Wow..Awesome..
I so hate him now...
/

Volume not working for me for some reason.

Quiet night - looks like most folk are still downstairs.

Me - I'm reading up on some Civil War history, specifically the regiment in which one of my great-grandfathers served as a cavalry man. Dude was 18 when he signed up in 1864, was involved in one of the "massacres" in Missouri, and finally wound up in Texas during Reconstruction before the Army sent them all home.

Damn you, Netflix! Damn you for providing the temptation! Curse your mangy hide and the pony you rode in on!

//

That was actually a great-great-grandfather. I get lost sometimes in the "great"s. He was born in 1846, in Ohio I believe. That was certainly a different era.

re: #6 freetoken

That was actually a great-great-grandfather. I get lost sometimes in the "great"s. He was born in 1846, in Ohio I believe. That was certainly a different era.

I had an ancentor from Ohio who fought in the Civil War as well. He was a foot soldier, though, and he fought at Franklin in 1864.

re: #7 Dark_Falcon

That g²-grandfather of mine wasn't in Ohio by the time he turned 18.

Nevertheless, I maintain that a majority of us here are probably related more recently than the 12th generation back, and if we could trace all our ancestors back 20 generations we'd all probably find a common ancestor here or there.

re: #8 freetoken

That g²-grandfather of mine wasn't in Ohio by the time he turned 18.

Nevertheless, I maintain that a majority of us here are probably related more recently than the 12th generation back, and if we could trace all our ancestors back 20 generations we'd all probably find a common ancestor here or there.

Oh yes. With some gaps my family seems to go back to the colony ship Mary and John. I'm sure my surname at least is well threaded through.

Poor ol' Brooks Bayne can't feel the love:

Brooksy too far gone even for RW bloggers: twitchy.com/2012/05/15/ada... Of course, some clowns still "appreciate his fight:" littlegreenfootballs.com/article/40070_...

— STL Activist Hub (@stlactivisthub) May 16, 2012

In Upset, Deb Fischer Wins Nebraska GOP Senate Nomination

Nebraska state Sen. Deb Fischer has won the Republican nomination for Senate in a huge last-minute upset.

Fischer will face former Democratic Sen. Bob Kerrey in the race to replace retiring Sen. Ben Nelson (D).

In the GOP race, a statewide establishment favorite, state Attorney General Jon Bruning, went up against an ultra-conservative insurgent, former state Attorney General Don Stenberg, who was supported by the Club For Growth and Sen. Jim DeMint. In the end, Bruning and Stenberg fought so hard that they both lost.

With 91 percent of precincts reporting, Fischer has 41 percent, Bruning 36 percent, and Stenberg 19 percent, according to the Associated Press.

re: #10 Gus

Poor ol' Brooks Bayne can't feel the love:

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Whats Brooks Bayne's favorite song?

re: #11 Lidane

In Upset, Deb Fischer Wins Nebraska GOP Senate Nomination

Wonder if that makes it any easier for Kerrey to win.

re: #13 HappyWarrior

Wonder if that makes it any easier for Kerrey to win.

No idea. I don't know Nebraska politics at all.

re: #14 Lidane

No idea. I don't know Nebraska politics at all.

Could be interesting. Seeing a lot of Republican establishment favorites being knocked off in primaries.

[Link: m.yahoo.com...]
OT but this is the exact kind of crap that prevents me from taking the Republicans seriously or the people who say they're only opposed to the "marriage" part of gay marriage. There's a lot of ingrained homophobia in the Republican Party. And this guy Marshall isn't just some nut, he's some nut that nearly knocked off a former governor and RNC chair to become the party's nominee for Senator in 2008.

re: #15 HappyWarrior

Could be interesting. Seeing a lot of Republican establishment favorites being knocked off in primaries.

In this case, the race was "Who can be the looniest loon amongst the pack?" According to Charlie Pierce today, the thing that ended up putting Fischer over the top was a last-minute endorsement from Princess Dumbass of the Northwoods.

re: #17 Targetpractice

In this case, the race was "Who can be the looniest loon amongst the pack?" According to Charlie Pierce today, the thing that ended up putting Fischer over the top was a last-minute endorsement from Princess Dumbass of the Northwoods.

Oh that kind of contest, makes sense.

Pentagon limits F-22 fighter flights

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Tuesday ordered the Air Force to take new steps to address an undiagnosed safety problem with its F-22 fighter jet, including limiting the distances it can fly between landing zones.

The new restriction does not affect the war effort in Afghanistan because no F-22s are deployed there. The fighter has never flown in combat with the only F-22s operating overseas in the United Arab Emirates, where they recently arrived for training missions.

The limit on flight distances, however, means the routine mission of patrolling U.S. airspace in Alaska will be done by other aircraft, officials said.

The Panetta order is an unusual intervention at the highest level of the Pentagon in a service-specific problem, and it may be seen by some -- including critics of the F-22 program on Capitol Hill -- as a sign of the program's political vulnerability.

re: #19 Kragar

Pentagon limits F-22 fighter flights

[Shakes head.]

re: #19 Kragar

Pentagon limits F-22 fighter flights

$150 million apiece and stuck in their hangers until further notice.

If ever you needed a posterchild of the Pentagon's need for budget cuts, there it is.

re: #21 Targetpractice

$150 million apiece and stuck in their hangers until further notice.

If ever you needed a posterchild of the Pentagon's need for budget cuts, there it is.

Don't forget all the money that went into the design process

re: #21 Targetpractice

$150 million apiece and stuck in their hangers until further notice.

If ever you needed a posterchild of the Pentagon's need for budget cuts, there it is.

Combat aircraft should be able to withstand a combat environ... Let me get back with you on this one. We used to call it a boondoggle. I see it as a combat watch; maybe some sand got into it.

Also: F-22 production and development, including currently approved upgrades, totals $74 billion, resulting in a unit cost of $377 million.

re: #23 Gus

Combat aircraft should be able to withstand a combat environ... Let me get back with you on this one. We used to call it a boondoggle. I see it as combat watch; maybe some sand got into it.

Also: F-22 production and development, including currently approved upgrades, totals $74 billion, resulting in a unit cost of $377 million.

Nothing says patriotism like investing billions in a weapon that kills its operator.

re: #21 Targetpractice

$150 million apiece and stuck in their hangers until further notice.

If ever you needed a posterchild of the Pentagon's need for budget cuts, there it is.

The same thing will probably happen to the F-35. Too damn expensive to risk flying in combat.

Long story short. We got carried away with the F-22 and the F-35.

re: #22 Kragar

Don't forget all the money that went into the design process

The one that kept on even after the Iron Curtain fell and the need for such aircraft evaporated virtually overnight. Just like the F-35, the Seawolf class, the Comanche attack helicopter, the Crusader self-propelled howitzer, the XM29 rifle. The Cold War ended but the weapons race continued without a moment's rest.

re: #24 Kragar

Nothing says patriotism like investing billions in a weapon that kills its operator.

Some general probably fell in love with it. He got his hours no doubt. Basically you pass out and then auger in. How difficult could an oxygen system be? Well, considering we're talking LM they probably designed it to be, difficult.

re: #27 Targetpractice

The one that kept on even after the Iron Curtain fell and the need for such aircraft evaporated virtually overnight. Just like the F-35, the Seawolf class, the Comanche attack helicopter, the Crusader self-propelled howitzer, the XM29 rifle. The Cold War ended but the weapons race continued without a moment's rest.

Why do we still even have NATO now that the Warsaw Pact has long since been disbanded?

Heh. Maybe the F-23 would have been the better choice. I would have been willing to bet post facto.

re: #29 Expand Your Ground

Why do we still even have NATO now that the Warsaw Pact has long since been disbanded?

The method to the madness, best I can figure it, is that a unified military command means more cooperation, which itself means closer relations between nations.

re: #29 Expand Your Ground

Why do we still even have NATO now that the Warsaw Pact has long since been disbanded?

Its a mutual defense pact, it never specified that it was just against the Warsaw Pact.

Back in November a F-22 crashed and killed the pilot in Alaska. Never did hear what the "official" cause of the accident was. But now, I have a fairly good idea.

re: #31 Targetpractice

The method to the madness, best I can figure it, is that a unified military command means more cooperation, which itself means closer relations between nations.

Makes sense if the nations involved have a single common goal (fighting the spread of Communism) and a single enemy (i.e. the Warsaw Pact).

But what are they up against now?

re: #34 Expand Your Ground

Makes sense if the nations involved have a single common goal (fighting the spread of Communism) and a single enemy (i.e. the Warsaw Pact).

But what are they up against now?

Terrorist groups, Iran, Syria, potentially Pakistan or China.

re: #35 Kragar

Terrorist groups, Iran, Syria, potentially Pakistan or China.

I have just the jet for that.

re: #36 Gus

I have just the jet for that.

stop droning on about it...

re: #37 Expand Your Ground

stop droning on about it...

Didn't know I was going to catch hell fire for that.

[Runs away skipping.]

re: #38 Gus

Didn't know I was going to catch hell fire for that.

[Runs away skipping.]

that was a patchy response, you schnook...

(skips awas double-time)

re: #21 Targetpractice

$150 million apiece and stuck in their hangers until further notice.

Fiscal responsibility, y'all!

If ever you needed a posterchild of the Pentagon's need for budget cuts, there it is.

If we cut the Pentagon budget, we'll be defenseless and wide open to attack.

Why do you hate America?

/2012 GOP

re: #40 Lidane

/2012 GOP

Because when you've been fighting fricking nomads in the middle of barren wastelands for a decade, you really need to make sure you have an air superiority stealth fighter to deal with them.

Here's some music that proves we love America.

Modern war fighting equipment can be extremely complex, from a system science view. Really, modern purchases are systems of systems with unintended interactions. Nearly all large craft, planes or ships, become inordinately expensive as too large a set of requirements are pile on.

The only way to control complexity is to require simpler systems. Yet operationally the strategic folk want super-machines to fight projected high-tech wars.

The expense won't go down over time as the horizons will always recede to the next level of complexity.

The only real answer is to change the strategy.

And that means changing the role of the US in our engagement in the world.

And that is a hard thing to sell to the US public.

re: #43 freetoken

May 16, 2010 - The Day the Music Died

re: #44 Gus

"The last good Republican", it is often said.

Morning, all

This makes me all sorts of sad:

According to the 2010 German domestic intelligence service annual report, Salafism is the fastest growing Islamic movement in the world

And that is why I don't think there is a peaceful solution to this. The only solution, considering this stuff, is a modern version of the Ottoman-Saudi War 200 years ago.

re: #49 ProGunLiberal

Unfortunately, you may be right.

Still, I'm hoping a smaller world can mitigate the nightmare scenario.

We sail along to another selection from Sviridov's Hymns and Prayers, this is no. 7, whose title is translated as "We have beheld a strange birth":

re: #51 freetoken

Won't play.

I'll reboot.

re: #51 freetoken

Nope- won't even load

re: #53 researchok

Don't know what to say - it loads for me.

Charles has retrained the hamsters to know HTML5, so you might be having an issue with your browser if the hamsters are sending you HTML5 and not Flash. I get Flash served me because I use an older OSX version.

re: #43 freetoken

The only real answer is to change the strategy.

And that means changing the role of the US in our engagement in the world.

And that is a hard thing to sell to the US public.

As long as we are dependent on energy resources from distant, politically unstable and sometimes hostile parts of the world, we will need a large overseas military presence.

And changing our overall energy policy and strategy is a really hard thing to sell to a US Public that seems to think that it has a right to access to cheap fossil fuels.

re: #49 ProGunLiberal

This makes me all sorts of sad:

And that is why I don't think there is a peaceful solution to this. The only solution, considering this stuff, is a modern version of the Ottoman-Saudi War 200 years ago.

Salafistfighting?

Morning Lizardim from the cool and clear wild north country. What's new out there in the land of the odd?

Authorities say a northern New York man had his friend shoot him in the leg with a rifle because he wanted to know what it feels like to be shot.

"Should have been a better shot
shot him in the head"
Butt Hole Surfers (I think)

Read more: [Link: www.timesunion.com...]

re: #58 Tommy's cone of shame

Just been reading a review of a book, "The Wimp Factor", about how there are lots of guys who cling to the outer trappings of "manhood" because they never developed the inner qualities that really make a man.

Sums up a lot of GOP policy in a nutshell.

Off to give English lessons.

re: #4 freetoken

Quiet night - looks like most folk are still downstairs.

Me - I'm reading up on some Civil War history, specifically the regiment in which one of my great-grandfathers served as a cavalry man.....

To bad he didn't stick around OH, he might have run into some of my relatives. My g-g-g-grandpa was in the KY Cav. I don't know if he was the first ancestor in the Cav but he wasn't the last. My g-father was armored cav during ww2. As a young Intel officer it was explained to me that sticking with the intel branch would seriously limit my promotions and assignment choices so I chose Armor as my secondary branch to keep it in the family.

re: #58 Tommy's cone of shame

Authorities say a northern New York man had his friend shoot him in the leg with a rifle because he wanted to know what it feels like to be shot.

"Should have been a better shot
shot him in the head"
Butt Hole Surfers (I think)

Read more: [Link: www.timesunion.com...]

Pepper

re: #61 RogueOne

Pepper

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Beat me to it. For the longest time I couldn't stand that song but eventually it grew on me.

I still contend this trial is a sham and a waste of money and time...

John Edwards defense: Justice Department flip-flopped
[Link: www.politico.com...]

In a court filing late Tuesday, Edwards's defense team submitted a letter the head of the Justice Department's Election Crimes Branch wrote in 2009 stating that Justice only prosecutes federal campaign finance violations in cases that clearly run afoul of standards established by the Federal Election Commission.

"For such a criminal violation to occur, the application of the law to the facts of a matter must at the very least be clear, and there must be no doubt that the [Federal Election] Commission considers that the underlying conduct presents a [Federal Election Campaign Act] offense," Craig Donsanto wrote to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington in a January 16, 2009 letter.
....
Edwards is asking the judge to admit an audio recording of the FEC meeting where the audit was closed. Defense lawyers say the recording shows:

Commissioner [Donald] McGahn stated that 'it's odd for me to say that the transaction is a campaign transaction' and also stated 'I'm not sure that [the monies paid by Mellon and Baron are] a reportable--actually I can say [the monies paid by Mellon and Baron are] not a report--in my view [the monies paid by Mellon and Baron are] not reportable.' No member of the Commission objected to Commissioner McGahn's assessment, and the Commission voted to adopt the Audit Division's recommendation to close the record unanimously.

Numerous experts in campaign finance law, including at least two former FEC commissioners, have opined that they do not consider the money wealthy donors paid to help cover-up Edwards's extramarital affair to be campaign contributions that need to be reported under the law. One of those commissioners, Scott Thomas, was on the witness stand at Edwards's trial Tuesday morning. However, U.S. District Court Judge Catherine Eagles would not allow Thomas to tell jurors his view on how the law applied to what Edwards's allegedly did in 2007 and 2008. Eagles has said the jury should decide, without guidance from experts, what the purpose of the gifts were.

re: #62 dragonfire1981

Were you a fan of their earlier stuff?

Mexican Caravan

re: #60 RogueOne

To bad he didn't stick around OH, he might have run into some of my relatives. My g-g-g-grandpa was in the KY Cav. I don't know if he was the first ancestor in the Cav but he wasn't the last. My g-father was armored cav during ww2. As a young Intel officer it was explained to me that sticking with the intel branch would seriously limit my promotions and assignment choices so I chose Armor as my secondary branch to keep it in the family.

Armor, then Infantry & finally ended up in Intel. Fun, travel & adventure ;) Ft Knox in winter & Ft Benning in high summer; at least Ft Huachuca was pleasant.

re: #65 William Barnett-Lewis

HA! What years are we talking about? I loved Huachuca so much I'm planning on moving when I retire.

Your "Science: It works, bitches!" video of the day - Teeny-tiny domino that needs to be picked up with tweezers eventually knocks down one that weighs over 100 pounds:

Metaphor possibilities = endless :)

Morning all!

How goes it?

re: #68 ggt

Morning all!

How goes it?

'Morning. About to bail, and go plant beans.

re: #69 Decatur Deb

'Morning. About to bail, and go plant beans.

Is that what the you call it?

I did not realize "excessively white" was considered a color....

Fordham piece called Warren Harvard Law's 'first woman of color'
[Link: www.politico.com...]

The mention was in the middle of a lengthy and heavily-annotated Fordham piece on diversity and affirmative action and women. The title of the piece, by Laura Padilla, was "Intersectionality and positionality: Situating women of color in the affirmative action dialogue."

"There are few women of color who hold important positions in the academy, Fortune 500 companies, or other prominent fields or industries," the piece says. "This is not inconsequential. Diversifying these arenas, in part by adding qualified women of color to their ranks, remains important for many reaons. For one, there are scant women of color as role models. In my three years at Stanford Law School, there were no professors who were women of color. Harvard Law School hired its first woman of color, Elizabeth Warren, in 1995."

Monty python just never gets old...

I saw they released the doc notes from the Zimmerman visit yesterday but I didn't notice this portion..:

Records detail George Zimmerman's medical injuries
[Link: www.wftv.com...]

According to an autopsy report, the only other injury Martin had aside from the fatal gunshot wound was broken skin on his knuckles.

This guy needs a raise, he obviously takes his job veeerrry seriously..:

Zookeeper reportedly licks baby monkey's anus for over an hour
[Link: boingboing.net...]

A rather implausible report in Chinasmack (translated from the Chinese journal 163) says that a zookeeper saved a rare, born-in-captivity baby Francois Leaf Monkey from surgery by licking its anus until it passed the whole peanut it ate after a thoughtless patron tossed it to him. Reportedly, the anus-licking proceeded for over an hour.

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re: #74 RogueOne

This guy needs a raise, he obviously takes his job veeerrry seriously..:

Zookeeper reportedly licks baby monkey's anus for over an hour
[Link: boingboing.net...]

Image: F9B6DBA7F64512D800253D45798B0A2B.jpg

it wouldn't have passed otherwise?

The Mexican author Carlos Fuentes has died, aged 83.

Fuentes was one of the most prolific Latin American writers known equally for his fiction and his essays on politics and culture.

His most famous works were The Death of Artemio Cruz and The Old Gringo.

He was associated with the Latin American Boom - a literary movement made up of mainly young authors whose politically critical works broke with established traditions.

:( awesome writer!

re: #75 ggt

Dunno. Maybe they don't have access to laxatives...

And the world get's stranger and stranger:

Italian university switches to English
By Sean Coughlan
BBC News education correspondent

From opera at La Scala to football at the San Siro stadium, from the catwalks of fashion week to the soaring architecture of the cathedral, Milan is crowded with Italian icons.

Which makes it even more of a cultural earthquake that one of Italy's leading universities - the Politecnico di Milano - is going to switch to the English language.

The university has announced that from 2014 most of its degree courses - including all its graduate courses - will be taught and assessed entirely in English rather than Italian.

The waters of globalisation are rising around higher education - and the university believes that if it remains Italian-speaking it risks isolation and will be unable to compete as an international institution.

"We strongly believe our classes should be international classes - and the only way to have international classes is to use the English language," says the university's rector, Giovanni Azzone.

re: #77 RogueOne

Dunno. Maybe they don't have access to laxatives...

was wondering --

I give my dogs pumpkin pie filling or a bananna --works rather well.

re: #74 RogueOne

This guy needs a raise, he obviously takes his job veeerrry seriously.

Not really

It actually was the reason he took the job in the 1st place! Where else can you do that and everyone just say "Oh ,, thats just part of Georges job description"

re: #79 ggt

was wondering --

I give my dogs pumpkin pie filling or a bananna --works rather well.

My male LOVES banana. He'd rather have banana than a dog biscuit.

T-rex to T-rays?

Milestone for wi-fi with 'T-rays'

Researchers in Japan have smashed the record for wireless data transmission in the terahertz band, an uncharted part of the electro-magnetic spectrum.

The data rate is 20 times higher than the best commonly used wi-fi standard.

As consumers become ever more hungry for high data rates, standard lower-frequency bands have become crowded.

The research, published in Electronics Letters, adds to the idea that this "T-ray" band could offer huge swathes of bandwidth for data transmission.

The band lies between the microwave and far-infrared regions of the spectrum, and is currently completely unregulated by telecommunications agencies.

Despite the name, the band informally makes use of frequencies from about 300 gigahertz (300GHz or about 60 times higher than the current highest wi-fi standard) to about 3THz, 10 times higher again.

re: #81 RogueOne

My male LOVES banana. He'd rather have banana than a dog biscuit.

Well, who wouldn't?

:0

This doesn't just apply to people of color, IMHO

Black Christian Voters: Get Over It

So after all this, are we willing to let what people do in their bedrooms influence what we do at the polls? Whatever issue we may have concerning homosexuality is something for us to get over. We should focus instead on the healing that our communities desperately need.

Preventing gay people from getting married is not going to keep a kid in school. It is not going to stop people from using emergency rooms as clinics. It is not going to prevent two young rivals from shooting each other over a dirty look.

President Obama, in essence, has sent this message to African Americans. We can devote our energies to what churches have been preaching about same-sex marriage, or we can focus on solutions. I think Bayard Rustin would partner with Martin Luther King on the solutions part. But that's what they would have done 50 years ago. The choice today is yours.

Sources: Medical report says Zimmerman had broken nose, other injuries after fight

The medical exam, which was taken a day after Zimmerman's February 26 altercation with the unarmed 17-year-old, says Zimmerman suffered a "closed fracture" of his nose, according to two sources who have detailed knowledge of the investigation.

Medical Records Could Yield Answers On Fracking

A proposed study of people in northern Pennsylvania could help resolve a national debate about whether the natural gas boom is making people sick.

The study would look at detailed health histories on hundreds of thousands of people who live near the Marcellus Shale, a rock formation in which energy companies have already drilled about 5,000 natural gas wells.

If the study goes forward, it would be the first large-scale, scientifically rigorous assessment of the health effects of gas production.

Secret Weapon: A Very Large Database
In recent years, there have been lots of anecdotal reports about people who say they have been harmed by the chemicals associated with gas wells and the drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

Science And The Fracking Boom: Missing Answers
Explore key components of the natural gas production process — and the questions scientists are asking.

But "there doesn't seem to be a lot of hard data to either support or refute those claims," says David Carey, associate chief research officer of the Geisinger Health System, which provides care to more than 2 million Pennsylvanians.

So the Geisinger system wants to use its huge database of electronic health records to help researchers get definitive answers, Carey says.

The long-term goal is to learn whether gas operations increase the incidence of diseases such as diabetes and cancer, Carey says. But first, he says, researchers want to take a quick look at whether air pollutants associated with gas drilling are affecting people with asthma and other lung problems.

re: #85 Killgore Trout

You're twenty minutes late!

re: #73 RogueOne
[Link: www.wftv.com...]

You did it to me yesterday. I logged on, typed out a long response about the FBI investigation story yesterday and then noticed that not only did you beat me to it, you said almost the exact same thing I had just typed. It kind of hurt my feelings..

re: #85 Killgore Trout

re: #87 RogueOne

You're twenty minutes late

You're both about 15 hours late

It was posted and discussed early last night (eastern time)

re: #87 RogueOne

It kind of hurt my feelings..

Buck up, Sally!!
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re: #89 sattv4u2

It kind of hurt my feelings..

Buck up, Sally!!
//

I'm still a little misty-eyed about it. I'm the sensitive type...

re: #90 RogueOne

I'm still a little misty-eyed about it. I'm the sensitive type...

I just missed you yesterday.. I'll be in Town for the race..Are you going this year?

SuperPAC SuperDonors:

SEIU COPE
Washington, D.C.
Service Employees International Union Committee on Political Education, is, according to the union, made up of 300,000 people who contribute on average $7 per month.

re: #88 sattv4u2

re: #87 RogueOne

You're twenty minutes late

You're both about 15 hours late

It was posted and discussed early last night (eastern time)

Those who are tardy do not get fruit cup!

Monster
At Trial, Serb Gen. Mladic Taunts Survivors With Throat-Cutting Gesture

"Bosnian Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic taunted Srebrenica survivors on Wednesday at the start of his trial for genocide, running his hand across his throat in a gesture of defiance to relatives of the worst massacre in Europe since World War II," Reuters writes from The Hague.

The wire service says Mladic "made eye contact with one of the Muslim women in the audience, running a hand across his throat, in a gesture that led Presiding judge Alphons Orie to hold a brief recess and order an end to 'inappropriate interactions.' "

re: #93 Killgore Trout

Those who are tardy do not get fruit cup!

Now THERE'S an oldie (but goody!)

There's also this: Autopsy results show Trayvon Martin had injuries to his knuckles

re: #94 ggt

Monster
At Trial, Serb Gen. Mladic Taunts Survivors With Throat-Cutting Gesture

I'm just glad they caught him. Terrible just terrible what happened there.

My brother is finally on his way to help me get these appliances switched out, time to run. Enjoy the day peeps!

re: #96 Killgore Trout

So the fact that Trayvon Martin fought back against someone who was stalking him means what, exactly? Is his death justified now, or something?

re: #96 Killgore Trout

I don't really understand why people are reacting like this is news. It's been the probable story from the start: Zimmerman stalked Trayvon, and either confronted him or was confronted by Trayvon, a scuffle ensued, he got some minor injuries and killed Trayvon. That's what the injury report is consistent with.

Yet, for some reason, the media and others are trumpeting it like it's some massive revelation in the case. I guess they don't have much to do now that the investigation is proceeding.

re: #99 Lidane

So the fact that Trayvon Martin fought back against someone who was stalking him means what, exactly? Is his death justified now, or something?

No, that means that the funeral director who claimed that there were no sign of injury to his hands was mistaken or lying. There's been a lot of misinformation and sloppy journalism in this case.

re: #101 Killgore Trout

There's been a lot of misinformation and sloppy journalism in this case.

Considering there was a lot of sloppy police work from the start, that's not surprising.

re: #99 Lidane

Is his death justified now, or something?
Yup,, thats exactly what Kilgore meant

(except for the part where he didn't!)

re: #100 Obdicut

I don't really understand why people are reacting like this is news. It's been the probably story from the start: Zimmerman stalked Trayvon, and either confronted him or was confronted by Trayvon, a scuffle ensued, he got some minor injuries and killed Trayvon. That's what the injury report is consistent with.

Yet, for some reason, the media and others are trumpeting it like it's some massive revelation in the case. I guess they don't have much to do now that the investigation is proceeding.

There was a lot of speculation in the media and on the blogs about Zimmerman's injuries. I think the medical report clarifies things.

Well we know now that there was a scuffle. Doesn't prove who instigated it yet.

re: #100 Obdicut

I guess they don't have much to do now that the investigation is proceeding.

Precisely

We're going to get a daily dose of taking heads saying "This is what we know so far,,,,"
(which will be a re-hash of what we already knew)

re: #104 Killgore Trout

There was a lot of speculation in the media and on the blogs about Zimmerman's injuries. I think the medical report clarifies things.

Yeah. He had some minor injuries. As I said yesterday, I really hope we're not ready as a nation to enshrine the right to kill someone who blacks your eyes and breaks your nose.

But the vigilante mentality is strong, so it may wind up that that's what we get.

Media's like a kid with ADD says the former kid with ADHD.

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Cory Booker and Chris Christie released this video as part of the NJ Press Association Dinner.

It's worth a few laughs, and it's nice to see politicians not taking themselves too seriously:

re: #107 Obdicut

Yeah. He had some minor injuries. As I said yesterday, I really hope we're not ready as a nation to enshrine the right to kill someone who blacks your eyes and breaks your nose.

But the vigilante mentality is strong, so it may wind up that that's what we get.

That's been happening on the RWNJ blogs since the case broke. The fact that Trayvon Martin might have fought back to defend himself somehow justified his getting shot and killed to those freaks. You know, because he was destined to be a gang member or a prison-bound thug in his future anyway.

re: #110 Lidane

That's been happening on the RWNJ blogs since the case broke. The fact that Trayvon Martin might have fought back to defend himself somehow justified his getting shot and killed to those freaks. You know, because he was destined to be a gang member or a prison-bound thug in his future anyway.

Or the fact he had some trouble in school. I mean I don't know for certain what happened yet but the fact that Zimmerman had a broken nose and lacerations shouldn't absolve him by default.

re: #109 lawhawk

Good stuff

Thanks

re: #99 Lidane

So the fact that Trayvon Martin fought back against someone who was stalking him means what, exactly? Is his death justified now, or something?

Well, it means lefties are bad. Which is key.

So True!

*sigh*

Paul Cameron Suggests Obama is Gay and Demands Gays be Imprisoned before they Rape Kids

re: #113 Renaissance_Man

it means lefties are bad

I always had trouble hitting their curve balls!
/

re: #115 Lidane

*sigh*

Paul Cameron Suggests Obama is Gay and Demands Gays be Imprisoned before they Rape Kids

I imagine Obama counted on crap like this happening when he decided to come out in favor of gay marriage. Note to Paul Cameron, this is why your position is losing ground because people like you expose themselves as bigoted creeps when they say shit like this.

re: #115 Lidane

Coincidentally, when Romney backed hurriedly away from saying that gay adoption was okay, in one of his latest extremist moves, the reporter's name was Paul Cameron.

If I didn't already think that Romney was an asshole, that would have done it. Being against would-be parents adopting kids: how fucked up do you have to be to think that's a good idea?

Wednesday!

re: #118 Obdicut

Coincidentally, when Romney backed hurriedly away from saying that gay adoption was okay, in one of his latest extremist moves, the reporter's name was Paul Cameron.

If I didn't already think that Romney was an asshole, that would have done it. Being against would-be parents adopting kids: how fucked up do you have to be to think that's a good idea?

Pretty fucked up and that one is personal to me since I have a gay cousin who adopted kids. The worst though for me is when people like Newt want to make the private adoption agencies that refuse to consider same sex couples for adoptive parents as being "victims."

re: #119 ggt

Wednesday!

Slainte, almost Friday yet all out of beer.

The House GOP is going to destabilize the markets and crash the recovery for another phony debt deal they won't honor. This cannot stand.

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) May 16, 2012

Good morning lizards!

My Jeep died yesterday. I can either get a new engine for $5000 or get a new car. Decisions decisions decisions...

A group of clowns plans on taking part in protests in Chicago during this weekend’s NATO Summit.

[Link: chicago.cbslocal.com...]

while some protesters might throw a bottle of urine, the clowns say they will throw a pie

Alrighty, then!

re: #123 NJDhockeyfan

Good morning lizards!

My Jeep died yesterday. I can either get a new engine for $5000 or get a new car. Decisions decisions decisions...

It's a horrible thing when a Jeep dies.

How many mines on it?

re: #124 sattv4u2

A group of clowns plans on taking part in protests in Chicago during this weekend’s NATO Summit.

[Link: chicago.cbslocal.com...]

while some protesters might throw a bottle of urine, the clowns say they will throw a pie

Well I know not to go to Chicago now. Indiana Jones has snakes; I have clowns.

re: #125 ggt

It's a horrible thing when a Jeep dies.

How many mines on it?

160,000

I thought I would make it to 200,000 like the last 2 Jeeps I had.

re: #125 ggt

It's a horrible thing when a Jeep dies.

How many mines on it?

Mines, Mimes or Miles??

((maybe it was because of too many MIMES on it, it died!!)

re: #123 NJDhockeyfan

Good morning lizards!

My Jeep died yesterday. I can either get a new engine for $5000 or get a new car. Decisions decisions decisions...

I've always wanted one of those old school land rovers. Those things will run forever.

LOL

re: #128 sattv4u2

Mines, Mimes or Miles??

((maybe it was because of too many MIMES on it, it died!!)

I haven't hit one of those yet.

re: #126 HappyWarrior

Well I know not to go to Chicago now. Indiana Jones has snakes; I have clowns.

When we said "send in the clowns" we weren't serious . . geez.

re: #131 NJDhockeyfan

I haven't hit one of those yet.

A mine or a mime?

re: #128 sattv4u2

Mines, Mimes or Miles??

((maybe it was because of too many MIMES on it, it died!!)

depends on how much coffee I've had . . .

re: #105 HappyWarrior

Well we know now that there was a scuffle. Doesn't prove who instigated it yet.

"Hey, I'm going out for some tea. on the way back I'll get into a fight with some creepy big white dude and get killed. Anybody want some Skittles?"

re: #133 sattv4u2

A mine or a mime?

Mine, mime, or deer.

Kitty mimes!

re: #126 HappyWarrior

re: #132 ggt

“I think it will be very telling of the violence of this state to see the response of the police officers to a pie,”

So because it's a pie you hit a cop with the cop isn't supposed to react

re: #135 Decatur Deb

"Hey, I'm going out for some tea. on the way back I'll get into a fight with some creepy big white dude and get killed. Anybody want some Skittles?"

Yeah I tend to agree. Doesn't make sense that Martin would start it.

Truth

re: #132 ggt

When we said "send in the clowns" we weren't serious . . geez.

At least Pennywise won't be there right?

re: #133 sattv4u2

A mine or a mime?

You've had a mime?

re: #129 Killgore Trout

I've always wanted one of those old school land rovers. Those things will run forever.

I think you can get this one at a reasonable price!

Image: pd1842514.jpg

re: #139 HappyWarrior

Yeah I tend to agree. Doesn't make sense that Martin would start it.

At least someone will look at the evidence carefully. That wasn't Plan A.

re: #141 HappyWarrior

At least Pennywise won't be there right?

Poundfoolish might be tho.

re: #142 ggt

You've had a mime?

I think so
She never did tell me, so I'm not sure!

re: #143 sattv4u2

I think you can get this one at a reasonable price!

Image: pd1842514.jpg

A little Bondo . . . .

re: #144 Decatur Deb

At least someone will look at the evidence carefully. That wasn't Plan A.

Yeah. I hope so. Feel so bad for the kid's family and friends.

re: #129 Killgore Trout

I've always wanted one of those old school land rovers. Those things will run forever.

Mine has been running for 39 years.

re: #146 sattv4u2

I think so
She never did tell me, so I'm not sure!

So do they wear the white and black make-up everywhere?

re: #145 ggt

Poundfoolish might be tho.

Well if that's his twin, he's either a good clown or twice as evil.

re: #143 sattv4u2

I think you can get this one at a reasonable price!

Image: pd1842514.jpg

Just as a lark in googled to see what they cost. Even those old ones from the 70's are hugely expensive.

re: #149 Decatur Deb

Mine has been running for 39 years.

With todays price of gas, you probably should shut it off every now and then!

re: #147 ggt

A little Bondo . . .

James Bondo?

awwwwwww!

re: #152 Killgore Trout

Just as a lark in googled to see what they cost. Even those old ones from the 70's are hugely expensive.

This one is the exact twin of mine. Even the dents are in the same places. You can find one for 3-4 thousand. (Got mine on eBay for 3.5K.)

Image: LR2.jpg

Some particularly fine guitar playing here:

(The base-playing ain't bad either)

Jamaaladeen Tacuma & Uwe Kropinski (live in Maribor 2010)

re: #153 sattv4u2

With todays price of gas, you probably should shut it off every now and then!

Gas consumption is pretty hideous--only run it a couple hundred miles a month.

re: #152 Killgore Trout

Just as a lark

A Studebaker Lark?

[Link: www.google.com...]

I thought you wanted a Land Rover!!
/

re: #159 sattv4u2

Just as a lark

A Studebaker Lark?

[Link: www.google.com...]

I thought you wanted a Land Rover!!
/

Where the hell is Avanti?

re: #156 Decatur Deb

This one is the exact twin of mine. Even the dents are in the same places. You can find one for 3-4 thousand. (Got mine on eBay for 3.5K.)

Image: LR2.jpg

I can see John Wayne and Red Buttons stepping out of that in a scene from Hitari!!

[Link: www.imdb.com...]

Why?

re: #66 RogueOne

HA! What years are we talking about? I loved Huachuca so much I'm planning on moving when I retire.

Sorry this is so late. I spent a nice chunk of 1991 learning 96B there. Great posting, nice people & beautiful countryside. My memories make some of the news out of Arizona rather more painful than similar shennanigans over in, say, Texas where I've never been.

Gotta get back to Bisbee someday. Wonderful town.

re: #156 Decatur Deb

This one is the exact twin of mine. Even the dents are in the same places. You can find one for 3-4 thousand. (Got mine on eBay for 3.5K.)

Image: LR2.jpg

That is so cool. Do you have any trouble finding parts for it?

re: #164 Killgore Trout

That is so cool. Do you have any trouble finding parts for it?

Nope

All he does is look in the rear view mirror as he drives down the street

there's a trail of parts for miles!!

teehee

Ok, I"m done.

re: #166 ggt

teehee

Ok, I"m done.

Make sure you flush!

re: #164 Killgore Trout

That is so cool. Do you have any trouble finding parts for it?

re: #165 sattv4u2

Nah.. the intertubes has made it easy, though I've had them mailed from as far as NZ.

Wife's mini-van loses fuel pump--3 days, $600.00.
Rover loses fuel pump-- 20 min, $29 dollars, with a rebuildable spare for the bin.

There is one engine for my Jeep in the country right now and I can get it if I decide to replace it.

3 year/ 100000 mile warranty

re: #169 NJDhockeyfan

There is one engine for my Jeep in the country right now and I can get it if I decide to replace it.

3 year/ 100000 mile warranty

umm,,, errrr,,,

[Link: www.google.com...]

re: #169 NJDhockeyfan

There is one engine for my Jeep in the country right now and I can get it if I decide to replace it.

3 year/ 100000 mile warranty

If everything else looks good, go for it.

These things should be like Daniel Boone's axe. (Had it in the family for generations--it's had two new heads and four new handles.)

re: #171 Decatur Deb

If everything else looks good, go for it.

These things should be like Daniel Boone's axe. (Had it in the family for generations--it's had two new heads and four new handles.)

But it still occupies the original space of Daniels axe!

re: #167 sattv4u2

Make sure you flush!

teehee

this was the image I didn't manage to link.

re: #171 Decatur Deb

My Blackberry was a hand-me-down from my wife. It's missing the P, L, M, keys, along with 3 other keys that I have no clue what they were. The screen is cracked. The battery charger input is broken so I have to take the battery out to charge it. Sometimes it'll refuse to do anything other than type the letters "H" and "L" over and over. It's blanked out completely sometimes. Once it would randomly turn the speakerphone on, which was awesome.

But the weird/awesome/creepy part is that somehow it always fixes itself. This shouldn't really be possible. Electronic devices tend to degrade, they don't tend to self-repair.

I think it might be nanites or something. Anyway, when we finally retire it I'm framing it on the wall as Zombiephone.

re: #143 sattv4u2

I think you can get this one at a reasonable price!

Image: pd1842514.jpg

Hmmm...Where might that fine vehicle be found?

re: #170 sattv4u2

umm,,, errr,,,

[Link: www.google.com...]

It's a new engine

re: #174 Obdicut

My Blackberry was a hand-me-down from my wife. It's missing the P, L, M, keys, along with 3 other keys that I have no clue what they were. The screen is cracked. The battery charger input is broken so I have to take the battery out to charge it. Sometimes it'll refuse to do anything other than type the letters "H" and "L" over and over. It's blanked out completely sometimes. Once it would randomly turn the speakerphone on, which was awesome.

But the weird/awesome/creepy part is that somehow it always fixes itself. This shouldn't really be possible. Electronic devices tend to degrade, they don't tend to self-repair.

I think it might be nanites or something. Anyway, when we finally retire it I'm framing it on the wall as Zombiephone.

Have you been posting from it?

re: #176 NJDhockeyfan

It's a new engine

You said your car has 160K on it?

For the price, I'd put a rebuilt in it. I've done that several times in my life and the rebuilt one outlasted the rest of the vehicles life cycle

As a matter of fact, i once sold the rebuilt engine once the car died. It gave the new owner another 75K + (after I had put on about 90K)

re: #177 Decatur Deb

Have you been posting from it?

No, if I had, my messages would be curiously devoid of M's, P's, and L's.

It is really old, and it takes about five minutes to load an LGF page on it. I don't think I could figure out how to post.

re: #174 Obdicut

My Blackberry was a hand-me-down from my wife. It's missing the P, L, M, keys, along with 3 other keys that I have no clue what they were. The screen is cracked. The battery charger input is broken so I have to take the battery out to charge it. Sometimes it'll refuse to do anything other than type the letters "H" and "L" over and over. It's blanked out completely sometimes. Once it would randomly turn the speakerphone on, which was awesome.

But the weird/awesome/creepy part is that somehow it always fixes itself. This shouldn't really be possible. Electronic devices tend to degrade, they don't tend to self-repair.

I think it might be nanites or something. Anyway, when we finally retire it I'm framing it on the wall as Zombiephone.

I think you've discovered the proof that is needed to prove that SkyNet is our future --you have a piece of evidence there.

I'd wrap it in gold-lined tin foil and put it in a safe deposit box. We may need it very, very soon.

/:0

I can't watch it from work...did Romney really do ad to Hispanic voters using a sombrero wearing cartoon parrot???

re: #178 sattv4u2

You said your car has 160K on it?

For the price, I'd put a rebuilt in it. I've done that several times in my life and the rebuilt one outlasted the rest of the vehicles life cycle

As a matter of fact, i once sold the rebuilt engine once the car died. It gave the new owner another 75K + (after I had put on about 90K)

I'll have to see. This engine got me 160000 miles. I would hope a new one would do the same. I'm headed to the car dealership now to see if they have any SUVs I can live with to replace my Jeep.

Cheers!

re: #180 ggt

I think you've discovered the proof that is needed to prove that SkyNet is our future --you have a piece of evidence there.

I'd wrap it in gold-lined tin foil and put it in a safe deposit box. We may need it very, very soon.

/:0

I swear a freeper did a post yesterday on how to build a large Faraday cage from foil-faced construction insulation. Fur reel.

re: #183 Decatur Deb

I swear a freeper did a post yesterday on how to build a large Faraday cage from foil-faced construction insulation. Fur reel.

Well, better safe than sorry!

/:0

7re: #183 Decatur Deb

Most buildings (disregarding the lighting rods) are already largely functional faraday cages, due to the plumbing, wiring, and such. The building may cave in or catch on fire, but you're unlikely to get a jolt.

re: #182 NJDhockeyfan

I'll have to see. This engine got me 160000 miles. I would hope a new one would do the same. I'm headed to the car dealership now to see if they have any SUVs I can live with to replace my Jeep.

Cheers!

You'll want to make sure they have a defibrillator before you check the stickers.

re: #185 Obdicut

7

Most buildings (disregarding the lighting rods) are already largely functional faraday cages, due to the plumbing, wiring, and such. The building may cave in or catch on fire, but you're unlikely to get a jolt.

I was just thinking that . . .

re: #186 Decatur Deb

You'll want to make sure they have a defibrillator before you check the stickers.

I think with the newer models that comes as standard equipment!

re: #185 Obdicut

7

Most buildings (disregarding the lighting rods) are already largely functional faraday cages, due to the plumbing, wiring, and such. The building may cave in or catch on fire, but you're unlikely to get a jolt.

He was worried about "EMP from solar or human sources" OWTTE.

Ah the onion

re: #189 Decatur Deb

He was worried about "EMP from solar or human sources" OWTTE.

Don't we all??

Me, I just walk to the other side of the street if I see someone with sparks shooting out of their head coming towards me!

Crazy is as crazy does:

Batty ‘Birther’ Movie Divides Conspiracy Diehards

“Birthers” are flipping their tinfoil hats over a new film that claims President Barack Obama’s father was not a Kenyan goat herder but rather a communist journalist nearly four decades older than his mother. The problem? It undermines a bedrock of birther lore: that the president is ineligible to be commander-in-chief.

“Dreams From My Real Father,” a 97-minute film narrated by an Obama impersonator, weaves the narrative that Obama’s grandfather wasn’t a furniture salesman but an undercover CIA agent who convinced Barack Obama Sr. to marry his teenage daughter to hide the fact that she was impregnated by a 55-year-old communist named Frank Marshall Davis.

re: #189 Decatur Deb

He was worried about "EMP from solar or human sources" OWTTE.

If we're getting attacked by nukes, he's got bigger things to worry about. ;)

re: #192 Lidane

Crazy is as crazy does:

Batty ‘Birther’ Movie Divides Conspiracy Diehards

Can't say they don't have colorful imaginations.

re: #192 Lidane

Crazy is as crazy does:

Batty ‘Birther’ Movie Divides Conspiracy Diehards

Everyone knows Malcolm X is Obama's real father.// Gotta love it when CT nuts fight amongst themselves though. "No our conspiracy is the truth." "No ours is!"

Obama is a human/chemtrail hybrid.

re: #193 Varek Raith

If we're getting attacked by nukes, he's got bigger things to worry about. ;)

Aforementioned Rover is basically EMP-hard. The most electronic thing in it is the capacitor in a RF-shielded Kettering ignition. I have a book that describes how to jury-rig one from the license plates and a dry banana leaf.

[Link: www.amazon.com...]

re: #123 NJDhockeyfan

Good morning lizards!

My Jeep died yesterday. I can either get a new engine for $5000 or get a new car. Decisions decisions decisions...

Sorry to hear that.

You do have a third alternative though, which may appeal as it's right out of the GOP playbook: don't spend any money on replacing or repairing your car. Just cut back on your transportation expectations instead!

Donald Trump makes America dumber. Stop watching his fucking stupid television shows. Just stop.

— Shoq Value (@Shoq) May 16, 2012

re: #199 Interesting Times

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No kidding.

re: #199 Interesting Times

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I'd have to start watching first. Just... no. The guy creeps me out. Always has.

"Dreams From My Real Father": The Highlights

NEW OBAMA CONSPIRACY THEORY CAUSES WINGNUT VS. WINGNUT RIFT!

I’ve already blogged here about the zany new Obama conspiracy theory documentary Dreams From My Real Father which puts forth the ludicrous “theory” that President Barack Obama’s father was not a Kenyan goat herder but rather a radical journalist nearly four decades older than his mother. who was also an amateur pornographer…

You know even if his real father is Frank Davis? What does it prove? This is just like the Derrek Bell hug. More dumb and dumber bullshit from the right.

re: #204 HappyWarrior

You know even if his real father is Frank Davis? What does it prove? This is just like the Derrek Bell hug. More dumb and dumber bullshit from the right.

I won't entertain anything that comes from the mouths and hands of these deranged idiots. Nada.

re: #204 HappyWarrior

You know even if his real father is Frank Davis? What does it prove? This is just like the Derrek Bell hug. More dumb and dumber bullshit from the right.

And if his father was Frank Davis that means that both of his parents were born in the US and there's no issue of any Kenyan BS. Right?

re: #185 Obdicut

7

Most buildings (disregarding the lighting rods) are already largely functional faraday cages, due to the plumbing, wiring, and such. The building may cave in or catch on fire, but you're unlikely to get a jolt.

A Faraday cage only excludes EM radiation with wavelengths on the order of (or larger than) the size of any gaps. This is why your microwave has a grille in the front with ~1mm size holes, which keep λ≈120mm microwave radiation inside the oven, but permit the passage of visible light (which are, after all, still electromagnetic waves).

So your house is likely to exclude extremely low frequency EM radiation on the order of hundreds or thousands of meters, but probably not anything higher frequency. Unless your exterior is stucco on chicken wire, which would probably exclude VHF. Don't buy any bunny ears.

John Boehner threatens House Republicans will start enriching uranium if Obama doesn't yield on next debt ceiling showdown.

— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) May 16, 2012

re: #205 Gus

I won't entertain anything that comes from the mouths and hands of these deranged idiots. Nada.

Oh I won't either. Just saying even if it is true, it proves nothing about Obama. Really the attacks on Obama's parents are just stupid as hell especially his father for being anti colonial (Hell wouldn't anyone if they had endured colonization) or the attacks on his mother for being interested in exotic cultures.

re: #206 allegro

And if his father was Frank Davis that means that both of his parents were born in the US and there's no issue of any Kenyan BS. Right?

I think that's a point that these guys didn't think over. But remember Geller has tried to claim the fact that his folks weren't wed makes him ineligible. Grasping for straws is their forte.

re: #203 Gus

NEW OBAMA CONSPIRACY THEORY CAUSES WINGNUT VS. WINGNUT RIFT!

The amazing thing about these Tea Partiers, birthers and sundry "patriots" is that they are not just vociferously anti-Obama, they are vociferously anti-anyone who does not agree with their point of view, regardless of party affiliation.

They will turn on anyone, and trying to contain their outrage is like trying to herd cats.

re: #207 erik_t

A Faraday cage is only functional to wavelengths on the order of the size of any gaps. This is why your microwave has a grille in the front with ~1mm size holes, which keep λ≈120mm microwave radiation inside the oven, but permit the passage of visible light (which are, after all, still electromagnetic waves).

So your house is likely to exclude extremely low frequency EM radiation on the order of hundreds or thousands of meters, but probably not anything higher frequency. Unless your exterior is stucco on chicken wire, which would probably exclude VHF. Don't buy any bunny ears.

I've worked in cages that were essentially fine copper window-screen.

John Boehner threatens to eat a mountain of beans and then seal all fresh air venting to the Capitol if Obama doesn't yield on debt ceiling negotiations.

re: #192 Lidane

Crazy is as crazy does:

Batty ‘Birther’ Movie Divides Conspiracy Diehards

Because those Communist genes are dominant you know! Little ole' Capitalistic, Repubican genes need can't be expected to compete.

/gah

I think I figured it out --the purpose.

Rehashing the Birther conspiracy --who Obama's father really is, etc. etc.

Doesn't matter how you fold it, or garnish it, it is still only useful for one purpose.

re: #212 Decatur Deb

I've worked in cages that were essentially fine copper window-screen.

Copper seems expensive. Is the conductivity of the material really so critical? I'd think they'd at least go with aluminum for all but the truly blistering high end (I dunno, radio astronomy or something).

re: #215 ggt

I think I figured it out --the purpose.

Rehashing the Birther conspiracy --who Obama's father really is, etc. etc.

Doesn't matter how you fold it, or garnish it, it is still only useful for one purpose.

Goes back to what you were saying last night, re: xenophobia.

re: #94 ggt

Monster
At Trial, Serb Gen. Mladic Taunts Survivors With Throat-Cutting Gesture

I notice that Pamela Geller has been strangely quiet recently in regards to this trial, especially after she was so vocal in support of Mladic's actions previously.

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

re: #218 RadicalModerate

I notice that Pamela Geller has been strangely quiet recently in regards to this trial, especially after she was so vocal in support of Mladic's actions previously.

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

Well when her buddy Mladic is openly taunting victims, it doesn't make for good publicity to stand up for the guy. I mean we all know Pam is crazy but there's probably some method to that madness.

re: #211 Expand Your Ground

The amazing thing about these Tea Partiers, birthers and sundry "patriots" is that they are not just vociferously anti-Obama, they are vociferously anti-anyone who does not agree with their point of view, regardless of party affiliation.

They will turn on anyone, and trying to contain their outrage is like trying to herd cats.

This country has a high population of under-educated bumpkins that eat this shit up on a daily basis. They wake up in the morning with Fox News on the boob tube and end their day with Fox News on the boob tube.

re: #220 Gus

This country has a high population of under-educated bumpkins that eat this shit up on a daily basis. They wake up in the morning with Fox News on the boob tube and end their day with Fox News on the boob tube.

Heheheehehehehe
You said 'boobs'!

re: #218 RadicalModerate

I notice that Pamela Geller has been strangely quiet recently in regards to this trial, especially after she was so vocal in support of Mladic's actions previously.

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

She approves of rape and forced breeding of women?

Facebook Co-founder preps for IPO by renouncing US citizenship
Let the door hit your ass on the way out, jerk.

re: #223 Varek Raith

Facebook Co-founder preps for IPO by renouncing US citizenship
Let the door hit your ass on the way out, jerk.

Tax Exile --must be nice to have the option --huh?

re: #210 HappyWarrior

I think that's a point that these guys didn't think over. But remember Geller has tried to claim the fact that his folks weren't wed makes him ineligible. Grasping for straws is their forte.

Ah yes, the old "Bastards aren't citizens" ploy. A worthy gambit!
/

re: #223 Varek Raith

Facebook Co-founder preps for IPO by renouncing US citizenship
Let the door hit your ass on the way out, jerk.

That whole "company" has been creepy since day one. I think people should stop using Facebook but that's just an impossible goal. They'll eventually go the way of AOL, MySpace, etc., when the next big thing takes over.

For De-Friending The U.S., Facebook's Eduardo Saverin Is An American Hero
What fucking nonsense. If money is more important to you than your country, well, fuck off.

Ah well

My son has graciously decided to get up at the crack of noon and help his dear ol' dad with some yardwork

((for which I'm sure he'll be extracting cash from me later in the day!)

Image: karlmarxfordummies.jpg

re: #228 sattv4u2

Ah well

My son has graciously decided to get up at the crack of noon and help his dear ol' dad with some yardwork

((for which I'm sure he'll be extracting cash from me later in the day!)

Give the kid a break. He'll soon be facing the rigors of the Auburn football season.

re: #226 Gus

They'll eventually go the way of AOL, MySpace, etc., when the next big thing takes over.

I've been cultivating a fleet of carrier pigeons for just such a day

I'll be rich, I tell ya,,, RICH !!

BBWWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Uh oh! Now all he needs is a park bench and some alone time...

PHOTO: Obama with his hoagie at Taylor Gourmet twitter.com/HuffPostPol/st…

— HuffPost Politics (@HuffPostPol) May 16, 2012

re: #231 sattv4u2

They'll eventually go the way of AOL, MySpace, etc., when the next big thing takes over.

I've been cultivating a fleet of carrier pigeons for just such a day

I'll be rich, I tell ya,,, RICH !!

BBWWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA

There's an app for that.

re: #230 Decatur Deb

Give the kid a break. He'll soon be facing the rigors of the Auburn Georgia Tech (with some courses at Southern Polytech) football season.

He fell a tad short in scholarships and didn't want to take out large student loans, so he's opted for in-state (with the corresponding lesser tuition costs)

He'll re-apply to Auburn as a Junior, most likely

re: #232 Gus

Uh oh! Now all he needs is a park bench and some alone time...

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No, I'm not sharing.
-Obama

re: #234 sattv4u2

He fell a tad short in scholarships and didn't want to take out large student loans, so he's opted for in-state (with the corresponding lesser tuition costs)

He'll re-apply to Auburn as a Junior, most likely

Honestly, he's a lot better off. I hope he grows to like GT.

re: #235 Varek Raith

No, I'm not sharing.
-Obama

You know who shares? Communists.

re: #227 Varek Raith

For De-Friending The U.S., Facebook's Eduardo Saverin Is An American Hero
What fucking nonsense. If money is more important to you than your country, well, fuck off.

I dunno, it sounds as if he doesn't live in the US at the moment (any more?).

If he's not planning to live in the US in the future, why maintain citizenship and pay taxes here? I'm all for people paying their fair share, but if you don't live in the country and use its services I don't really mind.

re: #223 Varek Raith

Facebook Co-founder preps for IPO by renouncing US citizenship
Let the door hit your ass on the way out, jerk.

Just to make him extra asshole... he's Brazilian-born, the reason he came here in the first place was on a plea for asylum because his life was at risk from Brazilian gangs that neither his father's money nor his government could protect him from.

We took him and his family in, protected them, nurtured them, let them become citizens, gave him the playing field on which his talents could thrive... and now he's kicking us in the teeth with a "ha! suckers!!"

re: #236 Decatur Deb

Honestly, he's a lot better off. I hope he grows to like GT.

It was his (close) 2nd choice to AU

re: #240 sattv4u2

It was his (close) 2nd choice to AU

By the time he's a junior he'll start thinking about the value of his degree.

re: #227 Varek Raith

For De-Friending The U.S., Facebook's Eduardo Saverin Is An American Hero
What fucking nonsense. If money is more important to you than your country, well, fuck off.

Wasn't Saverin born in Brazil whose family moved into the US while he was a child? Still, renouncing what amounts to a naturalized citizenship strictly for tax purposes is pretty much a serious dick move.

re: #242 RadicalModerate

Wasn't Saverin born in Brazil whose family moved into the US while he was a child? Still, renouncing what amounts to a naturalized citizenship strictly for tax purposes is pretty much a serious dick move.

When corporations become people, people also begin to act like corporations.

re: #238 iossarian

I dunno, it sounds as if he doesn't live in the US at the moment (any more?).

If he's not planning to live in the US in the future, why maintain citizenship and pay taxes here? I'm all for people paying their fair share, but if you don't live in the country and use its services I don't really mind.

Because it's not about how much services he'd be using next week, it's about what he used up until now.

We are not returning to the days of back-room abortions, when countless women died or were maimed. The decision about abortion must remain a decision for the woman, her family and physician to make, not the government.

We are not going back to the days when women could not have full access to birth control. Incredibly, here in the year 2012, that is exactly what the Blunt Amendment, which we defeated last month in the Senate, was all about. The Blunt Amendment would have allowed any employer who provided health insurance, or any insurance company, the right to deny coverage for contraception or any other kind of procedure if the employer had a "moral" objection to it. While I am glad that we defeated this horrendous amendment, it certainly was a sad day in our country when every Republican, save one, voted for it.

We are not going back to the days of wide-scale domestic violence, even if 31 Republican men in the Senate recently voted against the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act because it expanded coverage to the gay community and Native Americans.

We are not going back to the days when it was legal for women to be paid less for doing the same work as men, even if the governor of Wisconsin recently signed a bill to repeal that state's pay-equity law

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT)

re: #244 sagehen

Because it's not about how much services he'd be using next week, it's about what he used up until now.

My favorite scene in The Social Network is now the one where he gets dicked out of his shares.

re: #239 sagehen

Just to make him extra asshole... he's Brazilian-born, the reason he came here in the first place was on a plea for asylum because his life was at risk from Brazilian gangs that neither his father's money nor his government could protect him from.

We took him and his family in, protected them, nurtured them, let them become citizens, gave him the playing field on which his talents could thrive... and now he's kicking us in the teeth with a "ha! suckers!!"

This is what get's me. If you have enough money, know the right people are are in with the right group (corporation, church) you can truly be a global citizen.

It's the way of the future --he is just showing us the way.

Go where it is best for you --we do that from State-to-State now, don't we?

re: #244 sagehen

Because it's not about how much services he'd be using next week, it's about what he used up until now.

Based on his family's background, I'd guess they were net contributors to social services etc. while they were here (unless, of course, they were avoiding tax in the past, which would have been reprehensible - there's no evidence of that though).

I can see the disappointment that he's decided to leave, but to be honest, when the US makes its attitude towards foreigners "fuck off unless you can pay your own way", you can't be too surprised that once those foreigners have made their money, their attitude towards the US is pretty much "thanks for the opportunity, now fuck off yourself".

He'll still be paying tax wherever he ends up - just not in the US.

re: #248 iossarian

He'll still be paying tax wherever he ends up - just not in the US.

No, he won't. They don't tax capital gains.

re: #248 iossarian

PS - sorry for the somewhat harsh language which is not directed at fellow lizards. Having had some up close and personal experience with immigration policy, I can understand why recent immigrants might be less than inclined to feel any emotional obligation to the US once the trade winds lead them elsewhere.