Saturday Night Short: Efterklang - the Ghost

Or, the Curse of the Amulet
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Been chasing several obscure technical issues today, and the hunt is still not over. So here’s an open thread while I further investigate these arcane matters, with a very odd but cool video to watch.

‘Piramida’, Efterklang’s 4th album is out now on CD, LP, DL & Streaming. Order Vinyl, CD and MP3 via efterklang.net. Buy on iTunes: smarturl.it

Concert Tour Schedule available at efterklang.net

‘The Ghost’ is the sixth song on Efterklang´s 4th album ‘Piramida’. Released September 24th 2012 on 4AD and Rumraket.

The music video for ‘The Ghost’ is made by Spanish director Victor Carrey who says: “The video has a puzzle structure: the whole story progressively makes sense to the viewer as minutes go by. The video is somehow a ghost story.”

As previously revealed, the new Efterklang album took it’s start when Mads Brauer, Casper Clausen and Rasmus Stolberg visited Piramida, an abandoned mining settlement located on Spitsbergen, just 1,000km from the North Pole. Nine days of exploring later, and the band had collected over 1,000 sound recordings and inspiration for the album they would subsequently write and record in Berlin.

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1 freetoken  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 6:00:50pm

Also falls under “odd”:

First magic mushroom depression trial hits stumbling block

The world’s first clinical trial designed to explore using a hallucinogen from magic mushrooms to treat people with depression has stalled because of British and European rules on the use of illegal drugs in research.

David Nutt, president of the British Neuroscience Association and professor of neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London, said he had been granted an ethical green light and funding for the trial, but regulations were blocking it.

“We live in a world of insanity in terms of regulating drugs,” he told a neuroscience conference in London on Sunday.

He has previously conducted small experiments on healthy volunteers and found that psilocybin, the psychedelic ingredient in magic mushrooms, has the potential to alleviate severe forms of depression in people who don’t respond to other treatments.

[…]

2 ProBosniaLiberal  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 6:02:53pm
Spoiler

The new Doctor Who episode was good.

For the first time, a companion a) saved the doctor, and b) defeated the equivalent of a god.

I’m liking Clara.

3 freetoken  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 6:05:34pm

re: #2 ProBosniaLiberal

Please use the “spoiler” tag!!

4 ProBosniaLiberal  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 6:08:26pm

re: #3 freetoken

How please?

5 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 6:18:29pm

re: #3 freetoken

Please use the “spoiler” tag!!

Spoiler

test

re: #4 ProBosniaLiberal

How please?

type:
[ spoiler ] DARTH VADER IS ACTUALLY LUKE’S FATHER OMG [ /spoiler ]

but remove the spaces between the brackets and the words.

6 ProBosniaLiberal  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 6:24:58pm
Spoiler

The next episode occurs onboard a sinking Soviet sub.

A monster from the classic era will come back. Also, Moffat said the episode will be "fanboy-pleasing"

7 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 6:28:19pm

re: #6 ProBosniaLiberal

Spoiler

‘Sinking Soviet sub" doesn’t narrow it down too much, though.

And I found something you might want to own someday. It’s a M1911-type .45 ACP pistol that was made in Morway between WWI and WWII.

Edit to conceal spoiler discussion.

8 ProBosniaLiberal  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 6:34:56pm

re: #7 Dark_Falcon

Spoiler

It’s a fictional one.

The story will take place in 1983, and the Sub has Nukes. Looking at the trailer, it kinda reminds me of a Delta Class sub of some sort.

And how bad is it sinking?

Springing leaks and flooding sinking.

Youtube Video
9 Decatur Deb  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 7:02:04pm

Dance of Death at the end is a direct quote of the 1957 Bergman movie. in fact, the whole thing might be Bergman-flavored (duello from Smiles of a Summer’s Night).

Youtube Video
10 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 7:09:50pm

Sea lion has rhythm, to scientists’ surprise.

11 Vicious Babushka  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 7:13:10pm

WTF?

12 Gus  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 7:16:21pm

Charlie Haughey is not a combat photographer

Boxed up for decades, local Vietnam vet’s photos to go on display

13 Targetpractice  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 7:25:13pm

re: #11 Vicious Babushka

WTF?

Color me surprised, a bank destroying perfectly good food instead of giving it to the folks that it’s no doubt been screwing on mortgage payments and evicting.

14 Charles Johnson  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 7:26:59pm

re: #13 Targetpractice

Color me surprised, a bank destroying perfectly good food instead of giving it to the folks that it’s no doubt been screwing on mortgage payments and evicting.

They can write off the food.

15 Stanley Sea  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 7:32:59pm

re: #14 Charles Johnson

They can write off the food.

716d Roger Ebert @ebertchicago

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in philosophy; the search for a moral justification for selfishness.”

16 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 7:37:23pm

re: #14 Charles Johnson

They can write off the food.

There is also the matter of liability: If the bank gives food away and someone claims it made them sick, then the bank gets sued. If they throw the food away, then they don’t have liability issues.

18 BongCrodny  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 7:40:42pm

re: #11 Vicious Babushka

re: #13 Targetpractice

SunTrust Banks Inc.’s top executive William H. Rogers Jr. saw his total compensation spike 190 percent in 2011, as his duties moved from COO to CEO.

Rogers was president and chief operating officer of the Atlanta-based bank until June 1, 2011, when he became CEO and his base salary was increased. Rogers became chairman on Jan. 1, 2012.

According to a proxy filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, His total compensation hit about $9.3 million in 2011, including a $816,667 salary (up 40 percent), no bonus, $4 million in stock awards (up 111 percent), $815,025 in option awards, $982,013 in non-equity incentive plan compensation and a $2.6 million in change in pension value.

Rogers’ total compensation for 2010 was $3.2 million.

It is impossible to shame a bankster these days.

19 Varek Raith  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 7:44:58pm

re: #16 Dark_Falcon

There is also the matter of liability: If the bank gives food away and someone claims it made them sick, then the bank gets sued. If they throw the food away, then they don’t have liability issues.

AKA, money > people.

20 blueraven  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 7:47:30pm

re: #16 Dark_Falcon

There is also the matter of liability: If the bank gives food away and someone claims it made them sick, then the bank gets sued. If they throw the food away, then they don’t have liability issues.

See post #15

21 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 7:47:42pm

re: #11 Vicious Babushka

WTF?

These folks aren’t your friend, Alouette.

Israel is the only country in the world where the use of torture is seemingly openly legitimized by its judiciary, up to and including the Israeli Supreme Court – the highest judicial authority in Israel. For example, Israeli interrogators and various security services are licensed to continue torturing prisoners and detainees as they are safe in the knowledge that they are unlikely to be held accountable for their actions. The various forms of torture that Palestinian prisoners have been forced to endure has been well-documented within various Palestinian human rights groups’ reports. Some of the 56 types of torture will be covered within this Report.

It is noticeable that the torture of Palestinian prisoners begins upon the moment of their arrest until their arrival at the Israeli detention centres: through a brutal beating by batons, rifle butts etc. often accompanied by a traditional shoe-stomping. The renunciation of detainees access to their family, or even a lawyer is immediately enforced, a policy which is clearly in contravention of principle (16) of the United Nations Principles for the Treatment of Prisoners as approved in 1990.

No part of the body is left untouched when these customary beatings are carried out en route to the detention centres, with particular attention being paid to the upper parts of body and the head. The Palestinian prisoners are also regularly burnt with cigarette butts and have their hands and feet tied together, as well as being blindfolded. Another method of torture that the Palestinian prisoners are subjected to is electrocution. All of these crimes against humanity violate Article (33) of the minimum procedures system for the treatment of prisoners, as adopted by United Nations in 1955.

During detention, captives face several methods of torture, such as instances in which detainees: hands and feet are tied together; they are deprived of food and sleep whilst being kept in isolation and solitary confinement; threats are made against the safety of captives family members; cold water is poured on detainees in the winter; and they are thrown in torture rooms, in order to extract confessions deceptively. All these crimes are contrary to Article (12) in the minimum procedures system for the treatment of prisoners cited above. The religious rights of Palestinian prisoners are also restricted within Israeli prisons. Prisoners are also notably denied adequate medical care – a cause of great concern for those prisoners suffering from fatal illnesses such as cancer, as was the case with Maisara Abu Hamdiyeh, as well as those suffering from heart, lung, kidney and spinal diseases. Moreover, there are numerous cases in which the condition of detainees suffering with neurological and psychological diseases has subsequently deteriorated as result of the absence of adequate medical provisions. Reports have even gone as far to accuse Israel of conducting biological and medical tests against inmates.

All of this is shamelessly recycled Palestinian propaganda, that these assholes happily spout. They aren’t allies of the truth.

22 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 7:49:12pm

re: #19 Varek Raith

It’s a matter of Risk Management: If anyone gets sick the bank will be excoriated for giving them spoiled food, and that will be the story, even if it only happens once.

23 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 7:50:15pm

re: #13 Targetpractice

Color me surprised, a bank destroying perfectly good food instead of giving it to the folks that it’s no doubt been screwing on mortgage payments and evicting.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in Real America:

Deadbeat kids forced to throw away their lunches (for ‘Murrica)

ATTLEBORO — As many as 25 students at Coelho Middle School were denied meals or told to throw their lunches away Tuesday because they could not pay or their pre-paid accounts did not contain enough money, school officials said today.

School officials said an on-site employee from Whitson’s, the school system’s school lunch provider, apparently gave the order not to extend meals to students who could not pay or whose credit was already overextended.

A Whitson’s spokeswoman apologized today for the incident.

OH, GROOVY, SMASHING, ‘YAY CAPITALISM’.

24 Gus  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 7:51:11pm

Let’s roll!

25 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 7:53:05pm

re: #11 Vicious Babushka

Then there’s this, put out by the racist Paul Craig Roberts:

Intelligent people could see that the US government could not afford the long and numerous wars that the neoconservatives were engineering or the loss of tax base and consumer income from offshoring millions of US middle class jobs for the sake of executive bonuses and shareholder capital gains. They could see what was in the cards, and began exiting the dollar for gold and silver.

Central banks are slower to act. Saudi Arabia and the oil emirates are dependent on US protection and do not want to anger their protector. Japan is a puppet state that is careful in its relationship with its master. China wanted to hold on to the American consumer market for as long as that market existed. It was individuals who began the exit from the US dollar.

When gold topped $1,900, Washington put out the story that gold was a bubble. The presstitute media fell in line with Washington’s propaganda. “Gold looking a bit bubbly” declared CNN Money on August 23, 2011.

The Federal Reserve used its dependent “banks too big to fail” to short the precious metals markets. By selling naked shorts in the paper bullion market against the rising demand for physical possession, the Federal Reserve was able to drive the price of gold down to $1,750 and keep it more or less capped there until recently, when a concerted effort on April 2-3, 2013, drove gold down to $1,557 and silver, which had approached $50 per ounce in 2011, down to $27.

The Federal Reserve began its April Fool’s assault on gold by sending the word to brokerage houses, which quickly went out to clients, that hedge funds and other large investors were going to unload their gold positions and that clients should get out of the precious metal market prior to these sales. As this inside information was the government’s own strategy, individuals cannot be prosecuted for acting on it. By this operation, the Federal Reserve, a totally corrupt entity, was able to combine individual flight with institutional flight. Bullion prices took a big hit, and bullishness departed from the gold and silver markets. The flow of dollars into bullion, which threatened to become a torrent, was stopped.

For now it seems that the Fed has succeeded in creating wariness among Americans about the virtues of gold and silver, and thus the Federal Reserve has extended the time that it can print money to keep the house of cards standing. This time could be short or it could last a couple of years.

Even nuttier than Ron Paul, if that was possible.

26 HoosierHoops  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 7:54:09pm

re: #16 Dark_Falcon

There is also the matter of liability: If the bank gives food away and someone claims it made them sick, then the bank gets sued. If they throw the food away, then they don’t have liability issues.

Isn’t there Health code issues also. That is why food chains can’t give away old food at the end of the day. I recall a few cases in California years ago about this issue. I think the owner of the store could have easily gotten around this by having a going out of business sale and selling the contents of the store before-hand at pennies on the dollar. I’m not sure about this though.

27 PhillyPretzel  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 7:54:29pm

re: #24 Gus

Take action by getting out of the line of fire.

28 blueraven  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 7:54:57pm

re: #22 Dark_Falcon

It’s a matter of Risk Management: If anyone gets sick the bank will be excoriated for giving them spoiled food, and that will be the story, even if it only happens once.

They could have generated a lot of good will, free advertising and committed a good deed all at once.
Instead they have just bought themselves a ton of very bad PR. priceless

29 sagehen  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 7:57:38pm

re: #26 HoosierHoops

Isn’t there Health code issues also. That is why food chains can’t give away old food at the end of the day. I recall a few cases in California years ago about this issue. I think the owner of the store could have easily gotten around this by having a going out of business sale and selling the contents of the store before-hand at pennies on the dollar. I’m not sure about this though.

According to the article, it was packaged goods, canned goods — non-perishables. We’re not talking about day-old bread or unrefrigerated meat and dairy.

30 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:00:25pm

re: #28 blueraven

They could have generated a lot of good will, free advertising and committed a good deed all at once.
Instead they have just bought themselves a ton of very bad PR. priceless

Not really. That source is badly tainted. Mainstream outlets won’t touch a site that publishes this:

The US leader follows a policy, which strangles N. Korea “through sanctions and economic measures in the hope that it’ll collapse at some point,” a member of think tank for the advisory board at the Korea Policy Institute, Gregory Elich, told RT.

Elich believes the United States is interested in the collapse of the North, as the US “can establish their military bases right on the border with China, meaning an encirclement of that nation.” He also added that America never “never tolerated a country that won’t put its economy at the service of foreign corporations.”

31 sagehen  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:00:31pm

so, whovians… as long as the TV is tuned to BBC, any of you staying on for Orphan Black?

Spoiler

I’m really impressed at the actress playing half a dozen versions of herself… and I want to know what’s up with her sketchy partner almost as much as I want to know what’s her cloneage backstory.

32 ProBosniaLiberal  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:04:48pm

re: #31 sagehen

Well, now I have to watch that too, don’t I?

33 PhillyPretzel  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:05:55pm

re: #31 sagehen

Primal Grill with Steven Raichlen.

34 BongCrodny  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:06:23pm

re: #30 Dark_Falcon

Not really. That source is badly tainted. Mainstream outlets won’t touch a site that publishes this:

I ran across the same story here:

Police hold back crowds at Laney Walker store eviction

The Augusta Chronicle is the daily newspaper of Augusta, Georgia, and is one of the oldest newspapers in the United States still in publication. The paper is known for its coverage of the Masters Tournament, which is played in Augusta. The Chronicle had a daily circulation of 55,444 and a Sunday circulation of 71,057 according to a March 2012 report by the Audit Bureau of Circulations.[1]

35 freetoken  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:06:58pm

You ‘pheme
I ‘pheme,
We all ‘pheme
for blaspheme:


Bangladesh Islamists rally for blasphemy law

Tens of thousands of radical Muslims marched toward the capital on Saturday to demand laws to target bloggers they said denigrated Islam and the Prophet Mohammed.

The bloggers initiated a recent sit-in at Shahbagh Square demanding the death penalty for people involved in war crimes perpetrated more than four decades ago. Saturday’s marchers termed them atheists who should be brought to justice for blasphemy.

[…]

36 BongCrodny  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:08:16pm

re: #31 sagehen

so, whovians… as long as the TV is tuned to BBC, any of you staying on for Orphan Black?

[Embedded content]

I bought the first episode on a whim (no cable here!) from ITunes, and liked it enough that I’ll be buying the second.

Can’t offer higher praise than that. :-)

37 ProBosniaLiberal  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:09:06pm

re: #35 freetoken

Directed to the pond scum protesting today:

No, they just believe differently from you, though your little tiny brains may not comprehend that.

You can’t get away with intimidating them, they out number you.

38 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:11:17pm

“Lightworks” — advertising jingle circa 1960
Raymond Scott
Performed on one of many pre-synthesizer instruments Raymond invented himself…

Youtube Video
39 Targetpractice  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:11:20pm

re: #16 Dark_Falcon

There is also the matter of liability: If the bank gives food away and someone claims it made them sick, then the bank gets sued. If they throw the food away, then they don’t have liability issues.

The non-perishables could have been donated to local food banks or charities, which no doubt would have gladly taken any such donations. And such worries would have been less of an issue with non-food items, like diapers.

40 blueraven  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:11:52pm

re: #30 Dark_Falcon

Not really. That source is badly tainted. Mainstream outlets won’t touch a site that publishes this:

huh? WTH does that have to do with what I said?
Are you arguing that the story is a fake now?

41 Gus  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:17:06pm

re: #35 freetoken

You ‘pheme
I ‘pheme,
We all ‘pheme
for blaspheme:

Bangladesh Islamists rally for blasphemy law

Not many seem to be concerned. Had it been one guy from Florida though there would have been world wide condemnation. //

42 freetoken  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:24:24pm

None other than one of the princes of fools, Larry Klayman, wrapped up: fear of nukes, fear of NK, fear of Islam, Obama as Muslim, Hitler, Jews, persecution of Christians, and GOP cowardice into one extremely dense (in Derps/kilobyte) posting at WND: ISLAMIC AND NORTH KOREAN GENOCIDAL AIMS

After months of begging by people of Judeo-Christian faith and bad publicity on Fox News and CNN, President Barack Hussein Obama, the nation’s “First Muslim President,” begrudgingly lifted his pinky finger to try to persuade Iran to at least give medical attention to seriously wounded American pastor Saeed Abedini, who was arrested, beaten and tortured in an Iranian prison for allegedly founding house churches for evangelical Christians […]

The pressing question for computer scientists: how much DERP can be encoded in one kilobyte?

43 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:25:12pm

re: #40 blueraven

huh? WTH does that have to do with what I said?
Are you arguing that the story is a fake now?

No, i was saying the source originally presented here was unreliable. BongCrodny then posted the story from a reliable source.

44 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:26:17pm

re: #37 ProBosniaLiberal

Directed to the pond scum protesting today:

No, they just believe differently from you, though your little tiny brains may not comprehend that.

You can’t get away with intimidating them, they out number you.

Numbers don’t mean much if the smaller side has the great majority of the firepower.

45 freetoken  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:27:31pm

By using a threaded interpretive language, one could probably squeeze quite a bit of DERP into a single kilobyte.

46 ProBosniaLiberal  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:28:52pm

re: #44 Dark_Falcon

They don’t. The police are generally supportive of the Shahbag liberals.

Also, the police and army have lost people to these goons, so they tend to be a bit flexible in dealing with these walking pieces of fleshy trash.

47 ProBosniaLiberal  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:30:50pm

re: #44 Dark_Falcon

The Jamaat-i-Islami and their ilk are about one violent incident away from being shitcanned.

48 Gus  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:33:13pm

Sometimes I feel like a sucker with my “coexistence” attitude. I give and I see nothing in return. I defend certain groups who turn around and would be quick to spit me in the face.

49 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:33:29pm

re: #47 ProBosniaLiberal

The Jamaat-i-Islami and their ilk are about one violent incident away from being shitcanned.

After which they’ll start in with the suicide bombers.

/spits

50 ProBosniaLiberal  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:34:44pm

re: #49 Dark_Falcon

Bangladesh will have a lot less patience for that than anyone else.

They have already suffered mightily at the hands of these fucktards.

51 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:35:38pm

re: #48 Gus

Sometimes I feel like a sucker with my “coexistence” attitude. I give and I see nothing in return. I defend certain groups who turn around and would be quick to spit me in the face.

Who are you ‘coexisting’ with?

52 Gus  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:35:45pm

I sat there when Pope Francis was picked and saw every kind of hate speech being freely thrown about on Twitter. From racism to stupid jokes about “Nazis from Argentina” being thrown about by liberals that I follow.

53 Gus  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:35:58pm

re: #51 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

Who are you ‘coexisting’ with?

The religious.

54 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:36:50pm

re: #50 ProBosniaLiberal

Bangladesh will have a lot less patience for that than anyone else.

They have already suffered mightily at the hands of these fucktards.

I know, but the Radical Islamists never listen to such warnings. Like an evil version of the Blues Brothers, its impossible for them to fail since they are on a Mission From God.

55 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:37:18pm

re: #53 Gus

The religious.

The religious or the religulous?

56 Pawn of the Oppressor  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:37:20pm
Saturday’s marchers termed them atheists who should be brought to justice for blasphemy.

That’s a really interesting way of re-phrasing “murdered”, judging by the photos I’ve seen of those “calls for justice” on Twitter.

57 NJDhockeyfan  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:41:12pm
58 Gus  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:42:31pm

re: #55 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

The religious or the religulous?

Let’s just say the dialogue is seriously lop-sided and reeking with cognitive dissonance.

59 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:43:55pm

re: #58 Gus

Let’s just say the dialogue is seriously lop-sided and reeking with cognitive dissonance.

That’s kind of why a lot of us have no patience with creationists.

60 Vicious Babushka  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:46:10pm

re: #21 Dark_Falcon

These folks aren’t your friend, Alouette.

All of this is shamelessly recycled Palestinian propaganda, that these assholes happily spout. They aren’t allies of the truth.

Thanks for the heads up.

61 Gus  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:46:11pm

Yep, read that the nuke plant in Japan has leaked “toxic water” at least 1,000 times today. Also read that it took 1,600 years ice formation in Peru melting in 25 years another 1,000 times. Must have read the word “privilege” another 1,000 times. Saw some stuff about Keystone XL another 1,000 times. Also read about GMO and Monsanto another 1,000 times. That and read the phrase “chained CPI” another 1,000 times.

62 Vicious Babushka  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:46:31pm

An honest wingnut! I am having this Tweet bronzed.

63 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:48:14pm

re: #61 Gus

Yep, read that the nuke plant in Japan has leaked “toxic water” at least 1,000 times today. Also read that it took 1,600 years ice formation in Peru melting in 25 years another 1,000 times. Must have read the word “privilege” another 1,000 times. Saw some stuff about Keystone XL another 1,000 times. Also read about GMO and Monsanto another 1,000 times. That and read the phrase “chained CPI” another 1,000 times.

That’s a lot of reading for just one man to do.

64 Targetpractice  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:48:57pm

re: #62 Vicious Babushka

An honest wingnut! I am having this Tweet bronzed.

So that’s why it’s been so cold lately, Hell froze over.

65 Gus  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:49:22pm

re: #63 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

That’s a lot of reading for just one man to do.

LOL I gaze. Sometimes I’ll start heckling when it gets late. Twitter is so freaking goofy and activists can be so freaking obnoxious after a while.

66 Gus  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:49:58pm

The Unite Blue cat fight is still going on.

67 Gus  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:50:34pm

Also. A lot of the old harsh feelings between the Obama supporters and the PUMAs are burbling up again.

68 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:51:03pm

re: #66 Gus

The Unite Blue cat fight is still going on.

There’s a UB cat fight?

69 Gus  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:51:34pm

re: #68 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

There’s a UB cat fight?

Some folks are trying to take them down.

70 NJDhockeyfan  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:51:58pm

Ha ha ha!

#OpIsrael Backfires

Last week ago I wrote about #OpIsrael the “planned new cyber attack against Israel”. My article ended by noting that “there will be plenty of Israeli geeks looking forward to the challenge – and quite capable of coming out on top”. I also tweeted my article to one of the Iranian backed anti-Israel hacker groups I mentioned and to one of the Anonymous news services. #OpIsrael was tagged as well. So to the anti-Israel hackers, don’t say I didn’t warn you that #OpIsrael was a really bad idea.

Sure enough, as #OpIsrael got underway, the official #OpIsrael site, opisrael.com, was hacked and is now playing Hatikvah. The page was hacked by EhIsR and also contains a 20 point list of arguments in support of Israel (see below). Unlike the simply defacements that have typically targeted Israeli sites, this hack claims to have also destroyed all the data on the targeted server. This makes it a more serious attack, but in EhIsR’s defence, this was effectively an attack on an enemy infrastructure in a war like situation where as the attacks on NGOs and civilian infrastructure are more akin to targeting civilians.

EhIsR is not the only pro-Israel hacker, let’s call them Zionist Hackers, having a field day today. The Palestinian Authority’s Medical Service website was apparently also hacked, as was a commercial site in Egypt. A group called ‘Israel Elite Force’ claim to have taken down a range of sites in Pakistan. And the day is still young.

…The attacks against Israel are continuing too, but with lots of claims, few if any sites appear to actually be down. The attacks looks like they are either being stopped or very quickly reversed with little to no impact. So far #OpIsrael seems to be doing nothing more than stimulating Israel’s technology industry.

Epic FAIL :)

71 jaunte  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:52:02pm

re: #62 Vicious Babushka

Mitt Romney, agitating the rubes:

“We recognize the hand of the Creator in the founding of our nation,” Romney said. “We will fight to keep the words ‘under God’ in the Pledge of Allegiance. Have you seen the new dollar coin? ‘In God We Trust’ has been moved. It’s not on the face of the coin anymore, it’s on the edge — virtually invisible, just like the (American Civil Liberties Union) wants Him to be. I will go to work to get God back on the front of our coin.” politifact.com

72 Vicious Babushka  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:52:30pm

I see a whole bunch of men here, and one douchebag.

73 Gus  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:53:39pm

re: #70 NJDhockeyfan

Ha ha ha!

#OpIsrael Backfires

Epic FAIL :)

Just saw this Tweet.

74 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:53:42pm

re: #72 Vicious Babushka

I see a whole bunch of men here, and one douchebag.

George W. is a man, and he’s a good man. Not a hater like many on Twitter.

75 Targetpractice  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:53:49pm

re: #71 jaunte

Mitt Romney, agitating the rubes:

Somebody really should take Mitt to the side and break it to him that “Under God” was added back during the Red Scare, as a means of proving how much “better” America was than those “Godless” Soviets.

76 Gus  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:53:56pm

Beware of people who come in peace.

77 Varek Raith  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:54:41pm

re: #76 Gus

Beware of people who come in peace.

Is that a subtle hit at me?!?!

78 NJDhockeyfan  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:55:06pm

re: #73 Gus

Just saw this Tweet.

How does he know about Jews that are fucking?

79 Vicious Babushka  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:55:34pm

re: #74 Dark_Falcon

George W. is a man, and he’s a good man. Not a hater like many on Twitter.

Except for that Iraq war thing.

80 jaunte  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:57:53pm
81 jaunte  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 8:58:36pm

We ask everything of our soldiers, and don’t do enough for veterans.

82 sagehen  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 9:08:41pm

re: #70 NJDhockeyfan

Ha ha ha!

#OpIsrael Backfires

Epic FAIL :)

You’d think they’d know better than to declare cyber-war on the people who wrote Stuxnet.

83 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 9:09:09pm

Denial:

I believe that the value of the horse and the opportunity for the horse in the future are likely to be as great as ever…aeroplanes and tanks are only accessories to the man and the horse, and I feel sure that as time goes on you will find just as much use for the horse – the well-bred horse – as you have ever done in the past. — Field Marshall Douglas “Butcher of the Somme” Haig, 1926

The site adds: Really, 1926? You never did understand, did you?

(Bolding in original.)

84 sagehen  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 9:09:27pm

re: #76 Gus

Beware of people who come in peace.

Klaatu barada niktu.

85 jaunte  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 9:10:29pm

re: #84 sagehen

Klaatu barada niktu.

“They’ll probably taste ok with the right spices.”

86 Targetpractice  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 9:12:43pm

re: #83 Dark_Falcon

Denial:

The site adds: Really, 1926? You never did understand, did you?

(Bolding in original.)

Wouldn’t be the first person who predicted that the latest technological advance would be a “fad.”

87 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 9:13:13pm

re: #69 Gus

Some folks are trying to take them down.

Meh

88 Gus  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 9:16:25pm

re: #80 jaunte

Here’s the study.

va.gov

PDF

While the numbers of Veterans who die from suicide each day has remained relatively stable over the past 12 years (varying from 18
-22 per day), the percentage of people who die by suicide in America who are Veterans has decreased slightly. At the same time, the number of Americans who die by suicide each day has increased.

The 18 per day may actually be lower than the average.

89 Gus  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 9:17:09pm

Not really a study but a report.

90 Gus  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 9:18:44pm

Huffington Post reported:

Suicides in the U.S. military surged to a record 349 last year, far exceeding American combat deaths in Afghanistan, and some private experts are predicting the dark trend will grow worse this year.

18 per day would actually result in 6,570 suicides. Something doesn’t look right here.

91 Gus  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 9:19:25pm

That may be true of “in the military” as opposed to veterans. That would be two different identifiers.

92 jaunte  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 9:20:40pm

Suicide Hotline Fights To Keep Vets And Troops Alive
npr.org
Suicide hotline number at link.

93 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 9:21:40pm

re: #90 Gus

Huffington Post reported:

18 per day would actually result in 6,570 suicides. Something doesn’t look right here.

Are veterans still considered to be in the military? The smaller number may be active military only.

94 engineer cat  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 9:26:44pm

you know, i think george w tried hard to be a moral person as president. he defied the troglodytes on a couple of issues, for example immigration, and of course he appointed the first two african american sec’ties of state

he meant to be a good person. but, like mitt, he was blinded by the limitations of his priviledged background, and advisors who felt they had the right to lie, “for the greater good”

in the end, it didn’t work out so well

95 freetoken  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 9:36:29pm

re: #71 jaunte

Why is he still trying to be relevant.

96 freetoken  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 9:37:09pm

Nothing is sadder than a has-been politician, except one that doesn’t realize he’s a has-been.

97 Gus  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 9:42:26pm

re: #93 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

Are veterans still considered to be in the military? The smaller number may be active military only.

Wiki says vets are double the average population. LGBT accounts for triple the population. Rates that is. Overall the suicide percentage of population seems to be around 0.01 percent. Greenland still has the highest rate.

98 Gus  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 9:43:17pm

re: #96 freetoken

Nothing is sadder than a has-been politician, except one that doesn’t realize he’s a has-been.

Doesn’t he know that his words will kill billions?!?!?!

99 freetoken  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 9:45:47pm
MP3 Audio
100 Gus  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 9:47:42pm

The language police is busy tonight.

101 Gus  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 9:52:21pm

I think it’s hilarious how the left laughs at the right wing’s Soros conspiracies yet they turn around and make the Koch brothers look the same.

102 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 9:55:24pm

re: #101 Gus

I think it’s hilarious how the left laughs at the right wing’s Soros conspiracies yet they turn around and make the Koch brothers look the same.

Can you show how Soros has actually funded misinformation programs?

103 Gus  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 10:01:09pm

re: #102 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

Can you show how Soros has actually funded misinformation programs?

Probably not but having to read about the Koch brothers every fucking day has gotten really old.

104 Gus  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 10:02:33pm
105 Gus  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 10:04:33pm

Bill Gates was a major contributor to ALEC until he got caught. Carry on.

106 Gus  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 10:08:48pm

WTF does this mean?

107 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 10:09:55pm

re: #103 Gus

Probably not but having to read about the Koch brothers every fucking day has gotten really old.

May be, but their attempts to skew the climate change discussion deserves the focus it gets. Had they not put as much money as they have into such a damaging campaign, they wouldn’t be as large a target.

108 Gus  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 10:10:01pm

More stupidity.

109 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 10:13:22pm

Good Night, all.

110 Gus  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 10:13:42pm

re: #107 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

May be, but their attempts to skew the climate change discussion deserves the focus it gets. Had they not put as much money as they have into such a damaging campaign, they wouldn’t be as large a target.

I don’t need to be protected from misinformation. Anyone that thinks someone like me needs to advised to bullshit hasn’t been paying attention. Also, nuclear waste doesn’t explode. We don’t need to create a world where we protect others according to the lower common denominator. Koch isn’t affecting much concern about climate change one way or the other. Most Americans are busy jerking off and watching garbage TV and drinking beer every night. That’s not the Koch brother’s fault.

111 Gus  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 10:16:53pm

Another example of left wing nuttiness.

112 HoosierHoops  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 10:28:43pm

Alaska State Troopers is on.. One of my favorite reality shows these days.
Great exciting show in Alaska like Cops but better.. Heck, By now I’ve seen so much great footage and knowledge about Alaska and it’s law enforcement challenges and culture.
One time years ago..I posted about it here around 2006. I took a police ride.
I would encourage every citizen to take a ride to really get a feel of what policeman face every day. Plus it was really fun! I could never be a LEO but it is the experience of a lifetime. I posted some great stories of that night here on LGF. I should really pull those stories up again.
So call your local police and do a ride around some time.. It will really add depth to your outlook.

113 Dancing along the light of day  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 10:32:59pm

re: #112 HoosierHoops

Hiya Hoops!

114 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 10:34:41pm

re: #110 Gus

I don’t need to be protected from misinformation. Anyone that thinks someone like me needs to advised to bullshit hasn’t been paying attention. Also, nuclear waste doesn’t explode. We don’t need to create a world where we protect others according to the lower common denominator. Koch isn’t affecting much concern about climate change one way or the other. Most Americans are busy jerking off and watching garbage TV and drinking beer every night. That’s not the Koch brother’s fault.

Whether you personally need to be protected from misinformation or not isn’t the problem. What the Koch brother’s are doing goes beyond simple misinformation and into areas where people with power are being guided to make bad decisions.

Yes, nuclear waste doesn’t explode, but hydrogen gas that builds up in those canisters can reach a point where it can ignite, given specific conditions.

The idea that the PR program funded by the anti-AGW gang of however many isn’t having a political effect is simply incorrect.

115 goddamnedfrank  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 10:39:23pm

re: #110 Gus

I don’t need to be protected from misinformation. Anyone that thinks someone like me needs to advised to bullshit hasn’t been paying attention. Also, nuclear waste doesn’t explode.

Sorry, I’m going to go with what the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board has to say about the matter. It’s kind of precious saying you don’t need to be protected against misinformation while spewing misinformation:

Mixing in Process Vessels-On December 17, 2010, the Board transmitted Recommendation 2010-2, Pulse Jet Mixing at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant, to the Secretary of Energy. This Recommendation identified concerns that inadequate performance of mixing systems at WTP could lead to nuclear criticality accidents, explosions of flammable gases, and mechanical failures of process vessel components. DOE has informed the Board that resolution of these issues is delayed because a key technical assumption underlying DOE’s implementation plan was not supported by test data. The Secretary is developing a revised implementation plan.

…

Heat Transfer Analysis for Process V essels-In an August 3, 2011, letter sent to DOE’s Acting Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management, the Board identified technical issues with the heat transfer calculations used to establish post-accident hydrogen mixing requirements necessary to prevent explosions in PTF process vessels at WTP. DOE plans to revise these calculations.

…

Hydrogen in Piping and Ancillary V essels-Beginning with the April 15, 2010, Quarterly Report to Congress on the Status ofSignificant Unresolved Issues with the Department ofEnergy’s Design and Construction Projects, the Board expressed concern with DOE’s 2010 change in its safety strategy for hydrogen hazards in pipes and ancillary vessels1. Flammable gases, such as hydrogen, generated by the wastes treated in WTP will accumulate whenever flow is interrupted in process piping, and in regions of the piping system that do not experience flow, such as piping dead legs. DOE has approved a strategy that allows hydrogen explosions in piping under certain conditions, and relies on a Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA) and other complex models to predict the magnitude of the explosions and the response of the piping system. The Board remains concerned that DOE has not yet developed a QRA that demonstrates that explosions would not lead to a breach of the primary confinement in process piping and vessels.

116 goddamnedfrank  Sat, Apr 6, 2013 10:45:14pm

re: #114 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

Yes, nuclear waste doesn’t explode, but hydrogen gas that builds up in those canisters can reach a point where it can ignite, given specific conditions.

You’d think this would be rather obvious since it’s exactly what caused the explosions at Fukushima.

Youtube Video
117 HoosierHoops  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 12:07:24am

re: #113 Dancing along the light of day

Hiya Hoops!

Hi You! Sorry I just finished a long email to Nikki and just came back.
Hope you are doing well tonight

118 Dancing along the light of day  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 12:16:37am

re: #117 HoosierHoops

I hope you & the kiddos are well, too!

119 Sol Berdinowitz  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 2:00:23am

re: #101 Gus

I think it’s hilarious how the left laughs at the right wing’s Soros conspiracies yet they turn around and make the Koch brothers look the same.

We need a Ministry of Fairness and Balance

120 EdDantes  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 3:16:48am

re: #119 Sol Berdinowitz

We need a Ministry of Fairness and Balance

We will.

121 Sol Berdinowitz  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 3:33:31am

re: #120 EdDantes

We will.

As soon as they fix the way that reality always has a liberal bias.

/

122 EdDantes  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 3:52:19am

re: #121 Sol Berdinowitz

As soon as they fix the way that reality always has a liberal bias.

/

My reality has a liberal bias and I’m trying to work around it. I’m getting up there in years and and I’m attempting how to figure out how to support myself in my remaining years with increasing taxes and prospects for diminished or non-existent social security.

123 EdDantes  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 3:56:56am

Good night. all.

124 Nemesis6  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 6:06:10am

FYI: Piramida is on the Svalbard Islands.

125 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 6:34:03am

re: #124 Nemesis6

FYI: Piramida is on the Svalbard Islands.

Home of the furthest north grand piano, no less.

126 Vicious Babushka  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 6:38:30am

I’m downloading the Bigger Bach Box Set for $0.99.

The problem with these bargains is that I don’t really like all of the tracks, and now they are taking up space on my MP3 player. So then I have to delete the ones I don’t like, but first I have to listen to all of them to decide which tracks to keep and which to delete. (They all stay on the cloud)

127 FemNaziBitch  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 6:38:34am
I have been a practicing Christian all my life and a deacon and Bible teacher for many years. My faith is a source of strength and comfort to me, as religious beliefs are to hundreds of millions of people around the world.

So my decision to sever my ties with the Southern Baptist Convention, after six decades, was painful and difficult. It was, however, an unavoidable decision when th e convention’s leaders, quoting a few carefully selected Bible verses and claiming that Eve was created second to Adam and was responsible for original sin, ordained that women must be “subservient” to their husbands and prohibited from serving as deacons, pastors or chaplains in the military service. This was in conflict with my belief – confirmed in the holy scriptures – that we are all equal in the eyes of God.

Who Knew?

128 FemNaziBitch  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 6:41:08am

re: #103 Gus

Probably not but having to read about the Koch brothers every fucking day has gotten really old.

It is but they have so much more money at their disposal, comparing them to Soros only fools the Fox News Drones.

129 Vicious Babushka  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 6:47:34am

Good for Johns Hopkins

130 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 6:52:20am

re: #129 Vicious Babushka

Good for Johns Hopkins

More projection than an IMAX.

131 Vicious Babushka  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 7:06:24am

WTF DERP

132 Sol Berdinowitz  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 7:10:33am

re: #131 Vicious Babushka

WTF DERP

Please, we know that most anything Bryan Fischer tweets is going to be total SFB nonsense. Why bother posting the obvious here?

133 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 7:14:40am

re: #132 Sol Berdinowitz

Please, we know that most anything Bryan Fischer tweets is going to be total SFB nonsense. Why bother posting the obvious here?

That is my feeling as well. Fischer is a nutbar, and that has long been clear. I recommend reducing the Fischer DERP drops to once a week, so that his nuttiness will be remembered but not be too prominent.

134 Decatur Deb  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 7:18:35am

re: #126 Vicious Babushka

I’m downloading the Bigger Bach Box Set for $0.99.

The problem with these bargains is that I don’t really like all of the tracks, and now they are taking up space on my MP3 player. So then I have to delete the ones I don’t like, but first I have to listen to all of them to decide which tracks to keep and which to delete. (They all stay on the cloud)

re: #126 Vicious Babushka

I’m downloading the Bigger Bach Box Set for $0.99.

The problem with these bargains is that I don’t really like all of the tracks, and now they are taking up space on my MP3 player. So then I have to delete the ones I don’t like, but first I have to listen to all of them to decide which tracks to keep and which to delete. (They all stay on the cloud)

Managed, perhaps by accident, to load the big Box sets to hard drive and USB dongles. Had to go to Windows to do it—Linux downloader wanted me to do it one track at a time.

135 Decatur Deb  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 7:20:16am

re: #127 FemNaziBitch

Who Knew?

Those of us who voted for him twice.

136 Varek Raith  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 7:44:01am

re: #131 Vicious Babushka

WTF DERP

Omfg.
*Gets cluexfour*

137 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 7:53:55am

re: #136 Varek Raith

Omfg.
*Gets cluexfour*

Wouldn’t do any good, since he’s immune to clues and logic.

138 Sol Berdinowitz  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 7:54:00am

We all know the RW talking points:

drill baby, drill
frack, baby frack
nucular power is CO2-free, but that does not matter because
GLOBAL WARMING IS A HOAX and
EVOLUTION IS JUST A THEORY
life begins at conception therefore
contraception is the moral equivalent of conspiracy to commit murder
gays are pedophiles
drunk sluts are asking to be raped
WE ARE A CHRISTIAN NATION
guns make us safe

so really, no point in posting any derpy RW tweets unless they are of some extraordinary interest or perhaps from an elected official who is trying to pass one of these talking points into law.

139 FemNaziBitch  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 7:56:01am

I’m trying to figure out what stories/themes Fox News does not report on/talk about ad nauseum.

1-Anything to do with the melting Polar Ice
2-Anything to do with corrupt bankers
3-Anything to do with the School to Prison Program for minorities and the mentally ill.
4-

140 Sol Berdinowitz  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 7:58:53am

4 - sex scandals involving fundamentalist religious leaders or Republican politicians
5 - wasteful defense spending programs

141 darthstar  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 7:59:51am

Mornin’ everyone. Here, have a Snickers…it’ll help.

Image: 64332_10200776319561013_1305524814_n.jpg

142 Varek Raith  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 8:01:00am

re: #141 darthstar

Mornin’ everyone. Here, have a Snickers…it’ll help.

Image: 64332_10200776319561013_1305524814_n.jpg

I understand.

No coffee?!
CONSIDER YOU SPECIES EXTINCT!
Ahem…

143 Sol Berdinowitz  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 8:06:30am

re: #141 darthstar

Mornin’ everyone. Here, have a Snickers…it’ll help.

Image: 64332_10200776319561013_1305524814_n.jpg

which contains more calories than most of his citizens see in a week…

144 Feline Fearless Leader  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 8:07:35am

re: #143 Sol Berdinowitz

which contains more calories than most of his citizens see in a week…

From his photos I don’t think lack of calories is one of his personal concerns.

145 Sol Berdinowitz  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 8:08:33am

re: #144 Feline Fearless Leader

From his photos I don’t think lack of calories is one of his personal concerns.

I think that just showing that pudgy little face to his subjects is a bitter affront.

146 FemNaziBitch  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 8:10:21am

Who Knew?

again.

147 Varek Raith  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 8:12:11am

re: #146 FemNaziBitch

Who Knew?

again.

If a drunk tree falls in a drunk forest…

148 Feline Fearless Leader  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 8:14:35am

re: #147 Varek Raith

If a drunk tree falls in a drunk forest…

The mime still dies.

149 Sol Berdinowitz  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 8:15:16am

re: #147 Varek Raith

If a drunk tree falls in a drunk forest…

A “slut” is a woman who sleeps with eveyone but you.

So you rape her.

/

150 Varek Raith  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 8:15:21am

re: #148 Feline Fearless Leader

The mime still dies.

Damn.

151 Sol Berdinowitz  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 8:15:44am

re: #148 Feline Fearless Leader

The mime still dies.

A mime is a terrible thing to waste

(apologies to Mel Brooks)

152 FemNaziBitch  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 8:17:49am

It’s been a morning of enlightenment.

Another

WHO KNEW?

made in 1931

153 Feline Fearless Leader  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 8:18:17am

Off for a walking loop. Back later.

154 FemNaziBitch  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 8:19:37am

All of this new stuff because I read (or listen) to books. Almost finished with The Tiger by John Vailliant. It is very well written, beautiful in parts actually. Not at all what I expected. Full of information, but not scholarly (boring).

One google leads to another and … .

155 Varek Raith  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 8:21:10am

i.chzbgr.com

156 FemNaziBitch  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 8:23:56am

Ya think!

157 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 8:27:28am

re: #149 Sol Berdinowitz

A “slut” is a woman who sleeps with eveyone but you.

So you rape her.

/

[DF faints from the language and the vapors]

Seriously, the Sol put it is rather jarring, but I knew if I said just that I’d get mocked. so I mocked myself.

158 FemNaziBitch  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 8:29:10am

Just got a call from hubby. Brat Puppy won a blue ribbon today and got 1 more point towards his Champion Title.

3 more to go and he’s finished.

159 kirkspencer  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 8:31:36am

re: #158 FemNaziBitch

Just got a call from hubby. Brat Puppy won a blue ribbon today and got 1 more point towards his Champion Title.

3 more to go and he’s finished.

finished has such… interesting implications. (grin)

160 Sol Berdinowitz  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 8:32:05am

re: #157 Dark_Falcon

[DF faints from the language and the vapors]

Seriously, the Sol put it is rather jarring, but I knew if I said just that I’d get mocked. so I mocked myself.

That is the damn attitude, that it does not count as “rape” if she has fallen off the chastity wagon…

161 Varek Raith  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 8:32:26am

Yeah, wtf.

162 Varek Raith  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 8:33:10am

Still funny.

163 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 8:40:34am

re: #160 Sol Berdinowitz

That is the damn attitude, that it does not count as “rape” if she has fallen off the chastity wagon…

I know, it was just jarring, is all.

164 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 8:41:47am

re: #162 Varek Raith

Still funny.

That moose could have had it worse: If a member of the Palin family had been around it would have ended up as chili.

/not entirely kidding.

165 Sol Berdinowitz  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 8:49:24am

re: #163 Dark_Falcon

I know, it was just jarring, is all.

The jarring part is that there are people who defend that point of view. (“How could that trollop ruin those two poor athletes’ lives?”)

166 Sol Berdinowitz  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 8:50:14am

re: #164 Dark_Falcon

That moose could have had it worse: If a member of the Palin family had been around it would have ended up as chili.

They woulda used it for target practice first, give Sarah a chance to shoot at something she can actually hit…

167 Gus  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 8:51:54am

We made it folks! We survived another day! War Words is hell! //

168 kirkspencer  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 8:53:34am

re: #166 Sol Berdinowitz

They woulda used it for target practice first, give Sarah a chance to shoot at something she can actually hit…

… eventually.

169 FemNaziBitch  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 8:55:54am

re: #159 kirkspencer

finished has such… interesting implications. (grin)

It’s a BS beauty contest, but the breeder/co-owner wants to do it. Whatever, I’m not big in to Conformation (which is what Westminser is). I like the performance rings: obedience, agility. Hubby likes to hunt.

170 FemNaziBitch  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 8:56:34am

re: #163 Dark_Falcon

I know, it was just jarring, is all.

I needs to be because unless such thoughts pulled into the light the behavior will continue and our courts will continue to ignore it.

171 Sol Berdinowitz  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 8:56:54am

re: #168 kirkspencer

… eventually.

with a stick like a moose piñata…

172 William Barnett-Lewis  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 8:58:06am

re: #135 Decatur Deb

Those of us who voted for him twice.

I wasn’t old enough to ever vote for him but I remember reading about his official break with the SBC when it happened. That was a classic case of “I didn’t leave X, X left me” as the SBC was taken over by the fundamentalists in the 70’s it caused a very radical reactionary shift in that church.

173 Gus  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 8:58:55am

Stop the wars and end injustices around the world NOW! //

174 kirkspencer  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 8:59:31am

re: #169 FemNaziBitch

It’s a BS beauty contest, but the breeder/co-owner wants to do it. Whatever, I’m not big in to Conformation (which is what Westminser is). I like the performance rings: obedience, agility. Hubby likes to hunt.

I’ve been there so I understand, but in this case you missed the catch. Probably for the best, but … add mwahahahaha to my previous post.

175 Gus  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 9:02:01am

It appears that a Coptic cathedral — Abbaseya — in Cairo today came under some sort of attack.

176 Gus  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 9:03:12am

Wait, getting word now that it’s not a man from Florida. Nothing to see here. //

177 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 9:13:45am

re: #176 Gus

What’s not a man in Florida? I mean, lots of things aren’t men in Florida— my toaster, a 747, the concept of the color blue— but I assume you meant something in particular?

This is all I can find on Abbaseya at the moment:

english.ahram.org.eg

So maybe there was violence during the protest/funeral?

178 Lidane  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 9:19:29am
179 Gus  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 9:19:40am

re: #177 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

What’s not a man in Florida? I mean, lots of things aren’t men in Florida— my toaster, a 747, the concept of the color blue— but I assume you meant something in particular?

This is all I can find on Abbaseya at the moment:

english.ahram.org.eg

So maybe there was violence during the protest/funeral?

Yep. That.

180 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 9:20:09am

re: #179 Gus

And what does a man in Florida have to do with it?

181 FemNaziBitch  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 9:20:57am

bbl

182 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 9:21:11am

re: #177 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

What’s not a man in Florida? I mean, lots of things aren’t men in Florida— my toaster, a 747, the concept of the color blue— but I assume you meant something in particular?

This is all I can find on Abbaseya at the moment:

english.ahram.org.eg

So maybe there was violence during the protest/funeral?

Sounds likely. The Salafists incite people to attack Copts even at funerals. The idea is both to attack those who aren’t Muslim and to get those they incite to shed blood for the Salafist cause, which will likely bind them to that cause. It’s one of Mao’s tricks: Thamzing.

183 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 9:22:13am

re: #180 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

And what does a man in Florida have to do with it?

It’s a reference to the US media not being all that interested without a ‘hook’ involving the US or another Western country.

184 Gus  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 9:23:14am

re: #180 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

And what does a man in Florida have to do with it?

Sarcasm. A “man from Florida” will do something stupid and get more attention than what’s going on in Cairo/Egypt with the Copts. It’s not just the Copts either. More of that good old fashioned cognitive dissonance.

185 Gus  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 9:29:13am

re: #184 Gus

Sarcasm. A “man from Florida” will do something stupid and get more attention than what’s going on in Cairo/Egypt with the Copts. It’s not just the Copts either. More of that good old fashioned cognitive dissonance.

This is not in reference to LGF so don’t get your knickers in a twist. I’m talking about the general interest on Twitter, the MSM, etc. I follow quite a few people from the ME and Egypt so I get to hear about these things from people from the region or those in the states. Otherwise, it’s pretty silent from the Americans.

186 Gus  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 9:29:22am
187 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 9:29:54am

re: #184 Gus

Sarcasm. A “man from Florida” will do something stupid and get more attention than what’s going on in Cairo/Egypt with the Copts. It’s not just the Copts either. More of that good old fashioned cognitive dissonance.

I don’t think it’s anything to do with cognitive dissonance. It’s just people not giving a fuck what happens thousands of miles away. Which, while unempathetic, kind of makes sense; we can’t do much to affect what goes on in Egypt, but we can do a lot to affect what goes on in Florida. That’s the most positive way to look at it, of course; most people don’t give a shit about what happens in foreign countries because it doesn’t affect them, not out of a rational knowledge that they can’t really do anything about it.

188 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 9:30:52am

re: #185 Gus

Well, it’s not actually possible to keep up with all the awful shit happening across the world in any given day, not even if you devoted your entire time to it.

189 Gus  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 9:32:04am

re: #188 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

Well, it’s not actually possible to keep up with all the awful shit happening across the world in any given day, not even if you devoted your entire time to it.

I know why there is silence.

190 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 9:33:23am

re: #189 Gus

I know why there is silence.

And why is their silence, Gus?

I don’t get the point of posting cryptically. If you want to say something, why not just say it? Honest question, yo, you say interesting stuff but I don’t get why sometimes you say you’ve got something to say but you won’t just say it.

191 Gus  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 9:33:43am
192 Gus  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 9:36:13am

BBL

193 Varek Raith  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 9:36:59am

o/

194 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 9:37:50am

BBL

195 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 9:46:48am

Here’s an update:

reuters.com

Clashes broke out between Coptic Christians and Muslims in central Cairo on Sunday after the funeral of four Copts killed in sectarian violence outside the Egyptian capital on Friday night, a witness said.

The state news agency MENA said 17 people had been injured in fighting after a funeral ceremony at the city’s Coptic Orthodox cathedral. Public television showed riot police firing tear gas to disperse the crowd.

…

New clashes erupted on Sunday when hundreds of angry Copts who had attended a funeral service at St. Mark’s Cathedral spilled out into the streets of Cairo, chanting “With our blood and soul we will sacrifice ourselves for the cross”.

After an emotional church service, where relatives of the dead wept, young Christians started hurling rocks at police officers, a witness said.

The protesters smashed six private cars and set two on fire, prompting an angry reaction from Muslims living in the neighborhood, who threw stones at them, a witness said.

196 Sol Berdinowitz  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 9:52:22am

re: #191 Gus

same derp different flavor. we know that RWNJs are clueless about the Middle East save for the fact that it is populated by a lot of Mooslims who hate us and want to kill us and a lot of sheikhs who also seem to hate us but still sell us oil…

197 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 9:59:57am

I like it when dogs are so happy they simply become insane.

Image: p9O3s1T.jpg

198 darthstar  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 10:00:23am

One of those days. Surf is too big for me right now so I’ll wait a few hours for the tide to fall and see what happens.

Image: 564131_10151552135863024_521988189_n.jpg

199 Feline Fearless Leader  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 10:07:00am

re: #197 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

I like it when dogs are so happy they simply become insane.

Image: p9O3s1T.jpg

Good form. He’s watching the target all the way through the catch.

:)

200 LWNJ  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 10:31:14am

Hey, Charles, why does the page jump to comment #31 whenever I click on a jpeg in a post that’s numbered higher than that?

201 Charles Johnson  Sun, Apr 7, 2013 12:00:50pm

re: #200 LWNJ

Hey, Charles, why does the page jump to comment #31 whenever I click on a jpeg in a post that’s numbered higher than that?

I just discovered the fix for this little problem. If you reload it should be OK now.


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