The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.
— Edward R. Murrow
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Mr Pancakes Sun, Jul 17, 2011 8:57:21pm |
Oh oh .... anything goes..... it's an open thread!
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Kragar Sun, Jul 17, 2011 8:58:57pm |
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Jul 17, 2011 8:59:45pm |
re: #2 Mr Pancakes
Oh oh ... anything goes... it's an open thread!
I'd take my pants off, but I already wasn't wearing any. Hmm... I could take off my socks.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:01:09pm |
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Kragar Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:02:39pm |
re: #5 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
Morning bell tomorrow is going to be a lot of fun.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:05:03pm |
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Mr Pancakes Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:07:06pm |
re: #4 Slumbering Behemoth
I'd take my pants off, but I already wasn't wearing any. Hmm... I could take off my socks.
Thank god Charles hasn't incorporated webcam yet.
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darthstar Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:07:15pm |
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darthstar Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:08:26pm |
re: #4 Slumbering Behemoth
I'd take my pants off, but I already wasn't wearing any. Hmm... I could take off my socks.
Wouldn't that make your penis cold?
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Kragar Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:09:03pm |
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darthstar Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:09:25pm |
re: #5 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
Morning bell tomorrow is going to be a lot of fun.
They're going to have to stop ignoring this story sooner or later.
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:10:39pm |
Does the Fox Channel have anything on except Casey Anthony? Geez, I flip thru and for the last three hours . . . .
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Kragar Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:11:20pm |
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shutdown Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:11:46pm |
Hello all
just downloaded Spotify. Pretty neat
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:13:04pm |
Your High-Drama 80s Keyboards Clip of the Day:
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:14:18pm |
re: #15 ggt
Does the Fox Channel have anything on except Casey Anthony? Geez, I flip thru and for the last three hours . . .
What are they saying?
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:15:15pm |
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Targetpractice Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:15:31pm |
re: #3 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Breaking News: "For Sale" sign spotted outside front door of Fox News offices, "Best Offer" written below.
/
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Dark_Falcon Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:16:25pm |
re: #21 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
What are they saying?
We're going to talk about Casey Anthony being released so that we don't have to talk about our corporate parent being investigated for hacking people's cell phones.
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Gus Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:17:15pm |
You gotta laugh. Perhaps this scandal won't bring down News Corp however it's still enjoyable to watch the wingnuts squirm over this. Their stock has been taking a major hit and it keeps dropping. It will likely fall in the DOW come morning. Arrests are being made. People are resigning or being fired. News of the World is shut down for good. News Corps was hacking 9/11 victims families (allegedly). Not just ordinary victims families but families who lost loved ones when we were attacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. All of this with Fox News and the faux patriots that follow them to the point of behaving like members of a deranged cult. Laugh-out-fucking-loud!
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ProGunLiberal Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:17:19pm |
re: #24 Dark_Falcon
OT, but do you mind if we continue the debate from the last page?
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shutdown Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:17:32pm |
re: #24 Dark_Falcon
Aren't you just itching to now if they fiddled with Casey Anthony's cellphone?
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Mr Pancakes Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:17:48pm |
re: #19 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
Your High-Drama 80s Keyboards Clip of the Day:
[Video]
Nice, and I'll raise you this 70's prog keyboard video.
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Kragar Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:18:56pm |
Herman Cain: Communities can ignore first amendment
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said Sunday that communities have a right to ban Islamic mosques. (ed: as opposed to Catholic Mosques or Shinto Mosques?)
Appearing on "Fox News Sunday," the former Godfather's Pizza CEO said protests and legal challenges to a planned mosque in Tennessee city are an example of local residents pushing back.
Cain said his view doesn't amount to religious discrimination because he says Muslims are trying to inject Shariah law into the U.S.
Using that logic, we should see about banning churches due to Christians injecting biblical law into the US.
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Kragar Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:19:53pm |
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Targetpractice Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:20:25pm |
Not sure if I'm late in hearing this, but apparently Brooks has been released on bail. The news article I'm reading doesn't list any charges, but I'm feeling more confident that there's some kind of deal in the works.
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Dark_Falcon Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:20:50pm |
re: #26 ProLifeLiberal
OT, but do you mind if we continue the debate from the last page?
OK. I just posted my last reply down there. Just quote it when you post your reply here.
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Kragar Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:20:57pm |
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Gus Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:21:13pm |
re: #29 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Herman Cain: Communities can ignore first amendment
Using that logic, we should see about banning churches due to Christians injecting biblical law into the US.
Jesus H. Christ. That man is an idiot. What the hell is wrong with the Republican Party? Have they gone in insane? Do they honestly think some dope asshole like Cain even stands a chance? About the only chance the GOP has is with Mitt Romney -- full stop. Giuliani will never get elected because he's far too "ethnic" for the idiot seeds. That's it' All they have. Romney.
Drink!
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:21:13pm |
re: #25 Gus 802
News Corps was hacking 9/11 victims families (allegedly). Not just ordinary victims families but families who lost loved ones when we were attacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001.
By mostly Saudis.
The Saudi Royals have a stake in News Crap.
The bin Talals better hope News Crap didn't do it.
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Dark_Falcon Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:22:56pm |
re: #27 imp_62
Aren't you just itching to now if they fiddled with Casey Anthony's cellphone?
If they did, then I want to see the people who did the hacking go to prison. In the meantime, I'm going to look into anti-hacking software for myself but especially for any friends who use smartphones. Because if hacking phones is this easy, we might be looking at a wave of it.
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darthstar Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:23:25pm |
re: #33 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
It comforts me to see that we normalize vigilante behavior via the humor of a serial killer from a TV show. It means life really can imitate art.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:23:31pm |
re: #25 Gus 802
Don't you know, dude? The relatives of the 9/11 victims are millionaires reveling in their celebrity status, and enjoying their husband's deaths a bunch.
/Coulter
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Gus Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:23:43pm |
re: #35 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
By mostly Saudis.
The Saudi Royals have a stake in News Crap.
The bin Talals better hope News Crap didn't do it.
Yeah. I forgot his name. We covered that numerous times at LGF in the past few years. Not once did the Fox News fan boys engage in any introspection. They can't. They're just not hard wired for that sort of thing. It's genetic. A genetic deficiency of sorts.
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:24:11pm |
Well, I checked my fb and am now thoroughly pissed-off.
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Dark_Falcon Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:24:30pm |
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:24:43pm |
re: #21 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
What are they saying?
Nothing, what is there to say? They are just saying it anyway over and over and over . . .
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Kragar Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:25:03pm |
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:25:42pm |
re: #28 Mr Pancakes
Nice, and I'll raise you this 70's prog keyboard video.
[Video]
Oh now that was fun. Do you listen to Aural Moon?
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:26:01pm |
re: #30 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Trap trap or 4-Chan...
Never mind.
I will have nothing to do with 4-Chan, and have never once linked any of their garbage. Fuck them, I say.
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Dark_Falcon Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:26:34pm |
re: #34 Gus 802
Herman Cain apparently thinks the 1st Amendment does not apply to Islam, a position not supported by any reputable Constitutional scholar, left or right.
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:27:34pm |
re: #46 Dark_Falcon
Herman Cain apparently thinks the 1st Amendment does not apply to Islam, a position not supported by any reputable Constitutional scholar, left or right.
Well, some animals are more equal than others . . . it's in the Bible.
/gah
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darthstar Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:28:22pm |
re: #41 Dark_Falcon
She's lucky Dexter Morgan is only fictional.
Somebody else isn't...a woman who looks like Casey Anthony got attacked 1,000 miles from Florida the other day.
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darthstar Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:28:43pm |
re: #45 Slumbering Behemoth
I will have nothing to do with 4-Chan, and have never once linked any of their garbage. Fuck them, I say.
They love it when you say that.
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Gus Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:29:05pm |
re: #38 Slumbering Behemoth
Don't you know, dude? The relatives of the 9/11 victims are millionaires reveling in their celebrity status, and enjoying their husband's deaths a bunch.
/Coulter
Coulter is seriously disgusting. You would think that after saying that they would have thrown her under the bus. No chance. It's a cultural gap thing. Coulter's fans don't care about the 9/11 victims wives she mentioned over and over again is because they're New Yorkers. But hey they're throwing the 9/11 victims families under the bus again through their silence. The same as they did with Pat Tillman, the FDNY and the NYPD. Funny, that "hero" thing didn't last very long with the wingnuts.
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Dark_Falcon Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:30:11pm |
re: #47 ggt
Well, some animals are more equal than others . . . it's in the Bible.
/gah
It sure as Hell isn't in the Constitution. Being a strict constructionist means excepting that the Constitution lets people do things you don't like. Some on the right are having trouble with the concept and that bothers me greatly.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:30:37pm |
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darthstar Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:31:08pm |
re: #40 ggt
Well, I checked my fb and am now thoroughly pissed-off.
Yep...paging next "family-values" candidate who wants to prove he's a piece of shit too.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:31:27pm |
re: #46 Dark_Falcon
Herman Cain apparently thinks the 1st Amendment does not apply to Islam, a position not supported by any reputable Constitutional scholar, left or right.
If he's not careful, the people he's trying to impress are gonna find out he's from a Black Separatist Baptist Hate the White Culture Racist denomination. /
So I don't know who he thinks he is kidding.
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jvic Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:31:48pm |
Four preliminaries: I identify as a conservative. Fox News has not held my attention. I would not be sorry to see the Murdoch empire broken up. I would not be sorry to see the Murdochs, if convicted in a fair trial, sent to prison for massive invasions of privacy.
That said, I am concerned that governments here and abroad will use this scandal as a pretext to restrict the media.
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Mr Pancakes Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:31:53pm |
re: #44 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
Oh now that was fun. Do you listen to Aural Moon?
No... please share.
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Eclectic Infidel Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:32:18pm |
Can anyone recommend a good pay-for-service site that has a decent collection of online movies and tv shows available for streaming?
Netflix has changed its plan and now, come Sept 01, 2011, i'm going to be charged $15.98+tax for 1 movie (unlimited) and unlimited streaming. I want to keep the 1 movie unlimited but not the streaming.
Any suggestions, lizards?
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Eclectic Infidel Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:32:51pm |
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:33:41pm |
re: #50 Gus 802
Coulter is seriously disgusting. You would think that after saying that they would have thrown her under the bus. No chance. It's a cultural gap thing. Coulter's fans don't care about the 9/11 victims wives she mentioned over and over again is because they're New Yorkers. But hey they're throwing the 9/11 victims families under the bus again through their silence. The same as they did with Pat Tillman, the FDNY and the NYPD. Funny, that "hero" thing didn't last very long with the wingnuts.
They gave Beck a pass when he said he hated them.
Filthy bigots.
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Mr Pancakes Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:33:58pm |
re: #50 Gus 802
Coulter is seriously disgusting. You would think that after saying that they would have thrown her under the bus. No chance. It's a cultural gap thing. Coulter's fans don't care about the 9/11 victims wives she mentioned over and over again is because they're New Yorkers. But hey they're throwing the 9/11 victims families under the bus again through their silence. The same as they did with Pat Tillman, the FDNY and the NYPD. Funny, that "hero" thing didn't last very long with the wingnuts.
Coulter has a shtick..... even Bill Maher knows this, being a close friend of hers.
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darthstar Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:35:12pm |
re: #57 ProLifeLiberal
Please be Eric Cantor.
Eric Cantor is too unlikable for anyone to give a shit what he does with his private life.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:35:17pm |
re: #61 Mr Pancakes
Worst. Porno. Ever.
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ProGunLiberal Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:35:22pm |
OT, but something bizarre happened on Wikipedia.
I made a mention of the fact that the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt seems to be fracturing in a new topic on the talk page. While they did add a sentence about this to the article, the talk page is now gone.
W.T.F.?????
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:35:43pm |
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ProGunLiberal Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:35:50pm |
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Mr Pancakes Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:36:10pm |
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:36:15pm |
re: #55 jvic
Four preliminaries: I identify as a conservative. Fox News has not held my attention. I would not be sorry to see the Murdoch empire broken up. I would not be sorry to see the Murdochs, if convicted in a fair trial, sent to prison for massive invasions of privacy.
That said, I am concerned that governments here and abroad will use this scandal as a pretext to restrict the media.
Well, Murdoch et al doesn't seem to care that Casey Anthony got a fair trail. As much as people who weren't involved and haven't read the police files want her to be crucified, it doesn't work that way. Fox News is stirring the pot.
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:36:47pm |
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Gus Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:38:39pm |
re: #61 Mr Pancakes
Coulter has a shtick... even Bill Maher knows this, being a close friend of hers.
She has a shtick and is always hiding behind that shtick. Yeah, it's regular old comedy routine. Which is why she gets invited to CPAC and countless other "conservative" gatherings but is never introduced as a comedian.
Speaking of Maher. I'm not too crazy about him either. ;)
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Targetpractice Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:39:02pm |
re: #55 jvic
Four preliminaries: I identify as a conservative. Fox News has not held my attention. I would not be sorry to see the Murdoch empire broken up. I would not be sorry to see the Murdochs, if convicted in a fair trial, sent to prison for massive invasions of privacy.
That said, I am concerned that governments here and abroad will use this scandal as a pretext to restrict the media.
When the news media begins to pursue an agenda rather than the truth, to the point of violating numerous laws and codes of common decency, then restriction is not my biggest worry.
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:39:13pm |
re: #51 Dark_Falcon
It sure as Hell isn't in the Constitution. Being a strict constructionist means excepting that the Constitution lets people do things you don't like. Some on the right are having trouble with the concept and that bothers me greatly.
me too!
The Cognitive Dissonance is going to be tangible come election time.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:39:25pm |
re: #55 jvic
Four preliminaries: I identify as a conservative. Fox News has not held my attention. I would not be sorry to see the Murdoch empire broken up. I would not be sorry to see the Murdochs, if convicted in a fair trial, sent to prison for massive invasions of privacy.
That said, I am concerned that governments here and abroad will use this scandal as a pretext to restrict the media.
You shouldn't worry about that here. Here, Fox has a perfectly legal First Amendment right to propagandize the gullible.
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Dark_Falcon Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:40:26pm |
re: #68 ggt
Well, Murdoch et al doesn't seem to care that Casey Anthony got a fair trail. As much as people who weren't involved and haven't read the police files want her to be crucified, it doesn't work that way. Fox News is stirring the pot.
It gives Fox a way to distract its viewers. And if someone gets killed in the process, then they can cover that. Better then talking about Newscorp's Watergate.
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darthstar Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:40:47pm |
re: #66 ProLifeLiberal
But then he won't be there to tard up the debt talks.
Let it be with a kitten.
No...let it be with an older woman. Someone who looks like an ashtray on a good day.
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:40:55pm |
re: #74 Dark_Falcon
It gives Fox a way to distract its viewers. And if someone gets killed in the process, then they can cover that. Better then talking about Newscorp's Watergate.
Tabloid TV.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:41:46pm |
re: #53 darthstar
Yep...paging next "family-values" candidate who wants to prove he's a piece of shit too.
I don't think there's any end to these family values hypocrites.
Dumb bigots.
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Mr Pancakes Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:42:03pm |
re: #70 Gus 802
She has a shtick and is always hiding behind that shtick. Yeah, it's regular old comedy routine. Which is why she gets invited to CPAC and countless other "conservative" gatherings but is never introduced as a comedian.
Speaking of Maher. I'm not too crazy about him either. ;)
I don't like either of them.
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Mr Pancakes Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:43:11pm |
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Four More Tears Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:44:44pm |
A haiku for the night.
I wish I were dead
Gaga AND Perry songs are
Stuck inside my head
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reine.de.tout Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:44:51pm |
re: #68 ggt
Well, Murdoch et al doesn't seem to care that Casey Anthony got a fair trail. As much as people who weren't involved and haven't read the police files want her to be crucified, it doesn't work that way. Fox News is stirring the pot.
I read an article a day or two ago about the jurors in that case. Apparently, when the verdict was read, they couldn't look at Casey because they didn't want to see her glee at the verdict. It seems they believe she's in some way involved in Caylee's death - but the bottom line was that the prosecution did not do its job of proving what that involvement was.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:45:01pm |
re: #78 Mr Pancakes
I don't like either of them.
I like them both. A lot.
Sort of the same way I like having a violent case of chicken pox and a full body rash of poison oak at the same time.
/
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Kragar Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:45:54pm |
re: #80 JasonA
A haiku for the night.
I wish I were dead
Gaga AND Perry songs are
Stuck inside my head
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Dark_Falcon Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:46:11pm |
I ran across these earlier today. Sometimes celebrity photos are a good diversion from a scandal. Not that I'm not paying attention, but you want to look at something else for at least a short time. That and as far as young mothers go, Jamie Lynn Spears looks a good bit better than Bristol Palin.
/Sorry, I'm a guy.
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Targetpractice Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:46:14pm |
re: #80 JasonA
A haiku for the night.
I wish I were dead
Gaga AND Perry songs are
Stuck inside my head
Here, watch this, it'll clear your mind:
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Mr Pancakes Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:46:56pm |
re: #82 Slumbering Behemoth
I like them both. A lot.
Sort of the same way I like having a violent case of chicken pox and a full body rash of poison oak at the same time.
/
You like that too?..... I'd like to add to that the Novocaine needle they shoot in your gum before they pull a tooth.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:47:14pm |
re: #39 Gus 802
Yeah. I forgot his name. We covered that numerous times at LGF in the past few years. Not once did the Fox News fan boys engage in any introspection. They can't. They're just not hard wired for that sort of thing. It's genetic. A genetic deficiency of sorts.
Eh, those people are lazy, ignorant slobs who do what they are told, and they have been told introspection is for the f%gs, and very French.
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Dark_Falcon Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:48:02pm |
re: #81 reine.de.tout
I read an article a day or two ago about the jurors in that case. Apparently, when the verdict was read, they couldn't look at Casey because they didn't want to see her glee at the verdict. It seems they believe she's in some way involved in Caylee's death - but the bottom line was that the prosecution did not do its job of proving what that involvement was.
That's it from my reading as well. They didn't like Casey, but they felt that she had not been proven to have killed her daughter. It was tough call, but in my view the right one. A modern version of 12 Angry Men, in some ways.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:48:14pm |
re: #83 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Kragar, why do you hate me?
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Gus Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:48:16pm |
re: #80 JasonA
A haiku for the night.
I wish I were dead
Gaga AND Perry songs are
Stuck inside my head
One of the benefits of not owning a TV. Although. I do have to admit that I enjoy looking at Katy Perry. But that's about it.
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:48:26pm |
re: #81 reine.de.tout
I read an article a day or two ago about the jurors in that case. Apparently, when the verdict was read, they couldn't look at Casey because they didn't want to see her glee at the verdict. It seems they believe she's in some way involved in Caylee's death - but the bottom line was that the prosecution did not do its job of proving what that involvement was.
There was no evidence, as I understand it. In such cases, if no one talks what can a jury do? They aren't serving on the jury of a witchtrial.
I think it's clear the whole family is bat-shit crazy, but that doesn't mean they are criminals--until proven so.
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Four More Tears Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:48:52pm |
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Mr Pancakes Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:49:21pm |
re: #90 Gus 802
One of the benefits of not owning a TV. Although. I do have to admit that I enjoy looking at Katy Perry. But that's about it.
Well I have a 12 year old daughter...... I have to listen to her.
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Kragar Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:49:56pm |
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:50:06pm |
re: #79 Mr Pancakes
I liked it... a touch too jazzy for me. I'm more of a 70's prog guy.
Oh you should listen. They play a lot of 70s prog, from all over the world. Check out The Gagliarchives show if you get the chance. [Link: bit.ly...]
You will love Aural Moon. Ok,I love Aural Moon lol. But I think you will enjoy it.
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Four More Tears Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:50:09pm |
re: #90 Gus 802
One of the benefits of not owning a TV. Although. I do have to admit that I enjoy looking at Katy Perry. But that's about it.
I have to hear them at work. Over and over and over and over...
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Mr Pancakes Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:50:37pm |
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:50:45pm |
re: #90 Gus 802
I do have to admit that I enjoy looking at Katy Perry.
You could screen a film on that forehead of hers, but I'd still buy her a drink.
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Targetpractice Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:51:04pm |
re: #81 reine.de.tout
I read an article a day or two ago about the jurors in that case. Apparently, when the verdict was read, they couldn't look at Casey because they didn't want to see her glee at the verdict. It seems they believe she's in some way involved in Caylee's death - but the bottom line was that the prosecution did not do its job of proving what that involvement was.
Really, what could they do? The prosecution bet the farm on murder 1, when they had no murder weapon, no eyewitness to the murder itself, and no motive that didn't rely on Casey being a habitual liar. She wasn't Mother of the Year material by any stretch, but they totally failed to prove her guilty of premeditated murder.
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Gus Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:51:25pm |
re: #96 JasonA
I have to hear them at work. Over and over and over and over...
I got fired from a bike shop once. First day. I changed the radio station. LOL That and I clucked like a chicken. Strange place. The owner had his sons working there.
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Gus Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:51:54pm |
re: #98 Slumbering Behemoth
You could screen a film on that forehead of hers, but I'd still buy her a drink.
Hey! Nobody's perfect!
//
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:51:57pm |
re: #96 JasonA
I have to hear them at work. Over and over and over and over...
I've been meaning to ask you, are there any new job openings in Hell?
/
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Targetpractice Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:53:01pm |
re: #101 Gus 802
Hey! Nobody's perfect!
//
And I'm nobody...hence...yeah, I think we've all heard this joke a couple million times by now.
/
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Gus Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:53:29pm |
re: #96 JasonA
I have to hear them at work. Over and over and over and over...
Do you work at a dentist's office? /
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ProGunLiberal Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:53:57pm |
re: #98 Slumbering Behemoth
She's better than Kesha. That's all I have to say on that.
I have a similar opinion to Todd in the Shadows on her.
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Four More Tears Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:54:00pm |
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:54:10pm |
re: #101 Gus 802
I can't hate. My hairline has been running scared from my brow line for some time now.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:54:59pm |
re: #105 ProLifeLiberal
She's better than Kesha. That's all I have to say on that.
Oh man, Kesha. wtf.
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reine.de.tout Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:55:22pm |
re: #91 ggt
There was no evidence, as I understand it. In such cases, if no one talks what can a jury do? They aren't serving on the jury of a witchtrial.
I think it's clear the whole family is bat-shit crazy, but that doesn't mean they are criminals--until proven so.
Yeah that family - that's another story altogether.
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Gus Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:56:35pm |
Ugh. That reminds me. Most of the "music" acts on the Today Show. Blech. Whew. Glad I don't have to hear that stuff crap all day long.
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Mr Pancakes Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:58:07pm |
re: #101 Gus 802
Hey! Nobody's perfect!
//
My daughter hates Justin Bieber thank god ....... but some of Lady Gaga's stuff isn't bad. When I say that it's because she writes her music and plays instruments.
And hey.... she digs Led Zeppelin!
Before she was Lady Gaga.
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Gus Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:59:11pm |
Chris Brown... LOL Good God he sucked. I know I just said I don't have a TV but I've been going inside to do something and seeing it while inside my sister's place. Yeesh. Talk about junk.
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 9:59:29pm |
re: #111 Mr Pancakes
My daughter hates Justin Bieber thank god ... but some of Lady Gaga's stuff isn't bad. When I say that it's because she writes her music and plays instruments.
And hey... she digs Led Zeppelin!
Before she was Lady Gaga.
[Video]
Gaga's kool. Her schtick sells
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ProGunLiberal Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:00:17pm |
re: #111 Mr Pancakes
There is one particular singer that, while makes me average among my group of friends, put me wildly outside my demographic.
Let's see if anyone can figure it out.
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Kragar Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:00:50pm |
re: #110 Gus 802
Ugh. That reminds me. Most of the "music" acts on the Today Show. Blech. Whew. Glad I don't have to hear that
stuffcrap all day long.
Whats not to like about pop music?
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:01:39pm |
re: #114 ProLifeLiberal
There is one particular singer that, while makes me average among my group of friends, put me wildly outside my demographic.
Let's see if anyone can figure it out.
I'll need another hint.
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Gus Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:01:55pm |
re: #115 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Whats not to like about pop music?
[Video]
I'll have to put that on lay-away.
Gazooks! Seen enough with the preview. Is that an Eastern European singer?
//
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Mr Pancakes Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:02:20pm |
re: #114 ProLifeLiberal
There is one particular singer that, while makes me average among my group of friends, put me wildly outside my demographic.
Let's see if anyone can figure it out.
Is that like the most ambiguous question ever asked?
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ProGunLiberal Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:02:28pm |
re: #116 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
My friends are (with one exception) women my age.
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Kragar Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:02:35pm |
re: #117 Gus 802
I'll have to put that on lay-away.
Gazooks! Seen enough with the preview. Is that an Eastern European singer?
//
Canadian I think.
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:02:40pm |
Does anyone think the average FOX viewer even knows about the scandal and possible criminal activities of NewsCorp?
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ProGunLiberal Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:03:14pm |
re: #118 Mr Pancakes
Maybe. But I'm like the Cheshire Cat. I like doing riddles.
I just don't have an opportunity to do them much here.
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:03:32pm |
re: #114 ProLifeLiberal
There is one particular singer that, while makes me average among my group of friends, put me wildly outside my demographic.
Let's see if anyone can figure it out.
Please don't say it's Josh Grobin.
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jvic Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:03:59pm |
re: #73 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
You shouldn't worry about that here. Here, Fox has a perfectly legal First Amendment right to propagandize the gullible.
Did you read about the Indiana Supreme Court case a while ago? The judges decided you have no right to resist police who enter your home illegally. Take it up with the courts later (if you can afford a lawyer).
The opinion was written by a Republican judge appointed by a Republican governor in a Republican state. The Attorney General said the court might have gone somewhat too far; otherwise, hardly a peep afaik: the situation doesn't fit anyone's partisan narrative.
It can't happen here--until it does. You bet I worry.
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Four More Tears Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:04:04pm |
re: #121 ggt
Does anyone think the average FOX viewer even knows about the scandal and possible criminal activities of NewsCorp?
If they do I'm sure they just gloss over it as NewsCorp being attacked by the librul media.
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Mr Pancakes Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:04:10pm |
re: #122 ProLifeLiberal
Maybe. But I'm like the Cheshire Cat. I like doing riddles.
I just don't have an opportunity to do them much here.
Well..... ok can you give us the gender and country of origin?
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:04:51pm |
re: #124 jvic
Did you read about the Indiana Supreme Court case a while ago? The judges decided you have no right to resist police who enter your home illegally. Take it up with the courts later (if you can afford a lawyer).
The opinion was written by a Republican judge appointed by a Republican governor in a Republican state. The Attorney General said the court might have gone somewhat too far; otherwise, hardly a peep afaik: the situation doesn't fit anyone's partisan narrative.
It can't happen here--until it does. You bet I worry.
This in one of the strongest 2nd Amendment States.
Let's hope any Police wanting to enter homes in Indiana remember that.
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Targetpractice Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:05:14pm |
re: #121 ggt
Does anyone think the average FOX viewer even knows about the scandal and possible criminal activities of NewsCorp?
I'm not sure, has Fox really covered the whole deal? Only thing I heard (in passing) so far was them running a story about how people should "move on" and that it wasn't that big a deal.
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:05:18pm |
re: #122 ProLifeLiberal
Maybe. But I'm like the Cheshire Cat. I like doing riddles.
I just don't have an opportunity to do them much here.
Is it bigger than a breadbox?
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Gus Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:05:24pm |
re: #121 ggt
Does anyone think the average FOX viewer even knows about the scandal and possible criminal activities of NewsCorp?
Good question. Probably not. Or at least a significant percentage. I know I haven't "watched" one single news report about this. Only been reading about it. So if they only watch Fox News and avoid the internet they might not know. Especially if they're shut-ins of sorts.
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stevemcg Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:05:24pm |
re: #104 Gus 802
Do you work at a dentist's office? /
I actually put together a "Dentist Office" playlist on my iTunes! Dionne Warwick, Bee Gees, Richard Harris, 5th Dimension, etc.
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Iwouldprefernotto Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:05:32pm |
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:05:43pm |
re: #124 jvic
Did you read about the Indiana Supreme Court case a while ago? The judges decided you have no right to resist police who enter your home illegally. Take it up with the courts later (if you can afford a lawyer).
The opinion was written by a Republican judge appointed by a Republican governor in a Republican state. The Attorney General said the court might have gone somewhat too far; otherwise, hardly a peep afaik: the situation doesn't fit anyone's partisan narrative.
It can't happen here--until it does. You bet I worry.
You got a case name, I wanna look it up.
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Mr Pancakes Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:06:16pm |
re: #131 stevemcg
I actually put together a "Dentist Office" playlist on my iTunes! Dionne Warwick, Bee Gees, Richard Harris, 5th Dimension, etc.
I have that stuff in my playlist......
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Gus Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:06:25pm |
re: #131 stevemcg
I actually put together a "Dentist Office" playlist on my iTunes! Dionne Warwick, Bee Gees, Richard Harris, 5th Dimension, etc.
That's it! Perfect! Wow. You must have put together the play list for my last dentist.
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:06:26pm |
re: #131 stevemcg
I actually put together a "Dentist Office" playlist on my iTunes! Dionne Warwick, Bee Gees, Richard Harris, 5th Dimension, etc.
That's just wrong (borderline sick, actually)
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:06:27pm |
re: #117 Gus 802
I'll have to put that on lay-away.
Gazooks! Seen enough with the preview. Is that an Eastern European singer?
//
These are
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Dark_Falcon Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:06:49pm |
re: #128 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
I'm not sure, has Fox really covered the whole deal? Only thing I heard (in passing) so far was them running a story about how people should "move on" and that it wasn't that big a deal.
FNC's Website had a proper article on the scandal, but it was in the World News section, not in Top Stories.
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stevemcg Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:06:58pm |
re: #132 Iwouldprefernotto
Good news. Let the free market work.
I think the stock will go up if investors think that NewsCorp will jettison its money losing newspapers.
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ProGunLiberal Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:07:11pm |
re: #126 Mr Pancakes
Female, United States.
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Mr Pancakes Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:07:36pm |
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Four More Tears Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:08:22pm |
re: #128 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
I'm not sure, has Fox really covered the whole deal? Only thing I heard (in passing) so far was them running a story about how people should "move on" and that it wasn't that big a deal.
That was a great segment with Doocy talking to a publicist, talking about how we should move on to more important things. Best part? The piece ends with telling his viewers to stay tuned for coverage of Casey Anthony.
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:08:44pm |
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ProGunLiberal Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:08:57pm |
re: #142 Mr Pancakes
Past couple years to now.
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Dark_Falcon Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:09:06pm |
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:09:21pm |
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:09:29pm |
re: #124 jvic
The opinion was written by a Republican judge appointed by a Republican governor in a Republican state.
You don't say. ///
///
///
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Targetpractice Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:10:14pm |
re: #138 Dark_Falcon
FNC's Website had a proper article on the scandal, but it was in the World News section, not in Top Stories.
Not surprising, they want to keep pretending that this will all stay isolated across the pond. Something tells me they're in for a rude awakening when the morning bell sounds in a few hours.
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goddamnedfrank Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:10:25pm |
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ProGunLiberal Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:10:30pm |
re: #150 stevemcg
And we have a winner. I said earlier that my taste in music was rather broad.
Never said it was great. :P
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:10:37pm |
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:10:46pm |
re: #131 stevemcg
I actually put together a "Dentist Office" playlist on my iTunes! Dionne Warwick,
Bee Gees, Richard Harris, 5th Dimension, etc.
I'll take one!
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stevemcg Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:11:03pm |
I just fell back in love with Linda Rondstadt. I had forgotten all about her until I found a batch of CD's that I hadn't copied to my library.
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Bubblehead II Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:11:12pm |
re: #133 ggt
No Right to Resist Unlawful Police Entry: Indiana Supremes
The court issued its 3-2 ruling on Thursday, contending that allowing residents to resist officers who enter their homes without any right would increase the risk of violent confrontation. If police enter a home illegally, the courts are the proper place to protest it, Justice Steven David said. “We believe … a right to resist an unlawful police entry into a home is against public policy and is incompatible with modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence,” David said. “We also find that allowing resistance unnecessarily escalates the level of violence and therefore the risk of injuries to all parties involved without preventing the arrest.”
Scary to say the least.
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Mr Pancakes Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:11:13pm |
This recent stuff has me stumped...... I was hoping it was Grace Slick or Stevie Nicks or something.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:11:46pm |
re: #105 ProLifeLiberal
She's better than Kesha. That's all I have to say on that.
I have a similar opinion to Todd in the Shadows on her.
I'm more of a Tania Duarte/Lori S. kind of guy myself.
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goddamnedfrank Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:11:55pm |
re: #140 stevemcg
I think the stock will go up if investors think that NewsCorp will jettison its money losing newspapers.
News of the World didn't lose money, it was NewsCorp's most profitable newspaper in the UK.
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Mr Pancakes Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:12:31pm |
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:13:11pm |
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stevemcg Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:14:00pm |
re: #155 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
I'll take one!
BTW that was the '72-ish Bee Gees. Also included: Mason Williams, Michael Murphey (not WILDFIRE), Oliver, the Guess Who, the Carpenters...
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Targetpractice Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:14:16pm |
re: #143 JasonA
That was a great segment with Doocy talking to a publicist, talking about how we should move on to more important things. Best part? The piece ends with telling his viewers to stay tuned for coverage of Casey Anthony.
[Video]
"Hey now, everybody's getting hacked, so why does anybody care? And it happened back the past, so why are you worrying about it? Why isn't the media paying attention to the Pentagon getting hacked? And we're on the edge of default (except when we argue that we're not)! Can't you see that there are things far more important, like how Casey Anthony got away with murder?!"
//
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:14:23pm |
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:14:32pm |
re: #162 Mr Pancakes
Way to go stevemcg... you win a set of steak knives!
Never would have come-up with that, not in a million years.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:14:53pm |
re: #165 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
"Hey now, everybody's getting hacked, so why does anybody care? And it happened back the past, so why are you worrying about it? Why isn't the media paying attention to the Pentagon getting hacked? And we're on the edge of default (except when we argue that we're not)! Can't you see that there are things far more important, like how Casey Anthony got away with murder?!"
//
rotfl
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:15:17pm |
re: #166 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
I've linked this before but this is probably my favorite Ella youtube
[Video]
Sad as it is, I remember seeing that when it aired. Sittin' on the couch with my Mom and Dad.
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Mr Pancakes Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:15:58pm |
re: #153 ProLifeLiberal
And we have a winner. I said earlier that my taste in music was rather broad.
Never said it was great. :P
Well she did videos with Def Leppard........ That put her in the cool column for me.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:16:59pm |
re: #164 stevemcg
BTW that was the '72-ish Bee Gees. Also included: Mason Williams, Michael Murphey (not WILDFIRE), Oliver, the Guess Who, the Carpenters...
Yeah see, that sounds interesting.
Wildfire, omg.
Here's one for you
Best voice, ever
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:17:08pm |
re: #169 ggt
Sad as it is, I remember seeing that when it aired. Sittin' on the couch with my Mom and Dad.
My Mom and Dad were making fun of Mel Torme because he thought the applause was ALL FOR HIM. People, including my parents, only wanted to hear Ella.
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stevemcg Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:17:59pm |
re: #170 Mr Pancakes
Well she did videos with Def Leppard... That put her in the cool column for me.
[Video]
I can't bear to click on it. I'm ok with Swift, I'm a little cool on DL, but I don't think it's proper to mix the two.
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ProGunLiberal Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:18:50pm |
re: #170 Mr Pancakes
Hell, she just gained points in my book too, and she was already a B.
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Mr Pancakes Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:18:52pm |
re: #171 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
Yeah see, that sounds interesting.
Wildfire, omg.
Here's one for you
[Video]Best voice, ever
Mexicana........
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Four More Tears Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:19:01pm |
re: #165 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
"Hey now, everybody's getting hacked, so why does anybody care? And it happened back the past, so why are you worrying about it? Why isn't the media paying attention to the Pentagon getting hacked? And we're on the edge of default (except when we argue that we're not)! Can't you see that there are things far more important, like how Casey Anthony got away with murder?!"
//
I love how corporations being hacked is on the same page as a corporation hacking 4,000 cell phones. I'm not saying one is worse than the other, but they're two very different things.
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Dark_Falcon Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:19:48pm |
re: #170 Mr Pancakes
Well she did videos with Def Leppard... That put her in the cool column for me.
[Video]
Cool.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:20:04pm |
re: #172 ggt
My Mom and Dad were making fun of Mel Torme because he thought the applause was ALL FOR HIM. People, including my parents, only wanted to hear Ella.
Yeah must have been a feather in his cap. But he did have some pipes on him, must say.
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jvic Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:20:25pm |
re: #133 ggt
You got a case name, I wanna look it up.
1. A couple of people have beat me to it. Note that the police intrusion during the events under consideration seems legal. The court went out of its way to mandate the expansion of police power.
2. A county sheriff immediately declared that the decision authorizes him to conduct house-to-house searches.
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Mr Pancakes Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:21:21pm |
re: #173 stevemcg
I can't bear to click on it. I'm ok with Swift, I'm a little cool on DL, but I don't think it's proper to mix the two.
Dude it's not bad...... she's not up to the power, but they give her a stage. Joe Elliot said he would have kicked Kanye's ass if he would have been there when Kanye dissed her.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:21:45pm |
re: #179 jvic
1. A couple of people have beat me to it. Note that the police intrusion during the events under consideration seems legal. The court went out of its way to mandate the expansion of police power.
2. A county sheriff immediately declared that the decision authorizes him to conduct house-to-house searches.
Teabagger police state
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:21:52pm |
re: #179 jvic
1. A couple of people have beat me to it. Note that the police intrusion during the events under consideration seems legal. The court went out of its way to mandate the expansion of police power.
2. A county sheriff immediately declared that the decision authorizes him to conduct house-to-house searches.
Demographics of Crown Point have nothing to do with it?
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:22:28pm |
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:22:43pm |
re: #180 Mr Pancakes
Dude it's not bad... she's not up to the power, but they give her a stage. Joe Elliot said he would have kicked Kanye's ass if he would have been there when Kanye dissed her.
lol
[Link: kanyegate.tumblr.com...]
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ProGunLiberal Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:23:33pm |
re: #180 Mr Pancakes
I would have too.
The man's an undeniable douchebag. Obama's comment on that was apt.
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Targetpractice Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:24:26pm |
re: #176 JasonA
I love how corporations being hacked is on the same page as a corporation hacking 4,000 cell phones. I'm not saying one is worse than the other, but they're two very different things.
Sounded to me like one line whine about why people are paying attention to this story, instead of to more "important" ones. While at the same time trying to downplay hacking as something that "everybody" is having done to them, so why is this some big shock? You can practically taste the desperation.
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Dark_Falcon Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:24:31pm |
re: #180 Mr Pancakes
Dude it's not bad... she's not up to the power, but they give her a stage. Joe Elliot said he would have kicked Kanye's ass if he would have been there when Kanye dissed her.
Now that I would have liked to see. Kanye is a worthy entertainer, but when he speaks off the cuff he truly has a gift for saying things he shouldn't.
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:24:36pm |
re: #180 Mr Pancakes
Dude it's not bad... she's not up to the power, but they give her a stage. Joe Elliot said he would have kicked Kanye's ass if he would have been there when Kanye dissed her.
Beyonce did the job perfectly.
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Mr Pancakes Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:24:41pm |
re: #185 ProLifeLiberal
I would have too.
The man's an undeniable douchebag. Obama's comment on that was apt.
We are in total 100% agreement there.
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Dark_Falcon Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:25:15pm |
re: #185 ProLifeLiberal
I would have too.
The man's an undeniable douchebag. Obama's comment on that was apt.
"He's a jackass." were Obama's words.
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:25:26pm |
re: #185 ProLifeLiberal
I would have too.
The man's an undeniable douchebag. Obama's comment on that was apt.
What did Obama say, I missed that part.
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ProGunLiberal Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:25:49pm |
re: #189 Mr Pancakes
Hell, I would have liked to see Obama kick Kanye's ass. Let's fuse the 2 great ideas together! :)
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Mr Pancakes Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:25:56pm |
re: #187 Dark_Falcon
Now that I would have liked to see. Kanye is a worthy entertainer, but when he speaks off the cuff he truly has a gift for saying things he shouldn't.
When he heard that he said he was trashing all his Def Leppard albums. I could probably find the link but I'm lazy.
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:26:17pm |
re: #190 Dark_Falcon
"He's a jackass." were Obama's words.
We are having some sort of weird connect/disconnect thing going tonite.
We are thinking in sync, but posting out of sync.
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Four More Tears Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:26:26pm |
re: #186 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
Sounded to me like one line whine about why people are paying attention to this story, instead of to more "important" ones. While at the same time trying to downplay hacking as something that "everybody" is having done to them, so why is this some big shock? You can practically taste the desperation.
As I said earlier, I'd rather they went back to ignoring it. This pathetic whining is repulsive.
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Gus Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:26:28pm |
Music. Well, I have a small CD collection that includes Del McCoury, Hank Williams, Garbage, Ramones, Jimi Hendrix, Bill Monroe, Mountain, Buena Vista Social Club, Glenn Miller, Bob Dylan, Dwight Yoakum, Allman Brothers, Celia Cruz, Maraca, Asleep at the Wheel, Sex Pistols, Shakira... Tapes are too many to mention. Police, Sisters of Mercy, Dixie Dregs, Dregs, Al DiMeola, Pat Metheny, Peter Murphy...
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Mr Pancakes Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:26:58pm |
re: #192 ProLifeLiberal
Hell, I would have liked to see Obama kick Kanye's ass. Let's fuse the 2 great ideas together! :)
Hope and Change and kick ass!
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ProGunLiberal Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:27:08pm |
re: #191 ggt
He called Kanye West a Jackass after interrupting Taylor Swift's award acceptance speech a couple years back.
Which is the least controversial thing he has done all term.
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:27:23pm |
re: #196 Gus 802
Music. Well, I have a small CD collection that includes Del McCoury, Hank Williams, Garbage, Ramones, Jimi Hendrix, Bill Monroe, Mountain, Buena Vista Social Club, Glenn Miller, Bob Dylan, Dwight Yoakum, Allman Brothers, Celia Cruz, Maraca, Asleep at the Wheel, Sex Pistols, Shakira... Tapes are too many to mention. Police, Sisters of Mercy, Dixie Dregs, Dregs, Al DiMeola, Pat Metheny, Peter Murphy...
Ramones, I don't have the albumn, but I loved the movie.
"rock, rock, rock, Rock n' Roll High School"
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stevemcg Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:29:31pm |
re: #196 Gus 802
I have a great tape collection, but a lot of it I have no idea who's on it. Guy named Rick Allen would bring in his own stuff on the overnight shift. I would put in a tape and record before I went to bed and listen the nest day. A lot of times the tape would run out before he came back on to say what he played. Over a couple of years I figured out most of it, but there are a couple dozen irreplaceable songs that I just can't ID.
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Targetpractice Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:30:11pm |
re: #195 JasonA
As I said earlier, I'd rather they went back to ignoring it. This pathetic whining is repulsive.
Don't think that's really an option. You gotta expect that the network's leadership is wondering what all this is gonna mean for them. If Murdoch does end up getting deposed, will News Corp keep the agenda or jettison is and start demanding FNC truly be "fair and balanced"?
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Mr Pancakes Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:30:23pm |
re: #199 ggt
Ramones, I don't have the albumn, but I loved the movie.
"rock, rock, rock, Rock n' Roll High School"
Just saw that movie with my daughter a few months ago....... now she can always identify a Ramones song on the radio.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:33:01pm |
re: #201 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
Don't think that's really an option. You gotta expect that the network's leadership is wondering what all this is gonna mean for them. If Murdoch does end up getting deposed, will News Corp keep the agenda or jettison is and start demanding FNC truly be "fair and balanced"?
I doubt it. I can't see anyone changing it up lest they lose viewers and thus advertisers. News Crap must make a mint off of those intellectually brittle dupes.
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Four More Tears Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:33:05pm |
re: #201 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
Don't think that's really an option. You gotta expect that the network's leadership is wondering what all this is gonna mean for them. If Murdoch does end up getting deposed, will News Corp keep the agenda or jettison is and start demanding FNC truly be "fair and balanced"?
I don't have much hope of Ailes getting tossed. We'll have to wait and see how deep the rabbit hole goes.
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Mr Pancakes Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:33:24pm |
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Dark_Falcon Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:33:38pm |
re: #192 ProLifeLiberal
Hell, I would have liked to see Obama kick Kanye's ass. Let's fuse the 2 great ideas together! :)
Honestly, I think Kanye West would benefit from having some he ticked off kick his ass. A few bruises and maybe a cracked rib might teach him some sense.
Disclaimer: I am being facetious. I do not actually want anyone to to get hurt. Kanye may deserve it, but him getting it would not be a good thing.
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SteveMcG Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:33:39pm |
re: #202 Mr Pancakes
Just saw that movie with my daughter a few months ago... now she can always identify a Ramones song on the radio.
My daughter has a strange affinity for Pink Floyd!
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Mr Pancakes Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:34:37pm |
re: #207 Dark_Falcon
Honestly, I think Kanye West would benefit from having some he ticked off kick his ass. A few bruises and maybe a cracked rib might teach him some sense.
Disclaimer: I am being facetious. I do not actually want anyone to to get hurt. Kanye may deserve it, but him getting it would not be a good thing.
I say what DF said without the disclaimer.
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Mr Pancakes Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:35:42pm |
re: #208 SteveMcG
My daughter has a strange affinity for Pink Floyd!
Yea.... that's a tough one for me to get her into ....... she likes the Who.
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:36:03pm |
There are times when a little whoopass does a body good.
:)
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Four More Tears Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:36:04pm |
re: #211 Mr Pancakes
Yea... that's a tough one for me to get her into ... she likes the Who.
Heh. Just like me.
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Targetpractice Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:36:10pm |
re: #204 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
I doubt it. I can't see anyone changing it up lest they lose viewers and thus advertisers. News Crap must make a mint off of those intellectually brittle dupes.
re: #205 JasonA
I don't have much hope of Ailes getting tossed. We'll have to wait and see how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Very true. It's still all a bit of a wait and see game, as even if Murdoch gets tossed out on his ass, the investigations may continue. If the allegations of hacking the phones of 9/11 victims families is shown to be even somewhat true, then expect the inquisition to go into full swing.
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Dark_Falcon Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:36:35pm |
re: #209 Mr Pancakes
I say what DF said without the disclaimer.
The Disclaimer was required by forum rules.
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:37:07pm |
You'd think FOX would be all over the Barnes vs. Indiana decision. Civil Rights advocates that they are . . . . .
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SteveMcG Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:37:56pm |
re: #211 Mr Pancakes
I think it was subliminal. She always falls asleep in the car, so as soon as she does, it's out witht the teeny bopper stuff and in with my iPod! She sings along with some other songs too, some Stones, Jethro Tull.
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Dark_Falcon Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:38:09pm |
re: #214 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
re: #205 JasonA
Very true. It's still all a bit of a wait and see game, as even if Murdoch gets tossed out on his ass, the investigations may continue. If the allegations of hacking the phones of 9/11 victims families is shown to be even somewhat true, then expect the inquisition to go into full swing.
Hopefully the criminality did not spread across the pond. But that's ,y hope, your ideas of the good may vary.
Too late for me to keep going. Goodnight, all.
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:38:56pm |
SteveMQ -you went from lower-case to upper-case.
POOF! just like that!
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:39:15pm |
re: #214 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
re: #205 JasonA
Very true. It's still all a bit of a wait and see game, as even if Murdoch gets tossed out on his ass, the investigations may continue. If the allegations of hacking the phones of 9/11 victims families is shown to be even somewhat true, then expect the inquisition to go into full swing.
The thing I'm dreading is another round of 9/11 troothers. They were obnoxious enough the first time around.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:39:30pm |
re: #153 ProLifeLiberal
And we have a winner. I said earlier that my taste in music was rather broad.
Never said it was great. :P
You might appreciate this parody then.
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Mr Pancakes Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:39:32pm |
re: #217 SteveMcG
I think it was subliminal. She always falls asleep in the car, so as soon as she does, it's out witht the teeny bopper stuff and in with my iPod! She sings along with some other songs too, some Stones, Jethro Tull.
Subliminal...... she has an Ipod........ hmmmmmm giving me ideas here.
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ProGunLiberal Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:40:23pm |
My internet has become a twit again. So I can't do the good formatting things.
For the lulz, I put in the term "Obama's position on Kanye West" into Google and clicked a news story. This comment one ups what Obama said.
"I object to the President calling Kanye a jackass...that's an insult to jackasses everywhere."
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SteveMcG Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:40:46pm |
re: #219 ggt
The username does not seem to be case sensitive. Sometimes I log in quickly and do not use the shift, sometimes I leave the Caps lock on.
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Mr Pancakes Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:40:59pm |
re: #217 SteveMcG
I think it was subliminal. She always falls asleep in the car, so as soon as she does, it's out witht the teeny bopper stuff and in with my iPod! She sings along with some other songs too, some Stones, Jethro Tull.
She likes Sparks, Sweet, and Queen. And she LOVES Gary Puckett.
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:41:10pm |
re: #224 SteveMcG
The username does not seem to be case sensitive. Sometimes I log in quickly and do not use the shift, sometimes I leave the Caps lock on.
I don't think anyone's user name is . . .
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:41:26pm |
re: #225 Mr Pancakes
She likes Sparks, Sweet, and Queen. And she LOVES Gary Puckett.
I think all kids like Queen.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:42:14pm |
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SteveMcG Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:44:24pm |
I loved Queen until they put out The Game. I think Jazz was my favorite Queen album. Looking back on it, each album deems to be better than the previous one. Forget it, I just remembered Queen II
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Mr Pancakes Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:44:29pm |
re: #227 ggt
I think all kids like Queen.
Oh and I forgot...... she took me to see Tom Jones when she was 9.
How many kids love Gary Puckett? Local boy ...... had some great songs in the 60's.
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jvic Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:44:40pm |
re: #182 ggt
Demographics of Crown Point have nothing to do with it?
It was the sheriff of Newton County, which was overwhelmingly white as of the Y2K census.
Where the Bill of Rights is concerned, demographics is irrelevant anyway afaic.
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:44:43pm |
I complain about Chicagoland (because it's sooo easy). Next to Ohio and Indiana, I think it's probably the only state along the Northern Bank of Ohio River I'd feel I'd like to be.
Ok, It's really Illinois, technically.
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Mr Pancakes Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:45:07pm |
re: #229 SteveMcG
I loved Queen until they put out The Game. I think Jazz was my favorite Queen album. Looking back on it, each album deems to be better than the previous one. Forget it, I just remembered Queen II
I bought The Game on cassette..... recorded over it.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:45:56pm |
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Mr Pancakes Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:46:05pm |
re: #229 SteveMcG
I loved Queen until they put out The Game. I think Jazz was my favorite Queen album. Looking back on it, each album deems to be better than the previous one. Forget it, I just remembered Queen II
Ogre Battle
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SteveMcG Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:46:37pm |
re: #233 Mr Pancakes
Let my cousin tape it, he changed his mind but I wouldn't take it back.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:46:48pm |
re: #180 Mr Pancakes
Dude it's not bad... she's not up to the power, but they give her a stage. Joe Elliot said he would have ...
Yo, Pancakes, I'm really happy for you, and Imma let you finish, but I just got to say Stinky Beaumont had one of the best posts of all time. OF ALL TIME!
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:47:28pm |
re: #231 jvic
It was the sheriff of Newton County, which was overwhelmingly white as of the Y2K census.
Where the Bill of Rights is concerned, demographics is irrelevant anyway afaic.
You should make a Page about the case and the Sheriff.
Actually, if there are a distinct minority of non-whites, you can be sure those are the homes that Sheriff would like to "search".
NorthWest Indiana has some perceived racial issues --well, all of Indiana does.
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SteveMcG Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:47:46pm |
re: #236 Mr Pancakes
Oddly, the put the lyrics to "Seven Seas of Rhye" on the Queen Album, where it's an instrumental.
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Mr Pancakes Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:48:02pm |
re: #238 Slumbering Behemoth
Yo, Pancakes, I'm really happy for you, and Imma let you finish, but I just got to say Stinky Beaumont had one of the best posts of all time. OF ALL TIME!
Where's Stinky's post?
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:48:52pm |
re: #239 ggt
You should make a Page about the case and the Sheriff.
Actually, if there are a distinct minority of non-whites, you can be sure those are the homes that Sheriff would like to "search".
NorthWest Indiana has some perceived racial issues --well, all of Indiana does.
They have a super nasty Klan history.
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:49:48pm |
re: #242 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
They have a super nasty Klan history.
Well, now that the hispanic population is increasing, you can just imagine the reaction. . . .
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:50:19pm |
re: #196 Gus 802
Music. Well, I have a small CD collection that includes Del McCoury, Hank Williams, Garbage, Ramones, Jimi Hendrix, Bill Monroe, Mountain, Buena Vista Social Club, Glenn Miller, Bob Dylan, Dwight Yoakum, Allman Brothers, Celia Cruz, Maraca, Asleep at the Wheel, Sex Pistols, Shakira... Tapes are too many to mention. Police, Sisters of Mercy, Dixie Dregs, Dregs, Al DiMeola, Pat Metheny, Peter Murphy...
And you listen to all of that ironically, don't you? Fuckin' hipster.
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Bubblehead II Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:50:22pm |
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SteveMcG Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:50:24pm |
I'm waiting for Shorty's trombone solo.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:51:38pm |
re: #241 Mr Pancakes
Where's Stinky's post?
Bah! I had to use some Lizard's name there, so I picked The Cleaner.
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Mr Pancakes Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:53:10pm |
re: #248 Slumbering Behemoth
Bah! I had to use some Lizard's name there, so I picked The Cleaner.
Harvey Keitel?
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:53:14pm |
re: #242 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
They have a super nasty Klan history.
Drove thru Gary the other day--reminded me of Detroit in the '70's.
Sad, so sad.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:53:49pm |
re: #223 ProLifeLiberal
My internet has become a twit again. So I can't do the good formatting things.
Your gawt damn XBox broke the internet!
/
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:54:00pm |
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:54:38pm |
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Mr Pancakes Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:54:38pm |
re: #250 ggt
Drove thru Gary the other day--reminded me of Detroit in the '70's.
Sad, so sad.
I drove through Gary...... looked like a vibrant community.
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:55:01pm |
re: #243 ggt
Well, now that the hispanic population is increasing, you can just imagine the reaction. . . .
Shall I say the "permanent" hispanic population. There has always been a seasonal migrant worker population. . . ..
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:55:48pm |
re: #254 Mr Pancakes
I drove through Gary... looked like a vibrant community.
When and what part of Gary?
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:55:54pm |
re: #243 ggt
Well, now that the hispanic population is increasing, you can just imagine the reaction. . . .
Been in that situation. They (the reaction) are filthy people.
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Mr Pancakes Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:56:13pm |
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jvic Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:56:15pm |
re: #235 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
231 jvicWhere the Bill of Rights is concerned, demographics is irrelevant anyway afaic.
lmao
Maybe you can stop laughing long enough to tell me where the Bill of Rights mentions demographics.
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:56:23pm |
re: #257 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
Been in that situation. They (the reaction) are filthy people.
YEah, and I'm related to some of them.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:56:58pm |
re: #221 Slumbering Behemoth
You might appreciate this parody then.
[Video]
What? No one liked that?
I thought it was funny as hell. And, disturbingly, kind of sexy.
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:58:38pm |
re: #258 Mr Pancakes
1964... some freeway.
That was then . . . This is now.
There are a core group of residents who stay, raise their kids and try to make Gary a livable city again. Perhaps in another generation, if they can find decent leadership.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Jul 17, 2011 10:59:24pm |
re: #259 jvic
lmao
Maybe you can stop laughing long enough to tell me where the Bill of Rights mentions demographics.
Oh my such indignation. When you can point out to me where the Bill of Rights stopped the smallpox blankets, Removals, wars, reservations, alien land laws, internments and relocations, then maybe you can take a load off and laugh along with me.
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Mr Pancakes Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:00:31pm |
re: #262 ggt
That was then . . . This is now.
There are a core group of residents who stay, raise their kids and try to make Gary a livable city again. Perhaps in another generation, if they can find decent leadership.
ggt...... I was just joking..... my humor can be dry, and understandably under appreciated.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:01:35pm |
re: #262 ggt
That was then . . . This is now.
There are a core group of residents who stay, raise their kids and try to make Gary a livable city again. Perhaps in another generation, if they can find decent leadership.
Company town. Now where's the company.
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Gus Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:01:46pm |
re: #250 ggt
Drove thru Gary the other day--reminded me of Detroit in the '70's.
Sad, so sad.
Suddenly I started thinking about China.
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Fozzie Bear Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:02:15pm |
re: #81 reine.de.tout
I read an article a day or two ago about the jurors in that case. Apparently, when the verdict was read, they couldn't look at Casey because they didn't want to see her glee at the verdict. It seems they believe she's in some way involved in Caylee's death - but the bottom line was that the prosecution did not do its job of proving what that involvement was.
The jury should be commended for doing their duty despite their personal feelings rather than publicly condemned by opportunistic whores like... Well.. pretty much every fox 'journalist'. It's a shame. With every propaganda piece Fox runs, a certain segment of the population becomes ever more dangerously stupid, and increasingly a threat to our democracy.
All these right wing nutbags in congress didn't come from nowhere. Fox created the atmosphere of breathtaking ignorance that has made their elections possible.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:04:19pm |
re: #260 ggt
YEah, and I'm related to some of them.
The one's I'm talking about are in CA. These days, they are keeping themselves busy trying to secede. rotfl
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:06:13pm |
re: #265 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
Company town. Now where's the company.
Where are the professionals and celebrities that claim Gary as their roots? Up and left because they could. Leaving those that couldn't or those that saw an opportunity to rape the city and it's people.
Other cities in the area suffered from the loss of industry, but none is like Gary.
A good friend of mine still has a lot of family in Gary, they stay, trying to keep it going.
I think the "proximity" to Gary is a lot of the impetus for the Newton County Sheriff. We all know what the residents of that county fear . . . . .
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:06:33pm |
re: #267 Fozzie Bear
I have successfully, though not entirely purposefully, missed all the news media revolving around this case. I am happily ignorant.
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BARACK THE VOTE Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:06:42pm |
re: #270 Gus 802
So what happened to Glenn Beck's "100-Year Plan"?
LOL
1. BuY GoLd!
2. ????
3. PROFIT!
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SanFranciscoZionist Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:06:47pm |
re: #267 Fozzie Bear
The jury should be commended for doing their duty despite their personal feelings rather than publicly condemned by opportunistic whores like... Well.. pretty much every fox 'journalist'.
It seems to me that the jury did their job.
Phyllis Chesler has a piece up (at Fox no less), about the way we respond to these cases when it's women, as opposed to men to kill their children.
I'm absolutely convinced that the mother in that case was guilty, but the law is the law, and a jury does not exist for society to take out their impulses for revenge through them.
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Kragar Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:07:17pm |
re: #268 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
The one's I'm talking about are in CA. These days, they are keeping themselves busy trying to secede. rotfl
Just when you think they couldn't get any dumber...
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Alexzander Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:07:47pm |
re: #270 Gus 802
So what happened to Glenn Beck's "100-Year Plan"?
LOL
You know its entirely possible that Glenn Beck has some genuine mental illness that is creating these illusions of grandeur. Was it the Catholic church that he claimed understood 'what he was here for'? I cant really laugh at the guy because its sad or troubling in so many dimensions.
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Gus Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:07:57pm |
re: #274 iceweasel
1. BuY GoLd!
2. ???
3. PROFIT!
Puppets! Puppets damn it!
And Soros. [Catches breath.] George Soros and Alinsky!
Oh. My. Fucking. God! I'm going Beck crazy!
LOL
//
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:08:07pm |
re: #275 SanFranciscoZionist
It seems to me that the jury did their job.
Phyllis Chesler has a piece up (at Fox no less), about the way we respond to these cases when it's women, as opposed to men to kill their children.
I'm absolutely convinced that the mother in that case was guilty, but the law is the law, and a jury does not exist for society to take out their impulses for revenge through them.
Remember Susan Smith? I was in a room full of people who actually sobbed when she didn't get the death penalty.
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BARACK THE VOTE Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:08:09pm |
re: #272 Gus 802
Ice! I see you.
Hey Gus! I just got up and am thinking about going back to bed. How's everyone here?
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SanFranciscoZionist Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:09:01pm |
re: #275 SanFranciscoZionist
It seems to me that the jury did their job.
Phyllis Chesler has a piece up (at Fox no less), about the way we respond to these cases when it's women, as opposed to men to kill their children.
I'm absolutely convinced that the mother in that case was guilty, but the law is the law, and a jury does not exist for society to take out their impulses for revenge through them.
And I have to say that sometimes it's hilarious what strange bedfellows politics make.
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Sol Berdinowitz Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:09:02pm |
re: #55 jvic
Four preliminaries: That said, I am concerned that governments here and abroad will use this scandal as a pretext to restrict the media.
One can call it "restricting the media", one can also call it "making the media resposnsible for its words and actions".
And Resposnsibility is what True Conservatives (TM) are all about, isn't it?
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:10:48pm |
The world is changing faster than some people can keep up. Those than can't handle it are now "conservative".
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Gus Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:11:18pm |
re: #280 iceweasel
Hey Gus! I just got up and am thinking about going back to bed. How's everyone here?
Hey Iceweasel. Doing OK. Pretty quiet here for the past few days. Got much cooler too which is nice. Makes it easier to work. How's things across the pond?
My connection is acting up. Grrrrrr.
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Fozzie Bear Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:12:18pm |
re: #278 Gus 802
Puppets! Puppets damn it!
And Soros. [Catches breath.] George Soros and Alinsky!
Oh. My. Fucking. God! I'm going Beck crazy!
LOL
//
Imo, George Soros should wait a week or two while NewsCorp's share price slides into the toilet, and then, in an act of truly epic irony, buy out NewsCorp. I would probably need to be hospitalized due to uncontrollable paroxisms of laughter, but it would totally be worth it.
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BARACK THE VOTE Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:12:50pm |
Fox News most read:
President Obama Doesn't Know the First Thing About Economics
Were the First Ten Years of the 21st Century Really the Worst In American History?
Do You Believe the White House Claim About the Aug. 2 Debt-Ceiling Deadline?
Seven Myths About the Looming Debt-Ceiling 'Disaster'
America Is Too Dumb to Know Obama Is Always Right
Lots of Murdoch coverage, I see. //
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jvic Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:12:56pm |
re: #263 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
Oh my such indignation. When you can point out to me where the Bill of Rights stopped the smallpox blankets, Removals, wars, reservations, alien land laws, internments and relocations, then maybe you can take a load off and laugh along with me.
IMO the probability is rising that those days are returning--with 21st century technology this time. The probability is still small, but it is creeping up.
No matter which side I'd be enrolled in, I don't think that's funny at all.
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BARACK THE VOTE Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:14:16pm |
re: #284 Gus 802
Hey Iceweasel. Doing OK. Pretty quiet here for the past few days. Got much cooler too which is nice. Makes it easier to work. How's things across the pond?
My connection is acting up. Grrr.
Damn AT&T! grrr.
I'm glad it's cooler!
Right now it's sunny here, but then it always seems to be early in the day. I'm contemplating a supermarket run but I think sleep will win out.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:14:27pm |
re: #271 ggt
Where are the professionals and celebrities that claim Gary as their roots?
The only ones who come to mind are the Jacksons.
Up and left because they could. Leaving those that couldn't or those that saw an opportunity to rape the city and it's people.
Other cities in the area suffered from the loss of industry, but none is like Gary.
A good friend of mine still has a lot of family in Gary, they stay, trying to keep it going.
I think the "proximity" to Gary is a lot of the impetus for the Newton County Sheriff. We all know what the residents of that county fear . . .
My parents are exactly that demographic that left a city very much like Gary. The options for Black professionals in the 60s were extremely limited whether they stayed in segregation or came west to the Promised Land 9_9.
They were under pressures that their peers weren't, somehow expected to integrate hostile neighborhoods and workplaces, then also prop up the place they left on middle class salaries (when not in grad school.) Ideally, would have been nice. In reality, no.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:14:34pm |
re: #280 iceweasel
Hey Gus! I just got up and am thinking about going back to bed. How's everyone here?
Go back to bed. Seriously you're not going to find yourself eleventy years from now, lying on your death bed, wishing you had slept just a little less.
Well, if you're lazy like me, you won't.
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Gus Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:15:40pm |
re: #286 iceweasel
Fox News most read:
Lots of Murdoch coverage, I see. //
Just think. It'll be fun to watch Cantor and his ilk eat crow. That's what's going to happen in the end. Mitch McConnell will work up some compromise in the Senate with Harry Reid. Boehner will need to grow a pair. As usual no one will touch Social Security which is cool with me. The debt ceiling will rise with some spending cuts and instead of tax hikes I'm predicting and end to many tax write offs. Etc. Etc.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:15:50pm |
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BARACK THE VOTE Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:16:59pm |
re: #290 Slumbering Behemoth
Go back to bed. Seriously you're not going to find yourself eleventy years from now, lying on your death bed, wishing you had slept just a little less.
Well, if you're lazy like me, you won't.
I support this message.
Bed it is-- BBL. Have a good one, everyone!
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Gus Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:17:09pm |
re: #292 Slumbering Behemoth
PLL's XBox broke the internet.
Your Xbox broke my TV!
See. I was lurking before. ;)
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Sol Berdinowitz Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:17:16pm |
re: #289 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
I grew up in Gary until I was 17. My mom ws a poor widow living on Social Security (after US Steel screwed her out of her widow's pension) so we had to stick around and become a minority in a mostly black/Latino neighborhood.
East Gary, Indiana changed its name back to Lake Station to try and avoid any association with the place.
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Alexzander Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:17:30pm |
re: #290 Slumbering Behemoth
Go back to bed. Seriously you're not going to find yourself eleventy years from now, lying on your death bed, wishing you had slept just a little less.
Well, if you're lazy like me, you won't.
Yeah but you are be nature defined by your sleep. Us mortals on the other hand...
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:18:05pm |
re: #287 jvic
IMO the probability is rising that those days are returning--with 21st century technology this time. The probability is still small, but it is creeping up.
No matter which side I'd be enrolled in, I don't think that's funny at all.
The question will be, what will you do to make sure it never happens. No need to answer, but do be aware that we will never let the majority go back to that shyt again.
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Gus Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:18:05pm |
re: #293 iceweasel
I support this message.
Bed it is-- BBL. Have a good one, everyone!
Be that way! No more old times! Show me your tax returns! I demand to see Jimmah's tax returns! LOL
Later Ice. ;)
| 299 |
Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:18:19pm |
re: #283 ggt
The world is changing faster than some people can keep up. Those than can't handle it are now "conservative".
Of the dinosaur variety, anyway. I lean conservative on many issues, and the world isn't changing fast enough for my liking.
I want my nanite augmentations, and I want them now DAMN IT!
| 300 |
Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:18:51pm |
re: #293 iceweasel
I support this message.
Bed it is-- BBL. Have a good one, everyone!
Yeah Team Lazy!!!
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:19:09pm |
re: #289 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
The only ones who come to mind are the Jacksons.
My parents are exactly that demographic that left a city very much like Gary. The options for Black professionals in the 60s were extremely limited whether they stayed in segregation or came west to the Promised Land 9_9.
They were under pressures that their peers weren't, somehow expected to integrate hostile neighborhoods and workplaces, then also prop up the place they left on middle class salaries (when not in grad school.) Ideally, would have been nice. In reality, no.
The whole situation then and now sucks.
I saw one segment on C-SPAN years ago that blamed the lack of professionals in the "neighborhood" for it's decline. During segregation--doctors, lawyers and other professionals in the black community had to stay in the neighborhood--giving the kids in the area real and good rolemodels. When the professionals could leave for better neighborhoods--they did and the only role models left were not good.
There are a whole lot of factors, but I had never been exposed to that one before. It makes a lot of sense.
| 302 |
Gus Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:19:29pm |
Whew. And that had to have been one of the weirdest mornings ever on LGF. Not this one but the one I alluded to.
| 303 |
Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:20:18pm |
| 304 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:20:21pm |
re: #295 ralphieboy
I grew up in Gary until I was 17. My mom ws a poor widow living on Social Security (after US Steel screwed her out of her widow's pension) so we had to stick around and become a minority in a mostly black/Latino neighborhood.
East Gary, Indiana changed its name back to Lake Station to try and avoid any association with the place.
And Miller Beach. I have friends that live there. If they want a plumber or a pizza delivery they have to say "miller beach" and not Gary if they want anyone to come.
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Targetpractice Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:22:10pm |
re: #291 Gus 802
Just think. It'll be fun to watch Cantor and his ilk eat crow. That's what's going to happen in the end. Mitch McConnell will work up some compromise in the Senate with Harry Reid. Boehner will need to grow a pair. As usual no one will touch Social Security which is cool with me. The debt ceiling will rise with some spending cuts and instead of tax hikes I'm predicting and end to many tax write offs. Etc. Etc.
You wouldn't believe that by reading the headlines the last couple days. Two I read today basically said the same thing, but the second went further. Both agreed that the GOP's latest gamble, namely their "Cut, Cap, & Balance" bill is likely to fail in the Senate. But supposedly McConnell's Hail Mary plan to give the president the authority to raise the debt between now and next November is getting serious discussion.
At this point, I think the GOP's pretty spooked at what an Aug 2nd with no deal is going to look like for them, but are trying to drag this all out til the 11th hour, in the hopes of saving some sort of face with the Tea Party base. The "Hey, at least I tried!" defense.
| 307 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:23:09pm |
re: #306 Gus 802
5G sucks. I want to listen to The Dubliners on Youtube.
We are up to 5G? Geez, I thought I was behind the times with my 3G iPhone.
| 308 |
OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:23:16pm |
re: #295 ralphieboy
I grew up in Gary until I was 17. My mom ws a poor widow living on Social Security (after US Steel screwed her out of her widow's pension) so we had to stick around and become a minority in a mostly black/Latino neighborhood.
East Gary, Indiana changed its name back to Lake Station to try and avoid any association with the place.
Yeah but see, you know better.
The first bold part is why I asked earlier what happened to the company. Company towns, ugh.
Sometimes I think some of these asswagons won't be satisfied until they get company towns, company unions, and straight up sharecropping back as the basis for the US economy.
| 309 |
Gus Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:24:35pm |
re: #307 ggt
We are up to 5G? Geez, I thought I was behind the times with my 3G iPhone.
Yep. And that's 50 bucks a month. If you go over it's 5 cents per meg. Which means 50 bucks for another 1G. Nice aye?
| 310 |
Targetpractice Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:25:53pm |
re: #309 Gus 802
Yep. And that's 50 bucks a month. If you go over it's 5 cents per meg. Which means 50 bucks for another 1G. Nice aye?
Yeah, a kinder, gentler form of mugging you.
/
| 312 |
Gus Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:28:43pm |
re: #310 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
Yeah, a kinder, gentler form of mugging you.
/
Yep. And you get to use a crappy Sierra Wireless modem. Damn thing is a piece of junk. Unstable. Gave me a BSD several times early on. Had to put it in modem mode. Then these bastard, AT&T, throttle their connections for people during peak hours. Everything is for profit so of course they don't invest in infrastructure. It's the American way. Apparently. Oh well. Fook 'em. This is temporary. But they all suck. Earthlink sucks major balls. Comcast are a bunch of pricks.
Drink!
| 314 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:30:01pm |
I have to sleep all.
Have a great morning!
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Gus Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:30:23pm |
Just like I predicted. Facebook will be "gone tomorrow" pretty soon here. Just like MySpace.
One hit wonders of the internet world. Comcast is next.
| 316 |
Sol Berdinowitz Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:30:26pm |
re: #308 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
My mom later found out about a class action suit against US Steel Corp. and received a settlement on her pension, but it was a patch on what was owed to her and did not replace the money we needed in 1967.
Growing up there gave a unique cultural and social education, taught me a lot about race relations beyond complaining about people who live on the other side of the tracks.
And it taught me a lot about how far we should trust the Captains of American industry to look out for our interests.
And had it not been for FDR and his Social Security system, we woulda been tossed out on the street.
| 317 |
OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:32:01pm |
re: #301 ggt
The whole situation then and now sucks.
I saw one segment on C-SPAN years ago that blamed the lack of professionals in the "neighborhood" for it's decline. During segregation--doctors, lawyers and other professionals in the black community had to stay in the neighborhood--giving the kids in the area real and good rolemodels. When the professionals could leave for better neighborhoods--they did and the only role models left were not good.
There are a whole lot of factors, but I had never been exposed to that one before. It makes a lot of sense.
That's part of the story. But there are still plenty of role models in those parts of town because those parts of town are still de facto segregated. Doesn't matter what city you go to in the country, the patterns are still intact -- some from the 1800s, some from the 1900s, some from the war, some from postwar....you mentioned something similar upthread, earlier.
In fact, we in the suburbs spent our free time (for my parents it was church- and family-related) in the urban areas. It's not like white and other communities that try and distance themselves from their roots. That's not a part of the ethic. We have much different assimilation patterns.
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Targetpractice Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:32:18pm |
re: #315 Gus 802
Just like I predicted. Facebook will be "gone tomorrow" pretty soon here. Just like MySpace.
One hit wonders of the internet world. Comcast is next.
Nah, not gone, simply rendered "obsolete." Nothing is ever truly gone on the Internet, no matter how much we may wish it were so. Found that out the other day when I spent a few hours digging through the sediment to find a couple sites I hadn't thought about in years.
| 319 |
Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:33:17pm |
re: #312 Gus 802
Earthlink sucks major balls.
Now that's a name I haven't heard in a billion years. Like, "Oh wow, dude. You got one of those new 56.6k modems? That's fuckin' fast" years.
I had no idea they were still around.
| 320 |
OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:34:42pm |
re: #316 ralphieboy
Had Medicare kicked in by then? I hope so.
| 321 |
Gus Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:35:07pm |
re: #318 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
Nah, not gone, simply rendered "obsolete." Nothing is ever truly gone on the Internet, no matter how much we may wish it were so. Found that out the other day when I spent a few hours digging through the sediment to find a couple sites I hadn't thought about in years.
Oh yeah. That. Was thinking about that a couple of days ago. No not gone totally. But it's just vestiges. 30 years from now it will be gone save for special access. Eventually most of the stuff we type and post will be archived in some obscure location. It won't be that easy to access. Just like most photography will be lost IMO. It's not permanent like the analog world of negatives and the printed word. It really is temporary despite what they say.
| 322 |
Gus Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:36:24pm |
re: #319 Slumbering Behemoth
Now that's a name I haven't heard in a billion years. Like, "Oh wow, dude. You got one of those new 56.6k modems? That's fuckin' fast" years.
I had no idea they were still around.
Oh yeah they're still around. They have DSL, Cable and Wireless. Their call centers are in Bangalore or somewhere in India. Not a very personable company. I was with them for 10 years and they're still acting like douche bags. Fuck 'em.
| 323 |
Gus Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:38:20pm |
And I'll repeat what I might have said the other day. All this talk about computers. Fine. But the greatest music to date was still written by hand. The greatest literature to date was written by hand. The greatest art was painted by hand. And so on.
| 324 |
Targetpractice Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:39:56pm |
re: #319 Slumbering Behemoth
Now that's a name I haven't heard in a billion years. Like, "Oh wow, dude. You got one of those new 56.6k modems? That's fuckin' fast" years.
I had no idea they were still around.
Ah, 56K, such memories. Remember the blazing speed of walking away in the morning while downloading a 10meg file and comes home with another 20% to go. I feel a special kind of pity for folks out in the internet boonies who are still relying on dial-ups because the "free market" is still dragging its heels with regards to broadband.
Reminds me of the shock I got when I went back to visit my mother's family for the July 4th weekend. I actually saw places in town advertising "free wifi" for the first time. Mind you, this is a place that, half a decade ago, was thrilled that DSL was becoming available.
| 325 |
jvic Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:40:24pm |
re: #239 ggt
You should make a Page about the case and the Sheriff.
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll think about it, but the decision is two months old. There may have been developments I'm not aware of.
| 326 |
Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:42:27pm |
re: #322 Gus 802
I once called a help desk to get an home internet connection up and running. I was bitching about the 105 temps in my area, when the help gal on the other side said it was something like 120 where she was.
I asked where the hell she was, and she said Delhi.
"As in 'India'?" I ask.
"Yes." she says.
I was floored, 'cuz she spoke better "American" english than most Americans in my area.
| 327 |
Targetpractice Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:42:27pm |
re: #323 Gus 802
And I'll repeat what I might have said the other day. All this talk about computers. Fine. But the greatest music to date was still written by hand. The greatest literature to date was written by hand. The greatest art was painted by hand. And so on.
Yeah, but even all that was made with materials and tools that the previous greats could only dream of. Not saying that computers will replace the old ways entirely, but instead simply give folks who previously would have toiled away in obscurity a new wider audience and a chance to win that 15 minutes of fame.
| 328 |
Gus Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:44:22pm |
re: #327 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
Yeah, but even all that was made with materials and tools that the previous greats could only dream of. Not saying that computers will replace the old ways entirely, but instead simply give folks who previously would have toiled away in obscurity a new wider audience and a chance to win that 15 minutes of fame.
That's the problem. I never cared for the "balloon boys" of the world.
//
| 329 |
Kragar Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:44:33pm |
re: #324 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
Ah, 56K, such memories. Remember the blazing speed of walking away in the morning while downloading a 10meg file and comes home with another 20% to go. I feel a special kind of pity for folks out in the internet boonies who are still relying on dial-ups because the "free market" is still dragging its heels with regards to broadband.
Reminds me of the shock I got when I went back to visit my mother's family for the July 4th weekend. I actually saw places in town advertising "free wifi" for the first time. Mind you, this is a place that, half a decade ago, was thrilled that DSL was becoming available.
I remember the fun of being in the middle of downloading something, then hearing the phone ring and going into a panic because it meant my crappy dialup just disconnected.
| 330 |
Sol Berdinowitz Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:46:55pm |
re: #320 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
Had Medicare kicked in by then? I hope so.
I seem to remember that we were covered by Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:47:26pm |
re: #323 Gus 802
And history has known no greater locomotive force than the buggy whip.
/
| 332 |
Alexzander Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:47:53pm |
There are so many things I could disagree with Gus 802 on right now but I'm not sure I have the energy.
| 333 |
Alexzander Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:48:55pm |
re: #331 Slumbering Behemoth
And history has known no greater locomotive force than the buggy whip.
/
All the best journeys were taken on the back of horse!!
| 334 |
Gus Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:49:14pm |
re: #332 Alexzander
There are so many things I could disagree with Gus 802 on right now but I'm not sure I have the energy.
Well. I wasn't born to this world to make everybody happy now was I.
| 335 |
Targetpractice Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:49:51pm |
re: #329 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
I remember the fun of being in the middle of downloading something, then hearing the phone ring and going into a panic because it meant my crappy dialup just disconnected.
My favorite was the sites that would half load before the computer said "Frak it" and gave up. Or trying to play any kind of online game during peak hours. Email attachments that took so long to upload, you hit the "Send" button and then went to make coffee.
Here I am, 27 yrs old, and already I feel like an old man. "When I was your age, my data walked 15 miles, uphill both ways, just to show me a half-naked chick before my connection died."
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:49:58pm |
re: #332 Alexzander
There are so many things I could disagree with Gus 802 on right now but I'm not sure I have the energy.
Ditto. But I upding him anyway. I have a Gus-Crush. I'm so ashamed.
/
| 337 |
Gus Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:51:02pm |
re: #336 Slumbering Behemoth
Ditto. But I upding him anyway. I have a Gus-Crush. I'm so ashamed.
/
That's only because I drink Jim Beam and watch John Wayne movies while having a knowledge of what the color taupe looks like.
//
| 338 |
Alexzander Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:51:44pm |
re: #334 Gus 802
Well. I wasn't born to this world to make everybody happy now was I.
I definitely respect that.
| 339 |
Gus Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:52:27pm |
re: #338 Alexzander
I definitely respect that.
Wait a couple of hours and I'll say something that contradicts what I said this evening.
//
| 340 |
Kragar Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:53:39pm |
re: #337 Gus 802
That's only because I drink Jim Beam and watch John Wayne movies while having a knowledge of what the color taupe looks like.
//
Such knowledge cannot coexist in the same brain
| 341 |
Alexzander Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:54:02pm |
re: #337 Gus 802
That's only because I drink Jim Beam and watch John Wayne movies while having a knowledge of what the color taupe looks like.
//
I had to google the colour taupe (there goes my British/Canadian spelling).
JP and JW sound good right now. I'm drinking cheap box wine - comes to about 2.5 a bottle (10 for 4 littres).
| 342 |
Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:54:16pm |
re: #337 Gus 802
I've dabbled in a variety of artistic media, but could never get the hang of "Illustrator" type software programs.
I stand in awe and admiration of those who can use such software to create beautiful art.
| 343 |
Targetpractice Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:55:13pm |
re: #340 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Such knowledge cannot coexist in the same brain
How do we know that Gus isn't really some hyper-intelligent AI construct, composed of personality snippets of the greatest LGF users? He might, at this very moment, be truly contemplating the end of all mutated life in the Capital Wasteland as we speak...
Wait, I'm getting Gus confused with President Eden again.
//
| 344 |
Gus Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:57:14pm |
re: #342 Slumbering Behemoth
I've dabbled in a variety of artistic media, but could never get the hang of "Illustrator" type software programs.
I stand in awe and admiration of those who can use such software to create beautiful art.
I know Autocad, Photoshop, and Sketchup. I'm actually very adept at the chit. ;) Never got into coding though. Too boring. For me that is.
| 345 |
Alexzander Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:57:25pm |
re: #343 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
How do we know that Gus isn't really some hyper-intelligent AI construct, composed of personality snippets of the greatest LGF users? He might, at this very moment, be truly contemplating the end of all mutated life in the Capital Wasteland as we speak...
Wait, I'm getting Gus confused with President Eden again.
//
While this is a legitmate concern, I think that his apprecaition for Jim Bean and John Wayne make him quintessentially (American style) human.
... hmmm .....
I suppose that would actually be the perfect cover for a hyper-intelligent AI construct?
SHIT
| 346 |
Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:57:28pm |
re: #343 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
Nah. Gus is The Master, aka Richard Grey, aka Richard Moreau.
| 347 |
Kragar Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:57:36pm |
re: #343 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
How do we know that Gus isn't really some hyper-intelligent AI construct, composed of personality snippets of the greatest LGF users? He might, at this very moment, be truly contemplating the end of all mutated life in the Capital Wasteland as we speak...
Wait, I'm getting Gus confused with President Eden again.
//
A common mistake.
I think he's an industrialist who is in a self contained hyperbaric chamber, safely ensconced in a Las Vegas casino.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:59:11pm |
re: #336 Slumbering Behemoth
Ditto. But I upding him anyway. I have a Gus-Crush. I'm so ashamed.
/
Everybody has a Gus-Crush.
| 349 |
Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Jul 17, 2011 11:59:37pm |
re: #344 Gus 802
Program coding = lots of money, lots of hours, very little life.
| 350 |
Alexzander Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:00:56am |
Was it Gus that we were doing all the movie titles with the other night? I was pretty drunk at the time I think...
No Country for Old Gus
| 351 |
Alexzander Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:01:38am |
Someone is playing David Lynch style saxophone on the street outside my apartment right now.. its midnight.
| 352 |
Kragar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:02:04am |
re: #350 Alexzander
Was it Gus that we were doing all the movie titles with the other night? I was pretty drunk at the time I think...
No Country for Old Gus
Gus, Food, and Lodging
| 353 |
OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:02:30am |
re: #330 ralphieboy
I seem to remember that we were covered by Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
Yeah, the q. was none of my business really. I was going by the years. Thing is, your guys' story with US Steel happened so early. There are people who will blame the pensions and blame the unions for what happened to Gary (or Detroit or Buffalo or or or) but never talk about the companies packing up shop and moving elsewhere.
They know so much. Any excuse to blame the people who do the actual work.
| 355 |
Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:02:59am |
re: #348 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
Step One: Admit that you have a problem, and are powerless over your addiction.
Step Two: Come to believe that a Power greater than Gus could restore us to sanity.
/SERENITY NOW!!!
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:03:32am |
re: #350 Alexzander
Was it Gus that we were doing all the movie titles with the other night? I was pretty drunk at the time I think...
No Country for Old Gus
The Big Leguski
| 357 |
Gus Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:03:44am |
re: #355 Slumbering Behemoth
Step One: Admit that you have a problem, and are powerless over your addiction.
Step Two: Come to believe that a Power greater than Gus could restore us to sanity.
/SERENITY NOW!!!
Haven't you forgotten something?
Gravel.
//
| 358 |
Targetpractice Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:03:53am |
re: #355 Slumbering Behemoth
Step One: Admit that you have a problem, and are powerless over your addiction.
Step Two: Come to believe that a Power greater than Gus could restore us to sanity.
/SERENITY NOW!!!
What, we've gone from Gravel worship to Gus worship? What kinda whacked out cult did I join here?!
//
| 359 |
jvic Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:04:25am |
re: #297 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
The question will be, what will you do to make sure it never happens. No need to answer, but do be aware that we will never let the majority go back to that shyt again.
In my teens and twenties I never questioned the permanence of the categories by which I viewed the world.
| 360 |
Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:04:32am |
re: #351 Alexzander
Someone is playing David Lynch style saxophone on the street outside my apartment right now.. its midnight.
Are you on meth? Acid?
That kind of "surreal, but actually real" shit only every happened to me when I was on meth or acid.
| 361 |
Targetpractice Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:04:43am |
re: #347 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
A common mistake.
I think he's an industrialist who is in a self contained hyperbaric chamber, safely ensconced in a Las Vegas casino.
That reminds me, Old World Blues is coming out tomorrow.
| 362 |
Gus Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:04:48am |
re: #358 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
What, we've gone from Gravel worship to Gus worship? What kinda whacked out cult did I join here?!
//
See. Watch...
GRAVEL
U
S
Or!
GLENN BECK
U
S
//
| 363 |
OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:04:56am |
re: #355 Slumbering Behemoth
Step One: Admit that you have a problem, and are powerless over your addiction.
Step Two: Come to believe that a Power greater than Gus could restore us to sanity.
/SERENITY NOW!!!
Gus, grant me the serenity to accept the Gus I cannot change,
Courage to change the Gus I can,
And Gus to know the difference.
| 364 |
Alexzander Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:05:00am |
Speaking of which,
I have to head out soon to do my evening meditation at the Gravel shrine.
| 365 |
Kragar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:05:14am |
re: #357 Gus 802
Haven't you forgotten something?
Gravel.
//
GUS FOR THE GUS GOD!!!
Nevermind, doesn't quite work.
| 366 |
Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:05:46am |
re: #357 Gus 802
Haven't you forgotten something?
Gravel.
//
NO! I have forgotten nothing. Gravel is the "Power greater than Gus".
| 367 |
Targetpractice Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:06:07am |
re: #362 Gus 802
See. Watch...
GRAVEL
U
SOr!
GLENN BECK
U
S//
It...it makes so much sense. Truly, thou art the son of Gravel!
//
| 368 |
Kragar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:06:07am |
re: #361 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
That reminds me, Old World Blues is coming out tomorrow.
[Video]
Think I'm going to wait for the next DLC and get them both at once to play thru.
| 369 |
Gus Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:06:47am |
re: #367 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
It...it makes so much sense. Truly, thou art the son of Gravel!
//
And it was good.
Damn I need a cigarette.
//
| 370 |
Alexzander Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:06:54am |
re: #359 jvic
In my teens and twenties I never questioned the permanence of the categories by which I viewed the world.
Have you read any Kant?
The Critique of Pure Reason is one of the more profound intellectual projects I've ever engaged in.
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Targetpractice Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:07:14am |
re: #368 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Think I'm going to wait for the next DLC and get them both at once to play thru.
Good luck with that. I have absolutely no clue when Lonesome Road is supposed to be out, considering they said Old World Blues would be out last month. Hell, considering how Obsidian's dragging their feet, I may be playing Battlefield 3 by that time.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:07:59am |
re: #370 Alexzander
Have you read any Kant?
The Critique of Pure Reason is one of the more profound intellectual projects I've ever engaged in.
Lol I tried to read that in frickin' German.
Didn't go so well. :/
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Alexzander Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:09:00am |
re: #372 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
Lol I tried to read that in frickin' German.
Didn't go so well. :/
It is absurdly challenging in one's native language.
Do you study philosophy?
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Alexzander Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:10:39am |
And I propose that the new topics of LGF be dedicated worship of Gus, Gravel and X, rather than international and American political affairs.
x = to be determined. Hopefully a word beginning with 'G.'
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:13:53am |
re: #374 Alexzander
And I propose that the new topics of LGF be dedicated worship of Gus, Gravel and X, rather than international and American political affairs.
x = to be determined. Hopefully a word beginning with 'G.'
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:14:47am |
re: #373 Alexzander
It is absurdly challenging in one's native language.
Do you study philosophy?
Oh I know. That little endeavor lasted about a week lol.
No, not philosophy, religion. But my mentors were in German Lit and History of Religion. So I got a nice dose of the Friedrichs and the Wilhelms.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:15:37am |
re: #377 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
Your opinion of Nietzsche?
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:16:32am |
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jvic Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:16:43am |
re: #370 Alexzander
Have you read any Kant?
The Critique of Pure Reason is one of the more profound intellectual projects I've ever engaged in.
1. I have not. If I did, none of it stuck. (OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin, my late father claimed that reading it in German was essential.)
2. No, when Churchill said that it is no bad thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations, he was talking about me. (Figuratively: I don't actually read books of quotations.)
Though I have the greatest respect and admiration for Housman.
3. If I suddenly, magically became financially independent, Spinoza would be the first priority for the time I allocated to philosophy.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:17:02am |
re: #379 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
???
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:17:23am |
Seriously, Beyond Good and Evil is probably my favorite of N's. I took a lot from it re: "forgiveness". TBH, I still am kind of affected by it.
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Dancing along the light of day Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:18:18am |
re: #369 Gus 802
Hey, how're you doing?
You can email, if you want to keep it private!
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Alexzander Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:19:57am |
Shit - just saw that I made front page of the stalker blog!!
Hey stalkers!!
I bet your dates on match.com love when you tell them that you spend every night stalking a relatively small blog they've never heard of because you can't get over your ban!
And at least you know that if they can get over that and sleeping in your mothers basement, they love you for who you really are!
Don't worry, scrote. There are plenty of a stalkers out there living really kick-ass lives. My first wife was a stalker. She's a pilot now.
(Idiocracy reference.)
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Gus Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:20:10am |
re: #373 Alexzander
It is absurdly challenging in one's native language.
Do you study philosophy?
AT&T going out again. That reminds me. One of my clients has a degree in philosophy. BA I think. Anyway. He's a really talented residential designer. Not the greatest draftsman but he really comes up with great stuff. Interior and exterior design wise. Wish I could show some but I have a bunch of crazy wingnut stalkers after my ass.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:20:24am |
re: #382 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
Obsession with Palin? Check.
Reading German philosophers, in German? Check.
Admiration for Nietzsche? Check.
That settles it, you're a "CtE" sock puppet.
///
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Alexzander Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:20:56am |
re: #379 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
Nietzsche saved my life.
I have AMOR FATI on the back on my sweater.
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Sol Berdinowitz Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:21:28am |
re: #353 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
As far as I can tell, they had plundered the pension funds and had nothing left to pay out. They told my mom that she was not eligible because my dad was still working for US Steel when he died, and not a retiree (although he had been there over 30 years).
In other words, he died without his bosses' permission, so he was not eligible.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:22:14am |
re: #380 jvic
1. I have not. If I did, none of it stuck. (OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin, my late father claimed that reading it in German was essential.)
Yeah...reading Kant -- I'm REALLY glad he's been translated into English. But it's so complicated in English, it actually ends up making more sense in German. Hard to explain, since my own attempts were massive fails.
Plus my German now SUCKS so unless one keeps it up, it's for naught, unless one is really good at languages.
2. No, when Churchill said that it is no bad thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations, he was talking about me. (Figuratively: I don't actually read books of quotations.)Though I have the greatest respect and admiration for Housman.
3. If I suddenly, magically became financially independent, Spinoza would be the first priority for the time I allocated to philosophy.
I will have to look into Housman. Spinoza is the man. Love his story, too.
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Gus Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:22:54am |
re: #383 Floral Giraffe
Hey, how're you doing?
You can email, if you want to keep it private!
Doing OK. Nothing new to report. Weirdest summer ever. Sister's been behaving. Guess I've helped along that end by adjusting my occasionally brusk self. OK, I'm really not THAT brusk. Still have work though so I can't complain.
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Henchman Ghazi-808 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:23:04am |
Looks like the White House went after Fox News in 2009 after all
As the U.K. phone-hacking scandal continues to engulf News Corp's British segment, one of the company's top-performing assets in the U.S. is enjoying a bit of unrelated vindication.
Preemptive strike. Fox will claim itself the victim and the saint.
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Sol Berdinowitz Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:23:53am |
re: #390 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
I find that German is really great for describing abstract constructs, my big problem is just making myself understood to the folks at the local shops.
English is fine for everyday conversation, which is one of the things that makes it a world language, but relatively hard to grasp in the abstract.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:25:33am |
re: #384 Alexzander
Shit - just saw that I made front page of the stalker blog!!
Congrats! I never go there unless they start stinking up my referrers. About a month ago, some buttmunch was over there complaining that my site doesn't allow comments, when it does. He just never returned to see his dumb comment published.
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Alexzander Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:25:40am |
re: #382 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
Seriously, Beyond Good and Evil is probably my favorite of N's. I took a lot from it re: "forgiveness". TBH, I still am kind of affected by it.
Huge Nietzche fan here as well. I read Kaufman's portable Nietzsche which put the whole line of thought together.
I'm currently reading a new(ish) translation of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. I read the Kaufman (I think) translation last time.
By far my fav. philosopher. Followups are Wittgenstein, Kant and Spinoza.
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Gus Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:26:38am |
re: #384 Alexzander
Shit - just saw that I made front page of the stalker blog!!
Hey stalkers!!
I bet your dates on match.com love when you tell them that you spend every night stalking a relatively small blog they've never heard of because you can't get over your ban!
And at least you know that if they can get over that and sleeping in your mothers basement, they love you for who you really are!(Idiocracy reference.)
I look at it this way. We complete the stalker's sad little lives. They live their sad little lives vicariously through ours. They'd have nothing if it were not for us. Thus, I'm serving a higher purpose.
//
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:26:48am |
re: #383 Floral Giraffe
Hey FG
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jvic Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:26:48am |
re: #363 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
Gus, grant me the serenity to accept the Gus I cannot change,
Courage to change the Gus I can,
And Gus to know the difference.
You may be amazed before you are halfway through.
Good night, all.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:26:55am |
re: #389 Alexzander
Former Lizard, now flounced. Had a hard on for Nietzsche. Claimed that Nietzsche's "Eternal Reccurance", which I mocked, was an argument that bolstered the factual validity of Christ's Resurrection.
Or some such nonsense.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:29:26am |
re: #395 Alexzander
Huge Nietzche fan here as well. I read Kaufman's portable Nietzsche which put the whole line of thought together.
I'm currently reading a new(ish) translation of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. I read the Kaufman (I think) translation last time.
By far my fav. philosopher. Followups are Wittgenstein, Kant and Spinoza.
Oh I love Wittgenstein.
Forget about being understood by anybody. Ain't gonna happen.
But that doesn't mean you give up trying, so no excuses.
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Gus Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:29:33am |
re: #399 Slumbering Behemoth
Former Lizard, now flounced. Had a hard on for Nietzsche. Claimed that Nietzsche's "Eternal Reccurance", which I mocked, was an argument that bolstered the factual validity of Christ's Resurrection.
Or some such nonsense.
Cato?
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Alexzander Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:30:10am |
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:31:00am |
re: #399 Slumbering Behemoth
Former Lizard, now flounced. Had a hard on for Nietzsche. Claimed that Nietzsche's "Eternal Reccurance", which I mocked, was an argument that bolstered the factual validity of Christ's Resurrection.
Or some such nonsense.
Mph. A Nietzschean Christian. Too bad I missed that one.
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Dancing along the light of day Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:31:21am |
re: #384 Alexzander
Looking there, kills many brain cells.
Just saying!
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Alexzander Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:31:54am |
re: #400 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
Oh I love Wittgenstein.
Forget about being understood by anybody. Ain't gonna happen.
But that doesn't mean you give up trying, so no excuses.
I have a Wittgenstein tattoo.
Hardcore philosophy nerd.
I have the beginnings of a Spinoza one too.
If I ever get a lot of visable tattoos (or find out I have not long to live), I'd get AMOR FATI on my knuckles.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:32:09am |
re: #402 Alexzander
Praise Gravel, Gus and Grindcore for this insight.
Amen.
Be grateful. I could have linked G.G. Allen.
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Dancing along the light of day Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:32:28am |
re: #397 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
Hey FG
Yo!
Your nic makes me laugh every time I see it.
Rock on!
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:34:30am |
re: #393 ralphieboy
I find that German is really great for describing abstract constructs, my big problem is just making myself understood to the folks at the local shops.
English is fine for everyday conversation, which is one of the things that makes it a world language, but relatively hard to grasp in the abstract.
I never got to the point of being able to think in German, only took regular undergrad German and theological German, but I did get into it. It really does open up your mind for big-picture concepts. If your mind has already been geared for systematic thinking (ironically like mine was in Fundagelicalism), it really gives it a boost.
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Alexzander Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:34:43am |
re: #403 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
Mph. A Nietzschean Christian. Too bad I missed that one.
Zizek considers himself a Christian Atheist.
I was actually reading a book called Nietzche and Levinas recently which was a series of academic essays drawing out similarities between the two intellectuals. For those of you who dont know, Emmanuel Levinas was a pretty influential Jewish phenomenologist who was deeply religious.
A Nietzschean Christian sounds like my ideal friend really - close by so far away.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:35:55am |
re: #403 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
Very little, you missed.
When cornered on something, and left without an intelligent argument, it would resort to pointing out typos or linguistic mistakes.
Well educated, but rather stupid an petty. JMO.
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Gus Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:36:27am |
re: #410 Slumbering Behemoth
Very little, you missed.
When cornered on something, and left without an intelligent argument, it would resort to pointing out typos or linguistic mistakes.
Well educated, but rather stupid an petty. JMO.
Oh yeah.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:36:39am |
re: #405 Alexzander
I have a Wittgenstein tattoo.
Hardcore philosophy nerd.
I have the beginnings of a Spinoza one too.If I ever get a lot of visable tattoos (or find out I have not long to live), I'd get AMOR FATI on my knuckles.
This is a Black version of Amor Fati
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Gus Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:39:23am |
re: #410 Slumbering Behemoth
Very little, you missed.
When cornered on something, and left without an intelligent argument, it would resort to pointing out typos or linguistic mistakes.
Well educated, but rather stupid an petty. JMO.
Gravel knows I tried. But it was like getting a key to some far off nebulous land. I even tried through the Portuguese song. Didn't work. I was still too full of typos. Heck, I still thought it was funny. I think of it as emotional machismo. //
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Alexzander Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:40:48am |
re: #412 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
This is a Black version of Amor Fati
[Video]
I do a lot of volunteering at young adult shelters and the other day a young black guy I know who frequents our shelter recognised the "amor fati" on the back of my sweater as coming from Nietzche. First person in maybe 6 months to do so (and tell me). He said it was the closest to his personal philosophy at the moment.
A lot of North American academic departments dont teach Nietzche anymore so even they would miss it.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:41:23am |
re: #409 Alexzander
Zizek considers himself a Christian Atheist.
I was actually reading a book called Nietzche and Levinas recently which was a series of academic essays drawing out similarities between the two intellectuals. For those of you who dont know, Emmanuel Levinas was a pretty influential Jewish phenomenologist who was deeply religious.
A Nietzschean Christian sounds like my ideal friend really - close by so far away.
I think I know what Zizek means by that. At least, my own version is, I call myself a cultural Black Protestant nontheist.
Sounds pretentious as eff, and takes five years to say, but it's the most accurate thing I can come up with. One stops believing. One does not just stop being culturally what one is.
Levinas (and of course Derrida) had a big impact on me. Well, all of the phenomenologists did. It was the times, what could I say.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:45:48am |
re: #414 Alexzander
I do a lot of volunteering at young adult shelters and the other day a young black guy I know who frequents our shelter recognised the "amor fati" on the back of my sweater as coming from Nietzche. First person in maybe 6 months to do so (and tell me). He said it was the closest to his personal philosophy at the moment.
A lot of North American academic departments dont teach Nietzche anymore so even they would miss it.
It's a very Black/blues attitude. We have a phrase: when some asshole tells you you have to do this or you have to do that, the answer is, Uh-huh. I don't have to do but two things: be Black, and die.
People who understand amor fati understand this.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:47:06am |
re: #413 Gus 802
I am normally loath to speak of the flounced, but that stuck-up, pernicious pedant rubbed me the wrong way, and in so many ways...
[Insert Reasonable Rebuttal Here]
"LOL! You misused an apostrophe, idiot, therefore rendering you're entire argument invalid. Plus, you're stupid. Watch in awe as I spew undeserved, sexually suggestive abuse at certain women using proper grammar".
| 420 |
Gus Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:47:19am |
No more war porn. No more B-2s. No more B-1 bombing runs. No more waterboarding. No more sound effects from the A-10 strafing runs. No more Gaza Rooster. The war is over.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:48:04am |
re: #410 Slumbering Behemoth
Very little, you missed.
When cornered on something, and left without an intelligent argument, it would resort to pointing out typos or linguistic mistakes.
Well educated, but rather stupid an petty. JMO.
Ugh. One of those. I know someone like that who resorts to pulling rank on who has been around the longest.
Happens like clockwork.
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Alexzander Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:48:29am |
re: #415 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
I think I know what Zizek means by that. At least, my own version is, I call myself a cultural Black Protestant nontheist.
Sounds pretentious as eff, and takes five years to say, but it's the most accurate thing I can come up with. One stops believing. One does not just stop being culturally what one is.
Levinas (and of course Derrida) had a big impact on me. Well, all of the phenomenologists did. It was the times, what could I say.
I dont know how best to label myself yet - perhaps something like Nietzschean post-atheist.
I'm still deeply influnced by Derrida and Levinas and if anything I'll probably go deeper that way.
Don't let the problems of this world
Drive you slowely out of your mind
Just smile, look at the problem
And say it be's that way, be's that way sometime
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:48:41am |
re: #420 Gus 802
No more war porn. No more B-2s. No more B-1 bombing runs. No more waterboarding. No more sound effects from the A-10 strafing runs. No more Gaza Rooster. The war is over.
But... we have a dead Osama. That's gotta rank somewhere.
| 424 |
Alexzander Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:49:18am |
re: #416 Gus 802
It'll never be 2004 again.
Its pretty unlikely to be 2007 or 1992 as well. Unless its all of them always and forever over and over again.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:49:46am |
re: #419 Slumbering Behemoth
Yeah, he's really glad he missed me.
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Gus Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:49:59am |
re: #419 Slumbering Behemoth
I am normally loath to speak of the flounced, but that stuck-up, pernicious pedant rubbed me the wrong way, and in so many ways...
[Insert Reasonable Rebuttal Here]
"LOL! You misused an apostrophe, idiot, therefore rendering you're entire argument invalid. Plus, you're stupid. Watch in awe as I spew undeserved, sexually suggestive abuse at certain women using proper grammar".
Heck he used to have errors all the time. I just kept my mouth shut. He got trivial. He lost. I didn't mind him though. He should have stuck around IMO. However, his ego was too big for this place so he flounced. No great loss. I got tired of his irrational anti-atheism anyway. And he was a former atheist so it was like listening to a former smoker. More or less.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:50:04am |
re: #421 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
Ugh. One of those. I know someone like that who resorts to pulling rank on who has been around the longest.
Happens like clockwork.
Well, I've been here much longer than you. Which means I can get banned from LGF just as easily as you. Wait... where was I going with that?
| 428 |
Alexzander Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:51:10am |
re: #417 Gus 802
The war is over. We lost.
Really curious to know what you mean by this? Are you referring to shifts on LGF or on a more macroscopic scale?
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Gus Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:51:33am |
re: #424 Alexzander
Its pretty unlikely to be 2007 or 1992 as well. Unless its all of them always and forever over and over again.
Oh. 2004 was like a watershed year for LGF membership. It's sort of an inside joke now. Not that it really means much though since a lot of nice people registered in 2004 as well. Just joshing more or less.
| 430 |
Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:53:08am |
re: #425 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
Yeah, he's really glad he missed me.
Nah, he would have loved you. In the "love/hate" kind of way, I think. Chip on the shoulder, loving the "fight", and all that.
Would have waited with bated breath to sling those oh so intelligent barbs at you.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:54:20am |
re: #422 Alexzander
Don't let the problems of this world
Drive you slowely out of your mind
Just smile, look at the problem
And say it be's that way, be's that way sometime
Baby, yes it does.
| 432 |
Sol Berdinowitz Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:54:33am |
Grammar is to be used as a bludgeon, not as a tool of expression...
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Targetpractice Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:55:08am |
re: #429 Gus 802
Oh. 2004 was like a watershed year for LGF membership. It's sort of an inside joke now. Not that it really means much though since a lot of nice people registered in 2004 as well. Just joshing more or less.
*spit* Damned young whippersnapper.
//
| 434 |
Gus Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:55:31am |
re: #428 Alexzander
Really curious to know what you mean by this? Are you referring to shifts on LGF or on a more macroscopic scale?
The Macro. I think Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan will continue to hate the USA once we're long gone. We may have won the battle but we didn't win the hearts. You can't change a culture like that. It was absurd to think we could. Look at Turkey which has barely budged. And the Kurds. And then the Christians in Iraq. It's just insanity which I view from an atheist perspective.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:55:59am |
re: #430 Slumbering Behemoth
Nah, he would have loved you. In the "love/hate" kind of way, I think. Chip on the shoulder, loving the "fight", and all that.
Would have waited with bated breath to sling those oh so intelligent barbs at you.
Ah. Well if all in fun that's cool. But usually dudes like that just end up getting their feelings hurt. I do wish I could be different but it's never been in coming.
| 436 |
Alexzander Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:56:31am |
re: #429 Gus 802
Oh. 2004 was like a watershed year for LGF membership. It's sort of an inside joke now. Not that it really means much though since a lot of nice people registered in 2004 as well. Just joshing more or less.
Yeah I'm kind of aware of that era, I've been following the blog on and off since then. I probably would have been banned in a week if I'd registered during that era.
| 438 |
OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:57:24am |
re: #427 Slumbering Behemoth
So do you know how that crazy stalker site got its name?
| 439 |
Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:57:29am |
re: #426 Gus 802
I think it could not countenance the open criticism of it's brand of magical thinking, and committed suicide by insult.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 18, 2011 12:59:48am |
re: #438 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
So do you know how that crazy stalker site got its name?
Heh, which one?
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Alexzander Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:00:36am |
re: #434 Gus 802
The Macro. I think Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan will continue to hate the USA once we're long gone. We may have won the battle but we didn't win the hearts. You can't change a culture like that. It was absurd to think we could. Look at Turkey which has barely budged. And the Kurds. And then the Christians in Iraq. It's just insanity which I view from an atheist perspective.
A professor I knew worked on changes in belief (and logical reasoning).
He was deeply pessimistic about the ability of the general population to progress (or evolve out of their bigoted beliefs).
He pessimistic thought that we just have to wait for them to die.
| 442 |
OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:00:37am |
re: #437 Gus 802
I think 9/11 made a lot of people crazy. Nothing new here.
Oh man. Dunno about you but in the mid 00s I got in some serious knock down drag outs (online).
One thing that has always fascinated me about living in SF is the way NO BODY talks about Jim Jones and People's Temple. I'm seeing the same thing now with lefty sites airbrushing out their embrace of Alex Jones and all those antisemitic conspiracy theories.
| 443 |
OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:01:44am |
re: #440 Slumbering Behemoth
Heh, which one?
That stupid diary one.
[waves] HI FELLAS!!! *bats eyelashes*
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Targetpractice Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:03:20am |
re: #437 Gus 802
I think 9/11 made a lot of people crazy. Nothing new here.
I kinda tend to see our actions in Afghanistan as a bout of temporary insanity, blinded by the blood in our eyes and filled with a great rage to hurt somebody like we'd been hurt.
Iraq...a crime of opportunity. One that we could have stopped, should have stopped, but consented to because we were still convinced of the "virtue" of the fight.
| 445 |
Gus Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:03:49am |
re: #439 Slumbering Behemoth
I think it could not countenance the open criticism of it's brand of magical thinking, and committed suicide by insult.
You know. What pissed me off was that I liked him. I didn't agree with him but I sill thought he was an interesting person. In the end he decided to go full metal asshole so that's the way it is. No great loss. It's just the internet. He committed suicide by flounce. He had some weird ideas though. Like science being a religion for one. Then he thought all atheist were like Richard Dawkins. Plus he got all weird about the Israel/Palestine thing. Which still isn't uncommon you know what I mean wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
| 446 |
Alexzander Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:03:51am |
re: #437 Gus 802
I think 9/11 made a lot of people crazy. Nothing new here.
I think its worth all of our time (and money, and perhaps over 100,000 Iraqi lives, and 2 to 3 Afghani children a day) to figure out how exactly that happened and determine how to reduce the likelihood of it happening again.
| 447 |
Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:04:57am |
re: #443 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
They've gone through many iterations. I stopped paying attention to them before that particular iteration.
But LGF has stalkers from every political persuasion. To my mind, this means Charles is doing something very right.
| 448 |
Sol Berdinowitz Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:06:19am |
I never understood the need to get personal and vindictive at a blog site, but then again, I do not live in my parents' basement and I have a circle of real-life friends of both sexues...
| 449 |
Alexzander Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:08:20am |
re: #447 Slumbering Behemoth
They've gone through many iterations. I stopped paying attention to them before that particular iteration.
But LGF has stalkers from every political persuasion. To my mind, this means Charles is doing something very right.
Or everything wrong?
// I kid, I kid..
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Gus Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:11:18am |
re: #444 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
I kinda tend to see our actions in Afghanistan as a bout of temporary insanity, blinded by the blood in our eyes and filled with a great rage to hurt somebody like we'd been hurt.
Iraq...a crime of opportunity. One that we could have stopped, should have stopped, but consented to because we were still convinced of the "virtue" of the fight.
Most everything like this is out of my hands so I just shrug it off. I laughed when I watched Colin Powell give his speech to the UN about WMDs in Iraq. Then watched the run up to the invasion. Iraq had little to do with 9/11. The rest is history. Afghanistan has some to do with 9/11 but not that much. Most of it was centered in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia and remains so. Water under the bridge though. I voted for Bush in 2004 only because I didn't want to see a civil war in Iraq. Strange but true. But that's how bent I was in the aftermath of 9/11. But looking back Bush was actually a rather moderate Republican compared to the current Republican state of mind. We're still living in strange times.
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Alexzander Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:11:26am |
OK I've realized I need to listen to way more Nina Simone..
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:11:45am |
re: #445 Gus 802
Atheism is just another religion, don't you know?
They worship the god of...
Well, I mean, they pray to...
But, they have a Holy Book of Doctrine called The...
FUCK YOU! Why won't you just take my word for it?!?
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:11:56am |
I'm one of those people who was against both wars and always have been. Most people called it moonbat at the time, and still do but I don't care. It's been kind of a headsnap, however, to hear mainstream GOTP Repbulicans making the same arguments we "moonbats" were in early 2002, wtf.
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Alexzander Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:14:11am |
re: #450 Gus 802
Great reflection. Especially so on Bush - things are only getting stranger.
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Gus Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:15:26am |
re: #452 Slumbering Behemoth
Atheism is just another religion, don't you know?
They worship the god of...
Well, I mean, they pray to...
But, they have a Holy Book of Doctrine called The...
FUCK YOU! Why won't you just take my word for it?!?
Yeah. I wake up every morning thinking of nothing. The pain in my ass. The pain in my leg or my ear. That's some "religion" I have. I wake up thinking about "no magic man in the sky". My life sucks and it's all my own fault and not some demon. Pfft. I know. The other thought is that once I stop getting blood and oxygen to my brain I cease to have consciousness. I cease to exist. I never bother to extrapolate.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:15:32am |
re: #453 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
Democrat in the White House. That's "What The Fuck".
And I am pleasantly surprised with his works so far.
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Gus Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:17:04am |
re: #456 Slumbering Behemoth
Democrat in the White House. That's "What The Fuck".
And I am pleasantly surprised with his works so far.
Obama's a good egg. He really is. He's very close to being the perfect centrist even.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:17:55am |
re: #451 Alexzander
OK I've realized I need to listen to way more Nina Simone..
Nina Simone will blow.your.mind.
She went crankodoodle in her later years. But musically, artistically, intellectually, she was a true A lister. I relate to her story a lot.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:19:21am |
re: #456 Slumbering Behemoth
Democrat in the White House. That's "What The Fuck".
And I am pleasantly surprised with his works so far.
Yeah I wonder if they would do the same thing with Hillary in the WH. I think they would.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:19:34am |
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Targetpractice Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:20:15am |
re: #450 Gus 802
Most everything like this is out of my hands so I just shrug it off. I laughed when I watched Colin Powell give his speech to the UN about WMDs in Iraq. Then watched the run up to the invasion. Iraq had little to do with 9/11. The rest is history. Afghanistan has some to do with 9/11 but not that much. Most of it was centered in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia and remains so. Water under the bridge though. I voted for Bush in 2004 only because I didn't want to see a civil war in Iraq. Strange but true. But that's how bent I was in the aftermath of 9/11. But looking back Bush was actually a rather moderate Republican compared to the current Republican state of mind. We're still living in strange times.
Hell, if you take the time to dig through the archives here, you'll find that I used to be one of those with his head firmly planted up backside when it came to Bush and the Right. In a way, Charles and I both sort of went through the same transformations, first being "mugged" by 9/11 into signing into a lot of the anti-Islam BS for awhile, then a reevaluation after seeing some of the noxious shit coming out of the Right in the wake of '08. I voted for Bush in '04 because I honestly thought he was taking the "War on Terror" seriously, and in retrospect I don't regret that vote. Because you're right, Bush is like his old man and Reagan in that they are far more moderate, level-headed men than the loonies who claim to be "Republicans" now.
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Alexzander Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:21:51am |
re: #458 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
Nina Simone will blow.your.mind.
She went crankodoodle in her later years. But musically, artistically, intellectually, she was a true A lister. I relate to her story a lot.
All the great ones do.
I know I will - hopefully I become great too!
Listening to "Who Am I?" right now.
Is there a particularly good documentary of biography to look up?
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:25:08am |
re: #457 Gus 802
Obama's a good egg. He really is. He's very close to being the perfect centrist even.
I dig it so far. I have no major complaints, but I must add that I am ignorant when it comes to the issues of the economy.
re: #459 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
Yeah I wonder if they would do the same thing with Hillary in the WH. I think they would.
They would. Much of the Obama demonization I am hearing is only tired re-treads of the Clintion demonization I heard in the past. The only new shit is the "Birther/Sekrit Muslim" shit.
Does his complexion make a difference? For some it does. But for many, I think it's nothing more than the (D).
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Alexzander Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:25:58am |
re: #457 Gus 802
Obama's a good egg. He really is. He's very close to being the perfect centrist even.
It is incredible this isn't more recognised.
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Gus Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:28:06am |
re: #460 Slumbering Behemoth
Clearly, life has no meaning for you, and you should not celebrate anything.
[Video]Yet somehow, at the same time, you also are part of a religion of faith. Go figure.
You know how it is. We have "faith" in people. We judge people by who they are regardless of whether they're Christian, atheist, Jewish, Muslim or anything else. None of those associations determine how well they will respond in a positive affirmation towards our being and towards the world amongst us. I've seen good and bad from all of the above. That's the irony I guess. It doesn't matter what people believe in the end. It's who they are and how they respond to you in the affirmative when the going gets rough. That means the most to me.
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Targetpractice Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:28:16am |
re: #459 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
Yeah I wonder if they would do the same thing with Hillary in the WH. I think they would.
Without a doubt. Instead of the Birther BS, it'd be calls for "investigations" into Vince Foster's death, suggestions of corruption stemming from Whitewater, and so forth. And you know they'd have no end of fun poking at the fact that Bill was "First Dude."
Really, you'd just be exchanging racism for misogyny.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:29:09am |
re: #461 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
Bush is like his old man and Reagan in that they are far more moderate, level-headed men than the loonies who claim to be "Republicans" now.
In this vein, I feel the same about our current POTUS vis a vis the loonies of the very recent past who claimed to be Democrats.
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Gus Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:31:29am |
re: #467 Slumbering Behemoth
In this vein, I feel the same about our current POTUS vis a vis the loonies of the very recent past who claimed to be Democrats.
You mean like when Obama put Social Security on the table?
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:31:40am |
re: #462 Alexzander
All the great ones do.
I know I will - hopefully I become great too!
Listening to "Who Am I?" right now.
Is there a particularly good documentary of biography to look up?
Ooo, "Who Am I", the Bernstein piece. That's a good one. Wait till you hear her Bach-based jazz.
There is a recent bio of her which I haven't read yet, Princess Noire. I have heard good things about it - [Link: amzn.to...]
Her autobiography is a good place to start - [Link: amzn.to...]
Also I'd recommend the Live At Ronnie Scott's DVD - [Link: amzn.to...]
Her studio years on Philips are the best produced and most polished. But every time you find a new CD, do get it because even if you think you have 10 versions of one song all eleven will be performed differently each time. I should say - be aware it's really easy to get obsessed with Nina Simone. She really sticks with you.
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Targetpractice Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:36:19am |
re: #467 Slumbering Behemoth
In this vein, I feel the same about our current POTUS vis a vis the loonies of the very recent past who claimed to be Democrats.
Yeah, it's kinda funny to watch things now and see the historical parallels. I keep hearing the wingnuts tell me that Obama's the new Carter, that he's an utter failure and that he'll go down badly next year. Personally, I keep looking at him as Reagan, circa 1983: A fairly moderate (by today's standards) president who was trying to nurse the still ailing economy along against strong opposition from a very vocal Democratic Party. And we all remember how '84 worked out, and it wasn't the loonies who walked away with victory.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:40:30am |
re: #463 Slumbering Behemoth
They would. Much of the Obama demonization I am hearing is only tired re-treads of the Clintion demonization I heard in the past. The only new shit is the "Birther/Sekrit Muslim" shit.
Does his complexion make a difference? For some it does. But for many, I think it's nothing more than the (D).
I think you're right about that. The thing I keep dealing with is these disgruntled PUMA types who voted for him and are now pouting about everything he does, as if Hillary would do much different. I even had one tell me, we should not have voted in the black, we should have voted in the woman. Then we wouldn't be having all these teabaggers. /eyeroll
So the rwnj with skin color issues are not alone. But my own view is warped and jaundiced as any; I grew up among those kinds of people so their reaction was expected, and no surprise. Everyone else seems to me has not been paying attention, or is feigning shock, but again that is my jaundiced view. Imo their behavior is nothing new at all.
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Gus Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:44:32am |
re: #470 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
Yeah, it's kinda funny to watch things now and see the historical parallels. I keep hearing the wingnuts tell me that Obama's the new Carter, that he's an utter failure and that he'll go down badly next year. Personally, I keep looking at him as Reagan, circa 1983: A fairly moderate (by today's standards) president who was trying to nurse the still ailing economy along against strong opposition from a very vocal Democratic Party. And we all remember how '84 worked out, and it wasn't the loonies who walked away with victory.
That's such a joke. No president is like the other. Obama for one has far bigger balls than Carter. I could add more. And people keep complaining and thinking "well if we elect a Republican president we'll be much better off." Not hardly. We're dealing with an international economy now. Greece effects the market as does any other "little" European country. President can't wave their magic wand and make things better for us. People just aren't clued in. The fact is that the government doesn't run the economy in the USA or the world. It's the private sector. It's the banks and the investment bankers. In the USA it's also what the Fed decides which is almost outside the influence of normal democratic decisions. So if Romney won in 2012 it really wouldn't make a spit of difference. Life will continue to be very hard in these United States. That's just the way it is.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:45:02am |
re: #465 Gus 802
The Sarc...
But you deny the divinity of the Lord our Gravel, and therefore must be enthralled by another kind of faith.
The Real...
It doesn't matter what people believe in the end. It's who they are and how they respond to you in the affirmative when the going gets rough.
QFMFT!
I had a girlfriend once. Oh, she was lovey-dovey. Everything was peaches and cream. But we were both in good spots when we got together.
When the very first bit of real life roughness hit, financial it was, she turned into the nastiest bitch this side of... well, where ever nasty bitches are born.
Not at all a Team Player, she.
Yet I don't hate women. Go figure.
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Gus Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:46:08am |
It's like thinking we could bring jobs back to Gary, Indiana. How? How in the forking world will Gary, Indiana compete with Chinese wages. You just can't. To that I say, "keep thinking."
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:46:32am |
re: #466 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
Without a doubt. Instead of the Birther BS, it'd be calls for "investigations" into Vince Foster's death, suggestions of corruption stemming from Whitewater, and so forth. And you know they'd have no end of fun poking at the fact that Bill was "First Dude."
Really, you'd just be exchanging racism for misogyny.
I don't doubt it. There were even times I was I guess "concerned" about Palin in the case of a McCain/Palin win. It was kind of confirmed at the concession speech where she got catcalled by her own voters. I was like...uh-huh....
The first woman president is going to have a bear of a time. But after Hillary, Palin, and Michelle O as first lady, I think the country is just generally more used to it now.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:47:55am |
re: #468 Gus 802
You mean like when Obama put Social Security on the table?
I'm out of touch on this one. Sarc or NoSarc?
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:48:40am |
re: #471 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
Everyone else seems to me has not been paying attention, or is feigning shock, but again that is my jaundiced view. Imo their behavior is nothing new at all.
Feh, pimf
Everyone else, seems to me, has not been paying attention, or is feigning shock, but again that is my jaundiced view. Imo their behavior is nothing new at all.
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Summer Seale Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:49:35am |
Wow...Just....WOW!
BoingBoing: Fox & Friends lash out at News of the World critics
Can they get their tongues up Rupert Murdoch's ass any further on live TV? How did that taste, boys?
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Gus Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:50:22am |
re: #476 Slumbering Behemoth
I'm out of touch on this one. Sarc or NoSarc?
NoSarc. He did. Pelosi, although being the minority leader, said sure but not on the debt ceiling deliberations.
Nobody wants to cut SS. Neither party.
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Gus Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:52:18am |
re: #478 Summer
Wow...Just...WOW!
BoingBoing: Fox & Friends lash out at News of the World critics
Can they get their tongues up Rupert Murdoch's ass any further on live TV? How did that taste, boys?
Critics? How can you be a critic of a non-entity?
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Targetpractice Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:53:00am |
re: #472 Gus 802
That's such a joke. No president is like the other. Obama for one has far bigger balls than Carter. I could add more. And people keep complaining and thinking "well if we elect a Republican president we'll be much better off." Not hardly. We're dealing with an international economy now. Greece effects the market as does any other "little" European country. President can't wave their magic wand and make things better for us. People just aren't clued in. The fact is that the government doesn't run the economy in the USA or the world. It's the private sector. It's the banks and the investment bankers. In the USA it's also what the Fed decides which is almost outside the influence of normal democratic decisions. So if Romney won in 2012 it really wouldn't make a spit of difference. Life will continue to be very hard in these United States. That's just the way it is.
Totally agree. This isn't the America of our fathers generation, or their fathers. We are not only a nation that is one among many instead of the king of the mountain, but we're also a nation which seemingly has ceased to have a functioning government. Really, if next year the GOP were to have a perfect sweep and take not only the White House, but both houses of Congress, they'd still not have anywhere near enough of a majority to rule by fiat. And after the last 10+ years, do folks in the GOP ranks honestly believe that those Democrats still in power will just roll over and allow themselves to be ordered how to vote?
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Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:57:22am |
Sheesh. I generally wake up and log on and there is nobody here. But now there are actually lucid people talking at this hour? What to do, what to do....
Morning Honcos.
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Gus Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:59:08am |
re: #482 Cannadian Club Akbar
Sheesh. I generally wake up and log on and there is nobody here. But now there are actually lucid people talking at this hour? What to do, what to do...
Morning Honcos.
Eat more albacore tuna. Sure, it has a lot mercury. But the mercury helps keep the nervous energy going.
//
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Targetpractice Mon, Jul 18, 2011 1:59:17am |
re: #482 Cannadian Club Akbar
Sheesh. I generally wake up and log on and there is nobody here. But now there are actually lucid people talking at this hour? What to do, what to do...
Morning Honcos.
Yeah, caffeine is a hell of a drug.
/
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 18, 2011 2:01:29am |
re: #478 Summer
"Why is the media focusing so much on this rapist when they barely covered the story about this rape victim here, or that rape victim there? Shirley there are more important topics to cover, like the current tortilla shortage in Arizona".
Relevancy and Accurate Comparisons: Fox & Friends doing it wrong. Not that such a thing is new for them.
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Gus Mon, Jul 18, 2011 2:01:49am |
Fox and Friends is so dopey they're easy to ignore. Seriously stupid shit there.
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Targetpractice Mon, Jul 18, 2011 2:03:30am |
Huh, yet another story on Yahoo about McConnell's brainfart...er, brainstorm of a "deal" getting a second glance in the Senate. My cynic senses are tingling.
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Alexzander Mon, Jul 18, 2011 2:03:46am |
re: #482 Cannadian Club Akbar
Yeah - unusually active night it seems. I'm nearly ready to call it a night though.
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Gus Mon, Jul 18, 2011 2:04:02am |
Brought to you by the same dorks that bring you American Idol. Nothing else need be said.
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Targetpractice Mon, Jul 18, 2011 2:04:08am |
re: #487 Gus 802
All TV sucks. Fox News is extra double stupid.
Hey now, we all need our daily dose of Two Minutes Hate.
//
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Gus Mon, Jul 18, 2011 2:05:36am |
re: #491 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
Hey now, we all need our daily dose of Two Minutes Hate.
//
Sean Hannity! LOL Too funny. What an idiot. He's like a janitor.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 2:06:01am |
re: #486 Gus 802
Fox and Friends is so dopey they're easy to ignore. Seriously stupid shit there.
The last time I watched F&F's was Christmas Day, 2007. I was kinda stuck in a NYC hotel and Bhutto was assassinated.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 2:07:30am |
re: #494 Cannadian Club Akbar
The last time I watched F&F's was Christmas Day, 2007. I was kinda stuck in a NYC hotel and Bhutto was assassinated.
Actually, day after Christmas. My bad.
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Targetpractice Mon, Jul 18, 2011 2:13:38am |
Think I'll continue the trend and grab some sleep myself. BBL
| 501 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 2:14:34am |
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 18, 2011 2:17:30am |
If Atheism were a religious faith...
Yeah, I altered the title some. Sue me.
I Paged it too. Sue me twice.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 18, 2011 2:20:33am |
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Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 2:28:57am |
re: #504 ggt
Anyone besides me awake?
Up until 20 minutes ago, people were rolling here. But they all went to bed.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 2:29:45am |
And now I have to restart. BRB. POS computer.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 18, 2011 2:33:40am |
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Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 2:39:30am |
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 18, 2011 2:47:52am |
re: #510 Cannadian Club Akbar
Heh, that site is like Oprah to me.
No matter how many grains of truth that it may present, it's rep is sullied in my eyes by it's propensity to promote woo-woo nonsense.
/Though I am happy for the FDA here in the US. Just sayin'. Safe, liver killing booze FTW!
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 18, 2011 2:51:00am |
re: #510 Cannadian Club Akbar
Though I am down for a round of "Martin Burgers"!
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 2:52:05am |
I think I'm getting tired. again .
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 2:53:56am |
Yep, I think I"m going to be off soon.
Quick, someone post!
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 2:55:06am |
too late, I"m off to bed again.
Have a great morning all!
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Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 2:55:27am |
re: #511 Slumbering Behemoth
The thing I hate about HuffPo and msnbc and places like that is the fact that pretty much anyone can post there. You might as well be talking to yourself.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 18, 2011 3:01:59am |
re: #516 Cannadian Club Akbar
It's the homeopathy and other garbage woo woo that gets to me. By hosted authors.
You know what they call "Alternative Medicine" that has been proven to work?
"Medicine".
You know what they do with "Alternative Medicine" that has either been proven not to work, or not proven to work?
Get an "authority" to write about it on HuffPo, or pontificate about it on Oprah.
/Stealing a bit of Minchin there. Sue me thrice.
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Summer Seale Mon, Jul 18, 2011 3:02:35am |
G+ is having major problems with their stupid policies. After banning tons of avatars (many of them my friends), they now have flagged William Shatner's profile for "Violating Standards". He is apparently considering leaving G+.
I'm just blown away that Google can be this blind. If they don't get the message after this that their stupid policies are extremist and idiotic, then I don't know what could possibly convince them.
Very, very, disappointed in Google atm. They should fix things and apologize to everyone and revamp their dumbass policies.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 18, 2011 3:08:49am |
re: #518 Summer
"Don't Be Evil".
/unless you're a mega-million dollar search engine corporation that willingly worked with the Chinese gov't to fuck over Chinese citizens potentially critical of said gov't... in which case all bets are off.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 3:11:21am |
My fucking lap top is really pissing me off. Prolly gonna take a shit on me. Wanna know why? I sold my other lap top last week. Fuck.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 18, 2011 3:14:33am |
re: #520 Cannadian Club Akbar
My fucking lap top is really pissing me off. Prolly gonna take a shit on me. Wanna know why? I sold my other lap top last week. Fuck.
It wanted you when you appeared to have other options. Now that you perceivably have none, it wants little to do with you. Oh, the fickle fancies of shallow laptops.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 3:15:27am |
re: #521 Slumbering Behemoth
It wanted you when you appeared to have other options. Now that you perceivably have none, it wants little to do with you. Oh, the fickle fancies of shallow laptops.
So laptops=women?
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 18, 2011 3:16:31am |
re: #522 Cannadian Club Akbar
So laptops=women?
Or men. The mental disease of such shallowness plagues both genders.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 3:20:29am |
re: #523 Slumbering Behemoth
Or men. The mental disease of such shallowness plagues both genders.
I meant more along the lines of "women don't look at me but if I am with a woman they do".:)
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 18, 2011 3:31:16am |
re: #525 Cannadian Club Akbar
I meant more along the lines of "women don't look at me but if I am with a woman they do".:)
This is true, and it works the same way with dudes.
Though I am the type of dude to look at women regardless. Whether they're with someone, or I'm with someone, or we're both "without" someone, or we're both covered in squid guts and mayonnaise. I look.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 18, 2011 3:33:30am |
re: #525 Cannadian Club Akbar
It also works the same way with potential employers.
"You have a job? We want you."
"You don't have a job? We don't want you."
It's a sickness.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 3:33:48am |
re: #526 Slumbering Behemoth
This is true, and it works the same way with dudes.
Though I am the type of dude to look at women regardless. Whether they're with someone, or I'm with someone, or we're both "without" someone, or we're both covered in squid guts and mayonnaise. I look.
I have an ex-GF who knew I am a breast man. She would nudge me and say "look at the tits on that bitch". Heh.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 3:35:22am |
re: #527 Slumbering Behemoth
It also works the same way with potential employers.
"You have a job? We want you."
"You don't have a job? We don't want you."
It's a sickness.
This I am well aware of. Douches.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 18, 2011 3:39:42am |
re: #528 Cannadian Club Akbar
I have an ex-GF who knew I am a breast man. She would nudge me and say "look at the tits on that bitch". Heh.
One old g/f of mine commented on the "hawtness" of some actor on tv in front of me, then did the "oops, sorry, didn't mean that" for my benefit.
My response was something like "What? You expect me to believe you don't look at other men and find them attractive? That you don't fantasize about them? Big Whoop".
Of course, I left off the "If only you knew about the women I fantasize about..." part.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 3:44:28am |
re: #530 Slumbering Behemoth
One old g/f of mine commented on the "hawtness" of some actor on tv in front of me, then did the "oops, sorry, didn't mean that" for my benefit.
My response was something like "What? You expect me to believe you don't look at other men and find them attractive? That you don't fantasize about them? Big Whoop".
Of course, I left off the "If only you knew about the women I fantasize about..." part.
Did you two have an "agreement list" or whatever in regards to celebrities?
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 18, 2011 3:46:22am |
re: #531 Cannadian Club Akbar
Did you two have an "agreement list" or whatever in regards to celebrities?
No. As I recall, that wasn't much of a "thing" back then.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 18, 2011 3:48:48am |
And despite her egotistical bluster, she wasn't a very secure.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Jul 18, 2011 3:52:16am |
re: #533 Slumbering Behemoth
And despite her egotistical bluster, she wasn't a very secure.
Person.
I'm done for the night. Catch you scaly ones later.
| 535 |
Sol Berdinowitz Mon, Jul 18, 2011 4:07:42am |
When your girlfriend complains about how you turn your head to look at the backsides of passing women, remind her that you do not have to turn your head to bring her posterior into your field of vision...
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Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 4:10:14am |
re: #535 ralphieboy
When your girlfriend complains about how you turn your head to look at the backsides of passing women, remind her that you do not have to turn your head to bring her posterior into your field of vision...
And that's when the fight started...
| 537 |
Sol Berdinowitz Mon, Jul 18, 2011 4:10:45am |
| 538 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 4:23:14am |
Going for a quick walk before it gets hot, bbiab.
| 539 |
Vicious Babushka Mon, Jul 18, 2011 4:30:23am |
Oh hai. I had to go to sleep last night while we were in the midst of a raging Vicodin conversation. Zedushka & #3 son got home from their excursion up north around midnight or 1:00am (I wouldn't know, I was fast asleep) and then son left for the airport at around 5:30am, just when my alarm went off.
SO GLAD I did not join them on their trip Up North.
| 540 |
Darth Vader Gargoyle Mon, Jul 18, 2011 4:34:13am |
Good Morning Honcos!
My last week on the Navy staff! Woo HOOO!!
| 541 |
laZardo Mon, Jul 18, 2011 4:43:52am |
So I turn 24 tomorrow and I'm looking back with regret on all the opportunities I've missed.
Thank Raptor Jesus for 4chan's pr0n boards.
| 542 |
Sol Berdinowitz Mon, Jul 18, 2011 4:45:04am |
re: #541 laZardo
So I turn 24 tomorrow and I'm looking back with regret on all the opportunities I've missed.
Just think of all the lost opportunities you will have to look back on when you turn 48...
| 543 |
Flounder Mon, Jul 18, 2011 4:53:35am |
re: #528 Cannadian Club Akbar
Just breasts?! I love feet, boney ankles, CFM heels, shoulder blades, long necks... I could go on but I'm getting myself in a lather.
| 544 |
Sol Berdinowitz Mon, Jul 18, 2011 5:01:26am |
re: #543 Shropshire_Slasher
Just breasts?! I love feet, boney ankles, CFM heels, shoulder blades, long necks... I could go on but I'm getting myself in a lather.
I have learned to appreciate the entire package and how everything fits together. I do not understand the fixation on T&A at all.
| 546 |
Vicious Babushka Mon, Jul 18, 2011 5:11:26am |
re: #543 Shropshire_Slasher
Just breasts?! I love feet, boney ankles, CFM heels, shoulder blades, long necks... I could go on but I'm getting myself in a lather.
What if the person attached to all of these body parts is a total douche? Does that still turn you on?
| 547 |
Sol Berdinowitz Mon, Jul 18, 2011 5:13:56am |
| 548 |
laZardo Mon, Jul 18, 2011 5:19:15am |
re: #542 ralphieboy
Just think of all the lost opportunities you will have to look back on when you turn 48...
[curled up in corner and sobbing uncontrollably]
| 549 |
Decatur Deb Mon, Jul 18, 2011 5:22:17am |
re: #548 laZardo
[curled up in corner and sobbing uncontrollably]
Twentysomethings rediscover religion. Thirtysometings start religions.
| 550 |
Flounder Mon, Jul 18, 2011 5:29:26am |
re: #546 Alouette
Sometimes it all goes down the drain once she opens her mouth.
| 551 |
Sol Berdinowitz Mon, Jul 18, 2011 5:31:07am |
re: #550 Shropshire_Slasher
Sometimes it all goes down the drain once she opens her mouth.
Had that problem with a lovely goil from Joisey. She was otherwise brilliant, but I could not stand the thought of waking up to "Hiya! Woant some cwoffee?"
| 552 |
Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Mon, Jul 18, 2011 5:35:39am |
re: #548 laZardo
tl;dr
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Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Mon, Jul 18, 2011 5:37:36am |
re: #549 Decatur Deb
Yeah, I was just reading about a formerly respectable guy in Russia (linguist, MSU professor) who started his own Church with emphasis on the "revelations" he received from Mother of God. Coincidence?
| 554 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 5:43:00am |
re: #546 Alouette
What if the person attached to all of these body parts is a total douche? Does that still turn you on?
Mrs. Rightnow.
| 555 |
BongCrodny Mon, Jul 18, 2011 5:48:47am |
re: #478 Summer
Wow...Just...WOW!
BoingBoing: Fox & Friends lash out at News of the World critics
Can they get their tongues up Rupert Murdoch's ass any further on live TV? How did that taste, boys?
Well, it's Australian, so by default it can't be any worse than 80% of the local cuisine.
| 556 |
Sol Berdinowitz Mon, Jul 18, 2011 5:51:21am |
re: #555 BongCrodny
Well, it's Australian, so by default it can't be any worse than 80% of the local cuisine.
sounds like a real pie floater
[Link: en.wikibooks.org...]
| 557 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 5:54:41am |
This entire story is fucked up. I read about this a couple days ago. Before the son died, but after the woman died.
[Link: www.dailymail.co.uk...]
| 558 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 5:55:50am |
re: #556 ralphieboy
sounds like a real pie floater
[Link: en.wikibooks.org...]
Popular with drinkers? I'll stick to Taco Bell.
| 559 |
BongCrodny Mon, Jul 18, 2011 5:58:09am |
re: #556 ralphieboy
sounds like a real pie floater
[Link: en.wikibooks.org...]
Good Lord.
They sell that?
| 560 |
Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Mon, Jul 18, 2011 5:58:46am |
re: #556 ralphieboy
Actually, looks good! Um, figuratively speaking.
| 561 |
Sol Berdinowitz Mon, Jul 18, 2011 5:59:54am |
re: #558 Cannadian Club Akbar
Popular with drinkers? I'll stick to Taco Bell.
From what I hear, it is the sort of thing you fetch on your way home from the pub. I could not imagine ever eating one sober, much like Taco Bell or White Castle...
| 562 |
Vicious Babushka Mon, Jul 18, 2011 6:00:17am |
re: #557 Cannadian Club Akbar
This entire story is fucked up. I read about this a couple days ago. Before the son died, but after the woman died.
[Link: www.dailymail.co.uk...]
Levi Aron is probably headed up to Sing Sing for the rest of his natural life, while Jonah Shacknai will walk around free as a bird, guilty as hell.
| 563 |
Obdicut Mon, Jul 18, 2011 6:00:27am |
One of the questions the British MPs are reportedly planning on asking Murdoch and Murdoch is rather big.
4. Why did News International not hand over e-mails containing evidence of alleged illegality by its staff to police in spring 2007 when it gave them to solicitors Harbottle and Lewis for review?
This question asserts two things: that News International may have committed a crime by not handing over that evidence of illegality to the police, and that it gave those items to solicitors for review, which would probably be a rather high-level decision to make.
| 564 |
Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Mon, Jul 18, 2011 6:02:50am |
What's the best way to join Google Plus? Does it work by invites?
| 565 |
Obdicut Mon, Jul 18, 2011 6:05:59am |
re: #564 Sergey Romanov
Yep. Email me and I'll give you one. I'm just my name here at gmail.
| 566 |
William Barnett-Lewis Mon, Jul 18, 2011 6:14:04am |
re: #565 Obdicut
Got any more invites to spare?
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lostlakehiker Mon, Jul 18, 2011 6:14:22am |
re: #468 Gus 802
You mean like when Obama put Social Security on the table?
Social Security has got to be on the table. Discretionary spending doesn't have an automatic increase built in. The trend we're on, our entitlement programs, taken together and combined with the demographic trends [more old people, fewer well educated high earners] will sink the budget no matter how drastically we cut discretionary spending.
| 568 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 6:16:52am |
Awake again. I guess it's night of little sleep.
How is everyone?
| 570 |
Obdicut Mon, Jul 18, 2011 6:22:30am |
re: #567 lostlakehiker
Except that the boomers are a bolus, not a permanent increase to the SS rolls.
Why are you ignoring that?
| 571 |
kirkspencer Mon, Jul 18, 2011 6:23:30am |
re: #567 lostlakehiker
Social Security has got to be on the table. Discretionary spending doesn't have an automatic increase built in. The trend we're on, our entitlement programs, taken together and combined with the demographic trends [more old people, fewer well educated high earners] will sink the budget no matter how drastically we cut discretionary spending.
On the other hand, increasing the tax rates (and closing the loopholes) to match those of 1996 would not only fund our existing programs but would pay down the deficit.
| 572 |
Sol Berdinowitz Mon, Jul 18, 2011 6:23:50am |
re: #570 Obdicut
Except that the boomers are a bolus, not a permanent increase to the SS rolls.
Why are you ignoring that?
Just let in more illegal immigrants to work and pay into SS without any calaim to benefits...
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 6:24:48am |
re: #557 Cannadian Club Akbar
This entire story is fucked up. I read about this a couple days ago. Before the son died, but after the woman died.
[Link: www.dailymail.co.uk...]
her hands and feet were bound and they think it might have been a suicide?
I'm confused.
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Decatur Deb Mon, Jul 18, 2011 6:25:27am |
re: #553 Sergey Romanov
Yeah, I was just reading about a formerly respectable guy in Russia (linguist, MSU professor) who started his own Church with emphasis on the "revelations" he received from Mother of God. Coincidence?
Did he go through a death and rebirth experience after a bout of alcohol/drug addiction?. If so, he's part of a long line.
| 575 |
Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Mon, Jul 18, 2011 6:28:14am |
re: #574 Decatur Deb
I think it's probably a non-disabling mental illness, though I don't know that of course.
| 576 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 6:29:27am |
re: #553 Sergey Romanov
Yeah, I was just reading about a formerly respectable guy in Russia (linguist, MSU professor) who started his own Church with emphasis on the "revelations" he received from Mother of God. Coincidence?
Hey, it's a profitable gig if you can do it. . . .
| 577 |
Decatur Deb Mon, Jul 18, 2011 6:29:54am |
re: #575 Sergey Romanov
I think it's probably a non-disabling mental illness, though I don't know that of course.
Religious revival is only a mental illness if it doesn't work.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 6:32:47am |
re: #573 ggt
her hands and feet were bound and they think it might have been a suicide?
I'm confused.
It's possible. They didn't give enough details (obviously) other than saying she was hanging from a balcony.
| 579 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 6:34:42am |
re: #578 Cannadian Club Akbar
It's possible. They didn't give enough details (obviously) other than saying she was hanging from a balcony.
Well, I hope they figure it all out.
| 580 |
Decatur Deb Mon, Jul 18, 2011 6:34:52am |
re: #573 ggt
her hands and feet were bound and they think it might have been a suicide?
I'm confused.
Future Law & Order SVU. They'll figure it out for us.
| 581 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 6:36:45am |
re: #580 Decatur Deb
Future Law & Order SVU. They'll figure it out for us.
"The story you are about to see is ripped from the headlines. But it didn't really happen. "Cept it did. These are their stories. I mean "The" story".
| 583 |
Decatur Deb Mon, Jul 18, 2011 6:37:34am |
re: #581 Cannadian Club Akbar
"The story you are about to see is ripped from the headlines. But it didn't really happen. "Cept it did. These are their stories. I mean "The" story".
Bing BONG.
| 584 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 6:38:36am |
re: #581 Cannadian Club Akbar
"The story you are about to see is ripped from the headlines. But it didn't really happen. "Cept it did. These are their stories. I mean "The" story".
Or a Dominc Dunne true crime novel.
| 585 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 6:40:51am |
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 6:42:10am |
re: #585 Cannadian Club Akbar
I'm thinking once you hit zero gravity, puke bags won't be much help.
I honestly had to recheck the url to make sure I hadn't somehow gotten to The Onion.
| 587 |
Sol Berdinowitz Mon, Jul 18, 2011 6:44:06am |
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 6:45:44am |
re: #587 ralphieboy
"If you build it, they will come..."
Well, once we hit warp speed, the Vulcan will have a proper landing spot.
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kirkspencer Mon, Jul 18, 2011 6:47:45am |
re: #587 ralphieboy
"If you build it, they will come..."
Of course, they've competition in Willacy County, Texas. [Link: hobbyspace.com...]
| 590 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 6:48:33am |
New Mexico has a Spaceport Authority.
Who knew?
| 591 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 6:49:41am |
re: #589 kirkspencer
Of course, they've competition in Willacy County, Texas. [Link: hobbyspace.com...]
We should start a "booster rocket recovery" company. Or just sell it for scrap.
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 6:51:05am |
| 593 |
Sol Berdinowitz Mon, Jul 18, 2011 6:52:03am |
re: #590 ggt
New Mexico has a Spaceport Authority.
Who knew?
WIl the IGTSA have to give aliens pat-down searches?
| 594 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 6:53:21am |
re: #593 ralphieboy
WIl the IGTSA have to give aliens pat-down searches?
Prolly. I don't think Greys have hanging berries.
| 595 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 6:53:24am |
re: #593 ralphieboy
WIl the IGTSA have to give aliens pat-down searches?
They wouldn't know what to look for any more than TSA.
| 596 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 6:54:21am |
Imma thinking that the elected officials must have been smoking some of that ganja they confiscated from the tent city inmates.
| 597 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 6:57:21am |
Wait, don't we already have a spaceport of sorts in Flordia?
Oh yeah, they are shutting it down because it isn't going to be used anymore.
| 598 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 6:58:49am |
re: #597 ggt
Wait, don't we already have a spaceport of sorts in Flordia?
Oh yeah, they are shutting it down because it isn't going to be used anymore.
It will be used for some stuff. But there will be layoffs.
| 599 |
Killgore Trout Mon, Jul 18, 2011 6:59:16am |
CNN: British police officer who ruled two years ago to not reopen investigation into News of the World resigns
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 6:59:25am |
re: #598 Cannadian Club Akbar
It will be used for some stuff. But there will be layoffs.
Those laid-off can go work in New Mexico.
| 601 |
Obdicut Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:07:24am |
re: #599 Killgore Trout
CNN: British police officer who ruled two years ago to not reopen investigation into News of the World resigns
That was a quick reversal.
Sources say that he was confronted with new information about the friendship between the two men who have known each other for many years.
Assistant Commissioner Yates is unlikely to go quietly.
This morning he told friends that it would be "outrageous" if he was suspended and - as I posted earlier - that he would only resign if his judgement was found wanting by the official inquiry to be chaired by Lord Leveson.
| 602 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:07:40am |
re: #599 Killgore Trout
CNN: British police officer who ruled two years ago to not reopen investigation into News of the World resigns
This guy?
[Link: www.independent.co.uk...]
| 603 |
Killgore Trout Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:09:14am |
More garbage from the already tarnished Wall Street Journal....
A tabloid's excesses don't tarnish thousands of other journalists.
When News Corp. and CEO Rupert Murdoch secured enough shares to buy Dow Jones & Co. four years ago, these columns welcomed our new owner and promised to stand by the same standards and principles we always had. That promise is worth repeating now that politicians and our competitors are using the phone-hacking years ago at a British corner of News Corp. to assail the Journal, and perhaps injure press freedom in general.
....
Phone-hacking is deplorable, and we assume the guilty will be prosecuted. More fundamentally, the News of the World's offense—fatal, as it turned out—was to violate the trust of its readers by not coming about its news honestly. We realize how precious that reader trust is, and our obligation is to re-earn it every day.
| 604 |
Killgore Trout Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:11:06am |
re: #602 Cannadian Club Akbar
This guy?
[Link: www.independent.co.uk...]
Yeah, I think that's him...
Mr Yates came under increasing pressure over his decision in 2009 that there was no need to reopen the Met's investigation into phone hacking at the News of the World.
| 605 |
William Barnett-Lewis Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:12:07am |
| 606 |
Sol Berdinowitz Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:12:42am |
We realize how precious reader trust is, which is why we bury them in bullsh*t every day...
| 607 |
Killgore Trout Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:22:32am |
re: #606 ralphieboy
We realize how precious reader trust is, which is why we bury them in bullsh*t every day...
Looking at that article again it's kind of a veiled threat. The are urging against a congressional investigation because Republicans may counter with investigations into liberal press when they get the power.
| 608 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:24:17am |
"On top of this, there's a shortage of paid home health aides. Last week, the Obama administration joined labor groups calling for the creation of 2 million more jobs in home health care, plus a new visa for immigrants willing to enter the field.
Mintz has grappled with the problem in caring for her husband, who has multiple sclerosis. Earlier this year, she had trouble finding someone to change his catheter twice a week while she was at work. So she says she resorted to something a little crazy.
"With Steven's permission, I actually put a note on the neighborhood Listserv," she says.
Sure enough, a man who works from home said he'd be willing to try it. He's been doing it ever since — for free.
Mintz says we need to expand our definition of "family." Next year, she plans to launch a recruitment drive to match those in need with volunteers.
"It might be, 'I can drive her to PT for the next five Thursdays,' or 'I can bring meals for the next six months,' " Mintz says.
In other words, create a community of caregivers — an old idea for a new age."
| 609 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:25:17am |
re: #607 Killgore Trout
Looking at that article again it's kind of a veiled threat. The are urging against a congressional investigation because Republicans may counter with investigations into liberal press when they get the power.
You mean the press isn't totally free of political bias. The days of Hamilton and Jefferson aren't over?????
| 610 |
laZardo Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:26:26am |
re: #592 ggt
Houston, we have a problem
CURSE YOU RICHARD BRANSOOON~
/wait, it was in New Mexico, right?
| 611 |
Killgore Trout Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:27:09am |
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Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:27:32am |
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:30:51am |
re: #610 laZardo
CURSE YOU RICHARD BRANSOOON~
/wait, it was in New Mexico, right?
Branson is their anchor client.
I just can't see the investment at this time. I love the idea, hope it works, but I don't see it working on the balance sheet.
| 614 |
Killgore Trout Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:33:58am |
Even Ed Morrisey is critical of the WSJ editorial but still warns against politically motivated witch hunts....
Demanding exotic prosecutions based on stretching statutes to the breaking point should threaten anyone working in the First Amendment sphere. It’s too bad that the Journal didn’t just stick with that argument today, because it’s a valuable reminder that government regulation of media won’t solve any ills, but instead will introduce a lot of new and much more malignant problems. Unfortunately, they buried the lede.
| 615 |
allegro Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:34:30am |
re: #608 ggt
I think this has always been done by good neighbors. The problem is that we don't know our neighbors like we used to. We move around a lot with few spending their lives in the same town. We live in paranoia - or maybe just "convenience" - opening our garage doors remotely to get in the house without ever going outside to engage with our neighbors.
Since I moved into an RV park from my house of 20 years where I knew my neighbors only well enough to wave at them a couple of times a year, I have really experienced this difference. I now go out and walk my dogs every day and talk to folks. When I got sick a few months ago and was flat on my back for 2 months after 3 weeks in the hospital, my neighbors were amazing. They took shifts walking my dogs several times a day, they fetched my groceries and did my laundry. I had a constant stream of visitors just stopping in to make sure I was OK.
I dunno where I'm going with this exactly but I know I'm onto something.
| 616 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:34:34am |
re: #612 Cannadian Club Akbar
I took care of my father for 14 months. No catheter, but everything else.
Luckily, my parents could afford a CNA for the short-time my Dad needed one. I have a girl friend who moved her mother in with them, they (out of her mother's dwindling money) pay for a "mexican lady" to come in during the day while they work. Her mother get's excellent care. Since they were able to sell her house, she should be able to afford it until she is gone.
In the nursing home that my dad was in after his stroke for "rehab" all the CNA's were immigrants. Every caregiver, I've met thru my girlfriend has been an immigrant.
They make a decent hourly wage, but like preschool teachers, way, way less than I think they are worth.
| 617 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:35:25am |
re: #615 allegro
I think this has always been done by good neighbors. The problem is that we don't know our neighbors like we used to. We move around a lot with few spending their lives in the same town. We live in paranoia - or maybe just "convenience" - opening our garage doors remotely to get in the house without ever going outside to engage with our neighbors.
Since I moved into an RV park from my house of 20 years where I knew my neighbors only well enough to wave at them a couple of times a year, I have really experienced this difference. I now go out and walk my dogs every day and talk to folks. When I got sick a few months ago and was flat on my back for 2 months after 3 weeks in the hospital, my neighbors were amazing. They took shifts walking my dogs several times a day, they fetched my groceries and did my laundry. I had a constant stream of visitors just stopping in to make sure I was OK.
I dunno where I'm going with this exactly but I know I'm onto something.
Well, dog people are good people!
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Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:36:37am |
re: #613 ggt
Branson is their anchor client.
I just can't see the investment at this time. I love the idea, hope it works, but I don't see it working on the balance sheet.
From your earlier link:
The first thing you see when you pull up to the construction site is a sign that says it will be finished in early 2011. The project is running behind schedule and over budget for a number of reasons.
What could go wrong?
/
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Sol Berdinowitz Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:36:47am |
re: #607 Killgore Trout
Looking at that article again it's kind of a veiled threat. The are urging against a congressional investigation because Republicans may counter with investigations into liberal press when they get the power.
The spin on this is that this is a government ploy to curtail freedom of the press.
Sort of like arresting a criminal for breaking and entering is a government plot to restrict his freedom of travel...
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sattv4u2 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:37:55am |
re: #617 ggt
Well, dog people are good people!
Thanks
(as I sit here with Einstein, a 12 lb mixed terrier mutt on one side of me, and McDuff, an 18 lb West Highland Terrier guarding my other flank!!)
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:38:19am |
re: #618 Cannadian Club Akbar
From your earlier link:
The first thing you see when you pull up to the construction site is a sign that says it will be finished in early 2011. The project is running behind schedule and over budget for a number of reasons.What could go wrong?
/
Actual aliens could come back and be disappointed their welcome is ready for them?
;0
| 622 |
Killgore Trout Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:38:42am |
An excellent posting in the pages...
A Year in Asia (video made by Boondocksaint)
| 623 |
sattv4u2 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:39:51am |
re: #621 ggt
Actual aliens could come back and be disappointed their welcome is ready for them?
;0
IT'S A COOKBOOK!!!!
(5 Quatloos for getting the reference)
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:39:51am |
re: #619 ralphieboy
The spin on this is that this is a government ploy to curtail freedom of the press.
Sort of like arresting a criminal for breaking and entering is a government plot to restrict his freedom of travel...
Well, in our Brave New World, up is down you know . . .
| 625 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:40:50am |
re: #623 sattv4u2
IT'S A COOKBOOK!!!
(5 Quatloos for getting the reference)
stumped, I'm still on my first cuppa
| 626 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:41:06am |
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sattv4u2 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:42:14am |
Don't you all just love when its 11:30 p.m.,, and you're on vacation (it's a staycation for us this time) and you're all comfy cozy for the night ,,, and the phone rings , and it's your boss ,, and it's an emergency,,, and you have to go into work for 8-9 hours,,, don't you just live that!!
I know Mrs Satty was thrilled!!!
| 628 |
sattv4u2 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:42:44am |
| 629 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:42:46am |
re: #627 sattv4u2
Don't you all just love when its 11:30 p.m.,, and you're on vacation (it's a staycation for us this time) and you're all comfy cozy for the night ,,, and the phone rings , and it's your boss ,, and it's an emergency,,, and you have to go into work for 8-9 hours,,, don't you just live that!!
I know Mrs Satty was thrilled!!!
Job security, try to look on the bright side.
| 630 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:43:21am |
What's the exchange rate between Quatloos and the USD?
| 631 |
sattv4u2 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:45:26am |
re: #625 ggt
re: #626 Cannadian Club Akbar
[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]
GGT,, full episode is available on YouTube, I think
one of many classics, but this is one of THE best
| 632 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:45:49am |
re: #627 sattv4u2
Don't you all just love when its 11:30 p.m.,, and you're on vacation (it's a staycation for us this time) and you're all comfy cozy for the night ,,, and the phone rings , and it's your boss ,, and it's an emergency,,, and you have to go into work for 8-9 hours,,, don't you just live that!!
I know Mrs Satty was thrilled!!!
You don't have to go if you tell the boss you're drunk. Just sayin'.
/
| 633 |
sattv4u2 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:46:55am |
re: #630 ggt
What's the exchange rate between Quatloos and the USD?
10 years ago, it was 1 for 1
Today, not so much
(unless you get the exchange with a Ferengi!)
[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]
| 634 |
sattv4u2 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:47:26am |
re: #632 Cannadian Club Akbar
You don't have to go if you tell the boss you're drunk. Just sayin'.
/
Already went and came back
YOU must be drunk,, I stated it was 11:30 PM!!!
| 635 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:49:44am |
re: #634 sattv4u2
Already went and came back
YOU must be drunk,, I stated it was 11:30 PM!!!
I meant if you were drunk when the boss called!!!
| 636 |
lawhawk Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:49:50am |
re: #633 sattv4u2
That's why I stick to gold pressed latinum.
| 637 |
sattv4u2 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:51:16am |
re: #636 lawhawk
That's why I stick to gold pressed latinum.
I tried that
But carrying all that weight in cargo pants. Hard to walk!! PLUS ,, the clanging as one pocket full hits against another pocket full!!
| 638 |
sattv4u2 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:52:10am |
re: #635 Cannadian Club Akbar
I meant if you were drunk when the boss called!!!
"It's a little over an hours drive for you,,, you'll be sober by the time you get here !!"
| 639 |
sattv4u2 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:52:58am |
re: #635 Cannadian Club Akbar
You're just pissed because the Rays wasted a great pitching effort last night!
| 641 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:53:43am |
re: #639 sattv4u2
You're just pissed because the Rays wasted a great pitching effort last night!
About 4 pitching efforts!!
| 642 |
sattv4u2 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:53:48am |
| 643 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:55:03am |
My friend's grandbrat thought he was gonna steal my $110K back scratcher. Not.
| 644 |
laZardo Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:55:06am |
re: #621 ggt
Actual aliens could come back and be disappointed their welcome is ready for them?
;0
I'm just saving my trailer spot for the Intergalactic Megabowl next year. I hear the Nibiru Rangers have really worked on their defense.
| 645 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:55:47am |
re: #633 sattv4u2
10 years ago, it was 1 for 1
Today, not so much
(unless you get the exchange with a Ferengi!)
[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]
I don't do well with Ferengi --not willing to rub their ears . . .
| 646 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:56:19am |
re: #636 lawhawk
That's why I stick to gold pressed latinum.
That would be my choice, but the prize money offered was in Quatloos.
| 647 |
sattv4u2 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:56:42am |
re: #645 ggt
I don't do well with Ferengi --not willing to rub their ears . . .
At least not on the 1st date!
| 648 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:56:46am |
| 649 |
sattv4u2 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:57:11am |
re: #646 ggt
That would be my choice, but the prize money offered was in Quatloos.
He's a lawyer
Always trying to cut a deal!!
| 650 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 7:57:36am |
| 651 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:00:52am |
| 652 |
sattv4u2 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:05:10am |
| 653 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:08:38am |
Oh, now it's thundering . . .
| 654 |
reine.de.tout Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:09:35am |
re: #653 ggt
Oh, now it's thundering . . .
After a very very dry spring and early summer, we've now had a week of overcast days and rainy weather. If I don't see some sunlight soon, I'm going to go crazy.
| 655 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:10:36am |
re: #654 reine.de.tout
After a very very dry spring and early summer, we've now had a week of overcast days and rainy weather. If I don't see some sunlight soon, I'm going to go crazy.
| 656 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:11:16am |
Next time, get it in writing...
[Link: mynorthwest.com...]
| 657 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:13:05am |
re: #656 Cannadian Club Akbar
Next time, get it in writing...
[Link: mynorthwest.com...]
Even then, you'd better have it posted to your forehead. EMT's are programed to save lives.. . . .
| 658 |
sattv4u2 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:15:39am |
re: #654 reine.de.tout
After a very very dry spring and early summer, we've now had a week of overcast days and rainy weather. If I don't see some sunlight soon, I'm going to go crazy.
How can you "go" somewhere you already are at!?!?!
//
{duckin'}
| 659 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:16:12am |
Crazy, it's better than Michigan. . .
| 660 |
sattv4u2 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:17:04am |
re: #656 Cannadian Club Akbar
Next time, get it in writing...
[Link: mynorthwest.com...]
Reminds me
Why do they make sure they use sterile needles for lethal injections??
//
| 661 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:18:27am |
re: #660 sattv4u2
Reminds me
Why do they make sure they use sterile needles for lethal injections??
//
Why would people get a tattoo from a guy named Rusty?
/
| 662 |
sattv4u2 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:18:28am |
| 663 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:18:35am |
re: #660 sattv4u2
Reminds me
Why do they make sure they use sterile needles for lethal injections??
//
Why do they have braille keypads at drive-up ATMs?
| 664 |
Killgore Trout Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:18:57am |
Michele Bachmann Says The Darndest Things
| 665 |
sattv4u2 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:19:57am |
re: #663 ggt
Why do they have braille keypads at drive-up ATMs?
If you saw some of the people I've seen driving around here, you'd understand!!
| 666 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:20:04am |
re: #664 Killgore Trout
Michele Bachmann Says The Darndest Things
[Video]
I don't wanna know,
I've only had 2 cuppas,
The dog ate my homework,
WHY, WHY, WHY do we have to be subjected to this woman? What, G-d, please tell me What we, collectively as a nation, did to deserve this?
| 667 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:20:18am |
re: #663 ggt
Why do they have braille keypads at drive-up ATMs?
Why do they advertise psychic fairs?
| 668 |
sattv4u2 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:21:04am |
re: #666 ggt
I don't wanna know,
I've only had 2 cuppas,
The dog ate my homework,
WHY, WHY, WHY do we have to be subjected to this woman? What, G-d, please tell me What we, collectively as a nation, did to deserve this?
American Idol!!
| 669 |
Killgore Trout Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:21:34am |
re: #666 ggt
What we, collectively as a nation, did to deserve this?
There are rumors that this is what god wants.
| 670 |
Vicious Babushka Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:22:13am |
re: #663 ggt
Why do they have braille keypads at drive-up ATMs?
There is an answer to that. The same ATM console is used whether is it a drive-through or a walk-up. It's not as though these consoles are ONLY for drive-through.
| 671 |
sattv4u2 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:22:14am |
re: #669 Killgore Trout
There are rumors that this is what god wants.
Later today I'll ask the burning bush!
| 672 |
sattv4u2 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:22:35am |
re: #670 Alouette
There is an answer to that. The same ATM console is used whether is it a drive-through or a walk-up. It's not as though these consoles are ONLY for drive-through.
spoil sport
| 673 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:22:48am |
"Not all cultures are equal"
???????????
Oh, I'd love to hear the rationalization and justification for that one.
No, I wouldn't.
Really.
| 674 |
sattv4u2 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:24:01am |
re: #667 Cannadian Club Akbar
Why do they advertise psychic fairs?
How come you never see a headline PSYCHIC WINS LOTTERY!
| 675 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:24:05am |
re: #673 ggt
"Not all cultures are equal"
???
Oh, I'd love to hear the rationalization and justification for that one.
No, I wouldn't.
Really.
Yogurt > Sour Cream.
/
| 676 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:24:48am |
re: #671 sattv4u2
Later today I'll ask the burning bush!
They don't (usually) burn until September/October in Chicagoland. . .
| 678 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:25:58am |
I've decided it's all about money. If we can marginalize "certain" identifiable groups, they won't take OUR jobs.
| 679 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:26:15am |
| 680 |
sattv4u2 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:26:45am |
re: #676 ggt
They don't (usually) burn until September/October in Chicagoland. . .
BUSH
GAS
MATCH
______
MARSHMALLOWS!
| 681 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:27:10am |
re: #670 Alouette
There is an answer to that. The same ATM console is used whether is it a drive-through or a walk-up. It's not as though these consoles are ONLY for drive-through.
I think it's more economic than producing two different keypads for ATM's. Cheaper to use a standardized mold and put it on all of them.
| 682 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:27:33am |
| 683 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:28:17am |
| 684 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:28:19am |
| 685 |
sattv4u2 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:28:51am |
| 686 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:28:52am |
| 687 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:29:09am |
| 688 |
sattv4u2 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:29:46am |
| 689 |
Decatur Deb Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:31:17am |
re: #666 ggt
I don't wanna know,
I've only had 2 cuppas,
The dog ate my homework,
WHY, WHY, WHY do we have to be subjected to this woman? What, G-d, please tell me What we, collectively as a nation, did to deserve this?
Disco.
| 690 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:31:47am |
| 691 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:32:21am |
| 692 |
allegro Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:34:12am |
re: #690 ggt
Oh my. So he gets federal money for treating patients when there is no evidence that he's qualified to do so?
| 693 |
recusancy Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:34:36am |
re: #461 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
Hell, if you take the time to dig through the archives here, you'll find that I used to be one of those with his head firmly planted up backside when it came to Bush and the Right. In a way, Charles and I both sort of went through the same transformations, first being "mugged" by 9/11 into signing into a lot of the anti-Islam BS for awhile, then a reevaluation after seeing some of the noxious shit coming out of the Right in the wake of '08. I voted for Bush in '04 because I honestly thought he was taking the "War on Terror" seriously, and in retrospect I don't regret that vote. Because you're right, Bush is like his old man and Reagan in that they are far more moderate, level-headed men than the loonies who claim to be "Republicans" now.
Thank you! Someone finally admits it.
| 694 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:36:27am |
re: #693 recusancy
Thank you! Someone finally admits it.
WEll, I think most of us went thru that.
Now, I'm just anti-Whacko.
| 695 |
lazardo Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:36:50am |
re: #694 ggt
WEll, I think most of us went thru that.
Now, I'm just anti-Whacko.
I did. Oh, to be young and impressionable.
| 696 |
sattv4u2 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:37:09am |
re: #694 ggt
WEll, I think most of us went thru that.
Now, I'm just anti-Whacko.
damn
and here I thought you liked me!!
/
| 697 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:37:11am |
re: #692 allegro
Oh my. So he gets federal money for treating patients when there is no evidence that he's qualified to do so?
I'm sure he can come-up with some proof that G-d wants him to do this kind of work . . . .
| 698 |
sattv4u2 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:37:48am |
| 699 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:38:30am |
| 700 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:38:41am |
| 702 |
sattv4u2 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:39:46am |
| 703 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:39:53am |
re: #696 sattv4u2
damn
and here I thought you liked me!!
/
Naw, I don't like anybody. Except, maybe, my dog.
| 704 |
Sol Berdinowitz Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:39:56am |
re: #692 allegro
Oh my. So he gets federal money for treating patients when there is no evidence that he's qualified to do so?
Government overregulation again: who needs the government to tell us he cannot cure gays with prayer?
| 705 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:40:22am |
| 706 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:40:43am |
re: #702 sattv4u2
You sure!?!?
[Link: www.google.com...]
Well, when you are talking cognomens . . . .
| 707 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:41:13am |
re: #704 ralphieboy
Government overregulation again: who needs the government to tell us he cannot cure gays with prayer?
Flying under the radar no more . . .
| 708 |
sattv4u2 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:41:55am |
re: #705 ggt
Mental Illness does not equal Evil.
He;s not too far gone on the crazy train!!
Net Worth: $85 million (2011)
[Link: exploredia.com...]
jus sayin'
| 709 |
recusancy Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:42:13am |
| 711 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:42:44am |
re: #708 sattv4u2
He;s not too far gone on the crazy train!!
Net Worth: $85 million (2011)
[Link: exploredia.com...]jus sayin'
Rich only exacerbates some illness, doesn't equal Evil.
Evil is Jeffrey Dahlmer.
| 713 |
sattv4u2 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:44:31am |
re: #710 lazardo
You sure??
separated at birth??
[Link: mammothsheet.blogspot.com...]
[Link: forum.nin.com...]
//
| 714 |
darthstar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:45:11am |
Mornin' rabble...I'm east bound and down...loaded up and truckin'...I'm gonna do what they say can't be done...
(yeah, I'll be poisoning the internets with songs containing the word Atlanta in them all week).
| 715 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:45:25am |
re: #709 recusancy
That was lazardo's point.
Well, I think it goes something like this:
All Whacko is not Evil
All Mental Illness is not Whacko
Therefore, All Mental Illness is not evil.
All Charlie Sheen is Mentally Ill
All Charlie Sheen sheen is Whacko
AllCharlie Sheen is not evil.
I need more than 2 cuppas for this shit.
Needless to say he hasn't eaten any babies . . .
| 716 |
sattv4u2 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:45:48am |
re: #714 darthstar
Mornin' rabble...I'm east bound and down...loaded up and truckin'...I'm gonna do what they say can't be done...
(yeah, I'll be poisoning the internets with songs containing the word Atlanta in them all week).
HOLD THE WEDDIN
You're invading my fair city??
| 717 |
darthstar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:46:53am |
re: #716 sattv4u2
HOLD THE WEDDIN
You're invading my fair city??
Aw, shit...you live there? Pilot! Turn this bucket of bolts around!
(How's the weather? and don't let me catch you sawin' on a fiddle and playin' it hot...)
| 718 |
Vicious Babushka Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:47:57am |
re: #711 ggt
Rich only exacerbates some illness, doesn't equal Evil.
Evil is Jeffrey Dahlmer.
Levi Aron is made out of the same Evil.
| 719 |
lazardo Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:48:39am |
re: #715 ggt
Needless to say he hasn't eaten any babies . . .
The consumption of infants for sustenance has always been more of a satirically scholarly affair more than one for the mentally deranged.
| 720 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:48:58am |
re: #718 Alouette
Levi Aron is made out of the same Evil.
Some twistedness is beyond the diagnosis of any illness. . . .
| 721 |
sattv4u2 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:49:23am |
re: #717 darthstar
Aw, shit...you live there? Pilot! Turn this bucket of bolts around!
(How's the weather? and don't let me catch you sawin' on a fiddle and playin' it hot...)
I work IN Atlanta
Live a little over an hour straight east of the city
Weather next five days,,, low 90's ,, chances of later afternoon thunder-boomers Wed/Thurs/Fri
Coming for work or pleasure?
| 722 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:49:29am |
re: #719 lazardo
The consumption of infants for sustenance has always been more of a satirically scholarly affair more than one for the mentally deranged.
ewwwwww
| 723 |
Killgore Trout Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:50:24am |
White Supremacist Picks A Fight With Black Guy, Black Guy Happens To Be Boxing Champion
28-year-old white supremacist Daren C. Abbey began threatening Marlon Baker at a Boise, Idaho bar because “blacks are not welcome” there. Baker decided to leave but Abbey followed him to his car screaming racist things at him. Abbey then tried to punch him, but little did he know Baker was a champion boxer. Baker knocked him out with one punch. When Abbey woke up, he was arrested and charged with misdemeanor battery and felony malicious harassment.
| 724 |
sattv4u2 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:51:15am |
re: #723 Killgore Trout
White Supremacist Picks A Fight With Black Guy, Black Guy Happens To Be Boxing Champion
DOH!!!!!
| 725 |
darthstar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:51:50am |
re: #721 sattv4u2
I work IN Atlanta
Live a little over an hour straight east of the city
Weather next five days,,, low 90's ,, chances of later afternoon thunder-boomers Wed/Thurs/Fri
Coming for work or pleasure?
Work...we have an office in Alpharetta and I'm going to sync up with my equal there to borrow some of his people for a week...sort of an engineer exchange. (I pull out all the stops when it comes to actually getting shit done)
| 726 |
Vicious Babushka Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:52:01am |
re: #723 Killgore Trout
White Supremacist Picks A Fight With Black Guy, Black Guy Happens To Be Boxing Champion
EPIC FAIL.
| 727 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:52:11am |
re: #723 Killgore Trout
White Supremacist Picks A Fight With Black Guy, Black Guy Happens To Be Boxing Champion
How are these people going to react when aliens start landing at the Space Port?
WTF, it's 2011--idiots.
| 728 |
Decatur Deb Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:52:19am |
Hilarious Rip from Politico:
Poll: Barack Obama Least Loathed in Debt Fight
[Link: www.politico.com...]
| 729 |
darthstar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:52:52am |
re: #723 Killgore Trout
White Supremacist Picks A Fight With Black Guy, Black Guy Happens To Be Boxing Champion
I love stories with happy endings...thank you.
| 730 |
sattv4u2 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:54:08am |
re: #725 darthstar
Work...we have an office in Alpharetta and I'm going to sync up with my equal there to borrow some of his people for a week...sort of an engineer exchange. (I pull out all the stops when it comes to actually getting shit done)
Cool
Good luck
How long is you stay?
| 733 |
sattv4u2 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:55:46am |
re: #727 ggt
How are these people going to react when aliens start landing at the Space Port?
WTF, it's 2011--idiots.
ESPECIALLY if the aliens look like this
[Link: forums.armageddononline.org...]
| 734 |
Obdicut Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:56:39am |
re: #731 Obdicut
Weird.
What I said was that the dude wasn't even an ex-professional boxer. Just an amateur. which makes what he did all the sweeter.
He tried to defuse it by walking away, yet the racist followed. I'm glad the cops didn't do the too-frequent thing of arresting everyone involved.
| 735 |
sattv4u2 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:56:41am |
| 736 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:57:04am |
| 737 |
darthstar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:57:17am |
re: #730 sattv4u2
Cool
Good luck
How long is you stay?
Not long...fly in today, leave Thursday afternoon. Travelling with my boss - so I suspect there will be some drinking involved. We share that skill.
| 738 |
sattv4u2 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:57:27am |
| 739 |
darthstar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:57:54am |
| 742 |
sattv4u2 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:58:28am |
re: #737 darthstar
Not long...fly in today, leave Thursday afternoon. Travelling with my boss - so I suspect there will be some drinking involved. We share that skill.
one word
BUCKHEAD
Thats THE bar scene area ,,, not too far from Alpharetta
| 744 |
sattv4u2 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:58:59am |
| 745 |
Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:59:15am |
re: #742 sattv4u2
one word
BUCKHEAD
Thats THE bar scene area ,,, not too far from Alpharetta
MY friend used to bartend there. Made a mint.
| 746 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:59:20am |
re: #733 sattv4u2
ESPECIALLY if the aliens look like this
[Link: forums.armageddononline.org...]
That episode was written by Shari Lewis of Lambchop fame!
| 747 |
darthstar Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:59:44am |
re: #743 iceweasel
???
,, down doobie doo down down...shit...I can never type three commas in a row.
| 748 |
BARACK THE VOTE Mon, Jul 18, 2011 8:59:49am |
| 749 |
sattv4u2 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 9:00:03am |
| 750 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 9:00:35am |
| 751 |
sattv4u2 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 9:00:42am |
re: #748 iceweasel
I'm a liberal, I question authority. /
Last time I did,, back in the 70's ,, I ended up in handcuffs!
| 752 |
BARACK THE VOTE Mon, Jul 18, 2011 9:01:40am |
| 754 |
Holidays are Family Fun Time Mon, Jul 18, 2011 9:02:31am |
Not going upstairs, not passing go, not collecting my zionist check this week.
Have a great day all!
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Cheechako
Alone in a Bathroom: The Fear and Uncertainty of a Post-Roe Medication Abortion Angel tucked two white pills into each side of her mouth, bracing herself as they began to dissolve. Her deepest fears and anxieties took over. Angel had wanted to talk to a doctor before she took the pills to ... Cheechako
They Were Desperate to Get Pregnant. Then IVF Gave Them Extra Embryos. One morning last spring, Ashley Harrolle put her 1-year-old daughter down for a nap and went to the kitchen. She pulled up her fertility clinic’s contact information. It was time to make the call. In a freezer several hundred ... CheechakoJoe Bacon ✅
March FavoritesYou've seen these all already but looking back, just because. These are my favorite shots of this last month. That 1937 Zeiss Sonnar is such a gloriously wonderful bit of glass. Thanks for looking.
William Lewis
Russia’s New Combat Robots Blown Up by Drones Near Avdiivka When we landed on the moon, I thought about how science fiction had become real. Now, the robot wars have begun. It's more poignant somehow on the ground than in the missile wars we have in the air as ...
Rightwingconspirator
Why Did More Than 1,000 People Die After Police Subdued Them With Force That Isn’t Meant to Kill? An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other force not intended to be lethal. More: Why ... CheechakoKGxvi
The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ... Cheechako
Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
