Incredible Solo Guitar Version of the Commodores’ “Easy,” by Petteri Sariola

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Wow. No overdubs and no backing track.

Petteri Sariola’s 3rd solo album “Through The Eyes Of Others” is now available worldwide.

USA, CANADA, EUROPE: http://www.candyrat.com/artists/PetteriSariola
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Video by Jussi-Petteri Kemppainen
Recorded by Jyri Sariola at Mimix Studio
Mixed by Petteri & Jyri Sariola
Mastered by Jyri Sariola

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226 comments
1 b_sharp  Aug 2, 2014 12:12:10pm

The young up and coming guitarists are phenomenal. Every generation they get better.

2 wrenchwench  Aug 2, 2014 12:15:04pm

re: #1 b_sharp

The young up and coming guitarists are phenomenal. Every generation they get better.

And it’s so nice when they can sing, too.

3 b_sharp  Aug 2, 2014 12:21:12pm

re: #2 wrenchwench

And it’s so nice when they can sing, too.

I can sing. My range is 1/8 of an octave.

4 makeitstop  Aug 2, 2014 12:23:06pm

Damn, that was good.

What is it with these Italian guitarists and their use of the guitar body for percussion? I’ve seen others do it, but this guy and Luca Stricagnoli seem to have raised it to a high art.

5 wrenchwench  Aug 2, 2014 12:24:19pm

re: #3 b_sharp

I can sing. My range is 1/8 of an octave.

So, the One-Note Samba?

Youtube Video

6 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Aug 2, 2014 12:27:16pm

I have Internet at my new home! Yay!

7 b_sharp  Aug 2, 2014 12:27:16pm

re: #5 wrenchwench

So, the One-Note Samba?

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Video

Not that good.

8 RealityBasedSteve  Aug 2, 2014 12:27:59pm

How is what he’s doing even possible? It boggle my mind. (of course, my mind IS easily bogged, but still….)

RBS

9 wrenchwench  Aug 2, 2014 12:29:29pm

re: #7 b_sharp

Not that good.

Nobody is. She will not be replaced.

10 b_sharp  Aug 2, 2014 12:31:29pm

re: #8 RealityBasedSteve

How is what he’s doing even possible? It boggle my mind. (of course, my mind IS easily bogged, but still….)

RBS

He phase shifts between several universes where he plays each line simultaneously.

11 Gus  Aug 2, 2014 12:33:41pm

Hello. My name is Galt. Forrest Galt.

12 b_sharp  Aug 2, 2014 12:34:34pm

re: #11 Gus

Hello. My name is Galt. Forrest Galt.

Would you like a box of chocolates or just the box?

13 Gus  Aug 2, 2014 12:35:40pm

re: #12 b_sharp

Would you like a box of chocolates or just the box?

The chocolates but only if it’s made from raw chocolate. Because, freedom.

14 Gus  Aug 2, 2014 12:36:53pm

Hello. My name is Forrest. Forrest Galt.

Alternate.

15 wrenchwench  Aug 2, 2014 12:37:58pm

re: #14 Gus

Hello. My name is Forrest. Forrest Galt.

Alternate.

That’s better. The other one makes me think of Bond.

And the chocolates better be Fair Trade.

16 Gus  Aug 2, 2014 12:38:57pm
17 Gus  Aug 2, 2014 12:40:28pm

re: #15 wrenchwench

That’s better. The other one makes me think of Bond.

And the chocolates better be Fair Trade.

For Galt? Coal flavored chocolates.

18 Gus  Aug 2, 2014 12:41:00pm
19 RealityBasedSteve  Aug 2, 2014 12:41:14pm

re: #10 b_sharp

He phase shifts between several universes where he plays each line simultaneously.

oh. geaze, I wish you hadn’t told me that. It’s like a magic trick, once you know how it’s done it’s no big deal. (and I rewatched it in slow-mo, you can see where he shimmers a bit on the phase shifts)

RBS

20 Gus  Aug 2, 2014 12:44:15pm

Results for from:realjameswoods ebola

21 OhNoZombies!  Aug 2, 2014 12:47:01pm

re: #18 Gus

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I bet he thinks he’s clever.
The voices in his head told him so.

22 jaunte  Aug 2, 2014 12:48:30pm
23 RealityBasedSteve  Aug 2, 2014 12:49:46pm

re: #22 jaunte
And the winner of today’s Douchebag Award is…


…

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I don’t know, The Donald is a hard act to trump, but it’s still early.

RBS

24 jaunte  Aug 2, 2014 12:51:49pm

Elysium: the Donald’s favorite pristine orbital resort fantasy spoiled.

25 Gus  Aug 2, 2014 12:53:37pm
26 Dr Lizardo  Aug 2, 2014 12:54:17pm

re: #23 RealityBasedSteve

Someone send this to that circus peanut wearing a badger on his head:

Youtube Video

27 b_sharp  Aug 2, 2014 12:54:44pm

re: #13 Gus

The chocolates but only if it’s made from raw chocolate. Because, freedom.

But the empty box lacks all diversity and the contents are completely known.

28 b_sharp  Aug 2, 2014 12:57:32pm

re: #23 RealityBasedSteve

And the winner of today’s Douchebag Award is…

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…

I don’t know, The Donald is a hard act to trump, but it’s still early.

RBS

Ouch.
That hurt.

29 Gus  Aug 2, 2014 12:59:08pm
30 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 2, 2014 12:59:41pm

re: #25 Gus

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No he wouldn’t! It was he who decreed: “Suffer little children!”

31 Gus  Aug 2, 2014 1:02:16pm

re: #30 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

No he wouldn’t! It was he who decreed: “Suffer little children!”

That’s what it says in the Holy Bible Atlas Shrugged.

32 A Mom Anon  Aug 2, 2014 1:02:57pm

re: #25 Gus

And when in the everloving FUCK has Donald Trump suffered consequences for a damned thing? Suffer the consequences? OMFG, shut up you freaking hair challenged buffoon. Go roll in a pile of money and STFU you blithering coward.

The idiotic fearmongering effects way more people than Ebola does/has. What do these morons think is housed in the CDC? Candy Canes and glitter farting unicorns? Yes this is a seriously dangerous disease, but for the love of god, precautions are being taken and the two people being flown here are going to one of the best teaching hospitals in the country. (I have my issues with Emory, but those have nothing to do with this situation, one bad experience with a doctor doesn’t make the whole hospital system a failure) Our Fucking Useless Media also needs to quit treating this like it’s 9/11/01 too.

33 Dr Lizardo  Aug 2, 2014 1:07:01pm

re: #32 A Mom Anon

This 37 second blurb explains the human condition quite nicely, sad to say.

Youtube Video

34 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 2, 2014 1:07:39pm

Atlas Shrugged, Burped and Scratched Butt.

35 b_sharp  Aug 2, 2014 1:08:21pm

re: #32 A Mom Anon

And when in the everloving FUCK has Donald Trump suffered consequences for a damned thing? Suffer the consequences? OMFG, shut up you freaking hair challenged buffoon. Go roll in a pile of money and STFU you blithering coward.

The idiotic fearmongering effects way more people than Ebola does/has. What do these morons think is housed in the CDC? Candy Canes and glitter farting unicorns? Yes this is a seriously dangerous disease, but for the love of god, precautions are being taken and the two people being flown here are going to one of the best teaching hospitals in the country. (I have my issues with Emory, but those have nothing to do with this situation, one bad experience with a doctor doesn’t make the whole hospital system a failure) Our Fucking Useless Media also needs to quit treating this like it’s 9/11/01 too.

The CDC already stores the world’s worst diseases and has the highest security equipment. It isn’t like the average hospital.

36 ObserverArt  Aug 2, 2014 1:09:57pm

re: #34 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Atlas Shrugged, Burped and Scratched Butt.

And then went back to bed.

37 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 2, 2014 1:10:25pm

re: #34 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Atlas Shrugged, Burped and Scratched Butt.

In the “Objectivism for Hillbillies” series.

38 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Aug 2, 2014 1:12:46pm

re: #34 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Atlas Shrugged, Burped and Scratched Butt.

Howard Roarke stood naked on the edge of a cliff and said “I know Kung Fu.”

39 jaunte  Aug 2, 2014 1:14:02pm

Perrotti came to the attention of the Secret Service when he posted, “”I am going to kill Obama even if it takes a lifetime,” on one of his Twitter accounts.

The Twitter account, where Perrotti described himself as “just a jobless 26-year-old with the mindset of genius,” contained multiple threats against the president as well as calling for impeachment.

40 jaunte  Aug 2, 2014 1:15:37pm

Nice to see there’s some occasional consequences for threats on Twitter.

41 Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 2, 2014 1:16:27pm
People that go to far away places to help out are great-but must suffer the consequences!

Only an asshole conservative (Sorry for the redundancy) would believe that people who put themselves at risk to help others should suffer consequences.

On another note; it’s “people who,” not “people that,” you heartless, soulless, ball-less, pig-ignorant mound of bad hair and rancid shit.

42 b_sharp  Aug 2, 2014 1:17:23pm

re: #39 jaunte

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Mindset of genius?

Seriously?

43 jaunte  Aug 2, 2014 1:17:54pm

re: #42 b_sharp

Self-diagnosis.

44 RealityBasedSteve  Aug 2, 2014 1:19:55pm

re: #39 jaunte
The Twitter account, where Perrotti described himself as “just a jobless 26-year-old with the mindset of genius,” contained multiple threats against the president as well as calling for impeachment

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I wonder if he’s connected to the guy down stairs who was so superior. Again, I suspect his “Purity of Essence” is safe

RBS

45 thedopefishlives  Aug 2, 2014 1:20:28pm

Afternoon Lizardim. How goes the war on derp?

46 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 2, 2014 1:21:36pm

re: #38 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

“The road is cleared,” said Galt. “We are going back to the world.” He raised his hand and traced in space the sign of the dollar. The mental health commission members who were examining him were not amused.

47 b_sharp  Aug 2, 2014 1:22:28pm

re: #45 thedopefishlives

Afternoon Lizardim. How goes the war on derp?

I don’t know, I can’t watch.

It hurts my brain.

48 wrenchwench  Aug 2, 2014 1:22:58pm

I was out walking around on my lunch break. I passed a guy at a table selling his ceramics. He reads my t-shirt which says ‘I now have only good days and great days.’ The signature is illegible. The guy asks, ‘Who said that, Saul Alinsky?’ I said, ‘No, Lance Armstrong, but you were pretty close.’ Three people nearby laughed.

49 Eventual Carrion  Aug 2, 2014 1:24:29pm

re: #43 jaunte

Self-diagnosis.

“If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

50 Charles Johnson  Aug 2, 2014 1:25:43pm

Israel’s Operation in Gaza to Last as Long as Necessary, Netanyahu Says

The Associated Press reported that Mr. Netanyahu had expressed frustration with Washington’s diplomatic efforts in a Friday phone call to Dan Shapiro, the United States ambassador to Israel. Mr. Netanyahu told Mr. Shapiro he expected the Obama administration to back Israel’s Gaza offensive and “not to ever second-guess me again” regarding Hamas, The A.P. said, citing people familiar with the conversation.

Right wing blogs are cheering Netanyahu for this arrogant comment, of course. But if Netanyahu wants US support for Israel to keep declining, all he needs to do is keep saying stuff like this, while coming to us with his hand out for financial and military support.

51 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Aug 2, 2014 1:26:30pm

re: #46 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

“The road is cleared,” said Galt. “We are going back to the world.” He raised his hand and traced in space the sign of the dollar. The mental health commission members who were examining him were not amused.

“I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle,” he said.

“I don’t care,” the waiter said, “You can have fries or potato salad, not both. It’s extra for both.”

52 jaunte  Aug 2, 2014 1:26:45pm

The Continuing Decline of News Reporting, part eleventy:

Houston area woman sues KHOU news for false report (picked up by Nancy Grace), citing fears of vigilantes:

“…An editor’s note since added to the story on the KHOU website says, “The witness who shot the cell phone video was mistaken when he thought the mother left the children in the car while she got a haircut. We have removed that part of the story.”

The note goes on to confirm Cisneros’ story. “The mother accidentally locked her keys in the car and recruited other witnesses to help smash the window,” the editor’s note says.”
chron.com

53 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Aug 2, 2014 1:26:59pm

re: #50 Charles Johnson

Also, rudeness aside, everyone needs and benefits from advice from allies.

54 Gus  Aug 2, 2014 1:27:49pm

55 jaunte  Aug 2, 2014 1:28:26pm

re: #50 Charles Johnson

not to ever second-guess me again

That could be an expensive tantrum.

56 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 2, 2014 1:29:10pm

re: #50 Charles Johnson

I’ll wait for further confirmation/context. But if they don’t change anything, that is indeed beyond arrogant. He could say that to the EU or the UN, but not to its main ally who gives Israel billions upon billions of $.

57 Charles Johnson  Aug 2, 2014 1:29:22pm

re: #53 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Also, rudeness aside, everyone needs and benefits from advice from allies.

It’s another sign of how far to the right the Israeli government has swung. Netanyahu is playing to the far right in Israel and the US, and continues subverting President Obama with statements like this. It’s a conscious strategy.

58 Gus  Aug 2, 2014 1:29:45pm

“…not to ever second-guess me AGAIN!“

Or what?

59 Dr Lizardo  Aug 2, 2014 1:30:18pm

re: #46 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

“The road is cleared,” said Galt. “We are going back to the world.” He raised his hand and traced in space the sign of the dollar. The mental health commission members who were examining him were not amused.

By any chance, have you read The Good Soldier Švejk? Because that reminds me of a passage in the Jaroslav Haᘞk’s masterful satire.

“Long live our sacred Emperor, Franz Joseph I, gentlemen.”
The case was clear as daylight; the doctors conferred and immediately concluded that Švejk was surely a madman.
Svejk’s spontaneous declaration of loyalty to the Emperor disposed of a whole range of questions, and there remained only a few very important questions which were needed so that from Svejk’s answers the initial opinion could be confirmed according to the system of the psychiatrist Dr Kallerson, Dr Heveroch, and the Englishman, Weiking.
“Is radium heavier than lead?”
“Please sir, I haven’t weighed it,” answered Svejk with his sweet smile.
“Do you believe in the end of the world?”
“I’d have to see that end first,” Svejk answered nonchalantly. “But certainly I shan’t see it tomorrow.”
“Would you know how to calculate the diameter of the globe?”
“No, I’m afraid I wouldn’t,” answered Svejk, “but I’d like to ask you a riddle myself, gentlemen.
Take a three-storied house, with eight windows on each floor. On the roof there are two dormer windows and two chimneys.
On every floor there are two tenants. And now, tell me, gentlemen, in which year the house-porter’s grandmother died?”

60 b_sharp  Aug 2, 2014 1:30:31pm

re: #58 Gus

“…not to ever second-guess me AGAIN!“

Or what?

He’ll repeat himself.

61 thedopefishlives  Aug 2, 2014 1:30:41pm

re: #57 Charles Johnson

It’s another sign of how far to the right the Israeli government has swung. Netanyahu is playing to the far right in Israel and the US, and continues subverting President Obama with statements like this. It’s a conscious strategy.

He’s pandering to his base, apparently. He knows who foots the bill for all the foreign aid we send there.

62 Charles Johnson  Aug 2, 2014 1:31:06pm
63 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 2, 2014 1:31:57pm

re: #58 Gus

“…not to ever second-guess me AGAIN!“

Or what?

Or this!

64 Ryan King  Aug 2, 2014 1:32:38pm

The right loves tough talk and wargarble.

65 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 2, 2014 1:33:02pm

re: #59 Dr Lizardo

Most Soviets have but I, to my shame, haven’t. Gotta remedy this some time in the future.

66 wrenchwench  Aug 2, 2014 1:33:58pm

OK, that does look like it says ‘Saul Alinsky’.

67 jaunte  Aug 2, 2014 1:34:52pm

re: #66 wrenchwench

Or Ship Ahoy

68 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 2, 2014 1:35:18pm

re: #56 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

I’ll wait for further confirmation/context. But if they don’t change anything, that is indeed beyond arrogant. He could say that to the EU or the UN, but not to its main ally who gives Israel billions upon billions of $.

Not to mention a reliable UN SC veto.

69 jaunte  Aug 2, 2014 1:35:25pm

Ahouy

70 Dr Lizardo  Aug 2, 2014 1:35:29pm

re: #65 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Most Soviets have but I, to my shame, haven’t. Gotta remedy this some time in the future.

It’s a classic; one of the greatest satirical novels of the Twentieth Century. According to Joseph Heller, it served as the inspiration for his satire Catch-22.

71 wrenchwench  Aug 2, 2014 1:35:51pm

re: #63 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Or this!
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That image is featured at the blog of our non-hatchling Pager.

72 Ryan King  Aug 2, 2014 1:37:03pm

re: #67 jaunte

Or Ship Ahoy

I got $2 on SXHoug

73 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 2, 2014 1:38:14pm

re: #71 wrenchwench

LOL, that photo there is better!

74 wrenchwench  Aug 2, 2014 1:49:55pm
75 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 2, 2014 1:51:09pm

re: #74 wrenchwench

That’s stupid, inventing those quotes when there are so many real ones. /

76 wrenchwench  Aug 2, 2014 1:52:18pm
77 Romantic Heretic  Aug 2, 2014 1:52:25pm

re: #45 thedopefishlives

Afternoon Lizardim. How goes the war on derp?

I found out what it’s like to have an unpopular opinion here.

78 wrenchwench  Aug 2, 2014 1:54:19pm

re: #77 Romantic Heretic

I found out what it’s like to have an unpopular opinion here.

Did it hurt?

79 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 2, 2014 1:55:11pm

re: #76 wrenchwench

Philosoraptor is confused: pro or contra?

80 Stanley Sea  Aug 2, 2014 1:55:12pm

re: #66 wrenchwench

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OK, that does look like it says ‘Saul Alinsky’.

Who’s Tom?

81 Romantic Heretic  Aug 2, 2014 1:55:34pm

re: #78 wrenchwench

Did it hurt?

Nah. I’m a heretic and used to being derided as an idiot.

82 wrenchwench  Aug 2, 2014 1:59:02pm

re: #80 Stanley Sea

Who’s Tom?

Some guy who got a book signed by Lance and posted it on the internet.

83 Stanley Sea  Aug 2, 2014 1:59:59pm

Omg, there’s a water puddle outside.

A sight not seen in I don’t know how long.

84 Mentis Fugit  Aug 2, 2014 2:00:45pm

re: #58 Gus

“…not to ever second-guess me AGAIN!“

Or what?

“Or I will taunt you a second time!”

85 RealityBasedSteve  Aug 2, 2014 2:02:50pm

re: #83 Stanley Sea

Omg, there’s a water puddle outside.

A sight not seen in I don’t know how long.

take your bar of soap and go have a good bath. That way it won’t affect your water bill.

RBS

86 wrenchwench  Aug 2, 2014 2:03:07pm

re: #79 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Philosoraptor is confused: pro or contra?

They seem pretty liberal.

87 Dr Lizardo  Aug 2, 2014 2:05:32pm

OT, but I must see this film and I haz a sad because I can’t find any info on when - or if - it’s ever gonna open in the Czech Republic.

Youtube Video

88 wrenchwench  Aug 2, 2014 2:10:51pm

They’re using a helicopter to help dry out a baseball field.

89 ObserverArt  Aug 2, 2014 2:15:38pm

re: #41 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Only an asshole conservative (Sorry for the redundancy) would believe that people who put themselves at risk to help others should suffer consequences.

On another note; it’s “people who,” not “people that,” you heartless, soulless, ball-less, pig-ignorant mound of bad hair and rancid shit.

Good rant. Had to upding.

90 ObserverArt  Aug 2, 2014 2:18:44pm

re: #54 Gus

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GOP ACME Scandal Kit - WIle E. Coyote - National Chairman

91 ObserverArt  Aug 2, 2014 2:24:35pm

re: #57 Charles Johnson

It’s another sign of how far to the right the Israeli government has swung. Netanyahu is playing to the far right in Israel and the US, and continues subverting President Obama with statements like this. It’s a conscious strategy.

Do you think Netanyahu is buying into the BS about Obama being weak and thinks he can treat him this way? Sure seems it. Maybe Obama needs to straighten that kind of thinking out a bit. I’m sure he is capable once he concludes its time for a tone change.

92 sagehen  Aug 2, 2014 2:37:23pm

re: #50 Charles Johnson

Israel’s Operation in Gaza to Last as Long as Necessary, Netanyahu Says

Right wing blogs are cheering Netanyahu for this arrogant comment, of course. But if Netanyahu wants US support for Israel to keep declining, all he needs to do is keep saying stuff like this, while coming to us with his hand out for financial and military support.

How many times can the Prime Minister of our most-favored client state spit on our President, and think we won’t start to take it personal?

93 ausador  Aug 2, 2014 2:40:46pm

re: #92 sagehen

How many times can the Prime Minister of our most-favored client state spit on our President, and think we won’t start to take it personal?

Before the mid-terms or after them?

94 b_sharp  Aug 2, 2014 2:43:07pm

re: #81 Romantic Heretic

Nah. I’m a heretic and used to being derided as an idiot.

You just got a light dusting.
I’ve seen far worse.

95 Ryan King  Aug 2, 2014 2:44:22pm

re: #94 b_sharp

You just got a light dusting.
I’ve seen far worse.

Just a flesh wound brah.

96 Kragar  Aug 2, 2014 2:49:40pm

Just got home from seeing Guardian of the Galaxy.

I’m going to go ahead and say I liked it even more than the Avengers and leave it at that.

97 William Barnett-Lewis  Aug 2, 2014 2:50:47pm

re: #96 Kragar

Just got home from seeing Guardian of the Galaxy.

I’m going to go ahead and say I liked it even more than the Avengers and leave it at that.

Been hearing great things about it. To the point where I am actually going to go to a theater on my day off for a matinee - and I hate paying theater prices.

98 Lidane  Aug 2, 2014 2:54:09pm

re: #96 Kragar

Just got home from seeing Guardian of the Galaxy.

I’m going to go ahead and say I liked it even more than the Avengers and leave it at that.

Spoil anything and I’ll flip your desk over. Hehe.

I’m going to see it tomorrow and I’ve put myself on an embargo to avoid spoilers.

99 Kragar  Aug 2, 2014 2:55:12pm

re: #98 Lidane

Spoil anything and I’ll flip your desk over. Hehe.

I’m going to see it tomorrow and I’ve put myself on an embargo to avoid spoilers.

2 words

Dance off

100 b_sharp  Aug 2, 2014 2:55:34pm

re: #98 Lidane

Spoil anything and I’ll flip your desk over. Hehe.

I’m going to see it tomorrow and I’ve put myself on an embargo to avoid spoilers.

The raccoon knocks over a garbage can.

101 Varek Raith  Aug 2, 2014 2:55:38pm

re: #98 Lidane

Spoil anything and I’ll flip your desk over. Hehe.

I’m going to see it tomorrow and I’ve put myself on an embargo to avoid spoilers.

There’s a talking raccoon in it.

102 Lidane  Aug 2, 2014 2:57:09pm

re: #101 Varek Raith

There’s a talking raccoon in it.

Pfft. Not a spoiler. I know that. There’s even a tree that says some combination of “I” and “AM” and “GROOT”.

:)

103 Targetpractice  Aug 2, 2014 2:59:03pm

re: #102 Lidane

Pfft. Not a spoiler. I know that. There’s even a tree that says some combination of “I” and “AM” and “GROOT”.

:)

Unsurprising voiced by Vin “Iron Giant” Diesel. Seems the man’s having more success when his roles consist mostly of him just growling every other syllable.

104 Kragar  Aug 2, 2014 3:01:13pm

Micheal Rooker just chews up just about every scene he is in.

105 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 2, 2014 3:01:16pm
106 Kragar  Aug 2, 2014 3:04:50pm

re: #97 William Barnett-Lewis

Been hearing great things about it. To the point where I am actually going to go to a theater on my day off for a matinee - and I hate paying theater prices.

A place near us has wake up rates, any showing before noon is half price

108 Targetpractice  Aug 2, 2014 3:08:18pm

re: #107 Varek Raith

Revealed: Arizona injected death row inmate Joseph Wood 15 times in botched execution

Didn’t we imprison and execute Nazi scientists for shit like that? Since when did capital punishment become a license for human experimentation?

110 Lidane  Aug 2, 2014 3:17:01pm

re: #22 jaunte

Donald Trump on days that end in Y:

111 Ryan King  Aug 2, 2014 3:19:44pm

What’s f’ed up is how OK people are with pain and suffering as long as somebody ‘deserves it.’ When the father in law of Wood’s victim went on a public tirade about people ‘feeling more sorry for (Woods) than his victim’ it led to a large torrent of derp on FB, even from non-wingnut friends.

Since he was a savage that committed a crime, it’s OK to return the savagery.

112 TedStriker  Aug 2, 2014 3:21:27pm

re: #110 Lidane

Donald Trump on days that end in Y:

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Cute, but I like what a couple of friends of mine have been saying forever:

AUWD (ate up with dumbass)

113 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 2, 2014 3:25:23pm

re: #111 Ryan King

He might or might not have deserved it on the moral/emotional plane, but that wasn’t the punishment prescribed by law, and thus it’s about the criminals who went beyond the law.

114 TedStriker  Aug 2, 2014 3:28:24pm

re: #111 Ryan King

What’s f’ed up is how OK people are with pain and suffering as long as somebody ‘deserves it.’ When the father in law of Wood’s victim went on a public tirade about people ‘feeling more sorry for (Woods) than his victim’ it led to a large torrent of derp on FB, even from non-wingnut friends.

Since he was a savage that committed a crime, it’s OK to return the savagery.

It’s as if some people would have us return to the days of marking criminals ‘outlaws’: no due process, no legal protections, no mercy in their apprehension and punishment. With them, it’s not about justice, it’s purely about revenge and retribution.

Of course, they’d be the first to caterwaul if those shoes were on their feet, but I digress…

115 Eventual Carrion  Aug 2, 2014 3:30:15pm

re: #114 TedStriker

It’s as if some people would have us return to the days of marking criminals ‘outlaws’: no due process, no legal protections, no mercy in their apprehension and punishment.

Of course, they’d be the first to caterwaul if those shoes were on their feet, but I digress…

Like people not paying their cattle grazing fees?

116 Ryan King  Aug 2, 2014 3:31:41pm

re: #113 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

On that aspect any criminality is negligence. But it probably won’t be made out to be a big deal because, well, back to the the original point: he deserved it (the botched execution) somehow someway because he’s such a horrible person.

117 TedStriker  Aug 2, 2014 3:31:56pm

re: #115 Eventual Carrion

Like people not paying their cattle grazing fees?

I like the cut of your jib…

118 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 2, 2014 3:33:35pm

re: #116 Ryan King

Well, “deservedness” is not a legal concept. But inasmuch as politics unfortunately influences the legal system, you’re right.

119 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 2, 2014 3:34:52pm

If there was an intent behind this, they should be investigated for torture.

120 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 2, 2014 3:41:03pm

Fancy Farm is an annual “must” event for politicians.
How is Mitch doing? Glad you asked!

121 thedopefishlives  Aug 2, 2014 3:41:31pm

re: #120 Backwoods_Sleuth

The one by Bill absolutely cracked me up.

122 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 2, 2014 3:42:54pm

re: #121 thedopefishlives

The one by Bill absolutely cracked me up.

me, too.
:D

123 b.d.  Aug 2, 2014 3:45:45pm

Hi Lizards

Hope everyone has avoided catching the Ebola so far.

124 thedopefishlives  Aug 2, 2014 3:46:49pm

re: #123 b.d.

Hi Lizards

Hope everyone has avoided catching the Ebola so far.

GRAAAAAAAAAINS.

Oh, sorry. Wrong disease.

125 ObserverArt  Aug 2, 2014 3:46:56pm

re: #120 Backwoods_Sleuth

Fancy Farm is an annual “must” event for politicians.
How is Mitch doing? Glad you asked!

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These Tweets make me happy. I would love to see Mitch go. And, if he goes, it may also mess with Boehner’s stature in Ohio. Get some second-guessing going around those parts of Ohio.

126 blueraven  Aug 2, 2014 3:49:27pm

re: #120 Backwoods_Sleuth

Fancy Farm is an annual “must” event for politicians.
How if Mitch doing? Glad you asked!

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Heh

127 b.d.  Aug 2, 2014 3:52:19pm

We’re not going to miss you Mitch.

128 Eventual Carrion  Aug 2, 2014 3:54:09pm

re: #123 b.d.

Hi Lizards

Hope everyone has avoided catching the Ebola so far.

My eye is feeling a little “bleedie”, but other than that just fine.

129 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 2, 2014 3:54:41pm

And, cellphone coverage is a problem in Kentucky, even at Fancy Farm.

130 makeitstop  Aug 2, 2014 3:55:02pm

re: #121 thedopefishlives

The one by Bill absolutely cracked me up.

Except for the possibility that the heckler was implying that McConnell isn’t conservative enough.

131 RealityBasedSteve  Aug 2, 2014 3:55:25pm

re: #123 b.d.

Hi Lizards

Hope everyone has avoided catching the Ebola so far.

No, but I’m thinking I might try it for an excuse at work some day. I think they are starting to have some doubt when I call in having Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever

132 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 2, 2014 3:55:42pm

re: #130 makeitstop

Except for the possibility that the heckler was implying that McConnell isn’t conservative enough.

Nope. Most of us in Kentucky absolutely hate Mitch.

133 thedopefishlives  Aug 2, 2014 3:55:52pm

re: #130 makeitstop

Except for the possibility that the heckler was implying that McConnell isn’t conservative enough.

The line itself is still funny as hell. The implications can be left for another time.

134 Charles Johnson  Aug 2, 2014 3:56:12pm
135 thedopefishlives  Aug 2, 2014 3:56:40pm

re: #134 Charles Johnson

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DAMMIT CHARLES, WHAT IS IT GOING TO TAKE TO GET YOU TO PANIC?!?!?!?

136 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 2, 2014 3:57:15pm

I’ll probably sit through this later and report back…

137 ObserverArt  Aug 2, 2014 3:57:15pm

re: #126 blueraven

Heh

[“I just had to get one last photo of the Senator before KY voters retire him in November.”
-Gov. Beshear #FancyFarm ]

Ouch! That left a mark.

138 jaunte  Aug 2, 2014 3:57:30pm

re: #134 Charles Johnson

only by someone w/ signs of illness.

Celebrities Donald Trump And James Woods Hardest Hit.

139 Flounder  Aug 2, 2014 3:58:16pm

re: #134 Charles Johnson

I’m out…

Youtube Video

:)

140 RealityBasedSteve  Aug 2, 2014 3:59:39pm

re: #134 Charles Johnson
#Ebola poses no significant risk to US public. Only transmitted by contact with body fluids and only by someone w/ signs of illness.

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But CNN is going to have a special from their exclusive Ebola Simulator tonight. (I understand that it’s actually going to be Wolf Blitzer with a really bad tequila hangover)

RBS

141 jaunte  Aug 2, 2014 4:01:57pm

“4-eyes”
This guy must be in his 70s.

142 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 2, 2014 4:02:36pm

And Mitch’s speech is available, as well
(checks liquor supply…)

143 Amory Blaine  Aug 2, 2014 4:02:38pm

No worries. Got my plastic sheets and duct tape.

144 thedopefishlives  Aug 2, 2014 4:02:41pm

re: #141 jaunte

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“4-eyes”
This guy must be in his 70s.

*falls over laughing* That was awesome. Seriously laughing over here.

145 blueraven  Aug 2, 2014 4:02:43pm

re: #134 Charles Johnson

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When you have Wolf Blitzer scaremongering…

One of the DEADLIEST VIRUSES IN THE WORLD on the way to United Sates. What is the DANGER FOR AMERICANS? Stay tuned…

146 Targetpractice  Aug 2, 2014 4:03:45pm

re: #145 blueraven

When you have Wolf Blitzer scaremongering…

One of the DEADLIEST VIRUSES IN THE WORLD on the way to United Sates. What is the DANGER FOR AMERICANS? Stay tuned…

Deadliest virus in the world is influenza. Ebola’s a piker compared to it.

147 b_sharp  Aug 2, 2014 4:03:55pm

re: #136 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’ll probably sit through this later and report back…

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Nice of you to take one for the team.

148 RealityBasedSteve  Aug 2, 2014 4:04:21pm

re: #141 jaunte

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“4-eyes”
This guy must be in his 70s.

That caused me to quite honestly LOL!!! And we joke about “Because Shuttup”. and there it is.

RBS

149 thedopefishlives  Aug 2, 2014 4:04:28pm

re: #146 Targetpractice

Deadliest virus in the world is influenza. Ebola’s a piker compared to it.

Ebola’s only scary because of its high mortality rate. You pretty much have to try to catch it (or be trying to treat it and not adequately protected).

150 Rightwingconspirator  Aug 2, 2014 4:04:49pm

re: #140 RealityBasedSteve

#Ebola poses no significant risk to US public. Only transmitted by contact with body fluids and only by someone w/ signs of illness.

But CNN is going to have a special from their exclusive Ebola Simulator tonight. (I understand that it’s actually going to be Wolf Blitzer with a really bad tequila hangover)

RBS

If they run a Sarah Palin special they won’t need a simulator. My eyes and ears will bleed without ebola.

151 b.d.  Aug 2, 2014 4:04:58pm

re: #134 Charles Johnson

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THERE GOES CHARLES AGAIN, ALWAYS SPEWING OUT THE GOVERNMENT LINE!!!

152 Dr Lizardo  Aug 2, 2014 4:05:26pm

Well, the wingnuts are gonna have another freakout, I’m thinking.

A consortium of law enforcement intelligence agencies has ranked various terrorist threats in terms of the perception of those that pose the greatest current national security risks. Sovereign citizens topped the list, shifting from Islamic extremists in prior years.

From the report (PDF):

Law enforcement is much more concerned about sovereign citizens, Islamic extremists, and militia/patriot group members compared to the fringe groups of the far right, including Christian Identity believers, reconstructed traditionalists (i.e., Odinists), idiosyncratic sectarians (i.e., survivalists), and members of doomsday cults. In fact, sovereign citizens were the top concern of law enforcement, but the concern about whether most groups were a serious terrorist threat actually declined for most groups (e.g., the KKK; Christian Identity; Neo-Nazis; Racist Skinheads; Extremist Environmentalists; Extreme Animal Rights Extremists).

crooksandliars.com

Here’s the report; the ranking being referred to is on page 10.

The top three for 2013/14 are, in order of potential threat, Sovereign Citizens, Islamic Extremists/Jihadists and Militia/Patriot groups.

Yeah………the RWNJ’s aren’t gonna like that. Not one bit.

Heh.

153 Targetpractice  Aug 2, 2014 4:06:50pm

re: #149 thedopefishlives

Ebola’s only scary because of its high mortality rate. You pretty much have to try to catch it (or be trying to treat it and not adequately protected).

Exactly. The time a person is most infectious with Ebola is the time when most folks would least want to be in contact with them, namely as they’re bleeding out.

154 b_sharp  Aug 2, 2014 4:09:27pm

re: #153 Targetpractice

Exactly. The time a person is most infectious with Ebola is the time when most folks would least want to be in contact with them, namely as they’re bleeding out.

Poor decision by the virus. It would be better off being far more contagious and hiding better. The high mortality rate may also be a poor choice.

155 ausador  Aug 2, 2014 4:09:33pm

To those of you thinking about pranking your colleagues by staggering into work on Monday with red food coloring trailing from your eyes and ears…please don’t.

(But if you do, have a co-conspirator with a camera there to record it)

///

156 thedopefishlives  Aug 2, 2014 4:10:43pm

re: #154 b_sharp

Poor decision by the virus. It would be better off being far more contagious and hiding better. The high mortality rate may also be a poor choice.

And yet it’s still around somehow, so something must be working for it.

157 b.d.  Aug 2, 2014 4:10:49pm

re: #154 b_sharp

Poor decision by the virus. It would be better off being far more contagious and hiding better. The high mortality rate may also be a poor choice.

Good thing that things can’t evolve and the virus will always be that way

158 RealityBasedSteve  Aug 2, 2014 4:11:34pm

re: #155 ausador

To those of you thinking about pranking your colleagues by staggering into work on Monday with red food coloring trailing from your eyes and ears…please don’t.

(But if you do, have a co-conspirator with a camera there to record it)

///

and if you use the light karo syrup, and dye it, it looks a lot more like blood. Just saying

RBS

159 wrenchwench  Aug 2, 2014 4:12:08pm

re: #152 Dr Lizardo

Well, the wingnuts are gonna have another freakout, I’m thinking.

crooksandliars.com

Here’s the report; the ranking being referred to is on page 10.

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The top three for 2013/14 are, in order of potential threat, Sovereign Citizens, Islamic Extremists/Jihadists and Militia/Patriot groups.

Yeah………the RWNJ’s aren’t gonna like that. Not one bit.

Heh.

I don’t see ‘Islamo-Masonic Conspirators’ on the list of threats. Back to the drawing board.

160 Varek Raith  Aug 2, 2014 4:12:13pm

re: #135 thedopefishlives

DAMMIT CHARLES, WHAT IS IT GOING TO TAKE TO GET YOU TO PANIC?!?!?!?

If it ever becomes airborne.
Then panic.
;)

161 Dr Lizardo  Aug 2, 2014 4:12:21pm

re: #158 RealityBasedSteve

and if you use the light karo syrup, and dye it, it looks a lot more like blood. Just saying

RBS

Light Karo syrup and red food dye mixed together makes great stage blood.

162 b.d.  Aug 2, 2014 4:13:36pm

A republican Energy Department would just tell you to go out and buy an new AC

163 Dr Lizardo  Aug 2, 2014 4:13:50pm

re: #159 wrenchwench

I don’t see ‘Islamo-Masonic Conspirators’ on the list of threats. Back to the drawing board.

There’s always next year.

Also, now paged: littlegreenfootballs.com

164 Stanley Sea  Aug 2, 2014 4:14:46pm

re: #152 Dr Lizardo

Well, the wingnuts are gonna have another freakout, I’m thinking.

crooksandliars.com

Here’s the report; the ranking being referred to is on page 10.

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The top three for 2013/14 are, in order of potential threat, Sovereign Citizens, Islamic Extremists/Jihadists and Militia/Patriot groups.

Yeah………the RWNJ’s aren’t gonna like that. Not one bit.

Heh.

GOOD.

165 The Ghost of a Flea  Aug 2, 2014 4:15:06pm

Yeah, so:

Just as much as they’re trying to treat this doctor, they’re also observing the progress of the infection in a person…including death, if it comes to that…in controlled clinical settings. There’s a sprint of humanitarian care, followed by a marathon of research. research, research.

Given the scale of interconnection in the world granted by flying, it’s not like this one guy, being transported with spectacular care, is the sole threat.

The panicky people are short-sighted and ignorant., and the people hyping this for profit and/or politics are, furthermore, dicks.

166 b_sharp  Aug 2, 2014 4:15:44pm

re: #156 thedopefishlives

And yet it’s still around somehow, so something must be working for it.

Actually, despite my attempt at humour, the bleeding is what transports it so that would be part of its particular ESS.

167 Ryan King  Aug 2, 2014 4:15:49pm

re: #119 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

If there was an intent behind this, they should be investigated for torture.

Yes. I”m thinking it wasn’t intent at all but an almost reckless carelessness… maybe motivated by not caring because they were executing savages and ‘Oh well’ if it went wrong.

169 CuriousLurker  Aug 2, 2014 4:16:51pm

Filed Under: People Will Believe ANY Damned Thing

So I was going through my emails & Google Alerts, surfing around the web, checking out the trends in the Twitterverse, etc. and I came across this:

Confirmation Bias?

Now I don’t even remember where I originally saw it, but as far as I can tell the current outrage was started by fraudulent ex-terrorist & terrorism expert turned Christian, Walid Shoebat, who posted it yesterday on his blog (screenshot). It was also on many of the hater blogs, most linking back to Shoebat.

Automatically assuming that anything originating with Shoebat or any of the other so-called “counterjihadists” is most likely an intentional misrepresentation designed to pander to people’s fears and trigger thier confirmation bias, I decided to go poking around to see what I could find out about it.

At first I was a bit miffed, but the more I read the descriptions of it on the hater blogs and wingnutty, fear mongering tweets like these, the more absurd it became until it began to seem downright comical. Granted the little boys look terrified and I feel sorry for them, but the breathless claims that this was definitive PROOF of a Hamas member (some even claimed it was the boys’ father) hanging kids up as human shields on the side of a building was just too freaking bizarre and I had to LOL.

Really? I mean, seriously—you actually believe that they’re literally going around attaching kid-shields to the sides of buildings by hanging them off window gratings like Christmas stockings pinned to a fireplace mantle? Not only that, but that some Hamas guy is actually letting someone take pictures of it?? And why isn’t the IDF taking photos of it to push back against all the bad PR they’ve been getting?

The stupid, it burns. (Paged, continue reading here…)

170 Dr Lizardo  Aug 2, 2014 4:17:14pm

re: #165 The Ghost of a Flea

Yeah, so:

Just as much as they’re trying to treat this doctor, they’re also observing the progress of the infection in a person…including death, if it comes to that…in controlled clinical settings. There’s a sprint of humanitarian care, followed by a marathon of research. research, research.

Given the scale of interconnection in the world granted by flying, it’s not like this one guy, being transported with spectacular care, is the sole threat.

The panicky people are short-sighted and ignorant., and the people hyping this for profit and/or politics are, furthermore, dicks.

Panicky people are an infinitely greater threat than one fellow with the Ebola virus. And as far as pandemic killers, yeah…….Ebola has nothing on the H1N1 influenza virus.

171 RealityBasedSteve  Aug 2, 2014 4:17:35pm

re: #157 b.d.

Good thing that things can’t evolve and the virus will always be that way

Well it’s because the intelligent designer built it to be really really deadly, but not too contagious. If it were more transferable then it would kill too many people, and be a bad design, because the intelligent designer loves us.

RBS

172 CuriousLurker  Aug 2, 2014 4:18:36pm

Damn, that’s a L-O-N-G comment. Definitely needs to be paged. Maybe I should Page it and then truncate the comment and link to the Page…

173 Amory Blaine  Aug 2, 2014 4:18:45pm

re: #158 RealityBasedSteve

Now that’s a handy tip!!

174 Varek Raith  Aug 2, 2014 4:19:27pm

re: #170 Dr Lizardo

Panicky people are an infinitely greater threat than one fellow with the Ebola virus. And as far as pandemic killers, yeah…….Ebola has nothing on the H1N1 influenza virus.

What makes ebola so scary is also what keeps it in check, so to speak.

175 Varek Raith  Aug 2, 2014 4:21:10pm

This is just creepy.

176 wrenchwench  Aug 2, 2014 4:21:17pm

re: #172 CuriousLurker

Damn, that’s a L-O-N-G comment. Definitely needs to be paged. Maybe I should Page it and then truncate the comment and link to the Page…

There’s a limit to the possible length of a comment, and you didn’t hit it, therefore it’s not too long.

177 Gus  Aug 2, 2014 4:21:26pm
178 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 2, 2014 4:23:28pm

heh…

179 Dr Lizardo  Aug 2, 2014 4:23:38pm

re: #174 Varek Raith

What makes ebola so scary is also what keeps it in check, so to speak.

Yep.

The 1918 Flu Pandemic killed somewhere between 50 to 100 million people. Ebola has a long way to go before it reaches that kind of stratospheric death toll.

The 1918 Flu killed more people in one year than the Black Death killed in one century.

180 Amory Blaine  Aug 2, 2014 4:24:04pm

re: #177 Gus

Zomg socialist tyranny! !

181 Teukka  Aug 2, 2014 4:24:56pm

re: #160 Varek Raith

If it ever becomes airborne.
Then panic.
;)

No, then you go sit in a corner, do #1 and #2 in your pants and whimper hysterically. Seriously? Air-bone Ebolavirus?
Say that to a virologist or epidemiologist and you’ll see how fast a human being goes pale and breaks out in cold sweat.

182 wrenchwench  Aug 2, 2014 4:26:09pm

re: #178 Backwoods_Sleuth

heh…

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Hey B_S, do you know of this guy?

He was a reporter in AZ (or NM, I forget) and when he moved [back] to KY, I didn’t unfollow him because he can be entertaining.

183 jaunte  Aug 2, 2014 4:26:23pm

re: #175 Varek Raith

My Parents Open Carry tells the story of “13-year-old Brenna Strong along with her mom, Bea, and her dad, Richard [spending] a typical Saturday running errands and having fun together,” according to the book’s official site. However, “[w]hat’s not so typical is that Brenna’s parents lawfully open carry handguns for self-defense.”
rawstory.com

“Yes, my name is Dick. Dick Strong. You have a problem with that?”

184 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 2, 2014 4:27:26pm

Angry! Unbecoming! Shrill!!!!

How DARE she have opinions!

185 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 2, 2014 4:28:46pm

re: #182 wrenchwench

Hey B_S, do you know of this guy?

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He was a reporter in AZ (or NM, I forget) and when he moved [back] to KY, I didn’t unfollow him because he can be entertaining.

The name was familiar. Following him now.

186 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 2, 2014 4:30:36pm

bwahahahaaa!!!

187 thedopefishlives  Aug 2, 2014 4:31:10pm

re: #186 Backwoods_Sleuth

bwahahahaaa!!!

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What in the hell does the back of that guy’s shirt mean?

188 Dr Lizardo  Aug 2, 2014 4:31:52pm

On the subject of the 1918 Flu Pandemic, take a gander at these staggering numbers. I’ve emphasized certain passages that are particularly mind-boggling.

The disease killed in every corner of the globe. As many as 17 million died in India, about 5% of the population. The death toll in India’s British-ruled districts alone was 13.88 million. In Japan, 23 million people were affected, and 390,000 died. In the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), 1.5 million were assumed to have died from 30 million inhabitants. In Tahiti, 14% of the population died during only two months. Similarly, in Samoa in November 1918, 20% of the population of 38,000 died within two months. In the U.S., about 28% of the population suffered, and 500,000 to 675,000 died. Native American tribes were particularly hard hit. In the Four Corners area alone, 3,293 deaths were registered among Native Americans. Entire villages perished in Alaska. In Canada 50,000 died. In Brazil 300,000 died, including president Rodrigues Alves. In Britain, as many as 250,000 died; in France, more than 400,000. In West Africa, an influenza epidemic killed at least 100,000 people in Ghana. Tafari Makonnen (the future Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia) was one of the first Ethiopians who contracted influenza but survived, although many of his subjects did not; estimates for the fatalities in the capital city, Addis Ababa, range from 5,000 to 10,000, or higher. In British Somaliland one official estimated that 7% of the native population died.

This huge death toll was caused by an extremely high infection rate of up to 50% and the extreme severity of the symptoms, suspected to be caused by cytokine storms. Symptoms in 1918 were so unusual that initially influenza was misdiagnosed as dengue, cholera, or typhoid. One observer wrote, “One of the most striking of the complications was hemorrhage from mucous membranes, especially from the nose, stomach, and intestine. Bleeding from the ears and petechial hemorrhages in the skin also occurred.” The majority of deaths were from bacterial pneumonia, a secondary infection caused by influenza, but the virus also killed people directly, causing massive hemorrhages and edema in the lung.

The unusually severe disease killed up to 20% of those infected, as opposed to the usual flu epidemic mortality rate of 0.1%.

Those are numbers that would cause an absolute media freakout nowadays, and I’m sure the fearmongering on CNN and FNC would be cranked up to 11 - maybe even 12, if that’s possible. The panic in the streets would be genuinely terrifying.

189 RealityBasedSteve  Aug 2, 2014 4:32:08pm

re: #184 Backwoods_Sleuth

Angry! Unbecoming! Shrill!!!!

How DARE she have opinions!

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That’s a woman who will well down the path to being “Bossy”. She needs to have a baby or something.

RBS

190 Varek Raith  Aug 2, 2014 4:33:24pm

How nice of windows update to just restart my system all on its own.

191 b_sharp  Aug 2, 2014 4:34:26pm

re: #187 thedopefishlives

What in the hell does the back of that guy’s shirt mean?

I have no idea.
I was wondering the same thing.

192 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 2, 2014 4:35:25pm

re: #187 thedopefishlives

What in the hell does the back of that guy’s shirt mean?

Apparently, Mitch is running against Obama, not Grimes.

194 thedopefishlives  Aug 2, 2014 4:35:55pm

re: #192 Backwoods_Sleuth

Apparently, Mitch is running against Obama, not Grimes.

Oh, is she an opponent of McConnell’s? I was confused. I are not Kentuckian.

195 b_sharp  Aug 2, 2014 4:37:11pm

re: #190 Varek Raith

How nice of windows update to just restart my system all on its own.

Windows 8?

196 Kragar  Aug 2, 2014 4:38:01pm

re: #175 Varek Raith

This is just creepy.

Vanek reportedly hurt himself on July 15 on his family’s property as he was teaching family members how to clear the chamber of a semi-automatic pistol if it jams.

197 Varek Raith  Aug 2, 2014 4:38:11pm

re: #195 b_sharp

Windows 8?

7.

198 CuriousLurker  Aug 2, 2014 4:38:17pm

re: #172 CuriousLurker

Damn, that’s a L-O-N-G comment. Definitely needs to be paged. Maybe I should Page it and then truncate the comment and link to the Page…

Okay, successfully Paged. Sorry for dropping that big hunk of text in the middle of your conversations without warning, heh.

199 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 2, 2014 4:38:33pm

re: #194 thedopefishlives

Oh, is she an opponent of McConnell’s? I was confused. I are not Kentuckian.

Yes, Grimes is the Dem candidate and she’s polling ahead of Mitch.

200 b_sharp  Aug 2, 2014 4:39:52pm

re: #197 Varek Raith

7.

I’ve had Win8 reboot on my but not Win7.

Mind you M$ still updates Win7 regularly so it wouldn’t surprise me if they’ve added that ‘feature’.

201 Gus  Aug 2, 2014 4:40:21pm
202 thedopefishlives  Aug 2, 2014 4:40:44pm

re: #199 Backwoods_Sleuth

Yes, Grimes is the Dem candidate and she’s polling ahead of Mitch.

I wonder if Sen. McConnell knows that right now, Obama is polling a hell of a lot better than Congress and his GOP cronies. Linking the President to his opponent might not be sound political strategy.

203 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 2, 2014 4:41:14pm

re: #201 Gus

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The guy behind him needs a much bigger hat, don’t you think?

204 Varek Raith  Aug 2, 2014 4:41:38pm

re: #200 b_sharp

I’ve had Win8 reboot on my but not Win7.

Mind you M$ still updates Win7 regularly so it wouldn’t surprise me if they’ve added that ‘feature’.

It’s only done it to me twice. Might have been just a pushy update that insisted on it.
*Shrugs*

205 Archangelus  Aug 2, 2014 4:46:00pm

Well, F**K. F**K, F**K, F**K, F**K, F***********K.… :((

Ynet: Missing IDF Officer Declared Dead

Missing IDF officer Second Lieutenant Hadar Goldin, said to have been captured by Hamas, was declared dead by Chief Military Rabbi Brig.-Gen. Raffi Peretz on Saturday, at 11:25pm.

The Givati commander died in combat on Friday, August 1, 2014, in Rafah when a terrorist emerged from a tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip and detonated himself near an IDF force, killing another officer and a soldier from Givati Brigade - Major Benaya Sarel and Staff Sergeant Liel Gidoni.

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon arrived at the Goldin family home in Kfar Saba accompanied by the head of the IDF’s Human Resources Branch, Maj.-Gen. Orna Barbivai and the Chief Military Rabbi, to deliver the news.

The army said the Chief Military Rabbi considered halacha, medical and other relevant considerations, as well as findings from the battlefield, before making the decision. The family was told there were enough pathological findings at the scene to declare Hadar’s death, and these findings also allow his burial.

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206 Gus  Aug 2, 2014 4:47:07pm

re: #203 Backwoods_Sleuth

The guy behind him needs a much bigger hat, don’t you think?

207 Varek Raith  Aug 2, 2014 4:47:40pm

re: #206 Gus

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Awesome.
He now needs some missiles on it.
;)

208 Gus  Aug 2, 2014 4:48:43pm

Request line is closed. //

209 Varek Raith  Aug 2, 2014 4:49:10pm

re: #208 Gus

Request line is closed. //

Heh.

210 b_sharp  Aug 2, 2014 4:49:54pm

re: #208 Gus

Request line is closed. //

Aww.

211 b.d.  Aug 2, 2014 4:50:39pm

Hey Glenn, your buddies are calling on you again

212 b.d.  Aug 2, 2014 4:51:13pm

re: #208 Gus

Request line is closed. //

In Putin’s Russia, line closes you.

213 thedopefishlives  Aug 2, 2014 4:51:15pm

re: #211 b.d.

Hey Glenn, your buddies are calling on you again

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THE GREAT WIKILEAKS HAS SPOKEN.

214 Feline Fearless Leader  Aug 2, 2014 4:52:19pm

re: #208 Gus

Request line is closed. //

Peggy deserves a day off now and then.

215 b.d.  Aug 2, 2014 4:53:01pm

re: #213 thedopefishlives

THE GREAT WIKILEAKS HAS SPOKEN.

BY NOT RELEASING THE DOCUMENT GLENN PROVES TO THE WORLD THAT HE IS AN ISRAEL APOLOGIST

216 thedopefishlives  Aug 2, 2014 4:53:34pm

re: #215 b.d.

BY NOT RELEASING THE DOCUMENT GLENN PROVES TO THE WORLD THAT HE IS AN ISRAEL APOLOGIST

Oh, won’t that burn his ass.

217 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 2, 2014 4:58:35pm

oh dear…

218 ausador  Aug 2, 2014 5:01:04pm

re: #193 Varek Raith

IDF: Soldier reportedly captured was killed in combat in Gaza

My condolences to his family. :(

Hannibal may not have achieved the rescue of Lieutenant Hadar Goldin but perhaps it did play a part in keeping him out of Hamas custody for years until another hugely lopsided hostage for prisoners exchange was forced upon Israel.

Shocking that perhaps, maybe, for once Hamas was actually telling the truth when they made their earlier statement.

“We have lost contact with the group of fighters that took part in the ambush and we believe they were all killed in the (Israeli) bombardment. Assuming that they managed to seize the soldier during combat, we assess that he was also killed in the incident.”

I assumed that it was just a routine lying denial and that weeks or months from now when things had cooled a bit they would release video of him in their custody. :(

219 ausador  Aug 2, 2014 5:05:06pm

re: #196 Kragar

Vanek reportedly hurt himself on July 15 on his family’s property as he was teaching family members how NOT to clear the chamber of a semi-automatic pistol if it jams.

FTFY. ;)

220 William Barnett-Lewis  Aug 2, 2014 5:15:21pm

re: #190 Varek Raith

How nice of windows update to just restart my system all on its own.

Been repairing, both hardward & software, my son’s Vista laptop. And the Windows 8 box for the guests in the lobby at work.

I am reminded just why so many are staying on XP.

221 ausador  Aug 2, 2014 5:15:25pm

re: #217 Backwoods_Sleuth

oh dear…

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“Oh dear” is nowhere near being an adequate epitaph for that sub-Vogon poetry.

I think my ears are bleeding from it, or maybe its just Ebola…

222 thedopefishlives  Aug 2, 2014 5:16:49pm

re: #220 William Barnett-Lewis

Been repairing, both hardward & software, my son’s Vista laptop. And the Windows 8 box for the guests in the lobby at work.

I am reminded just why so many are staying on XP.

Well, Vista is your problem. Windows 7 is at least respectable.

223 William Barnett-Lewis  Aug 2, 2014 5:18:47pm

re: #222 thedopefishlives

Well, Vista is your problem. Windows 7 is at least respectable.

It’s a Dell laptop that came with Vista. Can’t afford to update to 7 and am trying to be … uhm… a good influence and not find too much from pirate bay :whistles:

224 RealityBasedSteve  Aug 2, 2014 5:21:49pm

There once was a wingnut called Rand,
Who went to KY with a Plan
He wrote awful verse,
His views, they were worse.
And his voice makes me run to the can.

It’s at least as good as his was.

225 ausador  Aug 2, 2014 5:25:43pm

re: #190 Varek Raith

How nice of windows update to just restart my system all on its own.

Even though I have the computer set to automatically check for and install important updates daily at 3:00am I still sometimes get the orange blinky thing down in my task bar once in a blue moon. Clicking on it reveals that a new pop-up box (which was under whatever I had open on the desktop) is telling me that windows has found an important update and will automatically restart in 10 minutes unless I select to postpone it.

Not sure why this happens, maybe when updates are labeled as critical or something. You sure you didn’t get the orange blinky thing and just didn’t notice it?

(Windows Vista and (rarely) Windows 7 both do this for me)

226 b_sharp  Aug 2, 2014 5:31:55pm

re: #222 thedopefishlives

Well, Vista is your problem. Windows 7 is at least respectable.

I prefer Win 7 to Win XP, Vista is just the NT kernel ME.


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