Facts... we don't need no stinkin' facts...

re: #1 freetoken

Badges?!? BADGES?!?

re: #2 Slumbering Behemoth

You have, um, an interesting knowledge of cinema.

re: #2 Slumbering Behemoth

Badges?!? BADGES?!?

You crack me up dude!

re: #3 freetoken

Believe it or not, I have yet to actually watch that flick. It's on my list, though.

re: #4 Racer X

I do what I can. If I succeed at making just one Lizard laugh per day, I feel I have done my job.

re: #5 Slumbering Behemoth

I wonder if this one ought to be on the must see list also?

re: #6 freetoken

Hahaha! WTF? Never watched the Grindhouse flicks. A parody trailer, I presume?

Also, I'm not a prude or nuthin', but that needs a NSFW tag.

re: #7 Slumbering Behemoth

Hahaha! WTF? Never watched the Grindhouse flicks. A parody trailer, I presume?

Also, I'm not a prude or nuthin', but that needs a NSFW tag.

Parody trailer from the tarantino movie, I think? Can't remember.

"Yes bro...I mean, Padre".

re: #7 Slumbering Behemoth

It was a faux trailer made in 2007, but it turns out so many people gave it attention that it was decided to go ahead and make the movie:
Machete

However, I doubt it will really be rated X as the fake trailer alleged.

re: #6 freetoken

I wonder if this one ought to be on the must see list also?

Great-looking stuff!

Even better than the old Roger Corman films - which gave a whole generation of young, new actors and directors (Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Fonda, Jonathan Demme, Donald G. Jackson, Gale Anne Hurd, Carl Colpaert, Joe Dante, James Cameron, etc., etc.) their start.

Speaking of coming movies, here is one that I fear seeing:

Creator hopes Beyonce cast as Ginger in Gilligan`s Island remake

Beyoncé as the slinky, red-haired Ginger Grant, cast away forever on a deserted island?

Gilligan, Mary Ann and Ginger will morph back onto the big screen in a Warner Bros movie adaptation of the 1960s television sitcom Gilligan's Island, UPI reports.

The remake of the castaway comedy, to be set in the present day, has a few names associated with it so far. Among them is the superstar Beyoncé.
People reports Gilligan's Island creator Sherwood Schwartz has mentioned Michael Cera as a 'dream actor' to play the part of the dim but well-intentioned Gilligan - and Beyoncé as a possible choice for the movie star part of Ginger, played by Tina Louise.

People, however, notes there is no official word on casting.

re: #8 iceweasel

tHAT IS CORRECT, SIR!

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

What?

re: #12 windsagio

Ooops capslock

Well, I loaded up the spin-offs with plenty of links to articles about contentious subjects. Ought to be something there to p*ss just about everybody off!

re: #15 freetoken

I kinda gave up on the spinoffs. Charles launched the feature just about the time conservatives went mental and I got fed up with the conspiracy theories.

re: #11 freetoken

I for one do not fear seeing Beyonce anywhere, at any time. A full length feature film based on Gilligan's Island, on the other hand...

re: #16 Killgore Trout

I know, it became the scene for pimping one's own blog, which was usually just a rehash of normal ultra-right talking points.

However, I and Thanos and some others have attempted to load up the spin-offs with more substantive stuff.

re: #19 freetoken

Like condom use for 12 year olds >>

re: #20 windsagio

... or, maybe, just weird stuff...

That being said the spy still is usually people I've never heard of putting up wingnut crap, so I almost never actually look at the links either.

re: #22 windsagio

err the spinoff links :p

re: #16 Killgore Trout

Some of us conservatives aren't mental for conspiracy theories. Just sayin'.

Crazy 'music' I feel like sharing!

re: #24 Slumbering Behemoth

Some of us conservatives aren't mental for conspiracy theories. Just sayin'.

Stop trying to narrow the brush. /

re: #24 Slumbering Behemoth

But, how often do you post on spinoff links?

aha!

re: #24 Slumbering Behemoth

Speaking of conspiracies, Alex Jones is doing a full court press against SPLC.

re: #16 Killgore Trout

I kinda gave up on the spinoffs. Charles launched the feature just about the time conservatives went mental and I got fed up with the conspiracy theories.

What FT said in 19. I gave up on looking at the spinoffs very quickly, but the blog-pimpers are gone, and now, especially on an overnight, I highly recommend looking at the spinoffs. loads of great stuff from FT, jaunte, Thanos, a couple of others. It's WAY better than it ever was.

I still only look at spinoffs regularly on the overnight thread because the above mentioned people dominate them. Definitely a good tool now-- before, not at all.

re: #27 windsagio

Only when I find something funny or weird. Sort of my thing around here.

re: #30 Slumbering Behemoth

Spoilsport!

re: #29 iceweasel

I give them a try from time to time, Maybe I'll get back into it again.

Maybe I should get back to posting "world's best behinds" type of links in the spin-offs... like I used to?

re: #30 Slumbering Behemoth

Only when I find something funny or weird. Sort of my thing around here.

Or Metal! Sometimes I spin off Metal.

re: #32 Killgore Trout

I give them a try from time to time, Maybe I'll get back into it again.

It's definitely way better. Every day now my first stop here is checking out the overnight links.
They do get some crap, and it's better to do earlier-- it's better on AM east coast time than west. I still don't bother with the links as a usual thing for every post. But now the overnight ones are a daily stop.
JMO and all. Good science stuff though now on the overnights.

re: #33 freetoken

No complaints from me.

re: #36 Killgore Trout

Or I could post enlightening videos which illuminate the true nature of America:

Regarding that Obama-as-Joker GOP picture on the downstairs thread:

I only saw the last half of "The Dark Knight" on cable at a friend's house (I can't afford and don't want cable - it cuts into my reading time), but didn't the Joker paint that face on his victims, too?

In other words, that poster is not only suggesting who Obama really is, it's also not-so-subtly insinuating what might be done to him.

Or am I reaching here? Surely no wingnut could be that nutty?

re: #39 Cato the Elder

Regarding that Obama-as-Joker GOP picture on the downstairs thread:

I only saw the last half of "The Dark Knight" on cable at a friend's house (I can't afford and don't want cable - it cuts into my reading time), but didn't the Joker paint that face on his victims, too?

In other words, that poster is not only suggesting who Obama really is, it's also not-so-subtly insinuating what might be done to him.

Or am I reaching here? Surely no wingnut could be that nutty?

I don't think you're reaching at all.

re: #38 freetoken

HOW DAIER U MOK REEL MURIKUHNS LIEK TAHT!

dude, idioma, go offmessage for a while. Aren't you tired yet? :p

re: #39 Cato the Elder

I doubt that the wingnuts (which now appear to include the fundraising committees of the GOP) have any deep understanding of the "Joker" character and the roles The Joker plays in the Batman universe.

They just want a scary picture of Obama, and are afraid to use the witch-doctor one.

re: #19 freetoken

I know, it became the scene for pimping one's own blog, which was usually just a rehash of normal ultra-right talking points.

However, I and Thanos and some others have attempted to load up the spin-offs with more substantive stuff.

I don't even know what the spinoffs are *_*

re: #42 idioma

haha, see, LGF hates your guts, but I really don't since I know a LOT of strident athiest types who are my friends, I've just gotten used to it. :D But really flipping out about religion and how it's eating the earth or whatever, it just does nothing for me, I'd rather talk about Tony Iommi's guitar tone.

re: #37 idioma

Lord Our Righteousness Church

re: #34 Slumbering Behemoth

Or Metal! Sometimes I spin off Metal.

You have NO IDEA how many times I have seen that film!

STEEEERN! He's nothing but a low down, double dealing, back-stabbing, larcenist perverted worrm! (yes, that's from memory)

re: #43 windsagio

dude, idioma, go offmessage for a while. Aren't you tired yet? :p

Could I not ask you the same question?

re: #44 freetoken

I doubt that the wingnuts (which now appear to include the fundraising committees of the GOP) have any deep understanding of the "Joker" character and the roles The Joker plays in the Batman universe.

They just want a scary picture of Obama, and are afraid to use the witch-doctor one.

FT-- I agree with you, in part. There were loads of lefty sites portraying Bush as the Joker, and in general I think the wingnuts kind of just thought, ok, scary makeup.

I didn't think there was anything racist at all about the Obama/Joker pic initially, I just thought it was ugly, and I didn't like it for the same reasons I didn't like the Bush/Joker pics or Mccain as vampire pics.

Then I read this piece in the WaPo that made me think more:
Obama as The Joker: Racial Fear's Ugly Face

Note-- I am not saying that it's racist to portray Obama as the joker, necessarily, but this piece did make me think about the messages involves in the Joker makeup in 2009 vs the one in Batman.

Since people liked the PeopleOfWalmart Rap... here is something a bit more titillating:

TMZ's Bangin' Backsides Contest

re: #17 Slumbering Behemoth

I for one do not fear seeing Beyonce anywhere, at any time. A full length feature film based on Gilligan's Island, on the other hand...

A movie based on the good old sitcom "Petticoat Junction", though...I'd let someone pay for me to see that. Preferably rated R.

The good old days!

re: #3 freetoken

You have, um, an interesting knowledge of cinema.

I highly recommend Tokyo Gore Police. (JAPANESE CINEMATIC DEPRAVITY, NOT SAFE FOR ANYTHING)

So, after pissing ans moaning here, I did the same on Facebook. And a girl, recently divorced, said we should get together. Now. I did fuck up the other day. So barring being an idiot, does she wanna sleep with me?

re: #47 freetoken

Lord Our Righteousness Church

I see you are back to trolling and spreading invictives on religion in general, mocking people's faith and evoking their righteous indignation

Let's show a little more sensitivity to those wingnuts who are just working to spread the Gospel. Flawed and demented as they may be, there is still the Holy Scripture in there somewhere...

/

re: #54 Cannadian Club Akbar

So, after pissing ans moaning here, I did the same on Facebook. And a girl, recently divorced, said we should get together. Now. I did fuck up the other day. So barring being an idiot, does she wanna sleep with me?

Get together, see what happens. Maybe she's into you, maybe not, doesn't hurt to give it a shot!

re: #43 windsagio

dude, idioma, go offmessage for a while. Aren't you tired yet? :p

The anti-Semitic concern troll has but one message.

re: #54 Cannadian Club Akbar

So, after pissing ans moaning here, I did the same on Facebook. And a girl, recently divorced, said we should get together. Now. I did fuck up the other day. So barring being an idiot, does she wanna sleep with me?

Yes, probably.
Go have drinks. If you have dinner ensure alcohol is involved.

I am not kidding.

re: #52 Cato the Elder

A movie based on the good old sitcom "Petticoat Junction", though...I'd let someone pay for me to see that. Preferably rated R.

The good old days!

I am convinced that there is a spec script for a remake of "My Mother the Car" floating around Hollywood.
I once even conceptualized it as the spirit of a GI mom killed in Iraq coming back as the navigation voice in a civilian Humvee, but I suppose they would have to rewrite it now that Humemrs are going down.

re: #50 iceweasel

I concur that the Obama-Joker image is resonating with the Tea Partier/Neo-confederate etc crowd on a level of which they are not necessarily self-aware.

Also, I do agree that the very common ideation of the "dangerous" black male is at work in some.

However, it seems to me that many of the targets of the image, as used by the GOP, is probably the "get even" - they did it to Bush so now we're doing it to Obama - approach.

re: #58 iceweasel

Yes, probably.
Go have drinks. If you have dinner ensure alcohol is involved.

I am not kidding.

QUOTED! FOR! TRUTH!

You get three pints into someone, they start saying what they really mean.

The rule in the game industry is such: A Non Disclosure Agreement is worth about three beers. Get a line coder or a Maya modeler a couple of gin and tonics, and they'll let loose about all their producer and publisher and technology woes.

re: #58 iceweasel

Yes, probably.
Go have drinks. If you have dinner ensure alcohol is involved.

I am not kidding.

Okie Dokie. I am sure she needs a release like I do. Could do us both good.

re: #61 WindUpBird

QUOTED! FOR! TRUTH!

You get three pints into someone, they start saying what they really mean.

The rule in the game industry is such: A Non Disclosure Agreement is worth about three beers. Get a line coder or a Maya modeler a couple of gin and tonics, and they'll let loose about all their producer and publisher and technology woes.

Quite serious in advice to CCA. Work the whole hey we're buds routine, let's talk about how our recent love lives sucked, get drunk, wind up 'accidentally' having sex.
Yo, CCA, all you have to do is have a hilarious discussion about your love life and her ex, then look her dead in the eye and say "Any man who cheated on you/looked at another woman was a fool".
Then make sure you go back to joking again and 'somehow' have more drinks.

re: #62 Cannadian Club Akbar

Okie Dokie. I am sure she needs a release like I do. Could do us both good.

I will be honest in the chat. I don't want to lie.

re: #58 iceweasel

Yes, probably.
Go have drinks. If you have dinner ensure alcohol is involved.

I am not kidding.

"Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker" ...?

re: #48 WindUpBird

I have that one bookmarked. Easily one of my favorites.

re: #65 freetoken

"Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker" ...?

Exactly.
Dorothy Parker was most instructive on relations between the sexes.

re: #64 Cannadian Club Akbar

I will be honest in the chat. I don't want to lie.

Honesty will work better anyway, as well as being more attractive.
Really, just go hang with her her, but make sure alcohol is involved, define it as a 'we're friends' thing, so there's no pressure on her, be honest and nature will take its course.

OK, time for some more Incredible String Band.

"All this world is but a play
Be thou the joyful player."

This song encapsulates essential elements of my Christobuddhist theology.

[Link: www.youtube.com...]

The great ship, the ship of the world
Long time sailing
Mariners, mariners, gather your skills

Jesus and Hitler and Richard the LionHeart
Three Kings and Moses and Queen Cleopatra
The cobbler, the maiden
The mender and the maker
The sickener and the twitcher
And the glad undertaker
The shepherd of willows
The harper and the archer,
All sat down in one boat together:
Troubled voyage in calm weather.

And I have no idea why YouTube links don't turn into little YouTube boxes anymore. Charles?

re: #67 iceweasel

Honesty will work better anyway, as well as being more attractive.
Really, just go hang with her her, but make sure alcohol is involved, define it as a 'we're friends' thing, so there's no pressure on her, be honest and nature will take its course.

Um, I already "did" her once, if that matters.

re: #68 Cato the Elder

I threw away my lucky penny, my rabbit's foot and gypsy ring.

G'nite Lizards.

re: #69 Cannadian Club Akbar

Um, I already "did" her once, if that matters.

And not embarrassed See Ya'll Later

re: #70 freetoken

What did you do differently? Really, I'm having this problem all the time now, when I'm not getting "playlists" instead of single songs.

YouTube is screwed up. They disimproved it.

re: #73 Cato the Elder

This song encapsulates essential elements of my Christobuddhist theology.

Empty your mind of the noise and become one with the computer.

re: #73 Cato the Elder

Seriously, just be sure to preview your post. If the link isn't embedding as a Youtube video, cut and paste it again.

re: #76 freetoken

Seriously, just be sure to preview your post. If the link isn't embedding as a Youtube video, cut and paste it again.

Done that, doesn't work.

re: #66 Slumbering Behemoth

I have that one bookmarked. Easily one of my favorites.

I saw Heavy Metal for the first time when I was like 13 or 14, it got me hooked on the BOC record Fire of Unknown Origin because of Veteran of the Psychic Wars :D

I just love that post about the RNC donor memo. Oh yes, I do.

Tchotches, RNC, FTW!

The small donors who are the targets of direct marketing are described under the heading “Visceral Giving.” Their motivations are listed as “fear;” “Extreme negative feelings toward existing Administration;” and “Reactionary.”

Major donors, by contrast, are treated in a column headed “Calculated Giving.”

Their motivations include: “Peer to Peer Pressure”; “access”; and “Ego-Driven.”

Mmm, mmm, mmmm. I'm loving it.

re: #77 Cato the Elder

Your link ought to end in "watch?v=q_JnyN1ajYw".

Your link has a referenced video, and includes the string "watch#!" which is I think a no-no. Your string after the youtube url is "/watch#!videos=q6_DzjkeD7M&v=q_JnyN1ajYw" which is not a simple video link. Did you cut the address from somewhere else?

Blame Kilgore.

Makin' a pork chop a couple eggie. Do you have a problem with dat?

re: #68 Cato the Elder

Not the best recording, but still such a lovely song. ISB at Woodstock with "When You Find Out Who You Are:

It's of a strange and furious time
when men did speed to pray
Along the road of discontent to gods of gold and clay
Some did seek security
Among the seas of change
And some did seek dear life to wound
a furious time and strange
But when you find out who you are
Beautiful beyond your dreams
Just look around and
notice where you are
Just look around and notice what you see
Each moment born for you innocently

But when I see what we have made
What we have cut with the mind's blade
In the blackness feel it all
Repeated faces rise and fall
With ancient goals unwondering fail
Further obscure the ancient trail
Filling with the endless years
The river of your heart's tears
I swear you have the power
as the angels do
Spread out your fingers and
make all things new
Change the world by the things you say
By the things you love
And by the games you play
And you make each new day

It feels so funny in your mummy's tummy
Before you get born into
the world for to carry on
Remember young man of the time
before you first went to school
How did it feel trying to live to the rule
Remember young man of the time
when your love stick
First rose free between your legs
Like a growing tree
Remember you walked with your lover
Like a gypsy and a gypsy queen
Under the stars where the sign was seen
Under the stars where
the leaves were green
Under the stars where the sign was seen

0 how many shining hearts
With love has guided me
And many I have met before
in lands across the sea
We used to speak of that ocean deep
How little words can say
It's better now to ask your friend
What makes him sad today

No one can do it for you
Make your own sky blue
Make your own dreams come true
Make it come true.

Good morning people.

re: #15 freetoken

Well, I loaded up the spin-offs with plenty of links to articles about contentious subjects. Ought to be something there to p*ss just about everybody off!

I found this off of one of your links:

[Link: www.guardian.co.uk...]

Big gains for far-right leader Geert Wilders as Dutch go to the polls

Geert Wilders, the Dutch far-right anti-immigrant maverick, scored big gains in yesterday's local elections in the Netherlands, according to projections last night, indicating he may dominate the political scene in the run-up to the general election in three months.
.....
Wilders last night claimed a big victory, predicting: "We are going to conquer the entire country ... We are going to be the biggest party in the country."

re: #28 freetoken

Speaking of conspiracies, Alex Jones is doing a full court press against SPLC.

A broke clock is right twice a day.

re: #54 Cannadian Club Akbar

So, after pissing ans moaning here, I did the same on Facebook. And a girl, recently divorced, said we should get together. Now. I did fuck up the other day. So barring being an idiot, does she wanna sleep with me?

I was going to say she wants to sleep with you but she may not know it yet and then I read Ice's response....get her liquored up. LOL! I like her.

re: #64 Cannadian Club Akbar

I will be honest in the chat. I don't want to lie.

Turn in your man card please.

I'm going to keep talking to myself, I don't care.

The Mayor Calvo story has been in the news again this last week. One county in Md finally released their SWAT team numbers and they were pretty awful. More than 100 times last year they were used to deliver warrants for non-violent misdemeanors. Anyway, there was a long letter to the editor of the paper from a former local Police Chief that Radley Balko rips apart:

[Link: www.theagitator.com...]

It's a long piece, read it all, but here is the gist:

If Mr. Schweinsburg had read much at all on Calvo’s story before firing off his letter, he’d know that the most aggravating thing about the raid is that Prince George’s Officials—from County Executive Jack Johnson to Sheriff Michael Jackson—have stubbornly and shamelessly refused to admit that the police made a single mistake. The horrifying lesson to draw from that: It’s perfectly acceptable for the police to barge into a home of an innocent family without first doing any corroborating investigation, shoot and kill the family’s dogs, handcuff the home’s occupants for hours on end, lie about the circumstances leading up to, during, and after the raid, then refuse to turn over any information about the investigation and raid when the wrongly raided family requests to see it. No mistakes were identified because Jackson has determined none were made. No training and policy modifications will be put in place because Jackson doesn’t feel any are appropriate. This is why “micro-managing” SWAT teams is necessary. Because police and public officials have come to the mind-numbing conclusion that something as atrocious as the Calvo raid can occur . . . and yet still believe that no one made any mistakes.

re: #57 Cato the Elder

The anti-Semitic concern troll has but one message.

Cato is a racist! Don't listen to him!///

It's easier to dismiss someone's ideas once you've labeled them unfairly.
I've been following this blog for awhile now, and I know you can do better than that.

re: #90 RogueOne

You're never alone on LGF.

There are only 44 members logged in right now, a dozen on this thread. But even at this hour there will be over a thousand people reading LGF somewhere in the world.

Speaking of officers shooting dogs, it's not enough that they shoot a suspects dog this cop thought it was necessary to shoot the neighbors dog:

[Link: kstp.com...]

A police officer trying to make an arrest at a Minneapolis home shot the neighbor's dog.

The dog's owners are angry and confused, but police officials say the officer acted responsibly.

William Knapp said his rottweiler/yellow lab mix Wilson was in his fenced yard, located in the 3200 block of Bryant Avenue N, Friday morning as police tried to arrest someone at at house next door.

Knapp said, "I heard my mom yelling, 'They shot our dog they shot dog.'"

re: #92 freetoken

You're never alone on LGF.

There are only 44 members logged in right now, a dozen on this thread. But even at this hour there will be over a thousand people reading LGF somewhere in the world.

I hadn't thought about it that way, I'll watch my language.

re: #89 RogueOne

Turn in your man card please.

Never!!!

re: #89 RogueOne

Turn in your man card please.

I left it in my other purse!

re: #96 sattv4u2

I left it in my other purse!

Now that cheered me up.

Everyone seen the Funny or Die Presidential reunion bit? Here's the first 5 mins or so:

DARKSIDE!!!!1!!

re: #97 Cannadian Club Akbar

Now that cheered me up.

I got my house broke into and I might get laid. Insurance covers what got stolen, and my virginity was stolen years ago. So, I guess I'm happy?

I went to the last place I worked yesterday. Got paid. Dude is a douche. He is on the list.

re: #101 Cannadian Club Akbar

I went to the last place I worked yesterday. Got paid. Dude is a douche. He is on the list.

And while I only worked there a small amount of time, I did steal 1 ingredient. Sometimes that all you need.

My brother met a Psychotherapist the other day. Turns out she is a pill head.

I had another brother ask me if a !.75 last me 2 weeks. I looked at him and said, "You're joking, right?" Guess he wasn't.

CCA?

WFT?

OMG.

re: #105 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

wft?

Never Scratch a Tiger With a Short Stick. One of my favorite book of quotes.

re: #105 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I can kill a 1.75 in 2 days. But there must be planning. And honest, I rarely do it, but I can.

Good.
[Link: wcbstv.com...]

Good Morning Lizarddom!

Waiting on a 1 man lift delivery to finish painting my foyer and great room. I thought the 2 story room with wall to ceiling windows was so cool when I bought the place...now...not so much.

Morning.

I'm all discomboobled this am. I need some stronger coffee or something.

Texas: Remind me to stay the hell out of Texas.

GOP Proposition 4 Public Acknowledgement of God Precincts Reporting: 8234 of 8236 99%
X Yes 1374620 95%
No 70103 5%

GOP Proposition 5 Require Sonograms Before Elective Abortion Precincts Reporting: 8234 of 8236 99%
X Yes 969705 69%
No 438564 31%

re: #112 idioma

Texas: Remind me to stay the hell out of Texas.

GOP Proposition 4 Public Acknowledgement of God Precincts Reporting: 8234 of 8236 99%
X Yes 1374620 95%
No 70103 5%

GOP Proposition 5 Require Sonograms Before Elective Abortion Precincts Reporting: 8234 of 8236 99%
X Yes 969705 69%
No 438564 31%

GodDAMN.
Bible beating bastards.

re: #112 idioma

Texas: Remind me to stay the hell out of Texas.

GOP Proposition 4 Public Acknowledgement of God Precincts Reporting: 8234 of 8236 99%
X Yes 1374620 95%
No 70103 5%

GOP Proposition 5 Require Sonograms Before Elective Abortion Precincts Reporting: 8234 of 8236 99%
X Yes 969705 69%
No 438564 31%

You whining like a "gut-shot cop"?

re: #108 Cannadian Club Akbar

Well... DON'T!

re: #114 MandyManners

You whining like a "gut-shot cop"?

Nope, just saying that based on these numbers I want less to do with Texas.

[Link: www.texassecede.com...]

Iceweasal,

How is all your cooking shopping going?

The Republican “concern trolls” for the Democrats possibably losing next November if they vote for health care reform are litterally multiplying like humping rabbits [or is it gerbils] across the morning news shows today.

Earlier it had been the GOP leadership McConnell, Boehner and Ryan emphasizing their heartfelt concern for the looming demise of the Democrat party.

Now it would appear the memo has been read by all and the message of doom has proliferated to literally every right wing pundit and talking head appearing or blogging anywhere.

Podium pounding, chest thumping pontification; with overwhelming concern and deep dudgeon as to how voting for health care reform will literally destroy the loyal opposition as they know it…

If it weren’t so damn pathetic it would be roll on the floor funny…!
Yeh just gotta have a sense of humor with those folks.

Good Morning LGF

re: #118 Jadespring

Iceweasal,

How is all your cooking shopping going?

Hey Jadespring! Thanks for asking!
I figured out what I'm buying and also where I'm shopping. Waiting on the purchases til next week when, it appears, Jimmah will be here with me. Yay!
Found this cool site the city cook-- lists a lot of supply places and has good info, ran through their supply list for a small kitchen and between that, info from you and SB, and CCA, i know what I'm getting. Thanks for asking!

How's the gardening? Think I saw that you got some seeds and have a greenhouse, unless i hallucinated that last bit. Now i'm looking into hydroponics or something to grow some stuff indoors.

re: #118 Jadespring

Iceweasal,

How is all your cooking shopping going?

I thiinked she listen to me and went to a restaurant supply store.

re: #121 iceweasel

D'oh!!!

re: #123 Cannadian Club Akbar

D'oh!!!

No, you're quite right-- there's two restaurant supply places I'm going to.

The diplomatic fallout over the assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh took a new turn Wednesday as Dubai's police chief announced that he would seek the arrests of Israel's prime minister and spy chief over the killing.
SNIP

Good luck with that, asshole.

re: #119 oldegeezr

Universal health care supporters should wait and see if the Dems have the balls and discipline to pass anything at all, other than their usual load of smelly gas.

The British government is set on Thursday to amend a current law in order to ensure Israeli officials visiting the UK are not arrested on charges of war crimes.

It follows a December 2009 arrest warrant issued for opposition leader Tzipi Livni for her involvement in Operation Cast Lead in Gaza.

According to the Daily Telegraph, "the Crown Prosecution Service will take over responsibility for prosecuting war crimes and other violations of international law, ending the current system in which magistrates are obliged to consider a case for an arrest warrant presented by any individual."

SNIP

re: #126 Spare O'Lake

Universal health care supporters should wait and see if the Dems have the balls and discipline to pass anything at all, other than their usual load of smelly gas.

They don't have the votes.

re: #128 Cannadian Club Akbar

They don't have the votes.

WaPo two hours ago:
Obama calls for reconciliation to prevent filibuster on health-care reform

re: #129 iceweasel

WaPo two hours ago:
Obama calls for reconciliation to prevent filibuster on health-care reform

[Link: www.breitbart.tv...]

Shit. Liberal blogger "Jon Swift" has died. Only 46. Funny, funny guy.

[Link: www.vanityfair.com...]

re: #128 Cannadian Club Akbar

They don't have the votes.

What gets me laughing is that prog asshole SanFranNan telling them to vote anyway, knowing that her district will always re-elect her.

re: #130 Cannadian Club Akbar

[Link: www.breitbart.tv...]

Brietbart. Nuff said.

re: #129 iceweasel

WaPo two hours ago:
Obama calls for reconciliation to prevent filibuster on health-care reform

At this point, as much as I care about health care reform. I'll be glad when we are past this. It's been an ugly few years of politics.

[Link: www.chicagotribune.com...]
Giannoulias (D-IL) fails to end bank controversy

"...."Can I look back and make sure I don't say anything inconsistent?" Giannoulias asked, somewhat awkwardly. "This was eight years ago. Seven or eight years ago. As I mentioned, if we knew everything about this individual's past, we wouldn't have given those loans."
A silky parser of words may have had an easier time, perhaps an artist in the lawyerly game of negative implication — when what's not said is more important than what is said.
If such a candidate could make reporters feel tingles running up their legs, if he could offer himself up as an empty vessel for their guilt and their hopes, he might get away with it.
But that guy is in the White House now...."
"...But the Rezko issue was marginalized as mere partisan Republican harping. And in local and national media accounts, Obama was portrayed as Rezko's victim.
The implication was that the spidery Rezko stalked the idealistic and naive young Obama and almost dragged him down, by buying that strip of land in the Kenwood neighborhood, so Obama could afford that dream house.
That's not reality. But politics isn't about reality as much as it is about establishing a compelling narrative. And the media so loved Obama's creation myth..."

{bang bang, Al Capone}

re: #119 oldegeezr

Seems like a workable strategy. The GOP doesn't have the votes to affect the outcome, so they're working the other side of the aisle, drumming up opposition over there and amongst the electorate. It's one of the things the Democrats would be doing if they were in a similar position, and have done in the past.

re: #133 iceweasel

Brietbart. Nuff said.

Pure video.

re: #135 Taqyia2Me

Fucking hoods. The whole lot of them.

re: #121 iceweasel

Hey Jadespring! Thanks for asking!
I figured out what I'm buying and also where I'm shopping. Waiting on the purchases til next week when, it appears, Jimmah will be here with me. Yay!
Found this cool site the city cook-- lists a lot of supply places and has good info, ran through their supply list for a small kitchen and between that, info from you and SB, and CCA, i know what I'm getting. Thanks for asking!

How's the gardening? Think I saw that you got some seeds and have a greenhouse, unless i hallucinated that last bit. Now i'm looking into hydroponics or something to grow some stuff indoors.

That sounds great. I had a great time a couple of years ago when I was setting up my kitchen in my new house. It was great having an excuse to do out and get great stuff.

Gardening is going good. I won't get to play with the greenhouse for another month or so though it's looking like we might be getting a very early spring this year. I planted some tomatoes and leeks yesterday to get them started. I'm trying out some early outdoor planting techniques this season so if all goes well I'll start getting juicy tomatoes about 6 weeks before I usually do. Since I've got all the plant lights set up I'm going to plant some salad mix indoors and maybe some annual flowers.

Mostly though it's just lots of planning where everything is going to go.

Morning everyone. I finally saw Ingloriuos Basterds (took me forever to get it from Netflix) last night. I liked it, but I think it was kind of uneven. I expected more combat/nazi killing scenes. The whole cinema plot was unexpected.

re: #126 Spare O'Lake

The cajones and discipline, indeed!

With the earlier margin they had in the Senate and the numbers they still have in the House it certainly doesn’t say much for their leadership.

You’re correct, they’ll have to grow a pair or more!

re: #134 idioma

At this point, as much as I care about health care reform. I'll be glad when we are past this. It's been an ugly few years of politics.

Have you reconciled yourself to the legitimacy and right to exist of the State of Israel?

re: #140 Mad Al-Jaffee

Morning everyone. I finally saw Ingloriuos Basterds (took me forever to get it from Netflix) last night. I liked it, but I think it was kind of uneven. I expected more combat/nazi killing scenes. The whole cinema plot was unexpected.

Killing Nazi's is good. Just sayin'

re: #143 Cannadian Club Akbar

Killing Nazi's is good. Just sayin'

Especially when it's done with a baseball bat.

re: #125 MandyManners

re: #127 MandyManners

The Israel-hate is strong this morning, isn't it.

re: #137 Cannadian Club Akbar

Pure video.

CNN says the same - they all doubt that the Dem votes are presently there. I just cannot believe what a dysfunctional bunch they are.

re: #144 Mad Al-Jaffee

Especially when it's done with a baseball bat.

I own a 44 oz. bat.

re: #142 Spare O'Lake

Have you reconciled yourself to the legitimacy and right to exist of the State of Israel?

Still feeling hurt about that?

I never said that Israel was illegitimate. I said that the associated religious conflict has a terrible price tag, one which the entire world most endure. But you probably are too willing to ignore that part.

re: #146 Spare O'Lake

CNN says the same - they all doubt that the Dem votes are presently there. I just cannot believe what a dysfunctional bunch they are.

Well, during the last go-around they learned that holding out pays large rewards. Expect much more such behavior this time, further amplified by the midterms being that much closer.

If I were a Democratic representative, I'd be demanding every perq and exemption I could think of for my district. 'Cause there's a really good chance I'd get it.

re: #142 Spare O'Lake

Have you reconciled yourself to the legitimacy and right to exist of the State of Israel?

I predict this thread is about to lose whatever redeeming social importance it might have had.

re: #149 SixDegrees

Well, during the last go-around they learned that holding out pays large rewards. Expect much more such behavior this time, further amplified by the midterms being that much closer.

If I were a Democratic representative, I'd be demanding every perq and exemption I could think of for my district. 'Cause there's a really good chance I'd get it.

Ah yes...the whore factor. Sorry, I forgot my Dem 101.

re: #114 MandyManners

You whining like a "gut-shot cop"?

Once he rang that bell, pretty much the rest of his talking points and idea's just went away.

re: #136 SixDegrees

Certainly; just more politics as usual…

It just tickles by funny bone to hear them sooo concerned, in such a sincere manner, in so many ways, about those poor olde Democrats!
Hehehe…

re: #152 Ericus58

Once he rang that bell, pretty much the rest of his talking points and idea's just went away.

uh, huh. Yeah. I'm still here, and so are all of my ideas.

State Senator busted for DUI leaving a gay club, unidentified male companion with him

Ashburn was booked into the Sacramento County Jail and released on $1,400 bond.

Ashburn, a father of four, is a Republican Senator representing parts of Kern, Tulare and San Bernardino Counties with a history of opposing gay rights.

re: #155 iceweasel

State Senator busted for DUI leaving a gay club, unidentified male companion with him

[Video]

Family Values!

I have no use for porn. Just sayin. Out.

re: #149 SixDegrees

Well, during the last go-around they learned that holding out pays large rewards. Expect much more such behavior this time, further amplified by the midterms being that much closer.

If I were a Democratic representative, I'd be demanding every perq and exemption I could think of for my district. 'Cause there's a really good chance I'd get it.

Like getting your brother nominated for a judge position...

Obama Now Selling Judgeships for Health Care Votes?

Tonight, Barack Obama will host ten House Democrats who voted against the health care bill in November at the White House; he's obviously trying to persuade them to switch their votes to yes. One of the ten is Jim Matheson of Utah. The White House just sent out a press release announcing that today President Obama nominated Matheson's brother Scott M. Matheson, Jr. to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

...So, Scott Matheson appears to have the credentials to be a judge, but was his nomination used to buy off his brother's vote?

Consider Congressman Matheson's record on the health care bill. He voted against the bill in the Energy and Commerce Committee back in July and again when it passed the House in November. But now he's "undecided" on ramming the bill through Congress. "The Congressman is looking for development of bipartisan consensus," Matheson's press secretary Alyson Heyrend wrote to THE WEEKLY STANDARD on February 22. "It’s too early to know if that will occur." Asked if one could infer that if no Republican votes in favor of the bill (i.e. if a bipartisan consensus is not reached) then Rep. Matheson would vote no, Heyrend replied: "I would not infer anything. I’d wait to see what develops, starting with the health care summit on Thursday."

The timing of this nomination looks suspicious, especially in light Democratic Congressman Joe Sestak's claim that he was offered a federal job not to run against Arlen Specter in the Pennsylvania primary. Many speculated that Sestak, a former admiral, was offered the Secretary of the Navy job.

re: #148 idioma

Still feeling hurt about that?

I never said that Israel was illegitimate. I said that the associated religious conflict has a terrible price tag, one which the entire world most endure. But you probably are too willing to ignore that part.

What I'm not willing to ignore is your anti-Semitic point of view.
What I will ignore is anything else you post here.
FOAD

I almost thought I saw someone trying to talk... but I was mistaken.

re: #160 Ericus58

I almost thought I saw someone trying to talk... but I was mistaken.

No, that was me piling another cut of gamey troll buttocks on the barbecue. Flavor of the day is Famous Dave's Sweet & Sassy.

Ultimate Bush Insider Lifts Veil on Presidency

Karl Rove, the chief political adviser to President George W. Bush and architect of his two successful campaigns for the White House, says in a new memoir that Mr. Bush probably would not have invaded Iraq had he known there were no unconventional weapons there.

I guess Rove is a commie now too.

re: #159 Spare O'Lake

What I'm not willing to ignore is your anti-Semitic point of view.
What I will ignore is anything else you post here.
FOAD

What have I said, exactly, which you consider "anti-semitic"?

Morning! Forgive my...silliness yesterday, as I was desperately lacking sleep.
:)

re: #155 iceweasel

State Senator busted for DUI leaving a gay club, unidentified male companion with him

[Video]

Hoyer knew of Massa allegations

First-term Rep. Eric Massa announced Wednesday that he will not seek reelection, saying his doctors have told him that he can’t continue to “run at 100 miles an hour.”

But several House aides told POLITICO that the House ethics committee has been informed of allegations that the New York Democrat, who is married with two children, made unwanted advances toward a junior male staffer.

A more senior staffer — Ronald Hikel, Massa’s former deputy chief of staff and legislative director — took the complaints to the ethics committee and was interviewed about them twice.

Hikel declined to comment about the situation, but House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) confirmed that the Democratic leadership had been informed of the allegations before the news broke.

re: #165 NJDhockeyfan

How is that related to my post?

re: #166 iceweasel

How is that related to my post?

Just a side dish of tu quoque?

Yikes.

A 45-year-old woman, charged with ending a domestic dispute by killing her 26-year-old husband of five days, is a registered lobbyist for a group fighting domestic violence.

But:

Bridges' group isn't among the prominent domestic violence lobbying groups in Georgia, said Kirsten Rambo, the executive director of the Georgia Commission on Family Violence.

"This is the first I've heard about that organization," Rambo said. "I certainly couldn't say if they were legitimate or not," she said, adding, "It's certainly a new name to me."

Bridges has filed sparse lobbying expenses, according to State Ethics Commission records. So far this year, she's reported spending $20 -- for parking while lobbying for the abuse database.

re: #167 Varek Raith

Just a side dish of tu quoque?

Yep. They'll have to work a lot harder than that even on my worst day. ;)
BTW, Varek, so sorry to hear about your job. Good luck.

re: #162 iceweasel

Ultimate Bush Insider Lifts Veil on Presidency

I guess Rove is a commie now too.

Morning! Not to rehash a 7yr old argument but everyone, including saddam, thought there were WMD's laying around and that was the overriding reason for going in. Personally, I thought it was the right thing to do regardless. I still believe it was the right thing to do strictly based on the humanitarian argument.

re: #170 RogueOne

Morning! Not to rehash a 7yr old argument but everyone, including saddam, thought there were WMD's laying around and that was the overriding reason for going in. Personally, I thought it was the right thing to do regardless. I still believe it was the right thing to do strictly based on the humanitarian argument.

I think it's interesting that Rove thinks Bush wouldn't have thought it was the right thing to do, though.

re: #169 iceweasel

Yep. They'll have to work a lot harder than that even on my worst day. ;)
BTW, Varek, so sorry to hear about your job. Good luck.

Heh, I'll be fine. I squirreled away some cash for just such an event. Actually, I'm enjoying the free time.
;)
Wth, I'm a cynic in all things except for when it comes to myself???
Confused.
:P

re: #170 RogueOne

Morning! Not to rehash a 7yr old argument but everyone, including saddam, thought there were WMD's laying around and that was the overriding reason for going in. Personally, I thought it was the right thing to do regardless. I still believe it was the right thing to do strictly based on the humanitarian argument.

Not to mention Russian intelligence telling the US that an Iraq terrorist attack inside the US was imminent.

re: #110 rwdflynavy

Good Morning Lizarddom!

Waiting on a 1 man lift delivery to finish painting my foyer and great room. I thought the 2 story room with wall to ceiling windows was so cool when I bought the place...now...not so much.

How is the move progressing?

Bottom line:
Anyone who wishes for Israel to cease to exist, or who bemoans the inconvenience of her existence, is an anti-Semite.
Done.
BBL.

re: #159 Spare O'Lake

Accusations of racial bigotry are not taken lightly by many, O'Lake. So if you want to label me, please be more specific.

re: #173 NJDhockeyfan

Not to mention Russian intelligence telling the US that an Iraq terrorist attack inside the US was imminent.

Really, that's the first I've heard of it.*

*not that it means anything, I miss painfully obvious things at times!

Here's some good news...

Coast Guard crew survives crash in Utah mountains

SALT LAKE CITY – Authorities say snow and wind affected visibility in remote Utah mountains where a Coast Guard helicopter went down as it returned home from the Olympics, but they still don't know if that's what caused the crash. All five people aboard survived.

Two were in critical condition following Wednesday's accident and one was in serious condition, according to hospital officials. All three had to be airlifted from the remote crash site.

Another two with minor injuries were brought out on snowmobiles.

re: #168 iceweasel

Just the phrase makes me laugh "... fighting domestic violence."

re: #178 NJDhockeyfan

Here's some good news...

Coast Guard crew survives crash in Utah mountains

Damn, that's lucky.

re: #179 CommonCents

Just the phrase makes me laugh "... fighting domestic violence."

Look at her last name...

Here's something cool, nonpartisan, and peaceful for the am hours:

3D Sidewalk Art That Will Blow Your Mind (PHOTOS)

Slideshow at link.

re: #170 RogueOne

All I have to say on the subject is "it's a slam dunk Mr. President".

I agree with your assessment that it was still the right thing to do.

re: #182 iceweasel

Here's something cool, nonpartisan, and peaceful for the am hours:

3D Sidewalk Art That Will Blow Your Mind (PHOTOS)

Slideshow at link.

Non partisan? That first pic is clearly alarmist AGW propaganda!
/

re: #177 Varek Raith

Really, that's the first I've heard of it.*

*not that it means anything, I miss painfully obvious things at times!

I know. This story fails to get mentioned during the Iraq war arguments but I think it's very relevant. I challenge anyone to put themselves in George Bush's shoes at that time and see what they would have done.

Putin: Russia warned U.S. of Iraq terror

(CNN) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin said his country warned the United States several times that Saddam Hussein's regime was planning terror attacks on the United States and its overseas interests.

Putin's comments in Kazakhstan came amid a new debate in the United States about the extent of ties between Saddam and the al Qaeda terrorist network triggered by a preliminary report from the commission investigating the September 11 attacks.

"I can confirm that after the events of September 11, 2001, and up to the military operation in Iraq, Russian special services and Russian intelligence several times received ... information that official organs of Saddam's regime were preparing terrorist acts on the territory of the United States and beyond its borders, at U.S. military and civilian locations," Putin said.

re: #182 iceweasel

Here's something cool, nonpartisan, and peaceful for the am hours:

3D Sidewalk Art That Will Blow Your Mind (PHOTOS)

Slideshow at link.

I really enjoy this artwork, and I'm fascinated by their ability to project the effect based on the viewing angle and distances.

re: #184 Spare O'Lake

And fuck you Iceweasel for updinging that anti-Semitic piece of shit.

If this is going to be a witch-hunt please say so. Otherwise, how do we know YOU are not an Anti-Semite?

Again I ask you to provide some evidence of this outrageous claim.

re: #187 Ericus58

I really enjoy this artwork, and I'm fascinated by their ability to project the effect based on the viewing angle and distances.

There's a link there that explains how it's done, but I haven't checked that out yet. You might dig it.
I like the bowl of wontons.

re: #186 NJDhockeyfan

Now that everyone is convinced that Putin isn't a saint, I wonder if he passed that info along in order to drag us into a situation similar to what Russia went thru with Afghanistan. A long drag on our resources. He's not a dumb guy.

re: #184 Spare O'Lake

Link to an anti-semitic comment I've updinged, Spare.
Until then? Piss off, hater.

re: #173 NJDhockeyfan

Not to mention Russian intelligence telling the US that an Iraq terrorist attack inside the US was imminent.

I have very little faith in our CIA and would be completely willing to blame for screwing uup the intel but since the germans, french and russians were all saying the same thing I have to give them a pass.

re: #190 CommonCents

Now that everyone is convinced that Putin isn't a saint, I wonder if he passed that info along in order to drag us into a situation similar to what Russia went thru with Afghanistan. A long drag on our resources. He's not a dumb guy.

In his own words "Once a kgb man, always a kgb man." -Putin

re: #173 NJDhockeyfan

Not to mention Russian intelligence telling the US that an Iraq terrorist attack inside the US was imminent.

And there's the whole not honoring the terms of the first Gulf War cease fire thing.

Pakistani Christian couple touches Qur‘an with dirty hands, gets 25 years in prison

A court in Kasur district, Punjab, convicted a Christian couple, Munir Masih and Ruqqiya Bibi, to 25 years in prison. According to the Centre for Legal Aid Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS), judge Ajmal Hussein convicted the couple for touching the Qur‘an without washing their hands.

Munir Masih and Ruqqiya Bibi were released on bail last January, but were re-arrested after the judge ruled against them. The husband was locked up in Kasur’s district prison; the wife was sent to the women’s prison in Multan. Both have started serving 25 years behind bars.

CLAAS, an association that fights for the rights of the poor and marginalised, said that the couple was accused of “contaminating” the Qur‘an when they touched it “without washing their hands”.

The incident, which dates back to December 2008, unleashed the fury of Muslim extremists who put pressure on police. Unconfirmed reports suggest that extremists paid off police agents to discover “new evidence” to justify the sentence.

At the end of the police investigation, husband and wife were charged with blasphemy.

Note to self: Do not go visit Saudi Arabia.

Back in a bit.

Still waiting for that link, Spare.

re: #194 Mad Al-Jaffee

And there's the whole not honoring the terms of the first Gulf War cease fire thing.

Yes, another minor detail.

re: #195 NJDhockeyfan

The First Amendment without a doubt is the most well-thought-out obstacle for these kinds of ridiculous laws. Too bad Saudi Arabia won't adopt a similar principle any time soon.

re: #196 iceweasel

Back in a bit.

Still waiting for that link, Spare.

Don't hold your breath. First it requires finding a comment that is anti-semitic from me (that Charles decided not to delete for some reason) and has you in the upding pool.

It will be be a long long time, rocket man.

Pirates hit Spanish fishing ship with RPG

Private security guards aboard a Spanish fishing trawler fought a gunbattle with Somali pirates on the Indian Ocean Thursday, as confrontations between mariners and brigands off the coast of Africa become more violent.

The pirates hit the Albacan with a rocket-propelled grenade, causing a fire that was quickly extinguished, officials said. None of the 33 crew members or three guards was hurt. Three private guards aboard the Albacan fired back at the pirates, a ship's owners association said. The pirates fled.

They need to start sinking these boats every time they attack.

AP Interview: Hamas spy unafraid, criticizes Islam

Mosab Hassan Yousef, who helped Israel's security forces kill and arrest members of the Islamic militant group Hamas, is probably marked for death.

He should be keeping silent. But he's got a story to tell, one he delivers in his new book published this week, "Son of Hamas."

"To be honest with you, being killed is not the worst thing that can happen," he said Wednesday in an interview with The Associated Press. "If they want to do kill me ... let them do it, and they will be responsible for my blood."

In his memoir, Yousef, the 32-year-old son of a Hamas founder, claims he was one of the Shin Bet security agency's best assets and was dubbed The Green Prince, a reference to his Hamas pedigree and the Islamists' signature green color.

During his 50-minute interview, for which he arrived with armed security, Yousef took shots at Hamas leaders including political chief Khaled Meshaal. He lashed out at Hamas, saying the organization lives in the Middle Ages.

And he hurled his most inflammatory comments at Islam, which he called a religion that teaches people to kill.

"It is not a religion of peace," said Yousef, who converted to Christianity. "The biggest terrorist is the God of the Quran. I know this is very dangerous and this will offend many people. The more you follow the steps of the prophet of Islam and the God of Islam, the more you get close to being a terrorist."

re: #200 NJDhockeyfan

Pirates hit Spanish fishing ship with RPG

They need to start sinking these boats every time they attack.

No True Pirate would use an RPG! They'd use a cutlass and grappling hooks! Neptune[peas be upon him] willing, we should sink them for offending the flying spaghetti monster, RAmen.

re: #202 idioma

No True Pirate would use an RPG! They'd use a cutlass and grappling hooks! Neptune[peas be upon him] willing, we should sink them for offending the flying spaghetti monster, RAmen.

Real men use swords!

re: #190 CommonCents

BINGO…!

Not only that... Russia is playing a similar role in Iran against the US and Israel, [by supplying 3G ground to air radar and missiles] that we played in Afghanistan against Russia; by supplying the Mujahedeen with shoulder fired G to A weapons that downed many a Russian helicopter.

re: #203 Varek Raith

Real men use swords!

Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!

re: #145 thedopefishlives

re: #127 MandyManners

The Israel-hate is strong this morning, isn't it.

Unfortunately, it's par for the course.

re: #152 Ericus58

Once he rang that bell, pretty much the rest of his talking points and idea's just went away.

Notice who dinged me down?

Alaskan glacier melting rate was overestimated

The rate at which the Alaskan glaciers is receding was been largely overestimated by previous studies. In the last 40 years or so the mass lost from the glaciers in Alaska was not accurate, according to Erik Schiefer a geographer from Northern Arizona University and coauthor of a paper in the February issue of Nature Geoscience that reports the finding.

re: #203 Varek Raith

Real men use swords!

On South Park they used a toy light saber.

re: #160 Ericus58

I almost thought I saw someone trying to talk... but I was mistaken.

GAZE is your friend, Eric.

re: #208 NJDhockeyfan

Alaskan glacier melting rate was overestimated

You kimchi-starved fascist!

re: #206 MandyManners

Unfortunately, it's par for the course.

I know. It just doesn't usually seem so prevalent in the morning news.

Fucking dhimmis.

The Danish daily Politiken, which partners with SPIEGEL ONLINE, has reached a settlement with the descendants of the Prophet Muhammad, apologizing for the offence caused by the Muhammad caricatures republished by the paper. Not all politicians in Denmark support the move.

As the first newspaper to do so, Politiken has reached a settlement with descendants of the Prophet Muhammad in connection with the affront its reprint of drawings of the Prophet Muohammad in 2008 may have caused Muslims.

The settlement was reached between Politiken and eight organisations representing 94,923 descendants of the Prophet Muhammad in a move Politiken's Editor-in-Chief Tøger Seidenfaden says shows that dialogue is the way forward.

"The settlement looks ahead and expresses very sensible views. It may possibly reduce the tensions that have shown themselves to be so resilient. It gives us hope that relations between Denmark, and not least its media, and the Muslim world can be improved," Seidenfaden says, adding he does not believe Politiken's move is a freedom of speech sellout.

HASSAN CHOP

UAE 'still using child jockeys for camel races'

Camel racers in the United Arab Emirates are still using child jockeys in their meetings despite a ban, a human rights organisation says.

Anti-Slavery International has issued pictures of 10-year-olds riding camels at Abu Dhabi's prestigious 12-race competition on 9 February.

Children were officially banned from racing in 2005.

Racing officials said the young riders were Emirati children racing with their parents' consent.

Child jockeys were banned after it was revealed Emirati camel trainers and owners were bringing in hundreds of south Asian and African children to ride camels in races.

They were replaced with "robot jockeys" - mechanical arms that goaded the camels to run.

re: #212 thedopefishlives

I know. It just doesn't usually seem so prevalent in the morning news.

It's just about always there.

Morning all. Server is working (unfortunately), Jimmy Dean's is in the micro (fortunately) and I just got to read a nice quote from a favorite author (Aldous Huxley). 2 for 3 is a good start in my book... woops there goes the micro timer. brb.

re: #213 MandyManners

HASSAN CHOP

Well, tell Daffy not to steal his treasures!
/;)

re: #213 MandyManners

HASSAN CHOP

Those are good with mint jelly and wild rice.

re: #175 Spare O'Lake

Bottom line:
Anyone who wishes for Israel to cease to exist, or who bemoans the inconvenience of her existence, is an anti-Semite.
Done.
BBL.

You keep using that word, I don't think it means what you think it means.

"Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is prejudice against or hostility towards Jews, often rooted in hatred of their ethnic background, culture, or religion."

No mention of Israel there. If the cost of the conflict is large, are we compelled to hush, because someone might be offended? If I pointed to the fact that the US Civil war had a terrible cost, would you also claim I am racist against blacks?

I don't respect the superstitions of religious faith, does that fact specifically make me a "hater" of Jews? If so, then why?

re: #213 MandyManners

Consequences shmonsequences as long as I'm rich.

re: #195 NJDhockeyfan

Pakistani Christian couple touches Qur‘an with dirty hands, gets 25 years in prison

Note to self: Do not go visit Saudi Arabia.

That's why I objected yesterday to labeling the nutty group in TX as the american-taliban. The tx group might be out-of-control and on the fringes of legality but there isn't any comparison to life under Saudi, Iranian, Taliban rule.

re: #219 idioma

You keep using that word, I don't think it means what you think it means.

"Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is prejudice against or hostility towards Jews, often rooted in hatred of their ethnic background, culture, or religion."

No mention of Israel there. If the cost of the conflict is large, are we compelled to hush, because someone might be offended? If I pointed to the fact that the US Civil war had a terrible cost, would you also claim I am racist against blacks?

I don't respect the superstitions of religious faith, does that fact specifically make me a "hater" of Jews? If so, then why?

Do you wish for Israel to cease to exist?

Good morning, y'all.

re: #220 Locker

Consequences shmonsequences as long as I'm rich.

I'm rich! I'm a happy miser!

Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas, who has been refusing food and water for a week, lost consciousness and was rushed to a hospital Wednesday morning, one of his supporters reported.

Fariñas was in his home in Santa Clara, praying with visiting supporters, when he "suffered a strong pain in his chest and lost consciousness,'' said Licet Zamora Carrandi, who described herself as a spokeswoman.

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Fariñas was one of five Cuban dissidents -- the other four are in prison -- who launched hunger strikes last week to protest the death of jailed hunger striker Orlando Zapata and demand the release of all political prisoners. Fariñas also has called for the release of some two dozen political prisoners reported to be in ill health,

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re: #114 MandyManners

Little olde, “isn’t this deplorable gambit” to get you back into the mash pit.

re: #221 RogueOne

That's why I objected yesterday to labeling the nutty group in TX as the american-taliban. The tx group might be out-of-control and on the fringes of legality but there isn't any comparison to life under Saudi, Iranian, Taliban rule.

That's because they aren't "ruling". I don't think there would be much difference if they were...

re: #221 RogueOne

That's why I objected yesterday to labeling the nutty group in TX as the american-taliban. The tx group might be out-of-control and on the fringes of legality but there isn't any comparison to life under Saudi, Iranian, Taliban rule.

Well, the Christian Dominionist are very much like those countries listed...

re: #223 MrSilverDragon

Good morning, y'all.

I'm rich! I'm a happy miser!

Get back in there! DOWN, DOWN, DOWN! GO, GO, GO! MINE, MINE, MINE! Muahahahahaha!

re: #227 Varek Raith

Well, the Christian Dominionist are very much like those countries listed...

Except for the lashings, beheadings, and suicide bombers.

re: #155 iceweasel

State Senator busted for DUI leaving a gay club, unidentified male companion with him

What is it with the toe-tapping guys, anyway? Cheeses me off. I'm mean, I think I could do a better job, but I'm thoroughly unelectable with my history of smoking, drinking, drugs, strippers, porn, loud music and fast cars. At least I'm honest about my vices.

W.C. Fields/ Mae West 2012

re: #221 RogueOne

That's why I objected yesterday to labeling the nutty group in TX as the american-taliban. The tx group might be out-of-control and on the fringes of legality but there isn't any comparison to life under Saudi, Iranian, Taliban rule.

No. But their goals are identical.

The Supreme Court rejected on Thursday the request of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) Secretary-General Ahmad Saadat to be taken out of solitary confinement in prison.

The judges accepted the prosecution's claim, represented by Attorney Hila Gorni, which presented information that Saadat transfers messages to terrorist operatives from within the Israeli jail. Saadat is serving a 30-year prison sentence in Israel for his involvement in the assassination of former Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'evi nine years ago.

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Fucking scum should never be allowed to breathe air in freedom again.

re: #229 NJDhockeyfan

Except for the lashings, beheadings, and suicide bombers.

They advocate the death penalty for gays, for talking back to your elders...
The only difference is that they don't have power.

Dead pigs used to investigate 'dead zones'

There is a recent and rather macabre addition to the marine biologist's toolkit. Scientists in Canada are using the bodies of dead pigs, diverted from the butcher's shop, in their undersea laboratory.

By ending up in ocean experiments (rather than on the dinner table), the pigs have provided scientists with some intriguing new data.

re: #219 idioma

i'm replying to more questions back on yesterday's thread...it might be a more peaceful place to continue our discussion. let me know if you want me to reply somewhere else.

Evening honcos. Any reason to see any hope in humanity right now?

re: #230 Liberal Classic

What is it with the toe-tapping guys, anyway? Cheeses me off. I'm mean, I think I could do a better job, but I'm thoroughly unelectable with my history of smoking, drinking, drugs, strippers, porn, loud music and fast cars. At least I'm honest about my vices.

W.C. Fields/ Mae West 2012

Oh my god that's hilarious! Faces is right down the block and we party there all the time. Not really a gay club, just a night club that's popular with the gay peeps. In fact, I remember a certain night where a certain SEIU thug's wife had too much tequila and had to ride home with her head out the window. Muahahaha!

re: #233 Varek Raith

They advocate the death penalty for gays, for talking back to your elders...
The only difference is that they don't have power.

The only difference is that they don't behead no-believers or suit up their children in bomb vests and send them to pizza parlors full of children.

re: #222 NJDhockeyfan

Do you wish for Israel to cease to exist?

I wish for the conflict between Israel and Islam to cease, before nuclear arms are involved. Both sides are heavily motivated by faith (yes, I know there are other factors, but still), sooner or later there is going to be a mass killing, which will lead to a response of... more mass killing. Is it worth it? For either side, is it really worth it? The answer is no. No it is not worth it, in this life. But when you tack on some afterlife to it, suddenly the fight is back on.

The startling journey of the eldest son of a Hamas leader, a Christian convert, and former Israeli spy, has shocked, angered, and intrigued.

We meet in New York on the day his new book, Son of Hamas, is published in the country he fled to a few years ago.

Before we start our interview, a burly man in his entourage asks his own question.

I take him for a bodyguard, possibly an Israeli. "Could we say our prayers first?" he asks our BBC team.

And then, they bow their heads in Christian prayer asking for God's blessing.

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re: #155 iceweasel

State Senator busted for DUI leaving a gay club, unidentified male companion with him

I don't care where he's coming from, I don't care who he's leaving with, I only care about the DUI, that's the worst part about this whole thing. Just my $.02.

re: #239 idioma

I wish for the conflict between Israel and Islam to cease, before nuclear arms are involved. Both sides are heavily motivated by faith (yes, I know there are other factors, but still), sooner or later there is going to be a mass killing, which will lead to a response of... more mass killing. Is it worth it? For either side, is it really worth it? The answer is no. No it is not worth it, in this life. But when you tack on some afterlife to it, suddenly the fight is back on.

And this is Israels fault how?

re: #236 laZardo

Evening honcos. Any reason to see any hope in humanity right now?

I've got two words for you... Chocolate Cannoli. That's hope enough for me right there ;)

re: #236 laZardo

Evening honcos. Any reason to see any hope in humanity right now?

Yeah, I have two gigs this weekend and the one hour Office special is on tonight!

re: #238 NJDhockeyfan

The only difference is that they don't behead no-believers or suit up their children in bomb vests and send them to pizza parlors full of children.

Right they just shoot abortion doctors in church. Sorry man but couldn't lay off that one.

re: #240 MandyManners

The startling journey of the eldest son of a Hamas leader, a Christian convert, and former Israeli spy, has shocked, angered, and intrigued.

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See my post at 201. ;)

re: #243 Locker

I've got two words for you... Chocolate Cannoli. That's hope enough for me right there ;)

Curse you! Now I want one! CURSES!

re: #239 idioma

Look, so far I've been ignoring the fight that's been running in this thread, but I do have to chip in here. You're dodging the question. A simple yes or no would suffice.

re: #233 Varek Raith

The only difference is that they don't have power.

Bingo.

re: #238 NJDhockeyfan

The only difference is that they don't behead no-believers or suit up their children in bomb vests and send them to pizza parlors full of children.

What about the fact that they want the death penalty for gay? And those who talk back? Gee, I'm sure they'd be real accepting of my atheism. They are both the same peas in a pod.

re: #9 freetoken

It was a faux trailer made in 2007, but it turns out so many people gave it attention that it was decided to go ahead and make the movie:
Machete

However, I doubt it will really be rated X as the fake trailer alleged.

This is the first I've heard of it. It's great that it's going to be a movie - I loved the faux trailer for it. "They f*cked with the wrong Mexican!" Kick ass.