It is the duty of the humor of any given nation in time of high crisis to attack the catastrophe that faces it in such a manner as to cause the people to laugh at it in such a way that they cannot die before they are killed.
— Lord Buckley, “H-Bomb”
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Soap_Man Fri, Feb 5, 2010 11:01:37pm |
I love scotch. Scotchy, scotch, scotch. Here it goes down, down into my belly...
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Varek Raith Fri, Feb 5, 2010 11:02:55pm |
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freetoken Fri, Feb 5, 2010 11:06:47pm |
re: #2 Varek Raith
We are in the "thermonuclear era".
We are also in the UNIX Epoch.
I wonder which one will last longer...
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Varek Raith Fri, Feb 5, 2010 11:13:33pm |
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Soap_Man Fri, Feb 5, 2010 11:14:02pm |
re: #2 Varek Raith
[Video]
I grew up in suburban Chicago. When I was in high school, our social studies teacher explained that our little burb would be ground zero for a nuclear attack. A girl in my class asked why they (presumably the Russians) wouldn't bomb downtown. He explained that most of the blast would go out to the lake. The best "kill rate" would come by bombing the suburbs, which would destroy most of the Chicago area.
She was horrified, but I explained that it was a good thing, since we would be obliterated before we even knew what happened. The people on the edges of the blast would have a much more horrifying fate.
She called me morbid. I call it finding the best of a bad situation.
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ryannon Fri, Feb 5, 2010 11:19:13pm |
"Lord" Buckley on the Groucho Marx show in the 50s. He gets into his thing at 4:46 in the video.
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Soap_Man Fri, Feb 5, 2010 11:21:16pm |
re: #4 Varek Raith
[Video]
You're in a nukey kind of mood tonight. So I give you this: Air Force Had Plans to Nuke Moon
Fortunately, the United States came down off their explosion high and realized that nuking an orbiting planetary body for no particular reason might cross the line between "illustrating our technical prowess" and "cartoonish supervillainy," so they scrapped the plan and sent Armstrong up to land on the bastard instead. Think about that for a second: Neil Armstrong is considered a valid replacement for a nuclear missile.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Feb 5, 2010 11:24:33pm |
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Varek Raith Fri, Feb 5, 2010 11:26:40pm |
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Varek Raith Fri, Feb 5, 2010 11:28:24pm |
re: #7 Soap_Man
Project Peacock, lol
The Americans didn't have the market cornered on psychotic R and D. On the other side of the Atlantic, the British had just put the finishing touches on their new nuclear bomb. Weighing in at seven tons, the Blue Peacock was a tactical nuclear device capable of a 10-kiloton explosion--just slightly less than that of Little Boy, the first nuke ever detonated.So why the downgrade? Isn't the point of explosions to make them bigger and bigger until everybody forgets how small your penis is?
Well, the British needed a new and novel defense in case the Soviets came over the border of East Germany and so, instead of dropping the bomb from a plane, they decided to put the nukes in the ground. Nuclear landmines!
For safety's sake, each bomb came with a 10-second fuse, and while that's not long enough to disarm the bomb or get away to safety, it is probably long enough for the victim to repent a life's worth of regrets, chief amongst them being their tendency to frolic in German fields.
The bombs did have one major flaw, however: Burying anything in the ground during the winter would make it susceptible to intense cold, which could possibly affect the electronics. So the folks back in research and development started brainstorming:
"We could wrap it in blankets!" said one brilliant scientist.
"How about fiberglass insulation?" offered another.
"Why not just install a heater?" asked one sane and competent man.
"I like chicken!" screamed a random passing retard, completely unrelated to the science division in any way.
Guess which one they went with?
The chickens. The idea was they would be given enough food and water to stay alive for about a week, and the then their body heat would (somehow) keep the bomb's electronics defrosted enough to function.
In the long run, the project was canceled because the top brass thought that it wasn't politically savvy to plant nukes in Allied territory, or at least that was the official story.
But we all know it was probably those pussies at PETA again, having some sort of "moral objection" to underground nuclear-armed chicken prisons.
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simoom Fri, Feb 5, 2010 11:29:44pm |
re: #5 Soap_Man
She called me morbid. I call it finding the best of a bad situation.
Heh, based on his sharing his optimal nuclear blast "kill rate" analysis with his class, I'd say it was he who should have been called morbid :P.
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Racer X Fri, Feb 5, 2010 11:31:30pm |
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Soap_Man Fri, Feb 5, 2010 11:35:02pm |
re: #10 Varek Raith
Project Peacock, lol
Seriously, why can't they just pay me to come up with shit like this? I've got free time.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Feb 5, 2010 11:56:00pm |
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Feb 6, 2010 12:00:41am |
re: #16 laZardo
Maybe I should have been more specific: Old pop culture.
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laZardo Sat, Feb 6, 2010 12:04:56am |
re: #17 Slumbering Behemoth
Maybe I should have been more specific: Old pop culture.
Ah, now you're making me wax nostalgic. I remember when Posh Spice wasn't married and Lance Bass was straight.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Feb 6, 2010 12:05:00am |
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Feb 6, 2010 12:10:44am |
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laZardo Sat, Feb 6, 2010 12:13:27am |
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Feb 6, 2010 12:22:48am |
re: #21 laZardo
Fuckin' hell, what's up with this panel? Dog whistle?
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Feb 6, 2010 12:31:26am |
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laZardo Sat, Feb 6, 2010 12:45:33am |
Gonna get a snack.
In the meantime, The Importance of Manned Spaceflight.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Feb 6, 2010 1:01:46am |
Nighty night! That's all, folks!
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Feb 6, 2010 1:19:22am |
re: #1 Soap_Man
I love scotch. Scotchy, scotch, scotch. Here it goes down, down into my belly...
I prefer beer! Had some Schlafly Oak Aged Barleywine from Missouri tonight. It was AMAAAZING
Got a couple Trader Joes Bocks in the fridge. They're not great, but they're a bargain for being a tasty 7% bock.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Feb 6, 2010 1:23:30am |
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Altermite Sat, Feb 6, 2010 1:40:41am |
re: #1 Soap_Man
I love scotch. Scotchy, scotch, scotch. Here it goes down, down into my belly...
I don't actually have much of an excuse an excuse for being inebriated tonight. Just let it happen.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Feb 6, 2010 1:46:37am |
re: #29 Altermite
I don't actually have much of an excuse an excuse for being inebriated tonight. Just let it happen.
Sometimes drinking is its own reward!
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A Man for all Seasons Sat, Feb 6, 2010 1:49:26am |
Power is back on! Nothing like no power during a major snow storm..
What did I miss?
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Altermite Sat, Feb 6, 2010 1:52:36am |
re: #30 WindUpBird
Sometimes drinking is its own reward!
re: #30 WindUpBird
Sometimes drinking is its own reward!
The reward is being immune to the blizzard sweeping virginia right now. The drinking wasn't much of a reward, seeing as how it was incredibly cheap bourbon that someone else bought. I'd say most foul stuff I've ever tasted, but I've tasted worse, if barely.
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Sol Berdinowitz Sat, Feb 6, 2010 1:53:22am |
The peanuts were walking down der Strasse...
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A Man for all Seasons Sat, Feb 6, 2010 1:54:47am |
ah crap... Power went off again for a couple of minutes...Rebooting the Hi def TV.. What the heck is going on?
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Altermite Sat, Feb 6, 2010 1:56:32am |
re: #34 HoosierHoops
ah crap... Power went off again for a couple of minutes...Rebooting the Hi def TV.. What the heck is going on?
Dunno about where you are, but Virginia is in a state of emergency, on account of having used up all their funds for removing snow and winter safety maintenance what with the last few snow storms. And the current one is adding a couple feet.
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A Man for all Seasons Sat, Feb 6, 2010 1:58:06am |
re: #35 Altermite
Dunno about where you are, but Virginia is in a state of emergency, on account of having used up all their funds for removing snow and winter safety maintenance what with the last few snow storms. And the current one is adding a couple feet.
Indiana Bro...Our power keeps going out here
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A Man for all Seasons Sat, Feb 6, 2010 2:04:30am |
SuperBowl Weekend!
/Power better not go out on Sunday Night!
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Feb 6, 2010 2:05:36am |
re: #32 Altermite
The reward is being immune to the blizzard sweeping virginia right now. The drinking wasn't much of a reward, seeing as how it was incredibly cheap bourbon that someone else bought. I'd say most foul stuff I've ever tasted, but I've tasted worse, if barely.
Jesus. Stay safe! I drove my Volvo over Lake Shasta's pass in blizzard conditions, boy did that let me know I was alive.
In case of cheap shitty rotgut, bring mixers! it's amazing what a little ginger ale will do to help your evening with bad liquor :D
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A Man for all Seasons Sat, Feb 6, 2010 2:06:20am |
re: #38 WindUpBird
Jesus. Stay safe! I drove my Volvo over Lake Shasta's pass in blizzard conditions, boy did that let me know I was alive.
In case of cheap shitty rotgut, bring mixers! it's amazing what a little ginger ale will do to help your evening with bad liquor :D
Are you in California?
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Feb 6, 2010 2:09:58am |
re: #39 HoosierHoops
Are you in California?
I am in Portland, Oregon. :D Drove to a convention in San Jose full of weirdos just like me with animal head costumes, drove back a week later. The Volvo did well, the badass winter tires did the trick, I think my blood pressure raised higher than the PSI of the tires when I drove over that pass. Bad visibility, bad conditions, snow everywhere. Looked like a starfield from a sci-fi movie.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Feb 6, 2010 2:11:41am |
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A Man for all Seasons Sat, Feb 6, 2010 2:11:59am |
re: #40 WindUpBird
I am in Portland, Oregon. :D Drove to a convention in San Jose full of weirdos just like me with animal head costumes, drove back a week later. The Volvo did well, the badass winter tires did the trick, I think my blood pressure raised higher than the PSI of the tires when I drove over that pass. Bad visibility, bad conditions, snow everywhere. Looked like a starfield from a sci-fi movie.
I turned 21 camping at Whales Cove in Oregon...I love Oregon
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A Man for all Seasons Sat, Feb 6, 2010 2:13:51am |
re: #41 WindUpBird
also, my father is a Hoosier, Maurer School Of Law. :D
Never heard of it.. But I've only been here for a few years..I'm transferring to Asia in August
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Feb 6, 2010 2:14:13am |
re: #42 HoosierHoops
I turned 21 camping at Whales Cove in Oregon...I love Oregon
I'm a NW kid, grew up in Seattle just in time to be in high school for the grunge explosion, moved to Portland at age 23 because it was weirder, smaller, cheaper, cooler, and more conducive to penniless weirdo artists. I've been all over the country, but I can never leave the northwest. It's my people.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Feb 6, 2010 2:14:45am |
re: #43 HoosierHoops
Never heard of it.. But I've only been here for a few years..I'm transferring to Asia in August
Indiana U! Bobby Knight!
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A Man for all Seasons Sat, Feb 6, 2010 2:15:55am |
re: #44 WindUpBird
I'm a NW kid, grew up in Seattle just in time to be in high school for the grunge explosion, moved to Portland at age 23 because it was weirder, smaller, cheaper, cooler, and more conducive to penniless weirdo artists. I've been all over the country, but I can never leave the northwest. It's my people.
My Sister lives in the Seattle area...
Good for you.. Oregon Rocks!
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Feb 6, 2010 2:18:38am |
re: #46 HoosierHoops
My Sister lives in the Seattle area...
Good for you.. Oregon Rocks!
I still love Seattle. Like a sister. :D A fun city to drive in at night, many of my old haunts are gone, like Caffe Minnies. The indoor smoking ban killed a lot of my favorite dives.
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windsagio Sat, Feb 6, 2010 2:19:45am |
2 words:
Fenix Underground.
Also, tell me something good, friend!
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A Man for all Seasons Sat, Feb 6, 2010 2:20:31am |
re: #45 WindUpBird
Indiana U! Bobby Knight!
Fuck Bobby Knight /Power went off again
This is going to be bad..Power is on again..
One of Knights biggest detractors was CW Nevius from the SF Chronicle.
We exchanged emails every day for months about Knight
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Feb 6, 2010 2:23:06am |
re: #49 HoosierHoops
Fuck Bobby Knight /Power went off again
This is going to be bad..Power is on again..
One of Knights biggest detractors was CW Nevius from the SF Chronicle.
We exchanged emails every day for months about Knight
haha not that my family was a big fan of Bobby Knight, but his presence was always felt in my parents' household. My grandmother bitched about him being "mean to the boys." She lived in Indiana all her life.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Feb 6, 2010 2:23:53am |
re: #48 windsagio
2 words:
Fenix Underground.
Also, tell me something good, friend!
re: #48 windsagio
2 words:
Fenix Underground.
Also, tell me something good, friend!
I had a good beer tonight?
Also WAVERIDER
(I'm starting a meme on LGF. The WAVERIDER lives, and will watch over LGF threads like an avenging angel)
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windsagio Sat, Feb 6, 2010 2:25:22am |
in other news, while I was afk, I was actually playing a game of Dwarf Fortress, building it to look like Lalibela, but my dwarves were all murdered by fish.
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A Man for all Seasons Sat, Feb 6, 2010 2:25:29am |
re: #50 WindUpBird
haha not that my family was a big fan of Bobby Knight, but his presence was always felt in my parents' household. My grandmother bitched about him being "mean to the boys." She lived in Indiana all her life.
It was nice talking to CW about Knight.. He covered me in College and I got to know him really well.. He is good people...
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A Man for all Seasons Sat, Feb 6, 2010 2:26:33am |
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srb1976 Sat, Feb 6, 2010 2:28:20am |
re: #56 HoosierHoops
That sucks! Storm? We've just had about 3 days of steady drizzle....
I hope it's not too bad a storm!
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Feb 6, 2010 2:28:30am |
re: #54 HoosierHoops
It was nice talking to CW about Knight.. He covered me in College and I got to know him really well.. He is good people...
Awesome! I want to hear more stories :D
Bobby Knight honestly seems to me( I am an outsider, I know little about college hoops) to be a type-A personality maniac who just did not give a shit about who he harmed. he had a goal, and humans, even those he relied on, were just obstacles and tools. Sometimes, those guys win championships, but they're also frightening people.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Feb 6, 2010 2:29:12am |
re: #55 windsagio
The wave rider will see us yesterday!
The Wave Rider just called and told me that Jesus is a mystical man and he's a joke.
/PhilHendrie
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Feb 6, 2010 2:29:57am |
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A Man for all Seasons Sat, Feb 6, 2010 2:30:31am |
re: #57 srb1976
That sucks! Storm? We've just had about 3 days of steady drizzle...
I hope it's not too bad a storm!
It's bad here...Be well and safe...
Frigging weather!
*wink*
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A Man for all Seasons Sat, Feb 6, 2010 2:36:40am |
re: #58 WindUpBird
Awesome! I want to hear more stories :D
Bobby Knight honestly seems to me( I am an outsider, I know little about college hoops) to be a type-A personality maniac who just did not give a shit about who he harmed. he had a goal, and humans, even those he relied on, were just obstacles and tools. Sometimes, those guys win championships, but they're also frightening people.
CW Nevius trashed Bobby Knight every day in the Sporting green.. I goaded him into it every single day.. It was great!
Then I got transfered to Indiana years later...Hey CW! Here I am!
He couldn't believe the Hoopster moved here..Great writer
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srb1976 Sat, Feb 6, 2010 2:43:17am |
My folks are coming by later to take the kids to the circus.....kinda sucks that I have to work today....
Little Man has been "tightrope walking" on the lines in the tile floor, very cute....says he's going to see clowns, elephants and girls = )
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A Man for all Seasons Sat, Feb 6, 2010 2:46:10am |
re: #63 srb1976
My folks are coming by later to take the kids to the circus...kinda sucks that I have to work today...
Little Man has been "tightrope walking" on the lines in the tile floor, very cute...says he's going to see clowns, elephants and girls = )
That is sweet
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Feb 6, 2010 2:53:33am |
re: #62 HoosierHoops
CW Nevius trashed Bobby Knight every day in the Sporting green.. I goaded him into it every single day.. It was great!
Then I got transfered to Indiana years later...Hey CW! Here I am!
He couldn't believe the Hoopster moved here..Great writer
Sports writers are always great because they will be destroyed if they're full of shit. it's competitive and there's always someone looking to take their place. So they evolve to be genius. :D
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A Man for all Seasons Sat, Feb 6, 2010 3:00:15am |
re: #66 WindUpBird
Sports writers are always great because they will be destroyed if they're full of shit. it's competitive and there's always someone looking to take their place. So they evolve to be genius. :D
I have a special relationship with CW Nevius...He wrote kind things about me in College..
The SF Chronicle took him off the Sports beat a few years ago and now he writes in the Life section in the paper...
I deeply respect the man..
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RadicalModerate Sat, Feb 6, 2010 3:18:15am |
Not wanting to be outdone by the paranoid psychos at the Nashville Tea Party convention, the Texas Nationalist Movement is actively campaigning to force the state to secede from the United States.
Texas Movement Calls For Secession
The comments attached to the article are just as unhinged as the group itself.
Native-Texan 5 hours ago
Texas chose to join the rest of the states on its own, not as any such "sister states". Where do you get this nonsense. The secession movement is not a "Perry movement", it a movement by citizens across this great state because they are fed up with Barrack Hussein Bin Laden Obama and all his facist czars and chronies. The stupid rats are the ones who are choosing to stay on the sinking ship. I guess a dead rat is just a dead rat, huh?
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Feb 6, 2010 3:24:30am |
The Wave Rider told me to tell you guys that there's a lot of dumbasses in Texas saying stupid crap about secession and that they need their diapers changed.
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srb1976 Sat, Feb 6, 2010 3:29:45am |
Ok, jeep all warmed up....time to head back to the salt mines!
Hope you all have a lovely day!!
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A Man for all Seasons Sat, Feb 6, 2010 3:32:01am |
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RogueOne Sat, Feb 6, 2010 3:34:53am |
re: #72 HoosierHoops
Howdy Hoosier, you see this in the Star this morn?
Colts jersey draws penalty at Louisiana school
[Link: www.indystar.com...]
BTW, we got almost 9" of snow up here. One of my dogs loves it, the other hates it.
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A Man for all Seasons Sat, Feb 6, 2010 3:40:13am |
re: #73 RogueOne
Howdy Hoosier, you see this in the Star this morn?
Colts jersey draws penalty at Louisiana school
[Link: www.indystar.com...]BTW, we got almost 9" of snow up here. One of my dogs loves it, the other hates it.
I'm not sure how much snow we got..The Sun hasn't come up yet..
We lost power 4 times tonight...Hope today finds you well..
Where are you watching the SuperBowl Sunday?
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RogueOne Sat, Feb 6, 2010 3:43:01am |
re: #74 HoosierHoops
Having family and friends over for the game. The niece and nephew are coming over this afternoon to start the party early, 24 hours of video games to get ready for the super bowl.
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RogueOne Sat, Feb 6, 2010 3:44:45am |
re: #69 WindUpBird
When I saw this album cover it reminded me of the pic you posted of the bird costume:
Plus, I love Grohl and this album kinda rocks.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Feb 6, 2010 3:48:50am |
re: #76 RogueOne
I need that record! I've heard a couple songs off it, and I have liked what I've heard. *_*
Do you have the album he did, Probot? It's him + a whole lot of his favorite rock, punk and metal vocalists, so much fun, sort of a mixed bag, but just a lot of him basically geeking out on record with his musician heros. Which is fantastic. :D
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RogueOne Sat, Feb 6, 2010 3:51:31am |
re: #77 WindUpBird
Great album
Lemmy! I've only been able to catch Motorhead live one time. Great show and a lot of fun. They were on the same bill with Judas Priest and Alice Cooper.
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laZardo Sat, Feb 6, 2010 3:58:35am |
re: #68 RadicalModerate
Not wanting to be outdone by the paranoid psychos at the Nashville Tea Party convention, the Texas Nationalist Movement is actively campaigning to force the state to secede from the United States.
Texas Movement Calls For Secession
The comments attached to the article are just as unhinged as the group itself.
Texas:United States::Quebec:Canada. O:
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laZardo Sat, Feb 6, 2010 4:01:27am |
re: #72 HoosierHoops
Good Morning Hoosier
I'm not one for prayer, but given the chain-reaction-effects of positive encouragement, I was wondering if you could add my dad to the LGF prayer list?
He's very likely to be shipped to Oman for the next few months to help set up the 2010 Asian Beach Games. His long-time affiliation with our national Olympic Committee (went to Atlanta, Sydney and Athens to help logistics for our team, along with Asian Games events) earned him this all-expense-paid job.
And yes, this is the country that's right next to Yemen on the map.
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RogueOne Sat, Feb 6, 2010 4:07:20am |
re: #80 laZardo
I'm not sure playing beach volleyball that close to SA is a good idea. They beat you with a stick if you don't completely cover your legs, I can't imagine what kind of heart attack these outfits would give them.
[Link: images.google.com...]
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laZardo Sat, Feb 6, 2010 4:12:50am |
re: #82 RogueOne
I'd guess there'd be a lack of female categories in events then. >_>
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RogueOne Sat, Feb 6, 2010 4:24:30am |
re: #83 laZardo
During the 1st Gulf War I had a female friend, my best friends sister, who was a CO stationed in SA. After a month of being treated like a 2nd class citizen by her saudi counterparts she finally snapped when one of their religious police smacked her in the back of the leg with a stick because she was wearing pants that stopped short of her ankles while she was out in public, off duty. She promptly busted him in his mouth. She was relived of duty and sent home, almost cost her her career.
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laZardo Sat, Feb 6, 2010 4:28:35am |
re: #84 RogueOne
During the 1st Gulf War I had a female friend, my best friends sister, who was a CO stationed in SA. After a month of being treated like a 2nd class citizen by her saudi counterparts she finally snapped when one of their religious police smacked her in the back of the leg with a stick because she was wearing pants that stopped short of her ankles while she was out in public, off duty. She promptly busted him in his mouth. She was relived of duty and sent home, almost cost her her career.
Among other things.
/well, it IS Saudi Arabia...
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RogueOne Sat, Feb 6, 2010 4:32:42am |
re: #86 laZardo
True. She's STILL irritated about it. That family is my favorite family on the planet, besides mine of course. My buddies boy is in a mech unit about to head to Afghanistan and he's decided he's going active again and going with him. How cool will that be?
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Darth Vader Gargoyle Sat, Feb 6, 2010 4:32:58am |
re: #84 RogueOne
During the 1st Gulf War I had a female friend, my best friends sister, who was a CO stationed in SA. After a month of being treated like a 2nd class citizen by her saudi counterparts she finally snapped when one of their religious police smacked her in the back of the leg with a stick because she was wearing pants that stopped short of her ankles while she was out in public, off duty. She promptly busted him in his mouth. She was relived of duty and sent home, almost cost her her career.
You know, with an attitude like that she won't make a very good Dhimmi.
//
Good Morning Lizards. Thursday night my 56 inch HDTV died. I'm hosting a Superbowl party for about 40 folks...fortunately I bought an extended warranty and they came out yesterday and fixed it! Back on schedule! I'm not usually a fan of the extended warranties, but it paid for itself in this case.
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Darth Vader Gargoyle Sat, Feb 6, 2010 4:33:57am |
I wonder if FBV lost power in Big Lick, haven't "seen" him yet today...
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RogueOne Sat, Feb 6, 2010 4:34:12am |
re: #88 rwdflynavy
Congrats on the TV but even more congrats on the avatar. Hilarious.
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laZardo Sat, Feb 6, 2010 4:35:49am |
re: #88 rwdflynavy
You know, with an attitude like that she won't make a very good Dhimmi.
//Good Morning Lizards. Thursday night my 56 inch HDTV died. I'm hosting a Superbowl party for about 40 folks...fortunately I bought an extended warranty and they came out yesterday and fixed it! Back on schedule! I'm not usually a fan of the extended warranties, but it paid for itself in this case.
Be thankful you didn't wager it against the Saints.
/yet?
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RogueOne Sat, Feb 6, 2010 4:36:38am |
re: #77 WindUpBird
BTW windup, of all people I'm surprised it was you going out of your way to play peacemaker. You tried hard to save CarryOn. Cracked me up. He should have taken the "time travel" bait.
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RogueOne Sat, Feb 6, 2010 4:50:04am |
What the hell is wrong with people?
Miley's 9-year-old sister launching a lingerie line for kids
[Link: celebrities.ninemsn.com.au...]
Seems like every time we hear about Noah Cyrus she's doing something totally innapropriate for her age.Whether it's dressing like a dominatrix for Halloween, skipping around a pole-dancing pole or performing the totally un-PG hits 'Smack That' and 'Tik Tok', we suspect this nine-year-old could easily notch up more scandals than her big sis by the time she hits her teens.
Too many parents just suck.
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laZardo Sat, Feb 6, 2010 4:53:22am |
re: #93 RogueOne
What the hell is wrong with people?
Miley's 9-year-old sister launching a lingerie line for kids
[Link: celebrities.ninemsn.com.au...]Too many parents just suck.
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Taqyia2Me Sat, Feb 6, 2010 4:55:03am |
"....That brings us to Part 2 of the liberal conceit: Liberals act in the public interest, while conservatives think only of power, elections, self-aggrandizement and self-interest.
It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good. A 2002 New York Times obituary for philosopher Robert Nozick explained that the strongly libertarian implications of Nozick’s masterwork, “Anarchy, State, and Utopia,” “proved comforting to the right, which was grateful for what it embraced as philosophical justification.” The right, you see, is grateful when a bright intellectual can graft some philosophical rationalization onto its thoroughly base and self-regarding politics.
This belief in the moral hollowness of conservatism animates the current liberal mantra that Republican opposition to Obama’s social democratic agenda — which couldn’t get through even a Democratic Congress and powered major Democratic losses in New Jersey, Virginia and Massachusetts — is nothing but blind and cynical obstructionism.
By contrast, Democratic opposition to George W. Bush — from Iraq to Social Security reform — constituted dissent. And dissent, we were told at the time, including by candidate Obama, is “one of the truest expressions of patriotism.”
No more. Today, dissent from the governing orthodoxy is nihilistic malice. “They made a decision,” explained David Axelrod, “they were going to sit it out and hope that we failed, that the country failed” — a perfect expression of liberals’ conviction that their aspirations are necessarily the country’s, that their idea of the public good is the public’s, that their failure is therefore the nation’s...."
[Link: www.sj-r.com...]
imho, Charles Krauthammer is about overdue for about 1200+ dnc lawyers to come to give him the Palin treatment.
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RogueOne Sat, Feb 6, 2010 4:59:45am |
re: #94 laZardo
Bears and Chris Hanson. I almost thought it deserved a NSFW warning. How in the world could parents think that's a good idea?
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RogueOne Sat, Feb 6, 2010 5:02:32am |
Why being cute can be a matter of survival, plus it is caturday I guess.
Leopard cuddles Baby Baboon
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laZardo Sat, Feb 6, 2010 5:04:23am |
re: #95 Taqyia2Me
If the Tea Party crowd are what's leading the 'ankle-knockers,' I much prefer the definition of these so-called dissenters as 'nihilistic malice.'
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Walter L. Newton Sat, Feb 6, 2010 5:08:35am |
I put this in the spin off links above. I wish there was a category called "bad science" since lately, every time I turn around, some scientist or some country is finding inaccuracies in the IPCC AR4 report.
Yesterday, Charles commented...
re: #625 CharlesEvery single one of these trumped up scandals has been exaggerated way beyond its significance by the AGW denial industry. If you can show one organization created by human beings that does NOT have problems, I'll eat my words. But using any one of these silly incidents to prove a bigger problem with the theory of global warming is ridiculous, and it should be below you if you care about the truth.
I do care about the truth and the Netherlands cares about the truth and India cares about the truth, and AGW writer and supporter Fred Pearce cares about, and I don't think it's below these entities to care about the truth.
I care about AGW and I have NO issue with the body of respectable scientist world wide who find no need to deceive and obstruct.
It's time to clean house.
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Taqyia2Me Sat, Feb 6, 2010 5:09:19am |
re: #98 laZardo
If the Tea Party crowd are what's leading the 'ankle-knockers,' I much prefer the definition of these so-called dissenters as 'nihilistic malice.'
I don't think they are so much leading them as highjacking them.
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laZardo Sat, Feb 6, 2010 5:10:44am |
re: #100 Taqyia2Me
I don't think they are so much leading them as highjacking them.
It's not hijacking if they're silently consenting to it.
/same goes for a bunch of other things.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 6, 2010 5:19:08am |
re: #99 Walter L. Newton
Did you see that India is dropping from the UN Climate Change body?
I'm sure India wants to make more stringent laws for themselves.
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Walter L. Newton Sat, Feb 6, 2010 5:23:16am |
re: #102 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Did you see that India is dropping from the UN Climate Change body?
I'm sure India wants to make more stringent laws for themselves.
Yes, this is one of the articles I linked to Thursday and Friday, in the Guardian, the original article, written by Guardian's reporter Fred Pearce. Fred Pearce is an environment writer and author of "The Last Generation: How nature will take her revenge for climate change."
This is one of the article that Charles suggested was "below you if you care about the truth."
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 6, 2010 5:27:06am |
re: #103 Walter L. Newton
I'm only seeing it as proof that India is not interested in a damn thing that will ritard their economic growth...
Absolutely nothing to do with proving/disproving AGW.
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RogueOne Sat, Feb 6, 2010 5:31:53am |
re: #104 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
The Indian economy has been trending in the right direction for decades now but there's no way they can afford to take even a little hit.
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Walter L. Newton Sat, Feb 6, 2010 5:32:20am |
re: #104 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I'm only seeing it as proof that India is not interested in a damn thing that will ritard their economic growth...
Absolutely nothing to do with proving/disproving AGW.
Where did I say it was? Where did India say it was? Where did Fred Pearce say it was? No one is. Do you ignore the racism that is in the GOP? Do you want to deny conservatism? Do you ignore the bigotry in the religious right? Do you want to deny G-D?
No.
But you want the GOP to clean up. You want the wacky religious right to stop interjecting politics into religion and spirituality. Well, I want bad science to stop interjecting themselves into AGW science. I want the charlatans out, I want the scientist who care more about politics and prestige out.
If you want to turn a blind eye, go ahead. When you have a good foundation, you don't want it spoiled by trash.
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RogueOne Sat, Feb 6, 2010 5:33:22am |
US missionary freed by NKorea starts journey home
[Link: news.yahoo.com...]
North Korea's government announced Friday it would release Park, with official media quoting him as saying he now believed "there's complete religious freedom for all people everywhere" in the North."I would not have committed such crime if I had known that the (North) respects the rights of all the people and guarantees their freedom and they enjoy a happy and stable life," the official Korean Central News Agency quoted Park as saying.
North Korea is regarded as having one of the world's worst human rights records, with some 154,000 political prisoners held in six camps across the country, according to the South Korean government.
I'm sure he meant every word of his statement.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 6, 2010 5:35:58am |
My consistent concern regarding AGW for the longest time (since I became a reluctant believer) was that as usual, the United States will lead the way in changing to help while the newly developing world will not even slap a catalytic converter on an old motorcycle.
Cynical bastard, ain't I.
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laZardo Sat, Feb 6, 2010 5:41:38am |
re: #108 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
My consistent concern regarding AGW for the longest time (since I became a reluctant believer) was that as usual, the United States will lead the way in changing to help while the newly developing world will not even slap a catalytic converter on an old motorcycle.
Cynical bastard, ain't I.
If only the username field could accommodate an added seven characters for that.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 6, 2010 5:47:22am |
Just informed the wife that we own two snow shovels. She looked at me and said, but (daughter) is going to work... I'm not sure Wife would know which end of the shovel to use, and I am not sure that she would be able to find out where to plug it in.
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laZardo Sat, Feb 6, 2010 5:50:53am |
Yesterday's news, but...
Somalian pirates flee from Danish Navy
Danish special forces serving as part of Nato's counter-piracy operation have freed the crew of a cargo ship boarded by pirates off Somalia.
They moved in after being assured by the captain that the crew had locked themselves in a safe room, a Nato spokeswoman told the BBC.
It seems the pirates escaped to their boat before the troops arrived but the 180m (590ft) vessel was being searched.
SNIP
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Decatur Deb Sat, Feb 6, 2010 6:01:07am |
re: #107 RogueOne
US missionary freed by NKorea starts journey home
[Link: news.yahoo.com...]
I'm sure he meant every word of his statement.
Usually these include "imperialist" and "running-dogs".
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laZardo Sat, Feb 6, 2010 6:03:29am |
re: #112 Decatur Deb
Usually these include "imperialist" and "running-dogs".
/somehow ironic that the DPRK official news agency site is in Japan...
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Mad Al-Jaffee Sat, Feb 6, 2010 6:16:32am |
We have about two feet of snow now here in Maryland. I just tried to let the dog out. She looked at the snow, looked up at me, looked at the snow again and back up at me, whined and stayed inside. She's a smart girl.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 6, 2010 6:19:35am |
re: #114 Mad Al-Jaffee
I've shoveled the sidewalk six times so far... along with the sidewalk I shovel out a 4'x10' square in the grass for the dog.
He's only 8 inches tall... we have 14 inches of snow on the ground.
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Mad Al-Jaffee Sat, Feb 6, 2010 6:20:53am |
I'm not shoveling until the snow stops. My main concern now is getting to the grill and clearing all of the snow off it so I can grill tomorrow.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 6, 2010 6:22:05am |
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Cathypop Sat, Feb 6, 2010 6:23:50am |
And all I have is fog. Lots and lots of fog.
Morning
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_RememberTonyC Sat, Feb 6, 2010 6:25:35am |
Today's word is "schaudenfreud" as we look forward to a sunny (but chilly) day in Connecticut while you folks in the mid Atlantic deal with stuff.
Good luck living in our world this weekend :)
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 6, 2010 6:28:02am |
re: #119 _RememberTonyC
It has been 20 years since we have had anything close to this weather. It occurred to the wife and I that we haven't missed it at all.
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Mad Al-Jaffee Sat, Feb 6, 2010 6:30:04am |
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 6, 2010 6:31:52am |
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lawhawk Sat, Feb 6, 2010 6:32:02am |
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. We got bupkus here in Northern NJ. Not even a single snowflake coming down from the heavens. And I was so looking forward to snowmageddon. Oh well.
DC, MD, DE, and Southern NJ are getting hammered.
Meanwhile, there's rumors that a major scandal is set to break against NYS Gov. David Paterson involving what's claimed to be wife-swapping and drugs at the governor's mansion. I don't think that there's anything there to this rumor, but if there is, the NYT (which is supposedly leading on the reporting) is holding it because it would be literally buried behind the snowstorm coverage.
Paterson is wounded politically and a scandal would be a death knell to his reelection efforts. If this actually does pan out, say hello to Lt Gov Richard Ravitch, who was central to getting NYS out of the last major fiscal crisis in the 1970s. And Andrew Cuomo would definitely benefit, since he's all but likely to win in a primary race against Paterson.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 6, 2010 6:34:27am |
re: #123 lawhawk
I'd hate to be Governor of NY. Can't imagine people try to get that job.
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_RememberTonyC Sat, Feb 6, 2010 6:35:30am |
re: #120 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
It has been 20 years since we have had anything close to this weather. It occurred to the wife and I that we haven't missed it at all.
it SUCKS ... snow sucks 100%
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Cathypop Sat, Feb 6, 2010 6:36:45am |
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Mad Al-Jaffee Sat, Feb 6, 2010 6:37:04am |
re: #125 _RememberTonyC
it SUCKS ... snow sucks 100%
I can't complain. I have nowhere to go this weekend. I lost my satellite tv service, but that's okay. I still have power. As long as I can grill tomorrow and watch the Superbowl, I'll be fine. And if I can't grill, it will be pizza or Chinese food during the game.
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lawhawk Sat, Feb 6, 2010 6:37:24am |
re: #124 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Power, prestige, and at one time, it was a stepping stone to being President of the US. Now, the governor is a someone who presides over a bloated state budget that is structurally in a perpetual deficit because of ongoing pension obligations and requirements to pay for programs it can't afford while the unions hold sway and prevent any meaningful reform to help get the state on a firm financial ground.
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_RememberTonyC Sat, Feb 6, 2010 6:37:54am |
re: #127 Mad Al-Jaffee
I can't complain. I have nowhere to go this weekend. I lost my satellite tv service, but that's okay. I still have power. As long as I can grill tomorrow and watch the Superbowl, I'll be fine. And if I can't grill, it will be pizza or Chinese food during the game.
yes .... if you're gonna get buried, let it be over the weekend ...
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Mad Al-Jaffee Sat, Feb 6, 2010 6:38:23am |
re: #126 Cathypop
Nope! And I'll have no problem grilling tonight. :)
I'd give you a downding for that, but I'm too nice to do that.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 6, 2010 6:38:26am |
re: #128 lawhawk
Yeah. Like I said, I can't imagine wanting that job.
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laZardo Sat, Feb 6, 2010 6:42:29am |
re: #119 _RememberTonyC
Today's word is "schaudenfreud" as we look forward to a sunny (but chilly) day in Connecticut while you folks in the mid Atlantic deal with stuff.
Good luck living in our world this weekend :)
Not a cloud in the sky over Manila these last few days. :D
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Mad Al-Jaffee Sat, Feb 6, 2010 6:43:24am |
I almost forgot my good news. I talked to one of my best friends last night and he told me his daughter was born Thursday morning. She was born at the same hospital I was, almost 40 years ago. Mother, baby and father are doing fine. Can't wait to meet her.
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laZardo Sat, Feb 6, 2010 6:44:15am |
re: #128 lawhawk
Power, prestige, and at one time, it was a stepping stone to being President of the US. Now, the governor is a someone who presides over a bloated state budget that is structurally in a perpetual deficit because of ongoing pension obligations and requirements to pay for programs it can't afford while the unions hold sway and prevent any meaningful reform to help get the state on a firm financial ground.
Someone's gotta think of the workers!
/
//unions these days are a far cry from the ones of the early 20th century. ):
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_RememberTonyC Sat, Feb 6, 2010 6:44:32am |
re: #132 laZardo
Not a cloud in the sky over Manila these last few days. :D
no snow in YOUR forecast
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_RememberTonyC Sat, Feb 6, 2010 6:46:54am |
re: #133 Mad Al-Jaffee
I almost forgot my good news. I talked to one of my best friends last night and he told me his daughter was born Thursday morning. She was born at the same hospital I was, almost 40 years ago. Mother, baby and father are doing fine. Can't wait to meet her.
congrats ... a snow angel?
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laZardo Sat, Feb 6, 2010 6:47:34am |
re: #135 _RememberTonyC
no snow in YOUR forecast
Ain't it grand? 8D
/at least until the SEARING HEAT comes along.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 6, 2010 6:47:49am |
re: #132 laZardo
I am a looong way from volcanoes.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 6, 2010 6:48:53am |
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NJDhockeyfan Sat, Feb 6, 2010 6:51:03am |
Good morning lizards!
It's snowing like hell outside right now. Looks like I have close to a foot so far with a forecast of snow until midnight. We got a total of 42" so far this season before this storm hit.
The birds love our bird feeder outside the window. There is also a woodpecker taking the bark off the ash tree right next to it.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 6, 2010 6:51:32am |
re: #140 NJDhockeyfan
Been wondering how the mountain folk were doing.
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Mad Al-Jaffee Sat, Feb 6, 2010 6:52:01am |
re: #136 _RememberTonyC
congrats ... a snow angel?
No, she was born before the snow. And they got back from the hospital before the snow started. They're probably sitting in front of their fireplace right now with the baby.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 6, 2010 6:52:03am |
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NJDhockeyfan Sat, Feb 6, 2010 6:52:48am |
re: #142 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Been wondering how the mountain folk were doing.
It snowed all day yesterday, then it alternated back and forth from snow, to sleet, to rain last night for a while.
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Feb 6, 2010 6:57:05am |
re: #108 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
My consistent concern regarding AGW for the longest time (since I became a reluctant believer) was that as usual, the United States will lead the way in changing to help while the newly developing world will not even slap a catalytic converter on an old motorcycle.
Cynical bastard, ain't I.
In this case, I disagree. What I think will happen is the US will insist of China acting before we go very far. China and India do nothing and AGW will hit the planet full-bore.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 6, 2010 6:57:21am |
re: #145 NJDhockeyfan
Just measured on my deck... I currently have 16 inches of snow on my deck.
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_RememberTonyC Sat, Feb 6, 2010 6:58:30am |
re: #143 Mad Al-Jaffee
No, she was born before the snow. And they got back from the hospital before the snow started. They're probably sitting in front of their fireplace right now with the baby.
my kids are practically grown now .... they stay up later than me, they stay OUT later than me ... they're smarter than me too!
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NJDhockeyfan Sat, Feb 6, 2010 6:58:38am |
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:01:57am |
re: #146 Dark_Falcon
You think the US will do nothing, if China, Russia and India don't jump on also?
I think the US will do something... regardless.
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:02:59am |
re: #150 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
You think the US will do nothing, if China, Russia and India don't jump on also?
I think the US will do something... regardless.
I don't. I think we won't engage in unilateral cuts. They'd be ineffective anyway.
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Dark_Falcon Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:03:52am |
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:07:22am |
re: #151 Dark_Falcon
My learning curve on this will be pretty slow. The overall effects of Global Warming, I won't pay much attention to (because it won't matter) how much I read or learn.
I am very interested to see what the global cooperation picture will look like though. Fascination with train wrecks I guess...
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Sloppy Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:08:47am |
Husker Nation, which has been there more than a few times, sends its understanding and condolences to the snow-stricken East.
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SteveC Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:10:51am |
This is part of what I'm going to say at a Heart Defect Conference in Tallahassee next week: (I'll probably post it again on the night of the 17th)
I was born on a Tuesday, and on Friday, they started to realize that something wasn’t right. I don’t know if my mother noticed it first, but that was probably the way it happened. Moms know their babies, and they are almost always the first one to pick up on any problem.
So they took me to my pediatrician, who figured out that I had some type of heart problem, but he wasn’t sure what. So he sent me to the nearest hospital that could help me.
The doctors there told my parents that I had a Congenital Heart Defect known as Tricuspid Atresia, and they should take me home and love me, because I wouldn’t be here that long. Well my parents didn’t think a whole lot of that statement, and neither did my doctor back home. In fact, he said it was completely unacceptable.
So he found four places that could try a surgical repair: Johns Hopkins, Mayo Clinic, the University of Virginia, and the Texas Heart Institute. Mayo and Texas he threw out because of the travel distance. Virginia, which was his own medical school, he eliminated because he didn’t think they had enough experience. That left us with Johns Hopkins. He called, and things were set up for that summer. My parents would take me to Baltimore, I would be evaluated, and if possible, the Hopkins surgeons would attempt the surgery.
*More*
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:11:17am |
Hey Lizards!
Is Everyone Awake?
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SteveC Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:11:47am |
*Part 2*
That night all hell broke loose. I went into heart failure, my heart rate shot up to 200 beats per minute, and I was rushed to my local hospital. I was there a week while they tried to get me stabilized; in the meantime, my pediatrician was working the phones, relaying information about me to the Hopkins doctors. They were telling him that I needed to get there as soon as possible.
Dad picked me up at the hospital and drove home to pick up momma, and we immediately left for Baltimore. Remember this occurred in 1967; I-95 hadn’t been completed yet. After driving all day they needed a break, so they stopped at a hotel in Petersburg, Virginia.
They had been asleep about an hour when Momma got up to check on me. She happened to glance out the window and it was snowing as hard as she had ever seen it snow. She woke daddy up, and we were back in the car and moving within a few minutes.
Cars were stuck in the snow all along the roadway, and daddy was stopping every fifteen minutes to wipe the windshield off with an old rag. When they passed through Washington he actually thought about putting me and momma on a train to Baltimore and catching up to us later. It’s a good thing he didn’t, because he found out later that the snow was so bad that the railroad shut down their trains for the night.
Three families were expected by the Children’s Medical Center that day, but we were the only ones who made it. The doctors examined me and then asked my parents for permission to do a Catherization. After the Catherization, the head Cardiologist came out to talk to my parents.
“He is down to hours,” he said. “We need to operate right now.” He added that my odds of surviving the operation were 50-50 but without it I had no chance. My parents had about five minutes to discuss it before they had to decide to risk the surgery or just let me slip away.
I was taken into the operating room at 10:30 that night, and the operation ended about three in the morning. My folks didn’t leave the hospital until they saw me afterwards, so it was almost daybreak when they went to a boardinghouse about a block away.
I have to admit that I begged the organizing committee for a few extra moments to speak to you today, almost to the point of embarrassing myself. Because that surgery took place on the night of February 17, 1967 - almost 43 years ago. My parents are just ordinary people; but that night they turned into a Heart Mom and a Heart Dad just like you. And I’m here today because they have always been willing to ask one more question, explore one more option, and go one more mile.
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SteveC Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:13:22am |
re: #156 Sloppy
Husker Nation, which has been there more than a few times, sends its understanding and condolences to the snow-stricken East.
Much thanks, but all we got was rain. I'll hold your condolences for when we do get a little snow. (Southerns have no clue how to drive in snow, we'll need them than!)
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:14:04am |
re: #157 SteveC
Wow. Amazing.
I'm going to watch "Something the Lord Made" with the wife today on HBO "In-Demand".
She hasn't seen it, and I know she'll enjoy it.
Johns Hopkins is the shit.
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SteveC Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:16:59am |
re: #161 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Wow. Amazing.
I'm going to watch "Something the Lord Made" with the wife today on HBO "In-Demand".
She hasn't seen it, and I know she'll enjoy it.
Johns Hopkins is the shit.
The only "mistake" I have found in that movie is Helen Taussig's hearing aid. The actress playing the part (Mary Stuart Masterson) thought the correct prop was so big it would look like a growth on her head and distract from the character, so she asked for a smaller one. Everything else - as far as I know - is RIGHT.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:17:57am |
re: #159 SteveC
Powerful stuff... the last paragraph is just bone-chillingly cool.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:19:44am |
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Mad Al-Jaffee Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:20:52am |
I got coffee brewing (soon to be joined with a shot of Maker's in a mug - yeah, it's 10:20 am somewhere!) and bread to bake this afternoon.
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sattv4u2 Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:21:14am |
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SteveC Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:21:19am |
re: #163 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I'm going to be talking to a group of heart parents (the kids will be there, but when the conference is in session they'll be off doing fun stuff) and a lot of them are young - 20's and 30's. I hope that I can help them see that people have walked down this road before.
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sattv4u2 Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:22:42am |
re: #164 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
How much snow you got so far!?!?
(we're doing 3 ACC basketball games today and I need to se how many podunk TV stations will be calling me so I can tell them to shovel out their dishes!!))
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SteveC Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:22:55am |
re: #165 Mad Al-Jaffee
I got coffee brewing (soon to be joined with a shot of Maker's in a mug - yeah, it's 10:20 am somewhere!) and bread to bake this afternoon.
I've got an extra mug and I tell good jokes! Can I come over?
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Mad Al-Jaffee Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:24:03am |
re: #169 SteveC
I've got an extra mug and I tell good jokes! Can I come over?
You can try. Roads look pretty bad now.
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:24:24am |
re: #169 SteveC
I've got an extra mug and I tell good jokes! Can I come over?
I'm still on my first cuppa. ugh.
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:25:57am |
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:26:15am |
re: #167 SteveC
43 years ago the road was dirt, and on the edge of a cliff...
Now it is paved, lined and has guardrails.
There's the occasional wreck, but the road of 43 years ago can not be compared to today's road.
The heart surgeon of 43 years ago was like a flipping astronaut.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:27:28am |
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Holidays are Family Fun Time Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:28:24am |
gotta go, have a great day all!
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sattv4u2 Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:30:29am |
re: #175 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
A foot.
Who you calling Po-dunk, you bean eating carpet-bagger?
You, ya possum eatin, cousin marryin, shotgun totin hillbillie
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SteveC Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:33:43am |
re: #173 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
The heart surgeon of 43 years ago was like a flipping astronaut.
Would you believe he is still alive?
Dr. Gott doesn't actively operate any more, but he is still at Hopkins, he's one of their top Marfan's Syndrome researchers
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SteveC Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:34:45am |
re: #179 sattv4u2
You, ya possum eatin, cousin marryin, shotgun totin hillbillie
Hey, rube! I did not marry my cousin! We're jest shakin' up.
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Spare O'Lake Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:35:19am |
re: #178 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Whaddup?
Not much, supwit you?
Hmmm...seems kinda friendly here...anyone wanna go a couple of rounds, just to liven things up?
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:36:59am |
re: #179 sattv4u2
You, ya possum eatin, cousin marryin, shotgun totin hillbillie
That is sooo wrong. I don't eat possum.
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SteveC Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:40:30am |
re: #184 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
That is sooo wrong. I don't eat possum.
I do. But they don't call it that around here. *nudge nudge*
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Henchman Ghazi-808 Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:41:43am |
I hope Retracto the Correction Alpaca is used to working at high altitudes, because he’ll need to hold his breath for a really long time waiting for a retraction from this Little Green Lizard.
Charles owes me a new keyboard after that one.
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SteveC Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:45:06am |
Arrgh! I have to go, and it looks like the Festivus celebration was just starting!
Save me a seat, I'll try to make it back in time for the Feats of Strength!
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:45:14am |
Is the Weather Channel exaggerating about the snow?
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sattv4u2 Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:48:09am |
re: #188 MandyManners
Is the Weather Channel exaggerating about the snow?
What do they know about it!?!? They're only weathermen! You'll have to ask the IPCC and the UN!!
//
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Spare O'Lake Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:48:31am |
re: #183 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Give it a minute.
Okay, time's up.
Billy Ayers is an example of how wealth, politics and government incompetence can result in gross miscarriages of justice...even to the extent of allowing a seditious, murderous WEASEL like him to not only get off SCOT free, but then to launch a successful career by writing and bragging about his terrorist exploits.
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Mad Al-Jaffee Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:48:57am |
Just kneaded and shaped the loaf of bread I'll be baking in a few hours. I'm glad I bought butter last night. Nom!
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Henchman Ghazi-808 Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:49:55am |
I'm waiting for the 'What Global Warming? Look at this snow storm!' banter.
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Mad Al-Jaffee Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:53:06am |
I have to add something else about my post about my buddy's new baby. Last night I emailed him a picture of a shot of Maker's in my hand and told him it was in honor of the birth (cigar to come later, when it's nicer out.) He told me it was the best email he got about the baby.
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Taqyia2Me Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:54:04am |
re: #190 Spare O'Lake
Okay, time's up.
Billy Ayers is an example of how wealth, politics and government incompetence can result in gross miscarriages of justice...even to the extent of allowing a seditious, murderous WEASEL like him to not only get off SCOT free, but then to launch a successful career by writing and bragging about his terrorist exploits.
Agreed, but in Little Billy Ayers case, it also is helpful to note his daddy was a big ebil korpoor-ate-shun head, Com-Ed, iirc. He had the $ to lawyer up, all righteous like...
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:54:06am |
re: #190 Spare O'Lake
Sorry. No argument here.
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webevintage Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:54:17am |
ICAN HAZ SNOW?
Well, no I can't, but I like looking at the traffic cams in DC:
[Link: www.trafficland.com...]
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:54:45am |
re: #188 MandyManners
Is the Weather Channel exaggerating about the snow?
Well, the snow up to my knees says NO!
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:55:21am |
re: #189 sattv4u2
What do they know about it!?!? They're only weathermen! You'll have to ask the IPCC and the UN!!
//
You made me laugh this early in the a.m..
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Mad Al-Jaffee Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:55:44am |
re: #197 webevintage
ICAN HAZ SNOW?
Well, no I can't, but I like looking at the traffic cams in DC:
[Link: www.trafficland.com...]
YOU CAN HAZ!
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:56:22am |
re: #190 Spare O'Lake
Okay, time's up.
Billy Ayers is an example of how wealth, politics and government incompetence can result in gross miscarriages of justice...even to the extent of allowing a seditious, murderous WEASEL like him to not only get off SCOT free, but then to launch a successful career by writing and bragging about his terrorist exploits.
Blame law enforcement for not getting a warrant!
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:57:29am |
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 6, 2010 7:58:30am |
re: #197 webevintage
ICAN HAZ SNOW?
Well, no I can't, but I like looking at the traffic cams in DC:
[Link: www.trafficland.com...]
Cool link.
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sattv4u2 Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:00:34am |
re: #198 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Well, the snow up to my knees says NO!
No fair,,, you're kneeling !!
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webevintage Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:00:51am |
re: #204 MandyManners
Cool link.
It's fun to peek at when there are big marches in DC too.
I'm not used to so many traffic cameras...I think there are 10 in Little Rock.
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darthstar Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:07:03am |
re: #190 Spare O'Lake
Okay, time's up.
Billy Ayers is an example of how wealth, politics and government incompetence can result in gross miscarriages of justice...even to the extent of allowing a seditious, murderous WEASEL like him to not only get off SCOT free, but then to launch a successful career by writing and bragging about his terrorist exploits.
I don't care for Bill Ayers actions either, but apparently the only people they killed were members of their own team (from wiki):
In a November 2008 interview with The New Yorker, Ayers said that he had not meant to imply that he wished he and the Weathermen had committed further acts of violence. Instead, he said, “I wish I had done more, but it doesn’t mean I wish we’d bombed more shit.” Ayers said that he had never been responsible for violence against other people and was acting to end a war in Vietnam in which “thousands of people were being killed every week.” He also stated, "While we did claim several extreme acts, they were acts of extreme radicalism against property,” and “We killed no one and hurt no one. Three of our people killed themselves.”
That said, I'm not itching for a fight here. Just trying to figure out how many people Ayers actually killed...apparently, it was zero.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:07:18am |
It's an odd time for liberals to feel smug. But even with Democratic fortunes on the wane, leading liberals insist that they have almost nothing to learn from conservatives. Many Democrats describe their troubles simply as a PR challenge, a combination of conservative misinformation -- as when Obama charges that critics of health-care reform are peddling fake fears of a "Bolshevik plot" -- and the country's failure to grasp great liberal accomplishments. "We were so busy just getting stuff done . . . that I think we lost some of that sense of speaking directly to the American people about what their core values are," the president told ABC's George Stephanopoulos in a recent interview. The benighted public is either uncomprehending or deliberately misinformed (by conservatives).
This condescension is part of a liberal tradition that for generations has impoverished American debates over the economy, society and the functions of government -- and threatens to do so again today, when dialogue would be more valuable than ever.
SNIP
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:08:09am |
re: #206 webevintage
It's fun to peek at when there are big marches in DC too.
I'm not used to so many traffic cameras...I think there are 10 in Little Rock.
There are two here but they only capture speeders. Damn fascist cameras.
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Political Atheist Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:08:28am |
re: #201 MandyManners
Relate that to the Clinton era-and Aldrich Ames. The FBI did a warrantless black bag job on him due to the severe threat to security and our agents abroad. Good thing he confessed. After this Clinton and Newt Gingrich changed FISA forever.
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NJDhockeyfan Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:10:24am |
re: #188 MandyManners
Is the Weather Channel exaggerating about the snow?
I can only speak for me. It's snowing like hell outside!
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:13:19am |
re: #211 NJDhockeyfan
Running with the assumption that is your yard?
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:14:48am |
re: #211 NJDhockeyfan
Once, Irish Rose shot a pic from her window. I asked her about the fog, she said, "Uh... that's snow..."
Sheesh
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NJDhockeyfan Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:15:04am |
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:15:56am |
re: #210 Rightwingconspirator
Relate that to the Clinton era-and Aldrich Ames. The FBI did a warrantless black bag job on him due to the severe threat to security and our agents abroad. Good thing he confessed. After this Clinton and Newt Gingrich changed FISA forever.
Now I'm in a pissy mood thinking about Ames.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:16:16am |
re: #215 NJDhockeyfan
I guessed since the Bentley wasn't parked in the circular driveway that's in front of your house.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:17:11am |
re: #211 NJDhockeyfan
I can only speak for me. It's snowing like hell outside!
Are you feeding the birds?
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NJDhockeyfan Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:19:54am |
re: #218 MandyManners
Are you feeding the birds?
Yes. We have a few bird feeders outside the window. They are also stealing the dog food out of the dog's dish.
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Spare O'Lake Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:21:02am |
re: #207 darthstar
That said, I'm not itching for a fight here. Just trying to figure out how many people Ayers actually killed...apparently, it was zero.
The human toll attributed to the Weather Underground, also known as the Weathermen, included a police officer killed and another badly hurt by a pipe bomb, two officers and a Brinks guard killed in an armoured truck robbery, and three radicals killed in a bomb-making accident.
[Link: www.cbc.ca...]
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:21:20am |
Now, on what would have been his 82nd birthday, Reginald Earnshaw's sad place in history has finally been acknowledged.
On Friday, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission officially recognized him as the youngest known British service casualty in World War II.
The lad lived just 14 years and 152 days. He died when German planes attacked the SS Devon, the ship he was on, off the east coast of England on July 6, 1941. He had only served for several months.
SNOW
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:21:41am |
re: #219 NJDhockeyfan
Yes. We have a few bird feeders outside the window. They are also stealing the dog food out of the dog's dish.
You da man.
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NJDhockeyfan Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:22:16am |
re: #217 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I guessed since the Bentley wasn't parked in the circular driveway that's in front of your house.
How did you know I had a circular driveway?
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:22:43am |
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webevintage Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:23:37am |
CSPAN is doing one of their "let the crazy people call in and ask crazy questions" of Mark Skoda, who I think is the head of the Memphis Tea Party if anyone is interested.
Did not see it on the website, just on tv.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:24:27am |
re: #223 NJDhockeyfan
Gosh. They're barely recognizable...
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:24:33am |
re: #220 Spare O'Lake
The human toll attributed to the Weather Underground, also known as the Weathermen, included a police officer killed and another badly hurt by a pipe bomb, two officers and a Brinks guard killed in an armoured truck robbery, and three radicals killed in a bomb-making accident.
[Link: www.cbc.ca...]
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Political Atheist Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:25:11am |
re: #225 webevintage
Thanks but this time of the morning I'm strictly a coffee man. Bitter Tea will upset my stomach.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:25:52am |
Wife just walked by, looked outside and said, "Still snowing!"
heh... earlier she called herself the "Weather Nag".
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NJDhockeyfan Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:25:55am |
re: #224 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Is your dog indoors?
Are you feeling interrogated?
They keep going in and out. Here is the newest member of the family. This was taken a few days ago.
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webevintage Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:26:52am |
re: #231 NJDhockeyfan
They keep going in and out. Here is the newest member of the family. This was taken a few days ago.
Awwwww
Puppy!!
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:28:15am |
re: #231 NJDhockeyfan
They keep going in and out. Here is the newest member of the family. This was taken a few days ago.
Awww. I can smell the puppy-breath!
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:29:15am |
re: #233 filetandrelease
And you can thank the MFM for perpetuating that myth!
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:30:25am |
re: #231 NJDhockeyfan
How are you posting pictures like that? Do ya mind 'splainin'?
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NJDhockeyfan Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:31:05am |
re: #234 MandyManners
Awww. I can smell the puppy-breath!
But you can't feel the razor sharp puppy teeth.
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Mad Al-Jaffee Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:31:07am |
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:31:46am |
Such exhibitions of adulation, coupled with the staggering social and human toll the drug trade has taken on Mexico, prompted the country's ruling National Action Party to propose legislation in January to regulate narcocorridos, the danceable songs that recount tales of drug dealers and their exploits.
Surprisingly, many in the music industry are privately hailing the action, even as they acknowledge that narcocorridos have never been as massively popular as today.
"As a label executive, I'm against any type of censure," said one record executive who, like everyone else interviewed for this piece, asked to remain anonymous, due in large part to security concerns. "But as a Mexican I totally agree with this proposal. It's reprehensible that music -- which is a means of communication -- is used to praise this lifestyle."
It has been widely misreported that the proposal could punish artists and media executives with up to three years in prison for producing and airing narcocorridos. Instead, the proposed legislation, introduced January 20 by Congress member Oscar Martin Arce, seeks to regulate the mass diffusion of narcocorridos or other related material -- like videos or film -- by requiring that they be labeled with a warning, akin to what's required for tobacco, alcohol or ads for age-restricted movies. The warning label would be required only on content that calls for the commission of a crime.
SNIP
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:32:24am |
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webevintage Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:32:38am |
re: #225 webevintage
CSPAN is doing one of their "let the crazy people call in and ask crazy questions" of Mark Skoda
Oh, I want to make sure I was clear, I don't think Mark Skoda is crazy...just some of the callers. The call in times on CSPAN really can be this amazing mix of stupidity, brilliance and batshit insane all within 5 minutes. Skoda seems like a fairly decent sort.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:32:51am |
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NJDhockeyfan Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:33:20am |
re: #236 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
How are you posting pictures like that? Do ya mind 'splainin'?
I recently discovered I had an old account at ImageShack I had forgotten about. It's free!
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:33:39am |
re: #237 NJDhockeyfan
But you can't feel the razor sharp puppy teeth.
Rocky (my little five and a half pounds of thunder) had night terrors last night and bit me on the hand. Little bastard broke skin!
I laughed...
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lawhawk Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:35:49am |
Drudge is linking to a hysterical headline at the Daily Mailclaiming that the Iraqis "At last! Have they finally found a 'weapon of mass destruction' in Iraq?"
Ummm.. to answer the question. No.
They didn't. The photo indicates a cruise missile of some sort; possible a drone craft for target practice. It most certainly isn't a WMD.
It could potentially be a delivery device for a WMD, but by itself, this is merely a cruise missile and is quite possible a SS-3 Styx or a Silkworm missile variant with some of its components missing (or flipped upside down).
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webevintage Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:39:30am |
re: #243 NJDhockeyfan
I recently discovered I had an old account at ImageShack I had forgotten about. It's free!
Thanks.
Let's see if this works:
Image: img7666v.jpg
ILL SIT WER I WANTZ
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darthstar Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:41:22am |
re: #245 lawhawk
It's also the military equivalent of a 64 Rambler on blocks in the front yard. Sure...it could get fixed up in a few years if you could find all the parts.
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Political Atheist Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:42:32am |
re: #245 lawhawk
Not WMD, but I'll bet lots of weapons made illegal for Saddam after the first war are buried out there. They may turn up for decades. Digging foundations for new buildings will be interesting for sure.
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filetandrelease Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:42:38am |
re: #99 Walter L. Newton
When the email was first leaked and some "minor" irregularities surfaced what I said at the time was that there is going to be more inacurracies with the UN climate change panel and their reports.
They keep coming.
It is at the point now where it is apparent these inacurracies were not over site problems, but rather efforts to manipulate an agenda.
What else is in there that is a lie? How do we trust them?
Sadly, we can't.
Billions of lives quite possibly could be at stake, maybe, and we can't get clean information.
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Varek Raith Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:52:42am |
Hi everybody! Dug out of 22" of snow... Another 5 to 10" expected. Great Fun!
/
;)
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Mad Al-Jaffee Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:53:13am |
re: #250 Varek Raith
Hi everybody! Dug out of 22" of snow... Another 5 to 10" expected. Great Fun!
/
;)
I'm not shoveling until it stops.
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Varek Raith Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:54:31am |
re: #251 Mad Al-Jaffee
I'm not shoveling until it stops.
Heh, I just had to... the thought of digging out of 30"+ made me cringe.
;)
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sattv4u2 Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:58:08am |
re: #251 Mad Al-Jaffee
I'm not shoveling until it stops.
How ya going to get outta the house!?!?!?
(actually happened to me one time ,,was in a house several of us owned in the New Hamphire mountains we used as a ski chalet ,,, started snowing late one afternoon, We decided to wait till morning to go out and shovel ,,, one beer led to several and non us us got up till mid afternoon,,, we literally could not open the front nor back door with all the snow piled up)
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:58:59am |
re: #253 sattv4u2
Long as you weren't out of beer and had an indoor bathroom, it was okay.
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Mad Al-Jaffee Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:59:13am |
re: #252 Varek Raith
My car is in a carport, and I have 4 wheel drive. If I have to go anywhere, I can try (but I'm not gonna.)
I have chicken to grill tomorrow, so my concern now is getting the snow off the grill and making a path to it tomorrow. But for now it looks like leftovers and watching the game home alone. :(
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PhillyPretzel Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:59:30am |
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Varek Raith Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:01:24am |
re: #256 PhillyPretzel
re: #251 Mad Al-Jaffee
I am waiting until it stops. Unfortunately my neighbors have already shoveled. It is not going to be fun. :(
It's not! Heavy stuff... Ah, well, the good thing is that I'm done for the day! What's left to shovel tomorrow will be nothing compared to today. My back hurts...
:)
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Mad Al-Jaffee Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:01:48am |
I watched the movie Big Fan last night (streamed on Netflix.) It's like the Taxi Driver of sports fans movies.
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Feline Fearless Leader Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:01:57am |
Good afternoon from the East Coast! Looking out the window currently is like looking out of a snow globe from the inside. Been snowing and blowing around since last night. Not sure what the accumulation is, but I'm going to go found out soon.
Don't have to shovel, so I can go play in it. Didn't get the chance to in the earlier snowfall due to a foot injury, so I'm going to make sure I get out now. (Since I grew up in northern NYS I miss having snow to play in.)
Out to see what stores in Center City Philadelphia are actually open today. If the one brewpub (Nodding Head) is open I think I'll stop in there for lunch and a few pints (or is that the other way 'round?).
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Killgore Trout Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:02:20am |
Tea partiers love the Tea Party....
Tea Party Convention organizer: Tancredo gave 'fantastic speech'
Meanwhile the rest of the country finds it offensive, stupid, extremist and racist.
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sattv4u2 Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:04:29am |
re: #260 Killgore Trout
Tea partiers love the Tea Party...
Tea Party Convention organizer: Tancredo gave 'fantastic speech'
Meanwhile the rest of the country finds it offensive, stupid, extremist and racist.
A collective YAWN is more like it
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PhillyPretzel Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:05:16am |
re: #257 Varek Raith
I know I just opened my window. It is the light fluffy stuff. That is why I am going to wait until tomorrow
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:08:14am |
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Killgore Trout Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:08:56am |
At Tea Party, Gay-Bashing 'Ten Commandments Judge' Calls Obama Immoral
Leave it to the "Ten Commandments judge" to inject gay bashing into the tea party convention. In his big speech this afternoon, Roy Moore castigated President Obama for the far-right's usual litany of offenses and added this one for good measure: Obama had the audacity to issue a proclamation for "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month." To Moore, that means the president "has elevated immorality to a new level."
"Go forth armed in the holy cause of liberty," he told the cheering tea partiers.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:09:02am |
re: #258 Mad Al-Jaffee
The the DeNiro movie with Wesley Snipes? "The Fan"?
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Varek Raith Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:10:21am |
re: #264 Killgore Trout
At Tea Party, Gay-Bashing 'Ten Commandments Judge' Calls Obama Immoral
He must fancy himself a Crusader.
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filetandrelease Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:12:53am |
re: #264 Killgore Trout
Leave it to the GOP to take one step forward and two back.
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Mad Al-Jaffee Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:14:52am |
re: #265 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
The the DeNiro movie with Wesley Snipes? "The Fan"?
I haven't seen it.
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Mad Al-Jaffee Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:17:33am |
I just opened my window to get some fresh air. Bad move, snow in my bedroom!
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:20:05am |
Iranian state media are reporting Iran has begun production of two new heavy duty missiles.
State radio and television say Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi opened two new missile production plants on Saturday to produce the Qaem and Toofan-5 missiles.
Vahidi was quoted in the semi-official Fars news agency saying the Qaem is designed to destroy low-speed, low-altitude targets, like helicopters, while the Toofan-5 missile will have two warheads, able to destroy tanks and armored vehicles.
The news comes as part of the 31st anniversary celebrations of the Islamic Revolution.
Earlier this week, Iran announced the test-launch of a Kavoshgar (Explorer) 3 missile, which is capable of carrying a satellite.
SNIP
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:20:33am |
re: #269 Mad Al-Jaffee
I just opened my window to get some fresh air. Bad move, snow in my bedroom!
Is that what you kids are calling it nowadays?
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filetandrelease Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:22:22am |
re: #270 MandyManners
Iranian state media are reporting Iran has begun production of two new heavy duty missiles.
SNIP
This is not going to end well.
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Mad Al-Jaffee Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:25:37am |
re: #271 MandyManners
Is that what you kids are calling it nowadays?
Only if you were here with me! ;)
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Killgore Trout Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:27:17am |
Media at the Tea Party Convention
One of the credentialed reporters is no less than Joseph Basel, one of the four activists who was arrested — and let out on bail — for the mysterious botched sting of Sen. Mary Landrieu’s (D-La.) office. “I’m here for myself,” Basel told me, after chatting with Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit and Andrew Breitbart of Big Government.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:27:41am |
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:27:53am |
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Political Atheist Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:29:14am |
re: #274 Killgore Trout
Would have been nice to see some of the major media names among the 150 reporters.
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Guanxi88 Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:30:24am |
re: #275 MandyManners
What's gonna' happen on February 11?
Anniversary of the Khomeinist Revolution. Lotta folk out in the streets for protests and rallies - the gov't there might well find another mini-uprising on its hands.
Otherwise, though, I expect the usual blood-thirsty blatherskite.
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webevintage Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:31:37am |
More birther stuff from the tea party folks.
Ugh.
I could see this as an important movement for American if it was not so "Dems and Obama evil" and not so full of bull shit.
One of the panel guys just asked how many folks were never involved in politics before Obama became President? A whole lot raised their hands.
My question is what is it about Obama becoming President that fired these people up.
They had not problem with Bush, but now all of a sudden they want their country back?
Where the hell did it go?
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Killgore Trout Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:32:11am |
re: #277 Rightwingconspirator
Would have been nice to see some of the major media names among the 150 reporters.
I think the bloggers would do a better job. I think the MSM is going soft on the Tea Parties. Possibly they're waiting for an important election year before they start exposing the Tea Party dirt.
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_RememberTonyC Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:33:07am |
iran is atop any short list of "most dangerous regimes." the future of the world may depend on how quickly (or if) iran turns in a better direction.
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_RememberTonyC Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:34:11am |
re: #270 MandyManners
Iranian state media are reporting Iran has begun production of two new heavy duty missiles.
SNIP
may they have many "work accidents," courtesy of "you know who."
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Charles Johnson Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:34:15am |
re: #103 Walter L. Newton
Yes, this is one of the articles I linked to Thursday and Friday, in the Guardian, the original article, written by Guardian's reporter Fred Pearce. Fred Pearce is an environment writer and author of "The Last Generation: How nature will take her revenge for climate change."
This is one of the article that Charles suggested was "below you if you care about the truth."
That's ridiculous, Walter. Please don't put words in my mouth. I said using any one of these trumped up incidents to try to show global warming is a "hoax" is below you -- not that specific article. And you know it.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:34:40am |
re: #278 Guanxi88
Anniversary of the Khomeinist Revolution. Lotta folk out in the streets for protests and rallies - the gov't there might well find another mini-uprising on its hands.
Otherwise, though, I expect the usual blood-thirsty blatherskite.
I know what the people are planning but, didn't ShortShit say something else is gonna' happen?
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Guanxi88 Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:35:06am |
re: #282 _RememberTonyC
may they have many "work accidents," courtesy of "you know who."
The machining on those things has to be to such very demanding tolerances. Things can happen, you know.
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webevintage Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:35:11am |
Interesting report from David Weigel about the Birther speech and Andrew Brietbart's reaction to it:
[Link: washingtonindependent.com...]
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Political Atheist Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:35:53am |
re: #280 Killgore Trout
Why wait? I do not think they plan like that. Too many different assignment desks would have to coordinate. I think it would be telling to see who the top 10 reporters there were. Then we can track their coverage. Or lack thereof.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:36:30am |
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Political Atheist Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:36:39am |
re: #280 Killgore Trout
And yes the bloggers will do a better job. I wish we had a good Lizard there.
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_RememberTonyC Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:37:14am |
re: #284 MandyManners
I know what the people are planning but, didn't ShortShit say something else is gonna' happen?
maybe something will happen on February 10th that will make those scumbags play some "defense" on Feb 11th. FYI ... The Winter Olympics start on Feb 12th in Vancouver, Canada.
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Guanxi88 Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:37:18am |
re: #284 MandyManners
I know what the people are planning but, didn't ShortShit say something else is gonna' happen?
Yeah, bloodthirsty blatherskite, though:
"deliver a harsh blow to the global powers". The guy's not all there, and I don't deny he might just try something stupid, but with the problems they got at home, diverting forces and resources to hassling the West would be foolhardy.
My guess? Probably, they'll launch a satellite or some such.
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_RememberTonyC Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:38:31am |
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:38:49am |
I frequently have weird fantasies about inventing time travel in order to go back and save certain people from their various unjust circumstances.
At the moment, I'm hoping to rescue Sophie Scholl.
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filetandrelease Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:38:58am |
re: #275 MandyManners
What's gonna' happen on February 11?
Typical Mullah bluster, probably nothing, then again who knows. What do you think?
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Guanxi88 Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:39:46am |
re: #286 webevintage
Interesting report from David Weigel about the Birther speech and Andrew Brietbart's reaction to it:
[Link: washingtonindependent.com...]
Blind squirrel:
“It’s self-indulgent, it’s narcissistic, it’s a losing issue,” Breitbart told Schilling. “It’s a losing situation. If you don’t have the frigging evidence — raising the question? You can do that to Republicans all day long. You have to disprove that you’re a racist! Forcing them to disprove something is a nightmare.”
“Wouldn’t you say,” asked Schilling, “in this case, that Farah is asking Obama to prove something rather than his disprove it?”
Breitbart rejected the premise. “When has a president ever been asked to prove his citizenship?”
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wrenchwench Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:40:06am |
re: #286 webevintage
Interesting report from David Weigel about the Birther speech and Andrew Brietbart's reaction to it:
[Link: washingtonindependent.com...]
I was just reading that. Don't tell me how it ends!
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:40:18am |
re: #290 _RememberTonyC
maybe something will happen on February 10th that will make those scumbags play some "defense" on Feb 11th. FYI ... The Winter Olympics start on Feb 12th in Vancouver, Canada.
IAF.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:41:12am |
re: #291 Guanxi88
Yeah, bloodthirsty blatherskite, though:
"deliver a harsh blow to the global powers". The guy's not all there, and I don't deny he might just try something stupid, but with the problems they got at home, diverting forces and resources to hassling the West would be foolhardy.
My guess? Probably, they'll launch a satellite or some such.
What if he thinks he could get the support of the people by simulating an attack he'd blame on us?
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Stanghazi Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:41:16am |
re: #286 webevintage
Interesting report from David Weigel about the Birther speech and Andrew Brietbart's reaction to it:
[Link: washingtonindependent.com...]
Fight!!!
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NJDhockeyfan Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:41:25am |
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_RememberTonyC Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:41:54am |
i'll bet someone an upding that this iranian female olympic skiier tries to defect next month:
[Link: www.iransportspress.com...]
any takers?
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:41:59am |
re: #294 filetandrelease
Typical Mullah bluster, probably nothing, then again who knows. What do you think?
Beats me.
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Guanxi88 Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:42:57am |
re: #298 MandyManners
What if he thinks he could get the support of the people by simulating an attack he'd blame on us?
Possible, but the risk to any government pulling that off is grave in the extreme - the folk who could be trusted to do it wouldn't be safe to keep around, and yet a thugocracy needs precisely folk who would, if asked, do such a thing.
Nah - false-flag is unlikely.
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_RememberTonyC Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:43:30am |
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filetandrelease Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:43:42am |
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Cathypop Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:44:08am |
re: #301 _RememberTonyC
i'll bet someone an upding that this iranian female olympic skiier tries to defect next month:
[Link: www.iransportspress.com...]
any takers?
If she has family in Iran it would not be a wise thing to do.
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NJDhockeyfan Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:44:44am |
re: #305 _RememberTonyC
yeah ... he pronounces it sha-tan, but we know what Miroslav is ...
He belongs on the team from NJ.
;o)
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_RememberTonyC Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:46:03am |
re: #307 Cathypop
If she has family in Iran it would not be a wise thing to do.
if she defected, it would be a crushing propaganda blow to iran. her family would suffer, but her country might be a bit closer to freedom because of her heroism. Iranian women seem pretty gutsy to me ...
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_RememberTonyC Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:46:46am |
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Guanxi88 Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:47:46am |
re: #307 Cathypop
If she has family in Iran it would not be a wise thing to do.
Yeah, worked with a fellow who escaped the Khomeinist regime. Told me all about the phone calls he go from his family. His mother was in some danger, she had told him, but the nice young men from the Ministry were making sure that other citizens wouldn't blame her for her son's errors, and really, she thought it might be nice for him to travel to see her, since she's getting old now, and the whole thing was so long ago anyway that there are no hard feelings. Why, they even understand that you didn't want to be in SAVAK, that you were forced into it.
Dark, dark stuff.
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_RememberTonyC Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:48:25am |
does british columbia have any significant iranian expat communities?
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NJDhockeyfan Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:48:40am |
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:48:40am |
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Killgore Trout Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:49:07am |
re: #289 Rightwingconspirator
And yes the bloggers will do a better job. I wish we had a good Lizard there.
We'll have to rely on the lefty's coverage. They'll probably do a decent job. Also the Wingnuts are proud of their insanity so they'll give us plenty of embarrassing coverage as well.
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lawhawk Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:50:23am |
re: #270 MandyManners
They're likely variants of existing missiles that they've previously obtained and are looking for a home-grown alternative since it's cheaper than trying to buy it on the open market and easier than black market sales from those few countries that are willing to do business with them. Reverse engineer the existing missiles, and figure that they'll work about as well.
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_RememberTonyC Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:50:41am |
re: #314 NJDhockeyfan
wow .... hockey fans are something else ... Bobby Orr was my favorite hockey player
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:50:51am |
re: #313 _RememberTonyC
does british columbia have any significant iranian expat communities?
[Link: iranianinfo.ca...]
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:51:54am |
re: #317 lawhawk
They're likely variants of existing missiles that they've previously obtained and are looking for a home-grown alternative since it's cheaper than trying to buy it on the open market and easier than black market sales from those few countries that are willing to do business with them. Reverse engineer the existing missiles, and figure that they'll work about as well.
I posted a link yesterday about Russia might come over to our side but, the Chinese are digging in their heels.
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NJDhockeyfan Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:52:27am |
re: #318 _RememberTonyC
wow ... hockey fans are something else ... Bobby Orr was my favorite hockey player
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_RememberTonyC Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:54:28am |
re: #319 MandyManners
[Link: iranianinfo.ca...]
thanks Mandy ... you're the best ... I hope that community reaches out to the iranian olympians if they can get near them next month. We should help stir that pot if we can. That type of propaganda has great value against the mullahs.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:55:34am |
re: #322 _RememberTonyC
thanks Mandy ... you're the best ... I hope that community reaches out to the iranian olympians if they can get near them next month. We should help stir that pot if we can. That type of propaganda has great value against the mullahs.
Reminds me of the Soviets.
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Guanxi88 Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:59:04am |
re: #320 MandyManners
I posted a link yesterday about Russia might come over to our side but, the Chinese are digging in their heels.
I'm on a Confucius kick here lately, so here's another one:
"It is not possible to deliberate with those who have different purposes."
Russia and China, though themselves trying to carve up Asia between themselves, have very different interests where Iran is concerned. Look at the geography of the thing - Iran's just a bit too close to Russia for Russia's comfort.
That closeness has in the past led to dust-ups and all manner of high strangeness between the Russians and the Persians. It may yet again.
China, however, has no immediate fears from Iran, and would no doubt like nothing better than to have good relations and trade with them, not only to enrich themselves, but also to afford them a friendly nation by the underbelly of their chief regional adversary.
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Guanxi88 Sat, Feb 6, 2010 10:01:13am |
re: #325 _RememberTonyC
that is some chilling shit
Yeah, I don't think I could have handled it as well as he did. They talked every week for about 15 years, more or less just like that.
He said that it was enough to hear her voice and know she was alive.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 6, 2010 10:01:28am |
re: #324 Guanxi88
I'm on a Confucius kick here lately, so here's another one:
"It is not possible to deliberate with those who have different purposes."
Russia and China, though themselves trying to carve up Asia between themselves, have very different interests where Iran is concerned. Look at the geography of the thing - Iran's just a bit too close to Russia for Russia's comfort.
That closeness has in the past led to dust-ups and all manner of high strangeness between the Russians and the Persians. It may yet again.
China, however, has no immediate fears from Iran, and would no doubt like nothing better than to have good relations and trade with them, not only to enrich themselves, but also to afford them a friendly nation by the underbelly of their chief regional adversary.
In the meantime, Israel just wants to be left alone.
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_RememberTonyC Sat, Feb 6, 2010 10:02:09am |
re: #323 MandyManners
Reminds me of the Soviets.
it needs to happen ... hopefully it will .... the mullahs need to play some DEFENSE once in awhile. if they get to attack all the time, they win. they need to clean up some mess "courtesy of US" for a change.
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simoom Sat, Feb 6, 2010 10:08:58am |
From Rep. Michele Bachmann's latest fundraising appeal for the ACU Strikeforce.
Acorn Hysteria:
Yet, Obama has used his enormous power as president to funnel millions of dollars into ACORN’s coffers to strengthen this radical group and his base.Because Obama sees ACORN as his ideological “shock troops” leading his “revolution.”
Obama wants to use ACORN to radicalize America because he isn’t interested merely in defeating conservatives…
…HE WANTS TO ANNIHILATE US!
Biblical reference:
And by growing government into a LEVIATHAN, he will make small government, pro-family conservatives like you and me politically irrelevant.
The weird capitalization is all hers.
It's actually too bad she skipped out on the Tea Party Convention. With some minor tweaks she could have used this letter as her convention speech and probably received a standing ovation.
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Feline Fearless Leader Sat, Feb 6, 2010 11:35:39am |
I'm skipping the Tea bagger threads for the rest of the day. Just too good of a vibe going.
Had a nice walk in the falling snow. Stopped in the nearby brewpub for a sandwich (pulled pork BBQ) and a few beers (nice chocolate stout). Now home with a purring cat on the lap, a cup of hot tea, and Steve Winwood on the stereo.
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Unakite Sat, Feb 6, 2010 12:34:14pm |
re: #332 oaktree
I'm skipping the Tea bagger threads for the rest of the day. Just too good of a vibe going.
Had a nice walk in the falling snow. Stopped in the nearby brewpub for a sandwich (pulled pork BBQ) and a few beers (nice chocolate stout). Now home with a purring cat on the lap, a cup of hot tea, and Steve Winwood on the stereo.
Bookmarked & updinged. I like Chili.
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BARACK THE VOTE Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:33:26pm |
re: #190 Spare O'Lake
Okay, time's up.
Billy Ayers is an example of how wealth, politics and government incompetence can result in gross miscarriages of justice...even to the extent of allowing a seditious, murderous WEASEL like him to not only get off SCOT free, but then to launch a successful career by writing and bragging about his terrorist exploits.
Yet another example of Spare o Lakes continuing cowardly brainless attempts to make snide remarks about me and Jimmah on the overnights.
I suppose it gives you some sort of little thrill, but don't think it isn't patently obvious to all what you're doing. Again.
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Ayeless in Ghazi Sat, Feb 6, 2010 8:42:31pm |
re: #190 Spare O'Lake
Couldn't find one with you in it, but this will do just nicely I think :
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