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As our warming planet starts another trip around the sun, happy New Year from me, Stinky Beaumont, and the lizard monitors!

Here’s an open thread to kick off 2012…

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1 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 11:23:08am

Ah the smell of a new thread and a new year. A happy and healthy new year to all my fellow Lizards.

2 Jimmi the Grey  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 11:24:27am

Best wishes to all in this trip around the sun.

And happy lizard anniversary to me.

3 darthstar  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 11:27:46am

Happy New Year, Charles...

4 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 11:28:08am

Hopping John is in the crockpot - phew, time to relax!

Happy 2012 everyone!

[Link: www.epicurious.com...]

5 darthstar  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 11:29:36am

re: #2 Jimmi the Grey

Best wishes to all in this trip around the sun.

And happy lizard anniversary to me.

congrats
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6 Randall Gross  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 11:30:05am

Hope everyone has a happy and prosperous new year!

7 Daniel Ballard  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 11:36:06am

Wishing all a better year for 2012. They go by faster and faster.

8 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 11:36:17am

Bring it, Mayans.

9 Targetpractice  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 11:37:48am

Prepare folks, Dec. 21st is coming. The zombie apocalypse will soon be upon us all!

//

10 The Mountain That Blogs  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 11:38:04am

Lizard monitors? Shouldn't that be monitor lizards?

11 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 11:43:16am

re: #10 The Mountain That Blogs
I believe it is the fellow Lizards who help monitor this web log.

12 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 11:50:31am

re: #11 PhillyPretzel

I believe it is the fellow Lizards who help monitor this web log.

With tongue-activated ban buttons.

13 nines09  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 11:51:02am

Happy New Year to One and All. Now let the Mayan Calender Countdown To Oblivion start. "Why does the calender end on that date?" "If they made it any bigger they couldn't carry it around."
Hey I have a 2012 calender and the last date is......December 31st. What does that mean?

14 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 11:52:42am

re: #13 nines09

You do know that shit starts to come apart on December 21 like in the movie, a bunch of folks (including me) are just going to start laughing.

15 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 11:54:48am

re: #14 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

You do know that shit starts to come apart on December 21 like in the movie, a bunch of folks (including me) are just going to start laughing.

It's going to be fun to watch.

16 nines09  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 11:55:10am

re: #14 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

You do know that shit starts to come apart on December 21 like in the movie, a bunch of folks (including me) are just going to start laughing.

If it does I doubt it will be anything like a movie. Most people don't even know what a gunshot in the street sounds like. For that I'm thankful. I think my reaction would be something along the line of...."S$#@!

17 Targetpractice  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 11:57:34am

If the world ends like 2012, then I imagine I'll be sitting on the beach, looking towards the big-ass tidal wave incoming, and screaming "Surf's up!"

One of the drawbacks to living on the East Coast is that you're pretty much in the path of any major weather disaster, at least according to the movies.

18 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:00:01pm

re: #17 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

Yeah, but (IIRC) in "The Day After Tomorrow" the tide comes over the Statue of Liberty from Jersey City. I guess it's raw sewage.

19 SanFranciscoZionist  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:00:45pm

re: #16 nines09

If it does I doubt it will be anything like a movie. Most people don't even know what a gunshot in the street sounds like. For that I'm thankful. I think my reaction would be something along the line of..."S$#@!

I know what a gunshot in the street sounds like. Every asshole in my immediate vicinity started firing at or around midnight last night.

It's sort of convenient. I don't even have to look at the clock.

20 nines09  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:01:58pm

The real thing to watch for will be the rising paranoia and crazy acts of those who know the jig is up. If people can be convinced to buy new Nike sneakers and take poison to get on a spacecraft that's in the tail of a comet....

21 nines09  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:02:34pm

re: #18 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Yeah, but (IIRC) in "The Day After Tomorrow" the tide comes over the statue of Liberty from Jersey City. I guess it's raw sewage.

Bayonne Burst.

22 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:03:20pm

re: #19 SanFranciscoZionist

El Guapo in your neighborhood?

23 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:04:53pm

re: #22 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

El Guapo in your neighborhood?

I think he lives just down the block from the Invisible Swordsman.
:)

24 Targetpractice  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:06:20pm

re: #18 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Yeah, but (IIRC) in "The Day After Tomorrow" the tide comes over the statue of Liberty from Jersey City. I guess it's raw sewage.

Don't get me started on the flaws in that movie. We might be here awhile.

25 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:07:09pm

re: #24 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

Don't get me started on the flaws in that movie. We might be here awhile.

Does it have tumbling bears?

26 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:09:32pm

re: #23 oaktree

I think he lives just down the block from the Invisible Swordsman.
:)

Every time I hear of people shooting into the air, for some reason? I think of El Guapo's gang.

You'd think I'd think of Hedley Lamar's men in Blazing Saddles. But, nope. I think of El Guapo.

27 Targetpractice  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:11:10pm

re: #25 Sergey Romanov

Does it have tumbling bears?

Bears? No bears, wolves yes, but no bears.

28 Romantic Heretic  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:13:23pm

A Happy New Year to all the lizards.

29 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:14:37pm

re: #27 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

Bears? No bears, wolves yes, but no bears.

Does it have giant-propelled space program?

30 Targetpractice  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:15:52pm

re: #29 Sergey Romanov

Does it have giant-propelled space program?

...

Fork over the bong.

//

31 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:19:18pm

re: #30 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

...

Fork over the bong.

//

Ok, skyrim has both tumbling bears and giants sending you to space, but it's still a good game. So whatever flaws the movie has....

32 Gus  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:19:29pm

Welp...

PETA seeks memorials to cows killed on Ill. roads

CHICAGO—An animal rights group wants Illinois to install highway signs in memory of cattle killed when trucks hauling them flipped in two separate wrecks.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has asked for permission to buy the markers, one in suburban Chicago and one northwest of Peoria. The group says the signs would pay tribute to the more than 20 cattle killed as a result of negligent driving this year.

33 Targetpractice  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:21:07pm

re: #31 Sergey Romanov

Ok, skyrim has both tumbling bears and giants sending you to space, but it's still a good game. So whatever flaws the movie has...

A Bethesda game...with bugs?! The hell you say!

//

34 sattv4u2  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:21:25pm

re: #32 Gus 802

Welp...

PETA seeks memorials to cows killed on Ill. roads

Yeah ,, posted that here yesterday. They want "memorials" along the highway where cows have bit the dust

I suggested BBQ grills instead!

35 Gus  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:21:54pm

re: #34 sattv4u2

Yeah ,, posted that here yesterday. They want "memorials" along the highway where cows have bit the dust

I suggested BBQ grills instead!

I suggest therapy.

36 sattv4u2  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:22:57pm

re: #35 Gus 802

I suggest therapy.

I don't think it would do any good for the dead cows ,, but ,,, maybe!!

(just envision that you're still alive, bossy!)

37 Gus  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:23:15pm

What about cats and dogs? How about other animals? What about deer and elk? Maybe in the future we can have memorials for each bird that was hit by a car. Better yet, each insect.

//

38 sattv4u2  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:23:40pm

re: #37 Gus 802

What about cats and dogs? How about other animals? What about deer and elk? Maybe in the future we can have memorials for each bird that was hit by a car. Better yet, each insect.

//

Bugs are people too, ya know!

39 SanFranciscoZionist  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:24:06pm

re: #32 Gus 802

Welp...

PETA seeks memorials to cows killed on Ill. roads

You know, as nuts as PETA can be, I still smile when I see their stupider antics, because my late grandmother used to send them money. Much to my father and aunt's distress. Because they were 'hardcore'.

40 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:24:08pm
A ranger at Mount Rainier National Park was shot this morning. The shooting occurred just before 11 a.m. near the Longmire Ranger Station at the park.

[Link: www.thenewstribune.com...]

The last thing you'd expect.

41 Gus  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:24:48pm

re: #38 sattv4u2

Bugs are people too, ya know!

Yeah. One side wants to grant zygotes personhood. Then on the other side we have folks wanting to (fill in the blank) personhood. So yeah. Let's grant bugs personhood complete with voting rights.

//

42 sattv4u2  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:24:51pm

re: #39 SanFranciscoZionist

You know, as nuts as PETA can be, I still smile when I see their stupider antics, because my late grandmother used to send them money. Much to my father and aunt's distress. Because they were 'hardcore'.

PETA ,,, of your father and aunt???

43 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:25:02pm

re: #37 Gus 802

PETA folks are as fringy as anyone else.

They're so stupid they make people want to hurt animals.

They're idiots.

44 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:25:10pm

re: #37 Gus 802

What about cats and dogs? How about other animals? What about deer and elk? Maybe in the future we can have memorials for each bird that was hit by a car. Better yet, each insect.

//

The minute they take on the opossum massacres that occur in Florida, I'll think about it.

45 SanFranciscoZionist  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:25:16pm

re: #36 sattv4u2

I don't think it would do any good for the dead cows ,, but ,,, maybe!!

(just envision that you're still alive, bossy!)

No, speaking as therapist in training, the point is to get the cow to accept that it's dead, and decide what it wants to do with that new situation. Encouraging it to reject the reality of its death will just lead to further problems.

46 sattv4u2  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:25:52pm

re: #45 SanFranciscoZionist

No, speaking as therapist in training, the point is to get the cow to accept that it's dead, and decide what it wants to do with that new situation. Encouraging it to reject the reality of its death will just lead to further problems.

And less steaks!

47 Gus  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:26:08pm

re: #45 SanFranciscoZionist

No, speaking as therapist in training, the point is to get the cow to accept that it's dead, and decide what it wants to do with that new situation. Encouraging it to reject the reality of its death will just lead to further problems.

What about an atheist cow?

//

48 Killgore Trout  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:26:11pm

Somebody's going to get a very strongly worded letter....
Arab body calls for pullout of monitors in Syria

A pan-Arab body called Sunday for the immediate withdrawal of the Arab League monitors in Syria because President Bashar Assad's regime has kept up killings of government opponents even in the presence of the observers.

49 SanFranciscoZionist  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:26:18pm

re: #41 Gus 802

Yeah. One side wants to grant zygotes personhood. Then on the other side we have folks wanting to (fill in the blank) personhood. So yeah. Let's grant bugs personhood complete with voting rights.

//

I would point out that PETA has a lot less political clout than the personhood people.

50 SanFranciscoZionist  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:26:54pm

re: #42 sattv4u2

PETA ,,, of your father and aunt???

PETA. Sorry. She liked PETA because they were 'hardcore' about battling for animal rights. She preferred people of action.

51 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:27:07pm

I've said it before. I want to see a bunch of wimpy PETA activists go into a biker bar to protest the use of leather.

52 _RememberTonyC  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:27:18pm

It's 52 degrees in New England on January 1st ... On my daily walk I wore a long sleeve T shirt ... Global climate change? "you betcha."

Happy New Year Lizards

P.S. Tom Brady is a god

53 sattv4u2  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:27:42pm

re: #50 SanFranciscoZionist

PETA. Sorry. She liked PETA because they were 'hardcore' about battling for animal rights. She preferred people of action.

Then she would have loved me!!

I can grill cow parts as well as anyone!

54 SanFranciscoZionist  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:27:52pm

re: #44 Stanley Sea

The minute they take on the opossum massacres that occur in Florida, I'll think about it.

I used to teach with a man whose first career had been as a long-term trucker. He still flinched when he described running over armadillos.

55 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:27:58pm

OT... Grossman is a terrible quarterback.

56 sattv4u2  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:28:30pm

re: #54 SanFranciscoZionist

I used to teach with a man whose first career had been as a long-term trucker. He still flinched when he described running over armadillos slow moving speed bumps.

57 SanFranciscoZionist  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:29:02pm

re: #47 Gus 802

What about an atheist cow?

//

Well, in that case, it will probably reject 'go to cow heaven' as its next afterlife decision.

58 Sheila Broflovski  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:29:06pm

re: #39 SanFranciscoZionist

You know, as nuts as PETA can be, I still smile when I see their stupider antics, because my late grandmother used to send them money. Much to my father and aunt's distress. Because they were 'hardcore'.

If I had to choose between sending money to PETA, or sending money to some haredi institution in Israel...

...I'd buy myself something nice. :)

59 BongCrodny  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:29:10pm

re: #32 Gus 802

Welp...

PETA seeks memorials to cows killed on Ill. roads

Mooving violations.

60 SanFranciscoZionist  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:29:38pm

re: #48 Killgore Trout

Somebody's going to get a very strongly worded letter...
Arab body calls for pullout of monitors in Syria

On the one hand, I want to mock. OTOH, I don't think they've ever gotten this exercised before, and I wonder if they might get their land legs eventually.

61 Targetpractice  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:29:59pm

re: #48 Killgore Trout

Somebody's going to get a very strongly worded letter...
Arab body calls for pullout of monitors in Syria

Or a very stern talking to over the phone.

Geez, and I thought the UN was a joke, but the Arab League's got them beat.

62 Gus  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:31:36pm

PETA is counter productive to the animal welfare cause with these antics.

In other news. Ron Paul thinks sexual harassment should be legal. That the harassed should just quit.

63 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:32:10pm

re: #54 SanFranciscoZionist

I used to teach with a man whose first career had been as a long-term trucker. He still flinched when he described running over armadillos.

I swear the term road kill was invented in Florida.

64 Targetpractice  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:34:13pm

re: #62 Gus 802

PETA is counter productive to the animal welfare cause with these antics.

In other news. Ron Paul thinks sexual harassment should be legal. That the harassed should just quit.

A Paul nomination would truly be a gift to the Obama campaign. Don't think there's a voting bloc that he hasn't gone out of his way to piss off.

65 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:34:50pm

re: #62 Gus 802

Huh?

66 Killgore Trout  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:34:59pm

re: #60 SanFranciscoZionist

On the one hand, I want to mock. OTOH, I don't think they've ever gotten this exercised before, and I wonder if they might get their land legs eventually.

I think they are right to issue a statement and scrap the mission but it was a hopeless clusterfuck from the start. All of the observers are from countries with horrible human rights records, I don't think any of them have democracies in their own countries, They wouldn't know what freedom was if it hit them in the face.

67 Gus  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:35:20pm

re: #65 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Huh?

PAUL: Well, the whole thing is, is you have to get a better definition of sexual harassment. If it’s just because somebody told the joke and somebody was offended, they don’t have a right to go to the federal government and have a policeman to come in and put penalties on those individuals. I mean, they have to say, well, maybe this is not a very good environment, and they have the right to work there or not there.

But if sexual harassment involves violence as libertarians, we are very opposed to any violence. So, if there is any violence involved, you still don’t need a federal law against harassment. You just need to call the policeman and say there’s been an assault or there’s been attempted rape or something.

So, you have to separate those two out. But because people are insulted by, you know, rude behavior, I don’t think we should make a federal case out of it. I don’t think we need federal laws to deal with that and people should deal with that at home.

68 _RememberTonyC  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:35:23pm

re: #61 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

Or a very stern talking to over the phone.

Geez, and I thought the UN was a joke, but the Arab League's got them beat.

The governments of most countries represented by the Arab league have much in common with the Syrian leadership. This surprises me not at all ...

69 Gus  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:35:43pm

So short of violence.

70 sattv4u2  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:38:01pm

re: #68 _RememberTonyC

The governments of most countries represented by the Arab league have much in common with the Syrian leadership. This surprises me not at all ...

The UN was going to do something instead of the Arab League, but the UN was busy making New Years Eve reservations at Tavern on the Green!

71 jaunte  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:39:31pm

re: #41 Gus 802

Yeah. One side wants to grant zygotes personhood. Then on the other side we have folks wanting to (fill in the blank) personhood. So yeah. Let's grant bugs personhood complete with voting rights.

//

The possum in my attic is going to have to start coughing up some rent.

72 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:40:16pm

re: #44 Stanley Sea

The minute they take on the opossum massacres that occur in Florida, I'll think about it.

How about that voting bloc of armadillos that will suddenly appear in Texas?

73 sattv4u2  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:41:26pm

re: #71 jaunte

The possum in my attic is going to have to start coughing up some rent.

Or a youngen

[Link: bertc.com...]

74 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 12:42:27pm

re: #69 Gus 802

So short of violence.

This guy turns the crazy to eleven.

75 CuriousLurker  Sun, Jan 1, 2012 1:27:20pm

Happy New Year, Charles (and everyone).


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