Our graduation Film at Supinfocom
“Two grannies decide to attack a bank to finance their trip to The Stool Museum”
Co-directed by Eva Navaux, Burcu Sankur, Vincent Meunier, Lionel Arnold, Dario Sabato, Pierre plouzeau
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Music by Tanguy Follio
Sound design Thomas Van Pottelberghe
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bratwurst Jul 3, 2014 8:50:22pm |
Per Charles’ tweet in the last thread:
Somebody please tell me Politico didn't really publish an article titled “The Case for Mitt Romney in 2016.”— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 4, 2014
Please enjoy:
A Brief Dispatching of Politico’s “Case for Mitt Romney in 2016”
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jaunte Jul 3, 2014 8:56:09pm |
re: #1 bratwurst
“…That was also the question on not just the minds but the lips of many at a recent private gathering in Utah known as the E2 Summit, Romney’s now-annual retreat for high-profile politicians, policymakers, innovators, entrepreneurs, business leaders, top bundlers and, of course, a core group of long-time Romney loyalists. (Disclosure: I served in multiple roles in the 2012 campaign, including adviser to the economic team, television surrogate and fundraiser.) Although the subject was not on any agenda or the topic of any speech or breakout session, virtually every meal, cocktail hour and coffee break included quiet ruminations over whether Romney could successfully run again.
The event was off the record, so I need to honor those ground rules, but suffice to say that many of speakers, some of the brightest lights of the Republican Party, and with no particular allegiance to Romney, saw great merit in a Mitt resurgence.”
“Tiger Beat on the Potomac” never more apt.
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EPR-radar Jul 3, 2014 9:00:25pm |
re: #2 jaunte
“Tiger Beat on the Potomac” never more apt.
That business about Paul Ryan “not showing any leg” for a possible 2016 run is indicative of a certain gossipy mindset.
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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce Jul 3, 2014 9:15:05pm |
I remember when this was considered to be mind-blowing, state-of-the-art CGI, way back in 1993 or so.
Side note: music by Jan Hammer, of Miami Vice fame.
Also:
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Zamb Jul 3, 2014 10:01:29pm |
re: #1 bratwurst
Clickbait. You gotta differentiate yourself from all those declaring Jeb the front runner somehow.
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Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 3, 2014 10:53:30pm |
So we have pi-“skeptics” now. Grreat.
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Floral Giraffe Jul 3, 2014 10:55:25pm |
re: #7 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
Hey, if they can deny the climate change…
*waves*
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Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 3, 2014 10:58:19pm |
re: #8 Floral Giraffe
But here, at LGF…//
*waves back*
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Floral Giraffe Jul 3, 2014 11:05:01pm |
re: #9 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
Your waves are more mobile than mine ;)
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Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 3, 2014 11:07:29pm |
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Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 3, 2014 11:10:59pm |
re: #13 Floral Giraffe
¯\\_(ツ)_/¯
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wheat-dogghazi Jul 3, 2014 11:14:14pm |
re: #7 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
So we have pi-“skeptics” now. Grreat.
Let me guess. Based on their reading of Scripture, they’ve concluded that π = 3.
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Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 3, 2014 11:15:33pm |
re: #15 wheat-dogghazi
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wheat-dogghazi Jul 3, 2014 11:17:49pm |
re: #16 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
Aah! Concrete learner problem.
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Gus Jul 3, 2014 11:21:19pm |
Here's my non-partisan objective link to Gateway Pundit. L. O. L.— Gus (@Gus_802) July 4, 2014
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wheat-dogghazi Jul 3, 2014 11:30:26pm |
re: #16 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
From downstairs, reposted here:
re: #123 SteveMcGazi
Pi is computed to thousands (maybe nearly 100,000) digits. Some people pride themselves on memorizing pi to hundreds of digits. But the chairman told me that pi is the ratio between the diameter and the circumference of a circle. But I know this can’t be true because pi is a non repeating, non-terminating decimal. It is a irrational number (It can’t be reasoned with…). To measure pi to thousands of digits in that case would mean that you measured the diameter AND the circumeference of a circle to thousand upon thousands of digits, and nothing is that precise. Therefore, pi must be something else. There has to be some basis to calculate it to all those decimal places, but the professor was to lazy to explain.
You’re right about the precision of directly measuring the diameter and circumference of a circle. The ancient Greeks understood the problem as well. Being clever at geometry, they decided to approximate a circle with polygons of ever increasing sides — 6, 8, 10, etc. — to calculate a more precise value of π. As you increase the number of sides, the perimeter of the polygon approaches the circumference of a circle. Of course, you can just keep adding sides to get closer and closer to the circumference, and thereby, to a more precise value of π.
In more modern terms, this process is an infinite series that converges on the value of π. There are other ways to calculate the value, as well, but this one is based on the geometry of the circle.
The irrational nature of π has been understood for 3,000 years at least. Maybe it’s time you caught up.
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Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 3, 2014 11:32:07pm |
re: #18 wheat-dogghazi
You’ve left a good explanation there, but that’s my point - it shouldn’t have been necessary. In the age of google and wiki it’s bad enough to be so lazy as not to research, but the “But I know this can’t be true because” bit killed me.
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Varek Raith Jul 3, 2014 11:34:03pm |
Record so far.
12.1 Trillion Digits of Pi
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wheat-dogghazi Jul 3, 2014 11:36:34pm |
re: #24 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
You’ve left a good explanation there, but that’s my point - it shouldn’t have been necessary. In the age of google and wiki it’s bad enough to be so lazy as not to research, but the “But I know this can’t be true because” bit killed me.
I’m a teacher. it’s a reflex action I can’t control. But yeah, I agree that Steve McGhazi just provided us a perfect example of intellectual laziness. Note how he blames the professor for being lazy and not explaining it. Steve could have just raised his hand and asked for further explanation, or asked someone else. But instead he’d rather flaunt his ignorance.
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wheat-dogghazi Jul 3, 2014 11:39:40pm |
There are some Biblical literalists who in fact claim that pi = 3, because they claim it says so in the OT somewhere.
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Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 3, 2014 11:40:29pm |
I love that there is a formula for calculating any given digit of pi (in hex): the Plouffe formula (also called Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe formula, but the first 2 guys had nothing to do with the initial formulation, which didn’t stop them from claiming some awards).
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Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 3, 2014 11:42:09pm |
re: #27 wheat-dogghazi
Well, I’ve never seen such a fundie, but there are some crank amateur pseudomathematicians who accept the idea.
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wheat-dogghazi Jul 3, 2014 11:47:09pm |
re: #29 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
Well, I’ve never seen such a fundie, but there are some crank amateur pseudomathematicians who accept the idea.
Concrete learners have trouble with abstractions like infinity and unknown quantities. It’s one reason why some kids hit a brick wall when they take algebra. Their minds have not yet developed abstract thinking skills. You might as well be talking to them in ancient Hittite for all the good it will do. And if a student gets foiled by algebra, pre-calculus and calculus are beyond their grasp. Infinite series — wut?
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wheat-dogghazi Jul 3, 2014 11:47:41pm |
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Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 3, 2014 11:49:31pm |
re: #30 Varek Raith
Actually it’s eπ⋅i=-1, but I accept your version as a practical approximation.
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Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 3, 2014 11:50:43pm |
re: #31 wheat-dogghazi
Yes, I tried to explain to some such guys why 0.9999…=1. Like talking to a brick wall.
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Varek Raith Jul 3, 2014 11:59:05pm |
re: #34 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
Yes, I tried to explain to some such guys why 0.9999…=1. Like talking to a brick wall.
LIES.
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Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 3, 2014 11:59:53pm |
re: #35 Varek Raith
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wheat-dogghazi Jul 4, 2014 12:02:59am |
re: #34 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
Yes, I tried to explain to some such guys why 0.9999…=1. Like talking to a brick wall.
I’ve taught math. There are ways to surmount the concrete learning wall, but it takes time, patience and the right materials. If you can address the concrete learning portion of their minds to show them how the abstraction is valid, you can get students through algebra successfully. It’s slow going for some kids.
Sadly, there are many adults whose abstract thinking skills never “turned on,” at least in terms of math and science. I can well imagine that most of the science denialists around today were abject failures in algebra and science.
Abstraction barriers also pop up among math and science wizards. I had a student who was brilliant at STEM subjects, but was completely befuddled by literary analysis, especially metaphor, imagery and connotation. For him, there were only words and no “hidden meanings.”
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Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 4, 2014 12:05:02am |
re: #37 Varek Raith
Imaginary numbers!
Bah!
/
Next thing you know those godless mathematicians will talk about unicorns and dragons!/
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wheat-dogghazi Jul 4, 2014 12:07:41am |
re: #39 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
Next thing you know those godless mathematicians will talk about unicorns and dragons!/
You can use complex numbers (real + imaginary) to analyze AC electricity. Funny thing how some the strangest aspects of mathematics later turn out to have practical use.
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Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 4, 2014 12:12:51am |
re: #40 wheat-dogghazi
Ayep. The study of waves/oscillations also can’t do without them and makes e.g. superposition of oscillations a kids’ task.
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The Ghost of a Flea Jul 4, 2014 12:34:00am |
re: #39 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
Next thing you know those godless mathematicians will talk about unicorns and dragons!/
Ever heard of the Stanislav Lem story “The Dragons of Inifinity”?
It’s about a mathematician who creates a mathematical proof that there’s no such thing as dragons…but he accidentally reverses the value of an integer, causing a dragon to immediately manifest in his lab.
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Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 4, 2014 12:36:32am |
re: #42 The Ghost of a Flea
Ever heard of the Stanislav Lem story “The Dragons of Inifinity”?
It’s about a mathematician who creates a mathematical proof that there’s no such thing as dragons…but he accidentally reverses the value of an integer, causing a dragon to immediately manifest in his lab.
Yep. I’ve read pretty much everything by Lem. Although I’ve forgotten most of the stories. Well, a good reason for re-reading :)
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Varek Raith Jul 4, 2014 12:47:08am |
Time for some silliness.
Youtube Video
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Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 4, 2014 1:04:23am |
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Jul 4, 2014 1:27:49am |
Breaking News: Conservative finally figures out that Born in the USA is actually an anti-American song!!!
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Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 4, 2014 1:33:07am |
“Imagine” is pure Bolshevik propaganda.
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Varek Raith Jul 4, 2014 1:43:21am |
re: #45 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
It’s never not time for some silliness.
I’m getting a 404 on that.
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Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 4, 2014 1:49:17am |
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Varek Raith Jul 4, 2014 1:50:38am |
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HAL2010 Jul 4, 2014 1:51:53am |
Well, it’s almost ten to eleven here in Sweden, and I’ve been gone from LGF far too long. Been reading as much as I can though, without commenting. Got a few hours now so I thought I’d pop in and say hello.
How are things?
It’s the weekend!
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Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 4, 2014 1:58:14am |
Oh my, but Russian national-patriots are pissed with Putin!
At first there was a period of euphoria, when they thought Poo would officially start a war with Ukraine. The hashtag was polite - “PutinSendInTheTroops”. After nothing happened for a while, they were still hoping - “PutinIsSilent” (= “his dark silence is so scary for the West”).
After a few months the new hashtag is #введивойскасука - “sendinthetroopsbitch”. Kids these days just have no respect //
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Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 4, 2014 1:59:15am |
re: #51 HAL2010
Whydoncha share some good Swedish music with us ;)
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HAL2010 Jul 4, 2014 2:03:17am |
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Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 4, 2014 2:11:18am |
A comment from one such national-patriot about Putin and Ukraine:
… it’s unclear whether huylo intends to save Russians or whether he will just babble on. No sanctions are worth thousands of lives. The Jewish gang destroys everything into dust.
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HAL2010 Jul 4, 2014 2:32:11am |
In other news, if you have spotify available, I would strongly recommend Oasis release of the remastered version of “Definitely Maybe”. 44 songs of pure bliss.
One of the greatest albums ever, now with tons of rare b sides and live sessions. Hope to buy it on LP tomorrow.
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Lidane Jul 4, 2014 3:00:21am |
Richard Mellon Scaife, Influential U.S. Conservative, Dies at 82 t.co— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 4, 2014
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Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 4, 2014 3:06:02am |
re: #57 Lidane
Besides donations to the Republican National Committee and various political campaigns such as Santorum 2000 and the Santorum Victory Committee for Rick Santorum, he has also supported Political Action Committees such as the Pro-Growth Action Team, the Free Congress PAC (formerly: Committee For the Survival Of a Free Congress), and the Club For Growth Inc. PAC. Scaife also funded the Western Journalism Center, headed by Joseph Farah. He was named to the PoliticsPA list of “Pennsylvania’s Top Political Activists”.[23]
Later, he supported such varied conservative and libertarian organizations as:
American Enterprise Institute
Atlas Economic Research Foundation
David Horowitz Freedom Center
Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, which advocates for free-market solutions to environmental issues and dissent on anthropogenic global warming [25]
Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives - a Harrisburg-based libertarian think tank [26]
Federalist Society
Foundation for Economic Education
Free Congress Foundation (headed by Paul Weyrich)
Freedom House
GOPAC (headed by Newt Gingrich)
Independent Women’s Forum
Intercollegiate Studies Institute (which operates the Collegiate Network)
Judicial Watch
Landmark Legal Foundation
Media Research Center (headed by Brent Bozell)
Pacific Legal Foundation
Reason Foundation
Interestingly enough:
Scaife has also been a major donor to abortion rights advocates, including Planned Parenthood, giving “millions” to the organization, though most such giving stopped in the 1970s, according to The Washington Post.[19]
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Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 4, 2014 3:20:20am |
According to the lot, therefore, India fell unto Judas Thomas, which is also the twin: but he would not go, saying that by reason of the weakness of the flesh he could not travel, and ‘I am an Hebrew man; how can I go amongst the Indians and preach the truth?’
[…]
And while he thus spake and thought, it chanced that there was there a certain merchant come from India whose name was Abbanes, sent from the King Gundaphorus, and having commandment from him to buy a carpenter and bring him unto him.
Now the Lord seeing him walking in the market-place at noon said unto him: Wouldest thou buy a carpenter? And he said to him: Yea. And the Lord said to him: I have a slave that is a carpenter and I desire to sell him. And so saying he showed him Thomas afar off, and agreed with him for three litrae of silver unstamped, and wrote a deed of sale, saying: I, Jesus, the son of Joseph the carpenter, acknowledge that I have sold my slave, Judas by name, unto thee Abbanes, a merchant of Gundaphorus, king of the Indians. And when the deed was finished, the Saviour took Judas Thomas and led him away to Abbanes the merchant, and when Abbanes saw him he said unto him: Is this thy master? And the apostle said: Yea, he is my Lord. And he said: I have bought thee of him. And thy apostle held his peace.
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Justanotherhuman Jul 4, 2014 4:08:44am |
Well, it’s the 4th of July here in the US, a long weekend for some workers. My grandson will run a route as usual later today. And I haven’t heard one firecracker go off yet.
I think I’ll “celebrate” by watching “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” at some point. My grandson got me that, along with a 2 disc set of 15 “classic” movies, including Bette Davis in “Of Human Bondage” (1934) and Vivien Leigh in “Anna Karenina” (1948) among others. Boris Karloff in “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” (1952) and Sean Connery in “MacBeth” (1961), for instance. Those 2 ought to be interesting. : )
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FemNaziBitch Jul 4, 2014 4:12:29am |
re: #28 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
I love that there is a formula for calculating any given digit of pi (in hex): the Plouffe formula (also called Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe formula, but the first 2 guys had nothing to do with the initial formulation, which didn’t stop them from claiming some awards).
So, do people actually make a living doing this stuff?
:0
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FemNaziBitch Jul 4, 2014 4:13:29am |
re: #31 wheat-dogghazi
Concrete learners have trouble with abstractions like infinity and unknown quantities. It’s one reason why some kids hit a brick wall when they take algebra. Their minds have not yet developed abstract thinking skills. You might as well be talking to them in ancient Hittite for all the good it will do. And if a student gets foiled by algebra, pre-calculus and calculus are beyond their grasp. Infinite series — wut?
I never had a problem with the abstract thinking part. I just never gave a damn about the value of ‘x’.
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Jul 4, 2014 4:14:25am |
re: #63 FemNaziBitch
I never had a problem with the abstract thinking part. I just never gave a damn about the value of ‘x’.
My problem exactly…
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Jul 4, 2014 4:16:36am |
re: #61 Justanotherhuman
Well, it’s the 4th of July here in the US, a long weekend for some workers. My grandson will run a route as usual later today. And I haven’t heard one firecracker go off yet.
Obviously no holiday here in Germany, but most people are knocking off early to go watch Germany-France in the quarter-finals of the World Cup.
Barbecue ribs and burgers this evening, then.
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Varek Raith Jul 4, 2014 4:17:02am |
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Jul 4, 2014 4:17:33am |
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FemNaziBitch Jul 4, 2014 4:18:46am |
re: #38 wheat-dogghazi
I’ve taught math. There are ways to surmount the concrete learning wall, but it takes time, patience and the right materials. If you can address the concrete learning portion of their minds to show them how the abstraction is valid, you can get students through algebra successfully. It’s slow going for some kids.
Sadly, there are many adults whose abstract thinking skills never “turned on,” at least in terms of math and science. I can well imagine that most of the science denialists around today were abject failures in algebra and science.
Abstraction barriers also pop up among math and science wizards. I had a student who was brilliant at STEM subjects, but was completely befuddled by literary analysis, especially metaphor, imagery and connotation. For him, there were only words and no “hidden meanings.”
Jung said (paraphrased):
There are 3 levels of understanding:
(a) Those who need to perceive with their senses
(b) Those who can deduce from what they perceive with the senses.
(c) Those who just inherently understand things that cannot be perceived thru the senses.
I think each of us understand the world thru a combination of the above. It may vary at different times of our lives because of development and experience.
It is interesting that, to me, (c) most describes children.
I think we lose a lot as we grow.
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Jul 4, 2014 4:22:01am |
re: #69 FemNaziBitch
Jung said (paraphrased):
There are 3 levels of understanding:
(a) Those who need to perceive with their senses
(b) Those who can deduce from what they perceive with the senses.
(c) Those who just inherently understand things that cannot be perceived thru the senses.It is interesting that, to me, (c) most describes children.
I think we lose a lot as we grow.
We burden our children with things to memorize and learn by rote, they lose their innate ability to grasp things for getting lost in irrelevant details.
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Dr Lizardo Jul 4, 2014 4:24:20am |
So, I was reading the Frankfurter Allgemeine and there’s a big problem with crystal meth growing in Germany.
Unfortunately, the problem stems from the Czech Republic, which has come to be known as “Europe’s meth kitchen” according to one German official in another article on the same subject. The ingredients to make meth are easily obtained in Poland, then shipped here and manufactured into product and from there, they go into Germany.
So in addition to being known as “Europe’s bordello” (another dubious distinction) we’re now being recognized as a major meth-manufacturing point as well.
Here’s the article in the original German from the Frankfurter Allgemeine; you can run it through GoogleTranslate.
The FA article notes, correctly, that the Czech Republic has very lax drug-possession laws. You can possess two grams of weed here and it’s considered nothing more than a trivial offense. Unfortunately, you can also possess up to two grams of meth (it’s called Pervitin here, the old trade name for methamphetamine) and face an $800 fine and pretty much no jail time whatsoever. They were supposed to change that, and lower the amount for meth to half a gram, but I don’t know if the Czech government has ever gotten around to that. You can see people openly smoking weed here; that’s not a problem. I’ve seen people doing so while walking down the street.
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Justanotherhuman Jul 4, 2014 4:26:35am |
re: #58 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
Interestingly enough:
It was actually his sister, Cordelia, from whom he was estranged, who contributed millions to PP, not him. She was a much different person who was a prolific philanthropist.
Her obituary: old.post-gazette.com
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FemNaziBitch Jul 4, 2014 4:29:24am |
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FemNaziBitch Jul 4, 2014 4:30:06am |
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Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 4, 2014 4:31:23am |
re: #71 Dr Lizardo
Bevor er das Pulver durch einen Geldschein schnupft, streckt er es mit feinen Glaspartikeln
WTF?
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Dr Lizardo Jul 4, 2014 4:36:43am |
re: #75 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
WTF?
Yeah, that’s a weird one. I thought at first it meant….”he spreads it out on a glass”, like with cocaine, but then I read that sentence again, and I guess he’s mixing in fine glass particles with the meth.
Weird. Maybe it’s a “German thing”.
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FemNaziBitch Jul 4, 2014 4:39:07am |
So, in case you have realized, it’s morning again.
Temperature way down and humid up in my part of the world. They say it’s going to be a clear day.
My Dear Ole’ Dad used to say (in his KY accent). “They lye”
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Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 4, 2014 4:39:40am |
re: #77 Dr Lizardo
Yes, strecken in this context is to dilute. I suppose to help the stuff absorb into bloodstream, but surely he makes his lungs kaputt this way before long? Very weird.
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Justanotherhuman Jul 4, 2014 4:42:11am |
re: #63 FemNaziBitch
I never had a problem with the abstract thinking part. I just never gave a damn about the value of ‘x’.
I received my first “C”, breaking my straight A scholastic record, in 9th grade algebra. My teacher kept a flask in his desk (everyone knew he drank) and allowed the class to run wild; his desk was behind us and I don’t remember him ever being upright at the front—he was always at his desk and taught us nothing, always referring us to the book—there was never any discussion, nothing. Meanwhile, being only 1 of 2 girls, I was tortured by the boys who kept making sexual innuendos about my “pussy” (I was a very “innocent” 14). The atmosphere was deadly. I said to myself in effect, fuck it, if these are going to be the kind of people I’m around having to learn this shit, forget about it. Then I took business math in 10th, which was a lot better in atmosphere with more girls than boys. I think learning arithmetic helped me far more in many ways, including in accounting class and keeping a job once out of school. I still have a photo of myself in bookkeeping class at my desk, beaming for the camera, almost 60 yrs ago. By age 16, I could keep a full set of books up to P&L statements.
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Dr Lizardo Jul 4, 2014 4:42:26am |
re: #79 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
Yes, strecken in this context is to dilute. I suppose to help the stuff absorb into bloodstream, but surely he makes his lungs kaputt this way before long? Very weird.
Yeah, I can’t even begin to imagine the medium to long-term consequences of doing that. Meth is one of those things I’ve never had so much as one iota of curiosity about trying, so I have to admit, I don’t know.
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PhillyPretzel Jul 4, 2014 4:46:12am |
re: #78 FemNaziBitch
This is what is going on in Philly. Outside my window it is overcast. weather.gov
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Justanotherhuman Jul 4, 2014 4:48:49am |
re: #74 FemNaziBitch
DAD CHARGED WITH SON’S HOT CAR DEATH COULD FACE DEATH PENALTY
What a sorry piece of shit. Doesn’t sound as though his wife was too concerned, either.
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FemNaziBitch Jul 4, 2014 4:53:41am |
mt @Clarknt67: #DrHobbyLobby, My pastor says practicing #HobbyLobbyLove alone leads to blindness? Can this be true? Please reply in Braille— Leyla (@MiamiLib) July 4, 2014
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FemNaziBitch Jul 4, 2014 4:55:43am |
The Religious Whackos think they are in control now the SCOTUS fucked-up.
I am truly frightened.
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Decatur Deb Jul 4, 2014 4:56:07am |
re: #57 Lidane
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He funded a rabid ‘journalist’ to spend all his time smearing Bill Clinton, like having a private Greenwald. He also bought a moribund Pittsburgh newspaper to use as a megaphone. At last look it had never shown a profit. RIP.
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lawhawk Jul 4, 2014 5:00:28am |
Greets and saluts on this July 4th - Independence Day. Folks in my area are mostly cleaning up after the storms that came through yesterday, though it was hit and miss with the winds and flooding. Since it’s not raining here, it means the local towns will be able to go on with their parades and some will be able to hold their fireworks as planned.
Most of the NYC metro area is dry at the moment - between a band of rain and storms from the front that helped set off the storms last night, and bands of rain coming up from Arthur. We wont see the wind and severe weather from that storm up here, but the same can’t be said of the folks down in NC, who are dealing with Arthur’s landfall.
They’re dealing with storm surges, power outages, and other assorted damage.
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Justanotherhuman Jul 4, 2014 5:01:51am |
re: #77 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, that’s a weird one. I thought at first it meant….”he spreads it out on a glass”, like with cocaine, but then I read that sentence again, and I guess he’s mixing in fine glass particles with the meth.
Weird. Maybe it’s a “German thing”.
Holy shit! The meth in his lungs would destroy them by itself. Have you seen what “meth mouth” looks like?
What is with these drugs—do these people have a death wish?
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Jul 4, 2014 5:08:18am |
re: #89 Justanotherhuman
Holy shit! The meth in his lungs would destroy them by itself. Have you seen what “meth mouth” looks like?
What is with these drugs—do these people have a death wish?
Meth and cocaine are “clean”, you can use them discretely at work, and you can keep up with the ridiculous 60 to 70-hour weeks that a lot of modern careers demand…at least over the short term.
I worked with people like that doing computer graphics in the late 90’s.
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FemNaziBitch Jul 4, 2014 5:09:00am |
I really couldn’t say it better:
The SCOTUS mullahs are at it again, enforcing #ScaliaLaw agaiinst women. http://t.co/F299Zr4XlD— Chenagrrl (@Chenagrrl) July 4, 2014
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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 4, 2014 5:09:20am |
Downtown Manteo, NC via @AshHoneycutt. pic.twitter.com/N3Vi3qwx4w #Arthur
— Hurricane Central (@twc_hurricane) July 4, 2014
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PhillyPretzel Jul 4, 2014 5:14:33am |
Nat’l Hurricane Center’s page on Arthur. nhc.noaa.gov
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lawhawk Jul 4, 2014 5:17:46am |
re: #92 FemNaziBitch
Looks like it took less than a week for Ginsberg’s dissent to be prescient and show that the Hobby Lobby ruling has legs and reach far beyond the so-called limited ruling that the majority and the right wing claimed.
None of this should be surprising, but it also shows that the right wing simply doesn’t consider birth control to be necessary/useful, and are doing all they can to roll it back, even though it is something all women can potentially find useful at some point in their lives.
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Jul 4, 2014 5:19:09am |
re: #96 lawhawk
and that’s only birth control…wait til they get their hands on abortion access…
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Justanotherhuman Jul 4, 2014 5:21:18am |
re: #75 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
WTF?
“Then Marco lifts the face and you startled. The eyes big as golf balls, the skin greasy and shiny, the hair tangled in the forehead. The look dull. But his sentences are sharp as an ax. “You have no idea what is fun before you have not even taken it. How clear can be the world. How strong you are. Only then does it all make sense. “Marco hurts, even his friends, parents, with every line he draws through the nose. Crystal meth - the drug is Marcos friend, enemy, Muse and executioner. Before he snorts the powder through a bill, he stretches it with fine glass particles, then rips the nasal septum and the fabric goes faster into the blood. It is as a thousand wasps crawling on his neck in the head, collected since and exploded like a bomb. Feels so the sky or hell? Marco can not say it. All he knows is that he needs this feeling, now more frequent and more violent.”
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lawhawk Jul 4, 2014 5:26:11am |
re: #97 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
It’s a TRAP. That’s their latest angle on trying to make abortion illegal. Throw up enough roadblocks and restrictions on where/how a clinic can operate, and they figure that clinics and doctors will close up shop.
That’s even though plastic surgery centers have a higher rate of complications and deaths to patients than the abortion clinics do, but the anti-abortion groups don’t consider the women to be the important thing - it’s all about making sure that these women carry the fetus to term. What happens after doesn’t matter (and for which these women get no support or guidance from them).
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Justanotherhuman Jul 4, 2014 5:26:48am |
re: #91 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Meth and cocaine are “clean”, you can use them discretely at work, and you can keep up with the ridiculous 60 to 70-hour weeks that a lot of modern careers demand…at least over the short term.
I worked with people like that doing computer graphics in the late 90’s.
Obviously, those folks weren’t shooting it up or smoking it, either, over a long period of time. Homemade meth is anything but “clean”, BTW.
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Lidane Jul 4, 2014 5:30:20am |
re: #96 lawhawk
I asked this downstairs, but I’ll ask again here since it probably got lost in the shuffle — how does the Hobby Lobby ruling not shred the corporate veil? From what I can tell, not only did SCOTUS rule that a corporation is a person with religious rights, but that corporate person is a direct stand-in for the owners, since it now acts in their personal religious interests.
If the corporation and the owners of the corporation are the same for the purposes of religious objections, couldn’t they be seen as the same in other cases?
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Jul 4, 2014 5:31:13am |
re: #100 Justanotherhuman
Obviously, those folks weren’t shooting it up or smoking it, either, over a long period of time. Homemade meth is anything but “clean”, BTW.
“Clean” in the sense that they do not smell like marijuana or alcohol at the workplace.
My ex-colleagues would get in about 4pm, then work all night, my job was to be there to answer the phone in the mornings. For a while I thought it fun to be able to scrape up enough residual dust from the plates they left lying about to get a buzz together.
Then I came in one morning, they had been up working on a project all night, had burned it on a CD, the courier was waiting to pick it up…but the office and all the surfaces were such a jumble of opened files and discarded pizza boxes that they could not find the CD they had been working on all night. That was the point that I gave up working there…
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wheat-dogghazi Jul 4, 2014 5:32:30am |
re: #63 FemNaziBitch
I never had a problem with the abstract thinking part. I just never gave a damn about the value of ‘x’.
If math teachers could present the problem as a kind of puzzle to solve, then lessons would go much easier. The trouble is, most math texts (and math teachers) act as if Math is some kind of Holy Writ that must be appreciated in and of itself. They suck all the possible fun out of it until a lot of students say, “Fuck it! Who cares what bloody x is?”
It’s a heretical idea among mathematicians, but math is a tool. At least, that’s what physicists believe, and that’s how I approached my teaching of algebra. Math has practical uses. Learning how to use the tool helps you understand how the tool works. Or at least, it would help.
From what I gather, the Common Core math curriculum is more practice- based and tries to engage students’ imagination and curiosity. We’ll see if it makes any difference in the long run.
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A Mom Anon Jul 4, 2014 5:32:39am |
re: #98 Justanotherhuman
When we bought our house 17 yrs ago there was a meth lab next door. Of course we didn’t know that til later, but those confrontations with that mess were, um, an education. It was more sad than anything, especially for the little kid living in that house. In talking with the DEA people who eventually showed up here to let us know WTF was happening when they raided the place and carried out evidence, meth hits all the pleasure and addiction centers in the brain. For some people just trying it once can be enough to send them into addiction.
I live in a nice part of suburban Atlanta, you’d never have guessed in a million years that meth would be right next door. I ended up talking with family members of one of the young women who lived there (two couples, one with a kid about 8 yrs old) and she had been an honor student, going off to college with a promising future. The young woman I met looked 10 yrs older than her actual age, sores on her face, convinced her boyfriend was literally some kind of prophet or something. I hope all those people found help, especially that little boy.
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lawhawk Jul 4, 2014 5:33:14am |
re: #101 Lidane
Because the Court says it doesn’t. That’s why. Even though any lawyer would be able to use these very arguments to go after the individuals operating close corporations on the same legal theory.
This decision opens up a can of worms for corporate law in ways that the Court’s majority did not envision. And it will cause more mayhem in the courts (both good and bad).
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wheat-dogghazi Jul 4, 2014 5:36:50am |
re: #104 A Mom Anon
When we bought our house 17 yrs ago there was a meth lab next door. Of course we didn’t know that til later, but those confrontations with that mess were, um, an education. It was more sad than anything, especially for the little kid living in that house. In talking with the DEA people who eventually showed up here to let us know WTF was happening when they raided the place and carried out evidence, meth hits all the pleasure and addiction centers in the brain. For some people just trying it once can be enough to send them into addiction.
I live in a nice part of suburban Atlanta, you’d never have guessed in a million years that meth would be right next door. I ended up talking with family members of one of the young women who lived there (two couples, one with a kid about 8 yrs old) and she had been an honor student, going off to college with a promising future. The young woman I met looked 10 yrs older than her actual age, sores on her face, convinced her boyfriend was literally some kind of prophet or something. I hope all those people found help, especially that little boy.
Meth is coming into China, especially in Guangdong province where there are many migrant workers and lots of international traffic. China has not a big drug problem since the days of the Opium Wars, but meth looks to be opium’s successor.
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wheat-dogghazi Jul 4, 2014 5:41:28am |
re: #101 Lidane
I asked this downstairs, but I’ll ask again here since it probably got lost in the shuffle — how does the Hobby Lobby ruling not shred the corporate veil? From what I can tell, not only did SCOTUS rule that a corporation is a person with religious rights, but that corporate person is a direct stand-in for the owners, since it now acts in their personal religious interests.
If the corporation and the owners of the corporation are the same for the purposes of religious objections, couldn’t they be seen as the same in other cases?
I suspect this ruling will create many more problems than it supposedly solved, as everyone with an axe to grind will look for loopholes to wiggle through. The majority on the Court may live to regret the Pandora’s box they’ve opened up. It would have been much better to have told Hobby Lobby to shut the hell up and pay the fines, if the owners are that dedicated to their religious beliefs. Instead, the Court has set itself up as a kind of arbiter in religious affairs. Big big mistake.
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A Mom Anon Jul 4, 2014 5:44:14am |
re: #106 wheat-dogghazi
I remember seeing a documentary awhile ago about meth and there was a part of it about Quaaludes and how we were able to stem that problem back in the 80s. The main ingredient in Quaaludes stopped being manufactured, the pills disappeared. I’m simplifying this of course, but if ephedra was no longer produced by the pharmaceutical industry, we’d have no meth. I think there are only one or two factories in the world that produce ephedra, but the main problem is consumers want it for decongestant purposes and so money trumps public health.
What it does to people is horrifying, it’s truly just an awful thing.
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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 4, 2014 5:46:32am |
re: #103 wheat-dogghazi
If math teachers could present the problem as a kind of puzzle to solve, then lessons would go much easier. The trouble is, most math texts (and math teachers) act as if Math is some kind of Holy Writ that must be appreciated in and of itself. They suck all the possible fun out of it until a lot of students say, “Fuck it! Who cares what bloody x is?”
It’s a heretical idea among mathematicians, but math is a tool. At least, that’s what physicists believe, and that’s how I approached my teaching of algebra. Math has practical uses. Learning how to use the tool helps you understand how the tool works. Or at least, it would help.
From what I gather, the Common Core math curriculum is more practice- based and tries to engage students’ imagination and curiosity. We’ll see if it makes any difference in the long run.
This was me about calculus in high school…it made no sense at all, and it didn’t help that the math teacher just handed us the textbook and never explained a thing.
Fast forward more than 10 year when I took an applied calculus for business class. It suddenly made complete sense! I could look at a graph and actually SEE the information. I was asked to be a tutor but I couldn’t do it because I couldn’t explain how it worked. I could just see that it did. Apparently my brain makes a leap from the formulas straight to the end results.
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Dr Lizardo Jul 4, 2014 5:47:26am |
re: #106 wheat-dogghazi
Meth is coming into China, especially in Guangdong province where there are many migrant workers and lots of international traffic. China has not a big drug problem since the days of the Opium Wars, but meth looks to be opium’s successor.
Here in Ostrava, there was a boarding house that got shut down by the cops after one of the tenants decided to turn his room into a makeshift meth lab.
The place was so poorly run that even though people complained about the horrifying stench coming from one of the rooms, the owner did exactly nothing about it. Didn’t come around to see what’s up, didn’t do a damned thing. Finally the cops got wind of it when the boarders complained to them. The place is now condemned, but the city found the other boarders a better place to live.
The owner of the building was heavily fined, and in addition, has to pay all the costs of demolition and hazmat cleanup. The authorities decided to make an example of him.
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Justanotherhuman Jul 4, 2014 5:50:29am |
re: #109 A Mom Anon
I remember seeing a documentary awhile ago about meth and there was a part of it about Quaaludes and how we were able to stem that problem back in the 80s. The main ingredient in Quaaludes stopped being manufactured, the pills disappeared. I’m simplifying this of course, but if ephedra was no longer produced by the pharmaceutical industry, we’d have no meth. I think there are only one or two factories in the world that produce ephedra, but the main problem is consumers want it for decongestant purposes and so money trumps public health.
What it does to people is horrifying, it’s truly just an awful thing.
I used to have to use pseudoephedrine products like Sudafed when I lived in Charlotte for allergies. They didn’t make me high, but they sure did dry up the old nasal passages. I only had to take them once a day and they were very effective. Now, I can’t take anything with that ingredient in it due to hbp, so I just have to suffer w/it for the most part (it’s been rough this year w/lots of sneezing and nose blowing). I just don’t take anything now, because it makes me drowzy (drowzier in some instances) when I need to be alert.
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sagehen Jul 4, 2014 5:56:43am |
re: #103 wheat-dogghazi
It’s a heretical idea among mathematicians, but math is a tool. At least, that’s what physicists believe, and that’s how I approached my teaching of algebra. Math has practical uses. Learning how to use the tool helps you understand how the tool works. Or at least, it would help.
I don’t use a lot of math as math, but the methods were useful in other pursuits. My geometry teacher was *hugely* helpful improving my writing… proof methodology was my template for every term paper, and later as a music critic writing trend pieces.
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wheat-dogghazi Jul 4, 2014 5:56:48am |
re: #112 Justanotherhuman
My American doctor prescribed me Stahist. I don’t know what’s in it, or it’s suitable for you, but it fixed my seasonal allergies right up. Thankfully, for whatever reason, I don’t have allergy problems in China. I guess those particular trees or plants aren’t native here.
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A Mom Anon Jul 4, 2014 5:58:55am |
re: #112 Justanotherhuman
I know it works well, I used to take it sometimes when I first moved to GA and the pine pollen was just astonishing. There had been talk at one point of making it a prescription only medication, but the drug companies and consumers pretty much shouted that down. You’d think with all our technology we could find alternatives that couldn’t be used for other things.
A side thought too:
For a country that’s supposed to be so super shiny and awesome all the time 24/7/365, we seem to have a large number of very unhappy people on a large amount of all kinds of drugs. Maybe things aren’t so super after all?
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wheat-dogghazi Jul 4, 2014 5:59:15am |
re: #113 sagehen
I don’t use a lot of math as math, but the methods were useful in other pursuits. My geometry teacher was *hugely* helpful improving my writing… proof methodology was my template for every term paper, and later as a music critic writing trend pieces.
Yeah, it’s hard for many to see the parallels, but the logic and organization required for a geometry proof have broader applications in other fields. Your geometry teacher was a rare breed to encourage that kind of thinking.
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Justanotherhuman Jul 4, 2014 6:03:19am |
re: #114 wheat-dogghazi
My American doctor prescribed me Stahist. I don’t know what’s in it, or it’s suitable for you, but it fixed my seasonal allergies right up. Thankfully, for whatever reason, I don’t have allergy problems in China. I guess those particular trees or plants aren’t native here.
Most of the time here they just want to give you Claritin, which I’ve tried and doesn’t work well for me. It also comes w/pseudoephedrine, so there are 2 formulas. Stahist contains pseudoephedrine.
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Justanotherhuman Jul 4, 2014 6:06:19am |
re: #115 A Mom Anon
I know it works well, I used to take it sometimes when I first moved to GA and the pine pollen was just astonishing. There had been talk at one point of making it a prescription only medication, but the drug companies and consumers pretty much shouted that down. You’d think with all our technology we could find alternatives that couldn’t be used for other things.
A side thought too:
For a country that’s supposed to be so super shiny and awesome all the time 24/7/365, we seem to have a large number of very unhappy people on a large amount of all kinds of drugs. Maybe things aren’t so super after all?
And here I thought I was the only person allergic to pines! I always knew when they were “coning”. They were in my yard and in the woods next door; here, not too many, mostly hardwoods, for which I’m thankful!
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Lidane Jul 4, 2014 6:09:23am |
re: #105 lawhawk
Because the Court says it doesn’t. That’s why. Even though any lawyer would be able to use these very arguments to go after the individuals operating close corporations on the same legal theory.
Ah. So it’s not a destruction of the corporate veil because they say it’s not. Because reasons, I guess. Is that really good enough? Somehow I doubt it.
This decision opens up a can of worms for corporate law in ways that the Court’s majority did not envision. And it will cause more mayhem in the courts (both good and bad).
No kidding. I wonder where the first bits of mayhem will come from.
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Eventual Carrion Jul 4, 2014 6:10:13am |
re: #46 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Breaking News: Conservative finally figures out that Born in the USA is actually an anti-American song!!!
Maybe they can adopt Allentown as their theme song instead.
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Lidane Jul 4, 2014 6:10:33am |
Supreme Court may have opened the door to a constitutional crisis: http://t.co/hLwlclvq1l— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) July 4, 2014
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Lidane Jul 4, 2014 6:11:32am |
re: #46 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Breaking News: Conservative finally figures out that Born in the USA is actually an anti-American song!!!
It only took 30+ years for them to figure out it’s not a rah-rah song. Amazing.
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Lidane Jul 4, 2014 6:16:29am |
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Dr Lizardo Jul 4, 2014 6:20:20am |
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Amory Blaine Jul 4, 2014 6:25:20am |
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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 4, 2014 6:39:50am |
Latest #Arthur info via @NHC_Atlantic, storm has weakened to Cat 1 w/ 90 mph winds, & away racing up coast at 23 mph pic.twitter.com/4fH5UdPh2D
— Addison Green (@agreenWNTV) July 4, 2014
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allegro Jul 4, 2014 6:41:34am |
Well my holiday has begun in a fabulous way, if by fabulous I mean having a bunch of housekeeping and cooking chores because I have company coming this afternoon and my kitchen faucet handle broke off in my hand while I was making coffee. The RV parts place is, of course, closed today.
I believe the kitchen faucet is just a regular any-kind-of-household faucet so I can get one at Lowe’s… please tell me they’re open today. Then I gotta install it. For someone who has challenges operating a stapler, I can tell this is gonna be great fun.
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Amory Blaine Jul 4, 2014 6:42:33am |
Journalist Stirring The Pot In Mississippi Reveals Details Of His Book: ‘Oppo Man’
Charles C. Johnson has been having a bit of a moment ever since he reported on the much-disputed allegations that Sen. Thad Cochran’s (R-MS) campaign paid off black voters in the Mississippi Republican primary.
Johnson has reveled in the spotlight, name-dropping all the conservative luminaries who have picked up the story and touting a spike in people viewing his Twitter profile.
He also apparently attempted to leverage the newfound attention to his advantage as part of a book deal he’d signed.
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Eventual Carrion Jul 4, 2014 6:43:08am |
re: #127 allegro
Well my holiday has begun in a fabulous way, if by fabulous I mean having a bunch of housekeeping and cooking chores because I have company coming this afternoon and my kitchen faucet handle broke off in my hand while I was making coffee. The RV parts place is, of course, closed today.
I believe the kitchen faucet is just a regular any-kind-of-household faucet so I can get one at Lowe’s… please tell me they’re open today. Then I gotta install it. For someone who has challenges operating a stapler, I can tell this is gonna be great fun.
Righty tighty, lefty loosie.
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Pie-onist Overlord Jul 4, 2014 6:43:46am |
re: #15 wheat-dogghazi
Let me guess. Based on their reading of Scripture, they’ve concluded that π = 3.
Apparently he did not know that π is derived from a Leibniz Series. One of my very first FORTRAN assignments was to calculate the value of π, Sin π and Cosine π using different methods of the series.
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Pie-onist Overlord Jul 4, 2014 6:44:13am |
Happy Independence Day Liberal Patriots! #FF #UniteBlue #LibCrib #OFA @0103lrl @Nikluk @PushinWeight pic.twitter.com/EOpzaabol9— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) July 4, 2014
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Pie-onist Overlord Jul 4, 2014 6:45:34am |
Speaking of π, today’s π will be Blueberry,
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wheat-dogghazi Jul 4, 2014 6:48:00am |
re: #129 Eventual Carrion
Righty tighty, lefty loosie.
And teflon thread tape. Gotta have that!
Use two wrenches. One to stabilize the pipe to keep it from twisting, and the other to loosen the faucet. If you have PVC connections, you’re in luck. If they’re metal and they weren’t installed with thread tape, pick up some WD-40 or penetrating oil and apply it to the connections before trying to loosen them.
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wheat-dogghazi Jul 4, 2014 6:49:23am |
re: #130 Pie-onist Overlord
Apparently he did not know that π is derived from a Leibniz Series. One of my very first FORTRAN assignments was to calculate the value of π, Sin π and Cosine π using different methods of the series.
Apparently, he didn’t comprehend geometry much, either.
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wheat-dogghazi Jul 4, 2014 6:50:06am |
re: #133 wheat-dogghazi
And teflon thread tape. Gotta have that!
Use two wrenches. One to stabilize the pipe to keep it from twisting, and the other to loosen the faucet. If you have PVC connections, you’re in luck. If they’re metal and they weren’t installed with thread tape, pick up some WD-40 or penetrating oil and apply it to the connections before trying to loosen them.
Oh! And turn off the water supply to the faucet!
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Decatur Deb Jul 4, 2014 6:50:13am |
re: #127 allegro
Well my holiday has begun in a fabulous way, if by fabulous I mean having a bunch of housekeeping and cooking chores because I have company coming this afternoon and my kitchen faucet handle broke off in my hand while I was making coffee. The RV parts place is, of course, closed today.
I believe the kitchen faucet is just a regular any-kind-of-household faucet so I can get one at Lowe’s… please tell me they’re open today. Then I gotta install it. For someone who has challenges operating a stapler, I can tell this is gonna be great fun.
Vise-grips.
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wheat-dogghazi Jul 4, 2014 6:52:16am |
re: #136 Decatur Deb
Vise-grips.
You mean to replace the handle, I guess. That’s what I’d do in an emergency like this. To hell with replacing the faucet.
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Jul 4, 2014 6:53:35am |
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Justanotherhuman Jul 4, 2014 6:58:56am |
re: #137 wheat-dogghazi
You mean to replace the handle, I guess. That’s what I’d do in an emergency like this. To hell with replacing the faucet.
Ah yes, vise-grips work great in an emergency. Replacing the faucet would take up half the day if you’ve never done it before.
Meanwhile, I just put on a Yankee Pot Roast so my grandson could have a good meal before he goes to work. Just a small 2-1/2 lb chuck roast I got for half price last month that’s been in the freezer, and using fresh thyme and bay leaf plus Vidalia onions. It’s in my cast iron Dutch oven on top of the stove so it won’t heat up the house. Will add carrots and small white potatoes later and make gravy. Figured this was a pretty All-American dinner, eh?
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Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 4, 2014 6:59:08am |
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Amory Blaine Jul 4, 2014 6:59:47am |
Pipe dope FTW!! Also a basin wrench is a good economical investment.
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allegro Jul 4, 2014 7:00:43am |
re: #137 wheat-dogghazi
You mean to replace the handle, I guess. That’s what I’d do in an emergency like this. To hell with replacing the faucet.
I actually kinda tried that (if the tool dealie I was using are vice grips - I really am tool illiterate). Did not work. Must have a new faucet. Now.
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nsmith25 Jul 4, 2014 7:01:05am |
Happy 4th everyone. Eat, drink(I live in KY, so after yesterdays EPIC DERP re:Climate change hearing, there will be mass quantities) have fun, and be safe.
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darthstar Jul 4, 2014 7:02:33am |
Suck it, Snowden.
#HISTINT: a new weekly feature highlighting historic intelligence events #U2Week #4July1956 http://t.co/g7s6jnFSzX pic.twitter.com/c2KQGdGFIf— CIA (@CIA) July 4, 2014
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lawhawk Jul 4, 2014 7:02:46am |
re: #127 allegro
HD and Lowes are both open today. Costco is closed.
As for replacing the handle, you can use a vice grip pliers for the immediate usage until you get a replacement faucet installed. If the valve stem is still intact (the part the handle goes on), then this should be a relatively quick fix since the parts are pretty much standardized. If the valve stem is broken/damaged, then you could either replace the valve stem and handle, or replace the entire faucet (which is costlier, but may work out better in the end of trying to find exact matching parts).
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Feline Fearless Leader Jul 4, 2014 7:03:23am |
Good morning Lizards.
Overcast and some wind in Philly. Thunderstorms came through last night again and it is somewhat cooler.
The niece rode out Arthur in a beach house at Wrightsville Beach (just east of Wilmington.) Said that a walk on the beach at one point was sort of epic. Ah, the adventures of youth.
Time to go out and run a few errands before the tourists fill the place up.
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Decatur Deb Jul 4, 2014 7:04:32am |
re: #142 allegro
I actually kinda tried that (if the tool dealie I was using are vice grips - I really am tool illiterate). Did not work. Must have a new faucet. Now.
If there’s any stub of the valve stem left, this type of vise grip should work.
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wheat-dogghazi Jul 4, 2014 7:04:48am |
re: #142 allegro
I actually kinda tried that (if the tool dealie I was using are vice grips - I really am tool illiterate). Did not work. Must have a new faucet. Now.
Vice-Grip is a trade name for a kind of locking pliers. Here’s one kind:
Image: ViceGrips.jpg
I feel your pain. I don’t miss all those home handyman chores I had as a homeowner. Now if something goes wrong in my flat, the university sends someone over (eventually) to fix it.
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lawhawk Jul 4, 2014 7:05:25am |
re: #141 Amory Blaine
Pipe dope FTW!! Also a basin wrench is a good economical investment.
So too is a reciprocating saw. If you’re going to remove/replace the faucet, it’s quicker and easier to saw it off than try to unscrew it from underneath. I’ve tried using the basin wrench to undo two different faucets, wasted 45 minutes trying to undo them because they were rusted tight, and then took all of 3 minutes to saw them off.
That plus the reciprocating saw is good for clearing brush/sawing it down to size, and other similar repairs.
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Amory Blaine Jul 4, 2014 7:05:37am |
re: #147 Decatur Deb
Get 2 for a stylish matching pair that will compliment any kitchen decor.
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Decatur Deb Jul 4, 2014 7:06:37am |
re: #150 Amory Blaine
Get 2 for a stylish matching pair that will compliment any kitchen decor.
Put a swab of blue paint on the cold water, red on the hot.
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Varek Raith Jul 4, 2014 7:08:50am |
5 Reasons Why That ‘Obama is the Worst President’ Poll is Total Horsesh*t
1) Americans are trend-a-holics.
2) How many 19-year-olds know what the hell Gerald Ford did or didn’t do?
3) Obama is the worst president, and the fourth best.
4) Consider the source.
5) No good deed goes unpunished.
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Feline Fearless Leader Jul 4, 2014 7:09:34am |
Heh. We discuss what should be in disaster survival kits. Maybe time to assemble a recommended tool kit for small home repairs and the proper way to store and organize it.
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Decatur Deb Jul 4, 2014 7:09:38am |
The show with Martha Stewart answering all your air-freshener questions was one of the best Car Talks.
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darthstar Jul 4, 2014 7:10:07am |
The article is pretty funny. Give it a read.
“Jaws” Is Ridiculous, Say Kids Who Are Now Out Of The Will http://t.co/vgptPeT7KA via @motherjones— Richard Dreyfuss (@RichardDreyfuss) July 4, 2014
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Targetpractice Jul 4, 2014 7:10:15am |
Another hurricane, another bunch of wind and rain. God, if you’re trying to send me a message, I do read my email!
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Amory Blaine Jul 4, 2014 7:10:45am |
re: #145 lawhawk
What, you don’t like laying under a sink with the cabinet floor cutting into your back while carefully placing a tool into an unreachable area only to discover that you’ve placed the tool on the nut wrong (lefty loosie :p)?
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Feline Fearless Leader Jul 4, 2014 7:10:47am |
Said repair kit must include duct tape. Since if the women don’t find you handsome, they can at least find you handy!
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darthstar Jul 4, 2014 7:11:00am |
re: #147 Decatur Deb
If there’s any stub of the valve stem left, this type of vise grip should work.
That’s a boring gif.
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allegro Jul 4, 2014 7:11:21am |
re: #145 lawhawk
HD and Lowes are both open today. Costco is closed.
As for replacing the handle, you can use a vice grip pliers for the immediate usage until you get a replacement faucet installed. If the valve stem is still intact (the part the handle goes on), then this should be a relatively quick fix since the parts are pretty much standardized. If the valve stem is broken/damaged, then you could either replace the valve stem and handle, or replace the entire faucet (which is costlier, but may work out better in the end of trying to find exact matching parts).
I know you’re speaking ‘Murican cuz I can read the words but I have no fucking idea what you’re saying. LOL I do know that there is no repairing this old faucet. It’s done. I can also replace it with a faucet that serves me much better so that’s a good thing. The timing, however, sucks really, really big.
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Feline Fearless Leader Jul 4, 2014 7:11:41am |
re: #157 Amory Blaine
What, you don’t like laying under a sink with the cabinet floor cutting into your back while carefully placing a tool into an unreachable area only to discover that you’ve placed the tool on the nut wrong (lefty loosie :p)?
Been there. Done that. Moved to an apartment with a good maintenance staff.
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lawhawk Jul 4, 2014 7:13:30am |
re: #152 Varek Raith
5 Reasons Why That ‘Obama is the Worst President’ Poll is Total Horsesh*t
1) Americans are trend-a-holics.
2) How many 19-year-olds know what the hell Gerald Ford did or didn’t do?
3) Obama is the worst president, and the fourth best.
4) Consider the source.
5) No good deed goes unpunished.
The same poll found him 4th best president, behind Reagan, Clinton, and JFK. Simultaneously worst and 4th best? It’s the combination of being the president most of those polled know/remember, and that he’s extremely polarizing.
The source is that the GOP were monolithic in their selections, while self-declared D and I spread their opinions around. At the same time, the demographics skewed to Caucasians and Southern, which doesn’t reflect nationally.
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darthstar Jul 4, 2014 7:13:30am |
Vice grips are very useful though you should be careful not to touch the lock release on a corner.
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Pie-onist Overlord Jul 4, 2014 7:13:39am |
Pamela is so crazy she wants to ban Sharia slaughter even if it means kosher slaughter is also banned.
California: Muslims complain that new law requiring animals to be stunned before slaughter violates Sharia: An… http://t.co/kANY2GmxkD— Pamela Geller (@atlasshrugs) July 4, 2014
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Eventual Carrion Jul 4, 2014 7:14:11am |
re: #139 Justanotherhuman
Ah yes, vise-grips work great in an emergency. Replacing the faucet would take up half the day if you’ve never done it before.
Meanwhile, I just put on a Yankee Pot Roast so my grandson could have a good meal before he goes to work. Just a small 2-1/2 lb chuck roast I got for half price last month that’s been in the freezer, and using fresh thyme and bay leaf plus Vidalia onions. It’s in my cast iron Dutch oven on top of the stove so it won’t heat up the house. Will add carrots and small white potatoes later and make gravy. Figured this was a pretty All-American dinner, eh?
Sounds like my dinner last night. Add in the garlic green beans and I’m in for it again. No leftovers for me from last night, the 14 yo boy liked it too. Will just have to grill some steaks today I guess. First world problems.
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lawhawk Jul 4, 2014 7:16:08am |
re: #160 allegro
The timing always sucks when you have these issues.
Video of how to replace a faucet.
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Amory Blaine Jul 4, 2014 7:16:30am |
The maintenance man in my building is lazy and waits until the last minute for most repairs. That man is me.
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allegro Jul 4, 2014 7:16:37am |
I seriously appreciate all of the great advice even though it’s freaking me out. This is supposed to be easy! That what the internet tubes say!
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Feline Fearless Leader Jul 4, 2014 7:16:46am |
re: #163 darthstar
Vice grips are very useful though you should be careful not to touch the lock release on a corner.[Embedded image]
You need that picture while the speedometer shows the car is going 40mph.
:p
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Amory Blaine Jul 4, 2014 7:17:44am |
re: #168 allegro
It is pretty easy. The hardest part will be taking the old faucet out which with any luck will go swimmingly.
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Decatur Deb Jul 4, 2014 7:17:53am |
re: #160 allegro
I know you’re speaking ‘Murican cuz I can read the words but I have no fucking idea what you’re saying. LOL I do know that there is no repairing this old faucet. It’s done. I can also replace it with a faucet that serves me much better so that’s a good thing. The timing, however, sucks really, really big.
The vise-grip trick is just to buy you time. Decades, sometimes, in Alabama.
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Justanotherhuman Jul 4, 2014 7:18:40am |
re: #160 allegro
I know you’re speaking ‘Murican cuz I can read the words but I have no fucking idea what you’re saying. LOL I do know that there is no repairing this old faucet. It’s done. I can also replace it with a faucet that serves me much better so that’s a good thing. The timing, however, sucks really, really big.
I would pay someone $100 to replace a faucet instead of having to do it the first time on a holiday. : )
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wheat-dogghazi Jul 4, 2014 7:19:10am |
re: #163 darthstar
Vice grips are very useful though you should be careful not to touch the lock release on a corner.[Embedded image]
it’s a tiller! They fell out of favor around 1900, but they worked — after a fashion.
I hope the car had power steering.
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darthstar Jul 4, 2014 7:19:28am |
re: #156 Targetpractice
Another hurricane, another bunch of wind and rain. God, if you’re trying to send me a message, I do read my email!
Bullshit. God sent you dozens of emails, and even tried creative subject lines like, “I am Nigerian prince with 800000000 dollars” and “Get Ci4Lu5 cheap” and you never read any of them.
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Varek Raith Jul 4, 2014 7:20:54am |
re: #153 Feline Fearless Leader
Heh. We discuss what should be in disaster survival kits. Maybe time to assemble a recommended tool kit for small home repairs and the proper way to store and organize it.
Duct tape.
NEXT!
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darthstar Jul 4, 2014 7:21:53am |
re: #172 Justanotherhuman
I would pay someone $100 to replace a faucet instead of having to do it the first time on a holiday. : )
I’m old enough to remember when you could get a plumber to come fix a faucet for $100.
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William Barnett-Lewis Jul 4, 2014 7:22:47am |
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Amory Blaine Jul 4, 2014 7:23:23am |
My beautiful sawzall was stolen last year. :(
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Varek Raith Jul 4, 2014 7:23:38am |
re: #164 Pie-onist Overlord
Pamela is so crazy she wants to ban Sharia slaughter even if it means kosher slaughter is also banned.
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DON’T TAKE MY HOTDOGS.
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Pie-onist Overlord Jul 4, 2014 7:23:47am |
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Varek Raith Jul 4, 2014 7:24:06am |
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steve_davis Jul 4, 2014 7:24:18am |
re: #60 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
“And while he thus spake and thought, it chanced that there was there a certain merchant come from India whose name was Abbanes, sent from the King Gundaphorus…..”
“Thank ye….cometh again!”
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allegro Jul 4, 2014 7:25:30am |
re: #172 Justanotherhuman
I would pay someone $100 to replace a faucet instead of having to do it the first time on a holiday. : )
I would happily do that. But it’s a damn holiday and there ain’t no one to hire! My RV repair guys are closed today too.
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William Barnett-Lewis Jul 4, 2014 7:26:54am |
re: #145 lawhawk
HD andLowesare bothis open today. Costco is closed.
FTFY. HD should not be considered acceptable in less than a life or death emergency.
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darthstar Jul 4, 2014 7:26:57am |
Twenty bucks says Johnson's too bipolar and unmedicated ever to finish his book. @joshtpm— Steve M. (@nomoremister) July 4, 2014
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lawhawk Jul 4, 2014 7:27:53am |
re: #164 Pie-onist Overlord
Geller is a nitwit, but I’m repeating myself. Kosher law requires essentially the same thing and this law would affect kashering the meat in the same way.
Oh, and the legal reasoning in HL could be extended to apply to here as well. Excluding these entities from the legal requirements for religious purposes.
It’s a matter of time… just wait til she (and the rest of the right wing) wails when a Muslim group makes that very assertion all while claiming judicial activism or other such nonsense).
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Justanotherhuman Jul 4, 2014 7:29:37am |
re: #184 allegro
I would happily do that. But it’s a damn holiday and there ain’t no one to hire! My RV repair guys are closed today too.
No “odd job” guys around? Sad. I used to have a neighbor who would do stuff for cheap (he was a friend of my son’s—fishing buddies), and he was better than the “pros” sometimes. Even though we’re no longer neighbors, he would still help me out if I needed him to do something. He was especially good w/cars (rebuilt his own truck engine), plumbing and carpentry. : )
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wheat-dogghazi Jul 4, 2014 7:33:05am |
The worst holiday disaster we ever had was when the water heater gave out the day before New Year’s Eve. Bottom finally rusted through and we had water all over the basement. Great way to start the New Year — with a big fat plumbing bill.
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Varek Raith Jul 4, 2014 7:33:54am |
re: #191 wheat-dogghazi
The worst holiday disaster we ever had was when the water heater gave out the day before New Year’s Eve. Bottom finally rusted through and we had water all over the basement. Great way to start the New Year — with a big fat plumbing bill.
Could’ve been worse.
Youtube Video
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Feline Fearless Leader Jul 4, 2014 7:34:44am |
WD-40 and duct tape!
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Decatur Deb Jul 4, 2014 7:36:53am |
re: #191 wheat-dogghazi
The worst holiday disaster we ever had was when the water heater gave out the day before New Year’s Eve. Bottom finally rusted through and we had water all over the basement. Great way to start the New Year — with a big fat plumbing bill.
We had a sewer outfall clog on a Thanksgiving with a dozen people in the house. (Alabama roto-rooter guy charged $80 to show up with a crew of two.) They said Thanksgiving is a very big day—marginally-clogged sewer lines are just lurking until they take a big demand.
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PhillyPretzel Jul 4, 2014 7:38:20am |
Just posted a page on Hurricane Arthur. littlegreenfootballs.com
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Amory Blaine Jul 4, 2014 7:38:40am |
At any holiday gathering there will be a bootstraps guy who, with the right combination of booze and flattery/ridicule, will perform any household task involving tools.
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allegro Jul 4, 2014 7:39:18am |
re: #190 Justanotherhuman
No “odd job” guys around? Sad. I used to have a neighbor who would do stuff for cheap (he was a friend of my son’s—fishing buddies), and he was better than the “pros” sometimes. Even though we’re no longer neighbors, he would still help me out if I needed him to do something. He was especially good w/cars (rebuilt his own truck engine), plumbing and carpentry. : )
I have neighbors I know would help if asked. They would also flat refuse any payment and I don’t want to impose on their holiday day off. I am gonna ask one of my friends whose coming over anyway to come over earlier to help. Him, I don’t mind asking. The booger is that he isn’t much more handy than I am so hilarity always ensues when we get into such a project.
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Decatur Deb Jul 4, 2014 7:39:46am |
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sagehen Jul 4, 2014 7:40:00am |
re: #162 lawhawk
The same poll found him 4th best president, behind Reagan, Clinton, and JFK. Simultaneously worst and 4th best? It’s the combination of being the president most of those polled know/remember, and that he’s extremely polarizing.
The source is that the GOP were monolithic in their selections, while self-declared D and I spread their opinions around. At the same time, the demographics skewed to Caucasians and Southern, which doesn’t reflect nationally.
They’re all wrong.
Eisenhower was the best, in every possible way. (Few of the respondents are old enough to remember him; those who are old enough, if they’re Southern and white, are still pissed off that he sent the 101st Airborne to tell Arkansas to fuck itself.)
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Bubblehead II Jul 4, 2014 7:40:18am |
re: #192 Varek Raith
Could’ve been worse.
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And that is why they come equipped with a pressure relief valve.
Morning Lizards and Happy 4th to all.
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Feline Fearless Leader Jul 4, 2014 7:40:56am |
re: #197 allegro
I have neighbors I know would help if asked. They would also flat refuse any payment and I don’t want to impose on their holiday day off. I am gonna ask one of my friends whose coming over anyway to come over earlier to help. Him, I don’t mind asking. The booger is that he isn’t much more handy than I am so hilarity always ensues when we get into such a project.
Are you setting up a video camera in advance? The resulting film could prove profitable.
;P
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lawhawk Jul 4, 2014 7:41:58am |
re: #194 Decatur Deb
I’ve had clogs happen just after major gatherings in the house, including Passover, Rosh HaShana and barbeques. I’ve reduced those from happening by putting a strainer in the kitchen sink to keep stuff from going down.
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Varek Raith Jul 4, 2014 7:42:27am |
re: #198 Decatur Deb
At one of our overseas bases the local contractor installed a big water heater without a safety pressure release. It almost erased a one-story concrete block barracks.
Another one.
Youtube Video
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Rightwingconspirator Jul 4, 2014 7:42:31am |
re: #195 PhillyPretzel
Just posted a page on Hurricane Arthur. littlegreenfootballs.com
+1
Happy 4th Of July!!
I heard I missed out on the pie in the overnight? A very precise pie.
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Killgore Trout Jul 4, 2014 7:42:57am |
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darthstar Jul 4, 2014 7:43:26am |
1776: “All men are created equal.” 1865: “…& blacks.” 1920: “…& women.” 1924: “…& Indians.” 2014: “…well, maybe not women…” #HobbyLobby #p2— Eric Wolfson (@EricWolfson) July 4, 2014
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wheat-dogghazi Jul 4, 2014 7:43:29am |
1Peter G1 has returned, this time derping on an aviation thread.
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jaunte Jul 4, 2014 7:45:55am |
Background check firm that vetted Edward Snowden receives new contract
“By law and policy, we have to go to the lowest bidder,” explained a spokesman for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
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Varek Raith Jul 4, 2014 7:46:34am |
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Varek Raith Jul 4, 2014 7:47:36am |
re: #208 wheat-dogghazi
1Peter G1 has returned, this time derping on an aviation thread.
And we all know instrumentation is always correct!
Keep the windows.
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Feline Fearless Leader Jul 4, 2014 7:48:24am |
re: #209 jaunte
Background check firm that vetted Edward Snowden receives new contract
I hope they get audited repeatedly and if shown deficit in their work get shown the door ASAP and banned from future consideration for a decade or two.
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Varek Raith Jul 4, 2014 7:49:56am |
re: #206 Killgore Trout
In Honor of First Amendment: 5 Americans in Blatant Acts of Free Speech
I miss George.
Edit - Maybe I shouldn’t have posted that.
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allegro Jul 4, 2014 7:49:57am |
re: #209 jaunte
Background check firm that vetted Edward Snowden receives new contract
Well, that’s comforting.
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darthstar Jul 4, 2014 7:51:12am |
re: #208 wheat-dogghazi
1Peter G1 has returned, this time derping on an aviation thread.
Interesting article. Move the flight-deck aft. If you’re using monitors, what difference will its location make. Hell, remove it altogether. Just make 787s and 380s big drones. Then you only have to hire a handful of “pilots” to handle take off and landing and set them on their course.
“This is your captain speaking…I’m at the end of my shift, but your new captain should be here in about four hours…well before you begin your approach on the other side of the Atlantic.”
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Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut Jul 4, 2014 7:51:32am |
re: #214 Varek Raith
“Shit. Piss. Fuck. ****. Cocksucker. Motherfucker. Tits.”
I miss George.
They missed out on the blatant free speech of all the people phoning in to tell advertisers of Rush that they’d be boycotting those products.
Oh wait I forgot that’s tyranny according to Killgore.
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William Barnett-Lewis Jul 4, 2014 7:52:09am |
re: #212 Varek Raith
And we all know instrumentation is always correct!
Keep the windows.
Actually, he’s correct. Especially about visual disorientation in bad weather or lighting conditions. Psychologically, however, we’ll probably do without windows about the same time we go along with only autopilots.
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Varek Raith Jul 4, 2014 7:52:45am |
re: #217 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut
They missed out on the blatant free speech of all the people phoning in to tell advertisers of Rush that they’d be boycotting those products.
Oh wait I forgot that’s tyranny according to Killgore.
Indeed.
I also edited my post. I felt a tad uncomfortable posting all them bad words.
<<
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darthstar Jul 4, 2014 7:53:39am |
“Rolling coal” is juvenile, yes, but the “Prius repellent” sticker is pretty funny.
The Idiots Who Rebel Against Obama by “Rolling Coal” http://t.co/2KVLnnAfiJ #environment #climate #p2 pic.twitter.com/MFjNg4caAt— R.Saddler (@Politics_PR) July 4, 2014
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Varek Raith Jul 4, 2014 7:54:55am |
re: #220 darthstar
“Rolling coal” is juvenile, yes, but the “Prius repellent” sticker is pretty funny.
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Amazingly mature.
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lawhawk Jul 4, 2014 7:55:40am |
Ah, once again the F-35 shows that it’s a hangar queen. Entire F-35 fleet grounded over engine problems. Again.
All because of an engine fire on takeoff of a F-35A (base variant). Until investigators can figure out why the fire happened, the entire fleet is grounded.
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Rightwingconspirator Jul 4, 2014 7:55:49am |
re: #218 William Barnett-Lewis
re: #212 Varek Raith
Seen the articles on how Boeing keeps haptic feedback, command and resistance in flight controls on airliners and Airbus does not do the same way ? I like Boeings approach. And in a similar vein for us commuters btw I think car safety automation that removes the driver from necessarily paying attention is going to backfire on some people.
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darthstar Jul 4, 2014 7:55:57am |
History - how does it work?
American Apparel apologizes for posting an image of the Challenger disaster to their tumblr. http://t.co/Zqqvojtz1J pic.twitter.com/Cu2qtxDleE— Adam Davis (@amdhit) July 3, 2014
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Varek Raith Jul 4, 2014 7:56:46am |
the equipment that lets a driver “trick the engine” into needing more fuel. The result is a burst of black smoke
I’m no mechanic but, that can’t be good for the engine.
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jaunte Jul 4, 2014 7:58:00am |
For as little as $500, anyone with a diesel truck and a dream can install a smoke stack and the equipment that lets a driver “trick the engine” into needing more fuel.
Brilliant investment.
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Feline Fearless Leader Jul 4, 2014 7:59:04am |
re: #225 Varek Raith
I’m no mechanic but, that can’t be good for the engine.
Russian tanks had (and still do?) had a smoke generation mechanism. It dripped diesel fuel onto the hot exhaust. As compared to the Western military method of installing smoke grenade launchers on the tanks (usually on the sides of the turret.)
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wheat-dogghazi Jul 4, 2014 8:00:15am |
re: #218 William Barnett-Lewis
Actually, he’s correct. Especially about visual disorientation in bad weather or lighting conditions. Psychologically, however, we’ll probably do without windows about the same time we go along with only autopilots.
I don’t doubt accidents can occur for those reasons, but he suggests it’s a common problem and removing windows altogether would solve it.
Video feeds would offer the same confusion, or create new ones.
I think the idea sucks.
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darthstar Jul 4, 2014 8:01:39am |
In Focus: New Study Finds 85% Of Americans Don't Know All The Dance Moves To National Anthem http://t.co/Z0aSDQRaX5 pic.twitter.com/qIvIswhyAX— The Onion (@TheOnion) July 4, 2014
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Feline Fearless Leader Jul 4, 2014 8:02:45am |
re: #229 darthstar
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NO. I do not want to see Limbaugh and the other pseudo-patriots attempt Step #4. (well… maybe)
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wheat-dogghazi Jul 4, 2014 8:03:16am |
re: #229 darthstar
It’s just a jump to the left …
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Feline Fearless Leader Jul 4, 2014 8:03:47am |
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Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut Jul 4, 2014 8:04:25am |
re: #231 wheat-dogghazi
It’s just a jump to the left …
You heard about the funeral of the guy who composed the Hokey Pokey, right?
They were getting him in the coffin, and first they put his right leg in, and, well, that’s when the trouble started.
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allegro Jul 4, 2014 8:06:19am |
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Rightwingconspirator Jul 4, 2014 8:06:56am |
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wheat-dogghazi Jul 4, 2014 8:09:03am |
This one might be dangerous if done in the stands at a ball game.
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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 4, 2014 8:10:24am |
My cat is sad because he's reacting to a lie another cat told by saying “bullshit” whilst fake coughing into his paw. pic.twitter.com/RR14PQ4Q3u
— WHY MY CAT IS SAD (@MYSADCAT) July 4, 2014
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Feline Fearless Leader Jul 4, 2014 8:12:01am |
Every time I think about heading out to run errands it starts to rain.
Have also noticed that the cats are running a rotation on sitting on the window sill. Black cat is on watch while tuxedo cat takes a potty break and gets a drink of water.
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Feline Fearless Leader Jul 4, 2014 8:13:49am |
In honor of Independence Day.
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Targetpractice Jul 4, 2014 8:17:41am |
re: #222 lawhawk
Ah, once again the F-35 shows that it’s a hangar queen. Entire F-35 fleet grounded over engine problems. Again.
All because of an engine fire on takeoff of a F-35A (base variant). Until investigators can figure out why the fire happened, the entire fleet is grounded.
The Soviets went broke trying to keep with us, and now we’re going broke trying to beat an enemy that doesn’t exist.
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jaunte Jul 4, 2014 8:23:24am |
Happening now: President Obama speaks at a naturalization ceremony for service members at the White House. Watch → http://t.co/uzd0sMF67E
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 4, 2014
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Justanotherhuman Jul 4, 2014 8:25:07am |
Live video: President Obama delivers remarks at naturalization ceremony for active duty service members - @NBCNews
see original on nbcnews.com
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Pie-onist Overlord Jul 4, 2014 8:26:02am |
Never forget this day in 1776 when Reagan said, “King George, tear down these colonies!” and he had to because we'd built up our nukes.— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) July 4, 2014
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lawhawk Jul 4, 2014 8:28:59am |
Meanwhile, protests and riots continue to roil in Israel, and journalists have been caught in the crossfire.
Get well soon! @BenCNN Wedeman shot (for a second time) by #Israel forces. The head wound was caused by rubber coated steel bullet.— Jim Clancy (@clancycnn) July 4, 2014
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Justanotherhuman Jul 4, 2014 8:33:21am |
OK, this seems to be the strategy now: Don’t blame everything on Snowden, because there’s another NSA leaker out there. For chrissakes, these paranoid people will do and say anything to keep their names in the news.
Seems clear at this point RT @ageis @vruz Bruce Schneier: “I think there's a second [NSA] leaker out there.” https://t.co/0iCULZWf0L
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 4, 2014
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jaunte Jul 4, 2014 8:33:47am |
We remember those who died for our freedom. So, too, those who died from it. http://t.co/s9hGtMcnyy pic.twitter.com/WH4w0CIZV6
— David Waldman (@KagroX) July 4, 2014
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Amory Blaine Jul 4, 2014 8:36:18am |
Woot!!! A workmate just dropped me off a giant iced coffee and a little feta and dried tomato quiche pie.
4th of July rocks!!
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Justanotherhuman Jul 4, 2014 8:37:42am |
Hmm, aren’t spies supposed to “spy”? But Snowden was no spy—he was a simple thief, so don’t try to conflate this guy with him, mkay, Glenn?
German intelligence officer arrested on charges he spied for NSA on German parliamentary investigation http://t.co/P9WkGT83oQ
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 4, 2014
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The War TARDIS Jul 4, 2014 8:38:00am |
re: #245 lawhawk
I’ll admit that my position on Israel-Palestine has been coloured by the Assassination Count Folke Bernadotte, and the Lillehammer Affair.
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Justanotherhuman Jul 4, 2014 8:41:39am |
re: #248 jaunte
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Oh fuck, this was not an “intentional act”?
WTF was it, if shooting off a gun in a crowd wasn’t intentional?
Can’t even take your kids out anymore without the fucking morons with guns being present.
All of a sudden, I’m in a fucking bad mood. This country needs a “deep cleaning” of the past dozen years, but I don’t see that happening any time soon, if ever.
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Dark_Falcon Jul 4, 2014 8:42:40am |
re: #3 EPR-radar
That business about Paul Ryan “not showing any leg” for a possible 2016 run is indicative of a certain gossipy mindset.
Agreed. Although I don’t think Paul Ryan is actually thinking of such a run. His need to cut deals with the Dems as head of the House Budget Committee limits his “purity” too much for many within the GOP.
Some those who would oppose Paul Ryan for deal making simply hate the Democrats and want no deals with them, and to blazes with the consequences. Such people comprise the more severe type of wingnut.
Less severe, but still in some cases wingnutty are those who harbor an inherent suspicion of Washington DC dealmakers. Such suspicions are not without foundation, though those of this group have good deal of trouble seeing the necessity of dealmaking in order to accomplish necessary functions of the Congress.
Lastly, and least problematic, are those like my best friend and I, who understand and appreciate the role of DC dealmakers but feel such people should not be the Republican Party’s standard bearer. I admire and respect Paul Ryan, but someone who has to cut deals with the Dems would divide and dispirit the party as its nominee. Moreover, in the top slot someone like that would have a hard time projecting a “No Retreat!” attitude when such an attitude is called for.
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Dark_Falcon Jul 4, 2014 8:46:36am |
re: #245 lawhawk
Meanwhile, protests and riots continue to roil in Israel, and journalists have been caught in the crossfire.
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I hope Ben Wedeman is able to make a full recovery. Those less-lethal rounds tend to cause concussions if they hit the head and they can inflict more serious traumatic brain injury.
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Dark_Falcon Jul 4, 2014 8:55:28am |
re: #251 The War TARDIS
I’ll admit that my position on Israel-Palestine has been coloured by the Assassination Count Folke Bernadotte, and the Lillehammer Affair.
Though to be fair, Lehi was forcibly disarmed and disbanded for killing Bernadotte.
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Dark_Falcon Jul 4, 2014 8:58:43am |
re: #255 Dark_Falcon
Though to be fair, Lehi was forcibly disarmed and disbanded for killing Bernadotte.
Interesting factoid: Count Folke Bernadotte was the direct descendant of Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, one of Napoleon’s marshals. He was made King of Sweden as way to reward him while removing him from the French Army, as Napoleon though him lacking the initiative a Marshal of France needed, this being made clear in Napoleon’s eyes by Marshal Bernadotte’s following previous orders and marching his corps down a road in 1806. It should have been clear to Bernadotte that both Napoleon’s main body and Marshal Louis Davout’s III Corps were engaged with the Prussians, yet Bernadotte moved to aid neither force. France won the twin battles of Jena-Aurerstadt, but Napoleon never forgot Bernadotte’s failure to think.
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Eventual Carrion Jul 4, 2014 9:00:07am |
re: #163 darthstar
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No wonder it broke. They put the steering wheel on the wrong side.
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calochortus Jul 4, 2014 9:00:14am |
Good morning and a very happy Independence Day to all.
It is a lovely cool morning here. I have much to do before it gets hot, so naturally I’m having a second cup of coffee and hanging out on line.
But I’m doing it out on the deck, so I’m sure that counts for something.
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Gus Jul 4, 2014 9:08:30am |
Think of it this way Opie & Anthony fans. Perhaps SIRIUSXM fired Anthony Cumia for religious reasons. AMIRITE! Bwahahaha.— Gus (@Gus_802) July 4, 2014
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Killgore Trout Jul 4, 2014 9:09:44am |
re: #259 Gus
Bummer. It seems to be true. Not surprising in today’s climate. The show has been floundering on XM anyways. They’ve been talking about going independent and doing a podcast/internet thing for the past couple years. IIRC their contract is over in October anyways. I’m looking forward to what they do next.
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Killgore Trout Jul 4, 2014 9:12:16am |
After the wkend, I'll have a better idea of things. Fuck Sirius. I'll pop on the Compound show next week and discuss this with TOTAL FREEDOM— Anthony Cumia (@AnthonyCumia) July 4, 2014
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calochortus Jul 4, 2014 9:12:35am |
Live by the stupid remark, die by the stupid remark.
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bratwurst Jul 4, 2014 9:14:01am |
re: #261 Killgore Trout
Bummer. It seems to be true. Not surprising in today’s climate.
Yes, “today’s climate” is just not as friendly to virulent racism as you might like. Bummer.
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Decatur Deb Jul 4, 2014 9:15:40am |
re: #263 calochortus
Live by the stupid remark, die by the stupid remark.
Since his ‘fuck-in’ at St Patrick’s cathedral, he’s been trying to find The Edge.
Found it.
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calochortus Jul 4, 2014 9:18:05am |
re: #265 Decatur Deb
Since his ‘fuck-in’ at St Patrick’s cathedral, he’s been trying to find The Edge.
Found it.
Fell over it.
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Decatur Deb Jul 4, 2014 9:18:37am |
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bratwurst Jul 4, 2014 9:19:21am |
Do we really have to review the difference between free speech and consequence-free speech again? How in the world do people of seemingly above average intelligence not get this?
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Decatur Deb Jul 4, 2014 9:20:08am |
re: #268 bratwurst
Do we really have to review the difference between free speech and consequence-free speech again? How in the world do people of seemingly above average intelligence not get this?
The market will speak.
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Killgore Trout Jul 4, 2014 9:20:24am |
re: #263 calochortus
Live by the stupid remark, die by the stupid remark.
It might have been suicide by stupid remark. They’ve been talking about leaving XM for years. They’ve left previous jobs with the same tactic of blowing up (and getting publicity) and getting themselves fired to pursue other opportunities. I’ve listened to them every day for a very long time. The corporate environment at XM just isn’t conclusive to good talk radio. the business model was to hire big name celebrities (Martha Stewart, Eminem, etc) to put their name on a channel with no investment in on air talent. The celebrities just collected a huge fee to use their names with no involvement or even air time on the channel.XM just doen’t invest in on air talent or content for their talk stations.
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calochortus Jul 4, 2014 9:22:45am |
re: #270 Killgore Trout
Could be. I’m not familiar with these people, don’t listen to XM, and am not amused by juvenile and/or intentionally offensive “humor”.
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Gus Jul 4, 2014 9:23:03am |
Anthony Cumia getting fired signifies the end of everything!
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lawhawk Jul 4, 2014 9:23:24am |
re: #268 bratwurst
Do we really have to review the difference between free speech and consequence-free speech again? How in the world do people of seemingly above average intelligence not get this?
Or free speech and speech that can be restricted by corporate or individual interests? 1st Amendment inapplicable to how or whether a corporation can fire someone for saying stupid/racist/hateful statements and the government has nothing to do with any of it?
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Gus Jul 4, 2014 9:23:30am |
Back in the good old days you could get fired for saying “shit” on the air.
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Decatur Deb Jul 4, 2014 9:24:11am |
re: #271 calochortus
Could be. I’m not familiar with these people, don’t listen to XM, and am not amused by juvenile and/or intentionally offensive “humor”.
My truck doesn’t have XM, or a radio.
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Justanotherhuman Jul 4, 2014 9:26:48am |
re: #271 calochortus
Could be. I’m not familiar with these people, don’t listen to XM, and am not amused by juvenile and/or intentionally offensive “humor”.
Same here. A very popular morning show in Charlotte degenerated into a lot of racism and rightwing bullshit after 9/11. It was tolerable before because they played a lot of classic rock; afterwards, it was apparent who they really were—had just been there for the drugs and rock n roll, like others I’d seen and moved on to become rightwing assholes.
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Eventual Carrion Jul 4, 2014 9:27:43am |
re: #275 Decatur Deb
My truck doesn’t have XM, or a radio.
Does your steering wheel at least have a harmonica holder?
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Decatur Deb Jul 4, 2014 9:28:25am |
re: #277 Eventual Carrion
Does your steering wheel at least have a harmonica holder?
Did you miss the vise-grip threadlet?
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calochortus Jul 4, 2014 9:28:28am |
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calochortus Jul 4, 2014 9:29:46am |
re: #276 Justanotherhuman
Same here. A very popular morning show in Charlotte degenerated into a lot of racism and rightwing bullshit after 9/11. It was tolerable before because they played a lot of classic rock; afterwards, it was apparent who they really were—had just been there for the drugs and rock n roll, like others I’d seen and moved on to become rightwing assholes.
The trouble with asshole radio (be it right or left-though right seems way more common) is that it is monumentally boring.
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Decatur Deb Jul 4, 2014 9:30:15am |
re: #279 calochortus
How do you listen to NPR while driving?
Other truck. (The old one only goes about 50 mi/month. Antarctic penguins thank me for that.)
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bubba zanetti Jul 4, 2014 9:30:32am |
“haha women, you can't force a business to provide you with contraception. hello, siriusXM i demand you rehire my favorite racist radio guy”— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) July 4, 2014
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Gus Jul 4, 2014 9:30:42am |
CSPAN callers take over Civil Rights Act show with rants agst blacks for ruining America's “White Identity” (VIDEO) http://t.co/wJ63lYNnva— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 4, 2014
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Killgore Trout Jul 4, 2014 9:33:01am |
Now that I think about it I’m pretty sure it was intentional. They’ve been dropping a lot of hints lately and over the past 2-3 months they’ve been taking a lot of time off. Only doing very short shows 3 or 4 days a week. I assume they were burning up their vacation time before getting themselves fired.
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calochortus Jul 4, 2014 9:33:17am |
re: #283 Gus
White identity?? Who cares? That’s every bit as stupid as the idea a non-white kid getting good grades is “acting white.” How’s about we aim for standards that aren’t based on skin color-which really isn’t highly relevant to morals.
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sagehen Jul 4, 2014 9:33:36am |
re: #259 Gus
I’d like to hear from the woman in that picture… I’m sure she has a story to tell, and I’d give heavy odds it it doesn’t match with the way he tells it.
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Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut Jul 4, 2014 9:34:33am |
re: #261 Killgore Trout
Bummer. It seems to be true. Not surprising in today’s climate. The show has been floundering on XM anyways. They’ve been talking about going independent and doing a podcast/internet thing for the past couple years. IIRC their contract is over in October anyways. I’m looking forward to what they do next.
You’re looking forwards to what the guy who called black people ‘animals’ is going to do next?
Why?
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Killgore Trout Jul 4, 2014 9:38:59am |
re: #286 sagehen
I’d like to hear from the woman in that picture… I’m sure she has a story to tell, and I’d give heavy odds it it doesn’t match with the way he tells it.
O&A like to talk of themselves as doing “real” radio but it is theater and a lot of stuff is preplanned/staged. There was no police report filed, despite Cumia’s claim of assault. I would not be terribly shocked to learn this was part of a bit to generate publicity and buzz.
Remember all those corny bits from DJ’s in the 70’s and 80’s? - “I broke into the boss’s office and stole the WHO tickets. I know I’m going to be in trouble but I’ll give them to the 200th caller”. Radio has a long tradition of this sort of thing.
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Pie-onist Overlord Jul 4, 2014 9:39:01am |
Patriots staying classy on the 4th of July
#FourthofJuly: #America to free herself from “King #Obama The Despot;” just as we did from King George III 238 years ago. #tcot— Nicholas Sabalos (@nicholassabalos) July 4, 2014
Anagrams Anyone? “PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA” - when you rearrange the letters: “AN ARAB BACKED IMPOSTER” #tcot— Janie Johnson (@jjauthor) July 4, 2014
Happy 4th of July, Imagine what a Horrible day this is for #Obama & ALL of His USA HATING! Staff & ilk who want to DESTROY the USA, #Tcot— Daoine Maithe (@Cobllynau) July 4, 2014
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Killgore Trout Jul 4, 2014 9:40:29am |
Just spent a glorious day photographing the Wood Covered Bridges of Vermont. Did I miss anything?— opie radio (@OpieRadio) July 3, 2014
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Gus Jul 4, 2014 9:40:31am |
re: #290 Pie-onist Overlord
Patriots staying classy on the 4th of July
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I sense a Twitchy type page on this! :D
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Stanley Sea Jul 4, 2014 9:40:56am |
re: #289 Killgore Trout
O&A like to talk of themselves as doing “real” radio but it is theater and a lot of stuff is preplanned/staged. There was no police report filed, despite Cumia’s claim of assault. I would not be terribly shocked to learn this was part of a bit to generate publicity and buzz.
Remember all those corny bits from DJ’s in the 70’s and 80’s? - “I broke into the boss’s office and stole the WHO tickets. I know I’m going to be in trouble but I’ll give them to the 200th caller”. Radio has a long tradition of this sort of thing.
What he tweeted was not corny or silly. It was flat out ugly disgusting racism.
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jaunte Jul 4, 2014 9:40:59am |
re: #290 Pie-onist Overlord
Anagrams for Janie Johnson include “Hajji Neons On”
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Justanotherhuman Jul 4, 2014 9:41:05am |
re: #283 Gus
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Scully always looks scared. I hope he had a word with the screeners later, but I doubt it. He slants to the right himself, from what I’ve read.
It’s pretty obvious, from my own discussions with white guys, that they feel inferior to the white ruling class—why can’t I be rich, I’m white?—you know that attitude and they never, ever consider the class they’re relegated to. They think deep down that white people, no matter who they are, deserve a better break than any other race and believe all the stereotypes they hear from RW politicians and radio jocks. They’re the ones who would never accept a Black boss or superior at work or (or an Hispanic, for that matter), if they were forced to do so, would not hide their resentment very easily. I know too many who think they should get ahead with very little education and only with connections because their daddy did it with an 8th grade education. If that’s not white privilege, I don’t know what is.
These are the people who are ripe for a fascist-type takeover.
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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 4, 2014 9:42:25am |
My cat is sad because he became a DJ but got sacked for only playing country songs about alcoholism & personal defeat pic.twitter.com/hf2VjsGsnQ
— WHY MY CAT IS SAD (@MYSADCAT) June 30, 2014
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Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut Jul 4, 2014 9:42:35am |
re: #289 Killgore Trout
Hrm. “I stole WHO tickets”
“”It’s really open season on white people in this day and age. No recourse. Fight back and you’re a racist. The predators know this. Good luck.”
Oh yeah, those are totally similar.
These are the things that you do that make you look like a moron, Killgore, as well as a deeply unpleasant person.
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Killgore Trout Jul 4, 2014 9:42:46am |
re: #293 Stanley Sea
What he tweeted was not corny or silly. It was flat out ugly disgusting racism.
Yup, that also leans towards my suspicion it might be an intentional publicity stunt.
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bratwurst Jul 4, 2014 9:43:23am |
re: #287 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut
You’re looking forwards to what the guy who called black people ‘animals’ is going to do next?
Why?
Who WOULDN’T want to listen to this guy “every day for a very long time”?///
They aren't people.— Anthony Cumia (@AnthonyCumia) July 2, 2014
It's a jungle out in our cities after midnight. Violent savages own the streets. They all came 2 defend this pig. I had to yell like at dogs— Anthony Cumia (@AnthonyCumia) July 2, 2014
(Those are actually among the least obscene tweets…if you really want to see how far this “humorist” goes, you can click here)
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Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut Jul 4, 2014 9:44:41am |
re: #298 Killgore Trout
Yup, that also leans towards my suspicion it might be an intentional publicity stunt.
And you’re looking forwards to what the amazingly racist asshole does next.
I’m going to guess more racism, myself. Maybe some misogyny, possibly some vicious homophobia.
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Stanley Sea Jul 4, 2014 9:44:58am |
re: #298 Killgore Trout
Yup, that also leans towards my suspicion it might be an intentional publicity stunt.
For rubes like you who don’t give a shit.
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Pie-onist Overlord Jul 4, 2014 9:45:56am |
re: #292 Gus
I sense a Twitchy type page on this! :D
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calochortus Jul 4, 2014 9:46:21am |
My second cup of coffee is history, it is still reasonably cool out, so I’m heading out for a walk.
BBL
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Justanotherhuman Jul 4, 2014 9:46:32am |
re: #298 Killgore Trout
Yup, that also leans towards my suspicion it might be an intentional publicity stunt.
You really are trying to make up excuses for that virulent racist rant, aren’t you?
Disgusting.
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TedStriker Jul 4, 2014 9:46:58am |
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jaunte Jul 4, 2014 9:47:16am |
Neighbors across the back fence are blasting awful auto-tune country for their tweener daughter’s pool party. I just cain’t get away from country music.
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Killgore Trout Jul 4, 2014 9:47:16am |
An article from yesterday (before the firing)
‘Opie and Anthony’ shock jock Anthony Cumia’s sad, racist double standards
There is, of course, every reason to be skeptical. Cumia makes a living setting up pranks and saying outrageous things, and after 20 years of doing so, it would be foolhardy for listeners, whether skeptics or enthusiastic fans, not to be looking out for the setup to some punchline.
The pictures Cumia tweeted do not exactly support his account, either, unless he is in the habit of taking pictures of scaffolding on nondescript city streets. The photo he describes as the inciting incident shows a woman who is already agitated, not caught by surprise, which might suggest some prior provocation.
And as upset as Cumia claims to be, he did not take the next logical step and call in the alleged incident. A New York Police Department spokesman checked for me and said no Anthony Cumia had filed a report for a Tuesday altercation.
But whether or not Cumia was assaulted is not actually the point. Cumia himself made sure of that when he took to Twitter in the small hours on Wednesday morning to pontificate on the state of New York and African Americans in a rant amply documented by Gawker. (Both the Gawker post and links to Cumia’s tweets that appear later in this piece contain wildly obscene and offensive language.) It is a fascinating document of a kind of thinking about crime that plays an increasing role in our policy debates and of the sensitivities of people who think they have an exclusive monopoly on the right to transgress. (Update: Per Cumia’s Twitter, he has been let go from Sirius.)
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Pie-onist Overlord Jul 4, 2014 9:49:41am |
I’m going to bake a blueberry pie now. :)
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Gus Jul 4, 2014 9:51:25am |
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the govt fears the people, there is liberty.Jefferson pic.twitter.com/Rv8r6MyLI6— Janie Johnson (@jjauthor) July 4, 2014
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Decatur Deb Jul 4, 2014 9:53:37am |
re: #308 Killgore Trout
An article from yesterday (before the firing)
‘Opie and Anthony’ shock jock Anthony Cumia’s sad, racist double standards
The Bundy militia should put snipers on the Brooklyn Bridge to keep Cumia from being cut out of the herd.
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Feline Fearless Leader Jul 4, 2014 9:53:56am |
(Alistair Cooke voice)
In today’s episode of Troutrage Theatre concern is expressed about Anthony’s misunderstood tweets and whether these might be misinterpreted and cast a pall of gloom on his future employment status.
(/Alistair Cooke voice)
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jaunte Jul 4, 2014 9:54:03am |
“If the obstacles of bigotry and priest-craft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else.”
—Thomas Jefferson, April 13, 1811
yamaguchy.com
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Feline Fearless Leader Jul 4, 2014 9:55:07am |
Back from a rain-free walk. Bread and groceries were purchased, as well as two very nice French macaron cookies.
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thedopefishlives Jul 4, 2014 9:55:37am |
re: #316 Feline Fearless Leader
Back from a rain-free walk. Bread and groceries were purchased, as well as two very nice French macaron cookies.
HOW DARE YOU PURCHASE SOMETHING FRENCH ON ‘MERICA DAY!!!! DERP!!!!
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Eventual Carrion Jul 4, 2014 9:55:46am |
re: #311 Gus
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And why plead the fifth when “I don’t recall”, “I can’t remember” works just as well.
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makeitstop Jul 4, 2014 9:55:51am |
Hey, Lizards,
I’ve been doing a few gigs with a guy who is on the air on Long Island radio and knows Anthony Cumia….
This ain’t no stunt. Dude’s a straight up racist dickhead. I was talking to my radio friend and he said it’s been an open secret for years just how racist and fucked up everyone involved with that show is.
And Cumia’s brother is one of my Facebook wingnuts. HE went off on FB yesterday demanding every immigrant be arrested and deported immediately.
So it runs in the family, too. Publicity stunt, my ass. He’s a fucking racist, and people should drop the rationalizations and recognize that fact.
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William Barnett-Lewis Jul 4, 2014 9:55:54am |
re: #305 Justanotherhuman
You really are trying to make up excuses for that virulent racist rant, aren’t you?
Disgusting.
Only way KT would be happier is if he’d hurt a young woman at the same time.
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Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut Jul 4, 2014 9:56:57am |
re: #319 makeitstop
It also doesn’t matter if it was a ‘stunt’ or not. It doesn’t matter if someone’s racism is sincere or just a calculated thing to appeal to people like Killgore. It’s still racism, and it still has all the negative effects of racism.
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Feline Fearless Leader Jul 4, 2014 9:57:32am |
re: #318 Eventual Carrion
And why plead the fifth when “I don’t recall”, “I can’t remember” works just as well.
One of my favorite Peter Gabriel songs.
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PhillyPretzel Jul 4, 2014 9:57:45am |
OT I noticed that 1PeterG1 is hanging around in the thread I created on Hurricane Arthur. Is he waiting for something or about to create something?
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Decatur Deb Jul 4, 2014 9:57:55am |
re: #319 makeitstop
Hey, Lizards,
I’ve been doing a few gigs with a guy who is on the air on Long Island radio and knows Anthony Cumia….
This ain’t no stunt. Dude’s a straight up racist dickhead. I was talking to my radio friend and he said it’s been an open secret for years just how racist and fucked up everyone involved with that show is.
And Cumia’s brother is one of my Facebook wingnuts. HE went off on FB yesterday demanding every immigrant be arrested and deported immediately.
So it runs in the family, too. Publicity stunt, my ass. He’s a fucking racist, and people should drop the rationalizations and recognize that fact.
Let me tell you one more thing I know about New York Italians.
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Feline Fearless Leader Jul 4, 2014 9:59:26am |
re: #320 William Barnett-Lewis
Only way KT would be happier is if he’d hurt a young woman at the same time.
Maybe their next stunt is to see if they can be obnoxious enough to get pepper sprayed.
//
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bratwurst Jul 4, 2014 9:59:45am |
re: #321 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut
It also doesn’t matter if it was a ‘stunt’ or not. It doesn’t matter if someone’s racism is sincere or just a calculated thing to appeal to people like Killgore. It’s still racism, and it still has all the negative effects of racism.
Now wait just a minute…you mean to say that the ends of him getting out of his contract don’t justify the means of him saying African-Americans aren’t people and calling them violent savages and animals?!?!
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EPR-radar Jul 4, 2014 10:00:19am |
re: #321 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut
It also doesn’t matter if it was a ‘stunt’ or not. It doesn’t matter if someone’s racism is sincere or just a calculated thing to appeal to people like Killgore. It’s still racism, and it still has all the negative effects of racism.
This is a case where intent is pretty much irrelevant. The act speaks for itself.
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TedStriker Jul 4, 2014 10:00:54am |
re: #274 Gus
Back in the good old days you could get fired for saying “shit” on the air.
Or “booger”.
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Stanley Sea Jul 4, 2014 10:02:51am |
No place to be: nasty crash http://t.co/xWLXU1DIcY involving stolen #Tesla shuts down La Brea via @KatieFalkenberg pic.twitter.com/DidwcuRpzk
— Jeremiah M Bogert Jr (@jbogertjr) July 4, 2014
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JustMark Jul 4, 2014 10:05:56am |
Howdy Lizards, happy 4th! I decided to not post anything political on FB or the Twitters today in the hope of avoiding any divisive encounters with my RWNJ friends. Call me naive, but I still think that there’s more that unites us than divides us and on today, I won’t test that theory. Thanks for being a source or moral and intellectual enrichment day in and day out! E pluribus unum!
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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 4, 2014 10:06:31am |
re: #323 PhillyPretzel
OT I noticed that 1PeterG1 is hanging around in the thread I created on Hurricane Arthur. Is he waiting for something or about to create something?
Probably waiting to show his expertise on hurricanes, should anyone mention anything sciency…
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Feline Fearless Leader Jul 4, 2014 10:06:37am |
re: #330 Stanley Sea
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Article says the Telsa split in two, and it looks like it was lengthwise.
O_o
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Gus Jul 4, 2014 10:07:03am |
So, on Hobby Lobby, wingers believe your employer's beliefs trump employees, on Anthony Cumia, SiriusXM had no right to fire him. Morons.— Zandar (@ZandarVTS) July 4, 2014
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FemNaziBitch Jul 4, 2014 10:07:21am |
re: #109 A Mom Anon
I remember seeing a documentary awhile ago about meth and there was a part of it about Quaaludes and how we were able to stem that problem back in the 80s. The main ingredient in Quaaludes stopped being manufactured, the pills disappeared. I’m simplifying this of course, but if ephedra was no longer produced by the pharmaceutical industry, we’d have no meth. I think there are only one or two factories in the world that produce ephedra, but the main problem is consumers want it for decongestant purposes and so money trumps public health.
What it does to people is horrifying, it’s truly just an awful thing.
For those of us with chronic sinus problems and year-long allergies, the pseudophed substitutes just don’t work.
I’m very happy to present my driver’s license and sign every month to get a med that allowed me to breathe thru my nose.
I notice, tho, that for my son, the OTC stuff works just fine. So, hopefully, it has something to do with my age and long time usage of such meds.
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PhillyPretzel Jul 4, 2014 10:07:44am |
re: #332 Backwoods_Sleuth
Maybe he should go work for the National Hurricane Center; if they will have him.
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FemNaziBitch Jul 4, 2014 10:08:49am |
re: #96 lawhawk
Looks like it took less than a week for Ginsberg’s dissent to be prescient and show that the Hobby Lobby ruling has legs and reach far beyond the so-called limited ruling that the majority and the right wing claimed.
None of this should be surprising, but it also shows that the right wing simply doesn’t consider birth control to be necessary/useful, and are doing all they can to roll it back, even though it is something all women can potentially find useful at some point in their lives.
They don’t seem to care that pregnancy in and of itself is life threatening. Of course, their women, have access to great healthcare. Poor women don’t count.
I won’t go into the health consequences of repeated, closely spaced pregnancies. Pregnancies of women too young to carry and deliver and older women.
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Gus Jul 4, 2014 10:09:56am |
Freetoken’s gone missing. Last comments were on June 16th.
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Killgore Trout Jul 4, 2014 10:10:07am |
Germany arrests suspected double agent spying for U.S.: lawmakers
The man, who is German, has admitted passing to an American contact details about a special German parliamentary committee set up to investigate the spying revelations made by former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, the politicians said.
Both lawmakers are members of the nine-person parliamentary control committee, whose meetings are confidential, and which is in charge of monitoring the work of German intelligence agencies.
The parliamentary committee investigating the NSA affair also holds some confidential meetings.
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KerFuFFler Jul 4, 2014 10:11:40am |
re: #33 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
Actually it’s eπ⋅i=-1, but I accept your version as a practical approximation.
Actually, I believe it is ” [e to the (i x pi )] -1 = 0”, so you have the sign wrong. Sorry, I am not sure how to type exponents like all you fancy pants!
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Stanley Sea Jul 4, 2014 10:13:29am |
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Justanotherhuman Jul 4, 2014 10:13:44am |
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FemNaziBitch Jul 4, 2014 10:14:14am |
re: #110 Backwoods_Sleuth
This was me about calculus in high school…it made no sense at all, and it didn’t help that the math teacher just handed us the textbook and never explained a thing.
Fast forward more than 10 year when I took an applied calculus for business class. It suddenly made complete sense! I could look at a graph and actually SEE the information. I was asked to be a tutor but I couldn’t do it because I couldn’t explain how it worked. I could just see that it did. Apparently my brain makes a leap from the formulas straight to the end results.
I think a lot of that is part of my problem with math. There are things I seem to inherently know, but can’t explain in math vocabulary words. Anything I don’t need or think is interesting I don’t care to know about.
My foodie friend says she uses algebra when converting recipes. I just wing it. What I cooks turns out just fine.
The science and math part of my brain is expressed thru art. It’s bent a little.
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Gus Jul 4, 2014 10:14:20am |
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Feline Fearless Leader Jul 4, 2014 10:15:15am |
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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 4, 2014 10:15:36am |
re: #338 Gus
Freetoken’s gone missing. Last comments were on June 16th.
chadu is also missing…last comment was April 2.
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Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut Jul 4, 2014 10:16:21am |
re: #331 JustMark
Howdy Lizards, happy 4th! I decided to not post anything political on FB or the Twitters today in the hope of avoiding any divisive encounters with my RWNJ friends. Call me naive, but I still think that there’s more that unites us than divides us and on today, I won’t test that theory. Thanks for being a source or moral and intellectual enrichment day in and day out! E pluribus unum!
I try to keep 4th of July related conversation with those relatives limited to our common relatives who were war heroes in WWII. Seems appropriate, and it’s safe middle ground.
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FemNaziBitch Jul 4, 2014 10:16:27am |
re: #115 A Mom Anon
I know it works well, I used to take it sometimes when I first moved to GA and the pine pollen was just astonishing. There had been talk at one point of making it a prescription only medication, but the drug companies and consumers pretty much shouted that down. You’d think with all our technology we could find alternatives that couldn’t be used for other things.
A side thought too:
For a country that’s supposed to be so super shiny and awesome all the time 24/7/365, we seem to have a large number of very unhappy people on a large amount of all kinds of drugs. Maybe things aren’t so super after all?
You just now figuring that out?
:0
Actually, alcohol has been the drug of choice from the beginning.
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FemNaziBitch Jul 4, 2014 10:17:35am |
re: #117 Justanotherhuman
Most of the time here they just want to give you Claritin, which I’ve tried and doesn’t work well for me. It also comes w/pseudoephedrine, so there are 2 formulas. Stahist contains pseudoephedrine.
They also want to give nasal sprays which play havoc with my membranes. I’ll stick with my old fashioned anti-histimines and mucinex-D AND MY NETI POT!!!
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Stanley Sea Jul 4, 2014 10:18:38am |
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FemNaziBitch Jul 4, 2014 10:20:53am |
re: #137 wheat-dogghazi
You mean to replace the handle, I guess. That’s what I’d do in an emergency like this. To hell with replacing the faucet.
WEll, one could always borrow a faucet from a little used bathroom (or a neighbor if they aren’t looking).
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FemNaziBitch Jul 4, 2014 10:23:05am |
re: #158 Feline Fearless Leader
Said repair kit must include duct tape. Since if the women don’t find you handsome, they can at least find you handy!
Duct Tape is my tool of choice.
I have it in several colors.
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FemNaziBitch Jul 4, 2014 10:24:55am |
re: #177 William Barnett-Lewis
I have mine flying today.
No, not me.
I am not feeling the least bit patriotic or thankful.
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FemNaziBitch Jul 4, 2014 10:29:54am |
re: #275 Decatur Deb
My truck doesn’t have XM, or a radio.
I listen to the Symphony Channel.
It calms my nerves.
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KerFuFFler Jul 4, 2014 10:30:11am |
re: #96 lawhawk
None of this should be surprising, but it also shows that the right wing simply doesn’t consider birth control to be necessary/useful, and are doing all they can to roll it back, even though it is something all women can potentially find useful at some point in their lives.
And for all that conservatives rail against immigration———especially from Mexico and further south——-don’t they realize that it is fueled by the explosive growth of population that outpaces their economy’s ability to grow? Fighting family planning outreach south of the border adds to the calamitous conditions that make people pick up and move here.
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FemNaziBitch Jul 4, 2014 10:32:23am |
re: #307 jaunte
Neighbors across the back fence are blasting awful auto-tune country for their tweener daughter’s pool party. I just cain’t get away from country music.
Most cities have noise ordinances.
Yes, I”ve actually called the police on neighbors for noise violations before.
First time when my son was an infant and couldn’t sleep because of it.
Now, it just bothers the shit out of me.
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William Barnett-Lewis Jul 4, 2014 10:32:31am |
re: #346 Backwoods_Sleuth
chadu is also missing…last comment was April 2.
I’ve seen chadu over at the boardgamegeeks wargames forum. Perhaps we ran him off? :(
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jaunte Jul 4, 2014 10:35:50am |
re: #358 FemNaziBitch
This probably doesn’t meet the standard for over-loud, it’s just super-annoying content.
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Decatur Deb Jul 4, 2014 10:53:51am |
re: #356 FemNaziBitch
I listen to the Symphony Channel.
It calms my nerves.
I listen for grinding/squealing/deathrattle noises. It’s an old truck.
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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 4, 2014 10:55:57am |
re: #361 Decatur Deb
I listen for grinding/squealing/deathrattle noises. It’s an old truck.
I crank up the volume so I do not have to listen to those noises…
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Ryan King Jul 5, 2014 6:22:30am |
re: #300 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut
And you’re looking forwards to what the amazingly racist asshole does next.
I’m going to guess more racism, myself. Maybe some misogyny, possibly some vicious homophobia.
Of course he doesn’t mean any of it, it’s just for show, right?
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