Not much news out there today. But in response to the sidebar story on Politico nominatging a Dem operative as a "reporter".  Is there anyone who is so foolish as to believe that Politico is actualy a "neutral" news organization.

They are, and always have been, just another Dem PR front group.  

meh. The Ramirez cartoon likening Obamacare to Glenn Closes' character in Fatal Attraction has to be one of the most superb comparisons I've seen recently.

Link???

Posted by: Blue Hen at February 23, 2010 09:11 AM (R2fpr)

Yeah, he's pretty damn funny for a Mexican.

Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) -- White House officials signaled a willingness to push through President Barack Obama's $950 billion health-care plan with only Democratic support, even with a bipartisan summit set to take place this week.

ObamaÂ’s proposals to expand coverage to millions of uninsured Americans may qualify for a parliamentary maneuver that would allow Senate Democrats to circumvent Republican opposition and pass the measure with a simple majority, said lawmakers. Administration officials didnÂ’t reject the idea.

Little Barry just isn't going to give up on this. He's going full throttle right over the cliff with it.

maddog, why does that article say that the world is warming when it goes on to say

Interestingly, in the 5 years leading up to 2007, the temperature of the mid troposphere actually decreased slightly and surface temperatures ceased warming

why does that article say that the world is warming when it goes on to say...

Because we have been warming since the end of the last Ice Age. And Ice Ages have been the norm for the last million or so years. Think of this as a very short summer in Siberia.

The cold will come back.

Arguing with global warming idiots.

Many of the answers to the questions are either incorrect or are misleading. For example the question that asks if tyhe world IS warming and they say the temp has increased 1°C over the past 100 years.

This number is in serious 1question. Already we know that the the recorded temps were cherry picked to get that, as well as the tree ring data to get earlier numbers. Recent news has been that of that 1°C increase in the later years, 0.6°C of it was actual manipluation by the NOAA people.  They called it "normalizing".  I call it fraud.

The cherry-picjked 0.4°C that is left over, even if you assumed that it is good data is within the marin of error of the measurement. In nuclear power we called that "instrument uncertainty".

We know now, even from the warmies, that actual temperature have actually decreased since 1995.

meh. The Ramirez cartoon likening Obamacare to Glenn Closes' character in Fatal Attraction has to be one of the most superb comparisons I've seen recently.

Link???

Here you go.  http://ow.ly/1actv

Posted by: Mama AJ at February 23, 2010 09:24 AM (Be4xl)

Has that show gone anywhere yet? I watched the first 3 episodes and it just sat there

They keep rerunning the shows every other day. It's not bad, it's just...I can't bring myself to care enough about the details that they are slowly moving through.

They keep rerunning the shows every other day. It's not bad, it's just...I can't bring myself to care enough about the details that they are slowly moving through.

Posted by: Mama AJ at February 23, 2010 09:38 AM (Be4xl)

I'll eventually get around to watching them through On Demand. That girl is cute inn that girl next door way.

Anyone been watching Spartacus?

 I watched the first 3 episodes and it just sat there

I didn't see your comment before I posted the same thing!

What is bugging me about it is the way they make so many things soooo similar to earth. I know they can't change everything, but I don't like this feeling of "this is just like earth with one tiny little difference."

Once again, I have the feeling they think they are super clever.

Mama AJ

The warming trend, and they come and go, has been slightly upwards for the past 100 years or so. In geologic time 100 years is a flash in the dark. The temperature goes up and down. Recently the trend seems to have turned cooler, so we may well be going back down, as Vic says since 1995.

I didn't see your comment before I posted the same thing!

What is bugging me about it is the way they make so many things soooo similar to earth. I know they can't change everything, but I don't like this feeling of "this is just like earth with one tiny little difference."

Once again, I have the feeling they think they are super clever.

Posted by: Mama AJ at February 23, 2010 09:44 AM (Be4xl)

only thing that makes me want to watch the rest is the fact that it can't be any worse than the last couple of seasons of BSG

Here you go.  http://ow.ly/1actv

Thanks, I had checked all the places I know that have his stuff and couldn't find it.

Scott Brown can go have sex with himself.  His good looks won't save him in 2 years.

Political purity, my behind.  Yeah, I get the fact that the RNC couldn't rely on him for social issues but America wants Washington to stop spending so much money.

And he grabs the first wad of cash he can get his manicured little fists on.

Ho hum, we can't expect more than that from Massachusetts, right?

BS.  Spending money is not what the voters put Brown in place for...or was that trillion dollar price tag not really all that important to the health care opponents?

The Republicans need to stop bending over for these RINOs.  Take a freaking stand, why don't you, and hold this Massachusetts bas-turd up to the ridicule he deserves?

RNC, you'd better STOP your decline and start drawing a line between yourself and the enemy or you'll lose the public come November.  How many times do you have to be warned?

are the alarmists trying to pull some sort of Internet judo move? I saw something on another site, maybe "skeptical science" - that mislead the reader from a presumed skeptic standpoint. Is Axelrod branching out?

They may be, but I don't think this site was. I think they were trying to appear "reasonable" and they were using out of date data.

only thing that makes me want to watch the rest is the fact that it can't be any worse than the last couple of seasons of BSG

I could say the same about watching the TV when it's turned off.

"underemployed" people like Obama more than general public.

He's got a stash!

LOL, Heather look at the front of that article. Yahoo news, Reuters, and a "Gallop" poll.  What are the odds that that article is "fair and balanced".

Vic @ 19

His actual temperatures are arguable, but the potency of water vapor as compared to carbon dioxide is well documented. Water vapor, not carbon dioxide is the main greenhouse gas. His point being that AWG proof consists mostly of consensus of the ignorant and dishonest.

38 Hey maddogg, as long as you're here, anything new on Yellowstone?

Earthquake swarms are still very shallow, around 5 kilometers, but they have slowed since mid January.

His actual temperatures are arguable, but the potency of water vapor as compared to carbon dioxide is well documented. Water vapor, not carbon dioxide is the main greenhouse gas. His point being that AWG proof consists mostly of consensus of the ignorant and dishonest.

I agree. As I posted I think he was just trying to be "reasonable".

I want the rest of season 1 of SGU to come back on. Or Eureka and Warehouse 13 to start back up

That would be nice. I'm watching Stargate SG1 and Atlantis for the first time. They are showing Atlantis in order now, but it's been completely random for SG1.

That would be nice. I'm watching Stargate SG1 and Atlantis for the first time. They are showing Atlantis in order now, but it's been completely random for SG1.

Posted by: Mama AJ at February 23, 2010 09:58 AM (Be4xl)

If you were watching it in order, when SG-1 starts sucking, stop as it doesn't get better till the last season where they just completely rag on the Sci-Fi channel through the whole thing

And housing prices "unexpectedly" fall.

We apparently live in a world where everything jumps out from behind the curtains and yells, "BOO!"

We apparently live in a world where everything jumps out from behind the curtains and yells, "BOO!"

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 23, 2010 10:06 AM (B+qrE)

can we at least sprinkle some crack on it?

Hopefully he is just on an extended binge.

Been wondering about that myself. I at first figured he was at the CPAC, but nothing posted first-hand about that so who knows?

He does seem to get sick a lot.

@36 Thanks, Camp, that is a Hoot.

@26 No one is going to admit to watching Spartacus. Society may have changed, but a gladiator movie is still a gladiator movie IYGMM. Doesn't it seem like a prequel to Milius' Rome, though? And when the hell is the revolt? 

Killing off Crixus defies historicity; the real Crixus was a general in the revolt. Looks like the sympathetic Roman will be the rebel general in this version. That will make it look like a rewrite by Lew Wallace, akin to Taylor Caldwell making Cicero into a Christian. That'll be sure to bring in the Luther Leaguers. 

Killing off Crixus defies historicity; the real Crixus was a general in the revolt. Looks like the sympathetic Roman will be the rebel general in this version. That will make it look like a rewrite by Lew Wallace, akin to Taylor Caldwell making Cicero into a Christian. That'll be sure to bring in the Luther Leaguers. 

Posted by: comatus at February 23, 2010 10:16 AM (/VEEI)

He isn't dead though, he was still breathing at the end of the episode.

Never mind. It was his circumcision that had me confused.

_{A heh.}

Posted by: comatus at February 23, 2010 10:24 AM (/VEEI)

nope, he was just lying down in the sand with his guts hanging out and with a huge slice across his chest. It's the turning point where he will realize that he can't fight alone.

Maybe ace is being groomed for a NY Senator run.

fify

Never mind. It was his circumcision that had me confused.

_{A heh.}

Posted by: comatus at February 23, 2010 10:26 AM (/VEEI)

yeah, I could do without seeing dick on that show. They need to show more snatch and Lucy Lawless's tits

http://tinyurl.com/y8m5458.

No serious beer drinker should be without one.

Anyone been watching Spartacus?

I watched the first two episodes. It was terrible. It is almost cartoonish in it's presentation. The blood spatter scenes are so excessive. The actor is sub par.

It is like a cheap cheap cheap rip off of Rome, with dashes of 300 thrown in, without the same amout of homo erotisism.. Also, I thought seeing Lucy Lawless nude would be cool, but it wasn't all i thought it would be.

Needless to say I am not a fan of the series and stopped watching.

I am looking foward to "The Pacific" which starts March 15

http://tinyurl.com/y8m5458.

No serious beer drinker should be without one.

Posted by: harleycowboy at February 23, 2010 10:33 AM (JKGfQ)

already have a kegerator.

Also, Bug Girl's first US tour and them not even coming close to playing around here is really fucking gay

At least Lost is on tonight. So it's not a total wasteland.

And on 30 March, "V" starts up again. Get those waterskis waxed, and make sure the shark is well fed!

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 23, 2010 10:47 AM (xxgag)

except for the male nudity, thats the main reason why I'm watching it. That and Peter Mensah (under-rated actor)

@62  without the same amout of homo erotisism..

Well now. How much homoeroticism would one say is appropriate...in a gladiator movie?

I don't cringe at full-frontal, you know, as long as it advances the story line, but frankly I thought all Gauls had more prominent balls. Maybe it's just me. 

Ain't buyin' that "divided into three parts" stuff, either. 

http://tinyurl.com/y9n7too.

Is this just polictics or a serious enough offense and who would be charged for the crime?

Arrrgggg; Fox making a big deal out of the congressional grandstanding on Toyota.  Congressional investigations are worthless.  They had to harp about some stupid woman from TN who claimed her car ran away from her and reached speeds over 100 mph.  Oh my my she was afeered for her life.

Where was the question "Why didn't you turn the damn thing off?".  That actually happended to a car I was in way back in the 60s. It was a 57 Chevy with a 350 vette engine it and a 4 peed truck trnsmission. A friend was driving and he go on it leaving a red light in town. The acclerator got stuck on the floor. When it hit 80 he turned it off. It raised hell with the engine, backfiring etc buit the damn thing stopped.

It turned out the linkage on the carburator got hooked behind a spark plug cable  from the distributor.

http://tinyurl.com/y9n7too.

Is this just polictics or a serious enough offense and who would be charged for the crime?

Posted by: harleycowboy at February 23, 2010 11:12 AM (JKGfQ)

both. It's politics as usual but it is illegal. Depends on if they can prove it with evidence

And you can put this beer in your new blast freezer. Valu-Rite, it isn't....

They've been talking about that "beer" for a few days now. It isn't really beer. Its liquor with a beer lable. It woiuld be illegal to market that as beer here in SC.  The max content oin SC for beer is 5%.

Posted by: Luca Brasi at February 23, 2010 11:25 AM (YmPwQ)

Golden Monkey or GTFO

Posted by: shibumi at February 23, 2010 11:29 AM (OKZrE)

can't get too mad at it for it is all they know

Arrrgggg; Fox making a big deal out of the congressional grandstanding on Toyota.  Congressional investigations are worthless. 

Aren't there legal issues here? I mean, the US is the defacto owner of GM, so aren't some kind of trade laws being violated by essentially the OWNER of a car company going after another car company? And wasn't Toyota's recall voluntary? Isn't that somewhat different than the government ordered recalls we've had in the past?

Just wondering. Something smells... rotten here.

The max content oin SC for beer is 5%.

Beer is now up to 17.5% ABV (just changed a couple of years ago) but that still wouldn't matter for this product. And I was buying high gravity beer in SC before the law changed as sometimes the place I bought it from received "accidental" shipments.

SC Code Title 61 Section 4

SECTION 61-4-10 Nonalcoholic beverages defined.

The following are declared to be nonalcoholic and nonintoxicating beverages:

(1) all beers, ales, porters, and other similar malt or fermented beverages containing not in excess of five percent of alcohol by weight;

(2) all beers, ales, porters, and other similar malt or fermented beverages containing more than five percent but less than fourteen percent of alcohol by weight that are manufactured, distributed, or sold in containers of six and one-half ounces or more or the metric equivalent; and

(3) all wines containing not in excess of twenty-one percent of alcohol by volume.

3) all wines containing not in excess of twenty-one percent of alcohol by volume.

Now just hold on a second.

Vic, you making shit up?

(2) all beers, ales, porters, and other similar malt or fermented beverages containing more than five percent but less than fourteen percent of alcohol by weight that are manufactured, distributed, or sold in containers of six and one-half ounces or more or the metric equivalent; and

I guess the law uses alcohol by weight since that's what the ATF uses. Regardless, 14% alcohol by weight is roughly 17.5% by volume.

I'm not sure what the rationale was for >6.5 oz restrictions.

Vic, you making shit up?

That is right out of the SC Code of Laws. Cut and paste

Posted by: Vic at February 23, 2010 12:06 PM (QrA9E)

So any wine less than 21% is considered non-alcoholic?

Dunno, that doesn't seem right. Hell, you drink enough 3.2 beer, you are going to get drunk.

I'm not sure what the rationale was for >6.5 oz restrictions.

I think there are some ales that come in little green bottles that is higher in content and they wanted to let those by. (guess)

So any wine less than 21% is considered non-alcoholic?

Looking at it the wrong way. Its not classified as an intoxicating beverage, which they mean liquor. Above 21% it falls under the category for liquor and must be controlled under those laws which are more strict than beer.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 23, 2010 12:10 PM (+kzvp)

which is so fucking odd. Good writing should put you through without the nudity where nudity should pick up the slack for mediocre writing

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