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1 Vicious Babushka  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:07:02pm
2 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:07:48pm

They will lament that drinking water without benzine, mercury, and high fructose corn syrup is further evidence of the wussification of America.

3 Amory Blaine  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:07:57pm

Here’s a local article

First lady Michelle Obama visits Watertown

4 EPR-radar  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:09:39pm

More drinking of water and less drinking of soda is one of the easiest diet changes out there.

5 The Ghost of a Flea  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:09:40pm

The Heritage Foundation is now rolling out their new documentary, Fish Fuck in It, to promote skepticism regarding Big Government’s endorsement of water, and demonstrate how the free market could open up to the wide variety of imbibable fluids that can be produced industrially.

6 Charles Johnson  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:09:47pm
7 blueraven  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:09:48pm

In Texas we have a drought and we need that water for fracking so lay off the drinking part, you socialist Nannie

8 Charles Johnson  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:10:11pm
9 EPR-radar  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:10:18pm

re: #5 The Ghost of a Flea

A pity I only have one upding for this.

10 Interesting Times  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:10:25pm

re: #3 Amory Blaine

Here’s a local article

First lady Michelle Obama visits Watertown

I’d read that article, but I don’t have enough brain bleach on hand to deal with the inevitable tsunami of derp in the comments :/

11 Amory Blaine  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:10:49pm

re: #10 Interesting Times

I’d read that article, but I don’t have enough brain bleach on hand to deal with the inevitable tsunami of derp in the comments :/

My neighbors. :(

12 EPR-radar  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:13:03pm

re: #8 Charles Johnson

A paleo-con contributor to Chronicles like Raimondo really shouldn’t be yapping about hatred of Muslims.

13 Political Atheist  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:13:20pm

re: #2 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

They will lament that drinking water without benzine, mercury,

Oh man there goes all the flavor.
//

14 Targetpractice  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:13:23pm

re: #10 Interesting Times

I’d read that article, but I don’t have enough brain bleach on hand to deal with the inevitable tsunami of derp in the comments :/

Without looking, I’ll guess that they’ve decided to forgo intelligent criticism for comments about how they perceive her looks and their general disdainful views of all people of color. How close am I?

15 Stanley Sea  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:13:55pm

re: #3 Amory Blaine

Here’s a local article

First lady Michelle Obama visits Watertown

golfguy32 - Today at 7:55 PM -

I grew up in Watertown. I am a massive fiscal conservative who deplores President Obama when it comes to all things financial. That being said, she is a classy lady who is doing something that is very respectable and reasonable. Let’s lighten up a bit people. Be thankful she cares enough to visit our little town. The message isn’t a bad one.

This guy will be alone soon. 1st comment - there are 80+

16 Amory Blaine  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:14:25pm

re: #14 Targetpractice

Without looking, I’ll guess that they’ve decided to forgo intelligent criticism for comments about how they perceive her looks and their general disdainful views of all people of color. How close am I?

Add in a dose of wasteful jets flying around and how stupid drinking water is and your dead on.

17 Charles Johnson  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:14:26pm

“Fortified compound in Beverly Hills?”

What the hell is this nutjob raving about?

18 Vicious Babushka  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:14:44pm

re: #12 EPR-radar

A paleo-con contributor to Chronicles like Raimondo really shouldn’t be yapping about hatred of Muslims.

I remember when Justin Raimondo was considered too extreme for Free Republic.

19 Gus  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:15:02pm

ZOMG! Justin Raimondo. Derp.

20 Amory Blaine  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:16:08pm

Doesn’t he know the compound is in Malibu!?

/

21 EPR-radar  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:16:11pm

re: #18 Vicious Babushka

I remember when Justin Raimondo was considered too extreme for Free Republic.

I wonder if that is even possible today. I suppose full-blown Naziism might still draw a ban at Free Republic for being too far to the right.

22 Charles Johnson  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:16:47pm

And what is it with the “drooling?”

They seem disturbingly fixated on saliva.

23 Interesting Times  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:16:50pm

re: #21 EPR-radar

I wonder if that is even possible today. I suppose full-blown Naziism might still draw a ban at Free Republic for being too far to the right.

No such thing. They’d simply accuse them of being Librul Plants™

24 Vicious Babushka  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:20:16pm

The wingnut Putin-crush continues.

25 Charles Johnson  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:20:32pm
26 The Ghost of a Flea  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:20:39pm

The 1516 Reinheitsgebot has made pansies of the whole of Western civilization.

We need to return to a time when men were men, booze was half methanol, and beer was infused with lethal hallucinogens.

Real men would hammer that down, and then go fight Communists. Communists and invisible squids that lived under the couch. And their wives. Their Communist, squid-sympathizing wives.

27 Gus  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:21:22pm

It’s so funny. Every time I defend Israel or Jews on Twitter I lose like 2 followers right away. Weird.

28 Amory Blaine  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:22:12pm

re: #26 The Ghost of a Flea

Give me adjuncts or give me death!!

29 klys  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:22:18pm

re: #25 Charles Johnson

Wait, you don’t?

Fuck, there goes my zombie plan.

30 Arrrr, matey!  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:23:29pm

re: #25 Charles Johnson

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I can hook you up with some turbolaser batteries.

31 Gus  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:23:56pm

:D

32 Gus  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:25:02pm

A little old now. But.:

33 Charles Johnson  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:25:26pm
34 klys  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:26:16pm

re: #32 Gus

THAT’S GOING TO RAISE OUR COST OF LIVING STUPID HIGH!!!

//

Or, you know, it’ll let folks on minimum wage have a shot to live.

35 Gus  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:26:32pm

re: #33 Charles Johnson

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36 klys  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:26:38pm

re: #33 Charles Johnson

I claim neutral responsibility for this tweet.

37 EPR-radar  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:26:45pm

re: #19 Gus

ZOMG! Justin Raimondo. Derp.

Derp indeed. Per Wikipedia, Justin Raimondo is openly gay, but supported Pat Buchanan’s presidential campaigns.

The mind, it boggles.

38 Gus  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:27:00pm

re: #34 klys

THAT’S GOING TO RAISE OUR COST OF LIVING STUPID HIGH!!!

//

Or, you know, it’ll let folks on minimum wage have a shot to live.

They’ll buy more shit.

39 scottslemmons  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:27:30pm

Should I be embarrassed that Raimondo’s name rings not a single bell with me?

40 klys  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:27:39pm

re: #38 Gus

They’ll buy more shit.

THAT DOES NOTHING FOR OUR ECONOMY. SHIT ONLY TRICKLES DOWN.

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41 ObserverArt  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:27:39pm

Great tweet Charles. The Republican’s are already a bit parched.

But, they’ll probably get by with everyone drinking tea. Iced and hot.

42 Interesting Times  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:28:02pm

re: #26 The Ghost of a Flea

We need to return to a time when men were men, booze was half methanol, and beer was infused with lethal hallucinogens.

Is is true that in medieval times, water was so filthy people drank ale instead?

43 blueraven  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:29:05pm

re: #39 scottslemmons

Should I be embarrassed that Raimondo’s name rings not a single bell with me?

Join the club. I have no clue.

44 Amory Blaine  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:29:34pm

Milwaukee has one of the best water treatment in the world. We ozonate the water then it gets a wonderful standard treatment. Tastes great. Yet our grocery stores are filled with bottled water.

45 EPR-radar  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:30:41pm

re: #42 Interesting Times

Is is true that in medieval times, water was so filthy people drank ale instead?

IIRC, water-borne illnesses were so commonplace that people would drink just about anything else in preference to plain water at least through the 1800s.

It took modern water treatment plants to basically make drinking water safe.

Another instance of evil government in action. ///

46 klys  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:31:06pm

re: #44 Amory Blaine

Milwaukee has one of the best water treatment in the world. We ozonate the water then it gets a wonderful standard treatment. Tastes great. Yet our grocery stores are filled with bottled water.

Bottled water all tastes disgusting. Like plastic.

47 OhNoZombies!  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:31:13pm

re: #42 Interesting Times

Is is true that in medieval times, water was so filthy people drank ale instead?

Yep. Small beer.
Not a lot of alcohol, ya know, for the children.

48 OhNoZombies!  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:31:52pm

Get drunk or get cholera.

49 EPR-radar  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:32:20pm

re: #46 klys

Bottled water all tastes disgusting. Like plastic.

Unfortunately, the tap water tastes much worse than bottled water where I live.

50 ObserverArt  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:33:39pm

re: #26 The Ghost of a Flea

The 1516 Reinheitsgebot has made pansies of the whole of Western civilization.

We need to return to a time when men were men, booze was half methanol, and beer was infused with lethal hallucinogens.

Real men would hammer that down, and then go fight Communists. Communists and invisible squids that lived under the couch. And their wives. Their Communist, squid-sympathizing wives.

Got to ask…the beer thing, lethal hallucinogens, what? Is there some history to that, or just funnin’ us?

Who knows…might want to try some! ////

51 Amory Blaine  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:33:46pm

Our publicly owned treatment plants are only running at 30% capacity giving it a shit ton of growth potential. Naturally every wingnut in town is drooling (there’s that word again) to get their dirty little private claws on it.

52 EPR-radar  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:35:26pm

re: #39 scottslemmons

Should I be embarrassed that Raimondo’s name rings not a single bell with me?

Unless his Wikipedia entry is all lies, he’s pretty much a hard-right/libertarian loon of some kind or another with more visibility than most.

53 Interesting Times  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:35:40pm

re: #45 EPR-radar

IIRC, water-borne illnesses were so commonplace that people would drink just about anything else in preference to plain water at least through the 1800s.

There you go. Wingnut response plan to Michelle Obama’s “drink water” campaign:

- kill all water protection regulations
- defund water purification programs
- get everyone drinking booze
- PROFIT!!1!

54 Gus  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:35:42pm

Wait. Three now.

55 ObserverArt  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:36:58pm

re: #45 EPR-radar

IIRC, water-borne illnesses were so commonplace that people would drink just about anything else in preference to plain water at least through the 1800s.

It took modern water treatment plants to basically make drinking water safe.

Another instance of evil government in action. ///

What? People think they are entitled to water? You have to work for it! Too many government entitlements.

/

56 The Ghost of a Flea  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:37:03pm

re: #42 Interesting Times

Is is true that in medieval times, water was so filthy people drank ale instead?

To the best of my knowledge, yes. A lot of places in the world (past and present) use mild fermentation to take the bugs out of suspect water. Though in most cases it’s not beer like we think of it—filtered, hopped, and very carbonated…but rather very weak, unfiltered, and sometimes with the grains still in it. And not just barley and wheat…corn beer (chicha), millet beer, bread drinks (like kvass), on and on.

(The best source I have on this is Sandor Katz’s Art of Fermentation, which is a very thorough overview of fermenting as food technology.)

57 Charles Johnson  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:37:22pm
58 klys  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:37:44pm

re: #49 EPR-radar

Unfortunately, the tap water tastes much worse than bottled water where I live.

I can buy that. But fortunately, most places I have lived haven’t fallen into that category.

Also, can we get over the damn myth that water has no taste? That’s bullshit.

59 EPR-radar  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:39:14pm

re: #50 ObserverArt

Got to ask…the beer thing, lethal hallucinogens, what? Is there some history to that, or just funnin’ us?

Who knows…might want to try some! ////

Quick googling seems to turn up a hit. Apparently Henbane was sometime used as a beer ingredient, and is a toxic hallucinogen.

en.wikipedia.org

60 klys  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:39:46pm

Can you cook your insides with a tanning bed?

Well, no. See: you are not transparent, so UV light sure as hell isn’t going to pass through you.

Occasionally, Mythbusters has to test myths that make the science mind go ARGH. (I’m watching really old episodes.)

61 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:40:00pm

From earlier:


Majestically crazy indeed.

62 ProTARDISLiberal  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:40:51pm

re: #54 Gus

So, uh, you having flood problems?

Boy, I chose literally the best time to leave.

63 ObserverArt  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:41:07pm

re: #59 EPR-radar

Quick googling seems to turn up a hit. Apparently Henbane was sometime used as a beer ingredient, and is a toxic hallucinogen.

en.wikipedia.org

Very interesting. I don’t recall hearing of Henbane. Got some learning to do. Thanks.

64 jaunte  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:41:12pm

re: #39 scottslemmons

Should I be embarrassed that Raimondo’s name rings not a single bell with me?

I think he used to be somebody, but the moment passed.

65 ProTARDISLiberal  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:42:09pm

re: #22 Charles Johnson

They have an oral fixation.

66 Decatur Deb  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:42:25pm

re: #60 klys

Can you cook your insides with a tanning bed?

Well, no. See: you are not transparent, so UV light sure as hell isn’t going to pass through you.

Occasionally, Mythbusters has to test myths that make the science mind go ARGH. (I’m watching really old episodes.)

Depends on how many klystron tubes are in the bed.

67 austin_blue  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:42:34pm

Sorry to go OT, but continuing from downstairs:

re: #241 klys

GAH, that is another beauty.

A lot of the folks around here have either Triplett or Dusty and while I have a small Triplett (fits in airline overhead bins), I want something else for my big one.

_________

She Who Must Be Obeyed’s is a lute-backed model made of American Cherry. It really really is a tremendous instrument. She uses it for trad, folk, jazz, and even some classical stuff (she is doing a short series with a modern dance troupe where the two musicians, She and her flute partner, are not only on the stage but are part of the choreography. It is set to Hovhaness’ “The Gardens of Adonis” and is called Infinite Shapes.

The Delacor levers on the harp function much like the levers on a pedal harp, not putting a standard sharping lever’s friction and wear on the strings. Saves a lot of money on strings. SWMBO got a Colorado case for the axe, carbon fiber, and the total package (case, harp, cover, strings, and whatever dainties she can stuff into it) comes in under 50 pounds.

Don’t get me wrong, Triplett’s, Dusty’s, Kamac’s, Pilgrim’s, &c, are all great harps, but just *listen* to this thing:

Youtube Video

Granted, that’s Ally Bain and Jerry Douglass playing with Catriona, but still. It’s the most beautiful song in the world.

68 Charles Johnson  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:42:37pm
69 EPR-radar  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:43:35pm

re: #60 klys

Can you cook your insides with a tanning bed?

Well, no. See: you are not transparent, so UV light sure as hell isn’t going to pass through you.

Occasionally, Mythbusters has to test myths that make the science mind go ARGH. (I’m watching really old episodes.)

A bit of woo that my Mom is prone to is getting concerned by scary “electromagnetic radiation” from house wiring and wall sockets.

Please. If it is not ionizing radiation, then the only real threat from EM radiation is tissue getting cooked as in a microwave oven, which takes many orders of magnitude more power than is being emitted out of wall sockets.

70 klys  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:45:01pm

re: #66 Decatur Deb

It’s true, my thought-waves will cook the mind of anyone who sits in one. (Seriously I don’t tan as anyone who ever meets me will attest. I am the whitest person ever. Except possibly an albino.)

re: #67 austin_blue

Now I need to go practice. And I will still never be that good.

71 Gus  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:45:15pm

re: #62 ProTARDISLiberal

So, uh, you having flood problems?

Boy, I chose literally the best time to leave.

Nope. Just a leaky roof.

72 Stanley Sea  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:45:17pm

re: #62 ProTARDISLiberal

So, uh, you having flood problems?

Boy, I chose literally the best time to leave.

73 The Ghost of a Flea  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:48:09pm

re: #50 ObserverArt

Got to ask…the beer thing, lethal hallucinogens, what? Is there some history to that, or just funnin’ us?

Who knows…might want to try some! ////

Old-school beer was sometimes augmented with some truly crazy stuff…mandrake root and other stuff with psychoactive effects that increased the intoxication. Though, admittedly, this was less prevalent (and more entertaining) than the tendency of people to have their own beer style defined by whatever local herbs could act as flavoring and preservatives. Nonetheless crazy shit like henbane and amanita mushrooms was sometimes in the mix.

There’s actually still a style of beer called gruit, which is defined by being unhopped and flavored with other adjuncts. I’ve had a few gruit microbrews, but the crazy psychoactive ones that people homebrew (there’s a book of recipes of “Sacred and Healing Beers” out there on Amazon) sound a little…extreme. Particularly when you consider that Asia Minor/Europe didn’t have the cool psychoactives, it had the scary berseker ones.

74 Gus  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:49:56pm


Dolby.

75 OhNoZombies!  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:51:06pm

Live hard. Die young. Life for Midieval folks was terrible.
I can’t say I blame them for spicing up their beer.

76 ProTARDISLiberal  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:52:00pm

re: #72 Stanley Sea

I saw that.

I worked out that the largest unaffected city in the state now is Fort Collins, the 4th largest city in the state.

I heard there were issues beginning in Denver.

77 Kragar  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:53:24pm

re: #17 Charles Johnson

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“Fortified compound in Beverly Hills?”

What the hell is this nutjob raving about?

All the gold in California maybe?

78 Decatur Deb  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:53:29pm

re: #70 klys

Heh. Didn’t see the similarity to your nic until I started typing ‘klystron’. Had the kind of kids who always wanted to ‘make things’ out of discarded microwaves and refrigerators.

79 klys  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:54:57pm

re: #78 Decatur Deb

Heh. Didn’t see the similarity to your nic until I started typing ‘klystron’. Had the kind of kids who always wanted to ‘make things’ out of discarded microwaves and refrigerators.

I didn’t realize it was a real thing until after I replied. >.>

80 The Ghost of a Flea  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:55:35pm

If you don’t have an fortified compound in Beverly Hills, how with you keep out Jeb Clampett and his kin?

81 Amory Blaine  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 7:57:01pm

I’m working on Canon in D.

Youtube Video

82 Arrrr, matey!  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 8:01:06pm

Youtube Video

83 ObserverArt  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 8:01:20pm

re: #73 The Ghost of a Flea

Old-school beer was sometimes augmented with some truly crazy stuff…mandrake root and other stuff with psychoactive effects that increased the intoxication. Though, admittedly, this was less prevalent (and more entertaining) than the tendency of people to have their own beer style defined by whatever local herbs could act as flavoring and preservatives. Nonetheless

There’s actually still a style of beer called gruit, which is defined by being unhopped and flavored with other adjuncts. I’ve had a few gruit microbrews, but the crazy psychoactive ones that people homebrew (there’s a book of recipes of “Sacred and Healing Beers” out there on Amazon) sound a little…extreme. Particularly when you consider that Asia Minor/Europe didn’t have the cool psychoactives, it had the scary berseker ones.

Thanks. I checked out a bit on henbane, Strange plant. From some descriptions it has some of the funky characteristics of peyote buttons and mushrooms. Grows on bad soil, trash heaps, etc. Found in England and Europe and member of Nightshade family.

And, always have to remember ergot, the alkaloid fungus that grows on rye. There are many historic stories about Middle Age people getting pretty crazy from bad rye. I think a whole French Village spaced out once and had no idea what was happening to them.

Ergot lead straight to LSD. I wonder if some bad rye that had the spores made its way into beer. Ergot can also occur on wheat and barley. Some of that old beer might have been plenty punchy.

84 Stanley Sea  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 8:02:30pm
85 klys  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 8:03:09pm

re: #83 ObserverArt

I read this and I think about huitlacoche.

Mmm.

(Otherwise known as corn smut.)

86 The Ghost of a Flea  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 8:07:25pm

re: #85 klys

I read this and I think about huitlacoche.

Mmm.

(Otherwise known as corn smut.)

Oh man that stuff is good. I deeply, deeply regret that I can’t get fresh huilacoche where I live. The canned stuff is a shadow of the fresh.

87 Dark_Falcon  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 8:08:11pm

re: #84 Stanley Sea

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The school may not be to blame, but it needs to land on those girls with both feet.

88 Stanley Sea  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 8:09:04pm

re: #87 Dark_Falcon

The school may not be to blame, but it needs to land on those girls with both feet.

The school probably did what it could. But the parents. THE PARENTS.

my dog.

89 klys  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 8:14:59pm

re: #86 The Ghost of a Flea

Oh man that stuff is good. I deeply, deeply regret that I can’t get fresh huilacoche where I live. The canned stuff is a shadow of the fresh.

There’s a Hispanic restaurant here that does it well.

But the best was being in Mexico in September. (Minus the salmonella.)

90 austin_blue  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 8:15:01pm

re: #86 The Ghost of a Flea

Oh man that stuff is good. I deeply, deeply regret that I can’t get fresh huilacoche where I live. The canned stuff is a shadow of the fresh.

For the terminally confused, huitlacoche is the mexican equivalent of the black truffle. Very expensive, very delicious.

91 klys  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 8:15:42pm

re: #90 austin_blue

For the terminally confused, huitlacoche is the mexican equivalent of the black truffle. Very expensive, very delicious.

Party pooper. It’s so much more fun to have them google corn smut.

//

92 Stanley Sea  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 8:15:58pm

It must suck when you realize your daughter is an asshole. But if you are not too busy, you need to restrict that kid. Gah people.

93 austin_blue  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 8:17:16pm

re: #91 klys

Party pooper. It’s so much more fun to have them google corn smut.

//

That results in images that will make your wife go Grrrr….

Those Iowa girls! Who knew?

94 klys  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 8:17:38pm

re: #93 austin_blue

That results in images that will make your wife go Grrrr….

Those Iowa girls! Who knew?

Haha, I don’t have a wife.

95 The Ghost of a Flea  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 8:18:43pm

re: #89 klys

There’s a Hispanic restaurant here that does it well.

But the best was being in Mexico in September. (Minus the salmonella.)

I’ve had it once, in Chicago, at Salpicon.

It persists in my memory.

I live surrounded by corn, so I always wonder it there’s some way I can cultivate my own.

96 Lancelot Link  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 8:19:08pm

re: #89 klys

Say, Klys, earlier you mentioned the Scottish Games - are you in the tri-valley, by any chance?

97 klys  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 8:20:00pm

re: #96 Lancelot Link

Say, Klys, earlier you mentioned the Scottish Games - are you in the tri-valley, by any chance?

South Bay, but we always make a trip up for those (it’s not that far, really).

I may be at Woodside in April/May.

98 klys  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 8:22:28pm

re: #95 The Ghost of a Flea

I’ve had it once, in Chicago, at Salpicon.

It persists in my memory.

I live surrounded by corn, so I always wonder it there’s some way I can cultivate my own.

Mexico City, the night before we flew out, a block or two off the Zocalo. Or Teotihuacan, a little mom-and-pop shop outside the pyramids. Both were fantastic.

It mostly made up for the salmonella. And I did get the secret of tequila in the guacamole, which makes up for an awful lot.

99 Lancelot Link  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 8:23:05pm

re: #97 klys

Ah - I was just mildly curious whether we were neighbors.

100 Amory Blaine  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 8:23:07pm

U.S. and Iran are edging toward direct talks

Signaling a possible thaw in long-frozen relations, the Obama administration and the new leadership in Iran are communicating about Syria and are moving behind the scenes toward direct talks that both governments hope can ease the escalating confrontation over Tehran’s nuclear program.

President Obama reportedly reached out to Iran’s relatively moderate president, Hassan Rouhani, through an exchange of letters in recent weeks. The pragmatist cleric is scheduled to address the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 24, and after years of the United States cold-shouldering his ultraconservative predecessor, U.S. officials say it’s possible they will meet with Rouhani on the sidelines.

Beyond that, U.S. and Iranian officials are tentatively laying the groundwork for potential face-to-face talks between the two governments, the first in the rancorous 34 years since radical students seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and founded the Islamic theocracy. Diplomatic relations have been broken ever since.

101 klys  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 8:23:41pm

re: #99 Lancelot Link

Ah - I was just mildly curious whether we were neighbors.

As a result of too many road trips, I still consider less than 2 hours to be neighbors. :)

102 Stanley Sea  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 8:25:11pm
103 ObserverArt  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 8:27:31pm

re: #91 klys

Party pooper. It’s so much more fun to have them google corn smut.

//

I did look it up. Under Huitlacoche.

With foods like that, I always wonder, who was the first human that decided to try to eat it?

Scene: people harvesting corn. Man #1: “You know what, there is this big growth on that ear of corn over there. I’m digging in.”

And with that…time to run.

104 OhNoZombies!  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 8:28:16pm

Children’s behavior is most often a reflection of their parents behavior.
It’s frightening to think that a lot of these majestically crazy nut jobs we see have children.

105 bratwurst  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 8:30:16pm
106 ProTARDISLiberal  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 8:35:36pm

Hometown now getting hit hard.

107 Stanley Sea  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 8:36:17pm

re: #104 OhNoZombies!

Children’s behavior is most often a reflection of their parents behavior.
It’s frightening to think that all of these majestically crazy nut jobs we see have children.

I’m not a parent, and I always preface my opinion with that because oh the horror. But I’ve seen, often often often how being a parent makes you lay your ass down and not stand up for your basic principles. Because of love? Fear? Failure? I have no clue. But from simple shit to having a girl in your household terrorizing another child (sure you were notified, but…)

Failure of parenting. That poor girl.

108 dog philosopher  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 8:38:16pm

re: #103 ObserverArt

I did look it up. Under Huitlacoche.

With foods like that, I always wonder, who was the first human that decided to try to eat it?

Scene: people harvesting corn. Man #1: “You know what, there is this big growth on that ear of corn over there. I’m digging in.”

And with that…time to run.

“hey, mikey - i dare you to eat that ear of corn with that… that… thing on it”

109 ProTARDISLiberal  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 8:41:24pm
110 Dark_Falcon  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 8:44:26pm

re: #109 ProTARDISLiberal

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Not good.

111 ProTARDISLiberal  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 8:49:45pm

re: #110 Dark_Falcon

That’s deep inside the city. About 1/2 of the city’s car dealerships sit in the area.

If they flooded out, then downtown likely did as well. This sounds correct, as it seems power has gone out in some areas of Colorado Springs.

Denver, if I am not mistaken, is also now taking flood damage.

112 ProTARDISLiberal  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 8:53:14pm

re: #110 Dark_Falcon

And then we had this dipstick.

I gave a response.

113 Belafon  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 8:54:39pm

re: #24 Vicious Babushka

And I can’t spell, awesome.

114 Dark_Falcon  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 8:54:56pm

re: #112 ProTARDISLiberal

And then we had this dipstick.

[Embedded content]

I gave a response.

What are “directioners”?

115 ProTARDISLiberal  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 8:58:08pm

re: #114 Dark_Falcon

Fans of One Direction.

Many fandoms have this. Doctor Who fans are Whovians.

We have these people to be among us.

Celebrity fans include Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth,[10] Prince of Wales,[11] comedians Frank Skinner, Jon Culshaw, Scott Adsit, David Walliams,[12] Mitch Benn, Peter Kay, Mark Gatiss, Stewart Lee, Dom Joly, Matt Lucas, Chris Addison, Rufus Hound[13] Toby Hadoke, Wil Anderson, Chris Hardwick; actors Benedict Cumberbatch, Chris Evans, David Hewlett,[14] Stephen Fry,[15] David Duchovny,[16]Tom Hanks, Eric McCormack,[17] Simon Pegg, Bill Hader, Rob Lowe,[18] Anthony Stewart Head, Steve Martin, Scott Bakula, Noah Wyle[19] singer/songwriter Marc Almond, Will Arnett and Elizabeth Hurley; Simpsons creator Matt Groening, Inheritance Cycle author Christopher Paolini, Firefly creator Joss Whedon, voice actor Yuri Lowenthal, science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer, horror writer Stephen King, Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson, graphic novelist and fantasy writer Neil Gaiman, DC Comics writer Sterling Gates, ‘Starman’ writer James Robinson, comics columnist Rich Johnston,[20] horror novelist Brian Keene, comics author Grant Morrison,[21] film director Edgar Wright,[22] playwright Mark Ravenhill,[23] Star Trek star Patrick Stewart,[24] Valve Corporation CEO and co-founder Gabe Newell, [25] boxer Mike Tyson[26] and science fiction writer Harlan Ellison.

I really left for OK at a great time.

116 ProTARDISLiberal  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 9:00:37pm
117 Dark_Falcon  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 9:03:47pm

re: #115 ProTARDISLiberal

Fans of One Direction.

Many fandoms have this. Doctor Who fans are Whovians.

We have these people to be among us.

I really left for OK at a great time.

OK, now I understand.

118 psddluva4evah  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 9:05:09pm

I just got back from the bowling alley. A lady at my job convinced me to join her bowling league and I agreed to join. So if ya know me, then you’ll know I’m kinda anti - social, why in the world did I agree to do this? Figured it was better than sitting on my couch surfing the net & watching tv and reading the upteenth blog post on Syria/Snowden/NSA/Benghazi/Putin/Republican crazy!

Anyway, I hate to say it but I enjoyed myself.

I’m gonna give it a least one season and then I’m gonna reevaluate it. this is basically the first time I’ve bowled since high school, so almost 20 years ago. Two of the team members bowl at least 2x a week. The other guy is a “newbie” but he just hasn’t bowled in a least a year. Everyone seems nice, but some are really competitive even though they say they’re not. So I need to up my game. I hate being the worse at anything. I am at least consistently the last…lol

So I’m the “newbie” and I HATE it. I can def get competitive and obsessed about it…ugh. I hate being the worse at anything. I’m not trying to be in the pro leagues, but I at least want to hold my own and not feel like I’m dragging the team down!

Oh and now my legs and my “bowling fingesr” are killing me. Who the heck knew it actually pays to be a little in shape or have a little stamina when it comes to bowling.

Still, at least I got out of the house.

119 ProTARDISLiberal  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 9:06:38pm

re: #117 Dark_Falcon

See, I can brag. Because we got cultured people here.

Already, various counties in Colorado are unable to reach each other to help out.

Gilpin County can’t get help from Boulder County.

120 klys  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 9:11:05pm

re: #118 psddluva4evah

My attempts to develop a social life shouldn’t be written about.

/praying for a dinner invite from a husband’s coworker

121 ProTARDISLiberal  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 9:12:09pm

And while this is happening:

122 BongCrodny  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 9:12:26pm

re: #114 Dark_Falcon

What are “directioners”?

I did a trivia sheet a few months back on fan clubs. Some of them are quite cleverly named:

Babblers — Babylon 5
Beliebers — That freaky kid
Cortexifans — Fringe
Claymates — Clay Aiken
Gleeks — Glee
Maniloonies — Barry Manilow
Trubies — True Blood
Twi Hards — Twilight

Of course, the last question on my sheet was “Whovians.”

123 HappyWarrior  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 9:14:50pm

All joking aside about MODS-Michelle Obama Derangement Syndrome. Water is great. Got this Dasani pineapple-coconut stuff to flavor it up with. Beats soda anytime.

124 austin_blue  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 9:17:21pm

re: #118 psddluva4evah

I just got back from the bowling alley. A lady at my job convinced me to join her bowling league and I agreed to join. So if ya know me, then you’ll know I’m kinda anti - social, why in the world did I agree to do this? Figured it was better than sitting on my couch surfing the net & watching tv and reading the upteenth blog post on Syria/Snowden/NSA/Benghazi/Putin/Republican crazy!

Anyway, I hate to say it but I enjoyed myself.

I’m gonna give it a least one season and then I’m gonna reevaluate it. this is basically the first time I’ve bowled since high school, so almost 20 years ago. Two of the team members bowl at least 2x a week. The other guy is a “newbie” but he just hasn’t bowled in a least a year. Everyone seems nice, but some are really competitive even though they say they’re not. So I need to up my game. I hate being the worse at anything. I am at least consistently the last…lol

So I’m the “newbie” and I HATE it. I can def get competitive and obsessed about it…ugh. I hate being the worse at anything. I’m not trying to be in the pro leagues, but I at least want to hold my own and not feel like I’m dragging the team down!

Oh and now my legs and my “bowling fingesr” are killing me. Who the heck knew it actually pays to be a little in shape or have a little stamina when it comes to bowling.

Still, at least I got out of the house.

Good for you! You might want to note that “worse” should probably be “worst”. It’s not something that a spellcheck will catch, but really, this is another area where you need to “up your game”.

Literacy is important. But, LOL! Glad you had fun!

(peers at screen, scratches head, ponders why psddluva4evah chose this board)

125 HappyWarrior  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 9:18:10pm

re: #115 ProTARDISLiberal

Fans of One Direction.

Many fandoms have this. Doctor Who fans are Whovians.

We have these people to be among us.

I really left for OK at a great time.

Not often you see a club that includes Mike Tyson, Matt Groening, and others. I’ve seen a few eps. It’s a good show. Not really a big sci-fi guy still but I’ve been fascinated by time travel since I first saw Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure as a kid.

126 austin_blue  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 9:23:58pm

re: #122 BongCrodny

I did a trivia sheet a few months back on fan clubs. Some of them are quite cleverly named:

Babblers — Babylon 5
Beliebers — That freaky kid
Cortexifans — Fringe
Claymates — Clay Aiken
Gleeks — Glee
Maniloonies — Barry Manilow
Trubies — True Blood
Twi Hards — Twilight

Of course, the last question on my sheet was “Whovians.”

Barry Manilow? Really? A fan club?

If I thought about that for any length of time, I think I would end up vomiting blood.

127 klys  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 9:24:29pm

re: #126 austin_blue

Barry Manilow? Really? A fan club?

If I thought about that for any length of time, I think I would end up vomiting blood.

Consider it in the same category as Rule 34.

Except don’t think about it too closely.

128 dog philosopher  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 9:26:10pm

Americans Oppose Death Ceiling 44 - 22

would take death and whiskey anyday

129 ProTARDISLiberal  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 9:26:35pm

And now Fort Collins is Flooding.

That leaves Pueblo as the largest undamaged city in the state.

It is the 9th Largest City in Colorado.

130 klys  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 9:27:13pm

re: #129 ProTARDISLiberal

And now Fort Collins is Flooding.

That leaves Pueblo as the largest undamaged city in the state.

It is the 9th Largest City in Colorado.

I drove through Pueblo this summer.

It was boring as shit.

131 BongCrodny  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 9:30:03pm

re: #126 austin_blue

Barry Manilow? Really? A fan club?

If I thought about that for any length of time, I think I would end up vomiting blood.

The one that got my hurlometer spiking was “Bronies.”

Male fans of My Little Pony.

132 Flavia  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 9:34:57pm

re: #27 Gus

It’s so funny. Every time I defend Israel or Jews on Twitter I lose like 2 followers right away. Weird.

Weird -that’s how I pick them up!

133 Flavia  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 9:44:16pm

re: #107 Stanley Sea

I’m not a parent, and I always preface my opinion with that because oh the horror. But I’ve seen, often often often how being a parent makes you lay your ass down and not stand up for your basic principles. Because of love? Fear? Failure? I have no clue.

Odd; being a parent has made me step out & lay down the law far more firmly than I ever thought I would.

But from simple shit to having a girl in your household terrorizing another child (sure you were notified, but…)

They were NOTIFIED? I don’t know which is worse, the parents doing nothing, or the school saying “Well, we told them!” & then doing nothing. We had a problem like this - but now is not the time for me to start that discussion.

Failure of parenting. That poor girl.

I hope she is at last at peace.

134 SnowdenBaggerVance  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 9:44:33pm

Epic Karma

A couple of local douches film themselves catching a well known tiger shark that hangs around the Honokohau Harbor in Kona.

Explodes over Facebook, lots of comments on YouTube shaming these scoundrels. Mostly all local people that know them.

135 freetoken  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 9:45:18pm

For all the Maniloonies out there:

MP3 Audio

136 dog philosopher  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 9:46:35pm

Maniloonies

i thought those were people who spent canadian currency while male

137 sagehen  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 10:42:15pm

re: #122 BongCrodny

I did a trivia sheet a few months back on fan clubs. Some of them are quite cleverly named:

Babblers — Babylon 5
Beliebers — That freaky kid
Cortexifans — Fringe
Claymates — Clay Aiken
Gleeks — Glee
Maniloonies — Barry Manilow
Trubies — True Blood
Twi Hards — Twilight

Of course, the last question on my sheet was “Whovians.”

You missed the obvious, first online example: The X-Philes.

and predating all of them, from when fan assemblages were all about print because movies weren’t yet a commercial enterprise — The Irregulars (sherlock holmes)

138 GeneJockey  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 10:48:56pm
Russian Tyrant Putin sounds more American than #Obama.

So, Putin ‘writes’ an op-ed, specifically DENYING American Exceptionalism, and the Right Wing goes gaga for how American he sounds?

Whoa. What have I been smoking?

139 klys  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 10:50:31pm

re: #138 GeneJockey

I think the question isn’t what have you been smoking but what have they been smoking.

140 Lidane  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 10:55:43pm

re: #122 BongCrodny

I did a trivia sheet a few months back on fan clubs. Some of them are quite cleverly named:

Babblers — Babylon 5
Beliebers — That freaky kid
Cortexifans — Fringe
Claymates — Clay Aiken
Gleeks — Glee
Maniloonies — Barry Manilow
Trubies — True Blood
Twi Hards — Twilight

Of course, the last question on my sheet was “Whovians.”

There are also:

Browncoats — Firefly/Serenity
Scoobies — Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Unsullied — Game of Thrones fans who have NOT read the books
Bookwalkers — Game of Thrones fans who HAVE read the books
Tributes — The Hunger Games

141 piratedan  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 11:01:19pm

re: #140 Lidane

There are also:

Browncoats — Firefly/Serenity
Scoobies — Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Unsullied — Game of Thrones fans who have NOT read the books
Bookwalkers — Game of Thrones fans who HAVE read the books
Tributes — The Hunger Games

and

MSTies - MST3K fans

142 klys  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 11:01:35pm

re: #140 Lidane

There are also:

Browncoats — Firefly/Serenity
Scoobies — Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Unsullied — Game of Thrones fans who have NOT read the books
Bookwalkers — Game of Thrones fans who HAVE read the books
Tributes — The Hunger Games

We are all neglecting the obvious here:

Trekkies.

143 sagehen  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 11:02:01pm

re: #142 klys

We are all neglecting the obvious here:

Trekkies.

That’s Trekkers, you heathen.

144 klys  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 11:02:33pm

re: #143 sagehen

That’s Trekkers, you heathen.

That’s ok, I also have a 24 year old crush on Wesley.

Say what you will, it won’t phase me.

145 piratedan  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 11:03:46pm

re: #144 klys

That’s ok, I also have a 24 year old crush on Wesley.

Say what you will, it won’t phase me.

Tis alright, I still to this day have a spot for Gates McFadden in my Redhead Hotties Hall of Fame….

146 klys  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 11:04:58pm

re: #145 piratedan

Tis alright, I still to this day have a spot for Gates McFadden in my Redhead Hotties Hall of Fame….

Completely OT (not like any of this isn’t) but some of the exchanges on Twitter between her and Wil Wheaton and Wheaton’s wife have been hysterical.

147 klys  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 11:06:06pm

re: #145 piratedan

Tis alright, I still to this day have a spot for Gates McFadden in my Redhead Hotties Hall of Fame….

Also, I was Beverly Crusher for Halloween in the 7th grade. Several years after it went off air. I even dyed my hair red, and freaked out every time I looked at it, and it took 4 washes to get out even though it was just one of those comb-in varieties.

148 piratedan  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 11:06:51pm

re: #146 klys

well I gotta believe that she has to have a wicked sense of humor just to be able to hang with that cast…. seems like it’s gotta go hand in hand with the job.

149 klys  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 11:08:20pm

re: #148 piratedan

well I gotta believe that she has to have a wicked sense of humor just to be able to hang with that cast…. seems like it’s gotta go hand in hand with the job.

150 piratedan  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 11:09:58pm

re: #149 klys

lol…. his paternity will be forever questioned amongst the hallowed halls of starfleet academy

151 klys  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 11:11:18pm

re: #150 piratedan

lol…. his paternity will be forever questioned amongst the hallowed halls of starfleet academy

YOU MEAN IT’S NOT CAPTAIN PICARD?

152 freetoken  Thu, Sep 12, 2013 11:34:01pm

The sky is blue,
the grass is green,
and America is still America
in 2013:

An Indianapolis news outlet informs us:

‘In search of the truth’

Whether an individual believes that a spiritual being created the universe or that it simply evolved over time, organizers of the annual Creation Evidence Expo promise them an engaging series of activities.

[…]

The expo, which is being promoted with the theme “In search of the truth,” will include interactive displays, books, family entertainment and several exhibits and workshops that discuss the origins and age of the Earth to highlight evidence of the world’s creation by a spiritual being.

Presenters will also offer scientific and archeological “evidence” that they say proves the world was “intelligently designed” by a high spiritual being.

Rev. Frederick Boyd, pastor of Zion Unity and a founder of the Creation Evidence Expo, said its goal is to offer a venue in which educators, pastors and scientists can explore and discuss research that they believe proves that science supports the theory that God created the Earth approximately 6,000 years ago and events recorded in the Bible are historically and scientifically sound.

[…]

Also included this year will be a debate about human evolution and dinosaurs. Prominent speakers include Dr. Jay Wile, a prominent atheist who became a Christian, Dr. Willie Dye, one of the nation’s few African-American biblical archeologists, Dr. A. Charles Ware, president of Crossroads Bible College, and Bruce Malone, scientist, chemist and author.

Within the last quarter century, a movement known as “young Earth creationism” has grown in the Protestant Christian community of the United States.

[…]

Supporters of the movement began to mobilize in 1987 after the U.S. Supreme Court declared that teaching creationism; the religious-based belief that the universe was created by a supreme being, in public schools is unconstitutional.

Until that time, creationism had been taught in many public schools as a theory on how the world came into existence right alongside evolution, the scientific belief that humans evolved into our current form over millions of years from earlier versions of humans that were related to animals.

In 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the teaching of intelligent design (the science-based belief that the world was designed) as a violation of the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment, which upholds separation of church and state.

Since then, creationist Christians have been upset that evolution is essentially the only state-endorsed theory of Earth’s origins taught in public schools. Creation activists in Indiana are working to convince legislators, educators and parents to help bring creation science, or at least intelligent design, back into schools.

[…]

“This is not a religious event, it is a science-based educational event,” Boyd said. “Our goal is to promote truth in education, because you can’t teach something unless it has been proven to be factually true.”

Decide for yourself

[…]

Oh yes, decide for yourself. By all means, reality is up for your discretion.

“This is not a religious event…” - these people are serial liars. They have lied so much to themselves that they are incapable of stating the simplest of truths.

153 freetoken  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 12:02:40am

Time for some Marcello:

MP3 Audio

154 urbanmeemaw  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 1:59:26am

re: #24 Vicious Babushka

Putin/Paul 2016. You heard it here first.

155 urbanmeemaw  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 2:02:51am

re: #53 Interesting Times

Also, too, there is “Brawndo”. It has electrolytes plants love.

156 Sol Berdinowitz  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 2:42:18am

Encouraging Americans to drink more water is just one step towards banning 48-ounce sodas. This is how Hitler got started…

157 Sol Berdinowitz  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 2:45:07am

re: #50 ObserverArt

Got to ask…the beer thing, lethal hallucinogens, what? Is there some history to that, or just funnin’ us?

Who knows…might want to try some! ////

Germans used to infuse their mead with all sorts of hallucinogenic herbs for semi-ritual purposes. Getting stoned and seeing God has a long cultural tradition.

158 Sol Berdinowitz  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 2:46:19am

re: #65 ProTARDISLiberal

They have an oral fixation.

America seems to have an almost pre-adolescent fixation on anything we put into our bodies and the orifices we use to do so.

159 wheat-dogghazi  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 2:52:43am

re: #152 freetoken

I note that the speakers at this event are heavily weighted toward opposing the theory of evolution. Wile is a nuclear chemist who found God and Malone is a prolific writer abiut Intelligent Design. I see no mention of Ken Ham, whose creation museum is only a couple of hours away.

The event will also discuss whether races exist. Given that this is an African-American church sponsoring it, I wonder how they will approach that question?

160 sagehen  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 3:03:32am

Happy Friday the 13th.

161 Sol Berdinowitz  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 3:04:03am

re: #159 wheat-dogghazi

I note that the speakers at this event are heavily weighted toward opposing the theory of evolution. Wile is a nuclear chemist who found God and Malone is a prolific writer abiut Intelligent Design. I see no mention of Ken Ham, whose creation museum is only a couple of hours away.

The event will also discuss whether races exist. Given that this is an African-American church sponsoring it, I wonder how they will approach that question?

Races really only “exist” in our definition of them…they are highly subjective at that.

The question is about the role they play in society, law and political interaction.

162 Arrrr, matey!  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 3:07:27am

Image: Mikuthe13.jpg

163 Justanotherhuman  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 3:13:45am

Speaking of water, is that bottled water you pay a premium to drink free to the company bottling it?

Nestle bottles millions of litres of Canadian water — and pays nothing
Billion-dollar company extracting B.C.’s drinking water for free, then selling it back to Canadians

o.canada.com

“Because of B.C.’s lack of groundwater regulation, Nestlé Waters Canada — a division of the multi-billion-dollar Switzerland-based Nestlé Group, the world’s largest food company — is not required to measure, report, or pay a penny for the millions of litres of water it draws from Hope and then sells across Western Canada.”

Remember, Peter Brabeck, CEO of Nestles, says water is not a “right”:

Youtube Video

I drink a lot of coffee, always have, black now, occasionally w/milk & Splenda. Stopped drinking sodas a long time ago.

164 Arrrr, matey!  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 3:21:25am

Alex Jones Links Syrian Weapons Proposal To Human Extinction Plot
Jones’ Globalist Theory Connects Weapons Inspectors To Plans For Replacing Humans With “New Species” Of Human-Machine Hybrids

165 Justanotherhuman  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 3:49:27am

re: #159 wheat-dogghazi

I note that the speakers at this event are heavily weighted toward opposing the theory of evolution. Wile is a nuclear chemist who found God and Malone is a prolific writer abiut Intelligent Design. I see no mention of Ken Ham, whose creation museum is only a couple of hours away.

The event will also discuss whether races exist. Given that this is an African-American church sponsoring it, I wonder how they will approach that question?

Interesting question, given that Black preachers have been prominent figures in civil rights. I wonder how any Blacks could align themselves with this kind of white fundie bullshit? Are they just trying to cash in, too? Some certainly have achieved prominence and cash as preachers in Black megachurches, the same as their white counterparts.

This one is quite the enterprise: tuhopfap.org

166 Justanotherhuman  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 4:06:34am

Russia has its own problems.

Russia hospital fire kills 37 in Novgorod region

bbc.co.uk

It should be noted, also, that Russia in 2012 had 12,000 deaths by fire, while the US, with twice the population, had 3,000 in 2011.

abclocal.go.com

167 Justanotherhuman  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 4:21:32am

re: #157 Sol Berdinowitz

Germans used to infuse their mead with all sorts of hallucinogenic herbs for semi-ritual purposes. Getting stoned and seeing God has a long cultural tradition.

Which should prove that “God” is all in your head.

168 wheat-dogghazi  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 4:30:07am

re: #161 Sol Berdinowitz

Races really only “exist” in our definition of them…they are highly subjective at that.

The question is about the role they play in society, law and political interaction.

No question of that. But creationists have come up with all sorts of “just so” stories to explain geographically distinct skin colors. I’m just not clear how an African-American church navigates the “whites came first” lessons that is inherent in most creationist tomes.

169 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 4:37:00am

Mentioning Raimondo reminded me of Charles in his seekrit lair.

170 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 4:44:52am

re: #165 Justanotherhuman

Interesting question, given that Black preachers have been prominent figures in civil rights. I wonder how any Blacks could align themselves with this kind of white fundie bullshit? Are they just trying to cash in, too? Some certainly have achieved prominence and cash as preachers in Black megachurches, the same as their white counterparts.

This one is quite the enterprise: tuhopfap.org

There is this one black church that requested white ushers, uproar ensued. They claimed it was “outreach.”

171 Justanotherhuman  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 5:01:56am

Al-Qaida leader calls for attacks inside US

hosted.ap.org

“Al-Zawahri, the successor to Osama bin Laden, used the anniversary to argue that the United States can be defeated by targeting its economy. At the same time, he also addressed the ongoing upheaval in the Arab world. Pointing to a power struggle going on within the rebellion against Syria’s regime, he warned jihadi fighters in that country’s civil war not “compromise” with more secular or moderate rebel factions, who he said would eventually turn against the al-Qaida-linked radicals.

(snip)

“On Syria’s civil war, al-Zawahri addressed al-Qaida-linked jihadis - including many foreign fighters - who have taken an increasingly prominent role in the fight against President Bashar Assad’s regime. Their rise has caused tensions with more moderate Syrian rebel factions, even escalating to violence and turf battles. The United States and its allies have said they want to build up moderate rebel factions to reduce jihadi influence.

(snip)

“Regarding Egypt - his homeland - al-Zawahri denounced what he called the “massacre” and `savage crimes” in the crackdown by authorities on Morsi’s Brotherhood and other Islamists. Still, he dismissed Morsi, saying he did not implement Shariah during his year in office and maintained Egypt’s relations with Israel. Al-Zawahri said the crackdown targeted not the Brotherhood, but “the Islamic orientation” in general, because “our American enemies realize the dangers of raising the Islamic banner.”

So, fuck off, GG.

172 Decatur Deb  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 5:33:34am

re: #170 Vicious Babushka

There is this one black church that requested white ushers, uproar ensued. They claimed it was “outreach.”

Whole new kind of shabbos goy. Preacher might have pulled that off if he had avoided the word ‘only’.

173 wheat-dogghazi  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 5:36:26am

re: #171 Justanotherhuman

Al-Zawahri, the successor to Osama bin Laden, used the anniversary to argue that the United States can be defeated by targeting its economy donating heavily to the Republican Party.

I fixed this half in jest. Given the obstructionism of the current GOP, if AQ really wanted to hurt the USA, all it would need would be to get more Tea Party idjits elected to political office, then watch as the USA imploded as they do away with the income tax, the Federal Reserve bank, Social Security, foreign aid, the Affordable Care Act, the EPA, OSHA, and regulation in general.

174 Justanotherhuman  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 5:37:13am

#BREAKING: Nat’l Guard will begin evacuating entire town of Lyons at daybreak according to Boulder Co. Sheriff’s Office. -@kelly_smootcnn

3 mins ago from twitter.com by partner

175 Decatur Deb  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 5:38:05am

re: #174 Justanotherhuman

#BREAKING: Nat’l Guard will begin evacuating entire town of Lyons at daybreak according to Boulder Co. Sheriff’s Office. -@kelly_smootcnn

3 mins ago from twitter.com by partner

FEMA Camps !!1!!!

176 b.d.  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 5:40:27am

I heard Putin pees water. Is there nothing that dreamy man can’t do?

177 [deleted]  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 5:51:35am
178 Decatur Deb  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 5:52:11am

Salon writer already won today’s Intertubes:

Putin on Assad Face

slate.com

Didn’t read the article, headline sufficed.

179 Justanotherhuman  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 5:55:05am

This is the kind of event that strikes terror into the minds of elderly people who already, in many cases, feel vulnerable. It appears the teen was in the market, also, and makes you wonder if the 2 had any contact inside, or if the teen was merely looking for a victim. In any event, it appears to be very cold blooded.

Teen Arrested in Elderly Man’s Murder in Opa-locka Parking Lot: Police
Miguel Pilotos was shot and killed on Aug. 21 in the parking lot of the Top Value supermarket

nbcmiami.com

Even if this man had been “packing”, there would have been no chance of him defending himself.

180 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 5:57:38am

re: #178 Decatur Deb

Salon writer already won today’s Intertubes:

Putin on Assad Face

slate.com

Didn’t read the article, headline sufficed.

Read it! It’s a good article. Don’t read the comments, though. You already know what they say.

181 Justanotherhuman  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 6:00:58am

re: #180 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Read it! It’s a good article. Don’t read the comments, though. You already know what they say.

White guy, Black guy, as others have noted. Just infuckingcredible.

182 Sol Berdinowitz  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 6:02:23am

Russian leader discusses American Luxury hotel: Putin on the Ritz

183 Good Morning  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 6:03:24am

But what about fluoride?

Boo hoo hooo. Get a job and then buy a reverse osmosis system.

184 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 6:09:17am

re: #183 Good Morning

What a coincidence that the John Burch Society fluoride conspiracy nuts all managed to go to that one out of five dentists who didn’t agree.

185 A Mom Anon  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 6:10:05am

re: #87 Dark_Falcon

You blame the parents and you blame the community at large for thinking it’s “not so bad”. Far too many adults really think bullying is a rite of passage, after all, it happened to them and they were OK. See? There are also WAY too many parents who have NO clue what the hell goes on online and how relentless that shit is. My heart goes out to this family, how horrifying, I would probably get arrested for smacking some parents around if this was my kid.

I’m only now, in the last few months, finding out the extent of bullying my son dealt with in middle and high school. It was awful in middle school, I thought high school was somewhat better. Nope. Just more sneaky and sophisticated. In HS, it was “the good kids” doing it and the little bit I did go to administrators with was dismissed. Those “good kids” were very careful to make sure that no adults were around to hear or see what they were doing. My husband has had to talk me down off the ledge more than once, I was seriously going to the car with a baseball bat to confront 3 sets of parents and hurt someone. The shit I found out is beyond just teasing, it was horrendous, just up to the border of criminal.

There needs to be a safe place for these kids to go where adults believe them and will help them fight to take back their education and social lives from monsters.

186 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 6:10:17am

DERP

187 Sol Berdinowitz  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 6:17:31am

re: #186 Vicious Babushka

DERP

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and a history of using them against its own people?

188 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 6:20:26am

re: #187 Sol Berdinowitz

and a history of using them against its own people?

Glenn will probably find some “neutral link” (maybe electronicintifada or rense) that says Israel has used CW against the Palestinians.

189 Shiplord Kirel  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 6:23:44am

re: #171 Justanotherhuman

Al-Qaida leader calls for attacks inside US

hosted.ap.org

“Al-Zawahri, the successor to Osama bin Laden, used the anniversary to argue that the United States can be defeated by targeting its economy. At the same time, he also addressed the ongoing upheaval in the Arab world. Pointing to a power struggle going on within the rebellion against Syria’s regime, he warned jihadi fighters in that country’s civil war not “compromise” with more secular or moderate rebel factions, who he said would eventually turn against the al-Qaida-linked radicals.

(snip)

“On Syria’s civil war, al-Zawahri addressed al-Qaida-linked jihadis - including many foreign fighters - who have taken an increasingly prominent role in the fight against President Bashar Assad’s regime. Their rise has caused tensions with more moderate Syrian rebel factions, even escalating to violence and turf battles. The United States and its allies have said they want to build up moderate rebel factions to reduce jihadi influence.

(snip)

“Regarding Egypt - his homeland - al-Zawahri denounced what he called the “massacre” and `savage crimes” in the crackdown by authorities on Morsi’s Brotherhood and other Islamists. Still, he dismissed Morsi, saying he did not implement Shariah during his year in office and maintained Egypt’s relations with Israel. Al-Zawahri said the crackdown targeted not the Brotherhood, but “the Islamic orientation” in general, because “our American enemies realize the dangers of raising the Islamic banner.”

So, fuck off, GG.

Dead man talking.

190 Decatur Deb  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 6:25:57am

In today’s E. coli O157 news:

“Following a “bloody diarrhea outbreak” that left 74 of its patrons wondering why their God had forsaken them, Federico’s Mexican Food in Litchfield Park, Arizona, is begging people to “come back” — and offering them free burritos if they do.”

gawker.com

191 Bulworth  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 6:26:58am

re: #176 b.d.

I heard Putin pees water. Is there nothing that dreamy man can’t do?

My only question is whether Putin speaks before or after the head of Hezbollah at the next CPAC. /

192 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 6:30:34am

re: #189 Shiplord Kirel

Dead man talking.

Ayman al-Zawahiri is, and has always been, the ideological driving force behind al-Qaeda (at least the incarnation of AQ that pulled off 9/11). I hope that when he is finally iced there will be as much celebration as there was over the death of OBL, but I strongly suspect that won’t be the case. Given the universe’s absurdist sense of humor, he’ll probably die from choking on a pretzel.

193 Political Atheist  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 6:31:46am

R.I.P. Ray Dolby. Somehow a moment of silence is the wrong way to remember you and your fine work.

Youtube Video

194 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 6:32:39am

Yes because it totally IS RACIST you asshole, not to mention being totally STUPID.

195 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 6:33:30am

White people don’t need to drink water!

196 [deleted]  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 6:35:10am
197 Gus  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 6:35:20am

re: #186 Vicious Babushka

DERP

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Stupid piece. Kind of contradicts itself. Mentions that Egypt might have CWs.

198 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 6:37:39am

re: #196 Pygmalion

That’s right. Michelle could say anything, and they would criticize it because she’s black. Of course its racist. What else explains it all?

There’s a Twitter account that does nothing but post racist “jokes” about FLOTUS. No I’m not linking to it.

199 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 6:37:45am

Good morning Lizards. Cooler and cloudy today in Philadelphia after last night’s rain. Cats spent part of the evening watching the splat of raindrops against the windows while lying on the window sills. (The rest of the evening was spent by them in more productive endeavours like eating catnip, play fighting, knocking objects off the counter, and sleeping on my feet.)

The herb garden got trimmed back as well. Some co-workers get welcome supplies of basil, thyme, rosemary, and dill. I held back enough to get a pot of spaghetti sauce going - that will be used for a nice pasta dinner tonight.

200 Bulworth  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 6:38:47am

re: #195 Vicious Babushka

Surely Half gov Palin will proudly and loudly brandish a 64-oz Big Gulp soda thing and FREEDOM!@!!1

201 b.d.  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 6:40:17am

re: #194 Vicious Babushka

Hilarious?

mmmm……ok

202 Bulworth  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 6:40:21am

re: #194 Vicious Babushka

Hilarious mockery of FLOTUS’

I’m sure their mothers are so proud.

/

203 [deleted]  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 6:41:15am
204 Lidane  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 6:43:18am
205 thedopefishlives  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 6:47:43am

Morning Lizardim.

206 Decatur Deb  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 6:49:00am

re: #196 Pygmalion

That’s right. Michelle could say anything, and they would criticize it because she’s black. Of course its racist. What else explains it all?

Well, they might just hate sleeveless dresses.

207 Decatur Deb  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 6:49:48am

re: #205 thedopefishlives

Morning Lizardim.

You flooding, burning, or freezing today?

208 Lidane  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 6:50:16am

Because a single mom who put herself through Harvard Law is stupid.

Gotta love that GOP rebranding:

209 thedopefishlives  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 6:50:32am

re: #207 Decatur Deb

You flooding, burning, or freezing today?

Freezing here. Well, not quite freezing, but temperatures dipped below 50 degrees overnight. There is a real fear that we will wind up with a crop-killing frost before the harvest comes. Thanks Obama for the spring floods.

210 Lidane  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 6:54:24am

Sure, that makes sense:

211 Bulworth  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 6:58:28am

re: #210 Lidane

I don’t see how anything harmful would result from that, especially for children. //

212 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 6:58:39am
Feminists demand that we abolish the patriarchy, and they argue that its worst offense is expecting mothers to care for their own children, and so the taxpayers should pay for day-care for all children. - See more at: rightwingwatch.org

Mrs. Schlafly thinks all women should stay at home and take care of their children!

If they are poor single mothers THEY SHOULD HAVE KEPT THEIR LEGS CLOSED!!!! No birth control, no abortions, no food stamps, no WIC, no daycare while you work at your part time jrrbz at Walmart and McD!!!

You sluts and your little bastards should just all die in the streets!

[flips desk]

213 darthstar  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 6:59:21am

Mornin’ everyone. Directioners, eh? You learn something new. I’m really glad we Grateful Dead fans never started an official fan club with a catchy name like that.

214 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 6:59:40am
215 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:01:07am

Birthers are still out there and yes that is Prudence’s Derp being retweeted.

216 HappyWarrior  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:05:21am

re: #208 Lidane

Because a single mom who put herself through Harvard Law is stupid.

Gotta love that GOP rebranding:

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Or Greg Abbott is a model for intelligence but yeah you gotta love this shit. It’s not so much to be primitive dinosaurs, they have to be primitive patronizing dinosaurs.

217 HappyWarrior  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:06:56am

re: #215 Vicious Babushka

Birthers are still out there and yes that is Prudence’s Derp being retweeted.

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That’s actually really sad given that’s a VFW post. Really the American people have had the time to research Barack Obama and twice they’ve given him over 50% the vote. The scrutiny directed to him and his qualifications is like nothing I’ve ever seen before with an American president.

218 Bulworth  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:07:04am

re: #215 Vicious Babushka

Also, too: BENGHAZI!!!

219 Bulworth  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:08:07am

re: #217 HappyWarrior

Hey, Happy, off topic, but picked up John Barry’s book on the 1927 flood, and really liking it so far.

220 HappyWarrior  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:08:18am

re: #210 Lidane

Sure, that makes sense:

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She needs to finally retire from whenever it is that she does. Her act was tiring when my parents were kids. It’s beyond exhausting seven years away from the women’s suffrage centennial.

221 HappyWarrior  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:09:32am

re: #219 Bulworth

Hey, Happy, off topic, but picked up John Barry’s book on the 1927 flood, and really liking it so far.

Cool. I’m going to look and see if they have it for the kindle. Got a new job that’s going to require a lot of downtime commuting.

222 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:10:59am

DERP

223 HappyWarrior  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:11:57am

So in the lead up to the Iraq War, we saw many on the left agree with Germany and France’s leadership that war with Iraq was unnecessary. And thus we saw bashing of France and the French. And now a decade later, we see wingnuts embracing the word of Vladimir fucking Putin. As I’ve said, I’m not personally sure what the best solution for Syria is but I ain’t going to treat Putin like he’s a voice of reason and that he’s a honest broker.

224 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:12:12am

Got a retweet from Oliver Willis!

225 Bulworth  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:12:25am

re: #222 Vicious Babushka

Wait until Putin asks Barry to dress up like Little Bo Peep

Um, whut?

226 HappyWarrior  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:12:50am

re: #222 Vicious Babushka

DERP

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OFFS.

227 darthstar  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:13:24am
228 thedopefishlives  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:13:39am

re: #226 HappyWarrior

OFFS.

It’d be interesting to see a graph of how many times this acronym gets used here at LGF contrasted against the volume of derp spewing forth on the Twitters.

229 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:13:55am

re: #225 Bulworth

Um, whut?

re: #226 HappyWarrior

OFFS.

Just a Granny who loves her country and loves the truth!

230 HappyWarrior  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:14:05am

re: #225 Bulworth

Um, whut?

Wingnutnesse for Putin made Obama his bitch or something like that. These idiots underestimate Obama at their own peril. Hillary Clinton as his primary opponent did as did John McCain and Mitt Romney. All people especially Hillary smarter than your average wingnut with a Twitter account.

231 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:14:57am
232 HappyWarrior  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:15:44am

re: #228 thedopefishlives

It’d be interesting to see a graph of how many times this acronym gets used here at LGF contrasted against the volume of derp spewing forth on the Twitters.

The beauty of twitter is it shows how widespread idiocy is on a global scale in less than 140 characters.

233 darthstar  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:19:25am

re: #232 HappyWarrior

The beauty of twitter is it shows how widespread idiocy is on a global scale in less than 140 characters.

If we all learned to write in Mandarin we could fit a lot more meaning into 140 characters, though teabagger spelling errors would become legion.

234 Bulworth  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:20:00am

re: #222 Vicious Babushka

There’s a brain eating amoeba in the drinking water in Louisiana. Michelle O + ‘Drink Up’ = Dead

So the water in Louisiana is deadly? We’ll get some lower taxes and less regulation on that and fix it in a jiffy.

235 thedopefishlives  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:20:54am

re: #233 darthstar

If we all learned to write in Mandarin we could fit a lot more meaning into 140 characters, though teabagger spelling errors would become legion.

You might be interested in reading this.

236 HappyWarrior  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:22:41am

re: #234 Bulworth

So the water in Louisiana is deadly? We’ll get some lower taxes and less regulation on that and fix it in a jiffy.

Yeah you don’t say. How did the water get like that? Next thing you know, they’ll be complaining that there are chemicals in the water.

237 Gus  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:22:58am
238 HappyWarrior  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:24:15am

Wingnuts often throw the line “You can’t just throw money at something and expect it to improve.” Sure, that’s true to some extent but they ignore that you can’t just cut everything and act like people won’t be adversely effected. And of course lectures about bootstraps by people who didn’t need the help since they were wealthy already (Hi Mitt) or people who benefited from the same programs they wish to weaken or dismantle (Hey Paulie Ryan).

239 Bulworth  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:26:15am

re: #222 Vicious Babushka

I wish I loved America as much as these people. //

240 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:26:25am

re: #235 thedopefishlives

You might be interested in reading this.

I think I read an analogy for eternity similar to the bird one is a book (possibly _The Last Catholic in America_ or its sequel) where a teacher described eternity just beginning based on the wearing away of an iron sphere the size of the Sun that a bird flew up to and brushed its wing against once a century.

241 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:27:52am

re: #236 HappyWarrior

Yeah you don’t say. How did the water get like that? Next thing you know, they’ll be complaining that there are chemicals in the water.

Maybe they’ll agitate next for taking all the levees out so that the nasty water can get into the Gulf of Mexico more quickly.
///

242 Bulworth  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:29:33am

re: #237 Gus

Thanks Obama!

/

243 Decatur Deb  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:30:19am

re: #237 Gus

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Continuing budget resolution is needed before 1 Oct.

244 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:30:32am

re: #239 Bulworth

I wish I loved America as much as these people. //

They LOVE America, just not Teh Blahs, Teh Slutz & Teh Libtards

245 thedopefishlives  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:30:43am

re: #237 Gus

They’ve taken more time off in September alone than I have for the entire year. WTF.

246 Interesting Times  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:32:29am

re: #244 Vicious Babushka

They LOVE America, just not Teh Blahs, Teh Slutz & Teh Libtards

And Teh Muslims, and Teh Gayz, and Teh Atheists, and Teh Librul Juice, and… (one needs a spreadsheet to keep track of them all)

247 thedopefishlives  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:32:31am

Speaking of time off, while not actually missing any work, I am going back up to the cabin that the fishfolk are renting for another fishing vacation. This is the first year my dad has outfished my mom, and she is hopping mad about it.

248 steve_davis  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:33:10am

re: #58 klys

I can buy that. But fortunately, most places I have lived haven’t fallen into that category.

Also, can we get over the damn myth that water has no taste? That’s bullshit.

I’m lucky to live in one of I think the 3 areas of the country where our water has less than 30 parts of sediment per million of actual water, so it’s pretty good even out of the tap, but I run it through one of those Zero filters in a pitcher, and I swear the water comes out like sweet water from a spring.

249 Decatur Deb  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:33:19am

re: #245 thedopefishlives

They’ve taken more time off in September alone than I have for the entire year. WTF.

In all fairness, time out of session is not ‘time off’. They have a lot of work in their home states. The ‘vacation’ meme is BS whether applied to congresscritters or the President. The Prez is never ‘off’.

250 thedopefishlives  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:34:37am

re: #249 Decatur Deb

In all fairness, time out of session is not ‘time off’. They have a lot of work in their home states. The ‘vacation’ meme is BS whether applied to congresscritters or the President. The Prez is never ‘off’.

While I understand that, I’m not sure I’m ready to believe that there is _that much_ work to do “back home”. But, I am content to be proven wrong.

251 HappyWarrior  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:34:41am

re: #246 Interesting Times

And Teh Muslims, and Teh Gayz, and Teh Atheists, and Teh Librul Juice, and… (one needs a spreadsheet to keep track of them all)

They love America so much that they’re siding with one of America’s biggest geopolitical enemies over America’s president. Maybe they’ll love Putin even more if he supports legislation that makes September 13th International Slut Shaming Day.

252 Gus  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:36:15am
253 Decatur Deb  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:37:40am

re: #250 thedopefishlives

While I understand that, I’m not sure I’m ready to believe that there is _that much_ work to do “back home”. But, I am content to be proven wrong.

My TP sweetheart of a Rep used a lot of her time off traveling to a lot of townhall meetings all over the state, where she was so belabored by even crazier nutcases that I held off my Obamacare voting challenge out of pity.

254 HappyWarrior  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:37:41am

re: #252 Gus

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That’s why we pay them to increase their own salaries.

255 Justanotherhuman  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:38:00am

re: #251 HappyWarrior

They love America so much that they’re siding with one of America’s biggest geopolitical enemies over America’s president. Maybe they’ll love Putin even more if he supports legislation that makes September 13th International Slut Shaming Day.

If Putin lived in the US, you know he’d be a ‘bagger.

256 Gus  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:39:24am

Friday the 13th! Yep. 13th floor was a good floor to be on in the WTC on 9/11.

257 b.d.  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:42:55am

re: #252 Gus

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It’s going to be tough for them to schedule in any ObamaCare defunding votes into that few of days

258 Dr. Matt  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:43:51am

Teabaggers respond: Better dead than hydrated!

259 Decatur Deb  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:45:29am

re: #257 b.d.

It’s going to be tough for them to schedule in any ObamaCare defunding votes into that few of days

Three or four at the most.

260 Gus  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:45:48am

Heh.

Derp.

261 SteveMcGazi  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:47:16am

re: #37 EPR-radar

Derp indeed. Per Wikipedia, Justin Raimondo is openly gay, but supported Pat Buchanan’s presidential campaigns.

The mind, it boggles.

If you’re going to say something about somebody, don’t cite Wikipedia. We should know better than to do that.

262 Dr. Matt  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:48:01am

re: #260 Gus

Heh.

Derp.

Ah. It’s a ewetube video. So it must be true!!! baaaaaaah

263 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:48:23am

today.com

An interesting article, and one painted a more positive picture of the fraternity experience.

And the established fraternities *are* paying attention to a lot of the issues, including reviewing how their engrained traditions and other items that are essentially “taken for granted” need to be looked at in consideration of the multicultural institutions that most universities are now. In my opinion they are coming to a junction where they have to made a decision regarding whether to hold fast and try to survive in a niche*, or attempt to keep a broad appeal by changing themselves from within.

* - Noted in the article that the fraternity featured is going to remain Muslim-centric. There’s no ban on non-Muslims, but the activities are still probably going to center around those friendly to Muslim religious strictures. I consider that “niche”. And I presume some of the current Christian-centric fraternities will continue centering their activities in a similar fashion and thus freely forego attracting that many non-Christians.

264 Gus  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:50:45am

re: #262 Dr. Matt

Ah. It’s a ewetube video. So it must be true!!! baaaaaaah

American Free Press with bonus Destro.

265 Weet  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:53:55am

For all of the football fans, this is a must read.

Why your team sucks

266 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:54:09am

re: #264 Gus

American Free Press with bonus Destro.

Where’s the bonus Destro?

Has he officially joined the Stalkers? I remember how excited he was when he got his very own Stalker page.

267 Gus  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:55:37am

re: #266 Vicious Babushka

Where’s the bonus Destro?

Has he officially joined the Stalkers? I remember how excited he was when he got his very own Stalker page.

Don’t know. First I saw of him since he was blocked.

268 SteveMcGazi  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:56:15am

re: #265 Weet

I just started the Dallas COwboy story, and it starts out awesome!

269 Gus  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 7:56:49am
270 A Mom Anon  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:01:18am

re: #212 Vicious Babushka

Yes, she thinks all women should stay home and raise their families. EXCEPT FOR HER. Self awareness, she has none.

271 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:02:12am

DERP

272 HappyWarrior  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:03:14am

re: #270 A Mom Anon

Yes, she thinks all women should stay home and raise their families. EXCEPT FOR HER. Self awareness, she has none.

It reminds me of reading about the women who actively opposed suffrage. Insanity. Of course, I think many of those women probably later realized that they were wrong and Phyillis has been singing the same insane song since the mid 60’s.

273 HappyWarrior  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:03:42am

re: #271 Vicious Babushka

DERP

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Peacemaker? Justin, I got some land in Georgia that I’d like to sell you.

274 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:04:04am

re: #270 A Mom Anon

Yes, she thinks all women should stay home and raise their families. EXCEPT FOR HER. Self awareness, she has none.

Yeah I stayed at home and raised my kids until we needed MOAR MONEYS and then I had to work for TEH MONEYS.

275 wheat-dogghazi  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:04:32am

re: #271 Vicious Babushka

These people have no idea at all what kind of opportunistic bastard Putin really is.

276 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:04:45am

re: #273 HappyWarrior

Peacemaker? Justin, I got some land in Georgia that I’d like to sell you.

Justin makes Glenn sound like a paragon of truth and humbleness.

277 Bulworth  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:04:56am

re: #265 Weet

This could suck up, no pun intended, the rest of my day.

278 A Mom Anon  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:05:00am

re: #272 HappyWarrior

She even has the same hair she had in 1967. (I couldn’t resist, sorry)

279 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:05:50am

re: #278 A Mom Anon

She even has the same hair she had in 1967. (I couldn’t resist, sorry)

That’s 1957 hair, it would have been considered SO LAME in the ‘60’s.

280 Bulworth  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:06:05am

re: #271 Vicious Babushka

Because “peace” is always the best policy, no matter what.////

281 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:07:06am

re: #280 Bulworth

Because “peace” is always the best policy, no matter what.////

Extra bonus points for Justin if “peace” can be achieved at the expense of Teh Juice.

282 thedopefishlives  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:11:48am

re: #271 Vicious Babushka

DERP

Putin the Peacemaker? Wow. Just wow.

283 b.d.  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:13:06am

re: #271 Vicious Babushka

Putin the Peacemaker

Oh for the love of all that is holy.

284 HappyWarrior  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:13:26am

re: #276 Vicious Babushka

Justin makes Glenn sound like a paragon of truth and humbleness.

Quite an accomplishment.

285 Justanotherhuman  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:14:25am

Speaking of GG, he doesn’t care what he retweets, as long as they agree with his bullshit.

Jameel Jaffer ‏@JameelJaffer 14h

Spy chief predicts Congress will limit #NSA’s surveillance authority. Let’s hope he’s right. washingtontimes.com …
Retweeted by Glenn Greenwald

Jameel Jaffer: Deputy Legal Director, ACLU.

So the Moonie paper is legit now? Praise its Messiah, who hasn’t risen from the dead yet, though.

286 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:15:14am
287 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:16:33am

re: #285 Justanotherhuman

Speaking of GG, he doesn’t care what he retweets, as long as they agree with his bullshit.

Jameel Jaffer ‏@JameelJaffer 14h

Spy chief predicts Congress will limit #NSA’s surveillance authority. Let’s hope he’s right. washingtontimes.com …
Retweeted by Glenn Greenwald

Jameel Jaffer: Deputy Legal Director, ACLU.

So the Moonie paper is legit now? Praise its Messiah, who hasn’t risen from the dead yet, though.

Glenn will Tweet Stormfront (“neutral link” of couse!) if they post something that he approves of.

288 Gus  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:19:03am
289 Dr. Matt  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:19:09am

re: #287 Vicious Babushka

Glenn will Tweet Stormfront (“neutral link” of couse!) if they post something that he approves of.

And he’ll add the disclaimer: I support the message, but not the messenger, you Obamabot, drones, legions of Obummers!

290 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:19:27am

re: #270 A Mom Anon

Yes, she thinks all women should stay home and raise their families. EXCEPT FOR HER. Self awareness, she has none.

Except for TEH POOR WOMENZ, they have to scrub floors or slave in sweatshops to earn gruel to feed their little bastards they would never have had IF THEY’D JUST KEPT THEIR LEGS CLOSED.

291 HappyWarrior  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:19:35am

re: #288 Gus

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So because the status quo hates him, that means he must be awesome. That’s shit logic.

292 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:20:53am

re: #291 HappyWarrior

So because the status quo hates him, that means he must be awesome. That’s shit logic.

That’s the ancient Wisdom of Teh Usenets: YOU ALL THINK I SUCK SO THAT JUST PROVES I MUST BE RIGHT!!!!111

293 Justanotherhuman  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:21:08am

re: #272 HappyWarrior

It reminds me of reading about the women who actively opposed suffrage. Insanity. Of course, I think many of those women probably later realized that they were wrong and Phyillis has been singing the same insane song since the mid 60’s.

What modern woman is going to listen to an 89 yr old conservative fossil?

Unless they’re beaten into submission mentally or physically.

294 Gus  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:22:42am
295 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:23:33am
296 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:24:02am

Some people on Teh Twitters do not understand this “sarcasm”

297 HappyWarrior  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:24:31am

re: #293 Justanotherhuman

What modern woman is going to listen to an 89 yr old conservative fossil?

Unless they’re beaten into submission mentally or physically.

Well CPAC thought enough of her to bring her old act out. Conservatives are utterly clueless when it comes to issues important to contemporary people.

298 HappyWarrior  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:25:07am

re: #292 Vicious Babushka

That’s the ancient Wisdom of Teh Usenets: YOU ALL THINK I SUCK SO THAT JUST PROVES I MUST BE RIGHT!!!!111

I remember that logic. It was called seventh grade.

299 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:25:43am

EWW

300 b.d.  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:26:34am

re: #288 Gus

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Snowden threw away that superficial beauty for superficial martyrdom, I’m sure it seemed like a fair trade off at the time.

301 Lidane  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:26:37am

re: #275 wheat-dogghazi

These people have no idea at all what kind of opportunistic bastard Putin really is.

They don’t care. They just want to stick it to Obama.

302 makeitstop  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:29:49am

re: #275 wheat-dogghazi

These people have no idea at all what kind of opportunistic bastard Putin really is.

That’s what I keep telling them, but they’re so sold on this ‘man of peace’ thing. Wingnuts are so freakin’ gullible. They will literally believe anything their carnival barker shills tell them.

303 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:30:28am

DERP

304 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:33:39am
305 Justanotherhuman  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:35:50am

re: #304 Vicious Babushka

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Old jarheads are exploding…

306 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:38:01am

Assholes co-opting Yom Kippur. I just can’t even.

307 thedopefishlives  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:38:27am

re: #299 Vicious Babushka

EWW

It never ceases to amaze me how blind some people become to how utterly vile their worldviews are.

308 Lidane  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:42:01am

re: #271 Vicious Babushka

Heh. Since I’m bored and looking for work now, I decided to tweet at this douche, mocking his calling Putin a peacemaker. He told me to go kiss Obama’s ass.

I told him I’d let someone else do it, but that they’d end up tripping over him fellating Putin to get there. Hahaha.

309 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:43:41am

re: #308 Lidane

Heh. Since I’m bored and looking for work now, I decided to tweet at this douche, mocking his calling Putin a peacemaker. He told me to go kiss Obama’s ass.

I told him I’d let someone else do it, but that they’d end up tripping over him fellating Putin to get there. Hahaha.

Stay away from Justin, he is a rageball of toxic waste. Srsly, he makes Glenn Greenwald seem normal. Also, he is a neo-Nazi.

310 Dr. Matt  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:43:48am

re: #296 Vicious Babushka

Some people on Teh Twitters do not understand this “sarcasm”

Red Robot is RWNJ that doesn’t understand that I was making fun of her, him, it….whatever. Shocking.

311 Gus  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:43:54am

re: #307 thedopefishlives

It never ceases to amaze me how blind some people become to how utterly vile their worldviews are.

I think some people wake up thinking about Jews. Every day.

312 A Mom Anon  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:48:29am

re: #311 Gus

and gay people, liberals, minorities and women(not the “good girls” who know their place, those awful feminazis )….they probably wake up with their nails stuck in the palms of their hands from balling their fists in rage while they sleep.

313 Lidane  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:49:34am

Holy shit. WTF is wrong with people?

Officials: Man with gun threatened to kill visiting judge

I know the judge that got threatned. He’s my best friend’s father. Wow.

314 Dr. Matt  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:49:49am

re: #311 Gus

I think some people wake up thinking about Jews. Every day.

I met my first Jewish person at age 19. True story (I grew up in place that rivaled ‘Leave It to Beaver’). I never understood and still don’t understand the weird obsession that people have against Jews.

315 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:50:14am

re: #312 A Mom Anon

and gay people, liberals, minorities and women(not the “good girls” who know their place, those awful feminazis )….they probably wake up with their nails stuck in the palms of their hands from balling their fists in rage while they sleep.

And they think I HAZ TEH STIGMATA, TAHT MEANS I ARE JUST LIKE JESUS!!!11!!!

316 Lidane  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:51:24am

re: #309 Vicious Babushka

No worries. He blocked me anyway. Heh.

317 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:51:28am

re: #314 Dr. Matt

I met my first Jewish person at age 19. True story (I grew up in place that rivaled ‘Leave It to Beaver’). I never understood and still don’t understand the weird obsession that people have against Jews.

My youngest son lives in Alabama and he enjoys the experience of being Teh First Juice.

318 b_sharp  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:53:41am

re: #314 Dr. Matt

I met my first Jewish person at age 19. True story (I grew up in place that rivaled ‘Leave It to Beaver’). I never understood and still don’t understand the weird obsession that people have against Jews.

It’s the sharp pointy teeth.

Oh sorry, that’s rabbits.

Hmm. I guess I don’t know.

319 Justanotherhuman  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:54:34am

re: #311 Gus

I think some people wake up thinking about Jews. Every day.

I used to wake up every day thinking about one in particular named Ron.

320 b_sharp  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:57:25am

re: #319 Justanotherhuman

I used to wake up every day thinking about one in particular named Ron.

Frankly, the only time I think of Jews is when I come here or Twitter. Same with Muslims.

Christians dominate Twitter tho.

321 b_sharp  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 8:57:44am

re: #319 Justanotherhuman

I used to wake up every day thinking about one in particular named Ron.

Why, was he good looking?

322 Gus  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:00:41am

“You know, I just don’t know,” West said when Schoffstall asked if he believes that “9/11 was an inside job.”

“My hunch is that bin Laden certainly had something to do with it,” he continued, “So I try to listen and raise questions that allow them to engage in their investigation, but I haven’t spent as much time as they have. But at this point, I’m still uncertain.”

323 HappyWarrior  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:00:48am

re: #314 Dr. Matt

I met my first Jewish person at age 19. True story (I grew up in place that rivaled ‘Leave It to Beaver’). I never understood and still don’t understand the weird obsession that people have against Jews.

I’ve never gotten it either. Even did my term paper on the pogroms. The shit that the Jewish people have been scapegoated for over the centuries is just repulsive. I was sincerely humbled when I was in Prague’s old Jewish quarter. Seeing that cemetery and how the Nazis and their allies wiped out hundreds and hundreds of years of culture and families.

324 HappyWarrior  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:02:05am

Well it looks like another beautiful day outside. Going to upload the new Arctic Monkeys CD. Have some lunch and go for a walk.

325 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:02:49am

re: #323 HappyWarrior

I’ve never gotten it either. Even did my term paper on the pogroms. The shit that the Jewish people have been scapegoated for over the centuries is just repulsive. I was sincerely humbled when I was in Prague’s old Jewish quarter. Seeing that cemetery and how the Nazis and their allies wiped out hundreds and hundreds of years of culture and families.

Zedushka and I are going to stop in Prague when we go on our next vacation next year.

326 HappyWarrior  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:03:44am

re: #325 Vicious Babushka

Zedushka and I are going to stop in Prague when we go on our next vacation next year.

I hope you enjoy it. It’s a beautiful city with a fascinating history. A little expensive for my then student tastes but I liked it and its people nonetheless.

327 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:07:28am

re: #326 HappyWarrior

I hope you enjoy it. It’s a beautiful city with a fascinating history. A little expensive for my then student tastes but I liked it and its people nonetheless.

I don’t speak Czech but I suppose that everyone speaks English or German? If we’re only going to visit the Jewish Quarter, Yiddish & Hebrew should also be OK.

328 makeitstop  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:07:41am

re: #324 HappyWarrior

Well it looks like another beautiful day outside. Going to upload the new Arctic Monkeys CD. Have some lunch and go for a walk.

I heard the entire album (with explanantions from Alex and Matt) last night on XFM. I was never that big of a fan, but they made a damn fine record this time.

As I type this, ‘Why D’You Always Call Me When You’re High?’ comes on the radio.

329 Lidane  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:08:09am

I am finding it difficult to care about a job that ends on Tuesday. And yet I’m heading to the office anyway. Weird.

330 Gus  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:08:33am

bbl

331 Dr Lizardo  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:11:48am

re: #327 Vicious Babushka

I don’t speak Czech but I suppose that everyone speaks English or German? If we’re only going to visit the Jewish Quarter, Yiddish & Hebrew should also be OK.

In the center of Prague, like Josefov - the Jewish Quarter - there are quite a lot of English speakers; once you get outside of the center…..eh, not so much.

English is easy to find in the tourist areas in the center, as well as touristy towns like Česky Krumlov or Hradec Králove.

Like where I live? Ostrava? Ahahahahaha!! There’s a tiny handful of English speakers here, mostly in the larger hotels. Outside of that, Polish and Russian are the big foreign languages here.

332 HappyWarrior  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:14:15am

re: #328 makeitstop

I heard the entire album (with explanantions from Alex and Matt) last night on XFM. I was never that big of a fan, but they made a damn fine record this time.

As I type this, ‘Why D’You Always Call Me When You’re High?’ comes on the radio.

Musician friend of mine was raving about it on facebook two and all the reviews I’ve seen are favorable. Can’t wait to listen. I really haven’t listened to them much since their debut back in ‘06.

333 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:14:33am

re: #331 Dr Lizardo

In the center of Prague, like Josefov - the Jewish Quarter - there are quite a lot of English speaker; once you get outside of the center…..eh, not so much.

English is easy to find in the tourist areas in the center, as well as touristy towns like Česky Krumlov or Hradec Králove.

Like where I live? Ostrava? Ahahahahaha!! There’s a tiny handful of English speakers here, mostly in the larger hotels. Outside of that, Polish and Russian are the big foreign languages here.

Are there any hotels near the Josefov that are not horrifically expensive?

334 HappyWarrior  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:15:01am

re: #327 Vicious Babushka

I don’t speak Czech but I suppose that everyone speaks English or German? If we’re only going to visit the Jewish Quarter, Yiddish & Hebrew should also be OK.

Yeah English or German as a second language is pretty common place.

335 Justanotherhuman  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:15:17am

re: #321 b_sharp

Why, was he good looking?

Oh, please. He was a really great guy and we were in a relationship.

336 chadu  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:17:20am

re: #122 BongCrodny

I did a trivia sheet a few months back on fan clubs. Some of them are quite cleverly named:

Babblers — Babylon 5

Nope. “Lurkers.”

337 makeitstop  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:17:53am

re: #332 HappyWarrior

Musician friend of mine was raving about it on facebook two and all the reviews I’ve seen are favorable. Can’t wait to listen. I really haven’t listened to them much since their debut back in ‘06.

This is my favorite track. Really good song.

Youtube Video

Lots of Black Keys influence on this album. Alex owned up to being a big fan of theirs in the interview.

338 chadu  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:18:02am

re: #122 BongCrodny

And Firefly’s “Browncoats.”

339 wrenchwench  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:18:27am

re: #221 HappyWarrior

Cool. I’m going to look and see if they have it for the kindle. Got a new job that’s going to require a lot of downtime commuting.

Congrats! When do/did you start?

340 HappyWarrior  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:22:01am

re: #339 wrenchwench

Congrats! When do/did you start?

Don’t know quite yet since it’s with the Feds. I have to do some preliminary stuff like fingerprints, etc. It’s nonpaying unfortunately but it has the chance if I perform at a high level to eventually become full time and paying.

341 Dr Lizardo  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:22:27am

re: #333 Vicious Babushka

Are there any hotels near the Josefov that are not horrifically expensive?

I honestly don’t know. I do know that central Prague can be pretty pricey, especially during tourist season (May through early September and again around Christmas/New Year’s).

342 HappyWarrior  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:24:09am

Hotel I stayed in Prague no joke was an old Soviet officers barracks, I imagine from the Soviet occupation of Prague in ‘45. My roommate and I were the only people in our study group who found that intriguing. And besides, we were barhopping at night and not in our rooms so a little discomfort was fine. Besides, I’ve slept on numerous couches and floors when partying at people’s houses and apartments.

343 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:24:51am

re: #341 Dr Lizardo

I honestly don’t know. I do know that central Prague can be pretty pricey, especially during tourist season (May through early September and again around Christmas/New Year’s).

LOL just like Jerusalem.

344 wrenchwench  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:25:38am

re: #340 HappyWarrior

Don’t know quite yet since it’s with the Feds. I have to do some preliminary stuff like fingerprints, etc. It’s nonpaying unfortunately but it has the chance if I perform at a high level to eventually become full time and paying.

Knock ‘em dead! And then demand back pay for the forced scabbery.

345 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:28:59am

re: #340 HappyWarrior

Don’t know quite yet since it’s with the Feds. I have to do some preliminary stuff like fingerprints, etc. It’s nonpaying unfortunately but it has the chance if I perform at a high level to eventually become full time and paying.

What is this “nonpaying” bullshit. Why has this even become a “thing”?

346 Justanotherhuman  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:29:15am
347 Decatur Deb  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:29:44am

re: #317 Vicious Babushka

My youngest son lives in Alabama and he enjoys the experience of being Teh First Juice.

He’ll get no First Juice joy here in Baja Alabama. Our little temple has been here 78 years. They hit their moment of glory during WWII when the hundred or so of them laid out a seder for 1,000 soldiers at the booming local bases. German POWs assisted with the preparations.

348 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:30:57am

re: #347 Decatur Deb

He’ll get no First Juice joy here in Baja Alabama. Our little temple has been here 78 years. They hit their moment of glory during WWII when the hundred or so of them laid out a seder for 1,000 soldiers at the booming local bases. German POWs assisted with the preparations.

Yes but have they all seen their first Hasid?

349 HappyWarrior  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:32:40am

re: #345 Vicious Babushka

What is this “nonpaying” bullshit. Why has this even become a “thing”?

I know right? Sucks but I’m finally getting my foot in the door at least. I don’t get why companies don’t pay interns more. I mean I don’t expect something like a starting salary but I think some salary is needed especially given that I’m doing full time work and needing money for my commute.

350 Justanotherhuman  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:33:40am

re: #349 HappyWarrior

I know right? Sucks but I’m finally getting my foot in the door at least. I don’t get why companies don’t pay interns more. I mean I don’t expect something like a starting salary but I think some salary is needed especially given that I’m doing full time work and needing money for my commute.

Is it a contracting job? I can’t imagine a civil service job would require free labor.

351 Dr Lizardo  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:33:43am

re: #343 Vicious Babushka

LOL just like Jerusalem.

About 25 kilometers away from Prague is a city called Kladno. There’s a former synagogue there which is now a Hussite Church; the story is that the Hussites saved the Torah scroll from the Nazis during the Protectorate and in the early 2000s - if I remember correctly - returned it to a congregation in New Jersey.

352 Decatur Deb  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:33:46am

re: #342 HappyWarrior

Hotel I stayed in Prague no joke was an old Soviet officers barracks, I imagine from the Soviet occupation of Prague in ‘45. My roommate and I were the only people in our study group who found that intriguing. And besides, we were barhopping at night and not in our rooms so a little discomfort was fine. Besides, I’ve slept on numerous couches and floors when partying at people’s houses and apartments.

Did the same bit at an ex-East German Officer’s club in Erfurt. It was just down the street from Luther’s monastery, Augustinian IIRC.

353 HappyWarrior  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:34:50am

re: #337 makeitstop

This is my favorite track. Really good song.

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Lots of Black Keys influence on this album. Alex owned up to being a big fan of theirs in the interview.

Yeah you can totally hear Black Keys in the opening riff. I like them too. They seem like down to earth guys. I read on Buzzfeed that BK actually sponsored a Little League team in their hometown in Ohio. The writer of the article suggested the kids request a XL version of the shirt so they have a really cool shirt to brag about when they get to college.

354 HappyWarrior  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:35:11am

re: #350 Justanotherhuman

Is it a contracting job? I can’t imagine a civil service job would require free labor.

It’s called an unpaid work experience.

355 Decatur Deb  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:35:27am

re: #348 Vicious Babushka

Yes but have they all seen their first Hasid?

Some have. I told you the story of our friend who had to have a rabbi commute from Birmingham for her conversion.

356 Justanotherhuman  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:35:51am

re: #354 HappyWarrior

It’s called an unpaid work experience.

That just sucks big time. : )

357 HappyWarrior  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:36:09am

re: #352 Decatur Deb

Did the same bit at an ex-East German Officer’s club in Erfurt. It was just down the street from Luther’s monastery, Augustinian IIRC.

That’s Europe for you. History at every corner.

358 HappyWarrior  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:37:01am

re: #356 Justanotherhuman

That just sucks big time. : )

It does but as I said, there’s going to be the possibility for a full time gig and full pay if I do well. Plus it’s only going to be part time. I also applied for a full time telecommuting job doing writing for a university’s conservatory.

359 sattv4u2  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:37:06am

re: #354 HappyWarrior

It’s called an unpaid work experience.

hell, if thats what you were looking for I have a few acres that need mowing on a regular basis,,, a back deck that needs to be pressure washed,,,,, dogs that need/ like long walks

I could keep you busily “work experience”d for months!!!

360 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:37:15am

re: #351 Dr Lizardo

About 25 kilometers away from Prague is a city called Kladno. There’s a former synagogue there which is now a Hussite Church; the story is that the Hussites saved the Torah scroll from the Nazis during the Protectorate and in the early 2000s - if I remember correctly - returned it to a congregation in New Jersey.

There is a story—could be apocryphal—about an old Polish woman who saved (looted) a Torah scroll, kept it hidden during the war, and then wanted to charge money to tourists to view it. When the Jewish community insisted that it should be returned she cried Teh Juice were trying to take away her only means of livelihood!

361 HappyWarrior  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:37:54am

re: #359 sattv4u2

hell, if thats what you were looking for I have a few acres that need mowing on a regular basis,,, a back deck that needs to be pressure washed,,,,, dogs that need/ like long walks

I could keep you busily “work experience”d for months!!!

Ha! At least I’d be outside in your gig though it will be getting colder sooner than alter.

362 HappyWarrior  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:39:36am

re: #360 Vicious Babushka

There is a story—could be apocryphal—about an old Polish woman who saved (looted) a Torah scroll, kept it hidden during the war, and then wanted to charge money to tourists to view it. When the Jewish community insisted that it should be returned she cried Teh Juice were trying to take away her only means of livelihood!

My favorite bit is how Jews were always accused of being greedy moneygrubbers when money lending was one of the few occupations that Medevial kingdoms let them have. Or how the Russian reactionary right claimed that the Jews were behind both a Capitalist and Marxist conspiracy. The bankers and Marxists together!

363 Dr Lizardo  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:40:25am

re: #360 Vicious Babushka

There is a story—could be apocryphal—about an old Polish woman who saved (looted) a Torah scroll, kept it hidden during the war, and then wanted to charge money to tourists to view it. When the Jewish community insisted that it should be returned she cried Teh Juice were trying to take away her only means of livelihood!

I’ve heard that story as well, with an elderly Polish lady being the central character. It could be more than just an apocryphal tale. I first heard that tale here, from my ex-wife. In her version of the story, it happened in 1946.

364 sattv4u2  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:41:43am

re: #361 HappyWarrior

Ha! At least I’d be outside in your gig though it will be getting colder sooner than alter.

In Georgia,,, so ‘cold” is relative. Mostly windbreaker weather although I did spend 45 years in Boston.

I’m still mowing into late November/ early December then start again late March

365 Justanotherhuman  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:42:28am

Well, more rain, rain, rain.

366 wrenchwench  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:43:22am


I like this part by itself:

Cars advised to drive slowly through Universe

367 sattv4u2  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:48:39am

re: #366 wrenchwench

I like this part by itself:

Cars advised to drive slowly through Universe

you don’t want to miss any of the sites or attractions!

368 Decatur Deb  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:48:44am

re: #350 Justanotherhuman

Is it a contracting job? I can’t imagine a civil service job would require free labor.

DoD and other Fed agencies have had long-established internship proprams in dozens of career fields. They were all paid at a decent starting salary, about a good secretary’s pay with rapid advancement to a ‘fully qualified’ level in their specialty. Until the current craziness, I had never heard of unpaid Fed internships, but encountered talk of one in a recent news article. Think even teenaged congressional pages get at least a stipend.

369 sattv4u2  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:49:14am

re: #366 wrenchwench

re: #367 sattv4u2

I like this part by itself:

Cars advised to drive slowly through Universe

you don’t want to miss any of the sites or attractions!

“Dad,, can we stop at Saturn and get the onion RINGS!?!”

370 Political Atheist  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:51:03am

re: #369 sattv4u2

“Dad,, can we stop at Saturn and get the onion RINGS!?!”

No son we are driving a Nova.

371 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:53:38am

Glenn’s newest BFF:

372 Justanotherhuman  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:55:19am

re: #369 sattv4u2

“Dad,, can we stop at Saturn and get the onion RINGS!?!”

Or some Moon Pies from Jupiter?

373 Decatur Deb  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:57:57am

re: #371 Vicious Babushka

Greenwald isn’t in much of a position to attack Putin, since the new czar has Greenwald’s canary in a gilded cage. Doesn’t hurt that Putin can be used as a club to batter Obama and the US in general.

374 Decatur Deb  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 9:59:16am

re: #372 Justanotherhuman

Or some Moon Pies from Jupiter?

Just sit back and eat your Milky Way. Don’t get chocolate on the upholstery.

375 lawhawk  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:00:59am

re: #366 wrenchwench

We had real bad flooding in Northern NJ last night, but nothing like what they had out in CO yesterday or NM today. Lots of road closures and flooded out cars in the area. Had to go through some areas like that when going to pick up the Mrs. Folks lost power for a couple hours last night too. But it could have been a whole lot worse.

Could have been down in Seaside Park, where the fire that torched a good part of the boardwalk and businesses is now being labeled as suspicious. I wouldn’t be surprised if they call it arson.

376 A Mom Anon  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:01:22am

re: #366 wrenchwench

We had rain like this a few yrs back in Atlanta,something like 6 inches of rain in three hours after several days of soaking rains. I live on a hill, run off from my neighbors (who cut down every freaking tree in their yard the year before)up the hill flooded our garage and basement. I have never seen rain like that. The water flowing through the house had a freaking current. Water was flowing down the back stairs so hard you couldn’t see the stairs, it looked like a waterfall. I seriously hope we don’t get hammered with that this year, we cannot even close to afford any kind of damage or clean up.

Stay safe, everyone in the way of this mess. We need the rain, but damn.

377 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:02:18am

Wait, but don’t wingnuts think America IS EXCEPTIONAL? Except when they think Pootie makes Obama look bad, they are all full of Pootie-Luv.

378 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:02:59am
379 A Mom Anon  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:03:25am

re: #375 lawhawk

Oh shit, I hadn’t heard about the arson part. WTF? Like the people there haven’t been through enough already in the last year.

380 wrenchwench  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:05:02am

re: #371 Vicious Babushka

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Barrett B. hated Mark Adomanis. Didn’t like his pro-Russia stance. I don’t know how these various freak and dudebro ideas fit together, or whether they do.

381 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:05:50am

re: #380 wrenchwench

Barrett B. hated Mark Adomanis. Didn’t like his pro-Russia stance. I don’t know how these various freak and dudebro ideas fit together, or whether they do.

Strange bedfellows.

382 wrenchwench  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:06:53am

re: #375 lawhawk

What a sad fire.

383 jaunte  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:07:13am

re: #371 Vicious Babushka

The report says that Georgia violated international law when it used force against Russian peacekeeping troops stationed in Tskhinvali, and that from that moment, Russia’s army had grounds to use force in the peacekeepers’ defense.

The report also says Russia “went far beyond the reasonable limits of defense,” undertaking a drive deep into Georgian territory that violated international law and was “not even remotely commensurate with the threat to Russian peacekeepers.”
nytimes.com

384 A Mom Anon  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:07:39am

re: #377 Vicious Babushka

Note the pink backpack too…

God these freaking assholes are insufferable. Is there anyplace where there’s a history of Vladykins actions from the KGB til now? That needs to be shoved right into their faces. Honest to god, the ODS has reached fucking fatal levels now. Putin? WTF? Really wingnuts? Really?

385 jaunte  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:08:19am

“Investigators found that Russia had allowed “ethnic cleansing” in Georgian villages by South Ossetian irregulars, dismissed Russia’s claim that Georgia had been carrying out genocide against Ossetians, and said that Russia broke the law by distributing passports in the enclaves and by recognizing South Ossetia and Abkhazia as sovereign nations.”
nytimes.com

386 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:08:50am

re: #384 A Mom Anon

Note the pink backpack too…

God these freaking assholes are insufferable. Is there anyplace where there’s a history of Vladykins actions from the KGB til now? That needs to be shoved right into their faces. Honest to god, the ODS has reached fucking fatal levels now. Putin? WTF? Really wingnuts? Really?

These are professional editorial artists making these idiotic drawings, it’s not some random wingnut’s homemade Photoshop fail.

387 HappyWarrior  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:08:54am

re: #384 A Mom Anon

Note the pink backpack too…

God these freaking assholes are insufferable. Is there anyplace where there’s a history of Vladykins actions from the KGB til now? That needs to be shoved right into their faces. Honest to god, the ODS has reached fucking fatal levels now. Putin? WTF? Really wingnuts? Really?

It almost makes me misty eyed for the time Mitt Romney called the Soviet Union (his words not mine) our worst enemy.

388 wrenchwench  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:09:52am

re: #376 A Mom Anon

Stay safe, everyone in the way of this mess. We need the rain, but damn.

The good news:

Area of New Mexico formally “out of drought” nearly triples

The not so good news:

This week, it’s still tiny, but bigger than it used to be - up from 0.14 percent of New Mexico to 0.37 percent.

Where I am, we’ve had lots of rain, but it’s been draining pretty well.

389 darthstar  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:10:27am
390 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:10:57am

re: #386 Vicious Babushka

These are professional editorial artists making these idiotic drawings, it’s not some random wingnut’s homemade Photoshop fail.

I thought it might be Michael Ramirez, he is totally deranged, but I see it’s some other demented artist in the Columbus Dispatch.

391 HappyWarrior  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:11:17am

Remember when the wingnuts mocked those who agreed with the French position on Iraq. At least Jacques Chirac was a democratic leader. Putin? I guess it’s true what they say about birds of a feather. Putin loves power. Wingnuts love power. Putin hates gays. Wingnuts hate gays. Putin is obsessed with masculinity. Wingnuts are obsessed with masculinity.

392 HappyWarrior  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:12:00am

re: #389 darthstar

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Why is Gene Simmons being asked to comment about football? I don’t see Tom Brady or Peyton Manning commenting that Gene Simmons is lamer now than ever.

393 makeitstop  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:12:27am

re: #379 A Mom Anon

Oh shit, I hadn’t heard about the arson part. WTF? Like the people there haven’t been through enough already in the last year.

I would not want to be the guy arrested for starting that fire.

So sad to see all that damage. Hoping they can recover soon.

394 Dr Lizardo  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:12:59am

Well, the seasons are changing here; the central heating came on today, and it’s starting to get cold enough at nights that I don’t need to put leftovers in the fridge - I can just put them out on the balcony.

395 sattv4u2  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:13:02am

re: #392 HappyWarrior

Why is Gene Simmons being asked to comment about football? I don’t see Tom Brady or Peyton Manning commenting that Gene Simmons is lamer now than ever.

gene now owns a pro (minor league) team in Los Angeles

he offered Tebow a shot at playing

396 Dr. Matt  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:13:21am
397 HappyWarrior  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:13:47am

re: #395 sattv4u2

gene now owns a pro (minor league) team in Los Angeles

he offered Tebow a shot at playing

Ah did not know that. He should take that and run with it. See, Moon, Warren and Flutie, Doug.

398 Charles Johnson  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:14:39am

Greenwald’s connections to Russia go far beyond the fact that Snowden is there now.

399 Decatur Deb  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:15:05am

re: #363 Dr Lizardo

I’ve heard that story as well, with an elderly Polish lady being the central character. It could be more than just an apocryphal tale. I first heard that tale here, from my ex-wife. In her version of the story, it happened in 1946.

Been digging into the history of our town’s temple. They got their important Torah scroll in the 1940’s, originally from a Breslau synagogue destroyed on Kristalnacht.

400 HappyWarrior  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:15:08am

re: #396 Dr. Matt

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It makes me think that the only thing they thought was evil and deplorable about the USSR was the USSR’s economic policies not the USSR’s awful record on human rights and civil liberties. Of course, given some of the people Reagan’s administration supported, it’s plausible.

401 Dr. Matt  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:16:03am

re: #395 sattv4u2

If Tebow’s ego wasn’t so big, I would feel sorry for him. Most “experts” said he wouldn’t be a successful NFL QB, but could reinvent himself as a tight-end or RB/halfback.

402 Bulworth  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:16:19am

re: #391 HappyWarrior

Wasn’t President Romney just saying not very long ago Russia was our biggest enemy?

403 darthstar  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:16:54am

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404 lawhawk  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:17:01am

Ah, that EU report. Read the report for yourself.

Umm, it splits blame between Russia and Georgia, including Russia’s massive troop deployment in escalating the conflict.

Page 18 points to creeping annexation by the Russians as part of their peacekeeping mission (which the Georgians considered keeping in pieces).

Then, there were Russian violations of Georgian airspace, including several bombing runs in South Ossetia.

So, yeah, the EU report. But not exactly blaming Georgia for the war, or exonerating the Russians for not going to the UN.
Page 284:

To conclude, the Russian use of force cannot be justified as a humanitarian intervention.

From Use of Force section page 289:

In conclusion, the Russian intervention in Georgia cannot be justified as a rescue operation
for Russian nationals in Georgia.

A few pages later:

The use of force by Abkhazia was not justified under international law and was thus illegal. The same applies to the Russian support for Abkhaz use of force.

Yeah, Russia was the innocent in all this? Gimme a break.

405 lawhawk  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:18:03am

re: #379 A Mom Anon

It’s possible someone was smoking and tossed the butt into trash under the boardwalk, causing the initial fire that then spread to everything else.

Or, someone purposefully set things on fire - arson. In either case, they’ll have to sort things out.

406 Dr Lizardo  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:18:54am

re: #399 Decatur Deb

Been digging into the history of our town’s temple. They got their important Torah scroll in the 1940’s, originally from a Breslau synagogue destroyed on Kristalnacht.

One of the reasons that Prague’s Jewish Quarter survived the Protectorate Era here is that Reinhard Heydrich had the idea of preserving it as a ‘Museum to an Extinct People’. The idea was to preserve the Jewish Quarter and gather up various Jewish relics and whatnot and put them on display, so that one day in the future of the Thousand Year Reich, the Nazis could show the world what they’d saved them from.

The insanity of mankind never ceases to amaze me.

407 HappyWarrior  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:18:58am

re: #401 Dr. Matt

If Tebow’s ego wasn’t so big, I would feel sorry for him. Most “experts” said he wouldn’t be a successful NFL QB, but could reinvent himself as a tight-end or RB/halfback.

He’s not a bad guy IMO but he needs a reality check. He’s not a NFL starting QB. It’s probably hard to take since he was a great high school and college QB but sometimes great collegiate athletes just aren’t cut out for the pros and Tebow wouldn’t be the first and he certainly won’t be the last that fits that. He should feel fortunate. He’s not the worst Heisman bust ever and he has had some success. He was at a disadvantage from the start being both highly inaccurate and a lefty QB.

408 Kragar  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:19:26am

re: #398 Charles Johnson

Greenwald’s connections to Russia go far beyond the fact that Snowden is there now.

A fellow traveler?

409 HappyWarrior  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:21:34am

re: #402 Bulworth

Wasn’t President Romney just saying not very long ago Russia was our biggest enemy?

Yes. McCain as a candidate was never too fond of Putin either. I mean, I get it. They oppose Obama’s proposed actions in Syria but echoing Putin? Come on man.

410 sattv4u2  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:21:47am

re: #401 Dr. Matt

If Tebow’s ego wasn’t so big, I would feel sorry for him. Most “experts” said he wouldn’t be a successful NFL QB, but could reinvent himself as a tight-end or RB/halfback.

Not as easy as it would appear

A) he’s never played either of those positions, especially tight end where you’re required to block linemen/ linebackers and when going out for a pass run precise routes (his best runs are improvised)
B) although he doesn’t have an accurate arm, it is strong and he did have success in his rookie year in Denver as QB

411 lawhawk  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:23:13am

Let me repeat. Instead of relying on Greenwald or his selected opinionists, read the EU report for yourself (it’s a couple hundred pages long), and it goes into the history of the region, the parties and their perspectives, and various legal ramifications.

Far from indicating the Georgians responsible for the conflict, or ignoring the need for the UN to act, the report finds plenty to fault Russia for.

412 Dr. Matt  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:24:44am

re: #407 HappyWarrior

He’s not a bad guy IMO .

Oh, he’s a hell of person. Very charitable. Polite. All-American kid. But, I never rooted for him at the collegiate or pro-level.

Go Blue.

413 Decatur Deb  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:25:01am

re: #411 lawhawk

Let me repeat. Instead of relying on Greenwald or his selected opinionists, read the EU report for yourself (it’s a couple hundred pages long), and it goes into the history of the region, the parties and their perspectives, and various legal ramifications.

Far from indicating the Georgians responsible for the conflict, or ignoring the need for the UN to act, the report finds plenty to fault Russia for.

You weren’t supposed to read that.

(Where are our moonbat and emoprog fonts!!!)

414 HappyWarrior  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:25:37am

re: #410 sattv4u2

Not as easy as it would appear

A) he’s never played either of those positions, especially tight end where you’re required to block linemen/ linebackers and when going out for a pass run precise routes (his best runs are improvised)
B) although he doesn’t have an accurate arm, it is strong and he did have success in his rookie year in Denver as QB

Good point about him having never played those positions and his runs. The thing about B) though is he hasn’t really done much since. Perhaps the Jets did mismanage him last year, I think Rex Ryan is awful at handling offensive talent but he’s been off a roster more often than not the past year and he hasn’t made it. That should tell him something. The NFL is the ultimate what have you done for me lately league. Tebow should know that one of his predecessors at UF- Rex Grossman was once the QB of a conference winning team in 2006. Now he’s the third string QB for the Skins.

415 ObserverArt  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:25:49am

re: #238 HappyWarrior

Wingnuts often throw the line “You can’t just throw money at something and expect it to improve.” Sure, that’s true to some extent but they ignore that you can’t just cut everything and act like people won’t be adversely effected. And of course lectures about bootstraps by people who didn’t need the help since they were wealthy already (Hi Mitt) or people who benefited from the same programs they wish to weaken or dismantle (Hey Paulie Ryan).

They want stuff cut and then they bitch because stuff has been cut. I don’t think we have been more stupid as a society ever.

Does everyone get the feeling that when Barack Obama has his last day in office, he is going to let out one hell of a “I am so outta here” cries ever heard? He has been pilloried from every angle for some of the most arcane reasons. I’m no presidential historian, but you just have to wonder if he hasn’t had the most obstruction, resistance and outright hatred of any president. It’s really sad.

416 lawhawk  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:28:13am

re: #407 HappyWarrior

Tebow is hardly the first guy who was successful in college but was a bust in the NFL. Heck, look at a list of recent Heisman winners. Gino Torretta? Bust. Matt Leinart? Bust. Eric Crouch? Bust. Chris Weinke? Bust.

Of recent QBs, RGIII is successful to a point (until he got hurt). RGIII has far better skills and is far more accurate than Tebow ever was, so he has that going for him.

Tebow, had he shifted to another position might be able to make it work in pro football in some fashion, but it appears that he wanted to be a QB or nothing else.

417 Decatur Deb  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:28:14am

re: #415 ObserverArt

They want stuff cut and then they bitch because stuff has been cut. I don’t think we have been more stupid as a society ever.

Does everyone get the feeling that when Barack Obama has his last day in office, he is going to let out one hell of a “I am so outta here” cries ever heard? He has been pilloried from every angle for some of the most arcane reasons. I’m no presidential historian, but you just have to wonder if he hasn’t had the most obstruction, resistance and outright hatred of any president. It’s really sad.

He’s a young man. He’ll see most of his tormentors buried, many disgraced, and a few convert.

418 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:29:39am

teehee

Warning the audience that he was “going to say something outrageous,” Mr. Biden said the legislation was stalled by “this Neanderthal crowd” in the House.

Read more: washingtontimes.com
Follow us: @washtimes on Twitter

also paged

419 Dr. Matt  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:29:42am

re: #410 sattv4u2

Not as easy as it would appear

A) he’s never played either of those positions, especially tight end where you’re required to block linemen/ linebackers and when going out for a pass run precise routes (his best runs are improvised)
B) although he doesn’t have an accurate arm, it is strong and he did have success in his rookie year in Denver as QB

Hence, the term “re-invent”. Denard Robinson played 4 years at QB UM is now being used a RB/HB and wideout for the Jags. Tebow is not even in the NFL now. Enough said.

His “success” at Denver…… I repeat. He’s not even in the NFL now. Enough said.

420 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:30:22am

awww, bbl

421 HappyWarrior  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:31:52am

re: #416 lawhawk

Tebow is hardly the first guy who was successful in college but was a bust in the NFL. Heck, look at a list of recent Heisman winners. Gino Torretta? Bust. Matt Leinart? Bust. Eric Crouch? Bust. Chris Weinke? Bust.

Of recent QBs, RGIII is successful to a point (until he got hurt). RGIII has far better skills and is far more accurate than Tebow ever was, so he has that going for him.

Tebow, had he shifted to another position might be able to make it work in pro football in some fashion, but it appears that he wanted to be a QB or nothing else.

Hell Jason White and Eric Crouch never played a down at QB in the NFL to name other names. It’s tough in a way for guys like Tebow who have won awards like the Heisman because they have been stars their whole life but as we’ve seen in the draft, sometimes it’s the guys you’ve never heard of going in that have the biggest impact. Maybe it’s his personality or maybe it was the people advising him but someone should have told him that he should have had a backup plan in mind especially given what the people were saying about him possibly being able to transition to FB or TE.

422 sattv4u2  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:32:59am

re: #419 Dr. Matt

the term “re-invent”. Denard Robinson played 4 years at QB UM is now being used a RB/HB and wideout for the Jags. He’s not even in the NFL now.

So much for the experiment to re-invent!

423 lawhawk  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:34:29am

re: #422 sattv4u2

I think the he, being referred to is Tebow. Not Robinson. Robinson is playing for the Jags this season.

424 Bulworth  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 10:40:45am

re: #418 FemNaziBitch

I hope I saw this comment in time to run out and buy up all the fainting couches and clutching pearls I can find.

425 Cardio (formerly JRCMYP)  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 11:03:21am

re: #26 The Ghost of a Flea

The 1516 Reinheitsgebot has made pansies of the whole of Western civilization.

We need to return to a time when men were men, booze was half methanol, and beer was infused with lethal hallucinogens.

Real men would hammer that down, and then go fight Communists. Communists and invisible squids that lived under the couch. And their wives. Their Communist, squid-sympathizing wives.

You’re on a roll today. I want what you had for lunch.

426 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 11:09:21am

re: #419 Dr. Matt

Hence, the term “re-invent”. Denard Robinson played 4 years at QB UM is now being used a RB/HB and wideout for the Jags. Tebow is not even in the NFL now. Enough said.

His “success” at Denver…… I repeat. He’s not even in the NFL now. Enough said.

Antwaan Randle-El. Came from Krypton. Played QB for Indiana in the Big 10. Was drafted by Steelers in the late 2nd Round and then played as a wide receiver and kick-off/punt returner. Pretty solid 8-year career with Pittsburgh and Washington.

(Was also drafted by the Chicago Cubs to play baseball, but opted to go to IU instead.)

427 leftynyc  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 11:30:56am

re: #306 Vicious Babushka

Assholes co-opting Yom Kippur. I just can’t even.

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That sincerely pisses me off. How dare he?

428 RealityBasedSteve  Fri, Sep 13, 2013 11:45:59am

re: #214 Vicious Babushka

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Turtle Pic

Who knew turtles were Jewish?

RBS


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