a thread all to spacejesus

re: #1 spacejesus

More signs of the apocalypse

re: #1 spacejesus

You have more negative karma than posts made. Wow. What have you been doing to piss people off so?

re: #3 cenotaphium

Heh.

re: #3 cenotaphium

Exactly 30 difference. Well underpar for spacejesus.

Please join me in updinging spacejesus as a subversive act.

It's a post post

Hi all,
I thought I would use this Ocean (Open) thread to put a question out. I noticed that there are some people trained in the noble science of physics here.

I read this in a popular science magazine many years ago and my knowledge of physics has not allowed me to find the answer. So it is still bugging me.
Yes, I know, I have no life.

A spring is tied shut with acid-resistant bands. The whole package is submerged in a bath of acid that dissolves the spring. After one day the spring is completely gone. Question: Where did the energy stored in the spring go?

I know enough physics to think it must be converted to heat in some fashion. But how? Or is this a really simple question for anyone but ignorant me?

re: #5 Bagua

Shouldn't he/she/whatever earn them?

re: #7 shimoda

It would be dissipated in the splash, better wear goggles during the experiment.

re: #8 TheMatrix31

Shouldn't he/she/whatever earn them?

spacejesus is above earning things for two reasons.

re: #7 shimoda

[Link: www.newton.dep.anl.gov...]

re: #10 ArchangelMichael

[Link: www.newton.dep.anl.gov...]

Ahhh... Thank you! Just as I expected, it becomes heat. But now I got an explanation I could really understand. Excellent site that.

The things you learn here. Gave you an up ding.

///Now I really should give you a down ding as you have robbed my life of meaning. Sort of King Arthur finding The Grail. What would he do then?

re: #1 spacejesus

Hey, SpaceJesus! I thought if sometime you felt like visiting 2, you could help them cherry pick comments. I was thinking you could bring them this comment as a cherry pick. Maybe they'll delete you.

re: #1 spacejesus

OK- this time I did that just to see "#1 spacejesus" again.

Well, I can't find Deep Ocean, Vast Sea by Peter Murphy.

So, here's Peter Murphy - Strange Kind Of Love

re: #14 Gus 802

Well, I can't find Deep Ocean, Vast Sea by Peter Murphy.

So, here's Peter Murphy - Strange Kind Of Love

I tried to find that a couple of LND Ocean Ts ago. Not a decent version of it to be found anywhere on teh youtoobs.

re: #15 ArchangelMichael

I tried to find that a couple of LND Ocean Ts ago. Not a decent version of it to be found anywhere on teh youtoobs.

Yeah, just a poorly recorded live version. I tried finding an MP3 with no luck.

re: #16 GreenSoccer

You're reading too much into the article.

re: #16 GreenSoccer

Shocker: BBC Wonders If Global Warming Is Real

News Flash for the BBC: Yes- it's real.

Django Reinhardt - Sweet Georgia Brown

re: #16 GreenSoccer

Prager gets irrational when speaking about AGW.

As for the BBC... it is an intentionally attention grabbing title. The natural variation in temperature over time is well explained... indeed, even Charles had a post on this last week.

re: #19 Sharmuta

The BBC did not wonder if Global Warming is real. They just said that cooler weather would lead to debate.

Speaking of Christmas... a warning: You only have 72 more shopping days until Christmas!

re: #23 freetoken

You just keep flaunting your precocious ability to post MP3s... I'll get you back when I figure it out in 2 or 3 months.

re: #17 Gus 802

Yeah, just a poorly recorded live version. I tried finding an MP3 with no luck.

I have an MP3 of it but no place to host it that would be kosher doing so.

re: #19 Sharmuta

And all the solutions I've heard so far involve the government reaching into the taxpayer's pocket so they can throw more money at it.

/While Al Gore flies in on another learjet to get picked up in a Suburban so he can show up for another speaking appearence.

re: #24 Bagua

In the meantime... enjoy the music! We've got enough funky Christmas music for every shopping day left...

re: #25 ArchangelMichael

I have an MP3 of it but no place to host it that would be kosher doing so.

I noticed that while searching.

Here's US Blues - Grateful Dead (Live)

re: #26 Fenway_Nation

You mean that doesn't help?!?!

re: #29 TheMatrix31

Results are inconclusive, Matrix. They need more of other peoples money to throw at the problem.

re: #30 Fenway_Nation

Well you know what they say,

The problem with socialism fucking bullshit is that sooner or later, you start to run out of other people's money.

re: #31 TheMatrix31

That was the Iron Lady herself, if I remember correctly.

And technically that's not true...you could always print some more money when nobody's buying your treasury bills...//

re: #26 Fenway_Nation

And all the solutions I've heard so far involve the government reaching into the taxpayer's pocket so they can throw more money at it.

/While Al Gore flies in on another learjet to get picked up in a Suburban so he can show up for another speaking appearence.

Strange isn't it? We would slash CO2 emissions if we made Nuclear Power a national priority.

re: #33 Bagua

NO! Nuclear stuff is bad! We should rid the world of nuclear weapons stuff!

re: #34 TheMatrix31

Yes, and people, the greenie agenda wants to rid the world of people first and foremost.

Normally beaches and oceans and lifeguard towers remind me of... Brazil... but since it is a cold and rainy picture an it is rainy here today... no naked babes. Sorry.

However, as a consolation prize:

re: #20 Gus 802

nice one

re: #36 freetoken

[...]Sorry.

However, as a consolation prize:

[Video]

Consolation prize?

Richard Thompson -- Beeswing

Blog updated...not as though there's alot of Red Sox scores to update visitors on.

/Pity party and Not Another New England Sports Blog!

re: #20 Gus 802

Django Reinhardt - Sweet Georgia Brown

[Video]

According to the self-appointed art critics baying about the Thomas piece selected for display at the White House, this Reinhardt piece is plagiarism.

It's awfully pleasant plagiarism, however. /

re: #40 Fenway_Nation

I'm seeing a whole herd of trains. Trains roaming free. Trains traveling in packs. Trains up close in their natural environment. Tune in for Fenway's Trains of the Serengeti. That has a ring to it.

re: #33 Bagua

Strange isn't it? We would slash CO2 emissions if we made Nuclear Power a national priority.

Here in The Socialist Democratic Republic of Finland we have at the moment four nuclear plants operating. The fifth is under construction and the sixth is being planned.

re: #42 theheat

I was going to try and make the Iron Horse Roundup a weekly deal (on top of the daily Train of Thought). Alot happened over the late summer and early fall when I didn't have my own blog that I thought I'd try and bring the casual reader up to speed.

re: #43 shimoda

Here in The Socialist Democratic Republic of Finland we have at the moment four nuclear plants operating. The fifth is under construction and the sixth is being planned.

I for one welcome our nuclear-powered Finnish overlords.

LMFAO -- Look at the looks on their faces. LMFAO

re: #40 Fenway_Nation

Oh, and I read about the f45 being converted to guest accommodations instead of being scrapped. But I'm curious, what is the actual dollar value of one of those trains to a scrapper? Is it simply metal by the pound, or is there something more valuable? Are any of the engine parts recycled, or is it pure scrap?

I gots to know.

re: #46 TheMatrix31

Looks like fear to me. Judging by all that orange, I'd say they're psyched for Halloween.
/

re: #48 theheat

Looks like stupidity to me. I can't decide which one's the best!

re: #47 theheat

I think it's the going rate for metal by the pound plus usable components (frame, trucks, carbody, etc). Turth be told, it's not an aspect I follow that closely. I think alot of the new 'green' genset locomotives actually have trucks and frames from units that were scrapped...the guts and carbody would be all new.

re: #49 TheMatrix31

Let's go with fear, because I can't see any reason Oprah would carry the Olympic torch. If we're simply going to nominate celebrities, I'm going with someone like George Clooney. In a thong, or a bath towel. But no one bothers to consult with me about such things.

re: #51 theheat

Let's go with fear, because I can't see any reason Oprah would carry the Olympic torch. If we're simply going to nominate celebrities, I'm going with someone like George Clooney. In a thong, or a bath towel. But no one bothers to consult with me about such things.

Just dropping in to see whats going on. George Clooney is all I need to see to know to check back later. LOL. G'night.

re: #45 Fenway_Nation

I for one welcome our nuclear-powered Finnish overlords.

That's good. We will need loyal viceroys when our Atomic Superforces breaks out and takes over the world. Your name has been sent forward, as a prospect, to the correct authorities.

// Just in case

re: #51 theheat

Let's go with fear, because I can't see any reason Oprah would carry the Olympic torch. If we're simply going to nominate celebrities, I'm going with someone like George Clooney. In a thong, or a bath towel. But no one bothers to consult with me about such things.

OK, that's another section of my brain that needs to be excised with the melon baller.

re: #49 TheMatrix31

Schadenfreude

As bemused as I was by that, I'd much rather see them in white w/blue pinstripes and an interlocking 'NY'...

re: #50 Fenway_Nation

Is it posted anywhere what they paid for it? I used to casually browse those trains for sale ads, and they were pretty pricey. Then, of course, you have to move it from point A to B. I still hope one day to have an old train car for my office, but it's probably cheaper to have a brand new building erected than buy and transport and old train car. Sigh.

re: #55 Fenway_Nation

Well...are you?

re: #52 Radicchio ad Absurdum

re: #54 SixDegrees

It's a girl thing.

re: #58 theheat

Correction: it could also be a homosexual guy thing, now that I think about it.

re: #56 theheat

Depending on who was doing the selling and what was being sold, the railway would throw in free shipping (along their own rails).

I've seen operable locomotives advertised for sale for as low as $20,000.

re: #60 Fenway_Nation

Depending on who was doing the selling and what was being sold, the railway would throw in free shipping (along their own rails).

And the rust is included in the price?
/rubs hands together like a fly/

re: #61 theheat

Some of them charge by the rust flakes.

re: #62 Fenway_Nation

Fenway, Killer of Dreams.

I'm still bummed out by all the longtime ex-Lizards who turned out to be such dirtbags.

Maybe I shouldn't be surprised. I posted at Free Republic for years and that place turned into a seething snake pit.

re: #64 Alouette

Everyone's a dirtbag.

re: #65 TheMatrix31

Everyone's a dirtmeatbag.

FTFY

Hah! I just read the post where user ralphieboy insisted that the Dan Rather/60 minutes memo were the real deal!

re: #67 Fenway_Nation

Hah! I just read the post where user ralphieboy insisted that the Dan Rather/60 minutes memo were the real deal!

That was hilarious. Of all places to do that, he does it here. Charles' response to it was pretty funny too.

re: #68 ArchangelMichael

What does one do for an encore? Claim that the Al-Hajj photoshop actually left out more smoke over the skies of Beirut?

re: #68 ArchangelMichael

That was hilarious. Of all places to do that, he does it here. Charles' response to it was pretty funny too.

I want to see it. Where is it? (Assuming it hasn't been deleted.)

re: #70 Alouette

Look in the top 10 comments.

re: #70 Alouette

I want to see it. Where is it? (Assuming it hasn't been deleted.)

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

Thanks!

re: #64 Alouette

There are a lot of people on the Internet who have disappointed me. I think one thing that doesn't help is that one almost never has to admit one's wrong on the Internet; there are always sites that provide one extremist viewpoint or another, complete with a host of fabricated evidence or articles that flat-out lie. It's very easy to fall into conspiracy theory and become more hateful.

re: #72 ArchangelMichael

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

Thanks - that was certainly strange reading: I don't really understand how one could visit this site and not know about its role in Rathergate.

re: #59 theheat

Correction: it could also be a homosexual guy thing, now that I think about it.

Speaking of which...

It's just come to my attention, amidst all the manufactured uproar over the art selections for the White House, that one of the artists whose work was selected is:

- Black

- Openly gay

- Still living.

Somehow, this confluence of evil has escaped the notice of the Art Police. Expect to see something like the following at Malkin's site shortly:

"Teh ghey! Teh ghey! It's in the White House!!!"

With pictures of a black person prominently displayed. Torches and pitchforks optional, but suggested.

/

How does the "links" thing work? I just found out about karma, and there was a "links submitted" option. What sort of links do LGF readers usually like?

re: #77 akarra

Under the picture at the top of this thread is a label "spin offs" with a triangle. Click on that label and the current list will pop down. Insert text where directed, assign a section from the pulldown menu, and hit "submit".

re: #77 akarra

BTW, submit any link that trips your trigger... the only thing to remember is that there are persona non-grata sites out there and if you happen to link to a nasty site it might be deleted.

re: #79 freetoken

So that's why my links to 0bama/Rahm slash fics keep getting deleted.

//

re: #79 freetoken

Thank you - just submitted an article about artists being persecuted in Russia.

re: #64 Alouette

I'm still bummed out by all the longtime ex-Lizards who turned out to be such dirtbags.

Maybe I shouldn't be surprised. I posted at Free Republic for years and that place turned into a seething snake pit.

It makes me sad too. But I'm really glad that some, like you, have kept their senses.

Good Morning LGF

re: #83 Spare O'Lake

Morning!

Morning, Spare O'Lake!

Oh no, another workplace accident!

Morning all

re: #40 Fenway_Nation

Blog updated...not as though there's alot of Red Sox scores to update visitors on.

/Pity party and Not Another New England Sports Blog!

That linkviewer thing is a lot of fun, and there aren't a lot of sports entries. If you put your link there, I'll vote for it.

re: #86 Spare O'Lake

Quick! Somebody call OSHA!

//

re: #79 freetoken

Would that include FARK?

re: #87 RogueOne

Morning - I might be getting away from here for a little bit; got up early so work could actually get done.

re: #87 RogueOne

Hey, Newbie. I gave that comment on the Texas thread a +1 for you since you can't ding. Poor newbies. People have often asked when is it that they're no longer a newbie at LGF. I guess we finally have an answer: when you get your dinger.

Damn, Obama Can Do Anything

Yesterday when I said I don't watch any cable news programs I lied, a little. I do watch scarborough for about 40mins while I get ready for work because Joe cracks me up. Sharpton is on now, he is such a tool.

re: #92 Sharmuta
My dinger? Sounds dirty, I like it. And thanks.

re: #88 akarra

Actually, I put one in for Humor in a blatant bit of self-promotion.

Scroll down to Humor in the category drop-bar and 3 Days...

As far as sports go, my last blog entry was rather dour and- dare I say- whiney?

re: #93 TheMatrix31

That is too funny.

re: #90 RogueOne

Don't know.

re: #86 Spare O'Lake

Oh no, another workplace accident!

I figured your link would be about the Libyan who blew up parts of himself at the entrance to that Italian base.

re: #96 Fenway_Nation

Actually, I put one in for Humor in a blatant bit of self-promotion.

Scroll down to Humor in the category drop-bar and 3 Days...

As far as sports go, my last blog entry was rather dour and- dare I say- whiney?

It was pretty funny, thanks for sharing! + 1.

I wonder what category poems would go - books? Culture? Hmm.

re: #97 soxfan4life

Funny? I thought it racist.

/

re: #96 Fenway_Nation

Actually, I put one in for Humor in a blatant bit of self-promotion.

Scroll down to Humor in the category drop-bar and 3 Days...

As far as sports go, my last blog entry was rather dour and- dare I say- whiney?

Tell me, oh green monster of the urban boglands: Is it true that Obama has won the rouge footcoverings MVP award?

re: #102 Spare O'Lake

Obama might have beaten Zach Greinke for the AL Cy Young. AND Lincecum for the NL.

He's fucking awesome.

re: #101 TheMatrix31

I liked the little crawl on the bottom where it said the Republicans want to fight the fires with tax cuts.

re: #103 TheMatrix31

Obama might have beaten Zach Greinke for the AL Cy Young. AND Lincecum for the NL.

He's fucking awesome.

Don't forget about him winning the triple crown, batting average, RBI's and HR's as well.

re: #105 soxfan4life

Don't forget that he went back in time and averaged a triple-double in basketball. The Big O? Not Oscar Robertson.

re: #102 Spare O'Lake

Nah...they need to wait and see which team will win the World Series so 0bama can be named that teams MVP.

re: #105 soxfan4life

Those will go quite nicely with all those gold gloves he's going to win this year at shortstop, center field, catcher and pitcher.

re: #95 RogueOne

My dinger? Sounds dirty, I like it. And thanks.

One morning, a few months after the dinger was coded, MandyManners showed up one morning and said:

I TURNED ON MY DINGER!

It was classic.

A Libyan man set off a small bomb while trying to enter an army barracks in Milan on Monday, seriously injuring himself and slightly wounding the guard who stopped him, Italian law enforcement officials said.

SNIP

Authorities said the man appeared to be acting alone, and Affini denied initial media reports that the man had shouted "Out of Afghanistan!" He said the man had shouted something in Arabic, but that it was not clear what.

Some of the 2,800 troops that Italy has deployed in Afghanistan are based in the army barracks that was targeted, Affini said.

SNIP

re: #99 MandyManners

I figured your link would be about the Libyan who blew up parts of himself at the entrance to that Italian base.

Nah, nothing so exciting as that. This guy just got a citation for storing volatile substances in his garage (with a box thrown in for good measure).
Whassup Mandy?

Do you think Tim Thomas has a shot at the Vezina again, soxfan4life? Or does president 0bama have it sewn up within the first week of the NHL season?

A Saudi court has sentenced a man to five years in jail and 1,000 lashes for boasting about his sexual exploits on television, in a case that has divided public opinion in the conservative Islamic kingdom.

Abdul-Jawad, a divorced father of four, was arrested in August after discussing his premarital sexual encounters, showing off his pick-up techniques and displaying some sex toys and lubricants on a Lebanese TV program.

SNIP

A court official said that, on top of the lashings and jail sentence, Abdul-Jawad's phone and car would be confiscated and he would be banned from traveling after completing his term.

SNIP

re: #111 Spare O'Lake

Nah, nothing so exciting as that. This guy just got a citation for storing volatile substances in his garage (with a box thrown in for good measure).
Whassup Mandy?

I am. Barely. Coffee.

re: #112 Fenway_Nation

First week? He had it sewn up 11 days into training camp!

You've lost that hoping feeling...

An internal document circulated among members of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's political party says all hopes placed in the Obama administration "have evaporated" because of alleged White House backtracking on key issues to the Palestinians.

The Fatah Party memorandum, obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press, accuses the United States of backing off from its demands that Israel freeze settlement construction and failing to set a clear agenda for new Mideast peace talks.

It wasn't immediately clear whether the Oct. 12 document reflected Abbas's own views or was intended to be leaked as Fatah's attempt to pressure President Barack Obama to bear down harder on Israel.

SNIP

Fox is reporting that the Pentagon is ordering lotsa' bombs that can be used under ground.

The ding thing was my idea. Yes, me. Little ole' me. "I had an idea once, but it died of lonliness."

re: #92 Sharmuta

I guess we finally have an answer: when you get your dinger.

We should call it "Earning your dings!"

Heh.

re: #117 MandyManners

"Bunker Busters"?

re: #116 MandyManners

Oh my...this must overlap with iceweasel's 'Criticism of 0bama from the left' that she mentioned earlier.

re: #113 MandyManners

A Saudi court has sentenced a man to five years in jail and 1,000 lashes for boasting about his sexual exploits on television, in a case that has divided public opinion in the conservative Islamic kingdom.

Abdul-Jawad, a divorced father of four, was arrested in August after discussing his premarital sexual encounters, showing off his pick-up techniques and displaying some sex toys and lubricants on a Lebanese TV program.

SNIP

A court official said that, on top of the lashings and jail sentence, Abdul-Jawad's phone and car would be confiscated and he would be banned from traveling after completing his term.

SNIP

I guess they didn't like it that Abdul shot Jawad on TV.

re: #121 Spare O'Lake

'Snort

re: #120 Fenway_Nation

Don'tcha just love impatience?

/
//also good evening

re: #119 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

"Bunker Busters"?

Are MOP's the same?

re: #118 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Diggin' the new avatar, FBV

re: #120 Fenway_Nation

I have no idea.

re: #121 Spare O'Lake

I guess they didn't like it that Abdul shot Jawad on TV.

You win.

re: #123 laZardo

Hey there, laZardo! We were wondering if you were still above water...

re: #125 Fenway_Nation

That's mah face! That's mah name!

re: #123 laZardo

Hey man! Charles set up a new rule last night. You have to have fifty comments before you are allowed to up or down ding comments, threads, etc.

Dunn's (BHO's by proxy) attack on Fox a warning to others who want to get up in his face?

re: #126 MandyManners

I have no idea.

Meh...my guess is that it's a laundry list of third world despots and thugs that 0bama hasn't acquiesced to quick enough.

/that is, when we're not done crippling our own economy with cap and trade or forking over American GI's to the International Criminal Court

re: #130 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Hey man! Charles set up a new rule last night. You have to have fifty comments before you are allowed to up or down ding comments, threads, etc.

Will that bring blueherron up to the surface?

re: #128 Fenway_Nation

Well, the typhoons are gone for now, so I can dry off. :B

re: #130 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

At 9,688 comments (including this one) and counting, I should be good...

re: #133 MandyManners

It's the general idea, I think. People register, never comment, just run around being "mad dingers". Gonna be hard to do that now.

re: #134 laZardo

Glad you are okay.

re: #132 Fenway_Nation

Meh...my guess is that it's a laundry list of third world despots and thugs that 0bama hasn't acquiesced to quick enough.

/that is, when we're not done crippling our own economy with cap and trade or forking over American GI's to the International Criminal Court

I imagine it's a hissy fit over Netanyahu's refusal to change his mind about defending Israel.

re: #131 MandyManners

Dunn's (BHO's by proxy) attack on Fox a warning to others who want to get up in his face?

Thin-skinned pansies sucking up to the sycophants of the thinnest-skinned pansy of them all.

Did SNL have another 0bama skit that CNN could fact-check?

re: #135 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

It's the general idea, I think. People register, never comment, just run around being "mad dingers". Gonna be hard to do that now.

I know what it's about. I was just wondering if that twit had 50 posts yet.

re: #138 Fenway_Nation

Thin-skinned pansies sucking up to the sycophants of the thinnest-skinned pansy of them all.

Did SNL have another 0bama skit that CNN could fact-check?

I missed that one.

re: #139 MandyManners

Which twit? blueherron? Goddamnedfrank?

Oh, my goodness. Beck's telling people to check out Cloward and Piven.

Dude, we did that months and months ago, just like we did with Van Jones and BHO's narcissism.

re: #141 Fenway_Nation

Which twit? blueherron? Goddamnedfrank?

The former. All I know about the latter is that odious nic.

re: #140 MandyManners

Me too...but apparently CNN 'fact-checked' a Saturday Night Live skit depicting 0bama after Rio won the 2016 Olympic bid

I got downdinged by him, too...

blueherron was an enthusiastic downdinger of my comments about the whole Sgt Crowley/Skip Gates deal...

re: #139 MandyManners

I know what it's about. I was just wondering if that twit had 50 posts yet.

It actually has 16 whole posts.

re: #144 Fenway_Nation

Me too...but apparently CNN 'fact-checked' a Saturday Night Live skit depicting 0bama after Rio won the 2016 Olympic bid

Gee. Did CNN fact-check Tina Fey when she was smearing Palin? Yes, that's a rhetorical question.

re: #146 Alouette

It actually has 16 whole posts.

Thanks. I looked but I couldn't find it. I probably didn't spell it/space it correctly.

re: #147 MandyManners

You mean Palin DIDN'T actually say that you can see Russia from her house?!?!?!?!?!

/

re: #145 Fenway_Nation

I got downdinged by him, too...

blueherron was an enthusiastic downdinger of my comments about the whole Sgt Crowley/Skip Gates deal...

That whole episode kept on bringing this song to mind.

re: #145 Fenway_Nation

I got downdinged by him, too...

blueherron was an enthusiastic downdinger of my comments about the whole Sgt Crowley/Skip Gates deal...

I think blueherron is fine. It's political, not personal. I don't see a personal agenda with him/her. The up and downdings are very consistent across party lines. But I can see why it stinks to be on the receiving end of downdings. Perhaps if he/she could have just laid off on them a bit.

re: #147 MandyManners

Gee. Did CNN fact-check Tina Fey when she was smearing Palin? Yes, that's a rhetorical question.

Like I said- hypersenstive thin-skinned pansies.

re: #151 Bloodnok

I've never seen that fucking guy/whatever post.

re: #149 TheMatrix31

You mean Palin DIDN'T actually say that you can see Russia from her house?!?!?!?!?!

/

Another smear is in October's Vanity Fair, the article by Levi Johnston, in which the little fucker claimed that Palin couldn't even shoot a gun.

Two and a half hours until I leave for Ben Gurion airport. It was a great vacation. I did a little sightseeing, a whole bunch of helping my daughter and spoiling the grandkids rotten.

For souvenir shopping, I admired the items in the overpriced tourist shops, and then ordered what I wanted online from the Zionist Mall at 2/3 the price.

re: #154 MandyManners

I suspect Cato will be pleasuring himself repeatedly with that issue.

re: #151 Bloodnok

I think blueherron is fine. It's political, not personal. I don't see a personal agenda with him/her. The up and downdings are very consistent across party lines. But I can see why it stinks to be on the receiving end of downdings. Perhaps if he/she could have just laid off on them a bit.

My findings are different. I've seen him/her ding down conservatives consistently.

re: #152 Fenway_Nation

Like I said- hypersenstive thin-skinned pansies.

Redundant yet true.

re: #155 Alouette

Two and a half hours until I leave for Ben Gurion airport. It was a great vacation. I did a little sightseeing, a whole bunch of helping my daughter and spoiling the grandkids rotten.

For souvenir shopping, I admired the items in the overpriced tourist shops, and then ordered what I wanted online from the Zionist Mall at 2/3 the price.

Have a safe and pleasant flight!

How long is a flight from there to here? Stop-overs?

re: #156 Fenway_Nation

Not the image I'd like to have with me today.

Interesting that Dunn attacked Fox two days before the Senate finance committee is to vote on the socialization of health care insurance.

G'nite all!

Have a good trip back, alouette...

re: #151 Bloodnok

I think blueherron is fine. It's political, not personal. I don't see a personal agenda with him/her. The up and downdings are very consistent across party lines. But I can see why it stinks to be on the receiving end of downdings. Perhaps if he/she could have just laid off on them a bit.

Perhaps a smelly sock?

re: #162 Fenway_Nation

Nighty...

re: #163 Spare O'Lake

Perhaps a smelly sock?

naw, I've seen blueherron make a few posts. I think he/she just hasn't quite found a "voice" yet. We'll be hearing from him/her.

re: #163 Spare O'Lake

Perhaps a smelly sock?

If you have the time and motivation, you might want to check out her/his co-dingers.

re: #161 MandyManners

Interesting that Dunn attacked Fox two days before the Senate finance committee is to vote on the socialization of health care insurance.

I wish the WH was as tough on Iran, the Taliban, and our other enemies as they are on Fox News.

re: #161 MandyManners

Interesting that Dunn attacked Fox two days before the Senate finance committee is to vote on the socialization of health care insurance.

She was hoping to help make it a Dunn deal.

re: #112 Fenway_Nation

Do you think Tim Thomas has a shot at the Vezina again, soxfan4life? Or does president 0bama have it sewn up within the first week of the NHL season?

Well a Stanley Cup would help his cause - unless Obama has won that too.

re: #167 njdhockeyfan

I wish the WH was as tough on Iran, the Taliban, and our other enemies as they are on Fox News.

Gee, are you saying that BHO is choosing the wrong enemies?

re: #159 MandyManners

Have a safe and pleasant flight!

How long is a flight from there to here? Stop-overs?

We're flying from Tel Aviv to Philadelphia, then from Philadelphia to Detroit with just enough time to pick up our baggage, go through customs, re-check our bags and get the connecting flight. That's assuming the flight from Israel is ON TIME.

I have this thing about getting to the airport really early, ever since I missed a flight out of La Guardia and the fecking airline would not rebook our ticket for less than $600, so we ended up renting a car to drive home.

There's not the same excitement to ending a vacation as there is starting it, but I'm still looking forward to my own bed, my own shower, my own kitchen.

re: #168 Spare O'Lake

She was hoping to help make it a Dunn deal.

Maybe BHO said, "Anita focus other than socialized health care insurance".

re: #171 Alouette

We're flying from Tel Aviv to Philadelphia, then from Philadelphia to Detroit with just enough time to pick up our baggage, go through customs, re-check our bags and get the connecting flight. That's assuming the flight from Israel is ON TIME.

I have this thing about getting to the airport really early, ever since I missed a flight out of La Guardia and the fecking airline would not rebook our ticket for less than $600, so we ended up renting a car to drive home.

There's not the same excitement to ending a vacation as there is starting it, but I'm still looking forward to my own bed, my own shower, my own kitchen.

Sounds like an all-day/half-night endeavor.

Good Morning, Lizard Kingdom!

re: #174 SteveC

Evenin' Steve!

re: #147 MandyManners

Oh shoot! I had an epiphany of sorts going back to CNN fact-checking the 0bama skit.

Last year, Tina Fey's impersonation of Sarah Palin was supposedly dead-on and hilarious. I think CNN aired some highlights to prove their point.

One year later, CNN is fact-checking an 0bama skit and round up all kinds of beltway talking heads to reassure those of us that hadn't seen it that 'It wasn't really that funny'...

re: #173 MandyManners

Sounds like an all-day/half-night endeavor.

Well, we gain 9 hours on the return flight because of the time difference.

re: #176 Fenway_Nation

Oh shoot! I had an epiphany of sorts going back to CNN fact-checking the 0bama skit.

Last year, Tina Fey's impersonation of Sarah Palin was supposedly dead-on and hilarious. I think CNN aired some highlights to prove their point.

One year later, CNN is fact-checking an 0bama skit and round up all kinds of beltway talking heads to reassure those of us that hadn't seen it that 'It wasn't really that funny'...

Are you saying that Fox isn't the only MFM outlet that is biased?

Quick, pass the smelling salts before I swoon.

re: #177 Alouette

Well, we gain 9 hours on the return flight because of the time difference.

And they say there's no such thing as a time machine!

re: #176 Fenway_Nation

The Colbert Report is generally funnier than SNL no matter who the latter targets. :B

re: #157 MandyManners

My findings are different. I've seen him/her ding down conservatives consistently.

That's what I implied. It's just ideological differences. Nothing more.

Old news already I know, but the deadline for the Peace Prize was only 2 weeks after the Big "O" became prez??? I heard thats like giving Dakota Fanning a Lifetime Achievement Award...

*Sigh* Back in a few... said on my heart defect blog that I was looking for the H1N1 shot, and the anti-vaxers are coming out!

/Hey, it's a page view!

re: #177 Alouette

Well, we gain 9 hours on the return flight because of the time difference.

I'd need multiple doses of Valium. I don't fly at all.

re: #167 njdhockeyfan

We need somebody to protect us from the news channels and talk show hosts, since lord knows our tiny little minds can't comprehend something like changing the channel or shutting off the TV.

re: #181 Bloodnok

That's what I implied. It's just ideological differences. Nothing more.

At times, a a political agenda becomes a personal agenda after repeated down-dings of conservative Lizards.

re: #182 Tats66

Old news already I know, but the deadline for the Peace Prize was only 2 weeks after the Big "O" became prez??? I heard thats like giving Dakota Fanning a Lifetime Achievement Award...

Who?

(I know...I know...that's the point.)

re: #178 MandyManners

Are you saying that Fox isn't the only MFM outlet that is biased?

Quick, pass the smelling salts before I swoon.

I'm just bemused the lengths to which they'll go to shield their man from criticism and stire while saying with a straight face that their unbiased.

re: #183 SteveC

*Sigh* Back in a few... said on my heart defect blog that I was looking for the H1N1 shot, and the anti-vaxers are coming out!

/Hey, it's a page view!

On a science blog? Go get 'em.

re: #187 MandyManners

:P

re: #185 Fenway_Nation

We need somebody to protect us from the news channels and talk show hosts, since lord knows our tiny little minds can't comprehend something like changing the channel or shutting off the TV.

Or, weighing various bits of information and making up our own minds.

re: #188 Fenway_Nation

I'm just bemused the lengths to which they'll go to shield their man from criticism and stire while saying with a straight face that their unbiased.

It's second nature--they don't have to give it any thought.

BTW...how many super-mega Global Warming induced hurricanes has the southeastern USA been hit with this year?

/just askin'

re: #193 Fenway_Nation

Is this a lead in to...?

re: #193 Fenway_Nation

BTW...how many super-mega Global Warming induced hurricanes has the southeastern USA been hit with this year?

/just askin'

Silly boy. Bush/Chenney/Rove are gone.

re: #191 MandyManners

Or, weighing various bits of information and making up our own minds.

"I can't wait until I'm old enough to feel ways about things"

Philip J Fry- Futurama

re: #193 Fenway_Nation

BTW...how many super-mega Global Warming induced hurricanes has the southeastern USA been hit with this year?

/just askin'

None, because it would be elitist for America to have all the super-mega Global Warming induced hurricanes to itself.

So we got two. ;_;

re: #197 laZardo

Obama's even redistributing the hurricanes! WOW!

Morning lizards. We had a hard freeze here in the wild north country and it's COLD. Good to have a job in a building with lots of heat.

re: #194 freetoken

Honestly, I think the last time I watched FOX for a sustained period was the requisite 'Hapless weatherperson standing in path of oncoming hurricane' coverage of Hurricane Rita making landfall.

/has nothing to do with the fact that the 'solutions' I've heard to AGW involve government sliding their hands into our pockets and helping themselves to more money. Honest!

re: #184 MandyManners

I'd need multiple doses of Valium. I don't fly at all.

Ambien and Benadryl work for me.

re: #193 Fenway_Nation

BTW...how many super-mega Global Warming induced hurricanes has the southeastern USA been hit with this year?

/just askin'

Obama just won the Intergalactic Climate Award.

re: #196 Fenway_Nation

"I can't wait until I'm old enough to feel ways about things"

Philip J Fry- Futurama

Bite my shiney, metal ass.

re: #201 Alouette

Ambien and Benadryl work for me.

I had to be drugged from the moment I got out of bed the day of a flight.

Grayson just might be a one-term wonder.

OK...I think I'm off to bed for real this time!

Have a good return trip, Alouette!

Stay dry, LaZardo!

re: #206 Fenway_Nation

Thanks, and weet dreams!

/whatever weet means, i suspect it's a certain combo...

re: #205 MandyManners

Grayson just might be a one-term wonder.

In addition to his out-right lies against the Republicans, he refused to answer a constituent's question at his town-hall meeting last night, saying that he was there to discuss health care and not politics.

Gotta' git.

re: #209 MandyManners

Y'all come back now y'hear?

re: #204 MandyManners

I had to be drugged from the moment I got out of bed the day of a flight.

The flight coming over was not so bad. I watched that Tom Hanks Vatican movie (it sucked), ate the airline dinner (it also sucked, but not as bad as the movie), and then the Ambien and the Benadryl both kicked in at the same time.

I also have some Xanax for this flight.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, also said the counterinsurgency strategy pursued by McChrystal is "really critical." She said the American people don't have the stomach to stay in Afghanistan for another 10 years, but that the mission there is in "serious jeopardy" and Obama has an obligation to follow his commander's advice.

"I don't know how you put somebody in who was as crackerjack as General McChrystal, who gives the president very solid recommendations, and not take those recommendations if you're not going to pull out," Feinstein said on ABC's "This Week."

[Link: www.foxnews.com...]

!3,000 support troops...13000 more targets imo
and so far no explanation of his nine month dither and what he expects from this micro surge...all too predictable

re: #212 albusteve

I don't know how you put somebody in who was as crackerjack as General McChrystal

RACSI- oh wait

/ q;

re: #212 albusteve

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, also said the counterinsurgency strategy pursued by McChrystal is "really critical." She said the American people don't have the stomach to stay in Afghanistan for another 10 years, but that the mission there is in "serious jeopardy" and Obama has an obligation to follow his commander's advice.

"I don't know how you put somebody in who was as crackerjack as General McChrystal, who gives the president very solid recommendations, and not take those recommendations if you're not going to pull out," Feinstein said on ABC's "This Week."

[Link: www.foxnews.com...]

!3,000 support troops...13000 more targets imo
and so far no explanation of his nine month dither and what he expects from this micro surge...all too predictable

I never thought in my life I'd say to myself "I agree with Senator Feinstein". Pays to keep an open mind.

re: #214 Leonidas Hoplite

I never thought in my life I'd say to myself "I agree with Senator Feinstein". Pays to keep an open mind.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

re: #211 Alouette

The flight coming over was not so bad. I watched that Tom Hanks Vatican movie (it sucked), ate the airline dinner (it also sucked, but not as bad as the movie), and then the Ambien and the Benadryl both kicked in at the same time.

I also have some Xanax for this flight.

Had a buddy flying from Sydney to Hawaii. He had been prescribed ambien and the doc told him to take one and if he wasn't sleepy after about an hour to take a second one. He took a second one after an hour and the next thing he knew the flight attendant was violently shaking him telling him he had to get up and off the plane!

He doesn't remember clearing customs and his wife (who picked him up) said he was like a zombie. He went home and slept for 18 hours.

So maybe just one ambien...

hmm, I made a post from my blackberry as a little test to see if it could be done and it registered on my Opera mini browser as posted. Yet, I don't seem to see it now on my laptop. Can we not post from mobiles?

"What he lays out is a battle plan to use the FCC to threaten stations' licenses with whom they do not agree with politically, and now he's at the FCC waiting to take their calls," Motley told FOXNews.com. "This is not about serving the local interest, it's about political opposition."

[Link: www.foxnews.com...]

the attack on Fox may be a small part of a bigger battle...this could be bad, Mark Lloyd appears to be a hard core leftist

re: #218 RogueOne

hmm, I made a post from my blackberry as a little test to see if it could be done and it registered on my Opera mini browser as posted. Yet, I don't seem to see it now on my laptop. Can we not post from mobiles?

I can post from iPhone.

re: #214 Leonidas Hoplite

I never thought in my life I'd say to myself "I agree with Senator Feinstein". Pays to keep an open mind.

I guess it does...I see this as a small step backwards and Feinstein is exactly right...yowza!

re: #176 Fenway_Nation

Oh shoot! I had an epiphany of sorts going back to CNN fact-checking the 0bama skit.

Last year, Tina Fey's impersonation of Sarah Palin was supposedly dead-on and hilarious. I think CNN aired some highlights to prove their point.

One year later, CNN is fact-checking an 0bama skit and round up all kinds of beltway talking heads to reassure those of us that hadn't seen it that 'It wasn't really that funny'...

Here's what Best of the Web had to say about Wolf Blitzer's fact checking SNL:

Fact-Check This, Wolf!
"CNN has become the butt of a running joke meme on Twitter for its lame fact-check criticism of the Saturday Night Live skit which lampooned President Obama for making too many promises that he has yet to keep," reports blogger D.K. Jamaal. Here are some examples:

@DefiantKembro 'El Nino' is not Spanish for "the Nino" #CNNFactCheck
@EnasYorl "Wayne's World" was not really a public access cable show. #CNNfactcheck
@ArielAkiva The superfans were not actually having heart attacks. #cnnfactcheck
@thecomeback After checking every river in America, we have not been able to find a motivational speaker living in a van. #CNNfactcheck
@jeffdobbs: Over half of Saturday Night Live is NOT ON SATURDAY NIGHT for Eastern time zone. Outrage. #CNNFactCheck
@jkfecke In fact, Blue Öyster Cult never included a cowbell player named Gene Frenkle--the musician didn't exist. #CNNFactCheck
@mikehassinger: This just in: "Toonces the driving cat" not real cat, can't even DRIVE! #CNNFactCheck
We noted the CNN/PolitiFact.com "fact check" yesterday, but this latest development has us nervous. We have it on good authority that not everything on Twitter is true. Who will fact-check the fact-checkers of the fact-checkers?

And in a public and videotaped panel in 2008, Lloyd called Hugo Chavez’s government the result of “really an incredible revolution…a democratic revolution.” As a result of his triumph, Lloyd argued that “the property owners and the folks who were then controlling the media rebelled,” with the result that Chavez and his cadre had to move and close their media outlets down. Then he said the US sought to oust him, but Chavez came back stronger than ever, “and had another revolution,” and then “started to take the media very seriously in his country.” Viewing Chavez’s totalitarian actions favorably, Lloyd implied that opponents of the right-wing media should do the same here.

wow...stunning

re: #222 rwdflynavy

"Don't Fear The Reaper" didn't actually require more cowbell. #CNNFactCheck

re: #220 reine.de.tout

Thanks, I'm trying again. It seems to be stopping short of posting for some reason. When it reloads the page after I hit the "post" button it's keeping my comments in the comment box. It must be something on my end but it seems to work on other sites so I'll have to do some digging I guess.

/IOU +1

A very good piece in the WSJ today about Obama and the Nobel prize.

A Perfect Nobel Pick...

re: #224 laZardo

"Don't Fear The Reaper" didn't actually require more cowbell. #CNNFactCheck

That's a lie!!! I've got a fever...

Militiawomen parade for celebrations

I love the go-go boots & mini skirts. Are those Hello Kitty patches on the shoulders?

"Fox seems to relish the controvercy"...no shit Sherlock

[Link: www.nytimes.com...]

re: #228 njdhockeyfan

Militiawomen parade for celebrations

I love the go-go boots & mini skirts. Are those Hello Kitty patches on the shoulders?

If not for the assault rifles they could be early 70's flight attendants

re: #230 Leonidas Hoplite

If not for the assault rifles they could be early 70's North Korean flight attendants

q;

re: #231 laZardo

No, now, if that were the case, they would still have the assault rifles. Haven't you seen any of the kung fu movies where the flight attendant is the evil chick in disguise?

re: #189 MandyManners

On a science blog? Go get 'em.

The day is starting off pretty good and I didn't want to harsh my own buzz. So I just said that we'd have to disagree about H1N1 shots.

I have decided that it would probably be for the best to skip the SC state fair this year.. I always have a great time, but 500,000 people in the same space (over 20 days) is probably a bit risky. Especially since the shots aren't here yet.

re: #232 thedopefishlives

Yeah, which means Lil Kim can afford to have his flight attendants' machine guns built-in.

/Austin Powers reference

re: #234 laZardo

Yeah, which means Lil Kim can afford to have his flight attendants' machine guns built-in.

/Austin Powers reference

To be fair, I've never really been a fan of Austin Powers. But sharks with frickin' laser beams? Awesome.

Well, what did ya expect?

Zombies in the manger!

Good Morning lizards. For those who have trouble filling their USDA recommended allowances of dairy today, here's some cheese-- and a little juice.

Warning: may cause illness if taken internally.

re: #229 albusteve

Yeah, yesterday I said they need to learn to pick their fights better...

[Link: www.huffingtonpost.com...]

HEY Morning Lizards!

What's up[?

re: #238 RogueOne

Yeah, yesterday I said they need to learn to pick their fights better...

[Link: www.huffingtonpost.com...]

Democrats always shaft the gay community

re: #226 rwdflynavy

Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler, who won the Peace Prize in 1931, was a Goodist. In 1910 he wrote that "to suppose that men and women into whose intellectual and moral instruction and upbuilding have gone the glories of the world's philosophy and art and poetry and religion . . . are to fly at each others' throats to ravage, to kill, in the hope of somehow establishing thereby truth and right and justice is to suppose the universe to be stood upon its apex."

Well, I guess the world has has been standing on it's apex for at least 6,000 years.

/

Seven-Year-Old Ohio Boy Tackled by Deer While Playing Football

WINTERSVILLE, Ohio — A 7-year-old Ohio boy playing a game of backyard football was tackled by a deer.

Brandon Hiles says he encountered the charger — and not the kind from San Diego — when the ball rolled into woods while he was playing with friends Saturday in Wintersville, about 125 miles east of Columbus. The boy says the buck ran at him and flipped him with its horns, leaving bruises and a gash.

A 9-year-old pal, Wyatt Pugh (pyoo), beat the deer with a stick to make it go away.

Wintersville Police Officer Art Fowler Jr. says there were actually two bucks in the area gearing for a fight, and Brandon was attacked when he inadvertently got between them.

Good News/Bad News this week:

Bad News: A young (17) lady needing a heart/lung transplant got word that they were going to take her down to the OR Sunday night - it was time! Lots of excitement, as you can imagine. But they brought her back just a couple of hours later. The team bringing the organs in said that they were having problems with the lung, and the surgeon called it off. :(

Good News: The heart was PERFECT, and someone else got it. Whomever that is, hopefully they will do well!

Bonus Good News: The 17 year old is taking the waveoff pretty good, she says that it will be her turn soon!

re: #240 albusteve

Democrats always shaft the gay community

They better watch out. This could send them down a rocky road.

re: #242 njdhockeyfan

Seven-Year-Old Ohio Boy Tackled by Deer While Playing Football

Nooo, not bambi! There was obviously an avoidable misunderstanding!

re: #240 albusteve

Democrats always shaft the gay community

Well, somebody's got to say it...

Not That There's Anything Wrong With That!

re: #244 njdhockeyfan

They better watch out. This could send them down a rocky road.

or a slippery slope.

re: #242 njdhockeyfan

Man vs. Nature

re: #242 njdhockeyfan

Seven-Year-Old Ohio Boy Tackled by Deer While Playing Football

Sign that deer! We need a middle linebacker!

re: #249 SteveC

There's a bunch of youtubes deer attacks man things.

They can be bad asses.

re: #176 Fenway_Nation

Oh shoot! I had an epiphany of sorts going back to CNN fact-checking the 0bama skit.

Last year, Tina Fey's impersonation of Sarah Palin was supposedly dead-on and hilarious. I think CNN aired some highlights to prove their point.

One year later, CNN is fact-checking an 0bama skit and round up all kinds of beltway talking heads to reassure those of us that hadn't seen it that 'It wasn't really that funny'...

Slightly off-topic but not exactly - Have you seen the Celebrity Jeopardy clip with Wolf Blitzer going deeper and deeper into the hole, getting his ass destroyed by Andy-what's-his-name-Conan's-old-sidekick?

Wolf actually looks like a SNL skit of Celebrity Jeopardy in that one. I doubt CNN will fact-check it though.

There is a reason they are called talking heads.

Do all those men who espouse "avoidable misunderstandings" never have the urge to hit something? I have to wonder? Have they never been young men?

re: #250 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

There's a bunch of youtubes deer attacks man things.

They can be bad asses.

Yeah, but mostly if you get in between them and their kids, or (as in the article) if they're spoiling to fight each other and you get in the way. My in-laws live in the middle of a deer woods, and have herds come frolicking through their yard all the time. They're usually pretty mild-mannered as long as you do nothing but watch from a safe distance.

For one of Big Labor's biggest players -- the SEIU, whose members are mostly health-care workers -- it was a dream come true. A vast influx of government money -- and with it, government influence -- to private hospitals would create jobs for many SEIU locals and give a major leg up in organizing many "shops" that are now non-union.

but then...

The tax hits especially hard at unionized contract employees -- construction workers, musicians, etc. -- who change employers often, and so often buy insurance through their union. The "Cadillac" tax falls first on the insurance providers -- so these "self-insured" unions would actually take the hit.

looks like the Baucus bill has some problems with financing...could be interesting

re: #237 iceweasel

Evening, weasel!

THE DISCLAIMER

re: #240 albusteve

"shaft"

re: #254 albusteve

For one of Big Labor's biggest players -- the SEIU, whose members are mostly health-care workers -- it was a dream come true. A vast influx of government money -- and with it, government influence -- to private hospitals would create jobs for many SEIU locals and give a major leg up in organizing many "shops" that are now non-union.

Hmmm...

Obama Leads SEIU Chant After Vowing to ‘Paint the Nation Purple’

"That's how we built political power on the south side of Chicago."