34am |
re: #320 freetoken
what would you think of trump if he just had no desire to run?
Like he dominates the field with this birther schtick, gets the nod, and then just runs an anti-campaign as a stunt and makes the GOP into a whole new level of laughingstock
I certainly think that's possible, and it would go down in history
nobody cares about a loser GOP nominee
EVERYONE would care if Trump pulled a heist of the GOP's presidential ambitions, just announces close to the election that he's been coordinating with Obama
Imagine what Obama could give a guy, imagine how much power Tump could have if he was just in cahoots with the WH the whole time
probably not likely, but a bird can dream
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:02:51am |
re: #334 ralphieboy
I just have no interest in monarchies
britian's royalty is no more interesting to me than saudi royalty, it's not interesting to me
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AK-47% Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:04:58am |
re: #335 WindUpBird
I have an unfounded personal theory, namely that Trump is seriously overleveraged again with nobody to offer to bail him out this time. Some grey eminence has offered to save his bacon only if he agrees to get up and campaign like a total dickhead.
This theory is, of course, totally unfounded by facts, but unless he can offer proof otherwise, I will not bury my doubts, and even if he does offer conclusive proof, I will still doubt it because I have too much personal capital invested in my pet theory.
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windsagio Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:06:36am |
Not topical or nice, but freakin' hilarious!
When Nazi doctors were let loose during WWII, the incredible rate of their discoveries were matched only by the inadequacy of words to atone for them. They might have been monsters, but without them, we never would have discovered the yield elasticity of the elderly, or learned what part of a prisoner's tongue detects the taste of angel meat.
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freetoken Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:07:13am |
re: #335 WindUpBird
The Donald only is out to make The Donald more famous and maybe even get himself out of debt.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:07:17am |
re: #338 windsagio
oh God, Seanbaby! hahahaha
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:07:36am |
re: #338 windsagio
Our generation's humor is so very warped
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:08:01am |
re: #339 freetoken
The Donald only is out to make The Donald more famous and maybe even get himself out of debt.
I agree, but that doesn't mean he wants to become president!
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freetoken Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:23:16am |
BTW, this link
[Link: newsblogged.com...]
has both the CBS streams (via UStream). The second one is the feed without Couric and the extra stuff.
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windsagio Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:24:46am |
The neighborhood paper girl appeared by the toilet for only a moment to howl from between worlds and vanish.
Sean is my hero.
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freetoken Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:50:49am |
So, it looks like the B-listers are streaming in.
Makes me wonder about the people who are sitting at the very back, by the doors. They're the bottom of the D-list. Would one really want to be identified as such, even if one had an invitation? Wouldn't it be better to decline?
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freetoken Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:54:03am |
Nothing says "commoner" more than wearing a cut out silver paper crown.
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AK-47% Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:56:32am |
re: #346 freetoken
Nothing says "commoner" more than wearing a cut out silver paper crown.
This is an amazing thing about British Class Culture: many of those at the bottom of the social anthill seem to revel in their status.
A as FT commented above about the D-listers at the wedding, these folks would rather be at the bottom of the heap in Britain than part of the middle class in any other nation of the world.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 2:12:37am |
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freetoken Fri, Apr 29, 2011 2:18:20am |
The princes are arriving.
People are going wild.
I wonder what Karl Marx would say.
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 2:22:40am |
re: #349 freetoken
The princes are arriving.
People are going wild.
I wonder what Karl Marx would say.
"I wish I had a better seat".
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 2:23:47am |
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 2:25:11am |
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Shropshire_Slasher Fri, Apr 29, 2011 2:26:03am |
I'm just waching so I can see the WW2 era airplane flyover. Than I'm riding my motorcycle to work.
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freetoken Fri, Apr 29, 2011 2:27:26am |
The King of Tonga just arrived.
Now we can party.
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 2:28:58am |
re: #356 freetoken
The King of Tonga just arrived.
Now we can party.
Very impressive toga. I wonder who his tailor is.
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Shropshire_Slasher Fri, Apr 29, 2011 2:29:36am |
re: #356 freetoken
How low can we go!!!!??!???!?!
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 2:31:15am |
re: #360 windsagio
ok yeah, 'nite. Enjoy weddingcrap :p
Don't be sad. You aren't out of the running.
Kate has a sister.
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Shropshire_Slasher Fri, Apr 29, 2011 2:32:46am |
I got my leather chaps on, 42 degrees f right now in upstate ny.
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 2:34:21am |
re: #362 Shropshire_Slasher
I got my leather chaps on, 42 degrees f right now in upstate ny.
57 here in Raleigh
To be clear, I'm not wearing leather chaps
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 2:38:58am |
re: #364 Shropshire_Slasher
It's good to be the king
That bald guy had more medals than I have knives, forks and spoons.
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 2:40:30am |
re: #366 Shropshire_Slasher
Chest salad yummy
Pretty much. The lower two medals looked like salad utensils
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freetoken Fri, Apr 29, 2011 2:41:42am |
re: #368 researchok
I didn't think they could get any more.... hat-tish.
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Varek Raith Fri, Apr 29, 2011 2:41:43am |
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freetoken Fri, Apr 29, 2011 2:43:10am |
Liz is the only one wearing yellow. I was wondering why all the other women avoided yellow in their hats.
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 2:44:26am |
re: #372 freetoken
Liz is the only one wearing yellow. I was wondering why all the other women avoided yellow in their hats.
Might have something to do with ugly. Elizabeth II is an authority on ugly hats.
She's quite accomplished in that arena, you know.
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 2:45:05am |
re: #373 Shropshire_Slasher
THE QUEEN!!!
i miss freddy m. btw
Everybody misses FM.
He was the champion
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freetoken Fri, Apr 29, 2011 2:46:01am |
Fashion catastrophe!!!
Camilla's hat, with the two curly things that look like some African antelope's horns, is very much like another one I saw, complete with the curly horns.
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 2:47:02am |
re: #376 freetoken
Fashion catastrophe!!!
Camilla's hat, with the two curly things that look like some African antelope's horns, is very much like another one I saw, complete with the curly horns.
In fairness, Camilla is familiar with humiliation
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 2:48:30am |
re: #376 freetoken
Fashion catastrophe!!!
Camilla's hat, with the two curly things that look like some African antelope's horns, is very much like another one I saw, complete with the curly horns.
Sit up straight! You'll want to make a good impression on Pippa!
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Shropshire_Slasher Fri, Apr 29, 2011 2:49:22am |
Yellow is not my color, but the Queen looks good, I hope I age that well.
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 2:49:29am |
The Queen and vicar have matching outfits.
Nice touch
| 381 |
Shropshire_Slasher Fri, Apr 29, 2011 2:51:09am |
Lets hurry this thing up, I gotta go to work in ten
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 2:51:29am |
Nice rides all around.
No Chevy Volts in sight, thouigh
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Varek Raith Fri, Apr 29, 2011 2:52:10am |
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Shropshire_Slasher Fri, Apr 29, 2011 2:52:15am |
re: #382 researchok
Its good to see the Land Rovers didn't break down.
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RogueOne Fri, Apr 29, 2011 2:52:51am |
Good morning all. I see you've all caught Royal Fever. There's an ointment for that.
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 2:53:01am |
I wonder if they'll stop at a drive thru on the way
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Varek Raith Fri, Apr 29, 2011 2:53:31am |
re: #385 RogueOne
Good morning all. I see you've all caught Royal Fever. There's an ointment for that.
We're making fun of hats.
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 2:54:06am |
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AK-47% Fri, Apr 29, 2011 2:54:57am |
re: #384 Shropshire_Slasher
Its good to see the Land Rovers didn't break down.
btw, a Rolls Royce does not "break down", it "fails to proceed".
I am haveing a mental procedural failure...
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RogueOne Fri, Apr 29, 2011 2:55:51am |
re: #387 Varek Raith
LIES! Admit it, you've already ordered the Official Royal Wedding Commemorative Plates.
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 2:56:51am |
What are the first words every groom hears immediately after the ceremony?
"There's going to be some changes around here..."
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RogueOne Fri, Apr 29, 2011 2:58:26am |
I notice I left yesterday just before a massive dust up, that's twice this week. My timing is perfect!
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 2:59:09am |
re: #394 RogueOne
I notice I left yesterday just before a massive dust up, that's twice this week. My timing is perfect!
Same here. I missed the fireworks
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 3:01:01am |
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 3:01:45am |
re: #382 researchok
The royalty favors Audis, right? That's all i care about hahah
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RogueOne Fri, Apr 29, 2011 3:01:48am |
With all those buttons down the back of the brides maids dress it's going to take someone an hour to get her out of that thing.
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 3:02:25am |
re: #398 WindUpBird
The royalty favors Audis, right? That's all i care about hahah
Jags, man- where have you been all AM?
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 3:03:29am |
re: #400 researchok
Jags, man- where have you been all AM?
I'm not watching
But i KNOW they roll around in Audis as well :-) [Link: jalopnik.com...]
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 3:04:09am |
re: #401 WindUpBird
I'm not watching
But i KNOW they roll around in Audis as well :-) [Link: jalopnik.com...]
Hard to pass up a bargain
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RogueOne Fri, Apr 29, 2011 3:05:31am |
What an outrageously gorgeous setting for a wedding.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 3:05:52am |
re: #402 researchok
Hard to pass up a bargain
also, they're a little less hoon-tastic than jags :D Jag doesn't make anything like the Allroad
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 3:06:34am |
re: #404 RogueOne
What an outrageously gorgeous setting for a wedding.
Being a Prince means you will never have to bet married at a VFW hall.
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 3:07:11am |
re: #405 WindUpBird
also, they're a little less hoon-tastic than jags :D Jag doesn't make anything like the Allroad
The allroad morphed into the A6
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 3:08:48am |
If the Prince thing doesn't work out for William, he can shine a flashlight on his bald spot and work as a landing light at Heathrow.
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freetoken Fri, Apr 29, 2011 3:12:51am |
re: #408 researchok
I wonder if he'll do the comb-over like his dad.re:
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RogueOne Fri, Apr 29, 2011 3:14:24am |
His lip syncing is awful. He should have practiced more.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 3:14:49am |
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 3:15:38am |
re: #410 RogueOne
His lip syncing is awful. He should have practiced more.
Millie Vanilli was his coach
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 3:15:58am |
re: #407 researchok
My dream wagon would be an Audi Allroad with the engine from the RS4, holy hell that would be tasty
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 3:16:40am |
re: #413 WindUpBird
My dream wagon would be an Audi Allroad with the engine from the RS4, holy hell that would be tasty
Dream on
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 3:17:29am |
re: #414 researchok
Dream on
hahah i know rite?
And I can get 400hp for less than i paid for my VW, so really what's the use ^_^
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 3:20:56am |
whoa WTF texas [Link: jalopnik.com...]
monster truck drunk driving, jeeeeminney
| 418 |
researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 3:21:41am |
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 3:22:32am |
re: #416 WindUpBird
whoa WTF texas [Link: jalopnik.com...]
monster truck drunk driving, jeeeminney
Must be from Spokane.
/
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 3:23:45am |
re: #419 researchok
oh God, there's so many of those in eastern washington
I like normal offroad vehicles, but those lifted douche trucks should be illegal
| 421 |
RogueOne Fri, Apr 29, 2011 3:24:41am |
re: #420 WindUpBird
oh God, there's so many of those in eastern washington
I like normal offroad vehicles, but those lifted douche trucks should be illegal
Anyone with a cage fighting sticker on the back of a truck needs to be dragged out and beaten.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 3:25:50am |
re: #421 RogueOne
I don't even know what that is, is that like the ultimate fighting, K1 stuff?
| 423 |
RogueOne Fri, Apr 29, 2011 3:25:50am |
Shouldn't it be over now? Once you do the vows it's time to move on.
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RogueOne Fri, Apr 29, 2011 3:27:22am |
re: #422 WindUpBird
Yeah. I always see fat guys in big trucks with MMA/UFC stickers across their back windows.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 3:30:12am |
re: #425 RogueOne
Yeah. I always see fat guys in big trucks with MMA/UFC stickers across their back windows.
uhhhh-h-h-h-h-h-h :(
we have those guys in oregon, but they're in the suburbs, those trucks are extremely difficult to drive on Portland streets, because people park on the street
| 427 |
reine.de.tout Fri, Apr 29, 2011 3:43:41am |
ooh-kay!
Who else is up for the wedding, besides me?
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Varek Raith Fri, Apr 29, 2011 3:45:42am |
re: #427 reine.de.tout
ooh-kay!
Who else is up for the wedding, besides me?
You have a lot of hat jokes to catch up on.
/
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RogueOne Fri, Apr 29, 2011 3:50:41am |
Best news this week:
[Link: www.indystar.com...]
The Indianapolis Colts have selected Anthony Castonzo of Boston College in the first round of the NFL draft.Indy took the 6-foot-7, 311-pound tackle with the 22nd overall pick.
He's huge and it's another rhodes scholar on the roster.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 3:54:51am |
re: #428 Varek Raith
You have a lot of hat jokes to catch up on.
/
A friend of mine is hatblogging! Just focusing on nothing but the crazy hats, the priests hat, everyone with zany hats
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 3:55:44am |
re: #427 reine.de.tout
ooh-kay!
Who else is up for the wedding, besides me?
I'm just listening to internet podcasts and working *_*
I desperately want to see the hats (I occasionaly favor flamboyant hats!) but I'll go see them on a blog ^_^
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RogueOne Fri, Apr 29, 2011 3:56:44am |
re: #431 WindUpBird
I'm seriously digging the one hat that looks like an antler rack.
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reine.de.tout Fri, Apr 29, 2011 3:56:49am |
re: #431 WindUpBird
I'm just listening to internet podcasts and working *_*
I desperately want to see the hats (I occasionaly favor flamboyant hats!) but I'll go see them on a blog ^_^
The hats are great.
Photos will be available (are already, in fact!)
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 3:59:03am |
re: #421 RogueOne
Anyone with a cage fighting sticker on the back of a truck needs to be dragged out and beaten.
and then pinned for a three count :D No! His leg is on the ropes! The Hulkster's still in it!
and then handcuffed to the turnbuckle but OH MAN MEAN GENE DID YOU SEE THAT? HE BROKE THE HANDCUFFS!
That's right, jesse! it's a pier six brawl up there! For the intercontinental belt
I used to be the biggest WWF fan as a kid, loved it
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:00:19am |
re: #433 reine.de.tout
The hats are great.
Photos will be available (are already, in fact!)
if you have a good link to a bunch, I'm serious, i want to use them for art reference
I have a project going on where I need some ideas for a far future aristoracy, for their fashion. like british royalty but on a space station. they need HATS!
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:01:56am |
The Olympic rings hat was my favorite.
Worm by one of Fergie's kids, I believe.
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freetoken Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:04:10am |
The society blowhard CBS has advising Couric just lied. He said that Prince William (with the rest of the party), while back in the shrine of Edward the Confessor, was surrounded by his (William's) ancestors.
But.... William is of the House of Windsor, and William's ancestors from the time of Edward the Confessor are in... Germany (though of course the royal families are interbred all through Europe so yes he probably has some ancestry there.) And, the Prince Phillip is himself from mixed lineage that ruled over various nations in Europe. So it is unlikely that William's Y chromosome has anything to do with Edward the Confessor and so on.
It just struck me as a bit of historical revisionism.
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:05:32am |
re: #437 freetoken
The society blowhard CBS has advising Couric just lied. He said that Prince William (with the rest of the party), while back in the shrine of Edward the Confessor, was surrounded by his (William's) ancestors.
But... William is of the House of Windsor, and William's ancestors from the time of Edward the Confessor are in... Germany (though of course the royal families are interbred all through Europe so yes he probably has some ancestry there.) And, the Prince Phillip is himself from mixed lineage that ruled over various nations in Europe. So it is unlikely that William's Y chromosome has anything to do with Edward the Confessor and so on.
It just struck me as a bit of historical revisionism.
Philip was Greek, if I'm not mistaken
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freetoken Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:06:27am |
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:07:42am |
re: #439 freetoken
Among other things.
All the Royal Houses in Europe, as you say are intertwined.
The Mountbattens used to be the Battenbergs (German)
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freetoken Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:08:33am |
re: #440 researchok
The Mountbattens used to be the Battenbergs (German)
Changed names because of the War, I think.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:08:43am |
re: #437 freetoken
it's all so bizarre and arbitrary :D But hats!
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:08:48am |
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:10:09am |
Louis Mountbatten was a real Renaissance man.
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Shropshire_Slasher Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:13:12am |
The african american horse rider is from NYC!
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:13:36am |
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Shropshire_Slasher Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:14:19am |
re: #446 researchok
It was in the NY Post yesterday.
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:14:50am |
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Shropshire_Slasher Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:17:11am |
I hope this is the link to NY Post article
[Link: www.nypost.com...]
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RogueOne Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:19:09am |
My dog is giving the tv what-for. She hates horses.
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reine.de.tout Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:21:02am |
re: #435 WindUpBird
if you have a good link to a bunch, I'm serious, i want to use them for art reference
I have a project going on where I need some ideas for a far future aristoracy, for their fashion. like british royalty but on a space station. they need HATS!
I'll keep an eye out.
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Lidane Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:21:15am |
So I'm not watching the wedding. There will be time enough for that later. I've been busy laughing at winger fail, like so:
They'll cling to anything to make Obama illegitimate.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:22:05am |
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:22:11am |
re: #453 Lidane
So I'm not watching the wedding. There will be time enough for that later. I've been busy laughing at winger fail, like so:
They'll cling to anything to make Obama illegitimate.
They are irrelevant morons.
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:25:49am |
I wonder if Buckingham Palace has central vac.
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Lidane Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:25:56am |
re: #455 researchok
They are irrelevant morons.
Morons? Yes. Racists? Absolutely. Irrelevant? Only in the GOP's dreams.
They've been discredited on the long form birth certificate, so now the argument has changed, and they're still going full steam ahead.
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:27:30am |
re: #459 Lidane
Morons? Yes. Racists? Absolutely. Irrelevant? Only in the GOP's dreams.
They've been discredited on the long form birth certificate, so now the argument has changed, and they're still going full steam ahead.
As far as I am concerned, they are morons- and becoming more marginalized by the day.
A lot like Code Pink.
Noisy, but irrelevant
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Lidane Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:35:22am |
re: #460 researchok
As far as I am concerned, they are morons- and becoming more marginalized by the day.
A lot like Code Pink.
Noisy, but irrelevant
Except that Code Pink never had anyone leading in the Democratic presidential polls, and none of the leading Democrats angling to run against Dubya ever pandered to them.
As much as some on the right would love to marginalize the birthers forever, they've got a very loud, obnoxious voice and he's the current GOP front-runner. They've got a TV network actively feeding their paranoia, even after the long-form has come out. There are talk radio hosts and bloggers all over the right wing that are still fanning the flames, only they're now expanding their conspiracy to include Obama's education and a debate over "natural born" vs. "native born".
Sorry, but no. They're a big problem, and one that the GOP encouraged for three years.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:36:26am |
re: #453 Lidane
I am right now, listening to Phil hendrie destroy a birther using one of his characters, it was the most satisfying radio segment I've herad in monthsre: #460 researchok
As far as I am concerned, they are morons- and becoming more marginalized by the day.
A lot like Code Pink.
Noisy, but irrelevant
I still think they're not irrelevant. I believe they're still quite dangerous. Code pink never had enough people to influence an election for Senate. TP does
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Sheila Broflovski Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:37:03am |
I'm shocked, shocked I tell you! At all the Royal Wedding fashion FAILs. Princess Eugenie? Gah.
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:37:49am |
re: #461 Lidane
Except that Code Pink never had anyone leading in the Democratic presidential polls, and none of the leading Democrats angling to run against Dubya ever pandered to them.
As much as some on the right would love to marginalize the birthers forever, they've got a very loud, obnoxious voice and he's the current GOP front-runner. They've got a TV network actively feeding their paranoia, even after the long-form has come out. There are talk radio hosts and bloggers all over the right wing that are still fanning the flames, only they're now expanding their conspiracy to include Obama's education and a debate over "natural born" vs. "native born".
Sorry, but no. They're a big problem, and one that the GOP encouraged for three years.
I just don't see it that way at all.
Just my opinion.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:38:11am |
re: #463 Alouette
I'm shocked, shocked I tell you! At all the Royal Wedding fashion FAILs. Princess Eugenie? Gah.
yeah, but royalty gets to do whatever they want :D zany hats? DOING IT
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:38:56am |
re: #462 WindUpBird
I am right now, listening to Phil hendrie destroy a birther using one of his characters, it was the most satisfying radio segment I've herad in monthsre: #460 researchok
I still think they're not irrelevant. I believe they're still quite dangerous. Code pink never had enough people to influence an election for Senate. TP does
Not all TP are birthers.
Birthers are a group unto themselves.
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Lidane Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:39:30am |
re: #464 researchok
I just don't see it that way at all.
Just my opinion.
And that's fine. But until Trump stops being the GOP front runner, it's a denial of reality.
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freetoken Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:40:47am |
re: #463 Alouette
I'm shocked, shocked I tell you! At all the Royal Wedding fashion FAILs. Princess Eugenie? Gah.
Was she the one wearing the hat that looked like a character from an opera about high priestess of pagan religions?
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:41:35am |
re: #464 researchok
I just don't see it that way at all.
Just my opinion.
sharron Angle!
Seriously, Code Pink is TINY and unknown mainstream
You're a poli junkie like me, and very pro-israel, so you'll know abotu Code Pink.
i could go down the list of my local friends, few of whom are jewish, only the political junkies will even know what Code Pink IS.
I remember a friend of mine thought I was referring to a gay group! Code Pink is only important to a very small group
The Tea Party is on the lips of everyone, i don't understand how you can say that Code Pink has equal influence to the tea Party, because Code Pink is not anything that is being covered by the MSM.
When's the last time you heard "Code Pink" in the news? if it ain't in the news every day, it's nothing compared to the Tea Party
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:41:37am |
re: #467 Lidane
And that's fine. But until Trump stops being the GOP front runner, it's a denial of reality.
The longer Trump stays in the race, the more marginalized he becomes.
I'm glad he's running- he'll help marginalize all the whack jobs even further.
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mdey Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:41:57am |
re: #461 Lidane
There is about 5 members of Code Pink, and the only shows I ever see them appearing on are The O'Reilly Factor and Hannity. It seems that all the liberals want nothing to do with them.
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Sheila Broflovski Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:42:51am |
re: #468 freetoken
Was she the one wearing the hat that looked like a character from an opera about high priestess of pagan religions?
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Lidane Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:42:56am |
re: #469 Alouette
I'm disappointed in Kate's dress.
I just saw photos of it. It's hard for me to decide if I like it or not since the photos are awkwardly placed.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:43:42am |
re: #466 researchok
Not all TP are birthers.
Birthers are a group unto themselves.
I agree
Not all are, but a birther who is politically GOP and extreme, will likely be a TPer. the TP is a know-nothing group, and birthers are those kinda people They overlap a lot. The Venn Diagrams of them have a lot in the middle!
I dunno, we can chew on whether the TP is big or tiny, influential or not, it's ground tread so often here that it's worn a groove through the floor
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Lidane Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:43:52am |
re: #471 researchok
The longer Trump stays in the race, the more marginalized he becomes.
Who knew that being the front-runner in the polls meant that you were marginalized?
I learned something new today.
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freetoken Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:44:00am |
re: #473 Alouette
I thought she was the other one. Easy to mix up sisters.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:44:34am |
re: #472 mdey
There is about 5 members of Code Pink, and the only shows I ever see them appearing on are The O'Reilly Factor and Hannity. It seems that all the liberals want nothing to do with them.
Code Pink are like the New Black Panthers, they're useful idiots
it's like having Pam Geller on, it's farce
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:45:00am |
re: #476 Lidane
Who knew that being the front-runner in the polls meant that you were marginalized?
I learned something new today.
yeah :D
he's by no means marginalized, he's trolling the field
And people want what he has to say!
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Lidane Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:45:12am |
re: #465 WindUpBird
yeah, but royalty gets to do whatever they want :D zany hats? DOING IT
There are a lot of unfortunate hats. Oh dear.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:45:27am |
re: #473 Alouette
ergh, don't like that outfit, ick
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sagehen Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:45:28am |
re: #469 Alouette
I'm disappointed in Kate's dress.
oh thank god, I didn't want to be the first one to say it.
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Sionainn Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:45:35am |
re: #477 freetoken
I thought she was the other one. Easy to mix up sisters.
Ugh! Do they specifically ask for the ugliest hats?
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:45:46am |
re: #470 WindUpBird
sharron Angle!
Seriously, Code Pink is TINY and unknown mainstream
You're a poli junkie like me, and very pro-israel, so you'll know abotu Code Pink.
i could go down the list of my local friends, few of whom are jewish, only the political junkies will even know what Code Pink IS.
I remember a friend of mine thought I was referring to a gay group! Code Pink is only important to a very small group
The Tea Party is on the lips of everyone, i don't understand how you can say that Code Pink has equal influence to the tea Party, because Code Pink is not anything that is being covered by the MSM.
When's the last time you heard "Code Pink" in the news? if it ain't in the news every day, it's nothing compared to the Tea Party
I'll tell you, WUB, I really believe the TP has peaked.
As for CP, I thought they were small but noisy. Turns out they had 250 plus chapters!
From where I sit, the birther fools are doing more to kill the TP than all the bad publicity combines.
The more Pam Geller blogs, the happier I am.
I'm pretty mainstream, center right. No one in my circle will have anything to do with the TP or birthers,
And my circle here is pretty wide.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:45:48am |
re: #480 Lidane
There are a lot of unfortunate hats. Oh dear.
some look cool! I love crazy hats :D
I can be catty about fashion hahaha
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:46:10am |
re: #484 researchok
I think they've peaked, but I think they're sticking around
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Sionainn Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:46:16am |
re: #469 Alouette
I'm disappointed in Kate's dress.
From the little I saw, I feeling a bit the same way.
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Sheila Broflovski Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:46:40am |
re: #477 freetoken
I thought she was the other one. Easy to mix up sisters.
That's Beatrice wearing the beige lawn ornament on her head.
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reine.de.tout Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:46:59am |
re: #458 researchok
I wonder if Buckingham Palace has central vac.
Or lots and lots and lots of people to clean.
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:47:12am |
re: #475 WindUpBird
I agree
Not all are, but a birther who is politically GOP and extreme, will likely be a TPer. the TP is a know-nothing group, and birthers are those kinda people They overlap a lot. The Venn Diagrams of them have a lot in the middle!
I dunno, we can chew on whether the TP is big or tiny, influential or not, it's ground tread so often here that it's worn a groove through the floor
Absolutely true, what you say.
I'm more interested to see how long it will take for the TP to implode. That's the real show.
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reine.de.tout Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:47:31am |
re: #463 Alouette
I'm shocked, shocked I tell you! At all the Royal Wedding fashion FAILs. Princess Eugenie? Gah.
Not one bit of style or class in that one.
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:47:50am |
re: #488 Alouette
That's Beatrice wearing the beige lawn ornament on her head.
And a little too much eye makeup.
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Lidane Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:47:50am |
re: #484 researchok
I'll tell you, WUB, I really believe the TP has peaked.
Not as long as the GOP keeps pandering to them, no. Still, I have to admire your optimism.
As for CP, I thought they were small but noisy. Turns out they had 250 plus chapters!
Yeah, with about 5-10 people in each chapter. Real influential group there.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:49:06am |
re: #484 researchok
250 chapters of how many people each, though? if it's just people in a kitchen that constitute a chapter, how powerful could they be? if their chapters are just costumes and and sillines,s if they don't do much, then they could have a million chapters
A car on blocks goes nowhere, regardless of what engine is under the hood.
I want hard facts on CP. How many people, which senators and house members pander to them, and could they influence a senator's vote
I will say this: mainstream creepy evangelicals are way more scary to me than the TP. the Tp are not that organized. it's impotent anger. But it's a brand, and it gets on the news. But Evangelicals of the crazy theocrat sort are plugged in and have unreal amounts of influence
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:49:36am |
re: #488 Alouette
okay, the lawn ornament is ludicrous
that's not even a hat, it's like a magic mirror
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:49:53am |
re: #493 Lidane
Not as long as the GOP keeps pandering to them, no. Still, I have to admire your optimism.
Yeah, with about 5-10 people in each chapter. Real influential group there.
They made thej nightly news, didn't they? And Cindy Sheehan was front page for months, with all kinds of support.
In any event, I do believe Trump did the GOP a favor. In one fell swoop he helped emasculate the birthers and by extension a certain hard core portion of the TP
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Sheila Broflovski Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:49:54am |
Do not like the see-through lace sleeves at all. Just looks horribly Texas prom. Opaque sleeves would have had so much more class.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:49:56am |
re: #493 Lidane
Not as long as the GOP keeps pandering to them, no. Still, I have to admire your optimism.
Yeah, with about 5-10 people in each chapter. Real influential group there.
that's what i thought!
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RogueOne Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:50:35am |
re: #469 Alouette
I'm disappointed in Kate's dress.
I liked it. Understated is generally good in my book. That's hard to do when talking about a "royal" wedding.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:50:39am |
re: #496 researchok
They made thej nightly news, didn't they? And Cindy Sheehan was front page for months, with all kinds of support.
In any event, I do believe Trump did the GOP a favor. In one fell swoop he helped emasculate the birthers and by extension a certain hard core portion of the TP
WAS!
There WAS a time when Sheehan was front page. Sheehan is clownshoes now, she's as dated as the terri Schiavo case
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:50:41am |
re: #495 WindUpBird
okay, the lawn ornament is ludicrous
that's not even a hat, it's like a magic mirror
I see Bobby, Timmy, Ronnie, Percy.., and Agnes
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:51:41am |
re: #496 researchok
if you wnat to make the argument that Sheehan is as potent as the TP in their primes, then sure I guess!
But now, Sheehan has very little pull int he news, her stunts dont make the front page, that was Bush admin stuff
the fervor is gone, nobody cares
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:51:47am |
re: #500 WindUpBird
WAS!
There WAS a time when Sheehan was front page. Sheehan is clownshoes now, she's as dated as the terri Schiavo case
Exactly my point.
The TP morons and the birther morons will go the way of Ross Perot supporters.
Downdatoilet
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:51:56am |
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RogueOne Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:52:09am |
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:52:43am |
re: #502 WindUpBird
if you wnat to make the argument that Sheehan is as potent as the TP in their primes, then sure I guess!
But now, Sheehan has very little pull int he news, her stunts dont make the front page, that was Bush admin stuff
the fervor is gone, nobody cares
Yup, she's toast- and in many ways, did it to herself!
Like the TP and birther fools she kept getting more extreme.
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Lidane Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:52:52am |
re: #503 researchok
The TP morons and the birther morons will go the way of Ross Perot supporters.
The TP/birther crowd ARE Ross Perot's supporters. Same incoherent populism, same know-nothing, knee jerk bullshit. It's the same people with a different name.
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:52:58am |
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:53:34am |
re: #503 researchok
Exactly my point.
The TP morons and the birther morons will go the way of Ross Perot supporters.
Downdatoilet
Eventually, yes!
But right now, they still got some pull. Who cares about Code Pink today, right now? Not many. But the Tp stuff gets a lot of airplay every day. Every spin of the dial when i'm in my car, someone on an AM stick in PDX is talking aboutt he tea Party, or advancing their talking points and attitude
they're like a specific chunk of the GOp base, who has their own brand now. They're not LGf republicans, they're a specific angry paranoid thing.
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RogueOne Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:53:36am |
re: #503 researchok
Exactly my point.
The TP morons and the birther morons will go the way of Ross Perot supporters.
Downdatoilet
Until the spending issue is dealt with the Tea Party isn't going anywhere.
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reine.de.tout Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:54:35am |
More up later, I'll bet.
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Lidane Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:54:41am |
re: #497 Alouette
Do not like the see-through lace sleeves at all. Just looks horribly Texas prom. Opaque sleeves would have had so much more class.
I'm wondering if the see-through lace sleeves were a concession to some sort of royal requirement that a bride have sleeves or be covered up somehow. It looks like something that wasn't part of the original design, but was added for modesty's sake.
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:54:45am |
re: #507 Lidane
The TP/birther crowd ARE Ross Perot's supporters. Same incoherent populism, same know-nothing, knee jerk bullshit. It's the same people with a different name.
And where did the Perot populism end up? In the dust.
I have real issues with the GOP- I'm furious at them for pandering to the religious right, etc.
As noted, I do believe the TP will wash out- and good riddance.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:54:45am |
re: #506 researchok
Yup, she's toast- and in many ways, did it to herself!
Like the TP and birther fools she kept getting more extreme.
agreed 100%
it's funny, i would have been a Sheehan supporter for the anti war message, but she's just so irritating and ugh, even in 2003 wwhen I was all mister rage about Iraq, I didn't like her
it was the speaking voice, it's like agonizing to listen to *SHUDDER*
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laZardo Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:54:51am |
I continue to follow the Chris Rock line of thought when it comes to the Tea Party.
SR: Like many nice Caucasians, I cried the night Barack Obama was elected. It was one of the high points in American history. And all that's happened since the election is just a shitstorm of hatred. You want to weigh in on that?
CR: I actually like it, in the sense that — you got kids? Kids always act up the most before they go to sleep. And when I see the Tea Party and all this stuff, it actually feels like racism's almost over. Because this is the last — this is the act up before the sleep. They're going crazy. They're insane. You want to get rid of them — and the next thing you know, they're fucking knocked out. And that's what's going on in the country right now.
Read more: [Link: www.esquire.com...]
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:55:22am |
the grey/black lopsided hat is so Fifth Element
EXACTLy what I'm looking for
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:55:59am |
re: #516 laZardo
I cried when he was elected, it was on Jon Stewart, and both him and Colbert were crying too, it was just a snowball, I was all weepy ^_^;;
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laZardo Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:56:55am |
re: #519 WindUpBird
I cried when he was elected, it was on Jon Stewart, and both him and Colbert were crying too, it was just a snowball, I was all weepy ^_^;;
I voted McCain.
YES, I AM STILL REGRETTING IT TO THIS DAY. ;_;
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:57:08am |
re: #509 WindUpBird
Eventually, yes!
But right now, they still got some pull. Who cares about Code Pink today, right now? Not many. But the Tp stuff gets a lot of airplay every day. Every spin of the dial when i'm in my car, someone on an AM stick in PDX is talking aboutt he tea Party, or advancing their talking points and attitude
they're like a specific chunk of the GOp base, who has their own brand now. They're not LGf republicans, they're a specific angry paranoid thing.
WUB, I believe they have peaked and peaked early.
Even the candidates they backed are beginning to understand that substance in governance trumps slogans
Like CP, I believe the TP is becoming more hot air than substance.
If I'm wrong, I'll stay home before I vote for a candidate who panders to the TP
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Sheila Broflovski Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:57:38am |
re: #513 Lidane
I'm wondering if the see-through lace sleeves were a concession to some sort of royal requirement that a bride have sleeves or be covered up somehow. It looks like something that wasn't part of the original design, but was added for modesty's sake.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:58:04am |
re: #516 laZardo
I don't share Rock's optimism
Racism ain't going away, it's just going to be pushed more undergroundre: #510 RogueOne
Until the spending issue is dealt with the Tea Party isn't going anywhere.
or the perception of it
They're angry small guv populists. There's a lot of America that feels that way. it may go away as a brand, but those people are that! They're not going to suddenly make more sense
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:58:39am |
re: #515 WindUpBird
agreed 100%
it's funny, i would have been a Sheehan supporter for the anti war message, but she's just so irritating and ugh, even in 2003 wwhen I was all mister rage about Iraq, I didn't like her
it was the speaking voice, it's like agonizing to listen to *SHUDDER*
The TP are going down her path, thank goodness.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:59:40am |
re: #522 Alouette
that's good
I like gothic and wild though, not texas prom, but more medieval/edwardian, witchy, poofy sleeves, overbust corset lines
I'm totally the stereotype, heh
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mdey Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:59:53am |
re: #507 Lidane
I'm going to disagree with you on that one. I had some Perot supporters in my family tree, for a while anyway. They weren't teabaggers.
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researchok Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:00:03am |
Alright, I'm outta here for now.
When WUB and I agree more than once, it's time t go
//
Later, all
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:00:16am |
re: #524 researchok
The TP are going down her path, thank goodness.
We'll see in 2012, that'll be when you see them try and push the brand, for th Big Election
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Lidane Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:00:45am |
re: #514 researchok
And where did the Perot populism end up? In the dust.
Sure. But the TP movement has made real strides in the last few years. Just look at how they worked the primary system during the last election cycle, and the influence they still have now.
Perot's campaign was personal, since he absolutely hated Bush Sr. Once Bush Sr. was out of office, Perot lost interest and moved on with his life. The TP movement, on the other hand, has had Fox News and the right wing howler monkeys on the radio and internet perpetuating their cause for three years now. They're not going anywhere anytime soon.
I have real issues with the GOP- I'm furious at them for pandering to the religious right, etc.
They've been doing that for the last 40 years. If you've voted GOP at any time since then you've given your approval to that pandering. It's as simple as that.
As noted, I do believe the TP will wash out- and good riddance.
Not anytime soon, though. Keep dreaming. They're going to have a part to play in 2012, whether you like it or not.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:01:30am |
re: #526 mdey
I'm going to disagree with you on that one. I had some Perot supporters in my family tree, for a while anyway. They weren't teabaggers.
I knew a couple older people who were perot supporters, friends of my dad, they were lawyers, not TP at all
They simply didn't want to vote for HW or Clinton
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:01:53am |
re: #527 researchok
hey, we agreed on your TG article! ^^
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reine.de.tout Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:02:12am |
re: #513 Lidane
I'm wondering if the see-through lace sleeves were a concession to some sort of royal requirement that a bride have sleeves or be covered up somehow. It looks like something that wasn't part of the original design, but was added for modesty's sake.
Yeah, I think there is some requirement for sleeves in that church.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:03:05am |
re: #532 reine.de.tout
like it's a uniform? i didn't know churches did that
clearly they have a dress code, didn't know there were fashion codes that were "built in" with a church
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Obdicut Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:03:41am |
re: #510 RogueOne
Until the spending issue is dealt with the Tea Party isn't going anywhere.
Until they get a basic grasp of economics the Tea Party isn't going anywhere.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:04:56am |
re: #534 Obdicut
I can respect a principled stand against spending
the Tp isn't principled, it's reactionary, it's just anger and no education, because what they want makes no sense
the debt ceiling being the best example
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Decatur Deb Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:05:22am |
re: #528 WindUpBird
We'll see in 2012, that'll be when you see them try and push the brand, for th Big Election
The TP footsoldiers have always been here, and always will be in some proportion. Their new technology and new organizational effort has just given them passing popularity. There are different uniforms, but it is the same everlasting battle.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:05:42am |
Can't watch weddings. Gives me flashback nightmares.
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reine.de.tout Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:06:01am |
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Sheila Broflovski Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:06:07am |
re: #525 WindUpBird
that's good
I like gothic and wild though, not texas prom, but more medieval/edwardian, witchy, poofy sleeves, overbust corset lines
I'm totally the stereotype, heh
My oldest daughter's wedding gown was like that. She had a Hungarian wedding planner.
My other daughters, and my daughters-in-law, are no-frills, sleek lines girls.
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Obdicut Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:06:19am |
re: #535 WindUpBird
I can respect a principled stand against spending
I can't, really, because most of the time it ignores the actual consequences of cutting that spending. There's no honest examination of whether cutting the spending will actually save money in the long run.
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mdey Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:06:30am |
re: #530 WindUpBird
Exactly, A lot of people thought that GHWB was just too privvyish, and Clinton was just to hippyish.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:07:01am |
re: #538 reine.de.tout
I love a woman in a hat, btw.
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reine.de.tout Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:07:10am |
re: #533 WindUpBird
like it's a uniform? i didn't know churches did that
clearly they have a dress code, didn't know there were fashion codes that were "built in" with a church
There are some churches that require sleeves, even in wedding dresses.
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Obdicut Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:08:34am |
On a darker note:
Hungary’s Rising Right: Roma Defenseless against Extremist Vigilantes
Europe's treatment of the Roma has reached absolutely despicable levels. Every member of the EU ought to be ashamed. This is exactly what was done the Jews in Europe for so many centuries; just because the Roma have been more effectively marginalized and have less of a political voice, European nations use them as a punching bag, a bogeyman, and a convienent scapegoat.
Assholes.
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Decatur Deb Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:08:47am |
re: #543 reine.de.tout
There are some churches that require sleeves, even in wedding dresses.
'No skirt, no kleenex, no service."
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Lidane Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:09:06am |
re: #541 mdey
Exactly, A lot of people thought that GHWB was just too privvyish, and Clinton was just to hippyish.
Sure. But there were plenty of people who watched Perot's half-hour commercials on TV with all his pie charts and graphs and thought he was an economic guru. Those people are now teabaggers.
Same ignorant, knee jerk populism and political know-nothingism.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:09:19am |
re: #540 Obdicut
I can't, really, because most of the time it ignores the actual consequences of cutting that spending. There's no honest examination of whether cutting the spending will actually save money in the long run.
let me put it this way: i don't think it's insane :D Whereas the Tp just makes no sense
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reine.de.tout Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:09:58am |
re: #542 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I love a woman in a hat, btw.
I like hats. My daughter looks fabulous in any hat she puts on.
I, on the other had, look completely stupid in any hat I've ever put on.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:12:10am |
re: #548 reine.de.tout
I think that's a projection. I think you'd look lovely.
When my wife puts on a hat... hubba...
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Sheila Broflovski Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:15:27am |
re: #548 reine.de.tout
I like hats. My daughter looks fabulous in any hat she puts on.
I, on the other had, look completely stupid in any hat I've ever put on.
I used to have a fabulous hat collection. I especially loved the big floppy brim straw hats.
One day I was walking home from services, it was a rainy day, and a big gust of wind blew off my hat and my wig which was attached to it, and then it rolled down the street like a frisbee.
I managed to retrieve it, but the hat was soaked and muddy and my wig looked like roadkill.
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Lidane Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:16:34am |
re: #551 Alouette
I don't own any hats. Never been able to find one I like.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:16:38am |
re: #548 reine.de.tout
I can sorta rock the top hat and do a Jack the Ripper skinny-weirdo in a top hat thing
but it's not really my thing ^^
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:17:24am |
re: #543 reine.de.tout
There are some churches that require sleeves, even in wedding dresses.
Let's talk about something important. How do you feel about Mark Ingram replacing Reggie Bush on the Saints?
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mdey Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:18:00am |
re: #546 Lidane
I was a simple college kid back then, and I didn't fall for that shit. The charts didn't work with Perot back then, and the even crazier Ryan charts scare the hell out of everyone I know now.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:18:59am |
re: #554 WindUpBird
Dick Van Dyke as Jack The Ripper, "In Mary Poppins II, The Cleansing".
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Shropshire_Slasher Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:19:21am |
re: #549 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Don't make me get the hose out...
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Lidane Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:19:46am |
re: #556 mdey
I was a simple college kid back then, and I didn't fall for that shit. The charts didn't work with Perot back then, and the even crazier Ryan charts scare the hell out of everyone I know now.
Unfortunately, the Ryan charts have convinced people to compare him to FDR. Just look at NRO. They love his numbers. WTF?
And yeah. I was 19 when Perot was out there selling his charts and graphs and I knew he was full of shit. Unfortunately, a lot of people believed him then, and still would believe him now.
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Sheila Broflovski Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:20:22am |
re: #546 Lidane
Sure. But there were plenty of people who watched Perot's half-hour commercials on TV with all his pie charts and graphs and thought he was an economic guru. Those people are now teabaggers.
Same ignorant, knee jerk populism and political know-nothingism.
I worked at GM at the time that EDS took over their entire IT department and then screwed over all the GM IT workers by taking away their seniority. At one point they considered joining the UAW.
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RogueOne Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:22:40am |
re: #534 Obdicut
Until they get a basic grasp of economics the Tea Party isn't going anywhere.
It's pretty easy to understand....if you continue spending money you don't have you go broke. No algebra needed.
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mdey Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:22:59am |
re: #559 Lidane
I just hope the "sane" media keep pushing the craziness of Ryan's ideas.
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RogueOne Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:24:06am |
re: #555 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Let's talk about something important. How do you feel about Mark Ingram replacing Reggie Bush on the Saints?
The colts got lucky with their pick last night. 6'-7", 311 lbs and still growing.
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Lidane Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:24:48am |
re: #561 RogueOne
It's pretty easy to understand...if you continue spending money you don't have you go broke. No algebra needed.
Even simpler algebra -- bring more money in while cutting your expenses in order to bolster your financial position. Not that hard to understand, either.
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AK-47% Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:25:05am |
re: #534 Obdicut
Until they get a basic grasp of economics the Tea Party isn't going anywhere.
Until they get a basic grasp of reality the Tea Party isn't going anywhere.
They believe the represent a groundswell of public support and opinion, they believe in the purity of their ideology and they believe in an America that never existed and never will.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:25:20am |
re: #561 RogueOne
It's pretty easy to understand...if you continue spending money you don't have you go broke. No algebra needed.
well sure, but the TP makes that into a thing about the debt ceiling
which is just bizarre and insane
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Obdicut Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:27:28am |
re: #561 RogueOne
It's pretty easy to understand...if you continue spending money you don't have you go broke. No algebra needed.
Sure. And if you stupidly cut back spending in areas where spending that money is actually costing less than not spending it, then you go broke faster.
That's the part so many people struggle with. I don't know why. It's pretty goddamn simple.
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RogueOne Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:27:31am |
re: #566 WindUpBird
well sure, but the TP makes that into a thing about the debt ceiling
which is just bizarre and insane
I didn't like it when it happened under bush (continually raising the ceiling without cutting costs) and I'm not going to like it when/if they do it this summer.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:27:33am |
re: #561 RogueOne
It's pretty easy to understand...if you continue spending money you don't have you go broke. No algebra needed.
Also, firts place we need to cut: pentagon! war bloat is the easiest thing to cut, but it;s all pork, and that's our state system, so it'll never happen
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Shropshire_Slasher Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:28:07am |
The royal couple is out on the balcony, look at the sea of people!
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:28:31am |
re: #568 RogueOne
I didn't like it when it happened under bush (continually raising the ceiling without cutting costs) and I'm not going to like it when/if they do it this summer.
if we don't raise it though, it'll cost us money, it won't save us money
it does exactly the opposite
That's why it's insane
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William Barnett-Lewis Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:28:38am |
re: #560 Alouette
I worked at GM at the time that EDS took over their entire IT department and then screwed over all the GM IT workers by taking away their seniority. At one point they considered joining the UAW.
Gah, I hate EDS. They run Medicare payments in Wisconsin. They refuse to allow direct deposit of my wife's payroll - all Medicare providers are paid by check - so that they get two to four days of interest float. That privatization rip off of State and Federal taxpayers was given to them by then governor Tommy Thompson. Why, yes, he was a Republican. How did you guess?
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:29:58am |
re: #567 Obdicut
Sure. And if you stupidly cut back spending in areas where spending that money is actually costing less than not spending it, then you go broke faster.
That's the part so many people struggle with. I don't know why. It's pretty goddamn simple.
it's sabotage
i don't believe the TP is about "cutting spending" at all, it's about government sabotage. it's about starve the beast, it's Norquist.
'cutting spending' in areas we can, like war bloat. great1 But again, we'll never do that
they're not responsible, they don't make sense, they don't have a handle ont he complexities of it, they're just angrily lashing out
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Decatur Deb Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:30:17am |
re: #564 Lidane
Even simpler algebra -- bring more money in while cutting your expenses in order to bolster your financial position. Not that hard to understand, either.
One of the minor pols told it honestly a few months ago (to paraphrase): "If a deficit cure doesn't include cuts to Defense and Medicare, and a tax increase, it's just BS."
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Shropshire_Slasher Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:30:45am |
Lancaster bomber, howker hurricane, and spitfire?
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Sheila Broflovski Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:31:35am |
re: #572 wlewisiii
Gah, I hate EDS. They run Medicare payments in Wisconsin. They refuse to allow direct deposit of my wife's payroll - all Medicare providers are paid by check - so that they get two to four days of interest float. That privatization rip off of State and Federal taxpayers was given to them by then governor Tommy Thompson. Why, yes, he was a Republican. How did you guess?
EDS utterly sucks. They treat their workers like shit. I think the reason the GM IT staff didn't join the UAW was because if they did, EDS would have fired everybody and replaced them with kids straight out of college.
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RogueOne Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:33:13am |
re: #571 WindUpBird
The whole point of the debt ceiling was to keep congressional spending under control. If they just raise the limit every time they hit it then it's useless. It's a bit like "outlawing" water boarding by proclamation "We'll never, ever do it... unless we really need to"
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mdey Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:33:28am |
re: #564 Lidane
That's the thing I don't understand. Boehner, Cantor, and McConnell say we don't have a revenue problem? We have a 1.6 trillion dollar deficit. Obviously we have a revenue problem.
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AK-47% Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:34:01am |
re: #575 Shropshire_Slasher
Lancaster bomber, howker hurricane, and spitfire?
Just to remind the Germans in case they get any ideas again...
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:34:13am |
re: #574 Decatur Deb
One of the minor pols told it honestly a few months ago (to paraphrase): "If a deficit cure doesn't include cuts to Defense and Medicare, and a tax increase, it's just BS."
medicare could be made more efficient if Republicans were honest brokers about what's happened to health care, and the giant horrible mess it is in the USA
But instead of going with Obama on a plan Republicans used to support, like Romney?
they just went crazy and lied through their teeth and threw fits and staged fake astroturf town halls and stunts and went all freedomworks and socialism and so on and so forth
the reason i can never vote Republican now is health care, I feel like every vote empowers that behavior, and it's madness,
Until republicans become honest on health care, I will never ever ever vote for any GOP candidate, besides maybe a very local one, like mayor of Portland (Sam Adams ain't doing so well, sad to say, he was Vera katz right hand man, but he's a bad politician. A wonk who just doesn't have skills)
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:35:25am |
re: #577 RogueOne
The whole point of the debt ceiling was to keep congressional spending under control. If they just raise the limit every time they hit it then it's useless. It's a bit like "outlawing" water boarding by proclamation "We'll never, ever do it... unless we really need to"
Like i said
if you don't raise it, then you cost yourself more money
the point is, it's not the solution, because it does the opposite
'Well cut spending by costing ourselves more money because we defaulted!"
That's all I'm saying, trying to be all peaceful about it, but it literally makes zero sense to me, it just looks like sabotage
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Lidane Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:36:24am |
re: #577 RogueOne
The whole point of the debt ceiling was to keep congressional spending under control. If they just raise the limit every time they hit it then it's useless. It's a bit like "outlawing" water boarding by proclamation "We'll never, ever do it... unless we really need to"
We're fighting two wars and just started a third. Health care costs are out of control. I'd say we really need to do it, unless of course we decide to stop fighting those wars and actually do something about spiraling health care costs.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:37:05am |
re: #577 RogueOne
I would be happy to cut spending, i'd be happy to cut some pentagon bloat
show me the GOP members who are talking about pentagon and war pork
Spending to social service sproduces tangible results, even if you don't like those programs, the money isn't going into the garbage
starting and stopping the JSF project produced rich Boweing executives and wastes money like water
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laZardo Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:37:12am |
re: #579 ralphieboy
Just to remind the Germans in case they get any ideas again...
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Lidane Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:37:29am |
re: #578 mdey
That's the thing I don't understand. Boehner, Cantor, and McConnell say we don't have a revenue problem? We have a 1.6 trillion dollar deficit. Obviously we have a revenue problem.
They mean that they and their buddies don't have a revenue problem, since they're not paying much in taxes.
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RogueOne Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:38:00am |
NBC said someone was dressed up as an otter in the crowd. I missed it.
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RogueOne Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:38:54am |
re: #582 Lidane
We're fighting two wars and just started a third. Health care costs are out of control. I'd say we really need to do it, unless of course we decide to stop fighting those wars and actually do something about spiraling health care costs.
Military costs are going to have to be cut BUT our spending on both the Iraq/Afghanistan wars for the last 10 years still doesn't equal the budget deficit from just this year.
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Decatur Deb Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:39:10am |
re: #586 RogueOne
NBC said someone was dressed up as an otter in the crowd. I missed it.
Representative of The Royal College of Furries.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:39:12am |
re: #582 Lidane
We're fighting two wars and just started a third. Health care costs are out of control. I'd say we really need to do it, unless of course we decide to stop fighting those wars and actually do something about spiraling health care costs.
Health insurers are useles smiddlemen
it's just flushing money down the toilet
But the GOp wants to push for them, and some democrats ar ein the pocket of insurers, like Libermann.
they're literally just saying "Let's keep the system inefficient! Let's have all these middlemen for no reason!"
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:40:49am |
re: #544 Obdicut
I've heard stories in the US too. You would think from they way that this particular guy was talking that they were driving around in painted wagons stealing babies in the middle of the night.
When my son was a baby, he was very colicky. I used to tell people that I'd sit him on the front stoop about 2am hoping that gypsies would steal him. They'd look aghast, and I'd explain, "That way we'll get a few nights sleep before the gypsies would leave him on our stoop so they could get a few nights sleep."
While funny, it wasn't until later that I realized that it was a pretty racist thing to say.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:40:57am |
re: #588 Decatur Deb
Representative of The Royal College of Furries.
I wanna see *_*
I actually know furries in high places, one contracts afor the NSA as a tech code-breaker type, one is a millionaire IT wizard, literally just spend shis money setting up studios and machine shops and stuff for his friend sin the fandom to build things, he's sorta like a patron, he's amazing
One is a veternarian on the edge of having his own practice, about to buy it out, he's a genius
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mdey Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:41:02am |
re: #585 Lidane
You are right about that. They are all kissing Grover Norquist's Ass.
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Lidane Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:41:56am |
re: #587 RogueOne
Military costs are going to have to be cut BUT our spending on both the Iraq/Afghanistan wars for the last 10 years still doesn't equal the budget deficit from just this year.
Which would imply we have a revenue problem, no? So why not make people and businesses who earn more pay more? Seems fair.
At the same time, we can talk about cutting military costs while the GOP flatly refuse to do so since they fetishize the military so much, and we can keep dancing around the health care issue altogether.
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reine.de.tout Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:41:56am |
re: #551 Alouette
I used to have a fabulous hat collection. I especially loved the big floppy brim straw hats.
One day I was walking home from services, it was a rainy day, and a big gust of wind blew off my hat and my wig which was attached to it, and then it rolled down the street like a frisbee.
I managed to retrieve it, but the hat was soaked and muddy and my wig looked like roadkill.
Oh, my.
And oh, I'm very sorry, but I am ROFL at the image of that wig coming off with the hat!
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:42:02am |
re: #592 mdey
You are right about that. They are all kissing Grover Norquist's Ass.
grover Norquist is pure evil
One of the people I hate most in politics
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:42:29am |
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:43:11am |
re: #587 RogueOne
Military costs are going to have to be cut BUT our spending on both the Iraq/Afghanistan wars for the last 10 years still doesn't equal the budget deficit from just this year.
PENTAGON bloat
What about actual weapons spending, that is just throwing money away
We're already no longer the big baddest ass anymore, we can't keep spending militarily like it's the cold war
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:43:33am |
re: #596 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
They are there to insure that fraud doesn't happen.
/
that's what they are! It's like a legal form of organized crime
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reine.de.tout Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:43:51am |
re: #572 wlewisiii
Gah, I hate EDS. They run Medicare payments in Wisconsin. They refuse to allow direct deposit of my wife's payroll - all Medicare providers are paid by check - so that they get two to four days of interest float. That privatization rip off of State and Federal taxpayers was given to them by then governor Tommy Thompson. Why, yes, he was a Republican. How did you guess?
I worked for EDS in the 70's while I was in college.
Very strange company to work for.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:44:13am |
re: #599 reine.de.tout
I worked for EDS in the 70's while I was in college.
Very strange company to work for.
what IS EDS?
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Decatur Deb Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:44:27am |
re: #597 WindUpBird
PENTAGON bloat
What about actual weapons spending, that is just throwing money away
We're already no longer the big baddest ass anymore, we can't keep spending militarily like it's the cold war
Actually, Number Two has to spend harder. It's how we broke the Soviets.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:45:04am |
re: #586 RogueOne
Once a chick flashed her boobies on the Today Show during their outside pan. Katie was the only one to see it. When the camera came back to them she had the funniest stunned smile on her face. Was great.
Hope a lady in the Royal wedding party did that. Then I'd watch.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:45:37am |
re: #601 Decatur Deb
Actually, Number Two has to spend harder. It's how we broke the Soviets.
and now we're done, because we cannot beat china
it's not possible
but yet the spending is all in place
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Obdicut Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:45:39am |
re: #587 RogueOne
Military costs are going to have to be cut BUT our spending on both the Iraq/Afghanistan wars for the last 10 years still doesn't equal the budget deficit from just this year.
I don't understand why that's become a talking point. Nobody is saying that if we didn't have those wars the budget would be in balance.
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Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:45:47am |
re: #579 ralphieboy
Just to remind the Germans in case they get any ideas again...
Say nothing about the war...
;)
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:46:13am |
re: #600 WindUpBird
The computer company that Perot owns(ed).
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:46:54am |
okay going to bed, it's daytime nighttime for me _-_(zzzzzzzzzzz)
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:47:13am |
re: #606 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
The computer company that Perot owns(ed).
AHH that is what i was missing the context
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Lidane Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:47:50am |
OK. I'm off. I'm going to try and relax today, as much as I can anyhow.
BBL
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:48:06am |
re: #590 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Oh, and honestly? Unfortunately, it is so ingrained in my psyche (even from as a child) I automatically wouldn't trust a Roma if I met one.
Hate to say it, but it is true.
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RogueOne Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:48:10am |
re: #593 Lidane
Which would imply we have a revenue problem, no? So why not make people and businesses who earn more pay more? Seems fair.
At the same time, we can talk about cutting military costs while the GOP flatly refuse to do so since they fetishize the military so much, and we can keep dancing around the health care issue altogether.
Both but the bigger hit is spending and it's going to get worse as more baby-boomers retire. The entitlement programs are going to have to be revised:
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Sheila Broflovski Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:48:40am |
re: #600 WindUpBird
what IS EDS?
Electronic Data Systems.
IT support company founded by Ross Perot, took over the GM IT Dept. in the late '80's, within 15 years managed to send overseas almost all the IT jobs at GM.
Last time I worked there, which was in 2001, they were shutting down entire centers in Detroit and moving them to Delhi and Mumbai.
Globalization!
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RogueOne Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:49:00am |
re: #597 WindUpBird
I've said military spending is going to have to be cut. If we're all going to have to suffer to get our spending under control we can't exclude the military.
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RogueOne Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:49:57am |
re: #604 Obdicut
I don't understand why that's become a talking point. Nobody is saying that if we didn't have those wars the budget would be in balance.
It's called perspective. Yes the wars have cost us a fortune but no they aren't even close to being the main driver behind our debt.
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Decatur Deb Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:50:01am |
re: #590 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I've heard stories in the US too. You would think from they way that this particular guy was talking that they were driving around in painted wagons stealing babies in the middle of the night.
When my son was a baby, he was very colicky. I used to tell people that I'd sit him on the front stoop about 2am hoping that gypsies would steal him. They'd look aghast, and I'd explain, "That way we'll get a few nights sleep before the gypsies would leave him on our stoop so they could get a few nights sleep."
While funny, it wasn't until later that I realized that it was a pretty racist thing to say.
In our Irish Pittsburgh neighborhood, late 40s, we kids were allowed forced to run free through our neighborhood all day. Except there were two weeks of the year when the Gypsies camped in a wasteland on the edge of our turf, some in horse-drawn wagons. Then we were kept in.
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Obdicut Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:50:01am |
re: #613 RogueOne
The baby boomers are a bolus, not a permanent expense.
Also, that graph you just cited?
It shows government expenditure shrinking as a percentage of the GDP. Did you realize that?
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laZardo Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:50:54am |
re: #612 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Upding and a virtual pat on the back for admitting it.
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RogueOne Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:52:49am |
re: #618 Obdicut
The baby boomers are a bolus, not a permanent expense.
Also, that graph you just cited?
It shows government expenditure shrinking as a percentage of the GDP. Did you realize that?
Yep. Did you notice that the expected (the graph) vs. reality isn't lining up? Currently almost 70% of our budget is going to entitlement programs and I've read it's going to hit 85% within the decade.
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laZardo Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:53:20am |
re: #615 RogueOne
I've said military spending is going to have to be cut. If we're all going to have to suffer to get our spending under control we can't exclude the military.
I think a lot of that spending cuts can come from trimming the bureaucracy. When Eisenhower warned of the military-industrial complex, the key word was complex. Back then when the government wanted a batch of planes, they got their batch of planes on time and within the original budget.
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ProGunLiberal Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:54:04am |
Meanwhile, in Syria:
Security forces have shut off Daraa's water supply and electricity, and began confiscating food, in an effort to starve the people of the city.
and in Libya:
It is understood the Tunisian security forces have disarmed the Libyan soldiers and driven them back across the border.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:54:13am |
re: #617 Decatur Deb
By Grathbar's Hammer, I swear I will never again speak to anyone who posts that fucking Cher song...
Oh, wait! That might be an incentive...
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Obdicut Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:54:29am |
re: #616 RogueOne
It's called perspective. Yes the wars have cost us a fortune but no they aren't even close to being the main driver behind our debt.
The main driver is health care costs. We need to get those under control. The best way of doing that, in my opinion, is changing from a fee-for-procedure method of physician compensation to something that doesn't reward overtreatment. Single payer insurance would be a good way of going about this, but it requires a cultural shift.
This is a couple of good articles on the subject:
[Link: www.newyorker.com...]
[Link: www.newyorker.com...]
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laZardo Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:55:13am |
re: #622 ProLifeLiberal
It is understood the Tunisian security forces have disarmed the Libyan soldiers and driven them back across the border.
"We don't wanna be dragged into a second revolution!"
well, it's possible. :P
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Obdicut Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:55:18am |
re: #620 RogueOne
Yep. Did you notice that the expected (the graph) vs. reality isn't lining up?
Then why did you cite it? Wwhy would you reference a graph and then say that it's inaccurate?
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RogueOne Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:56:03am |
re: #622 ProLifeLiberal
Meanwhile, in Syria:
and in Libya:
Syria keeps getting worse. It's only a matter of time before it either goes completely to shit or 10,000 civilians are dead.
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Obdicut Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:56:41am |
re: #620 RogueOne
That graph doesn't even speak to what percentage of the budget goes where, so I'm not sure what you mean about the graph not lining up with reality. Could you clarify?
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ProGunLiberal Fri, Apr 29, 2011 5:57:37am |
re: #625 laZardo
A Tunisian Woman died because Qaddafi's forces jumped the border. Tunisia's mighty pissed right now. Wikipedia has them as the 3rd party in the war now. Also, they only disarmed one side. Perhaps the rebels could request that weaponry?
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:01:59am |
re: #602 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Once a chick flashed her boobies on the Today Show during their outside pan. Katie was the only one to see it. When the camera came back to them she had the funniest stunned smile on her face. Was great.
Hope a lady in the Royal wedding party did that. Then I'd watch.
Here it is! TNSFW!
(totally)
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:03:50am |
re: #631 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
The look on Katie's face there is totally worth it.
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laZardo Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:06:57am |
re: #629 ProLifeLiberal
A Tunisian Woman died because Qaddafi's forces jumped the border. Tunisia's mighty pissed right now. Wikipedia has them as the 3rd party in the war now. Also, they only disarmed one side. Perhaps the rebels could request that weaponry?
Isn't Algeria allied with Gaddafi? This could spiral into something...interesting, to say the least.
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reine.de.tout Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:15:33am |
re: #631 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Here it is! TNSFW!
(totally)
That was hilarious!
The woman doing the flashing was so cool about it - just opened up that jacket when the camera came by, then closed it back up.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:17:10am |
re: #634 reine.de.tout
Katie was just fantastic there.
I really liked Morning Katie. Didn't get Evening Katie.
Apparently, neither did anyone else.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:17:35am |
I sent out a resume and got a reply back with them saying they liked it and didn't want to offend me by offering an entry level position. Not sure if they are full of shit or not. I tend to think no because why bother to write back. Hmmm...
And good morning Honcos.
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RogueOne Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:17:45am |
re: #628 Obdicut
That graph doesn't even speak to what percentage of the budget goes where, so I'm not sure what you mean about the graph not lining up with reality. Could you clarify?
That graph showed their projections for this year based on their beliefs from just a few years ago and it's off, badly. The belief that if we ignore the debt problem eventually it will go away is flawed. Even if we raise the debt limit and enact the ryan plan in it's totality we'll still be up against the debt ceiling within a couple years at max.
Are we going to wait until our debt hits 87% of GDP before we do something about it?
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:17:51am |
re: #634 reine.de.tout
That was hilarious!
The woman doing the flashing was so cool about it - just opened up that jacket when the camera came by, then closed it back up.
By the way. Did you notice that none of the guys have posted in the last few minutes?
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ProGunLiberal Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:18:13am |
re: #633 laZardo
And Morocco is friendly with the New Tunisian Gov't, and the Rebels to a point.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:19:25am |
Crayons? Check!
Prozac? Check!
Helmet? Check!
Now I am ready for work!
Later taters.
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RogueOne Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:19:52am |
I have work to accomplish. If I'm not back later, enjoy the wedding day folks.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:20:48am |
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Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:23:14am |
re: #643 laZardo
It's definitely not from what me and WUB did in the HAARP control room last night.Nope.
We have HAARP to keep the aliens from invading. I heard that on Coast to Coast AM.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:24:05am |
re: #642 Cannadian Club Akbar
I only see you when I am checking out, anymore. But, me gotsta git!
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Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:24:22am |
An odd sweep of the bottom 10. But then again, I wasn't here.
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laZardo Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:25:29am |
re: #646 Cannadian Club Akbar
An odd sweep of the bottom 10. But then again, I wasn't here.
LVQ of all people, too.
Also me neither.
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iossarian Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:28:19am |
re: #646 Cannadian Club Akbar
An odd sweep of the bottom 10. But then again, I wasn't here.
Cue Deathmatch music.
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The Left Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:33:55am |
Pickup Truck Warns of Impending ‘Muslim Attack’
WHY WON’T AMERICA LISTEN TO THE PICKUP TRUCKS? Our nation’s pickup trucks are always alerting citizens to new threats, but nobody seems to listen, even though we do our part to bring them to the people. Things are getting so bad that it’s no longer enough to post messages on your truck; you now have to attach giant signs to let people know about the apocalypse that will be precipitated by Muslims overthrowing their dictators. It may be confusing that the same pickup trucks that were once proclaiming terrorists hate freedom are now afraid that “terrorists” want freedom, but, uh… hey, look at that Simba stuffed animal sitting up there. That’s pretty cool.
This is from new Islamophobe world headquarters Orange County, of course:
Pic at link.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:35:08am |
WTF? Why can't I link youtube videos like I used to?
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lawhawk Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:35:22am |
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. I guess people really need a fairy tale wedding to take their mind off events that are truly more important or relevant or immediate in their impact on their lives. Personally, I take the Monty Python view on the monarchy. They're just the ones who are dressed who don't have crap on them... and some wet tart gave 'em a sword to bestow upon 'em rights that no one else has.
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Obdicut Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:35:33am |
re: #637 RogueOne
That graph showed their projections for this year based on their beliefs from just a few years ago and it's off, badly.
So why did you cite it?
The belief that if we ignore the debt problem eventually it will go away is flawed.
Nobody has that belief. Why are you throwing up such a stupid strawman?
Even if we raise the debt limit and enact the ryan plan in it's totality we'll still be up against the debt ceiling within a couple years at max.
The Ryan Plan is a fiction. It has no basis in reality.
Are we going to wait until our debt hits 87% of GDP before we do something about it?
Can you explain why you skipped over me talking about addressing health care costs, which are the main driver of the debt? Why do you prefer to attack strawmen?
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Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:38:13am |
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lawhawk Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:38:30am |
The crackdown continues in Syria - and there may be cracks in the military's support for the regime. Some units are reportedly not following orders to disperse crowds and fire on the protesters. Instead, other units have taken to firing on the rogue units. That first crack in the military order could spell real trouble for Assad's regime, which has relied on its unbridled use of force to remain in power.
The chances for a coup have just increased immeasurably IMO. After all, Assad's father came to power through a succession of coups, and there's no reason to believe that the military leadership might decide it better to send Assad packing than to continue killing protesters who are demanding change from Assad.
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Obdicut Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:39:13am |
re: #654 lawhawk
I heard a report an entire military unit (the size uncertain) had deserted. Have you heard anything on that?
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AK-47% Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:41:29am |
From the latest newsmax.com:
"Former top presidential adviser Karl Rove says President Barack Obama’s lack of action on comprehensive immigration reform is costing him the Latino vote and the voting bloc could start swinging to Republicans."
Why would anyone who is not rich and white (or retarded and white) have any reason to support the GOP ?
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Obdicut Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:42:39am |
re: #656 ralphieboy
"Former top presidential adviser Karl Rove says President Barack Obama’s lack of action on comprehensive immigration reform is costing him the Latino vote and the voting bloc could start swinging to Republicans."
Ah... yeah. The Latino vote is going to go to the anti-immigrant GOP. Thanks, Rove. Brilliant as always.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:43:11am |
re: #646 Cannadian Club Akbar
An odd sweep of the bottom 10. But then again, I wasn't here.
I very recently read the book "Exile" by Richard North Patterson.
The emotions on both the Muslim/Jewish debate flare so loudly that no one can hear what the other side is saying. It is awful. There are bad actors on both sides.
It will never end.
Get SFZ and CL in a room, they could find a way to work it out. Then someone would fan the flames anew.
Really. I gotta go.
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Gus Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:43:43am |
re: #651 lawhawk
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. I guess people really need a fairy tale wedding to take their mind off events that are truly more important or relevant or immediate in their impact on their lives. Personally, I take the Monty Python view on the monarchy. They're just the ones who are dressed who don't have crap on them... and some wet tart gave 'em a sword to bestow upon 'em rights that no one else has.
Think I saw one or two pictures at the BBC News site. I personally could give a rats tiny little ass about that wedding. More accurately, this wedding could in no way shape or form take my mind off things. Not even the BS farce going on Libya can accomplish that. But, they can have their "royal" wedding.
Funny you know that the world, including the USA, would celebrate a "royal" wedding since a monarchy technically represents a dictatorial kingdom. It is what the USA effectively fought against during the revolutionary war. It also represents colonialism. The saving grave though is that it is now largely a costume show.
Weren't they rioting in the streets of London over budget cuts several months ago? But they find money to hold this bash?
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Daniel Ballard Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:46:33am |
re: #655 Obdicut
An interesting Syria link (Syrian language) via google translate...BTW I can not get that from cache so if it's a bad site -sorryNow demonstrations in Damascus door Srijp by Zaid mosque chanting Aganp we go Martyrs millions :::: demonstration now in the heart of Damascus, near the area of Kafar::::re: #654 lawhawk
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lawhawk Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:46:53am |
re: #655 Obdicut
Lots of confusion about what exactly is going on, but from what I can tell, the 4th division, which is under command of Assad's brother is spearheading the crackdown on Daraa (reminiscent of the Hama assault by Assad's father nearly 30 years ago). There may be other units involved, and it is possible that some of these other units may be refusing to fire on the citizens of the city or small units from the 4th are refusing to fire, but no way to tell.
| 662 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:47:41am |
re: #659 Gus 802
I think they can find the money to hold a wedding bash. The last one was what, 30 years ago? And how much did it help their economy? I know pubs here were packed at 5am. (drinks and bangers!!!)
| 663 |
The Left Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:47:44am |
re: #659 Gus 802
Weren't they rioting in the streets of London over budget cuts several months ago? But they find money to hold this bash?
Yup. Tory government now really, slashes to the budget, defunding students and raising university fees.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:48:42am |
re: #662 Cannadian Club Akbar
Heh... banger...
| 665 |
The Left Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:50:12am |
Did people read this when the link was posted upthread? Worth reading in full:
Looks Like Trump's Right: How the Hell Did This President Get Into Those Ivy League Schools?
- "The dean looked over Barack's transcript and college boards and then suggested in a kindly way that he apply to some less competitive colleges in addition to Columbia."
- "There were no class rankings at his high school, but Barack never made honor roll even one term, unlike 110 boys in his class."
- "His SAT scores were 566 for the verbal part and 640 for math. Those were far below the median scores for students admitted to his class at Columbia: 668 verbal and 718 math."
- "At Columbia, Barack Obama distinguished himself primarily as a hard partier, and he managed to be detained by police twice during his university years: once for stealing a Christmas wreath as a fraternity prank and once for trying to tear down the goalposts during a football game at Princeton."
- "Obama's transcript at Columbia shows that he was a solid C student. Although a history major, he sampled widely in the social sciences and did poorly in political science and economics while achieving some of his best grades (the equivalent of a B+) in philosophy and anthropology. The transcript indicates that in Obama's freshman year, the only year for which rankings were available, he was in the twenty-first percentile of his class—meaning that four-fifths of the students were above him. Yet at the same time that he was earning Cs at Columbia, Obama displayed a formidable intelligence in another way. At his induction into the Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE) fraternity, he and others were asked to name all fifty-four pledges in the room. Most were were able to name only five or six. When it was Obama's turn, he named every single one. Later he rose to become president of DKE, and he was also tapped into Skull and Bones, an elite secret society to which his father had also belonged."
And then he somehow got into Harvard for graduate school.
Oh, wait.
My bad.
I made a mistake.
Please replace the reference to "high school" with "Andover."
Please replace "Columbia" with "Yale."
Please replace "Barack Obama" with "George W. Bush."
Thanks.
Heh.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:50:14am |
| 667 |
Achilles Tang Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:50:31am |
re: #659 Gus 802
........ since a monarchy technically represents a dictatorial kingdom.
Morning.
Except that this one doesn't. Did you get up on the wrong side of the bed this morning?
Personally I could care less either, but it cost a lot less than the USA spends on misleading political campaign ads, for example.
Let them have their entertainment and pomp.
| 668 |
Varek Raith Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:50:35am |
re: #663 iceweasel
Yup. Tory government now really, slashes to the budget, defunding students and raising university fees.
Isn't there also controversy over an aircraft carrier?
| 669 |
Gus Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:51:06am |
re: #662 Cannadian Club Akbar
I think they can find the money to hold a wedding bash. The last one was what, 30 years ago? And how much did it help their economy? I know pubs here were packed at 5am. (drinks and bangers!!!)
Seems like the latest excuse for everything regarding budgets these days is "well, spending money on that really wouldn't make a difference anyway." It's about priorities. It's also about useless social and cultural rituals. A royal wedding counts as either of those. This is especially true when you have a very large portion of the world media focusing its attention on this farce.re: #667 Naso Tang
Morning.
Except that this one doesn't. Did you get up on the wrong side of the bed this morning?
Personally I could care less either, but it cost a lot less than the USA spends on misleading political campaign ads, for example.
Let them have their entertainment and pomp.
And if I did what the fuck is it to you?
| 670 |
The Left Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:51:15am |
re: #666 Cannadian Club Akbar
Are bangers like a sausage? Ice, I need a ruling!!
yep. bangers and mash, baby!
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The Left Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:52:07am |
re: #668 Varek Raith
Isn't there also controversy over an aircraft carrier?
Probably. I haven't been paying any attention. It's all I can do to stay with the US news cycle and system. Shameful, but there it is.
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Sheila Broflovski Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:52:12am |
re: #670 iceweasel
yep. bangers and mash, baby!
What's mash? Is that just mashed potatoes or is something else mashed?
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Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:52:38am |
re: #669 Gus 802
At least we don't waste money here!!
//
| 675 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:53:10am |
re: #672 Alouette
What's mash? Is that just mashed potatoes or is something else mashed?
I was gonna ask that.:)
| 677 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:54:55am |
And my last comment in regards to the Royal wedding...that chick is hot!!!!
| 678 |
Varek Raith Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:55:03am |
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Varek Raith Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:55:20am |
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:55:50am |
re: #665 iceweasel
My question? Mr. Trump?
So?
Every good professional did not graduate at the top of their respective class.
What are you trying to say?
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lawhawk Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:55:55am |
re: #661 lawhawk
VOA claims that it's units of the 5th Division that are refusing to fire on protesters in Daraa and that the 4th has been firing on those 5th Division units.
| 682 |
iossarian Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:56:13am |
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Varek Raith Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:56:23am |
re: #681 lawhawk
VOA claims that it's units of the 5th Division that are refusing to fire on protesters in Daraa and that the 4th has been firing on those 5th Division units.
The plot thickens...
| 684 |
The Left Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:56:27am |
re: #675 Cannadian Club Akbar
re: #672 Alouette
Mashed potatoes. Traditionally it's a large sausage or two (lincolnshire or cumberland), and mashed potatoes. Served with onion gravy and mustard on the side. I love it. Sometimes you get peas with it, but mushy peas (yes, they're called that) are an abomination.
| 685 |
Achilles Tang Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:57:18am |
re: #669 Gus 802
And if I did what the fuck is it to you?
I'm just trying to cheer you up. I hate to see anyone in a bad mood.
| 686 |
jaunte Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:57:48am |
This morning's email from my business partner:
Subject: I am up watching the royal wedding
Because I'm from a little village outside of Belfast in Northern
Ireland and this being a national holiday by order of the Crown....I'm
taking this special day off.
God save the Queen Mother
Four generations in the New World, but if it means Friday off, he's a Royalist!
| 687 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:58:15am |
re: #684 iceweasel
re: #672 Alouette
Mashed potatoes. Traditionally it's a large sausage or two (lincolnshire or cumberland), and mashed potatoes. Served with onion gravy and mustard on the side. I love it. Sometimes you get peas with it, but mushy peas (yes, they're called that) are an abomination.
I would love that. I put mustard on most pork products. And I love onions AND gravy. The peas can go to the dog.
| 688 |
lawhawk Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:58:30am |
re: #680 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Trump was sent to military school by dad because he was not a good student. That experience turned him around and he managed to get into a good business school at the end of the day. Trump excels in the business of promoting himself. His scoresheet on business dealings is mixed - 3 bankruptcies on casino businesses, and he was able to transform his father's real estate holdings (largely middle class apartment complexes) into a major real estate player in the NYC metro area. He's a self-promoter extraordinaire, but when your signature catchphrase is "you're fired" you ought to know that there isn't much substance there.
| 689 |
Varek Raith Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:58:44am |
re: #686 jaunte
This morning's email from my business partner:
Four generations in the New World, but if it means Friday off, he's a Royalist!
Lol.
I'd be whatever for a day off.
| 690 |
Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:59:16am |
re: #686 jaunte
"If there's a day off in it? I'll believe in anything you say"
Winston Zeddemore, paraphrased.
| 691 |
The Left Fri, Apr 29, 2011 6:59:47am |
re: #687 Cannadian Club Akbar
I would love that. I put mustard on most pork products. And I love onions AND gravy. The peas can go to the dog.
Agree with everything you said.
It's weird, I think of it as this quintessentially British dish, but Jimmah had never had it til I made it for him. Onion gravy rules and I love english mustard.
| 692 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Apr 29, 2011 7:00:09am |
| 693 |
Varek Raith Fri, Apr 29, 2011 7:00:43am |
re: #692 Cannadian Club Akbar
I'm off every day!!! Woot!! Oh, wait...:(
Yeah, I'm there myself.
I blame....
You!
/
| 694 |
iossarian Fri, Apr 29, 2011 7:01:43am |
re: #691 iceweasel
Agree with everything you said.
It's weird, I think of it as this quintessentially British dish, but Jimmah had never had it til I made it for him. Onion gravy rules and I love english mustard.
Too busy with turnips and offal I suppose.
(I kid, I actually like haggis.)
| 695 |
Varek Raith Fri, Apr 29, 2011 7:03:29am |
re: #694 iossarian
Too busy with turnips and offal I suppose.
(I kid, I actually like haggis.)
Ok.
No one likes haggis.
Mmmkay?
/
| 696 |
Achilles Tang Fri, Apr 29, 2011 7:05:20am |
re: #665 iceweasel
Did people read this when the link was posted upthread? Worth reading in full:
Looks Like Trump's Right: How the Hell Did This President Get Into Those Ivy League Schools?
Heh.
Talking of Trump. I accidentally caught a few seconds of O'Reilly last night, and what was the deep politically analysis about?
He was wondering about the Democrat's reasoning behind saying that Republicans should denounce Trump's birtherism.
Nothing about how embarrassing this was for American politics, just speculation that this was a plan to make all Republicans look bad. Nasty Democrats!//
| 697 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Apr 29, 2011 7:05:42am |
| 698 |
AK-47% Fri, Apr 29, 2011 7:06:50am |
re: #672 Alouette
What's mash? Is that just mashed potatoes or is something else mashed?
mashed potatoes, but they are also fond of mushy peas.
| 699 |
Varek Raith Fri, Apr 29, 2011 7:07:01am |
re: #697 Cannadian Club Akbar
| 700 |
Achilles Tang Fri, Apr 29, 2011 7:07:35am |
re: #688 lawhawk
Two questions.
Have you researched how much he inherited from his father?
Does anyone know what his liabilities are, as opposed to his self claimed assets of some $2.5 billion?
| 701 |
jaunte Fri, Apr 29, 2011 7:07:56am |
re: #699 Varek Raith
We may begin to see more cases of Spontaneous Redistribution.
| 702 |
Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Apr 29, 2011 7:08:09am |
Trees, Joyce Kilmer
I THINK that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the sweet earth's flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
Happy Arbor Day, y'all!
| 703 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Apr 29, 2011 7:10:35am |
| 704 |
Varek Raith Fri, Apr 29, 2011 7:11:34am |
| 705 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Apr 29, 2011 7:12:57am |
re: #704 Varek Raith
See, now that's the kind of shit you don't DIY.
Most of the comments I saw were deleted. One called the guy a pole monkey. Heh.
| 706 |
iossarian Fri, Apr 29, 2011 7:16:19am |
Police in Stafford County, Va., can't figure out what prompted a man to steal 26 gallons of milk while dressed in a cow costume.
A front-runner for "caption of the week".
| 708 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Apr 29, 2011 7:17:59am |
re: #706 iossarian
A front-runner for "caption of the week".
I'm thinking booze is the answer. No, I know it is the answer.
/
| 709 |
iossarian Fri, Apr 29, 2011 7:18:09am |
re: #707 jaunte
Some mysteries must stay beyond our ken.
The photo is pure genius as well. Kind of a light-hearted and yet also infinitely more sinister Donnie Darko effect.
Local news reporting at its best.
| 710 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Apr 29, 2011 7:24:12am |
| 711 |
lawhawk Fri, Apr 29, 2011 7:27:07am |
re: #700 Naso Tang
Fred Trump died with an estate valued in excess of $400 million (though the Times puts that figure at $250-300 million) split among various family members. Fred Trump managed to build or accumulate 27,000 apartments throughout NYC, mostly affordable housing.
Not sure how much of that went to help Donald, but Donald was a major player in running the real estate business once he graduated from school. Those units are probably worth significantly more now than they were in 1999 when he died.
A release of his tax records would go a long way to clearing up how much money he really has.
| 712 |
iossarian Fri, Apr 29, 2011 7:28:55am |
re: #711 lawhawk
A release of his tax records would go a long way to clearing up how much money he really has.
This is why I am performing my ritual dance in the nudd every morning to persuade the Sky Boss to make Trump the GOP nominee.
Well, that and the fact that his chances of winning are about as impressive as my nudd dance.
| 714 |
Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Apr 29, 2011 7:31:08am |
| 715 |
lawhawk Fri, Apr 29, 2011 7:34:53am |
re: #712 iossarian
Thing is, I could care less how much money Trump has, or anything else Trump is doing. He has a lot of money. He's made a lot - and lost a lot (mostly other people's money).
His political positions are laughable and his demands for Obama's records reeks, especially when Trump declares he'd release his own tax records, then shies away from doing just that and moves on to his next talking point (real easy to do when you're a natural blowhard).
Just finishing up reading a book entitled Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks , and the author, Ben Goodacre, has a great descriptor for people like Trump. They're bullshitters.
| 716 |
Achilles Tang Fri, Apr 29, 2011 7:36:01am |
re: #711 lawhawk
Thanks. I saw that Fred Trump started with some $200 million from his father in the 30's. That doesn't say much for having at most $400 million when he died many years later.
I also saw that $200 million invested at the rate of inflation in the 30's would be worth some $40 billion by now (less living expenses), although I haven't checked the calculation.
It is also interesting that the "free enterprise" guru was riding the wave of government housing programs./
Release his tax records? That would be interesting. I'm not sure if he has to as a Presidential candidate. If so that probably guarantees he won't run.
| 717 |
lawhawk Fri, Apr 29, 2011 7:36:05am |
re: #704 Varek Raith
Oh, it's the kind of thing you DIY. Once - and that's it.
| 718 |
The Left Fri, Apr 29, 2011 7:36:27am |
Poem for FBV
Prayer, by Carol Ann Duffy
Prayer
Some days, although we cannot pray, a prayer
utters itself. So, a woman will lift
her head from the sieve of her hands and stare
at the minims sung by a tree, a sudden gift.
Some nights, although we are faithless, the truth
enters our hearts, that small familiar pain;
then a man will stand stock-still, hearing his youth
in the distant Latin chanting of a train.
Pray for us now. Grade 1 piano scales
console the lodger looking out across
a Midlands town. Then dusk, and someone calls
a child's name as though they named their loss.
Darkness outside. Inside, the radio's prayer -
Rockall. Malin. Dogger. Finisterre.
| 719 |
lawhawk Fri, Apr 29, 2011 7:39:07am |
re: #716 Naso Tang
Fred Trump, along with Lefrak, were big into building affordable housing projects, because that's where the money was to be made in building after WWII in NYC. Because of rent control/stabilization, etc. market rate was very difficult to build in the postwar NYC. That situation is changing slowly, and new housing projects in the City are a mix of market/affordable housing - that you need to have an affordable housing component to get community board and city approval. That percentage is usually negotiated by the developer and the community, and can be up to 1/3 of the total units to be built.
| 720 |
Achilles Tang Fri, Apr 29, 2011 7:39:36am |
re: #717 lawhawk
Oh, it's the kind of thing you DIY. Once - and that's it.
Reminds me of the sayings about wild mushrooms. They are all edible once.
Or, there are bold mushroom hunters, and there are old mushroom hunters, but there are no old bold mushroom hunters.
| 721 |
Interesting Times Fri, Apr 29, 2011 7:44:06am |
| 722 |
AK-47% Fri, Apr 29, 2011 7:49:30am |
re: #721 publicityStunted
Afterbirther here has a point: had Obama obtained a waiver from Hawaii state law and released this document a lot earlier, he might've spared the GOP a lot of embarassment.
But saving the GOP from its own idiocy is not part of his job description.
| 723 |
Achilles Tang Fri, Apr 29, 2011 7:53:21am |
re: #722 ralphieboy
Afterbirther here has a point: had Obama obtained a waiver from Hawaii state law and released this document a lot earlier, he might've spared the GOP a lot of embarassment.
But saving the GOP from its own idiocy is not part of his job description.
So, you advocate that all Hawaiian born citizens (or any state with similar rules) should be required to request a waiver if required to show proof of birth, for any reason?
Kind of makes the whole system seem silly, doesn't it?
| 724 |
The Left Fri, Apr 29, 2011 7:53:26am |
re: #722 ralphieboy
Afterbirther here has a point: had Obama obtained a waiver from Hawaii state law and released this document a lot earlier, he might've spared the GOP a lot of embarassment.
But saving the GOP from its own idiocy is not part of his job description.
Trickse, Trickse Dems! Make republicans go WAH!
| 725 |
tnguitarist Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:00:22am |
| 726 |
lawhawk Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:01:23am |
re: #722 ralphieboy
The short form was more than sufficient - and no amount of evidence will change the minds of those who don't consider Obama legitimate. The past 3 years have been quite a bit of shrieking from the harpies about how he needs to release the long form, which confirms everything in the original release - and yet these same people are complaining that it is: 1) insufficient; 2) they have doubts about the authenticity of the new long form; 3) Obama should have released this earlier; 4) a combination of complaints that boil down to the fact that people refuse to accept this information and move on.
Obama's the president. Period. End stop. Birtherism is a corrosive conspiracy that harms the GOP and does a grave disservice to the nation when there are truly important issues to be dealt with. Obama doesn't have to save the GOP from itself when the GOP self-selects to go down the rabbit hole. That should have been up to the GOP leaders who know better than to ride this crazy train.
| 727 |
The Left Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:05:03am |
re: #726 lawhawk
The short form was more than sufficient - and no amount of evidence will change the minds of those who don't consider Obama legitimate.
of course it won't, because it's not driven by reason. They're immune to logic or standards of proof. This is purely about emotion, primarily bigoted hate, and some of it whinyass crying because a black guy is in the White House. They can't handle it. Attempts to challenge his legitimacy are just the Blazing Saddles crowd reacting to" the President is a n***."
| 728 |
Sheila Broflovski Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:05:23am |
One apostrophe in a database record can totally fuck up an entire web report.
| 729 |
Killgore Trout Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:06:10am |
re: #726 lawhawk
Obama doesn't have to save the GOP from itself when the GOP self-selects to go down the rabbit hole. That should have been up to the GOP leaders who know better than to ride this crazy train.
It looks like the Dem strategy is giving Republicans what they want. Birth Cert, Donald Trump, a senate vote on the Ryan Budget, etc. Republican leaders don't have the balls to take on their own crazies and the Dems are more than happy to let them run wild.
| 730 |
Ericus58 Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:06:26am |
| 731 |
Interesting Times Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:11:07am |
re: #730 Ericus58
He's Dead, Jim
Comment go bye-bye, but afterbirther still here. Will it slink away, or go out in a blaze of glory fail? :D
| 733 |
The Left Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:14:40am |
re: #731 publicityStunted
Comment go bye-bye, but afterbirther still here. Will it slink away, or go out in a blaze of
gloryfail? :D
Might meet a quiet death when Stinky arrives.
| 734 |
blueraven Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:22:19am |
Breaking news...
Appeals court overturns stem cell research ban
Huge victory for the Obama administration
| 735 |
lawhawk Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:23:52am |
Trump's statements about how he avoided military service in Vietnam don't stand up to scrutiny.
Donald Trump dodged Vietnam War through medical deferment, not high draft number as he claimed
| 736 |
AK-47% Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:24:25am |
re: #723 Naso Tang
So, you advocate that all Hawaiian born citizens (or any state with similar rules) should be required to request a waiver if required to show proof of birth, for any reason?
Kind of makes the whole system seem silly, doesn't it?
Only if they are black and Democrats. That's the point behind it all.
/
| 737 |
Interesting Times Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:24:25am |
re: #734 blueraven
Breaking news...
Appeals court overturns stem cell research ban
Huge victory for
the Obama administrationscience against the religious right and its frothing santorum
Fixed.
| 738 |
The Left Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:25:07am |
Donald Trump Shouts ‘F Word’ Multiple Times In Las Vegas Speech
The military’s adventures overseas:
“We build a school, we build a road, they blow up the school, we build another school, we build another road they blow them up, we build again, in the meantime we can’t get a fucking school in Brooklyn.”
OPEC:
“We have nobody in Washington that sits back and said, you’re not going to raise that fucking price.”
China:
“Listen, you motherfuckers, we’re going to tax you 25 percent!”
Spoken like a true chief diplomat.
The word “fuck” probably needs to distance itself from Trump now, lest it lose its street cred. That’s the swear of the people, Trump! Why don’t you go buy some ornate rich-person cuss?
| 740 |
Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:27:23am |
just put up my first page. really powerful video.
| 741 |
The Left Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:29:21am |
re: #740 Dreggas
just put up my first page. really powerful video.
It was a good page! I dinged you. :)
| 742 |
Mostly sane, most of the time. Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:30:15am |
I may be the only one here who actually cares about the royal wedding, but I have to ask--was Princess Beatrice's hat a protest against her mother not being invited?
Fine. Don't invite my mother. Watch what I will put on my head in front of the entire country.
| 743 |
zora Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:30:24am |
re: #738 iceweasel
Donald Trump Shouts ‘F Word’ Multiple Times In Las Vegas Speech
[Video]
i'd like to see franklin graham say "maybe he's right" now.
| 744 |
Obdicut Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:31:41am |
| 745 |
brennant Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:31:46am |
re: #738 iceweasel
Donald Trump Shouts ‘F Word’ Multiple Times In Las Vegas Speech
[Video]
Keep it classy Mr. Trump!
| 746 |
Killgore Trout Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:32:06am |
re: #738 iceweasel
Donald Trump Shouts ‘F Word’ Multiple Times In Las Vegas Speech
[Video]
I'm pretty sure that was a calculated move by Trump. Keeps his name in the news for one more day. Like all shock jocks, his antics are going to get more extreme and bizarre until he implodes or people just get bored and start ignoring him.
| 747 |
The Left Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:33:34am |
re: #742 EmmmieG
I may be the only one here who actually cares about the royal wedding, but I have to ask--was Princess Beatrice's hat a protest against her mother not being invited?
Fine. Don't invite my mother. Watch what I will put on my head in front of the entire country.
Princess Beatrice's Royal Wedding hat attracts thousands of Facebook fans
Heh. That is one crazy hat.
| 748 |
AK-47% Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:33:56am |
re: #746 Killgore Trout
I'm pretty sure that was a calculated move by Trump. Keeps his name in the news for one more day. Like all shock jocks, his antics are going to get more extreme and bizarre until he implodes or people just get bored and start ignoring him.
People were never start ignoring him, that's the point. He knows just what stops to pull out
| 749 |
Sheila Broflovski Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:36:03am |
re: #747 iceweasel
Princess Beatrice's Royal Wedding hat attracts thousands of Facebook fans
Heh. That is one crazy hat.
she could have worn a meat hat.
| 750 |
lawhawk Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:36:08am |
re: #747 iceweasel
The Gorn was none too pleased with that link.
| 751 |
Varek Raith Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:37:02am |
| 752 |
The Left Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:37:12am |
re: #750 lawhawk
The Gorn was none too pleased with that link.
? I think it's just to the Mirror. Who or what is the Gorn?
| 753 |
blueraven Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:37:33am |
re: #746 Killgore Trout
I'm pretty sure that was a calculated move by Trump. Keeps his name in the news for one more day. Like all shock jocks, his antics are going to get more extreme and bizarre until he implodes or people just get bored and start ignoring him.
Oh yeah. But lets just see if Fox news and talk radio laugh this one off. Or will they shame him like they tried to with Biden's "this is a big fucking deal" hot mike comment.
Oh...nevermind, I know the answer to that.
| 754 |
Interesting Times Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:38:07am |
re: #747 iceweasel
Princess Beatrice's Royal Wedding hat attracts thousands of Facebook fans
Heh. That is one crazy hat.
Aretha Franklin is jealous.
| 755 |
Varek Raith Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:38:22am |
re: #752 iceweasel
? I think it's just to the Mirror. Who or what is the Gorn?
Click your link, you'll see.
:)
You left in "[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...] in you link, borking it.
:)
| 756 |
The Left Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:39:12am |
re: #755 Varek Raith
Click your link, you'll see.
:)
You left in "[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...] in you link, borking it.
:)
Dammit. Sorry about that. Thanks for fixing it. :)
| 757 |
Varek Raith Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:40:14am |
| 758 |
Mostly sane, most of the time. Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:41:15am |
Hehehehe
[Link: www.quickmeme.com...]
| 759 |
zora Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:41:25am |
re: #746 Killgore Trout
i think you called this pretty well.
In U.S., Negative Views of the Tea Party Rise to New High
Gallup began tracking Americans' views of the Tea Party in March 2010, when 37% had a favorable and 40% an unfavorable view. Those views stayed roughly the same through January of this year, but have now turned somewhat more negative. The April 20-23 USA Today/Gallup poll finds favorable opinions of the Tea Party movement dropping to 33%, from 39% in January, and unfavorable opinions rising to 47% from 42%. Twenty percent of Americans say they haven't heard of the Tea Party or have no opinion of it.
| 761 |
The Left Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:42:29am |
re: #749 Alouette
she could have worn a meat hat.
She could have worn a traffic cone! If it's good enough for the Duke of Wellington it's good enough for her.
| 762 |
Varek Raith Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:43:01am |
re: #761 iceweasel
She could have worn a traffic cone! If it's good enough for the Duke of Wellington it's good enough for her.
DAMN TEENAGERS!
| 764 |
The Left Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:45:37am |
re: #762 Varek Raith
DAMN TEENAGERS!
The statue stands outside the Gallery of Modern Art, sometimes referred to as GoMA.
The traffic cone is not Photoshoped on (although the photo has been covered to black and white, with the cone kept red to make it stand out more. It is permanently on the Duke’s head and for many years the authorities regularly removed cones, only for them to be replaced (usually the following night) by someone climbing the nearly 20 foot statue. This statue and his traffic cone has come to represent (particularly in tourist guidebooks) the city’s light-hearted attitude to authority, and the city authorities no longer remove Wellington’s cone hat.
lol
| 766 |
Killgore Trout Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:46:34am |
re: #759 zora
i think you called this pretty well.
In U.S., Negative Views of the Tea Party Rise to New High
Yeah, I think it was pretty obvious where this was all going to end. Despite all the warnings conservatives decided to invest 2 years in this nonsense. Although a lot of people on the right are starting to notice there's a problem they still aren't ready to admit that they made a huge mistake.
| 767 |
The Left Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:48:22am |
re: #765 Varek Raith
Hahaha!
Symbolising ' the city’s light-hearted attitude to authority" = total lack of respect for the law, local police helpless, hahaha.
| 768 |
lawhawk Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:48:24am |
re: #766 Killgore Trout
Once again, people ignore Yoda - fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.
| 769 |
Varek Raith Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:50:25am |
Damn...
New video of tsunami hitting Sendai.
[Link: www.cnn.com...]
| 770 |
tnguitarist Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:51:04am |
| 771 |
Mostly sane, most of the time. Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:52:18am |
cnn.com has a row of 6 wedding videos. In the middle is a small blue ad from Tiffany's.
How much do you suppose they paid for that?
| 772 |
The Left Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:53:58am |
re: #771 EmmmieG
cnn.com has a row of 6 wedding videos. In the middle is a small blue ad from Tiffany's.
How much do you suppose they paid for that?
Supposedly orders have been flooding in for replicas of her engagement ring and that dress she was wearing when they announced the engagement, or so I read on Jezebel anyway.
| 773 |
iossarian Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:54:42am |
re: #728 Alouette
One apostrophe in a database record can totally fuck up an entire web report.
I do battle every other day with other people's mad ideas about how to store data.
Here are my two golden rules: obey them and you will go far, little software package:
1) If the data validation rules dictate that only valid numbers can be entered, then store the entered values as numbers. NOT TEXT. AND ESPECIALLY NOT TEXT WITH LEADING ZEROS.
2) Entered data is not a date UNLESS I TELL YOU IT IS.
| 774 |
Mostly sane, most of the time. Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:56:11am |
re: #772 iceweasel
Supposedly orders have been flooding in for replicas of her engagement ring and that dress she was wearing when they announced the engagement, or so I read on Jezebel anyway.
I would have thought that replicas of that ring would have been out there since 1981.
| 775 |
Mostly sane, most of the time. Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:56:47am |
Supposedly 2 billion people are watching the wedding. That's 1/3 of mankind.
| 776 |
The Left Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:57:07am |
re: #774 EmmmieG
I would have thought that replicas of that ring would have been out there since 1981.
There was a rush then too to duplicate it, I read.
| 777 |
Varek Raith Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:57:21am |
re: #775 EmmmieG
Supposedly 2 billion people are watching the wedding. That's 1/3 of mankind.
Doomed we are.
| 778 |
Lidane Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:57:54am |
re: #774 EmmmieG
I would have thought that replicas of that ring would have been out there since 1981.
Seriously, considering she has Diana's ring. I see commercials for cheap knock offs of that ring all the time.
| 779 |
Mostly sane, most of the time. Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:59:52am |
re: #778 Lidane
Seriously, considering she has Diana's ring. I see commercials for cheap knock offs of that ring all the time.
I'm not sure I would want it, actually. It's the ring from one of the most famously unhappy marriages ever. I guess Prince William wanted that ring, though.
| 780 |
Lidane Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:00:56am |
re: #779 EmmmieG
I'm not sure I would want it, actually. It's the ring from one of the most famously unhappy marriages ever. I guess Prince William wanted that ring, though.
True, but for William it's sentimental. It was his mother's and now he's given it to his wife.
| 781 |
The Left Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:01:53am |
re: #775 EmmmieG
Supposedly 2 billion people are watching the wedding. That's 1/3 of mankind.
I'm pretty sure they were breaking the licensing laws at the pub we had breakfast in. Private party upstairs, very loud, lots of booze being drunk bfore 11 am. It was on every TV screen.
| 782 |
Sheila Broflovski Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:03:54am |
re: #772 iceweasel
Supposedly orders have been flooding in for replicas of her engagement ring and that dress she was wearing when they announced the engagement, or so I read on Jezebel anyway.
She's wearing Diana's engagement ring.
| 783 |
The Left Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:06:10am |
re: #782 Alouette
She's wearing Diana's engagement ring.
I know that. When it was Diana's people rushed to copy it, and apparently jewelers are getting orders again. Sorry if I didn't state that clearly.
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Sheila Broflovski Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:07:10am |
re: #773 iossarian
I do battle every other day with other people's mad ideas about how to store data.
Here are my two golden rules: obey them and you will go far, little software package:
1) If the data validation rules dictate that only valid numbers can be entered, then store the entered values as numbers. NOT TEXT. AND ESPECIALLY NOT TEXT WITH LEADING ZEROS.
2) Entered data is not a date UNLESS I TELL YOU IT IS.
I wrote a routine 10 years ago for dealing with exceptions caused by stupid names like O'Bama.
You just have to instruct SQL to search for O''Bama and all is well. But have to trap that code everytime the DB retrieves somebody's last name.
Or, just tell everybody in the world to remove apostrophes from their names!
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Lidane Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:09:37am |
re: #759 zora
i think you called this pretty well.
In U.S., Negative Views of the Tea Party Rise to New High
Heh. The true believers, OTOH, remain unmoved. They're convinced they have Obama on the ropes. They're convinced the Tea Party is stronger than ever now and that the Democrats should fear them.
It's a complete cognitive dissonance that can't be overcome. These people are convinced they're on the right side of history and that they will be vindicated as long as the GOP listens to them and panders to them, which the GOP has spent the last three years doing.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:11:22am |
This is a Disney Wedding in the sense that the bride was chosen by the prince, and they seem to actually like each other.
Historical precedent was that the royal establishment picked a foreign princess for political purposes and that the prince had no intention of remaining faithful to the young woman.
Pop Quiz: Name the English king who actually loved his wife, despite having met her on the wedding day?
| 787 |
Lidane Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:11:38am |
The LAYERS! ZOMG! The LAYERS!
With Drudge Report's Help, Birthers Latch Onto Phony Forgery Theory
| 788 |
Slap Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:12:55am |
Morning, Lizardim!
OT, was just in the mood for some rockin'.
Golden Earring, pre-Radar Love -- Buddy Joe
Happy Friday!
And congratulations to Atlanta Falcons fans this AM -- I believe you have just about become unbeatable with that draft move last night.
| 789 |
Sheila Broflovski Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:13:12am |
re: #786 EmmmieG
This is a Disney Wedding in the sense that the bride was chosen by the prince, and they seem to actually like each other.
Historical precedent was that the royal establishment picked a foreign princess for political purposes and that the prince had no intention of remaining faithful to the young woman.
Pop Quiz: Name the English king who actually loved his wife, despite having met her on the wedding day?
Albert!
Oh wait, he was a prince, not a King.
| 790 |
Lidane Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:15:04am |
re: #738 iceweasel
Donald Trump Shouts ‘F Word’ Multiple Times In Las Vegas Speech
Because that's the kind of erudite statesman we want representing us on the world stage. =P
| 791 |
Sheila Broflovski Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:16:15am |
re: #790 Lidane
Because that's the kind of erudite statesman we want representing us on the world stage. =P
Stay classy, hairball.
| 792 |
Varek Raith Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:16:34am |
re: #790 Lidane
Because that's the kind of erudite statesman we want representing us on the world stage. =P
China, STFU before I send my military to WTFBBQSAUCEPWN your ass.
| 793 |
Lidane Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:17:55am |
re: #792 Varek Raith
China, STFU before I send my military to WTFBBQSAUCEPWN your ass.
And also, LEEEROOOY JEENKIINS!!! LOLWTFOMG.
/Trump
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zora Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:18:53am |
re: #792 Varek Raith
China-bashing Trump's clothing line made in China
Trump has urged Americans to buy less "crap" from China, even as his own line of suits is manufactured there.
[Link: www.salon.com...]
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The Left Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:19:13am |
re: #790 Lidane
Because that's the kind of erudite statesman we want representing us on the world stage. =P
If he were POTUS, they'd play America, FUCK YEAH everytime he entered a room, apparently. /
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AK-47% Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:19:48am |
re: #786 EmmmieG
Pop Quiz: Name the English king who actually loved his wife, despite having met her on the wedding day?
Albert of Saxe-Coburg, a German...
| 797 |
Sheila Broflovski Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:22:31am |
re: #796 ralphieboy
Albert of Saxe-Coburg, a German...
Albert technically wasn't a king, he was Prince Consort, like Philip.
| 799 |
Varek Raith Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:23:31am |
re: #798 blueraven
Managers and engineers are discussing an issue with two heaters associated with shuttle Endeavour's Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) 1. The three APUs provide hydraulic power to steer the shuttle’s aerosurfaces during ascent and entry.
| 800 |
Varek Raith Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:24:22am |
re: #799 Varek Raith
Shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach has scrubbed today's STS-134 launch attempt because of an issue associated with Auxiliary Power Unit 1 heaters. There will be at least a 48-hour scrub turnaround while engineers assess the issue. NASA Television will air a news conference later this afternoon.
| 801 |
Mostly sane, most of the time. Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:26:28am |
King George III (remember him?)
He actually loved Queen Charlotte, and they had fifteen children together.
Ironically, only one of the sons produced a legitimate heir, Princess Charlotte, who then died giving birth, which touched off a royal crisis.
After a rush by the other middle-aged princes* to actually get married, Princess Alexandrina Victoria was born.
*The crown prince's marriage was a screaming disaster.
| 802 |
Page 3 in the Binder of Women Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:29:13am |
Before I head out for the day, may I just say
Donald Trump is a piece of shit, an embarrassment, and a clown.
| 803 |
AK-47% Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:29:34am |
Another reason Diana was so beloved by the British people: she produced not one but two viable male heirs.
| 804 |
Varek Raith Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:30:12am |
Oh Brother. NewsBusters Claims Fox Hosts “Played No Part” In Birther Conspiracy
Incoming ROFLCOPTER!
| 805 |
sattv4u2 Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:32:26am |
re: #801 EmmmieG
and they had fifteen children together
Contestant on Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life TV show
Groucho,, "So tell us a little about yourself"
Guest "Well Groucho, I'm married and we have 14 children"
Groucho "14,, how do you explain that?"
Guest" Well Groucho,, I olove my wife"
Groucho " I love my cigar, but I take it out of my mouth every so often!"
| 806 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:32:37am |
The Shuttle isn't gonna launch today. News just came on my radio. I am at a friend's house using his Wifi, he is on the other coast to watch the launch. D'oh!!
| 807 |
Lidane Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:32:57am |
re: #804 Varek Raith
Oh Brother. NewsBusters Claims Fox Hosts “Played No Part” In Birther Conspiracy
Incoming ROFLCOPTER!
Pfft. That's a whole swarm of black ROFLcopters coming in. I guess all those conspiracy nuts were right.
///
| 808 |
sattv4u2 Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:33:56am |
re: #806 Cannadian Club Akbar
The Shuttle isn't gonna launch today. News just came on my radio. I am at a friend's house using his Wifi, he is on the other coast to watch the launch. D'oh!!
So your bicoastal, huh!
I did not know that about you!
| 809 |
The Left Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:34:31am |
re: #808 sattv4u2
So your bicoastal, huh!
I did not know that about you!
Maybe he's just bi-coastal curious.
| 810 |
Varek Raith Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:35:03am |
| 811 |
allegro Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:35:24am |
This is actually encouraging, I think. Bigotry and racism is being smacked down in a big way. The "we just want to get tough on illegal immigration" line isn't being bought.
Arizona, Bowing to Business, Softens Stand on Immigration
PDF of letter from businesses:
Last year, boycotts were called against our state’s business community, adversely impacting our already-struggling economy and costing us jobs. Arizona-based businesses saw contracts cancelled or were turned away from bidding. Sales outside of the state declined. Even a business which merely had “Arizona” in its name felt the effects of the boycotts, compelling them to launch an educational campaign about their company’s roots in Brooklyn. It is an undeniable fact that each of our companies and our employees were impacted by the boycotts and the coincident negative image.
| 812 |
sattv4u2 Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:35:38am |
re: #809 iceweasel
Maybe he's just bi-coastal curious.
He;ll start slow,,,, just dip his toes in the water, perhaps
| 813 |
Lidane Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:37:42am |
Shocka! The Freepers aren't terribly offended by Trump dropping f-bombs everywhere:
| 814 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:37:48am |
Wow, everyone is teh funny today!!!
| 815 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:38:11am |
re: #813 Lidane
Shocka! The Freepers aren't terribly offended by Trump dropping f-bombs everywhere:
Well no fucking shit!!
//
| 816 |
allegro Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:39:04am |
re: #813 Lidane
Shocka! The Freepers aren't terribly offended by Trump dropping f-bombs everywhere:
[Link: webcache.googleusercontent.com...]
They're only offended when a DFH Democrat raises a voice. IOKIYAR
| 817 |
Lidane Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:39:40am |
Also, American "Thinker" is bringing in new levels of fail:
Harvard and State Department colluded to get rid of Obama's father
| 818 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:41:34am |
re: #816 allegro
They're only offended when a DFH Democrat raises a voice. IOKIYAR
Fuck you.
-Dick Cheney
///
| 819 |
Varek Raith Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:43:28am |
WTF IS THIS?!!?!
Image: b3d1de48-40f3-4eee-bcea-bc481acf9615.gif
| 820 |
allegro Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:43:53am |
re: #818 Cannadian Club Akbar
"It's a big fucking deal!"
--V.P. Biden
Oops... they clutched their little pearls over that.
| 821 |
allegro Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:44:50am |
re: #819 Varek Raith
It's called a duckling chasing a terrier. :)
| 822 |
Mocking Jay Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:45:32am |
re: #821 allegro
It's called a duckling chasing a terrier. :)
Almost like the Republicans pushing around the Democrats...
| 823 |
Lidane Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:47:34am |
re: #822 JasonA
Almost like the Republicans pushing around the Democrats...
Or the teabaggers/birthers pushing around the GOP. ;)
| 824 |
brennant Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:47:59am |
re: #821 allegro
It's called a duckling chasing a terrier. :)
Wonder if that duckling thinks that terrier is its mom?
| 825 |
Mocking Jay Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:48:08am |
| 826 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:49:40am |
re: #824 brennant
Wonder if that duckling thinks that terrier is its mom?
Well, if it barks like a duck and runs like a duck...no, wait...
| 827 |
Varek Raith Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:49:51am |
re: #823 Lidane
Or the teabaggers/birthers pushing around the GOP. ;)
More like this.
;)
Image: a1c99375-d440-4879-921c-a72413085db4.gif
| 828 |
Mocking Jay Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:50:51am |
| 829 |
sattv4u2 Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:50:53am |
re: #826 Cannadian Club Akbar
Well, if it barks like a duck and runs like a duck...no, wait...
That reminds me
Tomorrow ,,, Dinner ,,, Peking Duck
| 830 |
Sheila Broflovski Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:51:19am |
Hamas orders PLO to withdraw its "recognition" of Israel.
Haniyeh said that there was no justification for recognizing the "Israeli entity" in wake of Israel's objection to Palestinian rights and unity.
"Their presence on our land is illegal and cannot be recognized," the Hamas leader said.
Plus: a really cheesy "Royal Wedding" Photoshop spoof.
| 831 |
Killgore Trout Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:51:30am |
| 832 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:51:51am |
re: #829 sattv4u2
That reminds me
Tomorrow ,,, Dinner ,,, Peking Duck
OK, but don't try touching my knee under the table again!
/
| 833 |
Kragar Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:53:40am |
re: #832 Cannadian Club Akbar
OK, but don't try touching my knee under the table again!
/
Oh, your knee, and I was impressed there for a minute
| 834 |
brennant Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:53:43am |
re: #831 Killgore Trout
I would be interesting to see how many conservatives are getting these questions at their own town hall meetings.
| 835 |
sattv4u2 Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:54:03am |
re: #832 Cannadian Club Akbar
OK, but don't try touching my knee under the table again!
/
I prefer the breast
OF THE DUCK!!!
get yer mind outta the gutter!!
| 836 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:54:30am |
re: #833 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Oh, your knee, and I was impressed there for a minute
T'was my Wee Knee.
/
| 837 |
Kragar Fri, Apr 29, 2011 9:55:24am |
re: #835 sattv4u2
I prefer the breast
OF THE DUCK!!!
get yer mind outta the gutter!!
But I just made my way up to gutter.
| 838 |
blueraven Fri, Apr 29, 2011 10:01:21am |
| 839 |
William Barnett-Lewis Fri, Apr 29, 2011 10:02:05am |
re: #786 EmmmieG
This is a Disney Wedding in the sense that the bride was chosen by the prince, and they seem to actually like each other.
Historical precedent was that the royal establishment picked a foreign princess for political purposes and that the prince had no intention of remaining faithful to the young woman.
Pop Quiz: Name the English king who actually loved his wife, despite having met her on the wedding day?
George III did, IIRC.
| 840 |
Lidane Fri, Apr 29, 2011 10:02:36am |
| 841 |
Sheila Broflovski Fri, Apr 29, 2011 10:02:43am |
Footage taken by my son of funnel cloud forming into twister:
| 842 |
Varek Raith Fri, Apr 29, 2011 10:05:55am |
re: #840 Lidane
If you can't stand the heat...
| 843 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Apr 29, 2011 10:05:57am |
re: #841 Alouette
I'll chase a hurricane but I won't mess with a tornado.
| 844 |
zora Fri, Apr 29, 2011 10:06:46am |
[Link: thinkprogress.org...]
Allen West To Town Hall: ‘If You Support Medicare…You Can Kiss The United States Of America Goodbye’
As Republicans across the country face a backlash from voters in their home in their districts for supporting the Medicare-ending GOP budget, Florida Rep. Allen West (R) has attempted to squash protesters and avoid tough questions at his town halls. In Ft. Lauderdale Tuesday, West only answered pre-screened questions that were read aloud by a staffer. In Boca Raton last night, protesters were removed from the town hall before it began.
But the preventive measures didn’t stop West from having to defend his vote last night, telling attendees that those who are fighting to save Medicare as we know it are putting the United States on a path toward destruction:
WEST: I gotta tell you something: if you support Medicare the way it is now, you can kiss the United States of America goodbye.
| 845 |
Killgore Trout Fri, Apr 29, 2011 10:08:49am |
re: #834 brennant
I would be interesting to see how many conservatives are getting these questions at their own town hall meetings.
There's quite a bit of it going on. Paul Ryan had to flee an appearance early yesterday and even left his car behind because of angry constituents.
| 846 |
Killgore Trout Fri, Apr 29, 2011 10:09:23am |
| 847 |
allegro Fri, Apr 29, 2011 10:09:44am |
re: #840 Lidane
As a result, even I haven't really taken any of these various ruckuses very seriously. They're just too obviously contrived to be our equivalent of the tea party protests. And my guess is that the press is yawning for the same reason. You can't make protest plans in public for a couple of weeks and then turn around and try to convince reporters that this is all a grass roots effort.
See, no one is REALLY upset about the Reps trying to destroy Medicare and give more tax cuts to the rich. It's all fake I tells ya.
| 848 |
Obdicut Fri, Apr 29, 2011 10:09:57am |
re: #845 Killgore Trout
It's really funny. That they didn't expect this at all shows how little they really think of the voters.
| 849 |
Sheila Broflovski Fri, Apr 29, 2011 10:10:34am |
re: #843 Cannadian Club Akbar
I'll chase a hurricane but I won't mess with a tornado.
You can't chase a hurricane. A hurricane chases you.
| 850 |
Ericus58 Fri, Apr 29, 2011 10:10:36am |
re: #841 Alouette
Footage taken by my son of funnel cloud forming into twister:
[Video]
wow......
I'm sure glad he's safe.
| 851 |
brennant Fri, Apr 29, 2011 10:10:52am |
re: #845 Killgore Trout
There's quite a bit of it going on. Paul Ryan had to flee an appearance early yesterday and even left his car behind because of angry constituents.
Is it possible the GOP didn't understand that even though their plan doesn't affect seniors right now, that these seniors still want to keep this program for younger generations? Did they bother to find out, or care?
| 852 |
Varek Raith Fri, Apr 29, 2011 10:11:08am |
re: #845 Killgore Trout
There's quite a bit of it going on. Paul Ryan had to flee an appearance early yesterday and even left his car behind because of angry constituents.
Heh, what chickenshits.
| 853 |
Killgore Trout Fri, Apr 29, 2011 10:11:52am |
re: #840 Lidane
GOP Freshman Ends First Town Hall After Tough Questions On Tax Cuts For The Wealthy: ‘We’re Done’
The Gop really stepping in it this time.
| 854 |
Interesting Times Fri, Apr 29, 2011 10:12:40am |
re: #841 Alouette
Footage taken by my son of funnel cloud forming into twister:
[Video]
The way it forms around that laughing-face decoration in the foreground just adds an extra level of creepiness o_O
Glad your son is safe.
| 855 |
Big Steve Fri, Apr 29, 2011 10:13:00am |
Dang we are boring this morning compared to yesterday morning
| 856 |
Interesting Times Fri, Apr 29, 2011 10:14:53am |
re: #855 Big Steve
Dang we are boring this morning compared to yesterday morning
Boring is good! ^_^ Why else would the phrase "May you live in interesting times" be considered a curse?
| 857 |
Lidane Fri, Apr 29, 2011 10:15:48am |
Ken Cuccinelli Drops Law Firm King & Spalding For Its 'Obsequious Act Of Weakness' On DOMA
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R) is terminating his office's relationship with law firm King & Spalding after the firm decided to drop its defense of the controversial Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) last week.
"King & Spalding's willingness to drop a client, the U.S. House of Representatives, in connection with the lawsuit challenging the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was such an obsequious act of weakness that I feel compelled to end your legal association with Virginia so that there is no chance that one of my legal clients will be put in the embarrassing and difficult situation like the client you walked away from, the House of Representatives," Cuccinelli wrote to firm partner Joseph Lynch in a letter obtained by the Washington Examiner.
| 858 |
Killgore Trout Fri, Apr 29, 2011 10:15:51am |
re: #851 brennant
Is it possible the GOP didn't understand that even though their plan doesn't affect seniors right now, that these seniors still want to keep this program for younger generations? Did they bother to find out, or care?
It's hard to tell. I think the core mistake was cutting taxes for the rich and cutting services for seniors at the same time. It just looks too bad. They should have spread those proposals out over a few years but having those two positions so obviously connected was a bad move.
The other mistake was not arming their representatives with better talking points to defend the proposals. I don't think they counted on informed voters humiliating them in public like this.
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