Video: Steven Crowder’s Painfully Unfunny Wingnut Humor

Andrew Breitbart is much funnier, if inadvertently
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Normally, I wouldn’t inflict something containing this much derpitude on the LGF audience, but here’s Steven Crowder’s stand-up routine at today’s Tea Party convention.

You don’t have to watch the whole thing. Just know that it exists. Watch a few seconds and you’ll get the drift.

Wingnut humor: painfully unfunny racial stereotypes, followed by even more painful whining about being accused of racism by the evil liberal establishment. Rinse. Repeat.

“Corpseman!”

Applause!

Youtube Video

Sorry, Steven, but Andrew Breitbart is much funnier when he’s yelling “F*CK YOU!” at Richard Trumka.

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538 comments
1 Obdicut  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 5:33:26pm

When does he start telling jokes?

2 dragonfire1981  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 5:33:37pm

I am surprised he didn't do part of his act in blackface.

3 laZardo  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 5:34:54pm

OT-ish

Sorry I took so long. Mom and aunt also did some shopping. Will post the photos soon, probably not going to go back for the evening because mom and I are gonna rearrange the living quarters.

4 Killgore Trout  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 5:37:43pm

Gangster rap videos on MTV? They haven't shown music videos since '92. His act needs work. That reminds me that I haven't seen the wingnuts pimping videos from that Zo guy. Those were really uncomfortable too.

5 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 5:37:43pm

This video is much funnier:
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6 Charles Johnson  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 5:39:34pm

re: #4 Killgore Trout

Gangster rap videos on MTV? They haven't shown music videos since '92. His act needs work. That reminds me that I haven't seen the wingnuts pimping videos from that Zo guy. Those were really uncomfortable too.

Wingnut humor. What can you say?

7 Lidane  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 5:39:38pm

I'll leave my heckling of this guy to the experts:

Youtube Video
8 Kragar  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 5:39:53pm

Yeah, like the wingnuts don't have enough shrieking idiots. I made it all of about 10 seconds. Time for some David Cross.

9 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 5:41:03pm

Needs more cowbell.

10 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 5:41:29pm

re: #4 Killgore Trout

Gangster rap videos on MTV? They haven't shown music videos since '92. His act needs work. That reminds me that I haven't seen the wingnuts pimping videos from that Zo guy. Those were really uncomfortable too.

One of the nimrods at one of the recent GOP debates tried to make a Clinton/Gore-related crack. Breitbart referenced Jeanine Garofalo like that was some edgy reference. It's always 1996 somewhere, I guess.

11 lockjawcanbefun  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 5:42:32pm

Needs some Jaye P. Morgan hitting a gong.

12 jaunte  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 5:42:45pm
“FoxNews' brightest, funniest young Conservative mind.”

This is painful.

13 Killgore Trout  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 5:43:17pm

re: #10 negativ

One of the nimrods at one of the recent GOP debates tried to make a Clinton/Gore-related crack. Breitbart referenced Jeanine Garofalo like that was some edgy reference. It's always 1996 somewhere, I guess.

Maybe it's the elderly audience. They been out of touch for about 15-20 years so I guess it seems topical to them.

14 Kragar  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 5:43:36pm

re: #9 EmmmieG

Needs more cowbell.

To be fair, what doesn't?

15 Atlas Fails  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 5:44:02pm

"Hey, brown people talk funny! Whadaya say!?!"

16 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 5:45:49pm

re: #15 Atlas Fails

"Hey, brown people talk funny! Whadaya say!?!"

Orange people are funnier.

17 eff  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 5:48:07pm

If you're going to be offensive, at least be funny.

18 Atlas Fails  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 5:48:14pm

re: #16 EmmmieG

Orange people are funnier.

Youtube Video
19 Lidane  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 5:50:56pm

re: #9 EmmmieG

Needs more cowbell.

Youtube Video
20 MittDoesNotCompute  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 5:50:58pm

Steven who?

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21 jaunte  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 5:52:33pm

That's a very polite audience. They were told he was a comedian, so they were willing to fake their part.

22 Decatur Deb  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 5:52:44pm

Didn't watch--if I need dumbass racist humor I just go for a haircut.

23 Kragar  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 5:55:30pm

Meanwhile...

Youtube Video
24 Charles Johnson  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 5:55:40pm

Crowder whined about being turned down by The Daily Show. He claimed it was because of liberal bias.

This video is Exhibit A.

25 laZardo  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 5:56:21pm

Also, caught up with what happened after I left.

I get the sinking feeling that it's my fault.

26 Varek Raith  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 5:56:51pm

A Rabbi, Priest and Imam walk into a bar.
The bartender asks, "What is this, a joke?"

Thank you! I won't be here all night.

27 JRCMYP  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 5:56:58pm

Sooooo. First job, huh?

28 Lidane  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 5:57:27pm

Why are conservative comedians so unfunny? It's painful.

29 Interesting Times  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 5:57:41pm

re: #24 Charles

Crowder whined about being turned down by The Daily Show. He claimed it was because of liberal bias.

Truth Talent has a liberal bias.

30 jaunte  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 5:58:43pm

Puppet Show
........
Spinal Tap
.........
Open Mike Standup Comedy

31 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:01:05pm

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

{don't mind me, I've had a minor crisis here and am in a terrible mood}

32 wrenchwench  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:01:29pm

re: #26 Varek Raith

A Rabbi, Priest and Imam walk into a bar.
The bartender asks, "What is this, a joke?"

Thank you! I won't be here all night.

Yes, I cut and pasted it:

An Englishman, a Scotsman, an Irishman, a Welshman, a Latvian, a Turk, a German, an Indian, several Americans (including a southerner, a New Englander and a Californian), an Argentinean, a Dane, an Australian, a Slovakian, an Egyptian, a Japanese, a Moroccan, a Frenchman, a New Zealander, a Spaniard, a Russian, a Guatemalan, a Colombian, a Pakistani, a Malaysian, a Croatian, a Uzbek, a Cypriot, a Pole, a Lithuanian, a Chinese, a Sri Lankan, a Lebanese, a Cayman Islander, a Ugandan, a Vietnamese, a Korean, a Uruguayan, a Czech, an Icelander, a Mexican, a Finn, a Honduran, a Panamanian, an Andorran, an Israeli, a Venezuelan, a Fijian, a Peruvian, an Estonian, a Brazilian, a Portuguese, a Liechtensteiner, a Mongolian, a Hungarian, a Canadian, a Moldovan, a Haitian, a Norfolk Islander, a Macedonian, a Bolivian, a Cook Islander, a Tajikistani, a Samoan, an Armenian, an Aruban, an Albanian, a Greenlander, a Micronesian, a Virgin Islander, a Georgian, a Bahamian, a Belarusian, a Cuban, a Tongan, a Cambodian, a Qatari, an Azerbaijani, a Romanian, a Chilean, a Kyrgyzstani, a Jamaican, a Filipino, a Ukrainian, a Dutchman, an Ecuadorian, a Costa Rican, a Swede, a Bulgarian, a Serb, a Swiss, a Greek, a Belgian, a Singaporean, an Italian, a Norwegian and 47 Africans walk into a fine restaurant.

The maître d' scrutinizes the group one by one and bars their entrance, saying, 'Sorry, you can't come in here without a Thai.

33 wrenchwench  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:02:28pm

re: #31 Sergey Romanov

{{Sergey}}

34 Decatur Deb  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:02:51pm

re: #32 wrenchwench

That is truly terrible.

35 Renaissance_Man  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:04:01pm

re: #28 Lidane

Why are conservative comedians so unfunny? It's painful.

Ideologies based on hate just aren't funny.

36 eff  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:04:18pm

Keeping with the "race" comedy theme...

Youtube Video
37 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:08:21pm

re: #33 wrenchwench

thanks, ww.

38 Lidane  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:08:49pm

re: #34 Decatur Deb

That is truly terrible.

And it's still funnier than all that Teabagger "humor".

39 MittDoesNotCompute  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:09:58pm

re: #32 wrenchwench

Yes, I cut and pasted it:

*rimshot*

Try the veal and tip your waitress!

40 Killgore Trout  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:10:09pm

re: #28 Lidane

Why are conservative comedians so unfunny? It's painful.

Even someone as inherently funny as Dennis Miller lost it when he tried go do wingnut comedy. It just doesn't work.

41 MittDoesNotCompute  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:10:29pm

re: #38 Lidane

And it's still funnier than all that Teabagger "humor".

This is true...

42 Interesting Times  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:10:40pm

re: #35 Renaissance_Man

Ideologies based on hate just aren't funny.

Exactly. Humor only works when it mocks the powerful, not the powerless.

43 Decatur Deb  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:12:20pm

re: #35 Renaissance_Man

Ideologies based on hate just aren't funny.

Was about to challenge that re an Alabama bumper sticker, but deleted under the Iron Fist Rule.

44 miclaine  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:12:21pm

OT - OT
Charles - because of some of the Pat Metheny videos you posted recently, I went down to see him at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago last night. That guy is incredible. I first saw him about 30 years or so ago at Amazing Grace Coffee House in Evanston IL. Thanks for putting his stuff out here for all of us to enjoy!

45 Varek Raith  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:13:57pm

re: #43 Decatur Deb

Was about to challenge that re an Alabama bumper sticker, but deleted under the Iron Fist Rule.

Wuss.
/

46 Decatur Deb  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:16:03pm

re: #45 Varek Raith

Wuss.
/

I'll review it when I'm totally wine-free. Since it seems quite funny it might be about race, rather than racist.

47 Varek Raith  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:16:30pm

How's it possible to have a civil war???

:P

48 wrenchwench  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:17:05pm

Later, lizards.

49 laZardo  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:18:39pm

Who wants to see some protest photos?

50 Kragar  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:19:14pm

re: #47 Varek Raith

How's it possible to have a civil war???

:P

"Excuse me sir" *BANG* "Sorry for that spot of bother."

51 Obdicut  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:20:11pm

re: #49 laZardo

And now we know what you look like.

Aw.

52 laZardo  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:21:47pm

re: #51 Obdicut

And now we know what you look like.

Aw.

It's not like I'm dissing them or anything. q; Besides which, clicking my nic will show you anyway.

53 Decatur Deb  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:22:23pm

re: #49 laZardo

Who wants to see some protest photos?

A die-in? What is that a freakn' 'living history' class? And I was worried until I saw the drum in the last frame.

54 MittDoesNotCompute  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:23:19pm

re: #49 laZardo

Who wants to see some protest photos?

Looks like some of the "libertarian" end-the-Fed types and fringy moonbats are there too...can't say that I'm down with that.

55 laZardo  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:23:22pm

re: #53 Decatur Deb

A die-in? What is that a freakn' 'living history' class? And I was worried until I saw the drum in the last frame.

If I recall, a "die-in" is a variant of the "sit-in" where the participants all lie down on the ground like they're, well, dead.

56 Kragar  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:24:16pm

re: #53 Decatur Deb

A die-in? What is that a freakn' 'living history' class? And I was worried until I saw the drum in the last frame.

For some reason, people at a die-in don't stay dead when you attempt to commit emergency resuscitation or loot the bodies. No fucking commitment to the art.

57 Decatur Deb  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:24:36pm

re: #55 laZardo

If I recall, a "die-in" is a variant of the "sit-in" where the participants all lie down on the ground like they're, well, dead.

I recall it too, but not since the 70s. They need new material.

58 laZardo  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:24:56pm

re: #54 talon_262

Looks like some of the "libertarian" end-the-Fed types and fringy moonbats are there too...can't say that I'm down with that.

And some anarchists of the "black-bloc-are-plants-what-you-know-as-anarchy-is-what-they-want-you-to-think" variety too, of course. They were nice otherwise though.

59 Decatur Deb  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:25:58pm

re: #58 laZardo

And some anarchists of the "black-bloc-are-plants-what-you-know-as-anarchy-i s-what-they-want-you-to-think" variety too, of course. They were nice otherwise though.

That isn't a movement, it's hipsters with time on their hands.

60 palomino  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:26:16pm

re: #40 Killgore Trout

Even someone as inherently funny as Dennis Miller lost it when he tried go do wingnut comedy. It just doesn't work.

But he just threw his weighty endorsement behind Herman Cain. That's pretty funny.

61 MittDoesNotCompute  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:26:52pm

re: #56 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

For some reason, people at a die-in don't stay dead when you attempt to commit emergency resuscitation or loot the bodies. No fucking commitment to the art.

Whaddaya expect? It takes gumption to perform seppuku or self-immolation in front of thousands of people!

///

62 Killgore Trout  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:27:45pm

re: #60 palomino

But he just threw his weighty endorsement behind Herman Cain. That's pretty funny.

Lol. That's the first laugh Dennis Miller has given me this decade. I stand corrected (and snickering)

63 palomino  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:28:29pm

re: #54 talon_262

Looks like some of the "libertarian" end-the-Fed types and fringy moonbats are there too...can't say that I'm down with that.

There's actually some "philosophical" overlap between the TP and the OWS crowds. But they come at it from such radically divergent cultural perspectives that they seem like mortal enemies.

64 Decatur Deb  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:28:43pm

re: #61 talon_262

Whaddaya expect? It takes gumption to perform seppuku or self-immolation in front of thousands of people!

///

We're not there, yet.

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65 MittDoesNotCompute  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:28:54pm

re: #60 palomino

But he just threw his weighty endorsement behind Herman Cain. That's pretty funny.

Miller can get bent, along with the rest of the TPGOP muckety-mucks and wannabes.

66 MittDoesNotCompute  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:31:01pm

re: #64 Decatur Deb

We're not there, yet.

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Whatever the reason or justification, it takes some huevos to dump gasoline on yourself and SET IT ON FIRE!

Not that I would ever do it or would advocate it, just sayin'...

67 Interesting Times  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:31:08pm

re: #54 talon_262

Looks like some of the "libertarian" end-the-Fed types and fringy moonbats are there too...can't say that I'm down with that.

It may be impractical or even impossible to prevent them from showing up. What matters is if their fringy, moonbatty ideas end up defining the movement. I don't think that's the case:

Declaration of the Occupation of New York City

If you read it and take it at face value, is it so unreasonable? I daresay most people here would agree with at least two-thirds of the items on that list (though you might quibble with the wording here and there)

68 Spocomptonite  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:33:35pm

re: #4 Killgore Trout

Gangster rap videos on MTV? They haven't shown music videos since '92. His act needs work. That reminds me that I haven't seen the wingnuts pimping videos from that Zo guy. Those were really uncomfortable too.

Then it got good, albeit briefly. I still watch Daria, and that ended over... holy crap, like 10 years ago.

Speaking of right wing people trying to be funny, anybody remember what-was-it-called? The half hour news hour? Starring Anne Coulter and Rush Limbaugh (at least the episode I subjected myself to on Youtube.) It was all... WHOA...

69 jaunte  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:34:18pm

"This is why we have national parks, people: So there's one place in the country where "share the road" means "stop your damn car so baby bears can have a little tussle."

70 laZardo  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:34:29pm

re: #68 Spocomptonite

Then it got good, albeit briefly. I still watch Daria, and that ended over... holy crap, like 10 years ago.

Speaking of right wing people trying to be funny, anybody remember what-was-it-called? The half hour news hour? Starring Anne Coulter and Rush Limbaugh (at least the episode I subjected myself to on Youtube.) It was all... WHOA...

My favorite was Celebrity Deathmatch. Oh, and they're bringing back Beavis & Butthead.

Of course, given that it's MTV, they'll be making fun of their so-called "reality" shows instead.

71 Atlas Fails  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:35:06pm

re: #68 Spocomptonite

Then it got good, albeit briefly. I still watch Daria, and that ended over... holy crap, like 10 years ago.

Speaking of right wing people trying to be funny, anybody remember what-was-it-called? The half hour news hour? Starring Anne Coulter and Rush Limbaugh (at least the episode I subjected myself to on Youtube.) It was all... WHOA...

SNL is a sad husk of its former self, but even it's a laughfest compared to that abortion of a comedy.

72 Jimmi the Grey  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:36:52pm

The crack about Herman Cain dating a Chilean Model who was a 9 got a chuckle, but that was it.

Pretty obvious that the unaccounted for TeaParty money didn't go to hire comedians.

73 Spocomptonite  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:36:55pm

re: #71 Atlas Fails

SNL is a sad husk of its former self, but even it's a laughfest compared to that Fox News abortion.

FOX NEWS WOULD NEVER ABORT ANYTHING

74 Spocomptonite  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:41:50pm

re: #71 Atlas Fails

SNL is a sad husk of its former self, but even it's a laughfest compared to that Fox News abortion.

You know what is funny? Top Gear. The BBC version, of course, but also the history channel version (why that channel I'll never know). The stars' combination representing drastically different types of people/drivers really makes it, I think.

"Some say the Stig can breathe fire through his helmet, and recently used that ability to charbroil Spocomptonite for an unspeakable blasphemy that cannot be repeated on the BBC."

75 laZardo  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:44:09pm

re: #74 Spocomptonite

You know what is funny? Top Gear. The BBC version, of course, but also the history channel version (why that channel I'll never know). The stars' combination representing drastically different types of people/drivers really makes it, I think.

"Some say the Stig can breathe fire through his helmet, and recently used that ability to charbroil Spocomptonite for an unspeakable blasphemy that cannot be repeated on the BBC."

Jeremy Clarkson is a complete wingnut.

but that's what makes him lovable. XD

76 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:44:27pm

re: #69 jaunte

"This is why we have national parks, people: So there's one place in the country where "share the road" means "stop your damn car so baby bears can have a little tussle."

First of all, people go to the national parks in hopes that they'll see something like this.

Secondly, the guy who was saying he wanted one? Take it from a mom: they don't stay cute and young forever. They're big and smelly before you know it.

77 Decatur Deb  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:45:14pm

re: #74 Spocomptonite

You know what is funny? Top Gear. The BBC version, of course, but also the history channel version (why that channel I'll never know). The stars' combination representing drastically different types of people/drivers really makes it, I think.

"Some say the Stig can breathe fire through his helmet, and recently used that ability to charbroil Spocomptonite for an unspeakable blasphemy that cannot be repeated on the BBC."

"If they gave the (old) Land Rover an award, it wouldn't show up. It would be off somewhere in the world, doing something important".

78 jaunte  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:46:01pm

re: #76 EmmmieG

I have a photo from my grandfather's trip to Yellowstone in 1930, of a bear halfway inside his car, foraging for a candy bar.

79 BongCrodny  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:47:46pm

That was AWFUL.

80 Killgore Trout  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:49:13pm

Key Organizers of ‘Occupy Wall Street’
Adbusters:

In March 2004, Adbusters was accused of antisemitism after running an article[30] that alleged many supporters of the Iraq War within the Bush Administration were Jewish. The article questioned why the political implications of this Jewish influence on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East were not a subject of debate.[31]

In October 2010, Shopper's Drug Mart pulled Adbusters off of its shelves after a photo montage[32] comparing the Gaza Strip to the Warsaw ghetto was featured in an article critiquing Israel's embargo of Gaza.[33] Two frequently pro-Israel Canadian organizations, the Canadian Jewish Congress and Honest Reporting Canada, rallied to have the magazine blacklisted from bookstores, accusing Adbusters of trivializing the Holocaust and of antisemitism.[34][35][36] "The argument is obscene, and continues the disgusting tradition of some supporters of the Palestinian cause to turn Jews into Nazis and Palestinians into Jews. In so doing, these propagandists not only demonize Israelis (i.e., Jews), but minimize the murderous extent and intent of [Nazism's] genocidal project."[37

Anonymous:

81 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:50:27pm

Guess what? I just found out I can kick the kids off of Netflix streaming from the other room.

I just have to log in and launch something else.

Interesting.

82 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:51:06pm

re: #24 Charles

Crowder whined about being turned down by The Daily Show. He claimed it was because of liberal bias.

This video is Exhibit A.

We were speaking of Chicago two threads back. Well, Steven Crowder should never do stand up in Chicago, cause they'd boo him right off the stage at Second City.

83 Decatur Deb  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:52:54pm

re: #82 Dark_Falcon

We were speaking of Chicago two threads back. Well, Steven Crowder should never do stand up in Chicago, cause they'd boo him right off the stage at Second City.

He should do the Apollo.

84 laZardo  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:53:44pm

re: #80 Killgore Trout

Anonymous on Anonymous.

Also includes best chart ever. ;P

85 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:55:09pm

re: #80 Killgore Trout

Key Organizers of ‘Occupy Wall Street’
Adbusters:

Anonymous:

Sounds like the whole thing is some kind of false front for the far left. If so, that needs to be exposed ASAP. Such exposure will go a long way towards discrediting the protests.

86 Killgore Trout  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 6:58:32pm

re: #85 Dark_Falcon

Sounds like the whole thing is some kind of false front for the far left. If so, that needs to be exposed ASAP. Such exposure will go a long way towards discrediting the protests.

Fat chance. Fox news did a quick edit segment with goofy sound effects (farts, boings, and movie clips) mocking the protesters but there's no credible right wing media left. It's all nonsense.

87 BongCrodny  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:00:38pm

Crowder appeared as a panelist on "Hannity" 17 times between July 2009 and November 2010, but November 2010 was his last appearance.

I can picture Sean Hannity, behind closed doors after the show, yelling at his beleaguered staff, "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, GET HIM OFF MY SHOW BEFORE HE TAKES MY WHOLE AUDIENCE WITH HIM!"

88 Decatur Deb  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:00:57pm

re: #85 Dark_Falcon

Sounds like the whole thing is some kind of false front for the far left. If so, that needs to be exposed ASAP. Such exposure will go a long way towards discrediting the protests.

No, it's actually O'Keefe and a bunch of CRNC kids under Breitbart's direction. Didn't you see the pimp jacket?

89 Killgore Trout  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:01:10pm

Here's the laughably stupid Fox news coverage.....
Watters World Investigates Who's Really Behind the Wall St Protest (video)

90 Atlas Fails  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:02:39pm

re: #85 Dark_Falcon

Sounds like the whole thing is some kind of false front for the far left. If so, that needs to be exposed ASAP. Such exposure will go a long way towards discrediting the protests.

I think a lot of people in the movement are well intentioned, but some of the prominent people in OWS (like the guy Killgore cited) are total creeps. Take Zardo, for example- I generally like and respect him; we're around the same age and have similar politics. I know he would never knowingly support anti-Semitism, and revelations like this will drive people like him from OWS and make it little more than a circle jerk for moonbats and anarchists.

91 laZardo  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:03:37pm

re: #90 Atlas Fails

I think a lot of people in the movement are well intentioned, but some of the prominent people in OWS (like the guy Killgore cited) are total creeps. Take Zardo, for example- I generally like and respect him; we're around the same age and have similar politics. I know he would never knowingly support anti-Semitism, and revelations like this will drive people like him from OWS and make it little more than a circle jerk for moonbats and anarchists.

...HOW DO YOU KNOW HOW OLD I AM. >:I

/

92 Kragar  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:04:06pm

re: #73 Spocomptonite

OK, now that is funny

93 Kragar  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:05:52pm

re: #81 EmmmieG

Guess what? I just found out I can kick the kids off of Netflix streaming from the other room.

I just have to log in and launch something else.

Interesting.

We've got cable, a Wii, and a Blu-Ray player in the living room and my PC in the other room. I told the kids if it comes down to me wanting to watch something on Netflix, they can suck it up.

94 Mocking Jay  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:07:23pm

re: #93 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

We've got cable, a Wii, and a Blu-Ray player in the living room and my PC in the other room. I told the kids if it comes down to me wanting to watch something on Netflix, they can suck it up.

OMG when they grow up they are so going to HATE you!

95 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:07:29pm

re: #86 Killgore Trout

Fat chance. Fox news did a quick edit segment with goofy sound effects (farts, boings, and movie clips) mocking the protesters but there's no credible right wing media left. It's all nonsense.

The Wall Street Journal and National Review could do the work, as could the Chicago Tribune (for the much smaller sister protests in Chicago). FNC is too busy DERPing, I agree, but there are other who still maintain standards.

For balance, the Tribune can also run an article on the Chicago Tea Party's misappropriation problems. It would fit into the Trib's longtime anti-corruption focus.

96 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:12:31pm

re: #90 Atlas Fails

I think a lot of people in the movement are well intentioned, but some of the prominent people in OWS (like the guy Killgore cited) are total creeps. Take Zardo, for example- I generally like and respect him; we're around the same age and have similar politics. I know he would never knowingly support anti-Semitism, and revelations like this will drive people like him from OWS and make it little more than a circle jerk for moonbats and anarchists.

I see it in the same way Mona Charen analyzed the "Nuclear Free" movement of the 1980's. The strong majority of the activists are honest and above-board, but the movement has a far left core that pushes it in a bad direction. So while I do not, repeat not, consider the average "occupy" person to be a far-left malefactor, I consider the groups organizing him/her to be far-left malefactors.

97 Kragar  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:15:00pm

re: #94 JasonA

OMG when they grow up they are so going to HATE you!

I do my best. They're pissed at me today because I didn't let their Orks beat my Tyranids. I'm so evil.

98 Decatur Deb  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:16:07pm

'Nite, all.

99 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:18:54pm

re: #97 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I do my best. They're pissed at me today because I didn't let their Orks beat my Tyranids. I'm so evil.

Never let people win a board or miniatures game. Make them earn the win, so they advance their skills.

100 Obdicut  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:19:03pm

re: #95 Dark_Falcon

Wall Street Journal has not maintained standards.

National Review never had them.

101 Dancing along the light of day  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:19:52pm

re: #31 Sergey Romanov

*smooch*
Sometimes better than a hug.

102 Killgore Trout  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:20:19pm

re: #100 Obdicut

Wall Street Journal has not maintained standards.

National Review never had them.

Agreed, both of them are scroll over links for me. I don't even bother clicking them anymore.

103 Obdicut  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:21:19pm

re: #102 Killgore Trout

I just looked at National Review, and one of their headlines is "Assassin-in-Chief".

I bet the WWP calls him the same thing.

104 Kragar  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:21:41pm

re: #99 Dark_Falcon

Never let people win a board or miniatures game. Make them earn the win, so they advance their skills.

I give them a glimmer of hope before I crush them.

105 Jerk  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:22:09pm

Going back to this comic: the racism in his act is not edgy but quite offensive given the tea party audience and their history of bigotry. That and yea, it's obvious that his material is just made up of easy laughs. I watched more than I should have :(

106 prairiefire  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:25:40pm

re: #104 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I give them a glimmer of hope before I crush them.

"Thanks, Dad." sniff sniff

107 laZardo  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:27:50pm

re: #97 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I do my best. They're pissed at me today because I didn't let their Orks beat my Tyranids. I'm so evil.

Just keep telling them they can nevur have enuf dakka.

108 Atlas Fails  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:29:27pm

re: #96 Dark_Falcon

I see it in the same way Mona Charen analyzed the "Nuclear Free" movement of the 1980's. The strong majority of the activists are honest and above-board, but the movement has a far left core that pushes it in a bad direction. So while I do not, repeat not, consider the average "occupy" person to be a far-left malefactor, I consider the groups organizing him/her to be far-left malefactors.

I'm actually strongly in favor of nuclear disarmament, but I realize that, right now anyway, it's a pipe dream. For now, I'm just opposed to nuclear proliferation. Nuclear energy, on the other hand, is whole different ballgame. It has its risks, but if precautions are taken and reasonable safety measures put in place, it could hold the key to solving many of our environmental crises. Sadly, the politics of Not In My Backyard are bipartisan.

/end rant

109 Kragar  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:29:32pm

re: #107 laZardo

Just keep telling them they can nevur have enuf dakka.

As my littlest likes to say "YUZ GUNNA DO DA BURNY DANCE!"

110 laZardo  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:30:09pm

re: #103 Obdicut

I just looked at National Review, and one of their headlines is "Assassin-in-Chief".

I bet the WWP calls him the same thing.

For the record, while there should be concerns about what precedent this might set, IMO the "target-in-question" quite literally asked for it.

111 Atlas Fails  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:31:10pm

re: #105 Jerk

Going back to this comic: the racism in his act is not edgy but quite offensive given the tea party audience and their history of bigotry. That and yea, it's obvious that his material is just made up of easy laughs. I watched more than I should have :(

The "humor" is more offensive than the racism (for the parts when they're not one in the same, anyway).

112 Ogami Itto  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:31:19pm

re: #5 negativ

Is that Commander Riker playing the trumpet?

113 Kragar  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:31:33pm

I mean, if you want offensive and funny, all you need is Clayton Bixby, Black White Supremacist

Youtube Video
114 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:31:58pm

re: #103 Obdicut

I just looked at National Review, and one of their headlines is "Assassin-in-Chief".

I bet the WWP calls him the same thing.

Let me put that headline in context, if I may:

"Assassin-in-Chief" was written last year by one of NR's deputy managing editors, Kevin Williamson. Willaimson does not speak for the majority of the magazine's staff, and directly above Williamson's piece is an article by fellow NR writer Andrew McCarthy, who argues that it would constitutional to kill al-Awlaki. Also, the article by NR's editorial board is titled "Al-Awlaki's Just Demise". So to ascribe Williamson's opinion to National Review as a whole is incorrect.

115 prairiefire  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:35:37pm

re: #114 Dark_Falcon

Try not to throw your back out.

116 Obdicut  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:37:37pm

re: #114 Dark_Falcon

Did National Review publish the article and do they have a headline entitled

"Assassin-in-Chief?

117 Ogami Itto  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:38:35pm

He's like a rightwing Dane Cook.

118 The Ghost of a Flea  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:39:04pm

re: #117 Ogami Itto

He's like a rightwing Dane Cook.

So he's not a comedian, then?

119 Varek Raith  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:39:18pm

re: #64 Decatur Deb

We're not there, yet.

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Hardcore.

120 laZardo  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:39:35pm

re: #113 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

The essence of Uncle Ruckus concentrated into one sketch. XD

121 palomino  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:42:13pm

re: #114 Dark_Falcon

Let me put that headline in context, if I may:

"Assassin-in-Chief" was written last year by one of NR's deputy managing editors, Kevin Williamson. Willaimson does not speak for the majority of the magazine's staff, and directly above Williamson's piece is an article by fellow NR writer Andrew McCarthy, who argues that it would constitutional to kill al-Awlaki. Also, the article by NR's editorial board is titled "Al-Awlaki's Just Demise". So to ascribe Williamson's opinion to National Review as a whole is incorrect.

National Review is filled with hacks who reflexively criticize Obama regardless of what he does. Andy McCarthy is just one of many. Williamson is another. Jonah Goldberg is another. They're supposedly the intellectuals of the right. But they're much closer to a FNC for people who can read.

122 Ogami Itto  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:42:45pm

The funniest part of the video is when the crowd boos Mitt Romney's name.

123 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:42:48pm

re: #115 prairiefire

Try not to throw your back out.

I'm trying not to. But it was carrying more weight than normal tonight helping my mother into a restaurant at dinner. But she did fine and did not fall. Thankfully, she suffered no broken bones or brain injury from her fall last night. So my back is sore, but its holding.

124 BongCrodny  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:43:22pm

re: #116 Obdicut

Did National Review publish the article and do they have a headline entitled

"Assassin-in-Chief?

Williamson is also one of the pack that "interpreted" James Hoffa's "take them out" as being much more violent than Hoffa suggested.

He's a dick.

125 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:44:06pm

re: #116 Obdicut

Did National Review publish the article and do they have a headline entitled

"Assassin-in-Chief?

Yes, they did. It was part of an honest disagreement reflected in dueling essays, and there was no insanity involved.

126 prairiefire  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:46:46pm

re: #123 Dark_Falcon

Ok, glad she's better. (forgot the sarc tag)

127 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:47:10pm

Here's a good piece from NRO:

Land Without Peace
Why Abbas went to the U.N.
by Charles Krauthammer

While diplomatically inconvenient for the Western powers, Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas’s attempt to get the U.N. to unilaterally declare a Palestinian state has elicited widespread sympathy. After all, what choice did he have? According to the accepted narrative, Middle East peace is made impossible by a hard-line Likud-led Israel that refuses to accept a Palestinian state and continues to build settlements.

It is remarkable how this gross inversion of the truth has become conventional wisdom. In fact, Benjamin Netanyahu brought his Likud-led coalition to open recognition of a Palestinian state, thereby creating Israel’s first national consensus for a two-state solution. He is also the only prime minister to agree to a settlement freeze — ten months — something no Labor or Kadima government has ever done.

To which Abbas responded by boycotting the talks for nine months, showing up in the tenth, then walking out when the freeze expired. Last week he reiterated that he will continue to boycott peace talks unless Israel gives up — in advance — claim to any territory beyond the 1967 lines. Meaning, for example, that the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem is Palestinian territory. This is not just absurd. It violates every prior peace agreement. They all stipulate that such demands are to be the subject of negotiations, not their precondition.

Abbas unwaveringly insists on the so-called “right of return,” which would demographically destroy Israel by swamping it with millions of Arabs, thereby turning the world’s only Jewish state into the world’s 23rd Arab state. And he has repeatedly declared, as recently as last week in New York: “We shall not recognize a Jewish state.”

National Review is no hack rag.

128 Obdicut  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:48:09pm

re: #125 Dark_Falcon

Honest disagreement? Assasin-in-Chief is 'honest disagreement'?

Seriously?

And you know the NR are global warming deniers, right?

And this article, where the guy writes from the perspective of Obama-- mocking him, of course, and including a teleprompter joke in the headline-- is that also 'honest disagreement'?

[Link: www.nationalreview.com...]

129 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:48:26pm

re: #126 prairiefire

Ok, glad she's better. (forgot the sarc tag)

I knew what you meant. but I saw a chance to take my response in a different direction (I really have thrown my back out a couple of times) and I took it.

130 palomino  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:49:30pm

re: #90 Atlas Fails

I think a lot of people in the movement are well intentioned, but some of the prominent people in OWS (like the guy Killgore cited) are total creeps. Take Zardo, for example- I generally like and respect him; we're around the same age and have similar politics. I know he would never knowingly support anti-Semitism, and revelations like this will drive people like him from OWS and make it little more than a circle jerk for moonbats and anarchists.

If the OWS movement is filled with commies trying to sap our precious bodily fluids, then of course I don't want anything to do with it.

But let's not forget that there is certainly room in our discourse for anger at Wall St. for its actions over the last decade in general, as well as the coziness of politicians in both parties with corporate lobbyists. Indeed not many institutions deserve to be the brunt of anger over our economic plight more than Wall Street. Put blame where it belongs.

131 Obdicut  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:50:40pm

re: #127 Dark_Falcon

Yes, Dark, it is. The majority of articles there are badly-written hack pieces.


Here's another of Krauthammer's admitting that what the GOP did on the debt ceiling was blackmail, but approving of it.

[Link: www.nationalreview.com...]

Hack.

132 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:51:07pm

re: #130 palomino

If the OWS movement is filled with commies trying to sap our precious bodily fluids, then of course I don't want anything to do with it.

But let's not forget that there is certainly room in our discourse for anger at Wall St. for its actions over the last decade in general, as well as the coziness of politicians in both parties with corporate lobbyists. Indeed not many institutions deserve to be the brunt of anger over our economic plight more than Wall Street. Put blame where it belongs.

It not "full of" far-leftists, what Killgore, AF and I are saying is that it is being directed by the far left. Most of the activists are not themselves far left.

133 palomino  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:53:03pm

re: #127 Dark_Falcon

On balance it is a "hack rag." Most of its articles are filled with hysterical rants about Obama and the deadly socialist virus he carries; how he constantly apologizes for America; how he's not keeping us safe, etc, etc. NR is a shell of what it once was.

134 Obdicut  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:54:10pm

re: #132 Dark_Falcon

Here's Krauthammer flat-out lying.

[Link: www.nationalreview.com...]

He claims:

. It will pump a trillion borrowed Chinese dollars into the U.S. economy over the next two years

Krauthammer knows that only a small percentage of the debt is financed by China. But he'll happily lie about it.

Because he's a hack.

135 Mocking Jay  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:56:37pm

re: #134 Obdicut

Here's Krauthammer flat-out lying.

[Link: www.nationalreview.com...]

He claims:

Krauthammer knows that only a small percentage of the debt is financed by China. But he'll happily lie about it.

Because he's a hack.

You know, that must have been an awesome name to have in the early 40's...

136 Atlas Fails  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:56:40pm

re: #130 palomino

If the OWS movement is filled with commies trying to sap our precious bodily fluids, then of course I don't want anything to do with it.

But let's not forget that there is certainly room in our discourse for anger at Wall St. for its actions over the last decade in general, as well as the coziness of politicians in both parties with corporate lobbyists. Indeed not many institutions deserve to be the brunt of anger over our economic plight more than Wall Street. Put blame where it belongs.

Fair points. I'm no Wall St. apologist, and the pics of WS dicks drinking champagne and laughing at the protesters really pissed me off. I think the FBI's white collar crimes division should be beefed up and Glass-Steagall brought back. I just don't think OWS is the best way to achieve those goals, and it has a few too many unsavory characters in it for my taste.

137 palomino  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:57:22pm

re: #132 Dark_Falcon

It not "full of" far-leftists, what Killgore, AF and I are saying is that it is being directed by the far left. Most of the activists are not themselves far left.

The problem is that the freaks will undermine legitimate reasons for protest, in the process nullifying what could have been a constructive movement.

Unlike the TP, which was founded on gop anger over losing an election to a black guy, the protesters here have legitimate gripes.

138 Obdicut  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:59:28pm

re: #137 palomino

Don't forget Dick Armey and the other flat-tax nutjobs who were so instrumental in astroturfing the Tea Party, and Fox News plumping for them every five seconds.

139 laZardo  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 7:59:53pm

re: #136 Atlas Fails

I THINK THEY SHOULD END THE FED.

/

//yeah, they had that sign too

140 Atlas Fails  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 8:03:35pm

re: #139 laZardo

I THINK THEY SHOULD END THE FED.

/

//yeah, they had that sign too

Ironically, few things would make Wall Street happier than ending the Fed.

141 palomino  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 8:04:10pm

re: #139 laZardo

I THINK THEY SHOULD END THE FED.

/

//yeah, they had that sign too

Where the anarchy of the far left and the nihilism of the far right meet up.

But only Ron Paul can save us!!!!!!! Or some stupid shit like that.

142 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 8:04:54pm

re: #137 palomino

The problem is that the freaks will undermine legitimate reasons for protest, in the process nullifying what could have been a constructive movement.

Unlike the TP, which was founded on gop anger over losing an election to a black guy, the protesters here have legitimate gripes.

I think the Tea Party had a legitimate gripe, actually. But the thing to remember is that, like the Tea Party, these protests aren't something loons have "taken over". They've been in leadership positions since day 1. Back in 2009, I had thought that the crazies could be kept out of the Tea Party, failing to see that they had always been there. Do not repeat my mistake.

143 The Ghost of a Flea  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 8:06:22pm

Criticism of the protestors using the roadway of the Brooklyn Bridge from a OWS organizer:

[Link: wagingnonviolence.org...]

NYT article about arrests:

[Link: cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com...]

144 jamesfirecat  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 8:07:23pm

re: #142 Dark_Falcon

I think the Tea Party had a legitimate gripe, actually. But the thing to remember is that, like the Tea Party, these protests aren't something loons have "taken over". They've been in leadership positions since day 1. Back in 2009, I had thought that the crazies could be kept out of the Tea Party, failing to see that they had always been there. Do not repeat my mistake.

If you want to complain about how Americans are "Taxed Enough Already" at a time when taxes are at some of the lowest levels they've been in decades, then you my friend do not have a legitimate gripe.

145 palomino  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 8:09:47pm

re: #142 Dark_Falcon

I think the Tea Party had a legitimate gripe, actually. But the thing to remember is that, like the Tea Party, these protests aren't something loons have "taken over". They've been in leadership positions since day 1. Back in 2009, I had thought that the crazies could be kept out of the Tea Party, failing to see that they had always been there. Do not repeat my mistake.

The legitimacy of the TP's gripe is belied by the fact they only got pissed off after the gop lost the 2008 election. Before that, they stayed quiet about limited govt, the Constitution, etc. because they were in power.

Big difference here is that the mainstream of the gop welcomed the TP with open arms. The mainstream of the Dem Party may support some of the goals of the Wall St. protesters, but won't get in bed and mate with them, producing something as grotesque as the gop and tp have done.

146 jamesfirecat  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 8:10:32pm

re: #145 palomino

The legitimacy of the TP's gripe is belied by the fact they only got pissed off after the gop lost the 2008 election. Before that, they stayed quiet about limited govt, the Constitution, etc. because they were in power.

Big difference here is that the mainstream of the gop welcomed the TP with open arms. The mainstream of the Dem Party may support some of the goals of the Wall St. protesters, but won't get in bed and mate with them, producing something as grotesque as the gop and tp have done.

///No mating? Well so much for the left wing being all about free love!

147 BongCrodny  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 8:10:36pm

re: #142 Dark_Falcon

I think the Tea Party had a legitimate gripe, actually. But the thing to remember is that, like the Tea Party, these protests aren't something loons have "taken over". They've been in leadership positions since day 1. Back in 2009, I had thought that the crazies could be kept out of the Tea Party, failing to see that they had always been there. Do not repeat my mistake.

Dark, I gotta tell you, man -- in all honesty, most of us were waaaay ahead of you on that one.

148 palomino  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 8:12:49pm

re: #144 jamesfirecat

If you want to complain about how Americans are "Taxed Enough Already" at a time when taxes are at some of the lowest levels they've been in decades, then you my friend do not have a legitimate gripe.

You're right: their ignorance is astounding. The anger wasn't really over taxes, but the thought that a black liberal prez was going to "confiscate" hard working white people money, and give it to lazy minorities (many of whom are illegal!!!) You can't separate the culture war from the TP raison d'etre.

149 Obdicut  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 8:14:20pm

re: #148 palomino

Most of them didn't know how much they were taxed, and most probably couldn't explain what progressive taxation is.

The amount of fiscal ignorance in this country is really depressing.

150 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 8:15:16pm

re: #147 BongCrodny

Dark, I gotta tell you, man -- in all honesty, most of us were waaay ahead of you on that one.

You're also well to the left of me politically, so you're more willing to accept flaws on the right, while I'm more willing to see flaws on the left.

151 The Ghost of a Flea  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 8:17:00pm

re: #142 Dark_Falcon

I think the Tea Party had a legitimate gripe, actually. But the thing to remember is that, like the Tea Party, these protests aren't something loons have "taken over". They've been in leadership positions since day 1. Back in 2009, I had thought that the crazies could be kept out of the Tea Party, failing to see that they had always been there. Do not repeat my mistake.

It's not the loons that concerned me about the Tea Party: any time you try and organize you get loons, and quite oft they're the ones with the loudness, ego, and passion to get attention. What worries me about the Tea Party is that it's the facade of a populist movement that was handed its talking points by lobbying organizations hired by major corporate interetst, that had its protests scheduled by lobbying organizations and its talking points and signs handed out by the same, and had a multimedia support platform that masqueraded as an objective news source.

152 Obdicut  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 8:19:01pm

re: #150 Dark_Falcon

Left and right don't actually exist, Dark.

Did you bother to read my post where I showed Krauthammer blatantly lying? I can never tell what you simply failing to respond to my posts means. It's a little weird.

153 palomino  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 8:21:08pm

re: #149 Obdicut

Most of them didn't know how much they were taxed, and most probably couldn't explain what progressive taxation is.

The amount of fiscal ignorance in this country is really depressing.

True that. Half the country has no idea what's going on. The other half is pissed but mostly doesn't know who to blame, so they often lash out with inarticulate rage. As a nation we've had it so good for so long, we don't know how to respond to the worst economy in 80 years. The Great Depression spawned some violence, but it also had a unifying effect. Maybe the country is too big and diverse now for that kind of unity to return. Even the post-9/11 "era of good feelings" didn't last long.

154 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 8:22:29pm

re: #143 The Ghost of a Flea

Criticism of the protestors using the roadway of the Brooklyn Bridge from a OWS organizer:

[Link: wagingnonviolence.org...]

NYT article about arrests:

[Link: cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com...]

You know, I'd find the speculation about some kind of "police trap" far more credible if both the protestors and the New York Times hadn't been hostile to the NYPD from the get-go.

155 freetoken  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 8:23:19pm

re: #134 Obdicut

On an even more fundamental level (than misleading the reader about the nature of US debt) Krauthammer is tapping into nativism (big bad evil Chinamen are after us...).

156 freetoken  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 8:23:55pm

My message to America: China is not your enemy.

157 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 8:24:28pm

re: #152 Obdicut

Left and right don't actually exist, Dark.

Did you bother to read my post where I showed Krauthammer blatantly lying? I can never tell what you simply failing to respond to my posts means. It's a little weird.

Was it a lie or just literary hyperbole. He's explained elsewhere where the money goes, so perhaps he just used China for shock value. Still wrong, but I'm not sure his intent was deceitful.

158 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 8:25:05pm

re: #156 freetoken

My message to America: China is not your enemy.

Enemy, no. Rival, yes.

159 Obdicut  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 8:26:40pm

re: #157 Dark_Falcon

Was it a lie or just literary hyperbole.

It was a lie. He said that we were borrowing the money from the Chinese. It's not true. It was a lie. It was presented as factual.

He's explained elsewhere where the money goes, so perhaps he just used China for shock value. Still wrong, but I'm not sure his intent was deceitful.

Why not? If you read the article, you come away with the impression we're borrowing the money from China, right?

So are you saying he's just really, really incompetent?

160 freetoken  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 8:27:54pm

re: #158 Dark_Falcon

Enemy, no. Rival, yes.

China is our competitor, andChina is our collaborator in how we are building our societies' commerce and lifestyles.

161 Obdicut  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 8:30:13pm

re: #157 Dark_Falcon

And Dark, do you understand that I opened two Krauthammer pieces at random and showed the hackery therein? I can keep going, if you want.

162 laZardo  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 8:30:40pm

re: #153 palomino

True that. Half the country has no idea what's going on. The other half is pissed but mostly doesn't know who to blame, so they often lash out with inarticulate rage. As a nation we've had it so good for so long, we don't know how to respond to the worst economy in 80 years. The Great Depression spawned some violence, but it also had a unifying effect. Maybe the country is too big and diverse now for that kind of unity to return. Even the post-9/11 "era of good feelings" didn't last long.

That's because it all started with the creation of the Federal Reserve and our leaving the gold standard.

/i seriously swear every time i hear that argument i just want to go out and get a gold coin for my collection just so i can tell them to stfu

163 BongCrodny  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 8:31:29pm

re: #150 Dark_Falcon

You're also well to the left of me politically, so you're more willing to accept flaws on the right, while I'm more willing to see flaws on the left.

Some of that's true.

Believe me when I tell you that I see a *lot* of flaws on the left.

164 Digital Display  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 8:35:24pm

Good Evening Lizards.. Home from the Oklahoma vs. Ball State game..
We left in the 4th quarter with the Sooners ahead 62 to 6..
Had a great time...We tailgated with some folks that had it all laid out..Great food..

165 Mocking Jay  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 8:35:54pm

re: #160 freetoken

China is our competitor, andChina is our collaborator in how we are building our societies' commerce and lifestyles.

Apple and Samsung are suing each other's nuts off right now. It's getting nasty. Samsung also supplies Apple with billions of dollars worth of iPhone/Pod/Pad components.

Just brought this up to point out how these relationships are never black and white.

166 palomino  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 8:37:17pm

re: #162 laZardo

/i seriously swear every time i hear that argument i just want to go out and get a gold coin for my collection just so i can tell them to stfu

When I was a kid, my Dad used to lament the dropping of the gold standard. When I got older, I asked him about it and he said, "They [the JBS, far right] brainwashed me. I was full of BS back then."

167 palomino  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 8:41:08pm

re: #165 JasonA

Apple and Samsung are suing each other's nuts off right now. It's getting nasty. Samsung also supplies Apple with billions of dollars worth of iPhone/Pod/Pad components.

Just brought this up to point out how these relationships are never black and white.

Why do you hate America?

Just scream "American exceptionalism!" at the top of your lungs 10 times and all will be forgiven. (kinda like saying Hail Marys and Our Fathers in church)

168 laZardo  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 8:42:35pm

re: #165 JasonA

Apple and Samsung are suing each other's nuts off right now. It's getting nasty. Samsung also supplies Apple with billions of dollars worth of iPhone/Pod/Pad components.

Just brought this up to point out how these relationships are never black and white.

Apple, Samsung and HTC.

That's why I'm fine with my plain Pantech phone. :x

169 Mocking Jay  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 8:49:38pm

re: #168 laZardo

HTC and Apple haven't been having trouble as far as I've heard. But Microsoft's another story. They get money off of every HTC Android phone sold. And they just squeezed the same deal out of Samsung.

170 laZardo  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 8:51:10pm

re: #169 JasonA

Actually...

171 Mocking Jay  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 8:54:39pm

re: #170 laZardo

Ah, I just hadn't heard the right news, then.

172 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 8:56:00pm

re: #163 BongCrodny

Some of that's true.

Believe me when I tell you that I see a *lot* of flaws on the left.

And I can see flaws on the right. What I said is simply a probability statement, since both of us try to be honest about thins and normally succeed,

173 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 8:56:39pm

Interesting.
[Link: jewsandbaseball.com...]

174 Mocking Jay  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 8:56:56pm

re: #168 laZardo

Apple, Samsung and HTC.

That's why I'm fine with my plain Pantech phone. :x

I'm quite impressed with their new Breakout on Verizon. It's not high-end by any stretch of the imagination, but it's a 4G phone with a decent screen and specs that you can get for $50. Not something to put up against an iPhone, but it really is a great value for your money.

175 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 8:58:16pm

re: #167 palomino

Why do you hate America?

Just scream "American exceptionalism!" at the top of your lungs 10 times and all will be forgiven. (kinda like saying Hail Marys and Our Fathers in church)

Eh, nothing wrong with Samsung. South Korea is a good friend and ally.

176 laZardo  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 8:59:24pm

re: #173 EmmmieG

Interesting.
[Link: jewsandbaseball.com...]

And here I was thinking it would be Jews and Basketball.

/gunned down

177 Mocking Jay  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:03:38pm

So, I decided to check out Facebook's Timeline feature. It really is a great way to relive things I'd rather have forgotten about. Facebook Timeline: reopen those wounds just by scrolling down!

178 laZardo  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:06:05pm

re: #177 JasonA

Ah, how good it felt to post your first Mafia Wars kill...

/

179 freetoken  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:07:15pm

I'm continuing to delve into population genetics, as well as genomics as related ancestry.

Here's a thought for a quiet Saturday night: many of us probably share at least one ancestor with Andrew Breitbart looking back the last 10 generations or so.

180 Shiplord Kirel  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:07:26pm

Hurray! Honda mocks Moon landing deniers in commercial:

Youtube Video

Moon landing deniers aren't dangerous, at least not yet, just loathesome, like some harmless but incredibly icky tropical insect you find in your mango salsa after half of it is eaten.

181 Mocking Jay  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:08:19pm

re: #180 Shiplord Kirel

Hurray! Honda mocks Moon landing deniers in commercial:

Yeah, but Buzz Aldrin knocks them in person!

182 Mocking Jay  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:10:01pm

re: #177 JasonA

So, I decided to check out Facebook's Timeline feature. It really is a great way to relive things I'd rather have forgotten about. Facebook Timeline: reopen those wounds just by scrolling down!

In the event any of the nerdier lizards are curious...

[Link: mashable.com...]

183 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:10:11pm

Someone had to pick me up tonight to take me out for a beer.

I'm still pissed.

184 Shiplord Kirel  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:11:04pm

re: #181 JasonA

Yeah, but Buzz Aldrin knocks them in person!

That iconic blow for reason:

Youtube Video
185 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:12:46pm

Sorry I'm 'in-and-out'. I was researching an article at "tacticalfanboy" for work. The description of the article from soldiersystems.net made it seem like it would be NSFW (at least by my own very cautious standards on such matters). So I've been finding sales leads when I'm not posting.

186 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:15:24pm

re: #28 Lidane

Why are conservative comedians so unfunny? It's painful.

PJ O'Rourke is hilarious. But he never did stand-up that I'm aware of.

187 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:17:18pm

re: #184 Shiplord Kirel

That iconic blow for reason:

[Video]

It was a good punch, and Aldrin hand speed is still very fast (though that's to be expected from a former fighter pilot, since such men are selected for fast reaction times and aggression).

188 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:17:57pm

re: #187 Dark_Falcon

I fuckin' love that video.

189 prairiefire  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:18:28pm

re: #183 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Someone had to pick me up tonight to take me out for a beer.

I'm still pissed.

FBV got on The List!

190 Mocking Jay  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:19:03pm

re: #183 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Someone had to pick me up tonight to take me out for a beer.

I'm still pissed.

Sounds like you need more beer.

191 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:21:11pm

re: #55 laZardo

If I recall, a "die-in" is a variant of the "sit-in" where the participants all lie down on the ground like they're, well, dead.

I was once involved in a die-in. I lay on the grass in front of San Francisco City Hall with a bunch of other people pretending to be homeless people who'd died in the City in the last year.

They didn't mention we would then be trapped there through two sermons and a rousing contralto rendition of "Let My People Go", so my only arrest photo, taken a couple of hours later, shows me with a vividly sunburned face.

192 Robert O.  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:21:46pm

Forget Andrew Breibart!! MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD was much funnier when he declared (with a straight face) at Columbia University that there were no gays in Iran. At least I laughed out loud, and so did, I believe, most of this country.

193 Eclectic Infidel  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:22:06pm

re: #183 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Someone had to pick me up tonight to take me out for a beer.

I'm still pissed.

That's one reason why I keep quality vodka in the freezer.

194 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:23:03pm

re: #69 jaunte

"This is why we have national parks, people: So there's one place in the country where "share the road" means "stop your damn car so baby bears can have a little tussle."

Take THAT, Bryan Fischer.

195 laZardo  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:26:14pm

re: #192 Robert O.

The Iranian-Americans certainly did.

196 laZardo  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:28:31pm

re: #184 Shiplord Kirel

And then comes the disappointment...

197 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:29:01pm

re: #103 Obdicut

I just looked at National Review, and one of their headlines is "Assassin-in-Chief".

I bet the WWP calls him the same thing.

They would have kissed Bush's feet for the same operation.

No, this is not a deflection, this is just a comment about National Review.

198 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:29:47pm

re: #113 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I mean, if you want offensive and funny, all you need is Clayton Bixby, Black White Supremacist

[Video]

Now that's comedy. It's so edgy you aren't sure you should be in the same room with it, but you can't stop laughing.

199 freetoken  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:32:16pm

re: #197 SanFranciscoZionist

They would have kissed Bush's feet for the same operation.

No, this is not a deflection, this is just a comment about National Review.

And it's so blatantly obvious too. I wonder if they realize that no one other than their own Obama-hating choir to which they are preaching puts any stock in "position"?

200 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:32:21pm

re: #197 SanFranciscoZionist

They would have kissed Bush's feet for the same operation.

No, this is not a deflection, this is just a comment about National Review.

Please read my reply to that post, SFZ.

201 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:32:22pm

re: #198 SanFranciscoZionist

It was a shame when he decided not to do stuff anymore.

Chappelle? An American Treasure.

Unlike me. I'm not sure I'm Murikan.

202 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:33:38pm

re: #147 BongCrodny

Dark, I gotta tell you, man -- in all honesty, most of us were waaay ahead of you on that one.

You'll recall that Killgore had to fight like hell to get people to take his Tea Party research seriously.

203 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:33:45pm

re: #196 laZardo

Oh, pshaw. We're all a disappointment on some level.

204 prairiefire  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:34:25pm

Who wants to guess how many pairs of poo flecked size 8-10 underwear I need to wash out?

205 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:34:46pm

re: #149 Obdicut

Most of them didn't know how much they were taxed, and most probably couldn't explain what progressive taxation is.

The amount of fiscal ignorance in this country is really depressing.

The same fiscal ignorance probably applies to the folks on the streets of New York right now, though. That's the thing. I KNOW the folks who show up for this sort of thing. They got hearts as big as all outdoors, but...

206 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:35:37pm

re: #204 prairiefire

Who wants to guess how many pairs of poo flecked size 8-10 underwear I need to wash out?

Do I want to know the story on this one?

207 Mocking Jay  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:36:11pm

re: #204 prairiefire

Who wants to guess how many pairs of poo flecked size 8-10 underwear I need to wash out?

This is a trick question, right?

208 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:36:59pm

re: #173 EmmmieG

Interesting.
[Link: jewsandbaseball.com...]

There's a scene in Tova's Mirvis's "The Outside World", where an Orthodox man tells his young son-in-law, who is getting more religious not to give up on baseball no matter how pious he gets, 'because baseball is like Torah'.

209 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:37:37pm

re: #176 laZardo

And here I was thinking it would be Jews and Basketball.

/gunned down

My dad is Irish. I used to be able to find him at Jewish community events because he was six inches taller than most of the men in the room.

210 freetoken  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:37:46pm

re: #204 prairiefire

Who wants to guess how many pairs of poo flecked size 8-10 underwear I need to wash out?

We're waiting for the punchline...

211 prairiefire  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:37:53pm

re: #206 EmmmieG

Just a blast force virus running its course. Both kids got it with the boy worse off. He had it for 7 days, called for a Dr.s appt, found out our Ped. died in July.

212 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:38:19pm

re: #179 freetoken

I'm continuing to delve into population genetics, as well as genomics as related ancestry.

Here's a thought for a quiet Saturday night: many of us probably share at least one ancestor with Andrew Breitbart looking back the last 10 generations or so.

Rift Valley Drifters by Roy Zimmerman

213 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:38:40pm

re: #211 prairiefire

Just a blast force virus running its course. Both kids got it with the boy worse off. He had it for 7 days, called for a Dr.s appt, found out our Ped. died in July.

Eesh. Mind if I wipe off your posts with a disinfectant before they come through the wires?

214 prairiefire  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:39:05pm

re: #207 JasonA

re: #210 freetoken

No tricks, just 5 pairs. The weekend's not over yet!

215 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:41:13pm

re: #212 SanFranciscoZionist

Rift Valley Drifters by Roy Zimmerman

Well, this is disappointing. BYU students had developed a Facebook app that finds all your relative for you. Unfortunately, it works off of the LDS familysearch program, and you have to already have your personal information in it. Only Mormons would (really, we aren't stalking you) so I'm the only one who can use it.

Maybe someday.

216 Mocking Jay  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:41:26pm

re: #213 EmmmieG

Eesh. Mind if I wipe off your posts with a disinfectant before they come through the wires?

It's a series of tubes!

217 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:42:12pm

re: #216 JasonA

It's a series of tubes!

Fine, I'll flush them out with disinfectant.

I'm not interested in washing out poopy underwear.

218 freetoken  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:42:48pm

re: #212 SanFranciscoZionist

The casino part got a chuckle out of me.

219 Mocking Jay  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:43:52pm

re: #217 EmmmieG

Fine, I'll flush them out with disinfectant.

I'm not interested in washing out poopy underwear.

Hey, at least they weren't going commando...

220 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:44:36pm

re: #200 Dark_Falcon

Please read my reply to that post, SFZ.

Seen and acknowledged--but I'd also comment that they would NEVER have put it up about a president they liked. And would have condemned a liberal-leaning media outlet that did.

221 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:45:35pm

re: #201 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

It was a shame when he decided not to do stuff anymore.

Chappelle? An American Treasure.

Unlike me. I'm not sure I'm Murikan.

Well, as Roy Zimmerman points out, "We've all got a birth certificate from Kenya. Serengeti up."

But I have faith in you. Remember the West Wing episode where Donna was Canadian for a while? They worked that out.

222 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:46:55pm

re: #211 prairiefire

Just a blast force virus running its course. Both kids got it with the boy worse off. He had it for 7 days, called for a Dr.s appt, found out our Ped. died in July.

Oh, good Lord.

Didn't they send you one of those letters handing you off to someone else?

223 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:47:16pm

re: #220 SanFranciscoZionist

Seen and acknowledged--but I'd also comment that they would NEVER have put it up about a president they liked. And would have condemned a liberal-leaning media outlet that did.

Possibly not. But they did run articles that were quite critical of George W. Bush, even if they were minority opinions within NR at the time. It's not a monolithic place.

224 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:47:43pm

re: #218 freetoken

The casino part got a chuckle out of me.

Genome by genome...

225 William Barnett-Lewis  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:51:14pm

re: #208 SanFranciscoZionist

There's a scene in Tova's Mirvis's "The Outside World", where an Orthodox man tells his young son-in-law, who is getting more religious not to give up on baseball no matter how pious he gets, 'because baseball is like Torah'.

Upding. Now, I don't like baseball. Not even a little bit. I can't even sleep through a game because people keep waking me to ask if I saw somebody catch a ball. Yeash.

But I know and respect a whole lot of people who do, for Lord knows what reason, love that game. I can see that exchange in this world. And for him, it really is the same as studying Torah. So, as when I'm around my MiL (Brewers & Twins fan), I'll just STFU up and nod and smile and hope they enjoy their game.

226 freetoken  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:51:40pm

re: #224 SanFranciscoZionist

Genome by genome...

Or perhaps insertion by insertion...

Truth about the Homo sapiens male: he'll stick his penis into just about anything given a chance.

227 freetoken  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:52:04pm

And you won't hear that in Sunday School.

228 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:52:08pm

re: #223 Dark_Falcon

Possibly not. But they did run articles that were quite critical of George W. Bush, even if they were minority opinions within NR at the time. It's not a monolithic place.

Fair enough. I'll live. I'm just still a little raw from the Years Before Obama.

229 prairiefire  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:52:21pm

Toby Keith is cool with gay marriage and the repeal of DADt:[Link: www.huffingtonpost.com...]

230 laZardo  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:53:44pm

Mom's talking with little bro through netbook Skype on how to save dollars for when he moves here.

I like shouting "Buy precious metals!" just for shiggles. XD

231 William Barnett-Lewis  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:54:59pm

re: #221 SanFranciscoZionist

Well, as Roy Zimmerman points out, "We've all got a birth certificate from Kenya. Serengeti up."

Can I put Lucy A. Afarensis down as the mother?

232 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:56:32pm

re: #227 freetoken

And you won't hear that in Sunday School.

Depends on what Sunday School. The Bible certainly doesn't leave us in much doubt about that fact.

233 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:57:04pm

Well, the BYU relative finder has discovered that I'm related to a lot of New England type people, like John Adams. Not a surprise, as my ancestors went through there.

Also, I'm related to a lot of Mormons. Fancy that.

234 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:57:07pm

re: #229 prairiefire

Toby Keith is cool with gay marriage and the repeal of DADt:[Link: www.huffingtonpost.com...]

Well, he did go on Colbert to do his "War on Christmas" song.

235 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:58:03pm

re: #231 wlewisiii

Can I put Lucy A. Afarensis down as the mother?

A blogger called Ana Mardoll is doing a page-by-page commentary and dissection of the Narnia books. In the course of one of the discussions over there, someone asked if we've identified the mitochondrial Lilith.

236 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 9:59:52pm

re: #233 EmmmieG

Well, the BYU relative finder has discovered that I'm related to a lot of New England type people, like John Adams. Not a surprise, as my ancestors went through there.

Also, I'm related to a lot of Mormons. Fancy that.

You may surprise yourself yet. I've mentioned before that a couple of years ago, I would have bet you I didn't have any relatives in the country before 1890 or so, but then my aunt got a hold of a record of the English/German side, and lo and behold, we keep going back.

237 prairiefire  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 10:00:14pm

I try to be encouraging and supportive when I can find it, I should shoot Mr. Keith an email.

238 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 10:04:45pm

re: #236 SanFranciscoZionist

You may surprise yourself yet. I've mentioned before that a couple of years ago, I would have bet you I didn't have any relatives in the country before 1890 or so, but then my aunt got a hold of a record of the English/German side, and lo and behold, we keep going back.

You forget. Lifetime Mormon on one side, and great-niece of a genealogy nut on the other.

The only surprise I have discovered is that I'm descended from the New Amsterdam dutch.

239 prairiefire  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 10:09:13pm

re: #238 EmmmieG

Me, too. We just learned that about 8 years ago. The young Westfall family in 1650's Kingston, NY. They married into the Spencers, years later. My mum wants to try to see how close we are to Princess Di, heh. Not very, is my guess.
Night, lizards.

240 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 10:09:53pm

re: #239 prairiefire

Me, too. We just learned that about 8 years ago. The young Westfall family in 1650's Kingston, NY. They married into the Spencers, years later. My mum wants to try to see how close we are to Princess Di, heh. Not very, is my guess.
Night, lizards.

Yeah, the relative finder is finding my 10th cousins. I wonder if I can show up for family dinner.

241 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 10:17:53pm

re: #228 SanFranciscoZionist

Fair enough. I'll live. I'm just still a little raw from the Years Before Obama.

I know some good skin lotions if you need to soothe that rawness. ;)

///

242 freetoken  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 10:20:09pm

re: #233 EmmmieG

Also, I'm related to a lot of Mormons. Fancy that.

Ooo... they've probably already baptized you into heaven - lucky you!!

243 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 10:21:34pm

re: #242 freetoken

Ooo... they've probably already baptized you into heaven - lucky you!!

My father baptized me when I was eight, but my atheist cousin has stated that she figures with her Evangelical cousins praying for her, her Baha'i husband, and her Mormon cousins baptizing her after her death, she's covered all around.

244 freetoken  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 10:22:59pm

re: #243 EmmmieG

I wonder if she'll get the choice of which heaven to enter?

245 laZardo  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 10:25:01pm

re: #243 EmmmieG

My father baptized me when I was eight, but my atheist cousin has stated that she figures with her Evangelical cousins praying for her, her Baha'i husband, and her Mormon cousins baptizing her after her death, she's covered all around.

Lucky you, I just have the Filipino Catholic plan. :C

246 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 10:26:46pm

re: #244 freetoken

I wonder if she'll get the choice of which heaven to enter?

I would think she would go where her kids and husband are, personally.

247 freetoken  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 10:28:37pm

re: #246 EmmmieG

I would think she would go where her kids and husband are, personally.

Maybe it could work like those time-rentals at exotic resort locations? You know, two weeks here, two weeks there...

248 Alexzander  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 10:29:19pm

re: #245 laZardo

Lucky you, I just have the Filipino Catholic plan. :C

I got nothing. Not really sweating it though. Amor Fati.

249 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 10:30:46pm

re: #247 freetoken

Maybe it could work like those time-rentals at exotic resort locations? You know, two weeks here, two weeks there...

Yeah, but time shares always give you the worst times. She'd get December in the Baha'i heaven, get the Baha'i holidays in the LDS heaven, and then get March or something with the Evangelicals.

250 William Barnett-Lewis  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 10:30:48pm

re: #244 freetoken

I wonder if she'll get the choice of which heaven to enter?

I'm reminded of the old joke about St. Peter showing all the new arrivals around heaven and then saying "shuush, Folk X up here think they're the only ones here". I've always thought I should work up a variant where it's the athiests as Folk X.

251 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 10:39:45pm

re: #248 Alexzander

I got nothing. Not really sweating it though. Amor Fati.

I was once told at an interfaith conference that I now had all the knowledge of the Koran I needed to get into 'the Muslim section of heaven'.

252 Alexzander  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 10:46:43pm

re: #251 SanFranciscoZionist

I was once told at an interfaith conference that I now had all the knowledge of the Koran I needed to get into 'the Muslim section of heaven'.

I spend a fair amount of time with some interfaith organisations in my community (as they are some of the more active groups when it comes to homelessness advocacy), and I get along with everyone well, so I'd like to imagine I'll be offered a seat at the table. I'm usually the only person under 30 at those meetings though.
The only church actively drawing in young people here is called Mars Hill. They are wildly successful and are expanding (I believe they may even been opening a location in SF). The other churches are a wee bit suspicious of them though.

In the end I dont need to find myself in heaven, but I sure hope I dont end up in purgatory/hell/bardo state. That being said, there is plenty of purgatory here on earth. I'm fairly certain my place of employment is one for some.

253 laZardo  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 10:49:13pm

re: #252 Alexzander

I spend a fair amount of time with some interfaith organisations in my community (as they are some of the more active groups when it comes to homelessness advocacy), and I get along with everyone well, so I'd like to imagine I'll be offered a seat at the table. I'm usually the only person under 30 at those meetings though.
The only church actively drawing in young people here is called Mars Hill. They are wildly successful and are expanding (I believe they may even been opening a location in SF). The other churches are a wee bit suspicious of them though.

My mom and aunt go to a Mars Hill "campus" downtown. They're both die-hard evangelists, though mom at least accepts the science behind AGW (it's God's green earth, as it were) while aunt is a denier. D:

254 Alexzander  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 10:52:47pm

re: #253 laZardo

My mom and aunt go to a Mars Hill "campus" downtown. They're both die-hard evangelists, though mom at least accepts the science behind AGW (it's God's green earth, as it were) while aunt is a denier. D:

At least the Mars Hill people are generally down to help volunteer. I organised a crew to help prepare food for a homelessness meeting (or meeting of homeless people) a couple months ago.

255 William Barnett-Lewis  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 10:57:20pm

re: #252 Alexzander

Meh, I've always thought that the Romans got that bit a little off.

This _is_ purgatory. We're here to work off all the stuff from the last couple of lifetimes and if things are a bit rough, well, we only have ourselves to blame...

(Better put lots of these up //////////////////////////////////////////
While there is a certain truth in my snark, I'd hate for anyone to take me too seriously ;) )

256 Alexzander  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 11:00:23pm

re: #255 wlewisiii

Meh, I've always thought that the Romans got that bit a little off.

This _is_ purgatory. We're here to work off all the stuff from the last couple of lifetimes and if things are a bit rough, well, we only have ourselves to blame...

(Better put lots of these up ///
While there is a certain truth in my snark, I'd hate for anyone to take me too seriously ;) )

While I dont subscribe to any metaphysical claims in an absolute sense, the idea that this is purgatory, and that we are working off previous sins/karma fits rather well with my approach the life/challenges.

257 Alexzander  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 11:02:57pm

On a side note - I feel a little bad for this Steven Crowder figure. Couldn't be more obviously a closeted/conflicted gay man. Embarrassed he is from Canada though, given the incredible racist hate is exibits in that skit.

258 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 11:05:39pm

re: #257 Alexzander

On a side note - I feel a little bad for this Steven Crowder figure. Couldn't be more obviously a closeted/conflicted gay man. Embarrassed he is from Canada though, given the incredible racist hate is exhibits in that skit.

Well, every country has to produce some embarrassing assholes, this guy is Canada's entry into the Racist Shithead category.

259 Alexzander  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 11:08:04pm

re: #258 Dark_Falcon

Well, every country has to produce some embarrassing assholes, this guy is Canada's entry into the Racist Shithead category.

His comedy really does exhibit racism no? (I ask because you're on the conservative edge of the spectrum here and I hope I'm not doing the knee jerk "Thats racist!" reaction). I really am quite surprised at how open it is on this skit. Even the teaparty audience seems quite uncomfortable at times.

260 Alexzander  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 11:08:26pm

I actually wanted all the way through part one of the comedy routine and I'm now watching part two.

261 William Barnett-Lewis  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 11:10:32pm

re: #259 Alexzander

Even the teaparty audience seems quite uncomfortable at times.

This is everything you need to know about this dork.

262 Alexzander  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 11:14:17pm

"When you think about it, the United States is kinda like the quarterback of the world, and Canada is really just like a special-needs cheerleader." - Steven Crowder.

Yeah, about that tar sands oil, Steven..

263 William Barnett-Lewis  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 11:23:37pm

Yikes! It's much later than I realize and I have to go teach sunday school tommorow ack, later today. Reasonably easy though as it's the first weekend of October which means the feast day of one of the best, true, Christian Saints: Francis of Assisi. Classic dude who went from a party boy who went soldiering for fun and adventure (you could in 1200. No guns to fuck shit up.) but then took ill one day. That wasn't funny before antibiotics. Add a vision and he was haring off to Rome as a pilgrim instead of a soldier.

While there he had another vison about rebuilding the church. Boy, did he. As an Anglican, I'd argue that everything good out of Rome since 1200 was due to either a guy named Francis or this other dude named Ignatius.

Too often Francis gets pigeon holed as "St Francis of the Birdbath" because of the legend that he wanted to share the Lord's love even with the birds. Yet he understood that if god really is love, then it is love for all and for everything.

Francis reminds us that God is love. All that crap spewed out there in God's name that isn't? It's just that. Crap. Ignore it. What is good and is love will out.

"Do not do to anyone what you would not have done to you. The rest is commentary."

264 laZardo  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 11:26:47pm

re: #263 wlewisiii

I got named after the city named after the saint. :C Speaking of which, attended the Seattle OWS "planning" meeting for a couple hours up on my #49.

265 Kragar  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 11:29:17pm

re: #262 Alexzander

"When you think about it, the United States is kinda like the quarterback of the world, and Canada is really just like a special-needs cheerleader." - Steven Crowder.

Yeah, about that tar sands oil, Steven..

A few more decades and the Great White North will be a temperate zone and we'll be a drought ridden shit hole.

266 William Barnett-Lewis  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 11:29:52pm

re: #264 laZardo

I got named after the city named after the saint. :C Speaking of which, attended the Seattle OWS "planning" meeting for a couple hours up on my #49.

Good. What did they have to say at that meeting?

267 Alexzander  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 11:30:36pm

re: #263 wlewisiii

Yikes! It's much later than I realize and I have to go teach sunday school tommorow ack, later today. Reasonably easy though as it's the first weekend of October which means the feast day of one of the best, true, Christian Saints: Francis of Assisi. Classic dude who went from a party boy who went soldiering for fun and adventure (you could in 1200. No guns to fuck shit up.) but then took ill one day. That wasn't funny before antibiotics. Add a vision and he was haring off to Rome as a pilgrim instead of a soldier.

While there he had another vison about rebuilding the church. Boy, did he. As an Anglican, I'd argue that everything good out of Rome since 1200 was due to either a guy named Francis or this other dude named Ignatius.

Too often Francis gets pigeon holed as "St Francis of the Birdbath" because of the legend that he wanted to share the Lord's love even with the birds. Yet he understood that if god really is love, then it is love for all and for everything.

Francis reminds us that God is love. All that crap spewed out there in God's name that isn't? It's just that. Crap. Ignore it. What is good and is love will out.

"Do not do to anyone what you would not have done to you. The rest is commentary."

I'm currently wearing my Saint Francis of Assisi t-shift that I silk screened myself. Based of this famous painting:

Image: saint-francis-of-assisi-by-jose-de-ribera.jpg

268 Alexzander  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 11:33:06pm

re: #264 laZardo

I got named after the city named after the saint. :C Speaking of which, attended the Seattle OWS "planning" meeting for a couple hours up on my #49.

How was the meeting?
I really am surprised how much the movement has gained steam. I heard about it it the day it was announced (two months before the start of occupy wall st), because I'm from Vancouver and I have friends who have worked for Adbusters.

269 laZardo  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 11:38:47pm

re: #268 Alexzander

re: #266 wlewisiii

They recognize that they don't currently have a concrete list of "demands." So what they did after we all introduced ourselves was they had everyone arrange themselves into interconnected committees of sorts to discuss all sorts of things, from what their demands would be to who's gonna try to get the permits to creating the art/entertainment/agitprop.

Unfortunately I had to leave about a couple hours in because I had to help my relatives around town. :(

BTW, one of the organizers mentioned she used to be in Socialist Alternative. Been meaning to ask you what you thought about it, wlewisiii.

270 William Barnett-Lewis  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 11:47:01pm

re: #269 laZardo

Heh, oh, yeah, them folks. Trotskyites.

Seriously fucking far left nutcases that make Leninists look sane, at least as far as I am concerned.

There were three people who raped Marx's corpse - Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin. Who was worst is up to you...

I'm a Mike Harrington school Democratic Socialist which is almost as far as you can possibly get from these extremists.

271 Alexzander  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 11:52:36pm

In addition to these Trotskyites, Seattle has its fair share of RCP (Revolutionary Communist Party) members, who from what I understand, are supporters of Mao!!! Ugh. They regularly clash with Seattle's equally ineffective anarchist scene.

272 laZardo  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 11:57:27pm

re: #270 wlewisiii

re: #271 Alexzander

So yeah. I'm not sure how many of those were around. We also had a couple of LaRouchites (you could tell because of the big Obama-with-Hitler mustache/NAWAPA posters) and the "Free Gaza" crowd lurking a block away.

273 freetoken  Sat, Oct 1, 2011 11:59:18pm

Cesária Évora

MP3 Audio
274 (I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was)  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 12:13:09am

re: #173 EmmmieG

Interesting.
[Link: jewsandbaseball.com...]

Recommended reading material: [Link: www.drawnandquarterly.com...]
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275 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 12:21:13am

Thankfully, no one has to go to any of these people's heavens.

That's the last thing I'd want, to have to sit next to conservative Christian bigots, hypocrites, and assholes for the rest of eternity, blah.

276 laZardo  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 12:22:18am

WELP.

Gotta head to bed. Protests and family time, no better way to spend a Saturday. :3 Nighty!

277 Alexzander  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 12:32:22am

Night everyone.

278 goddamnedfrank  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 12:42:19am
"You want to be commander in chief? You can start by standing up for the men and women who wear the uniform of the United States, even when it's not politically convenient," Obama said during remarks at the annual dinner of the Human Rights Council, the nation's largest gay rights organization.

Referencing the boos at the Sept. 22 Republican debate, he said: "We don't believe in standing silent when that happens."

279 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 1:17:24am

Early Morning!

Anyone awake?

280 Kragar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 1:21:53am

re: #279 ggt

Early Morning!

Anyone awake?

Nope

281 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 1:24:30am

re: #280 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Nope

Thought not.

Did you decide on Tau or Nids?

282 SanFranciscoZionist  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 1:39:03am

re: #279 ggt

Early Morning!

Anyone awake?

Vaguely.

283 Kragar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 1:45:18am

re: #281 ggt

Thought not.

Did you decide on Tau or Nids?

Nids, I still need some more anti-armor units for the Tau. Thinking about getting a pair of Broadside suits in the next few weeks.

284 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 1:49:08am

re: #282 SanFranciscoZionist

Vaguely.

I'm wide awake .. .. ..

285 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 1:49:22am

re: #283 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Nids, I still need some more anti-armor units for the Tau. Thinking about getting a pair of Broadside suits in the next few weeks.

Kryptonite or Kevlar?

286 Kragar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 1:50:09am

re: #285 ggt

Kryptonite or Kevlar?

Railguns, with plasma rifles as a secondary system

287 freetoken  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 1:59:08am
MP3 Audio
288 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 2:03:08am

re: #286 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Railguns, with plasma rifles as a secondary system

ah!

289 researchok  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 2:05:29am

Morning, all

290 Kragar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 2:06:25am

re: #288 ggt

ah!

Image: bsideplasma3.jpg

291 researchok  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 2:10:59am

re: #279 ggt

Early Morning!

Anyone awake?

Sadly, yes.

Coffee will clear the cobwebs.

292 researchok  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 2:11:29am

re: #291 researchok

Hopefully

293 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 2:12:46am

re: #292 researchok

Hopefully

Just in Case, here is another.

294 researchok  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 2:14:34am

re: #293 ggt

Just in Case, here is another.

THanks, though I suspect the barista might want to create the image of jumper cables.

Or an ect machine.

295 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 2:21:53am

Morning Honcos.

296 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 2:23:34am

Just went outside for a smoke. It's 65. After 4 months of 80 degree mornings with 95% humidity, finally a break. Fuck yea!!!!

297 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 2:23:40am

re: #294 researchok

THanks, though I suspect the barista might want to create the image of jumper cables.

Or an ect machine.

Did you see the movie, Crank?

298 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 2:24:02am

re: #295 Cannadian Club Akbar

Morning Honcos.

Did anyone ever determine the definition of Honco?

299 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 2:25:28am

re: #298 ggt

Did anyone ever determine the definition of Honco?

Honco is a misspelling. Like when we say Stan or Weet Dreams. Someone meant to say Honcho, missed the h, the rest is history.

300 researchok  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 2:26:32am

re: #297 ggt

Did you see the movie, Crank?

nope

301 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 2:33:14am

re: #300 researchok

nope

There was a scene in the movie in which the main character "volted" himself in the hospital and was hurled into an elevator. When the elevator doors opened he launched himself out.

Hilarious.

302 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 2:33:45am

re: #299 Cannadian Club Akbar

Honco is a misspelling. Like when we say Stan or Weet Dreams. Someone meant to say Honcho, missed the h, the rest is history.

Still doesn't make any sense.

303 researchok  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 2:33:52am

OK, now I have to see it.

304 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 2:34:41am

re: #303 researchok

OK, now I have to see it.

You have to watch it twice to get all the little amusing parts. It moves very fast and it's easy to get caught up in the rush.

I laughed my butt off. I thought hubby was going to have a corornary.

305 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 2:35:02am

re: #304 ggt

You have to watch it twice to get all the little amusing parts. It moves very fast and it's easy to get caught up in the rush.

I laughed my butt off. I thought hubby was going to have a corornary.

2nd movie wasn't so good.

306 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 2:35:22am

re: #302 ggt

Still doesn't make any sense.

OK. Instead of someone being a "head honcho" he is a "head honco".

307 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 2:37:18am

re: #306 Cannadian Club Akbar

OK. Instead of someone being a "head honcho" he is a "head honco".

I remember the original post --whacko emailing Charles and calling all of us Honcos.

Calling all of us "honchos" wouldn't make any sense.

Nor does the definition from the Urban Dictionary.

But, I waste time trying to make sense of whacko emails to Charles.

308 researchok  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 2:38:25am

re: #304 ggt

You have to watch it twice to get all the little amusing parts. It moves very fast and it's easy to get caught up in the rush.

I laughed my butt off. I thought hubby was going to have a corornary.

In keeping with the theme...

This old post still gets hits.

309 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 2:38:36am

re: #286 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Railguns, with plasma rifles as a secondary system

No, what is the Broadside suit made of?

310 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 2:47:34am

re: #308 researchok

In keeping with the theme...

This old post still gets hits.

guy looks like he is talking on his cell phone.

"Dude, the patient is dead --yeah, dead. . . .no he's still on the table --bloody sheet uh-huh . . .what should I do? . . .Harvey Keitel --is he even born yet?"

311 Kragar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 2:58:11am

re: #309 ggt

No, what is the Broadside suit made of?

Plastic resin

312 RogueOne  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 3:17:22am

Mornin' Cupcakes! Wake Up!

313 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 3:17:58am

I'm awake, dammit!

314 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 3:18:23am

re: #312 RogueOne

Mornin' Cupcakes! Wake Up!

Are they freshly made cupcakes?

315 RogueOne  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 3:21:10am

re: #314 ggt

Are they freshly made cupcakes?

I'd bet their mostly gamey...present company excepted of course.

316 RogueOne  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 3:23:20am

Remind me to harass FBV about this later:

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

317 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 3:24:43am

re: #316 RogueOne

Remind me to harass FBV about this later:

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

I guess this means the DMV has been infiltrated by TPers.

318 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 3:26:11am

re: #316 RogueOne

Remind me to harass FBV about this later:

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

present proof that you are legally present in the United States.

ahahahahahahahahahaaaaa!

Raises hand and says "Here".

I wonder what kind of proof would meet their requirements?

319 RogueOne  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 3:27:54am

He must have pissed off the cop that gave him the original ticket.

320 (I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was)  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 3:29:32am

Just got home from taking a swim in a local lake. Feeling kind of awesome.

321 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 3:30:29am

re: #311 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Plastic resin

No BPA's I hope!

:)

322 RogueOne  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 3:33:29am

re: #320 000G

Just got home from taking a swim in a local lake. Feeling kind of awesome.

That's from the micro toxins you picked up from the lake. The next stage is loss of body hair and lethargy.

323 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 3:36:25am

re: #319 RogueOne

The guy I've been working for lately had a garage sale yesterday (I helped) and someone called the cops. He was selling some of his guns, so a cop showed up. The cop told him he couldn't just sell guns and they have laws. The guy is a gun dealer and started going over federal and state laws in regards to selling them. Was fun to watch but I was worried the cop was gonna take him to jail and let the DA figure it out. The cop was overwhelmed by the info dude gave him. Dude also gave the cop his paperwork. Cop said all is cool, but before the cop left, dude tried to sell him some body armor. Heh.

324 (I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was)  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 3:36:55am

re: #322 RogueOne

That's from the micro toxins you picked up from the lake. The next stage is loss of body hair and lethargy.

That's cool, bro. Life itself is a form of intoxication of the otherwise sober lifelessness.

325 RogueOne  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 3:38:50am

re: #323 Cannadian Club Akbar

Someone called the cops? That's pathetic.

326 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 3:39:47am

I'm going to try to sleep some more

I leave you with this.

One of my favorites!

327 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 3:42:05am

re: #325 RogueOne

Someone called the cops? That's pathetic.

I call people like that Mrs. Kravitz. They have to poke their noses in everyone's business.

328 (I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was)  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 3:46:51am

BED & BREAKFAST & FISTING
Take One up to the Elbow at France’s Luxurious La Fistinière

La Fistinière is an idyllic bed-and-breakfast located on the grounds of a former farm in the French countryside, 100 miles south of Paris. It is distinguished from all other B&Bs in the world by the fact that it is dedicated to fist fucking. Lodgers can eat a gourmet French breakfast in the morning and get their buttholes stretched to the max by noon in one of five private rooms. Or, for the more adventurous, there’s a communal “fisting chapel” in the attic that features all sorts of medieval-looking contraptions and a large mural of muscular men sticking limbs, chains, and traffic cones up one another’s anuses in a series of complex, painful-looking positions.

Read the rest at Vice Magazine: BED & BREAKFAST & FISTING - Take One up to the Elbow at France’s Luxurious La Fistinière - Vice Magazine

[Link: www.viceland.com...]

329 RogueOne  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 3:48:42am

re: #327 Cannadian Club Akbar

I call people like that Mrs. Kravitz. They have to poke their noses in everyone's business.

My buddies uncle died a couple years ago and left a large stash of weapons including a never before fired AK. After the family picked through what they wanted she sold them in her front yard. No one would have thought about calling the cops about guns out in the country here. You guys have too many part-time floridians, it was probably someone from NYC who had never seen a gun before.

330 RogueOne  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 3:49:44am

re: #328 000G

BED & BREAKFAST & FISTING
Take One up to the Elbow at France’s Luxurious La Fistinière

[Link: www.viceland.com...]

Planning a vacation?

331 (I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was)  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 3:50:57am

re: #330 RogueOne

Planning a vacation?

More like advertising.

Q: The majority of the population isn’t too interested in plunging their arms into assholes, but those who are act as if it’s a religion. What’s so awesome about fisting?

Juan: It’s the most intimate sort of relation there is, apart from touching someone’s brain directly with your fingers. With fisting, you’re touching someone’s bowels, and through the bowels, all the internal organs. It’s a practice that requires a lot of attention. It’s the act of opening another’s perception in a spiritual way, and it can be almost religious. I believe in the magic of sex.

332 RogueOne  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 3:53:15am

re: #331 000G

Poor Juan has some serious freakin' issues

333 (I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was)  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 3:56:49am

re: #332 RogueOne

Actually, there is quite a bit to it. Ever read up on serotonin?

334 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 3:56:59am

re: #329 RogueOne

One gun was a shotgun that looked like an assault weapon. The cop asked about it and was surprised it was a shotgun. It also came with a clip. And you're right, it was someone not from around here. The guy asked a bunch of questions about the guns, went back to his car, then came back and mulled around when the cop showed up. Douche.

335 RogueOne  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 4:08:06am

re: #333 000G

Actually, there is quite a bit to it. Ever read up on serotonin?

I'm missing the connection. How do you get from "I think I'm hungry" to "I'm hungry so I think I'll stick a traffic cone up my ass"?

Don't get me wrong, I'm a "whatever floats your boat" type of person but I'm thinking there has to be an underlying issue with people into, ummm, "extreme" sexual behaviors. Don't ask me where the line is in determining "extreme", it's sunday and we're in mixed company.//

336 (I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was)  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 4:12:21am

re: #335 RogueOne

Hahaha, n/m, I was just messing with you. ;-)

337 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 4:12:25am

re: #335 RogueOne

If you're gonna have a traffic cone in your ass it better have a screen of some type inside it. Don't want an critters climbing up there. Just sayin'.

338 RogueOne  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 4:13:20am

Now I'm hungry.

339 (I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was)  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 4:15:09am

re: #338 RogueOne

How about an ice cream cone?

340 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 4:18:20am

re: #339 000G

How about an ice cream cone?

Made by Juan?

341 RogueOne  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 4:18:53am

re: #339 000G

Tasted like shit

342 RogueOne  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 4:19:39am

I'd like to point out that it's OOOG's fault that this thread has gone so far downhill so quickly.

343 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 4:25:40am

re: #342 RogueOne

I'd like to point out that it's OOOG's fault that this thread has gone so far downhill so quickly.

Well, I'm sure things won't get any better when the morning crew shows up.

344 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 4:26:10am

re: #316 RogueOne

Remind me to harass FBV about this later:

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

NOT FUCKING FUNNY!

Well. It kind of is.

345 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 4:26:57am

re: #344 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

NOT FUCKING FUNNY!

Well. It kind of is.

I would ask where they plan on deporting you to...

346 Shropshire_Slasher  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 4:28:07am

re: #343 Cannadian Club Akbar

Well then you better go hide the valuables.

347 RogueOne  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 4:29:30am

re: #344 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

NOT FUCKING FUNNY!

Well. It kind of is.

Well good morning foreigner! That'll teach you to lick that badge harder when you get pulled over the next time.

348 RogueOne  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 4:30:04am

re: #345 Cannadian Club Akbar

I would ask where they plan on deporting you to...

The honkey homeland, Ireland.

349 Shropshire_Slasher  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 4:31:57am

NY DMV has been effing up lately. First it was allowing illegal aliens to get licenses, then recently it was waiving the eye test and self certifying. LOL!

350 Shropshire_Slasher  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 4:32:53am

Oh I forgot, Human Centipede 2 is coming out, I can't wait
/

351 RogueOne  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 4:34:01am

This is funny but I hope it doesn't get anyone in trouble:
Image: Thank-God-for-Dead-Westboro-Baptist-Members.jpg

352 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 4:35:19am

bbias.

353 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 4:36:14am

To the protesters who got arrested yesterday.

I applaud your civil disobedience. Your courage to stand for what you believe in... Oh, I can't do this.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

BREATHE

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

WHEEZE

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

354 Decatur Deb  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 4:36:55am

re: #329 RogueOne

My buddies uncle died a couple years ago and left a large stash of weapons including a never before fired AK. After the family picked through what they wanted she sold them in her front yard. No one would have thought about calling the cops about guns out in the country here. You guys have too many part-time floridians, it was probably someone from NYC who had never seen a gun before.

Went to the flea market here in AL yesterday. Easily enough long guns and ammo to keep a guerrilla group in business for a month.

355 (I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was)  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 4:38:45am

re: #342 RogueOne

I'd like to point out that it's OOOG's fault that this thread has gone so far downhill so quickly.

Let me make up for it with this: [Link: www.denisdesigns.com...]

356 Decatur Deb  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 4:41:51am

re: #351 RogueOne

This is funny but I hope it doesn't get anyone in trouble:
Image: Thank-God-for-Dead-Westboro-Baptist-Members.jpg

What are they gonna do, send them to the sandbox?

(When guys said that about Korea, the answer usually was "Camp Collier".)

357 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 4:42:40am

re: #353 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

To the protesters who got arrested yesterday.

I applaud your civil disobedience. Your courage to stand for what you believe in... Oh, I can't do this.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

BREATHE

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

WHEEZE

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I wonder how many protesters have their parents paying for them to be there/take off from work, etc.

358 RogueOne  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 4:42:55am

re: #354 Decatur Deb

Went to the flea market here in AL yesterday. Easily enough long guns and ammo to keep a guerrilla group in business for a month.

His uncle was a bit of a nut, had a shortwave radio in the basement where he'd do his own radio show. The transmitter he was using would blast his radio show through his neighbors tv's. We'd get a couple beers in him and see how riled up we could get him. Good times.

359 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 4:44:54am

Heh...

Back later.

360 RogueOne  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 4:45:22am

re: #356 Decatur Deb

What are they gonna do, send them to the sandbox?

(When guys said that about Korea, the answer usually was "Camp Collier".)

The more dead westboro members the better but I'd bet wishing for fellow citizens deaths while in uniform probably crosses the line for some commanders.

361 Decatur Deb  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 4:45:41am

re: #359 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Heh...

Back later.

That's sort of up to the INS, isn't it?

362 (I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was)  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 4:45:43am

Apropos riled up old nuts:

Youtube Video
363 RogueOne  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 4:46:56am

re: #362 000G

I just found my new ringtone!

364 Decatur Deb  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 4:47:19am

re: #360 RogueOne

The more dead westboro members the better but I'd bet wishing for fellow citizens deaths while in uniform probably crosses the line for some commanders.

The 'txt2pic.com' overlay makes me think it's a manipulation. (At least that's the story I'd stick to.)

365 Shropshire_Slasher  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 4:47:41am

re: #362 000G

Stern played a lot of his new "album" effin hilarious
A lot of talented musicians on it but Stern said it lacked a soul
Anything for a buck.

366 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 4:47:58am

re: #360 RogueOne

The more dead westboro members the better but I'd bet wishing for fellow citizens deaths while in uniform probably crosses the line for some commanders.

Two words. Al-Awaki. Heh. (OK, maybe not two words)

367 RogueOne  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 4:51:43am

re: #366 Cannadian Club Akbar

Two words. Al-Awaki. Heh. (OK, maybe not two words)

They'd be safe with that one. He was on the official "Citizens to kill" list.

368 (I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was)  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 4:52:36am

Graph of the week: Image: graphofweek.jpg

369 (I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was)  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 4:55:22am

Music that makes you dumb: Correlating SAT scores with favorite musicians

Image: MusicthatmakesyoudumbLarge.png

370 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 4:56:00am

re: #367 RogueOne

They'd be safe with that one. He was on the official "Citizens to kill" list.

I wonder if they'll have a @whitehouse.gov web site for suggestions.
/

371 RogueOne  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 4:58:45am

re: #370 Cannadian Club Akbar

I wonder if they'll have a @whitehouse.gov web site for suggestions.
/

An official "People We Hate" list would kick ass.

372 Shropshire_Slasher  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 4:59:43am

You know you are getting old when you have to take two Aleve before the days festivities begin.

373 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 5:00:57am

re: #372 Shropshire_Slasher

You know you are getting old when you have to take two Aleve before the days festivities begin.

No, you know you're old when you have to take a viagra so you don't pee on your shoes.

374 Decatur Deb  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 5:01:06am

re: #370 Cannadian Club Akbar

I wonder if they'll have a @web site for suggestions.
/

Try sending to whitehouse.gov/usss/protectivesvcs.

375 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 5:02:07am

re: #374 Decatur Deb

Try sending to whitehouse.gov/usss/protectivesvcs.

Na, I like having a front door.:)

376 Obdicut  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 5:02:12am

re: #369 000G

Ah, but how stupid are the people who think that graph holds any significance?

377 RogueOne  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 5:03:12am

re: #369 000G

Music that makes you dumb: Correlating SAT scores with favorite musicians

Image: MusicthatmakesyoudumbLarge.png

Listening to Sufjan Stevens turns you into a friendless douche with erectile dysfunction which is why you have so much time for study.

378 RogueOne  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 5:04:00am

re: #374 Decatur Deb

Try sending to whitehouse.gov/usss/protectivesvcs.

and sign it with your real name and address to make it easier on them.

379 Decatur Deb  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 5:04:05am

re: #376 Obdicut

Ah, but how stupid are the people who think that graph holds any significance?

Needs moar Palestrina.

380 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 5:05:49am

re: #378 RogueOne

and sign it with your real name and address to make it easier on them.

"Thatcher, we've got a bomb and we're not afraid to use it, signed Rik. No, wait, signed Neil. That's it. Signed Neil".
-The Young Ones

381 (I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was)  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 5:05:50am

re: #376 Obdicut

Ah, but how stupid are the people who think that graph holds any significance?

Hence 368.

382 Decatur Deb  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 5:06:36am

Sun's up, dog's lawyer is here with a summons. BBL

383 Obdicut  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 5:08:36am

re: #381 000G

The area under the line is mislabeled.


Image: relative0667952qk6.gif

384 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 5:11:13am

re: #380 Cannadian Club Akbar

"Thatcher, we've got a bomb and we're not afraid to use it, signed Rik. No, wait, signed Neil. That's it. Signed Neil".
-The Young Ones

Youtube Video
385 (I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was)  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 5:11:33am

re: #383 Obdicut

Apropos whacked out shit: [Link: www.wired.com...]

386 Obdicut  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 5:21:06am

re: #385 000G

Heh. Maybe they're just purposefully tying up codebreaking assets and frustrating other intelligence agencies.

Must be military, to have survived that long.

387 Kragar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 5:25:56am

re: #385 000G

Apropos whacked out shit: [Link: www.wired.com...]

The 5 Creepiest Unexplained Broadcasts

388 RogueOne  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 5:35:53am

re: #387 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

The 5 Creepiest Unexplained Broadcasts

They missed one:

Youtube Video
389 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 5:39:00am

re: #387 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

re: #388 RogueOne

Don't worry. I'm sure Jesse Ventura will get to the bottom of this.

390 Decatur Deb  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 5:52:03am

re: #389 Cannadian Club Akbar

re: #388 RogueOne

Don't worry. I'm sure Jesse Ventura will get to the bottom of this.

Just ask the local kids. Our command pulled an exercise in Turkey with a 'normal' level of security classification. When we got to the battle box, kids were along the road selling souvenir t-shirts with the FTX name spelled correctly.

391 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 6:16:07am

These pretzels are making me thirsty.

392 darthstar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 6:44:46am

re: #391 Cannadian Club Akbar

These pretzels are making me thirsty.

Save a pretzel for the gas jets.

Youtube Video

Mornin' everyone.

393 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 6:48:05am

Awake again!

Hello everyone.

394 RogueOne  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 6:57:39am

New England only -4.5 V. Oakland. Easy money.

395 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:01:37am

re: #394 RogueOne

New England only -4.5 V. Oakland. Easy money.

And that's what the line makers in Vegas want you to think.

396 darthstar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:02:16am

re: #394 RogueOne

New England only -4.5 V. Oakland. Easy money.

Hey! I just checked and my Vikings have the same record as the Colts! That's fuckin' awesome!

397 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:04:51am

re: #396 darthstar

Hey! I just checked and my Vikings have the same record as the Colts! That's fuckin' awesome!

I'll bet you $100 either the Vikes or the Chefs will be 1-3 at the end of the day.

398 RogueOne  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:05:26am

re: #396 darthstar

Hey! I just checked and my Vikings have the same record as the Colts! That's fuckin' awesome!

The "Curtis Freakin' Painter" era starts tomorrow. Should be fun.

399 Digital Display  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:07:16am

re: #396 darthstar

Hey! I just checked and my Vikings have the same record as the Colts! That's fuckin' awesome!

I went to the Oklahoma game last night..College football has many times more energy than Pro Football. The tailgating was awesome...
We did leave in the 4th quarter with the score 62-6.
When Ball State scored a field goal I jumped up to cheer and everybody in our section turned around to stare at me.. My buddies just lowered their head in shame..

400 darthstar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:07:24am

re: #397 Cannadian Club Akbar

I'll bet you $100 either the Vikes or the Chefs will be 1-3 at the end of the day.

Or they could both be 0-3-1...but I always lose when I bet money.

401 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:07:40am

re: #398 RogueOne

The "Curtis Freakin' Painter" era starts tomorrow. Should be fun.

I hope they make the ear hole on his helmet bigger because he'll be looking out of it all night.

402 RogueOne  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:11:10am

re: #401 Cannadian Club Akbar

I'd like to see the Dallas/Detroit game today. That could end up being really good for the first time in 20 years.

403 darthstar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:11:20am

re: #399 HoosierHoops

I went to the Oklahoma game last night..College football has many times more energy than Pro Football. The tailgating was awesome...
We did leave in the 4th quarter with the score 62-6.
When Ball State scored a field goal I jumped up to cheer and everybody in our section turned around to stare at me.. My buddies just lowered their head in shame..

62-6...were you nervous Ball St would come back and upset the sooners?

edit feature good...

404 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:12:11am

re: #402 RogueOne

I'd like to see the Dallas/Detroit game today. That could end up being really good for the first time in 20 years.

I'm thinking we might get that game today since the Bucs play tomorrow night.

405 RogueOne  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:12:54am

re: #404 Cannadian Club Akbar

We have Chicago/Carolina. An important battle between two 1-2 teams.

406 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:14:13am

re: #405 RogueOne

We have Chicago/Carolina. An important battle between two 1-2 teams.

I'm gonna get the Miami/SD game on CBS instead of NE/OAK. I hate that.

407 Digital Display  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:14:34am

re: #403 darthstar

62-6...were you nervous Ball St would come back and upset the long horns? Sooners

The game was a great experience

408 RogueOne  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:15:31am

re: #406 Cannadian Club Akbar

I'm gonna get the Miami/SD game on CBS instead of NE/OAK. I hate that.

Did you see Bob Sanders is already out for the season again?

409 Digital Display  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:15:55am

re: #406 Cannadian Club Akbar

I'm gonna get the Miami/SD game on CBS instead of NE/OAK. I hate that.

We got lions vs. Cowboys at noon

410 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:16:05am

re: #408 RogueOne

Did you see Bob Sanders is already out for the season again?

For the Colts?

411 Digital Display  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:16:43am

re: #410 Cannadian Club Akbar

For the Colts?

San Diego

412 sattv4u2  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:17:49am

re: #410 Cannadian Club Akbar

For the Colts?

He's playing (well,,, out with an injury) for the Chargers now

413 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:18:28am

re: #411 HoosierHoops

San Diego

I don't follow the AFC as much as the NFC and really haven't followed players as much since I don't do Fantasy Geek Football anymore.:(

414 RogueOne  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:18:50am

I was rooting for him. I figured since the colts dumped him he'd probably play the whole year.

415 sattv4u2  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:21:08am

re: #414 RogueOne

I was rooting for him. I figured since the colts dumped him he'd probably play the whole year.

he takes too many risks, like Polamalu

How Troy avoids being hurt every week, I have no idea

He;s like a human missile just launching himself at anything moving in a different jersey

416 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:22:51am

re: #404 Cannadian Club Akbar

I'm thinking we might get that game today since the Bucs play tomorrow night.

Yeah?

I'm going to a baby shower.

Any female Lizards awake?

LOL

417 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:24:17am

re: #416 ggt

Yeah?

I'm going to a baby shower.

Any female Lizards awake?

LOL

I'd go to a baby shower. I would like to think the single girls at them are a bit easier then normal. Wait, what?
/

418 sattv4u2  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:24:44am

re: #416 ggt

Yeah?

I'm going to a baby shower.

Any female Lizards awake?

LOL

Bringing soap, shampoo or conditioner??

419 RogueOne  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:24:48am

re: #415 sattv4u2

he takes too many risks, like Polamalu

How Troy avoids being hurt every week, I have no idea

He;s like a human missile just launching himself at anything moving in a different jersey

We have that game today. Should be a good one. Houston is -3. I really like those odds too. After what the colts did to them last week I'd place a side bet that roethlisberger gets knocked out of the game for at least a play.

420 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:26:06am

re: #418 sattv4u2

Bringing soap, shampoo or conditioner??

I was thinking a gift card. Never know what the new parents will need or want. I used to buy a big box of diapers, but it seems that babies are allergic to everything these days. . . .I'd probably buy the wrong kind.

421 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:27:56am

re: #420 ggt

I was thinking a gift card. Never know what the new parents will need or want. I used to buy a big box of diapers, but it seems that babies are allergic to everything these days. . . .I'd probably buy the wrong kind.

Buy the expecting mom a child birth video. That kid will be 3 years old before they pry it out of her.:)

422 darthstar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:28:02am

re: #416 ggt

Yeah?

I'm going to a baby shower.

Any female Lizards awake?

LOL

I find a copy of the Constitution makes a nice gift.
/teabagger off.

423 sattv4u2  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:29:55am

re: #422 darthstar

I find a copy of the Constitution makes a nice gift.
/teabagger off.

Tie dye diapers and a generic protest sign

/moonbat off

424 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:32:59am

re: #422 darthstar

I find a copy of the Constitution makes a nice gift.
/teabagger off.

It's a boy, so I thought I'd put the gift card with some Official Bears merchandise and a card.

425 darthstar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:34:33am

re: #423 sattv4u2

Tie dye diapers and a generic protest sign

/moonbat off

Tie dye diapers are a great gift.

Here's a good sign though.

Image: downwith.jpg

426 RogueOne  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:34:35am

Time for me to get rolling. Enjoy the day people!

427 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:34:46am

re: #424 ggt

It's a boy, so I thought I'd put the gift card with some Official Bears merchandise and a card.

[Link: www.nflshop.com...]

428 sattv4u2  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:34:50am

re: #424 ggt

It's a boy, so I thought I'd put the gift card with some Official Bears merchandise and a card.

T-Shirt that states on the front

Da Bears

and on the back

Da Poop

429 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:36:05am

re: #427 Cannadian Club Akbar

[Link: www.nflshop.com...]

Shower is today. Don't have time for mail order. . . .

Now, the important part is WHAT AM I GONNA WEAR? It's at a Country Club and all. . .

430 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:36:40am

So, the wife took me to get my car this morning. I took the wrong key. Can't find a way to blame her.

If they think I'm not driving to get this straightened out; they've got another thing coming.

431 darthstar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:36:40am

re: #424 ggt

It's a boy, so I thought I'd put the gift card with some Official Bears merchandise and a card.

But what if he's gay? Oh, wait...The Bears will be fine either way.

432 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:37:24am

re: #431 darthstar

But what if he's gay? Oh, wait...The Bears will be fine either way.

The family would have a meltdown.

433 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:38:02am

re: #430 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

So, the wife took me to get my car this morning. I took the wrong key. Can't find a way to blame her.

If they think I'm not driving to get this straightened out; they've got another thing coming.

Can't wait to hear the outcome.

434 sattv4u2  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:38:07am

re: #430 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

So, the wife took me to get my car this morning. I took the wrong key. Can't find a way to blame her.

If they think I'm not driving to get this straightened out; they've got another thing coming.

Wifes fault

WHY!?!

She should have a spare key for your car on HER keyring!!

435 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:38:27am

Roger L. Simon in all his glory:

[Link: pajamasmedia.com...]

436 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:39:13am

re: #433 ggt

Can't wait to hear the outcome.

MAN SHOOTS UP DMV. FILM AT 11.

437 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:41:45am

re: #436 Cannadian Club Akbar

MAN SHOOTS UP DMV. FILM AT 11.

What kind of paperwork would one be expected to have to prove "presence" in the country?

438 steve_davis  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:43:10am

re: #1 Obdicut

When does he start telling jokes?

What are you looking here for? The joke is in his hand!

439 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:43:28am

re: #437 ggt

What kind of paperwork would one be expected to have to prove "presence" in the country?

I would think just waving would prove he's here.

440 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:48:33am

My friend to his son: "I wish your mother would find your real dad so you can quit bothering me". Heh.

441 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:49:40am

I'm off,

Resume your regularly scheduled football discussion.

:)

442 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:50:34am

re: #437 ggt

Birth certificate.

That's why Obama has to have people drive him around.

443 steve_davis  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:51:18am

re: #28 Lidane

Why are conservative comedians so unfunny? It's painful.

the serious answer to that question is that humor requires an enormous amount of self-reflection and deprecation. It requires an ability to be ironic. It's the reason why people find cartoons in which animals have human characteristics to be funny: we're able to appreciate what it would be like to be an animal, and to think and speak like a human being. How else can anyone explain why it's funny to have a slightly post-depression era Bugs Bunny tell a hotel supervisor, "Eeeeh, I've been thrown out of betta' hotels dan dis one!" I mean, seriously, a talking rabbit telling a Vaudeville joke? But we can laugh at it. Now, Republicans, because they typically believe themselves to be some sort of persecuted, oppressed group, constantly being damaged by media elites and pointy-headed liberals, are not capable of self-reflection. They are not capable of irony. They are Republicans primarily because it is impossible for them to figure out what it would be like to be homeless, or a single black mother, or a white guy who is unemployed for reasons other than because he is being righteously punished by God for some kind of taboo breakage. How else to explain all the rampant hypocrisy by people who don't think anyone else should get theirs, but that they personally deserve and have earned everything that the rest of us give them?

444 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:53:03am

re: #442 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Have you decided on a new country in case you get deported? I'd go to Belize.

445 sattv4u2  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:55:30am

re: #442 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

re: #444 Cannadian Club Akbar

Have you decided on a new country in case you get deported? I'd go to Belize.

FBV will pick France

That way, if someone there says Let Them Eat Cake again, he'll be only too happy to oblige!!!

((and yes,,, I know the "cake" the princess was referring to was a type of bread))

446 Obdicut  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:55:41am

re: #444 Cannadian Club Akbar

I think he should occupy an oil rig and declare it Pielandia.

Or a blimp! Yes! Ron Paul it! Get a big ol' blimp and declare it a sovereign state. Stock it with pies-- food and ammunition all at once!

Image: pbLogo.jpg

448 sattv4u2  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:56:15am

re: #443 steve_davis

broad brush much there, stevie?

449 sattv4u2  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:57:18am

re: #446 Obdicut

I think he should occupy an oil rig and declare it Pielandia.

Or a blimp! Yes! Ron Paul it! Get a big ol, blimp and declare it a sovereign state. Stock it with pies-- food and ammunition all at once!

Image: pbLogo.jpg

But FBV would end up eating that which is supposed to keep him afloat!!

450 Obdicut  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 7:58:31am

re: #447 Lidane

Well, it was pretty racistly shitty of Perry, if it's true that that name stayed up and visible for years.

What the fuck?

451 Obdicut  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 8:00:33am

re: #449 sattv4u2

But FBV would end up eating that which is supposed to keep him afloat!!

No, you see, pies are not lighter than air, except the Heliolemon pies that old man Eiffel used to make.

The blimp will be filled, of course, with Earhart's recipe for fluffy chocolate hydroxy-cream.

452 sattv4u2  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 8:01:08am

re: #451 Obdicut

No, you see, pies are not lighter than air, except the Heliolemon pies that old man Eiffel used to make.

The blimp will be filled, of course, with Earhart's recipe for fluffy chocolate hydroxy-cream.

OH,,, THE HUMANITY!!!

453 Obdicut  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 8:02:40am

re: #435 Sergey Romanov

He looks like Voldemort and The Emperor had a baby that that made bad fashion choices.

454 Lidane  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 8:02:59am

re: #450 Obdicut

Well, it was pretty racistly shitty of Perry, if it's true that that name stayed up and visible for years.

What the fuck?

AFAIK it's true. In fact, my understanding is that folks in the area still call it that because that's what it has always been been called:

[Link: www.washingtonpost.com...]

I haven't been able to find anything here that says he changed it. Painted over it, sure. But actually working to change the name and get rid of the offensive rock altogether? Nope.

455 Obdicut  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 8:06:42am

re: #454 Lidane

And apparently most people say it wasn't painted over, even, and clearly visible.

Just chisel it out. That's the obvious, and decent thing to do. Which he and his dad didn't.

Farcical.

456 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 8:07:40am

re: #455 Obdicut

Just blow up the rock.

457 Obdicut  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 8:08:44am

re: #456 Cannadian Club Akbar

Any of these solutions are also more fun than painting it over.

"Dear, go paint over that dumb rock."

"No thanks, honey. I'm just going to blow it the fuck up. Already got it primed. Better take cover; shrapnel's a bitch."

458 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 8:09:32am

re: #457 Obdicut

Any of these solutions are also more fun than painting it over.

"Dear, go paint over that dumb rock."

"No thanks, honey. I'm just going to blow it the fuck up. Already got it primed. Better take cover; shrapnel's a bitch."

You forgot: "Hold my beer".

459 (I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was)  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 8:11:22am
Texas Governor Rick Perry […] has said he would consider sending American troops into Mexico to combat drug-related violence.

[Link: www.bbc.co.uk...]

460 (I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was)  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 8:14:49am

wait, what?

This Exists: ‘Obama Fried Chicken’ Is China’s Newest Fast Food Craze
Image: article-0-0E2A745D00000578-38_634x419.jpg

461 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 8:15:36am

re: #444 Cannadian Club Akbar

I don't belize you said that.

462 AyaReiko  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 8:16:07am

I found this little gem, anyone surprised?

Lonewolf Diaries: Keep Racism Alive! by Steven Crowder

A couple of snippets to show this guy lives in Bizarro World.

I’ll be honest, I’ve never met a Racist Conservative in my life.

and

The truth is that a vast majority of Americans are fully on board with a post-racial America. The only problem is that conservatives were the only ones to begin treating it as a reality.

yeeah.

463 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 8:17:26am

re: #461 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I don't belize you said that.

I only want you to go there so I can crash on your couch when I visit.
/

464 Obdicut  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 8:18:16am

re: #462 AyaReiko

Wow. Electing a black man proves all racism is dead.

Must be true.

Kind of hard to explain the massive amount of racism that followed his election, though.

465 Mocking Jay  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 8:19:11am

re: #464 Obdicut

Kind of hard to explain the massive amount of racism that followed his election, though.

What racism?!?

466 Obdicut  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 8:19:37am

re: #462 AyaReiko

And welcome. Even though anime disturbs me.

467 Lidane  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 8:20:58am

re: #464 Obdicut

Wow. Electing a black man proves all racism is dead.

Must be true.

Kind of hard to explain the massive amount of racism that followed his election, though.

LIBERAL PLANTS! ACORN! LAMESTREAM MEDIA! ELEVENTY!

468 Obdicut  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 8:22:50am

re: #467 Lidane

Breitbart and Perry are both liberal plants. So are all of the birthers, every tea party dude with "Kenyan" sign, Rush Limbaugh, and Ted Nugent, who actually weeps to himself quietly every time he has to kill an animal to maintain his awkwardly over-macho cover story.

469 (I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was)  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 8:22:59am

Johnny Cash's to-do list

Kurt Cobain's no-bake cookies recipe

470 Lidane  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 8:26:50am

re: #459 000G

[Link: www.bbc.co.uk...]

Because really, a cartel that has military training and the weapons to match, along with a complete disinterest in the rules of engagement would be a total pushover.

471 Mocking Jay  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 8:27:20am

re: #469 000G

Kurt Cobain's no-bake cookies recipe

All I got from that was "Nervermind came out 20 years ago and I am really fucking old."

472 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 8:28:33am

re: #469 000G

I'm gonna make the cookies but will top with peanut butter chips or chocolate ones after putting them on the wax paper. Maybe some walnuts, too.

473 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 8:37:48am

Alrighty. Time to work on the day:
1. Mow.
2. Drink beer and watch football.
See ya'll laterish.:)

474 (I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was)  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 8:39:18am

Denmark Imposes 'Fat Tax' in Effort to Limit Unhealthy Foods

AFAIK, the margarine producers have filed charges against the state with the European Commission.

475 Varek Raith  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 8:48:08am

re: #466 Obdicut

And welcome. Even though anime disturbs me.

Ah, you're no fun!
:P

476 Killgore Trout  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 8:52:45am

re: #474 000G

Denmark Imposes 'Fat Tax' in Effort to Limit Unhealthy Foods

AFAIK, the margarine producers have filed charges against the state with the European Commission.

Bad policy and it misses the real problem. The real problem isn't butter or meat, it's processed foods loaded with chemicals, preservatives and sugar. These foods are already more expensive that real food. A processed microwave meal costs $4 for about 50 cents worth of ingredients. It's not a cost or price issue.

477 Obdicut  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 8:53:23am

re: #475 Varek Raith

It's in my contract.

No fun allowed.

I'm going to go take a walk down to the public library now, scowling at any signs of enjoyment I see along the way.

478 Obdicut  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 8:53:57am

re: #476 Killgore Trout

And bread is the worst, really. Anything hyper-refined.

479 (I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was)  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 8:57:20am

re: #478 Obdicut

And bread is the worst, really. Anything hyper-refined.

What about whole-grain?

480 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 9:04:23am

re: #462 AyaReiko

Right now they think that they’re shtick is so cute

Heh.

481 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 9:06:14am

re: #462 AyaReiko

And the first comment underneath is precious:

I'm not racist, I have a big black dog and 2 colored tv's.

482 Varek Raith  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 9:06:37am

re: #480 Sergey Romanov

Heh.

Your being mean! Their not hear to be laughed at!
/
;)

483 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 9:07:08am

re: #482 Varek Raith

Your being mean! Their not hear to be laughed at!
/
;)

It could of been worse.

484 Varek Raith  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 9:07:23am

re: #481 Sergey Romanov

And the first comment underneath is precious:

Ha!
I'm God because I have a sausage biscuit and coffee!

485 allegro  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 9:07:58am

Jeez, you'd think at my age I'd know better than to go to the grocery store hungry and with no list. Anyone need any groceries?

486 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 9:08:50am

re: #485 allegro

Jeez, you'd think at my age I'd know better than to go to the grocery store hungry and with no list. Anyone need any groceries?

FBV?

487 Kronocide  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 9:09:17am

How North Dakota Became Saudi Arabia

When it was Mr. Hamm's turn to talk briefly with President Obama, "I told him of the revolution in the oil and gas industry and how we have the capacity to produce enough oil to enable America to replace OPEC. I wanted to make sure he knew about this."

The president's reaction? "He turned to me and said, 'Oil and gas will be important for the next few years. But we need to go on to green and alternative energy. [Energy] Secretary [Steven] Chu has assured me that within five years, we can have a battery developed that will make a car with the equivalent of 130 miles per gallon.'" Mr. Hamm holds his head in his hands and says, "Even if you believed that, why would you want to stop oil and gas development? It was pretty disappointing."

I wonder what Mr Hamm thinks of AGW? I'm concerned the Belo Monte damn in Brazil may still go ahead. Another million acres of prime CO2 sink could be lost, displacing 40,000 people. Hydro is not as good when it floods forest.

488 allegro  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 9:09:41am

re: #486 Sergey Romanov

FBV?

I did get a German Chocolate cake and Bluebell homemade vanilla ice cream.

489 Bob Dillon  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 9:10:47am

At Oakland airport on the way to our annual IBM reunion for all the folks in Pacific Operations back in the 60s & 70s. Got to say going thru TSA was a breeze. They are getting their act together. This is my first flight in ~7 years - I quit flying in protest.

490 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 9:12:13am

re: #484 Varek Raith

Before I run away: find all the mistakes in Image: sep27please_donot_confuse_me.jpg

491 darthstar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 9:13:21am

re: #482 Varek Raith

Your being mean! Their not hear to two be laughed at!
/
;)

fixed

492 Killgore Trout  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 9:13:22am

re: #478 Obdicut

And bread is the worst, really. Anything hyper-refined.

Bread isn't really a problem. Even pasta isn't really a problem. Carbs get a bad rap because when combined with a high sugar diet the calories get stored as fat. drinking soda all day (even with artificial sweeteners) is more of a problem. Also all the processed food is loaded with sugar. I would say sugar, fructose, sucrose etc is probably to biggest problem.

493 sattv4u2  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 9:13:22am

re: #489 Bobibutu

At Oakland airport on the way to our annual IBM reunion for all the folks in Pacific Operations back in the 60s & 70s. Got to say going thru TSA was a breeze. They are getting their act together. This is my first flight in ~7 years - I quit flying in protest.

Your protest worked!!

//

494 Varek Raith  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 9:13:35am

re: #490 Sergey Romanov

Before I run away: find all the mistakes in Image: sep27please_donot_confuse_me.jpg

Oh my.
WTF is "two-spirited" anywho???

495 Varek Raith  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 9:13:56am

re: #491 darthstar

fixed

Damnit!

496 allegro  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 9:14:16am

re: #490 Sergey Romanov

Before I run away: find all the mistakes in Image: sep27please_donot_confuse_me.jpg

Teaching hate and bad grammar in a single curriculum! More bang for the buck!

497 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 9:14:29am

re: #494 Varek Raith

Oh my.
WTF is "two-spirited" anywho???

Two bottles instead of one?

498 sattv4u2  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 9:14:55am

re: #485 allegro

Jeez, you'd think at my age I'd know better than to go to the grocery store hungry and with no list. Anyone need any groceries?

Thanks, but I'm good

I have a freezer in the garage and kitchen a closet LOADED with stuff bought/ while/ hungry!!

499 Varek Raith  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 9:15:00am

Ah, I see.
[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

500 Bob Dillon  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 9:15:14am

re: #478 Obdicut

And bread is the worst, really. Anything hyper-refined.

My simple rule ... if man made it I don't eat it.

501 allegro  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 9:16:01am

re: #498 sattv4u2

Thanks, but I'm good

I have a freezer in the garage and kitchen a closet LOADED with stuff bought/ while/ hungry!!

I live in a motorhome. I think I'll be cooking dinner tonight for the neighborhood.

502 allegro  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 9:16:34am

re: #500 Bobibutu

My simple rule ... if man made it I don't eat it.

But if a woman made it, it will be delicious.

/

503 Varek Raith  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 9:17:45am

re: #501 allegro

I live in a motorhome. I think I'll be cooking dinner tonight for the neighborhood.

That's neat.
I'd love to have a houseboat.

504 sattv4u2  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 9:20:11am

re: #501 allegro

I live in a motorhome. I think I'll be cooking dinner tonight for the neighborhood.

Make it authentic (for a motorhome)

Cook it on the engine!

505 Kronocide  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 9:20:26am

re: #492 Killgore Trout

Bread isn't really a problem. Even pasta isn't really a problem. Carbs get a bad rap because when combined with a high sugar diet the calories get stored as fat. drinking soda all day (even with artificial sweeteners) is more of a problem. Also all the processed food is loaded with sugar. I would say sugar, fructose, sucrose etc is probably to biggest problem.

There have been new TV ads promoting fructose. It has all the nuance of Merchants of Doubt. I have not spent the time to look into it but fructose has issues: our body does not know how much sugar it is taking in when we consume fructose, so we keep consuming it. Now that some people are figuring out how this is not a good thing, we have these commercials saying how wonderful fructose is because 'it's natural, made from corn.'

506 darthstar  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 9:20:47am

The internets are boring this morning. I think I'll go mow the lawn.

507 allegro  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 9:20:48am

re: #503 Varek Raith

That's neat.
I'd love to have a houseboat.

It is an excellent life if you have the right temperament for it. I moved into our party bus/vacation home when I put my house on the market. Planned on staying here just until the house sold. That was 8 years ago. Never been happier in any type of abode in which I've lived.

508 allegro  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 9:22:13am

re: #504 sattv4u2

Make it authentic (for a motorhome)

Cook it on the engine!

I think I'll stick to the built-in grill. These guys thought of everything. ;)

509 (I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was)  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 9:24:01am

re: #505 BigPapa

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

511 Kronocide  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 9:25:35am

re: #509 000G

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

Sweet! Pun intended.

My peeps were all over it, somehow missed those when I was out committing capitalism.

512 reine.de.tout  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 9:29:02am

re: #492 Killgore Trout

Bread isn't really a problem. Even pasta isn't really a problem. Carbs get a bad rap because when combined with a high sugar diet the calories get stored as fat. drinking soda all day (even with artificial sweeteners) is more of a problem. Also all the processed food is loaded with sugar. I would say sugar, fructose, sucrose etc is probably to biggest problem.

Portion control as well.
Or rather, failure to control portions.
A restaurant portion of food is enough for 2 or 3 meals.
We've begun to think these are "regular" sized meal portions.

513 sattv4u2  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 9:31:21am

re: #512 reine.de.tout

Portion control as well.
Or rather, failure to control portions.
A restaurant portion of food is enough for 2 or 3 meals.
We've begun to think these are "regular" sized meal portions.

So you mean at an All You Can Eat place, you're not SUPPOSED to eat all you can eat !?!?!

(h/t to a stand up comic,, just can't recall which one)

514 Kronocide  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 9:32:21am

The Corn Refiners Association has a YouTube channel. Read the comments, its a hoot.

515 Killgore Trout  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 9:34:31am

re: #510 BigPapa

The Dirty Truth About High Fructose Corn Syrup…

Excellent article.

516 Killgore Trout  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 9:34:58am

re: #512 reine.de.tout

Portion control as well.
Or rather, failure to control portions.
A restaurant portion of food is enough for 2 or 3 meals.
We've begun to think these are "regular" sized meal portions.

Very true.

517 sattv4u2  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 9:51:08am

{{grumble grumble,, bitch bitch ,, moan moan}}

Crappy French equipment

Just had a Hi Def encoder crap on me just minutes before airtime of an NFL game

Thank God for American Made back-ups!!

Oh ,, wait ,, the back-up encoder I'm using is from a company in Norway ,,,, nevahmind!!

518 Digital Display  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 10:02:56am

re: #517 sattv4u2

{{grumble grumble,, bitch bitch ,, moan moan}}

Crappy French equipment

Just had a Hi Def encoder crap on me just minutes before airtime of an NFL game

Thank God for American Made back-ups!!

Oh ,, wait ,, the back-up encoder I'm using is from a company in Norway ,,, nevahmind!!

I'm surprised the encoders you use aren't from China...
They are slipping in world dominance

519 Renaissance_Man  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 10:07:41am

re: #492 Killgore Trout

Bread isn't really a problem. Even pasta isn't really a problem. Carbs get a bad rap because when combined with a high sugar diet the calories get stored as fat. drinking soda all day (even with artificial sweeteners) is more of a problem. Also all the processed food is loaded with sugar. I would say sugar, fructose, sucrose etc is probably to biggest problem.

But that's what carbs are - sugar. Especially refined breads and pasta. That's your high sugar diet.

520 sattv4u2  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 10:09:44am

re: #518 HoosierHoops

I'm surprised the encoders you use aren't from China...
They are slipping in world dominance

We have an assortment of manufacturers equipment here

Most are Tandbergs (Norway) and Ateme's (France)

We're also testing some Sony/ Ericsson equipment

UPSIDE,, they're right here in Atlanta

DOWNSIDE ,,, they're encoders aren't what you would call user friendly. I have to attend a seminar on Tuesday about them and hopefully sine if our concerns will be addressed

521 Daniel Ballard  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 10:19:49am

re: #520 sattv4u2
This might be related...
I've been reading up on DSLR workflow issues. It seems I'll be transcoding from whatever in wrapped up in dot mov and into some edit friendly file. The nice little box that I could just stick the CF card into and have it store the files in this alternate form is $2000! I better stick to just transcoding with my PC.
Geez lots to learn.

522 Killgore Trout  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 10:38:47am

Police Gave Warnings at Bridge, Videos Show

The release of the videos seemed to back the police’s contention that it was the marchers’ choice that led to the police arresting about 800 people. Many protesters had contended that the police had tricked them by allowing them onto the bridge, and even escorting them partway across, only to trap them in orange netting after hundreds had entered.

Youtube Video
523 sattv4u2  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 10:40:17am

re: #521 Rightwingconspirator

$2000

heh,,, our "cheapest" Hi Def encoders (no frills) go for 4-5 K

Add in MPEG 4 ,,, built in satellite modulator ,,, Dolby ,,,, they run 10K +

AND ,, we need/ have about a dozen of those!

524 Kronocide  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 10:42:23am

I wish you worked over here Satt. I get service calls because the downlink loses Left or Right or the Dolby is all screwed up and it's clearly the CATV provider, since I use the same service at my house.

525 sattv4u2  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 10:46:35am

re: #524 BigPapa

I wish you worked over here Satt. I get service calls because the downlink loses Left or Right or the Dolby is all screwed up and it's clearly the CATV provider, since I use the same service at my house.

heh,,, I got a call from a Korean TV station once complaining about a "popping" sound in the audio of a baseball game

The "popping" that was heard was the ball hitting the catchers glove on each pitch

A German station once asked me if I could call the stadium of a live NFL game and ask them to replay the 1st quarter, because the German station missed it because they were looking at the wrong satellite at the start of the game!

526 sattv4u2  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 10:49:14am

re: #524 BigPapa

I wish you worked over here Satt

And I actually had a job offer from Panamsat (now Intelsat) to work at their teleport in Paumalu Hawaii

527 Kronocide  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 10:51:27am

re: #526 sattv4u2

I wish you worked over here Satt

And I actually had a job offer from Panamsat (now Intelsat) to work at their teleport in Paumalu Hawaii

That's the North Shore. You turned it down? Geez...

528 sattv4u2  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 11:05:15am

re: #527 BigPapa

That's the North Shore. You turned it down? Geez...

Not yet

Still open

529 Digital Display  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 11:06:50am

re: #527 BigPapa

That's the North Shore. You turned it down? Geez...

I really enjoyed going to Turtle Bay on the North Shore.. Awesome Place

530 laZardo  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 11:07:43am

Morning folks. How y'all?

531 Altermite  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 11:08:14am

re: #519 Renaissance_Man

If you want to be nit picky, the issue is in american food manufacturors putting refined sugars in lots of foods it normally wouldn't go.

532 windsagio  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 11:09:31am

re: #530 laZardo

kind of snickering, TAL replayed a segment about the California minutemen, and the bizarre fantasy world they live in.

(SNIPERS!)

533 Kronocide  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 11:15:35am

re: #529 HoosierHoops

I really enjoyed going to Turtle Bay on the North Shore.. Awesome Place

That's about 45 minutes from where Satt could be working, driving past Pupukea, Haleiwa, all those prime spots. Turtle Bay is sweet.

534 Digital Display  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 11:18:56am

re: #533 BigPapa

That's about 45 minutes from where Satt could be working, driving past Pupukea, Haleiwa, all those prime spots. Turtle Bay is sweet.

My 3 years working in Hawaii was great...I would live there in a second...

535 sattv4u2  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 11:30:04am

re: #533 BigPapa

That's about 45 minutes from where Satt could be working, driving past Pupukea, Haleiwa, all those prime spots. Turtle Bay is sweet.

One sticking point right now is that the company isn't offering relocation reimbursement, which is fairly common in our industry

536 prairiefire  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 11:35:25am

re: #526 sattv4u2

I wish you worked over here Satt

And I actually had a job offer from Panamsat (now Intelsat) to work at their teleport in Paumalu Hawaii

Living on a little island in the middle of the vast ocean is not for me. The Big Island adds even more to my phobia because it is a direct portal to the fiery fury of Gaia.
Maybe it's a type of agoraphobia.

537 sattv4u2  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 11:43:31am

re: #536 prairiefire

Living on a little island in the middle of the vast ocean is not for me. The Big Island adds even more to my phobia because it is a direct portal to the fiery fury of Gaia.
Maybe it's a type of agoraphobia.

heh,,,, ME ,, I could be like one of those Japanese WW2 soldiers that held on deserted islands decades after WW 2 was over !!


(that is, as long as the island had satellite TV and a well stocked grocery store!!)

538 prairiefire  Sun, Oct 2, 2011 12:07:10pm

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