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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
— Isaac Asimov
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windsagio Wed, Jun 15, 2011 10:24:47pm |
Great thing I heard on “Fresh Air” earlier.
“We already have healthcare rationing, its just for the poor.”
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Iwouldprefernotto Wed, Jun 15, 2011 10:26:32pm |
Best quote ever. Sometimes I think we live in a society that is incapable of gaining wisdom.
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Sol Berdinowitz Wed, Jun 15, 2011 10:50:17pm |
Right now, I am more concerned about the lck of basic knowledge: for example how a hypothesis supported by facts becomes a theory.
Like with gravity. Or evolution. And people who do not understand that process are allowed to set curriculy for school boards.
“The moon turns blood-red, you burn the witch, the moon turns back. No question there…”
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Wed, Jun 15, 2011 10:51:33pm |
Woot! Quote thread…
“There is nothing divine about morality; it is a purely human affair.”
Albert Einstein (The World As I See It) 1949
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Wed, Jun 15, 2011 10:53:33pm |
re: #4 ralphieboy
“The moon turns blood-red, you burn the witch, the moon turns back. No question there…”
Never a miscomunication. You can’t explain that.
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windsagio Wed, Jun 15, 2011 10:55:23pm |
re: #5 Slumbering Behemoth
“As I slowly grow wise I briskly grow cautious.”
~Mark Twain, from some essay nobody’s heard of >>
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SpaceJesus Wed, Jun 15, 2011 11:03:03pm |
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Wed, Jun 15, 2011 11:03:56pm |
re: #7 windsagio
Imminent Irony in 3… 2…
“Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired.”
- Richard Kemph
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Dancing along the light of day Wed, Jun 15, 2011 11:20:43pm |
re: #8 SpaceJesus
LOL! You just wanted it where YOU are!
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Wed, Jun 15, 2011 11:26:21pm |
Bill O’Reilly: “Tides come in, tides go out. You can’t explain that”.
Neil Degrasse Tyson: ” ‘Splained that”.
Bill O’Reilly: “Look, you pinheads who attack me are just desperate. How’d the moon get there? How’d the sun get there”?
Neil Degrasse Tyson: “LOL! ‘Splained that too”.
Bill O’Reilly: “FFFUUU”!
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SpaceJesus Wed, Jun 15, 2011 11:43:39pm |
re: #12 Floral Giraffe
i’ve never heard people get called rabble rousers so many times.
this is the most canadian thing ever.
aw man, the stream is down :(
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Kragar Wed, Jun 15, 2011 11:44:09pm |
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Wed, Jun 15, 2011 11:44:09pm |
re: #14 laZardo
It’s just a theory. A way for the multi-million member scientific community to keep us down.
/
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Wed, Jun 15, 2011 11:51:08pm |
re: #17 Slumbering Behemoth
It’s just a theory. A way for the multi-million member scientific community to keep us down.
/
Because they have an agenda, of course. I think they don’t want the hoi polloi realizing that they can float to the top of their precious ivory towers. That’s why they push the Theory of Gravity on our nation’s school children.
/
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Wed, Jun 15, 2011 11:55:37pm |
re: #18 Slumbering Behemoth
Which, of course, is also why those ivory tower elitists refuse to allow any discussion of “Intelligent Falling” enter into the discussion. They have a clear agenda.
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Kragar Thu, Jun 16, 2011 12:08:57am |
Hackers say they hit CIA website
A group of hackers who breached the Senate computer system earlier this week claimed responsibility for problems with the CIA’s website Wednesday.
The group, known as Lulz Security, tweeted “Tango down - CIA.gov,” and there were difficulties throughout the early evening accessing the agency’s website.
The computer mischief appeared to be targeting the CIA’s public website, which does not include classified data and has no impact on the CIA’s operation. CIA spokeswoman Marie Harf said the agency is looking into the reports.
It is sometimes difficult to tell if a website has been hacked, or if the claim alone drove so many people to the site that it crashed. Efforts to access the website were met with an error message long after the breach began, around 6 p.m. EDT.
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freetoken Thu, Jun 16, 2011 12:11:41am |
re: #8 SpaceJesus
Lawlessness.
Maybe Camping was right after all?
Well, what would one expect from Urban Youth.*
*… oh, wait… they’re white
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laZardo Thu, Jun 16, 2011 12:11:49am |
re: #20 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
(Graphics SFW but contains meme-slurring.)
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Sol Berdinowitz Thu, Jun 16, 2011 12:44:58am |
Intelligent Design is a hypothesis. It has to remain a hypothesis because there is no way of obtaining objective facts to confirm or refute it.
Evolution is a theory. One supported by facts from nearly every branch of science.
And last night, a giant sky dragon ate the moon, we burnt a witch and he spat it back out.
Our hypothesis was confirmed, and now we are going to prove our hypothesis that by burning a withch every night, the moon will remain uneaten by the dragon for several years…
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Dancing along the light of day Thu, Jun 16, 2011 12:51:22am |
re: #16 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
So who, or what is your new avatar?
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Kragar Thu, Jun 16, 2011 1:06:58am |
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freetoken Thu, Jun 16, 2011 2:19:19am |
More evidence that the mainstreaming of the JBS and related lunacy, via acceptance of the Pauls, Glenn Beck, etc. is going to push this election farther towards the looney right than we’ve seen in my lifetime:
Bell campaigns for gold standard
A veteran conservative movement figure said today his group is launching a television ad and retail campaign in Iowa aimed at drumming up grass-roots interest in a return to the gold standard.
Jeffrey Bell, a former aide to President Ronald Reagan and conservative author, said the American Principles Project hopes to drive the issue back onto Republican presidential candidates’ agenda.
The organization conducted focus groups on the issue in the Midwest last year, and “the tea party response was astonishing.”
“If the thing bubbles up, the candidates are going to have to respond and move closer to our position, which is that the paper-based system is bankrupt, has run its course and we have to have honest money again,” he said.
[…]
The push comes amid a surge of national interest in what had been seen as exotic economic policies. Utah recently became the first state to recognize gold and silver U.S. Mint coins as legal tender, and more than a dozen other states are considering similar bills.
Bell’s currently in the course of an 18-stop bus tour through Iowa, which will end July 2. Gary Johnson has already stopped by, and Bell said he’s had interest from four other candidates.
[…]
“Exotic economic policies” my ass. More like “stupid” or “idiotic” economic policies.
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spocomptonite Thu, Jun 16, 2011 2:33:31am |
re: #8 SpaceJesus
Watching that stream, I just saw some drunk guy dive on top of a burning BMW, fall down on the flaming roof, somehow get back up and off the car without injuries.
Fucking Canada, how does it work?
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Cannadian Club Akbar Thu, Jun 16, 2011 2:43:11am |
Morning Honcos. As usual, I missed the boat on a money making opportunity. Years ago, we had riots in St. Pete and I saw the opportunity to fill my truck with rocks and sell them 3 for a dollar, giving the rioters something to throw. But since the home teams in the Stanley Cup finals have won every game, I stopped short of driving to Vancouver. Huge mistake.
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BishopX Thu, Jun 16, 2011 3:28:02am |
re: #35 Cannadian Club Akbar
You should have driven to Boston, you would have made a mint either way.
/Morning all
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Cannadian Club Akbar Thu, Jun 16, 2011 3:31:07am |
re: #36 BishopX
You should have driven to Boston, you would have made a mint either way.
/Morning all
I’ll wait for the next World Trade Organization meeting. Sell rocks to the rioters and rubber bullets to the cops. And snow cones to the hippies.:)
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Cannadian Club Akbar Thu, Jun 16, 2011 4:22:19am |
This story just screams freedom!! Kinda brings a tear to my eye…
[Link: www.nbcbayarea.com…]
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Cannadian Club Akbar Thu, Jun 16, 2011 4:24:13am |
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Thu, Jun 16, 2011 4:30:03am |
TSA behavior detection officers called themselves “Mexican Hunters”
A 2010 TSA report obtained by the Newark Star Ledger is offering an inside look into the work of Liberty International Airport’s behavior detection officers, who apparently spent so much of their time stopping travelers of Latin American descent that they dubbed themselves the “Mexican Hunters.”
The so-called “Boston Report” on the Newark screeners, compiled from early 2008 to late 2009 by inquiry officers based out of Logan International Airport, contains descriptions of manager-supported racial profiling, policies of ignoring actual behavioral stress indicators, and officers’ cavalier attitude towards public safety.
According to the report, the BDO officers were focusing on Mexican and Dominican passengers in order to find improper visas and passport stamps that would allow the unit to refer cases to immigration and create a paper record of apparent productivity. The report was written during a time of turmoil at Newark Liberty, as stories surfaced about screeners’ incompetence.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Thu, Jun 16, 2011 4:36:57am |
re: #42 negativ
Sounds like they called themselves that because they weren’t allowed to do their jobs. Who ordered these guys to focus on people from Central America?
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Cannadian Club Akbar Thu, Jun 16, 2011 4:45:13am |
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, Jun 16, 2011 4:47:17am |
re: #39 Cannadian Club Akbar
Cannadians have always seemed to have a problem with their wretched, dirty cities; their unwashed, unemployed citizenry.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Thu, Jun 16, 2011 4:48:34am |
re: #46 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Cannadians have always seemed to have a problem with their wretched, dirty cities; their unwashed, unemployed citizenry.
Not only that, the beer prices there are effing ridiculous!!!
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rwdflynavy Thu, Jun 16, 2011 4:50:02am |
re: #46 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Cannadians have always seemed to have a problem with their wretched, dirty cities; their unwashed, unemployed citizenry.
Vancouver, You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
//
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, Jun 16, 2011 4:52:44am |
re: #48 rwdflynavy
Stupid white people. They’re all alike.
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Shiplord Kirel Thu, Jun 16, 2011 4:55:47am |
re: #39 Cannadian Club Akbar
White people behaving badly again. The inner city, summer weather, alcohol, we all know how they are.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Thu, Jun 16, 2011 4:55:51am |
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Obdicut Thu, Jun 16, 2011 4:57:31am |
re: #50 Shiplord Kirel
White people behaving badly again. The inner city, summer weather, alcohol, we all know how they are.
Hopped up on poutine and blasting Celine Dion.
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RogueOne Thu, Jun 16, 2011 4:57:38am |
The last time I made fun of Canada I got hassled for days so I’m sticking to my “I love Canada!”. I’m down with bashing white people though.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Thu, Jun 16, 2011 4:58:46am |
I don’t find any joy in bashing people whose skin lacks pigmentation.
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RogueOne Thu, Jun 16, 2011 5:01:01am |
I like to tell people I was born in the middle of the Detroit riots so tipping over cars and setting them on fire is in my blood. Looking at the Vancouver pics makes me a little nostalgic and misty-eyed.
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RogueOne Thu, Jun 16, 2011 5:03:26am |
When this guy says “Stay off my lawn!” you better listen:
Ding-Dong-Ditch Shooting: Michael Bishop Of Louisville Charged With Shooting 12-Year-Old Over Prank
[Link: www.huffingtonpost.com…]
A Kentucky man has been charged with attempted murder after he shot a 12-year-old boy in the back for ringing his doorbell during a game of Ding Dong Ditch.Jason Eberle of Louisville, was playing the game, which involves someone ringing a doorbell and running away, on Monday night with friends. The New York Post reports that after the kids rang 56-year-old Michael Bishop’s bell he came out onto his porch armed with a shotgun and opened fire, hitting Eberle in the back and shoulder.
……
Eberle was hit in the shoulder and the back and suffered two collapsed lungs in the incident. He is currently being treated in hospital where his condition is described as “improving”.
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RogueOne Thu, Jun 16, 2011 5:05:49am |
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Cannadian Club Akbar Thu, Jun 16, 2011 5:06:25am |
re: #56 RogueOne
Ding-Dong- Ditch today. In a few years the kid would have been hiding body parts in a freezer. That guy did society a favor!!
///10
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RogueOne Thu, Jun 16, 2011 5:08:58am |
Aww. Two kids find love in the middle of a riot:
[Link: www.huffingtonpost.com…]
“Make love not riot” or something.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Thu, Jun 16, 2011 5:09:10am |
re: #57 RogueOne
HuffPo Vancouver Riot Photo Slideshow:
[Link: www.huffingtonpost.com…]
Look at the pretty fire
Love the one with the cop in the foreground and a couple is rolling around, making out on the street. HA!!
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freetoken Thu, Jun 16, 2011 5:10:09am |
Anthony Weiner should be glad he’s not an Adventist:
Private Recorded Conversation Prompts La Sierra Resignations
So, was it a sip of alcohol, bad mouthing fellow board members, “foul language”, or the teaching of evolution?
Should we wait for Ben Stein make a follow up movie called “Expelled - The Real Story”, eh?
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, Jun 16, 2011 5:16:06am |
re: #51 Cannadian Club Akbar
Uh… that’s “Chow-dah”.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Thu, Jun 16, 2011 5:16:34am |
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freetoken Thu, Jun 16, 2011 5:18:56am |
re: #63 Cannadian Club Akbar
The Fox Fans are chirping in quickly:
popseal Just now
The homo’ agends may be too far down the road of political correctness and nihilism to be turned back. Reprobation knows no limits.
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Sol Berdinowitz Thu, Jun 16, 2011 5:20:34am |
re: #63 Cannadian Club Akbar
Slavery was an accepted law and practice for thousands of years years until a minority pushed its agenda, and look what sort of anarchy that has led to.
/
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Cannadian Club Akbar Thu, Jun 16, 2011 5:22:10am |
re: #65 ralphieboy
Slavery was an accepted law and practice for thousands of years years until a minority pushed its agenda, and look what sort of anarchy that has led to.
/
Don’t even get me started on the water fountain thing!!
///
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, Jun 16, 2011 5:22:12am |
re: #65 ralphieboy
Wait… are we back to Canadians?
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Sol Berdinowitz Thu, Jun 16, 2011 5:24:37am |
re: #66 Cannadian Club Akbar
separate but equal, just like marriage…
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RogueOne Thu, Jun 16, 2011 5:24:40am |
If life wasn’t stupid enough, Richard Heene, the “Balloon Boy” dad, is back:
Balloon Boy Dad Richard Heene Introduces Bizarre Pickup Truck ‘Transformer’ (VIDEO)
[Link: weirdnews.aol.com…]
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Vicious Babushka Thu, Jun 16, 2011 5:26:00am |
re: #69 RogueOne
If life wasn’t stupid enough, Richard Heene, the “Balloon Boy” dad, is back:
Balloon Boy Dad Richard Heene Introduces Bizarre Pickup Truck ‘Transformer’ (VIDEO)
[Link: weirdnews.aol.com…]
Sorry, you only get one 15-minute segment.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Thu, Jun 16, 2011 5:26:47am |
re: #69 RogueOne
Being an idiot should be a violation of his probation.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, Jun 16, 2011 5:27:59am |
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RogueOne Thu, Jun 16, 2011 5:28:16am |
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Shiplord Kirel Thu, Jun 16, 2011 5:31:02am |
re: #69 RogueOne
If life wasn’t stupid enough, Richard Heene, the “Balloon Boy” dad, is back:
Balloon Boy Dad Richard Heene Introduces Bizarre Pickup Truck ‘Transformer’ (VIDEO)
[Link: weirdnews.aol.com…]
Why isn’t this jackwagon in jail?
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Sol Berdinowitz Thu, Jun 16, 2011 5:31:38am |
re: #72 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Gosh, and at first I thought there was another G8 meeting in town or something…
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RogueOne Thu, Jun 16, 2011 5:32:19am |
re: #74 Shiplord Kirel
Why isn’t this jackwagon in jail?
He did his time, which wasn’t very long. I wonder how he managed to come up with the money to pay off that fine.
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laZardo Thu, Jun 16, 2011 5:34:37am |
re: #75 ralphieboy
Gosh, and at first I thought there was another G8 meeting in town or something…
Expect the Anonymous groups to totally DDoS the Boston Bruins for helping bring about a police state over there…
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Cannadian Club Akbar Thu, Jun 16, 2011 5:37:31am |
It’s the cover-up that sinks you.
PALM HARBOR — Employees of Ozona Blue restaurant, where fire from a flaming dessert spread and injured diners Saturday, cleaned up all evidence of the accident before fire investigators arrived.
[Link: www.tampabay.com…]
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Achilles Tang Thu, Jun 16, 2011 5:46:16am |
re: #63 Cannadian Club Akbar
Football players with questionable fame are now the opinions heard on Fox.//
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Sol Berdinowitz Thu, Jun 16, 2011 5:54:28am |
re: #79 Naso Tang
Football players with questionable fame are now the opinions heard on Fox.//
as long as Fox agrees with said opinion, the source of quote is irrelevant, but it helps if there is high name recgnition.
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Obdicut Thu, Jun 16, 2011 6:26:55am |
re: #81 Thanos
It’s probably people clicking on the bit.ly link in a weird attempt to say that, by explicitly explaining how the retweet function works, Charles is somehow lying.
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Killgore Trout Thu, Jun 16, 2011 6:29:54am |
re: #81 Thanos
1 K retweets on an overnight thread?
It’s an even thousand. Maybe the counter is busted.
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darthstar Thu, Jun 16, 2011 6:31:26am |
re: #69 RogueOne
If life wasn’t stupid enough, Richard Heene, the “Balloon Boy” dad, is back:
Balloon Boy Dad Richard Heene Introduces Bizarre Pickup Truck ‘Transformer’ (VIDEO)
[Link: weirdnews.aol.com…]
I think his commercial needs more hip thrusting…I watched with the volume off, so I don’t know how crazy he sounds.
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FemNaziBitch Thu, Jun 16, 2011 6:34:58am |
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RanchTooth Thu, Jun 16, 2011 6:39:56am |
BREAKING… Weiner’s Resigning… Just saw it on TPM.
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FemNaziBitch Thu, Jun 16, 2011 6:41:12am |
re: #87 RanchTooth
BREAKING… Weiner’s Resigning… Just saw it on TPM.
What a waste of time. Why can’t people behave and let us focus on real issues—like jobs and jobs and, jobs.
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rwdflynavy Thu, Jun 16, 2011 6:41:43am |
re: #87 RanchTooth
BREAKING… Weiner’s Resigning… Just saw it on TPM.
You won’t have Weiner to beat on anymore!!
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laZardo Thu, Jun 16, 2011 6:42:45am |
re: #89 rwdflynavy
You won’t have Weiner to beat on anymore!!
Congressmen like him seem to come and go anyway.
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Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Thu, Jun 16, 2011 6:43:30am |
I have a stupid question for the Lizardoid community. I’ve been talking with a Paulian who thinks that the Fed is an “elite cabal who is holding the country hostage”. Obviously, I know it’s a bunch of twaddle, but how exactly can I explain that to him? Bonus points to someone who can also explain in simple terms why the gold standard would be bad.
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rwdflynavy Thu, Jun 16, 2011 6:44:54am |
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Interesting Times Thu, Jun 16, 2011 6:45:27am |
re: #89 rwdflynavy
You won’t have Weiner to beat on anymore!!
Heh…from a thread on a friend’s Facebook page:
- Is Congressman Weiner suffering from electoral dysfunction?
- Or if he decides to resign from office now, would that be considered a premature evacuation?
- Maybe he’ll just end up with a stiff penalty.
- sounds like his campaign is flaccid
- Then he may just go away half cocked…
- or get shafted
- He needs to make a premature departure.
- But once removed from Congress, he’ll be a fallen member.
- Pull out now, Mr. Weiner, before this situation reaches an explosive climax!
- That’s up for debate.
- I’ve heard he’s a master debater.
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FemNaziBitch Thu, Jun 16, 2011 6:46:50am |
re: #93 publicityStunted
Heh…from a thread on a friend’s Facebook page:
- Is Congressman Weiner suffering from electoral dysfunction?
- Or if he decides to resign from office now, would that be considered a premature evacuation?
- Maybe he’ll just end up with a stiff penalty.
- sounds like his campaign is flaccid
- Then he may just go away half cocked…
- or get shafted
- He needs to make a premature departure.
- But once removed from Congress, he’ll be a fallen member.
- Pull out now, Mr. Weiner, before this situation reaches an explosive climax!
- That’s up for debate.
- I’ve heard he’s a master debater.
He’ll probably go on to host a TV talk show, appear as an expert witness and write a book. He’ll be better off than before.
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rwdflynavy Thu, Jun 16, 2011 6:47:24am |
re: #91 thedopefishlives
I have a stupid question for the Lizardoid community. I’ve been talking with a Paulian who thinks that the Fed is an “elite cabal who is holding the country hostage”. Obviously, I know it’s a bunch of twaddle, but how exactly can I explain that to him? Bonus points to someone who can also explain in simple terms why the gold standard would be bad.
This ought to clear it up for him.
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darthstar Thu, Jun 16, 2011 6:47:29am |
re: #86 laZardo
Then maybe I’ll be able to add a couple gold coins to my collection.
/i collect coins. there, i said it. ;_;
//don’t judge me!
I’ve got a tin for pennies, a tin for nickels, a tin for dimes and a tin for quarters. Throw my loose change in them, and when they fill up, I go hit the coin counter at the grocery store. Sure, I lose about 9%, but it’s kind of fun all the same. Of course, having everyone at Safeway stare at you while you dump cans of coins into a metal tray is a little awkward at first, but it’s made me appreciate people who are doing that because they have to.
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Interesting Times Thu, Jun 16, 2011 6:47:36am |
re: #94 ggt
He’ll probably go on to host a TV talk show, appear as an expert witness and write a book. He’ll be better off than before.
So just long as it isn’t a pop-up.
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Political Atheist Thu, Jun 16, 2011 6:48:19am |
NYT says Weiner will quit-Breaking on TV news
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FemNaziBitch Thu, Jun 16, 2011 6:49:04am |
re: #96 darthstar
I’ve got a tin for pennies, a tin for nickels, a tin for dimes and a tin for quarters. Throw my loose change in them, and when they fill up, I go hit the coin counter at the grocery store. Sure, I lose about 9%, but it’s kind of fun all the same. Of course, having everyone at Safeway stare at you while you dump cans of coins into a metal tray is a little awkward at first, but it’s made me appreciate people who are doing that because they have to.
WE put all the change in a big box and take it to the bank in December. Nice little Christmas bonus!
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iceweasel Thu, Jun 16, 2011 6:49:10am |
Tea Party Child Indoctrination Camps
Tampa Liberty is modeled after vacation Bible schools, which use fun, hands-on activities to deliver Christian messages.One example at Liberty: Children will win hard, wrapped candies to use as currency for a store, symbolizing the gold standard. On the second day, the “banker” will issue paper money instead. Over time, students will realize their paper money buys less and less, while the candies retain their value.
“Some of the kids will fall for it,” Lukens said. “Others kids will wise up.”
Another example: Starting in an austere room where they are made to sit quietly, symbolizing Europe, the children will pass through an obstacle course to arrive at a brightly decorated party room (the New World).
Red-white-and-blue confetti will be thrown. But afterward the kids will have to clean up the confetti, learning that with freedom comes responsibility.
Still another example: Children will blow bubbles from a single container of soapy solution, and then pop each other’s bubbles with squirt guns in an arrangement that mimics socialism. They are to count how many bubbles they pop. Then they will work with individual bottles of solution and pop their own bubbles.
“What they will find out is that you can do a lot more with individual freedom,” Lukens said.
LOL.
How’s everyone today? A pretty afternoon here in Scotland!
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Political Atheist Thu, Jun 16, 2011 6:50:10am |
re: #100 iceweasel
Hello Ice, It’s all good in LA today. June gloom in the morning then fine sunshine.
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laZardo Thu, Jun 16, 2011 6:50:47am |
re: #96 darthstar
I’ve got a tin for pennies, a tin for nickels, a tin for dimes and a tin for quarters. Throw my loose change in them, and when they fill up, I go hit the coin counter at the grocery store. Sure, I lose about 9%, but it’s kind of fun all the same. Of course, having everyone at Safeway stare at you while you dump cans of coins into a metal tray is a little awkward at first, but it’s made me appreciate people who are doing that because they have to.
I bought this little MTA bus bank from the NY Subway Museum a long time back and filled it with 5- and 10-centavo coins that probably cost more to mint than the value that’s printed on them.
Of course considering that my other siblings get rid of larger bills almost as soon as they get their hands on them, I’d say my BankBus (lol) actually has value.
also, just between you and me, it’s just best to exchange your coins at a bank for no cost.
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iceweasel Thu, Jun 16, 2011 6:50:57am |
re: #101 Rightwingconspirator
Hello Ice, It’s all good in LA today. June gloom in the morning then fine sunshine.
hey RWC, good to see you! How’s DL?
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darthstar Thu, Jun 16, 2011 6:51:07am |
I’ll miss having Anthony Weiner in congress. He fought the good fight. Now could we please make this story all about Andrew Breitbart somehow? The poor bastard is feeling as ignored as Sarah Palin after Tuesday’s debate.
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FemNaziBitch Thu, Jun 16, 2011 6:51:51am |
re: #102 laZardo
I bought this little MTA bus bank from the NY Subway Museum a long time back and filled it with 5- and 10-centavo coins that probably cost more to mint than the value that’s printed on them.
Of course considering that my other siblings get rid of larger bills almost as soon as they get their hands on them, I’d say my BankBus (lol) actually has value.
also, just between you and me, it’s just best to exchange your coins at a bank for no cost.
Many banks charge also. We’ve been banking at ours for so long that they don’t.
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Political Atheist Thu, Jun 16, 2011 6:52:47am |
re: #103 iceweasel
She’s good watering Orchids here at the Worlds Smallest Greenhouse®
How is Jimmah?
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darthstar Thu, Jun 16, 2011 6:52:54am |
re: #102 laZardo
The bank wants them rolled. And I’m supporting a company that makes machines that make noise in grocery stores.
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laZardo Thu, Jun 16, 2011 6:54:12am |
re: #104 darthstar
I’ll miss having Anthony Weiner in congress. He fought the good fight.
But he just couldn’t keep it up to the end. The scandal really softened him up.
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iceweasel Thu, Jun 16, 2011 6:54:40am |
re: #106 Rightwingconspirator
She’s good watering Orchids here at the Worlds Smallest Greenhouse®
How is Jimmah?
Ooh, we love orchids!
Jimmah is great, thanks for asking. He’s working a late shift today so won’t be around til later.
Send her our best!
| 110 |
laZardo Thu, Jun 16, 2011 6:54:57am |
re: #100 iceweasel
“Some of the kids will fall for it,” Lukens said. “Others kids will wise up.”
As for the ones that just simply eat the candy instead, Lukens had no comment.
/ q;
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FemNaziBitch Thu, Jun 16, 2011 6:55:11am |
re: #107 darthstar
The bank wants them rolled. And I’m supporting a company that makes machines that make noise in grocery stores.
Which makes no sense because they just unroll them to count them anyway. Unless they have a scale.
I had one bank that only had one coin counter at one branch in my part of Chicagoland. They said the machine was so expensive, they could only justify purchasing so many and distributing them around to different branches. If it didn’t do enough business, they moved it to a different branch.
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Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Thu, Jun 16, 2011 6:56:46am |
re: #100 iceweasel
Good morning, {ice}. Things are beautiful here in the wild north country, after a spectacular summer thunderstorm late yesterday that we desperately needed. Hoping to get out and mow the yard this weekend. The Mrs. Fish and the fishspawn are doing rather well, also.
| 113 |
Obdicut Thu, Jun 16, 2011 6:57:36am |
For personal reasons, I’m kind of glad Weiner is resigning. That’ll give me a chance to work on the campaign for whoever’s replacing him in the special election.
Er, I assume there will be a special election? Or does the governor just appoint?
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iceweasel Thu, Jun 16, 2011 6:57:43am |
re: #112 thedopefishlives
Good morning, {ice}. Things are beautiful here in the wild north country, after a spectacular summer thunderstorm late yesterday that we desperately needed. Hoping to get out and mow the yard this weekend. The Mrs. Fish and the fishspawn are doing rather well, also.
That sounds lovely and domestic. Good wishes to you and your wee fishie. :)
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darthstar Thu, Jun 16, 2011 6:58:11am |
re: #113 Obdicut
For personal reasons, I’m kind of glad Weiner is resigning. That’ll give me a chance to work on the campaign for whoever’s replacing him in the special election.
Er, I assume there will be a special election? Or does the governor just appoint?
Special election for House seats. Governors appoint Senators.
| 117 |
laZardo Thu, Jun 16, 2011 6:58:59am |
| 118 |
FemNaziBitch Thu, Jun 16, 2011 6:59:01am |
| 119 |
darthstar Thu, Jun 16, 2011 6:59:15am |
Okay…7am…dog time (plus a morning full of meetings). Play nice everyone, and please, try to go easy on Weiner.
| 120 |
FemNaziBitch Thu, Jun 16, 2011 7:00:10am |
re: #119 darthstar
Okay…7am…dog time (plus a morning full of meetings). Play nice everyone, and please, try to go easy on Weiner.
it’s “easy on the Beaver” not the Weiner.
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Obdicut Thu, Jun 16, 2011 7:01:48am |
re: #116 darthstar
Special election for House seats. Governors appoint Senators.
Cool. I figure there will be some attention paid to this race and it’ll be a good chance to help out.
I still regret Weiner being a dumbass, but whatddyagonnado?
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FemNaziBitch Thu, Jun 16, 2011 7:01:55am |
| 125 |
Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Thu, Jun 16, 2011 7:02:57am |
re: #114 iceweasel
That sounds lovely and domestic. Good wishes to you and your wee fishie. :)
Domestic is pretty much the usual order these days. A man of my salary doesn’t have a lot of free spending money to do fun and/or crazy things very often. But, I’m keeping my head above water and paying the bills, so I can’t complain too much.
| 126 |
laZardo Thu, Jun 16, 2011 7:05:55am |
re: #122 Obdicut
I still regret Weiner being a dumbass, but whatddyagonnado?
Jusfugeddabadit and focus on the future, I guess.
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ReamWorks SKG Thu, Jun 16, 2011 7:16:00am |
re: #32 freetoken
Oh, I forgot…
BUY GOLD!!
I have been buying gold for years, slowly but regularly, a few ounces at a time. But when the recent gold mania started, I stopped. I haven’t purchased any since the price exceeded $1100/ounce.
Why?
I figured when Glenn Beck starts advertising it, it’s time to stop buying it. I feel confident with this logic. It’s inflated now, just like “beanie babies” were.
Of course, the product that Beck advertises is a horrible deal on top of the mania. He’s selling coins with alleged numismatic value for about 60% over spot price per ounce. You can buy Krugerrands for about 5% over spot. Only the real naive gold people will buy gold in coin form where the coins have some presumed value over the value of the metal. The twisted logic is that, because the government had an exception for historic coins when gold was confiscated in the past, these alleged rare coins would be “non-conficatable” in the future.
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ReamWorks SKG Thu, Jun 16, 2011 7:17:38am |
re: #113 Obdicut
For personal reasons, I’m kind of glad Weiner is resigning. That’ll give me a chance to work on the campaign for whoever’s replacing him in the special election.
Er, I assume there will be a special election? Or does the governor just appoint?
I hope there will be a candidate named “Cox!” He would be a shoe-in.
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laZardo Thu, Jun 16, 2011 7:19:23am |
re: #128 reuven
I figured when Glenn Beck starts advertising it, it’s time to stop buying it.
WISDOM.
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Killgore Trout Thu, Jun 16, 2011 7:21:46am |
re: #128 reuven
I have been buying gold for years, slowly but regularly, a few ounces at a time. But when the recent gold mania started, I stopped. I haven’t purchased any since the price exceeded $1100/ounce.
Why?
I figured when Glenn Beck starts advertising it, it’s time to stop buying it. I feel confident with this logic. It’s inflated now, just like “beanie babies” were.
Of course, the product that Beck advertises is a horrible deal on top of the mania. He’s selling coins with alleged numismatic value for about 60% over spot price per ounce. You can buy Krugerrands for about 5% over spot. Only the real naive gold people will buy gold in coin form where the coins have some presumed value over the value of the metal. The twisted logic is that, because the government had an exception for historic coins when gold was confiscated in the past, these alleged rare coins would be “non-conficatable” in the future.
There’s been talk of a bold bubble for a while now. It will burst eventually.
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laZardo Thu, Jun 16, 2011 7:24:44am |
re: #131 Killgore Trout
There’s been talk of a bold bubble for a while now. It will burst eventually.
QUICK GOTTA CASH IN
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Killgore Trout Thu, Jun 16, 2011 7:35:43am |
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Max Thu, Jun 16, 2011 7:36:48am |
Wow! 1000 retweets on an open thread. I never thought I’d see the day.
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Targetpractice Thu, Jun 16, 2011 7:40:39am |
Good morning, fellow lizards. What’s the good word?
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Obdicut Thu, Jun 16, 2011 7:41:53am |
re: #135 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
Good morning, fellow lizards. What’s the good word?
Labtebricolephile
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Interesting Times Thu, Jun 16, 2011 7:43:23am |
re: #135 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
Good morning, fellow lizards. What’s the good word?
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Targetpractice Thu, Jun 16, 2011 7:46:33am |
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Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Thu, Jun 16, 2011 7:48:33am |
re: #138 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
Truly a weird world we live in.
Yes, but that makes it fun. Can you imagine how boring it’d be if we didn’t have the weird and the crazy?
| 141 |
ReamWorks SKG Thu, Jun 16, 2011 7:53:59am |
My iPad tries to autocorrect littlegreenfootballs as “little red footballs.” Is Steve Jobs making a political commentary?
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, Jun 16, 2011 7:54:17am |
re: #91 thedopefishlives
When it comes to arguing with a Paulian? It helps to remember this phrase.
“A man convinced against his will; is of the same opinion, still.”
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Targetpractice Thu, Jun 16, 2011 7:56:11am |
re: #139 thedopefishlives
Yes, but that makes it fun. Can you imagine how boring it’d be if we didn’t have the weird and the crazy?
True. Without the weird and crazy, we wouldn’t have wonders like MST3K.
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Charleston Chew Thu, Jun 16, 2011 7:59:48am |
“Ever since Canada elected a white Prime Minister, white people have been out of control!”
- Bizzaro Matt Drudge
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Political Atheist Thu, Jun 16, 2011 8:06:43am |
re: #141 reuven
My iPad tries to autocorrect littlegreenfootballs as “little red footballs.” Is Steve Jobs making a political commentary?
Nah Steve reserves that sort of thing for The Tech Guy Leo Leport (?sp).
| 146 |
rwdflynavy Thu, Jun 16, 2011 8:09:44am |
re: #134 Max D. Reinhardt
Wow! 1000 retweets on an open thread. I never thought I’d see the day.
Charles continues his downward spiral into complete irrelevance. Sad really.
//
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reloadingisnotahobby Thu, Jun 16, 2011 8:12:04am |
I’m buying Titanium!!
With all the knee jerk reactionaries in this country …hip
and knee replacment will SKY ROCKET!!
/ by half.
| 148 |
Targetpractice Thu, Jun 16, 2011 8:14:18am |
re: #146 rwdflynavy
Charles continues his downward spiral into complete irrelevance. Sad really.
//
It’s getting so hard to be a brain-dead sycophant, mindlessly worshiping at his feet with each passing day.
///
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, Jun 16, 2011 8:27:10am |
re: #144 Charleston Chew
Can you hear what they’re chanting?
“We’re number two!”
Freakin’ hat dwellers.
| 150 |
Targetpractice Thu, Jun 16, 2011 8:28:16am |
re: #149 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Can you hear what they’re chanting?
“We’re number two!”
Freakin’ hat dwellers.
Don’t worry. Soon, we shall invade. And then, all their delicious maple syrup shall be ours.
Oh, and I guess we’ll help ourselves to the oil too.
///
| 151 |
Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, Jun 16, 2011 8:29:03am |
re: #148 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
“Must. Worship. The. Ponytail. All. Glory. To. Ponytail.”
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Charles Johnson Thu, Jun 16, 2011 8:30:48am |
re: #83 Killgore Trout
It’s an even thousand. Maybe the counter is busted.
I saw that when I opened LGF a few minutes ago, so I double-checked with a test program that queries the bit.ly API and shows the raw results — and that’s what it’s reporting. So nothing’s broken on this end, but I think there must be a glitch in bit.ly’s stats.
| 153 |
Charles Johnson Thu, Jun 16, 2011 8:34:55am |
Yep, here’s the bit.ly stats page, and that’s what it shows:
[Link: bitly.com…]
| 154 |
Obdicut Thu, Jun 16, 2011 8:42:15am |
re: #153 Charles
I think it’s the stalkers somehow trying to prove you lied (when you explained exactly how this works) by mass-clicking on that direct link.
Seriously.
| 155 |
Charles Johnson Thu, Jun 16, 2011 8:45:53am |
re: #154 Obdicut
I think it’s the stalkers somehow trying to prove you lied (when you explained exactly how this works) by mass-clicking on that direct link.
Seriously.
It seems to be very important to the right wing blogosphere to spread the absurd smear that I’m lying about something. My statistics, my bit.ly counts, the type of bacon I like, whatever.
It’s the way they demonstrate how irreeeeelevant I am - by obsessively monitoring everything that happens here.
| 156 |
Interesting Times Thu, Jun 16, 2011 8:46:47am |
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Obdicut Thu, Jun 16, 2011 8:51:17am |
re: #156 publicityStunted
The statistics show all the clicks on it were ‘direct’— “Email Clients, IM, AIR Apps, and Direct” so that means not from Twitter— unless there’s any Twitter-enabling AIR apps.
Whereas here you can see [Link: bitly.com…] clicks coming in from twitter.
So, what this means is that the tracker keeps track of how many people click the link, and if someone wants to intentionally distort it by hammering on that link, they can.
How this somehow works out to Charles’s detriment you’d have to ask someone crazier than I am.
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Charles Johnson Thu, Jun 16, 2011 8:55:31am |
re: #157 Obdicut
The statistics show all the clicks on it were ‘direct’— “Email Clients, IM, AIR Apps, and Direct” so that means not from Twitter— unless there’s any Twitter-enabling AIR apps.
Whereas here you can see [Link: bitly.com…] clicks coming in from twitter.
So, what this means is that the tracker keeps track of how many people click the link, and if someone wants to intentionally distort it by hammering on that link, they can.
How this somehow works out to Charles’s detriment you’d have to ask someone crazier than I am.
Hey, at least it keeps them off the street.
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Charles Johnson Thu, Jun 16, 2011 9:08:20am |
re: #157 Obdicut
By the way, Tweetdeck is an Adobe AIR app. But I think you’re probably right — they’re trying to “prove” something by running a script, or more likely, by sitting there in their mother’s basements clicking away like dumb little robots.
Just posted this in the next thread up, but roll your mouse over the Twitter counter and see what pops up.
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Obdicut Thu, Jun 16, 2011 9:10:37am |
re: #159 Charles
Hah, really? Tweetdeck is AIR? That’s hilarious; that almost certainly accounts for the vast majority of the ‘direct’ clicks on any average, non-fucked-with thread.
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Lidane Thu, Jun 16, 2011 9:20:02am |
Not to stereotype my fellow Southerners, but dear god the idiocy and ignorance of some folks kills me.
Part of my internship has me doing a lot of marketing research of country music. It’s hard to explain without breaking confidentiality, so I won’t. But I ran into this comment today while reading this article about Brad Paisley:
More anti Southern crap for Brad Paisley..against my good judgment I listened to the new album after the Michael King, Rosa Parks & race mixing praising from the last album..only to hear how my flag is offensive and just wear camo instead..in the words of Rhett Akins and more recently Blake Shelton..he can kiss my country a…
Paisley is from West Virginia, which, of course, was formed during the Civil War when the western counties seceded from Virginia to rejoin the Union. I guess this guy is still pissed about that for some reason.
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