Onion: Obama Caught Lip-Syncing
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pharmmajor Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:04:49pm |
Show of hands: who wants to see Obama sing "Chocolate Rain" now?
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Killgore Trout Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:08:42pm |
Almost as funny as the outrageous outrage over the results of Obama's physical today.
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freetoken Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:11:16pm |
re: #5 Killgore Trout
Are they really raging about the physical?
I've not had the time, or heart, to look into the loony-o-sphere today.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:12:14pm |
Next they'll tell us he uses a body double.
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What, me worry? Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:12:18pm |
re: #5 Killgore Trout
Almost as funny as the outrageous outrage over the results of Obama's physical today.
Let me guess. He really talks like a 15 year old computer geek?
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Varek Raith Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:12:34pm |
re: #5 Killgore Trout
Almost as funny as the outrageous outrage over the results of Obama's physical today.
Yeah, cause no doctor would ever tell their patients to stop smoking.....
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Decatur Deb Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:12:53pm |
re: #6 freetoken
Are they really raging about the physical?
I've not had the time, or heart, to look into the loony-o-sphere today.
Cavuto did a half-hour on it, for my sins.
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Killgore Trout Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:15:06pm |
re: #9 Varek Raith
Yeah, cause no doctor would ever tell their patients to stop smoking...
Or drink in moderation...or brush their teeth!
Outrage!
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Varek Raith Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:16:25pm |
re: #11 Killgore Trout
Or drink in moderation...or brush their teeth!
Outrage!
Outrageously outrageous times infinity-one!
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Racer X Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:17:44pm |
I have some experience with addiction. Obama has an addiction. Doesn't make him ineligible to give advice to others on health issues.
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Racer X Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:18:46pm |
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darthstar Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:19:29pm |
I also hear he has the LGF Spy scrolling on one of his teleprompters during his speeches.
/
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Obdicut Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:19:31pm |
re: #14 Racer X
I didn't notice any change in my thoughts about health care when I stopped smoking.
Before I stopped I knew I should stop and after I stopped I knew I should have stopped.
It was also incredibly fucking tough, and I had to do it at a low-stress point in my life. I don't think Obama is going to have any of those anytime soon.
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darthstar Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:20:12pm |
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prairiefire Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:20:12pm |
re: #16 darthstar
Oh yes, he consults the lizards here frequently. What's his handle?
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darthstar Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:20:52pm |
re: #20 prairiefire
Oh yes, he consults the lizards here frequently. What's his handle?
"That's Glenn Beck to you"
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Stanghazi Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:21:11pm |
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Nervous Norvous Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:21:13pm |
re: #17 Obdicut
I saw a piece which focused on Obama's facial expressions during the health care summit. It was obvious what was going through his head..
"YOU STUPID M_____F_____s have no F______ CLUE!"
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What, me worry? Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:21:26pm |
re: #14 Racer X
I have some experience with addiction. Obama has an addiction. Doesn't make him ineligible to give advice to others on health issues.
Egads, I hate to be one of "those" people, but I see 20 year old smoking and I tell them to quit as soon as humanely possible. I'm still fighting that one.
I agree with you, but I guess some people feel that way. I had a friend who wouldn't be attended to by any nurse who was overweight, which I thought was weird.
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Nervous Norvous Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:21:39pm |
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prairiefire Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:22:06pm |
re: #21 darthstar
Maybe. That guy/gal is pretty funny, from what little I have read.
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darthstar Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:22:09pm |
re: #23 PT Barnum
I saw a piece which focused on Obama's facial expressions during the health care summit. It was obvious what was going through his head..
"YOU STUPID M___F___s have no F___ CLUE!"
I did chuckle at the end of that piece when the host (Candy Crowley?) said, "With that face, the president shouldn't play poker any time soon."
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Nervous Norvous Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:22:48pm |
re: #23 PT Barnum
I saw a piece which focused on Obama's facial expressions during the health care summit. It was obvious what was going through his head..
"YOU STUPID M___F___s have no F___ CLUE!"
Now that I think of it, it was more a matter of....
"WHY ARE WE WASTING TIME WITH THESE DUMBSHITS! TIME TO SHOVE IT DOWN THEIR OBSTRUCTING THROATS"
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prairiefire Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:22:53pm |
He was needing a smoke badly that afternoon.
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Walter L. Newton Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:23:30pm |
re: #14 Racer X
I have some experience with addiction. Obama has an addiction. Doesn't make him ineligible to give advice to others on health issues.
Not in the least. May make him less effective giving advice, but not ineligible.
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Stanghazi Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:23:51pm |
re: #25 PT Barnum
Glenn Beck is a soulless panderer
Well, speaking of....
On the November 23, 2009, the New York Times published an article warning about the “wave of debt payments facing the U.S. government.” Later that day, on his Fox News show, Glenn Beck used the article as a jumping off point to discuss “the three scenarios that we could be facing: recession, depression, or collapse.” In the case of potential “collapse,” Beck recommended his audience follow “the 3G system” of “God, gold and guns.”
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Nervous Norvous Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:23:58pm |
re: #27 darthstar
I did chuckle at the end of that piece when the host (Candy Crowley?) said, "With that face, the president shouldn't play poker any time soon."
Yeah..but I didn't he say during a speech celebrating his first hundred days that at some point he might seriously consider losing his cool?
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cliffster Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:24:16pm |
re: #11 Killgore Trout
Or drink in moderation...or brush their teeth!
Outrage!
If I were in his shoes, there would be no moderation about it.
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Stanghazi Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:26:37pm |
re: #31 Stanley Sea
Here's the part that makes it current:
Now, it appears that Beck’s employer is taking his fearmongering seriously. On Friday, Fox News released a poll in which it asked respondents if they’ve taken particular actions “out of concern the whole U.S. economic system could breakdown.” The public, it seems, has largely ignored Beck’s advice:
[Link: thinkprogress.org...]
God, guns and gold. hoo boy.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:26:53pm |
re: #17 Obdicut
I didn't notice any change in my thoughts about health care when I stopped smoking.
Before I stopped I knew I should stop and after I stopped I knew I should have stopped.
It was also incredibly fucking tough, and I had to do it at a low-stress point in my life. I don't think Obama is going to have any of those anytime soon.
Yeah, the last thing I want is for the president to increase his stress level voluntarily in office. o_o
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darthstar Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:27:01pm |
re: #32 PT Barnum
Yeah..but I didn't he say during a speech celebrating his first hundred days that at some point he might seriously consider losing his cool?
It's hard to get upset and lose your cool at a group of people who are being intentionally ignorant with the sole hope of making you lose your cool so they can make themselves look better. I thought the president handled the GOP fine last week, and they only succeeded in making themselves look stupid yet again. Maybe they'll change their strategy at the next televised meeting, since doing the same thing obviously didn't get them the different result they were expecting.
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Racer X Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:28:29pm |
re: #30 Walter L. Newton
Not in the least. May make him less effective giving advice, but not ineligible.
Effective being the key word. I think in this case it is the same old "do as I say, not as I do". Smoking is a disgusting habit. Eventually you get tired of coughing up gobs of black phlegm.
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Randall Gross Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:29:02pm |
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cliffster Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:31:00pm |
re: #38 Thanos
Can I say Arrrgggh?
Tsunamigate-
What's the Arrrgggh for? The article talks about how the evacuation went perfectly, and nobody was bothered by it.
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prairiefire Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:31:51pm |
Probably an arrrggh for all the naybobs who will ignore the warning next time.
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darthstar Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:31:55pm |
re: #38 Thanos
Can I say Arrrgggh?
Tsunamigate-
People are disappointed that more people didn't get killed. If the scientists didn't warn anyone, and we had a repeat of the 2004 tsunami, they'd be pilloried for not warning people. The whole purpose of warning people is to protect them in the event of an emergency. That doesn't mean the emergency HAS to happen. In fact, many people on this planet prefer avoiding natural disasters whenever possible.
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darthstar Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:32:47pm |
re: #40 prairiefire
Probably an arrrggh for all the naybobs who will ignore the warning next time.
I call that 'thinning the herd'.
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cliffster Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:33:27pm |
re: #41 darthstar
You got all that from the article? Honestly, I haven't heard anybody say anything negative at all.
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Spare O'Lake Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:34:26pm |
re: #38 Thanos
Can I say Arrrgggh?
Tsunamigate-
"I hope everyone learned from this for next time, and there will be a next time," said Gerard Fryer, a geophysicist for the warning center."
Problem: Many people will have mistakenly learned that the warning center cried wolf.
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Decatur Deb Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:34:45pm |
re: #35 WindUpBird
Yeah, the last thing I want is for the president to increase his stress level voluntarily in office. o_o
Give me a damn Marlboro, Rahm, or Lichtenstein is dust.
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darthstar Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:36:12pm |
re: #43 cliffster
You got all that from the article? Honestly, I haven't heard anybody say anything negative at all.
I saw someone complaining (I think it was in Hawaii) at having their vacation disrupted by warnings they didn't feel were necessary...wasn't this article, and I can't remember where I saw it. The fact that the scientists are 'defending' their warnings is bad enough.
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Randall Gross Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:37:35pm |
re: #39 cliffster
What's the Arrrgggh for? The article talks about how the evacuation went perfectly, and nobody was bothered by it.
Scientists shouldn't have to defend themselves to the press when they do the right thing.
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darthstar Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:38:30pm |
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cliffster Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:39:16pm |
re: #47 Thanos
Scientists shouldn't have to defend themselves to the press when they do the right thing.
Who were they defending themselves against? Again, I read that article and all I see is talking about why the evacuation is necessary, how well the evacuation went, and how nobody minded. It was a very positive article.
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What, me worry? Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:39:24pm |
re: #41 darthstar
People are disappointed that more people didn't get killed. If the scientists didn't warn anyone, and we had a repeat of the 2004 tsunami, they'd be pilloried for not warning people. The whole purpose of warning people is to protect them in the event of an emergency. That doesn't mean the emergency HAS to happen. In fact, many people on this planet prefer avoiding natural disasters whenever possible.
The only problem in all of that is that a lot of ignorant people will believe they are being falsely led and not heed the next warning. We go through that with the hurricanes and which is why I get pissy when they start making a big deal out of every rain storm that comes through. There are ways to prepare and you obviously should, whether the storm comes or not.
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Racer X Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:40:15pm |
re: #47 Thanos
Scientists shouldn't have to defend themselves to the press when they do the right thing.
Its an easy defense.
"Would you prefer we kept quiet?" *As scientist points to pictures and video of the Indonesia devastation.
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What, me worry? Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:40:49pm |
re: #46 darthstar
I saw someone complaining (I think it was in Hawaii) at having their vacation disrupted by warnings they didn't feel were necessary...wasn't this article, and I can't remember where I saw it. The fact that the scientists are 'defending' their warnings is bad enough.
Damn tourists.
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prairiefire Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:41:07pm |
re: #49 darthstar
Everybody was clean! No scandals in that area.
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Spare O'Lake Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:41:51pm |
re: #41 darthstar
People are disappointed that more people didn't get killed.
Would "billions" of deaths have satisfied their blood lust?
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Gus Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:42:21pm |
re: #44 Spare O'Lake
Problem: Many people will have mistakenly learned that the warning center cried wolf.
The warning center did not cry wolf. One cannot expect that utter devastation will follow every warning.
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Spare O'Lake Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:42:59pm |
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What, me worry? Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:44:16pm |
re: #56 Gus 802
The warning center did not cry wolf. One cannot expect that utter devastation will follow every warning.
The other side of it... is it so awful to have a real time "drill?" I mean that's what it amounts to. So what's wrong with that? You were inconvenienced for a few hours? We're such an intolerant bunch.
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freetoken Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:44:20pm |
re: #38 Thanos
Hmmm.... I wonder if Inhofe will compile a list of the "guilty" and send it to the justice department for legal action?
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darthstar Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:44:52pm |
re: #54 prairiefire
Everybody was clean! No scandals in that area.
And we'll all be drinking that free Bubble-Up,
And eating that rainbow stew.
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SanFranciscoZionist Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:46:09pm |
re: #9 Varek Raith
Yeah, cause no doctor would ever tell their patients to stop smoking...
They want him to keep going on the nicotine gum, and he has some tendonitis.
Other than that, he appears to be a perfectly healthy president.
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Gus Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:47:42pm |
re: #58 marjoriemoon
The other side of it... is it so awful to have a real time "drill?" I mean that's what it amounts to. So what's wrong with that? You were inconvenienced for a few hours? We're such an intolerant bunch.
True. It also reminds me of the previous hurricane evacuations. Typically it was people that stayed behind because they rode out previous hurricanes that did not result in the predicted devastation. Sooner or later that type of behavior catches up with these people. It's like ignoring a fire alarm in a building because of previous false alarms.
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SanFranciscoZionist Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:47:50pm |
re: #41 darthstar
People are disappointed that more people didn't get killed. If the scientists didn't warn anyone, and we had a repeat of the 2004 tsunami, they'd be pilloried for not warning people. The whole purpose of warning people is to protect them in the event of an emergency. That doesn't mean the emergency HAS to happen. In fact, many people on this planet prefer avoiding natural disasters whenever possible.
The death toll is up to 700 or more in Chile. That ought to be enough deaths to keep people amused for a while.
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goddamnedfrank Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:48:24pm |
re: #56 Gus 802
The warning center did not cry wolf. One cannot expect that utter devastation will follow every warning.
Exactly, it was an 8.8 offshore quake, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was generated by a 9.1-9.3 level event. Less than an order of magnitude in energy separates the two, caution was called for.
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SanFranciscoZionist Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:48:25pm |
re: #44 Spare O'Lake
Problem: Many people will have mistakenly learned that the warning center cried wolf.
Probably, but you've got to call them as you see them. And an occasional drill does no one any harm.
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SanFranciscoZionist Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:49:20pm |
re: #53 marjoriemoon
Damn tourists.
I'd think it would be sort of fun to have a tsunami warning. It would be an authentic local experience.
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albusteve Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:50:31pm |
re: #61 SanFranciscoZionist
They want him to keep going on the nicotine gum, and he has some tendonitis.
Other than that, he appears to be a perfectly healthy president.
good!....now they can start evaluating his brain
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Decatur Deb Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:51:45pm |
re: #67 albusteve
good!...now they can start evaluating his brain
It's in the queue, but we're still stuck on FDR.
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darthstar Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:52:50pm |
re: #55 Spare O'Lake
Would "billions" of deaths have satisfied their blood lust?
I don't know...but I do know that we're seeing plenty of big earthquakes these days and with plate tectonics being what they are, the pressure released in Chile could cause movement elsewhere. Chile's in a subduction zone, though, which means the Nazca plate goes under the South American plate. Whereas our own San Andreas fault is transformative, with the Pacific Plate moving north at 2 inches a year (more of a grinding).
I loved studying this shit in college. Should have majored in it.
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Spare O'Lake Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:53:13pm |
re: #66 SanFranciscoZionist
I'd think it would be sort of fun to have a tsunami warning. It would be an authentic local experience.
That's easy to say if you hadn't just finally parked your lazy butt under a beach umbrella with a cold beer and a good book.
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What, me worry? Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:53:53pm |
re: #62 Gus 802
True. It also reminds me of the previous hurricane evacuations. Typically it was people that stayed behind because they rode out previous hurricanes that did not result in the predicted devastation. Sooner or later that type of behavior catches up with these people. It's like ignoring a fire alarm in a building because of previous false alarms.
Well after Andrew, the police do everything they can to clear mandatory evacuation areas. I mean, they don't draw their weapons, but they do neighborhood drive throughs. They don't want to have to come after your stupid ass when it gets trapped.
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SanFranciscoZionist Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:54:13pm |
re: #69 darthstar
I don't know...but I do know that we're seeing plenty of big earthquakes these days and with plate tectonics being what they are, the pressure released in Chile could cause movement elsewhere. Chile's in a subduction zone, though, which means the Nazca plate goes under the South American plate. Whereas our own San Andreas fault is transformative, with the Pacific Plate moving north at 2 inches a year (more of a grinding).
I loved studying this shit in college. Should have majored in it.
Today, the kid leading prayer at the beginning of class asked for special intentions. I asked the kids to pray for the people of Chile, Argentina and Haiti, and all the other places affected by earthquakes. One boy added in that we should pray for his family in Chile. And another kid added ominously, "We're next."
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albusteve Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:56:05pm |
re: #71 marjoriemoon
Well after Andrew, the police do everything they can to clear mandatory evacuation areas. I mean, they don't draw their weapons, but they do neighborhood drive throughs. They don't want to have to come after your stupid ass when it gets trapped.
and in the case of Katrina, the authorities simply take your weapons if you refuse to evac....can't have armed citizens protecting their property
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freetoken Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:56:18pm |
re: #69 darthstar
I finally dug a book out of storage which I bought back in 1999, about the geology of San Diego county, to read it. Lots of interesting stuff, geologically speaking, in SoCal.
Yeah, it always sounds good to study these types of things in college, but then you have to go out into the real world and find a job. Oil companies have been a big private employer of geophysics majors, but that is a strongly variable industry.
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Gus Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:56:50pm |
re: #71 marjoriemoon
Well after Andrew, the police do everything they can to clear mandatory evacuation areas. I mean, they don't draw their weapons, but they do neighborhood drive throughs. They don't want to have to come after your stupid ass when it gets trapped.
Yeah, I'm reminded of a few videos I saw with some Beavis and Butthead thought it would be fun to stay behind and ride out Katrina. Many of which turned into a near catastrophe for those knuckleheads.
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Eclectic Infidel Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:56:59pm |
re: #66 SanFranciscoZionist
I'd think it would be sort of fun to have a tsunami warning. It would be an authentic local experience.
Yes, especially for those of us located in San Francisco, Oakland, Richmond, etc. I can only hope that such a natural event never comes to pass. We're sitting ducks for widespread destruction in the immediate SF Bay Area.
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Walter L. Newton Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:59:02pm |
re: #69 darthstar
I don't know...but I do know that we're seeing plenty of big earthquakes these days and with plate tectonics being what they are, the pressure released in Chile could cause movement elsewhere. Chile's in a subduction zone, though, which means the Nazca plate goes under the South American plate. Whereas our own San Andreas fault is transformative, with the Pacific Plate moving north at 2 inches a year (more of a grinding).
I loved studying this shit in college. Should have majored in it.
Maybe that's what the aliens were trying to warn us about when they drew the really big etching on the Nazca Plains. Maybe it was sort of light a giant measuring stick and when the etchings slide to far under another plate, we could see the shifting and be warned.
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Decatur Deb Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:02:20pm |
re: #78 Walter L. Newton
Maybe that's what the aliens were trying to warn us about when they drew the really big etching on the Nazca Plains. Maybe it was sort of light a giant measuring stick and when the etchings slide to far under another plate, we could see the shifting and be warned.
Nah. You have to appreciate the very large time scale of the aliens. The Nazca drawings are animations, like those little dirty cartoon flip books that were around when we were kids.
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ryannon Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:06:22pm |
re: #78 Walter L. Newton
Maybe that's what the aliens were trying to warn us about when they drew the really big etching on the Nazca Plains. Maybe it was sort of light a giant measuring stick and when the etchings slide to far under another plate, we could see the shifting and be warned.
It took you long enough, but you're finally starting to make sense.
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What, me worry? Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:06:23pm |
re: #66 SanFranciscoZionist
I'd think it would be sort of fun to have a tsunami warning. It would be an authentic local experience.
I have to say, being through these things a number of times, it's quite amazing how much the community bands together.
On the other hand, I remember standing in a gas line for 3 hours for our generator. It was in one of the worst parts of Miami, but the only station opened. They had about 6 police officers trying to keep the peace. It was really something.
I may have told this, but there was a guy standing behind me. Real tall guy who was just screaming at everyone. If someone tried to cut in line, he'd start yelling. Someone stole someone else's tank (I had like 4 1-2 gallon tanks with me), he yelled for the cops. Which wasn't necessarily bad! But it was a scene.
Anyway, this Eastern looking fellow (had a turban) come up with like a 20 gallon tank and goes to the front of the line. The guy behind me went off, "Habib! Get the hell outa the line Habib!" I turned to the girl next to me and said, "We're all gonna die." Finally the cop came over and told him to shut up and added, "If the owner wants to let his friend, his brother, his cousin get gas in front of you, then that's what he'll do." The guy shut up after that.
A young girl was there with her mother. She had just come from surgery, half her scalp was shaved and she had maybe 20 staples running around her skull. Well from the fumes and the heat, she passes out. The mother is inconsolable. "My baby!! My baby!!" The woman behind me was going to nursing school (we were all chatting) so she runs over. Luckily there was an ambulance 1/2 a block over so they came and got her.
It was a scene man.
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What, me worry? Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:07:59pm |
re: #75 Gus 802
Yeah, I'm reminded of a few videos I saw with some Beavis and Butthead thought it would be fun to stay behind and ride out Katrina. Many of which turned into a near catastrophe for those knuckleheads.
You really have to be some kind of stupid to do something like that.
Besides, Hurricane parties (in a safe spot) can be quite fun!
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The Sanity Inspector Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:10:06pm |
re: #44 Spare O'Lake
Problem: Many people will have mistakenly learned that the warning center cried wolf.
And another problem: Twitter spam flashing past near the posts-per-second barrier is no substitute for news. Twitter's a fine service, and they've done good in finding lost children and rallying the Iranian opposition and everything. But in this instance it was useless as a news source.
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Super-ego Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:10:40pm |
The Onion has some great writers. What makes it more enjoyable is that their fair in who they make fun of. Everyone is fair game, as it should be.
Laughing at others and myself make for a great day. :)
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The Sanity Inspector Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:15:14pm |
re: #84 Super-ego
The Onion has some great writers. What makes it more enjoyable is that their fair in who they make fun of. Everyone is fair game, as it should be.
Laughing at others and myself make for a great day. :)
We love a joke that hands us a pat on the back while it kicks the other fellow down the stairs.
-- C L Edson
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albusteve Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:16:29pm |
Russians are just a bunch of really unhappy people....
[Link: www.foxnews.com...]
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Gus Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:16:38pm |
re: #82 marjoriemoon
You really have to be some kind of stupid to do something like that.
Besides, Hurricane parties (in a safe spot) can be quite fun!
Yeah, in a concrete bunker well above the 500 year flood elevation.
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Decatur Deb Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:20:50pm |
re: #87 Gus 802
Yeah, in a concrete bunker well above the 500 year flood elevation.
Our town is an evacuation refuge about 80 miles inland, but every 10-20 years we lose roofs.
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What, me worry? Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:21:03pm |
re: #87 Gus 802
Yeah, in a concrete bunker well above the 500 year flood elevation.
Yea, well, we aren't below sea level. At sea level! But not below it. I'm a wimp. I lived on the beach for years, but left because I got frightened about the weather. Having pets, it's hard to evacuate. Now they have pet shelters, I think you have to sign up beforehand, or you can take some small pets with you to shelters.
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Racer X Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:21:15pm |
re: #86 albusteve
Russians are just a bunch of really unhappy people...
[Link: www.foxnews.com...]
Wow. Tough crowd. Can you imagine Obama making that request had the U.S. faltered? Nope.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:22:29pm |
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freetoken Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:22:36pm |
re: #90 Racer X
Wow. Tough crowd. Can you imagine Obama making that request had the U.S. faltered? Nope.
Hopefully no US President would do such a thing. The USOC is an independent body, not part of the Executive branch.
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albusteve Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:24:08pm |
re: #90 Racer X
Wow. Tough crowd. Can you imagine Obama making that request had the U.S. faltered? Nope.
fuck up all those lives for an image...it's a disgrace and they don't even deserve to be in the games
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Gus Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:24:31pm |
re: #89 marjoriemoon
Yea, well, we aren't below sea level. At sea level! But not below it. I'm a wimp. I lived on the beach for years, but left because I got frightened about the weather. Having pets, it's hard to evacuate. Now they have pet shelters, I think you have to sign up beforehand, or you can take some small pets with you to shelters.
I spent a few nights at house on the beach in the Jersey shore. It takes some getting used to. I remember feeling some anxiety at night not being able to see the water and hearing it creep right up the beach during a storm.
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SanFranciscoZionist Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:25:36pm |
re: #92 freetoken
Hopefully no US President would do such a thing. The USOC is an independent body, not part of the Executive branch.
1. Russians are not good at being outperformed gracefully.
2. They're still fairly bitter about the way their sports programs went south and their athletes went west once the USSR crumbled.
3. Continuing tradition of autocratic behavior in such things.
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Gus Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:25:41pm |
Senator Bunning loses his cool -- again...
Republican senator gives journalist the middle finger
Washington (CNN) - An angry Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Kentucky, refused to answer questions from CNN and ABC News Monday afternoon about his decision to block a bill that would extend unemployment benefits to millions of jobless Americans. An ABC News producer who was there says Bunning gave him the middle finger in response to a question...
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Stanghazi Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:25:44pm |
re: #94 Gus 802
I spent a few nights at house on the beach in the Jersey shore. It takes some getting used to. I remember feeling some anxiety at night not being able to see the water and hearing it creep right up the beach during a storm.
Sounds Stephen King-ish.
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Political Atheist Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:26:59pm |
re: #69 darthstar
We are due, the parklfield experiment was not the fizzle some said. The best thing you can do is use these events as reminders- check the emergency water/food/ etc stash, the smoke detectors. 3 days supplies.
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Gus Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:27:53pm |
re: #97 Stanley Sea
Sounds Stephen King-ish.
Old house too. It's gone now. They sold it and scraped it off and built a new one.
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albusteve Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:29:10pm |
re: #96 Gus 802
Senator Bunning loses his cool -- again...
I can hardly blame him for blowing of the MSM....and so the fact that he did is a story....I hate the MSM
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Gus Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:30:12pm |
re: #100 albusteve
I can hardly blame him for blowing of the MSM...and so the fact that he did is a story...I hate the MSM
That's cool. Bunning's an asshole.
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What, me worry? Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:31:50pm |
re: #94 Gus 802
I spent a few nights at house on the beach in the Jersey shore. It takes some getting used to. I remember feeling some anxiety at night not being able to see the water and hearing it creep right up the beach during a storm.
Oh you would love Stiltsville, FL!! You can still tour it. I went not too long ago.
Stiltsville is a group of wood stilt houses located one mile south of Cape Florida on Biscayne Bay in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The structures stand on wood or reinforced concrete pilings, generally ten feet above the shallow water which varies from one to three feet deep at low tide.
It was an interesting place to live!
"Crawfish" Eddie Walker built a shack on stilts above the water in 1933, toward the end of the prohibition era, allegedly to facilitate gambling, which was legal at one mile offshore. Crawfish Eddie sold bait and beer from his shack and was known for a dish he called chilau, a crawfish chowder made with crawfish he caught under his shack. Thomas Grady and Leo Edward, two of Eddie's fishing buddies, built their own shack in 1937. Shipwrecking and channel dredging brought many people to the area and more shacks were constructed, some by boating and fishing clubs. Local newspapers called the area "the shacks" and "shack colony".
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Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:32:34pm |
Robert Sean Leonard is a fucking genius. I think they are giving the actors Emmy tiime. Lisa Edelstein was amazing a couple weeks ago. "House" is the show I speak of, BTW.
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albusteve Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:33:34pm |
re: #101 Gus 802
That's cool. Bunning's an asshole.
whatever....he owes nothing to CNN and ABC...it's about time these jerks got the bird
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The Sanity Inspector Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:35:03pm |
re: #86 albusteve
Russians are just a bunch of really unhappy people...
[Link: www.foxnews.com...]
The Russian Cross is evidence of that.
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Racer X Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:35:23pm |
The 13 Most Violent Things That've Happened at a McDonald's
I'm luvin' it.
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The Sanity Inspector Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:36:16pm |
re: #96 Gus 802
Senator Bunning loses his cool -- again...
If I were him, I would have just stood there and answered every question with "Sorry, I don't do ambush interviews" until the camera crew ran out of tape.
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Cato the Elder Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:36:19pm |
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albusteve Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:37:23pm |
re: #105 The Sanity Inspector
The Russian Cross is evidence of that.
I've never actually seen that...thanks
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Gus Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:37:33pm |
re: #104 albusteve
whatever...he owes nothing to CNN and ABC...it's about time these jerks got the bird
Right, he owes nothing to CNN and ABC. I can imagine that's true considering he had a 28 percent approval rating in 2009 and failed to even get an endorsement from Mitch McConnell.
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Political Atheist Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:38:01pm |
re: #83 The Sanity Inspector
Monitoring the DART buoys was interesting, when I saw no big swell. I figured we were pretty safe. Love to see what a bis tsunami swell would look like in their data or charts.
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Decatur Deb Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:38:08pm |
re: #105 The Sanity Inspector
The Russian Cross is evidence of that.
If you want a real treat, think of that in relation to LVQ's scenarios and a few billion hungry Chinese.
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Killgore Trout Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:38:11pm |
re: #101 Gus 802
That's cool. Bunning's an asshole.
Agreed. The MSM is going easy on him. His recent antics should sink any career.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:38:22pm |
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Decatur Deb Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:39:19pm |
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Stanghazi Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:39:32pm |
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Killgore Trout Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:39:40pm |
re: #114 Cannadian Club Akbar
He's blocking unemployment benefits in a recession. Republican.
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albusteve Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:39:43pm |
re: #110 Gus 802
Right, he owes nothing to CNN and ABC. I can imagine that's true considering he had a 28 percent approval rating in 2009 and failed to even get an endorsement from Mitch McConnell.
so what?...is popularity more important than principle?....fuck the ratings
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Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:39:47pm |
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sattv4u2 Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:39:58pm |
re: #113 Killgore Trout
Agreed. The MSM is going easy on him. His recent antics should sink any career.
"antics"
TRANSLATION
Not wanting legislation passed that isn't funded
cool!
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Gus Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:40:13pm |
re: #113 Killgore Trout
Agreed. The MSM is going easy on him. His recent antics should sink any career.
He's done and doesn't care anymore. He will not be running for re-election this year.
In a press conference on May 19, Bunning called Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell a "control freak": "If Mitch McConnell doesn’t endorse me, it could be the best thing that ever happened to me in Kentucky."
On July 27, 2009, Bunning announced he would not run for re-election in 2010, blaming fellow Republicans for doing "everything in their power to dry up my fundraising." In March 2010, Bunning earned headlines when he kicked ABC's Jonathan Karl off an elevator, declaring, "This is a Senator-only elevator!"
Blaming fellow Republicans no less.
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albusteve Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:40:18pm |
re: #117 Killgore Trout
He's blocking unemployment benefits in a recession. Republican.
could you be more misleading?...tell the rest of it
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The Sanity Inspector Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:40:24pm |
re: #106 Racer X
The 13 Most Violent Things That've Happened at a McDonald's
I'm luvin' it.
#13 was the first thing I thought of, which kind of impaired my enjoyment. But, I'd never dream of denying others the healthful benefits of finding humor in situations I don't.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:40:48pm |
re: #106 Racer X
The 13 Most Violent Things That've Happened at a McDonald's
I'm luvin' it.
Why isn't "diarrhea" on that list?
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Gus Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:40:50pm |
re: #118 albusteve
so what?...is popularity more important than principle?...fuck the ratings
What principle? Bunning has principles?
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Decatur Deb Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:41:11pm |
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sattv4u2 Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:41:33pm |
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Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:41:56pm |
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Killgore Trout Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:41:59pm |
re: #122 albusteve
...tell the rest of it
Sorry, I left out the part about how conservatives will still love him for it.
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BARACK THE VOTE Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:42:04pm |
re: #126 Decatur Deb
What are you, Canadian? Report to the flogatorium.
We have a flogatorium?
Goddamn, this site has more features than any other...
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albusteve Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:42:22pm |
re: #125 Gus 802
What principle? Bunning has principles?
does Gus 802 have principles?...what principles?
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Political Atheist Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:42:31pm |
re: #113 Killgore Trout
It will be interesting to compare the consequences of this demonstration of intransigence to a racial gaffe.
Is it more punishable to actually damage the well being of a couple hundred thousand unemployed than to verbally offend an ethnicity?
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Jimmah Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:42:37pm |
re: #96 Gus 802
Senator Bunning loses his cool -- again...
But was he jostled by a dragon?
Lord Norman Tebbit Attacks Child Dressed As Dragon
Lord Norman Tebbit, a British Conservative politician, has apparently attacked a crowd celebrating Chinese New Year near his home in Bury St Edmunds.
Lord Tebbit, a former cabinet minister, was so angered by the celebrations that he allegedly ran 300 feet from his home, grabbed a drum and kicked a child dressed as a dragon on his backside.
...
"He did kick the dragon. There was a child inside the dragon costume and he was kicking the dragon's bottom," Chung told The Mail. "He ran after the dragon and kicked it. The child was upset. He did not know what was happening."
Another witness said, "This old man came running towards the dragon on the street parade. He grabbed the drum and cymbal being played and then started violently kicking the dragon itself."
[Link: www.huffingtonpost.com...]
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sattv4u2 Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:42:41pm |
re: #130 iceweasel
We have a flogatorium?
Goddamn, this site has more features than any other...
and it's your turn to bring the fur covered handcuffs!
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Gus Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:42:52pm |
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:43:01pm |
re: #130 iceweasel
Don't get any ideas. I have it reserved for the next two weeks.
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Political Atheist Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:43:25pm |
re: #118 albusteve
You think he did this on genuine principle? I think his own record belies that theory.
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Decatur Deb Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:43:33pm |
re: #128 Cannadian Club Akbar
Um, what?
You admitted error. You are to be punished for the admission, not the error. This is a tough Statser crowd.
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albusteve Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:44:03pm |
re: #129 Killgore Trout
Sorry, I left out the part about how conservatives will still love him for it.
they should
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Stanghazi Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:44:10pm |
re: #133 Jimmah
Man, a classic "get off my lawn" if there ever was one.
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Political Atheist Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:44:31pm |
re: #129 Killgore Trout
Not this one Kilgore. Not me or Dragon_Lady, and she is actually well right of me in general.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:45:03pm |
re: #138 Decatur Deb
You admitted error. You are to be punished for the admission, not the error. This is a tough Statser crowd.
What is a Statser crowd?
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freetoken Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:45:19pm |
re: #117 Killgore Trout
He's blocking unemployment benefits in a recession. Republican.
No kidding.
The doomers are out in forcer, btw, another reason Bunning is 180 degrees out of sync with reality:
Don't go wobbly on us now, Ben Bernanke
[...]
The Economic Policy Institute says states face a shortfall of $156bn in fiscal 2010. Most are banned by law from running deficits, so they must retrench. Washington has provided $68bn in federal aid, but that depletes the Obama stimulus package.
[...]
Lots of doomer stuff in that Evans-Pritchard column (but he is known for often concentrating on the harsher side of reality.)
Every time I hear one of the wingnut yokels deride "the stimulus" I can't help but marvel at how clueless they are... or hard-hearted. A non-trivial chunk of the "stimulus" was to keep states from closing down all sorts of efforts that, if actually missed, would cause outcry.
We are teetering at the edge of a very long and persistent economic malaise, and now is no time for the likes of Bunning to be assholes, even if they were born that way.
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Decatur Deb Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:46:34pm |
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Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:47:15pm |
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Jimmah Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:47:41pm |
re: #140 Stanley Sea
Man, a classic "get off my lawn" if there ever was one.
It's like they released a tory from the 19th century into the middle of London to see what would happen.
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Gus Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:47:46pm |
Jim Bunning: The Underperformer
Before he entered politics, Kentucky Republican Jim Bunning was an outstanding baseball pitcher who was inducted into the Hall of Fame. But so far the burly right-hander has struck out in his seven years in the Senate. In addition to being hostile to staff members on the Hill and occasionally even other Senators, Bunning shows little interest in policy unless it involves baseball, according to congressional experts and colleagues. When asked, they struggle to recall any legislation Bunning has worked on, although he did join Arizona Senator John McCain last spring in demanding tougher punishments for steroid use in professional sports. Congressional observers consider Bunning, 74, a disappointment also because his sharp questioning of former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan on fiscal matters during hearings over the past couple of years suggest he has the smarts to be an effective Senator but doesn't put in the effort.
SNIP
He said his Democratic opponent, a child of Italian immigrants, looked like one of Saddam Hussein's sons. He refused to go to Kentucky for the campaign's only debate and took part instead from Washington. It was later revealed that he had read some of his answers in the debate from a teleprompter. He was returned to office by just two points in a state that President Bush carried by 20.
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The Sanity Inspector Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:47:58pm |
re: #145 Cannadian Club Akbar
WTF is a murkin?
A liberal's approximation of a redneck's pronunciation of "American".
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sattv4u2 Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:48:01pm |
re: #145 Cannadian Club Akbar
WTF is a murkin?
I think they have them at Dunkin Donuts certain times of year!
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BARACK THE VOTE Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:48:50pm |
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Decatur Deb Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:48:50pm |
re: #144 Decatur Deb
'Murkins.
Americans, United Statesers, at least one of us is goofing with the other.
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windsagio Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:49:26pm |
re: #146 Jimmah
I don't know if I should be happy or sad that the old Imperial British upper class still exists or not.
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:49:33pm |
re: #133 Jimmah
[Link: www.huffingtonpost.com...]
That guy is a horse's ass. Kicking at people like that is the action of a scum bag.
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Cato the Elder Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:49:51pm |
re: #106 Racer X
The 13 Most Violent Things That've Happened at a McDonald's
I'm luvin' it.
That is some sick shit.
And this is the species that's supposed to come together and prevent climate change?
Good luck with that.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:49:55pm |
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sattv4u2 Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:50:04pm |
re: #152 windsagio
I don't know if I should be happy or sad that the old Imperial British upper class still exists or not.
You need someone to tell you how you should feel !?!?!
//
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albusteve Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:51:13pm |
re: #147 Gus 802
I'm not gonna get sucked into a cut and paste debate...I don't give a shit about Bunnings record....he's right on this one and others feel he is wrong....end of the issue, pretty simple
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windsagio Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:51:23pm |
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Gus Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:51:52pm |
re: #143 freetoken
Here's a story from last year which comes with a Bunning and as a bonus, Sanders from Vermont:
Senators Threaten Bernanke Confirmation With Fed Audit
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) got plenty of attention by announcing he’d put a hold on Ben Bernanke’s nomination on the Senate floor. It turns out Sen. Jim Bunning (R., Ky.), who directed a diatribe at the Federal Reserve chairman during Thursday’s confirmation hearing, also had placed a hold on the nomination. (Holds are often placed quietly, without public announcement.)
SNIP
Bunning and Sanders are well known for their anti-Fed posture. And holds are a hardly unusual parliamentary maneuver in the Senate. In most circumstances, such a move would likely just delay the confirmation a bit and force a recorded vote on the nomination — once it clears the committee — rather than allowing approval under unanimous consent. It’s also a symbolic move since Bernanke very likely has the 60 votes needed to clear the Senate.
SNIP
Audit the Fed!1111!! - Jim Bunning
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windsagio Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:51:57pm |
re: #156 sattv4u2
Well its cool and awful at the same time!
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Gus Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:52:18pm |
re: #157 albusteve
I'm not gonna get sucked into a cut and paste debate...I don't give a shit about Bunnings record...he's right on this one and others feel he is wrong...end of the issue, pretty simple
Then why don't you mind your own business.
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Decatur Deb Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:52:22pm |
re: #148 The Sanity Inspector
A liberal's approximation of a redneck's pronunciation of "American".
I live in Alabama. I spelled it with a 'u' to avoid Iceweasle's term.
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Kruk Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:52:34pm |
re: #133 Jimmah
[Link: www.huffingtonpost.com...]
Cue Daily Mail (and Torygraph) readers blaming this on multiculturalism and failure to integrate.
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RogueOne Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:52:49pm |
re: #130 iceweasel
Hey Ice, since we just talked about Mayor Calvo this morning:
[Link: reason.com...]
Cheye Calvo's July 2008 encounter with a Prince George's County, Maryland, SWAT team is now pretty well-known: After intercepting a package of marijuana at a delivery service warehouse, police completed the delivery, in disguise, to the address on the package. That address belonged to Calvo, who also happened to be the mayor of the small Prince George’s town of Berwyn Heights. When Calvo's mother-in-law brought the package in from the porch, the SWAT team pounced, forcing their way into Calvo's home. By the time the raid was over, Calvo and his mother-in-law had been handcuffed for hours, police realized they'd made a mistake, and Calvo's two black Labradors lay dead on the floor from gunshot wounds.As a result of this colossal yet not-unprecedented screw-up, plus Calvo's notoriety and persistence, last year Maryland became the first state in the country to make every one of its police departments issue a report on how often and for what purpose they use their SWAT teams. The first reports from the legislation are in, and the results are disturbing.
Over the last six months of 2009, SWAT teams were deployed 804 times in the state of Maryland, or about 4.5 times per day. In Prince George's County alone, with its 850,000 residents, a SWAT team was deployed about once per day. According to a Baltimore Sun analysis, 94 percent of the state's SWAT deployments were used to serve search or arrest warrants, leaving just 6 percent in response to the kinds of barricades, bank robberies, hostage takings, and emergency situations for which SWAT teams were originally intended.
Worse even than those dreary numbers is the fact that more than half of the county’s SWAT deployments were for misdemeanors and nonserious felonies. That means more than 100 times last year Prince George’s County brought state-sanctioned violence to confront people suspected of nonviolent crimes.
100 times in just one county, that's an amazing number. The worst part is most people are just clueless about what's going on.
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Racer X Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:52:50pm |
re: #113 Killgore Trout
Agreed. The MSM is going easy on him. His recent antics should sink any career.
Like graft and tax evasion?
Rangel was admonished by the ethics panel on Thursday for taking trips to the Caribbean that were paid for by private corporations, a violation of the House gift rules. The funding for the trips -- to Antigua in 2007 and St. Maarten in 2008 -- was not initially disclosed by Rangel's office.
Last year, the House took two votes on whether Rangel, who has been at the center of multiple ethics probes, should keep his seat atop the influential tax-writing committee. Democrats coalesced and supported Rangel in both votes.
Not likely.
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:53:12pm |
re: #159 Gus 802
Here's a story from last year which comes with a Bunning and as a bonus, Sanders from Vermont:
Senators Threaten Bernanke Confirmation With Fed Audit
Audit the Fed!1111!! - Jim Bunning
Tea Party!
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windsagio Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:53:30pm |
re: #157 albusteve
I'm not interested in actually discussing the issue or doing any research that might change my opinion, because being sure of myself and complaining is way more fun!
You had some really terrible typos in your post, I felt compelled to fix them.
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sattv4u2 Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:53:34pm |
re: #154 Cato the Elder
That is some sick shit.
And this is the species that's supposed to come together and prevent climate change?
Good luck with that.
I'm counting on these guys showing up to help
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Jimmah Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:53:51pm |
re: #152 windsagio
I don't know if I should be happy or sad that the old Imperial British upper class still exists or not.
Some music while you ponder that, from Laibach:D
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BARACK THE VOTE Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:54:01pm |
re: #165 RogueOne
Hey Ice, since we just talked about Mayor Calvo this morning:
[Link: reason.com...]
100 times in just one county, that's an amazing number. The worst part is most people are just clueless about what's going on.
Nobody thinks these things happen, until it happens to them or their loved ones.
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albusteve Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:54:04pm |
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Gus Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:54:46pm |
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Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:55:01pm |
Me signing off. "24" is coming on. I lost my love of writing 'til I saw a couple episodes of "House." Weird. Nighty, all.
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Racer X Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:55:10pm |
If had a choice between a vote for a liar and a tax cheat, and a vote for an asshole, the asshole gets my vote every time.
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Kruk Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:55:25pm |
re: #106 Racer X
The 13 Most Violent Things That've Happened at a McDonald's
I'm luvin' it.
Loved the one about the employee who got shot protecting a customer, and then got told his employee insurance wouldn't cover his medical bills.
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sattv4u2 Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:55:46pm |
re: #176 Racer X
If had a choice between a vote for a liar and a tax cheat, and a vote for an asshole, the asshole gets my vote every time.
I appreciate your support!
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Racer X Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:55:55pm |
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albusteve Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:56:22pm |
re: #168 windsagio
You had some really terrible typos in your post, I felt compelled to fix them.
you never seem to have much else to do...I agree with a senator and you don't so you twiddle with my posts?....kinda like jr high?
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reine.de.tout Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:56:25pm |
re: #177 Kruk
Loved the one about the employee who got shot protecting a customer, and then got told his employee insurance wouldn't cover his medical bills.
Maybe it was covered instead under worker's comp - for an on the job injury?
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BARACK THE VOTE Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:56:39pm |
re: #164 Kruk
Cue Daily Mail (and Torygraph) readers blaming this on multiculturalism and failure to integrate.
How about the child-kicking Tory himself?
Lord Tebbit later apologized to Chung. "I put my hands on the Chinese drum to try and stop the noise. I got my knuckles wrapped for my pains," he said in defense.
"I then got jostled by a dragon. I have never been jostled by a dragon before. I gave it a shove, then got on my way."Lord Tebbit went on to blog for The Daily Telegraph, arguing that the experience had helped him learn.
"Ah well," he writes. "I now understand the problems of immigrants very much better than I used to do."
It's not just immigrants who get regularly kicked in the arse by Tories, bub.
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RogueOne Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:56:44pm |
re: #143 freetoken
Every time I hear one of the wingnut yokels deride "the stimulus" I can't help but marvel at how clueless they are... or hard-hearted. A non-trivial chunk of the "stimulus" was to keep states from closing down all sorts of efforts that, if actually missed, would cause outcry.
I get the same feeling about people who keep telling me spending a trillion dollars to create 20 jobs, 10%+ unemployment and skyrocketing debt is good for me. By all means, let's continue to spend billions of dollars and push the problem further down the road guaranteeing having to spend billions more dollars to keep afloat bloated, overpaid government. Good plan.
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windsagio Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:56:45pm |
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Gus Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:57:36pm |
Yep, "vote" for Jim Bunning.
Jim Bunning and Ron Paul: Fed trendsetters?
Members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will line up Thursday to take their shots at Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
To which Ron Paul and Jim Bunning might say: Where have you been?
Paul and Bunning — viewed by their colleagues as among the most eccentric members of Congress — were anti-Fed before anti-Fed was cool.
Paul, a Republican representative from Texas, has railed against the Federal Reserve for so long that his supporters sometimes chanted “End the Fed! End the Fed!” at rallies during his long-shot 2008 presidential run.
Bunning, a Republican senator from Kentucky, hates the Fed so much that he compared it — unfavorably — with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez when it bailed out the insurance giant American International Group last year.
Quack.
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sattv4u2 Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:57:59pm |
re: #183 RogueOne
I get the same feeling about people who keep telling me spending a trillion dollars to create 20 jobs, 10%+ unemployment and skyrocketing debt is good for me. By all means, let's continue to spend billions of dollars and push the problem further down the road guaranteeing having to spend billions more dollars to keep afloat bloated, overpaid government. Good plan.
CHANGE!
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keloyd Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:58:21pm |
re: #169 sattv4u2
I'm counting on these guys showing up to help
[Link: www.movie-poster.ws...]
Long as it's the first wave and not his ne'er do well slack jawed trust fund baby slacker kid Klaatu W. Nikto.
Keanu Reeves shat all over that movie.
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sattv4u2 Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:58:48pm |
re: #188 keloyd
Long as it's the first wave and not his ne'er do well slack jawed trust fund baby slacker kid Klaatu W. Nikto.
Keanu Reeves shat all over that movie.
Thats why I went with the 1951 classic!
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albusteve Mon, Mar 1, 2010 5:59:30pm |
re: #173 Gus 802
The business where you do your thing and I do mine.
knifing some guy in the back is supposed to support your point of view against him?....the issue is blocking the funds, in the here and now....do whatever you want...it's SOP here and gives people something to do....I really don't care if Bunning is an asshole, that's irrelevant imo
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Stanghazi Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:01:45pm |
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SanFranciscoZionist Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:01:59pm |
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freetoken Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:02:02pm |
re: #183 RogueOne
So I take it then you are in favor of States shutting down unemployment payments and Medicaid?
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Jimmah Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:03:03pm |
re: #187 windsagio
Thats a shockingly sedate Laibach.
It's from their "Volk" album - different style from their usual. Here's "Slovania" :
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:03:22pm |
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windsagio Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:03:32pm |
re: #195 Jimmah
I think I"ve said this, but I like your music.
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albusteve Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:03:57pm |
re: #183 RogueOne
I get the same feeling about people who keep telling me spending a trillion dollars to create 20 jobs, 10%+ unemployment and skyrocketing debt is good for me. By all means, let's continue to spend billions of dollars and push the problem further down the road guaranteeing having to spend billions more dollars to keep afloat bloated, overpaid government. Good plan.
yes, well said in a nutshell
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Decatur Deb Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:04:18pm |
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Racer X Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:04:38pm |
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BARACK THE VOTE Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:04:46pm |
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windsagio Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:05:20pm |
re: #200 Racer X
Oh you see the image, but don't get the joke.
"Obsession for men"
I think that about covers it.
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windsagio Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:06:07pm |
re: #195 Jimmah
Also!
I'm trying to remember, isn't Laibach the band that filmed themselves wandering around SF dressed as Nazis?
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Racer X Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:06:28pm |
re: #202 windsagio
Oh you see the image, but don't get the joke.
"Obsession for men"
I think that about covers it.
I still don't get it. I'm kinda slow. Spell it?
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windsagio Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:06:55pm |
re: #204 Racer X
"The obsession with Rangel is kind of silly."
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RogueOne Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:06:57pm |
Just so you know, Invader Zim just started. It's on all month on NickToons.
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Kruk Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:07:09pm |
re: #181 reine.de.tout
Maybe it was covered instead under worker's comp - for an on the job injury?
Nope, apparently because protecting customers wasn't "required or encouraged" by his conditions of employment, he's having to go to court to get any money. How F***ed up is that?
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windsagio Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:07:37pm |
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:07:48pm |
re: #195 Jimmah
Laibach kicks ass. :D As does Front Line Assembly!
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b_sharp Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:08:00pm |
Did anyone notice Canada beat the US in hockey, men's and women's, and in total gold medals? Just askin'.
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windsagio Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:08:35pm |
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Racer X Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:09:17pm |
re: #205 windsagio
"The obsession with Rangel is kind of silly."
Ahh. I posted several times about a liar and a tax cheat who happens to be a Dem, therefore, I am obsessed.
Got it.
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Jimmah Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:10:17pm |
re: #193 SanFranciscoZionist
What. The. Fuck?
Just an old British wingnut showing he's still got it when it comes to out of control violent bigoted rampages.
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Cato the Elder Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:11:05pm |
re: #210 b_sharp
Did anyone notice Canada beat the US in hockey, men's and women's, and in total gold medals? Just askin'.
Oh well. At least we're still number one in health care.
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b_sharp Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:11:13pm |
We have much to feel good about. We beat the US in hockey. We have terrific beer. We beat the crap out of Russia in hockey. We have really good beer.
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windsagio Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:11:16pm |
re: #212 Racer X
I'm just sayin', don't you have any more recent scandals to use?
/also it was a joke :P
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Stanghazi Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:11:28pm |
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windsagio Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:13:05pm |
re: #215 b_sharp
I hate to take your beer dreams away from you, but get out of the macros.
You still have Hockey tho'!
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Racer X Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:13:38pm |
re: #216 windsagio
I'm just sayin', don't you have any more recent scandals to use?
/also it was a joke :P
More recent than this week?
/I got the joke. I'm obsessed. Boo!
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:13:54pm |
re: #215 b_sharp
We have much to feel good about. We beat the US in hockey. We have terrific beer. We beat the crap out of Russia in hockey. We have really good beer.
Quebec has good beer (Unibroue being the easiest to find here). Canadian macros suck. ;-)
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reine.de.tout Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:14:06pm |
re: #181 reine.de.tout
Maybe it was covered instead under worker's comp - for an on the job injury?
NOPE!
Not part of his job, McDonald's says.
That's criminal.
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windsagio Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:14:43pm |
re: #219 Racer X
In fairness to one of you, I found what's got everyone going on about Rangel this week, I'd missed it.
That makes the joke less funny :(
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darthstar Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:15:59pm |
re: #214 Cato the Elder
Oh well. At least we're still number one in health care.
Only if we don't count Japan. The "We're Number One!" health care chant is merely our collective insecurity rearing its ugly head. If the US was #1 in health care, everyone would receive health care, regardless of employment, income, or ability to afford insurance. Sure, if you get shot or hit by a bus the Emergency Room will see you even if you don't have insurance, but you'll still get billed for it and spend the next three months filling out forms trying to get declared "medically indigent" (I did that once with my first wife when she got sick before I got a job with insurance). Medically indigent. That has a pretty sound, does it not?
I know...you were being obviously sarcastic (even without the sarc tag)...but the "We're #1" lie is one that really burns my britches.
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goddamnedfrank Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:16:54pm |
re: #193 SanFranciscoZionist
What. The. Fuck?
Not many people know that when Lord Norman was a young landed peer, Chinese dragons used to beat him up everyday on his way to school, steal his pudding allowance, and call him "round-eye."
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darthstar Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:17:00pm |
re: #210 b_sharp
Did anyone notice Canada beat the US in hockey, men's and women's, and in total gold medals? Just askin'.
That's before the post-olympic drug testing. /
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darthstar Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:18:11pm |
re: #221 reine.de.tout
NOPE!
Not part of his job, McDonald's says.
That's criminal.
I don't eat at McDonald's because their food sucks. Now I have a second reason.
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Jimmah Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:19:09pm |
re: #203 windsagio
Also!
I'm trying to remember, isn't Laibach the band that filmed themselves wandering around SF dressed as Nazis?
Yes - for this video I think :
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b_sharp Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:19:55pm |
re: #220 WindUpBird
Quebec has good beer (Unibroue being the easiest to find here). Canadian macros suck. ;-)
Do they suck as much as US macros?
We do have some kickass micros here, but they may take a while to propagate down south. I do love me a 15% ale.
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b_sharp Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:21:28pm |
re: #225 darthstar
That's before the post-olympic drug testing. /
I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.
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Jimmah Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:21:43pm |
re: #209 WindUpBird
Laibach kicks ass. :D As does Front Line Assembly!
I will have to check out Front Line Assembly - cheers. Apparently, Laibach has created it's own 'country' - 'NSK' and you can apply for a 'passport'. Kind of explained in this video...
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Cato the Elder Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:22:06pm |
re: #223 darthstar
You're new here, so I'll say this once. I. Don't. Do. Sarc. Tags.
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Racer X Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:22:49pm |
re: #221 reine.de.tout
NOPE!
Not part of his job, McDonald's says.
That's criminal.
I believe the McD owner offered to pay the expenses. It was the insurance carrier who is being the jerk.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:25:51pm |
re: #229 b_sharp
Do they suck as much as US macros?
We do have some kickass micros here, but they may take a while to propagate down south. I do love me a 15% ale.
Oh, believe me, US macros suck :D
Except Sam Adams, they're all right. But they're not really a true macro, they're a craft brewery that still makes a load of weird experimental beers. And Coors has a craft beer label called Blue Moon that's good, if not particularly exciting.
I've had some pretty good micros in vancouver BC, they were nice in the "local brewpub that makes its own tasty stuff" vein. But the beers in Quebec, it's enough to make me want to visit for the beer alone.
The strongest thing I've had is Samichlaus, which is 14%. I tend to hover around the Belgian styles (which is why I like Unibroue so much), dopplebocks, and imperial IPAs, and basically anything that shows up at the Portland bottle shops that looks good 8-)
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darthstar Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:26:50pm |
re: #233 Cato the Elder
You're new here, so I'll say this once. I. Don't. Do. Sarc. Tags.
/
I figured as much...fortunately, I rarely miss sarcasm. And WTF is that in your blockquote?
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b_sharp Mon, Mar 1, 2010 6:44:45pm |
re: #237 WindUpBird
Oh, believe me, US macros suck :D
Except Sam Adams, they're all right. But they're not really a true macro, they're a craft brewery that still makes a load of weird experimental beers. And Coors has a craft beer label called Blue Moon that's good, if not particularly exciting.
I've had some pretty good micros in vancouver BC, they were nice in the "local brewpub that makes its own tasty stuff" vein. But the beers in Quebec, it's enough to make me want to visit for the beer alone.
The strongest thing I've had is Samichlaus, which is 14%. I tend to hover around the Belgian styles (which is why I like Unibroue so much), dopplebocks, and imperial IPAs, and basically anything that shows up at the Portland bottle shops that looks good 8-)
Time for me to grab a Guinness (yes I know) and build a server. Later.
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