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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
— Oscar Wilde
221 comments
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Alexzander Sat, Aug 13, 2011 10:52:49pm |
I was JUST thinking that I hope there is a new overnight thread for my old computer that just cant handle threads near 500 posts.Then I look down in the corner and here it is...
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William Barnett-Lewis Sat, Aug 13, 2011 10:52:51pm |
Ah, a fresh new thread is a great excuse to cut and run :D
And DF, I push at you because I like you. I do hope you understand that.
Good night, all.
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Kragar Sat, Aug 13, 2011 10:56:33pm |
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Alexzander Sat, Aug 13, 2011 10:57:44pm |
re: #3 laZardo
"Learn how to fake it and you've got it made."
I've never been able to fake it and I think its set back my professional career.
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Daniel Ballard Sat, Aug 13, 2011 11:07:20pm |
I'm, turning in soon. But I thought I'd share a little bit of today's work. Putting a little art to commercial photography.
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prairiefire Sat, Aug 13, 2011 11:12:42pm |
Krauss-Welch: "I'll Fly Away"
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austin_blue Sat, Aug 13, 2011 11:27:17pm |
Night all, time for the rack. Sweet scaly dreams!
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Alexzander Sat, Aug 13, 2011 11:38:41pm |
Been pretty quiet for the past 15 mins... *crickets*
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prairiefire Sat, Aug 13, 2011 11:47:36pm |
Listen to Willie Nelson's son, Lukas sing just like his daddy. Oh, he plays guitar pretty well too.
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prairiefire Sun, Aug 14, 2011 12:13:41am |
Farm Aid 2011 : John Cougar Mellencamp - Small Town - Farm Aid 2011
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goddamnedfrank Sun, Aug 14, 2011 12:25:09am |
Got a photo ID from the Veteran's Administration? Sorry, that's not good enough to let you vote in the great state of Texas.
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AK-47% Sun, Aug 14, 2011 1:32:41am |
re: #12 goddamnedfrank
Got a photo ID from the Veteran's Administration? Sorry, that's not good enough to let you vote in the great state of Texas.
No, but a gun registration ID is...
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AK-47% Sun, Aug 14, 2011 1:33:33am |
In fact, I have hard there are plans to fix the law so that the registration is optional, all you will need is the gun...
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Aug 14, 2011 1:47:57am |
re: #12 goddamnedfrank
Got a photo ID from the Veteran's Administration? Sorry, that's not good enough to let you vote in the great state of Texas.
Cons won't be happy until we return to the days of selectively-administered literacy tests and poll taxes that aren't vaild until signed by rich white sponsors like they did in Black Belt Alabama.
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(I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was) Sun, Aug 14, 2011 2:57:57am |
Rush Limbaugh does not like Ron Paul
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(I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was) Sun, Aug 14, 2011 2:59:52am |
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sun, Aug 14, 2011 3:05:08am |
Morning Honcos. A short visit before I go for a stroll and grab some fresh cinnamon rolls and coffee.
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(I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was) Sun, Aug 14, 2011 3:05:31am |
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(I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was) Sun, Aug 14, 2011 3:06:42am |
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sun, Aug 14, 2011 3:07:35am |
I fed my dog the American Dream
Well, he rolled over and he started to scream
He said
I dig the taste of salt but it don't keep me alive yeah, yeah
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(I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was) Sun, Aug 14, 2011 3:09:48am |
Paulbots seething with rage!
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Stanghazi Sun, Aug 14, 2011 3:11:46am |
I am stricken with insomnia so bad. Tomorrow is going to be futile. WTF
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sun, Aug 14, 2011 3:11:59am |
I know I kinda make fun of Hollywood movies here, so let me do it again.
Was watching The Borne Ultimatum last night. Scene: Car chase, NYC. Crashes every where. Sirens. Chaos. The guy shooting at Jason Borne was using a silencer. At least no one will hear that!!!
(actually, the guy had the silencer on the gun in the previous scene, I just thought it was funny)
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sun, Aug 14, 2011 3:13:41am |
re: #26 Stanley Sea
I am stricken with insomnia so bad. Tomorrow is going to be futile. WTF
Start drinking around noon your time. You'll sleep like a baby and be ready to go Monday morning.
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Stanghazi Sun, Aug 14, 2011 3:15:09am |
re: #28 Cannadian Club Akbar
Start drinking around noon your time. You'll sleep like a baby and be ready to go Monday morning.
Ok, will do. Gah.
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Stanghazi Sun, Aug 14, 2011 3:16:47am |
Did y'all see the stage collapse at the Indiana at fair? The photo is crazy scary. 4 died.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sun, Aug 14, 2011 3:17:23am |
re: #29 Stanley Sea
Ok, will do. Gah.
Actually, there is a little dive bar about a half mile away from me. They'll be open in 40 minutes. I shit you not.
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AK-47% Sun, Aug 14, 2011 3:18:51am |
re: #18 000G
Rush insinuating that Fox is catering to the MSM? Brain freeze...
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sun, Aug 14, 2011 3:19:24am |
re: #30 Stanley Sea
Did y'all see the stage collapse at the Indiana at fair? The photo is crazy scary. 4 died.
Holy shit!! Here's video!! (I knew about the story. Didn't know there was video)
[Link: www.huffingtonpost.com...]
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sun, Aug 14, 2011 3:23:12am |
re: #33 Cannadian Club Akbar
Holy shit!! Here's video!! (I knew about the story. Didn't know there was video)
[Link: www.huffingtonpost.com...]
Lovely comment here:
DearLord, you didn't quite understand last night. You smited the State Fair, yes, but it was the wrong state starting with the letter "I".
What a fucking douche.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sun, Aug 14, 2011 3:30:34am |
re: #34 Cannadian Club Akbar
That comment has 1096 fans. Lovely.
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RogueOne Sun, Aug 14, 2011 3:32:31am |
re: #34 Cannadian Club Akbar
That guy is an idiot. Everyone knows why this happened:
[Link: www.indystar.com...]
Outside, concertgoers waiting in cowboy boots and short shorts -- the unofficial uniform of Sugarland fans -- were in tears and disbelief.
You can't tempt god like that. We were supposed to go to the fair last night with my SiL and her new boyfriend but he and I both worked later than planned so we put it off until later this week. We wouldn't have been caught dead at a Sugarland concert but I'm glad I wasn't there anyway. The storm that came through here was a pretty big one.
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RogueOne Sun, Aug 14, 2011 3:34:47am |
More FTA:
[Link: www.indystar.com...]
She had blood splotches all over her clothes, including a T-shirt saying "All I want to do is hug you."
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sun, Aug 14, 2011 3:34:58am |
re: #37 RogueOne
You can see the storm in the video. Pretty intense. I see shit like that and I just go sit inside until it passes. (they of course didn't have that choice)
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RogueOne Sun, Aug 14, 2011 3:38:54am |
What's white, 30' long, has 5 teeth and an IQ of 60?
....The front row of a country music concert.
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RogueOne Sun, Aug 14, 2011 3:41:14am |
I was thinking earlier that I hadn't seen WUB in awhile. I see you lurking...
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sun, Aug 14, 2011 3:43:07am |
Alrighty. Going to get the cinnamon rolls. Anyone need anything? No? Ok. bbiab...
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RogueOne Sun, Aug 14, 2011 4:07:22am |
I missed this ruling the other day. For some reason it wasn't in any of the state papers that I can find:
Indiana High School, Violated Rights By Punishing Students Over MySpace Photos, Judge Says
[Link: www.huffingtonpost.com...]
FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- An Indiana school district violated the First Amendment rights of two teenage girls who were punished for posting sexually suggestive photos on MySpace during their summer vacation, a federal judge ruled.
....
Wednesday's ruling stemmed from a lawsuit the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed on the teens' behalf in October 2009. The lawsuit claimed the district improperly banned the girls, who were sophomores at the time, from extracurricular activities for expression that didn't involve the school, then humiliated the girls by requiring them to apologize to an all-male coaches' board and undergo counseling after the photographs were circulated at school.The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that students can be disciplined for activities that happen outside of school, so long as the school can prove the activities were disruptive or posed a danger and that it was foreseeable the activities would find their way to campus.
The ACLU argued that the school violated the girls' First Amendment rights by punishing them for photos never intended for public dissemination.
Now the fight moves on to whether the school has immunity from damage awards. I certainly hope not.
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RogueOne Sun, Aug 14, 2011 4:15:21am |
There's a FARK thread re: the fair thread. Best comment:
Dog died.
Pickup truck broke down.
Wife left me.
Stage rigging killed all my fans.
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RogueOne Sun, Aug 14, 2011 4:28:22am |
video shortly after the collapse, listen to that wind. The rain hadn't even started yet:
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sun, Aug 14, 2011 4:32:00am |
re: #45 RogueOne
video shortly after the collapse, listen to that wind. The rain hadn't even started yet:
[Video]
That's what a CAT 1 hurricane sounds like.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sun, Aug 14, 2011 4:40:42am |
(Reuters) - The Syrian navy shelled two densely populated residential districts of the main Mediterranean port city of Latakia on Sunday, residents and rights campaigners said, in the second day of a military assault to crush protests.
[Link: www.reuters.com...]
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 14, 2011 4:41:03am |
re: #46 Cannadian Club Akbar
That's what a CAT 1 hurricane sounds like.
Thats also the sound a dog hears as it hangs it's head out your window on the highway while you're doing 75 mph
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sun, Aug 14, 2011 4:44:40am |
re: #48 sattv4u2
Thats also the sound a dog hears as it hangs it's head out your window on the highway while you're doing 75 mph
Cats hear the same sound when you toss them going 75. But only for a few seconds.
//To early?
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 14, 2011 4:46:18am |
re: #49 Cannadian Club Akbar
Cats hear the same sound when you toss them going 75. But only for a few seconds.
//To early?
I was surprised at how many times they bounce ,, AND ,, land on their feet each time!!
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sun, Aug 14, 2011 4:48:26am |
re: #50 sattv4u2
I was surprised at how many times they bounce ,, AND ,, land on their feet each time!!
If cats always land on their feet and bread with peanut butter always lands peanut butter side down, we should strap a piece of bread with peanut butter on it to a cat and do science!!!
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 14, 2011 4:51:07am |
re: #47 Cannadian Club Akbar
(Reuters) - The Syrian navy shelled two densely populated residential districts of the main Mediterranean port city of Latakia on Sunday, residents and rights campaigners said, in the second day of a military assault to crush protests.
[Link: www.reuters.com...]
and the world yawns!!
Wait ,, whats that?? Oh,, good
Another strongly worded letter from the UN! I hear that this time they are going to include the phrase "TSK TSK"!
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RogueOne Sun, Aug 14, 2011 4:53:07am |
re: #52 sattv4u2
Reaserchok posted a page about it. The US, UK, and SA have promised to keep an eye on it. Problem solved.
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 14, 2011 4:54:50am |
re: #53 RogueOne
Reaserchok posted a page about it. The US, UK, and SA have promised to keep an eye on it. Problem solved.
Well then, the good people of Latakia can now sleep soundly!
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sun, Aug 14, 2011 4:55:09am |
The Communist Party of India demanded the withdrawal of Chao for her "racist" comments and asked the government to lodge a "strong protest" with the United States.
D'oh!!
[Link: news.yahoo.com...]
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 14, 2011 4:57:22am |
re: #55 Cannadian Club Akbar
The Communist Party of India demanded the withdrawal of Chao for her "racist" comments and asked the government to lodge a "strong protest" with the United States.
D'oh!!
[Link: news.yahoo.com...]
How can she be a racist?
She's not a white southern male republican!!
/
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 14, 2011 4:59:18am |
re: #55 Cannadian Club Akbar
The Communist Party of India demanded the withdrawal of Chao for her "racist" comments and asked the government to lodge a "strong protest" with the United States.
D'oh!!
[Link: news.yahoo.com...]
The American diplomat was describing "positive memories from her own study experiences in India 23 years ago," the US consulate said.
nothing more "positive" than after 72 hours, the train still did not reach the destination... and my skin became dirty and dark like the Tamilians."
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:01:27am |
re: #57 sattv4u2
I took an 18 hour trip on a Greyhound Bus once. Would have sucked but some dude had some hash and there were about 6 people on board. Smoke time!!
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:04:05am |
re: #58 Cannadian Club Akbar
I took an 18 hour trip on a Greyhound Bus once. Would have sucked but some dude had some hash and there were about 6 people on board. Smoke time!!
Did you offer any to the driver?
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RogueOne Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:04:08am |
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:06:29am |
re: #60 RogueOne
One of the comments I saw earlier described it as looking like tinker toys. I think that was spot on.
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:06:43am |
re: #60 RogueOne
Schnikies
a prayer for the families of those who died, are injured, and to all those that witnessed it
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:08:39am |
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:09:44am |
re: #63 Cannadian Club Akbar
No. He was already drinking.
/
Greyhound
Leave the Drinking and Driving To Us
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RogueOne Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:10:08am |
re: #61 Cannadian Club Akbar
One of the comments I saw earlier described it as looking like tinker toys. I think that was spot on.
That rigging company is screwed.
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:10:18am |
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Darth Vader Gargoyle Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:11:05am |
re: #67 sattv4u2
prove it
I've got a fresh cup of coffee in my hands. That's the proof. Also brought maple donuts for CCA.
//
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:11:27am |
re: #66 RogueOne
That rigging company is screwed.
I doubt it
force majeure
[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:12:24am |
re: #68 rwdflynavy
I've got a fresh cup of coffee in my hands. That's the proof. Also brought maple donuts for CCA.
//
Mom ,,, CCA gets EVERYTHING!!!
WWhhhhaaaaaa
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Darth Vader Gargoyle Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:12:32am |
re: #68 rwdflynavy
I've got a fresh cup of coffee in my hands. That's the proof. Also brought maple donuts for CCA.
//
Also, woke up this morning. That's a pretty good start!
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:12:56am |
re: #71 rwdflynavy
Also, woke up this morning. That's a pretty good start!
as long as it was on the top side of the grass, yup!
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Targetpractice Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:14:08am |
I've decided that I'll vote for whichever candidate promises to outlaw mornings.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:15:48am |
re: #68 rwdflynavy
I've got a fresh cup of coffee in my hands. That's the proof. Also brought maple donuts for CCA.
//
Maple donuts with bacon on top. Saw that on Man V. Food. The place was in Oregon. I doubt they smoke pot there.
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PhillyPretzel Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:16:49am |
re: #73 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
I will vote for a candidate who will outlaw Mondays.
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Targetpractice Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:17:06am |
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RogueOne Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:17:13am |
re: #69 sattv4u2
They're liable. I would imagine their insurance requirements are outrageous. I do work a few times a year for a concert production company, making massive baseplates for their rigging. They're a local company but they travel all over the world. Their specs are pretty detailed, not only do they have to be structurally sound but it has to be able to be packed in a certain manner. I'm wondering if they were involved since the fair supposedly uses a local crew.
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Darth Vader Gargoyle Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:18:06am |
re: #74 Cannadian Club Akbar
Maple donuts with bacon on top. Saw that on Man V. Food. The place was in Oregon. I doubt they smoke pot there.
"Don't know what I was on, but I think it grows in Oregon"
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:18:53am |
re: #78 rwdflynavy
"Don't know what I was on, but I think it grows in Oregon"
[Video]
Sheesh. You go to one concert....
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RogueOne Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:19:37am |
re: #79 Cannadian Club Akbar
Sheesh. You go to one concert...
No doubt. He's just begging for it isn't he?
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:20:16am |
re: #80 RogueOne
No doubt. He's just begging for it isn't he?
If he post Maroon 5, let's get him!!
/
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Darth Vader Gargoyle Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:20:24am |
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Darth Vader Gargoyle Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:21:34am |
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RogueOne Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:22:15am |
re: #83 rwdflynavy
[Video]
I'm not even going to click that one. God might still be in the area and he seems a little pissy about bad music.
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:22:27am |
re: #77 RogueOne
They're liable
All things being equal (just a regular summer thunder storm) that would be correct, but as stated
Force majeure is a common clause in contracts that essentially frees both parties from liability or obligation when an extraordinary event or circumstance beyond the control of the parties, such as a war, strike, riot, crime, or an event described by the legal term "act of God" (such as flooding, earthquake, or volcanic eruption), prevents one or both parties from fulfilling their obligations under the contract.
Now, I'm not a lawyer nor do I play one on TV and I did NOT stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, but I beleive that under the circumstances they have that as an "out"
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Darth Vader Gargoyle Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:23:29am |
re: #84 RogueOne
I'm not even going to click that one. God might still be in the area and he seems a little pissy about bad music.
gutless...
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RogueOne Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:23:56am |
re: #85 sattv4u2
This wasn't a tornado, it was only a 60 mph wind that left 4 dead and dozens seriously injured. Someone is going to pay. There's probably a convoy of lawyers already headed to Wishard hospital.
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RogueOne Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:25:44am |
re: #88 RogueOne
This wasn't a tornado, it was only a 60 mph wind that left 4 dead and dozens seriously injured. Someone is going to pay. There's probably a convoy of lawyers already headed to Wishard hospital.
I see an opportunity for a new scenario in that game. Zombie country music fans.
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:25:45am |
re: #88 RogueOne
This wasn't a tornado, it was only a 60 mph wind that left 4 dead and dozens seriously injured. Someone is going to pay. There's probably a convoy of lawyers already headed to Wishard hospital.
I didn't say it was, but 60 mph winds is beyond the scope of an expected (read ; NORMAL) weather pattern
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Darth Vader Gargoyle Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:26:38am |
re: #90 sattv4u2
I didn't say it was, but 60 mph winds is beyond the scope of an expected (read ; NORMAL) weather pattern
Not in the midwest. That's just a light breeze out there.
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RogueOne Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:27:17am |
re: #91 rwdflynavy
Not in the midwest. That's just a light breeze out there.
They should have let the carnies put up the rigging. None of their shit fell down yesterday.
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Darth Vader Gargoyle Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:29:11am |
re: #92 RogueOne
They should have let the carnies put up the rigging. None of their shit fell down yesterday.
Carnies, circus folks, nomads you know, smell like cabbage.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:30:08am |
re: #92 RogueOne
They should have let the carnies put up the rigging. None of their shit fell down yesterday.
Ok. I have to ask this question: If the people putting up the stage were union peeps, would the union hold any responsibility? I ask because I don't know. (I also don't know if they were union)
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RogueOne Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:33:20am |
re: #94 Cannadian Club Akbar
Ok. I have to ask this question: If the people putting up the stage were union peeps, would the union hold any responsibility? I ask because I don't know. (I also don't know if they were union)
They weren't. They use their own company to put stuff up. I'm wondering if it was inspected by the state/city before it was opened. I have never had my steel inspected by anyone official in this state. The only times it was ever done it was inspected by outside contractors hired by the client.
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PhillyPretzel Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:34:36am |
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Darth Vader Gargoyle Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:35:29am |
I'm taking my oldest son to see this guy in October.
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RogueOne Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:36:16am |
The local news stations are begging people who were there to call in. I'm tempted to call.."I SAW THE WHOLE THING!".
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:36:30am |
re: #95 RogueOne
You can't even open a restaurant here if the toilet is wrong.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:37:35am |
re: #98 RogueOne
The local news stations are begging people who were there to call in. I'm tempted to call.."I SAW THE WHOLE THING!".
You did see the important part, so you won't be lying, therefore leaving other reasons why you'll eventually burn.
///
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:37:46am |
re: #99 Cannadian Club Akbar
You can't even open a restaurant here if the toilet is wrong.
Easy solution
Don't have a toilet in your restaurant!
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RogueOne Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:38:16am |
re: #97 rwdflynavy
I'm taking my oldest son to see this guy in October.
[Video]
The SiL is going to the Lil' Wayne concert tonight. I hope god has been sated enough with the country music fan sacrifice that he doesn't feel the need to take it out on horrible faux (c)rap music crowd. I warned her not to go even before the state fair episode yesterday.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:38:26am |
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:41:11am |
re: #99 Cannadian Club Akbar
You can't even open a restaurant here if the toilet is wrong.
Or so one would hope. There's a reason that "Toilets Gone Wrong" videos don't sell very well, outside a tiny but dedicated demographic.
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:41:55am |
re: #103 Cannadian Club Akbar
2 words: Stock pot!!!
/
This soup tastes,..... different!!
Reminds me
I love Soup De Jour, but why doesn't taste the same every day!?!?!?
//
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PhillyPretzel Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:43:16am |
re: #105 sattv4u2
Remind me never to go to any restaurant you open.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:43:18am |
re: #105 sattv4u2
This soup tastes,... different!!
Reminds me
I love Soup De Jour, but why doesn't taste the same every day!?!?!?
//
"How do you prepare the chicken"?
"We don't. The chickens pretty much know they're gonna die".
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RogueOne Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:43:31am |
re: #99 Cannadian Club Akbar
You can't even open a restaurant here if the toilet is wrong.
They check the ADA stuff pretty tight around here. It's weird, they check everything (the walls, plumbing, electrical, roofing, etc..) but the steel. One of the McDonalds I did last year had all their counters 2" too high for the ADA rules. It took a week to cut everything down to the right height. The job I did in Michigan a couple weeks ago had a handrail that was 1/2" too narrow. It had to be cut out, extended an inch and put back in.
A couple years ago someone went through every restaurant on Washington street in Indy with a measuring tape and then filed a lawsuit against everyone that wasn't exactly within compliance. I made a good amount re-doing handrail for about a dozen different restaurants.
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:49:51am |
re: #107 Cannadian Club Akbar
"How do you prepare the chicken"?
"We don't. The chickens pretty much know they're gonna die".
We sit them down, have a long heart to heart talk about their future
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PhillyPretzel Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:52:38am |
re: #109 sattv4u2
Now you have undone all the good work Frank Purdue for his chickens.//
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PhillyPretzel Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:53:34am |
re: #110 PhillyPretzel
opps forgot the word "did" before "Frank."
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:54:20am |
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:54:46am |
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:55:10am |
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:59:18am |
Quick sports comment:
I'd like to welcome Texas A&M to the SEC. Now you're REALLY gonna find out what a bitch slap feels like.
Carry on.
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PhillyPretzel Sun, Aug 14, 2011 6:01:41am |
re: #117 Cannadian Club Akbar
Do they want my kid sister's address and phone number? She is the "b" of all b*&ches.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sun, Aug 14, 2011 6:15:08am |
[Link: news.yahoo.com...]
The story above is about a possible ricin attack on the US. I went to AJ's site to see if they picked up the story yet and they haven't. (but they will)
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Flounder Sun, Aug 14, 2011 6:16:05am |
The idiot box just stated that Pawlenty dropped out and Bachmann is the big winner, Pat show me what she just won!
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sun, Aug 14, 2011 6:17:13am |
re: #122 Shropshire_Slasher
The idiot box just stated that Pawlenty dropped out and Bachmann is the big winner, Pat show me what she just won!
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sun, Aug 14, 2011 6:19:03am |
re: #124 Shropshire_Slasher
OMFG!!
H/T to Fozzie Bear who posted that yesterday. I'm gonna post that on my FB now!!!
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 14, 2011 6:19:54am |
re: #122 Shropshire_Slasher
The idiot box just stated that Pawlenty dropped out and Bachmann is the big winner, Pat show me what she just won!
Not a great track record for the pole over the years
Since 1979, it's ended up being "right" about the winner of the repub primaries twice, (and one of those times it was only half right, as Bob Dole and Phil Gramm "tied") and it's completely been wrong three times
Original request was to send this to VX63. Whn I told Craig @ FNC that the carriers bandwidth was too wide (61 mbs) he still insisted. Spoke with one of their enngineers (Joe) who also insisted. Tried to narrow the bandwidth to 45 mbs to no avail (lost the MCPC running through an encoder)Joe got John on the line (FNC's chief tech) and he also insisted that it go to circuit 114.Conferrenced in Scott @ VYVX (after being on hold for 40 minutes) and Scott verified to Joe/John that circuit 114 was only 45 mbs and that it was fulltime and could not be broken. Finally NC agreed to take it ASI on one of their temp lines. Sent it out ASI on 270 TX 3No material missed
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 14, 2011 6:20:42am |
re: #126 sattv4u2
Not a great track record for the pole over the years
Since 1979, it's ended up being "right" about the winner of the repub primaries twice, (and one of those times it was only half right, as Bob Dole and Phil Gramm "tied") and it's completely been wrong three times
Original request was to send this to VX63. Whn I told Craig @ FNC that the carriers bandwidth was too wide (61 mbs) he still insisted. Spoke with one of their enngineers (Joe) who also insisted. Tried to narrow the bandwidth to 45 mbs to no avail (lost the MCPC running through an encoder)Joe got John on the line (FNC's chief tech) and he also insisted that it go to circuit 114.Conferrenced in Scott @ VYVX (after being on hold for 40 minutes) and Scott verified to Joe/John that circuit 114 was only 45 mbs and that it was fulltime and could not be broken. Finally NC agreed to take it ASI on one of their temp lines. Sent it out ASI on 270 TX 3No material missed
GAAHHHHH
[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]
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Flounder Sun, Aug 14, 2011 6:22:14am |
I can't stop looking at that corndog picture, God shorted me in life!
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sun, Aug 14, 2011 6:23:17am |
re: #128 Shropshire_Slasher
I can't stop looking at that corndog picture, God shorted me in life!
My girl friend asked me to give her 12 inches and make it hurt. So I fucked her twice and slapped her.
//to early?
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Sun, Aug 14, 2011 6:23:23am |
re: #122 Shropshire_Slasher
The idiot box just stated that Pawlenty dropped out and Bachmann is the big winner, Pat show me what she just won!
A full week's supply of Dartanion onion rings!
Ronco's new Bondage-In-A-Bottle! It won't crack, it won't peel, it won't budge, it won't bite, it won't fade!
And, of course, an absolutely brand-new, NEW, NEEEW, and of course but also A NEWWWW CARRRRR!
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Flounder Sun, Aug 14, 2011 6:24:04am |
re: #131 negativ
AHHHHHHHHH!!!! OOOOOOHHHHH!!!
No its not too early.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sun, Aug 14, 2011 6:25:50am |
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 14, 2011 6:32:10am |
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 14, 2011 6:36:59am |
Whats this world coming too when you get arrested for boffing your blow-up-doll/ girlfriend!
//
((btw ,,,, if true, what a sick fuck dirtball))
[Link: www.wate.com...]
the responding officer witnessed the man, identified as 56-year-old Daniel Torroll, performing sex acts on a child-like doll police later discovered he'd cut holes into.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sun, Aug 14, 2011 6:38:33am |
re: #137 sattv4u2
Guess he's the one who made Ann Raggedy.
/
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 14, 2011 6:38:55am |
re: #137 sattv4u2
Whats this world coming too when you get arrested for boffing your blow-up-doll/ girlfriend!
//
((btw ,,, if true, what a sick fuck dirtball))
[Link: www.wate.com...]
the responding officer witnessed the man, identified as 56-year-old Daniel Torroll, performing sex acts on a child-like doll police later discovered he'd cut holes into.
WTF
He was issued a citation and ordered to stay off school property. He was not booked into the Williamson County jail
He was on ELEMENTARY School property!!
WITH A "CHILD LIKE DOLL,,, THAT HE'D CUT HOLES INTO"!!
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sun, Aug 14, 2011 6:42:03am |
re: #139 sattv4u2
WTF
He was issued a citation and ordered to stay off school property. He was not booked into the Williamson County jailHe was on ELEMENTARY School property!!
WITH A "CHILD LIKE DOLL,,, THAT HE'D CUT HOLES INTO"!!
"I happened to be there I didn't know it was school property. I wouldn't be there if I knew it was school property," Torroll told Nashville's News 2.
At least he has some sense of guilt. Not for the action, but because of the location.
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 14, 2011 6:49:09am |
re: #140 Cannadian Club Akbar
"I happened to be there I didn't know it was school property. I wouldn't be there if I knew it was school property," Torroll told Nashville's News 2.
At least he has some sense of guilt. Not for the action, but because of the location.
5 minutes into the video, he asks the reporter
dirtball
"this going to be on the news"?
reporter
"Yes sir"
dirtball
"with my name?"
DUHH ,,, you're standing outside YOUR house, with a reporter with a microphone, with a CAMERAMAN standing behind the reporter
nahhh ,,,we'll use someone ELSES name!!
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sun, Aug 14, 2011 7:02:55am |
This guy needs a serious ass kicking.
U.S. investigators say Jesse Osmun confessed that as a Peace Corps volunteer, he for months sexually molested at least five girls at a South African shelter for AIDS orphans and other children. None of the girls were older than 6.
[Link: www.huffingtonpost.com...]
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 14, 2011 7:10:30am |
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ElCapitanAmerica Sun, Aug 14, 2011 7:14:36am |
Watching Bachmann on Meet the Press. I'm wondering I'd she's dumber than Palin or not. I think Palin still beats her in the dumb department, but Bachmann still beats her in the lunacy one.
When she's asked about her qualifications, she lists; her age, her marriage, her kids and her tax law degree!
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Digital Display Sun, Aug 14, 2011 7:16:14am |
Good Morning Lizards..MB is doing a victory lap this morning.. Not surprising Ron Paul almost won..I picked him cause of the crazy GOP base..
He..The crazy uncle almost won...What does that say about the direction of the right wing?
It's a sad day in Indiana with 5 dead from the Sugarland concert..The video is horrifying..Here is the story..
[Link: www.indystar.com...]
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 14, 2011 7:18:13am |
re: #145 ElCapitanAmerica
asked about her qualifications
Always been THE dumbest question to ask a potential Presidential candidate
What are the qualifications for the job? It's a job like no other. No matter what you've done, know or accomplished in the past can really prepare you for it.
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 14, 2011 7:19:34am |
re: #146 HoosierHoops
Good Morning Lizards..MB is doing a victory lap this morning.. Not surprising Ron Paul almost won..I picked him cause of the crazy GOP base..
He..The crazy uncle almost won...What does that say about the direction of the right wing?
It's a sad day in Indiana with 5 dead from the Sugarland concert..The video is horrifying..Here is the story..
[Link: www.indystar.com...]
Not a great track record for the poll over the years
Since 1979, it's ended up being "right" about the winner of the repub primaries twice, (and one of those times it was only half right, as Bob Dole and Phil Gramm "tied") and it's completely been wrong three times
[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]
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Targetpractice Sun, Aug 14, 2011 7:20:11am |
re: #145 ElCapitanAmerica
Watching Bachmann on Meet the Press. I'm wondering I'd she's dumber than Palin or not. I think Palin still beats her in the dumb department, but Bachmann still beats her in the lunacy one.
When she's asked about her qualifications, she lists; her age, her marriage, her kids and her tax law degree!
You mean the tax law degree she stated her hubby forced her to obtain?
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 14, 2011 7:20:26am |
re: #146 HoosierHoops
It's a sad day in Indiana with 5 dead from the Sugarland concert..The video is horrifying.
Amen
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ElCapitanAmerica Sun, Aug 14, 2011 7:22:16am |
re: #147 sattv4u2
One would hope that as a legislator she has shown some leadership in that role (she obviously hasn't)
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 14, 2011 7:43:29am |
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Digital Display Sun, Aug 14, 2011 7:49:47am |
This is a special day..
My First son David Anthony was born today.. He passed away Oct 13th 2005..Please think of him today and say a prayer for him.. He was a special man...I am flooded with memories of him..The first time he played in the grass at a park in Napa..How he was so close with my Mom..He was so full of life..He loved to play guitar and was a great singer...Oh God..
I miss him...All I have now is his ashes and memories..and tears...
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PhillyPretzel Sun, Aug 14, 2011 7:51:04am |
re: #154 HoosierHoops
Both you and your son are in my prayers.
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 14, 2011 7:52:16am |
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Vicious Babushka Sun, Aug 14, 2011 7:56:07am |
re: #154 HoosierHoops
This is a special day..
My First son David Anthony was born today.. He passed away Oct 13th 2005..Please think of him today and say a prayer for him.. He was a special man...I am flooded with memories of him..The first time he played in the grass at a park in Napa..How he was so close with my Mom..He was so full of life..He loved to play guitar and was a great singer...Oh God..
I miss him...All I have now is his ashes and memories..and tears...
I haz a sad.
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Dark_Falcon Sun, Aug 14, 2011 7:59:54am |
re: #12 goddamnedfrank
Got a photo ID from the Veteran's Administration? Sorry, that's not good enough to let you vote in the great state of Texas.
OK, that's fucked up. The DoVA and DoJ ought to land on that sort of mistreatment with both feet. Wouldn't even be a hard argument to win.
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William Barnett-Lewis Sun, Aug 14, 2011 8:08:01am |
re: #159 Dark_Falcon
OK, that's fucked up. The DoVA and DoJ ought to land on that sort of mistreatment with both feet. Wouldn't even be a hard argument to win.
That kind of mistreatment is the purpose of these Voter-ID bills; to disenfranchise as many as possible. If they're too poor or can't drive to get a different ID, too bad.
Just like when they passed the disenfranchisement bill here in Wisconsin and then cut the DMV hours to make it harder for people to get in to get the newly mandated ID's.
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Dark_Falcon Sun, Aug 14, 2011 8:17:59am |
re: #160 wlewisiii
That kind of mistreatment is the purpose of these Voter-ID bills; to disenfranchise as many as possible. If they're too poor or can't drive to get a different ID, too bad.
Just like when they passed the disenfranchisement bill here in Wisconsin and then cut the DMV hours to make it harder for people to get in to get the newly mandated ID's.
I don't see the intent of a proper voter ID bill as that. But its a law that can be abused in that way. The good news is that the Texas bill will likely be changed to add the VA IDs. No one is going to want to be accused of shafting veterans like that. The pro-military conservatives would not vote for such a person, and they'd look like a turd even on Fox News.
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reine.de.tout Sun, Aug 14, 2011 8:18:40am |
re: #154 HoosierHoops
This is a special day..
My First son David Anthony was born today.. He passed away Oct 13th 2005..Please think of him today and say a prayer for him.. He was a special man...I am flooded with memories of him..The first time he played in the grass at a park in Napa..How he was so close with my Mom..He was so full of life..He loved to play guitar and was a great singer...Oh God..
I miss him...All I have now is his ashes and memories..and tears...
Hoops, I did not know this.
So very sorry for your loss.
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calochortus Sun, Aug 14, 2011 8:31:20am |
re: #154 HoosierHoops
This is a special day..
My First son David Anthony was born today.. He passed away Oct 13th 2005..Please think of him today and say a prayer for him.. He was a special man...I am flooded with memories of him..The first time he played in the grass at a park in Napa..How he was so close with my Mom..He was so full of life..He loved to play guitar and was a great singer...Oh God..
I miss him...All I have now is his ashes and memories..and tears...
I'm so sorry. I don't think there can be a worse loss than that of one's child-whatever the age. {{{Hoops}}}
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 14, 2011 8:31:38am |
re: #162 reine.de.tout
Hoops, I did not know this.
So very sorry for your loss.
I've been sitting here for almost 3/4 of an hour since Hoosier 1st posted it, and all I can come up with is there are just no words
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Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Sun, Aug 14, 2011 8:39:22am |
re: #166 sattv4u2
yohoho! and a bottle of rum.
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 14, 2011 8:41:11am |
re: #167 Sergey Romanov
yohoho! and a bottle of rum.
Not for another 20 minutes or so
Still at work!
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Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Sun, Aug 14, 2011 8:42:56am |
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 14, 2011 8:45:52am |
re: #169 Sergey Romanov
I'm on vacation, so
[Video]
Then WTF are you doing HERE?!?!?!
Go do what tourists DO
Walk around with knee high black socks, sandals, checkered shorts and a striped shirt!!
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Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Sun, Aug 14, 2011 8:46:37am |
re: #170 sattv4u2
Then WTF are you doing HERE?!?!?!
Go do what tourists DO
Walk around with knee high black socks, sandals, checkered shorts and a striped shirt!!
Lol, I'll have PLENTY of that in the coming 3 weeks :)
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 14, 2011 8:47:07am |
re: #169 Sergey Romanov
re: #170 sattv4u2
Then WTF are you doing HERE?!?!?!
Go do what tourists DO
Walk around with knee high black socks, sandals, checkered shorts and a striped shirt!!
[Link: costumepop.com...]
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 14, 2011 9:05:58am |
And on that note, the long quiet (rumless) drive home beckons
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PhillyPretzel Sun, Aug 14, 2011 9:28:35am |
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Aug 14, 2011 9:33:16am |
re: #154 HoosierHoops
This is a special day..
My First son David Anthony was born today.. He passed away Oct 13th 2005..Please think of him today and say a prayer for him.. He was a special man...I am flooded with memories of him..The first time he played in the grass at a park in Napa..How he was so close with my Mom..He was so full of life..He loved to play guitar and was a great singer...Oh God..
I miss him...All I have now is his ashes and memories..and tears...
So sorry, Hoosier Hoops.
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Dark_Falcon Sun, Aug 14, 2011 9:34:08am |
Here's an interesting article on the now-ended London riots. This is from The Australian, and its not written by a conservative:
Less political rebellion, more mollycoddled mob
"It's very naive to look at these riots without the context," says one journalist, who says the reason the violence kicked off in the London suburb of Tottenham is because "that area is getting 75 per cent cuts [in public services]". Others have said the political context for the rioting is youth unemployment or working-class anger at Prime Minister David Cameron's cuts agenda.
"There is a context to London's riots that can't be ignored," says a writer for The Guardian, and it is the "backdrop of brutal cuts and enforced austerity measures". The "mass unrest" is a protest against unhinged capitalism, apparently.
These observers are right that there is a political context to the riots. While the police shooting of young black man Mark Duggan may ostensibly have been the trigger for the street violence, there is a broader context to the disturbances. But they are wrong about what the political context is. Painting these riots as some kind of action replay of historic political streetfights against capitalist bosses or racist cops might allow armchair radicals to get their intellectual rocks off, as they lift their noses from dusty tomes about the Levellers or the suffragettes and fantasise that a political upheaval of equal worth is occurring outside their windows. But such shameless projection misses what is new and deeply worrying about these riots. The political context is not the cuts or racist policing, it is the welfare state, which has nurtured a generation that has no sense of community spirit or social solidarity.
What we have on the streets of London and elsewhere are welfare-state mobs. The youth who are shattering their own communities represent a generation that has been suckled by the state more than any generation before it. They live in urban territories where the sharp-elbowed intrusion of the welfare state during the past 30 years has pushed aside older ideals of self-reliance and community spirit. The march of the welfare state into every aspect of urban, less well-off people's existences, from their financial wellbeing to their child-rearing habits and even into their emotional lives, with the rise of therapeutic welfarism designed to ensure that the poor remain "mentally fit", has undermined individual resourcefulness and social bonding. The antisocial youthful rioters are the end-product of this antisocial system of state intervention.
The most striking thing about the rioters is how little they care for their own communities. You don't have to be a right-winger with helmet hair and a niggling discomfort with black or chavvy yoof (I am the opposite of that) to recognise that this violence is not political, just criminal. It is entertaining to watch the political contortions of commentators who claim the riots are an uprising against the evils of capitalism, as they struggle to explain why the targets have been Foot Locker sports shops and why the only "gains" made by the rioters have been to get a new pair of trainers or an Apple laptop. In the Brixton race riots of 1981, looting and the destruction of local infrastructure were largely incidental to the broader expression of political anger, by-products of the main show, which was a clash between a community and the forces of the state. But in these riots, looting and smashing stuff up is all there is. It is childish nihilism.
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Dark_Falcon Sun, Aug 14, 2011 9:36:19am |
re: #181 Stanley Sea
Tpaw be gone
With Bachmann in the race, he didn't have the star power to win, and faded away. His campaign really died at the debate on Thursday. The straw poll was just it being pronounced dead.
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Obdicut Sun, Aug 14, 2011 9:37:16am |
re: #183 Dark_Falcon
I love all these journalists making argument without any proof. Do they actually think they're contributing anything new?
Gee, the rioters engaging in violence aren't doing legitimate political protest: whodathunk it.
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(I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was) Sun, Aug 14, 2011 9:37:33am |
Norway attacks: Breivik taken back to shooting islandNorwegian gunman Anders Behring Breivik has been taken back to the island of Utoeya for a police reconstruction of the killing of his 69 victims there.
Mr Breivik, wearing a bulletproof vest and tethered on a rope, was seen pointing to where he had fired shots. Police later said he showed no remorse.
[…]The 32-year-old far-right extremist admits the killings but denies any criminal guilt.
Norwegian prosecutor Paal-Fredrik Hjort Kraby said Mr Breivik described the killings in detail during his eight hours on the island with police.
"The suspect showed he wasn't emotionally unaffected by being back at Utoeya... but didn't show any remorse," Mr Hjort Kraby was quoted by Associated Press news agency as saying.
The Verdens Gang newspaper published photographs of the reconstruction, saying Mr Breivik was taken to Utoeya at about 1400 local time (noon GMT) on Saturday, with police helicopters flying overhead.
[…]
On Friday, Mr Lippestad said his client had called police 10 times during the shootings to try to turn himself in, but that eight were not answered. The police have not commented.
[Link: www.bbc.co.uk...]
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(I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was) Sun, Aug 14, 2011 9:42:08am |
re: #187 Gus 802
Bzzt...
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]
Oh okay. You can embed the video that the Daily Mail embeds, btw:
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blueraven Sun, Aug 14, 2011 9:47:25am |
re: #183 Dark_Falcon
Here's an interesting article on the now-ended London riots. This is from The Australian, and its not written by a conservative:
Less political rebellion, more mollycoddled mob
He sounds like a "libertarian". Is this the same guy? A climate change skeptic..
Whatever viewers may have thought about the new theories put forward in Swindle to explain global warming (personally, I found the replacement of the widespread, all-encompassing manmade theory with an all-encompassing cosmic ray theory – sort of ‘It’s the Sun wot done it!’ – a little unconvincing), there’s no denying that the film poked some very big holes in the global warming consensus.
Professor Paul Reiter of the Pasteur Institute in Paris, one of the world’s leading experts on malaria, was a revelation. He explained how he had to threaten legal action against the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to have his name removed from the list of ‘2,000 of the world’s leading scientists’ who apparently backed its summary published last month. The problem? Professor Reiter didn’t back it, instead arguing that it was a ‘sham’. The IPCC ‘make it seem that all the top scientists are agreed, but it’s not true’, he said.
[Link: www.spiked-online.com...]
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Gus Sun, Aug 14, 2011 9:48:55am |
re: #188 000G
Oh okay. You can embed the video that the Daily Mail embeds, btw:
[Video]
Thanks. Since I'm on this 5G per month stuff I've been avoiding videos. I updated my link by adding the video at the end even though I can't watch it myself.
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Daniel Ballard Sun, Aug 14, 2011 9:50:13am |
re: #161 Dark_Falcon
As soon as we get a good crop of proper Voter ID bills you will be right, and the system will be more accurate in those close races where a little difference makes a win. California tried, but what was a good bill (money and provisions for the poor to get solid ID) but it died in a Dem committee.
Too bad the recent spate of ID bills have been unfairly written, kinda ruins the whole idea.
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William Barnett-Lewis Sun, Aug 14, 2011 9:51:18am |
Time to throw Keith Jarrett's Standards on the stereo and serve up some homemade BBQ ribs, slaw & sweet corn to my visiting little sister.
BBL.
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Gus Sun, Aug 14, 2011 9:54:29am |
re: #183 Dark_Falcon
Here's an interesting article on the now-ended London riots. This is from The Australian, and its not written by a conservative:
Less political rebellion, more mollycoddled mob
He seems to be generalizing and seemingly short of blaming "multiculturalism". That aside I can only say, using his phrase, some of the rioters are from a "welfare state" culture however not everyone from the "welfare state" culture are rioters. There's a problem with passive law enforcement in quelling the riots for sure but it wouldn't prevent the systemic problems that create such criminal behavior.
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KronoGhazi Sun, Aug 14, 2011 9:58:20am |
Global Warming: the chilling effect on free speech
By Brendan O'Neill
May not be a conservative but a backwards glibertarian who uses Godwin to prove Godwin.
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blueraven Sun, Aug 14, 2011 9:58:29am |
re: #183 Dark_Falcon
If this guy is not a conservative, how would you describe his overall political viewpoint?
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KronoGhazi Sun, Aug 14, 2011 10:04:20am |
re: #196 blueraven
If this guy is not a conservative, how would you describe his overall political viewpoint?
Whether or not his is a conservative, his OpEd was a simple indictment of socialism dressed up in conjecture that is supposed to be intellectual reasoning. But it's not. He's just another rioter, but instead of a Molotov cocktail he has a gin/tonic and a laptop.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sun, Aug 14, 2011 10:04:34am |
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blueraven Sun, Aug 14, 2011 10:09:08am |
re: #198 BigPapa
Whether or not his is a conservative, his OpEd was a simple indictment of socialism dressed up in conjecture that is supposed to be intellectual reasoning. But it's not. He's just another rioter, but instead of a Molotov cocktail he has a gin/tonic and a laptop.
Well my point in asking is that DF posted a blanket statement saying this guy is no conservative. I have respect for DF but he has a habit of posting stuff like this and not defending it, once challenged.
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Dark_Falcon Sun, Aug 14, 2011 10:09:59am |
This is going to sound pathetic, but my PC was having trouble again. So I'm going to run a complete scan for malware and be back this afternoon.
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Dark_Falcon Sun, Aug 14, 2011 10:10:47am |
re: #200 blueraven
Well my point in asking is that DF posted a blanket statement saying this guy is no conservative. I have respect for DF but he has a habit of posting stuff like this and not defending it, once challenged.
Sorry, but I really do have to go. My parents are here for Sunday brunch.
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BishopX Sun, Aug 14, 2011 10:13:52am |
So I was listening to NPR this morning, and heard an interesting statistic about the London riots. Seventy five percent of those arrested for rioting rioted outside of their local area. If this is true (and I heard it right), that would substantially change how I think about the riots because it would no longer be people shitting where they eat so to speak.
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Daniel Ballard Sun, Aug 14, 2011 10:16:20am |
re: #203 BishopX
I'm wondering how much overlap there was with soccer hooligans. People who think of a riot as a fun time out...
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PhillyPretzel Sun, Aug 14, 2011 10:17:36am |
Just posted a page on the continuing saga of the News Corp. [Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]
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Daniel Ballard Sun, Aug 14, 2011 10:19:57am |
I think I owe Thanos a favor...
Thanks to his page I went further and found this Youtube channel
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sun, Aug 14, 2011 10:21:52am |
re: #207 Gus 802
Obviously lot'sa room for assholes on the urf.
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KronoGhazi Sun, Aug 14, 2011 10:22:44am |
re: #200 blueraven
Well my point in asking is that DF posted a blanket statement saying this guy is no conservative. I have respect for DF but he has a habit of posting stuff like this and not defending it, once challenged.
Yah, I think that's either an error or an irrelevant factoid that, if he's not a conservative, he's a glibertarian making a standard anti-big gov stump speech that would get conservatives aroused. But as Obdi pointed out, it's not based in any fact but entirely conjecture yet confidently posited as fact.
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KronoGhazi Sun, Aug 14, 2011 10:26:07am |
re: #212 jaunte
Rick Perry's new bumper sticker: SLAVE AMERICA
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jaunte Sun, Aug 14, 2011 10:27:22am |
re: #213 BigPapa
Not new after all. I notice the caption says it was photographed two months ago...
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Gus Sun, Aug 14, 2011 10:28:58am |
re: #210 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Obviously lot'sa room for assholes on the urf.
While the world simply watches. Could you imagine? Shelling your own people like that and from a naval vessel no less? If ever a naval fleet deserved destruction this one presents us a good case.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Aug 14, 2011 10:30:49am |
re: #183 Dark_Falcon
Here's an interesting article on the now-ended London riots. This is from The Australian, and its not written by a conservative:
Less political rebellion, more mollycoddled mob
You may also be interested in what the former NYPD chief said about them, since it was your idea to call in the NYPD. Or not.
US 'supercop' Bill Bratton says riot arrests not only answer
Communities cannot "arrest their way out" of gang crime, the prime minister's new crime adviser, US "supercop" Bill Bratton, has warned.
Overpolicing may make out of touch conservatives in the suburbs "feel" safer. But it does nothing to make anyone actually safe.
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KronoGhazi Sun, Aug 14, 2011 10:35:30am |
re: #218 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
Wow, somebody got there panties in a wad (Hansen). I didn't see any criticism of policing in Bratton's statements.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Sun, Aug 14, 2011 10:53:33am |
re: #219 BigPapa
Wow, somebody got there panties in a wad (Hansen). I didn't see any criticism of policing in Bratton's statements.
Oh, I know. Touchy-touchy. You'd think Bratton was one of those devil-worshipping cultural Marxist multiculturalist reverse racists, trying to end western civilization as we know it. /
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lostlakehiker Sun, Aug 14, 2011 4:42:39pm |
re: #220 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
Oh, I know. Touchy-touchy. You'd think Bratton was one of those devil-worshipping cultural Marxist multiculturalist reverse racists, trying to end western civilization as we know it. /
Umm? The whole idea is to find a way forward. More of the same is not workable. Bratton has done good work several times before. We should listen.
What was it Deng Xio Ping said? Right. It doesn't matter what color the cat is, as long as it catches mice. It doesn't matter what "side" Bratton's on, or what philosophy seems to gain standing because of what he says. What matters is to restore peace and order. If that can be done by negotiations, all the better. If only force will serve, force will have to be applied. But as a last resort, not as Plan A.
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