Friday Night Cuteness: Tree Kangaroo Joey in Mom’s Pouch
Go ahead, try to resist
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You may try to resist this baby tree kangaroo, but your efforts are futile.
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jaunte Fri, Aug 31, 2012 6:34:08pm |
Futile indeed. I hadn't heard of tree kangaroos before (or don't recall)...
During the late-Miocene the semi-arboreal Rock-wallabies evolved into the now extinct tree-kangaroo genus Bohra.[5] Global cooling during the Pleistocene caused continent wide drying and rainforest retractions in Australia and New Guinea.[6] The rainforest contractions isolated populations of Bohra which resulted in the evolution of today's tree-kangaroos (Dendrolagus spp.) as they adapted to lifestyles in geographically small and diverse rainforest fragments, and became further specialized for a canopy dwelling lifestyle.[7]
[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]
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Amory Blaine Fri, Aug 31, 2012 6:34:37pm |
We Are Sikhs - Poem from the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin
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Gretchen G.Tiger Fri, Aug 31, 2012 6:34:48pm |
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engineer cat Fri, Aug 31, 2012 6:41:20pm |
this is bexley and his mother kasbeth
i wanna move to australia and go out with a weird aussie girl named kasbeth
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Gus Fri, Aug 31, 2012 6:42:25pm |
Apollo 11 colleagues Michael Collins & @therealbuzz attend Neil Armstrong memorial. nbcnews.to/T1Lfeeyfrog.com/mg2jygp— Jim Roberts (@nytjim) September 1, 2012
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Charles Johnson Fri, Aug 31, 2012 6:53:22pm |
re: #8 Gus
Crap.
[Link: www.daylife.com...]
Another web service sinks under the waves of capitalism.
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Gus Fri, Aug 31, 2012 6:54:53pm |
re: #9 Charles Johnson
Another web service sinks under the waves of capitalism.
It's too bad because it was great for searching the latest news photography. Gone for good now.
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Hercules Grytpype-Thynne Fri, Aug 31, 2012 6:58:02pm |
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Gus Fri, Aug 31, 2012 6:58:26pm |
re: #11 Kragar
Behold the glorious Hippopotamus
[Embedded content]
No way. That for real? Sounded like a weed whacker.
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jaunte Fri, Aug 31, 2012 7:00:51pm |
re: #11 Kragar
I like the last audible mom comment: "I think we're done here..."
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Digital Display Fri, Aug 31, 2012 7:11:08pm |
I dunno know..And I'm so sorry to review my life here.. But I always have.
First off..Big party in Oklahoma Saturday night.. First College Football game of the year..Sure you could find more food and booze somewhere, But really where?
My heart is broken tonight. I'm going to miss my new friends in Oklahoma.
Fuck..2 calls tonight,
It's a local saying.. You..I Love..
Fuck..I've got tears down my cheeks.. I love my friends here..
Sorry to go away
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abolitionist Fri, Aug 31, 2012 7:12:50pm |
OT:
Mozilla Security Blog
Protecting Users Against Java Security Vulnerability
Aug 28 2012
Update – Aug 31, 2012Yesterday Oracle released a patch for the critical vulnerabilities identified within Java.
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Obdicut Fri, Aug 31, 2012 7:20:19pm |
Has anyone pointed out yet that kangaroo pouches are full of mucus?
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Gretchen G.Tiger Fri, Aug 31, 2012 7:21:35pm |
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Fri, Aug 31, 2012 7:21:41pm |
Sorry, but the dancing twins are cuter.
The joey isn't giggling.
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Fri, Aug 31, 2012 7:31:23pm |
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Fri, Aug 31, 2012 7:33:00pm |
re: #9 Charles Johnson
Another web service sinks under the waves of capitalism.
My local newspaper San Diego Union Tribune paywalled recently. Bullshit. The owner Doug Manchester hates the gays too.
Freetoken? where are you getting your local from?
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Amory Blaine Fri, Aug 31, 2012 7:33:26pm |
re: #23 Stanley Sea
Her leg is moving. She's probably dreaming she's running!
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Dancing along the light of day Fri, Aug 31, 2012 7:40:48pm |
re: #16 Digital Display
*smooch*
You will always have friends, wherever you go!
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Gus Fri, Aug 31, 2012 7:49:38pm |
Wingnuts gather: #ObamaHelpedBlacksLike
Must be the full moon.
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Dancing along the light of day Fri, Aug 31, 2012 7:52:47pm |
Very nice moon rise in So Cal! BLUE MOON!
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MittDoesNotCompute Fri, Aug 31, 2012 7:53:48pm |
re: #24 Stanley Sea
My local newspaper San Diego Union Tribune paywalled recently. Bullshit. The owner Doug Manchester hates the gays too.
Freetoken? where are you getting your local from?
Gannett has put pretty much all of their papers (including the Tennessean, Nashville's only surviving daily) behind a paywall a couple of months ago. $12.00 a month for digital-only access or digital plus delivery of the dead-tree version on Wednesdays and Sundays, with the costs going up from there.
Fuck that...
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Interesting Times Fri, Aug 31, 2012 7:57:45pm |
re: #22 Gus
Bill Maher just pwned Dinesh D'Souza.
I saw it. Maybe I'm in an especially bad mood, but I thought he was too nice :P (because he didn't bring up this, i.e. D'Souza identifying and sympathizing with the Taliban)
Also, Ron Christie (who was on the panel) is a sniveling, offensive little AGW-denying douche.
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Kragar Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:00:45pm |
re: #24 Stanley Sea
My local newspaper San Diego Union Tribune paywalled recently. Bullshit. The owner Doug Manchester hates the gays too.
Freetoken? where are you getting your local from?
Pff, the UT has been a fishwrapper for years.
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Dark_Falcon Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:08:12pm |
My employer let me go today. I'm not really surprised, since I specialized in defense conferences and there are none scheduled, and despite my team's best efforts, we weren't able to generate any business this month. Management didn't hate me, and they still respect me, but they don't need me anymore. But my unemployment will not be contested, and I've got co-workers who will give me references when I need them. So I should be able to be back to work before Thanksgiving, if not sooner. I am worried, but not terrified, for I know I did my utmost and only failed in not being able to climb a mountain no one could climb. My father understood what had happened and is supportive.
And any persons at other blogs intending to twist this statement or mock me should lay aside that intention. Jobs change but I leave this one a better man than when I arrive and with some real accomplishments to my credit. I hold my head high, and any haters will be ignored.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:09:02pm |
re: #36 Dark_Falcon
My employer let me go today. I'm not really surprised, since I specialized in defense conferences and there are none scheduled, and despite my team's best efforts, we weren't able to generate any business this month. Management didn't hate me, and they still respect me, but they don't need me anymore. But my unemployment will not be contested, and I've got co-workers who will give me references when I need them. So I should be able to be back to work before Thanksgiving, if not sooner. I am worried, but not terrified, for I know I did my utmost and only failed in not being able to climb a mountain no one could climb. My father understood what had happened and is supportive.
And any persons at other blogs intending to twist this statement or mock me should lay aside that intention. Jobs change but I leave this one a better man than when I arrive and with some real accomplishments to my credit. I hold my head high, and any haters will be ignored.
I'm sorry to hear that.
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blueraven Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:10:57pm |
So sorry to hear D_F. Hope you find a much better job soon!
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austin_blue Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:11:13pm |
re: #36 Dark_Falcon
My employer let me go today. I'm not really surprised, since I specialized in defense conferences and there are none scheduled, and despite my team's best efforts, we weren't able to generate any business this month. Management didn't hate me, and they still respect me, but they don't need me anymore. But my unemployment will not be contested, and I've got co-workers who will give me references when I need them. So I should be able to be back to work before Thanksgiving, if not sooner. I am worried, but not terrified, for I know I did my utmost and only failed in not being able to climb a mountain no one could climb. My father understood what had happened and is supportive.
And any persons at other blogs intending to twist this statement or mock me should lay aside that intention. Jobs change but I leave this one a better man than when I arrive and with some real accomplishments to my credit. I hold my head high, and any haters will be ignored.
Hang in there, DF. Things are definitely improving, and you've got a resume
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William Barnett-Lewis Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:13:14pm |
re: #36 Dark_Falcon
Sounds like a good time to get certified as a High School history teacher :)
Good luck with whatever comes your way, DF.
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Dancing along the light of day Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:14:20pm |
re: #36 Dark_Falcon
Good workers are VERY hard to find. You are a good worker, and I hope that you find a better opportunity quickly!
(((DF)))
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Dark_Falcon Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:14:43pm |
re: #37 Mostly sane, most of the time.
I'm sorry to hear that.
With both a member of my team and my sister facing surgery for serious conditions at the start of this month, I prayed that they should receive any good fortune intended for me so that they could get through their surgeries and recover. I feel that God answered my prayers, as they both got through fine and are now on the mend. So if the price for their being OK was that I ended up losing my job, then I consider the price fair.
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Gus Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:15:10pm |
re: #36 Dark_Falcon
My employer let me go today. I'm not really surprised, since I specialized in defense conferences and there are none scheduled, and despite my team's best efforts, we weren't able to generate any business this month. Management didn't hate me, and they still respect me, but they don't need me anymore. But my unemployment will not be contested, and I've got co-workers who will give me references when I need them. So I should be able to be back to work before Thanksgiving, if not sooner. I am worried, but not terrified, for I know I did my utmost and only failed in not being able to climb a mountain no one could climb. My father understood what had happened and is supportive.
And any persons at other blogs intending to twist this statement or mock me should lay aside that intention. Jobs change but I leave this one a better man than when I arrive and with some real accomplishments to my credit. I hold my head high, and any haters will be ignored.
I think you're more than smart enough to find a successful outcome of this.
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freetoken Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:19:42pm |
re: #24 Stanley Sea
Manchester is a right wing nut, and he's taken the UT there.
I just use Yahoo for the local news aggregation.
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blueraven Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:21:17pm |
re: #42 Dark_Falcon
With both a member of my team and my sister facing surgery for serious conditions at the start of this month, I prayed that they should receive any good fortune intended for me so that they could get through their surgeries and recover. I feel that God answered my prayers, as they both got through fine and are now on the mend. So if the price for their being OK was that I ended up losing my job, then I consider the price fair.
I am not big on religion, but I dont think God operates like that.
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Mocking Jay Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:28:47pm |
"I could never wrap my head around why the world and the President that Republicans describe bears so little resemblance to the world and the President that I experience, and now I know why.
There is a President Obama that only Republicans can see."
Jon Stewart
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andres Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:31:52pm |
re: #36 Dark_Falcon
Sorry to hear that. May a good job find you soon.
re: #42 Dark_Falcon
With both a member of my team and my sister facing surgery for serious conditions at the start of this month, I prayed that they should receive any good fortune intended for me so that they could get through their surgeries and recover. I feel that God answered my prayers, as they both got through fine and are now on the mend. So if the price for their being OK was that I ended up losing my job, then I consider the price fair.
May their surgeries be successful, and their recoveries swift. My best wishes to all of you.
This is the measure of a great man, D_F. Whatever disagreements we might have, know that you have my respect.
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Dark_Falcon Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:32:19pm |
re: #45 blueraven
I am not big on religion, but I dont think God operates like that.
Maybe not, but I was more concerned with the lives and health of those who I care about than how well I sold a product. I still did my level best selling this month but if things had to go wrong for me this month, I'm glad I only lost my job instead of losing a sister or a friend.
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andres Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:33:20pm |
re: #45 blueraven
I am not big on religion, but I dont think God operates like that.
"God works in mysterious ways."
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Dark_Falcon Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:33:35pm |
re: #47 andres
Sorry to hear that. May a good job find you soon.
re: #42 Dark_Falcon
May their surgeries be successful, and their recoveries swift. My best wishes to all of you.
This is the measure of a great man, D_F. Whatever disagreements we might have, know that you have my respect.
Both surgeries successful, and their recoveries, though still in progress, go well.
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CuriousLurker Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:35:39pm |
re: #36 Dark_Falcon
Sorry to hear about your job loss {{D_F}}. Keep the faith, you'll find something better.
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CuriousLurker Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:37:29pm |
re: #8 Gus
Crap.
[Link: www.daylife.com...]
Aw, man. Alouette's gonna be disappointed—it'll be a lot harder to find SJS now.
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Gus Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:37:59pm |
re: #52 CuriousLurker
Aw, man. Alouette's gonna be disappointed—it'll be a lot harder to find SJS now.
Or SBS.
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Interesting Times Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:38:18pm |
Win:
To chair is human, to forgive is divan. #InsertChair— Tori Adams (@ToriAdams1) September 1, 2012
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Gus Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:42:24pm |
I was going to say. About religion. I try not to analyze much what other people believe. They have a right to privacy. I wouldn't question them in as such I wouldn't want to be questioned about my non-belief. Neither would I question them.
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CuriousLurker Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:43:22pm |
re: #55 Gus
I was going to say. About religion. I try not to analyze much what other people believe. They have a right to privacy. I wouldn't question them in as such I wouldn't want to be questioned about my non-belief. Neither would I question them.
Sounds good to me.
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Mich-again Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:43:56pm |
re: #36 Dark_Falcon
Well good luck and I hope things get back to normal soon. I know there are a lot of jobs for project managers and engineers around here. Turns out that domestic high tech manufacturing can be more profitable than off-shoring.
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Interesting Times Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:44:49pm |
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Obdicut Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:45:28pm |
re: #56 Gus
If we hold actors to high standards of behavior, we'll have very boring actors.
I mean, this guy rules:
Image: a3517dbbcc5a4a11bfa4c6b77f6e5215.jpg
and has done tons of fucked-up shit.
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andres Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:45:34pm |
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Gus Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:46:34pm |
re: #63 andres
Chair up, mate!
// ducks for such a lame pune...
Throws chair in the room and starts shooting!
POW! POW! POW!
Anyone seen... him?
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Gus Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:47:54pm |
re: #62 Obdicut
If we hold actors to high standards of behavior, we'll have very boring actors.
I mean, this guy rules:
Image: a3517dbbcc5a4a11bfa4c6b77f6e5215.jpg
and has done tons of fucked-up shit.
Yes. We're all sinners.
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Obdicut Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:48:09pm |
re: #63 andres
Chair up, mate!
// ducks for such a lame pune...
I think you stool that joke from somewhere.
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Lidane Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:48:33pm |
re: #46 Mocking Jay
"I could never wrap my head around why the world and the President that Republicans describe bears so little resemblance to the world and the President that I experience, and now I know why.
There is a President Obama that only Republicans can see."
Jon Stewart
Yeah. It definitely explained a lot.
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Gus Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:48:46pm |
re: #66 Obdicut
I think you stool that joke from somewhere.
I'm going to sit in the love seat.
-- Dick Morris
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Lidane Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:50:11pm |
re: #62 Obdicut
If we hold actors to high standards of behavior, we'll have very boring actors.
I mean, this guy rules:
Image: a3517dbbcc5a4a11bfa4c6b77f6e5215.jpg
and has done tons of fucked-up shit.
That guy is living proof that no matter how much stupid and/or fucked up shit you do in your life, there's always a way out. I have a ton of respect for him both as an actor and a human being.
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Obdicut Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:50:17pm |
re: #68 Gus
I'm going to sit in the love seat.
-- Dick Morris
I'm trying to work 'antimacassar' into a joke and it's just not working.
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Interesting Times Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:51:00pm |
Did Todd Akin start this hashtag? o_O
# ReplaceBandNamesWithRape (yes, I deliberately broke the auto-link to it because ewww)
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Gus Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:51:27pm |
re: #70 Obdicut
I'm trying to work 'antimacassar' into a joke and it's just not working.
I'll be love tweeting tonight with my thoughts on the convention. #GOP2012— Dick Morris (@DickMorrisTweet) August 31, 2012
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Dark_Falcon Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:52:02pm |
re: #67 Lidane
Yeah. It definitely explained a lot.
There was also a George W. Bush that only those who hated him could see. I think this is common with president or anyone else who attracts haters.
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Mich-again Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:52:07pm |
re: #55 Gus
I was going to say. About religion. I try not to analyze much what other people believe. They have a right to privacy.
The best way to evangelize your faith is to just live the example and not even talk about religion. Good examples inspire others more than words ever could.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:52:27pm |
re: #69 Lidane
That guy is living proof that no matter how much stupid and/or fucked up shit you do in your life, there's always a way out. I have a ton of respect for him both as an actor and a human being.
He's had some good laughs at himself, too.
My favorite is: "I'm allergic to alcohol. I break out in handcuffs."
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Interesting Times Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:53:49pm |
re: #72 Gus
[Embedded content]
♫ Sending love tweets
From the love seat
Love tweets, bay-beee
Love tweets, baby! ♫
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Mich-again Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:55:03pm |
re: #69 Lidane
That guy is living proof that no matter how much stupid and/or fucked up shit you do in your life, there's always a way out. I have a ton of respect for him both as an actor and a human being.
I was glad to find out you weren't defending Gary Busey. Because that guy is f*ed up.
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Gus Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:55:29pm |
re: #76 Interesting Times
♫ Sending love tweets
From the love seat
Love tweets, bay-beee
Love tweets, baby! ♫
Poor Dick. He was really good in the Clinton years. Now he's washed up.
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Gus Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:55:48pm |
pros·e·lyt·ize/ˈpräsələˌtīz/
Verb:
Convert or attempt to convert (someone) from one religion, belief, or opinion to another.
Advocate or promote (a belief or course of action): "Davis wanted to proselytize his ideas".
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Lidane Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:56:01pm |
re: #75 Mostly sane, most of the time.
He's had some good laughs at himself, too.
My favorite is: "I'm allergic to alcohol. I break out in handcuffs."
I actually added one of his quotes to my FB profile: "Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever the fuck you were gonna do anyway."
I think it's good advice. :)
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Lidane Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:58:34pm |
re: #77 Mich-again
I was glad to find out you weren't defending Gary Busey. Because that guy is f*ed up.
Gary Busey is absolutely bugfuck insane. I don't care what he says, he's not sober, or if he is, whatever he took fried his brain permanently.
Robert Downey Jr., OTOH, has not only revived his career, but I think he's a better actor now and a much cooler person than he ever was back in the 80's and 90's. It's amazing what can happen when someone hits bottom and claws their way back out again.
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William Barnett-Lewis Fri, Aug 31, 2012 9:02:11pm |
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Mich-again Fri, Aug 31, 2012 9:03:03pm |
I'll be love tweeting tonight with my thoughts on the convention. #GOP2012
Dick will be love tweeting with his thoughts tonight. Thanks for the warning.
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Gus Fri, Aug 31, 2012 9:03:26pm |
I remember getting into a squabble when I posted Leonard Nimoy's "Shekhina" exhibition.
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Gus Fri, Aug 31, 2012 9:04:16pm |
re: #84 William Barnett-Lewis
Shouldn't that be, "we are all sitters"?
I am not my brother's sitter.
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blueraven Fri, Aug 31, 2012 9:05:00pm |
re: #81 Lidane
Gary Busey is absolutely bugfuck insane. I don't care what he says, he's not sober, or if he is, whatever he took fried his brain permanently.
Robert Downey Jr., OTOH, has not only revived his career, but I think he's a better actor now and a much cooler person than he ever was back in the 80's and 90's. It's amazing what can happen when someone hits bottom and claws their way back out again.
I am always amazed at how many movies he has managed considering all his issues with drugs.
One of my favorites is a somewhat overlooked movie about redemption
Restoration
He is simply, one of the best.
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Fri, Aug 31, 2012 9:07:51pm |
re: #36 Dark_Falcon
My employer let me go today. I'm not really surprised, since I specialized in defense conferences and there are none scheduled, and despite my team's best efforts, we weren't able to generate any business this month. Management didn't hate me, and they still respect me, but they don't need me anymore. But my unemployment will not be contested, and I've got co-workers who will give me references when I need them. So I should be able to be back to work before Thanksgiving, if not sooner. I am worried, but not terrified, for I know I did my utmost and only failed in not being able to climb a mountain no one could climb. My father understood what had happened and is supportive.
And any persons at other blogs intending to twist this statement or mock me should lay aside that intention. Jobs change but I leave this one a better man than when I arrive and with some real accomplishments to my credit. I hold my head high, and any haters will be ignored.
Hang in D_F. Onward, upward and all that. Best wishes.
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Fri, Aug 31, 2012 9:12:08pm |
re: #62 Obdicut
If we hold actors to high standards of behavior, we'll have very boring actors.
I mean, this guy rules:
Image: a3517dbbcc5a4a11bfa4c6b77f6e5215.jpg
and has done tons of fucked-up shit.
Judge, I have a gun in my mouth, and I love the taste of metal. (paraphrasing, but fuck, that was insane.)
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Interesting Times Fri, Aug 31, 2012 9:12:38pm |
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Fri, Aug 31, 2012 9:13:34pm |
re: #70 Obdicut
I'm trying to work 'antimacassar' into a joke and it's just not working.
Cossack, er footstool, should work somehow.
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freetoken Fri, Aug 31, 2012 9:22:54pm |
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freetoken Fri, Aug 31, 2012 9:25:45pm |
re: #88 blueraven
One of my favorites is a somewhat overlooked movie about redemption
Restoration
I liked that movie quite a bit, and thought it was under-viewed. But it came out at a time when Sense and Sensibility stole the show, for those who would go to a movie of a drama set previous centuries. While the latter is a great movie in its own right, I thought Restoration was more arty and fun.
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Gus Fri, Aug 31, 2012 9:28:05pm |
re: #95 freetoken
Leonard Nimoy, who Jonah Goldberg calls a maker of "pornography", because of those nudes - which pretty much says all one needs to about Goldberg (and NR).
Yet they're all excited about Jenna Jameson allegedly endorsing Mitt Romney? What gives? Is she punking them? I know there's a lot of closet cases on the right.
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abolitionist Fri, Aug 31, 2012 9:29:31pm |
re: #81 Lidane
Gary Busey is absolutely bugfuck insane. I don't care what he says, he's not sober, or if he is, whatever he took fried his brain permanently.[snip]
I have to admit, he did alright by Buddy Holly. And a performance art video from a few years ago on the subject of greenhouse gas emissions was hilarious. (IIRC he was peddling butt plugs for livestock to rural farmers, and offering free demos.) As for his brain, some reports of a motorcycle accident involving a curb may be relevent.
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freetoken Fri, Aug 31, 2012 9:30:55pm |
One thing about Restoration which I remember is the quality of the film, by which I mean the actual film medium. The choice of film stock really showed off well the colorful set and clothes, and the techniques of photography and reproduction, in an era before all-digital movies made it one of the cleanest and richest of viewing experiences in a non-animation film.
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freetoken Fri, Aug 31, 2012 9:33:27pm |
re: #97 Gus
Yet they're all excited about Jenna Jameson allegedly endorsing Mitt Romney? What gives? Is she punking them? I know there's a lot of closet cases on the right.
Perhaps.
And yes, there are lots and lots of closets in the GOP mansion.
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freetoken Fri, Aug 31, 2012 9:34:01pm |
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SanFranciscoZionist Fri, Aug 31, 2012 9:38:44pm |
re: #36 Dark_Falcon
My employer let me go today. I'm not really surprised, since I specialized in defense conferences and there are none scheduled, and despite my team's best efforts, we weren't able to generate any business this month. Management didn't hate me, and they still respect me, but they don't need me anymore. But my unemployment will not be contested, and I've got co-workers who will give me references when I need them. So I should be able to be back to work before Thanksgiving, if not sooner. I am worried, but not terrified, for I know I did my utmost and only failed in not being able to climb a mountain no one could climb. My father understood what had happened and is supportive.
And any persons at other blogs intending to twist this statement or mock me should lay aside that intention. Jobs change but I leave this one a better man than when I arrive and with some real accomplishments to my credit. I hold my head high, and any haters will be ignored.
I'm so sorry.
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Mich-again Fri, Aug 31, 2012 9:38:56pm |
re: #101 freetoken
Fill in the skank..
"When you enjoy getting _____ at work you want a Republican in office..
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SanFranciscoZionist Fri, Aug 31, 2012 9:40:02pm |
re: #50 Dark_Falcon
Both surgeries successful, and their recoveries, though still in progress, go well.
Thank God for that. Let it give you strength as you sort the job thing out.
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SanFranciscoZionist Fri, Aug 31, 2012 9:40:44pm |
re: #56 Gus
I'm gonna forgive Clint.
I don't feel I have anything to forgive Clint for. He was the best thing at the convention.
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Kragar Fri, Aug 31, 2012 9:43:28pm |
re: #103 Mich-again
Fill in the skank..
"When you enjoy getting _____ at work you want a Republican in office..
"When you enjoy dying off as a species, you want a Republican in office."
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Gus Fri, Aug 31, 2012 9:45:17pm |
re: #105 SanFranciscoZionist
I don't feel I have anything to forgive Clint for. He was the best thing at the convention.
I know one thing. His skit was the only thing I heard of this convention.
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MittDoesNotCompute Fri, Aug 31, 2012 9:46:48pm |
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Mich-again Fri, Aug 31, 2012 9:48:52pm |
re: #105 SanFranciscoZionist
I don't feel I have anything to forgive Clint for. He was the best thing at the convention.
No doubt. Funny that I thought it would be the Paul delegates who would disrupt the show. Who would have thunk the VIP that Mitt invited would derail the train.
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Mich-again Fri, Aug 31, 2012 9:51:22pm |
re: #106 Kragar
"When you enjoy dying off as a species, you want a Republican in office."
black lung, no health care, pink slips, harassed by the boss, no pension...
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SanFranciscoZionist Fri, Aug 31, 2012 9:53:16pm |
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dragonath Fri, Aug 31, 2012 9:57:07pm |
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Gus Fri, Aug 31, 2012 9:59:06pm |
re: #111 SanFranciscoZionist
Well, he's Clint Eastwood. He's a hard act to follow.
I do know that Bill signed off on the DOMA. I just watch and eat popcorn mostly.
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Kragar Fri, Aug 31, 2012 10:01:30pm |
re: #110 Mich-again
black lung, no health care, pink slips, harassed by the boss, no pension...
poisoned water supplies, no regulation to protect environments, no plan for global warming...
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freetoken Fri, Aug 31, 2012 10:02:28pm |
For tonight's entertainment, we present one of the old warhorses of music, Tchaikovsky's 4th symphony, the last two parts, which really ought to be listened one after another to appreciate both:
(note that you'll have to turn up the volume - in using iTunes I have to add a 9 db gain via the equalizer)
This is from an old recording, but one considered highly. The conductor was Wilhem Furtwangler, an icon of sorts among classical music fans.
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Lidane Fri, Aug 31, 2012 10:03:22pm |
re: #105 SanFranciscoZionist
I don't feel I have anything to forgive Clint for. He was the best thing at the convention.
What's to forgive? Clint's rambling weirdness didn't personally affect me. If anything, it's the only takeaway from the RNC that I'll remember, apart from Paul Ryan being a liar and the socons and Paulians flipping their shit about delegate rule changes.
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jaunte Fri, Aug 31, 2012 10:05:48pm |
Just saw an ad for Clint Eastwood's new movie "Trouble with the Curve."
Right after Jon Stewart's Daily Show segment talking about his RNC convention performance (The Old man and the Seat).
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Lidane Fri, Aug 31, 2012 10:11:46pm |
re: #108 Gert Fröbe
Seeing as Clint stole the show at the RNC, Mitt is well and truly boned.
Good.
Romney HQ has to be pissed and spitting nails about that. Mitt has been running for POTUS for the better part of the decade and when he finally gets to accept his party's nomination, the only thing anyone can talk about is Clint Eastwood yelling at an empty chair.
He should be the center of attention coming out of the RNC and into the DNC, but it's all about Invisible Obama and Old Man Yells At Chair. That has to suck.
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Mich-again Fri, Aug 31, 2012 10:14:10pm |
re: #117 Gus
So many great songs from them and this one is right up there, the best video for sure. The Wasting Light CD is incredible from beginning to end. They just keep getting better.
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Kragar Fri, Aug 31, 2012 10:16:18pm |
Fun fact: A scrapping tool which rolls off a table and falls appx 3 feet has got the ability to puncture the skin on the top of the foot.
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freetoken Fri, Aug 31, 2012 10:17:55pm |
re: #121 Kragar
You'd be the right person to ask this: do you know of a relatively inexpensive source for a kit of riffler files?
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jaunte Fri, Aug 31, 2012 10:19:37pm |
re: #121 Kragar
I was once a modeler, before I took an X-acto to the knee.
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freetoken Fri, Aug 31, 2012 10:20:05pm |
Per Paul Ryan's analysis of Mitt's iPod, here is some music for said iPod - Mantovani at his mostest over the toppest:
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Kragar Fri, Aug 31, 2012 10:22:05pm |
re: #122 freetoken
You'd be the right person to ask this: do you know of a relatively inexpensive source for a kit of riffler files?
I actually get my files from a guy at a swap meet up in L.A. most of the time.
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freetoken Fri, Aug 31, 2012 10:25:07pm |
re: #125 Kragar
I actually get my files from a guy at a swap meet up in L.A. most of the time.
Ok... so you trade in stolen goods... a good idea for me to save some money. RioGrande wants $120 for a set of 6 German made riffler files.
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Mich-again Fri, Aug 31, 2012 10:26:19pm |
re: #121 Kragar
Fun fact: A scrapping tool which rolls off a table and falls appx 3 feet has got the ability to puncture the skin on the top of the foot.
Well a 3' free fall means it took about 0.4 seconds during which time the tool accelerated to a velocity of about 15 feet per second which is oh about 15 mph. so yeah if it had a sharp edge it would have enough momentum to puncture skin.
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Kragar Fri, Aug 31, 2012 10:32:22pm |
re: #127 Mich-again
Well a 3' free fall means it took about 0.4 seconds during which time the tool accelerated to a velocity of about 15 feet per second which is oh about 15 mph. so yeah if it had a sharp edge it would have enough momentum to puncture skin.
only heavier with a rubber grip.
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simoom Fri, Aug 31, 2012 10:38:18pm |
Paul Ryan claims in a Hugh Hewitt interview to have run a sub-three hour marathon. Running enthusiasts were extremely skeptical, and it turns out they were right to be:
[Link: www.hughhewitt.com...]
My interview with Paul Ryan today was brief and interrupted cell phone failure, but interesting nonetheless.
...
I was also surprised to hear Ryan has run a sub-3 hour marathon. Add another interest group to the list of groups like Catholics, hunters and Miami of Ohio grads who are going to connect easily with this candidate.
...
HH: Are you still running?
PR: Yeah, I hurt a disc in my back, so I don’t run marathons anymore. I just run ten miles or yes.
HH: But you did run marathons at some point?
PR: Yeah, but I can’t do it anymore, because my back is just not that great.
HH: I’ve just gotta ask, what’s your personal best?
PR: Under three, high twos. I had a two hour and fifty-something.
HH: Holy smokes. All right, now you go down to Miami University…
PR: I was fast when I was younger, yeah.
[Link: news.runnersworld.com...]
Runner's World has been unable to find any marathon results by Ryan. Requests for more information from Ryan's Washington and Wisconsin offices, and from the Romney-Ryan campaign, have so far gone unanswered.
If Ryan has broken 3:00, he'd be the fastest marathoner to be on a national ticket.
...
In an e-mail to Runner's World last night, Tom Derderian, author of Boston Marathon, said, "It is very hard to prove a negative, but in doing my research I read every account in every newspaper about the Boston Marathon. I would have seen and noted that a US Senator ran."
And then:
Updated 7:20 pm
A spokesman for the Romney-Ryan campaign e-mailed Runner's World today to say Ryan ran Grandma's Marathon in Duluth, Minnesota, while a college student in 1991....
Ryan's name does not show up in the 1991 race results provided by Grandma's. Runner's World checked 11 years of results for Grandma's Marathon, from 1988 through 1998, and found a finisher in the 1990 race by the name of Paul D. Ryan, 20, of Minneapolis.
Ryan's middle name is Davis, and he was 20 in 1990. The finishing time listed was 4 hours, 1 minute and 25 seconds.
We are awaiting confirmation from the Ryan camp that the vice presidential nominee is the Paul D. Ryan listed in the race results – and, if he is, whether he ran any other marathons faster than 4:01:25.
And finally, they fessed up:
Updated 12:29 am
It turns out Paul Ryan has not run a marathon in less than three hours—or even less than four hours....
In a statement issued to Runner's World by a spokesman Friday night, Ryan said of his marathon experience:
"The race was more than 20 years ago, but my brother Tobin—who ran Boston last year—reminds me that he is the owner of the fastest marathon in the family and has never himself ran a sub-three. If I were to do any rounding, it would certainly be to four hours, not three. He gave me a good ribbing over this at dinner tonight."
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jaunte Fri, Aug 31, 2012 10:43:00pm |
re: #129 simoom
HH: I’ve just gotta ask, what’s your personal best?
PR: Under three, high twos. I had a two hour and fifty-something.
Maybe he was thinking of Romney's record for holding a position.
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freetoken Fri, Aug 31, 2012 10:44:26pm |
re: #129 simoom
Remember, the campaign is not about fact-checking.
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Kragar Fri, Aug 31, 2012 10:47:33pm |
re: #129 simoom
Paul Ryan claims in a Hugh Hewitt interview to have run a sub-three hour marathon. Running enthusiasts were extremely skeptical, and it turns out they were right to be:
[Link: www.hughhewitt.com...]
[Link: news.runnersworld.com...]
And then:
And finally, they fessed up:
"I ran a marathon in 3 hours! Can you believe it?"
"Not really."
"Would you believe 4 hours?"
"um, no."
"Would you believe I once strolled at a quick pace?"
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HappyWarrior Fri, Aug 31, 2012 10:47:39pm |
re: #129 simoom
Paul Ryan claims in a Hugh Hewitt interview to have run a sub-three hour marathon. Running enthusiasts were extremely skeptical, and it turns out they were right to be:
[Link: www.hughhewitt.com...]
[Link: news.runnersworld.com...]
And then:
And finally, they fessed up:
Not that I really care but what's the point in fudging the numbers. I don't think anyone is going to think any less of him for running a marathon in four hours. I can't ever imagine running one and I'd be saying that if I didn't have a heart condition.
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blueraven Fri, Aug 31, 2012 10:49:50pm |
re: #129 simoom
Paul Ryan claims in a Hugh Hewitt interview to have run a sub-three hour marathon. Running enthusiasts were extremely skeptical, and it turns out they were right to be:
[Link: www.hughhewitt.com...]
[Link: news.runnersworld.com...]
And then:
And finally, they fessed up:
Natural born liar I guess.
Why? Why would anyone lie on national TV or radio, especially in this day of instantly available info, and about something so trivial?
Compulsive maybe.
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HappyWarrior Fri, Aug 31, 2012 10:57:55pm |
re: #135 jaunte
Character.
Yeah, I can see that. I've read why he likes to keep in top physical shape. Having heart problems in my own gene pool, I can't blame him.
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simoom Fri, Aug 31, 2012 11:07:16pm |
Romney has a history of pointless & trivial fibs as well. For example:
[Link: blog.thephoenix.com...]
Earlier this week Red Sox season-ticket holder Mitt Romney gave a national network interview at Fenway Park. This led someone to bring to my attention that Romney, who was governor at the time, was there at Fenway Park for the historic championship-clinching Game 4 of the 2004 World Series. Or at least, he told an Air Force pilot he was:
When he told me he was Massachusett's governor, I politely asked him to leave the flight deck, declaring the cockpit off limits to all Red Sox fans. He laughed and made a few cracks my way, regarding the Yanks, and we hit it off pretty well. I asked him if he was at Fenway when the Sox finally won the World Series, and with a huge boyish grin he replied, "Yes I was."
No, he wasn't. I could go to a lot of trouble proving to you that Romney was actually in New Hampshire campaigning for George W. Bush that day, but it doesn't really matter because -- as every New Englander has been screaming while reading this post -- Game 4 was played at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri.
...
If you haven't seen the brilliant Woody Allen film, Zelig is so desperate to fit in, he physically transforms to match the people he is around at a given time.
Romney is helplessly addicted to this type of lying, often trivial, sometimes not. I've witnessed it myself many times, and former Romney aides have expressed their frustration about it to me.
And:
Suddenly, a heavyset man wearing a bright-orange cap entered the room. “Mr. Romney,” he called out. “Eric Orff—I’m a hunter.” It was a potentially awkward moment. Earlier this year, Romney claimed that he’d “been a hunter pretty much all my life.” A few days later, he said in a statement, “I’ve hunted small game numerous times.” Four days after that, Romney told W. Gardner Selby, of the Austin American-Statesman, “Any description of my being a hunter is an overstatement of capability.”
Still, he couldn’t resist. “You’re a hunter?” he said to Orff. “Well, same here. Good to see ya.”
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Mentis Fugit Fri, Aug 31, 2012 11:09:05pm |
re: #70 Obdicut
I'm trying to work 'antimacassar' into a joke and it's just not working.
You Ottoman-age it somehow.
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Kragar Fri, Aug 31, 2012 11:11:56pm |
Cool, the sequel to John dies at the end comes out in a month.
This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It
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HappyWarrior Fri, Aug 31, 2012 11:13:08pm |
re: #138 simoom
Romney has a history of pointless & trivial fibs as well. For example:
[Link: blog.thephoenix.com...]
No, he wasn't. I could go to a lot of trouble proving to you that Romney was actually in New Hampshire campaigning for George W. Bush that day, but it doesn't really matter because -- as every New Englander has been screaming while reading this post -- Game 4 was played at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri.
...
If you haven't seen the brilliant Woody Allen film, Zelig is so desperate to fit in, he physically transforms to match the people he is around at a given time.
Romney is helplessly addicted to this type of lying, often trivial, sometimes not. I've witnessed it myself many times, and former Romney aides have expressed their frustration about it to me.
And:
Easier to say you were at the most important baseball game the home state team has had in over 90 years than admitting you were campaigning for a guy who was not just unpopular in your state but also who your party runs away from. I just don't get the point of bsing like this when it's so easy to verify otherwise. I mean as I said about Ryan, no one outside a total dick is going to think any less of him for not running a marathon in the short length he claimed he did.
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researchok Fri, Aug 31, 2012 11:17:32pm |
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AK-47% Fri, Aug 31, 2012 11:27:44pm |
re: #101 freetoken
Yunno, a lot of gays are financially well off: without a family to derail their careers, without the necessary investment in diapers, kids' clothing, mortgage on that four-bedroom home in a neighborhood with good schools, and college funds, they have a lot more potential to amass reasonable fortunes by investing.
All of which should make them a lot more amenable to the GOP's low-tax, small government approach.
Except for the fact that the GOP sees them as hideous abominations under God and a threat to the moral fabric of our nation.
It's the GOP's loss in the end...
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researchok Fri, Aug 31, 2012 11:33:10pm |
re: #115 freetoken
The word 'rousing finish' come to mind.
Good choice-and a pretty good recording given when it was made.
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researchok Fri, Aug 31, 2012 11:43:36pm |
re: #124 freetoken
I was hoping for something a bit more dramatic.
/
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freetoken Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:06:40am |
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Kragar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:12:23am |
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Kragar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:15:57am |
David Bowie & The Arcade Fire - Wake Up
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EdDantes Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:39:05am |
My first post of September. I was born in a cardboard box. My mom wanted kittens.
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researchok Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:41:14am |
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Kragar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:42:20am |
re: #150 EdDantes
My first post of September. I was born in a cardboard box. My mom wanted kittens.
You reminded me of one of my favorite movie scenes
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researchok Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:43:24am |
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sagehen Sat, Sep 1, 2012 2:10:05am |
re: #143 Expand Your Ground
Yunno, a lot of gays are financially well off: without a family to derail their careers, without the necessary investment in diapers, kids' clothing, mortgage on that four-bedroom home in a neighborhood with good schools, and college funds, they have a lot more potential to amass reasonable fortunes by investing.
All of which should make them a lot more amenable to the GOP's low-tax, small government approach.
Except for the fact that the GOP sees them as hideous abominations under God and a threat to the moral fabric of our nation.
It's the GOP's loss in the end...
Same for ethnic minorities.
There's a metric fuckton of conservative black people in this country -- neocon in their foreign policy outlook, anti-regulation, anti-tax, anti-abortion, pro-gun. They'd love to be able to vote for the party that agrees with them on these issues, but voter suppression is the dealbreaker. So we end up with Mitt Romney's share of the black vote being less than the poll's margin of error.
With Hispanics, it's demands to carry your birth certificate with you at all times, be prepared to repeatedly prove you have a right to exist in this space... and by the way, we're going to deport your mother. Not a winning argument.
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BongCrodny Sat, Sep 1, 2012 3:44:25am |
re: #118 jaunte
Just saw an ad for Clint Eastwood's new movie "Trouble with the Curve."
Given their problems with women, that could be the motto of the Republican Party.
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Sep 1, 2012 4:45:11am |
re: #155 sagehen
I'm going to disagree on the matter of black people, at least this time around. They'd vote for Obama no matter how welcoming the GOP was to them, since he is a source of (justifiable) pride for them.
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Obdicut Sat, Sep 1, 2012 4:54:04am |
re: #158 Dark_Falcon
Stupid as fuck, Dark. Why the hell do you think:
A) You can generalize about the politics of black people
B) You can generalize about the emotions of black people.
Hell, if the GOP were more welcoming of black people, they might have a (non-kooky) black candidate.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 4:58:24am |
re: #159 Obdicut
Stupid as fuck, Dark. Why the hell do you think:
A) You can generalize about the politics of black people
B) You can generalize about the emotions of black people.
Hell, if the GOP were more welcoming of black people, they might have a (non-kooky) black candidate.
Yea. That has worked in the past. Promises, promises.
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McSpiff Sat, Sep 1, 2012 5:01:05am |
re: #158 Dark_Falcon
I'm going to disagree on the matter of black people, at least this time around. They'd vote for Obama no matter how welcoming the GOP was to them, since he is a source of (justifiable) pride for them.
So you're voting for Mitt because he's the same race as you?
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Jadewater Sat, Sep 1, 2012 5:01:09am |
re: #158 Dark_Falcon
I'm going to disagree on the matter of black people, at least this time around. They'd vote for Obama no matter how welcoming the GOP was to them, since he is a source of (justifiable) pride for them.
If you take the time to wander around the net you'll find quite number of 'black' people who are quite critical of Obama and don't particularly like his policies. Having pride that a black guy has finally been elected doesn't mean that they actually have to agree with him and give him carte blanche. That's like saying women, would just vote for a woman prez because we all share vaginas.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 5:10:53am |
re: #162 McSpiff
So you're voting for Mitt because he's the same race as you?
I am. Because I hate black people. (not gonna enter a sarc tag because I know how this will end)
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McSpiff Sat, Sep 1, 2012 5:15:08am |
re: #165 Cannadian Club Akbar
People are fucking stoopid.
"Black people are just going to vote for the black guy anyways" is bigoted trash that has no place in political discourse. It implies that an entire race can't understand politics beyond the most base levels. If you want to try to defend that then yes, I suspect you don't like black people very much. I'd also tell you and Dork to fuck off.
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Obdicut Sat, Sep 1, 2012 5:16:08am |
re: #160 Cannadian Club Akbar
Yea. That has worked in the past. Promises, promises.
I'm sorry, I'm not following you.
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Obdicut Sat, Sep 1, 2012 5:22:44am |
The idea of the GOP suddenly throwing off the racism it's been wrapping itself in at this point is mythical anyway.
It'd be like the GOP suddenly rejecting the religious extremists.
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A Mom Anon Sat, Sep 1, 2012 5:25:03am |
re: #163 Jadewater
Thank you Jadewater. Come on Dark,you should know better than this. Every one of us is an individual,despite similarities- be they gender,race,religion or whatever.
People may vote as a block,but it's terribly unfair to assume every person in particular category thinks and feels exactly alike. Not to mention how superficial the assumption is that skin color trumps all else. You're basically assuming that the black community can't think beyond skin color when choosing elected office holders. Really?
(btw, I am sorry to hear of your job loss. I still think you'd be a great history teacher,you should look into it, your love of the subject could inspire alot of young people who think history is boring)
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 5:25:47am |
re: #166 McSpiff
"Black people are just going to vote for the black guy anyways" is bigoted trash that has no place in political discourse. It implies that an entire race can't understand politics beyond the most base levels. If you want to try to defend that then yes, I suspect you don't like black people very much. I'd also tell you and Dork to fuck off.
I never said that. So fuck you.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 5:32:19am |
I am only a racist because I said the word Chicago....[Link: communities.washingtontimes.com...]
dumb mother fucker...
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Sep 1, 2012 5:34:22am |
re: #166 McSpiff
"Black people are just going to vote for the black guy anyways" is bigoted trash that has no place in political discourse. It implies that an entire race can't understand politics beyond the most base levels. If you want to try to defend that then yes, I suspect you don't like black people very much. I'd also tell you and Dork to fuck off.
I really did not mean it that way. What I was trying to say was that most black people are whom i have spoken to on the matter do take Obama's 2008 election as a source of pride and acceptance by America. They thus take Republican promises to repudiate Obama's furniture accomplishments as repudiation of the victory that made so pleased them.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 5:36:27am |
re: #173 Dark_Falcon
I really did not mean it that way. What I was trying to say was that most black people are whom i have spoken to on the matter do take Obama's 2008 election as a source of pride and acceptance by America. They thus take Republican promises to repudiate Obama's furniture accomplishments as repudiation of the victory that made so pleased them.
Dems make promises when don't deliver.
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sagehen Sat, Sep 1, 2012 5:36:52am |
re: #166 McSpiff
"Black people are just going to vote for the black guy anyways" is bigoted trash that has no place in political discourse. It implies that an entire race can't understand politics beyond the most base levels. If you want to try to defend that then yes, I suspect you don't like black people very much. I'd also tell you and Dork to fuck off.
It's also provably untrue.
Michael Steele, Alan Keyes, JC Watt, Ken Blackwell and other black Republicans didn't get any more black votes than the other Republicans in their districts.
In Democratic primaries, Steve Cohen (white, Jewish) trounced Nikki Tinker (black, Christian) in an overwhelmingly black christian district in Memphis. He was ahead by a little bit when she tried to make race and religion a campaign issue, and the voters recoiled in horror. It ended up being something like 85-15.
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Sep 1, 2012 5:37:07am |
Sorry it took so long for me to reply. I was over at the "Irene and Mark Harris DERP about EPCOT Center" page writing a somewhat long post and did not get back here till the discussion had gone on a ways.
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Sep 1, 2012 5:38:24am |
re: #174 Cannadian Club Akbar
Dems make promises when don't deliver.
Use the pencil and edit. That comment is unintelligible as it stands.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 5:40:32am |
re: #177 Dark_Falcon
Use the pencil and edit. That comment is unintelligible as it stands.
And they don't deliver.
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Decatur Deb Sat, Sep 1, 2012 6:01:21am |
re: #178 Cannadian Club Akbar
And they don't deliver.
Hey CCA, My daughter delivered. She made it into and out of St. Pete, but had to do two 4-hr needle sessions. If the guy doesn't reject her stem cells, she won't have to do the needle-to-the-hip phase.
If I hadn't fallen out of a deuce and a half in 1965, a guy would die in Tampa next month. Weird.
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Obdicut Sat, Sep 1, 2012 6:03:46am |
re: #173 Dark_Falcon
I really did not mean it that way. What I was trying to say was that most black people are whom i have spoken to on the matter do take Obama's 2008 election as a source of pride and acceptance by America. They thus take Republican promises to repudiate Obama's furniture accomplishments as repudiation of the victory that made so pleased them.
This is still a massively fucked-up way of looking at it. You're choosing to look at this through the lens of pride, as though that's the only goddamn motivator.
The anti-black policies of the GOP are the reason why most blacks don't vote GOP. It's fucking simple. That's why Obama's share of the black vote in the national election was extremely close to Kerry's.
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Sep 1, 2012 6:04:10am |
re: #179 Decatur Deb
Hey CCA, My daughter delivered. She made it into and out of St. Pete, but had to do two 4-hr needle sessions. If the guy doesn't reject her stem cells, she won't have to do the needle-to-the-hip phase.
If I hadn't fallen out of a deuce and a half in 1965, a guy would die in Tampa next month. Weird.
Could you explain this situation a bit more, please? I'm missing some background.
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prairiefire Sat, Sep 1, 2012 6:04:55am |
Happy weekend! Driving over to St. Louie today to visit family and my gay boyfriend. We were glad for all the rain from Isaac!
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Decatur Deb Sat, Sep 1, 2012 6:08:56am |
re: #181 Dark_Falcon
Could you explain this situation a bit more, please? I'm missing some background.
Been having a morning dialogue with CCA, my native guide, about
Daughter1's trip to a Tampa clinic to give stemcells/bone marrow. My 4 kids only exist because I fell out of an Army truck. It's complicated, and meaningless in the end.
Sucks about your work. It's very important to maintain a very high level of activity right now. March or die.
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Varek Raith Sat, Sep 1, 2012 6:09:03am |
Couldn't possibly have anything to do with anything.
Nope!
[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Sep 1, 2012 6:32:09am |
re: #183 Decatur Deb
Been having a morning dialogue with CCA, my native guide, about
Daughter1's trip to a Tampa clinic to give stemcells/bone marrow. My 4 kids only exist because I fell out of an Army truck. It's complicated, and meaningless in the end.Sucks about your work. It's very important to maintain a very high level of activity right now. March or die.
Very apt that you add that line, given that I was reading Jerry Pournelle's West of Honor earlier this week.
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Mocking Jay Sat, Sep 1, 2012 6:39:28am |
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Mocking Jay Sat, Sep 1, 2012 6:39:43am |
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Varek Raith Sat, Sep 1, 2012 6:39:46am |
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Decatur Deb Sat, Sep 1, 2012 6:44:29am |
re: #185 Dark_Falcon
Very apt that you add that line, given that I was reading Jerry Pournelle's West of Honor earlier this week.
Don't know the sci-fi, the motto sticks form a Foreign Legion story somewhere, also used in a Gene Hackman FL movie. One of our small airborne units working out of Italy also uses it.
This would be a good time to do a 90 degree career change if you're young enough. DoD is due for a cyclic dry-out no matter who wins the election. Sounds like you could work the business or even leisure environments-- "conference-in-a-can". The greatest joy of course is to go into competition with your old shop.
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Sep 1, 2012 6:57:54am |
re: #189 Decatur Deb
Don't know the sci-fi, the motto sticks form a Foreign Legion story somewhere, also used in a Gene Hackman FL movie. One of our small airborne units working out of Italy also uses it.
This would be a good time to do a 90 degree career change if you're young enough. DoD is due for a cyclic dry-out no matter who wins the election. Sounds like you could work the business or even leisure environments-- "conference-in-a-can". The greatest joy of course is to go into competition with your old shop.
I'm 34, so a bit too old for a massive change, and my background is now firmly established in sales. I may be able to move a bit towards customer service or business development, though. I'm seeing what's available and acting accordingly.
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darthstar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 7:04:08am |
Mornin' everyone.
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Decatur Deb Sat, Sep 1, 2012 7:07:34am |
re: #190 Dark_Falcon
I'm 34, so a bit too old for a massive change, and my background is now firmly established in sales. I may be able to move a bit towards customer service or business development, though. I'm seeing what's available and acting accordingly.
So you're half my age. I didn't start my 'grownup' career until I was 32. It (Army Civilian) was way more than 90 degrees from Anthropology/Archaeology. The key was to fit into a large organization with a commitment to employee training and development. Can't say that our modern post-intelligent culture will support that.
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Sep 1, 2012 7:13:46am |
re: #189 Decatur Deb
Don't know the sci-fi, the motto sticks form a Foreign Legion story somewhere, also used in a Gene Hackman FL movie. One of our small airborne units working out of Italy also uses it.
Pournelle's The Mercenary series of books is set in a universe in which the USA and USSR came together in the late 20th Century to form an Earth dominating alliance called the CoDominium (the coming together has never been exactly laid out and was the subject of a 1990's retcon by Pournelle). Faster-Than-Light (FTL) travel is discovered in 2004, and humanity expands outward from Earth, with the "CoDo" enforcing itself with its Marine regiments. The main combat elements are called Line Marines and are modeled after the French Foreign Legion. They use "March or Die" as one of their slogans.
This line is the early part of a larger series that includes the far-future Sci-Fi novel The Mote in God's Eye. The CoDominium era of the fictional-universe ends in 2100, with the dissolution of the CoDo and the USA and USSR going to war with each other. They succeed only in nuking Earth nine shades past reality, and it is centuries before the Mother World is even semi-habitable again.
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Sep 1, 2012 7:15:29am |
re: #191 darthstar
Mornin' everyone.
Eh, lay off of Clint. It was an act, and if it did not succeed entirely it did not fail badly either.
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darthstar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 7:20:17am |
re: #190 Dark_Falcon
I'm 34, so a bit too old for a massive change, and my background is now firmly established in sales. I may be able to move a bit towards customer service or business development, though. I'm seeing what's available and acting accordingly.
When I was 34, I quit my job as a high school English teacher to take a job doing technical training for a software company (My annual salary skyrocketed 13 years up the teacher salary scale from 28K to 45K). It was scary, because I wasn't sure I was technical enough to learn the material and then be able to teach it. And this was just an entry level training position, sure, but I was a teacher so it seemed like a good foot through the door. Over the next few years, I learned a bit about how to test software (from my students, who had real world problems they needed solving, and not sample program exercises), and got good at using the tools. At 36, my company sent me to the UK to set up their training department and to train some partner resellers in Germany. Two years later I came back to the states and began working for former customers as a testing engineer. Today (14 years later), I'm a QA Director for a start up. Just took this job three weeks ago and I'm nervous as hell as it's in an industry (online marketing) about which I know very little. But hey, life's an adventure, right?
So don't give me that "I'm too old at 34 to change" shit. This is motherfuckin' America. Anything is possible. And one of these days I'm going to be rich enough to go back to teaching high school English...because I fucking love that shit.
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Varek Raith Sat, Sep 1, 2012 7:21:38am |
re: #195 darthstar
When I was 34, I quit my job as a high school English teacher to take a job doing technical training for a software company (My annual salary skyrocketed 13 years up the teacher salary scale from 28K to 45K). It was scary, because I wasn't sure I was technical enough to learn the material and then be able to teach it. And this was just an entry level training position, sure, but I was a teacher so it seemed like a good foot through the door. Over the next few years, I learned a bit about how to test software (from my students, who had real world problems they needed solving, and not sample program exercises), and got good at using the tools. At 36, my company sent me to the UK to set up their training department and to train some partner resellers in Germany. Two years later I came back to the states and began working for former customers as a testing engineer. Today (14 years later), I'm a QA Director for a start up. Just took this job three weeks ago and I'm nervous as hell as it's in an industry (online marketing) about which I know very little. But hey, life's an adventure, right?
So don't give me that "I'm too old at 34 to change" shit. This is motherfuckin' America. Anything is possible. And one of these days I'm going to be rich enough to go back to teaching high school English...because I fucking love that shit.
Old man yells at intertoobz.
/
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darthstar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 7:24:24am |
re: #194 Dark_Falcon
Eh, lay off of Clint. It was an act, and if it did not succeed entirely it did not fail badly either.
Clint doesn't give a fuck what people say about him. He got up and fed the GOP some red meat, which is why they asked him to come. It didn't backfire on him, it backfired on Mitt Romney, who looked like the idiot for not controlling the message for his last 60 minutes.
And you could tell Romney knew he'd fucked up with Eastwood, because he raced through his speech, skipping over applause breaks and heating up the teleprompter from the friction of the words scrolling by to keep up with him. He cut a few minutes off his planned delivery. That's called letting them see you sweat and it isn't presidential.
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Obdicut Sat, Sep 1, 2012 7:24:59am |
re: #194 Dark_Falcon
Eh, lay off of Clint. It was an act, and if it did not succeed entirely it did not fail badly either.
I have no idea what it was trying to achieve, but I can't really find a way of looking at it where it wasn't a massive failure.
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darthstar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 7:25:31am |
re: #196 Varek Raith
Old man yells at intertoobz.
/
Yeah, I may be talking to a chair, but there are others who are 34 who might think it's too late for a career change...so yell I must.
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William Barnett-Lewis Sat, Sep 1, 2012 7:27:58am |
re: #190 Dark_Falcon
34? Young punk :) Perfect age for a reboot. It's just as if you'd just gotten out of the army after 16 years. Like I said last night, quite seriously, see what you'd need to do to get your high school history teaching cert in Illinois. You'd make a good teacher, I'd bet.
Reminds me of my favorite history teacher moment. "President Nixon was heading out to the helicopter after resigning. As he passed now President Ford he belched and said, "oh, pardon me" and Jerry said, "OK." "
The other option if you wanted to be an activist - get a FFL01 and open a gun store on the Loop :D Just imagine the heartburn at city hall ...
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Decatur Deb Sat, Sep 1, 2012 7:28:33am |
re: #195 darthstar
...snip...And one of these days I'm going to be rich enough to go back to teaching high school English...because I fucking love that shit.
Farmer on the phone: "Honey, wonderful news!! We just won the 3 million dollar Powerball."
Farmers wife: "Wonderful. We can continue farming for ten more years!"
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sagehen Sat, Sep 1, 2012 7:29:08am |
re: #197 darthstar
Clint doesn't give a fuck what people say about him. He got up and fed the GOP some red meat, which is why they asked him to come. It didn't backfire on him, it backfired on Mitt Romney, who looked like the idiot for not controlling the message for his last 60 minutes.
It wasn't just his last 60 minutes, it was the 60 minutes the networks cover. Everything before that (including the touching personal bio-video) had the cable-only audience, at 10 is when ABC, CBS and NBC turn to the convention. Where tens of millions of low-information voters' first look at the Republican nominee was... a chair telling Clint to fuck off.
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William Barnett-Lewis Sat, Sep 1, 2012 7:29:58am |
re: #201 Decatur Deb
Farmer on the phone: "Honey, wonderful news!! We just won the 3 million dollar Powerball."
Farmers wife: "Wonderful. We can continue farming for ten more years!"
That's in the "almost too true to be funny" category ... !
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darthstar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 7:30:08am |
"He just told me to, um, there's assistance out there," Chiarello said of her conversation with Romney. "He said, go home and call 211." That's a public service number offered in many states.
Chiarello said she will likely seek some other shelter because her home was submerged in the flooding. She expressed frustration about the town's lack of flood protection.
As I said elsewhere, Romney's problem isn't that he can't connect with regular and poor folk...it's that he has such disdain for them that he can't help but show it. He probably thinks he was offering her solid advice.
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darthstar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 7:32:13am |
re: #202 sagehen
It wasn't just his last 60 minutes, it was the 60 minutes the networks cover. Everything before that (including the touching personal bio-video) had the cable-only audience, at 10 is when ABC, CBS and NBC turn to the convention. Where tens of millions of low-information voters' first look at the Republican nominee was... a chair telling Clint to fuck off.
In all fairness, the chair didn't tell Clint to fuck off. It told him to go fuck himself.
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sagehen Sat, Sep 1, 2012 7:35:49am |
re: #205 darthstar
In all fairness, the chair didn't tell Clint to fuck off. It told him to go fuck himself.
I stand corrected.
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Decatur Deb Sat, Sep 1, 2012 7:37:32am |
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Sep 1, 2012 7:41:18am |
re: #200 William Barnett-Lewis
34? Young punk :) Perfect age for a reboot. It's just as if you'd just gotten out of the army after 16 years. Like I said last night, quite seriously, see what you'd need to do to get your high school history teaching cert in Illinois. You'd make a good teacher, I'd bet.
Reminds me of my favorite history teacher moment. "President Nixon was heading out to the helicopter after resigning. As he passed now President Ford he belched and said, "oh, pardon me" and Jerry said, "OK." "
The other option if you wanted to be an activist - get a FFL01 and open a gun store on the Loop :D Just imagine the heartburn at city hall ...
You have to take courses to be a teacher here and the money for those is not available. I will ask some friends I have who are teachers, though. But I see that as a longer term option; Right now Illinois school districts outside of Chicago aren't hiring much. Chicago plans to hire a number of teachers, but the union for them is very stridently Democratic. Republicans aren't welcome.
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Decatur Deb Sat, Sep 1, 2012 7:44:35am |
re: #208 Dark_Falcon
You have to take courses to be a teacher here and the money for those is not available. I will ask some friends I have who are teachers, though. But I see that as a longer term option; Right now Illinois school districts outside of Chicago aren't hiring much. Chicago plans to hire a number of teachers, but the union for them is very stridently Democratic. Republicans aren't welcome.
If you let that GOP fantasy get in your way, you are justly punishing yourself. No one is going to ask your politics, and if they did you could retire on the settlement.
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bratwurst Sat, Sep 1, 2012 7:45:33am |
The Clint Eastwood speech is gonna play a lot better once they finish animating Roger Rabbit into that chair.— Seth MacFarlane (@SethMacFarlane) September 1, 2012
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bratwurst Sat, Sep 1, 2012 7:46:50am |
re: #208 Dark_Falcon
Chicago plans to hire a number of teachers, but the union for them is very stridently Democratic. Republicans aren't welcome.
Good grief! As a teacher for 20 years, I can tell you LOTS of good reasons not to get involved in this field...but that reason you give there is all in your head. The real world is not nearly as tribalistic as you seem to imagine.
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William Barnett-Lewis Sat, Sep 1, 2012 7:47:21am |
Get yourself down past Bloomington and I'll bet you'd find a nice community to teach in and maybe someday have a family in. Hope you do go for it, DF.
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Gus Sat, Sep 1, 2012 7:48:41am |
re: #208 Dark_Falcon
You have to take courses to be a teacher here and the money for those is not available. I will ask some friends I have who are teachers, though. But I see that as a longer term option; Right now Illinois school districts outside of Chicago aren't hiring much. Chicago plans to hire a number of teachers, but the union for them is very stridently Democratic. Republicans aren't welcome.
That's just on the intertoobs DF. Beside. You've been on LGF long enough to qualify as a Peronist Progressive. Or something. ;)
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Decatur Deb Sat, Sep 1, 2012 7:49:31am |
Teachers are liberals because conservatives won't become teachers because teachers are liberals.
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Sep 1, 2012 7:50:57am |
re: #211 bratwurst
Good grief! As a teacher for 20 years, I can tell you LOTS of good reasons not to get involved in this field...but that reason you give there is all in your head. The real world is not nearly as tribalistic as you seem to imagine.
That's not the only reason, I know a lot of other ones. The biggest being my need to step back in some high stress situations, which a teacher often cannot do.
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Mich-again Sat, Sep 1, 2012 7:52:34am |
re: #197 darthstar
Clint doesn't give a fuck what people say about him. He got up and fed the GOP some red meat, which is why they asked him to come.
I didn't get the part about Gitmo or Afghanistan. Its been George W. Bush's 3rd term as far as those go. And Clint's slap at lawyers hit both candidates. I think if you let him talk long enough he would go Paulian eventually..
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Sep 1, 2012 7:53:18am |
re: #209 Decatur Deb
If you let that GOP fantasy get in your way, you are justly punishing yourself. No one is going to ask your politics, and if they did you could retire on the settlement.
You don't know Chicago. It's true that no interviewer is going to ask what party you belong to, but support of Democrats is often expected of city employees and those found to be members of the GOP are in for a rough time.
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Sep 1, 2012 7:54:05am |
re: #216 Mich-again
I didn't get the part about Gitmo or Afghanistan. Its been George W. Bush's 3rd term as far as those go. And Clint's slap at lawyers hit both candidates. I think if you let him talk long enough he would go Paulian eventually..
I did not know Mitt Romney had a law degree. Does he?
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Decatur Deb Sat, Sep 1, 2012 7:54:29am |
re: #215 Dark_Falcon
That's not the only reason, I know a lot of other ones. The biggest being my need to step back in some high stress situations, which a teacher often cannot do.
(Not sarcastic) You sound like you need to be your own boss.
(Sarcastic part starts) A wise man said the answer is to borrow $20,000 from your parents to start a business.
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Gus Sat, Sep 1, 2012 7:54:45am |
re: #218 Dark_Falcon
I did not know Mitt Romney had a law degree. Does he?
JD and MBA. Harvard. Elitist!
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bratwurst Sat, Sep 1, 2012 7:55:28am |
re: #218 Dark_Falcon
I did not know Mitt Romney had a law degree. Does he?
While you are educating yourself on China and Mormonism, you might also want to read up on the candidate you have been supporting for YEARS (except for a few weeks when you went for Newt).
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Decatur Deb Sat, Sep 1, 2012 7:55:41am |
re: #218 Dark_Falcon
I did not know Mitt Romney had a law degree. Does he?
Degree, yes but didn't take the bar.
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darthstar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 7:56:02am |
re: #216 Mich-again
I didn't get the part about Gitmo or Afghanistan. Its been George W. Bush's 3rd term as far as those go. And Clint's slap at lawyers hit both candidates. I think if you let him talk long enough he would go Paulian eventually..
Another three minutes, and he would have been praising the chair for its decision on repealing DADT and bailing out GM. "Yeah, yeah...we still hate you...ah...but those were good of course...but I'm not here to compliment you...ah...ahh...it's that Mormon fellow I'm here for..."
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Jadewater Sat, Sep 1, 2012 7:56:11am |
re: #190 Dark_Falcon
I'm 34, so a bit too old for a massive change, and my background is now firmly established in sales. I may be able to move a bit towards customer service or business development, though. I'm seeing what's available and acting accordingly.
34 is not to late at all.
I just turned 40 and am starting something entirely new. Learning pretty much from the beginning stages. I've always wanted to get into film making, documentaries in particular. Last month after watching a movie I just decided 'you know what I should just get on with it'. So I sat down and thought it through, put out some queries about an idea I had that was met with lots of enthusiasm, formulated a 6 month plan, got a joe job waitressing to earn some extra cash to fund it and now much to my delight
I'm well on my way to actually doing it. I've been going to 'school' on the internet as well as getting some help from real people. If all goes well in the spring I'll be travelling for 3 months on a film project in Europe. Something I never even imagined doing 2 months ago.
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danarchy Sat, Sep 1, 2012 7:56:12am |
re: #218 Dark_Falcon
I did not know Mitt Romney had a law degree. Does he?
Yep, along with his business degree. He has never practiced as an attorney as far as I know.
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Mich-again Sat, Sep 1, 2012 7:56:45am |
re: #217 Dark_Falcon
You don't know Chicago. It's true that no interviewer is going to ask what party you belong to, but support of Democrats is often expected of city employees and those found to be members of the GOP are in for a rough time.
Politics should be kept separate from the workplace. But good luck with that, anywhere.
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darthstar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 7:57:20am |
re: #218 Dark_Falcon
I did not know Mitt Romney had a law degree. Does he?
Here's a great illustration about Mitt Romney...people say, "You don't know Mitt!" Fuck...even his supporters don't know anything about him...except that he's not Obama.
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Decatur Deb Sat, Sep 1, 2012 7:58:38am |
re: #225 Jadewater
34 is not to late at all.
I just turned 40 and am starting something entirely new. Learning pretty much from the beginning stages. I've always wanted to get into film making, documentaries in particular. Last month after watching a movie I just decided 'you know what I should just get on with it'. So I sat down and thought it through, put out some queries about an idea I had that was met with lots of enthusiasm, formulated a 6 month plan, got a joe job waitressing to earn some extra cash to fund it and now much to my delight
I'm well on my way to actually doing it. I've been going to 'school' on the internet as well as getting some help from real people. If all goes well in the spring I'll be travelling for 3 months on a film project in Europe. Something I never even imagined doing 2 months ago.
And if you starve it will still be worth the trip.
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Mich-again Sat, Sep 1, 2012 7:58:47am |
re: #226 danarchy
Yep, along with his business degree. He has never practiced as an attorney as far as I know.
Yeah but that law degree from Harvard means he knows how they think.
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Sep 1, 2012 7:58:51am |
re: #229 Gus
That's because he's a Mormon.
//
[Daffy Duck] Ha ha, very funny. Hee hee, it is to laugh.[/Daffy Duck]
Still updinged.
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Sep 1, 2012 7:59:58am |
re: #221 bratwurst
While you are educating yourself on China and Mormonism, you might also want to read up on the candidate you have been supporting for YEARS (except for a few weeks when you went for Newt).
China, yes, and Mitt a bit more. Mormonism I'm not going to read up on. I'm not really interested in doing so.
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Jadewater Sat, Sep 1, 2012 8:01:03am |
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bratwurst Sat, Sep 1, 2012 8:01:06am |
re: #228 darthstar
Here's a great illustration about Mitt Romney...people say, "You don't know Mitt!" Fuck...even his supporters don't know anything about him...except that he's not Obama.
Not to pick on DF here...lots of people know MUCH less about Romney, even after this week. This goes back to the idea being promoted on Breitbart that the much lower TV ratings than McCain got 4 years ago are no problem, since the less people know about Romney the more they like him.
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bratwurst Sat, Sep 1, 2012 8:01:35am |
re: #233 Dark_Falcon
China, yes, and Mitt a bit more. Mormonism I'm not going to read up on. I'm not really interested in doing so.
Then please give up the totally mistaken notion that it was "founded" in Illinois.
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darthstar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 8:01:48am |
re: #225 Jadewater
34 is not to late at all.
I just turned 40 and am starting something entirely new. Learning pretty much from the beginning stages. I've always wanted to get into film making, documentaries in particular. Last month after watching a movie I just decided 'you know what I should just get on with it'. So I sat down and thought it through, put out some queries about an idea I had that was met with lots of enthusiasm, formulated a 6 month plan, got a joe job waitressing to earn some extra cash to fund it and now much to my delight
I'm well on my way to actually doing it. I've been going to 'school' on the internet as well as getting some help from real people. If all goes well in the spring I'll be travelling for 3 months on a film project in Europe. Something I never even imagined doing 2 months ago.
Awesome! Have fun and enjoy yourself!
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Decatur Deb Sat, Sep 1, 2012 8:02:25am |
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darthstar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 8:04:43am |
re: #235 bratwurst
Not to pick on DF here...lots of people know MUCH less about Romney, even after this week. This goes back to the idea being promoted on Breitbart that the much lower TV ratings than McCain got 4 years ago are now problem, since the less people know about Romney the more they like him.
Good point...Mitt's whole campaign strategy is based on his being as opaque as possible until it's too late. Then, after he takes office, we'll get to know the real Mitt Romney and get this company* called the United States of America back on its feet again.
* That's what Mitt called the US yesterday...a company.
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Mich-again Sat, Sep 1, 2012 8:05:29am |
I like how Clint called Mitt a "stellar" businessman and even used the scare quotes to differentiate Mitt from all the other do-nothing lawyers who would be president.
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Gus Sat, Sep 1, 2012 8:05:40am |
re: #232 Dark_Falcon
[Daffy Duck] Ha ha, very funny. Hee hee, it is to laugh.[/Daffy Duck]
Still updinged.
You're only 34? Well, there's another alternative.
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darthstar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 8:07:01am |
RT @thepoke: Here's how to tell if your cameraman hates youtwitter.com/JohnDonoghue64... (via @johndonoghue64)— rob delaney (@robdelaney) September 1, 2012
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Mich-again Sat, Sep 1, 2012 8:07:52am |
re: #235 bratwurst
This goes back to the idea being promoted on Breitbart that the much lower TV ratings than McCain got 4 years ago are no problem, since the less people know about Romney the more they like him.
Agreed. The best strategy for the GOP is Mitt on Mute.
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darthstar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 8:07:58am |
re: #241 Gus
You're only 34? Well, there's another alternative.
I was going to suggest Chicago PD...but that's dangerous work, what with all those Democrats in city hall.
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Gretchen G.Tiger Sat, Sep 1, 2012 8:09:33am |
I post a Pages entitled "Everything in Perspective". does anyone see it. I think the dingos ate it.
How is your morning going?
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darthstar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 8:09:47am |
re: #236 bratwurst
Why is it I find myself craving sausages after seeing your name scroll by a few times?
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bratwurst Sat, Sep 1, 2012 8:13:39am |
re: #246 darthstar
Why is it I find myself craving sausages after seeing your name scroll by a few times?
As they say at Chicago's legendary Hot Doug's:
"There are no two finer words in the English language than 'encased meats', my friend"
(and even though it IS a Chicago institution, I am told Republicans are welcome there as well!)
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Gus Sat, Sep 1, 2012 8:13:55am |
Overheard on Twitter:
Killing your girl fetus after the 3D sonogram confirms sex is a sacred right for Dems
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Gretchen G.Tiger Sat, Sep 1, 2012 8:16:05am |
Yep, it's just gone.
I had a really good screed on the gun industry and the American Taliban. Just was inspired to write it and now the magic is gone.
How can I find it if it is till on my computer (apple) somewhere?
GEEK HELP NEEDED.
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Mich-again Sat, Sep 1, 2012 8:16:52am |
re: #247 bratwurst
As they say at Chicago's legendary Hot Doug's:
"There are no two finer words in the English language than 'encased meats', my friend"
(and even though it IS a Chicago institution, I am told Republicans are welcome there as well!)
Are you really Abe Froman, the sausage king of Chicago?
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Gretchen G.Tiger Sat, Sep 1, 2012 8:17:34am |
re: #252 Mich-again
Are you really Abe Vroman, the sausage king of Chicago?
Did you forget about "Fresh Coffee"?
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Mich-again Sat, Sep 1, 2012 8:19:06am |
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Sat, Sep 1, 2012 8:20:51am |
re: #251 ggt
Yep, it's just gone.
I had a really good screed on the gun industry and the American Taliban. Just was inspired to write it and now the magic is gone.
How can I find it if it is till on my computer (apple) somewhere?
GEEK HELP NEEDED.
It's there now. Geeks not needed.
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Gretchen G.Tiger Sat, Sep 1, 2012 8:21:36am |
re: #256 Stanley Sea
It's there now. Geeks not needed.
WHERE, it's not on my dashboard or my screen anywhere?
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bratwurst Sat, Sep 1, 2012 8:23:50am |
re: #257 ggt
WHERE, it's not on my dashboard or my screen anywhere?
Here!
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]
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Gretchen G.Tiger Sat, Sep 1, 2012 8:25:44am |
re: #258 bratwurst
Here!
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]
Thanks, but that's not it. The one I mean is entitled "Everything in Perspective" I wrote a screed before I linked the Alternet Article.
When it was lost, I paged the Alternet Article by itself because the magic is gone and I can't rewrite what I wrote. It was good and I wanted everyone's editing.
The normal box came-up that gave the link to the page, the options to go to LGF or to close the box.
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Gus Sat, Sep 1, 2012 8:26:12am |
re: #259 ggt
Thanks, but that's not it. The one I mean is entitled "Everything in Perspective" I wrote a screed before I linked the Alternet Article.
When it was lost, I paged the Alternet Article by itself because the magic is gone and I can't rewrite what I wrote. It was good and I wanted everyone's editing.
Alternet! Outrage!
//
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Sionainn Sat, Sep 1, 2012 8:27:20am |
re: #199 darthstar
Yeah, I may be talking to a chair, but there are others who are 34 who might think it's too late for a career change...so yell I must.
Heck, last year (at age 45), I seriously looked into what I'd need to do to become a P.A. With two young children, husband with a job he loves, and a bunch of student loans that we are currently paying off, it wasn't feasible to spend that kind of money only to not be able to get into the program in my city (only 26 spots a year with thousands applying) and moving was out of the question. Too bad they didn't have a program in my city for this when I was 34...that would have been another story entirely.
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Gretchen G.Tiger Sat, Sep 1, 2012 8:29:21am |
The universe does not want my opinions published.
:(
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Sionainn Sat, Sep 1, 2012 8:30:09am |
re: #215 Dark_Falcon
That's not the only reason, I know a lot of other ones. The biggest being my need to step back in some high stress situations, which a teacher often cannot do.
That's a valid reason. Being a Republican? Not so much.
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danarchy Sat, Sep 1, 2012 8:33:11am |
re: #238 Decatur Deb
That's why I'm rarely left alone with my grandchildren.
Well, if you have grandchildren it means you managed not to kill your own children. What's to worry about :)
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goddamnedfrank Sat, Sep 1, 2012 8:33:31am |
re: #223 Decatur Deb
Degree, yes but didn't take the bar.
He took the bar. From The Real Mitt Romney biography by Michael Kranish and Scott Helman:
Romney was hedging his bets, though, not wholly confident that he would make it in the business world. He passed the Michigan Bar Exam in July 1975 and was admitted to practice law there the next year.
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Sionainn Sat, Sep 1, 2012 8:35:34am |
re: #263 Sionainn
That's a valid reason. Being a Republican? Not so much.
When I taught, there was only one person whose politics I knew, and that was only because I saw her at the presidential caucus in my precinct.
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Decatur Deb Sat, Sep 1, 2012 8:39:02am |
re: #265 goddamnedfrank
He took the bar. From The Real Mitt Romney Biography by Michael Kranish and Scott Helman:
I could easily be wrong on that--picked it up on the web over the last couple days.
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sattv4u2 Sat, Sep 1, 2012 8:40:03am |
re: #267 Decatur Deb
I could easily be wrong on that--picked it up on the web over the last couple days.
Consult a physician. There's shots for that!!
/
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Sat, Sep 1, 2012 8:44:28am |
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Sat, Sep 1, 2012 8:45:52am |
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Gus Sat, Sep 1, 2012 8:47:18am |
re: #273 Stanley Sea
omg, awful. Yeah, those kids were traumatized.
Gotta be careful when one is drunk. Or even not drunk. I'm surprised they even reported that they transported him to the hospital. Thought he would been dead on the scene.
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sattv4u2 Sat, Sep 1, 2012 8:52:22am |
re: #269 Gus
Curiosity Rover Report (Aug. 31, 2012)
[Embedded content]
Looks like Curiosity is doing figure 8's !!
/
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sattv4u2 Sat, Sep 1, 2012 8:53:57am |
re: #270 Gus
Heard about that this morning
sad
And here in Atlanta, 20 year old fan fell to his death at a college football game
[Link: www.ajc.com...]
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Decatur Deb Sat, Sep 1, 2012 8:54:09am |
re: #276 sattv4u2
Looks like Curiosity is doing figure 8's !!
/
Punk kids cutting doughnuts on my plain.
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Gretchen G.Tiger Sat, Sep 1, 2012 8:55:08am |
re: #279 Gus
Freak out!
[Embedded content]
You can attach the video to your post.
Maybe I should put my opinions in a video?
no, that would be weird.
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Gretchen G.Tiger Sat, Sep 1, 2012 9:00:21am |
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Gus Sat, Sep 1, 2012 9:00:53am |
re: #285 ggt
Because It’s All a Cat Conspiracy?
yep!!!
Image: 13432281076a00e54f9153e088330176166693cc970c800wi.png
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Gus Sat, Sep 1, 2012 9:01:56am |
Top prize went to... Henri 2, Paw de Deux
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Gus Sat, Sep 1, 2012 9:04:36am |
re: #287 Gus
Top prize went to... Henri 2, Paw de Deux
[Embedded content]
Henri 2, Paw De Deux
Well… I’m still here.
I have grown my fluffy coat for the cold winter, like a Tsar’s robe.
It requires a certain delicate maintenance.
I am free to go. Yet I remain.
The 15 hours a day I sleep have no effect.
I wake to the same tedium.
Immortalized on the wall. (Tournée Du Chat Noir De Rodolphe Salis)
Forgotten on the floor.
When my caretakers step here they become irate.
Yet I feel nothing.
They leave tasty snacks just out of reach.
They taunt me mercilessly.
I alone feel this torment.
The white idiot writhes on his chair, begging for cheeseburgers.
I’m surrounded by morons.
“Pay attention to the cat.”
Not that they ever do.
Still, I have learned a few things.
The whipped cream in the bathroom is not whipped cream.
We cannot escape ourselves.
And sometimes the cat door… is closed.
Finun film de Will Braden ©
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Mich-again Sat, Sep 1, 2012 9:11:58am |
Some screenshots from the movie Another Happy Day featuring a really cute young lady from MI who landed a minor role in the film.. (my bg..)
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A Mom Anon Sat, Sep 1, 2012 9:15:01am |
To Dark Falcon:
I'm not going to argue about the political end of this,but what you describe is not legal. I have a feeling the tribalism you describe is based on your online experience and your own framing. I live in the reddest part of north GA and the only politics foisted on teachers is by parents. Trust me on this one,our school board is as GOP as it gets,but it's not required of anyone to support a political party.Besides,you wouldn't have to teach full time,you could be a substitute or teach continuing education classes or GED classes. Or,what about being an interpretive park ranger? Those are the people that take park visitors on tours of historic battle sites and things like that. You might not get rich,but you'd be doing something you love,which is a rare thing in this world. And 34 is NOT old. I'm 52 and I've been out of the workforce for almost 20 yrs. I have to start over and figure out what to do at my age. I'll admit,I'm scared but I don't think it's too late.
I really want to get you to seriously think about it,history is a love of yours,we NEED people who have passion in the classroom,now more than ever. There is grant money out there for teaching certificate programs,along with other money so you wouldn't have to take on a big financial burden.
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darthstar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 9:18:54am |
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darthstar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 9:20:14am |
Trouble in paradise...
Escalation! RT @rickwtyler: Schlafly correct, Rove must resign.@foxnews and @wsj should simply cancel his contracts. ow.ly/doEYt— Alex Burns (@aburnspolitico) September 1, 2012
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darthstar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 9:21:22am |
So Paul Ryan lied about his marathon time by an hour and twenty minutes or so...it's entirely possible it was an honest mistake...
Nobody "mis-remembers" running a sub 3 hr marathon. It's like "mis-remembering" you shot Bin Laden.— Peter Sagal (@petersagal) September 1, 2012
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Gus Sat, Sep 1, 2012 9:22:32am |
Well #Iran Press tv re-arranges Ban Ki-Moon's words in his #Tehran speech as well. In English: bit.ly/PGJ7YCv @mathidiot #Syria— Jenan Moussa (@jenanmoussa) September 1, 2012
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Gus Sat, Sep 1, 2012 9:23:37am |
re: #299 Gus
[Embedded content]
...
NUCLEAR ISSUE
Press TV: “I have condemned the threats by any member state to destroy or delegitimize another. I have reminded the leaders...throughout the world to lower the volume and stop the provocation that can lead the area down a slippery slope of conflict....It is time for more reason and responsibility. I urge you all to resolve differences through peaceful means.”
Ban Ki-Moon: "For the sake of peace and security in this region and globally, I urge the Government of Iran to take the necessary measures to build international confidence in the exclusively peaceful nature of its nuclear programme.
"This can be done by fully complying with the relevant Security Council resolutions and thoroughly cooperating with the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency].
"I urge, also, constructive engagement with the P5+1 [US-UK-France-Germany-Russia-China] to quickly reach a diplomatic solution.
"And I urge all the parties to stop provocative and inflammatory threats. A war of words can quickly spiral into a war of violence. Bluster can so easily become bloodshed. Now is the time for all leaders to use their voices to lower, not raise, tensions."
...
HUMAN RIGHTS
Press TV: No Comment
Ban Ki-Moon: "I urge you to unite as well to promote and protect the values embedded in the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, including freedom of expression and freedom of association.
"For much of your membership, this internal effort should be the next frontier of action for your people."
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William Barnett-Lewis Sat, Sep 1, 2012 9:24:41am |
Thinking about history, today is the 73rd anniversary of the start of what we refer to as WWII in the west as Hitler attacked Poland after staging a fake attack on Germany.
Arguably though the war ran from 28 June 1914 to 9 November 1989. One long war with some periods hotter, some colder and changing allegiances but a single war that ripped the world apart. 75 years of us doing our damnedest to destroy everyone and every thing.
I wonder how, a thousand years from now, the legends of this past century will read...
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darthstar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 9:33:15am |
Leap Motion...this will be awesome.
[Link: www.technologyreview.com...]
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Gus Sat, Sep 1, 2012 9:38:04am |
Someone needs to make sure #GOProud idiot Robert Stevens--quoted here: washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable...--sees this from @chrislhayes: msnbc.msn.com/id/46979738/vp...— Dan Savage (@fakedansavage) September 1, 2012
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Gretchen G.Tiger Sat, Sep 1, 2012 9:41:03am |
Some of the things posted on the intertoobs just make me LOL. They are stupid and often predictable, still damn funny.
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darthstar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 9:41:15am |
For a business man, he's not very good with numbers...almost to five million? #p2 twitter.com/darthstar99/st...— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) September 1, 2012
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Renaissance_Man Sat, Sep 1, 2012 9:49:46am |
re: #208 Dark_Falcon
You have to take courses to be a teacher here and the money for those is not available. I will ask some friends I have who are teachers, though. But I see that as a longer term option; Right now Illinois school districts outside of Chicago aren't hiring much. Chicago plans to hire a number of teachers, but the union for them is very stridently Democratic. Republicans aren't welcome.
Believe it or not, Democrats don't hate you as much as you hate them. Not even as much as you hate yourself.
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darthstar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 9:49:46am |
re: #306 darthstar
From the comments:
Hey, Romney, if you can't afford to get enough likes on your own, maybe you can borrow some from your parents.
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HappyWarrior Sat, Sep 1, 2012 9:54:30am |
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Gus Sat, Sep 1, 2012 9:55:32am |
re: #307 Renaissance_Man
Believe it or not, Democrats don't hate you as much as you hate them. Not even as much as you hate yourself.
Psycho babble.
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darthstar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 9:57:08am |
@borowitzreport: I worry that the story of Paul Ryan lying about his marathon time will overshadow the fact that he's a sociopath.— buffalo soldier SJ (@yellowclaire) September 1, 2012
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Renaissance_Man Sat, Sep 1, 2012 9:58:07am |
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Gus Sat, Sep 1, 2012 9:58:12am |
Psychobabble is … a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candour, and understanding it pretends to promote. It’s an idiom that reduces psychological insight to a collection of standardized observations, that provides a frozen lexicon to deal with an infinite variety of problems.
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darthstar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 9:58:59am |
Today I woke up, looked outside ... even though it's overcast I thought to myself, "What a beautiful company I live in." Thanks @mittromney— Kathryn Scaglione (@KathrynJScags) September 1, 2012
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Gus Sat, Sep 1, 2012 10:01:26am |
re: #312 Renaissance_Man
You seem remarkably negative about that.
Tell me about your mother.
I am very negative about it. It's just an off the cuff observation that may or may not be based on reality. Your statement says that DF "hates himself." You know this how? And how many other people "hate themselves" here? It's a phrase wrapped in pseudo-science or simply psychobabble.
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Mocking Jay Sat, Sep 1, 2012 10:02:06am |
re: #314 darthstar
RNC 2012 - The Road to Jeb Bush 2016 - The Best F#@king News Team Ever Audits America
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Gretchen G.Tiger Sat, Sep 1, 2012 10:04:31am |
re: #315 Gus
I am very negative about it. It's just an off the cuff observation that may or may not be based on reality. You're statement says that DF "hates himself." You know this how? And how many other people "hate themselves" here? It's a phrase wrapped in pseudo-science or simply psychobabble.
I have to agree. I don't think DF hates himself. I haven't seen that in any of his posts. I do think he is comfortable in his world view and is not threatened by being here. He seems open to adjusting his world view, yet I don't see the core of it changing anytime soon.
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goddamnedfrank Sat, Sep 1, 2012 10:05:28am |
re: #315 Gus
I am very negative about it. It's just an off the cuff observation that may or may not be based on reality. You're statement says that DF "hates himself." You know this how? And how many other people "hate themselves" here? It's a phrase wrapped in pseudo-science or simply psychobabble.
The kid puts up a whole forrest of red flags. He's said he doesn't plan on living to retirement, doesn't see the point. Believes in heaven but is virtually certain that he's not going there, doesn't view himself as worthy or a good person. He's posted tons of unbelievably negative shit about how he sees and values himself.
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Gretchen G.Tiger Sat, Sep 1, 2012 10:07:01am |
I give up -- I went thru my internet history and my post is just gone. gone gone gone.
It's hard to accept. Somewhere between 9:58 and 10:16 this morning, the dingos were active.
Please, join in my pity party. Give me the illusion that someone feels my pain, even if just for a moment. I do the same for you.
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Decatur Deb Sat, Sep 1, 2012 10:09:16am |
re: #319 ggt
I give up -- I went thru my internet history and my post is just gone. gone gone gone.
It's hard to accept. Somewhere between 9:58 and 10:16 this morning, the dingos were active.
Please, join in my pity party. Give me the illusion that someone feels my pain, even if just for a moment. I do the same for you.
Invisible Obama is reading your invisible post right now.
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Gus Sat, Sep 1, 2012 10:10:02am |
re: #318 goddamnedfrank
The kid puts up a whole forrest of red flags. He's said he doesn't plan on living to retirement, doesn't see the point. Believes in heaven but is virtually certain that he's not going there, doesn't view himself as worthy or a good person. He's posted tons of unbelievably negative shit about how he sees and values himself.
DF has always been rather expressive about himself and rarely holds back on his own personal feelings. This isn't politics we're talking about it's a personality and a human being.
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Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste Sat, Sep 1, 2012 10:12:41am |
re: #319 ggt
I give up -- I went thru my internet history and my post is just gone. gone gone gone.
It's hard to accept. Somewhere between 9:58 and 10:16 this morning, the dingos were active.
Please, join in my pity party. Give me the illusion that someone feels my pain, even if just for a moment. I do the same for you.
Basement Cat gloats.
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Bipartite Gnomenclature Sat, Sep 1, 2012 10:17:40am |
re: #315 Gus
I am very negative about it. It's just an off the cuff observation that may or may not be based on reality. Your statement says that DF "hates himself." You know this how? And how many other people "hate themselves" here? It's a phrase wrapped in pseudo-science or simply psychobabble.
There are times I hate myself. Many people who attempt suicide do so because they hate themselves. It's a real phenomenon. If my memory is correct, D_F has stated he hates himself on occasion.
Clinical depression isn't an imaginary situation, it negatively affects and kills many people.
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darthstar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 10:18:58am |
This is what I've been saying for a while...
But you can see that Romney is uncomfortable with this positioning. You can see this isn’t how he wanted it. Every once in a while—when he’s momentarily startled by the raucous Republican response to one of his coded Obama-is-foreign lines, say, or when he gets heckled—you can see real fear in Romney’s eyes. It’s the fear of someone who suddenly realized he let himself get too drunk, or nearly got into a car accident because he was dopily roaming his hand around the floor of the car, looking for the sandwich he dropped. Someone who spent his whole life chasing something, only to find that he really didn’t want it. Not like this. Never like this. Romney wanted Republicans to volunteer their respect for him with wild abandon and recognize him as a champion for his party, not to pander or be told what he’s supposed to be—that’s the opposite of leading. And then he sets his jaw for a second, and his eyes go back into half-vacant campaigning mode and the smile pops on and he gets back into it, because it’s what he’s been trained to do.
The whole article is very good...read it.
[Link: www.thestranger.com...]
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Gus Sat, Sep 1, 2012 10:20:36am |
re: #323 b_sharp
There are times I hate myself. Many people who attempt suicide do so because they hate themselves. It's a real phenomenon. If my memory is correct, D_F has stated he hates himself on occasion.
Clinical depression isn't an imaginary situation, it negatively affects and kills many people.
What is this the Democratic Underground? Sorry but I find this all rather creepy. I can think of an awful lot of odd personalities around here and think singling out DF because "we" don't agree with him politically to be totally fucked up.
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Bipartite Gnomenclature Sat, Sep 1, 2012 10:21:20am |
re: #319 ggt
I give up -- I went thru my internet history and my post is just gone. gone gone gone.
It's hard to accept. Somewhere between 9:58 and 10:16 this morning, the dingos were active.
Please, join in my pity party. Give me the illusion that someone feels my pain, even if just for a moment. I do the same for you.
I feel your pain. I only had that happen to me a couple of times before I started writing my posts in an editor and then 'cut-n-paste'ing them into my browser.
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sattv4u2 Sat, Sep 1, 2012 10:22:05am |
re: #315 Gus
And how many other people "hate themselves" here?
I have a toe nail I'm not too fond of!
/
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Hercules Grytpype-Thynne Sat, Sep 1, 2012 10:23:16am |
re: #325 Gus
What is this the Democratic Underground? Sorry but I find this all rather creepy. I can think of an awful lot of odd personalities around here and think singling out DF because "we" don't agree with him politically to be totally fucked up.
I could be wrong, but I didn't read R_M's motivations this way.
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sattv4u2 Sat, Sep 1, 2012 10:23:32am |
re: #325 Gus
I can think of an awful lot of odd personalities around here
Why did you just look my way!?!?!
/
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Decatur Deb Sat, Sep 1, 2012 10:23:34am |
re: #325 Gus
What is this the Democratic Underground? Sorry but I find this all rather creepy. I can think of an awful lot of odd personalities around here and think singling out DF because "we" don't agree with him politically to be totally fucked up.
Guy's been having a lot of job stress and just got laid off. I'll wait until he gets a paycheck before calling him an asshole again.
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sattv4u2 Sat, Sep 1, 2012 10:24:31am |
re: #330 Decatur Deb
Guy's been having a lot of job stress and just got laid off. I'll wait until he gets a paycheck before calling him an asshole again.
he pays you to call him an asshole?!?!?!
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Decatur Deb Sat, Sep 1, 2012 10:25:20am |
re: #331 sattv4u2
he pays you to call him an asshole?!?!?!
What happens in Chicago stays in Chicago.
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Gus Sat, Sep 1, 2012 10:25:57am |
re: #36 Dark_Falcon
My employer let me go today. I'm not really surprised, since I specialized in defense conferences and there are none scheduled, and despite my team's best efforts, we weren't able to generate any business this month. Management didn't hate me, and they still respect me, but they don't need me anymore. But my unemployment will not be contested, and I've got co-workers who will give me references when I need them. So I should be able to be back to work before Thanksgiving, if not sooner. I am worried, but not terrified, for I know I did my utmost and only failed in not being able to climb a mountain no one could climb. My father understood what had happened and is supportive.
And any persons at other blogs intending to twist this statement or mock me should lay aside that intention. Jobs change but I leave this one a better man than when I arrive and with some real accomplishments to my credit. I hold my head high, and any haters will be ignored.
...
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Sat, Sep 1, 2012 10:29:36am |
Can't wait for the #DNC2012 this week. Insiders say Obama is gonna do a bit at the convention where he talks to Mitt's invisible tax returns
— Chris Rock (@chrisrockoz) September 1, 2012
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Bipartite Gnomenclature Sat, Sep 1, 2012 10:32:02am |
re: #325 Gus
What is this the Democratic Underground? Sorry but I find this all rather creepy. I can think of an awful lot of odd personalities around here and think singling out DF because "we" don't agree with him politically to be totally fucked up.
Were did this come from?
I countered a statement you made and answered a question you asked, it's as simple as that.
Nobody singled out D_F because of his political views, he was singled out because he made a sincere and emotionally evocative comment about his job loss. His politics, and the commenter's, were mentioned because D_F mentioned the politics in the education system.
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Bipartite Gnomenclature Sat, Sep 1, 2012 10:32:43am |
re: #329 sattv4u2
I can think of an awful lot of odd personalities around hereWhy did you just look my way!?!?!
/
Satt, you are too odd for the odd.
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Bipartite Gnomenclature Sat, Sep 1, 2012 10:33:45am |
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sattv4u2 Sat, Sep 1, 2012 10:33:59am |
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Bipartite Gnomenclature Sat, Sep 1, 2012 10:40:00am |
D_F, you're intelligent and capable, you'll do OK. Before you consider becoming a teacher, consider how comfortable you are in front of groups and how well you can communicate to a diverse group of people. If you are comfortable in that environment, your love of history would do you well in teaching. You might also think about writing a book over the next few years.
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Killgore Trout Sat, Sep 1, 2012 10:40:38am |
Also DF's concern about possible workplace problems in a very liberal field are not unfounded. I've experienced it myslef. I was once told by an employer back at the height of Bush Derangement Syndrome that I was required to vote Dem because he didn't want his money (aka my paycheck) going to causes that support evil Republican causes.Teaching is probably OK, there are employment rules and HR departments to avoid discrimination but the concern isn't unfounded.
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Mocking Jay Sat, Sep 1, 2012 10:41:45am |
Eh... I get the impression that he doesn't have any interest in teaching. Let it go, guys.
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sattv4u2 Sat, Sep 1, 2012 10:41:50am |
re: #339 b_sharp
consider how comfortable you are in front of groups and how well you can communicate to a diverse group of people.
You just described one of a teachers biggest atributes
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Sat, Sep 1, 2012 10:45:37am |
RT @ethanklapper Ale to the Chief: The White House has released its beer recipe yhoo.it/RxChj1
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) September 1, 2012
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Bipartite Gnomenclature Sat, Sep 1, 2012 10:47:05am |
re: #340 Killgore Trout
Also DF's concern about possible workplace problems in a very liberal field are not unfounded. I've experienced it myslef. I was once told by an employer back at the height of Bush Derangement Syndrome that I was required to vote Dem because he didn't want his money (aka my paycheck) going to causes that support evil Republican causes.Teaching is probably OK, there are employment rules and HR departments to avoid discrimination but the concern isn't unfounded.
Once you touched that paycheck it wasn't his money any more and his right to determine where it ended up disappeared.
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Mich-again Sat, Sep 1, 2012 10:53:21am |
re: #340 Killgore Trout
did you see the ruling that concluded Citizen's United gives employers and unions the right to force their employees to attend political rallies.
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Decatur Deb Sat, Sep 1, 2012 10:53:21am |
re: #344 b_sharp
Once you touched that paycheck it wasn't his money any more and his right to determine where it ended up disappeared.
The threat is also an unfair labor practices violation. KT's union could have helped him with that...oh..
[Link: m.bracewellgiuliani.com...]
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Killgore Trout Sat, Sep 1, 2012 10:53:45am |
re: #344 b_sharp
Once you touched that paycheck it wasn't his money any more and his right to determine where it ended up disappeared.
Not in his mind. Also since it was a small workshop of about 12 employees he might have been legally allowed to discriminate. I never explored my legal options or made a big deal out of it. He was a self proclaimed socialist who didn't pay a living wage or the legally required over time pay. Lived in a large mansion on 5 acres and spent absurd amounts of money on very ugly modern art. I decided I was better off self employed.
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sattv4u2 Sat, Sep 1, 2012 10:54:18am |
re: #344 b_sharp
Once you touched that paycheck it wasn't his money any more and his right to determine where it ended up disappeared.
me'thinks the point was, an employer can make one feel uncomfortable in the workplace over politics
illegal,, sure
try proving it without (compliant) witnesses though
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Gretchen G.Tiger Sat, Sep 1, 2012 10:54:32am |
re: #322 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste
Basement Cat gloats.
Basement Cat has the contract on the dingos
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Bipartite Gnomenclature Sat, Sep 1, 2012 10:54:37am |
It really gets me when people whine about what the government does with 'their' money. The money used by the government is no more their personal money than is the money they give to Walmart for that hair removal product or to pay the kid next door for shovelling snow. The money the government uses can be viewed as the public's money so concerns that it not be wasted are valid, but not as an individual's money.
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Decatur Deb Sat, Sep 1, 2012 10:55:15am |
re: #347 Killgore Trout
Not in his mind. Also since it was a small workshop of about 12 employees he might have been legally allowed to discriminate. I never explored my legal options or made a big deal out of it. He was a self proclaimed socialist who didn't pay a living wage or the legally required over time pay. Lived in a large mansion on 5 acres and spent absurd amounts of money on very ugly modern art. I decided I was better off self employed.
Then you should have fucked him on the way out.
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Mich-again Sat, Sep 1, 2012 10:55:42am |
re: #345 Mich-again
more correctly..
UPW’s independent use of its paid workforce to campaign for a federal candidate post-Citizen’s United was not contemplated by Congress and, consequently, is not prohibited by either the Act or Commission regulations….
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sattv4u2 Sat, Sep 1, 2012 10:56:11am |
re: #351 Decatur Deb
Then you should have fucked him on the way out.
he did
he released the tadpoles all over the very ugly modern art!!!!
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Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste Sat, Sep 1, 2012 10:57:19am |
re: #353 sattv4u2
he did
he released the tadpoles all over the very ugly modern art!!!!
Which increased their value probably.
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Decatur Deb Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:00:13am |
re: #354 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste
Which increased their value probably.
Grenouille period.
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Gretchen G.Tiger Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:01:00am |
re: #356 Cannadian Club Akbar
Afternoon Honcos.
Hey did you see any sly looking, but not hungry dingos lurking on your way in?
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sattv4u2 Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:01:01am |
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Killgore Trout Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:02:00am |
re: #351 Decatur Deb
Then you should have fucked him on the way out.
I thought about it but decided not to. I even tried to do business with him after I left but soon gave up. There was never any money to be had for me dealing with him, he'd always find a way to screw me. It wasn't political, it's just the way he does business. Looking back, I'm proud I took the high road and just let it go.
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Bipartite Gnomenclature Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:02:12am |
re: #348 sattv4u2
me'thinks the point was, an employer can make one feel uncomfortable in the workplace over politics
illegal,, sure
try proving it without (compliant) witnesses though
I got that, but I never know what your laws are down there.
The 'it's my money and I'll cry if I want to' meme bugs me, so I addressed that.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:04:39am |
re: #357 ggt
Hey did you see any sly looking, but not hungry dingos lurking on your way in?
"Maybe the dingo ate your baby"
-Elaine, Seinfeld.
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Gretchen G.Tiger Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:05:14am |
re: #361 Cannadian Club Akbar
"Maybe the dingo ate your baby"
-Elaine, Seinfeld.
It seems they also eat words. . .
And I just can't seem to get over it. :)
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Killgore Trout Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:05:31am |
re: #360 b_sharp
I got that, but I never know what your laws are down there.
The 'it's my money and I'll cry if I want to' meme bugs me, so I addressed that.
His attitude towards his employees was reprehensible, especially for someone who considered themselves a socialist. He considered employees as "mouths to feed" (that's a direct quote) and payroll was a drain on his profits.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:05:51am |
re: #360 b_sharp
I got that, but I never know what your laws are down there.
The 'it's my money and I'll cry if I want to' meme bugs me, so I addressed that.
Spending money isn't bad, it's the CHRONIC wasting of money that pisses people off.
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Decatur Deb Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:06:26am |
re: #359 Killgore Trout
I thought about it but decided not to. I even tried to do business with him after I left but soon gave up. There was never any money to be had for me dealing with him, he'd always find a way to screw me. It wasn't political, it's just the way he does business. Looking back, I'm proud I took the high road and just let it go.
The little vignette you gave makes him about eight kinds of illegal. (One of the great virtues of unions is that they teach workers labor rules.) It's just as virtuous to nail an abusive left-wing boss as a RW.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:06:46am |
re: #364 Cannadian Club Akbar
My bad. I thought we y'all were talking about the gubment.
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Mocking Jay Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:07:23am |
A Fistful of Awesome
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Gretchen G.Tiger Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:07:30am |
Why do people just look for stupid things to be upset about?
I know plenty of Native Born American's who speak with accents that *seem* foreign.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:07:53am |
re: #365 Decatur Deb
Glad to hear everything is "so far, so good" with your daughter. I dropped out this AM.
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Killgore Trout Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:09:31am |
I've been experiencing blurred vision off and on for a while now. I thought it was just an out of date prescription so I went in to get new contacts but the blurred vision still persists. I made the mistake of googling possible causes. Those medical sites are scary as shit.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:09:52am |
re: #368 ggt
Why do people just look for stupid things to be upset about?
I know plenty of Native Born American's who speak with accents that *seem* foreign.
I lived in Orlando. Tons of Mexicans and Peurto Ricans. BFD.
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Decatur Deb Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:09:59am |
re: #369 Cannadian Club Akbar
Glad to hear everything is "so far, so good" with your daughter. I dropped out this AM.
Quite proud of her. She turned it into fodder for her humor blog:
[Link: lorcadamon.com...]
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Gretchen G.Tiger Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:10:07am |
re: #370 Killgore Trout
I've been experiencing blurred vision off and on for a while now. I thought it was just an out of date prescription so I went in to get new contacts but the blurred vision still persists. I made the mistake of googling possible causes. Those medical sites are scary as shit.
drink some gatorade
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Killgore Trout Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:11:14am |
re: #373 ggt
drink some gatorade
Really? I guess I could do that. beats the hell out of going to the doctor to be diagnosed with brain cancer.
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Gretchen G.Tiger Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:11:36am |
re: #371 Cannadian Club Akbar
I lived in Orlando. Tons of Mexicans and Peurto Ricans. BFD.
I was thinking that the person probably had a Cuban accent and the "complainer" didn't know the difference --saw brown skin, heard accent and made an ASSumption.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:12:08am |
re: #372 Decatur Deb
Quite proud of her. She turned it into fodder for her humor blog:
[Link: lorcadamon.com...]
Money:
I’m pretty sure I did more than my fair share of whining during the entire process, but it was mostly because it was day seven of No-Wine-Gate and we had already gone to DefCon Get-Me-A-Fucking-Drink. You can’t take away my merlot AND poke me. It’s just not right.
Heh.
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Gretchen G.Tiger Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:12:41am |
re: #374 Killgore Trout
Really? I guess I could do that. beats the hell out of going to the doctor to be diagnosed with brain cancer.
dehydration often makes my vision go off kilter. You are also in a dryer environment. Gatorade is my first line of defense for most health issues. It's amazing stuff.
Used to have Pediatrician who swore by it.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:13:20am |
re: #374 Killgore Trout
Really? I guess I could do that. beats the hell out of going to the doctor to be diagnosed with brain cancer.
Change your eye drops if you use any. I prefer Clear Eyes. Visine is junk.
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Killgore Trout Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:13:35am |
[Link: www.healthtap.com...]
Your experiencing sweating, tunnel vision, dizziness along with nausea most likely are having coronary insufficiency!!! Take a baby aspirin, with Gatorade or water and immediately call 911. Get to a cool restful place and lie down. Tell someone close by how you are feeling and that you may be having a heart attack and help has been called. If you have Nitroglycerine tab take one. Get help.
OMG!
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Mocking Jay Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:13:53am |
One Angry Men
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:14:46am |
re: #379 Killgore Trout
[Link: www.healthtap.com...]
OMG!
You're a dead man. Been good to know ya.....
///
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sattv4u2 Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:14:58am |
re: #370 Killgore Trout
I've been experiencing blurred vision off and on for a while now. I thought it was just an out of date prescription so I went in to get new contacts but the blurred vision still persists. I made the mistake of googling possible causes. Those medical sites are scary as shit.
Maybe it's all the extra reading you're doing!!!
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sattv4u2 Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:15:22am |
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Gretchen G.Tiger Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:15:54am |
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Killgore Trout Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:16:16am |
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:16:26am |
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Decatur Deb Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:17:04am |
re: #376 Cannadian Club Akbar
Money:
I’m pretty sure I did more than my fair share of whining during the entire process, but it was mostly because it was day seven of No-Wine-Gate and we had already gone to DefCon Get-Me-A-Fucking-Drink. You can’t take away my merlot AND poke me. It’s just not right.
Heh.
I taught her how to talk. Another reason I'm not left alone with the grand-kids.
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Gretchen G.Tiger Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:20:23am |
re: #387 Decatur Deb
I taught her how to talk. Another reason I'm not left alone with the grand-kids.
Yeah, I have that feeling that whatever DIL I get in the future will be the kind that won't let me around much.
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:20:43am |
re: #372 Decatur Deb
Quite proud of her. She turned it into fodder for her humor blog:
[Link: lorcadamon.com...]
Yeah!
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sattv4u2 Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:21:55am |
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CuriousLurker Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:31:32am |
re: #372 Decatur Deb
Quite proud of her. She turned it into fodder for her humor blog:
[Link: lorcadamon.com...]
Okay, she's your daughter. I've been following her on Twitter for the longest time and knew I'd heard about her because she was the daughter of someone here, but I couldn't for the life of me remember whose. Now I know and won't forget again.
I very much enjoy her tweets—she's smart & funny.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:33:25am |
So my friend I moved in with was/is getting screwed in regards to unemployment pay. I told him to call Legal Aid and his state rep. So guess what? He did. Now, he will be getting his money in due time and the state rep is gonna go over the law here to fix the problem. Best part? He thinks he did this on his own. That's OK.:)
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SanFranciscoZionist Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:34:55am |
re: #350 b_sharp
It really gets me when people whine about what the government does with 'their' money. The money used by the government is no more their personal money than is the money they give to Walmart for that hair removal product or to pay the kid next door for shovelling snow. The money the government uses can be viewed as the public's money so concerns that it not be wasted are valid, but not as an individual's money.
It does seem different to me. The money I give the government is for the common good and the operation of the country, and I get to vote on some aspects of it, and have a critical eye for the uses it goes for. If I pay a kid to shovel the walk, I no longer have any interest or say in what the money goes for, because my walk got shoveled. With the govt., my question is, "Did we actually get the walk shoveled, or did you buy Cheetos with the money and stiff the walk-shoveler?"
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sattv4u2 Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:36:04am |
re: #394 Cannadian Club Akbar
Best part? He thinks he did this on his own'll now have money to support me in the style I am entitled . That's OK.:)
ftfy
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:38:31am |
re: #396 SanFranciscoZionist
It does seem different to me. The money I give the government is for the common good and the operation of the country, and I get to vote on some aspects of it, and have a critical eye for the uses it goes for. If I pay a kid to shovel the walk, I no longer have any interest or say in what the money goes for, because my walk got shoveled. With the govt., my question is, "Did we actually get the walk shoveled, or did you buy Cheetos with the money and stiff the walk-shoveler?"
D.I.N.G.
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:42:57am |
President Obama on the GOP convention: “It was a rerun. We’d seen it before. You might as well have watched it on a black-and-white TV.”
— Obama 2012 (@Obama2012) September 1, 2012
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Digital Display Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:43:31am |
re: #337 b_sharp
D_F was talking about the haters at other blogs, not LGF.
D_F has taken a lot of grief from the stalkers. ( Technically called bald faced piece of shit liars with mental obsessive issues. ) But that's another story.
I Wish Dark well in his future endeavors and think he will do just fine.
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sattv4u2 Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:44:47am |
re: #400 Stanley Sea
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I know
What a bunch of pikers!
No Greek columns
No halos
No fainters!!
!!
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:47:44am |
re: #402 sattv4u2
I know
What a bunch of pikers!
No Greek columns
No halos
No fainters!!!!
You mean like in Chicago that place where he used to live?
(I don't want Crissy calling me a racist)
////
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SanFranciscoZionist Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:48:21am |
re: #402 sattv4u2
I know
What a bunch of pikers!
No Greek columns
No halos
No fainters!!!!
A convention should have some drama. Clint, as much fun as he was, can't carry it all.
Of course, I spent the 2008 RNC hissing at Levi Johnson and watching for the Palin baby's next appearance, so I may be missing the point--this isn't actually a reality show.
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sattv4u2 Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:52:27am |
re: #404 SanFranciscoZionist
A convention should have some drama. Clint, as much fun as he was, can't carry it all.
Of course, I spent the 2008 RNC hissing at Levi Johnson and watching for the Palin baby's next appearance, so I may be missing the point--this isn't actually a reality show.
Conventions haven't had any "drama" since the '68 riots
Gone are the days of multiple ballots,,, back room deals,,, not knowing who was going to be the nominee going in ,,,
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sattv4u2 Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:53:11am |
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:56:23am |
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sattv4u2 Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:57:46am |
re: #407 Cannadian Club Akbar
I will have to say I am a little disappointed in the anarchist in Tampa. Stoopid Jane Castor and her police force!!!
Word is they;re regrouping in Charlotte
[Link: www.wcnc.com...]
all 4 of them
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Digital Display Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:59:18am |
A few pointers for the DNC..
1) If your keynote speaker gets more applause for ending his speech than starting it..You're doing it all wrong.
2) Don't kiss your wife for 2 uncomfortable minutes or so on Stage.. Get a room.
3) Don't walk on stage saluting and reporting for duty.
4) Don't promise to give too much shit away. Remember 2010?
Clinton's speech will matter..Don't fuck it up.
/
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 11:59:59am |
re: #408 sattv4u2
Word is they;re regrouping in Charlotte
[Link: www.wcnc.com...]
all 4 of them
Are the Dems calling Bank of America stadium by its name or still just referring to it as "the site"?
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:03:04pm |
re: #409 Digital Display
A few pointers for the DNC..
1) If your keynote speaker gets more applause for ending his speech than starting it..You're doing it all wrong.
2) Don't kiss your wife for 2 uncomfortable minutes or so on Stage.. Get a room.
3) Don't walk on stage saluting and reporting for duty.
4) Don't promise to give too much shit away. Remember 2010?
Clinton's speech will matter..Don't fuck it up.
/
After telling people to forget about Vietnam because it was a sore spot in American history. (when talking about the sitting President at the time)
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sattv4u2 Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:03:07pm |
re: #410 Cannadian Club Akbar
Are the Dems calling Bank of America stadium by its name or still just referring to it as "the site"?
ihavenoidea
But wouldn't that be
"THE SITE"!!!!
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Lidane Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:03:34pm |
Some people still don't get it:
Maryland Congressman Says ‘Few Pregnancies’ Result From Rape
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:04:57pm |
re: #413 Lidane
Some people still don't get it:
Maryland Congressman Says ‘Few Pregnancies’ Result From Rape
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[Link: bangordailynews.com...]
Heh.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:05:22pm |
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William Barnett-Lewis Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:06:32pm |
re: #394 Cannadian Club Akbar
That is good because perhaps next time he _will_ be able to do it on his own. Success breeds success and all that.
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Lidane Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:08:44pm |
re: #405 sattv4u2
Conventions haven't had any "drama" since the '68 riots
Gone are the days of multiple ballots,,, back room deals,,, not knowing who was going to be the nominee going in ,,,
Oh, I don't know. The 1980 DNC had some drama IIRC. Didn't Ted Kennedy wait until the convention before withdrawing his candidacy?
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Kragar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:10:27pm |
Romney likens the election to football: ‘It’s time to get a new coach’
I think he meant to say "It's time to get a new couch."
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:10:30pm |
re: #416 William Barnett-Lewis
That is good because perhaps next time he _will_ be able to do it on his own. Success breeds success and all that.
He just needed to be shown the way and use the tools in front of him. But you are correct.
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sattv4u2 Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:10:53pm |
re: #417 Lidane
Oh, I don't know. The 1980 DNC had some drama IIRC. Didn't Ted Kennedy wait until the convention before withdrawing his candidacy?
He really didn't have a chance. It was more to get some platform and people in the admin that he wanted
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:11:24pm |
re: #417 Lidane
Oh, I don't know. The 1980 DNC had some drama IIRC. Didn't Ted Kennedy wait until the convention before withdrawing his candidacy?
WE WANT RIOTS!!
/
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Digital Display Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:11:57pm |
re: #417 Lidane
Oh, I don't know. The 1980 DNC had some drama IIRC. Didn't Ted Kennedy wait until the convention before withdrawing his candidacy?
They Shot Robert Kennedy one year.
Has anyone here
Seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he is gone?
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jaunte Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:12:20pm |
re: #410 Cannadian Club Akbar
Are the Dems calling Bank of America stadium by its name or still just referring to it as "the site"?
Looks like Time Warner Cable Arena and Bank of America Stadium are getting full billing in the schedule.
[Link: www.demconvention.com...]
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:17:23pm |
re: #423 jaunte
Looks like Time Warner Cable Arena and Bank of America Stadium are getting full billing in the schedule.
[Link: www.demconvention.com...]
I've seen articles where they won't mention BofA stadium.
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jaunte Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:19:14pm |
re: #424 Cannadian Club Akbar
The Democratic party sites seem to have no problem with it.
[Link: 2012.democratic-convention.org...]
Sorry, that one wasn't party affiliated.
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bratwurst Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:19:59pm |
re: #424 Cannadian Club Akbar
I've seen articles where they won't mention BofA stadium.
Then it should be no problem at all for you to provide a link.
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wrenchwench Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:21:30pm |
re: #362 ggt
It seems they also eat words. . .
And I just can't seem to get over it. :)
I lost one once that I found when I closed everything else. Have you closed everything else since it went missing?
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:22:08pm |
When it comes to job creation, @barackobama is 0-23 million. If your coach has that kind of record, you get a new coach mi.tt/OC3thM
— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) September 1, 2012
Wasn't the 23 million a number pulled out of Clint's ass? Now Romney is repeating it?
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:22:23pm |
re: #425 jaunte
The Democratic party sites seem to have no problem with it.
[Link: 2012.democratic-convention.org...]
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Lidane Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:23:34pm |
It's good to be back in Iowa. They love some good, old fashioned invisible baseball here. They built it, so I came.— Invisible Obama (@InvisibleObama) September 1, 2012
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jaunte Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:25:09pm |
re: #429 Cannadian Club Akbar
Important national "news" from CNN.
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Kragar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:28:33pm |
re: #428 Stanley Sea
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Wasn't the 23 million a number pulled out of Clint's ass? Now Romney is repeating it?
Mitt's coaching record has him telling the team to sell off their star players to other teams, then shutting down the team because they can't compete
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:29:35pm |
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sattv4u2 Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:30:19pm |
re: #431 jaunte
Important national "news" from CNN.
He was asked to provide a link
he did
"football stadium"
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jaunte Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:31:16pm |
re: #433 Cannadian Club Akbar
Politico has it, too:
Welcome to 'Panthers Stadium' (UPDATED)
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Kragar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:32:09pm |
In final interview, Cardinal says Church "200 years out of date"
"Our culture has aged, our churches are big and empty and the church bureaucracy rises up, our rituals and our cassocks are pompous," Martini said in the interview published in Italian daily Corriere della Sera.
"The Church must admit its mistakes and begin a radical change, starting from the pope and the bishops. The pedophilia scandals oblige us to take a journey of transformation," he said in the interview.
In the last decade the Church has been accused of failing to fully address a series of child abuse scandals which have undermined its status as a moral arbiter, though it has paid many millions in compensation settlements worldwide.
Martini, famous for comments that the use of condoms could be acceptable in some cases, told interviewers the Church should open up to new kinds of families or risk losing its flock.
"A woman is abandoned by her husband and finds a new companion to look after her and her children. A second love succeeds. If this family is discriminated against, not just the mother will be cut off but also her children."
In this way "the Church loses the future generation", Martini said in the interview, made a fortnight before he died. The Vatican opposes divorce and forbids contraception in favor of fidelity within marriage and abstinence without.
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Lidane Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:32:38pm |
Sometimes the best advice is the one you ignore:
Wow, Quincy Jones tried to convince Michael to leave "Billie Jean" off of Thriller. Crazy talk - copy.bz/O3piuh— Brian Clark (@copyblogger) September 1, 2012
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Charles Johnson Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:35:09pm |
re: #429 Cannadian Club Akbar
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This talking point is, of course, all over the right wing sites. And of course, it's false, like every other right wing talking point these days. The official site for the DNC has numerous references to "Bank of America Stadium" right on the front page.
[Link: www.demconvention.com...]
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Charles Johnson Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:37:12pm |
I've heard the stadium referred to as "Panthers Stadium" many times. What a ridiculous fake controversy.
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:40:11pm |
re: #439 Charles Johnson
I've heard the stadium referred to as "Panthers Stadium" many times. What a ridiculous fake controversy.
You have seen the tweets about the Myrtle Beach Chamber of Commerce sand sculpture?
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darthstar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:44:20pm |
ON PAUL RYAN: A man who says he has read whole Ayn Rand books will lie to you about other things.— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) September 1, 2012
Paul Ryan calls his nomination "my greatest triumph since winning the Tour de France": nyr.kr/T6Mt6m— Andy Borowitz (@BorowitzReport) September 1, 2012
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Charles Johnson Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:49:09pm |
re: #440 Stanley Sea
You have seen the tweets about the Myrtle Beach Chamber of Commerce sand sculpture?
No - but I just Googled it. Looks like they're all freaking out again, because there's going to be a "Mount Rushmore-like" sand sculpture featuring Obama.
Never mind that this is a sort of tradition in Myrtle Beach, and during the GOP debates the same people created a "Mount Rushmore-like" sand sculpture featuring all the Republican candidates.
Just more evidence of the evil intentions of Barack Obama.
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SanFranciscoZionist Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:52:14pm |
re: #442 Charles Johnson
No - but I just Googled it. Looks like they're all freaking out again, because there's going to be a "Mount Rushmore-like" sand sculpture featuring Obama.
Never mind that this is a sort of tradition in Myrtle Beach, and during the GOP debates the same people created a "Mount Rushmore-like" sand sculpture featuring all the Republican candidates.
Just more evidence of the evil intentions of Barack Obama.
They're making a big sand sculpture of the President for the DNC, and this is a problem?
I mean, it's silly...but who cares? It's a sand sculpture.
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dragonfire1981 Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:54:22pm |
re: #418 Kragar
Romney likens the election to football: ‘It’s time to get a new coach’
I think he meant to say "It's time to get a new couch."
Ooh, I love a good analogy.
Why don't we stretch it out and say the entire national discourse is being represented as a football game?
I would see it as follows:
- The "teams" are not Republican vs. Democrat, rather a U.S. team consisting of BOTH Right and Left leaning players AND an opposing team, representing the various outside forces the country has to deal with (foreign diplomacy, international markets, military actions, etc.).
- The Red/Blue American team SHOULD work together to help keep the foreign team under control. After all, we don't want them running up the score. Working together will also ensure that America makes our best effort to score points when the opportunity exists. The cheering fans in the stadium represent the American people, who should be applauding the efforts of their Red/Blue team as it scores points towards advances in science, education, economics and so forth.
But that's not what happening.
- The Red players on the American team are not only accusing the U.S. coach of being a secret agent for the opposing team, they are also fighting among themselves over who gets to hog the ball the most. All the Red players are convinced they've scored way more touchdowns and yards than any other players regardless of what the actual statistics are and, instead of working with the Blue players, they are sabotaging them at every turn then blaming the very same players when the opposing team starts racking up points.
- These same Red Players are also claiming they can stop this from happening by continuing to do the EXACT SAME THING.
- The Blue players are trying to convince the fans in the stadium and the observers on the sidelines (media) that the Red guys are out of control and don't really have a workable plan. They are willing to work with the Reds on a playbook but the Reds are refusing to budge.
- The coach, The President, also has a playbook and while he has tried to teach his team some creative new plays, the Red guys refuse to play along or even offer a compromise. They insist on sticking to the same playbook the team has used for a long time, despite it's spotty track record of results.
- So the game is a mess. The American team looks at times inept and other times somewhat cohesive, the opposing team sometimes gains an advantage and other times loses it. It's a constant back and forth.
- Then you have the people in the stands. The people of America. These people are booing and hurling catcalls at just about everybody on the field because they are sick and tired of the same sloppy game without any real change despite the obvious problems.
- Oh and let's not forget the crooked officials, who represent wealthy business leaders. These people, while appearing to be neutral, are in fact in the employ of BOTH teams and virtually always base their calls not on the actual established rules (laws/legislation) but on whatever outcome benefits them and their preferred team the most.
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dragonfire1981 Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:55:37pm |
re: #442 Charles Johnson
No - but I just Googled it. Looks like they're all freaking out again, because there's going to be a "Mount Rushmore-like" sand sculpture featuring Obama.
Never mind that this is a sort of tradition in Myrtle Beach, and during the GOP debates the same people created a "Mount Rushmore-like" sand sculpture featuring all the Republican candidates.
Just more evidence of the evil intentions of Barack Obama.
Mitt Romney would like you to know he only finds sculptures of himself acceptable when they are made out of pure gold.
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jaunte Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:56:35pm |
re: #443 SanFranciscoZionist
Jim Hoft is all over the story
Image: fearthesand.jpg
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darthstar Sat, Sep 1, 2012 12:56:47pm |
82 year old actor sinking your campaign as he rails against an empty chair? #call211 #p2— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) September 1, 2012
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Sat, Sep 1, 2012 1:00:37pm |
re: #446 jaunte
Jim Hoft is all over the story
Image: fearthesand.jpg
I'm attempting to expand who I follow on twitter to see the GOP. That was their contribution today to my balanced information gathering.
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Lidane Sat, Sep 1, 2012 1:00:39pm |
Don't think Mitt's funny? You must not know he protested FOR the Vietnam draft then spent the war in a French palace. awe.sm/l3FxA— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) September 1, 2012
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bratwurst Sat, Sep 1, 2012 1:15:04pm |
To top last week in Tampa, the DNC is gonna have to find someone to angrily lecture a whole dinette set.— Seth MacFarlane (@SethMacFarlane) September 1, 2012
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Lidane Sat, Sep 1, 2012 1:26:57pm |
Oh geez. One of my aunts, who's a real born-again evangelical type just "Liked" Michelle Malkin's page on FB. That's disappointing.
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reine.de.tout Sat, Sep 1, 2012 1:31:12pm |
Good afternoon, all!
re: #370 Killgore Trout
I've been experiencing blurred vision off and on for a while now. I thought it was just an out of date prescription so I went in to get new contacts but the blurred vision still persists. I made the mistake of googling possible causes. Those medical sites are scary as shit.
I've had bouts of blurry vision off and on for years; yours is probably nothing serious but get it checked ASAP.
And for gawd's sake, DON'T LOOK IT UP ON THE INTERNET, you'll scare yourself to death. Oh, wait - too late.
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Killgore Trout Sat, Sep 1, 2012 1:34:24pm |
re: #452 reine.de.tout
Good afternoon, all!
I've had bouts of blurry vision off and on for years; yours is probably nothing serious but get it checked ASAP.
And for gawd's sake, DON'T LOOK IT UP ON THE INTERNET, you'll scare yourself to death. Oh, wait - too late.
Glad to see you made it through the storm. I took the advice upthread and bought some gatorade. If it doesn't clear up soon I'll have to go to the doc. It's really starting the effect my ability to work.
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Obdicut Sat, Sep 1, 2012 1:34:54pm |
re: #452 reine.de.tout
On the other hand, my friend Bernie really, really did have cancer, and the only initial symptom was blurry vision. So getting it checked out is always good.
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reine.de.tout Sat, Sep 1, 2012 1:41:14pm |
Sometimes it's as simple as not blinking enough as might happen when staring at a computer screen or doing highly skilled work that requires a good degree of concentration. My particular thing was a thyroid issue. But one of the first things they checked me for was a brain tumor.
I don't know what the gatorade is all about - hydration? But my recommendation is get it checked anyhooooo.
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reine.de.tout Sat, Sep 1, 2012 1:43:49pm |
Well, new thread, I see! I keeled the thread! boo,hiss.
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Obdicut Sat, Sep 1, 2012 1:44:36pm |
Holy crap.
[Link: gothamist.com...]
A Queens man was arrested by police yesterday after neighbors complained about him shooting into the air in front of his building—and cops found an insane weapons arsenal at his home. Michael Millazzo, 53, was arrested Friday morning at his home in Astoria. Cops recovered two handguns, 26 magazines, 10,537 rounds of ammunition, 32 machetes, 60 knives, 16 air pistols, an air rifle, seven tasers, eight brass knuckles, nine batons and 10 handcuffs at his place. “Eight cops were going in there like they were going for Osama bin Laden. When I saw what they came out with, I said, 'Is all this stuff real?'" Millazzo’s neighbor, Greg Alevreas, told the News.
"He's not all there. He's just odd," Alevreas added.Millazzo, whose apartment is plastered with weapons and military-related stickers (include NRA ones), has one prior arrest in October 2004 for having five rifles and a handgun. He also has an 18-month-old daughter. Alevreas said residents were relieved he was arrested: “We’re happy that he’s gone away. If he came out and shot in the air, what’s he going to do next time?”
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Sionainn Sat, Sep 1, 2012 1:47:10pm |
re: #453 Killgore Trout
Glad to see you made it through the storm. I took the advice upthread and bought some gatorade. If it doesn't clear up soon I'll have to go to the doc. It's really starting the effect my ability to work.
I had weird blurred vision and went to the ophthalmologist. They discovered that I had narrowed angles and performed a laser iridotomy to put holes in my iris so the fluid in my eye could circulate well. So, in my case, it wasn't major, but could have turned major if I hadn't had the procedure done and then experienced a sudden pressure spike. Go get it checked out.
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Killgore Trout Sat, Sep 1, 2012 1:55:43pm |
re: #458 Sionainn
I had weird blurred vision and went to the ophthalmologist. They discovered that I had narrowed angles and performed a laser iridotomy to put holes in my iris so the fluid in my eye could circulate well. So, in my case, it wasn't major, but could have turned major if I hadn't had the procedure done and then experienced a sudden pressure spike. Go get it checked out.
Laser eye holes, eh? hmmm...although that sounds really futuristic I doubt it's much fun. If it's not better in a few days I'll go in. It takes a lot for me to voluntarily see a doctor but this might be serious enough to warrant it.
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Sionainn Sat, Sep 1, 2012 1:59:48pm |
re: #459 Killgore Trout
Laser eye holes, eh? hmmm...although that sounds really futuristic I doubt it's much fun. If it's not better in a few days I'll go in. It takes a lot for me to voluntarily see a doctor but this might be serious enough to warrant it.
I've had worse done to me, but yeah, not fun.
Why the reluctance to get it (or anything else) checked out? My motto is catch something before it gets worse so treatment is less expensive, probably less painful, and prognosis is better.
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reine.de.tout Sat, Sep 1, 2012 2:02:33pm |
re: #459 Killgore Trout
Laser eye holes, eh? hmmm...although that sounds really futuristic I doubt it's much fun. If it's not better in a few days I'll go in. It takes a lot for me to voluntarily see a doctor but this might be serious enough to warrant it.
This ought to count as "a lot". Call Monday. Please.
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Killgore Trout Sat, Sep 1, 2012 2:03:39pm |
re: #460 Sionainn
I've had worse done to me, but yeah, not fun.
Why the reluctance to get it (or anything else) checked out? My motto is catch something before it gets worse so treatment is less expensive, probably less painful, and prognosis is better.
I don;t know. I'm just one of those people who hates going to the doctor. We tend to die earlier.
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Killgore Trout Sat, Sep 1, 2012 2:04:23pm |
re: #461 reine.de.tout
This ought to count as "a lot". Call Monday. Please.
I think it's a holiday. It'll have to wait.
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reine.de.tout Sat, Sep 1, 2012 2:05:39pm |
re: #462 Killgore Trout
I don;t know. I'm just one of those people who hates going to the doctor. We tend to die earlier.
geez. When the doc tells the Roi to quit smoking, he tells the doc, "There is no way I want to live to be 100". LOL. Sounds like you're on a similar page...
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Sionainn Sat, Sep 1, 2012 2:06:16pm |
re: #463 Killgore Trout
I think it's a holiday. It'll have to wait.
Lots of doctors offices are open on Monday. The two I do transcription for are open. Don't be a dope, KT.
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Killgore Trout Sat, Sep 1, 2012 2:12:57pm |
I might check but it's not a big deal to wait wait an extra day. I probably won;t be able to get an appointment for a week or two.
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sattv4u2 Sat, Sep 1, 2012 2:18:18pm |
re: #466 Killgore Trout
I might check but it's not a big deal to wait wait an extra day. I probably won;t be able to get an appointment for a week or two.
If you were a real man you'd pop the eyeballs out with a rusty knife then UPS them to a clinic!
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Killgore Trout Sat, Sep 1, 2012 2:24:21pm |
re: #464 reine.de.tout
geez. When the doc tells the Roi to quit smoking, he tells the doc, "There is no way I want to live to be 100". LOL. Sounds like you're on a similar page...
I started smoking again a while ago too so I'll have to sit through the no smoking lecture. On the bright side, I was just out for a smoke in the garden and spotted one of my new frogs on the collards. This new batch grew much larger that previous years and left the pond earlier too. They seem quite happy.
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Killgore Trout Sat, Sep 1, 2012 2:24:44pm |
re: #467 sattv4u2
If you were a real man you'd pop the eyeballs out with a rusty knife then UPS them to a clinic!
Now that's an idea!
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goddamnedfrank Sat, Sep 1, 2012 2:31:57pm |
re: #468 Killgore Trout
I started smoking again a while ago too so I'll have to sit through the no smoking lecture. On the bright side, I was just out for a smoke in the garden and spotted one of my new frogs on the collards. This new batch grew much larger that previous years and left the pond earlier too. They seem quite happy.
Do you have a way to check your blood pressure? You can often get it checked at the drug store. Smoking raises BP and high BP can lead to pappiledema.
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Sionainn Sat, Sep 1, 2012 2:35:13pm |
re: #466 Killgore Trout
I might check but it's not a big deal to wait wait an extra day. I probably won;t be able to get an appointment for a week or two.
I think I got in within two days of calling. ;-)
What kind of frogs do you have?
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Killgore Trout Sat, Sep 1, 2012 2:35:49pm |
re: #470 goddamnedfrank
Do you have a way to check your blood pressure? You can often get it checked at the drug store. Smoking raises BP and high BP can lead to pappiledema.
Why did I google that?
Papilledema (or papilloedema) is optic disc swelling that is caused by increased intracranial pressure.
That's actually could be it. I've also had sinus congestion that I've just gotten used to.
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Sionainn Sat, Sep 1, 2012 2:36:41pm |
re: #468 Killgore Trout
I started smoking again a while ago too so I'll have to sit through the no smoking lecture. On the bright side, I was just out for a smoke in the garden and spotted one of my new frogs on the collards. This new batch grew much larger that previous years and left the pond earlier too. They seem quite happy.
I hear you on the smoking thing. I'm taking Chantix again and while it is getting easier to go without smoking, I'm jonesing right now and just trying to control myself from jumping in the car and getting a pack.
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Killgore Trout Sat, Sep 1, 2012 2:37:23pm |
re: #471 Sionainn
I think I got in within two days of calling. ;-)
What kind of frogs do you have?
Pacific tree frogs. Lovely critters.
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Sionainn Sat, Sep 1, 2012 2:37:32pm |
re: #472 Killgore Trout
Why did I google that?
That's actually could be it. I've also had sinus congestion that I've just gotten used to.
Oh noes! KT is going to have a 'splodey head!
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Sionainn Sat, Sep 1, 2012 2:38:19pm |
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Obdicut Sat, Sep 1, 2012 2:38:24pm |
re: #473 Sionainn
It took me five years to quit, but it's still the best thing I've ever done. Now I'm back in shape, and feel great.
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Killgore Trout Sat, Sep 1, 2012 2:38:35pm |
re: #473 Sionainn
I hear you on the smoking thing. I'm taking Chantix again and while it is getting easier to go without smoking, I'm jonesing right now and just trying to control myself from jumping in the car and getting a pack.
Love the Chantix it's how I quit last time. The best part is the drugs gave me fantasic dreams. Unfortunately my insurance doesn't cover it. Last time I paid for it myself.
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Sionainn Sat, Sep 1, 2012 2:43:20pm |
re: #477 Obdicut
It took me five years to quit, but it's still the best thing I've ever done. Now I'm back in shape, and feel great.
Congrats! I've quit before and then started back up again, always telling myself that it'll just be one, and then I'm right back where I started. I've got a 5 and 7-year-old and one of these days, they'd figure out what mommy and daddy are doing when they go outside for a minute. I don't want them to grow up thinking smoking is okay, plus I'd like to be around for them when they graduate. My mom died two years ago of lung cancer from smoking. She was 62. My youngest will be 21 when I'm 62. I don't want her to have to deal with losing her mother at a young age.
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goddamnedfrank Sat, Sep 1, 2012 2:43:31pm |
re: #472 Killgore Trout
Why did I google that?
That's actually could be it. I've also had sinus congestion that I've just gotten used to.
Loss of central vision is what sent me to the doctor and then the hospital several years ago during my hypertensive crisis. If you catch it early enough the papilledema will reverse itself. If it is high bp you want to get it treated ASAP though because of the risk to your other organs. I got really lucky, they call high bp the silent killer for a reason. Don't fuck around and get yourself checked out, delaying treatment can only lead to bad things.
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Sionainn Sat, Sep 1, 2012 2:46:35pm |
re: #478 Killgore Trout
Love the Chantix it's how I quit last time. The best part is the drugs gave me fantasic dreams. Unfortunately my insurance doesn't cover it. Last time I paid for it myself.
This time, I'm not having the vivid dreams. You are lucky about having fantastic dreams. Mine were nightmares with all sorts of blood and gore and terrible things happening to my loved ones.
The Chantix definitely helps with the terrible mood one is in when quitting, but I snapped yesterday.
Sattv4u: If you are here, I'm sorry I called you an ass yesterday. I let you get under my skin and I resorted to name calling. I do apologize.
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Sionainn Sat, Sep 1, 2012 2:48:30pm |
re: #480 goddamnedfrank
Loss of central vision is what sent me to the doctor and then the hospital several years ago during my hypertensive crisis. If you catch it early enough the papilledema will reverse itself. If it is high bp you want to get it treated ASAP though because of the risk to your other organs. I got really lucky, they call high bp the silent killer for a reason. Don't fuck around and get yourself checked out, delaying treatment can only lead to bad things.
That was my vision problem, blurriness in my central vision. I was a bit freaked out because my grandmother had macular degeneration and was basically blind the last couple of years of her life.
High blood pressure is not something to fool around with. Glad you got it treated before you had a heart attack or stroke.
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sattv4u2 Sat, Sep 1, 2012 3:07:37pm |
re: #481 Sionainn
Sattv4u: If you are here, I'm sorry I called you an ass yesterday. I let you get under my skin and I resorted to name calling. I do apologize.
Thanks, but not even a problem
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Obdicut Sat, Sep 1, 2012 3:08:29pm |
re: #479 Sionainn
It's really, really hard, but I promise that these days I don't even feel temptation to smoke.
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sattv4u2 Sat, Sep 1, 2012 3:10:04pm |
re: #478 Killgore Trout
re: #482 Sionainn
Quit cold turkey about 25 years ago,, 1st try ever
Was smoking 2 1/2 to 3 packs a day
Threw half a pack out a van window as me and 4 friends were going cross country. Never have had an urge since, even though the other 4 in the van continued smoking (two of them still, to this day)
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