GoGo Penguin - Hopopono
(from the album ‘v2.0’ released on Gondwana Records in March 2014)Audio - Joe Reiser and Brendan Williams
a Norvun Devolution Production
Ric Lowe & Blain Cousinhttp://gogopenguin.co.uk
http://www.gondwanarecords.com© Gondwana Records 2014
Ⓟ Gondwana Records 2014
I don’t care what anyone says, it just sounds wrong to pronounce GIF with a hard G. I’m gonna live on the edge and keep saying “JIF.”
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 25, 2016
re: #1 Charles Johnson
it is the “to-may-toe” “to-mah-toe” argument.
Saw lots of these today - and I’m glad that spike out front is not used to stick people.
They were more interested in stuff like thisSheila E: saying goodbye to Prince ‘the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do’
Since the drummer has organized all-star concerts for charity, she has been charged with organizing the public musical celebration for Prince.
Although the planning is in the preliminary stages, she’s already looking at the place in Minneapolis with the most purple seats — U.S. Bank Stadium.
It doesn’t open until July 23.
“I know that,” she said, smiling just a little bit.
I see they sold out the Metallica/Avenged Sevenfold show.
I have heard it’s supposed to be pronounced with a J, I will continue pronouncing it with a G in defiance.
It’s settled! Creator tells us how to pronounce ‘GIF’.
And he should know.
GW just started a competition where any order $85 and above gives you a chance to win $3500 worth of free merchandise.
I was just about to order something small. Looks like I’ll put it off for a week, then upgrade my order to the minimum for the contest.
re: #11 Charles Johnson
It’s settled! Creator tells us how to pronounce ‘GIF’.
And he should know.
Ha! vindicated.
re: #1 Charles Johnson
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I’ve been having to correct my kids. I tell them:
1. I was around when the format came out, and it’s been called that for nearly 30 years.
2. gif is treated as a word, and there’s an i after the g.
Ugh. I have jury duty this week. Posting will be a bit slow while I discharge my civic obligations, under pain of fines and imprisonment.
How Trump Decides Who Deserves Loyalty — And Who Gets Fired
…One of Trump’s closest friends early in his career was Roy Cohn. An infamous attorney and ex-aide to Joseph McCarthy, Cohn served as a mentor to Trump through much of the ’70s and ’80s…. Trump held up his end of the friendship as well: When Cohn was facing disbarment in the mid-’80s, Trump testified on his friend’s behalf as a character witness. For a while, according to Vanity Fair, the two men spoke ‘15 or 20 times a day.’
Then Trump found out Cohn was HIV-positive.
He moved swiftly to cut ties with his mentor, seeking out new attorneys and transferring his legal business to them. The sudden rejection stunned Cohn. Commenting on the betrayal, Cohn reportedly said, ‘Donald pisses ice water.’
‘I don’t know how he found out that Roy was HIV positive, and then it was like, boom, gone,’ recalled Susan Bell, Cohn’s longtime secretary, in an interview. ‘Which was kind of shocking because they were friends. But who knows Donald’s motives? I assume he didn’t want to associate himself with somebody tainted.’
Some words to think about pronouncing:
Jennifer (there’s only one consonant between the i and e)
Wind (it should always be short i)
Radar (since the second a starts “and” should the word be pronounced radair or raderr?)
re: #16 Charles Johnson
I went through that recently. In Philly it is one day/one trial. It was one day off from work and paid too.
re: #16 Charles Johnson
Ugh. I have jury duty this week. Posting will be a bit slow while I discharge my civic obligations, under pain of fines and imprisonment.
They won’t keep you more than a day, Charles. You’re too smart and too willing to question and think to be desirable to lawyers picking a jury.
My jury duty notice says I’m not allowed to bring a camera. Does that also apply to my iPhone? I have questions.
re: #18 Belafon
Did you wind the bandage around the wound in the wind?
re: #21 Charles Johnson
My jury duty notice says I’m not allowed to bring a camera. Does that also apply to my iPhone? I have questions.
In San Mateo County you can bring an iPhone. They will even let you browse the internet with certain exceptions but it’s kind of on the honor system-they don’t check to see what you’re looking at.
re: #16 Charles Johnson
Ugh. I have jury duty this week. Posting will be a bit slow while I discharge my civic obligations, under pain of fines and imprisonment.
If it’s a drug case, remind everyone of jury nullification. You don’t have to give a verdict of guilty just because they did it.
re: #21 Charles Johnson
My jury duty notice says I’m not allowed to bring a camera. Does that also apply to my iPhone? I have questions.
It’s an interesting question. At my son’s facility, they ban cameras and are very careful to note all of the gadgets that have them (cameras, phones, handheld game devices, etc). I seriously doubt that they have put the same consideration into the question as they have into patient privacy at his hospital.
While there, if I am in a patient space, my phone better stay in my pocket or else…
Crap. I really need to watch season 5 of GoT soon. or stay off twitter…
re: #24 sagehen
If it’s a drug case, remind everyone of jury nullification. You don’t have to give a verdict of guilty just because they did it.
That can be a bit dicey. Jurors have gotten in hot water after other jurors told the judge they talked about nullification. Some judges consider such talk contempt of court.
I’m not saying those judges are right, but its is something to be wary of.
Philadelphia has an issue with juror attendance.
Personally, I always assume ‘no cameras’ means no camera phones.
re: #18 Belafon
Some words to think about pronouncing:
Jennifer (there’s only one consonant between the i and e)
Wind (it should always be short i)
Radar (since the second a starts “and” should the word be pronounced radair or raderr?)
re: #24 sagehen
If it’s a drug case, remind everyone of jury nullification. You don’t have to give a verdict of guilty just because they did it
Might want to check this website out first…
Too little meets too late:
Cruz, Kasich coordinate in new anti-Trump effort
“To ensure that we nominate a Republican who can unify the Republican Party and win in November, our campaign will focus its time and resources in Indiana and in turn clear the path for Gov. Kasich to compete in Oregon and New Mexico, and we would hope that allies of both campaigns would follow our lead,” Cruz campaign manager Jeff Roe said in a statement.
Obviously the Ted Cruz campaign is the only thing standing between Kasich and big success in Oregon and New Mexico!
re: #28 Dark_Falcon
That can be a bit dicey. Jurors have gotten in hot water after other jurors told the judge they talked about nullification. Some judges consider such talk contempt of court.
I’m not saying those judges are right, but its is something to be wary of.
You are right about that. I disagree, but I also don’t believe in nullification on a philosophical basis: our system of the rule of law over the rule of man - that a specific set of rules is better than the whims of an easily swayed individual - depends upon the defense of that set of rules by all members of the judiciary and that includes jurors.
There needs to be a better mechanism than the all or nothing situation we currently have.
re: #29 Feline Fearless Leader
Philadelphia has an issue with juror attendance.
I think they do everywhere. My county tries really hard to make it as convenient as possible, but lets face it, it isn’t very convenient. It’s hard for people who won’t be paid if they don’t go to work (there is juror pay after the first day, but it is an insignificant amount) and if you are a doctor, or someone else with actual appointments, what do you do about your patients/customers?
Shocked, shocked I say…
Though, I am sort of surprised he was actually indicted
Johnny Manziel indicted on misdemeanor assault charge: https://t.co/Uj5bB2wk0K pic.twitter.com/mOa30zWs6N
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) April 25, 2016
re: #30 Dark_Falcon
Personally, I always assume ‘no cameras’ means no camera phones.
Since it’s hard to find a phone without a camera these days, do you really expect people to leave their phones at home?
I saw this on my FB feed, liked by my wingnut cousin. I said I was going to steal it so all my friends on a Lefty Blog could have a big laugh at their expense.
So, have at it!
Let’s Have A Pity Party! 1…2..3…Aw!re: #35 calochortus
I think they do everywhere. My county tries really hard to make it as convenient as possible, but lets face it, it isn’t very convenient. It’s hard for people who won’t be paid if they don’t go to work (there is juror pay after the first day, but it is an insignificant amount) and if you are a doctor, or someone else with actual appointments, what do you do about your patients/customers?
I saw another article on the same subject that had some actual numbers. The court needs about 80,000 jurors per year. And they send out ~550,000 summons. And they get no response at all on 175,000 of those. (Which are the ones the scofflaw court was supposedly following up on.) And the difference is made up from those who request and get exempted due to hardship.
And, interesting enough, I just got a summons in the mail today.
re: #37 calochortus
Since it’s hard to find a phone without a camera these days, do you really expect people to leave their phones at home?
I don’t apply my assumption to anyone other than myself. I don’t criticize how others may interpret such rules, I just make a conservative interpretation I know will keep me out of hot water.
re: #21 Charles Johnson
My jury duty notice says I’m not allowed to bring a camera. Does that also apply to my iPhone? I have questions.
You can bring your phone. Just couldn’t pull it out while in court. Even if you are sitting there doing nothing.
re: #40 Dark_Falcon
I don’t apply my assumption to anyone other than myself. I don’t criticize how others may interpret such rules, I just make a conservative interpretation I know will keep me out of hot water.
Whatever works for you.
re: #26 Sophist, Premature Anti-Trumpist
JIF ain’t no picture. JIF is a peanut butter.
And windows aren’t things you see through, they’re an operating system.
This mass murder in Ohio is weird.
Sheriff to Rhoden family: arm yourselves protect your family
— Brad Underwood (@BUnderwoodWKRC) April 24, 2016
re: #26 Sophist, Premature Anti-Trumpist
JIF ain’t no picture. JIF is a peanut butter.
Guess I’ll go to the Zoo and see the ghiraffes.
re: #30 Dark_Falcon
When the original Windows CE-based smartphones came out, HTC usually made one with a camera and one without.
Today? Fuhgetaboutit. Even low-end flip and candybar phones have lame-ass cameras on ‘em. You’d stand a better chance of the lions at the University of Chicago coming to life when a virgin graduates.
re: #38 Blind Frog Belly White
I saw this on my FB feed, liked by my wingnut cousin. I said I was going to steal it so all my friends on a Lefty Blog could have a big laugh at their expense.
So, have at it!
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I don’t know about your cousin, but I make enough money that I get no break from my mortgage interest, so I’m supporting a whole lot of people with my taxes that think they’re paying too much.
re: #46 Eric The Fruit Bat
When the original Windows CE-based smartphones came out, HTC usually made one with a camera and one without.
Today? Fuhgetaboutit. Even low-end flip and candybar phones have lame-ass cameras on ‘em. You’d stand a better chance of the lions at the University of Chicago coming to life when a virgin graduates.
+1 for the local reference.
re: #44 Backwoods_Sleuth
This mass murder in Ohio is weird.
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I don’t normally agree with wingnuts but I’d be tempted to in this case. Too weird and sad a case, especially since we have utterly no clue what the real motive is.
re: #47 Belafon
I don’t know about your cousin, but I make enough money that I get no break from my mortgage interest, so I’m supporting a whole lot of people with my taxes that think they’re paying too much.
And frankly, most of the people sharing this meme haven’t seen their tax rates go up in > a decade. But they JUST KNOW that Obama raised their taxes.
re: #49 William Lewis
I don’t normally agree with wingnuts but I’d be tempted to in this case. Too weird and sad a case, especially since we have utterly no clue what the real motive is.
Sometimes arming oneself is the proper response, but it requires the threat to be real and the person taking on the responsibility to be able and willing to act responsibly.
re: #49 William Lewis
I don’t normally agree with wingnuts but I’d be tempted to in this case. Too weird and sad a case, especially since we have utterly no clue what the real motive is.
Update: marijuana grow operations found three of the crime scenes. More than 100 interviews conducted. pic.twitter.com/OHINfdJtcb
— Brad Underwood (@BUnderwoodWKRC) April 24, 2016
grow operations at three of the crime scenes is a pretty good indication for motive.
I can tell you that around this area, given this particular incident, we’re probably not talking a handful or even a hundred plants.
re: #52 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m guessing illegal business partnership that went south.
re: #48 Dark_Falcon
+1 for the local reference.
I lived in Chicagoland for over 10 years, so I picked up on most of the cultural references/jokes.
re: #52 Backwoods_Sleuth
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grow operations at three of the crime scenes is a pretty good indication for motive.
I can tell you that around this area, given this particular incident, we’re probably not talking a handful or even a hundred plants.
So this is a major operation. Well, then someone may have made some very lethal enemies. Were any of the attacks carried out at the same time or nearly so?
I thought I had purged my Twitter feed of aggrieved Bernie fans, but turns out I was wrong. The slow motion tantrum that has been underway since New York is going to be picking up steam Tuesday night, better get them out of my feed before I see more nonsense like this:
re: #51 Dark_Falcon
Sometimes arming oneself is the proper response, but it requires the threat to be real and the person taking on the responsibility to be able and willing to act responsibly.
16 years in Uncle Sam’s green agrees with you, DF. Problem is that very few of the wingnuts I’ve known can do more than talk about personal responsibility but can’t actually do it. That’s why I don’t like agreeing with a wingnuts knee jerk response.
I really wish we had 100% conscription at times like this…
re: #55 Dark_Falcon
So this is a major operation. Well, then someone may have made some very lethal enemies. Were any of the attacks carried out at the same time or nearly so?
It is my impression that they were. They also killed all the potential witnesses but spared an infant and a couple toddlers, IIRC.
re: #56 bratwurst
The great thing about this is we can now totally ignore Sanders walk-back on not being able to sue the NRA. You can never apologize for your past.
re: #56 bratwurst
Did you get a screen cap?
re: #57 William Lewis
16 years in Uncle Sam’s green agrees with you, DF. Problem is that very few of the wingnuts I’ve known can do more than talk about personal responsibility but can’t actually do it. That’s why I don’t like agreeing with a wingnuts knee jerk response.
I really wish we had 100% conscription at times like this…
Impossible, though. The cost of military weapons and logistics is simply too high to have a military that large.
re: #16 Charles Johnson
Just twitch and talk to yourself a lot and you’ll be back on here the same day.
re: #52 Backwoods_Sleuth
I can tell you that around this area, given this particular incident, we’re probably not talking a handful or even a hundred plants.
First two houses are within walking distance. The third about a mile away. The fourth, 10 minutes from others
— Brad Underwood (@BUnderwoodWKRC) April 22, 2016
re: #60 Belafon
It’s gone.
That’s still this bit of insanity:
@_AJBasso One more loon meets the Block Button. That the loon is a Packers fan makes it somewhat sweet. Go Bears! #Blocked
— Kurt Akemann (@Dark_Falcon7) April 25, 2016
Apparently in Mr. Basso’s case the ‘Bern’ he is feeling is Napalm-Grade Burning Stupid.
As for the football bit, that was just required for a Bears fan when dealing with a particularly stupid Cheesehead. No offense, William.
@Green_Footballs It’s written “GIF”, but it’s pronounced “Throat Warbler Mangrove”.
— mattand (@mattand) April 25, 2016
re: #61 Eclectic Cyborg
Did you get a screen cap?
For better or worse, I did:
That is the late Senator Robert Byrd who was associated with the Klan in the 1940s. He denounced the KKK starting in the 1950s, and for the rest of his life. The second pic is a photoshop.
re: #67 bratwurst
For better or worse, I did:
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That is the late Senator Robert Byrd who was associated with the Klan in the 1940s, and denounced the KKK starting in the 1950s and for the rest of his life. The second pic is a photoshop.
The photoshop represents a Moronic Convergence, since the “Robert Byrd-KKK-Hurr hurr hurr!1” meme is usually propagated by wingnuts.
re: #68 Dark_Falcon
The photoshop represents a Moronic Convergence, since the “Robert Byrd-KKK-Hurr hurr hurr!1” meme is usually propagated by wingnuts.
It was a regular feature of Democrat bashing here on LGF even when I joined in 2009.
It was dishonest then. Coming from supposed Democrats now it is worse than dishonest.
I’ve found jury duty to be a quintessentially American, damn near Norman Rockwell kind of experience. But that isn’t the jury duty experience I want to tell you about.
An actress I knew was of a certain age and type that she got only a few small character roles for herself, but she made an excellent living as an acting coach for much bigger names. The same week that she was coaching one of these big names for a movie shooting location in New York, she was called for federal jury duty. She phoned to tell the clerk that she couldn’t make it because of the movie and was told in no uncertain terms that she had to appear. She fretted and decided that she would skip the first day regardless. She did, and the next morning had a nasty call from the clerk’s office explaining the consequences of nonappearance. But she went to work on the movie anyway.
She continued to do this for the remainder of the week, exchanging daily conversations with the clerk of court’s office that became increasingly dire. The term of her jury call expired at the end of the week, but she worried continually about what might happen to her, ranging from some sort of heavy fine to outright arrest.
About three weeks later a serious-looking letter with a Justice Department seal showed up in her mailbox. It scared her so much that it took her two days to open it. It contained a check for her jury duty service.
I was listening to one of the Welcome to Night Vale episodes, and one of the characters was voiced by Molly Quinn, who plays the daughter on Castle. My son told me that Wil Wheaton has done a character.
re: #70 whitebeach
I’ve found jury duty to be a quintessentially American, damn near Norman Rockwell kind of experience. But that isn’t the jury duty experience I want to tell you about.
An actress I knew was of a certain age and type that she got only a few small character roles for herself, but she made an excellent living as an acting coach for much bigger names. The same week that she was coaching one of these big names for a movie shooting location in New York, she was called for federal jury duty. She phoned to tell the clerk that she couldn’t make it because of the movie and was told in no uncertain terms that she had to appear. She fretted and decided that she would skip the first day regardless. She did, and the next morning had a nasty call from the clerk’s office explaining the consequences of nonappearance. But she went to work on the movie anyway.
She continued to do this for the remainder of the week, exchanging daily conversations with the clerk of court’s office that became increasingly dire. The term of her jury call expired at the end of the week, but she worried continually about what might happen to her, ranging from some sort of heavy fine to outright arrest.
About three weeks later a serious-looking letter with a Justice Department seal showed up in her mailbox. It scared her so much that it took her two days to open it. It contained a check for her jury duty service.
Your government at work.
re: #62 Dark_Falcon
Impossible, though. The cost of military weapons and logistics is simply too high to have a military that large.
Ah, but we don’t need 100% in the army. Vista, Peace Corps, and other such things can use 2 years of citizens giving back to what raised them up. Perhaps a reborn CCC? The military, in the long run should get the smallest chunk of the kids in every year. Perhaps the best and the brightest so that in a generation the leaders will keep us out of that waste?
re: #71 Belafon
I was listening to one of the Welcome to Night Vale episodes, and one of the characters was voiced by Molly Quinn, who plays the daughter on Castle. My son told me that Wil Wheaton has done a character.
All hail the glow cloud.
just spotted on FB and too good not to share…
re: #73 William Lewis
Ah, but we don’t need 100% in the army. Vista, Peace Corps, and other such things can use 2 years of citizens giving back to what raised them up. Perhaps a reborn CCC? The military, in the long run should get the smallest chunk of the kids in every year. Perhaps the best and the brightest so that in a generation the leaders will keep us out of that waste?
Still wouldn’t be viable, since many of today’s middile and upper-class parents would be aghast at the idea of of their Special Snowflakes “owing service”. And the civilian agencies would suffer serious negative effects from helicopter parenting and only the military could use the social equivalent of Stingers.
re: #77 Dark_Falcon
Yes, I’ll never forget when I finally heard all the lyrics to “You are my sunshine”.
re: #76 Dark_Falcon
Still wouldn’t be viable, since many of today’s middile and upper-class parents would be aghast at the idea of of their Special Snowflakes “owing service”. And the civilian agencies would suffer serious negative effects from helicopter parenting and only the military could use the social equivalent of Stingers.
I believe in America and Americans more than that, DF. Your comments remind me of the fantasies that lead the paper hanger to his greatest mistake on December 11, 1941.
re: #1 Charles Johnson
Old bulletin board tagline: “Choosy perverts choose GIF!”
re: #79 William Lewis
I believe in America and Americans more than that, DF. Your comments remind me of the fantasies that lead the paper hanger to his greatest mistake on December 11, 1941.
I was raised with the notion that for a well-functioning society, there are rights and freedoms as well as duties and obligations, which are inexorably interlinked.
Call me old-fashioned…
Also I’ve got to share this photo I got of Max the other day. He is remarkably gentle natured but he looks so badass here:
Guard cat on duty. You have been WARNED.re: #79 William Lewis
I believe in America and Americans more than that, DF. Your comments remind me of the fantasies that lead the paper hanger to his greatest mistake on December 11, 1941.
You’ve got more faith than I do, William Lewis…
re: #81 Teukka
I was raised with the notion that for a well-functioning society, there are rights and freedoms as well as duties and obligations, which are inexorably interlinked.
Call me old-fashioned…
Perhaps we should flip Heinlien’s idea. Make it possible to opt out of citizenship and it’s obligations rather than making it opt in? Hmm…
One of our neighbors some years ago was a county judge. Overheard someone ask him at a BBQ what would happen if they didn’t show up for jury duty. His answer: nothing. Since summons aren’t sent via certified mail it couldn’t be proven that the summons were ever received. I only used that bit of info once when I ignored a summons that requested my presence in the middle of a summer field course that my grad students had paid for and there was no one who could cover. Since I had shown up 3 times in the previous 3 years I felt not a single twinge of guilt.
the podcast that only reviews TV shows that lasted one season or less! Every week, your hosts William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold will guide you through television’s strangest missteps, and decide once and for all if they were… canceled too soon!
William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold celebrate their first episode by reviewing a show that only lasted one episode: POOCHINSKI, starring Peter Boyle as a Chicago cop who is reincarnated as an animatronic talking bulldog.
Could POOCHINSKI possibly be as bad as it sounds? Bibbs and Witney try to decode this craziness and pitch ideas for future episodes as CANCELED TOO SOON, the podcast about TV shows that were canceled too soon, begins.
re: #86 Kragar
a Chicago cop who is reincarnated as an animatronic talking bulldog.
Nope, no pitfalls there at all…
Civics has been dead for decades. People don’t know how shit works, like voting actually makes a difference, party primaries aren’t free-for-alls, etc.
re: #84 William Lewis
Perhaps we should flip Heinlien’s idea. Make it possible to opt out of citizenship and it’s obligations rather than making it opt in? Hmm…
What would happen to the rights and freedoms of those who opt out?
That’s one advantage to my NOT being a citizen yet. No jury duty for me! :D
When I was in Canada I only ever got called once and was excused on the first day. I guess I’ve been lucky.
re: #87 Eclectic Cyborg
Nope, no pitfalls there at all…
Come on, it’d be fun. Especially, the unseen episode with a flashback where Poochinski’s uncle, who was also a cop, is shown paling around with John Burge while they beat a confession out of robbery suspect who Poochinski later learns was innocent. Or the one one where, as a bulldog, Poochinski is ordered to go bite hippy protestors of the 2012 NATO summit because “Hippies smell bad and they challenge our authority!”.
Sorry, but the Chicago Police Department deserves a small bit of sour grapes.
re: #83 Dark_Falcon
You’ve got more faith than I do, William Lewis…
I did my time as someone who would supposedly avoid it at all costs. I gave speeches at peace rallies while in high school and expected President Reagan to start WWIII before I left Europe. Yet I still volunteered. Remember that someday.
I knew damn good officers who called themselves the token leftists.
The military and/or patriotism has never been only a right wing endeavor, sir.
It’s took all us to win WWII.
Why should today be any different?
Wow, just announced that Lyin’ Ted and Kasich are going to collude in order to keep me from getting the Republican nomination. DESPERATION!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 25, 2016
Lyin’ Ted and Kasich are mathematically dead and totally desperate. Their donors & special interest groups are not happy with them. Sad!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 25, 2016
re: #89 Teukka
What would happen to the rights and freedoms of those who opt out?
There is where the “hmm” comes in alas.
A bigoted loon who delights in the misfortune of others. Presidential! https://t.co/nAuxbwE11J @realDonaldTrump @nytimes
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 25, 2016
re: #96 Kragar
Poochinksi had a trailer
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I think they meant ‘Not Cancelled Soon Enough”
re: #96 Kragar
Complete with “Axel F” knockoff music.
Wow…what kind of TV executive looked at that and thought: “Yep, this will get us some ratings!”?
re: #96 Kragar
Poochinksi had a trailer
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Stupid thing involving Chicago? Thanks, Obama!
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re: #96 Kragar
Poochinksi had a trailer
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GUNNER!
BEEHIVE!
UNDEAD IN THE OPEN!
FIRE FOR EFFECT!
(and pray you have enough of those flechette rounds to ensure that the it never rises again…)
re: #102 William Lewis
GUNNER!
BEEHIVE!
UNDEAD IN THE OPEN!
FIRE FOR EFFECT!
(and pray you have enough of those flechette rounds to ensure that the it never rises again…)
ON THE WAY!
Good night all.
I’m at 30+ hours on today so good night.
I suppose the Cruz/Kasich deal is smart, but I wonder if being so public about it is smart as opposed to coordinating behind the scenes.
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) April 25, 2016
re: #86 Kragar
Is there a companion podcast called “Too Damned Long” for shows that would not go down unless you put a bullet in their heads?
re: #6 Eric The Fruit Bat
Sheila E: saying goodbye to Prince ‘the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do’
I see they sold out the Metallica/Avenged Sevenfold show.
I don’t know how she can do it. Hell, I have been teetering between tearing up and celebrating for days now. Playing his music and wondering WTF man, just WTF.
I know I will be fine and get on with things, but what a gift we have lost.
re: #104 sagehen
Firefly.
Almost Human with Karl Urban and Michael Ealy. Fox should be disallowed from ever doing SciFi again.
re: #108 blueraven
I heard her interviewed on radio for a long time, and she held it together. Strong.
re: #109 MsJ
Almost Human with Karl Urban and Michael Ealy. Fox should be disallowed from ever doing SciFi again.
Fox is where good scifi ideas go to die. The execs keep greenlighting series, then shitcanning them just as they’re picking up speed to promote mindnumbing shlock like American Idol and other “reality” shows.
re: #109 MsJ
Almost Human with Karl Urban and Michael Ealy. Fox should be disallowed from ever doing SciFi again.
YES. And they did the same shit to Almost Human that they did to Firefly. They showed episodes out of order. Ugh.
I liked that show, but Fox screwed the pooch. Again.
re: #11 Charles Johnson
It’s settled! Creator tells us how to pronounce ‘GIF’.
And he should know.
Linguistic note here.
G before i or e (and rarely, y) is generally pronounced with a “je” sound. (See what I did there?)
G before a, o, or u is generally pronounced with a hard glottal “ge” sound.
So GIF should be pronounced “jif” even though the first letter stands for “graphic.” We’re treating the acronym like a word. JPEG, unfortunately, is hard to pronounce without sounding out the first letter: “JAY-peg” not “juh-PEG.” And I have no idea about PNG.
Why does g have a dual personality? Blame the French, who brought their orthography and language to Britain in 1066. Before the Normans landed, nearly every “g” word in Old English had a hard (glottal) g.
French uses u as a guide for pronunciation. For example, “guide” (from Fr. guider) has that extra, silent u to remind the speaker to say “ge” and not “je,” as in “gigue” or “genre.”
IIRC, Latin always had a hard “ge”, but it got softened (palatized) when Latin morphed into French. Meanwhile, the Spanish pronounce the u in “guardia” as a “wuh,” but not in words like “querer” (to love, to want).
OK, language lesson done.
re: #31 calochortus
Some of my Chinese students have learned (incorrectly) in middle school that the “gh” in “daughter” should be sounded, like a “ge”: “dogter,” which sounds a lot like “doctor.” Drives me nuts. I have to correct them again and again, but it’s a bad habit they learned early on, and old habits are hard to unlearn.*
Likewise, some students try to pronounce the “g” in “foreign,” which sounds like they’ve something stuck in their throat.
Five hundred years or more years ago, the “gh” was pronounced, but like a hard “g.” it was the “throat-clearing” sound like Scots “loch” or German “nicht.”
Cruz’s campaign manager just issued a direct instruction to their supporting Super PACs. No other way to describe that statement.
— Putain Démocratique (@goddamnedfrank) April 25, 2016
Game of Thrones is back. Woo-hoo!
re: #116 goddamnedfrank
This isn’t even covert signaling, they’re conspicuously addressing a choreographed & illegal coordination game plan to their Super PACs.
— Putain Démocratique (@goddamnedfrank) April 25, 2016
I mean, they apparently felt that clearly stating the joint intent of the two campaigns to collude w/ each other wasn’t goddamned enough.
— Putain Démocratique (@goddamnedfrank) April 25, 2016
Heartwarming tale: a Greek grandmother, who fled the Nazis in WWII, opens her home to five Syrian refugees.
“She is like our mother. We love her so much. She treats us like her children,” he says, refusing to talk about the life he left behind because “tears will fall when I think of the family and friends who have died”.
As he heads off to buy some food, Majid kisses Panagiota on top of her head.
A present past
Some neighbours have disapproved of her generosity, fearing an influx of people with extremist views. But Panagiota knows the horrors her guests have been going through.
“Today they are refugees but we were also refugees in the past,” she says.
She supports her new family on a meagre government pension.
For all potential California jurors:
re: #45 Blind Frog Belly White
Guess I’ll go to the Zoo and see the ghiraffes.
I’d love to come along, but I have to buy my brother a birthday jift.
Different headline writers are framing the election in Austria in different lights:
A US community outlet running the AP story uses “Law-and-order”:
Austrian law-and-order presidential candidate wins 1st round
The Irish Independent running a Reuters article uses “anti-migrant”:
Anti-migrant far-right in Austria set to win presidential landslide
DailyCaller runs up the flagpole “Gun-toting immigration foe”:
Gun-Toting Immigration Foe Wins Austrian Presidential Vote
Me, I’ll just call him Drumpfskindmögen.
re: #122 Sophist, Premature Anti-Trumpist
I’d love to come along, but I have to buy my brother a birthday jift.
Spanish solves the problem with “giraffe” with “jirafa” — no confusing “g” to muck things up. The French use the soft “je” sound, which in English became more like “j.”
Merriam-Webster and Wiki say the word comes from Arabic “zarafa.”
re: #119 goddamnedfrank
Yes, but the PACs weren’t given handwritten invitations to a formal tea with cucumber and watercress sandwiches with no crusts, so it isn’t collusion.
re: #11 Charles Johnson
It’s settled! Creator tells us how to pronounce ‘GIF’.
And he should know.
While informative, the coiner of a word is not the determiner of pronunciation, and English being what it is, a highly bastardizable language, I think we can pronounce “GIF” pretty much anyway that makes sense.
I have used both the hard and soft “g” sounds.
However, when it comes to “Giga-” as in “gigabyte” I always use a hard g.
re: #126 freetoken
While informative, the coiner of a word is not the determiner of pronunciation, and English being what it is, a highly bastardizable language, I think we can pronounce “GIF” pretty much anyway that makes sense.
I have used both the hard and soft “g” sounds.
However, when it comes to “Giga-” as in “gigabyte” I always use a hard g.
Doc Brown’s pronunciation, notwithstanding.
re: #1 Charles Johnson
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My German friends still refer to my guitar as a “Jibson Ess-Gay”
When this was taken women weren’t allowed to own credit cards,take birth control,or serve jury duty #FlashbackFriday pic.twitter.com/xkSaqM1b3b
— Men4Hillary (@HillarysMen) April 22, 2016
The object of baseball is to go home and to be safe. I’m happy to report I’m safe at home. I spend way too much time in my car for one goddamned band. Or do I? Two more Umphrey’s McGee shows will go down next weekend in Vegas, including a show on my birthday. Ullr help me.
This was an especially deep cover they played in Dallas last night.
-> Walk the Proud Land #umphreys
— Umphrey’s McGee (@umphreysmcgee) April 24, 2016
This is an endearing and hilarious story about new centenarian Don Waful. His grandson Jefferson is the lighting designer for Umphrey’s McGee.
“You ever hear the rock group today called ‘Umphrey’s McGee’?” https://t.co/0JOblGIH3J
— jeffersonwaful (@jeffersonwaful) April 23, 2016
The @SyracuseChiefs throw a 100th birthday party for former team president Don Waful https://t.co/N0n0z07laG pic.twitter.com/h7X4KOiCWd
Waful has long been disdainful of the rock and rap tunes typically played at ballparks. He prefers the big band sound, and the Chiefs honored him by sprinkling that genre in on Friday.
“It’s about time,” Waful said. “One, two, one two three. I can’t stand (rock). You ever hear the rock group today called ‘Umphrey’s McGee?’ My grandson is their light man. Makes a lot of money flashing lights on the wall when they play. I don’t know what that’s got to do with music. It’s got nothing to do with music. I said, I’ll have dinner with you (his grandson), but I ain’t going to hear any of that so-called music of yours.
“The Glenn Miller Band is orchestra is still playing. You could get your machine (computer), and it will tell you where they are playing tonight. Ghost bands, we call them. They (the original members) are all dead.”
re: #131 teleskiguy
This is an endearing and hilarious story about new centenarian Don Waful. His grandson Jefferson is the lighting designer for Umphrey’s McGee.
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Get off my infield, punk!!!
The discussions here at LGF this weekend covered many diverse topics.
Every time I checked I struggled to catch back up. Thanks goes to everyone for their insights and information.
I mentioned the Gallipoli Campaign the other day while talking about Winston Churchill, today is the 101st anniversary of the start of the ground campaign.
This quote is a good example of why the left has to be clear about acknowledging perceived and actual threats. Trump can say, “Stop all Muslims” and some people hear, “He really just means stop the Jihadists and Islamists.” When the left says, “Trump is crazy and a racist”, some people hear, “The left does not recognize the threat and is leaving the door open to Jihadists and Islamists.”
I took one photo with my iPhone of The #umphreys this weekend.
Why have I been traveling through Oklahoma and Texas the last few days? These fuckin’ guys. #umphreys pic.twitter.com/3a6ENTu0lT
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) April 24, 2016
re: #134 Timothy Watson
Some push back on Anzac Day commercialization.
The doughnut is filled with golden syrup custard and topped with an Anzac biscuit and was being sold exclusively on Sunday 24 April.
‘To celebrate ANZAC Day tomorrow, we’ve created a special ANZAC Cookie Doughnut available exclusively today,’ the brand wrote on Instagram.
‘The anzacs did not f***ing die for this,’ Twitter user Dan Nolan said in response to a picture of the doughnuts.
‘#ANZAC’s fought and died so that food porn could be a hashtag. Sickening,’ another user Jazzy wrote.
re: #135 Ming5000
*struggling to suppress insane laughter*
I’m certain the media will help clarify the issue.
*unceremonious guffawing*
Aloysha,
The #umphreys played in Australia six years ago. 15 original tunes and two covers (Reelin’ In The Years and The Song Remains The Same).
I would chase that damn band to Australia right now. I’ve never been to Australia…
re: #139 teleskiguy
Aloysha,
The #umphreys played in Australia six years ago. 15 original tunes and two covers (Reelin’ In The Years and The Song Remains The Same).
I would chase that damn band to Australia right now. I’ve never been to Australia…
I don’t know how our skiing spots compare to the States but if UMcG were touring here in winter, I’d have to ask what more excuse you would need? ;)
re: #104 sagehen
Stopped caring so much for Firefly when it became a political meme. Mostly for libertarians. I remember being exorciated for deconstructing this pic.
Captain Mal fanboy picture“You don’t know me, son…” Okay. We’ve established that the person in the picture and the person he’s talking to are strangers.
“…so let me explain this to you once:” The person in the picture is very aggressive, bordering on asshole in my opinion.
“If I ever kill you,” Wait! What? The people involved in the conversation live in a place where one trying to kill the other is a likely outcome of their interaction? Remind me to stay away from there.
“you’ll be awake. You’ll be facing me and you’ll be armed.” Now this is just stupid. If a relationship between me and another person has degenerated to the point where one of us is going to die I am not going to settle it with a quick draw contest. I will end it in a matter most fatal to them and safest for me.
Did I get screamed at for that. One of the anarchists, I mean libertarians, told me in a very butthurt tone, “You really don’t understand Firefly.”
Good times. But I’ve not cared much for Firefly ever since. Still prefer Babylon 5.
re: #142 Romantic Heretic
There, they’re, their.
Win one for the Giffer!
(Actually, I mentally pronounce it ‘jif’; I don’t think I’ve ever had occasion to say it out loud, though.)
re: #144 Barefoot Grin
Win one for the Giffer!
(Actually, I mentally pronounce it ‘jif’; I don’t think I’ve ever had occasion to say it out loud, though.)
There seem to be some words I read frequently but never say out loud.
I remember once when I was around 21 I tried to say “conspicuous” and is came out more like “conspissious”. I did not know that I said it wrong until my roommates gently and humanely informed me otherwise.
re: #145 Ming5000
There seem to be some words I read frequently but never say out loud.
I remember once when I was around 21 I tried to say “conspicuous” and is came out more like “conspissious”. I did not know that I said it wrong until my roommates gently and humanely informed me otherwise.
“C” generally follows the same rule as “g”, like I mentioned above.
“c” before a, o or u sounds like “k”, usually.
“c” before e, i or y sounds like “s”, usually.
Roughly the same as in French or Spanish, especially with words with Latin roots.
Bloomberg is reporting that Gannett is trying to take over Tribune Publishing , owners of the Chicago Tribune and the LA Times, among others. If Gannett succeeds, watch for the quality of all those papers to decline: staff reductions, more ad copy, less locally originated editorial copy, and more wire and Gannett syndicated copy. It’s the pattern of every Gannett acquisition that I know of.
Trib Publishing has so far resisted take over efforts.
re: #56 bratwurst
I thought I had purged my Twitter feed of aggrieved Bernie fans, but turns out I was wrong. The slow motion tantrum that has been underway since New York is going to be picking up steam Tuesday night, better get them out of my feed before I see more nonsense like this:
Ah, the ol’ guilt by association trick. Two can play at that game:
Jane Sanders visits Sheriff Joe(But seriously this shit is so petty and dumb.)
re: #1 Charles Johnson
I find it weird pronouncing it the other way around. But that might be a difference of language.
Should the u in scuba be short since it stands for underwater?
re: #62 Dark_Falcon
Impossible, though. The cost of military weapons and logistics is simply too high to have a military that large.
You don’t have everyone on active duty all the time. Everyone goes through basic and does a year or two of some sort of national guard type work (our infrastructure is so shit I have no doubt there’s more than enough work to go around), and then they go into some sort of reserve status.
3 federal agents injured during shootout at Kansas motel: https://t.co/yjaRd6v5Lr (Photos: WIBW/CBS) pic.twitter.com/jZ6i6KkPej
— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) April 25, 2016
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Authorities found a body in a Kansas hotel room that erupted in flames during a shootout in which three federal agents were injured while trying to arrest a robbery suspect, the FBI said Sunday.
The FBI said in a release that two deputy U.S. marshals and an FBI agent who were part of a U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive task force, suffered non-life-threatening injuries Saturday night when they came under fire while trying to arrest 28-year-old Orlando J. Collins at a Topeka hotel.
The suspect, who was being sought on a federal robbery warrant, was also on the state’s most wanted list and was considered armed and dangerous, the FBI said.
As the officers approached the hotel room they came under fire from inside the room, the FBI said. During the gunfire, a fire broke out in the room where authorities later found a body.
“An unidentified body was located within the hotel room where Collins was believed to be,” the FBI release said. The agency did not immediately identify the body or say whether Collins was arrested.
re: #150 Belafon
Should the u in scuba be short since it stands for underwater?
Then it would rhyme with “Bubba”
re: #37 calochortus
Since it’s hard to find a phone without a camera these days, do you really expect people to leave their phones at home?
The rules are all over the place, depending on the court, who is involved, etc.
Jurors who are seated for a trial might not be allowed their phones, but those waiting to be called might be allowed to use them in the waiting areas. Visitors might or might not be allowed use of phones. Same for lawyers and clients.
re: #155 lawhawk
The rules are all over the place, depending on the court, who is involved, etc.
Jurors who are seated for a trial might not be allowed their phones, but those waiting to be called might be allowed to use them in the waiting areas. Visitors might or might not be allowed use of phones. Same for lawyers and clients.
Yes, and thanks to the wonders of iPhones and the Internet, every “private” social function is now a potentially public one.
Over the weekend, there were two mass shootings, which didn’t get nearly the coverage one might come to expect (or actually, it got the coverage it deserves since it comes as frequently as they do).
In one instance 8 people were murdered in Ohio, and it may have been drug related execution style murders. No word on who did it, number of suspects, or anything else.
In the other, 5 were killed by a gunman who then took his own life.
Both of these states have very lax gun laws. Didn’t help any of those killed. There were no good guys with guns to save any of them. And in the Ohio shootings, the gunmen are still on the loose.
re: #125 The Ghost of a Flea
Yes, but the PACs weren’t given handwritten invitations to a formal tea with cucumber and watercress sandwiches with no crusts, so it isn’t collusion.
Basically. Colbert did a bit, when he was running for the President of the United States of South Carolina and had a superPAC for same, where he, with the guidance of a lawyer, skated right up to the edge of what was legal. He did what they are doing now, and more, and it was all legal.
The rules against collusion are a bad joke.
Tomorrow is another batch of primaries, including big delegate count state PA. MD, CT. DE, and RI are also in play tomorrow.
Right now, it looks like Trump and Clinton will win those states handily.
Bernie needs to win by at least 17 points in every one of those states. He’s down by nearly that amount in PA and by even more in MD. Once again, Bernie fans will some how spin that their movement has momentum even though reality shows that they’re getting trounced yet again.
Bernie doesn’t lead in any category: total votes, delegates, or superdelegates. There’s no reason for supers to change their allegiances ahead of the convention since Hillary is crushing it on the delegate count and total votes. Of course, his supporters think that pounding on the table will work wonders. Yet that’s the refuge of those who don’t have anything else in their favor.
Tomorrow will reinforce that fact (which simply has been in place since Super Tuesday).
re: #158 Sophist, Premature Anti-Trumpist
Basically. Colbert did a bit, when he was running for the President of the United States of South Carolina and had a superPAC for same, where he, with the guidance of a lawyer, skated right up to the edge of what was legal. He did what they are doing now, and more, and it was all legal.
The rules
against collusionon campaign finance are a bad joke.
re: #135 Ming5000
When the left says, “Trump is crazy and a racist”, some people hear, “The left does not recognize the threat and is leaving the door open to Jihadists and Islamists.”
Those people aren’t amenable to reasonable persuasion anyway, so why bother adjusting your language? It won’t help, will it?
Fuck em.
Nobody in the media about how DT has never held public office and is completely unqualified for the position he is campaigning for. Because that is boring to talk about. Let’s talk about how he is crazy, thuggish or misogynistic, which is a lot more entertaining.
Are we seeing a picture here?
City of Cleveland to pay $6 million to Tamir Rice’s family to settle lawsuit - https://t.co/OHM5yCkTNW https://t.co/vu8wERvAfW
— Breaking News (@BreakingNews) April 25, 2016
$6 million. But no criminal charges against the cops who murdered Rice; the grand jury declined to bring charges.
That’s despite the video showing Rice doing nothing other than playing in a park and cops riding right up to Rice and within moments gunning Rice down without so much as assessing the scene. No one could possibly have survived that encounter the way the cops played it. No one would have a chance to react and respond to cops directions when they opened fire the moment they left the car.
re: #157 lawhawk
Sad indeed. Been trying to figure out how to Page poll this audience of specific gun control measures. But not sure about the best structure, still playing around with the questions.
This is also one of the reasons to legalize the whole cannabis supply chain. Right now growing is very dodgy, so they deal cash, which the bad guys figure out fast and the rest is as to be expected. This in between legal status is great for consumers and dangerous for workers.
Legalize to get the cash into bank accounts and do biz with wire transfers etc as a wholesaler. Also looking to get government inspection of products and manufacturing facilities like food and other consumables. Hopefully before a contaminated product hurts anyone.
re: #162 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Nobody in the media about how DT has never held public office and is completely unqualified for the position he is campaigning for. Because that is boring to talk about. Let’s talk about how he is crazy, thuggish or misogynistic, which is a lot more entertaining.
Are we seeing a picture here?
The media has their narratives and they’ll stick to them. Trump supporters don’t care that he’s unqualified for the presidency. They don’t care that he’s a misogynist, xenophobe, bully, and ignorant about how government works. They like what they hear in the snippets he gives. They don’t care that he quote-tweets white supremacists and Neo Nazis all the time.
That he isn’t a politician is all that matters to them.
He’s going to capitalize on Cruz and Kasich teaming up, though their individual efforts haven’t exactly gotten results either. In the end, that wont matter as Trump gets the nomination and the anti-Trump faction has to choose between him and Clinton.
re: #164 Great White Snark
Legalize to get the cash into bank accounts and do biz with wire transfers etc as a wholesaler. Also looking to get government inspection of products and manufacturing facilities like food and other consumables. Hopefully before a contaminated product hurts anyone.
Anyone here remember the Paraquat scare of the late 70’s?
re: #163 lawhawk
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$6 million. But no criminal charges against the cops who murdered Rice; the grand jury declined to bring charges.
That’s despite the video showing Rice doing nothing other than playing in a park and cops riding right up to Rice and within moments gunning Rice down without so much as assessing the scene. No one could possibly have survived that encounter the way the cops played it. No one would have a chance to react and respond to cops directions when they opened fire the moment they left the car.
At $6M apiece, I guess black lives do matter.
One would think someone would point out to the deficit hawks/budget obsessives that even if they don’t care about basic human decency or respect for minority lives, maybe letting cops kill unarmed black people for no good reason is also a cash flow problem.
re: #166 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Anyone here remember the Paraquat scare of the late 70’s?
I vaguely remember the ’70s.
re: #167 sagehen
At $6M apiece, I guess black lives do matter.
One would think someone would point out to the deficit hawks/budget obsessives that even if they don’t care about basic human decency or respect for minority lives, maybe letting cops kill unarmed black people for no good reason is also a cash flow problem.
It is worth it for the argument that these people are willing to let their own children get killed just to get free stuff
re: #168 Barefoot Grin
I vaguely remember the ’70s.
I remember that part of the 70’s, because the US government was paying Central American governments to spray their marijuana crops with Paraquat, a herbicide that caused permanent lung damage if smoked.
It was the same argument they used for denaturing all forms of alcohol during Prohibition: so what if you go blind, you are breaking the law!!!
re: #167 sagehen
Naw, because the towns/cities that pay these out will simply tax the same communities to raise the funds to pay off these settlements.
We saw this with the Greater STL region, where minorities live in communities that impose all kinds of societal costs on residents - funding the justice system with onerous taxes, fees, and policing that is designed to raise revenues, not maintain actual justice or safety.
STL isn’t alone with these problems.
Missouri is spending $8.3 million to block Planned Parenthood from receiving about $400k in federal funds https://t.co/e1drx0WFRH
— Reid Wilson (@ConsultReid) April 25, 2016
Makes sense. //
re: #170 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
I remember that part of the 70’s, because the US government was paying Central American governments to spray their marijuana crops with Paraquat, a herbicide that caused permanent lung damage if smoked.
It was the same argument they used for denaturing all forms of alcohol during Prohibition: so what if you go blind, you are breaking the law!!!
Yes, that caused us a bit of a scare. We were pretty sure (ha!) that our product was coming from Colombia, so we decided not to worry too much about the Paraquat. I was young, invincible, and railed against stems and seeds.
re: #172 Jenner7
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All is fair in the restriction of women’s rights.
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And this is why people like Cruz, and Kasich, and, really, Trump, are the ones who will destroy this country.
me in real life pic.twitter.com/S5ATQX8zTV
— Me in real life (@MeInRealLife_) April 25, 2016
I have read Twitter’s annual report, and found no references to Chuck C. Johnson as a potential problem to Twitter’s continued existence. In fact, no references to Chuck C. Johnson at all.
I am led to conclude Twitter gives not one shit about Chuck C. Johnson.
re: #175 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Negative ROI. Very business Republican-like.
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But we are at war! A war against evil!
Those who have different opinions are all pussies and don’t understand that wars cost.
re: #178 Romantic Heretic
But we are at war! A war against evil!
Those who have different opinions are all pussies and don’t understand that wars cost.
It’s a war against Satan, who has an unlimited budget and a deep bench of demons and Fausts ready to do his bidding.
re: #104 sagehen
Firefly.
I was sooooooo sad when they axed Firefly. I have my numbered limited edition Serenity (with the exposable interior) model sitting in amongst all my various models and collectables. Thank you Mrs. Lapin for being understanding of my foibles.
re: #111 Kragar
Farscape
And, the movie that they made to try to tie up the loose ends did not satisfy.
re: #163 lawhawk
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$6 million. But no criminal charges against the cops who murdered Rice; the grand jury declined to bring charges.
That’s despite the video showing Rice doing nothing other than playing in a park and cops riding right up to Rice and within moments gunning Rice down without so much as assessing the scene. No one could possibly have survived that encounter the way the cops played it. No one would have a chance to react and respond to cops directions when they opened fire the moment they left the car.
Just awful.
re: #180 Le Lapin Tueur
I was sooooooo sad when they axed Firefly. I have my numbered limited edition Serenity (with the exposable interior) model sitting in amongst all my various models and collectables. Thank you Mrs. Lapin for being understanding of my foibles.
Minority Report was a more recent one-season SF series that died an ignoble death. They couldn’t quite decide if it was a police procedural, a foreshadowing of a dystopic future, or an emotional conflict show with three characters with varying degrees of loyalty to humanity. The projected tech was not bad, though.
When bad things happen to good humvees.
During military exercises in Germany, the US conducted airdrops of equipment including a bunch of Humvees.
It didn’t go as planned. At least 3 of the Humvees were airdropped and their parachutes failed in some fashion. One of those three look like they completely fell off their drop pad.
Righteous rant from Driftglass!
re: #186 plansbandc
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Cool stuff, but embedded gifs shouldn’t autoplay, no matter how you pronounce them.
re: #170 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
I remember that part of the 70’s, because the US government was paying Central American governments to spray their marijuana crops with Paraquat, a herbicide that caused permanent lung damage if smoked.
It was the same argument they used for denaturing all forms of alcohol during Prohibition: so what if you go blind, you are breaking the law!!!
Same thing with Percocet and Darvocet, etc. They add acetaminophen to Percodan or Darvon so it’ll destroy your liver if you abuse it.
(With the risk that that damn crap will destroy your liver any fucking way—how it got approved I’ll never know.)
re: #187 withak
Cool stuff, but gifs shouldn’t autoplay, no matter how you pronounce them.
Autoplay is a sign that Satan has seized control of your computer
I hadn’t had a chance to show this earlier, but several months ago, I was able to create an empire on Europa Universalis IV that in essence shows off the areas where I come from ancestrally, where my family lived in the US before the 1970s.
Ancestral AreasThe US map is slightly inaccurate. The Colony acted independently, and took half of Connecticut and a small chunk of Virginia. The Thirteen Colonies represent most of the area, with the nearby dark reds being areas under colonization. Also, I had to colonize Bermuda, to colonize the mainland.
re: #189 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Autoplay is a sign that
SatanYouTube has seized control of your computer
FTFY. I’ve been officially told there’s no damn way to make it stop autoplaying.
re: #154 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Then it would rhyme with “Bubba”
Redneck Scubare: #190 Ziggy_TARDIS
Whoops, wrong picture for the second.
Actual MapThe only difference is the Thirteen Colonies took over Chicago and bit more of Virginia.
re: #191 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
FTFY. I’ve been officially told there’s no damn way to make it stop autoplaying.
I just clicked through to imgur and it doesn’t look like there’s a way to disable their embeds from autoplaying, either. Good job, guys.
re: #166 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Anyone here remember the Paraquat scare of the late 70’s?
Quite well surprisingly enough.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster is real!
Idolomantis diabolica. Such a cool insect! pic.twitter.com/hnjig7rREj
— Animal Life (@MeetAnimals) April 25, 2016
Idolomantis diabolica, commonly known as the devil’s flower mantis or giant devil’s flower mantis, is one of the largest species of praying mantis, possibly the largest that mimics flowers.
re: #197 Backwoods_Sleuth
Who knew H. R. Giger helped out Mother Nature during the design process?
Bugnuts is bugnutting:
#SaveTheNRA #RecallGroverNorquist You MUST vote before May 1st. Download the ballot here: https://t.co/tNheiFMnnf
— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) April 25, 2016
Watch for the creeping sharia, infiltrating everything up to the NRA.
Yeah, this is a guy who reaches millions of people daily with this asshattery.
Rank Islamophobia and xenophobia. And it sells. Of course, it’s all nuts, but Beck doesn’t care. He’s got his agenda to think of (and his pocketbook).
Well, here I am in the jury assembly room with the other good civic-minded citizens.
re: #203 Charles Johnson
Well, here I am in the jury assembly room with the other good civic-minded citizens.
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re: #204 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
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(pronounced “jilty”)
re: #205 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
(pronounced “jilty”)
Shouldn’t it be pronounced gwilty?
re: #203 Charles Johnson
Well, here I am in the jury assembly room with the other good civic-minded citizens.
We, the jury, find the defendant not guilcup.
Interesting - the imgur animated GIFs don’t autoplay on an iPhone.
You can stop them by right clicking, then choosing “Show Controls.”
re: #203 Charles Johnson
Well, here I am in the jury assembly room with the other good civic-minded citizens.
Careful now that cell phone in court thing has become a local news item. I have served twice, but have gotten lucky in the pool and got cut loose several times. Got bounced from criminal to civil both times. Yawners.
Super salad? I’ll take the soup.
Try the soupre: #203 Charles Johnson
Well, here I am in the jury assembly room with the other good civic-minded citizens.
I don’t get the majority opinion to want to skirt jury duty. I don’t regret for one minute my service on a jury this past summer. It was the most civic thing I’ve ever and probably will ever do.
On my computer, you just need to right click and uncheck “Loop”. Still a pita, but what are you gonna do?
re: #203 Charles Johnson
Well, here I am in the jury assembly room with the other good civic-minded citizens.
Stare intensely at one person the whole time.
re: #216 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
gust a jijolo
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re: #208 Charles Johnson
Interesting - the imgur animated GIFs don’t autoplay on an iPhone.
You can stop them by right clicking, then choosing “Show Controls.”
Thanks. I’m guessing the autoplay-on-desktop is by design. Imgur is a great image host but they kinda dropped the ball on this one.
I love Robert Reich’s short explanation videos covering topics in economics in simple language and with humorous drawings. And I generally agree with him on stuff. And during the campaign so far, he’s generally taken the high road, highlighting what he thinks is so great about Bernie.
Now he’s just getting pissy, as the inevitability of defeat settles on him. He’s done a series of posts this morning, kind of equating Clinton and Trump.
I can’t wait for the Primary season to be over.
re: #188 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Same thing with Percocet and Darvocet, etc. They add acetaminophen to Percodan or Darvon so it’ll destroy your liver if you abuse it.
(With the risk that that damn crap will destroy your liver any fucking way—how it got approved I’ll never know.)
If you feel the need to abuse these, throw the tabs in cold water, mix, and decant the liquid. The acetominphen is pretty insoluble low temps and the opiods are quite soluble. Better living through chemistry.
re: #157 lawhawk
Over the weekend, there were two mass shootings, which didn’t get nearly the coverage one might come to expect (or actually, it got the coverage it deserves since it comes as frequently as they do).
In one instance 8 people were murdered in Ohio, and it may have been drug related execution style murders. No word on who did it, number of suspects, or anything else.
In the other, 5 were killed by a gunman who then took his own life.
Both of these states have very lax gun laws. Didn’t help any of those killed. There were no good guys with guns to save any of them. And in the Ohio shootings, the gunmen are still on the loose.
Lawhawk…maybe the east coast didn’t have a lot of coverage of the Ohio family killed, but I sure couldn’t watch or read any Columbus/Ohio media that didn’t cover it! Backwoods and I put up quite a bit here at LGF. There actually was a lot of national coverage on the bigger news shows.
Now about guns in Ohio….yes this state is lax. One thing though, I bet those families had guns. Most rural Ohio folks do, especially in that part of the state. And if they were pot producers I bet they were plenty armed. But it didn’t matter if they did.
A buddy and I were talking about it last night. I think there are a lot of folks in that part of the state that grow pot. The economic depression almost demands it.
The fact that the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation was brought in might be a signal that the local sheriff knew what was going on with the family ‘business.’ I’ve heard stories of local law enforcement looking the other way with pot growers because they know those people have very little means.
One more reason the whole damn country should legalize it so it could be a means of economic benefit to poorer areas of our country that could have another crop to produce.
re: #166 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Anyone here remember the Paraquat scare of the late 70’s?
Raises hand. I was in art college at the time. It was big news among the student body. It didn’t really stop anyone from partying. If I remember correctly, many thought it was a big scare tactic to get everyone to stop smoking. Yeah…if so it didn’t work.
re: #221 ObserverArt
Pot is an unbelievably huge business in these parts.
(Not a joke that it’s the # 1 cash crop in Kentucky!)
And the danger in the business is as bad as the cartels in some respects.
re: #191 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
FTFY. I’ve been officially told there’s no damn way to make it stop autoplaying.
I may be repeating, but up thread when Charles first got them loading someone mentioned you can right click on the image, then select show controls which allows you to shut them off. But, only until the thread gets refreshed and they all start again.
I’m betting Charles figures out a way to get them to post without autoplay and you need to select play. It should be an Internet Law that nothing is autoplay…not even ads. Dammit!!!
re: #188 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
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re: #224 ObserverArt
I may be repeating, but up thread when Charles first got them loading someone mentioned you can right click on the image, then select show controls which allows you to shut them off. But, only until the thread gets refreshed and they all start again.
I’m betting Charles figures out a way to get them to post without autoplay and you need to select play. It should be an Internet Law that nothing is autoplay…not even ads. Dammit!!!
Embedded YouTubes apparently don’t autoplay, but there’s no way to stop them from autoplaying when you go to the actual YouTube page. I found a Firefox extension that will keep them from playing, but they still buffer, which is the whole problem anyway.
re: #225 retired cynic
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re: #220 Le Lapin Tueur
If you feel the need to abuse these, throw the tabs in cold water, mix, and decant the liquid. The acetominphen is pretty insoluble low temps and the opiods are quite soluble. Better living through chemistry.
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re: #219 Blind Frog Belly White
I love Robert Reich’s short explanation videos covering topics in economics in simple language and with humorous drawings. And I generally agree with him on stuff. And during the campaign so far, he’s generally taken the high road, highlighting what he thinks is so great about Bernie.
Now he’s just getting pissy, as the inevitability of defeat settles on him. He’s done a series of posts this morning, kind of equating Clinton and Trump.
I can’t wait for the Primary season to be over.
He was on MSNBC a week or so ago with Chris Hayes and they had him discussing Bernie’s plans with Barney Frank. Barney was getting pretty heated over Reich’s Bernie Bro act. It changed my opinion of Reich quite a bit. Sure he knows his economics, but I was surprised at his political naivete.
Frank basically told him what Bernie wants is the same as what Dodd-Frank does. Only it isn’t exactly Glass-Steagall and it doesn’t get labelled as “Breaking Up the Banks” which sounds good to the Bernie supporters. Frank did say if the banks reach a dangerous level of investment Dodd-Frank does cause the bank to be cut up into smaller banks.
re: #223 Backwoods_Sleuth
Pot is an unbelievably huge business in these parts.
(Not a joke that it’s the # 1 cash crop in Kentucky!)
And the danger in the business is as bad as the cartels in some respects.
I know that both Vinton and Meigs counties have many summer crops. It would not surprise me if there wasn’t a lot of indoor growing going on too. I’ve heard stories of large setups in old coal mines too. Out of sight.
When the story about the Ohio folks first broke and I saw the overhead shots and noticed the properties had some large out buildings. I thought they might have some activity going on in them right from the start.
re: #230 ObserverArt
I know that both Vinton and Meigs counties have many summer crops. It would not surprise me if there wasn’t a lot of indoor growing going on too. I’ve heard stories of large setups in old coal mines too. Out of sight.
When the story about the Ohio folks first broke and I saw the overhead shots and noticed the properties had some large out buildings. I thought they might have some activity going on in them right from the start.
Last night the sheriff said there were something like 38 LE searching the woods around the properties also.
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