June 06, 2010
— Gabriel Malor Not worth full blown posts, but probably worthy of comment:
Charlie Rangel accuses the President of fighting Dick Cheney's dirty wars. The ethics-challenged representative for NY-15 has (so far) four challengers in his bid for reelection.
BP says the "top hat" is collecting around 10,000 barrels per day and hopes to increase that with a second procedure this week. The estimated flow is 12,000 to 19,000 barrels per day, so that's pretty darn successful.
Fifteen years later, a mother finds her kidnapped kids on Facebook. This is an awful story. The ex-husband kidnapper faces charges and the kids don't want anything to do with the mother who is, after all, a complete stranger.
Afghanistan's first "peace assembly", state-sanctioned and with delegates from around the country, has determined that the best course of action to end the war is to reach out to the Taliban. Obama's "off ramp" deadline for Afghanistan looms.
Classy dame Sandra Bullock makes first appearance since divorce news to accept Troops Choice Award for Entertainer of the Year. To standing ovation, she jokes: "I would do it over again if it was to entertain our troops , and our extraordinary troops deserve something much more than some actress in a tight dress talking about herself." I bet the tight dress doesn't hurt, though.
Glenn Reynolds writes about the higher education bubble. Story of my life.
The UK avoided a public inquiry into the 7/7 bombings because it would upset Muslims. Best end of civilization ever. Really, five stars.
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Posted by: Zimriel at June 06, 2010 12:40 PM (3ICWW)
Posted by: nevergiveup at June 06, 2010 12:42 PM (U5btG)
Source not credible. I imagine that number will be adjusted at some point to reflect a better truth. Kinda like employment numbers from Team Obama that trumpet optimistic numbers initially and then ignore (with MFM collusion) the real numbers that come out later with no fanfare.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at June 06, 2010 12:43 PM (swuwV)
Posted by: Z Ryan at June 06, 2010 12:43 PM (cMo6P)
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Neck Beard at June 06, 2010 12:45 PM (wOtDN)
Agreed...except in the bedroom apparently
So we know how she would have voted on the tinkle poll, huh?
Posted by: laceyunderalls at June 06, 2010 12:46 PM (PWH/i)
Not at all. I just prefer them trashy on the street as well.
Posted by: Delta Smelt at June 06, 2010 04:43 PM (0pYSi)
Okay, now I am confused, because I thought you were a chick. No?
Posted by: Peaches at June 06, 2010 12:46 PM (fwW9R)
Seems to be quite a few variations on the theme going around. Who made Muslims so special?
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at June 06, 2010 12:46 PM (swuwV)
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Neck Beard at June 06, 2010 12:48 PM (wOtDN)
I'm not gonna just stop mid-stream.
Posted by: Z Ryan at June 06, 2010 12:48 PM (cMo6P)
I'm not gonna just stop mid-stream.
Posted by: Z Ryan at June 06, 2010 04:48 PM (cMo6P)
heh, I saw what you did there.
Posted by: Blazer at June 06, 2010 12:49 PM (t72+4)
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Neck Beard at June 06, 2010 12:51 PM (wOtDN)
Posted by: Z Ryan at June 06, 2010 12:51 PM (cMo6P)
Glenn Reynolds writes about the higher education bubble. Story of my life.
So Gabe -- that means you're a Eastern Kentucky alumnus. Which, BTW, explains a lot.
Posted by: Ed Anger at June 06, 2010 12:51 PM (7+pP9)
The top U.S. students will go to schools that guarantee full tuition or be on a combination of scholarships and private support to fund their degrees. The rest of tuition will be picked up by either federal funds (if the Obamatroids maintain power) or by foreign students. The fact of the matter is that there are plenty of wealthy parents in Asia who will send their kids to U.S. colleges and universities and pay full freight to do so.
So what you will see is a widening gap between the elite colleges and the community colleges. The middle will dry up, which is sad, but a degree from the University of Chicago or Stanford will still be worth a lot.
Posted by: Y-not at June 06, 2010 12:51 PM (Kn9r7)
because I thought you were a chick
Heh!
Like party affiliation, do we need to put -G -B or -F -M next to our names to avoid this ??
Posted by: laceyunderalls at June 06, 2010 12:52 PM (PWH/i)
Posted by: Z Ryan at June 06, 2010 12:53 PM (cMo6P)
Posted by: Z Ryan at June 06, 2010 12:54 PM (cMo6P)
How far the UK has fallen in just over a hundred years (while muslims haven't changed one iota). Winston Churchill, The River War, 1899:
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries.
Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.
The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen; all know how to die; but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science (the science against which it had vainly struggled) the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.Churchill would be utterly disgusted at the suicidal path the West is taking.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at June 06, 2010 12:54 PM (Qp4DT)
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Neck Beard (BGFM) at June 06, 2010 12:54 PM (wOtDN)
Posted by: Peaches at June 06, 2010 12:55 PM (fwW9R)
"I would do it over again if it was to entertain our troops , and our extraordinary troops deserve something much more than some actress in a tight dress talking about herself."
I love that. What an awesome chick.
Posted by: rdbrewer at June 06, 2010 12:56 PM (eUS3n)
Where the European elites (aristocratic academics & multi-generational politicians) are major anti-Semites and:
Muslims = the anti-Jews
The elites gave Muslims special protected status to do the dirty work for them.
Posted by: Blue Falcon in Boston at June 06, 2010 12:57 PM (ijjAe)
{trying again}
Lacey, that is precisely why I made the move from using my initials quite a while back. I'm so fuckin' ornery and hateful everybody kept thinking I was a dude. Not so much, since I went with "Peaches."
Posted by: Peaches at June 06, 2010 12:57 PM (fwW9R)
Hello, IRS ? Yea, remember when I said lay off of ol' Charlie because he was one of us?
Yea, forget about it.
*click*
Rahm, get me Nancy on the phone. Maybe its time we did a real ethics inquiry this time instead of the dog and pony show we did last time.
Posted by: Barack Obama at June 06, 2010 12:57 PM (t72+4)
Posted by: Benson at June 06, 2010 12:58 PM (qzcNU)
Posted by: Jane at June 06, 2010 01:01 PM (txvi6)
Posted by: Y-not at June 06, 2010 04:51 PM (Kn9r7)
It's not a bubble, but government interference in college tuition and textbooks has made those prices which rise faster than inflation every single year (often far outpacing inflation) with less being purchased for more with each passing day.
I get a real kick out of the fact that e-books charge about the same price as regular textbooks did, which has to be one of the most insane things I've ever heard of in my life. An e-book should never cost more than a couple of dollars, but they can charge $70 for a few megs of info because the government is really the purchaser, for the most part.
As to the schools, themselves, Hah-vahd deserves to be burned to the ground. I am hoping that there is soon a major backlash against Hah-vahd scum. Bright people go to Hah-vahd, but the school sees its mission more in certifying inept losers (for affirmative action purposes) than in maintaining any sort of intellectual integrity and it is more likely than not that a Hah-vahd grad is an incompetent affirmative action creation than anyone with a brain, these days.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at June 06, 2010 01:01 PM (Qp4DT)
Posted by: K at June 06, 2010 01:02 PM (bfcmA)
Posted by: rdbrewer at June 06, 2010 01:03 PM (eUS3n)
Posted by: K at June 06, 2010 01:03 PM (bfcmA)
Posted by: nevergiveup at June 06, 2010 01:03 PM (U5btG)
The UK are also the super-geniuses who decided to call jihadist bombings "anti-islamic bombings" because they reasoned that the jihadists are besmirching the good name of islam.
The UK is toast. I hope they go quietly ... though that is highly unlikely.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at June 06, 2010 01:04 PM (Qp4DT)
Posted by: Extreemism in the Pursuit at June 06, 2010 01:05 PM (YPjyl)
When the mother contacted the kids, they didn't want anything to do with her, because the father kidnapper had filled their heads with poisonous crap about her. Heartbreaking.
Posted by: Peaches at June 06, 2010 01:05 PM (fwW9R)
There's probably some truth to that.
I know they aren't spending it on salaries, though. Grad students get nothing and postdocs, who do most of the work in science, get next to nothing. Most places pay 9 mos salaries for faculty, as if a professor, particularly a research professor, takes the summer off.
Administrators are underpaid as well.
I'm not sure where the money goes.
Posted by: Y-not at June 06, 2010 01:05 PM (Kn9r7)
39 Not likely. Hearst is staying silent and other members of the press corp says it presents a bad precedent to can her for stating her opinion--leave it up to Hearst they say. Bullshit.
44 If I see it happening, I shame them to their face.
Posted by: laceyunderalls at June 06, 2010 01:06 PM (PWH/i)
I'll add a Byte/bite...
Obama not only golfs while our coastline gets ruined, but apparently, according to a story on Drudge, is now in league with whale killers.
The whaling ban was supported by Ronald Reagan btw.
Posted by: Delta Smelt at June 06, 2010 01:08 PM (0pYSi)
Hearst is staying silent and other members of the press corp says it presents a bad precedent to can her for stating her opinion--leave it up to Hearst they say.
Unless someone like Hume, Stossel, or Garret says it. In that case, bring out the long knives!
Posted by: The Dumbfuck Press at June 06, 2010 01:08 PM (eUS3n)
Except you never know if it's a heart condition or something else not visible to the naked eye. Handicapped is not necessarily synonymous with "crip."
Posted by: Peaches at June 06, 2010 01:08 PM (fwW9R)
39 Not likely. Hearst is staying silent and other members of the press corp says it presents a bad precedent to can her for stating her opinion--leave it up to Hearst they say. Bullshit.
44 If I see it happening, I shame them to their face.
Posted by: laceyunderalls at June 06, 2010 05:06 PM (PWH/i)
Of course, however if this were someone on the right they would be shrieking from the highest mountaintops demanding their head on a platter. Helen Thomas just got caught saying what most liberals think and post on lefty blogs every day.
Posted by: Blazer at June 06, 2010 01:09 PM (t72+4)
Posted by: eman at June 06, 2010 01:09 PM (QVpWo)
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Neck Beard (BGFM) at June 06, 2010 01:09 PM (wOtDN)
Yeah, that whaling ban thing. What a fight not to get into! Jeezus. Even I support that.
Posted by: rdbrewer at June 06, 2010 01:10 PM (eUS3n)
Posted by: Z Ryan at June 06, 2010 01:10 PM (cMo6P)
Posted by: laceyunderalls at June 06, 2010 01:10 PM (PWH/i)
Thanks for letting me know. I'll keep that in mind next time that fucker goes swimming in Hawaii.
Posted by: Orca at June 06, 2010 01:11 PM (t72+4)
Of course, however if this were someone on the right they would be shrieking from the highest mountaintops demanding their head on a platter.
Beat ya! Ha ha ha ha
Posted by: rdbrewer at June 06, 2010 01:11 PM (eUS3n)
Posted by: laceyunderalls at June 06, 2010 01:12 PM (PWH/i)
Oh, sorry, lacey. I just assumed you meant the misuse of the handicap placard itself. Which is rampant and despicable.
Posted by: Peaches at June 06, 2010 01:13 PM (fwW9R)
Posted by: Z Ryan at June 06, 2010 01:14 PM (cMo6P)
Posted by: Unclefacts, AoSHQ Professional Debate Team at June 06, 2010 01:14 PM (erIg9)
Posted by: Y-not at June 06, 2010 05:05 PM (Kn9r7)
Schools are relieved of many costs and can add to their endowments (though many endowments got destroyed in the wake of the credit crisis) and much of the money goes to kickbacks on construction projects the schools run. Lots of kickbacks for overpriced services of all sorts.
The textbook money, of course, goes right to the publishing companies - with some kickbacks to schools and administrators who shill for them with academia.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at June 06, 2010 01:16 PM (Qp4DT)
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Neck Beard (BGFM) at June 06, 2010 01:16 PM (wOtDN)
Posted by: Z Nic Cage at June 06, 2010 01:16 PM (cMo6P)
Could not agree more. Unless you are in a wheelchair, in which case you might need a bigger parking spot that than "compact" shit they make us all squeeze into. But, if you're in a wheelchair, why do you need to be 5 feet from the door, it's not like you're gonna tucker yourself out covering the distance.
Posted by: Peaches the horrible at June 06, 2010 01:18 PM (fwW9R)
Posted by: M. Moore at June 06, 2010 01:19 PM (U5btG)
Why? No really, why do you think that?
"News bites" is a metaphor describing news stories as small and quickly disposed of, as a bite compares to a whole meal. "News bytes" is a pun, a homonym that extends the term "news bites" to electronic media.
I didn't use "news bytes" because it's a bit too precious. Also, entirely overdone. This isn't 1995, after all.
Posted by: Gabriel Malor at June 06, 2010 01:21 PM (1TvCg)
Reverse the sexes and you've just described the profitable industry that is federally-standardized family law in the US.
Posted by: Ten at June 06, 2010 01:21 PM (iJVSn)
Posted by: nevergiveup at June 06, 2010 01:22 PM (U5btG)
Posted by: Gabriel Malor at June 06, 2010 01:24 PM (1TvCg)
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Neck Beard (BGFM) at June 06, 2010 01:25 PM (wOtDN)
How the the whales mate?
Posted by: Z
Nic Cage at June 06, 2010 05:16 PM (cMo6P)
Fuck do I care? Get their fat fuckin asses in the brine nao!
Posted by: Unclefacts, AoSHQ Professional Debate Team at June 06, 2010 01:25 PM (erIg9)
Mr. Y-not and I have worked in higher ed for two and a half decades at various institutions, public and private, most of our friends over the years have worked in higher ed administration, and I have never heard of (or even suspected) a kick back on any capital project.
I do not understand why costs keep rising in higher ed, but I suspect that if you tracked when the boom construction times were for colleges and universities you'd find that there is a lot of aging infrastructure out there that is being replaced now. Science buildings and even teaching buildings are much more expensive to build or even rehab now than they were a couple of decades ago. Although most places will use private funds for those projects, they rarely (I actually only know of one specific example) raise funds to endow the costs of maintaining those building projects. Plus, it's quite difficult to raise money for things like parking lots and HVAC systems.
I really don't think you need to invoke nefarious causes like kickbacks to explain the increases in tuition. I think it's more to do with your first point, that the government interference is enough to support inflationary trends, similar to what you see with insurance and medical costs.
Posted by: Y-not at June 06, 2010 01:26 PM (Kn9r7)
Posted by: moi at June 06, 2010 01:26 PM (Ez4Ql)
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Neck Beard (BGFM) at June 06, 2010 01:29 PM (wOtDN)
Posted by: Janet Reno at June 06, 2010 05:28 PM (0pYSi)
yeah like a bad case of the runs
Posted by: Unclefacts, AoSHQ Professional Debate Team at June 06, 2010 01:29 PM (erIg9)
Posted by: AmishDude at June 06, 2010 01:29 PM (dvs04)
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Neck Beard (BGFM) at June 06, 2010 01:30 PM (wOtDN)
Speaking of whom... more awesomeness from my Gov.
Posted by: Gran at June 06, 2010 01:30 PM (kmmbv)
Posted by: Senate Majority Leader Dole at June 06, 2010 01:31 PM (0pYSi)
because I thought you were a chick
Heh!
Like party affiliation, do we need to put -G -B or -F -M next to our names to avoid this ??
Posted by: laceyunderalls at June 06, 2010 04:52 PM (PWH/i)
Yeah and all that other LGBTQS drivel too. We can be like Myspace!
Posted by: Typical Duplicious DemocRAT at June 06, 2010 01:33 PM (E4XYl)
Posted by: Y-not at June 06, 2010 05:26 PM (Kn9r7)
I wasn't blaming the kickbacks and such for the rising tuition costs (far outpacing anything sensible) but only offering them as an explanation for where the wasted money is going. Clearly, tuition rate rises are directly caused by the government interference.
Schools have also wasted a lot of the money on creating worthless departments that should not even exist.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at June 06, 2010 01:34 PM (Qp4DT)
Posted by: nevergiveup at June 06, 2010 01:35 PM (U5btG)
We made it to American soil, so things are back to normal.
I mean, come on, Canada, I have a great connection here in Anchorage. Come join us in the 21st Century, already.
Posted by: Editor at June 06, 2010 01:36 PM (l9/w9)
I like when they make it so clear and simple. This crotch is private property, so government get off!
Posted by: Z Ryan at June 06, 2010 01:36 PM (cMo6P)
No, what they do is point to expenses they were planning on making anyway, such as lab renovations, or use privately funded expenses like endowed professorships to show "matching" for large proposals (of course $500K is chicken feed; even I had a $1.2 grant as a junior faculty member) and even then those sorts of things are not routine. Mr. Y-not was in sponsored programs before his current role - cost sharing is not that big a factor. It's mostly an illusion.
Posted by: Y-not at June 06, 2010 01:36 PM (Kn9r7)
fify
Posted by: Peaches at June 06, 2010 01:36 PM (fwW9R)
@nevergiveup
Yup. Agreed. So Was HW Bush. Both left something to be desired as politicians though.
Posted by: Delta Smelt at June 06, 2010 01:39 PM (0pYSi)
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at June 06, 2010 01:39 PM (c0A3e)
I see over at Newsbusters Kos is now engaged in all out war with Mickey Kaus.
Sweet, Kaus is gonna tear him a new asshole.
Posted by: Blazer at June 06, 2010 01:39 PM (t72+4)
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Neck Beard (BGFM) at June 06, 2010 01:39 PM (wOtDN)
Posted by: nevergiveup at June 06, 2010 01:42 PM (U5btG)
Frau just got back home from her uncle's funeral in Texas. She brought me a refrigerator magnet in the shape of TX, with a little pistol on it, and it says "We don't dial 911".
Do any of you legal eagles think this potentially has future, incriminatory evidentiary value?
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at June 06, 2010 01:42 PM (/H6ex)
He could just be pushing a shitty liberal agenda while saying he's fair, honest and non-biased, like the MFM. But I know what he thinks and why. No deception or manipulation.
Posted by: Z Ryan at June 06, 2010 01:42 PM (cMo6P)
Surrender is always the easiest way to win the war. It's not the best way, but it's the easiest. They must have gotten their diplomacy lessons from Obama.
Wonder when the Taliban will retake Kabul without force?
In the end, there will be only chaos.
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at June 06, 2010 01:44 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at June 06, 2010 05:42 PM (/H6ex)
only if it's nailed to the perp's cold dead carcass
Posted by: Unclefacts, AoSHQ Professional Debate Team at June 06, 2010 01:45 PM (erIg9)
@nevergiveup
Eh, I have no personal beef with them, and honor their service like I do with Mav McCain, but their moderate establishment views contributed to this country being stuck with a draft dodging weasel for 8 years. Not all their fault of course.
Posted by: Delta Smelt at June 06, 2010 01:45 PM (0pYSi)
Posted by: Michael Steele at June 06, 2010 01:45 PM (w9bVp)
That worked out so well for the South Vietnamese, didn't it. Oops! Forgot! That happened when we were also in a big rush to get out of there, didn't it?
Never fear, dear allies, Barry has your back!
Posted by: GarandFan at June 06, 2010 01:47 PM (6mwMs)
only if it's nailed to the perp's cold dead carcass
Posted by: Unclefacts, AoSHQ Professional Debate Team at June 06, 2010 05:45 PM (erIg9)
It's a magnet. I'll stick it to the casket.
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at June 06, 2010 01:47 PM (/H6ex)
Posted by: nevergiveup at June 06, 2010 01:47 PM (U5btG)
Posted by: Editor at June 06, 2010 01:47 PM (l9/w9)
Posted by: Michael Steele at June 06, 2010 05:45 PM (w9bVp)
soon as you lay off the carbs.
Posted by: Unclefacts, AoSHQ Professional Debate Team at June 06, 2010 01:47 PM (erIg9)
Out here in Commiefornia the school inflation is driven by Administrative bloat and certain faculty pigging out. A head Coach at UC Bizerkely gets $2.3 million/yr. No shit.
At my tiny college in Commiefornia, my wages went up about 30% in 11 years. My Prezident's went up 140%. (to $210000/yr). I'm also now paying $6000/yr for my medical coverage (was zero 11 years ago)....my Prezident pays nothing.
Posted by: Typical Duplicious DemocRAT at June 06, 2010 01:48 PM (E4XYl)
Posted by: Michael Steele at June 06, 2010 01:48 PM (w9bVp)
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Neck Beard (BGFM) at June 06, 2010 01:50 PM (wOtDN)
It's a magnet. I'll stick it to the casket.
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at June 06, 2010 05:47 PM (/H6ex)
Herr, everybody knows you should NEVER show up at the funeral. Don't you watch tv, man?
Posted by: Peaches at June 06, 2010 01:50 PM (fwW9R)
Shouldn't there be an "excessive profits" tax on these higher-ups in colleges?
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at June 06, 2010 01:50 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: Michael Steele at June 06, 2010 01:50 PM (w9bVp)
looks like Lanny Davis is pretty pissed at Helen thomas's racist rant.
DavisÂ’s full statement:
“Helen Thomas, who I used to consider a close friend and who I used to respect, has showed herself to be an anti-Semitic bigot. This is not about her disagreement about her criticisms of Israel. She has a right to criticize Israel and that is not the same as being an anti-Semite.
However, her statement that Jews in Israel should leave Israel and go back to Poland or Germany is an ancient and well-known anti-Semitic stereotype of the Alien Jew not belonging in the ‘land of Israel’ — one that began 2600 years with the first tragic and violent diaspora of the Jews at the hands of the Romans.
If she had asked all Blacks to go back to Africa, what would White House Correspondents Association position be as to whether she deserved White House press room credentials — much less a privileged honorary seat?
Does anyone doubt that my friends Ann Compton, head of the WHCA, and Joe Lockhart, who believe in the First Amendment right of free expression as much as I do, would be as tolerant and protective of HelenÂ’s privileges and honors in the White House press room as they appear to be if she had been asking Blacks to return to Africa? Or Native Americans to Asia and South America, from which they came 8,000or more years ago? I doubt it.
Of course Helen has the right as a private citizen under the First Amendment to speak her mind, even as an anti-Jewish bigot – but not as a member, much less privileged member with a reserved seat, in the WH press corps.
In my opinion, her apology was not direct and didn’t address the merits of her belief in the stereotype that Jews are aliens in Israel and don’t belong there. She should be at the least suspended from all privileges in the White House press room since bigots don’t merit such privileges. And I believe Hearst should consider a similar suspension of her position as a nationally-syndicated columnist until she owns up to her bigotry and apologizes for it.”
Posted by: johnc_recent_EX-democrat at June 06, 2010 01:51 PM (ACkhT)
Bring you pet to College? Like the idea? dog and cat shit all over the dorm and barking bitches. What next, mom gets an apartment next to your dorm?
http://tinyurl.com/238lkjr
Posted by: Kemp at June 06, 2010 01:51 PM (2+9Yx)
Posted by: Z Ryan at June 06, 2010 01:52 PM (cMo6P)
Posted by: Z Ryan at June 06, 2010 01:53 PM (cMo6P)
Posted by: nevergiveup at June 06, 2010 01:54 PM (U5btG)
Posted by: Peaches at June 06, 2010 01:55 PM (fwW9R)
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Neck Beard (BGFM) at June 06, 2010 01:55 PM (wOtDN)
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at June 06, 2010 05:55 PM (/H6ex)
Ack! You don't! DNA, man. Watch more tv, seriously.
Posted by: Peaches at June 06, 2010 01:56 PM (fwW9R)
So after we give The Stans to the Taliban is Nike, Apple, and Wal-Mart gonna open up sweat shops there?
Posted by: torabora at June 06, 2010 01:57 PM (E4XYl)
Posted by: Obumble the Merciful at June 06, 2010 01:58 PM (0pYSi)
Hmm,
I seem to remember last week the "shock" that a redneck in SC called an Indian, dot not feather, that is running for Governor a "Raghead".
He apologized, but now is the post boy for racists.
So, maybe he should have just said the Sikhs need to go back to Indian where they belong, and he'd get a White Press Pass.
Posted by: Kemp at June 06, 2010 01:59 PM (2+9Yx)
Bring you pet to College? Like the idea? dog and cat shit all over the dorm and barking bitches. What next, mom gets an apartment next to your dorm?
http://tinyurl.com/238lkjr
Posted by: Kemp at June 06, 2010 05:51 PM (2+9Yx)
B+rry moved the in-laws in with him. You don't hear much about that do you?
Posted by: torabora at June 06, 2010 01:59 PM (E4XYl)
Not all of them, just the one that lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Posted by: Kemp at June 06, 2010 02:01 PM (2+9Yx)
Posted by: Charles Gibbson at June 06, 2010 02:02 PM (E4XYl)
Posted by: Kemp at June 06, 2010 02:04 PM (2+9Yx)
Posted by: Peaches at June 06, 2010 02:05 PM (fwW9R)
The woman is 89. She'll just end up announcing that she'll be retiring after the Nov. elections or something.
If Hearst hasn't fired her by now, I don't think they will.
Posted by: Mama AJ at June 06, 2010 02:06 PM (XdlcF)
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Neck Beard (BGFM) at June 06, 2010 02:07 PM (wOtDN)
Why, yes, I believe he did. The Curse of Soetoro has been uttered.
Posted by: Peaches at June 06, 2010 02:09 PM (fwW9R)
Posted by: Z Ryan at June 06, 2010 02:11 PM (cMo6P)
Posted by: logprof at June 06, 2010 02:11 PM (Mmw0q)
Posted by: Lincolntf at June 06, 2010 02:12 PM (7EDH5)
I'm gonna have a bloody mary with my steak dinner tonight.
Heh, do you like your steak bloody too?
/Are you a vampire?
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at June 06, 2010 02:13 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: Peaches at June 06, 2010 06:05 PM (fwW9R)
Nothing secret about my hope that the Lakers get punked.
Posted by: Mark in Spokane at June 06, 2010 02:13 PM (UaVQh)
I think that depends on the subject...a lot of cost in "soft" subjects goes to royalties for included content. My "history of clothing" textbook, written by my professor and about ten years old when I took the class in 1999, was over a hundred dollars because every reproduction of a painting or statue or fashion plate had to be squared with the copyright holder--a museum, another university, or a publisher (Godey's Ladies Book is defunct, but Vogue and Harper's Bazaar still publish). There was a lot of descriptive text about materials and such, but the best way to learn the subject was to look at source material. The only real savings from releasing a new edition as an e-book would be paper and binding.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at June 06, 2010 02:14 PM (OkT2m)
Go C's!!!!
Posted by: Lincolntf at June 06, 2010 06:12 PM (7EDH5)
+1
I do, however, want both the NBA Finals and the Stanley Cup Finals to go 7 games, because A) I predicted Celtics in 7 and, more importantly, B) it would shorten the Baseball Summer Wasteland.
Posted by: logprof at June 06, 2010 02:14 PM (Mmw0q)
/Are you a vampire?
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus)
I do like my meat red. . .
I don't think I'm a vampire. Could I not know?
Posted by: Z Ryan at June 06, 2010 02:16 PM (cMo6P)
Posted by: logprof at June 06, 2010 02:18 PM (Mmw0q)
I get a real kick out of the fact that e-books charge about the same price as regular textbooks did, which has to be one of the most insane things I've ever heard of in my life. An e-book should never cost more than a couple of dollars, but they can charge $70 for a few megs of info because the government is really the purchaser, for the most part.
Not really. About 20 years ago I had to pay over $100.00 for a Anthro lab "text" which was nothing more than a collection of journal articles. Our Prof put it together, had it printed locally and was gonna charge about $25.00 for it (figuring the info was in the public domain) but the journals went apeshit because they wanted their cut. So it wasn't really the government at fault as the purchaser of information -- it was the government at fault as the controller of how it was disseminated.
"Higher Education" is just another racket that government enables and protects.
Posted by: Ed Anger at June 06, 2010 02:18 PM (7+pP9)
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Neck Beard (BGFM) at June 06, 2010 02:19 PM (wOtDN)
Posted by: Sir Isaac f'in Newton at June 06, 2010 02:19 PM (4Kl5M)
okay, ladies, can any of you tell me WHY ON EARTH would ANY woman in her right mind wanna be the 4TH Mrs Any Man, let alone the 4th Mrs Drew Peterson?
I can understand why a woman would want to be the 4th wife of Larry King, etc., but the 4th wife of just some regular shmo?
Posted by: a concerned boo berry at June 06, 2010 02:21 PM (7/lTI)
Neckbeard, did he walk it off?
Posted by: Z Ryan at June 06, 2010 06:20 PM (cMo6P)
That's what I would have done.
Posted by: Gen. Richard 'Blood & Guts' Blumenthal at June 06, 2010 02:22 PM (t72+4)
Posted by: HeatherRadish
at June 06, 2010 06:14 PM (OkT2m)
--There's another consideration beyond any savings: With e-books you can more easily control the secondary/grey market. Many e-books are impossible to read in more than one machine, so you'd have to sell or lend out your Kindle as well as the material if you want to recoup some of what you spent on the e-book.
Posted by: logprof at June 06, 2010 02:22 PM (Mmw0q)
Workers finishing their shift putting tar into plastic bags just walked off and left the bags in a pile on the beach .... and the incoming tide washed over the bags.
This is gonna be a long summer.
Posted by: torabora at June 06, 2010 02:22 PM (E4XYl)
Copyright isn't really just to "enable and protect" "Higher Education" (although I won't argue that they have quite a racket going with the journals). The reason nothing created these days in the U.S. will ever enter the public domain without expressly put there by its creator is Disney. Everytime it starts looking like that first Mouse short might enter public domain, they bribe some Congresscritters.
(Still don't understand why copyright goes after the creator's death. I don't get to sit and collect checks from the work my grandfather did 50 years ago, why should Lisa Marie Presley's kids?)
Posted by: HeatherRadish at June 06, 2010 02:22 PM (OkT2m)
Posted by: garrett at June 06, 2010 02:22 PM (dLrgn)
There is no bottom to evil or stupidity.
Posted by: Mark in Spokane at June 06, 2010 02:23 PM (UaVQh)
Should have released a new edition in America in the 1970s.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at June 06, 2010 02:23 PM (OkT2m)
I don't think I'm a vampire. Could I not know?
It's possible. Got any crucifixes to test on your skin?
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at June 06, 2010 02:23 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: Peaches at June 06, 2010 06:05 PM (fwW9R)
I've never felt the need to keep that a secret, not since the mid 60's. No sense in starting now.
Kobe makes me want to puke.
Posted by: ontherocks at June 06, 2010 02:23 PM (HBqDo)
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Neck Beard (BGFM) at June 06, 2010 02:24 PM (wOtDN)
Posted by: a concerned boo berry at June 06, 2010 06:21 PM (7/lTI)
Funny you should say that today . . .
Posted by: Mrs. Rush Limbaugh #4 at June 06, 2010 02:24 PM (Mmw0q)
F the Celtics. Bunch of Obama-lovin' douche bags.
And Rasheed is a racist punk.
Also: glad the Pink Sox lost today.
Posted by: fishdicks, do you like them? at June 06, 2010 02:25 PM (7/lTI)
(But the format thing is kind of why I've avoided the whole "e-book" thing...I had to pay to replace my cassettes with CDs, then was expected to pay to replace my CDs with mp3s--screw that, I'll buy a paper book once and worry about buying a new format when I'm 70 and can't see to read.)
Posted by: HeatherRadish at June 06, 2010 02:27 PM (OkT2m)
I might be some sort of wolfman though. You can't deny the possibility. It would be irresponsible. They're pulling shit out of the ocean that's like, what? What the fuck is that? And I wouldn't be able to see myself when I'm a wolfman. So I don't know. It's like Schrodiner's wolfman.
Posted by: Z Ryan at June 06, 2010 02:27 PM (cMo6P)
I can find a job in the private sector or consulting or even gubmint --which is one reason I picked the field I did.
My husband is in the same field--for the Air Force. Hopefully, we won't have big cut backs in the military in the next few years so that he has to look in the private sector or civilian gov't positions, but I'm not betting the farm...
Posted by: Mama AJ at June 06, 2010 02:27 PM (XdlcF)
I mean really. Being divorced 3 times isn't an automatic disqualifier?
Tell me what is the limit, please.
Posted by: fishdicks, do you like them? at June 06, 2010 02:29 PM (7/lTI)
Posted by: Z Ryan at June 06, 2010 02:29 PM (cMo6P)
F the Celtics. Bunch of Obama-lovin' douche bags.
And Rasheed is a racist punk.
Also: glad the Pink Sox lost today.
Posted by: fishdicks, do you like them? at June 06, 2010 06:25 PM
(7/lTI)
--Uh, really, do you think the Lakers love 0bama any less?
Posted by: logprof at June 06, 2010 02:30 PM (Mmw0q)
Posted by: Lincolntf at June 06, 2010 02:31 PM (7EDH5)
Those journals only had the gall to demand much of anything because of the incredibly skewed prices that they have received through academia.
I used to be charged over $100 for math textbooks that had nothing copyrighted in them. It was just that the textbook market is skewed by the government funding of it, and the whole market has been warped by that.
"Higher Education" is just another racket that government enables and protects.
Posted by: Ed Anger at June 06, 2010 06:18 PM (7+pP9)
That's too true. And the government does worse, since it sucks private capital through taxes to subsidize the higher-ed market and enable its rocketing costs, even as the huge deflationary pressure of technological progress should make what the universities do that much cheaper.
Of course, we see this very clearly in the fact that most universities charge about the same tuition rate for on-line courses as for regular brick-and-mortar classes. That is clear proof that it is all a scam.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at June 06, 2010 02:32 PM (Qp4DT)
Posted by: Z Ryan (closet wolfman) at June 06, 2010 02:32 PM (cMo6P)
rangel, fk u.
BP, more please
kidnapped kids, bastid!
afghanistan peace assembly, Jeeze, you're still nuts!
Sandra Bullock, , Bad boys are always bad boys even if You try to train them right. dress is cute.
Glenn Reynolds is right.
U.K. sensible souls don't give up.
Posted by: willow at June 06, 2010 02:32 PM (HyUIR)
@185
I'll have you know that I am a Goldwater conservative. I've got all his speeches on my ipod and I listen to them before every game.
Posted by: Rajon Rondo at June 06, 2010 02:32 PM (0pYSi)
no, the Lakers are awful people, too. But I have to live up here and see these green punks and their fans gloat if they win
Posted by: fishdicks, do you like them? at June 06, 2010 02:32 PM (7/lTI)
I don't want to hear that semi-retarded mayor of Boston tell me about the 'ionic' Celtics players, Kevin Bird and Larry Parrish.
Posted by: fishdicks, do you like them? at June 06, 2010 02:35 PM (7/lTI)
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Neck Beard (BGFM) at June 06, 2010 02:36 PM (wOtDN)
Posted by: Kemp at June 06, 2010 02:36 PM (2+9Yx)
Posted by: Z Ryan (closet wolfman) at June 06, 2010 02:37 PM (cMo6P)
Posted by: HeatherRadish at June 06, 2010 02:37 PM (OkT2m)
CBS..."Disaster In The Gulf...Day48."
Isn't this Ted Kopple's job? Where the hell is he?
When this thing gets to... say...Day 444 .....what's they gonna say?
Posted by: torabora at June 06, 2010 02:37 PM (E4XYl)
VH1 Classic is doing a countdown of 20 Greatest One Hit Wonders - The Ballads.
Never has a shittier collection of music ever been compiled. Lets put it this way - Peter Cetera and his shitty song that was the theme to some Karate Kid movie made the list.
Posted by: Mallamutt at June 06, 2010 06:28 PM (OWjjx)
--I would not put Cetera as a one hit wonder. Not only because of his career with Chicago, but he also had that duet with Amy Grant.
Posted by: logprof at June 06, 2010 02:37 PM (Mmw0q)
Posted by: Lincolntf at June 06, 2010 02:38 PM (7EDH5)
Someone needs to inform the retard, Liasson, that oil spills are not "unprecedented". Not even close.
Can we get some "journalists" who understand English? A little?
Posted by: progressoverpeace at June 06, 2010 02:39 PM (Qp4DT)
Hell, I'd rather watch the Nationals and Pirates play a double header than watch an NBA game.
Damn. You really hate the NBA.
Posted by: Delta Smelt at June 06, 2010 02:39 PM (0pYSi)
Posted by: fishdicks, do you like them? at June 06, 2010 06:27 PM
(7/lTI)
--He married #4 yesterday in Hawaii.
Posted by: logprof at June 06, 2010 02:39 PM (Mmw0q)
Posted by: Sir Elton John at June 06, 2010 02:39 PM (4Kl5M)
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Neck Beard (BGFM) at June 06, 2010 02:39 PM (wOtDN)
Posted by: Garbonzo il Brutto at June 06, 2010 02:40 PM (zgd5N)
Posted by: Z Ryan (closet wolfman) at June 06, 2010 02:40 PM (cMo6P)
Posted by: Z Ryan (closet wolfman) at June 06, 2010 02:41 PM (cMo6P)
Cat poop makes excellent filling for sandwiches sent to local county officials as an act of protest. The kids may have brilliant futures ahead of them as neighborhood crazies. Fox reported on a guy from Indiana who sent cat poop sandwiches to the Lake County court house in regard to a small claims case:
http://tinyurl.com/26ag84m
Scroll down to second item, "Sticking It to the Man, One Poop Sandwich at a Time."
(Well, Gabe was looking for news bites . . . )
Posted by: PA Cat at June 06, 2010 02:41 PM (x1fQ/)
Posted by: Z Ryan (closet wolfman) at June 06, 2010 06:37 PM (cMo6P)
I did say "probably not a rapist". Which in the NBA, I think qualifies one for canonisation.
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Neck Beard (BGFM) at June 06, 2010 06:39 PM (wOtDN)
*cue gangster rap here*
Posted by: torabora at June 06, 2010 02:42 PM (E4XYl)
Mara, is a twit, and what's worse, she's dull.
Posted by: Delta Smelt at June 06, 2010 06:40 PM (0pYSi)
And annoying as all get-out. I have never been able to figure out why Fox has stayed with her so long. She contributes nothing and just bugs the shit out of people.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at June 06, 2010 02:42 PM (Qp4DT)
Yup. I hope it goes well. She caused Rush to break his "no-more-marriage" vow, so she must have something special for Rush.
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at June 06, 2010 02:43 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Neck Beard (BGFM) at June 06, 2010 02:43 PM (wOtDN)
Mara, is a twit, and what's worse, she's dull.
Posted by: Delta Smelt at June 06, 2010 06:40 PM (0pYSi)
--Is she hot?
Posted by: logprof at June 06, 2010 02:43 PM (Mmw0q)
Except it's not necessarily the bulk of the cost if it's full of material copyrighted by someone other than the author/publisher.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at June 06, 2010 02:43 PM (OkT2m)
Burying his only son.
A son of former ABC News anchor Ted Koppel was found dead in an apartment after a day of bar hopping with a man heÂ’d just met, a law enforcement official said yesterday. A drunken Andrew Koppel, 40, had been placed in a back bedroom of the Manhattan apartment to sleep it off and apparently had been dead for hours before anyone realized, said Belinda Caban, who lives in the apartment. The cause of death hadnÂ’t been determined, but there was no evidence of a crime, police said.
Posted by: madamex at June 06, 2010 02:44 PM (jChrK)
True. Could be worse though, Bob Beckel could be on the show every day.
Posted by: Delta Smelt at June 06, 2010 02:44 PM (0pYSi)
cat piss (jenkim?) was a big AoS meme here for a while a couple of years back
Ace did a funny post on it.
Posted by: fishdicks, do you like them? at June 06, 2010 02:44 PM (7/lTI)
Posted by: Z
Ryan (closet wolfman) at June 06, 2010 06:40 PM (cMo6P)
1:15 away, buddy.
Posted by: Lord Stanley at June 06, 2010 02:44 PM (Mmw0q)
--Is she hot?
Posted by: logprof at June 06, 2010 06:43 PM (Mmw0q)
Not even close ... but she does have this heavy vampire vibe going.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at June 06, 2010 02:44 PM (Qp4DT)
Posted by: torabora at June 06, 2010 02:45 PM (E4XYl)
Make that a double header between the Brewers and Disastros.
Posted by: PA Cat at June 06, 2010 02:46 PM (x1fQ/)
Not even close ... but she does
have this heavy vampire vibe going.
Heavy set goth chick? I'm in.
Posted by: Z Kratos at June 06, 2010 02:47 PM (cMo6P)
Posted by: Wodeshed at June 06, 2010 06:42 PM (MFbfZ)
And none of the panel had the guts to stop Juan and explain that The Precedent is a near retard. That would have been a nice time for Bill Kristol to talk about "profit and earnings ratios", "reduce premiums by 3000%", mixing up the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution for his SOTU speech ... and just make Juan face the truth (and admit it) that The Precedent was nothing but an affirmative action incompetent that Hah-vahd decided to certify in its drive to flood America with sub-par minds armed with Ivy League diplomas. But ... Kristol doesn't seem to have enough sense to realize how stupid The Precedent is, either.
I get sick of these "conservatives" who can't talk truthfully about how mind-numbingly stupid The Precedent is.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at June 06, 2010 02:49 PM (Qp4DT)
Ugh, I'd rather stab myself with the Blade of Olympus...again.
Be glad you can probably run faster than I, Z Ryan. Although that didn't help poor Hermes in the end...
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at June 06, 2010 02:50 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: Z
Kratos at June 06, 2010 06:47 PM (cMo6P)
Heh. She's just a skinny lady with fangs, though.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at June 06, 2010 02:51 PM (Qp4DT)
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Neck Beard (BGFM) at June 06, 2010 02:53 PM (wOtDN)
Posted by: koopy at June 06, 2010 02:53 PM (awinc)
Posted by: Delta Smelt at June 06, 2010 02:53 PM (0pYSi)
Posted by: fluffy(U) at June 06, 2010 02:55 PM (4Kl5M)
Posted by: robtr at June 06, 2010 02:56 PM (fwSHf)
Posted by: koopy at June 06, 2010 06:53 PM (awinc)
That's a much better description.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at June 06, 2010 02:56 PM (Qp4DT)
Posted by: Z Ryan (closet wolfman) at June 06, 2010 02:56 PM (cMo6P)
Posted by: Helen, lbanaon whore, Thomas at June 06, 2010 02:57 PM (2+9Yx)
Juan has gone off the rails defending Obama. He used to be a reasonable, center left lib, now he takes personal offense at every slight thrown Obumbles way.
Posted by: Delta Smelt at June 06, 2010 06:53 PM (0pYSi)
Yep. I used to sort of like the guy, I thought he was sort of refreshing and level headed considering the amount of moonbattery we see emanating from the mainstream left, but now this guy gets under my skin about as bad as Marc Lamont Hill does.
Posted by: Blazer at June 06, 2010 02:58 PM (t72+4)
@blazer
Mark Lamont Hill needs to take a valium. He is one irritating dude. One thing I will say is he at least seems happy. Most lefties come across as miserable, angry people.
Posted by: Delta Smelt at June 06, 2010 03:00 PM (0pYSi)
Posted by: logprof at June 06, 2010 03:03 PM (Mmw0q)
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at June 06, 2010 03:03 PM (GkYyh)
Posted by: chemjeff at June 06, 2010 03:04 PM (Gk/wA)
What the hell are you talking about --- why, I am always happy. Delta Smelta, you MUST RESIGN NOW!
My bad Queefe. I forgot about you. You are the exception that proves the rule. I'll happily resign if you refrain from making me the worstestest person in the galaxy.
Posted by: Delta Smelt at June 06, 2010 03:05 PM (0pYSi)
*whipping sound*. The Blade of Olympus would never ask me to do anything like that.
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at June 06, 2010 03:05 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: Raj Punditarian at June 06, 2010 03:05 PM (Npnnx)
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at June 06, 2010
07:05 PM (c0A3e)
--I know. I hope he does not have a Samson thing going and loses all his pass-rushing skills. 0 sacks in 2010?
Posted by: logprof at June 06, 2010 03:06 PM (Mmw0q)
Kill! The! Humanities!
/Doesn't help that the gov't subsidizes that so much - allows colleges to charge more than they should.
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at June 06, 2010 03:07 PM (c0A3e)
Speaking of Rush's exception for #4, Jared Allen also fell hard, since he cut off his mullet for his wedding.
Posted by: logprof at June 06, 2010 07:03 PM (Mmw0q)
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!
Posted by: Brian Bosworth at June 06, 2010 03:07 PM (t72+4)
Speaking of Rush's exception for #4, Jared Allen also fell hard, since he cut off his mullet for his wedding.
Didn't Freidrich Hayek explain this in his classic book, "The Road to Betadom"?
Posted by: Delta Smelt at June 06, 2010 03:08 PM (0pYSi)
If Helen Thomas ever had a boyfriend, it had to be Zombie Walter Duranty.
Posted by: PA Cat at June 06, 2010 03:10 PM (x1fQ/)
The food was delivered from suppliers in the USA, Argentina and Brazil and then left to rot in customs. The government bought it, commissions were paid etc, --but no one took responsibility to pick it up and deliver it.
So tons of meat, milk, vegetables all rotted. Chavez accuses the importer of "hoarding" and threatens to nationalize them.
Posted by: AE at June 06, 2010 03:12 PM (kSfPT)
[It WOULD be news if he'd noticed that the current co-relation between higher education and employment is higher than ever before in history.]
Umm.... screw you. Did you actually read the article? He's not "attacking" higher education, he's decrying the unjustified faith that many people have in it.
Posted by: chemjeff at June 06, 2010 03:15 PM (Gk/wA)
Posted by: Brian Bosworth at June 06, 2010 07:07 PM (t72+4)
Gee, Boz, the last time I heard you say that, I was just about to end your career.
Posted by: Bo Jackson at June 06, 2010 07:12 PM (OWjjx)
Heh
Posted by: Kevin Walker at June 06, 2010 03:16 PM (Mmw0q)
That guy has but one move in his playbook.
Posted by: Waterhouse at June 06, 2010 03:20 PM (VyCQe)
Posted by: Aaron at June 06, 2010 03:21 PM (1tUvR)
Shame on Jared Allen.
Posted by: Randy Johnson at June 06, 2010 07:19 PM (0pYSi)
--I wonder how quickly, once Allen's wedding pics get released, people will be using his iphone Mullet App to put a mullet on Allen himself.
Posted by: logprof at June 06, 2010 03:21 PM (Mmw0q)
Heh! Its all coming together now, just as my buds n me planned
*throws rice* *flics bic* *plays golf*
Heh
Posted by: Baraky Horror Picture Show at June 06, 2010 03:22 PM (vg2in)
@logprof
This place could use a nice flaming mullet skull in its own right. We got Blago, now I want a mullet.
Posted by: Delta Smelt at June 06, 2010 03:23 PM (0pYSi)
Posted by: Waterhouse at June 06, 2010 03:23 PM (VyCQe)
Turkey bitchez... keep your eyes on the Turks. They are behind this mess with the "aid ships" and are going to be pushing more out into the waters. All it would take is one carrier force and some strong words from The Won and the US could stop this shit in its tracks. Instead we mumble about some snaggley old bitch letting the world know who she is by inartfully speaking outloud her true feelings.
/rant
afternoon all... hope all you morons are having a wonderful 6-6
Posted by: The Great Satan's Ghost at June 06, 2010 03:25 PM (ukfwM)
As I get older I like Elton John more and more.
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is an excellent pretty good album.
plus Crocodile Rock is a great tune
Posted by: fishdicks, do you like them? at June 06, 2010 03:26 PM (7/lTI)
Posted by: buzzion at June 06, 2010 03:26 PM (oVQFe)
Via Drudge
OBAMA'S SECOND MUSIC PARTY OF WEEK
Singer Kelly Clarkson, comedian George Lopez, actor Dick Van Dyke and others will perform... Developing...
Yeah um, not surprised Obama is having another party, that's par for the course with him (pun intended), but Dick Freakin Van Dyke is still alive???
Posted by: Delta Smelt at June 06, 2010 03:27 PM (0pYSi)
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is an excellent pretty good album.
plus Crocodile Rock is a great tune
Posted by: fishdicks, do you like them? at June 06, 2010 07:26 PM
(7/lTI)
--I admit that when I start having children "Blessed" will sound better. It's not a bad song, for Easy Listening.
Posted by: logprof at June 06, 2010 03:28 PM (Mmw0q)
OT: This a a move trailer about a WW II Ace being reunited with and flying his P 51 one last time. Long but good.
Posted by: robtr at June 06, 2010 03:32 PM (fwSHf)
Yep, it's got unions, flaming libs in administrative positions with ridiculous benefits and pensions, and hobos. Sounds like Chicago to me.
Posted by: PA Cat at June 06, 2010 03:33 PM (x1fQ/)
I'm going with fake.
http://bit.ly/azkpd9
Posted by: Wodeshed at June 06, 2010 07:31 PM (MFbfZ)
--Ah, it was in FL. Someone last night said HI. I would not call Rush a "firebrand." That's more Levin's role.
Posted by: logprof at June 06, 2010 03:34 PM (Mmw0q)
I see Matt Drudge finally woke up from the coma he's been in for the last two days. Check out the headline at the top over at his site about debt overtaking the GDP.
Posted by: Blazer at June 06, 2010 03:35 PM (t72+4)
and as much as I hate the Beatles and everything they did to ruin an entire generation of kids, their White album is damn good music.
Posted by: fishdicks, do you like them? at June 06, 2010 03:36 PM (7/lTI)
Why shouldn't they? It's kinda a critical part of their corporate brand.
I think there should be a "continued use" provision in copyright law. So long as you're actually turning a profit off the creation, you (your heirs, etc) own the copyright. But once you stop publishing/disseminating/whatever the work, it drops into the public domain.
Which would have the added benefit of forcing Disney to sell "Song of the South" in the US...
Posted by: Rob Crawford at June 06, 2010 03:36 PM (0onAO)
Posted by: Socratease at June 06, 2010 03:37 PM (NGO+a)
303
okay, but what's a gorm?
gormless: unintelligent: lacking intelligence, common sense, or initiative
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at June 06, 2010 03:38 PM (yfJ6g)
2. that BP has come up with another "success" in its string of such "successes" since it filed its fraudulent environmental impact statement
So when was it decided that BP was doing this on purpose?
And why are so many idiots commenting on AoS? Seriously, folks, a mile under the ocean is not an easy place to work.
Posted by: Rob Crawford at June 06, 2010 03:38 PM (0onAO)
Posted by: Jean at June 06, 2010 03:38 PM (CPefM)
Posted by: h at June 06, 2010 03:38 PM (74ygV)
Crocodile Rock is one of those songs that you crank up and it and can levate one's mood, just like "Jump" by Van Halen.
Posted by: fishdicks, do you like them? at June 06, 2010 03:38 PM (7/lTI)
1. Price of dinner for two with arugula beef and all the trimmings...plus tip...500.00.
2. All the security measures needed for said dinner...in New York...plus tip.. 150 Thousand Dollars.
3. The opprotunity to run this Stinking Country into the brick wall...Priceless.
*throws rice*
Posted by: Baraky Horror Picture Show at June 06, 2010 03:39 PM (vg2in)
Posted by: The Great Satan's Ghost at June 06, 2010 03:40 PM (ukfwM)
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Neck Beard (BGFM) at June 06, 2010 03:41 PM (wOtDN)
oh look it Miss Octogenarian.
You gotta admit the this series of Doctor Who SUCKS, yes? I don't know who's writing the stories but they are awful.
Posted by: fishdicks, do you like them? at June 06, 2010 03:41 PM (7/lTI)
@309
You're not talking about me are you?
80's baby huh? Chester A. Arthur was sure a great President wasn't he? All that westward expansion and railroads. What a time to be alive.
Posted by: Joe Biden at June 06, 2010 03:41 PM (0pYSi)
Me neither. But that piece has several examples of commentary masquarding as news in an article. Check out this sentence.
It's an odd pairing considering El Rushbo's history of anti-gay commentary on his conservative radio show and the openly gay "Tiny Dancer" singer's longtime commitment to gay rights.
When has Rush been "anti-gay" on his show? Has he ever said that being gay was an affront or abnormal? I sure as hell don't remember.
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at June 06, 2010 03:43 PM (c0A3e)
funny how no one said boo when that limousine-liberal billionairre poofta John Henry married a 30-year old chick
Posted by: fishdicks, do you like them? at June 06, 2010 03:45 PM (7/lTI)
funny how Rush is anti-gay, which he's not, but Helen douche bag Thomas is never described as anti-Jew, even though she's made hundreds of anti-jew remarks during her career.
Posted by: fishdicks, do you like them? at June 06, 2010 03:47 PM (7/lTI)
"Police Say Naked Man Yelling He's 'Jesus' Causes I-95 Accident, Delays Traffic for 6 Hours."
http://tinyurl.com/2b7kk35
I guess it's not enough for Blumenthal to claim to be a vet, he's looking for a promotion.
Posted by: PA Cat at June 06, 2010 03:48 PM (x1fQ/)
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Neck Beard (BGFM) at June 06, 2010 03:49 PM (wOtDN)
317 [...] You gotta admit the this series of Doctor Who SUCKS, yes? I don't know who's writing the stories but they are awful.
11th Doctor? A few episodes have been good, but the rest are pretty awful.
318 I ¢¾ electric lighting, & that Sherlock Holmes character is incredible....
/screw it
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at June 06, 2010 03:50 PM (yfJ6g)
I'm not stupid enough to marry somebody who was naive enough to marry a 4-time divorcee.
3-time divorcee.
Posted by: fishdicks, do you like them? at June 06, 2010 03:53 PM (7/lTI)
Yeah, funny, isn't it? They don't even use the "somesay" straw-man in that article - just a flat-out Rush is "anti-gay" bs line.
But that's how they'd describe Helen Hagmas: "Some say that Thomas's remarks about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict are anti-Semetic..."
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at June 06, 2010 03:53 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: eman at June 06, 2010 03:54 PM (QVpWo)
Have a legal question if anyone here knows any Texas law (community property state). My wife's father passed away a few weeks ago, when he married his second wife, they had pre-nup worked up stating that whatever they brought into the marriage was theirs, so as far as his real estate he left, it should be protected. But when he died, he had almost 100k in his checking account, a big chunk was a recent repayment of a loan to one of his friends. The checking account is a joint account, which his second wife can sign checks on. Is his second wife entitled to 1/2 of the balance in the checking account?
Posted by: beerologist at June 06, 2010 03:55 PM (r2UKM)
I took a double take when I clicked a link from ER Referendum and ended up at LGF. they were doing a story on Reuters cropping pictures to delete pictures of knives held by the "peace activists" and cropping out the blood too.
I didn't hang around for a crazy check.
Posted by: tmitsss at June 06, 2010 03:56 PM (V4Pya)
Yeah, funny, isn't it? They don't even use the "somesay" straw-man in that article - just a flat-out Rush is "anti-gay" bs line.
Rush isn't anti-gay, he just opposes the far left militant gay agenda and the indoctrination of our children by it in our public schools.
Posted by: Blazer at June 06, 2010 03:56 PM (t72+4)
the last two episodes of DW, the Hungry Earth & Cold Blood, were nothing but another tedious lecture on how humans are terrible, violent, and destructive.
...oh, and intolerant.
And I'm so sick of these young punk doctors and their silly anti-weapons policy. The 3rd doctor, and the best doctor, Jon Pertwee, once picked up a rifle and shot a fucker.
Posted by: fishdicks, do you like them? at June 06, 2010 03:57 PM (7/lTI)
Posted by: eman at June 06, 2010 03:58 PM (QVpWo)
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Neck Beard (BGFM) at June 06, 2010 03:59 PM (wOtDN)
The checking account is a joint account, which his second wife can sign checks on. Is his second wife entitled to 1/2 of the balance in the checking account?
She's entitled to all of it, as far as I know. But I'm no fancy lawyer type guy.
Posted by: fishdicks, do you like them? at June 06, 2010 04:00 PM (7/lTI)
Posted by: eman at June 06, 2010 04:01 PM (QVpWo)
Posted by: Your Friendly Neighbourhood Vulture at June 06, 2010 04:02 PM (wOtDN)
Re the DDT thingy: How can all these "educated" doctorate holding liberals always be so, so stupid?
Posted by: katya, the designated driver at June 06, 2010 04:02 PM (fVbYf)
Bad advice. It actually belongs to the lawyers who keep it tied up in court for the next 3 years.
That's actually what I want to avoid..
Posted by: beerologist at June 06, 2010 04:03 PM (r2UKM)
Posted by: eman at June 06, 2010 04:04 PM (QVpWo)
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Neck Beard at June 06, 2010 04:04 PM (wOtDN)
Re the DDT thingy: How can all these "educated" doctorate holding liberals always be so, so stupid?
Not stupid. They know exactly what they're doing.
Global Warming, just like banning DDT, is all part of the plan to take down the Western culture.
Posted by: fishdicks, do you like them? at June 06, 2010 04:05 PM (7/lTI)
We have no data regarding what Rush Limbaugh has done to avoid divorce.
From what I read in Zev Chafets' "Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One", Rush's divorces were relatively amicable. Him and his ex-wifes just drifted apart due to different personalities. For example, Rush's second wife liked to go out a lot while Rush liked to stay indoors and tinker with radio stuff.
Yes, yes, they shouldn't have gotten married in the first place. But it happens. And to the person saying that because Rush is a semi-Christian, he should do more to avoid divorce...um, Christian couples have about the same divorce rate as secular couples. That's no shield to making a bad marriage decision.
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at June 06, 2010 04:05 PM (c0A3e)
336 the last two episodes of DW, the Hungry Earth & Cold Blood, were nothing but another tedious lecture on how humans are terrible, violent, and destructive.
...oh, and intolerant.
Didn't watch either of them. I've heard the show has gotten more political, though, so it makes since.
And I'm so sick of these young punk doctors and their silly anti-weapons policy. The 3rd doctor, and the best doctor, Jon Pertwee, once picked up a rifle and shot a fucker.
Though the 10th Doctor used weapons even though he didn't necessarily like them. Didn't quite understand that, but he did. He also seemed like he was a bit of a pacifist even though he killed people, like the Sycorax leader or some other bad guy that he electrocuted. Perhaps he's in favour of self-defense, then. IDK, his policy was rather confusing.
Posted by: Miss1980sBaby at June 06, 2010 04:05 PM (yfJ6g)
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Neck Beard at June 06, 2010 04:06 PM (wOtDN)
if one more you morons write favour...
I will choke a bitch.
This is AoS of H fucking Q. We speak American here.
Posted by: fishdicks, do you like them? at June 06, 2010 04:08 PM (7/lTI)
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Neck Beard at June 06, 2010 04:08 PM (wOtDN)
Posted by: eman at June 06, 2010 04:10 PM (QVpWo)
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Neck Beard at June 06, 2010 04:10 PM (wOtDN)
Posted by: eman at June 06, 2010 04:13 PM (QVpWo)
Posted by: jcjimi at June 06, 2010 04:15 PM (I7L+g)
Petrol instead of gas.
Posted by: katya, the designated driver at June 06, 2010 04:15 PM (fVbYf)
A person what got no gorm is a spectacularly stupid person.
Ah, ta hell wit' Lauraw, I gots things to do.
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at June 06, 2010 04:16 PM (GkYyh)
Posted by: John Derbyshire at June 06, 2010 04:16 PM (0pYSi)
353 It is not against any rule in American English to spell favor with a "u". People always say that it's something that only Brits do, but it's not. My mom was taught to spell that way when she went to school...here in the US.
/Or check RR's phonetic spelling sometime.
Posted by: Miss1980sBaby at June 06, 2010 04:17 PM (yfJ6g)
What colour are the walls? Please do us the honour of telling us.
Posted by: Gran at June 06, 2010 04:17 PM (kmmbv)
Posted by: eman at June 06, 2010 04:19 PM (QVpWo)
I don't disagree, Pirate. Just making a point that Christianity is no shield, that's all.
IMHO, a lot of people get married too early for the wrong reasons these days. I'm either in the "one and done" or "find yourself a weapon of great power" marriage camp.
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at June 06, 2010 04:20 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Neck Beard at June 06, 2010 04:21 PM (wOtDN)
Posted by: Miss1980sBaby at June 06, 2010 04:21 PM (yfJ6g)
Posted by: eman at June 06, 2010 04:22 PM (QVpWo)
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at June 06, 2010 04:22 PM (GkYyh)
if one more you morons write favour...
I will choke a bitch.
This is AoS of H fucking Q. We speak American here.
Posted by: fishdicks, do you like them? at June 06, 2010 08:08 PM (7/lTI)
ok I won't labour away to drive ya nuts.
Posted by: willow at June 06, 2010 04:22 PM (HyUIR)
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Neck Beard at June 06, 2010 04:22 PM (wOtDN)
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at June 06, 2010 08:20 PM
A ginger. Done and done on both counts.
Though I'm not sure how two of them mix. You might want to study karate first. Upper hand and all that.
Posted by: jcjimi at June 06, 2010 04:23 PM (I7L+g)
Well, If I had a spare 1 Million dollars to spend on a band for my wedding, It goddamned would not be elton john.
Mayhap, BTO, or some other band deserving. Thinking Allman Bros.
Posted by: Woolie at June 06, 2010 04:23 PM (vg2in)
They think they own tolerance and open-mindedness.
Posted by: eman at June 06, 2010 07:58 PM (QVpWo)
You forgot to add and you deserve to burn in hell for not agreeing with them
Posted by: buzzion at June 06, 2010 04:24 PM (oVQFe)
I think "favourite" was used in a God of War 3 cutscene. I'll have to check.
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at June 06, 2010 04:24 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: eman at June 06, 2010 04:27 PM (QVpWo)
I just looked up effort to avoid divorce in my special little dictionary here and I found a pic of Bill & Hillary Clinton.
Posted by: fishdicks, do you like them? at June 06, 2010 04:29 PM (7/lTI)
So, I don't have to follow TR's f'in spelling reform list if I don't want to do so. You can keep believing it's a British thing if you so choose, but the fact is that this ^ particular commission endorsed the change from favour to favor. This means that Americans were actually spelling the word as favour until 1907.
Posted by: Miss1980sBaby at June 06, 2010 04:31 PM (yfJ6g)
Posted by: chemjeff in London at June 06, 2010 04:34 PM (Gk/wA)
OBAMA'S SECOND MUSIC PARTY OF WEEK...
--drudge
He doesn't really want to be president. Well, maybe when it's fun.
Posted by: rdbrewer at June 06, 2010 04:35 PM (eUS3n)
Posted by: eman at June 06, 2010 04:35 PM (QVpWo)
Posted by: Jean at June 06, 2010 04:37 PM (CPefM)
C'mon... that's a marriage only in the legal sense.
Posted by: Gran at June 06, 2010 04:37 PM (kmmbv)
Right, gettin' dark though. Grab a torch.
Posted by: jcjimi at June 06, 2010 04:37 PM (I7L+g)
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at June 06, 2010 04:39 PM (yfJ6g)
He doesn't really want to be president. Well, maybe when it's fun.
What is it with liberals and their fangirl obsession with celebrities?
Posted by: katya, the designated driver at June 06, 2010 04:39 PM (fVbYf)
Why not watch one your favourite programmes on the tele?
Posted by: Gran at June 06, 2010 04:41 PM (kmmbv)
Must mean it's correct to use in American English!
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at June 06, 2010 04:42 PM (c0A3e)
What's wrong with your handle Miss 80s? And have you watched much Star Trek for that sci-fi class yet?
392OBAMA'S SECOND MUSIC PARTY OF WEEK...
--drudge
He doesn't really want to be president. Well, maybe when it's fun.
Posted by: rdbrewer at June 06, 2010 08:35 PM (eUS3n)
Reagan: An actor who wanted to be president.
Obama: A man who wanted to act like he's president.
Posted by: buzzion at June 06, 2010 04:43 PM (oVQFe)
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at June 06, 2010 04:45 PM (Yq+qN)
" This means that Americans were actually spelling the word as favour until 1907."
Well, hell, Miss 80s Baby, I didn't know you'd learned to spell in 1907.
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at June 06, 2010 04:46 PM (GkYyh)
Posted by: eman at June 06, 2010 04:47 PM (QVpWo)
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at June 06, 2010 04:48 PM (GkYyh)
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at June 06, 2010 04:50 PM (GkYyh)
Whoah there.
I think we're more joshing at our limey friends across the pond. If you've taken any personal offense - sorry
Posted by: jcjimi - just taking the piss at June 06, 2010 04:50 PM (I7L+g)
Dude, you've made your point, please quit. Miss'80sbaby knows what the hell she's talking about.
Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at June 06, 2010 04:52 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: jcjimi at June 06, 2010 04:53 PM (I7L+g)
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at June 06, 2010 04:54 PM (GkYyh)
I must also plead no contest to several counts of piling on...
Posted by: Gran at June 06, 2010 04:57 PM (kmmbv)
Posted by: Gran at June 06, 2010 08:57 PM
That's not what I was doing. Don't fucking quote me in that confession.
Posted by: jcjimi at June 06, 2010 05:01 PM (I7L+g)
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at June 06, 2010 05:14 PM (GkYyh)
Everything I'm trying to say is coming out the wrong way.
Any offense I've caused is deeply regretted.
Totally misunderstood, again.
Maybe you shouldn't speak for others either...?
Ever think of that?
Posted by: Gran at June 06, 2010 05:20 PM (kmmbv)
Ever think of that? Posted by: Gran at June 06, 2010 09:20 PM
Um, yes. Look up.
Posted by: jcjimi at June 06, 2010 05:36 PM (I7L+g)
I don't know what that means (is it that Jerry's dead?). Either way, I'll call it funny just for sport.
Posted by: jcjimi at June 06, 2010 05:38 PM (I7L+g)
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at June 06, 2010 05:43 PM (GkYyh)
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at June 06, 2010 09:43 PM
Salud!
Posted by: jcjimi at June 06, 2010 05:52 PM (I7L+g)
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Classy dame Sandra Bullock
Agreed...except in the bedroom apparently. Classy on the streets and a freak between the sheets.
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