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Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, yet you cannot play upon me.
— William Shakespeare
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Sat, Apr 30, 2011 10:33:46pm |
No, but you can post conspiracy theories about me for the next few hundred years.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Sat, Apr 30, 2011 10:35:45pm |
And, BTW, I really hate those theories because:
1. Yes, the greatest writer to live could come out of a middle-class family in a small town. Why not?
2. He needed to be MORE than William Shakespeare? Being the greatest writer* isn’t enough? Why aren’t we upset that Isaac Newton didn’t write sonatas or produce art?
*Yeah, yeah, yeah, in English…
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William Barnett-Lewis Sat, Apr 30, 2011 10:36:35pm |
Language like that is why I laugh at those who wish someone else was “Shakespeare”; That understanding of the poet & player’s place in society would never occur to those who supposedly wrote his works. The sonnets are full of the same as well.
Birthers but class based instead.
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NJDhockeyfan Sat, Apr 30, 2011 10:38:23pm |
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William Barnett-Lewis Sat, Apr 30, 2011 10:39:33pm |
re: #1 EmmmieG
No, but you can post conspiracy theories about me for the next few hundred years.
Glad to see you saw the meaning of that quote as well :D LOL
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Sat, Apr 30, 2011 10:40:11pm |
I just bought my kids some Manga Shakespeare books.
Well, I thought they were cool. On sale, too.
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Dancing along the light of day Sat, Apr 30, 2011 10:43:27pm |
Be good to yourselves, and your elders.
PAY ATTENTION.
Night all.
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William Barnett-Lewis Sat, Apr 30, 2011 10:45:20pm |
re: #6 EmmmieG
I just bought my kids some Manga Shakespeare books.
Well, I thought they were cool. On sale, too.
I like these “No Fear” editions for teaching the bard -
[Link: www.amazon.com…]
Gives the original script plus a reasonable modern language “translation” for lack of a better word. They work well for teaching my 9 year old boy at least though I still have to gloss some of the earthier parts ;)
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HoosierHoops Sat, Apr 30, 2011 10:45:52pm |
Great all girls punk band that played here this weekend at the music festival:
[Link: www.facebook.com…]
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Sat, Apr 30, 2011 10:47:45pm |
re: #8 wlewisiii
I like these “No Fear” editions for teaching the bard -
[Link: www.amazon.com…]Gives the original script plus a reasonable modern language “translation” for lack of a better word. They work well for teaching my 9 year old boy at least though I still have to gloss some of the earthier parts ;)
I guess there are entire books just on “Shakespeare’s Bawdy.”
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Gus Sat, Apr 30, 2011 10:48:14pm |
re: #9 HoosierHoops
Great all girls punk band that played here this weekend at the music festival:
[Link: www.facebook.com…]
Did you see them?
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Dancing along the light of day Sat, Apr 30, 2011 10:49:29pm |
re: #11 Gus 802
I bet he saw every single one!
!!!!///!!!
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NJDhockeyfan Sat, Apr 30, 2011 10:49:51pm |
re: #9 HoosierHoops
Great all girls punk band that played here this weekend at the music festival:
[Link: www.facebook.com…]
Punk rock & girls. Nice.
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William Barnett-Lewis Sat, Apr 30, 2011 10:55:53pm |
re: #10 EmmmieG
I guess there are entire books just on “Shakespeare’s Bawdy.”
People think that era’s language is inherently “pure” or something because the KJV Bible comes from then (never mind they intentionally used outdated language, but hey!) so Willy must be prim, proper & high brow!
Yeah Right. There at the Globe. he needed crowds of poor low brow bastards willing to give up a silver penny or two for a laugh or a tear. And that he did so without surrendering the better parts of the language is the real miracle of Shakespeare.
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NJDhockeyfan Sat, Apr 30, 2011 10:56:02pm |
The Ramones: Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
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William Barnett-Lewis Sat, Apr 30, 2011 10:58:10pm |
re: #15 NJDhockeyfan
The Ramones: Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
[Video]
Despite our other differences, I would happily give you a thousand updings for this video if I only could. Alas, I have but one upding to give…
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NJDhockeyfan Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:01:34pm |
re: #16 wlewisiii
Despite our other differences, I would happily give you a thousand updings for this video if I only could. Alas, I have but one upding to give…
I saw them at Toads Place in New Haven in 1988. I will never forget it.
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prairiefire Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:02:24pm |
May everyone sleep well with a strong drum back beat.
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William Barnett-Lewis Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:03:16pm |
re: #17 NJDhockeyfan
I saw them at Toads Place in New Haven in 1988. I will never forget it.
I bow down to you. I saw the Husker’s but never saw the Ramones.
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Dancing along the light of day Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:06:12pm |
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NJDhockeyfan Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:07:44pm |
re: #19 wlewisiii
I bow down to you. I saw the Husker’s but never saw the Ramones.
I’ve seen some great stadium concerts but watching a great band play in a bar is the best place to see them. I saw Blue Oyster Cult in a tiny bar in Norwalk, Ct one time. My friends and I were at our table which was sitting on the stage!
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NJDhockeyfan Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:08:26pm |
re: #20 Floral Giraffe
I went into surgery, years ago, singing this out loud!
[Video]
A true classic that will never grow old.
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Dancing along the light of day Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:10:24pm |
Sleep tight, play well, or be REALLY mean, dear lizards.
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William Barnett-Lewis Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:12:37pm |
Being from western Wisconsin, I tended to think of Minneapolis for music (and this was before Prince).
This was the single greatest punk song I ever heard. Yeah, really.
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NJDhockeyfan Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:13:20pm |
OK, gotta do it… more Ramones…Blitzkrieg Bop (Live)
Did he say “On YouTube” at the beginning?
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NJDhockeyfan Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:21:38pm |
Here’s another punk band I’ve seen (Richmond, Va -1990) and they are doing a Johnny Cash cover.
Social Distortion-Ring Of Fire
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William Barnett-Lewis Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:27:19pm |
re: #26 NJDhockeyfan
Here’s another punk band I’ve seen (Richmond, Va -1990) and they are doing a Johnny Cash cover.
Social Distortion-Ring Of Fire
[Video]
Cool Beanz.
Hears a good bit I’ve heard in concert a few times:
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NJDhockeyfan Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:28:38pm |
Shit, it’s almost 2:30. Have a punk night lizards!
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Usually refered to as anyways Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:29:56pm |
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:41:47pm |
hahahaha Obama dissing trump, LOVE IT
Hope the GOP is hurtin’ tonight
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:42:29pm |
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:43:27pm |
re: #21 NJDhockeyfan
I’ve seen some great stadium concerts but watching a great band play in a bar is the best place to see them. I saw Blue Oyster Cult in a tiny bar in Norwalk, Ct one time. My friends and I were at our table which was sitting on the stage!
saw BOC in Bremerton, in a hotel ballroom
I believe they opened with Stairway to the Stars
First encore was ETI
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:44:27pm |
re: #4 NJDhockeyfan
Dreamtime and Love are better than Sonic Temple, but it’s a great work
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Winny Spencer Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:44:32pm |
re: #30 WindUpBird
hahahaha Obama dissing trump, LOVE IT
Hope the GOP is hurtin’ tonight
A great sense of humor he has. And is Tupac ever going to rise from the dead?
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sun, May 1, 2011 12:15:23am |
re: #34 Winny Spencer
A great sense of humor he has. And is Tupac ever going to rise from the dead?
He was bringing it! That wasn’t presidential humor, that was REAL. the biggie and tupac thing was gold. he’s our guy, that’s the energy I wanna se more of
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sun, May 1, 2011 12:15:42am |
re: #34 Winny Spencer
Tupac is having a laugh with Janis and Elvis
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sun, May 1, 2011 12:16:00am |
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sun, May 1, 2011 12:16:49am |
re: #36 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
I made it as a troll account, then i realized it was just dumb negative energy wasting my time. So now I just use it to think aloud, stream of consciousness as I work, between sips of beer, whenever I put the pen down, whatever
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sun, May 1, 2011 12:17:11am |
re: #36 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
every day is a new lesson
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Kragar (Antichrist ) Sun, May 1, 2011 12:18:34am |
re: #39 WindUpBird
I made it as a troll account, then i realized it was just dumb negative energy wasting my time. So now I just use it to think aloud, stream of consciousness as I work, between sips of beer, whenever I put the pen down, whatever
Never good at the stream of consciousness thing. I keep going back to re-edit. My English teacher hated it when they tried it and they got 2 pages of “This is stupid” on every line.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sun, May 1, 2011 12:20:31am |
re: #41 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
haha oh man, I am terrible at editing, I need other people to edit for me. happily I have friends who edit
I just like sharing with zero constraints and no dings and no structure, is all, it’s something I can’t do here, and I realized that was frustrating me
Structre always frustrates me. ^_^
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Kragar (Antichrist ) Sun, May 1, 2011 12:23:24am |
re: #42 WindUpBird
haha oh man, I am terrible at editing, I need other people to edit for me. happily I have friends who edit
I just like sharing with zero constraints and no dings and no structure, is all, it’s something I can’t do here, and I realized that was frustrating me
Structre always frustrates me. ^_^
I’m all about structure.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sun, May 1, 2011 12:26:03am |
re: #43 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
I’m all about structure.
I impose structure later, as a necessity
pictures must be cropped, songs must resolve to the key note, drums gotta be perfect, stories must be edited
But thats like later, that’s haver creativity is done.
step 1) create something solid, without a lot of mystery
2) create some more, save your work, play with what you made and take it in wild directions, experiment and discover
step 3) fix it so the bruises don’t show, make it nice enough to the client so you get paid
That’s been how it is for me since I waw 9 years old, for art, for playing in metal bands, for writing, for whatever
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Kragar (Antichrist ) Sun, May 1, 2011 12:29:44am |
re: #44 WindUpBird
I impose structure later, as a necessity
pictures must be cropped, songs must resolve to the key note, drums gotta be perfect, stories must be edited
But thats like later, that’s haver creativity is done.
step 1) create something solid, without a lot of mystery
2) create some more, save your work, play with what you made and take it in wild directions, experiment and discover
step 3) fix it so the bruises don’t show, make it nice enough to the client so you get paid
That’s been how it is for me since I waw 9 years old, for art, for playing in metal bands, for writing, for whatever
I’ve always built a framework, then add embellishments from there.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sun, May 1, 2011 12:42:58am |
re: #45 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
I’ve always built a framework, then add embellishments from there.
that works for my partner
he’s the GM, he builds the framework and fills it in
I start from “Twas a dark and stormy night” and I just let the horror reveal itself
Probably not efficient, probably isn’t as coherent as if I had a plan, but it’s the only way I can make writing fun enough TO write. Or paint! Paintings start that way too. Scribble nothingness until you latch onto a curve or a thing that looks like a torso
and then you’re off to the races! Some of my best work starts that way.
like social engineering your own brain
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Kragar (Antichrist ) Sun, May 1, 2011 12:49:29am |
re: #46 WindUpBird
that works for my partner
he’s the GM, he builds the framework and fills it inI start from “Twas a dark and stormy night” and I just let the horror reveal itself
Probably not efficient, probably isn’t as coherent as if I had a plan, but it’s the only way I can make writing fun enough TO write. Or paint! Paintings start that way too. Scribble nothingness until you latch onto a curve or a thing that looks like a torso
and then you’re off to the races! Some of my best work starts that way.
like social engineering your own brain
I always like seeing a plan fall in line. Even with my modelling work. I plan the steps to fall in line with my concept.
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Kragar (Antichrist ) Sun, May 1, 2011 12:57:02am |
Case in point, the painting job I’m getting paid to do now. Sat down with the guy today, we went over the materials, his army list, etc, worked on a time table and so on. World Eaters basic colors are red, so we found a good red spray primer and thats going to take care of about 90% of the grunt work off the bat. What I’m working on now is the most efficient way to assemble and do the detail work on the remainder. I find it very relaxing to plan out and follow thru.
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freetoken Sun, May 1, 2011 1:43:21am |
Michelle Bachmann has been public speaking the past couple of days in NH.
She sounded ignorant as usual… maybe I should write a Page about it. From comparing the effects of raising the Federal debt to the Holocaust, to being clueless about the history of polio… a real demonstration of all that is disastrous with her.
She is not a representative from Mars. The idiocy she spews is so dense that it has gravitationally collapsed. From now on, she will be known as the Representative from the Event Horizon of Stupid.
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Kragar (Antichrist ) Sun, May 1, 2011 1:46:42am |
re: #50 freetoken
Michelle Bachmann has been public speaking the past couple of days in NH.
She sounded ignorant as usual… maybe I should write a Page about it. From comparing the effects of raising the Federal debt to the Holocaust, to being clueless about the history of polio… a real demonstration of all that is disastrous with her.
She is not a representative from Mars. The idiocy she spews is so dense that it has gravitationally collapsed. From now on, she will be known as the Representative from the Event Horizon of Stupid.
Singularity of Stupid roles off the tongue a bit more evenly.
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Kragar (Antichrist ) Sun, May 1, 2011 1:50:50am |
Of course, the Yokel from Yuggoth has a certain charm to it as well.
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freetoken Sun, May 1, 2011 2:01:50am |
re: #51 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Singularity of Stupid roles off the tongue a bit more evenly.
Heh, sounds good.
Only problem is that one shouldn’t be able to detect anything from a singularity, but we can detect the idiocy Bachmann is spewing.
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Kragar (Antichrist ) Sun, May 1, 2011 2:06:04am |
re: #53 freetoken
Heh, sounds good.
Only problem is that one shouldn’t be able to detect anything from a singularity, but we can detect the idiocy Bachmann is spewing.
Not quite.
Black hole emits giant jets
The bubble, 1,000 light-years across, is being created by the most powerful pair of jets ever seen from a stellar black hole. The gas-blowing black hole, or microquasar, is located 12 million light-years away, in the outskirts of the spiral galaxy NGC 7793.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sun, May 1, 2011 2:34:40am |
re: #50 freetoken
she is the evangelical candidate, her and huckabee
all you need to know about ‘em is watch who they support
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sun, May 1, 2011 2:35:21am |
re: #53 freetoken
she’ll never get the nod
might get VP though, Sarah palin’s past her sell by date, she’s a reality star now, bachmann is still in the game enough to veep candidate
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Decatur Deb Sun, May 1, 2011 2:51:13am |
Bachmann and a few others have been trying to scramble back up the Crazy Cliff like the coyote in a Roadrunner cartoon. Too Late.
Morning, all.
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freetoken Sun, May 1, 2011 2:57:07am |
re: #54 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Well, yes, but the phenomenon observed is not from the singularity (presumed, by the way, as there is no way to directly detect if black holes actually contain singularities, and that there is reason to believe that if a black hole has angular momentum - and they do - then there is an inner surface below the event horizon… but that is physics digression.) Rather, what we see is from the release of energy as matter spirals down towards the event horizon. Once past the event horizon the only interaction with the outside world is via gravity.
As matter (usually hydrogen gas) spirals towards the event horizon a kind of accretion disk would form, would be very hot and thus be plasma, and would contribute (since the charges are moving) to creating a massive magnetic field that could direct some of charged particles along the poles. I don’t know if other effects like frame dragging might help focus the beams or not… time dependent magnetic fields in curved space-time which is itself rotating blows my mental circuits (especially this early in the morning!)
I will note your alternative in the Page write-up on Bachmann.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sun, May 1, 2011 3:02:31am |
re: #57 Decatur Deb
Bachmann and a few others have been trying to scramble back up the Crazy Cliff like the coyote in a Roadrunner cartoon. Too Late.
Morning, all.
Hope they enjoy their new neighbors in nutbagsville
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sagehen Sun, May 1, 2011 3:07:55am |
re: #51 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Singularity of Stupid roles off the tongue a bit more evenly.
I’ve heard it described as weapons-grade stupid.
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Kragar (Antichrist ) Sun, May 1, 2011 3:16:38am |
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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce Sun, May 1, 2011 3:38:35am |
Punk Rock Girl
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Winny Spencer Sun, May 1, 2011 4:14:47am |
Does anyone have any information on whether or not Trump has investigators on the ground, on the moon right now?
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Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Sun, May 1, 2011 4:27:17am |
This is as close as I’m gonna get to religiosity, but damn this is beautiful:
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
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researchok Sun, May 1, 2011 4:38:15am |
re: #66 Obdicut
This is as close as I’m gonna get to religiosity, but damn this is beautiful:
[Video]
Hallelujah
KD Land had the best version by far, IMO
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Winny Spencer Sun, May 1, 2011 4:47:51am |
I wonder if we won’t see a Romney/Pawlenty ticket in the end.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sun, May 1, 2011 4:49:43am |
re: #70 Winny Spencer
a flavorless Bob Dole scenario if ever there was one
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sun, May 1, 2011 4:50:46am |
groovy acoustic stuff from a doom metal legend
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Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Sun, May 1, 2011 4:50:57am |
re: #68 researchok
I totally agree. I was putting up some lesser known ones. Willie Nelson’s is very, very simple and sincere.
And what’s currently playing in my house:
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Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Sun, May 1, 2011 4:51:20am |
re: #71 WindUpBird
a flavorless Bob Dole scenario if ever there was one
Reeking of failure and attempts to run away from their own records, as well.
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Varek Raith Sun, May 1, 2011 4:51:41am |
Why do right wingers have their panties in a bunch over superman?
They do realize he ain’t real….
Right?
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Winny Spencer Sun, May 1, 2011 4:52:15am |
Both stayed well clear of the birther-nonsense though.
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freetoken Sun, May 1, 2011 4:53:02am |
So, finally got my Michele Bachmann Page up.
Let me pimp it:
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com…]
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Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Sun, May 1, 2011 4:54:43am |
re: #76 Winny Spencer
Both stayed well clear of the birther-nonsense though.
Unfortunately, no.
[Link: www.newsmax.com…]
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researchok Sun, May 1, 2011 4:57:45am |
re: #75 Varek Raith
Why do right wingers have their panties in a bunch over superman?
They do realize he ain’t real…
Right?
‘Culture War’, that’s why.
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Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Sun, May 1, 2011 5:00:37am |
re: #75 Varek Raith
Did they also get angry at his treatment in Batman: The Dark Knight Returns?
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Why I Never! Sun, May 1, 2011 5:01:46am |
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freetoken Sun, May 1, 2011 5:03:29am |
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Varek Raith Sun, May 1, 2011 5:03:45am |
re: #81 iceweasel
Why does Superman hate America?
Ain’t he some kind of, whatchamacallit, illegal aliens???
Lol@wingnuts
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freetoken Sun, May 1, 2011 5:04:59am |
re: #83 Varek Raith
Ain’t he some kind of, whatchamacallit, illegal aliens???
Well, it should say right on his birth certificate that he was born here in the USA… oh, wait - SHOW ME THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE!!
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Varek Raith Sun, May 1, 2011 5:05:48am |
re: #84 freetoken
Well, it should say right on his birth certificate that he was born here in the USA… oh, wait - SHOW ME THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE!!
His planet blowed up.
Along with his long form bc.
Convenient, no???
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Why I Never! Sun, May 1, 2011 5:06:59am |
Obama and McCain roasted each other at an event in Oct in NYC, Obama said something about his real father being Superman’s dad. It was actually a funny moment and made them both look good.
Welcome respite from the venom of the campaign.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sun, May 1, 2011 5:07:16am |
re: #74 Obdicut
Reeking of failure and attempts to run away from their own records, as well.
empty suits, no souls
romney, as hollow as a mannequin. Tim Pawlenty doesn’t even rate.
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Winny Spencer Sun, May 1, 2011 5:08:01am |
re: #87 WindUpBird
empty suits, no souls
romney, as hollow as a mannequin. Tim Pawlenty doesn’t even rate.
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researchok Sun, May 1, 2011 5:09:30am |
re: #77 freetoken
So, finally got my Michele Bachmann Page up.
Let me pimp it:
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com…]
Terrific piece, really good supporting material.
TY
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sun, May 1, 2011 5:09:52am |
re: #84 freetoken
the only thing birthers want to show obama is a noose
Racism is soft in places, hard in others
each birther has his own soul to darken with this stuff, some are true evil, some are just clown shoes, easily led people who want to belong to a team, who love mysteries, who express their impotent hatred at the Other Guy Winning in trying to insult him with the birther crap
So I would say birtherism is racism, but all birhters ar not racists. Some are just silly, angry, dumb, helpless, cowed, resentful, whatever. Whatever emotion leads them to believe in nonsense
Like anyone who joins a cult, they all have their own damaged reason for joining. Something made them want to believe in Jim JOnes, or whatshisface who poisoned that Sizzler
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sun, May 1, 2011 5:10:12am |
re: #89 Winny Spencer
doesn’t Carville kinda look like a cenobite?
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sun, May 1, 2011 5:11:24am |
re: #81 iceweasel
Why does Superman hate America?
if I were Superman, I wouldn’t exactly want to be associated with us
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Why I Never! Sun, May 1, 2011 5:11:39am |
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Winny Spencer Sun, May 1, 2011 5:11:41am |
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researchok Sun, May 1, 2011 5:13:41am |
re: #91 WindUpBird
the only thing birthers want to show obama is a noose
Racism is soft in places, hard in others
each birther has his own soul to darken with this stuff, some are true evil, some are just clown shoes, easily led people who want to belong to a team, who love mysteries, who express their impotent hatred at the Other Guy Winning in trying to insult him with the birther crap
So I would say birtherism is racism, but all birhters ar not racists. Some are just silly, angry, dumb, helpless, cowed, resentful, whatever. Whatever emotion leads them to believe in nonsense
Like anyone who joins a cult, they all have their own damaged reason for joining. Something made them want to believe in Jim JOnes, or whatshisface who poisoned that Sizzler
Needs to be transformed into a page.
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researchok Sun, May 1, 2011 5:17:37am |
re: #96 researchok
re: #91 WindUpBird
the only thing birthers want to show obama is a noose
Racism is soft in places, hard in others
each birther has his own soul to darken with this stuff, some are true evil, some are just clown shoes, easily led people who want to belong to a team, who love mysteries, who express their impotent hatred at the Other Guy Winning in trying to insult him with the birther crap
So I would say birtherism is racism, but all birhters ar not racists. Some are just silly, angry, dumb, helpless, cowed, resentful, whatever. Whatever emotion leads them to believe in nonsense
Like anyone who joins a cult, they all have their own damaged reason for joining. Something made them want to believe in Jim JOnes, or whatshisface who poisoned that Sizzler
Thoughtful comments like this are what 6makes LGF the place it is.
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Romantic Heretic Sun, May 1, 2011 5:18:56am |
re: #2 EmmmieG
And, BTW, I really hate those theories because:
1. Yes, the greatest writer to live could come out of a middle-class family in a small town. Why not?
2. He needed to be MORE than William Shakespeare? Being the greatest writer* isn’t enough? Why aren’t we upset that Isaac Newton didn’t write sonatas or produce art?
*Yeah, yeah, yeah, in English…
As a writer myself, I learned one important lesson from Shakespeare: Asses in seats.
He did not set out to become ‘the greatest writer in the English language.’™ He just wanted asses in seats.
He got asses in seats by writing stories that audiences like, characters they cared about or hated and imparting lessons about the great human dilemmas. He did that well enough that we still read him hals a millennium later.
But all he wanted was asses in seats.
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Why I Never! Sun, May 1, 2011 5:20:24am |
re: #77 freetoken
So, finally got my Michele Bachmann Page up.
Let me pimp it:
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com…]
Great page— updinged and recommended.
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researchok Sun, May 1, 2011 5:20:34am |
re: #98 Romantic Heretic
As a writer myself, I learned one important lesson from Shakespeare: Asses in seats.
He did not set out to become ‘the greatest writer in the English language.’™ He just wanted asses in seats.
He got asses in seats by writing stories that audiences like, characters they cared about or hated and imparting lessons about the great human dilemmas. He did that well enough that we still read him hals a millennium later.
But all he wanted was asses in seats.
Shakespeare still puts asses in seats- his own work the derivatives of his efforts.
Pretty amazing
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RogueOne Sun, May 1, 2011 5:20:52am |
Good morning people. I kept the kids again last night (up till 3 playing video games) so I’m moving a little slow this morning.
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Varek Raith Sun, May 1, 2011 5:22:02am |
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sun, May 1, 2011 5:22:14am |
re: #101 RogueOne
Good morning people. I kept the kids again last night (up till 3 playing video games) so I’m moving a little slow this morning.
any fatalities?
My friend unlocked a bunch, bastard just left, moved to the bay
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researchok Sun, May 1, 2011 5:22:16am |
re: #101 RogueOne
Good morning people. I kept the kids again last night (up till 3 playing video games) so I’m moving a little slow this morning.
They beat you again didn’t they?
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RogueOne Sun, May 1, 2011 5:22:25am |
Head in the sand over prosecutorial misconduct:
The Supreme Court has sent a disturbing message that it just doesn’t realize there is a serious problem infecting our criminal justice system.
[Link: www.law.com…]
The U.S. Supreme Court is oblivious to a serious problem in the American legal system: prosecutorial misconduct. Study after study has demonstrated serious prosecutorial misconduct at both the federal and state levels. For example, early this month, the Northern California Innocence Project at Santa Clara University School of Law released a study in which it documented 102 California cases, and 31 from Los Angeles County, in which prosecutors engaged in misconduct. Egregious prosecutorial misconduct has occurred in high-publicity cases, such as the prosecution of the Duke University lacrosse players and the conviction of the now late Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens.Unfortunately, the Supreme Court has not gotten the message. Twice in the past three years the Court has considered lawsuits by innocent individuals who were convicted and spent years in prison because of prosecutorial misconduct. In both instances, the Court held that the victims could not recover. Together, these cases send a disturbing message that the Court is shielding prosecutors from liability. The result is no compensation for wronged individuals and a lack of adequate deterrence of prosecutorial misconduct.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sun, May 1, 2011 5:23:01am |
re: #98 Romantic Heretic
a creative person wants an audience
This isn’t news, I’ve known it since I was 4 :)
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RogueOne Sun, May 1, 2011 5:23:23am |
re: #103 WindUpBird
any fatalities?
My friend unlocked a bunch, bastard just left, moved to the bay
I’ve only unlocked one, the original scorpion flambe. I guess I could put in a cheat code but I’d rather unlock them myself.
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Varek Raith Sun, May 1, 2011 5:23:43am |
re: #107 RogueOne
I’ve only unlocked one, the original scorpion flambe. I guess I could put in a cheat code but I’d rather unlock them myself.
“TOASTY!”
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sun, May 1, 2011 5:23:50am |
re: #104 researchok
They beat you again didn’t they?
not if RogueOne uses a good rundown character, kids don’t know how to handle constant pressure from a fastie like say CyberSubzero
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Why I Never! Sun, May 1, 2011 5:24:27am |
re: #105 RogueOne
Head in the sand over prosecutorial misconduct:
The Supreme Court has sent a disturbing message that it just doesn’t realize there is a serious problem infecting our criminal justice system.[Link: www.law.com…]
That’s what you get from Scalia especially. From Aug 2009:
Scalia says there’s nothing unconstitutional about executing the innocent.
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RogueOne Sun, May 1, 2011 5:24:57am |
re: #104 researchok
They beat you again didn’t they?
Experience always wins out over quicker fingers. We played a lot of kinect last night. I have a fighting game that’s almost too much of a workout to play. It’s exhausting.
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Varek Raith Sun, May 1, 2011 5:25:07am |
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researchok Sun, May 1, 2011 5:25:10am |
re: #109 WindUpBird
not if RogueOne uses a good rundown character, kids don’t know how to handle constant pressure from a fastie like say CyberSubzero
Show off
/
You do know I haven’t got a clue, right?
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RogueOne Sun, May 1, 2011 5:26:24am |
re: #109 WindUpBird
not if RogueOne uses a good rundown character, kids don’t know how to handle constant pressure from a fastie like say CyberSubzero
Or mileena, she has some great combo moves that are hard to defend against.
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Why I Never! Sun, May 1, 2011 5:26:29am |
Yay, Jimmah is off today and cooking us strange meat. Wheee!
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Varek Raith Sun, May 1, 2011 5:27:11am |
re: #115 iceweasel
Yay, Jimmah is off today and cooking us strange meat. Wheee!
It’s people.
/Fallout 3 joke
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sun, May 1, 2011 5:27:15am |
re: #107 RogueOne
I’ve only unlocked one, the original scorpion flambe. I guess I could put in a cheat code but I’d rather unlock them myself.
good for you!
You’ll be amazed and appalled at the depravity of some of those fatalities. And they left the babalities in, and they’r egenius, they all have different comedic babalities. The amount of AAA work they put in that game is stunning. They’re handing the Japanese their asses on a skewer. Justin Wong and other tournament players have abandoned Japanes games like SF and such, te new MK is now their competitive game.
There was at least one fatality (hint, it’s enviro dependent, only works in the lava level) that SERIOUSLY grossed me out. I hope your kids are old enough to handle Kano being bisected crotch first
The industry is abuzz about the new MK, it’s completely flipped SRK (fighting game community) and it’s the talk of the devs in the bay area
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sun, May 1, 2011 5:27:49am |
re: #113 researchok
Show off
/
You do know I haven’t got a clue, right?
it’s cool, I don’t even play much :D I’m terrible, but I like the culture. Ive become the guy that watche sother people play video games, i got sick of them
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sun, May 1, 2011 5:27:58am |
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Varek Raith Sun, May 1, 2011 5:28:32am |
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researchok Sun, May 1, 2011 5:28:41am |
re: #118 WindUpBird
it’s cool, I don’t even play much :D I’m terrible, but I like the culture. Ive become the guy that watche sother people play video games, i got sick of them
THAT I understand.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sun, May 1, 2011 5:29:04am |
re: #114 RogueOne
Or mileena, she has some great combo moves that are hard to defend against.
Mileena!
does she still have the annoying floating shit she does?
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sun, May 1, 2011 5:29:45am |
re: #121 researchok
THAT I understand.
i’d rather play guitar
I have a little leisure time, I’d rather spend it creating
Rock Band: the game worked too well, it convinced me to turn it off forever
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Why I Never! Sun, May 1, 2011 5:30:06am |
re: #116 Varek Raith
It’s people.
/Fallout 3 joke
Jimmah made me a birthday video from Fallout 3 two years ago, to describe the reaction when I joined LGF.
Later lizards— brunch is here!
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researchok Sun, May 1, 2011 5:30:45am |
re: #115 iceweasel
Yay, Jimmah is off today and cooking us strange meat. Wheee!
He’s just cooking that so he’ll have an excuse to take you out to dinner later.
Nice move, JImmah!
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sun, May 1, 2011 5:32:40am |
re: #111 RogueOne
Experience always wins out over quicker fingers. We played a lot of kinect last night. I have a fighting game that’s almost too much of a workout to play. It’s exhausting.
that kinect dance game! Good god!
played it with my brother and his wife and about 10 of their friends on new years, and his wife was a dance instructor! It was a beatdown. it was dance murder.
and they were like WHY DOn’T YOU HAVE RHYTHM??!?!
So I reached over, grabbed my bros rock band sticks from the RB kit and said “94% on Colony of Birchmen. Bitch please.” we were all drunk, place erupted in laughter
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RogueOne Sun, May 1, 2011 5:34:05am |
re: #117 WindUpBird
Good! I love the whole series. I’ve been patiently waiting for this after they cleaned up all the blood in MK vs. DC. I’m very pleased. The character motion is really smooth and the background environments are beautifully done.
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Romantic Heretic Sun, May 1, 2011 5:34:42am |
re: #109 WindUpBird
not if RogueOne uses a good rundown character, kids don’t know how to handle constant pressure from a fastie like say CyberSubzero
Age and treachery beats youth and beauty every time.
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researchok Sun, May 1, 2011 5:35:16am |
re: #124 iceweasel
Jimmah made me a birthday video from Fallout 3 two years ago, to describe the reaction when I joined LGF.
[Video]Later lizards— brunch is here!
He made one for me too.
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RogueOne Sun, May 1, 2011 5:35:18am |
re: #122 WindUpBird
Mileena!
does she still have the annoying floating shit she does?
Yes, and if you’re quick enough she can do a double!
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sun, May 1, 2011 5:35:32am |
re: #124 iceweasel
oh god those contractor guys!
I swear bethesda put them in as contractorsre: #124 iceweasel
god damn the music lol
I always played this blue haired mohawk lady who favored the floppy hats and the June Cleaver outfit :D
MOTHER KNOWS BEST! *sets everyone on fire*
My June Cleaver loved to watch ‘em burn alive ^_^
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sun, May 1, 2011 5:35:58am |
re: #129 Romantic Heretic
Age and treachery beats youth and beauty every time.
we call it being cheap in fighting game culture :D or at leats used to. i’m out of the scene
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Romantic Heretic Sun, May 1, 2011 5:36:15am |
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RogueOne Sun, May 1, 2011 5:36:33am |
re: #123 WindUpBird
i’d rather play guitar
I have a little leisure time, I’d rather spend it creating
Rock Band: the game worked too well, it convinced me to turn it off forever
Guitar hero is the game the kids kill me on. My fingers just aren’t fast enough to keep up with 17/18 yr old kids. Little bastards. On the positive side, it’s introduced them to a lot of music I really love.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sun, May 1, 2011 5:39:05am |
re: #131 RogueOne
Yes, and if you’re quick enough she can do a double!
that move almost got my partner beat up in a seedy arcade
he’d make mileena float and go WOOOOOOOaaHOOOAaaWHOA! WHOOA! WHOOOA! Like she was a ghost in scooby doo
guy slammed down both hands on the machine and said LET’S GO. My partner was really asking for it, he’s too funny for his own good
Aaaaand we just called out HEY CRAIG! guy wants to talk to you! Craig was night guy at the arcade, you see, and he was a friend of ours. Big guy!
kicked him out, and then he scolded us, and told us not to antagonize the local flavor
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sun, May 1, 2011 5:40:07am |
re: #135 RogueOne
Guitar hero is the game the kids kill me on. My fingers just aren’t fast enough to keep up with 17/18 yr old kids. Little bastards. On the positive side, it’s introduced them to a lot of music I really love.
oh I am teh suck at the guitar hero guitar. The trick with being better is to use alt picking, downstrokes aren’t enough
On drums, i’ll destroy all, though :D The songs nobody plays because they’re all skulls
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sun, May 1, 2011 5:41:25am |
re: #135 RogueOne
and yeha, GH is great for a vector to get kids excited about music from Gen X and before
You now have 14 yearolds buying Deep Purple albums, which is glorious
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RogueOne Sun, May 1, 2011 5:42:46am |
Interesting discussion on the differences between the national ACLU and the local branches:
Harvey Silverglate on the ACLU and Free Speech [Bumped to Include Response from ACLU’s Steve Shapiro, and Reply from ACLU Critic Wendy Kaminer]
[Link: volokh.com…]
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RogueOne Sun, May 1, 2011 5:45:29am |
re: #138 WindUpBird
and yeha, GH is great for a vector to get kids excited about music from Gen X and before
You now have 14 yearolds buying Deep Purple albums, which is glorious
I just slid my 16yr old nephew my collection of Bad Religion and Social Distortion.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sun, May 1, 2011 5:47:44am |
re: #140 RogueOne
I just slid my 16yr old nephew my collection of Bad Religion and Social Distortion.
Oh very nice *_*
I’m more metal than punk, but those (and Iggy) are the kinda punk i could listen to forever
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RogueOne Sun, May 1, 2011 5:50:25am |
re: #141 WindUpBird
Oh very nice *_*
I’m more metal than punk, but those (and Iggy) are the kinda punk i could listen to forever
Every teenage boy has at least a little punk in him. I feel bad for the kid, my brother treats him like he’s in the Marines. He’s a normal teen which means normal problems to which my brother completely overreacts. He got a ticket for skateboarding in the park and my brother acted like he got arrested for robbing a store.
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RogueOne Sun, May 1, 2011 5:52:57am |
The Reliable Magic Sniffing Dog
[Link: blog.simplejustice.us…]
At Volokh Conspiracy, Orin Kerr points to two new decisions on dog hits that reflect a monumental clash. The first, from the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, is United States v. Ludwig, and it’s a stunner.
[I]t surely goes without saying that a drug dog’s alert establishes probable cause only if that dog is reliable. See id. at 1283. But none of this means we mount a full-scale statistical inquisition into each dog’s history. Instead, courts typically rely on the dog’s certification as proof of its reliability…Of course, if a credentialing organization proved to be a sham, its certification would no longer serve as proof of reliability. But the judicial task, we hold, is so limited: to assessing the reliability of the credentialing organization, not individual dogs. And in this case there is no suggestion that the California Narcotic Canine Association, the organization that credentialed the drug dog in this case, is all smoke and mirrors.
So the cops set up a “credentialing organization” to credential their own dogs and, shockingly, certify that they’re reliable. Imagine that. Forget Daubert. Forget even Frye, since the only folks whose general acceptance is needed are the same folks relying on the dog hits.
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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce Sun, May 1, 2011 5:56:56am |
Everything you need to know about “Climategate”.
In other news, I suddenly crave potato pancakes. Anyone got a recipe?
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RogueOne Sun, May 1, 2011 6:01:37am |
But For Video: Vegas P.O. Derek Colling’s “World of Hurt”
[Link: blog.simplejustice.us…]
Though the issue surrounding the right to photograph and videotape police would seem to be sufficiently well known and understood, even by those dumber than bricks cops who just don’t like it when someone ignores their authority, there are still a few cops who can’t seem to grasp that it’s not only lawful, but going to bite back very shortly.Meet Las Vegas Police Officer Derek Colling, who conduct in the pointless beating of Mitchell Crooks not only demonstrates that he doesn’t yet get the idea that videotaping is lawful, but couldn’t wait to inflict his “world of hurt.”
In case you’ve missed it, here’s the video:
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Achilles Tang Sun, May 1, 2011 6:03:59am |
On the OP: What of “fret”?
This perhaps?
…each of a sequence of bars or ridges on the fingerboard of some stringed musical instruments (such as the guitar), used for fixing the positions of the fingers to produce the desired notes…
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RogueOne Sun, May 1, 2011 6:11:41am |
Genetic Music Project
[Link: www.geneticmusicproject.com…]
Since all genetic information can only come in the language of four nucleotides (A Adenosine C Cytosine G Guanine T Thymidine) it is fairly easily conveyed in musical form. Another way of thinking about it is that each and every one of us and all life on this planet is made of music.Back in 2008 my friend Liz Wade and I sent away to 23andme.com to get our genetic code read and from there we used the code to create music. Take Heroin Addiction for example: Liz simply assigned A, C and G to those notes, and assigned T to a F sharp. She then repeated the “opening” 10 nucleotides sequence several times. But that is just one way to do it. To be true to the music inherent in the sequences the only consistency that has to be maintained is that—as long as you’re within the same genetic marker—the nucleotides always have to be the same note, whether you assign A to A or A to G sharp.
Heroin Addiction Song
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Achilles Tang Sun, May 1, 2011 6:17:22am |
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RogueOne Sun, May 1, 2011 6:28:43am |
re: #149 Naso Tang
Very nicely done. Their site has the WIP pics and movie stills. I used to do a lot of 3D modeling as a hobby. It would take me an entire year to create that shell.
[Link: www.etereaestudios.com…]
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sattv4u2 Sun, May 1, 2011 6:30:58am |
re: #150 RogueOne
Very nicely done. Their site has the WIP pics and movie stills. I used to do a lot of 3D modeling as a hobby. It would take me an entire year to create that shell.
[Link: www.etereaestudios.com…]
Cool
I am very adept at drawing stick figures!!
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sattv4u2 Sun, May 1, 2011 6:33:42am |
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RogueOne Sun, May 1, 2011 6:38:38am |
I missed this the other day:
Marijuana Prohibition Turns 100 Today. What Is There to Celebrate?
[Link: blogs.sfweekly.com…]
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RogueOne Sun, May 1, 2011 6:39:08am |
People are stirring, time for breakfast. Enjoy the rest of the day folks!
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Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Sun, May 1, 2011 6:58:22am |
Interesting SomethingAwful thread about the current state of academic economics.
[Link: forums.somethingawful.com…]
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sattv4u2 Sun, May 1, 2011 7:04:21am |
re: #156 Obdicut
Interesting SomethingAwful thread about the current state of academic economics.
[Link: forums.somethingawful.com…]
2. It was heavily weighted toward theories driven by supply shocks; demand-based theories were given extremely short shrift.
3. The theories we learned had almost no frictions whatsoever (the two frictions we learned, labor search and menu costs, were not presented as part of a full model of the business cycle). Other than Q-theory, there was nothing whatsoever about finance
Not just recent, but back in the early 70’s when I was attended Bentley University (at the time one of the top business/ accounting schools) I couldn’t believe what I was NOT taught once I got out into “the world’
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sattv4u2 Sun, May 1, 2011 7:07:43am |
BBL
Gotta go play in the dirt
The truck with my topsoil just arrived,,,, 24 hours late!
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Dark_Falcon Sun, May 1, 2011 7:13:09am |
re: #156 Obdicut
Interesting SomethingAwful thread about the current state of academic economics.
[Link: forums.somethingawful.com…]
Gonna stay out of this. I didn’t take any such university economics courses, and so I don’t feel fit to comment.
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(I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was) Sun, May 1, 2011 7:20:57am |
re: #156 Obdicut
Interesting SomethingAwful thread about the current state of academic economics.
[Link: forums.somethingawful.com…]
Nothing exactly new, the fact that academical economics has been hardly able to account for anything going on in real-world economics (i.e. has a hard time as a “science”) just becomes apparent in times of economical crisis. For a methodological approach to this problem, see for instance Donald N. McCloskey: “The Rhetoric of Economics” (Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. XXI (June 1983), pp. 481-517) and Daniel M. Hausman: “Economic Methodology in a Nutshell” (The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 3, No. 2. (Spring, 1989), pp. 115-127). Also very instructive are the seminal articles by Alan Musgrave: “‘Unreal Assumptions’ in Economic Theory: The F-Twist Untwisted” (Kyklos, Vol. 34 – 1981 – Fasc. 3 , 377-387) and Milton Friedman: “Essays in Positive Economics Part I - The Methodology of Positive Economics” (University of Chicago Press (1953), 1970, pp. 3-43).
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darthstar Sun, May 1, 2011 7:24:53am |
Mornin’ everyone…
Image: 163686_128536183877977_103224119742517_189174_640740_n.jpg
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(I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was) Sun, May 1, 2011 7:31:22am |
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jaunte Sun, May 1, 2011 7:34:46am |
Aliens!
[Link: www.kuriositas.com…]
Found only in Chile, Argentina, Peru and Bolivia, at altitudes between 10,000 and 14,000 feet, many colonies of yaretas are thought to be well over three thousand years old.
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darthstar Sun, May 1, 2011 7:35:16am |
Yay, Wal-Mart! Express concern that your shoppers are running out of money earlier every month because of rising gas prices, while at the same time announcing you’re bringing guns back to help boost slumping sales.
Wal-Mart is part of the problem, not the solution.
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Achilles Tang Sun, May 1, 2011 7:40:30am |
re: #164 jaunte
I saw those once at about 14,000 feet in southern Peru. They looked very strange when first seen. Reminded me of coral heads.
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jaunte Sun, May 1, 2011 7:42:24am |
re: #166 Naso Tang
It seems to be a similar strategy for the organism to survive in a challenging environment. Looks the same, but so different.
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jaunte Sun, May 1, 2011 7:44:56am |
Here’s another biosphere curiosity:
Manul, the cat with round pupils
About twelve million years ago it was one of the first two modern cats to evolve and it hasn’t changed since.
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darthstar Sun, May 1, 2011 7:49:33am |
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Simply Sarah Sun, May 1, 2011 7:50:37am |
re: #156 Obdicut
Interesting SomethingAwful thread about the current state of academic economics.
[Link: forums.somethingawful.com…]
See, I find that all kind of funny. I’m less qualified to talk about modern academic economic thought, but, in many ways, I find a lot of current economic policy (And just about everything coming out of most politicians) to basically ignore even the most integral, low level concepts of microeconomics (I’m talking first month of Micro 101 here), never mind the less clear and more complicated macro issues. If we can’t get that much right, I’m not sure there’s much hope of getting any sort of broader monitary or regulatory policy right.
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Killgore Trout Sun, May 1, 2011 7:51:05am |
I was expecting to see more wingnut outrage over the Trump roast last night. It’s still early but reaction looks pretty mild so far.
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Achilles Tang Sun, May 1, 2011 8:03:25am |
re: #171 Killgore Trout
I was expecting to see more wingnut outrage over the Trump roast last night. It’s still early but reaction looks pretty mild so far.
I saw a clip of the camera watching Trump doing an imitation of a statue during his moment of fame.
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Killgore Trout Sun, May 1, 2011 8:03:27am |
Instapundit….
SUCKER: Obama takes bait, embiggens Donald Trump. You don’t punish Donald Trump by giving him attention. A more experienced politician would know that. Nor is building Trump up good for Obama — Trump has actually hurt him more than all the others combined. Because, you know, Trump has actually been willing to criticize him without being afraid of the Big Media retribution.
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Killgore Trout Sun, May 1, 2011 8:03:54am |
re: #173 Naso Tang
I saw a clip of the camera watching Trump doing an imitation of a statue during his moment of fame.
Yeah, he looked really pissed.
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Varek Raith Sun, May 1, 2011 8:06:09am |
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jaunte Sun, May 1, 2011 8:08:14am |
re: #174 Killgore Trout
If Trump keeps snapping his chin down on Obama’s knee like that, someone could really get hurt.
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PhillyPretzel Sun, May 1, 2011 8:09:29am |
This just in John Paul has been beatified. [Link: littlegreenfootballs.com…]
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Lidane Sun, May 1, 2011 8:10:00am |
re: #176 Varek Raith
Lol.
What alternate reality is he residing in?
The same one that calls Sarah Palin an intellectual and says that Paul Ryan’s plan is realistic.
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Lidane Sun, May 1, 2011 8:12:48am |
Shorter Dim Hoft: “Leave Donald Trump alone!”
Boorish Obama Attacks Trump Repeatedly at Media Dinner While He Is Sitting in the Room
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Varek Raith Sun, May 1, 2011 8:16:34am |
re: #180 Lidane
Shorter Dim Hoft: “Leave Donald Trump alone!”
Boorish Obama Attacks Trump Repeatedly at Media Dinner While He Is Sitting in the Room
Jim Hoft - HERPADERP Extraordinaire!
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Killgore Trout Sun, May 1, 2011 8:17:13am |
re: #180 Lidane
Shorter Dim Hoft: “Leave Donald Trump alone!”
Boorish Obama Attacks Trump Repeatedly at Media Dinner While He Is Sitting in the Room
Heh. The wingnuts are so easily manipulated that Obama might be able to keep Trump at the top of the primary polls just by talking about him. What a luxury to be able to pick your opponent.
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jaunte Sun, May 1, 2011 8:19:51am |
re: #182 Killgore Trout
One of the comments at Hoft’s:
They fear him.
He was in your face there and they are worried…
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darthstar Sun, May 1, 2011 8:20:22am |
re: #173 Naso Tang
I saw a clip of the camera watching Trump doing an imitation of a statue during his moment of fame.
I just watched Obama’s speech from last night. The best laugh at Trump’s expense was when Obama was still setting up the joke by saying he recognized Trump’s qualifications and experience.
The best laugh of the night, though, was when he said, “Michelle Bachmann’s running for president, which is kind of weird, as I hear she was born in Canada….That’s how it starts, Michelle.”
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Varek Raith Sun, May 1, 2011 8:23:48am |
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Winny Spencer Sun, May 1, 2011 8:25:10am |
This was golden…….
“You, Mr. Trump, recognized that the real problem was a lack of leadership,” Obama said. “And so ultimately, you didn’t blame Lil Jon or Meat Loaf. You fired Gary Busey. These are the kind of decisions that would keep me up at night. Well handled, sir.”
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Lidane Sun, May 1, 2011 8:27:58am |
re: #185 Varek Raith
Texas Gov. Rick Perry laments lack of federal aid for wildfires
Irony…
What’s obnoxious is that we really do need that money and help.
There are a lot of counties being devastated by wildfires that don’t have the infrastructure to fight them. They’re sparsely populated and tend to rely on volunteer firefighters instead of the trained ones you’d find in larger cities. I’ve seen video footage shot by volunteer fire marshals of wildfires that they’ve had to just stand and watch because they don’t have the resources to effectively do anything about them.
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lostlakehiker Sun, May 1, 2011 8:29:42am |
re: #54 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Not quite.
Black hole emits giant jets
My resolve collapses…I just need to keep off social issues here and it’ll be OK, maybe.
This is one of these parsing science situations. The singularity itself, if there is one, is hidden behind an event horizon. Black holes are the ultimate lock-the-door-and-throw-away-the-key jails.
But just outside the jailhouse, there’s a riot. Any time any matter draws near, it goes into frenzied spinning convulsions. Some of it gets thrown wide, some goes at the event horizon. And fades…away.
So we can see all sorts of action around a singularity. But all we can fathom of what’s in it is mass, charge, and spin.
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Walter L. Newton Sun, May 1, 2011 8:31:17am |
re: #187 Lidane
What’s obnoxious is that we really do need that money and help.
There are a lot of counties being devastated by wildfires that don’t have the infrastructure to fight them. They’re sparsely populated and tend to rely on volunteer firefighters instead of the trained ones you’d find in larger cities. I’ve seen video footage shot by volunteer fire marshals of wildfires that they’ve had to just stand and watch because they don’t have the resources to effectively do anything about them.
New campaign slogan… burn, baby, burn.
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Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Sun, May 1, 2011 8:32:04am |
re: #188 lostlakehiker
Any time any matter draws near,
No, not just matter.
Though the difference is rather difficult to define.
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jaunte Sun, May 1, 2011 8:42:11am |
re: #185 Varek Raith
The current Texas Forest Service incident management report is available here:
[Link: ticc.tamu.edu…]
Fire reports from Kimble County, Wilbarger County, Archer/Wichita counties, Ector County, and Coke County include the notation:
“A FEMA Management Assistance Grant (FMAG) was received.”
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sattv4u2 Sun, May 1, 2011 9:11:48am |
re: #189 Walter L. Newton
New campaign slogan… burn, baby, burn.
Coincides with something from earlier today
(hat tip to Rogue)
Marijuana Prohibition Turns 100 Today. What Is There to Celebrate?
[Link: blogs.sfweekly.com…]
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Ericus58 Sun, May 1, 2011 9:12:35am |
Here’s a version of Hallelujah I’ll pass along.
Dedicated to Betsy this morning, who passed from us yesterday morning… just weeks short of her 95th birthday.
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McSpiff Sun, May 1, 2011 9:26:12am |
re: #193 Ericus58
I’m not a Cohen fan, but I think I love every cover of this song…
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reine.de.tout Sun, May 1, 2011 9:29:30am |
re: #194 McSpiff
I’m not a Cohen fan, but I think I love every cover of this song…
Cohen always sounds like he’s a bit flat to my admittedly uneducated ear.
But this song is absolutely spectacular.
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reine.de.tout Sun, May 1, 2011 9:30:44am |
re: #195 reine.de.tout
Cohen always sounds like he’s a bit flat to my admittedly uneducated ear.
But this song is absolutely spectacular.
kd lang does a beautiful job with it:
[Link: www.youtube.com…]
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reine.de.tout Sun, May 1, 2011 9:31:19am |
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McSpiff Sun, May 1, 2011 9:31:36am |
re: #195 reine.de.tout
Cohen always sounds like he’s a bit flat to my admittedly uneducated ear.
But this song is absolutely spectacular.
Exactly. I guess that means I just like him more as a song writer than a singer. Nothing wrong with that I suppose.
This version (yes, its from Shrek too) still stings for me. But that’s ok.
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Ericus58 Sun, May 1, 2011 9:31:38am |
Since we’re on this inspiration kick this Sunday morning - here’s a nice collection of motivational posters compiled to music that inspired a Youtube user to post.
Motivated by Firefly
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Ojoe Sun, May 1, 2011 9:33:55am |
Charles I think you should turn off comment ratings for a while. What good is LGF as a forum to seriously debate ideas if a minus one comment makes it into the bottom comments listing?
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McSpiff Sun, May 1, 2011 9:35:41am |
re: #200 Ojoe
Charles I think you should turn off comment ratings for a while. What good is LGF as a forum to seriously debate ideas if a minus one comment makes it into the bottom comments listing?
Well, I’m not sure how that harms debate? Not like some websites where poorly ranked comments are hidden automatically. Do you really care if a comment ends up in Top 10/ Bottom 10?
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Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Sun, May 1, 2011 9:37:46am |
re: #200 Ojoe
Charles I think you should turn off comment ratings for a while. What good is LGF as a forum to seriously debate ideas if a minus one comment makes it into the bottom comments listing?
Uh, what does that have to do with it being a forum to seriously debate ideas? Being in the bottom comments carries no penalty.
You’re not making any sense. Can you explain why you think this is a problem?
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sagehen Sun, May 1, 2011 9:41:25am |
re: #202 McSpiff
Well, I’m not sure how that harms debate? Not like some websites where poorly ranked comments are hidden automatically. Do you really care if a comment ends up in Top 10/ Bottom 10?
I do… when I’ve been away for a day, the top comments tell me where to skim to catch up on at least the highlights.
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Gus Sun, May 1, 2011 9:43:06am |
Palin to speak at Central Calif. community college
LEMOORE, Calif. (AP) - Sarah Palin is returning to Central California’s agricultural region to speak at a community college, a year after secrecy over her contract to visit another school in the region drew intense criticism and scrutiny.
This time, West Hills College officials say their foundation paid the Washington Speakers Bureau $115,000 to land Palin.
115K to speak at a COMMUNITY college. 115K to listen to Palin’s pablum. There’s something wrong with this picture.
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Why I Never! Sun, May 1, 2011 9:43:38am |
re: #200 Ojoe
Charles I think you should turn off comment ratings for a while. What good is LGF as a forum to seriously debate ideas if a minus one comment makes it into the bottom comments listing?
I swept the bottom ten much more than once when I first got here. If it really bothers you, just don’t look at them. It shouldn’t ever hinder your participation.
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McSpiff Sun, May 1, 2011 9:44:10am |
re: #204 sagehen
I do… when I’ve been away for a day, the top comments tell me where to skim to catch up on at least the highlights.
But presumably when you do comment, you try to keep it to the active thread/active topic in that thread? Like you just did ;-)
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allegro Sun, May 1, 2011 9:45:15am |
re: #206 Gus 802
115K to speak at a COMMUNITY college. 115K to listen to Palin’s pablum. There’s something wrong with this picture.
Whoa, no shit. If I was a student or a faculty member there I would be raising the roof. W.T.F?
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prairiefire Sun, May 1, 2011 9:45:18am |
re: #200 Ojoe
Charles I think you should turn off comment ratings for a while. What good is LGF as a forum to seriously debate ideas if a minus one comment makes it into the bottom comments listing?
Well, I just reversed my negative so now CCA is at 0 for that comment. I still don’t care for the comment.
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sattv4u2 Sun, May 1, 2011 9:46:19am |
re: #200 Ojoe
Charles I think you should turn off comment ratings for a while. What good is LGF as a forum to seriously debate ideas if a minus one comment makes it into the bottom comments listing?
Theres your downding
You’ve now made it!
you can thank me later!! :)
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Gus Sun, May 1, 2011 9:46:27am |
re: #209 allegro
Whoa, no shit. If I was a student or a faculty member there I would be raising the roof. W.T.F?
She’s speaks today.
I love how this country ignores the best and brightest. Then we wonder why we’re going downhill so fast.
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allegro Sun, May 1, 2011 9:49:32am |
re: #212 Gus 802
I love how this country ignores the best and brightest. Then we wonder why we’re going downhill so fast.
This is the truth. I can see paying that for a Dr. Chu or comparable scholar but dayum Palin? Or for that matter any politician. This blows me away when colleges are raising tuitions to make them unaffordable for so many bright, motivated kids and then spend this kinda cash on a freaking’ moron?
Grrr… I was in a lovely mood until this.
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ProBosniaLiberal Sun, May 1, 2011 9:49:33am |
Good near-noon everyone: Expect to hear that Tunisia is inhumanly pissed later today.
TUNISIAN TV/Radio Tataouine: 32 Gaddafi MISSILES and mortar shells fell on the Tunisian border town of Dhiba today
Qaddafi is attacking a Tunisian Town. WTF is he doing that for?!
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HoosierHoops Sun, May 1, 2011 9:49:56am |
re: #211 sattv4u2
Theres your downding
You’ve now made it!
you can thank me later!! :)
I updinged him to balance him out…There was no reason for you to do that
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McSpiff Sun, May 1, 2011 9:50:22am |
re: #214 ProLifeLiberal
Good near-noon everyone: Expect to hear that Tunisia is inhumanly pissed later today.
Qaddafi is attacking a Tunisian Town. WTF is he doing that for?!
“If I’m going out, I’m taking you all with me”?
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jaunte Sun, May 1, 2011 9:50:37am |
re: #206 Gus 802
Palin to speak at Central Calif. community college
115K to speak at a COMMUNITY college. 115K to listen to Palin’s pablum. There’s something wrong with this picture.
That’s going to work out to around $3,500 a cliche.
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McSpiff Sun, May 1, 2011 9:51:04am |
re: #215 HoosierHoops
I updinged him to balance him out…There was no reason for you to do that
And I updinged you to support that there was no supportable reason for satt to have… oh dear it seems I’ve gone cross-eyed.
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sattv4u2 Sun, May 1, 2011 9:52:06am |
re: #218 McSpiff
And I updinged you to support that there was no supportable reason for satt to have… oh dear it seems I’ve gone cross-eyed.
Whack yourself upside the head with a 2 by 4
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McSpiff Sun, May 1, 2011 9:52:59am |
re: #219 sattv4u2
Whack yourself upside the head with a 2 by 4
I’m not sure I follow, care to demonstrate?
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sattv4u2 Sun, May 1, 2011 9:53:33am |
re: #220 McSpiff
I’m not sure I follow, care to demonstrate?
Sure ,, lean forward so when I swing the 2 by 4 I won’t miss
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ProBosniaLiberal Sun, May 1, 2011 9:55:30am |
re: #216 McSpiff
Up until 3-4 days ago, Tunisia was completely uninvolved, aside from housing refugees. Looking at the strength of the Tunisian military, I don’t think they could actually go in to do anything if they needed too. They only have 84 main battle tanks and 48 light battle tanks, for example.
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Gus Sun, May 1, 2011 9:56:39am |
re: #217 jaunte
That’s going to work out to around $3,500 a cliche.
I was thinking 115,000 for one big giant cliche. ;)
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Jimmah Sun, May 1, 2011 10:01:37am |
re: #180 Lidane
Shorter Dim Hoft: “Leave Donald Trump alone!”
Boorish Obama Attacks Trump Repeatedly at Media Dinner While He Is Sitting in the Room
God that was awesome. Ice and I just watched and we’re still cracking up. I expect there will be seismic butthurt over this, followed by a tsunami of wingnut tears.
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