A mind in the city looks inward, and escapes into the rabbit’s domain.
This work was created with support from “Animation Artist in Residence Tokyo
2012-2013”, part of the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs “International
Invitation Program for Animation Artists 2013”.
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Charles Johnson Thu, Jan 2, 2014 4:54:55pm |
That focus… pic.twitter.com/Ub9c8dKWNv— Emergency Kittens (@EmrgencyKittens) January 3, 2014
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Single-handed sailor Thu, Jan 2, 2014 4:57:42pm |
re: #1 Charles Johnson
“My preciousssss!”
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Justanotherhuman Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:02:09pm |
This is one big-assed storm.
Current Winter Weather Warnings & Advisories extend from the NC/TN mountains to coastal Maine. #CNNWeather pic.twitter.com/K3Muk8av0T— CNN Weather Center (@CNNweather) January 3, 2014
Still, just rain for us—so far.
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RealityBasedSteve Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:03:16pm |
re: #1 Charles Johnson
[Embedded content]
One of mine would actually have drool coming down it were a picture of her.
RBS
I have Pavlovs Cats
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Pie-onist Overlord Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:08:27pm |
My daughter is on a flight from Tel Aviv to Newark, ETA 4:30AM.
Then she has to get another flight from Newark to LA.
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Justanotherhuman Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:11:28pm |
re: #6 Pie-onist Overlord
My daughter is on a flight from Tel Aviv to Newark, ETA 4:30AM.
Then she has to get another flight from Newark to LA.
Twitter acct for the Port Authority.
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RealityBasedSteve Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:14:06pm |
re: #6 Pie-onist Overlord
My daughter is on a flight from Tel Aviv to Newark, ETA 4:30AM.
Then she has to get another flight from Newark to LA.
How long a layover in Newark? That’s got to make for a REALLY long day
RBS
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:14:53pm |
Still trolling.
Another responsible pot smoker http://t.co/EfwHUA3GnS— davidfrum (@davidfrum) January 3, 2014
Read and see if you catch what I see.
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Pie-onist Overlord Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:16:39pm |
re: #8 RealityBasedSteve
How long a layover in Newark? That’s got to make for a REALLY long day
RBS
Just enough time to get through customs and to the gate for the flight to LAX.
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Pie-onist Overlord Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:18:10pm |
She’s traveling with an infant and has a “priority escort” which is kind of like a wheelchair assistant, except for help with the baby.
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RealityBasedSteve Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:18:46pm |
re: #10 Pie-onist Overlord
Just enough time to get through customs and to the gate for the flight to LAX.
She’s gonna be a tired puppy when she gets to LA I’m guessing?
RBS
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Varek Raith Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:19:18pm |
Eating random cookies off the ground is a bad idea, mmkay?
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:20:43pm |
Another responsible drinker. http://t.co/dfyxFvDdv4— Gus (@Gus_802) January 3, 2014
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makeitstop Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:24:41pm |
re: #4 Justanotherhuman
This is one big-assed storm.
[Embedded content]
Still, just rain for us—so far.
It’s starting to become distinctly blizzard-like here on LI. The wife an I were just outside and the wind really started kicking up before we ran back inside.
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Pie-onist Overlord Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:25:26pm |
HURR HURR
Shorter Snowden critics: “How dare a whistleblower expose crimes and tell the public what its government is doing!”— David Sirota (@davidsirota) January 3, 2014
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Pie-onist Overlord Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:26:14pm |
HURR HURR
Finally, those claiming Snowden revealed only “legal” acts by NSA, see 6 bullet points in this NYT piece and STFU: http://t.co/3LZdEI6pXH— David Sirota (@davidsirota) January 3, 2014
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:26:19pm |
In 2011, 27 people were killed PER DAY on average because of drunk driving. David Frum found a cookie.— Gus (@Gus_802) January 3, 2014
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Stanley Sea Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:29:02pm |
Pieonist stays employed another day. I just bought a new Focus!!
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Justanotherhuman Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:34:13pm |
re: #16 makeitstop
It’s starting to become distinctly blizzard-like here on LI. The wife an I were just outside and the wind really started kicking up before we ran back inside.
We’re just going to get very cold w/winds. “Feels like” 1 deg tonight w/gusts up to 40 mph. Only a high in the mid-30s tomorrow. But no snow. The rain has stopped but whatever is laying about will freeze over for sure. It could be a mess in the back with all the trees we have.
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wrenchwench Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:34:52pm |
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:35:14pm |
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makeitstop Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:36:37pm |
re: #22 Justanotherhuman
We’re just going to get very cold w/winds. “Feels like” 1 deg tonight w/gusts up to 40 mph. Only a high in the mid-30s tomorrow. But no snow. The rain has stopped but whatever is laying about will freeze over for sure. It could be a mess in the back with all the trees we have.
Here’s hoping your trees stay where they are, and all in one piece!
I ran out to the store earlier and heard the weatherman on the radio say that temps will be between 0 and 10 below here tomorrow night - before the wind chill kicks in. I’m so happy I don’t have to go anywhere tomorrow night!
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RealityBasedSteve Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:36:52pm |
re: #21 Stanley Sea
Pieonist stays employed another day. I just bought a new Focus!!
Have we got to buy a car a day so she keeps her job? I don’t recall seeing that when I clicked “I’ve read and understand the Terms and Conditions” when I created my LFG Acct. Do we at least get a discount? I’m a fairly new lizard, I guess it won’t be my turn for a while however, right?
I’ve really got to start reading those T&C pages.
RBS
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Pie-onist Overlord Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:38:13pm |
All these drooling little Snowdenbots sicken me.
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Pie-onist Overlord Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:38:28pm |
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Pie-onist Overlord Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:38:49pm |
I’m playing a game here in LA, it’s called “Spot The American Car”
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:39:01pm |
Dude’s from Pawnee City, Nebraska. He doesn’t sound anything like a Nebraskan now. What a joke.
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Pie-onist Overlord Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:39:55pm |
Remember when you were a kid on a road trip, playing “Spot The Out-Of-State License Plates”
Well that’s a lot what “Spot The American Car” is like in LA.
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wrenchwench Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:41:09pm |
re: #27 Pie-onist Overlord
All these drooling little Snowdenbots sicken me.
I watched 2 minutes of the Ruth & Glenn thing earlier, had to quit, tried the next 30 seconds just now and quit again. Too aggravating. I’ll wait for the PeeWee Herman cover.
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Charles Johnson Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:41:17pm |
Just did a search on my username on Twitter and discovered a bunch of insults and abuse directed at me from Greenwald cultists. Some of them seem to be developing into full-blown stalkers.
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RealityBasedSteve Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:41:39pm |
We’re looking at bad temps Sun night through Wed, Monday forecasted high is 8, low is 3. Sunday and Tue Night lows around 10. I know it’s not “Great White North” cold, but hey, it’s Tennessee.
Car got a new battery 6 months ago, cooling system pressure tested, flushed and filled 2 months ago, I’ve got a little trickle charger / maintainer I’ll hook up at night. Doesn’t really charge a dead battery, but just that tiny bit of current help keeps it warm. I’ve also got a 350 cranking amp jump start box.
And for your amusement,
RBS
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RealityBasedSteve Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:43:15pm |
re: #33 Pie-onist Overlord
Even my rental car is a Nissan. :(
They may very well have built that Nissan just down the highway from me, Nissan has a big plant outside Nashville. (They also have the US Headquarters here, I’ve trained some of their programmers / dBa’
RBS
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Killgore Trout Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:43:39pm |
re: #31 Gus
Dude’s from Pawnee City, Nebraska. He doesn’t sound anything like a Nebraskan now. What a joke.
It’s a character. He got his start calling radio stations and shock jock shows.
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thedopefishlives Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:44:37pm |
re: #33 Pie-onist Overlord
Even my rental car is a Nissan. :(
I rented 2 Japanese cars (a Nissan and a Toyota) prior to acquiring my Chevy Malibu last fall. The rentals were for trips down to fish country and back, for fuel economy reasons. I liked the high technology of the Japanese engines, but the cars themselves I don’t really trust all that much. My Malibu is much more tangible.
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:44:51pm |
re: #38 Killgore Trout
It’s a character. He got his start calling radio stations and shock jock shows.
Yeah. But a lot of people think he’s fer reels.
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Varek Raith Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:45:13pm |
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thedopefishlives Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:45:25pm |
re: #36 RealityBasedSteve
Sunday night’s projected low is -30 degrees F (-34.4 degrees C).
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Justanotherhuman Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:45:41pm |
This ought to be interesting…
Facebook Sued Over Alleged Scanning of Private Messages
“Facebook Inc. (FB) was sued over allegations it systematically intercepts its users private messages on the social network and profits by sharing the data with advertisers and marketers.
“When users compose messages that include links to a third-party website, Facebook scans the content of the message, follows the link and searches for information to profile the message-sender’s Web activity, violating the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and California privacy and unfair competition laws, according to the suit.
“The practice compromises privacy and undermines Facebook’s promise of “unprecedented” security options for its messaging function, two Facebook users said in the complaint filed in federal court in San Jose, California. “
But did they read the Terms of Service? : )
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William Barnett-Lewis Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:46:27pm |
re: #30 Pie-onist Overlord
I’m playing a game here in LA, it’s called “Spot The American Car”
Do you go with overseas company but made in America? Or is an American company fine even if the car in question was made in Canada or Mexico or elsewhere? :whistles:
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William Barnett-Lewis Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:46:57pm |
re: #42 thedopefishlives
Sunday night’s projected low is -30 degrees F (-34.4 degrees C).
How much wind too? Brrr…
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Backwoods_Sleuth Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:47:32pm |
re: #4 Justanotherhuman
This is one big-assed storm.
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Still, just rain for us—so far.
Two inches of snow here so far with about a 20 mph north wind.
Power stopped blinking and the woodstove is starting to heat up nicely.
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Kid A Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:48:09pm |
The Second Amendment grants every American the right to compensate for his tiny, tiny penis.— God (@TheTweetOfGod) December 31, 2013
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Varek Raith Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:48:37pm |
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RealityBasedSteve Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:48:50pm |
re: #44 William Barnett-Lewis
Do you go with overseas company but made in America? Or is an American company fine even if the car in question was made in Canada or Mexico or elsewhere? :whistles:
What about if it’s 30% Canadian content, 15% China, 10% Mexico, but assembled in Detroit?
RBS
Who imagines his question isn’t THAT far off reality.
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wrenchwench Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:49:02pm |
Speaking of bunny-oriented hallucinations, the little film reminded me of this art my mom commissioned:
The kid in the tub is drawn from a photo of my mom from 1936, the kid with the bunny is from a photo my mom took of my youngest brother in 1969.
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Just never mind. Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:49:04pm |
re: #47 Backwoods_Sleuth
I guess it’s in bad taste to mention it was 73F here today? Going down to 48F.
There’s a reason to live in California…
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:49:54pm |
re: #50 Varek Raith
Was it my comment?
Sorry about that.
I’m in a bad mood.
No. Something else. Just didn’t want to bring it up again. My fault.
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RealityBasedSteve Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:49:56pm |
re: #42 thedopefishlives
Sunday night’s projected low is -30 degrees F (-34.4 degrees C).
I think I’ve gotten too thin - blooded for that anymore. I loved the year I was in Alaska, but not too sure I’d go back now.
RBS
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thedopefishlives Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:51:06pm |
re: #55 RealityBasedSteve
I think I’ve gotten too thin - blooded for that anymore. I loved the year I was in Alaska, but not too sure I’d go back now.
RBS
Yeah, I love the cold. I have a naturally high body temperature.
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thedopefishlives Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:51:19pm |
re: #54 Gus
No. Something else. Just didn’t want to bring it up again. My fault.
Evening Gus. How are you holding up?
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Charles Johnson Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:51:45pm |
re: #52 wrenchwench
Speaking of bunny-oriented hallucinations, the little film reminded me of this art my mom commissioned:
The kid in the tub is drawn from a photo of my mom from 1936, the kid with the bunny is from a photo my mom took of my youngest brother in 1969.
Beautiful!
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:52:54pm |
re: #58 thedopefishlives
Evening Gus. How are you holding up?
Meh. Feet are cold. Going to be 63 tomorrow and then a cold and crappy weekend. Nothing new to report. Same old stagnant life. Yourself?
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Charles Johnson Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:53:50pm |
#NowPlaying Bonnie Raitt > Slipstream > Not Cause I Wanted To http://t.co/4SmM9o4WlD pic.twitter.com/fJPNV1KjWc— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 3, 2014
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thedopefishlives Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:54:35pm |
re: #60 Gus
Meh. Feet are cold. Going to be 63 tomorrow and then a cold and crappy weekend. Nothing new to report. Same old stagnant life. Yourself?
Doing alright. Have a killer headache because the weather is about to get wacky - low of -10 degrees F (-23 degrees C) tonight, then up to 20 degrees F (-6.7 degrees C) for a high over the next couple of days, then down to the aforementioned -30 degrees F on Sunday night. I am exhausted and have little hope of getting to catch up on sleep any time soon, but I am content.
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Charles Johnson Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:56:18pm |
For several years I couldn’t even listen to Bonnie Raitt because one of her songs was sadly associated with a relationship breakup that nearly destroyed me.
Now that history just makes her music better for me.
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Kragar Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:58:51pm |
re: #63 Charles Johnson
For several years I couldn’t even listen to Bonnie Raitt because one of her songs was sadly associated with a relationship breakup that nearly destroyed me.
Now that history just makes her music better for me.
I couldn’t listen to the Rolling Stones “You can’t always get what you want” for around 10 years because it was playing on the radio after my wife and I got bad news.
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Pie-onist Overlord Thu, Jan 2, 2014 5:59:47pm |
HURR HURR
Talk of the “kill list” and drone strikes is all hyperbole when it comes to Snowden…until it becomes very real: http://t.co/WH3v2kskRs— David Sirota (@davidsirota) January 3, 2014
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makeitstop Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:00:00pm |
re: #63 Charles Johnson
For several years I couldn’t even listen to Bonnie Raitt because one of her songs was sadly associated with a relationship breakup that nearly destroyed me.
Now that history just makes her music better for me.
‘I Can’t Make You Love Me’ came out just as my first marriage disintegrated. Bonnie’s vocals and Hornsby’s piano make it one of the most beautiful melancholy songs ever. It still makes me sad whenever I hear it.
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Pie-onist Overlord Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:00:46pm |
DERP DERP
Hey in a “Killing People” contest between Obama and Putin who would win, David?
If ur boss bragged abt being “good at killing people” would u feel safe blowing the whistle on his lawbreaking? http://t.co/F6QQ0FZXqe— David Sirota (@davidsirota) January 3, 2014
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Pie-onist Overlord Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:08:30pm |
WTFITS
Good thing Snowden wasn't a brown Muslim guy because he would be on every drone strike kill-list in existence over this.— Murtaza Hussain (@MazMHussain) January 3, 2014
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:09:10pm |
An Amazon drone will now deliver Ezra Klein to his new place of employment.— Gus (@Gus_802) January 3, 2014
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Internet Tough Guy Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:09:30pm |
I love it when dudebros try to justify Snowden’s flight to Russia; it shows their true character like nothing else.
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Pie-onist Overlord Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:09:44pm |
If Snowden was Black, Brown, Muslim, Juice, Hispanic, Gay or ANYTHING ELSE BUT A PRIVILEGED WHITE DUDEBRO WHOSE DADDY HAD TEH CONNECTIONS he would never have been hired by the NSA in the first place.
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Pie-onist Overlord Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:13:19pm |
WTFITS I just can’t even
What about the Fourth Amendment and “probable cause” do the NSA and its defenders not understand? http://t.co/Hxko5NE6n9— David Sirota (@davidsirota) January 3, 2014
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Pie-onist Overlord Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:13:53pm |
If #Snowden wasn't a privileged white boy whose daddy had inside connections he would have never gotten the #NSA job to begin with.— Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) January 3, 2014
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Lidane Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:17:04pm |
re: #67 Pie-onist Overlord
DERP DERP
Hey in a “Killing People” contest between Obama and Putin who would win, David?[Embedded content]
Putin is a patron saint of journalistic freedom!
/Sirota
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:17:34pm |
Title: Snow in Jerusalem, 1921. Arabs in tent in snow
Creator(s): American Colony (Jerusalem). Photo Dept., photographer
Date Created/Published: 1921.
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Lidane Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:18:50pm |
Colorado’s Marijuana Shops Made More Than $1 Million On First Day Of Legalization http://t.co/1SWG8rJczN— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) January 3, 2014
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:20:02pm |
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Amory Blaine Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:21:27pm |
Going to -4 tonight. Supposed to be a high of -10 on Sunday. I’ll be working out in the shit for sure. Working while dressed like Ralphy’s little brother. Where even looking for keys in your many pockets is a daunting task. Blech!
| 82 |
Amory Blaine Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:23:06pm |
I sweat like a pig too so working out in this cold sucks ass.
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:24:20pm |
Snow removal; wagons with snow and men with shovels on snow covered street, Washington, D.C. ( Harris & Ewing) pic.twitter.com/b4SjhwQzu1— Gus (@Gus_802) January 3, 2014
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:28:28pm |
Horse-drawn wagons hauling snow in New York City. (1908) pic.twitter.com/y9s94UXBRy— Gus (@Gus_802) January 3, 2014
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Bear Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:28:45pm |
The problem is not only snow removal but what to do with it.
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Amory Blaine Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:28:55pm |
So all this DD hubub was all about ginning up scuttlebutt for a lucrative product line?
(I have been marathoning Boardwalk Empire.)
Shameless.
| 88 |
Pie-onist Overlord Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:29:02pm |
Many DC pundits/journos hate the Snowden disclosures because they represent an attack on the old media system http://t.co/07rwOdEi6O— David Sirota (@davidsirota) January 3, 2014
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:30:40pm |
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:33:38pm |
Flatiron Building, corner after snow storm, New York, N.Y. (Detroit Publishing Co.) “1905?” pic.twitter.com/4mT3zrmTME— Gus (@Gus_802) January 3, 2014
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Bear Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:34:46pm |
It is so much fun to finally get the snow cleared from the driveway entrance and then have the friendly State snow plow push more snow into the entrance.
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:35:03pm |
re: #74 Pie-onist Overlord
WTFITS I just can’t even
[Embedded content]
Where is it that the Constitution deals with fleeing to a foreign nation with government secrets that you then turn over to that nation? It’s not in the 4th Amendment, where is it?
Oh, that’s right; It’s dealt with under Treason.
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Lidane Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:36:11pm |
re: #88 Pie-onist Overlord
I just sent him the Wiki entry for the journalists killed by Putin. Hah.
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Targetpractice Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:36:31pm |
re: #94 Dark_Falcon
Where is it that the Constitution deals with fleeing to a foreign nation with government secrets that you then turn over to that nation? It’s not in the 4th Amendment, where is it?
Oh, that’s right; It’s dealt with under Treason.
Apparently the government’s “crimes” are so horrendous, that Snowden’s violations of numerous federal statutes, as well as the arguable charge of treason, should be waived due to the “service” he has done this country.
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thedopefishlives Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:39:59pm |
re: #95 Lidane
I just sent him the Wiki entry for the journalists killed by Putin. Hah.
Ah, so that sound I heard was some dudebro’s head asploding.
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:40:33pm |
re: #95 Lidane
I just sent him the Wiki entry for the journalists killed by Putin. Hah.
He’ll probably reply with “What about the reporters threatened by Bush and Obama?” or some other tu quoque BS.
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:41:30pm |
re: #95 Lidane
I just sent him the Wiki entry for the journalists killed by Putin. Hah.
Jingoist! //
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Mentis Fugit Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:46:42pm |
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Lidane Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:46:58pm |
re: #98 Dark_Falcon
He’ll probably reply with “What about the reporters threatened by Bush and Obama?” or some other tu quoque BS.
Oh, I’ve pissed him off before. He’s called me a rube that mindlessly defends the regime that’s systematically breaking the law.
I wear dudebro scorn as a badge of pride. Heh.
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Targetpractice Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:47:56pm |
re: #101 Lidane
Oh, I’ve pissed him off before. He’s called me a rube that mindlessly defends the regime that’s systematically breaking the law.
I wear dudebro scorn as a badge of pride. Heh.
I generally try to avoid getting slime on my clothes.
| 103 |
Varek Raith Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:49:19pm |
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b_sharp Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:49:24pm |
To all of my fellow lizards experiencing or about to experience extreme cold, windy, snowy weather you have my sympathies. No matter how accustomed I get to weather like that, and I’ve had a ton of experience with it, I hate it.
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:52:24pm |
re: #104 b_sharp
To all of my fellow lizards experiencing or about to experience extreme cold, windy, snowy weather you have my sympathies. No matter how accustomed I get to weather like that, and I’ve had a ton of experience with it, I hate it.
Cold sucks. Additionally, cold sucks. Furthermore, cold sucks. In conclusion, cold sucks.
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b_sharp Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:52:56pm |
I am so trying to stay away from Twitter.
Then I notice a creationist walking by.
I am so trying to stay away from Twitter.
| 107 |
Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:53:19pm |
Australian heat wave sends temperature soaring up to 122 degrees Fahrenheit http://t.co/vimYjlBDLG— NowThis News (@nowthisnews) January 2, 2014
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Lidane Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:54:20pm |
re: #105 Gus
Cold sucks. Additionally, cold sucks. Furthermore, cold sucks. In conclusion, cold sucks.
This post seems a bit vague. What are you implying?
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:54:43pm |
It was so #hot in #outback #southaustralia today, they fried eggs on shovels. #australia @MailOnline @Y7News pic.twitter.com/7TDFC2JnCr— TIM MORRIS (@Tim_Morris14) January 2, 2014
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The Mountain That Blogs Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:57:20pm |
re: #105 Gus
but how do you really feel about the cold?
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:57:57pm |
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b_sharp Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:58:43pm |
re: #105 Gus
Cold sucks. Additionally, cold sucks. Furthermore, cold sucks. In conclusion, cold sucks.
Cold is firmly in the sucktastic bag.
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 6:59:30pm |
re: #113 b_sharp
Cold is firmly in the sucktastic bag.
You know what they say about this cold? You can’t fry eggs on a shovel in this weather. //
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b_sharp Thu, Jan 2, 2014 7:00:43pm |
re: #114 Gus
You know what they say about this cold? You can’t fry eggs on a shovel in this weather. //
True.
But you can make frozen pee waterfalls.
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lawhawk Thu, Jan 2, 2014 7:04:27pm |
re: #109 Gus
It’s so cold in Minnesota that you can freeze an egg within minutes.
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GlutenFreeJesus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 7:04:55pm |
The Assets is on ABC right now. I’d like to know how what Snowden did is any different than what Aldrich Ames did…
| 120 |
Charles Johnson Thu, Jan 2, 2014 7:04:58pm |
If the NSA freaks you out & you still use Google, you are an idiot http://t.co/UTGtq2xU53— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 3, 2014
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Lidane Thu, Jan 2, 2014 7:05:47pm |
re: #119 GlutenFreeJesus
The Assets is on ABC right now. I’d like to know how what Snowden did is any different than what Aldrich Ames did…
Because young white dudebro, that’s how.
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lawhawk Thu, Jan 2, 2014 7:06:26pm |
re: #120 Charles Johnson
Or Facebook. Or LinkedIn. Or Twitter. Or any other social media site. Or any store affiliation program, which tracks your purchase habits.
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 7:06:46pm |
63F high for tomorrow though. Then a cold weekend followed by a slow warm-up.
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 7:10:51pm |
re: #118 lawhawk
It’s so cold in Minnesota that you can freeze an egg within minutes.
Outdoor frozen storage.
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prairiefire Thu, Jan 2, 2014 7:11:29pm |
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 7:14:26pm |
Cold weather is why hockey was invented by the Canadians.
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Just never mind. Thu, Jan 2, 2014 7:16:05pm |
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b_sharp Thu, Jan 2, 2014 7:17:42pm |
re: #126 Gus
Cold weather is why hockey was invented by the Canadians.
//
Hockey is why we invented wind patterns to draw cold weather down from the Arctic.
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GlutenFreeJesus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 7:18:00pm |
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RealityBasedSteve Thu, Jan 2, 2014 7:21:50pm |
I remember in Alaska. At -40 you can take a hot cup of coffee, toss it up in the air, you hear what almost sounds like a rifle crack, and frozen coffee crystals hit the ground.
I remember getting frostbite in my fingers when without thinking I took my gloves off and touched the engine in the truck for just a few seconds while doing an inspection.
RBS
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GlutenFreeJesus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 7:24:24pm |
re: #121 Lidane
Because young white dudebro, that’s how.
As opposed to old white dudebro. Damn. How could I have not seen that!
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GlutenFreeJesus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 7:26:13pm |
re: #126 Gus
Cold weather is why hockey was invented by the Canadians.
//
I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out.
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RealityBasedSteve Thu, Jan 2, 2014 7:28:23pm |
re: #130 b_sharp
I’m off to do something not Internety.
Later lizards.
I went and tried to turn a wooden bottlestopper (first one). Shape was a bit “disappointing”, came out looking very much like the last 2 inches of a mans anatomy. I may have to sketch out the first couple of ‘em before I turn them until I get a better feel for the shapes I want.
RBS
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 7:33:17pm |
Title: New Year’s eve at the hotel prosperity / Kep.
Creator(s): Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956, artist
Date Created/Published: N.Y. : Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, Puck Building, 1909 December 29.
Medium: 1 photomechanical print : offset, color.Summary: Illustration shows waiters Joseph G. Cannon and James S. Sherman turning away a man labeled “Average Citizen” and a woman at the “Hotel Prosperity” dining room because all the tables have been reserved; there are signs on the tables that read “Reserved for Wool Interests, Reserved for Coal Trust, Reserved for Steel Trust, Reserved for Senator Aldrich and Party, Reserved for Cold Storage Interests, Reserved for Sugar Trust, Reserved for Ice Trust, [and] Reserved for Franchise Grabbers”.
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 7:44:06pm |
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sagehen Thu, Jan 2, 2014 7:47:32pm |
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 7:48:39pm |
Title: The jingo bully / Keppler.
Creator(s): Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956, artist
Date Created/Published: N.Y. : Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1897 December 22.
Medium: 1 print : chromolithograph.
Summary: Print shows a large angry man wearing a hat labeled “Jingo”, shaking his fist at a cluster of rulers labeled “Turkey, Germany, England, Italy, Japan, [and] Spain” standing on a tiny piece of land labeled “Europe”, across a body of water; behind the man an impish Uncle Sam stacks bags of “Grain” or “Wheat” near the shore, with factories in the background.
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Lidane Thu, Jan 2, 2014 7:48:41pm |
re: #132 GlutenFreeJesus
As opposed to old white dudebro. Damn. How could I have not seen that!
Also, the Aldrich Ames story is clearly fiction. It happened in The Time Before America Spied on Anyone, i.e., the pre-Obama years.
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 7:52:00pm |
Title: A puzzling phenomenon / Keppler.
Creator(s): Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956, artist
Date Created/Published: N.Y. : Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1898 February 2.
Medium: 1 print : chromolithograph.
Summary: Print shows Puck holding a lithographic pen, standing next to a laborer who is reading a notice posted on a wall that states “‘Reduction in Wages due to the Great Law of Supply and Demand’. Explanation by Republican Party, under Republican Administration.”
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 7:54:30pm |
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sagehen Thu, Jan 2, 2014 7:58:08pm |
re: #119 GlutenFreeJesus
The Assets is on ABC right now. I’d like to know how what Snowden did is any different than what Aldrich Ames did…
Dudebro did it much faster.
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 7:58:40pm |
DO NOT BRING YOUR COLORADO PURCHASED MARIJUANA INTO WYOMING Cheyenne - The new law that went into effect… http://t.co/99cVjtq1WT— Wyo Highway Patrol (@WYHighwayPatrol) January 2, 2014
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Targetpractice Thu, Jan 2, 2014 7:59:27pm |
re: #141 sagehen
Here’s the same view today:
Don’t know whether it’s the sky or the filter used, but that picture almost looks like one taken just before a thunderstorm.
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RealityBasedSteve Thu, Jan 2, 2014 8:01:13pm |
re: #139 Lidane
Also, the Aldrich Ames story is clearly fiction. It happened in The Time Before America Spied on Anyone, i.e., the pre-Obama years.
Aldrich Ames is a weird case. He had a number of bad evals, negative letters in his jacket. His lifestyle was WAY in excess of his income. Everything I learned in the Army about people who may be a potential security risk he demonstrated in excess.
Ames did serious and measurable damage to the US and his actions cost lives directly. I think Snowden is no better.
RBS
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sagehen Thu, Jan 2, 2014 8:01:38pm |
re: #142 Gus
Interesting pedestrian island.
They have farmers’ markets there in season; and the green stripe is a bike lane.
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dog philosopher Thu, Jan 2, 2014 8:07:31pm |
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BeenHereAwhile Thu, Jan 2, 2014 8:11:35pm |
re: #66 makeitstop
‘I Can’t Make You Love Me’ came out just as my first marriage disintegrated. Bonnie’s vocals and Hornsby’s piano make it one of the most beautiful melancholy songs ever. It still makes me sad whenever I hear it.
As much as I love listening to Bonnie Raitt’s voice, gotta put in a vote for:
Don Henley, “End Of Innocence,” with Bruce Hornsby on piano.
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 8:13:32pm |
re: #148 dog philosopher
i can always dig some cool old grafix & fotos
Puck Magazine. Out of the Puck Building.
Once the printing facility of J. Ottmann Lithographing Company and Puck Magazine, which ceased publication in 1918, the building later housed numerous independent printing firms and related printing services such as type setters and a printing ink company, Superior Printing Ink. The odor of printing ink permeated the building for many years. An office stationery company, S. Novick & Son, once occupied the second floor. Notable amongst the firms’ salesmen was Alger Hiss, the former assistant Secretary of State who was brought down in a spy scandal in the 1950s.
In the 1980s, the Puck Building was the home of Spy Magazine, whose editors informally dubbed it “The Spy Building”. In the early 2000s, the building housed the Manhattan Center of Pratt Institute.
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sagehen Thu, Jan 2, 2014 8:19:56pm |
re: #151 Gus
Today, the top two floors are event space and/or filming location (when you need a nice view out the windows of your scene). Full open floor, with support pillers in the room. Tons of light.
It’s a gorgeous space — the ceilings are old-timey tall (18’?), and windows are about 8’ x 5’, all the way around.
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BongCrodny Thu, Jan 2, 2014 8:21:45pm |
re: #144 Gus
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Still laughing at this comment:
“Don’t worry, you’d have to smoke a shitload of weed to want to go to Wyoming.”
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sagehen Thu, Jan 2, 2014 8:23:26pm |
TV rec — a crappy reality show, with gorgeous cinematography. “Rodeo Girls” on A&E — the women are as obnoxious as any Real Housewives, but there’s horses, and Wyoming and Arizona and Texas and Nevada and N. California and Oregon, lots of sweeping camerawork…
Plus barrel racing.
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Targetpractice Thu, Jan 2, 2014 8:27:34pm |
re: #153 BongCrodny
Still laughing at this comment:
Always thought Wyoming was a myth, something cartographers put on maps as some sort of private joke.
//
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Lidane Thu, Jan 2, 2014 8:29:21pm |
Ain’t no party like a chinchilla party cause a chinchilla party involves crackers. pic.twitter.com/rJ6wokpBnJ— Dressed up Animals (@DressedAnimaIs) January 3, 2014
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 8:30:58pm |
re: #153 BongCrodny
Still laughing at this comment:
I suppose. Wyoming is home to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. Southern a Wyoming is kind of a bore. This is actually from the Snowy Range in Wyoming:
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Just never mind. Thu, Jan 2, 2014 8:35:49pm |
re: #157 Gus
Anything I have seen in Wyoming is beautiful!
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bratwurst Thu, Jan 2, 2014 8:36:08pm |
Anyone else had it with David Frum’s “concern” over marijuana in Colorado on Twitter? I wouldn’t like to follow someone who was constantly singing mj’s praises either!
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 8:37:26pm |
re: #159 bratwurst
Anyone else had it with David Frum’s “concern” over marijuana in Colorado on Twitter? I wouldn’t like to follow someone who was constantly singing mj’s praises either!
I don’t do either either. :D
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BeenHereAwhile Thu, Jan 2, 2014 8:39:05pm |
re: #154 sagehen
TV rec — a crappy reality show, with gorgeous cinematography. “Rodeo Girls” on A&E — the women are as obnoxious as any Real Housewives, but there’s horses, and Wyoming and Arizona and Texas and Nevada and N. California and Oregon, lots of sweeping camerawork…
Plus barrel racing.
GRA, rodeo girls.
Fun times were had by all.
The association’s name been changed, but the the attitude seems to be the same.
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Decatur Deb Thu, Jan 2, 2014 8:39:29pm |
re: #152 sagehen
Today, the top two floors are event space and/or filming location (when you need a nice view out the windows of your scene). Full open floor, with support pillers in the room. Tons of light.
It’s a gorgeous space — the ceilings are old-timey tall (18’?), and windows are about 8’ x 5’, all the way around.
Remember that building, if it’s the same Puck, as a vanished newspaper HQ. Perhaps the Herald-Tribune.
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BongCrodny Thu, Jan 2, 2014 8:40:30pm |
re: #157 Gus
I suppose. Wyoming is home to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. Southern a Wyoming is kind of a bore. This is actually from the Snowy Range in Wyoming:
Never got to go to Yellowstone.
My entire experience with Wyoming was a short stay in Gillette, about which the less said, the better.
I will add, however, that any place where you’re looking for work and the local employment office tells you that in order to get a job working in the oil fields you really need to go to the bars and taverns is best experienced in one’s rear view mirror.
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Lidane Thu, Jan 2, 2014 8:40:53pm |
Coincidentally, if anything was gonna get me to smoke pot again, it would be living in a society designed to David Brooks' preferences.— Alison Rose (@alisonrose711) January 3, 2014
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 8:41:20pm |
re: #158 Floral Giraffe
Anything I have seen in Wyoming is beautiful!
Always better away from the interstates. Took a “detour” to get to the Snowy Range. Spent the night in boring Rock Springs earlier. Feel kind of silly being here for so long in Denver but not having gone to Grand Tetons or Yellowstone. Went there when I was 16 though.
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 8:41:59pm |
re: #163 BongCrodny
Never got to go to Yellowstone.
My entire experience with Wyoming was a short stay in Gillette, about which the less said, the better.
I will add, however, that any place where you’re looking for work and the local employment office tells you that in order to get a job working in the oil fields you really need to go to the bars and taverns is best experienced in one’s rear view mirror.
Well yeah. A man could get shot in one of those bars. :D
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 8:43:00pm |
Happy :) pic.twitter.com/KAInmKxEbp— Baby Animals (@BabyAnimalPics) January 3, 2014
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Pie-onist Overlord Thu, Jan 2, 2014 8:44:33pm |
HURR HURR I IS NOT TEH STUPID U LIBRULS IS TEH STUPID!!!111 HURR HURR
If these people are real, Media Matters must pay them to be so stupid. http://t.co/mWiOZ85J6G— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) January 3, 2014
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bratwurst Thu, Jan 2, 2014 8:44:51pm |
re: #160 Gus
I don’t do either either. :D
Right, because you are not a freaking bore!
Just noticed that Frum is on the “Leadership Team” for SAM (Smart Approaches to Marijuana), an anti-decrim group. They seem extremely alarmed about pot becoming “another big tobacco”. It seems like they could turn their firepower against the CURRENT big tobacco, but that may not be sexy enough for them.
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BongCrodny Thu, Jan 2, 2014 8:46:39pm |
re: #166 Gus
Well yeah. A man could get shot in one of those bars. :D
Not an exact quote — it was over 30 years ago, after all — but it went something like “You have to go to one of the local bars when the crew is getting off work. Find out who the crew supervisor is and say “I want to be a worm,” which was the term they used for oil field newbies.
My buddy and I went to one such pub, and as soon as we walked in the place, it was like every freaking eyeball in the place was locked on us.
We each had one beer, and then left.
Apparently, we did not want to be worms.
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darthstar Thu, Jan 2, 2014 8:46:57pm |
@EWErickson Sorry. No returns after 30 days. #FreeEnterprise— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) January 3, 2014
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 8:47:20pm |
re: #169 bratwurst
Right, because you are not a freaking bore!
Just noticed that Frum is on the “Leadership Team” for SAM (Smart Approaches to Marijuana), an anti-decrim group. They seem extremely alarmed about pot becoming “another big tobacco”. It seems like they could turn their firepower against the CURRENT big tobacco, but that may not be sexy enough for them.
Oh jeez. Didn’t know that. Yeah, had to stop following him. Got annoying fast. Pot is pot. It’s not the greatest thing in the world and it’s not the worst thing in the world. I’m glad it’s legal. We’ll see what happens.
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Just never mind. Thu, Jan 2, 2014 8:52:54pm |
re: #165 Gus
I saw a wolverine in Glacier National Park! The naturalist friend of Dad’s wasn’t sure, until I described it.
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RealityBasedSteve Thu, Jan 2, 2014 8:53:48pm |
Dogs line up with the magnetic field of the earth to poop. Amazing but True!!!
It’s Science, bytches!
RBS
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RealityBasedSteve Thu, Jan 2, 2014 8:54:55pm |
re: #174 Floral Giraffe
I saw a wolverine in Glacier National Park! The naturalist friend of Dad’s wasn’t sure, until I described it.
I saw a badger in Canada. They move funny, like their skin is too big and they are sort of “sloshing” around inside a skin-suit.
RBS
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 8:58:41pm |
Another one.
OP-ED COLUMNIST; Weed: Been There. Done That. http://t.co/jrH1V2vyVj— David Brooks (@nytdavidbrooks) January 3, 2014
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Just never mind. Thu, Jan 2, 2014 8:59:56pm |
re: #176 RealityBasedSteve
I think they waddle! LOL!
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 9:01:53pm |
Moral of the story. All the people on their fainting couch about pot now being legal in Colorado also thought the Iraq War was neato.
Also. It’s not true. You can’t smoke pot “anywhere and everywhere.” You can’t smoke outdoors. It’s not for minors and not for resale. Drug testing laws still apply with marijuana so if you’re employer doesn’t want you to be a pot smoker you can still get fired if you fail a drug test. All the other drug testing laws applied to transportation operators also apply. Additionally, there are also DWI limits that also still apply.
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Targetpractice Thu, Jan 2, 2014 9:04:34pm |
re: #171 darthstar
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And not without the receipt. And even then, you only get store credit.
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sagehen Thu, Jan 2, 2014 9:05:37pm |
re: #179 Gus
Moral of the story. All the people on their fainting couch about pot now being legal in Colorado also thought the Iraq War was neato.
Also. It’s not true. You can’t smoke pot “anywhere and everywhere.” You can’t smoke outdoors. It’s not for minors and not for resale. Drug testing laws still apply with marijuana so if you’re employer doesn’t want you to be a pot smoker you can still get fired if you fail a drug test. All the other drug testing laws applied to transportation operators also apply. Additionally, there are also DWI limits that also still apply.
The anti-smoking laws will apply, whatever you’re smoking. Restaurants, bars, public parks, stores, elevators, buses…
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 9:11:54pm |
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 9:12:30pm |
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bratwurst Thu, Jan 2, 2014 9:13:57pm |
re: #179 Gus
Moral of the story. All the people on their fainting couch about pot now being legal in Colorado also thought the Iraq War was neato.
Also. It’s not true. You can’t smoke pot “anywhere and everywhere.” You can’t smoke outdoors. It’s not for minors and not for resale. Drug testing laws still apply with marijuana so if you’re employer doesn’t want you to be a pot smoker you can still get fired if you fail a drug test. All the other drug testing laws applied to transportation operators also apply. Additionally, there are also DWI limits that also still apply.
And there is also this shocking news: millions of people smoke pot EVERY SINGLE DAY in states where it is not legal.
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RealityBasedSteve Thu, Jan 2, 2014 9:14:28pm |
re: #182 sagehen
The anti-smoking laws will apply, whatever you’re smoking. Restaurants, bars, public parks, stores, elevators, buses…
My hunch, a small to moderate increase in users short term, simply because it’s now legal. 6 months down the road, I doubt that the number of smokers will be significantly increased.
I don’t think this is the end of civilization as we know it, it’s funny that the party that wants individual responsibility and minimal govt interference in how people live their lives seems to not extend that courtesty to people who choose to smoke weed. (among others)
RBS
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Killgore Trout Thu, Jan 2, 2014 9:18:17pm |
re: #177 Gus
Another one.
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I like the last line of the article….
Paul Krugman is off today.
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RealityBasedSteve Thu, Jan 2, 2014 9:23:56pm |
Night All… Here’s a pic I took last year on a cruise. Took it early morning just after sunrise, ship is the Celebrity Constellation.
and for the life of me, I can’t begin to understand why they have a large bronze statue of a gorilla holding a cod fish.
RBS
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EmmaAnne Thu, Jan 2, 2014 9:24:24pm |
re: #188 Killgore Trout
I like the last line of the article….
Paul Krugman is off today.
Heh. Visiting Denver?
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Kragar Thu, Jan 2, 2014 9:39:35pm |
That’s right, Oklahoma quarterback! I personally oversaw your upset win tonight! I had nothing better to do!— God (@TheTweetOfGod) January 3, 2014
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wrenchwench Thu, Jan 2, 2014 9:39:48pm |
re: #167 Gus
Happy :) pic.twitter.com/KAInmKxEbp— Baby Animals (@BabyAnimalPics) January 3, 2014
That is the essence of Dog. That is the platonic ideal of Dogness.
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Single-handed sailor Thu, Jan 2, 2014 9:40:04pm |
re: #175 RealityBasedSteve
Dogs line up with the magnetic field of the earth to poop. Amazing but True!!!
It’s Science, bytches!
RBS
You haven’t met my dogs, they don’t care what direction they face.
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bratwurst Thu, Jan 2, 2014 9:40:19pm |
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 9:41:15pm |
re: #195 wrenchwench
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That is the essence of Dog. That is the platonic ideal of Dogness.
Too cute aye?
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wrenchwench Thu, Jan 2, 2014 9:44:31pm |
re: #198 Gus
Too cute aye?
Much.
BTW, they haven’t announced any school closings in Albuquerque yet, but it could happen…
It snowed. pic.twitter.com/AOYeNoIAOn— Michael Coleman (@michaelcoleman) January 3, 2014
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 9:46:07pm |
re: #197 bratwurst
The Brooks parody Twitter feed is now a thing!
wearing my D.A.R.E. tee shirt rn lol— David Brooks (@DavidBrooks420) January 3, 2014
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austin_blue Thu, Jan 2, 2014 9:46:47pm |
re: #105 Gus
Cold sucks. Additionally, cold sucks. Furthermore, cold sucks. In conclusion, cold sucks.
The Air Force stationed me for three winters in Marquette, MI, on the south shore of Lake Superior. God help those poor benighted souls.
I’ve lived in Louisiana and Texas ever since. Never again will this this skinny white boy live north of Austin. Ever.
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 9:46:54pm |
re: #199 wrenchwench
Much.
BTW, they haven’t announced any school closings in Albuquerque yet, but it could happen…
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We have yet to be dumped on the season. Might get some light snow again on this cold weekend after we hit 63F (allegedly) tomorrow.
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Pie-onist Overlord Thu, Jan 2, 2014 9:47:42pm |
What’s the weather conditions at Newark? Anyone still awake on the East Coast?
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wrenchwench Thu, Jan 2, 2014 9:48:12pm |
re: #202 Gus
We have yet to be dumped on the season. Might get some light snow again on this cold weekend after we hit 63F (allegedly) tomorrow.
Oooh, that’s warmer than here.
@Stoned_eBrooks are you me. wait dont answer that— David Brooks (@DavidBrooks420) January 3, 2014
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bratwurst Thu, Jan 2, 2014 9:48:15pm |
re: #200 Gus
This is my favorite:
@BarackObama choom gang— David Brooks (@DavidBrooks420) January 3, 2014
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Pie-onist Overlord Thu, Jan 2, 2014 9:48:45pm |
My daughter’s flight is still 3 1/2 hours out but landing on time.
The flight out of Newark to LAX could be delayed, but don’t know by how much.
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 9:49:44pm |
re: #203 Pie-onist Overlord
What’s the weather conditions at Newark? Anyone still awake on the East Coast?
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wrenchwench Thu, Jan 2, 2014 9:51:13pm |
re: #201 austin_blue
The Air Force stationed me for three winters in Marquette, MI, on the south shore of Lake Superior. God help those poor benighted souls.
I’ve lived in Louisiana and Texas ever since. Never again will this this skinny white boy live north of Austin. Ever.
Mr. w did a year on Adak, Alaska. To compensate, the next year was in Hawaii.
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 9:51:16pm |
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piratedan Thu, Jan 2, 2014 9:54:39pm |
re: #157 Gus
I suppose. Wyoming is home to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. Southern a Wyoming is kind of a bore. This is actually from the Snowy Range in Wyoming:
I think the area around Rock Springs and Green River is pretty awesome, but for SE Wyoming I can’t speak to it because the last time (and only time) I was there, I was on the Interstate hoping like hell I could make it thru the blizzard before they closed the Interstate.
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austin_blue Thu, Jan 2, 2014 9:57:17pm |
re: #208 wrenchwench
Mr. w did a year on Adak, Alaska. To compensate, the next year was in Hawaii.
Been there (well, Shemya, but it’s two islands over and makes no difference). He should have been awarded three-to-one.
Weather in the Aleutians is flat fucking terrifying to fly into.
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 9:59:53pm |
Pepperoni Pizza Fries pic.twitter.com/BZXf7s3FUt— Food Porn (@foodporm) January 3, 2014
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Pie-onist Overlord Thu, Jan 2, 2014 10:01:09pm |
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 10:03:18pm |
re: #213 Pie-onist Overlord
That would only be appetizing to someone who is high.
Why you no like FREEDOM fries?
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austin_blue Thu, Jan 2, 2014 10:04:25pm |
re: #213 Pie-onist Overlord
That would only be appetizing to someone who is high.
Dudette! With a bag of nacho cheese Doritos and a 2-liter DP, that would be totally bitchin’.
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piratedan Thu, Jan 2, 2014 10:05:05pm |
re: #213 Pie-onist Overlord
as a recovering food addict, i can see the appeal, the wanton destruction to one’s arteries and diet…. i can see kids hitting that post an intense workout just for the calories
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wrenchwench Thu, Jan 2, 2014 10:05:18pm |
The poison dwarf has come a long way.
@dankmtl @jihadwatchRS #Myjihad ??? pic.twitter.com/o3QpoAUxyp— Riz Team FluffBall (@CaringSoul786) December 25, 2013
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 10:07:03pm |
pic.twitter.com/iqQltaIdKS— Cute Critters (@_CuteCritters) January 3, 2014
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 10:07:24pm |
pic.twitter.com/IjQyYanPXv— Cute Critters (@_CuteCritters) December 29, 2013
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austin_blue Thu, Jan 2, 2014 10:09:46pm |
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 10:11:11pm |
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Pie-onist Overlord Thu, Jan 2, 2014 10:12:00pm |
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 10:14:58pm |
Experimenting on yourself again, Alex? RT @RealAlexJones: Vaccines Being Developed to Eat The Brain— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) January 3, 2014
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Targetpractice Thu, Jan 2, 2014 10:16:26pm |
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wrenchwench Thu, Jan 2, 2014 10:17:56pm |
re: #220 austin_blue
Is it just me or do Corgis look like Dondi?
Dondi has always given me the creeps. Corgis rarely do.
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wrenchwench Thu, Jan 2, 2014 10:18:49pm |
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austin_blue Thu, Jan 2, 2014 10:22:43pm |
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wrenchwench Thu, Jan 2, 2014 10:23:14pm |
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wrenchwench Thu, Jan 2, 2014 10:24:29pm |
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 10:25:07pm |
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Targetpractice Thu, Jan 2, 2014 10:30:13pm |
They’re releasing another Expendables movie. I guess this one’s titled “Let’s see how far we can drive this concept into the ground.”
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austin_blue Thu, Jan 2, 2014 10:34:30pm |
Since Oklahoma beat Alabama tonight, and Texas beat Oklahoma, Sabin is going to be coaching Texas next year.
Twitter logic.
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Gus Thu, Jan 2, 2014 10:47:20pm |
Good night! Stay warm and don’t drive in the snow (if applicable) if you don’t have to. Later.
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Single-handed sailor Thu, Jan 2, 2014 10:54:35pm |
re: #200 Gus
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I have a DARE t-shirt, circa 1988, still in good condition. I love irony.
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sagehen Thu, Jan 2, 2014 10:56:16pm |
re: #203 Pie-onist Overlord
What’s the weather conditions at Newark? Anyone still awake on the East Coast?
It’s really goddamn cold. And icy. Not so much snow yet… but ice.
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light) Fri, Jan 3, 2014 12:45:45am |
Girlefriend’s flight from Philadelphia is late afternoon, not cancelled…yet.
Hope she can make it to airport safely.
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Justanotherhuman Fri, Jan 3, 2014 1:16:36am |
No doubt Republicans are making a case for another Benghazi, in advance, as this situation develops in South Sudan.
South Sudan ceasefire talks open in Ethiopia
“Meanwhile, the US is moving out some of its embassy staff from South Sudan.
“The state department announced a “further drawdown” of its embassy in Juba, and said it would no longer be providing consular services to US citizens in the country.
“It also urged citizens to leave on an evacuation flight from Juba “to the nearest safe haven country” on Friday.”
Of course the Republicans will second-guess anything that might occur because they’re not in power.
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urbanmeemaw Fri, Jan 3, 2014 1:44:09am |
re: #19 Pie-onist Overlord
David is so cute when he tries to get GG’s attention.
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Justanotherhuman Fri, Jan 3, 2014 1:53:15am |
I really hate hard drugs because I’ve seen what they can do to people, but I hate poverty more because it sometimes drives otherwise good people to them destroying their lives in various ways.
Drug raids seize 3 tonnes of crystal meth in single Guangdong village
“He added that Boshe was the most notorious area for drugs in Lufeng, with more than a fifth of households linked to production and trafficking rings.
“Provincial police deputy director Guo Shaobo said it was the province’s largest drug bust in terms of arrests, drugs and raw materials seized. It also represented the broadest co-operation among government units.
“Lufeng has a long history of producing drugs since the 1990s. More than half the 500 prisoners in the city’s detention centre were involved in drug-related crimes, the Southern Metropolis Daily reported. It said Lufeng was an impoverished area where most of the farmland was sandy.”
Imagine more than a fifth of households in your neighborhood involved in the production of drugs because there is no other way to make money. It’s mind-boggling.
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Justanotherhuman Fri, Jan 3, 2014 2:25:10am |
This is hilarious. “More” equals 3: McGovern, Grayson and Welch. It’s an onslaught! But we know Greenwald doesn’t mind engaging in hyperbole. Neither do Firedoglake writers with whom he links in a comparison of Snowden w/Manning.
More Congressmen Say They’re Open To Clemency Deal for Snowden http://t.co/isRAkNT3Ia— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 3, 2014
Really? I mean, really? Since when did wildly irrational wishful thinking pass as journalism?
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Justanotherhuman Fri, Jan 3, 2014 3:07:50am |
Jihad Jane: Despite cooperation, U.S. seeks ‘decades’ in prison
A very sad childhood, but she didn’t seem to do much to help herself later, either, and it sounds as though she had plenty of opportunities to get psychiatric help to get past it. I mean, I just don’t buy that “my troubled childhood led me on a path to violent jihad” bullshit she tries to peddle. She was willing to kill someone to find some satisfaction in her empty life and, in fact, seemed to go out of her way to pursue her new-found ideology.
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Targetpractice Fri, Jan 3, 2014 3:24:51am |
So, by the best estimates Josh Marshall and the guys at TPM have been able to put together, the total number of people who the ACA has helped in some way (private insurance policies, Medicaid expansion, kids under 26) sits at roughly 10 million Americans. He also notes that, had over half the country not been so fucking dumb as to refuse the Medicaid expansion, the number could be sitting at 15 million.
Something tells me that, when the negotiations over the debt ceiling have to begin in a couple weeks , the demands to repeal the law are only going to be more shrill.
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Decatur Deb Fri, Jan 3, 2014 3:36:16am |
re: #245 Targetpractice
So, by the best estimates Josh Marshall and the guys at TPM have been able to put together, the total number of people who the ACA has helped in some way (private insurance policies, Medicaid expansion, kids under 26) sits at roughly 10 million Americans. He also notes that, had over half the country not been so fucking dumb as to refuse the Medicaid expansion, the number could be sitting at 15 million.
Something tells me that, when the negotiations over the debt ceiling have to begin in a couple weeks , the demands to repeal the law are only going to be more shrill.
Dear Speaker Boehner,
Ya got nothing. And you’re not Cool Hand Luke.
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Targetpractice Fri, Jan 3, 2014 3:42:17am |
re: #246 Decatur Deb
Dear Speaker Boehner,
Ya got nothing. And you’re not Cool Hand Luke.
To hear the wingnuts tell it, Boehner’s getting ready to undermine all they’ve achieved (yeah, I know, same BS as before) because he’s considering a big push to get the Senate immigration reform bill passed in the House before primary season is over. This will no doubt happen to the accompaniment of squealing from the House GOP conservative caucus, so you can bet the wingnuts are already threatening “punishment” on any Republican who even considers for a second buying into “amnesty.”
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Decatur Deb Fri, Jan 3, 2014 3:51:56am |
re: #247 Targetpractice
To hear the wingnuts tell it, Boehner’s getting ready to undermine all they’ve achieved (yeah, I know, same BS as before) because he’s considering a big push to get the Senate immigration reform bill passed in the House before primary season is over. This will no doubt happen to the accompaniment of squealing from the House GOP conservative caucus, so you can bet the wingnuts are already threatening “punishment” on any Republican who even considers for a second buying into “amnesty.”
Yeah—Freep angst level is approaching 500 milli-Obamas when they discuss Boehner.
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Targetpractice Fri, Jan 3, 2014 4:07:32am |
Apparently Clay Aiken has hinted that he’s considering running for Congress, in North Carolina of all places. I guess when Congress has ceased being a body of government and become a means by which we entertain ourselves, it only stands to figure that we’d want professional actors for the job.
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Amory Blaine Fri, Jan 3, 2014 4:47:54am |
we’ve been getting hit with annoying Alberta clippers almost every other day since early December.
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wheat-dogghazi Fri, Jan 3, 2014 5:06:49am |
re: #242 Justanotherhuman
Meth is becoming a “thing” now in rural China, as it has in rural America. There have been some drug smugglers caught bringing the stuff into Hong Kong and Southeast Asia from Guangdong.
The reasons are the same as they are in the USA. Lack of jobs for poorly educated people, low paying jobs, a feeling of being trapped, and promise of a quick buck for those who want to risk making the stuff.
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Justanotherhuman Fri, Jan 3, 2014 5:30:23am |
re: #252 wheat-dogghazi
Meth is becoming a “thing” now in rural China, as it has in rural America. There have been some drug smugglers caught bringing the stuff into Hong Kong and Southeast Asia from Guangdong.
The reasons are the same as they are in the USA. Lack of jobs for poorly educated people, low paying jobs, a feeling of being trapped, and promise of a quick buck for those who want to risk making the stuff.
That’s accurate. Most of the meth produced in NC is in the foothills/mtns here in NC where poverty abounds and you can find isolated properties, such as this one, to hide your mfg. Plus, counties where textile and furniture mfg has, ironically, gone to China, like Burke and Wilkes.
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Justanotherhuman Fri, Jan 3, 2014 5:40:35am |
Over 1800 flights cancelled due to weather in US.
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Justanotherhuman Fri, Jan 3, 2014 5:47:17am |
re: #250 Targetpractice
Apparently Clay Aiken has hinted that he’s considering running for Congress, in North Carolina of all places. I guess when Congress has ceased being a body of government and become a means by which we entertain ourselves, it only stands to figure that we’d want professional actors for the job.
He’d be a damn sight better than Renee Ellmers who is nothing but a ‘bagger.
“Although the polls indicate Republicans may be favored as the mid-term elections approach on a general ballot, the Democratic nominee — whether it’s Aiken, Crisco or someone else — may have a shot at the seat, which comprises Raleigh and was controlled by Democrats before the Republican surge in 2010. A House Democratic aide, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, described the second congressional district as a “winnable seat” for Democrats.
(snip)
“Aiken has also drawn on his fame to help promote causes as an activist. He co-founded the the National Inclusion Project, formerly the Bubel/Aiken Foundation, which seeks to help children with disabilities. Tapped as a national ambassador for the United States Fund for UNICEF in 2004, Aiken has travelled to Afghanistan, Indonesia, Uganda, Mexico, Kenya and Somalia as part of aid missions.
“The singer has also taken part in LGBT activism. In 2010, the singer appeared at a briefing on Capitol Hill on behalf of the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network, or GLSEN, to urge for passage of anti-bullying legislation with LGBT protections known as the Student Non-Discrimination Act and the Safe Schools Improvement Act.”
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Justanotherhuman Fri, Jan 3, 2014 6:15:29am |
re: #256 Amory Blaine
Anyone have experience with airbnb?
No, but if this description is any indication, I’d take it with a grain of salt. This area is dicey, a sort of neo-hippie-ish part of town which I lived in more than 40 yrs ago (it was not quite like this). Yuppies moved in to gentrify the area but most have left after making their money. Lots of rentals. “1 block” from Central on Thomas Ave would be in a very older commercial area. Central is a main drag leading to downtown.
Sorry, forgot the link: airbnb.com
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makeitstop Fri, Jan 3, 2014 6:19:22am |
‘Morning, Lizards,
Still snowing like hell outside. From the look of it, we’ve gotten about 10 inches of snow so far. Wunderground pegs our temperature at 11 degrees, with a wind chill of 5.
The good news is it’s dry, loose snow, which will make it easier to move around when the time comes. I’m gonna wait for it to stop snowing, or at least significantly slow down, first.
More coffee and looking out the window for now.
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HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 3, 2014 6:20:36am |
Coldest day here in four years. As I told one of my co-workers yesterday, I need to move to Florida (or some place else that’s warm year round).
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HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 3, 2014 6:21:41am |
re: #255 Justanotherhuman
He’d be a damn sight better than Renee Ellmers who is nothing but a ‘bagger.
“Although the polls indicate Republicans may be favored as the mid-term elections approach on a general ballot, the Democratic nominee — whether it’s Aiken, Crisco or someone else — may have a shot at the seat, which comprises Raleigh and was controlled by Democrats before the Republican surge in 2010. A House Democratic aide, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, described the second congressional district as a “winnable seat” for Democrats.
(snip)
“Aiken has also drawn on his fame to help promote causes as an activist. He co-founded the the National Inclusion Project, formerly the Bubel/Aiken Foundation, which seeks to help children with disabilities. Tapped as a national ambassador for the United States Fund for UNICEF in 2004, Aiken has travelled to Afghanistan, Indonesia, Uganda, Mexico, Kenya and Somalia as part of aid missions.
“The singer has also taken part in LGBT activism. In 2010, the singer appeared at a briefing on Capitol Hill on behalf of the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network, or GLSEN, to urge for passage of anti-bullying legislation with LGBT protections known as the Student Non-Discrimination Act and the Safe Schools Improvement Act.”
Seems much better than any bagger actually since he actually seems to care about other people outside of himself.
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darthstar Fri, Jan 3, 2014 6:37:57am |
“There are actually other falsehoods …It’s as if you had Glenn Greenwald dictate this op-ed.” http://t.co/7xVfR8Iq7N by @MiltShook— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) January 3, 2014
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Decatur Deb Fri, Jan 3, 2014 6:50:18am |
re: #252 wheat-dogghazi
Meth is becoming a “thing” now in rural China, as it has in rural America. There have been some drug smugglers caught bringing the stuff into Hong Kong and Southeast Asia from Guangdong.
The reasons are the same as they are in the USA. Lack of jobs for poorly educated people, low paying jobs, a feeling of being trapped, and promise of a quick buck for those who want to risk making the stuff.
Speaking of mind-rotting drugs, have Ayn Rand’s writings made any headway with your students? Are they available in translation?
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Ian G. Fri, Jan 3, 2014 7:04:28am |
Mornin’ all!
I think temperatures have finally bottomed out here in NYC. Half an hour ago, it was 12 with a -4 wind chill. Now it’s 13 with a -2 wind chill.
I’m also seeing that there will be an even worse arctic blast coming on Monday/Tuesday for much of the country. The high in Chicago is supposed to be -8 on Monday. It will be 13 in NYC on Tuesday. Jesus.
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Ian G. Fri, Jan 3, 2014 7:07:53am |
re: #250 Targetpractice
Apparently Clay Aiken has hinted that he’s considering running for Congress, in North Carolina of all places.
I’d take him over every single Republican in Congress.
On a wingnut note, the loon in my Facebook feed has been posting ACA “horror stories” nonstop. I’m guessing that, as with Benghazi, there will be a core of maniacs who will believe with absolute certainty that ACA has destroyed the country, facts be damned. I just wonder how large that core will be, because at some point, the insurance companies who are making big bucks off the program, and have built an infrastructure tied up in the program, are going to tell the GOP to give it up, and we’ll see yet another battle between the ostensibly sane ones like Boehner and Ryan, and the Khmer Rouge faction.
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darthstar Fri, Jan 3, 2014 7:09:10am |
@Toure @boughregard @joshtpm What about my kidding, his kidding, her kidding, our kidding? Why must it always be your kidding?— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) January 3, 2014
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Justanotherhuman Fri, Jan 3, 2014 7:13:31am |
re: #263 Ian G.
Mornin’ all!
I think temperatures have finally bottomed out here in NYC. Half an hour ago, it was 12 with a -4 wind chill. Now it’s 13 with a -2 wind chill.
I’m also seeing that there will be an even worse arctic blast coming on Monday/Tuesday for much of the country. The high in Chicago is supposed to be -8 on Monday. It will be 13 in NYC on Tuesday. Jesus.
They’re predicting ice here in NC on Sunday, if it’s any consolation…
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wheat-dogghazi Fri, Jan 3, 2014 7:26:40am |
re: #262 Decatur Deb
Speaking of mind-rotting drugs, have Ayn Rand’s writings made any headway with your students? Are they available in translation?
God, I hope not!
AFAIK, libertarianism and Randian thought (as it were) have not made much headway in China. Asian culture for the most part is about family and community, looking for out for your family first, then friends, neighbors and fellow townspeople. Which is not to say that the ultra-rich in China don’t lack a streak of nastiness in them. Some of them are as self-serving as any of Rand’s characters, but I chalk that up to greed and the traditional stratification of Chinese society — the mandarin effect.
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Stanley Sea Fri, Jan 3, 2014 7:37:55am |
Obdi here? Twitter looks like it’s been hacked.
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bratwurst Fri, Jan 3, 2014 7:40:16am |
The David Brooks dope smoking controversy continues!
Holy shit. One of the childhood friends Brooks slagged in his column has responded. It's amazing: http://t.co/EafmWyGjXf— Mike Riggs (@MikeRiggs) January 3, 2014
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Stanley Sea Fri, Jan 3, 2014 7:48:27am |
I am relishing the Alabama tears this morning!
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Gus Fri, Jan 3, 2014 7:49:16am |
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Gus Fri, Jan 3, 2014 7:50:31am |
Woke up this morning. Millions dead in Colorado. Cause of death. You got it. Marijuana!
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Dark_Falcon Fri, Jan 3, 2014 7:51:30am |
re: #244 Justanotherhuman
Jihad Jane: Despite cooperation, U.S. seeks ‘decades’ in prison
A very sad childhood, but she didn’t seem to do much to help herself later, either, and it sounds as though she had plenty of opportunities to get psychiatric help to get past it. I mean, I just don’t buy that “my troubled childhood led me on a path to violent jihad” bullshit she tries to peddle. She was willing to kill someone to find some satisfaction in her empty life and, in fact, seemed to go out of her way to pursue her new-found ideology.
That’s the biggest reason for her likely long sentence, to be sure. Her actions were too much in the ‘thrill kill’ vein, and prosecutors and judges tend to have no sympathy for such people.
The other issue is that for DoJ anti-terrorism prosecutors she is the Great White Defendant. They do not wish to incur charges of racism by having a blond-haired white woman in a high-profile by given a lenient sentence when a South Asian man would face a harsh sentence.
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PhillyPretzel Fri, Jan 3, 2014 7:52:58am |
Whew. I just finished shoveling my walk. And now the snow is being blown back over the path I made. :(
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Gus Fri, Jan 3, 2014 7:53:07am |
re: #270 Stanley Sea
I am relishing the Alabama tears this morning!
You can use those as a gun lubricant.
//
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The War TARDIS Fri, Jan 3, 2014 7:58:46am |
A Whovian somewhere found this. From US Government website.
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Justanotherhuman Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:01:02am |
Justice Dept response to Little Sisters:
ON EMERGENCY APPLICATION FOR AN INJUNCTION
PENDING APPELLATE REVIEW OR, IN THE ALTERNATIVE, PETITION FOR
WRIT OF CERTIORARI AND INJUNCTION PENDING RESOLUTION
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makeitstop Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:03:21am |
re: #269 bratwurst
The David Brooks dope smoking controversy continues!
Holy shit. One of the childhood friends Brooks slagged in his column has responded.
The density of snark in that post was awesome. Nice to see someone with first-hand knowledge of Brooks’ blowhard tendencies speaking up.
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Gus Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:04:18am |
Of course, 1,000s of people could have drowned somewhere in south Asia but we’d never know right away because, Murica first. Argle bargle.
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Justanotherhuman Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:05:17am |
Oh come on, this is getting ridiculous.
Heyday Raises $3.5M for Automated Journal App
And people complain about privacy?
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Lidane Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:06:49am |
Dear @realDonaldTrump It's not cold outside bc climate change is a hoax. It's cold outside bc it's winter. LOL, MoJo http://t.co/YBqOPvVarw— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) January 3, 2014
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Lidane Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:08:46am |
No True Conservative, part eleventy derp:
FRC complains House GOPers are too moderate, not fighting Obama hard enough http://t.co/lVjCePtit2— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) January 3, 2014
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Gus Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:09:46am |
Brook an’ Frum
New county.
You’re listening to Country Hits 105.
//
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Varek Raith Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:13:20am |
I hate the snow.
My eyes are very photosensitive. It may as well be the surface of a freaking star out there.
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Gus Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:14:11am |
Brook n’ Frum suddenly develop neck beards and southern accents. :D
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Gus Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:15:08am |
re: #286 Varek Raith
I hate the snow.
My eyes are very photosensitive. It may as well be the surface of a freaking star out there.
SNOW BLIND! Wear sunglasses.
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Dark_Falcon Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:15:47am |
re: #277 The War TARDIS
A Whovian somewhere found this. From US Government website.
It leaves her still hating The Doctor and anyone associated with Gallifrey, since the Gallifreyans played the leading role in destroying the Racnoss. Fortunately, she’s been dead ever since her ship had an unfortunate argument with a number of Rapier SAMs.
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Justanotherhuman Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:16:36am |
Well, I don’t use soybean products and as little corn as possible (or corn-fed beef and pork).
USDA opens door to new herbicide-resistant seeds
On the other hand, I have this growth coming out of my head…only kidding!
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Dark_Falcon Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:18:03am |
re: #284 Lidane
No True Conservative, part eleventy derp:
[Embedded content]
The FRC’s president is perfectly named: Tony Perkins. For he surely does go mad sometimes.
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Dark_Falcon Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:18:49am |
re: #280 Gus
Mugsy. Nothing drastic to report from Twitter.
So Mugsy is on Twitter and Rocky is on Facebook?
/Warner Brothers riff
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Varek Raith Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:18:57am |
re: #288 Gus
SNOW BLIND! Wear sunglasses.
I have a better idea. You come here and remove the snow!
:P
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Eventual Carrion Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:19:02am |
Watching Naked Gun 2 1/2:
Lt. Frank Drebin:
Now, Jane, what can you tell us about the man you saw last night?Jane Spencer:
He’s Caucasian.Ed Hocken:
Caucasian?Jane Spencer:
Yeah, you know, a white guy. A mustache. About five-foot-ten.Lt. Frank Drebin:
That’s an awfully big mustache.
Cracks me up
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Bear Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:20:09am |
Another ice breaker may need a bit of help. And interesting pictures here.
adn.com
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HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:21:06am |
re: #292 Dark_Falcon
The FRC’s president is perfectly named: Tony Perkins. For he surely does go mad sometimes.
YEah but the original Tony Perkins only played a mad man. This one’s the real article. I think I heard he’s actually putting his money where his mouth is and running for Congress and I hope he does because that David Duke mailing list asshole needs to be exposed fo the bigot he is.
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Gus Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:21:47am |
re: #295 Varek Raith
I have a better idea. You come here and remove the snow!
:P
Get a cane and start walking around outside like Mr. Magoo. A neighbor should be there in no time to help.
//
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Justanotherhuman Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:22:50am |
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Lidane Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:24:08am |
I assumed that outright endorsement of Obama's assassination wd bar Michael Scheuer from Fox. I was wrong http://t.co/VSaGDhRB3k— davidfrum (@davidfrum) January 3, 2014
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Eclectic Cyborg Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:24:55am |
re: #301 Lidane
Wait a minute…since when does Frum say such sane things?
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dog philosopher Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:25:23am |
why do dogs poop in line with the earth’s magnetic field
science or surrealistic poem?
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HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:26:07am |
re: #301 Lidane
[Embedded content]
If only he had said that someone should shit in Obama’s mouth. Then he’d be canned for sure.//
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Lidane Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:26:36am |
re: #302 Eclectic Cyborg
Wait a minute…since when does Frum say such sane things?
When he’s not concern trolling about weed.
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Ian G. Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:26:38am |
re: #302 Eclectic Cyborg
Wait a minute…since when does Frum say such sane things?
Frum has been acting remarkably sane and responsible for a while. He just continues to act like an alcoholic in denial about whether there’s a place for him in the modern GOP.
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Varek Raith Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:27:20am |
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HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:28:09am |
re: #306 Ian G.
Frum has been acting remarkably sane and responsible for a while. He just continues to act like an alcoholic in denial about whether there’s a place for him in the modern GOP.
Right. Frum’s really never been what I’d call a nut but more so yeah in denial about the GOP and his place in it.
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Lidane Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:30:22am |
Last week, this man endorsed the assassination of Obama. This week, he was on Fox News. http://t.co/n9993c6vcn— Media Matters (@mmfa) January 3, 2014
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Eclectic Cyborg Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:32:51am |
If Obama were assassinated, do you think there would be a lot of retaliatory attacks against TPers?
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HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:34:14am |
re: #311 Eclectic Cyborg
If Obama were assassinated, do you think there would be a lot of retaliatory attacks against TPers?
I don’t think so. I think there would be a lot of anger though and the TP would cry even though they’ve been engaging in violent anti-Obama rhetoric from the get go.
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wrenchwench Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:35:04am |
re: #311 Eclectic Cyborg
If Obama were assassinated, do you think there would be a lot of retaliatory attacks against TPers?
No. Not even if it was obvious that it was done by a TPer.
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Lidane Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:36:32am |
re: #311 Eclectic Cyborg
If Obama were assassinated, do you think there would be a lot of retaliatory attacks against TPers?
No, but there’d be a lot of gun toting morans firing into the air in triumph, then blaming Obama for the bullets coming back down.
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HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:39:25am |
I think what would happen if forbid Obama were to be assassinated, we’d hear whining from the right about the funeral or about anything in general tat would point out that such an event would be tragic. Or they’d do their usual try to blame the left for it even though they’ve hated Obama from the minute he first came on to the national scene.
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Varek Raith Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:39:49am |
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Justanotherhuman Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:41:53am |
First of all, there is no “mass surveillance” in western societies. No one from the govt is looking over your shoulder 24/7. These academics would do well to question the companies that do business on the internet first, instead of assuming their countries are “spying” on them.
Academics band together to plead for online privacy
“Around 250 leading academics from around the world have decried the online spying activities of U.S. and European intelligence services in an “Academics Against Mass Surveillance” manifesto, published on Friday. The signatories work in a variety of fields, including human rights, law, privacy, sociology, security and media. One, Cambridge University Head of Cryptography Ross Anderson, also gave an interview to Forbes in which Around 250 leading academics from around the world have decried the online spying activities of U.S. and European intelligence services in an “Academics Against Mass Surveillance” manifesto, published on Friday. The signatories work in a variety of fields, including human rights, law, privacy, sociology, security and media. One, Cambridge University Head of Cryptography Ross Anderson, also gave an interview to Forbes in which he called for the abolition of the UK Security Service, also known as MI5, arguing that national security should be a job for the police. In December more than 500 of the world’s leading authors also banded together in a coalition dubbed Writers Against Mass Surveillance.. In December more than 500 of the world’s leading authors also banded together in a coalition dubbed Writers Against Mass Surveillance.”
Their naivete is shown in this: “…Cambridge University Head of Cryptography Ross Anderson, also gave an interview to Forbes in which he called for the abolition of the UK Security Service, also known as MI5, arguing that national security should be a job for the police.”
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Eclectic Cyborg Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:42:11am |
re: #315 HappyWarrior
I suspect most would blame the left and/or offer condolences, but I’m sure others would be celebrating.
For example, I bet it would be a huge party over on the Freep boards.
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HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:43:10am |
re: #318 Eclectic Cyborg
I suspect most would blame the left and/or offer condolences, but I’m sure others would be celebrating.
For example, I bet it would be a huge party over on the Freep boards.
I don’t even want to think about the internet comments in general if any president were to be assassinated. I mean I’m of the thought that there’s always been dicks out there but the internet brings out the worst in dickheadishness.
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Gus Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:44:17am |
Wow. Fox News has really done it now. They’re FINISHED!
//
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light) Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:49:25am |
re: #316 Varek Raith
Suspected World War II-era bomb detonates in Germany, killing 1
a cursory check turned up the following: “Allies dropped 1.9 million tons of bombs on Germany … the bombs had a dud rate of between 7 percent and 15 percent.”
means there is still a lot of hidden mayhem out there…
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Varek Raith Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:49:36am |
re: #320 Gus
Wow. Fox News has really done it now. They’re FINISHED!
//
I wish.
Alas, some people like being lied to on a constant basis.
Sigh.
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RealityBasedSteve Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:51:05am |
re: #320 Gus
Wow. Fox News has really done it now. They’re FINISHED!
//
What have they done now?
RBS
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Eclectic Cyborg Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:51:42am |
re: #322 Varek Raith
I wish.
Alas, some people like being lied to on a constant basis.
And those people are the morons who follow the LIBRUL media!!
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Gus Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:51:46am |
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Varek Raith Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:51:48am |
re: #323 RealityBasedSteve
What have they done now?
RBS
Fox’s Benghazi Expert Endorsed Assassinating Obama Last Week
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Eclectic Cyborg Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:52:20am |
re: #326 Varek Raith
Fox’s Benghazi Expert Endorsed Assassinating Obama Last Week
And he still has a job this week.
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HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:53:32am |
FNC wouldn’t be so annoying if they weren’t so damn hypocritical. Oh some show on MSNBC makes a stupid joke about Mitt Romney’s family. RACIST, FIRE THEM! But it’s okay for them to have people who actually think POTUS should be murdered. Then again, when you know about Ailes’ background as a hatchet man for Nixon and later H.W Bush, it makes sense.
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light) Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:54:24am |
This is an ongoing gambit on the RIght: seeing how far they can push the envelope in the name of “free speech” and then yowling like brats with their candy taken away when they are faced with the consequences.
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Gus Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:57:52am |
re: #269 bratwurst
The David Brooks dope smoking controversy continues!
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Breaking… Satire.
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Eclectic Cyborg Fri, Jan 3, 2014 8:58:26am |
re: #330 Varek Raith
I’m sure an USSS visit is coming.
I’m surprised the RWNJs haven’t been complaining about what is sure to have been a much higher budget for the Secret Service since Obama got elected.
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Gus Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:02:20am |
Welp. There goes my connx again. Like clockwork. Right around 10 AM. Stupid VirginMobile2Go.
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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:07:04am |
Happy Friday fellow Lizards and Happy New Year!
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light) Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:13:27am |
Looks like Philadelphia airport is up and running again and my sweetheart will be able to make her flight back to Frankfurt on time.
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darthstar Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:13:29am |
Gun safety - UR DOIN IT WRONG!
Finger on trigger. RT @AaronBlakeWP: Well hello there. RT @HistoricalPics: Reagan having a laugh on AF1 in 1983 pic.twitter.com/trxyqX34VC— David Waldman (@KagroX) January 3, 2014
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b.d. Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:13:54am |
BEIJING — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s powerful uncle was stripped naked, thrown into a cage, and eaten alive by a pack of ravenous dogs, according to a newspaper with close ties to China’s ruling Communist Party.The report could not be independently confirmed by NBC News on Friday.
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RealityBasedSteve Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:15:55am |
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Dark_Falcon Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:16:42am |
re: #311 Eclectic Cyborg
If Obama were assassinated, do you think there would be a lot of retaliatory attacks against TPers?
It would depend on who was seen to have done the deed. If the president or a high official was killed by a foreign force, such as a radical Islamist group, no US organization would be blamed. The Tea Party would also not be blamed if the assassin was someone with a history of opposition to conservatism.
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Gus Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:16:43am |
Sent an email to Greenberg seeking to verify the story. Sadly, appears it's a no http://t.co/hlnQVFbmJI http://t.co/rKwbJWovUs— JustinGreen2014 (@JGreenDC) January 3, 2014
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Gus Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:17:10am |
re: #342 RealityBasedSteve
A score of C+, because you didn’t show your work.
RBS
Sorry. Was checking to see what time it was in Canada.
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Backwoods_Sleuth Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:17:24am |
BREAKING NEWS: We're hearing reports of stores selling out of Ben & Jerry's in Colorado. What's up with that? pic.twitter.com/zBs8nyxZWn
— Ben & Jerry's (@benandjerrys) January 2, 2014
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HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:18:27am |
re: #346 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Heh. I have to say even though I hate the cold- Colorado wouldn’t be a bad place to go. Still not going to see me ski or snowboard though. I hate winter sports.
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Dark_Falcon Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:19:09am |
re: #330 Varek Raith
I’m sure an USSS visit is coming.
Maybe. Given the things Michael Scheuer was privy to when he worked for the CIA, the feds already had some sort of tabs on him.
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Backwoods_Sleuth Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:22:58am |
Fifth Third Ballpark stadium in Grand Rapids, MI engulfed in flames http://t.co/qUHAzUdOQm pic.twitter.com/w6KQ8xlMDO
— PzFeed Top News (@PzFeed) January 3, 2014
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Dark_Falcon Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:24:17am |
re: #341 b.d.
I’ve heard of throwing people to the dogs before, but I didn’t think even the Norks did it literally.
This is the sort of thing Uday Hussein supposedly did (before the US wasted his murderous ass), only Saddam’s son used lions instead. If Kim Jong Un is THAT sick, then every country near North Korea as well as the US has a very interesting problem.
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Stanley Sea Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:27:23am |
re: #340 darthstar
Gun safety - UR DOIN IT WRONG!
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Lady trying to get out of the way, but they have to laugh. hahaha Mr. President.
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RealityBasedSteve Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:29:27am |
re: #350 Dark_Falcon
I’ve heard of throwing people to the dogs before, but I didn’t think even the Norks did it literally.
This is the sort of thing Uday Hussein supposedly did (before the US wasted his murderous ass), only Saddam’s son used lions instead. If Kim Jong Un is THAT sick, then every country near North Korea as well as the US has a very interesting problem.
I’ve read some analysis that says that the fact that the Chinese press reported this in detail shows that they are very displeased with NK right now. FWIW
I would not be surprised at all if some type of “accident” didn’t occur to KJ-3 during the next year. I think he truly believes that they could win a war, and is willing to have his country die trying. I’ve felt that his father KNEW that they would be crushed, but was a master at dancing at the edge of the line.
RBS
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HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:29:28am |
re: #341 b.d.
That’s honestly scary. Really feel for the people who have to live in that country. It says something when the PRC is seen as a place to escape for North Koreans.
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Stanley Sea Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:29:56am |
GOPTP treat facts like annoying gnats, they just swat them away without a second thought #UniteBlue #p2 pic.twitter.com/5ynt7JjalV
— Just Say It (@TruthfulOrator) January 2, 2014
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Dark_Falcon Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:30:10am |
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RealityBasedSteve Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:30:37am |
re: #354 Gus
Anyone got any REO Speedwagon?
I’ve got “You Get What You Played For” (and was at a concert during that tour).
RBS
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Dark_Falcon Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:32:05am |
re: #357 Stanley Sea
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@TruthfulOrator Said by a man who did a great deal of lying himself.
— Kurt Akemann (@Dark_Falcon7) January 3, 2014
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b_sharp Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:33:22am |
I woke up this morning, after sleeping in well past my normal wake up time (oh the luxury), to find myself living in a snow globe.
Now I’m back to living in a snow storm. (oh the agony)
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Stanley Sea Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:33:43am |
Gus:
Architect expected to plead guilty to causing firefighter's death http://t.co/3xA3U3KIFp
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) January 3, 2014
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Stanley Sea Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:34:35am |
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piratedan Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:35:07am |
re: #354 Gus
Anyone got any REO Speedwagon?
you will never get me to link to any of their hits…. so yeah, I’m an elitist, better yet, go play some April Wine instead :-)
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light) Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:35:07am |
re: #362 Stanley Sea
Gus:
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Someone once said that architects should live in the places they design…but not cause people to die in them…
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Eclectic Cyborg Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:35:30am |
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HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:35:41am |
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Dark_Falcon Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:36:19am |
re: #355 RealityBasedSteve
I’ve read some analysis that says that the fact that the Chinese press reported this in detail shows that they are very displeased with NK right now. FWIW
I would not be surprised at all if some type of “accident” didn’t occur to KJ-3 during the next year. I think he truly believes that they could win a war, and is willing to have his country die trying. I’ve felt that his father KNEW that they would be crushed, but was a master at dancing at the edge of the line.
RBS
What I’ve read agrees with your analysis. China is seriously worried about North Korea either coming unglued or starting a war, neither of which China wants. Thus they’ve been trying to reign North Korea in, to which Kim Jong Un responded by executing one of their biggest supporters within NK. He’s made it clear he’s not willing to listen to reason.
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b_sharp Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:38:17am |
re: #360 Dark_Falcon
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Except this time his comment isn’t a lie and is verifiable.
- evolution, AGW, several dozen claims debunked here over the past few years -
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wrenchwench Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:38:33am |
re: #341 b.d.
Reason number 6 to doubt it:
Sixth, as the satirist Karl Sharro put it, “The clue about the story of Kim Jong Un’s uncle being fed to 120 hundred dogs being false is who has time to count dogs at a time like that.” Okay, so that’s not a real reason to disbelieve the story. But it was too funny not to include.
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HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:38:55am |
re: #369 b_sharp
Except this time his comment isn’t a lie and is verifiable.
- evolution, AGW, several dozen claims debunked here over the past few years -
Health Care *coughs*
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RealityBasedSteve Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:39:06am |
re: #368 Dark_Falcon
What I’ve read agrees with your analysis. China is seriously worried about North Korea either coming unglued or starting a war, neither of which China wants. Thus they’ve been trying to reign North Korea in, to which Kim Jong Un responded by executing one of their biggest supporters within NK. He’s made it clear he’s not willing to listen to reason.
NK right now is probably a RL version of Game Of Thrones. Kim Jong Un certainly shares Jofferys compassion and probably the morals of Cersei. (Stolen from some other lizard, don’t recall who).
RBS
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b_sharp Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:39:28am |
re: #364 piratedan
you will never get me to link to any of their hits…. so yeah, I’m an elitist, better yet, go play some April Wine instead :-)
You know of April Wine?
You must be a Canuckistani
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Gus Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:39:29am |
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wrenchwench Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:39:51am |
Entertainment Industry Mourns Loss Of Groundbreaking Native American Comedian http://t.co/sygWto7ZtW— Fronteras Desk (@fronterasdesk) January 3, 2014
RIP.
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piratedan Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:42:21am |
re: #373 b_sharp
You know of April Wine?
You must be a Canuckistani
nah, just somewhat versed in niche rocknroll, besides it’s hard to slam any band who’s got a song titled, If You see Kay….
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Flounder Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:42:38am |
I feel left out, we only got about a foot of snow in upstate NY. Five below though. I, for one, will welcome the mass births nine months from now. One of them I am sure will be Vicious B’s number 37!
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Dark_Falcon Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:43:25am |
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HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:43:29am |
re: #377 Flounder
I feel left out, we only got about a foot of snow in upstate NY. Five below though. I, for one, will welcome the mass births nine months from now. One of them I am sure will be Vicious B’s number 37!
5 below? I don’t even want to think about what that’s like. It’s in the teens here in NoVa and it’s the coldest ti’s been in four years.
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Gus Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:44:34am |
So he wasn’t really acting as the architect of record but just a homeowner that did the fireplace installation himself. Which means anyone can face this sort of criminal liability due to improper installation.
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b_sharp Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:45:02am |
re: #379 HappyWarrior
5 below? I don’t even want to think about what that’s like. It’s in the teens here in NoVa and it’s the coldest ti’s been in four years.
You live in New? Kool.
Umm, New what?
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Internet Tough Guy Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:45:09am |
re: #378 Dark_Falcon
You forgot “and has nuclear weapons.”
South Korea must be nervous as hell right now.
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RealityBasedSteve Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:46:00am |
re: #377 Flounder
I feel left out, we only got about a foot of snow in upstate NY. Five below though. I, for one, will welcome the mass births nine months from now. One of them I am sure will be Vicious B’s number 37!
I was born and lived in upstate until I was about 12 or so. Utica to be precise.
RBS
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HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:46:33am |
re: #381 b_sharp
You live in New? Kool.
Umm, New what?
No-Northern, Va-Virginia. But yeah I wouldn’t last a day in a New York or Canadian winter. I’m a cold winter coward, so sue me.
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Stanley Sea Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:46:50am |
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Ian G. Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:47:27am |
re: #341 b.d.
Kinda skeptical of this, just as I’m, er, skeptical about the official North Korean story about Kim Jong Il’s nativity, which reads like a plagiarized version of the Jesus nativity story, except on Mount Paekdu instead of in Bethlehem. It sounds like the kind of ridiculous propaganda that North Korea is famous for.
I’m betting they just put the uncle up against a wall and fired away.
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Varek Raith Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:47:28am |
re: #384 HappyWarrior
No-Northern, Va-Virginia. But yeah I wouldn’t last a day in a New York or Canadian winter. I’m a cold winter coward, so sue me.
Where in NoVa, if ya don’t mind me asking?
I’m in Manassas.
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b_sharp Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:47:55am |
re: #382 Internet Tough Guy
You forgot “and has nuclear weapons.”
South Korea must be nervous as hell right now.
I would thing China is a bit concerned right now as well. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear of KJU’s death well before old age.
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HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:48:56am |
re: #387 Varek Raith
Where in NoVa, if ya don’t mind me asking?
I’m in Manassas.
Round Hill but I grew up in Herndon/Reston.
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Flounder Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:49:40am |
re: #379 HappyWarrior
Once it gets below 30, it really doesn’t feel that bad. I think it feels colder when it is around 32 and raining or real damp. Once the hypothermia kicks in, you really don’t give a shit!
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b_sharp Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:49:45am |
re: #384 HappyWarrior
No-Northern, Va-Virginia. But yeah I wouldn’t last a day in a New York or Canadian winter. I’m a cold winter coward, so sue me.
I’m a cold winter coward. Seriously, I hibernate.
My maternal grandparents were both born in Nova Scotia which is why I picked up on NoVa.
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allegro Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:49:58am |
re: #386 Ian G.
the official North Korean story about Kim Jong Il’s nativity, which reads like a plagiarized version of the Jesus nativity story, except on Mount Paekdu instead of in Bethlehem.
re: #388 b_sharp
I would thing China is a bit concerned right now as well. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear of KJU’s death well before old age.
Like at 33?
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piratedan Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:50:04am |
re: #389 HappyWarrior
Round Hill but I grew up in Herndon/Reston.
great area (IIRC), spent some formative years growing up in Warrenton…..
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Flounder Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:50:28am |
re: #383 RealityBasedSteve
I drank a lot of Utica Club back in the day, even long necks!
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HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:51:09am |
re: #392 b_sharp
I’m a cold winter coward. Seriously, I hibernate.
My maternal grandparents were both born in Nova Scotia which is why I picked up on NoVa.
Ah okay. But yeah I’d hibernate too if I could. Have a bit of a hike from the metro station to my office though. Good news is the cold wakes me up, bad news is it’s cold.
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Eclectic Cyborg Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:51:11am |
With me, I can handle cold…but once you get a wind chill whipping up…THAT’s what will tear through you quickly no matter how bundled up you are.
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Lidane Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:51:48am |
New RWNJ math: Immigration reform =/= family values.
Seems legit.
“Think tank” claims immigration reform will destroy GOP bc Latinos lack “strong family values” http://t.co/rX07bdZ9Zb— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) January 3, 2014
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HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:51:49am |
re: #394 piratedan
great area (IIRC), spent some formative years growing up in Warrenton…..
Yeah it’s pretty out here. I’m trying to move back east though so my work commute will be easier. More to do on off time too in the city.
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Varek Raith Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:52:49am |
re: #398 Lidane
New RWNJ math: Immigration reform =/= family values.
Seems legit.
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Outreach!
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Eclectic Cyborg Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:52:55am |
re: #398 Lidane
New RWNJ math: Immigration reform =/= family values.
Seems legit.
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WHAT?!?!
Hell, most Latinos I know of are bigger on family and religion than most white people I know!
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HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:53:03am |
re: #398 Lidane
New RWNJ math: Immigration reform =/= family values.
Seems legit.
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The Know Nothing wing strikes again. Latinos lack family values. What the fucking fuck.
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darthstar Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:53:20am |
re: #353 Gus
[Music]
Danger Zone
We have an administrative page on one of our applications that, when customers go to it (which is rarely), it ha a red banner across the top that reads “DANGER ZONE - Everything you do on this page is potentially dangerous” as it’s kind of a nuclear option for some settings…anyhoo - it streams the song Danger Zone in a loop for as long as you’re on it.
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light) Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:53:46am |
re: #386 Ian G.
Kinda skeptical of this, just as I’m, er, skeptical about the official North Korean story about Kim Jong Il’s nativity, which reads like a plagiarized version of the Jesus nativity story, except on Mount Paekdu instead of in Bethlehem. It sounds like the kind of ridiculous propaganda that North Korea is famous for.
I’m betting they just put the uncle up against a wall and fired away.
It can only remain speculation , as I cannot imagine anyone ever finding a source that would be both reliable and verifiable.
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Ian G. Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:53:50am |
re: #395 Flounder
I drank a lot of Utica Club back in the day, even long necks!
FX Matt is still there, pumping out lots of brews, but they do a lot more contract work for craft breweries (like Brooklyn Beer) these days, and don’t produce nearly as much Utica Club.
That being said, if I’m going to drink a cheap beer from a can, I’d rather a Utica Club (or Genny Cream Ale) than Budweiser, Miller, or Coors.
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HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:54:28am |
re: #401 Eclectic Cyborg
WHAT?!?!
Hell, most Latinos I know of are bigger on family and religion than most white people I know!
I can tell you this much, my sister in law’s only been my sister in law two weeks now and she’s already calling me brother. Her sisters and folks are great too.
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calochortus Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:55:30am |
re: #355 RealityBasedSteve
I’ve read some analysis that says that the fact that the Chinese press reported this in detail shows that they are very displeased with NK right now. FWIW
I would not be surprised at all if some type of “accident” didn’t occur to KJ-3 during the next year. I think he truly believes that they could win a war, and is willing to have his country die trying. I’ve felt that his father KNEW that they would be crushed, but was a master at dancing at the edge of the line.
RBS
I have read that whatever the downside to the Iraq war may have been, the North Korean leadership was glued to the TV coverage of a small but well armed nation being run over like a speed bump by the US. It gave them pause. That generation is gone and delusions of grandeur may have emerged again.
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HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:56:04am |
I digress though. Right wing family values means disowning that gay relative, scoring the daughter who gets pregnant before she’s married, and looking down on the relative who doesn’t stay with the family religion.
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Flounder Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:58:22am |
I feel like breaking out in a song:
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Slap Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:58:32am |
Mornin’, all.
Late to the Bonnie Raitt party, but this one’s a lovely end-of-the-relationship ballad written by Stephen Bruton, a duet with Willie Nelson:
This, by the way, is from one of the finest albums I’ve ever heard. Duets with Dylan, Bonnie and Sinnead O’Connor. Beautiful Don Was production. Perfect cover choices — this one, the title track (Across the Borderline, a Cooder/Hiatt comp), two superb Paul Simon covers (American Tune and Graceland). And, a startlingly gorgeous take on Peter Gabriel’s Don’t Give Up (with Sinnead) that sounds like it was written just for Willie. Hell, all of them sound like they were written with him in mind.
Call it my Happy New Year gift!
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Ian G. Fri, Jan 3, 2014 9:59:06am |
re: #398 Lidane
New RWNJ math: Immigration reform =/= family values.
Seems legit.
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Every time I see crap like this, I think back to Benjamin Franklin’s writings where he was freaking out about the fabric of society being destroyed by swarthy hordes of “non-white” immigrants.
The “non-white” immigrants he feared? Protestant Germans. Seriously. And he wrote this in the 1760s, before there even was a Real ‘Murka to destroy.
This silliness too, shall pass. And 50 years from now, some bigot with the last name “Lopez” will be railing against the next group of immigrants to pollute Real ‘Murka’s purity.
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HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:00:54am |
re: #411 Ian G.
Every time I see crap like this, I think back to Benjamin Franklin’s writings where he was freaking out about the fabric of society being destroyed by swarthy hordes of “non-white” immigrants.
The “non-white” immigrants he feared? Protestant Germans. Seriously. And he wrote this in the 1760s, before there even was a Real ‘Murka to destroy.
This silliness too, shall pass. And 50 years from now, some bigot with the last name “Lopez” will be railing against the next group of immigrants to pollute Real ‘Murka’s purity.
Ha, I’ve thought about that one too. I knew a guy with a very Irish surname bitching about immigrants growing up. You’re absolutely right. It’s all a cycle. Hell, as something of a foodie, I welcome immigrants for culinary reasons too.
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RealityBasedSteve Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:01:57am |
re: #413 calochortus
Well, you know about those Germans…
/
Give ‘em an inch, they’ll take the Sudetenland?
RBS
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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:02:42am |
so I am now thoroughly hooked on World Of Tanks.
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calochortus Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:02:54am |
re: #414 RealityBasedSteve
Give ‘em an inch, they’ll take the Sudetenland?
RBS
At your throat or at your feet!
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HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:03:59am |
English immigrant descendants bitch about the Scotch Irish/German Protestants
Scotch-Irish/German Protestant descendants bitch about Irish Catholics/German Catholics
Irish Catholics/German Catholics descendants bitch about Italian Catholics, Jews, Slavic Catholics/Orthodox
Italian Catholics/JSlavs/Jews descendants bitch about Latino Catholics, Arabs, South Asians,
And I enjoy a Guinness whlle eating pierogi and then having kabob the next day.
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light) Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:04:25am |
re: #414 RealityBasedSteve
Give ‘em an inch, they’ll take the Sudetenland?
RBS
My Buddy, named Land, married a woman named Sue Dayton, but I could not talk her into taking a hyphenated surname.
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Dark_Falcon Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:05:31am |
re: #413 calochortus
Well, you know about those Germans…
/
[DF picks a 3-Dcell Maglite and walks towards calochortus]
Now what about ‘those Germans’?
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Just never mind. Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:06:12am |
Hello from Hoosier Hoops who is snowed in, in Wisconsin. It’s F’ing cold and he only has an antennae and no intertubes & misses y’all. He’ll be back once he is settled in. Winston has a snow coat and boots to keep him relatively dry.
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Dark_Falcon Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:06:24am |
re: #415 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
so I am now thoroughly hooked on World Of Tanks.
What tanks do you favor?
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Dark_Falcon Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:07:24am |
re: #420 Floral Giraffe
Hello from Hoosier Hoops who is snowed in, in Wisconsin. It’s F’ing cold and he only has an antennae and no intertubes & misses y’all. He’ll be back once he is settled in. Winston has a snow coat and boots to keep him relatively dry.
Hello, Floral! Give Hoops my regards. How are things in SoCal?
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calochortus Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:09:12am |
re: #419 Dark_Falcon
[DF picks a 3-Dcell Maglite and walks towards calochortus]
Now what about ‘those Germans’?
Now you wouldn’t hit a older woman would you?
Yes, I’m playing that card ;)
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Lidane Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:09:33am |
re: #411 Ian G.
I think my favorite part in that whole incoherent rant is his fear that all the brown people will turn America into a one-party state with a PRI style government. You know, because Latino = Mexican and every Latino exists in some sort of hive mind.
And he misses the fact that the GOP is doing a damn fine job of becoming a regional white party all on its own. They don’t need swarthy hordes of invading brown people for that. The GOP just needs to keep moving further and further to the right and they’ll get there on their own terms.
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Ian G. Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:10:12am |
Packers-Niners game could be coldest in NFL history.
Shockingly, they’re having trouble selling this one out.
The Cincinnati-San Diego game isn’t exactly going to be pleasant either: temps plunging from a high of 34 all game, and snow expected. If the Bengals can’t win their first playoff game since the George H.W. Bush administration when playing a team from San Diego in that weather, they should fold up the franchise.
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AlexRogan Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:11:03am |
re: #365 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)
Someone once said that architects should live in the places they design…but not cause people to die in them…
Wasn’t that Steve McQueen’s gist to Paul Newman in The Towering Inferno?
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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:11:17am |
re: #421 Dark_Falcon
I am having a lot of fun with the higher tier U.S. Heavies and TD’s. Just got the final gun on my T28 Prototype and that thing is beast as long as I’m not surrounded.
Also love my T29, T32 and M103. Have the Super Pershing for making fast credits, also grinding out the T20 and M7 so I can advance in those lines.
May start some german tanks when I get done with the U.S. ones.
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HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:12:06am |
re: #425 Ian G.
Packers-Niners game could be coldest in NFL history.
Shockingly, they’re having trouble selling this one out.
The Cincinnati-San Diego game isn’t exactly going to be pleasant either: temps plunging from a high of 34 all game, and snow expected. If the Bengals can’t win their first playoff game since the George H.W. Bush administration when playing a team from San Diego in that weather, they should fold up the franchise.
Not just the H.W Bush administration but before Saddam Hussein became a household name.
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Just never mind. Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:17:18am |
HH loves you all, and he’s totally snowed in with NO intertubes!
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Dark_Falcon Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:19:37am |
re: #425 Ian G.
Packers-Niners game could be coldest in NFL history.
Shockingly, they’re having trouble selling this one out.
The Cincinnati-San Diego game isn’t exactly going to be pleasant either: temps plunging from a high of 34 all game, and snow expected. If the Bengals can’t win their first playoff game since the George H.W. Bush administration when playing a team from San Diego in that weather, they should fold up the franchise.
If a playoff game looks to be too cold for Packers fans, then it’s likely to be nothing short of a nightmare. The idea of a Packers home game that didn’t sell out is hard to comprehend for this Bears fan. You can’t follow the Bears and not know how dedicated Green Bay fans are. If Cheeseheads aren’t turning out, then conditions are likely to be horrible,
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Varek Raith Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:19:41am |
That’s not wind out there, it’s razor sharp needles!
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Eclectic Cyborg Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:21:27am |
re: #430 Dark_Falcon
I don’t care how bundled up you are, being outside for long in a -51 degree windchill is NOT a good idea. I hope there aren’t many medical issues that arise for the fans who do go.
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Lidane Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:22:49am |
Lucasfilm and #Marvel join forces to publish @starwars comics and graphic novels in 2015: http://t.co/IjEuInbsI6 pic.twitter.com/X1MVKoL1bK— Marvel Entertainment (@Marvel) January 3, 2014
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William Barnett-Lewis Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:23:13am |
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Ian G. Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:24:10am |
re: #432 Eclectic Cyborg
I don’t care how bundled up you are, being outside for long in a -51 degree windchill is NOT a good idea. I hope there aren’t many medical issues that arise for the fans who do go.
And you just know that some of them are going to be drinking all day, which makes a bad idea (being out in the cold in a -50 wind chill) even worse.
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Flounder Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:24:50am |
re: #415 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
Is there a catch? Is it “free”?
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wrenchwench Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:27:38am |
The secret life of Bodfish’s Paul Morningstar
Someone was out to kill Paul Morningstar.
At least that’s what Paul Morningstar thought.So he booby-trapped the inside and outside of his Bodfish home on North Salaine Drive with homemade bombs made from shotgun shells and mousetraps.
But instead of protecting him, it’s possible one of those devices caused his death.
Morningstar, believed to be in his 60s, was found in his home Saturday by county deputies, who, warned of numerous booby-traps, used robots to gain access.
He was last seen Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 18, on his bike, returning from his almost daily ride to the post office. There, the well-known maker of cycling tools would mail packages to clients around the world.
[…]
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William Barnett-Lewis Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:28:32am |
re: #421 Dark_Falcon
What tanks do you favor?
I prefer Japanese school girls riding a Panzer Mk IV H… Girls und Panzer! ja sehr gut!
/////////(just in case.)
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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:28:40am |
re: #436 Flounder
It’s free, you never have to pay anything if you don’t want to. I pay on occasion for some premium time and to get some gold or credits but you can play 100% free and still do ok. I paid for one tank, the super pershing, because it is a good tank for making credits on and the higher tier tanks are expensive.
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Flounder Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:34:54am |
re: #441 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
Thank you, I have been playing Red Orchestra for some time and wanted to try something new.
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Eclectic Cyborg Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:35:10am |
Blasphemous though it may be, I wonder if the NFL should consider postponing this one for a couple days.
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calochortus Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:35:22am |
LGF seems to be acting funny for me-I can’t upding comments and I have to refresh the whole page to see new comments. Probably the universe’s way of telling me to go run those errands I’ve been putting off.
BBL
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Ian G. Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:36:06am |
re: #424 Lidane
I think my favorite part in that whole incoherent rant is his fear that all the brown people will turn America into a one-party state with a PRI style government. You know, because Latino = Mexican and every Latino exists in some sort of hive mind.
Also, isn’t the idea of Mexico as a one-party state under the PRI about as dated as the Soviet Union? (oh, right, the winguts are still scared of the Soviets, even as they idolize a former KGB colonel. *Headdesk*)
Well, there’s always Chile, where democracy has been flourishing in the years since the right-wing dictator that the American right adored stepped down.
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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:37:02am |
re: #442 Flounder
Thank you, I have been playing Red Orchestra for some time and wanted to try something new.
Haven’t played that one but if you like the idea of playing the equivalent of a first person shooter using heavy armor from the 30’s through the 60’s then you’ll like World Of Tanks. They also have World of Warplanes which is ok, I’m just not a flight sim fan.
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Ian G. Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:37:44am |
re: #443 Eclectic Cyborg
Blasphemous though it may be, I wonder if the NFL should consider postponing this one for a couple days.
Apparently, there’s plans to postpone the Superbowl if the conditions on game day are similar to that which NYC has experienced in the past 24 hours.
That sucks, honestly. I want to see the corporate suits who paid $10,000 a clip sit in blowing snow and single-digit wind chills.
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makeitstop Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:39:29am |
I just came in from clearing snow off the vehicles. I dare say, if it weren’t for that damn wind, the 11 degree temp might be somewhat bearable.
Having said that, I’m back inside and pretty much done with anything that involves going outside. Supposed to get down near zero tonight, and I don’t want none of that.
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Eclectic Cyborg Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:39:32am |
re: #447 Ian G.
Apparently, there’s plans to postpone the Superbowl if the conditions on game day are similar to that which NYC has experienced in the past 24 hours.
That sucks, honestly. I want to see the corporate suits who paid $10,000 a clip sit in blowing snow and single-digit wind chills.
Cold weather can cause serious medical issues, I just don’t want any fans to suffer severely because of a football game.
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Slap Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:41:01am |
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kirkspencer Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:41:11am |
re: #411 Ian G.
Every time I see crap like this, I think back to Benjamin Franklin’s writings where he was freaking out about the fabric of society being destroyed by swarthy hordes of “non-white” immigrants.
The “non-white” immigrants he feared? Protestant Germans. Seriously. And he wrote this in the 1760s, before there even was a Real ‘Murka to destroy.
This silliness too, shall pass. And 50 years from now, some bigot with the last name “Lopez” will be railing against the next group of immigrants to pollute Real ‘Murka’s purity.
May I suggest you look up this minor Texan politician named “Cruz”?
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Ian G. Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:41:50am |
re: #448 makeitstop
I just came in from clearing snow off the vehicles. I dare say, if it weren’t for that damn wind, the 11 degree temp might be somewhat bearable.
It’s up to 17 in NYC. I went walking around during my lunch break. Big difference between standing in the sun when the wind dies down (tolerable) and being in the shade when a gust hits (brutal).
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Eclectic Cyborg Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:41:55am |
Lest you think below freezing temperatures are limited the north, next Monday our forecast low here is 24 degrees. I believe we had a wind chill of 27 last night.
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Stanley Sea Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:43:12am |
re: #439 wrenchwench
The secret life of Bodfish’s Paul Morningstar
When he injured himself in a bike accident, he connected a car battery with wires to a water basin filled with aluminum nitrate and silver nitrate. He would treat his injured areas with the solution.
Neighbors commented — to themselves — about the silvery, almost greenish tint of Morningstar’s skin.
???
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Dark_Falcon Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:43:57am |
re: #445 Ian G.
Also, isn’t the idea of Mexico as a one-party state under the PRI about as dated as the Soviet Union? (oh, right, the winguts are still scared of the Soviets, even as they idolize a former KGB colonel. *Headdesk*)
Well, there’s always Chile, where democracy has been flourishing in the years since the right-wing dictator that the American right adored stepped down.
Well, the PRI does hold the presidency in Mexico again, but the PRI has changed a good deal during its 12 years ‘in the wilderness’.
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Dark_Falcon Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:45:08am |
re: #447 Ian G.
Apparently, there’s plans to postpone the Superbowl if the conditions on game day are similar to that which NYC has experienced in the past 24 hours.
That sucks, honestly. I want to see the corporate suits who paid $10,000 a clip sit in blowing snow and single-digit wind chills.
They don’t want to do that, which is why the game would be postponed.
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HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:46:28am |
re: #447 Ian G.
Apparently, there’s plans to postpone the Superbowl if the conditions on game day are similar to that which NYC has experienced in the past 24 hours.
That sucks, honestly. I want to see the corporate suits who paid $10,000 a clip sit in blowing snow and single-digit wind chills.
I honestly want to see the SB be impacted by cold weather. I mean if teams have to fight through harsh weather conditions to get there. I mean I understand the logic behind post-poining if it’s cold but cold weather has always been part of the game going way back.
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Eclectic Cyborg Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:53:29am |
Wow, we have a ran a thread to 460 comments without a SINGLE Bryan Fischer tweet.
Awesome job guys.
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Ian G. Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:54:50am |
re: #460 Eclectic Cyborg
Wow, we have a ran a thread to 460 comments without a SINGLE Bryan Fischer tweet.
Awesome job guys.
Does this mean he’s not derping, or that we’re just ignoring him? Because the vicious weather across much of the country right now is just begging for his usual “global warming” stupidity.
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danarchy Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:55:23am |
re: #447 Ian G.
Apparently, there’s plans to postpone the Superbowl if the conditions on game day are similar to that which NYC has experienced in the past 24 hours.
If that happens the NFL will never grant the superbowl to an open air stadium in a cold weather state again.
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HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:56:41am |
re: #461 Ian G.
Does this mean he’s not derping, or that we’re just ignoring him? Because the vicious weather across much of the country right now is just begging for his usual “global warming” stupidity.
Probably still derping about the very subject. Saw something today on Facebook about him saying that evolution believers shouldn’t be allowed to run for office. Yeah……..and he has the balls to call Obama a tyrant.
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Dark_Falcon Fri, Jan 3, 2014 10:59:43am |
re: #463 HappyWarrior
Probably still derping about the very subject. Saw something today on Facebook about him saying that evolution believers shouldn’t be allowed to run for office. Yeah……..and he has the balls to call Obama a tyrant.
Unless its a new kind or new low of DERP, we’re better off mostly ignoring Fischer. He’s an ass and all reading his stuff will do is tick us off.
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Stanley Sea Fri, Jan 3, 2014 11:02:33am |
re: #461 Ian G.
Does this mean he’s not derping, or that we’re just ignoring him? Because the vicious weather across much of the country right now is just begging for his usual “global warming” stupidity.
Trump was filling in today.
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HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 3, 2014 11:09:06am |
re: #464 Dark_Falcon
Unless its a new kind or new low of DERP, we’re better off mostly ignoring Fischer. He’s an ass and all reading his stuff will do is tick us off.
I actually will confess more amusement than genuinely being ticked off by him. The impression I get from his tweets is that he feels the Nazis were evil because they had some gay members not you know the whole millions dead. He’s just an amusingly stupid man to me. Still sad that he’s getting his hateful ass invited to Value Voters Summits but then I think about those and realize they’re circle jerks for bigots like himself.
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HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 3, 2014 11:10:01am |
re: #465 Stanley Sea
Trump was filling in today.
If I recall reading right, Paul Ryan did the same thing a few years ago during the big snow storm we got. I seriously think people like that feel unless it feels like Rio in the dead of summer every day then AGW is fake.
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BeenHereAwhile Fri, Jan 3, 2014 11:27:28am |
re: #459 HappyWarrior
I honestly want to see the SB be impacted by cold weather. I mean if teams have to fight through harsh weather conditions to get there. I mean I understand the logic behind post-poining if it’s cold but cold weather has always been part of the game going way back.
Considering what goes on during the week and days before the game, I suspect this will be the last Super Bowl in an open Northern stadium.
The logistics of coordinating all the activities and parties, while dealing with the weather, is going to cause some serious headaches and heartburn.
FWIW, New Orleans is one of the league’s favorite venues for Super Bowls, because it’s a party town and everything is so adjacent.
In contrast, when Super Bowls are held in Tampa, the activities have to be split between Tampa (gameday, Corporate and Players), and Orlando (Merchandising).
On gameday, everyone in Orlando gets on a bevy of busses, and with the Flordia Highway Patrol leading the way (with a couple of backup busses), rides to the stadium.
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