The Keith Jarrett Trio burns through Dizzy Gillespie’s “Woody’n You,” twisting and bending the chord structure and rhythm until it seems like it’s falling apart, but somehow remaining coherent and swinging like mad. An inspired performance from the early days of the group.
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William Barnett-Lewis Fri, Dec 2, 2011 1:47:25pm |
Mmm. What a pleasant way to take my mind off of the Cainwreck in progress.
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Fri, Dec 2, 2011 1:49:03pm |
I log-off while a music thread is up, then log-in and another music thread is up.
I must have done something right recently.
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darthstar Fri, Dec 2, 2011 1:55:45pm |
The California Syndrome (kind of like the China Syndrome, only without the hot and sexy Jane Fonda - hummana-hummana...)
TOKYO — Molten nuclear fuel at Japan's Fukushima plant might have eaten two thirds of the way through a concrete containment base, its operator said, citing a new simulation of the extent of the March disaster.
Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) said their latest calculations showed the fuel inside the No. 1 reactor at the tsunami-hit plant could have melted entirely, dropping through its inner casing and eroding a concrete base.
In the worst-case scenario, the molten fuel could have reached as far as 65 centimetres (2 feet) through the concrete, leaving it only 37 centimetres short of the outer steel casing, the report, released Wednesday, said.
Until now, TEPCO had said some fuel melted through the inner pressure vessel and dropped to the containment vessel, without saying how much and what it did to the concrete, citing a lack of data.
"Almost no fuel remains at its original position," TEPCO said in the report.
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freetoken Fri, Dec 2, 2011 1:57:42pm |
On Black Friday placed an order through Apple Store (one of their few actually good deals, on a hard drive).
It was supposed to be delivered yesterday... UPS showed it on the truck out for delivery. Didn't show up... so I look it up on the UPS database, and UPS said Apple requested return of item. Strange.
So I called Apple today. What a mess. Their computer does all the talking... finally got a live body. They don't know why the item showed up back on their dock... in fact they only knew it about if from the UPS database after I called. Oh, and I have to stay on the line because once I hang up the poor girl gets another call and has to stop working on my order.
That's right, they will only pay attention to me while I am on the phone. No online interaction. No email. Have to hang on... she has to get her supervisor... he's not paying attention... she says he finally approves a "return"... I say I didn't even get it in the first place... she knows that but says there is no other way.
So now the online Apple database tells me that I have until Dec 16th to return my item... which I never got in the first place. Apparently the Apple order database doesn't have an entry for "we messed up" so they have to pretend I want to return an item...
This all from a company that supposedly likes to think of itself as the world's leading consumer tech company.
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freetoken Fri, Dec 2, 2011 1:58:35pm |
re: #3 darthstar
Hmmm... isn't the opposite side of the world from Japan somewhere in the South Atlantic off the African coast?
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darthstar Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:00:10pm |
re: #5 freetoken
Hmmm... isn't the opposite side of the world from Japan somewhere in the South Atlantic off the African coast?
Plate tectonics...by the time it gets here, we'll have moved right in front of its destructive path!
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:04:11pm |
re: #4 freetoken
On Black Friday placed an order through Apple Store (one of their few actually good deals, on a hard drive).
It was supposed to be delivered yesterday... UPS showed it on the truck out for delivery. Didn't show up... so I look it up on the UPS database, and UPS said Apple requested return of item. Strange.
So I called Apple today. What a mess. Their computer does all the talking... finally got a live body. They don't know why the item showed up back on their dock... in fact they only knew it about if from the UPS database after I called. Oh, and I have to stay on the line because once I hang up the poor girl gets another call and has to stop working on my order.
That's right, they will only pay attention to me while I am on the phone. No online interaction. No email. Have to hang on... she has to get her supervisor... he's not paying attention... she says he finally approves a "return"... I say I didn't even get it in the first place... she knows that but says there is no other way.
So now the online Apple database tells me that I have until Dec 16th to return my item... which I never got in the first place. Apparently the Apple order database doesn't have an entry for "we messed up" so they have to pretend I want to return an item...
This all from a company that supposedly likes to think of itself as the world's leading consumer tech company.
I have no luck with on-the-phone service with any company other than Citibank and Audible.com. With Apple products I just go to the store and make them fix it. If I do have trouble with Citibank, I go to the branch and make someone there call for me. Seems to work better that way.
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Kragar Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:05:15pm |
WTF Bloomberg?
Bloomberg: If I Had It My Way I’d Dump Half Of NYC’s Teachers
“Education is very much, I’ve always thought, just like the real estate business. Real estate business, there are three things that matter: location, location, location is the old joke,” Bloomberg said. “Well in education, it is: quality of teacher, quality of teacher, quality of teacher. And I would, if I had the ability - which nobody does really – to just design a system and say, ‘ex cathedra, this is what we’re going to do,’ you would cut the number of teachers in half, but you would double the compensation of them and you would weed out all the bad ones and just have good teachers. And double the class size with a better teacher is a good deal for the students.”
That’s right. The mayor told people at a Massachusetts Institute of Technology conference it would be far better to run city schools with way fewer people. And, by the way, on the billionaire’s perfect planet that would mean cramming more kids into each classroom.
Andrea Spencer is dean of the School of Education at Pace University.
“When I heard the statement I was really shocked,” Spencer said. “There is absolutely no evidence to suggest that half of the teachers in any system are ineffective. What there is evidence to support is the fact that larger classes really place detriments in the way of learning.”
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zora Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:09:55pm |
Jon Huntsman will skip presidential debate moderated by Donald Trump
"We look forward to watching Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich suck up to Trump with a big bowl of popcorn," Huntsman spokesman Tim Miller told Yahoo News.
[Link: news.yahoo.com...]
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freetoken Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:13:42pm |
re: #8 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Hmm... IMO "real estate" is pretty low on the professions that I consider honorable, sitting below politicians and pimps.
Bloomberg is absurd because the entire GOP establishment is in melt down over their obvious capitulation to the real idiots, and now they are having to live with the consequence. What we're seeing is the implosion of the oldest political party in the US.
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Obdicut Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:15:42pm |
re: #8 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
That's massively crazy, and incredibly insulting to teachers.
All the teachers I know, absolutely all of them, say that a big class size makes teaching well impossible.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:17:30pm |
re: #8 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Bloomberg just becomes more evil with every passing day
TRUE COLORS
SHININ THROOOOO
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engineer cat Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:18:28pm |
The Keith Jarrett Trio burns through Dizzy Gillespie’s “Woody’n You,” twisting and bending the chord structure and rhythm until it seems like it’s falling
yeah! yeah! yeah!
i like the way keith does ballads, but i don't really like ballads, so i'm much more excited hearing him do an upbeat bebop classic like this one
watch his left hand at the very beginning, tho - do you see the way the heel of his hand is way lower than where it would be in the approved "arch" hand position?
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:18:48pm |
from twitter:
It's not so much that corporations are people, it's that they are giant people with superpowers who can do anything they want at any time.
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engineer cat Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:22:18pm |
hey! how about some stride!
watch stephanie trick play willie "the lion" smith's 'keep your temper':
and she's so cute!
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Kragar Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:23:13pm |
re: #11 Obdicut
That's massively crazy, and incredibly insulting to teachers.
All the teachers I know, absolutely all of them, say that a big class size makes teaching well impossible.
Larger classrooms is a sure fire way to make sure kids get left behind by the education system.
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Obdicut Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:23:39pm |
U of Iowa student tries to strangle a cop, his friend rips down wanted posters of him.
[Link: www.thesmokinggun.com...]
Obviously, this kind of violence can't be condoned. We need to shut down University of Iowa at once and anyone who says otherwise is an apologist.
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:23:51pm |
re: #16 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Larger classrooms is a sure fire way to make sure kids get left behind by the education system.
More money for the Prison systems! Win-Win!
/gah
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engineer cat Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:24:10pm |
and, just to close the circle,
how about KEITH JARRET PLAYING STRIDE???
yeah! now, that's something...
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(I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was) Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:24:35pm |
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:24:41pm |
re: #4 freetoken
I call the guys who made my computer, they pick right up. Because it's a small business, I can talk to the dude who physically put the box together *_*
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Kragar Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:25:45pm |
Bryan Fischer dislikes Newt so much he actually says something nice about Obama
It would be a truly ironic thing if, in the 2012 election campaign, the standard bearer for the pro-family movement were to run against an incumbent liberal who has a far, far better record than he on issues of personal morality and marital fidelity.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:25:52pm |
re: #16 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Larger classrooms is a sure fire way to make sure kids get left behind by the education system.
Oregon right now is at the point of silliness on the classroom sizes.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:26:49pm |
re: #16 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Larger classrooms is a sure fire way to make sure kids get left behind by the education system.
drain resources from schools so you can strangle it in the bathtub
create serf-like underclass!
profit!
*strokes serious Grover Norquist pube-beard*
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Killgore Trout Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:26:55pm |
Occupy L.A., wind damage may add to $72-million city budget shortfall
....the shortfall could grow once city officials calculate the cost of cleanup in the wake of this week's ferocious windstorms and the two-month encampment outside City Hall by Occupy L.A.
"These are unforeseen problems that we have to pay for one way or the other," Santana said in an interview. “The timing was not helpful.”
Santana called for reductions of $4 million to the Los Angeles Police Department, $1.7 million to the city attorney's office and $1.3 million to the Bureau of Street Services, which is charged with maintaining the city's 6,500-mile network of roads and highways. He said he needs four more weeks to find an additional $20 million in potential cuts for this year's budget, which covers the 12-month period ending June 30.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:27:11pm |
re: #21 WindUpBird
I call the guys who made my computer, they pick right up. Because it's a small business, I can talk to the dude who physically put the box together *_*
Ha! I can talk to the dude who made my computer right now. Um, if he's at his desk. He might be in the lab, and since he insists on not owning a cell phone, that makes it tough.
Or, I could wait until he gets home tonight.
If anything goes really wrong with the computer, I'm supposed to walk away and not touch it until he can look at it.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:28:19pm |
re: #27 EmmmieG
Ha! I can talk to the dude who made my computer right now. Um, if he's at his desk. He might be in the lab, and since he insists on not owning a cell phone, that makes it tough.
Or, I could wait until he gets home tonight.
If anything goes really wrong with the computer, I'm supposed to walk away and not touch it until he can look at it.
hahahaha I was that guy for my mother, now I live in another state *_*
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ProMayaLiberal Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:28:43pm |
re: #10 freetoken
Democrats have been around since Jackson.
However, they have 180ed in many ways politically.
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Kragar Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:28:52pm |
re: #27 EmmmieG
Ha! I can talk to the dude who made my computer right now. Um, if he's at his desk. He might be in the lab, and since he insists on not owning a cell phone, that makes it tough.
Or, I could wait until he gets home tonight.
If anything goes really wrong with the computer, I'm supposed to walk away and not touch it until he can look at it.
I learned long ago not to try to talk my wife thru any computer errors over the phone
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jaunte Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:29:48pm |
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:29:52pm |
re: #30 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
I learned long ago not to try to talk my wife thru any computer errors over the phone
"What's a fat?"
'I'm sorry?"
"The fat? On the computer? What is it?"
"I...don't know what-"
"...because it says the fat is corrupt."
"Shit."
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:30:56pm |
re: #30 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
I learned long ago not to try to talk my wife thru any computer errors over the phone
Fixing your own computer is for women who didn't think ahead enough to marry a geek.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:31:06pm |
re: #31 jaunte
*shudders*
does anyone else besides me think Grover Norquist looks like he plays a lot of Gamma World
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Kragar Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:31:17pm |
LGF made the RWW Daily Round up for Cain's Lie Detector Expert
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ProMayaLiberal Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:31:21pm |
re: #32 WindUpBird
Fat? What was she talking about?
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engineer cat Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:31:40pm |
re: #29 ProLifeLiberal
Democratss have been around since Jackson.
However, they have 180ed in many ways politically.
the modern idea of democrats as a progressive/populist political party dates from the election of 1896 and the nomination of william jennings bryan
of course, the old dixiecrat wing remained in the party for another 80 years or so until they heard ronald reagan sound the dog whistle...
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Kragar Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:32:02pm |
re: #34 WindUpBird
does anyone else besides me think Grover Norquist looks like he plays a lot of Gamma World
Which edition?
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:33:34pm |
re: #33 EmmmieG
Fixing your own computer is for women who didn't think ahead enough to marry a geek.
I can fix parts of it, but there's a point where I happily take it to a dude who knows shit *_*
though I know mostly geeks, and geek female friends are just as good at building their own boxes as my geek male friends (statement only applies to linux and windows users)
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:34:53pm |
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ProMayaLiberal Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:35:04pm |
re: #37 engineer dog
True, but as an organized political force, they have been around since Jackson.
However, in a class this semester, we had handouts on what parties had what policies through time.
I would have been a Federalist, then a Whig, then a Republican until the 1910ish, when I would have become a swing voter, then full-fledged Democrat in the 60's and 70's.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:35:53pm |
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Kragar Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:36:17pm |
Update: The women for Herman Cain site has removed the stock photo image, but now the site just says "Women Cain"
/slow clap
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sagehen Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:36:21pm |
re: #8 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
WTF Bloomberg?
Bloomberg: If I Had It My Way I’d Dump Half Of NYC’s Teachers
Bloomberg is obviously many years removed from ever sitting in a classroom.
I've had some excellent teachers in my time, and every single one of them what made them excellent was what happened during the 10-15 minutes or so of extra help I needed (and could get) every week in addition to the class lecture. But if that teacher has 50 kids... ain't gonna happen.
(and this need for 10 minutes extra -- that's speaking as a brighter-than-average, well-fed kid from a house full of books and unlimited parental encouragement and assistance. I can only imagine how much personalized instruction a kid needs who doesn't have my advantages).
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(I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was) Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:36:38pm |
re: #10 freetoken
What we're seeing is the implosion of the oldest political party in the US.
? I thought the Democratic party was older…
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ProMayaLiberal Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:36:44pm |
re: #42 WindUpBird
If that's corrupted, you're boned
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Kragar Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:36:54pm |
re: #40 WindUpBird
1st ed, the 70's one :D
with the color coded skill success table using percentile dice?
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sagehen Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:37:29pm |
re: #12 WindUpBird
Bloomberg just becomes more evil with every passing day
TRUE COLORS
SHININ THROOO
I need now to ask the same question about Bloomberg that in 2008 I was asking about McCain -- "has he changed? or is this who he always was and I'm only just now noticing?"
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:37:52pm |
re: #43 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Update: The women for Herman Cain site has removed the stock photo image, but now the site just says "Women Cain"
/slow clap
genius
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:37:59pm |
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ProMayaLiberal Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:38:08pm |
re: #45 000G
They are, but they are staggeringly different than they were under Jackson. In fact, they are 180 on several positions.
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engineer cat Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:38:32pm |
re: #41 ProLifeLiberal
True, but as an organized political force, they have been around since Jackson.
However, in a class this semester, we had handouts on what parties had what policies through time.
I would have been a Federalist, then a Whig, then a Republican until the 30's, when I would have become a swing voter, then full-fledged Democrat in the 60's and 70's.
interesting
federalist - would you have been against the democratic-republican party and its promotion of the war of 1812?
whigs - would you have been against the expansion of the voting franchise to people without property, and for a national bank?
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:39:00pm |
re: #48 sagehen
I need now to ask the same question about Bloomberg that in 2008 I was asking about McCain -- "has he changed? or is this who he always was and I'm only just now noticing?"
Well, he distracted by not being an ultra so-con
but it turns out he's more dangerous than your average raving socon
Whee, America the oligarchy
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engineer cat Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:39:39pm |
re: #45 000G
? I thought the Democratic party was older…
the republican party just looks and acts older
senile, as a matter of fact...
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(I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was) Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:39:50pm |
re: #51 ProLifeLiberal
They are, but they are staggeringly different than they were under Jackson. In fact, they are 180 on several positions.
Well, yeah, but so are the Republicans. Either way, the Dems are older.
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wrenchwench Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:40:47pm |
re: #43 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Update: The women for Herman Cain site has removed the stock photo image, but now the site just says "Women Cain"
/slow clap
Behind the scenes, somebody is smoking a cigarette.
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Kragar Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:42:07pm |
GOP Presidential Candidate Roemer: Romney Represents The 1 Percent And Gingrich Is Their Lobbyist
ROEMER: [Addressing MSNBC anchor] I have yet to hear a question from you political experts during the debate about where did you get your money?
(crosstalk)
ROEMER: I know, I didn’t mean to pick on you for it, I’m sorry. But I am passionate about this. Look, there is a difference between the one percent who rule the country and the ninety-nine who suffer their mistakes. I believe that Mitt Romney represents the one percent and I believe that Newt Gingrich is the lobbyist for the one percent.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:44:01pm |
Women for Cain:
Because I believe that other women are all liars and sluts.
Gah!
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makeitstop Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:44:19pm |
re: #22 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Bryan Fischer dislikes Newt so much he actually says something nice about Obama
Okay, now I've seen everything.
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ProMayaLiberal Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:44:53pm |
re: #52 engineer dog
Federalist: Maybe, I don't know. We had every reson to be pissed at the United Kingdom then. But on the other hand, they were a great deal more powerful. Looking at it from back then, I'm not sure.
Whig: I would have for voting enfranchisement of non-property owners, and for a National Bank.
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makeitstop Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:46:05pm |
re: #33 EmmmieG
Fixing your own computer is for women who didn't think ahead enough to marry a geek.
My wife works for a certain Evil Empire. She's perfectly capable of fixing her own computer. :)
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Kragar Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:46:10pm |
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darthstar Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:47:20pm |
Be careful with that Women Cain website...the thumbnails for the women posting are linked to some hi-res versions of their pictures...this one zooms so closely you could pop the zits on her chest (and she's wearing a nighty)
(heh...and her image number is SIXTY-NINE DUDES!!!)
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:47:37pm |
re: #62 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Have you seen a man eat his own head?
Robert Plant on stage with ICP
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Obdicut Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:48:56pm |
re: #63 darthstar
One of the women there refers to Cain's accusers as 'scum', which is just, well, bless her heart.
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Obdicut Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:50:21pm |
This one is pretty good:
I lived through a situation wherein some people I had known for 35+ years emailed me 100s of times, at all times of the day or night, and I emailed them back based upon the picture of the world they encouraged - even agreeing with me that I was right and the attacks on me were unjust. There were gifts exchanged, along with messages like "my affection knows no bounds", other terms of endearment based upon positive associations, dinners and other supports. Not only was the truth non-sexual where I was concerned, these people were trying to destroy me while covering up for a convicted child molester - in a community youth activity. They were working DIRECTLY with the people attacking me. After I found the long-buried court documents proving the truth, they publicly reverted to working right alongside my attackers
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darthstar Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:50:22pm |
Don't tread on me...unless you're Herman.
Image: IMG_0040.jpg
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makeitstop Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:50:27pm |
re: #62 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Have you seen a man eat his own head?
Now that you mention it, no.
That's probably next...
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wilburs Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:52:48pm |
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Kragar Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:52:54pm |
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darthstar Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:54:00pm |
re: #69 wilburs
Interesting
Fox receives free 24/7 NYPD protection:
[Link: www.thedailybeast.com...]
Hey...when you own the force, you make the calls. Actually, I suspect more than a few NYPD officers would take offense at that. Complain about NYPD being forced to suck up to Fox.
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windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:58:16pm |
ok sorry if this has been linked before, but I hadn't seen it until today:
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Killgore Trout Fri, Dec 2, 2011 2:58:17pm |
re: #71 darthstar
Hey...when you own the force, you make the calls. Actually, I suspect more than a few NYPD officers would take offense at that. Complain about NYPD being forced to suck up to Fox.
I'm pretty sure the story's nonsense. Anonymous sources for a pretty fishy investigation. People fall for the dumbest stories these days. This one doesn't pass the sniff test.
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Killgore Trout Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:00:40pm |
re: #74 windsagio
deep throat, lol ><
The only named source in the entire story is in the last sentence denying the story is true.
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windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:01:22pm |
Oh, got a political cartoon for you Kilgore! There are levels of liberal past OWS:
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(I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was) Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:04:08pm |
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Kragar Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:05:20pm |
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engineer cat Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:05:34pm |
Bryan Fischer dislikes Newt so much he actually says something nice about Obama
reading the freepers and others, i don't see the evidence that newt is popular with them the same way that cain was when he was on top in the polls
Putting Newt in front of a camera/mic is like handing your 5 year old a handgun unsupervised. No telling what direction the bullets will fly.
I’m old enough to remember, what a creep Newt was, and probably still is. His treatment of former wives is really mean.
>>>>Newt is a proven mover and shaker>>>>
If by "mover and shaker", you really mean "the guy who runs around with a lampshade on his head at parties", then yes.
I no longer have a candidate to support. I don’t like any of them really. I am hoping for a contested convention at this point.
While I agree with you on the dangers of the unexplored Newt, there is still no way in cowboy hell that I am going to vote for a Rick Perry.
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windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:05:38pm |
re: #77 000G
oh those bastards not letting me steal from them, I'll get direct links to his site
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darthstar Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:07:00pm |
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engineer cat Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:07:30pm |
Newt Gingrich, a similarly farcical character
"farcical" is an appropriate word
farce
late 14c., "force-meat, stuffing;" 1520s, as a type of dramatic work, from M.Fr. farce "comic interlude in a mystery play" (16c.), lit. "stuffing," from O.Fr. farcir "to stuff," (13c.), from L. farcire "to stuff, cram,"
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windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:07:39pm |
re: #79 engineer dog
I am hoping for a contested convention at this point.
As we all are man. That would be EPIC!
(edit: knowing you're not the one who actually said that ED)
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:08:40pm |
re: #71 darthstar
Hey...when you own the force, you make the calls. Actually, I suspect more than a few NYPD officers would take offense at that. Complain about NYPD being forced to suck up to Fox.
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ProMayaLiberal Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:08:59pm |
re: #79 engineer dog
When was the last contested convention?
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Targetpractice Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:09:36pm |
re: #78 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
The only guy in the current GOP field capable of beating Obama is Gene Eric Republican. All the rest are lugging a small airport's worth of luggage behind them.
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darthstar Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:09:40pm |
re: #85 ProLifeLiberal
When was the last contested convention?
Reagan, I think. The abortion platform was making a big stink if I recall.
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Kragar Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:09:46pm |
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:10:19pm |
re: #83 windsagio
As we all are man. That would be EPIC!
(edit: knowing you're not the one who actually said that ED)
we can fucking dream
maybe there'll be a big rumble and someone will try and sieze power
all the old fossils with their sparkly uncle sam hats tossing mic stands and oxygen tanks
bring us the dark carnival, Republicans
BRING US THE DARK CARNIVAL
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windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:11:16pm |
re: #90 WindUpBird
if there's a contested election thats when Palin steps in (or tries to).
just awesome.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:11:24pm |
re: #89 windsagio
... the fuck?
yeah!
Seriously, fuck Bloomberg
We couldn't hope for a better example of an oligarch
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:11:37pm |
re: #90 WindUpBird
we can fucking dream
maybe there'll be a big rumble and someone will try and sieze power
all the old fossils with their sparkly uncle sam hats tossing mic stands and oxygen tanks
bring us the dark carnival, Republicans
BRING US THE DARK CARNIVAL
Um, I hate to tell you this, but Mitt is not in the Dark Carnival. Oh, the Dork Carnival, maybe, but this is a man whose idea is "getting funky" is listening to a song that has a bad word in it.
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darthstar Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:11:41pm |
re: #90 WindUpBird
we can fucking dream
maybe there'll be a big rumble and someone will try and sieze power
all the old fossils with their sparkly uncle sam hats tossing mic stands and oxygen tanks
bring us the dark carnival, Republicans
BRING US THE DARK CARNIVAL
Just put them all in an oval and see who can move furthest to the right.
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(I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was) Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:11:50pm |
Tammy Bruce - If Obama's Not A Muslim Yet, He Will Be When We Kick His Ass To The Curb
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ProMayaLiberal Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:12:00pm |
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:12:56pm |
re: #91 windsagio
if there's a contested election thats when Palin steps in (or tries to).
just awesome.
"I'M AN INSURRECTIONIST FROM ALASSSS-KUH."
*mic feedback*
*flutters eyelashes, drags moose head to the podium*
"NOW! WHO WANTS TO FUCK WITH ME AND TAWWD? ANYONE?"
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windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:13:13pm |
re: #93 EmmmieG
The idea of a mother of (2? don't remember) who homeschools knowing about ICP mythology is just.... so.... awesome!
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windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:14:05pm |
re: #97 WindUpBird
Take the 'with' out, and all the 50+ year old Republican delegates would rise up and rush the stage/
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:14:06pm |
re: #93 EmmmieG
Um, I hate to tell you this, but Mitt is not in the Dark Carnival. Oh, the Dork Carnival, maybe, but this is a man whose idea is "getting funky" is listening to a song that has a bad word in it.
The convention is the dark carnival :D
Each candidate is a joker card, get your ICP lore straight :D
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Kragar Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:14:08pm |
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makeitstop Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:14:30pm |
re: #95 000G
Tammy Bruce - If Obama's Not A Muslim Yet, He Will Be When We Kick His Ass To The Curb
[Video]
I got 40 seconds in and had to turn it off. Woman annoys the livin' crap outta me.
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(I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was) Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:14:37pm |
re: #84 WindUpBird
They do have the equipment:
[Link: newyork.cbslocal.com...]
[Link: newyork.cbslocal.com...]
[Link: newyork.cbslocal.com...]
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windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:15:29pm |
re: #103 000G
it kills me, I read this great article about the shift to paramilitary police tactics after WTO, and how crazy that is, but I can't find it now.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:15:31pm |
re: #103 000G
all the better to protect the 1%
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darthstar Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:16:04pm |
re: #101 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Democrats, Adlai Stevenson, took 3 ballots.
GOP side Ford barely beat Reagan in 76, before that it was 1948 with Dewey.
Ford v. Reagan was the big Fetus Fight, if I recall. But they were looking for a way to put Nixon behind them.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:16:34pm |
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windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:16:44pm |
re: #105 WindUpBird
all the better to protect the 1%
No they totally need that stuff to stop terrorists!
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:17:09pm |
9/11 put the final nail in the coffin of the previous protest-control regime. By the time of the Free Trade of the Americas anti-globalization protests in Miami broke out eight years ago this week, an entirely new model of taking on protests had emerged. People called it the Miami model. It was heavily militarized and very forceful. The police had armored personnel carriers.This is what it looked like on the ground in Miami in 2003. Occupy protests have shown that variations on this unprecedented show of force have now become commonplace.
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engineer cat Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:17:34pm |
re: #85 ProLifeLiberal
When was the last contested convention?
in 1948 it took more than one vote to nominate dewey, and the same for the 1952 convention that nominated stevenson
but, the primary system for party presidential nominations was barely underway in the 1940s
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:17:57pm |
re: #108 windsagio
No they totally need that stuff to stop terrorists!
well, hippies are terrorists, I heard it on the ray-dee-oh
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windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:18:00pm |
re: #109 WindUpBird
yeah that's the one, I can always count on you man :D
(link to the actual paper for those who prefer that: [Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com...]
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wilburs Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:18:06pm |
re: #104 windsagio
it kills me, I read this great article about the shift to paramilitary police tactics after WTO, and how crazy that is, but I can't find it now.
I think the shift took place after "Cops" started airing
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makeitstop Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:18:18pm |
re: #105 WindUpBird
all the better to protect
the 1%Fox News HQ.
Roger Ailes paid good damn money for them cops to keep The Gays away from him!
/
ETA: Hooray for the pencil!
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(I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was) Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:18:55pm |
re: #104 windsagio
it kills me, I read this great article about the shift to paramilitary police tactics after WTO, and how crazy that is, but I can't find it now.
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:18:59pm |
re: #98 windsagio
The idea of a mother of (2? don't remember) who homeschools knowing about ICP mythology is just... so... awesome!
2???
5.
No, I don't know anything about that group--I have a noise problem.
Now, Huntsman may actually know something. Mitt probably doesn't know there is an Insane Clown Posse. Really, this doesn't disqualify anyone from being president, either way.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:19:30pm |
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windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:19:32pm |
re: #117 EmmmieG
You've broken my heart, we can never be together now :(
(PS: They're a terrible band, but hilarious)
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engineer cat Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:19:43pm |
re: #83 windsagio
As we all are man. That would be EPIC!
(edit: knowing you're not the one who actually said that ED)
i'll endorse it just the same!
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:21:02pm |
re: #119 windsagio
You've broken my heart, we can never be together now :(
(PS: They're a terrible band, but hilarious)
great businessmen, though!
A lot can be learned about how to run a band by paying attention to those guys, they're geniuses in a business sense, a KISS-level savvy
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windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:22:01pm |
re: #122 WindUpBird
For my musicians with fake-ass religions I prefer Busta Rhymes tho'
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ProMayaLiberal Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:25:14pm |
re: #119 windsagio
They are horrible. Bunch of idiots, and their fans are goons.
| 126 |
(I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was) Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:29:21pm |
One of the proponents of making no exceptions for Americans, Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said it would be “crazy” to exempt Qaeda suspects who are Americans and are arrested inside the country from battlefield-style detention. He argued that, to stop other attacks, they must be interrogated without the protections of the civilian criminal justice system.Citizens who are suspected of joining Al Qaeda are opening themselves up “to imprisonment and death,” Mr. Graham said, adding, “And when they say, ‘I want my lawyer,’ you tell them: ‘Shut up. You don’t get a lawyer. You are an enemy combatant, and we are going to talk to you about why you joined Al Qaeda.’ ”
[Link: www.nytimes.com...]
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b_sharp Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:31:18pm |
re: #21 WindUpBird
I call the guys who made my computer, they pick right up. Because it's a small business, I can talk to the dude who physically put the box together *_*
Same here. In fact I can't get away from the fucker.
I even see his ugly mug every time I visit the can.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:32:54pm |
re: #127 b_sharp
Same here. In fact I can't get away from the fucker.
I even see his ugly mug every time I visit the can.
In that case, you should put a mirror in the hallway so you can see him more often.
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windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:33:04pm |
re: #126 000G
9/11 did more for Republicans and Authoritarians in general than it ever did for Islam or Al Qaeda.
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b_sharp Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:33:12pm |
re: #32 WindUpBird
"What's a fat?"
'I'm sorry?"
"The fat? On the computer? What is it?"
"I...don't know what-"
"...because it says the fat is corrupt."
"Shit."
Oh yah, the Fail Acquisition Table.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:34:19pm |
re: #127 b_sharp
Same here. In fact I can't get away from the fucker.
I even see his ugly mug every time I visit the can.
lol :D I can't trust my business to my own poor technical skills :D
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:34:28pm |
re: #129 windsagio
9/11 did more for Republicans and Authoritarians in general than it ever did for Islam or Al Qaeda.
+1
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(I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was) Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:35:05pm |
re: #129 windsagio
9/11 did more for Republicans and Authoritarians in general than it ever did for Islam or Al Qaeda.
S.1867 was sponsored by Carl Levin (D-MI).
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b_sharp Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:35:15pm |
re: #43 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Update: The women for Herman Cain site has removed the stock photo image, but now the site just says "Women Cain"
/slow clap
I'll bet Cain can clap with one hand and one penis.
(Last ever dick joke)
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wilburs Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:35:22pm |
re: #129 windsagio
9/11 did more for Republicans and Authoritarians in general than it ever did for Islam or Al Qaeda.
Bush was DOA before 9/11
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darthstar Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:36:06pm |
re: #134 b_sharp
I'll bet Cain can clap with one hand and one penis.
(Last ever dick joke)
Herman Cain is a dick joke.
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windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:36:25pm |
re: #133 000G
S.1867 was sponsored by Carl Levin (D-MI).
post 9/11 hysteria is a touchy subject on LGF.
In the long run the purposes it served were the people who wanted there to be more 'control' anyways.
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engineer cat Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:38:20pm |
Stiff Prick Touted As Ideal Running Mate For GOP Nominee
pundits note well known saying "a stiff prick has no conscience"
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darthstar Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:39:45pm |
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ProMayaLiberal Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:41:29pm |
Does Amazon sell MP3s?
Istanbul (not Constantinople) is stuck in my head. This is unrelated.
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engineer cat Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:42:18pm |
re: #142 ProLifeLiberal
Does Amazon sell MP3s?
Istanbul (not Constantinople) is stuck in my head. This is unrelated.
the old swing tune?
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darthstar Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:42:22pm |
re: #140 engineer dog
Conan said something last night I thought was funny...about googling Santa - "fat man forcing large package into tight places" doesn't return St. Nick, apparently...
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windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:43:07pm |
re: #142 ProLifeLiberal
They very much do, thats like the place I buy new albums now.
(also youtube :p)
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b_sharp Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:43:23pm |
re: #128 EmmmieG
In that case, you should put a mirror in the hallway so you can see him more often.
My heart can only take so many massive scares in a day.
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wilburs Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:44:02pm |
re: #142 ProLifeLiberal
Does Amazon sell MP3s?
Istanbul (not Constantinople) is stuck in my head. This is unrelated.
The last time I saw TMBG Flans suggested everyone google the name of the new CD and download it illegally
I think he was joking
| 149 |
windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:44:56pm |
re: #148 wilburs
who knows tho', oHGr suggested people bootleg his new show yesterday, and he definitely wasn't joking!
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ProMayaLiberal Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:46:04pm |
re: #148 wilburs
I'm actually trying to find a song called "Home for a Rest" by Spirit of the West.
I was unsuccessful.
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windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:46:19pm |
(from this Cracked article)
I don't think there's anything more sad than getting an account on 'fakegirlfriend.com'
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windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:46:59pm |
re: #150 ProLifeLiberal
there's also emusic (don't remember the exact URL), they're pretty good at getting obscure stuff usually.
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wilburs Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:47:23pm |
If you want to buy anything TMBG related, you should go to their website, they were very quick to embrace the new world order.
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windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:49:38pm |
re: #153 wilburs
you know, its sad, sometime about the year 2000 TMBG was lost to me. I don't know if my tastes just changed or if the quality of their work just dropped of precipitiously.
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wilburs Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:50:41pm |
re: #150 ProLifeLiberal
I'm actually trying to find a song called "Home for a Rest" by Spirit of the West.
I was unsuccessful.
I found it in 4 seconds
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:51:23pm |
| 158 |
(I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was) Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:52:21pm |
Alex Jones says "Barack Obama is better than Newt Gingrich. Newt Gingrich is pure evil. He's an actual Illuminust. He's said he is. […] Newt Gingrich is a member of the Illuminati, I can say definitively here." (3:40)
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windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:52:52pm |
re: #157 EmmmieG
Oh yes there is.
You sign up and they give you the crazy cat lady girlfriend.
... and you paid for the premium service and she sends you a pair of thunderpants to show off
Image: thunderpants-1b6450af-da2b-49c9-95f9-ec19b27d3e0e-f.jpg
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ProMayaLiberal Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:54:09pm |
re: #156 wilburs
Not on Amazon at least. Several covers, but not the original.
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engineer cat Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:54:25pm |
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b_sharp Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:54:31pm |
re: #159 windsagio
... and you paid for the premium service and she sends you a pair of thunderpants to show off
Image: thunderpants-1b6450af-da2b-49c9-95f9-ec19b27d3e0e-f.jpg
And you sleep with them under your pillow.
| 164 |
(I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was) Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:54:33pm |
re: #160 WindUpBird
Gesundheit!
| 165 |
wilburs Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:57:25pm |
re: #161 ProLifeLiberal
Not on Amazon at least. Several covers, but not the original.
If it is out of print then just google this
home for a rest spirit of the west mp3
try the 2nd listing
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engineer cat Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:57:49pm |
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makeitstop Fri, Dec 2, 2011 3:59:59pm |
re: #163 b_sharp
And you sleep with them under your pillow.
You guys are starting to, like, scare me.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:00:56pm |
re: #158 000G
Alex Jones says "Barack Obama is better than Newt Gingrich. Newt Gingrich is pure evil. He's an actual Illuminust. He's said he is. […] Newt Gingrich is a member of the Illuminati, I can say definitively here." (3:40)
[Video]
I actually had a teen in my Revolutionary War class today try to identify the masons as a religion.
I explained that George Washington was an Anglican, Benjamin Franklin was, um, nominally a Separatist Anglican (I think), Joseph Smith was obviously a Mormon (which she should have known), the Marquis de Lafayette was whatever they are in France (Catholic, right?), and my grandfather was a Presbyterian.
It's funny that most of us can only name famous masons from the colonial era, but the list is quite long. It seems there is an Antarctic Lodge.
The Penguins ARE PLOTTING!!!
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windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:02:00pm |
"We fortified the ceiling and the floor around here with concrete bricks two feet thick," Dietl said. "We put in motion sensors also CCTV that's hooked up to security downstairs. They have 24/7 armed guys downstairs, so in the amount of 30 seconds you'll have somebody up here. Once in here, you have to have two people with two keys and two different PIN numbers, and that's what you have to have. This safe is bolted down and there is no way anybody can get in here unauthorized without us knowing about it."
You win a prize if you can guess what they're protecting without looking :D
| 172 |
windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:02:44pm |
re: #170 EmmmieG
I didn't check but I'm pretty damn sure Ben was a Quaker.
Edit: and per wiki it's... unclear, everyone thought he was a member of their religion:
Franklin was a proponent of religion in general. He prayed to "Powerful Goodness" and referred to God as "the infinite". John Adams noted that Franklin was a mirror in which people saw their own religion: "The Catholics thought him almost a Catholic. The Church of England claimed him as one of them. The Presbyterians thought him half a Presbyterian, and the Friends believed him a wet Quaker." Whatever else Franklin was, concludes Morgan, "he was a true champion of generic religion."
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b_sharp Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:04:41pm |
re: #170 EmmmieG
I actually had a teen in my Revolutionary War class today try to identify the masons as a religion.
I explained that George Washington was an Anglican, Benjamin Franklin was, um, nominally a Separatist Anglican (I think), Joseph Smith was obviously a Mormon (which she should have known), the Marquis de Lafayette was whatever they are in France (Catholic, right?), and my grandfather was a Presbyterian.
It's funny that most of us can only name famous masons from the colonial era, but the list is quite long. It seems there is an Antarctic Lodge.
The Penguins ARE PLOTTING!!!
I've always wanted to be a Centauri.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:04:43pm |
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:05:44pm |
re: #172 windsagio
I didn't check but I'm pretty damn sure Ben was a Quaker.
Nuh-ope.
He was born in Boston, and his parents had to lie about what day he was born on because he was born on a Sunday, and there was a superstition that the day you were born on was the day you were conceived on.
He moved to Philadelphia to get away from his brother, and became identified with the city forever, but he was born in Boston.
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b_sharp Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:06:12pm |
re: #171 windsagio
You win a prize if you can guess what they're protecting without looking :D
A big red button.
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windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:06:22pm |
re: #175 EmmmieG
yeah I looked it up, I love a good mystery :D
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windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:06:50pm |
re: #176 b_sharp
well red is involved! It's absurdly mundane.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:07:16pm |
re: #177 windsagio
yeah I looked it up, I love a good mystery :D
I'll be honest; I believe his faith was of the more ecumenical nature.
| 180 |
windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:08:30pm |
re: #179 EmmmieG
yeah that's what wiki says, that he was basically "RELIGION FUCK YEAH! SCREW THE DETAILS!"
Like an atheist turned inside out :D
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Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:08:33pm |
Evening Lizardim. What's new in the land of the odd?
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sagehen Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:09:52pm |
re: #126 000G
[Link: www.nytimes.com...]
Citizens who are suspected of joining Al Qaeda are opening themselves up “to imprisonment and death,” Mr. Graham said,
um... beg pardon, mr graham, but... if i'm suspected of something i didn't do, how am i "opening myself up" to anything of the sort?
| 184 |
Mostly sane, most of the time. Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:10:24pm |
Well, I have now officially scrolled through all 5100 items in FMG's cyber sale, and am going to get up and move around to make sure my circulatory system still works.
Christmas shopping online involves a lot of scrolling through lists.
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Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:10:57pm |
re: #182 b_sharp
Even I don't know.
Land of the odd != land of the vast unhinged. I don't particularly care what's going on out there in Crazyville.
| 187 |
windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:11:19pm |
re: #185 b_sharp
You're very disciplined at not looking, tha'td be the first thing I did!
Its the KFC secret recipe, which of course almost nobody actually cares about outside KFC :p
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b_sharp Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:11:23pm |
re: #184 EmmmieG
Well, I have now officially scrolled through all 5100 items in FMG's cyber sale, and am going to get up and move around to make sure my circulatory system still works.
Christmas shopping online involves a lot of scrolling through lists.
How's your clicker holding up?
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Killgore Trout Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:11:37pm |
Video: Man arrested after taking punch at an officer at Occupy SF
"Peaceful! Peaceful!"
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Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:12:20pm |
re: #187 windsagio
You're very disciplined at not looking, tha'td be the first thing I did!
Its the KFC secret recipe, which of course almost nobody actually cares about outside KFC :p
I dunno. I think I care about it solely because of the fact that it's one of America's most well-kept secrets. I'm reasonably impressed that they've managed to keep it so secret for so long.
| 191 |
b_sharp Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:12:21pm |
re: #187 windsagio
You're very disciplined at not looking, tha'td be the first thing I did!
Its the KFC secret recipe, which of course almost nobody actually cares about outside KFC :p
Good old Kitchen Fresh Chicken.
| 192 |
What, me worry? Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:14:22pm |
re: #181 thedopefishlives
Evening Lizardim. What's new in the land of the odd?
Victoria Jackson is going to hosting the debate along side Trump.
(Not really, but wouldn't that just be the icing on the crazy cake?)
| 193 |
b_sharp Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:14:22pm |
re: #189 Killgore Trout
Video: Man arrested after taking punch at an officer at Occupy SF
"Peaceful! Peaceful!"
You need help.
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windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:14:36pm |
re: #190 thedopefishlives
I kind of suspect its like the coke recipe, which is pretty much figured out but the coca-cola people say 'NUH UH! That isn't right!'
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b_sharp Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:14:55pm |
re: #192 marjoriemoon
Victoria Jackson is going to hosting the debate along side Trump.
(Not really, but wouldn't that just be the icing on the crazy cake?)
You owe me a new laptop screen.
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windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:15:23pm |
re: #189 Killgore Trout
That's almost 1/1000000th of as important a story as the boston police not letting people have their own stuff.
| 197 |
What, me worry? Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:15:37pm |
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windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:15:43pm |
re: #193 b_sharp
You need help.
now now, the threads dying, at least we'll get 15 minutes of action from him :p
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Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:16:10pm |
re: #194 windsagio
I kind of suspect its like the coke recipe, which is pretty much figured out but the coca-cola people say 'NUH UH! That isn't right!'
There was some series on Bravo, I think, or some other hole-in-the-wall cable network, where the host set out to replicate America's most well-guarded recipes, starting with KFC. I never watched it, but I bet he probably got pretty close. There's only so many spices in the world.
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goddamnedfrank Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:16:17pm |
re: #189 Killgore Trout
Video: Man arrested after taking punch at an officer at Occupy SF
"Peaceful! Peaceful!"
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Killgore Trout Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:17:30pm |
BTW, on the topic of "nuttiness". Imagining that New York is a police state where banks pay the cops for special privileges and Fox News gets special protection is silly. There are serious issues about police tactics-behavior and then there's paranoid hysteria. Same goes for any other number of issues. For example there's sharia and radical Islam. There are real concerns (especially in Europe) about the effect of Islam on free speech, etc in an open Western society. However claiming that creeping sharia is taking over the world is nonsense.
I little bit of perspective is helpful towards people taking you seriously.
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makeitstop Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:18:12pm |
re: #193 b_sharp
You need help.
Well, maybe someone will attack Iran soon, and he can move on to that.
//
| 203 |
sagehen Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:18:14pm |
re: #171 windsagio
You win a prize if you can guess what they're protecting without looking :D
Coca-Cola formula.
KFC recipe.
McDonald's Secret Sauce recipe.
(i didn't even cheat, now i'll go see if one of my three guesses is it)
| 204 |
Killgore Trout Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:18:35pm |
re: #196 windsagio
That's almost 1/1000000th of as important a story as the boston police not letting people have their own stuff.
They can have my sink whine they pry it from my cold dead hand.
| 205 |
Killgore Trout Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:21:55pm |
Fascists steal the people's pies!
Monstrous NYPD Eats Occupy Wall Street’s Pizza
When a bunch of Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested during a World AIDS Day protest, Thursday, NYPD ate all the pizza that was delivered to them by supporters, with a grin.
The press release by the AIDS advocacy group Housing Works is an entertaining read. Apparently NYPD belatedly offered to buy more pizza, after their cops ate the two large cheese pizzas from Mini Munchies. (The police say they ate the pizza by "mistake." Right, and Lt. Pike thought he was spraying those UC Davis students with seltzer water.)
"We weren't touching their dirty pizza," protester Charles King said in the press release. "We knew it was cheesy hush money."
| 206 |
windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:22:29pm |
re: #204 Killgore Trout
if it were just that one sink it wouldn't be so bad :p
re: #201 Killgore Trout
About that, the trick is that it doesn't even have to be a conspiracy. The police tend to have adversarial/isolated relationships with the community anyways (Especially NYPD, remember Adrian Schoolcraft?) and orders come down from people who have, well a vested interest (ala Bloomberg).
The forces of money and the forces of 'omg I'm afraid of disorder!' go hand in hand, its a dysfunctional relationship made in heaven.
| 208 |
windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:24:20pm |
re: #205 Killgore Trout
and again its the same stuff. If a cop stole my lunch I'd naturally be pissed.
Its intensely creepy that you're treating a systematic abuse of the protection against unlawful seizure as a joke.
| 209 |
WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:24:40pm |
re: #206 windsagio
if it were just that one sink it wouldn't be so bad :p
re: #201 Killgore Trout
About that, the trick is that it doesn't even have to be a conspiracy. The police tend to have adversarial/isolated relationships with the community anyways (Especially NYPD, remember Adrian Schoolcraft?) and orders come down from people who have, well a vested interest (ala Bloomberg).
The forces of money and the forces of 'omg I'm afraid of disorder!' go hand in hand, its a dysfunctional relationship made in heaven.
it's not a conspiracy, it's entropy
take money away from one place over time, concentrate it in another
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windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:24:59pm |
re: #207 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
MMM, tylenol with codeine
I found out last night that if I take my sleeping pills with the wrong cold medicine I get very bizarre visual hallucinations.
| 211 |
WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:25:36pm |
re: #201 Killgore Trout
BTW, on the topic of "nuttiness". Imagining that New York is a police state where banks pay the cops for special privileges and Fox News gets special protection is silly. There are serious issues about police tactics-behavior and then there's paranoid hysteria. Same goes for any other number of issues. For example there's sharia and radical Islam. There are real concerns (especially in Europe) about the effect of Islam on free speech, etc in an open Western society. However claiming that creeping sharia is taking over the world is nonsense.
I little bit of perspective is helpful towards people taking you seriously.
Perspective: [Link: schoolcraftjustice.com...]
| 212 |
Killgore Trout Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:26:11pm |
re: #208 windsagio
Its intensely creepy that you're treating a systematic abuse of the protection against unlawful seizure as a joke.
I'm sure the case about the hippie's sink will make it to the Supreme Court and will result in the restoration of our freedoms.
| 213 |
WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:27:32pm |
re: #212 Killgore Trout
I'm sure the case about the hippie's sink will make it to the Supreme Court and will result in the restoration of our freedoms.
"perspective"
They reveal that precinct bosses threaten street cops if they don't make their quotas of arrests and stop-and-frisks, but also tell them not to take certain robbery reports in order to manipulate crime statistics. The tapes also refer to command officers calling crime victims directly to intimidate them about their complaints.
As a result, the tapes show, the rank-and-file NYPD street cop experiences enormous pressure in a strange catch-22: He or she is expected to maintain high "activity"—including stop-and-frisks—but, paradoxically, to record fewer actual crimes.
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Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:27:36pm |
Good evening Lizards.
After a sinus infection floored me today (e.g. called off work and slept 16 hours) I get to sit here drinking tea, reading comments, watching _The Addams Family_ and being used as pillow/heating pad by two cats.
| 216 |
WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:28:41pm |
Watch out, it's the village voice: [Link: www.villagevoice.com...]
you might get some hippie on you
(in before mention of Code Pink or ANSWER or any other 2004-era LGF bugaboos booga booga booga)
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windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:29:41pm |
re: #213 WindUpBird
thats the insane part though.
You don't even need an organized conspiracy to get a situation where the police are encouraged to harass people and discouraged from actually dealing with crime.
Its like you said, its just entropy. And deep deep systemic corruption of authority of course.
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Kragar Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:30:52pm |
re: #210 windsagio
I found out last night that if I take my sleeping pills with the wrong cold medicine I get very bizarre visual hallucinations.
Wrong cold medicine... or the right one?
| 219 |
darthstar Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:32:41pm |
I'm listening to an ass-kicking Shakedown Street jam here: [Link: www.archive.org...] right now...so all this other shit (OWS, Gingrich, Cain, etc.) is pretty meaningless to me at the moment.
Time to go hang out with family though...will have to revisit this show later.
| 220 |
windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:32:54pm |
re: #218 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Wrong cold medicine... or the right one?
It was actually a pleasant experience (altho apparently I was a bit incoherent on the IM's by the end), but I'm gonna be good and not try to recreate it :p
| 221 |
prairiefire Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:38:31pm |
re: #213 WindUpBird
Hi, WUB! I apologize for my snarky twitter comment! It needed a sarc tag. Your reply was everything that's good about it!
| 222 |
Stanghazi Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:41:12pm |
[Link: twitpic.com...]
Hope this works, preview nada till LGF becomes apple easy.
They are fixing Cains "Women Cain" website.
Hola!!
| 223 |
Stanghazi Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:47:12pm |
I am still shaking my head that Trump is moderating a GOP debate.
One comment on yahoo: whats he gonna do? Divide them into two teams and have them sell hot dogs in Manhattan for the win?
AND many comments praised Huntsman. Maybe sanity will prevail?
| 224 |
windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:48:15pm |
re: #223 Stanley Sea
At this point I think they all know its a joke, and are just riding it out for giggles.
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Stanghazi Fri, Dec 2, 2011 4:54:03pm |
re: #224 windsagio
At this point I think they all know its a joke, and are just riding it out for giggles.
Seriously, this could really hurt Newt and Romney. I'm betting they will pull out. If not, shitshow here we come.
Random gossip fact, Trump named his daughter (from Marla) Tiffany because they lived above the store. Maybe Newt thinks he has an in-road.
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windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 5:00:02pm |
re: #225 Stanley Sea
Seriously, this could really hurt Newt and Romney. I'm betting they will pull out. If not, shitshow here we come.
Random gossip fact, Trump named his daughter (from Marla) Tiffany because they lived above the store. Maybe Newt thinks he has an in-road.
That's so very insanely James Bond (c/f: Tiffany Case)
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Killgore Trout Fri, Dec 2, 2011 5:00:30pm |
re: #215 windsagio
See I know you're just being trolly.
This is a serious scary thing though.
The pizza thing is very serious. The sink? Not so much.
| 228 |
Stanghazi Fri, Dec 2, 2011 5:02:26pm |
re: #226 windsagio
That's so very insanely James Bond (c/f: Tiffany Case)
Hell both Trump and Newt are on their third marriages, I think we should revert to youngpussy in honor.
| 229 |
windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 5:02:41pm |
re: #227 Killgore Trout
The problem with the sink story is the aside, where the Boston cops declared a huge amount of various items (and no not weapons drugs or anything remotely dangerous) 'contraband'.
That's the scary bit.
| 230 |
windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 5:03:21pm |
re: #228 Stanley Sea
Hell both Trump and Newt are on their third marriages, I think we should revert to youngpussy in honor.
"This is miss Vera Youngpussy, she's thrilled to meet you!"
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Fri, Dec 2, 2011 5:04:28pm |
December: The month when I frequently check my joint email account and delete emails from amazon.
| 232 |
Dark_Falcon Fri, Dec 2, 2011 5:06:16pm |
re: #12 WindUpBird
Bloomberg just becomes more evil with every passing day
TRUE COLORS
SHININ THROOO
You need to be a little less loud in your cover of that song, WUB, and your instrumentation needs more cowbell.
| 233 |
Killgore Trout Fri, Dec 2, 2011 5:06:16pm |
re: #229 windsagio
The problem with the sink story is the aside, where the Boston cops declared a huge amount of various items (and no not weapons drugs or anything remotely dangerous) 'contraband'.
That's the scary bit.
It's not scary. Nobody really thinks it's scary. Sure some people feign outrageous outrage but, unlike a real police state, nobody is really scared. We watched the wingnuts go through convulsions over nonsense for two years now. Why repeat their hysterics?
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windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 5:06:25pm |
re: #231 EmmmieG
oh man they've been evil lately, they're trying to get all 'groupon' and I can't figure out how to make them stop!
(also they send spam to my kindle which just enrages me)
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Fri, Dec 2, 2011 5:06:52pm |
re: #231 EmmmieG
December: The month when I frequently check my joint email account and delete emails from amazon.
Hmmm. Someone else was recently on the other joint email account (we have two). Maybe I'm not the only one playing this game.
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Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Fri, Dec 2, 2011 5:06:59pm |
re: #234 windsagio
oh man they've been evil lately, they're trying to get all 'groupon' and I can't figure out how to make them stop!
(also they send spam to my kindle which just enrages me)
After I finally "unsubscribed" from that stupid Groupon-clone deal about half a dozen times, they finally stopped.
| 237 |
windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 5:07:53pm |
re: #233 Killgore Trout
do you really really think that the police seizing assets whenever they like for any reason (related: The 'we wanted this so we said it was related to drugs!' law) is anything but an absolutely terrible police-statey trend?
| 238 |
Dark_Falcon Fri, Dec 2, 2011 5:08:25pm |
re: #225 Stanley Sea
Seriously, this could really hurt Newt and Romney. I'm betting they will pull out. If not, shitshow here we come.
Random gossip fact, Trump named his daughter (from Marla) Tiffany because they lived above the store. Maybe Newt thinks he has an in-road.
They won't pull out. trump is a good (from a ratings point of view) bit of stunt casting. He'll yell and be pompous a bit and the spectacle will draw viewers.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Fri, Dec 2, 2011 5:08:41pm |
re: #236 thedopefishlives
After I finally "unsubscribed" from that stupid Groupon-clone deal about half a dozen times, they finally stopped.
Ask me how many times I have signed for automatic payment for my landline. This time I put arrows on the front of the statement for them to check the back of the statement.
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wrenchwench Fri, Dec 2, 2011 5:08:48pm |
I'm going home early. This was supposed to be the night all the downtown businesses stayed open late and the shoppers would be serenaded by roaming carolers and all that, but it snowed a little, so the place is deserted. I'll be in on time tomorrow, though, because a woman who is apparently a tougher crazier old broad than I am is bringing her bike in for me to fix. She asked whether she could get chains or studded tires for her bike. (They make 'em, but not in the size she would need.)
Hasta mañana.
| 241 |
Killgore Trout Fri, Dec 2, 2011 5:10:34pm |
The greenhouse construction continues. Inspection Monday morning and hopefully pour the foundation by Monday afternoon. I've been a little uncomfortable with the concrete guys calling me "boss" until I figured out it's pretty tongue in cheek. They were thrilled this afternoon when my large breasted Venezuelan neighbor asked them to take a look at some possible foundation repairs on her place.
There is still some hope of finishing the project by x-mas.
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Dark_Falcon Fri, Dec 2, 2011 5:10:42pm |
re: #237 windsagio
do you really really think that the police seizing assets whenever they like for any reason (related: The 'we wanted this so we said it was related to drugs!' law) is anything but an absolutely terrible police-statey trend?
Where did this argument start? I think I'd like to join, but I'd like to see the article of origin first.
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windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 5:10:46pm |
re: #238 Dark_Falcon
the problem is they already have a three stoogesesque image problem.
Putting muskrat head on won't make them seem much more dignified.
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Killgore Trout Fri, Dec 2, 2011 5:11:42pm |
re: #237 windsagio
do you really really think that the police seizing assets whenever they like for any reason (related: The 'we wanted this so we said it was related to drugs!' law) is anything but an absolutely terrible police-statey trend?
Do you really think overblown hysterics over a sink in a public park undermines the Constitutional foundation of our country?
| 245 |
Dark_Falcon Fri, Dec 2, 2011 5:11:49pm |
re: #240 wrenchwench
I'm going home early. This was supposed to be the night all the downtown businesses stayed open late and the shoppers would be serenaded by roaming carolers and all that, but it snowed a little, so the place is deserted. I'll be in on time tomorrow, though, because a woman who is apparently a
toughercrazier old broad than I am is bringing her bike in for me to fix. She asked whether she could get chains or studded tires for her bike. (They make 'em, but not in the size she would need.)Hasta mañana.
Weaklings. Here is Chicago we just deal with a little snow with truckloads of road salt! :)
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Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Fri, Dec 2, 2011 5:12:02pm |
re: #239 EmmmieG
Ask me how many times I have signed for automatic payment for my landline. This time I put arrows on the front of the statement for them to check the back of the statement.
"What is this arrow thingy supposed to point to?"
| 247 |
Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Fri, Dec 2, 2011 5:12:57pm |
re: #245 Dark_Falcon
Weaklings. Here is Chicago we just deal with a little snow with truckloads of road salt! :)
Us Minnesotans make our roads out of salt. Just saves time that way.
| 248 |
Killgore Trout Fri, Dec 2, 2011 5:13:44pm |
re: #242 Dark_Falcon
Where did this argument start? I think I'd like to join, but I'd like to see the article of origin first.
You can start your research here:occupy sink
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Dark_Falcon Fri, Dec 2, 2011 5:14:05pm |
re: #243 windsagio
the problem is they already have a three stoogesesque image problem.
Putting muskrat head on won't make them seem much more dignified.
It's not about dignity, its about building the buzz. You want people get people to watch you on TV, then you reel them in. But you first have to get them to watch and The Donald is a way to do that.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Fri, Dec 2, 2011 5:14:37pm |
re: #244 Killgore Trout
Do you really think overblown hysterics over a sink in a public park undermines the Constitutional foundation of our country?
Wait--is this about the bathrooms at Lownsdale?
| 252 |
windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 5:16:39pm |
re: #244 Killgore Trout
Do you really think overblown hysterics over a sink in a public park undermines the Constitutional foundation of our country?
did you miss reading the part where I said the 'contraband' thing is the really unpleasant bit, or are you sticking with the 'kitchen sink' element specifically because its a better talking point for ridicule?
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Stanghazi Fri, Dec 2, 2011 5:16:51pm |
re: #238 Dark_Falcon
They won't pull out. trump is a good (from a ratings point of view) bit of stunt casting. He'll yell and be pompous a bit and the spectacle will draw viewers.
So very presidential. Seriously, I bet there will be actual rehearsals. Steve's am idol politics, but not from the party he implied.
| 254 |
windsagio Fri, Dec 2, 2011 5:19:47pm |
actually I might need to come back to you guys, I have a concert tonight, and I'm going to dinner first, so there are things to do!
| 255 |
Stanghazi Fri, Dec 2, 2011 5:20:15pm |
re: #252 windsagio
did you miss reading the part where I said the 'contraband' thing is the really unpleasant bit, or are you sticking with the 'kitchen sink' element specifically because its a better talking point for ridicule?
[Video]
its a better talking point for ridicule?
Status quo. Ha! We're convinced!
| 256 |
Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Dec 2, 2011 5:21:30pm |
re: #253 Stanley Sea
So very presidential. Seriously, I bet there will be actual rehearsals. Steve's am idol politics, but not from the party he implied.
Does this debate end with Trump "firing" one of the candidates?
/
| 257 |
Dark_Falcon Fri, Dec 2, 2011 5:24:19pm |
re: #253 Stanley Sea
So very presidential. Seriously, I bet there will be actual rehearsals. Steve's am idol politics, but not from the party he implied.
GMTA
Also, I'd like a debate moderated by Simon Cowell. It would have to be for Britain*, but a debate between 3 prospective PMs with Simon cracking the whip would be fun.
*: While the image of Simon smacking down US presidential candidates is fun, he remains a foreigner and US presidential debates should be moderated by Americans. Not for chauvinistic reasons, but simply because it is our country.
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Dark_Falcon Fri, Dec 2, 2011 5:27:16pm |
re: #256 oaktree
Does this debate end with Trump "firing" one of the candidates?
/
"Ron, I admire your spirit but your opposition to eminent domain would threaten my building projects. Ron Paul, you're fired!"
/Truthiness at work.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Dec 2, 2011 5:27:26pm |
re: #252 windsagio
did you miss reading the part where I said the 'contraband' thing is the really unpleasant bit, or are you sticking with the 'kitchen sink' element specifically because its a better talking point for ridicule?
[Video]
Old LGF is old
blah blah dhimmitude
blah blah hippies
blah blah nekama's troll hammer
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Dec 2, 2011 5:28:38pm |
maybe we can have a blogwar with daily kos
| 261 |
engineer cat Fri, Dec 2, 2011 5:34:49pm |
GOP Denies Primary Season Becoming 'Reality Show'
rnc spokesman declares "modern republican party has no connection with this 'reality'"
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Dark_Falcon Fri, Dec 2, 2011 5:40:30pm |
re: #259 WindUpBird
Old LGF is old
blah blah dhimmitude
blah blah hippies
blah blah nekama's troll hammer
The Troll Hammer is still a good thing, WUB. It got overused, but I have still had occasion to use it this year when someone veered into Israel-bashing. Used in its place, it has great value.
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