1

1th?

 

2 As I said below...Greetings, M&Ms. Time to either put away the valu-rite and hobo guts and go to bed or else rise and shine and slog through another day in the reign of Barry I of Indonesia, temporary Duke of America. Not to harsh your mellow or anything.

3

Hey, buddy!!!

I'm a little down on my luck.  Do you have a spare 14 trillion dollars?

4 I see the skipper of the Enterprise is taking some time off. The audio clip I heard makes him sound like a salty seaman so he is probably being sent back to remedial OCS for DADT re-edumacation

5 Yup, first salvo in a Navy Culture war. Been through one of them, glad im not there for this one

6

Gee, the election is over and the House ethics committee has decided to drop the Joe “You Lie” Wilson’s ethics investigation over spending $12.00 of his travel money on Iraq soldiers.

 

http://tinyurl.com/33mkq4y

7

Is this just rhetoric or are we being sold out once again?

8 Electromagnetic scalar weapons testing in Arkansas?

"For our very survival, it is absolutely imperative that informed citizens be aware of this dramatic change, which is just now starting. The powerful new science and engineering must be controlled and used for humanity's benefit, not its detriment. Else it will eventually be let loose unrestrainedly, to destroy all life on earth - a possibility indicated by Nikita Khrushchev in 1960." - Bearden.  "If Bearden is correct in his Scalar EM theory, then we can build devices which would enable us to alter gravity, time, inertia, and the apparent mass of an object."

9

Yes,

Weapons that target only black starlings and drum fish.

Just stop it before you start.  Otherwise, the calliope music will start to follow you around.

 

10 Vic, nothing like allowing your enemy¹ to estimate your guilt in their whole cloth fabrication.

_{1. Obama reference, political opponents are the enemy.}

11 Vic,  I went all through that article can find nothing to be concerned about.  Where they got the "power sharing with democrats" idea I have no idea.  The only thing they are keeping is the ethics committee,  which would look bad if they tried to dissolve it.  The article does say that he is going to give more power to committee chairment,  but they are all Republicans!

It is helpful to remember that although the WSJ has a conservative editorial page,  the news pages have the same leftist-type reporters as the Washington Post.  That's the only explanation I can come up with for this article.

12 If Bearden is correct in his Scalar EM theory, then we can build devices which would enable us to alter gravity, time, inertia, and the apparent mass of an object.

If.

13 | Have all my hopes been electrocuted?

If it's just your hopes, consider yourself lucky.

14 Circa,

"Surgical precision" became the catch phrase with GWB, and Obama perpetuates it aloud from his teleprompter.

Good thing you didn't bother to read beyond the comfort zone of denial. As if Tesla didn't know squat.

What imbeciles make of genius, and what obstructionists do to genius (timing Tesla's factory completely burnt down, having threatened the status quo) is nothing new.

No one is all right or all wrong. So just eschew the new. pff

15 If Bearden is correct in his Scalar EM theory, then we can build devices which would enable us to alter gravity, time, inertia, and the apparent mass of an object.

I got mine from the back of a comic book.

16 You do realize that ONT video of the golfers and the buggy was fake?

17 As if Bearden invented and holds the monopoly on Electromagnetism. He's just a character with a vivid imagination. Right? And no one here likes science fiction.

Discussions expose what is known, and what is possible but yet conjecture. And when the knee-jerk response to what has crossed the minds of a lot of people is a social demand for conformity, then witness what flies as PC in different social settings.

18 Let me know when they get inertialess drive and a Lens.

19

As if Tesla didn't know squat.

A.  Thanks for conflating something that doesn't even touch tangentially on what I said.

B.  How about we look for something a bit more mundane like hail and a virus before breaking out a bad X-Files script, m'kay? 

20 Good thing you didn't bother to read beyond the comfort zone of denial.

Whoa.  That wiki article makes Bearden sound like a grade A nut job.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof 'cause, In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics, Lisa.

21

Posted by: Vic at January 04, 2011 07:29 AM (M9Ie6)

It seems like we are:

Green goners: Republicans leaving voters green at the gills, red in the face.

22 Any one see the meteor shower last night?  They seemed to streak forever.  The kids and I saw about 1 every 10/15 minutes.

23

Any one see the meteor shower last night?  They seemed to streak forever.

Yet another weapons test.  Or something.  Because they couldn't just be meteors, you know.

 

24 @Circa, @toby928™

You have been overwhelmed by the unassailable logic of Bearden and Maverick Muse.

I suggest large quantities of distilled spirits to counteract the total repudiation of 350 years of physics and engineering. And tin foil hats -- big thick tin foil hats.

25 Posted by: momma at January 04, 2011 08:19 AM (penCf)

I have no idea why it is so exciting to see a meteor streak across the sky, but every one I have ever seen was marvelous!

26 If Tesla was so freakin' smart, why's his car cost $100K?

27 I suggest large quantities of distilled spirits to counteract the total repudiation of 350 years of physics and engineering. And tin foil hats -- big thick tin foil hats. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at January 04, 2011 08:23 AM (LH6ir) Here you go! (read the testimonials, this sh*t works! :-)

28 Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at January 04, 2011 08:17 AM (9hSKh)

Sounds bad but I note they are quoting a lot of the liberal outlets who may be trying to stir up trouble. Also, didn't Pawlenty disavow all his crap and tax support now?

In any case, my current feeling is that any politician who advocates for crap and tax now is politically dead except for a few hard core communists and insane eco-tards.

I know that Republican who supports it gets an automatic RINO label in my book regardless of any other stand.

29 Posted by: ParisParamus at January 04, 2011 08:02 AM (Q16sd)

It was absolutely real and unstaged. There was a black helicopter hovering over the golf course using a new weapon -- based on Berarden's theories -- to control the behavior of the pranksters and the golfers.

30 David Zurawic of the Baltimore Sun opining on the John Roberts to Fox News thing:  "What Fox needs to do is continue to add journalistic strength and depth as it did in October with Juan Williams."

I'm watching Williams on Fox's Special Report and thinking, yeah, there is a real lot of strength and depth here.  Not!

31 My take on the Beardon issue comes from the excerpt from Wiki which may or may not be accurate as to his opinions:

Chernobyl

Bearden believes that the Chernobyl disaster "was almost certainly caused by an accidental catastrophic failure of a large TR Woodpecker transmitter about 30 kilometers away", where the device in question generated "giant electrogravitational standing waves". He claims the official story of the meltdown was fabricated by the Soviets after the fact.

I have spoken with people who were there at the time of the event.  He is full of shit.

32 I'd believe claims like this if, instead of trying to sell me a book, he showed up for a press conference in a zero-point energy hovercraft.

33 John Roberts, formerly of CBS and CNN, joins FoxNews

34 Posted by: Vic at January 04, 2011 08:32 AM (M9Ie6)

An old friend worked on the analysis of the Chernobyl accident when he was at EG&G. They found that the accident wasn't unpredictable, based on the really, really dumb engineering and physics of the Soviet reactor.

35 The Ultimate Death Stare 
(JAWA)

36

An old friend worked on the analysis of the Chernobyl accident when he was at EG&G. They found that the accident wasn't unpredictable, based on the really, really dumb engineering and physics of the Soviet reactor.

Again, we have no evidence of that.  Especially within the Soviet nuclear submarine fleet, for example.  It has to be some sort of ELECTROGRAVITATIONAL STANDING WAVE (WTF?) that only affects nuclear reactors with no containment vessel, black starlings and drum fish.  Next up:  Starbucks cappucino machines and meerkats.  Technological progress is a staircase, not an elevator.

37 CBD- One of the coolest thing about being a Navy Nuke was reading the failure analysis. It was poor Engineering, poor Test Planning, and Operator failure.

Ultimately everyone points to that the only way criticality was stopped was due to breakdown of core geometry (it blew up) because as their moderator got hotter, it became a better moderator. But that isn't the whole story.

38 Dear sir,

I say get your own bat and ball, and start hitting foul balls yourself.  Who knows, you just might get that home run after all.



I'm kidding.  I'd have a problem with it but hubby would insist on 'talking' to the neighbor.  But, if you have a really geeky kid, this is one way to make him popular!

39 They found that the accident wasn't unpredictable, based on the really, really dumb engineering and physics of the Soviet reactor.

Oh they knew full well that the design had inherent control problems.  There were a number of operating limitations and safety precautions that were supposed to offset those bad design problems.

All of those procedures, as well as a few of the safety systems, went out the window by order of the apparatchiks running the show.

And I don't know that I would call the design "dumb".  A better term would be "ill advised". It was designed to be cheap to build and cheap to operate.

40 More political chaos in Pakistan.  Hope we have plans to secure the nukes...

Pakistan's Punjab province governor shot dead

Gunmen killed the governor of Pakistan's Punjab province, a senior member of the ruling party, in Islamabad on Tuesday, his spokesman said.

41

Bastards:

On the campaign stump, in books, speeches and nationally-televised commercials, aspiring GOP White House candidates such as Tim Pawlenty, Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney have warned in recent years about the threats from climate change and pledged to limit greenhouse gases. Some have even committed the ultimate sin, endorsing the controversial cap-and-trade concept that was eventually branded “cap and tax.”

. . .

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour’s remarks cited by Politico reflect the need for a quick tutorial on the green jobs snake oil — it’s ok to saddle the economy with higher electricity prices if we make the solar panels in Mississippi.

42 Ultimately everyone points to that the only way criticality was stopped was due to breakdown of core geometry (it blew up) because as their moderator got hotter, it became a better moderator. But that isn't the whole story.

If you can get a copy of it see if you can find the INPO Case Study for it. The criticality did not stop because the core "blew up". It stopped after they dumped tons of boron into the top of the vessel through the roof.  Also killed the helicopter pilots from lethal exposure.

43

If Bearden is correct in his Scalar EM theory, then we can build devices which would enable us to alter gravity, time, inertia, and the apparent mass of an object.

We gotta get PA on top of this. And right away!

44 Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 04, 2011 08:45 AM (B+qrE)

the all-caps is a nice touch. It gives the impression of someone teetering on the edge of sanity, but still able to venture into the real world occasionally.

45 OMG! Mayor Bloomberg is a HERO!  His genius knows no bounds!  You thought the trash piling up on the streets was just poor leadership! No!  He had a purpose!  He sees all!

PS-you can stop paying rent for 2 years in NYC before eviction papers are served?  Is that true?

An agent for the building's owners at 325 W. 45th St. in Hell's Kitchen yesterday scoffed at reports that Vangelis "Angelo" Kapatos, 26, was the victim of a greedy landlord who was callously tossing him out of his pad.

If anything, building agent Jacques Michaane said, Kapatos is a deadbeat who deserves to be on the street.

"The guy is a nut job," Michaane told The Post. "He's an idiot because he tried to commit suicide and he failed. He's a danger to himself and a danger to everybody else.

"Nobody has paid rent in that apartment for almost two years. How about somebody pay the rent? . . . I met with him. He's mentally disturbed."

46   26 If Tesla was so freakin' smart, why's his car cost $100K?

Posted by: nickless at January 04, 2011 08:24 AM (MMC8r)

So's it won't get competative with the ones I gots for sale.

47 A better term would be "ill advised"
Posted by: Vic at January 04, 2011 08:50 AM (M9Ie6)

There you go again! Vic is being too PC as usual.

48 Why are we getting all of the news stories all of a sudden about Republicans supporting crap and tax and green bull shit?

Is the MFM going into full court press now to name our candidate again?

49 Here's yer new Marine recruiting commercial.

50 Posted by: Vic at January 04, 2011 08:54 AM (M9Ie6)

It wasn't as bad as Three Mile Island! How many people died there? It was a huge cover-up by the same people who have kept Bearden's free energy from us because it would hurt the oil and power companies!

51

Morning, all, and a belated happy new year!  Hopefully it will be better than the last one. 

Question: my parents got a new standing lamp for Christmas, and it came with one of the Murder Bulbs (aka, the kind with mercury).  Needless to say, the stupid bulb was broken before they even took the lamp out of the box, which isn't all that important because of our secret stash of normal, non-Murder Bulbs.  The bulb itself is all self contained in a little box of its own, but now my dad doesn't know what to do with it.  We both thought it would be a nice symbolic gesture to mail it to one of our legislators -- probably Shaheen, since our two idiot Democrat House Critters, Hodes and Shea-Porter, are being kicked to the curb this week.  But the thing is, would the gubmint then send MIBs to our door to arrest my dad for "sending hazardous chemicals through the mail"?   What do y'all think he should do?  Dispose of it properly (heaven only knows how we'd do that in my little town, though I'm sure there's some kind of mercury Murder Bulb disposal policy on the books somewhere), or make it somebody else's problem?

52 Aide to Pres. Reagan, Bush, Bush found dead in landfill:

Authorities are searching for clues in the murder of John P. Wheeler, a military expert and aide to President Reagan and both Bush administrations, whose body turned up in a Delaware landfill. NBCÂ’s Pete Williams reports.

A military expert who served three Republican presidents and helped get the Vietnam Veterans Memorial built was found dead in a landfill. Authorities were trying to piece together when he was last seen alive.

The body of John Wheeler III, 66, was uncovered Friday when a garbage truck emptied its contents at the Cherry Island landfill in Wilmington. The truck had collected the trash from about 10 commercial disposal bins in Newark, several miles from Wheeler's home in the historic district of New Castle, but police said they aren't sure which container his body came from.

53

Posted by: MWR at January 04, 2011 09:03 AM (4df7R)

Throw the damn thing in the trash and forget about it.

54 172 flights on AF1 in one year. Just imagine when he really starts campaigning for 2012. At PJ Media, a writer says Obama gets to 270 in the EC from... Arizona. That racist red state where people die and get kidnapped every day thanks to his administration's weak national security policy is going to turn blue this year, because... hispanics!

55

Posted by: momma at January 04, 2011 09:05 AM (penCf)

The poor man! 

56 WTF?! 20% tax?! They are so boned. 

As VAT rises to 20%, chancellor rejects criticism that the tax is regressive, and claims rise is a 'tough but necessary step towards Britain's economic recovery'

57 Dispose of it properly (heaven only knows how we'd do that in my little town, though I'm sure there's some kind of mercury Murder Bulb disposal policy on the books somewhere), or make it somebody else's problem?

Posted by: MWR at January 04, 2011 09:03 AM (4df7R)

The EPA initially said to throw the things in the normal trash. Now since retard States like CA have enacted their own disposal laws they say "follow local law".

58 Here is a little peek at the socialist paradise the leftards plan for us. 

59 BTW, if I was dumb enough to still be living in CA I would follow the rules for SSS (shoot, shovel, & shutup).

60

It gives the impression of someone teetering on the edge of sanity, but still able to venture into the real world occasionally.

The sentence that should be the masthead for AOSHQ.

61 Fireworks may have caused Arkansas bird deaths...Now 100,000 dead FISH are found washed up

Thousands of dead birds have fallen from the sky and more than 100,000 dead fish have been washed up on the shore in one U.S. state.

In scenes reminiscent of a horror film, up to 2,000 blackbirds dropped to the ground in the city of Beebe, Arkansas, just before midnight on New YearÂ’s Eve.

At the same time, thousands of fish were swept up on the shore of the Arkansas River in the north-west part of the state.

......
****Too bad most reports have birds dying before midnight and most firework displays launch at midnight on New Years Eve.

62

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Most Americans think the United States should raise taxes for the rich to balance the budget, according to a 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll released on Monday.

Sixty-one percent of Americans polled would rather see taxes for the wealthy increased as a first step to tackling the deficit, the poll showed.

The next most popular way -- chosen by 20 percent -- was to cut defense spending.

 

I'm sure this was a very scientific poll of people from all across the country from Berkley to San Francisco. And of course Yahoo is running this as front page news

63

Too bad most reports have birds dying before midnight and most firework displays launch at midnight on New Years Eve.

Lightning or hail.  Wildlife officials in Arkansas say the bird thing is not a rare thing.

The fish are all one species.  A point that many are overlooking in their bids to bring in Mulder and Scully.

64 It's kinda like a horror film... Or like Star Trek with that alternate universe and bearded Spock and stuff....only with Vick as Obama- No Second Chance: An Alternate History of Michael Vick

65 Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 04, 2011 09:21 AM (B+qrE)

Could it be a plane strike? A commercial jet flying through a flock of small birds might do that kind of damage. Although that seems unlikely compared to a huge electrogravitational standing wave.

66 The fish are all one species.  A point that many are overlooking in their bids to bring in Mulder and Scully.


I don't have my tin foil hat on.  I just think its kind of cool.  I figure that the storms stirred something up and that's what did them in.  I just don't believe the fireworks spin.

But it is funny that the DailyMail has a screen shot from Fast Forward the TV show (with all the dead birds)

67

"Nobody has paid rent in that apartment for almost two years. How about somebody pay the rent? . . . I met with him. He's mentally disturbed."

Pay the rent?  In a NYC?  Is the man INSANE?  Why would anybody do THAT?

*eye roll*

Love this bit from the article, too:

"He hates his life," said Jessica Parker of Hammonton, NJ, who dated him for about a year until early 2010.

"He's always talked about ending it," she said. "He would say he should never have been born."

Kapatos' aunt was furious at Parker's comments, saying, "I don't know why she would say that."

Um, possibly because it's true?  Hence why he spent most of December in Bellevue?  Hence why he tried to commit suicide by jumping from his apartment window?  Bueller?  Bueller?  Any of this getting through?

The aunt, Katharina Capatos, who lives a floor below her nephew and spells her name differently, blamed Kapatos' troubles on the eviction threat and the fact that both his parents are ailing and in nursing homes.

So, he's your nephew, he lives on the floor above you, and you're angry he's being evicted?  Before you get all indignant, how about you let him live with you?  Shouldn't family look after family?  Or you could pay his damn rent.  Or you could admit that you don't want your "mentally disturbed" nephew living with you. 

Suicidal thoughts and actions are nothing to joke about, and I would like this man to get the help he needs to turn his life around.  But that doesn't include letting him stay in apartment for the rest of his life rent-free.  Maybe ship him up to Boston; he can room with Auntie Zetuni.

68 #63 The fish are all one species.  A point that many are overlooking in their bids to bring in Mulder and Scully.

And that particular fish was a bottom feeder.  Thus, the fish-kill must have been caused either by a specific disease microbe to that particular type of fish or a heavy toxin that sunk to the bottom of the river.

69 It is an augury of things to come.

70 hi all
so is Bearden the guy who claims to find perpetual motion machines & the like from "vacuum energy"?

71 @ 1 1th? of 5th?

72

I'm sure this was a very scientific poll of people from all across the country from Berkley to San Francisco.

Hey, no fair.  We included New Haven, Cambridge and Washington DC, too!

73 Holy shit, Mort having his come to Jesus moment. A rant equaling Santelli's. Over at Newsalert. We are doomed.

74 Vacuum energy sucks.

75

Although that seems unlikely compared to a huge electrogravitational standing wave.

Only electrogravitational sitting waves are native to Arkansas.

 

Thus, the fish-kill must have been caused either by a specific disease microbe to that particular type of fish or a heavy toxin that sunk to the bottom of the river.

To my knowledge Oliver Willis was not swimming in that river.

76

It is an augury of things to come.

*applause*  I haven't seen anyone use the term "augury" in a sentence in ages.  Bravo, Flavius, bravo!

And yes, it is.

77 Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at January 04, 2011 09:27 AM (9hSKh)

The toxin theory seems less likely unless that particular species is the only bottom feeder in the river. It is also possible that it is particularly sensitive to whatever toxin may be in the river.

78 Something big and fast must have hit the water and busted their lateral line thingies.

79 Did I just hear correctly?  BO signed the Food Safety shit without a public ceremony?

Weird.  Almost like he knows it will piss people off when they figure out what is in this shitrag.  Almost like he didn't want to bring attention to it.

Fuck bag.

80 When John Boehner takes over one of the most powerful jobs in Washington this week, he says his first order of business is to make himself less powerful.

In vowing to share power as House speaker, Boehner is promising a package of rule changes to decentralize control and give minority party members more say.

On Wednesday the new speaker of the House of Representatives plans to offer a package of rule changes that, he says, will give minority-party members more of a say and decentralize power.

WSJ 1/4/11


Institutional Republicans: always guilty about winning.

81

Folks, we're all missing the clear culprit in the Dead Bird/Mass Fish Kill mystery.  It was clearly the work of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and the Halliburton Hurricane Machine.

DUH.

82 Harp?

83

Oct. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Some of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's closest aides, none of whom faced Senate confirmation, earned millions of dollars a year working for Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Citigroup Inc. and other Wall Street firms, according to financial disclosure forms.

The advisers include Gene Sperling, who last year took in $887,727 from Goldman Sachs and $158,000 for speeches mostly to financial companies, including the firm run by accused Ponzi scheme mastermind R. Allen Stanford. Another top aide, Lee Sachs, reported more than $3 million in salary and partnership income from Mariner Investment Group, a New York hedge fund.

Sperling and Sachs are each paid $162,900 at the Treasury. Along with four others, they hold the title of counselor to Geithner. Sachs, 46, withdrew earlier this year from consideration to be the TreasuryÂ’s top domestic finance official, a job that would have required Senate confirmation.

 

So crooked Barry and his crooked Wall Street pals just do an end round the law to get these appointments. Meanwhile the MFM keeps bleeting the same mantra that it's the Republicans who are in bed with Wall Street

84 Weird.  Almost like he knows it will piss people off when they figure out what is in this shitrag.  Almost like he didn't want to bring attention to it.

The farmers who sold their souls to the govt for subsidies are finding out payment is due earlier then the thought it would be.

85

The toxin theory seems less likely unless that particular species is the only bottom feeder in the river.

They are not the only bottom feeders. The river is full of several species of cat fish, most of which would be more sensitive to toxins than drum.

86 Science fiction double feature
Doctor X will build a creature
See androids fighting Brad and Janet
Anne Francis stars in Forbidden Planet
At the late night, double feature, picture show

RIP Ms. Francis.

Morning all.

87 okay here's the details on that Vanity Fair poll:
http://tinyurl.com/35ghs73

As I suspected, it was not at all a professional poll - they asked questions like "what do you think of the type of movies nowadays?" and "what do you think comes after a trillion?"  Just dumb shit like that.  Also there is no mention of partisan breakdown of the respondents (i.e., that means it skews heavily to the left).  For the raising-taxes question, the choices offered were:
- Raise taxes
- Cut defense
- Cut Medicare
- Cut Social Security

So it's no surprise that the first two options were the most popular because the last two options are translated into "cut something that you like".  No mention of cutting Dept. of Ed, the EPA, etc., etc.

It's a dumb poll and deserves to be ignored.

88 Once you start fooling around with zero-point (or "third") energy, you're bound to shift dimensions and have dinosaur trouble. And zombies.

89 If you live in Arkansas it's time to move.

90

On Wednesday the new speaker of the House of Representatives plans to offer a package of rule changes that, he says, will give minority-party members more of a say and decentralize power.

The Republicans won't always be in power in Congress, and decentralizing the power of the Speaker of the House to give the minority party more power would (hopefully) prevent another onslaught of Nancy goddamn Pelosi and her enormous gavel running roughshod over the Constitution.  That said, it would be the work of a moment for a future Speaker to just undo whatever rule changes Boehner and the Repubs put in place, so it's a moot point. It's just Boehner's attempt to "reach across the aisle" and not be seen as an obstructionist. To which I reply, OBSTRUCT, DAMMIT, OBSTRUCT.

I definitely don't support such action NOW.  There are too many things that need to get done, and get done quickly -- repeal of Obamacare being first and foremost -- for the 'pubs to start acting all wishy-washy.  They are the Party of Wishy Washy, dammit.  They need some damn backbone.

91 Catfish are bottom feeders, any dead catfish?

92 mwr you forgot big oil

93 Drudge headline

BIRDS DROP FROM SKY OVER LOUISIANA

94 Posted by: Dude who plays too many video games at January 04, 2011 09:44 AM (ufGy5)

There ample information available to us to be able to combat a zombie infestation. But dinosaurs might be a problem.

95

When they expressed their sleazy opinions about that silly Enterprise brouhaha on CNN yesterday, flaming liberals General Wesley Clark and Joe Sestak affirmed my long-held belief that they are unprincipled, two-faced, back-stabbing brown-nosers who attained their ranks by kissing all of the right asses, not by demonstrating that they had any qualifications to be a general or an admiral.

Both of them are so slimy that if they served in Viet Nam, they should consider themselves fortunate that they weren't shot by their own men.

That whole brouhaha about the Enterprise tapes is so sophomoric that it reminded me of fraternity pranks, harmless letting off of steam that should in no way jeopardize a naval officer's career.

 The gays are such such bitchy crybabies and the MSM are such bitchy gossips that their opinions on that issue affirm my belief, also, that all of them are so neurotic that it is their bizarre, destructive and extremely irresponsiblee behavior, not the sophomoric and harmless behavior of that naval officer that should be ridiculed and exposed for what it is - proof that they are extremely immoral, real assholes and perhaps even certifiably insane  

96 Well my take on it is that when there's a giant fish kill specific to just one species of fish, you can be pretty sure that it's a virus.  Some sort of poison or food shortage would affect all the fish, not just one species.  And it may be just coincidence that the fish kill occurred at roughly the same time as the bird kill so there's no reason to go all Bearden-esque on it.

97 Tens of thousands of fish wash up in Chesapeake Bay.

98

AIR FORCE ONE – Ending a two-week vacation, President Barack Obama is appealing to newly-empowered Republicans to resist jockeying for the White House in 2012 and work with him to get the economy growing and the jobless back to work.

Facing anything but a political soft landing after his holiday stay in Hawaii, Obama told reporters en route to the capital Tuesday that he understands Republicans, who recaptured the House in last fall's elections, "are going to play to their base for a certain period of time."

 

I take it all of Barry's class warfare was part of getting the economy growing again and not playing politics

99 Dead birds in Kentucky.

100 It's probably just the seals being opened.

101 so.....the fireworks theory is dead

102 Four dead in O-hi-o.

103 When John Boehner takes over one of the most powerful jobs in Washington this week, he says his first order of business is to make himself less powerful.

In vowing to share power as House speaker, Boehner is promising a package of rule changes to decentralize control and give minority party members more say.

Boehner is an idiot.  Newsflash asshole: you were put there because people are pissed with what the old congress passed as laws, not because of how you were treated when you were in the minority.

104 Posted by: chemjeff at January 04, 2011 09:48 AM (PaSAU)

Coincidence? I think not. It "was almost certainly caused by an accidental catastrophic failure of a large TR Woodpecker transmitter about 30 kilometers away", where the device in question generated "giant electrogravitational standing waves." I have begun preparations to protect my family and myself. I suggest you all do the same. It's only a matter of time before these waves become self-perpetuating and shake apart the foundations of our society. If you think that EMP is bad, just wait! You'll see. I am correct! Ignore me at your peril!

105 AIR FORCE ONE – Ending a two-week vacation, President Barack Obama is appealing to newly-empowered Republicans to resist jockeying for the White House in 2012 and work with him to get the economy growing and the jobless back to work.

Hmm, so what was Sen. Obama doing at about this time, circa 2007?  Oh yeah, he was jockeying for the White House and voting on dumbass resolutions like "Iraq timetables" instead of working with President Bush.  What a freakin' pathetic guy.

106 How about a bird/fish murder/suicide pact?

107 I still think we are on track to keep the majority in the House.

108 Dick Cheney is firing up his evil tsunami machine.

109 President Barack Obama is appealing to newly-empowered Republicans to resist jockeying for the White House in 2012 and work with him to get the economy growing and the jobless back to work.

Those who can't, teach.

110 If it's dead birds in AZ, then it's Dove Season.

111 Nice spartan comment at 12, somebody has been reading Ace's posts over the holidays.

112 J.P. Morgan. Aren't they located on Wall Street?

113 I still think we are on track to keep the majority in the House.

More or less.  With these new rule changes, you'll still be calling the shots.

Now who feels like a good cry?

114

Don't worry Vic, I got your back pal.

**sniff**sniff**

 

115

The article talks about how this might help strengthen his business ties.

Because when American thinks business, it thinks Chicago machine politician.

2011:  The Year of Flail

116 Birds sometimes fly into patches of cold air and freeze to death or are knocked unconscious. There is a long list of mundane explanations that we should go through before we look to magical EM fields and the supernatural.

117

97 Well my take on it is that when there's a giant fish kill specific to just one species of fish, you can be pretty sure that it's a virus.

It could also be a bacterium. Certain species are also more sensitive to low levels of dissolved oxygen, so when the BOD hits a certain level you get a single species die off. I suppose one species might also be particularly sensitive to a specific toxin or cocktail of toxins.

Single species fish die offs are most often caused by a low oxygen level, but they also typically occur during warm weather. Sewage, agricultural runoff or something else gets into the water, the microbes in the water eat it all up, consuming oxygen at the same time. Then the fish species most sensitive to low oxygen levels die en masse. It usually happens during warmer weather, however, when microbe respiration is greater.

118

Posted by: eman at January 04, 2011 09:59 AM (+iY8m)

So Global Warming is out of the question?

Damn...

119 No surprise here:

Obama ready to deploy executive powers against GOP hill. 

120 If I were a conspiracy person, I'd say this is all done by the left to pass the clean water act.  That way they can add 'air' to it too.  You know, cuz off all the dead fish and birds.

121 A Daley Thug is neccessary to prop up the Little Boy-King.

122 Because when American thinks business, it thinks Chicago machine politician.

It proves I'm not a Washington insider.

123 Posted by: Libtard Warrior Of Empathy at January 04, 2011 09:55 AM (G/MYk)

Thread winner.

124

BTW, did you catch Michael Moore on CNN yesterday? There is another sick freak who is a real piece of work. Of all people to make such a statement, that psycho alleged that many Republicans are crazy. What's wrong with that picture? He has to be the creepiest, the most psychotic and the weirdest creature on TV. 

CNN is nothing more than a sleazy propoganda machine for the Democrat Party and for other socialists all around the world, also, kind of like John Stewart's show, but with a much larger cast of assholes distorting the news.

125 We are participating/observing a psychological experiment. Mass animal deaths make the news. People have a heightened awareness of this phenomenon. More stories enter the news in short order. The mind forms a causative connection. Hypotheses abound, from the mundane to the bizarre. Then something else in the news breaks the momentum and the matter fades away. Underlying mass-scale stress often contributes to this.

126 Stuart Varney is going after the light bulb thing soon on Fox Business.

127 Posted by: Ed Anger at January 04, 2011 10:01 AM (7+pP9)

That's why my dishes don't get clean in the dishwasher; because these idiots took all the phosphates out.

128 sock off.

129 If you fry up some bacon and then let it sit out all night, is it still okay to eat?

130 Pansy boy is eating a snowcone at Drudge.

131 I leave whole pizzas out all night and still eat them.

132 Federal breast-feeding policy detailed

133

Hey! speaking of fishkills...smell my fingers, wingers! Lets just say ole Nancy left me a parting gift.

wink..wink..nudge..nudge..

**sniff**sniff**

  

134

Arne Duncan editorial in yesterday's WaPo:

School reform: A chance for bipartisan governing

It's really quite a masterpiece of saying absolutely nothing while making it sound like everything people want to hear.

This is my favorite part:

Finally, almost no one believes the teacher quality provisions of NCLB are helping elevate the teaching profession, or ensuring that the most challenged students get their fair share of the best teachers. More and more, teachers, parents, and union and business leaders want a real definition of teacher effectiveness based on multiple measures, including student growth, principal observation and peer review.

OH PLEASE.  Parents, yes.  Business leaders, yes.  Even teachers -- the genuinely good ones who care about the kids -- yes.  I can see all of those groups having a vested interest in making sure teachers are effective (I'm not going to get into the fact that the curricula these teachers are teaching is at best mediocre, PC bullshit -- that's another story all together).  But union leaders?  Seriously?  Maybe they wouldn't mind measures for teacher effectiveness, so long as they're kept under lock and key like health records so that no one ever knows what they say, but they sure as hell don't want schools to be able to FIRE a teacher JUST because he or she isn't effective.  Perish the thought!

My personal theory is that teachers suck so much these days because of the whole "Become a Teacher!" push that has been dominating the career opportunities discussions in schools at least since I was in school, and I graduated HS in 1998.  Teachers are always in short supply, so more and more kids are encouraged to pursue a degree that can be translated into a teaching position after college.  And kids do it, because they know they're more or less guaranteed employment. 

The problem IS, not everyone is cut out for teaching.  So instead of having a core, solid group of individuals who choose to pursue elementary and secondary teaching positions out of a love of learning or a genuine desire to work with children, you have a whole bunch of uninspired, dispassionate "educators" who only want to get through the workday like every other average Joe.  Yeah, THOSE "teachers" are going to take the extra time to help Billy understand his weaknesses in algebra, or talk to Suzy about her problems with bullies.  Right.  Sure.  Whatever.

The same career push applies to the nursing profession, but with a caveat.  If you choose to pursue a nursing career, you KNOW you're going to have to work in ugly, messy situations; it's not all thermometers under the tongue and checking for lice.  There's going to be blood, there's going to be vomit, there's going to be every nasty bodily excretion imaginable.  But people go into teaching because they figure it's just saying words to students.  BIG mistake.  There's a hell of a lot more to teaching than that, and by the time they figure that out, they're miserable.

What's the cliche?  You're only as strong as the weakest link in the chain? Well, the teaching chain is so weak at this point, it's more or less useless. 

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135 93 mwr

you forgot big oil   DOH!   I am shamed. 

136 If you fry up some bacon and then let it sit out all night, is it still okay to eat? Posted by: momma at January 04, 2011 10:12 AM (penCf) If it was well cooked, probably. Bacteria would land on it and have a tough time growing.

137

In the sidebar you ask why most published research findings are wrong. 

Answer: The null hypothesis doesn't get published.  If you say substance/process/element X causes or prevents cancer (or global warming), you have an interesting result.  If X appears to be unrelated to cancer or global warming?  Probably true, but boring.   

138 Hey.. You know what?

You Rethuglicans are all "Irresponsible" and "Reckless," if you try to repeal our awesome Health Care "Reform" bill.

You know.. The one we passed without reading, and against the wishes of the majority of the electorate.
--Harry Reid (NV), Dick Durbin (IL), Chuck Schumer (NY), Patty Murray (D-WA) and Debbie Stabenow (MI).

139

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans in the new Congress could put the budget squeeze on two powerful regulatory agencies to slow President Barack Obama's crackdown on Wall Street.

A Democratic-controlled Congress pushed through the Dodd-Frank bank reform laws last year and regulators were counting on a big budget boost to police the $600 trillion over-the-counter derivatives market -- blamed for much of the excess behind the 2007-2009 financial crisis.

 

Only Barry can save us from big, evil Wall Street and now those greedy evil mean Republicans are trying to stop him!!! Spin, MFM spin!!!

140 New California law that went into effect with the new year:


California outlaws maliciously impersonating others online

If you live in California and make a habit of posing as others online, you might want to think twice. In an attempt to cut down on cyberbullying, California Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a new law that makes such an action a misdemeanor. The law specifically targets those acting maliciously, but critics worry that those who do it in jest or for activism could be targeted too easily.

Originally introduced by senator Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto) in February of this year, the bill (SB 1411) makes it a crime to falsely and "credibly" impersonate someone in either a private or official capacity. The action must be for the purpose of harming, intimidating, threatening, or defrauding the person in question, and the penalties would include a fine of up to $1,000 and up to one year in jail. In addition to criminal penalties, the accused personator may also face civil actions brought on behalf of the victim.

The bill was passed unanimously and, according to Simitian, is meant to bring California's 1872 impersonation law up to date with the brave new world of social networking. "E-personation is the dark side of the social networking revolution. ItÂ’s quick. ItÂ’s easy. And itÂ’s a misuse of the technology," Simitian said in a statement. "A 19th century law is no deterrent for 21st century impersonators. A new law is needed to address this form of harassment."

The law goes into effect at the beginning of 2011, and critics say it could have a chilling effect on free speech. A group that does impersonations of corporations for the purpose of activism, Yes Men, told IDG that "political cronies" could use the law to attack those trying to expose information to the public through parody. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has also expressed concern that such a law could easily be used to "squelch political speech" and described the bill as "dangerous."



I'm proud to have signed this law.  Now please excuse me while I put on some pretty cotton knee-socks and toe dance around the room.

-Arnold Schwarzenegger

141 Undeniable proof it was HAARP what killed dem boyds in weeziana.

142 If you fry up some bacon and then let it sit out all night, is it still okay to eat?

Posted by: momma at January 04, 2011 10:12 AM (penCf)

Bacon is like Twinkies.  It'll be here after we're long gone and roaches own the world.  Go ahead and enjoy.  Those chemicals will safeguard against anything.  (Same with hot dogs.)

143 #132 - Sure. Just brush off the rat, housefly and cockroach poop.

144 The very sad story of a murdered baby (starved) and a 90-day tax payer funded parenting classes the mother was close to finishing.

The infant, a twin, weighed less when he died on Dec. 23 than he did at birth, and had nothing in his belly, Cooney said. An autopsy concluded that he died of both starvation and dehydration.



Williams and her six children had been living at the Traveler's Aid shelter in West Philadelphia since September. She had nearly completed a 90-day program, funded by the city, to help her with parenting skills. Her last session was Dec. 21, according to Richard Gitlen, executive director of Lutheran Children and Family Service, which had a city contract to run the program.

145

If you live in California and make a habit of posing as others online, you might want to think twice.

Commiefornia Sockpuppeting Morons hardest hit!

146 I leave whole pizzas out all night and still eat them.


Ohh good thinking.  My favorite pizza is extra bacon and pineapple.

147 If you fry up some bacon and then let it sit out all night, is it still okay to eat?

The point to curing and smoking bacon was for longer term storage before refrigeration. So yes one night out should be fine and I would have no question to it's safety if it was covered.

148 What sort of name is Quasir Welsh?

149 Breaking News: Enterprise captain to be relieved.

It was a foregone conclusion.

150

Ok, I'm not sure about the fish dying off. But the birds? They were smacked when Thor was exiled to earth.

Heck, I even think there's a movie coming out about that soon.

151 Proof of God's awesomeness?  A baby never learns to walk until he is tall enough to hold his parents' hand.

152 What I would like to see ow is for him to resign and start speaking out.

153 In the sidebar you ask why most published research findings are wrong. Answer: The null hypothesis doesn't get published. If you say substance/process/element X causes or prevents cancer (or global warming), you have an interesting result. If X appears to be unrelated to cancer or global warming? Probably true, but boring. Posted by: Beagle at January 04, 2011 10:15 AM (sOtz/) True dat. But, there is a fair amount of sloppy work out there, too.

154

#149 -- Which reminds me.  For some reason I've been thinking of Terri Schiavo lately and have wondered what happened to her scumbag ex-husband who decided to starve/dehydrate her to death.

In the "tip blox" at The Blaze, I asked if they would consider doing an update on him to see if the Karma gods were having their revenge or if the new wife had filed any abuse charges yet.

155 Dam sockpuppet

Who would take health advice from Barry.

156

Breaking News: Enterprise captain to be relieved.

Kirk?

For what, sex with everything?

 

157

She had nearly completed a 90-day program, funded by the city, to help her with parenting skills.

She has five other kids before the poor kid that starved.  While feeling badly for the baby, I do not believe a lack of "parenting skills" was the fundamental problem.

 

158 157 At least he wasn't relived.

159

 CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative)

"EG&G"

Small world. My father spent his entire career at EG&G in MA (Mason Research Institute and TSI).

160

Posted by: momma at January 04, 2011 10:18 AM (penCf)

Stories like that one make me tear up.  That poor baby.

Williams and her six children had been living at the Traveler's Aid shelter in West Philadelphia since September.  She had nearly completed a 90-day program, funded by the city, to help her with parenting skills.

After six kids, why would she NOW be going to a class to help with parenting skills?  Shouldn't that have come around child number one? 

Nice to know the other folks at the shelter are observant enough that they didn't notice a starving, emaciated baby.

161 But, there is a fair amount of sloppy work out there, too.

2011:  Also the year of the understatement.

162 I have evaluated Dr. Bearden's "patent" in its entirety and buried about halfway in is a description of the device which will transmit electroatomechanical gravity waves through the Ether, a feat which has been known and understood by scientists for some time. Yet, until now, it has not been possible to direct these forces in through the Spheres with any accuracy. And what was Dr. Bearden's "invention?" A Phase-Conjugate Tracking Mirror - a device first described by noted scientist Val Kilmer in the documentary Real Genius. Dr. Bearden is a fraud, a charlatan and quite possibly, a scoundrel. He is not standing on the shoulders of giants, he is picking their pockets not for peaceful pursuits, such as the mass production of delicious theater-style popcorn, but to slaughter fowl and fish indiscriminately. Let us abandon such reckless scientifical pursuits and place our confidence in proven non-lethal technologies, such as Dr. Maxwell Smart's "Nude Bomb."

163 If you fry up some bacon and then let it sit out all night, is it still okay to eat?

Salmonella and I have a truce going on.  He doesn't mess with me, I don't mess with him.

Never turn you back on Tilapia though.

164 Laugh it up, you fools.

At this very moment, everything is transpiring according to my plans,- the rift has formed and the event horizon is near.

Soon, all of you jerkwater hillbillies will be on your knees, begging for my mercy.

165 John Roberts, formerly of CBS and CNN, joins FoxNews

Is there anyone here who watches CBS or CNN? Anybody know what John Roberts is like?

166 #159.  Kewl.  I've been noticing His hand in lots of stuff lately.  The car radio was on the default station for the CD player when I started the car this morning, and it's a religious station.  The first statement I heard was "Church attendance is now at 16% in America."  Wow.

167

A Phase-Conjugate Tracking Mirror - a device first described by noted scientist Val Kilmer in the documentary Real Genius.

He also had a whole shitload of cool gadgets in the Bat Cave.

168 Oh man. The current Drudge pic of Obama makes him look like a total crackhead.

169 What sort of name is Quasir Welsh?

The same kind of name as Tanesha, Shiquita, Latrelle, and a kid I once taught whose name was Latrine.

170 Anybody know what John Roberts is like?

Jazz Hands.

171 Momma- I have eaten cooked bacon that sat out all night. But I have a cast iron stomach so...

172 Oh man. The current Drudge pic of Obama makes him look like a total crackhead.
Posted by: Lincolntf at January 04, 2011 10:29 AM

He looks like a doofus who couldn't be bothered to put on pants. He looks like he just stumbled out of one of the houses in Hoarders.

173 Can Beardon generated a phased tachyon pulse through the main deflector dish?

174 I also find it surprising that so many engineering and science types here are baffled by the fish and bird deaths. Typically, they are overthinking it, when the answer is obvious, settled science. Global warming. The atmosphere and oceans are now too hot to support life. Fish are boiled in their own scales and birds are roasting in the skies. I TOLD you selfish cocksuckers to switch to CFLs and eschew bottled water, but did you listen. I hope you are all satisfied.

175 Breaking News: Enterprise captain to be relieved.

Aye, and a mighty captain's log it is.

176 10-year-old Joseph McVay accused of shooting mom, allegedly confessed to neighbor

177 The lying Fox headline makes it look like he was showing porno movies.  What a crock of shit.

Aircraft Carrier Commander Relieved of Duty After Airing Explicit Videos

178 The same kind of name as Tanesha, Shiquita, Latrelle, and a kid I once taught whose name was Latrine.

My father met a woman whose name was Orangeade pronounced or-ang-ga-dee who was named from a billboard. This would have been back in the 70s.

179

#183 -- You lie!

 

 

180 Typically, they are overthinking it, when the answer is obvious, settled science.

Christine O'Donnell on an eye-of-newt bender.

181 SHOCKING UPDATE:  Glenn Beck releases new book today, and also a step-focused improvement program!!

there is much I like and admire about Glenn, but if dude would just focus on ONE project for maybe longer than five minutes, he could achieve so much more... all these billions of side projects are aimed at the same end, and he spreads himself dangerously thin.

182 Everyone knows that the birds fell from the sky because there are no longer any souls in the Guff.

183 From THIS to THIS. Yuck.  Air brushing, photo shopping, etc is a great miracle worker.

184 Fish are boiled in their own scales and birds are roasting in the skies.

well, not quite. Climate change, as we now call it, intensifies all conditions so that average weather becomes extremely average. It's clear the fish and birds are being bored to death.

185 The mass animal deaths are accompanied by a strong scent of elderberries. Officials deny this claim.

186 Relevant to the Enterprise flap, is my memory faulty, or has PC made a huge resurgence in the last couple of years? IIRC, this scourge has been soft-pedaled until recently.
  Now DADT is repealed, watch the gay activists go nuts, be surprised if there weren't already cases of discrimination being advanced.

 Thoughts?

187 Oh man. The current Drudge pic of Obama makes him look like a total crackhead.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 04, 2011 10:29 AM (ON0+x)

 

As a Cubs fan, I love that the turd always is wearing a White Sox hat. The arugula eating asswipe must think it makes him look like "a regular guy".

188 I heard tell of two brothers named Lemonjui and Orangui spelt Lemonjuice and Orangejuice.

189

BIRDS DROP FROM SKY OVER LOUISIANA

Geez, dead birds and fish to the north of me, more dead birds to the south.

I have a sudden urge to switch to bottled water...

190 As if Bearden invented and holds the monopoly on Electromagnetism. He's just a character with a vivid imagination. ...

Posted by: maverick muse at January 04, 2011 08:09 AM (H+LJc)

Beat you all to the "character with a vivid imagination" punchline.

If there'd been a hail storm coincide with the birds killed by massive physical trauma, where's that Arkansas weather report? Just askin'...

191

 The mass animal deaths are accompanied by a strong scent of elderberries.

Yo momma!

 

192 First Arkansas, then Louisiana.  Who is next?

Be afraid, be very afraid!

http://tinyurl.com/55ol7u

193 #183  The atmosphere and oceans are now too hot to support life. Fish are boiled in their own scales and birds are roasting in the skies.

True.  It was a broiling 600F in Egg Harbor, WI not too long ago!

/Want your eggs fried or over easy?

194

If there'd been a hail storm coincide with the birds killed by massive physical trauma, where's that Arkansas weather report? Just askin'...

Or lightning....and yes, there were storms that day.  Give it a rest.

195

Sock off.

196 157 Breaking News: Enterprise captain to be relieved.

It was a foregone conclusion.

Over a four year old video?

I smell skunk, er set up.

197 Laura Ingraham interviewed Saul Anuzis, running for RNC Chair.

And since morons necessitate disclaimers, I'm neither for nor against Anuzis.

198 From THIS to THIS. Yuck.  Air brushing, photo shopping, etc is a great miracle worker.

More importantly - Mila Kunis was going out with Macauley fuckin' Culkin? Maybe I really do have a chance with her ...

199 I know he is still subject to the UCMJ after getting out, but I want to see him resign and start speaking out.

If the asshole politicians (just about everyone above O-6)  go after him he should bring up John Fkn Kerry who treated with the enemy and committed treason after getting out and was not prosecuted.

200 Mass avian deaths is no cause for concern.

201 Do birds take aspirin?

202 On the Captain of the Enterprise story.

He just needs to come out as a closeted gay that was trying to fit in during the evil reign of DADT. Then they can't fire him.

203 Not the dreaded avian flu?

204

Dead birds.  Check.

Dead fish.  Check.

Recent lunar eclipse.  Check.

And then this:

Mila Kunis was going out with Macauley fuckin' Culkin?

Total proton reversal is just around the bend.

205


Did you know John Roberts was a veejay on the Canadian MTV in the 80s?

http://tinyurl.com/2bv6fex

206

#162 - What elderly people don't realize when they retire and move down here to Florida is that, in this state, euthanizing of senior citizens is permitted, and frequently even encouraged by some unethical doctors.

In fact, there is an industry here of attorneys who will assist children in killing their parents, so that those children can steal all of their parents' assets, giving a cut of the action to those unscrupulous attorneys, of course. True story. Check it out. 

207 My father met a woman whose name was Orangeade pronounced or-ang-ga-dee who was named from a billboard. This would have been back in the 70s.

My ex- was a college advisor at a state univ. for a while. Best names she ran across: 1) Demonica (probably intended as something like D'Monica, but spelled with a "demon", 2) Tequila (probably what her folks were drinking when she was conceived) and 3) Shithead. Pronounced "Sheh-THAID". Seriously.

208

has PC made a huge resurgence in the last couple of years?

I was thinking about this just last night, apropos of nothing.  I was pondering the  hysteria surrounding the use of "gay" as a pejorative in the trailer for that new Vince Vaughan movie, and it got me wondering:  how long until the terms "dumbstruck" or "struck dumb" are considered off-limits because they're considered demeaning to individuals who are born or otherwise become mute?  It's just a matter of time, right? 

209 The Yakuza caused Hurricane Katrina. I'm just sayin'.

210 how long until the terms "dumbstruck" or "struck dumb" are considered off-limits because they're considered demeaning to individuals who are born or otherwise become mute?  It's just a matter of time, right?

My sister is deaf. The term "deaf and dumb" has been off-limits for a long time. So yeah.

211 Between Upton caving on carbon regulation and Boehner going squishy on House power sharing, Krauthammer isn't sounding so off-key about Republican recidivism any longer. And incandescents will stay banned, so get used to mercury bulbs casting sickly greenish light at exorbitant rates.

212

The skipper getting relieved is a warning shot across the bow to everyone else in the Navy.  Toe the line Stop killing birds or go home.

FIFY.

213 #217 Mila Kunis was going out with Macauley fuckin' Culkin?

Total proton reversal is just around the bend.

Key word being "was".  I was confused by that pairing myself, along with the finding that Macauley Culkin is still alive!  I don't remember him in anything past "Richie Rich".  

/He was going out with her for 9 years?  Hmmm...all sorts of interesting implications there. 

214 Watch what the undead networks did with the Captain's videos. They were harmless and sophomoric. They made them out to be a new tailhook scandal.

215 #191 - Gravity could have had something to do with it, too. Perhaps they simply dozed off while flying. That would explain it, too. Birds are kind of loopy, you know.

216

True story. Check it out. 

So how old are you Brian? And do you have any children?

217 If only Bearden's work were real. Do you Morons understand the implications of a device that can alter mass and cause cells to revert backward in time to an earlier, younger state? Do you have any idea of what horrible disfigurements that could cure? That's right: bigger and perkier titties. We could be living in a world filled with rackalicious goodness. A cheerleader in every pot! I rescind my earlier criticisms and pledge to Put Science First in my administration.

218 Killing 2 birds with one stone eleventy.

219 Key word being "was".  I was confused by that pairing myself, along with the finding that Macauley Culkin is still alive!  I don't remember him in anything past "Richie Rich". 

He was pretty awful in a movie called "Party Monster" a couple of years back. His horrible performance went largely unnoticed mostly because Seth Green's was even worse.

220 Clearly, after a New Year's bender of epic proportions, the Illuminati stopped aiming the EM ray at Mila Kunis' head, where it had been pointed for 8 years, and started firing it into the Arkansas sky and sea.

221

maverickmuse, per your request:

New Year's Eve tornadoes kill 6 in Ark., Mo.

Midwest storms leave 6 dead, cause widespread damage

222 In other aggravating news: another long-term inmate was "exonerated" by DNA Evidence in Texas today.  From a case 31 years old.

Do they really expect me to believe that the DNA bearing evidence was stored in a way to maintain the integrity of the sample(s)?  From a case in 1979?  Anyone else ever notice how these "exonerees" are always involved with cases 15 or more years old?

223 Heh.  I've killed a few birds with some mid-air collisions.  I had the right of way though.

And might makes right!

Gaia weeps at the wanton slaughter.

224 I don't know why neurotic gays are whining. Instead of being parodied by that ship's skipper, they could have "accidentally" fallen overboard, you know.

225

My brother-in-law's family is friends with a couple who named their child Nawlege.

That's pronounced "Naw-Ledge."  As in "knowledge."  Something the couple clearly do not have so far as the English language is concerned.

226 The Japanese eat little fat and have less heart attacks than Brits and Americans

The French eat higher amount of fat and have less heart attacks as well.

So eat what you want, it is speaking English that is killing you

227

My sister is deaf. The term "deaf and dumb" has been off-limits for a long time. So yeah.

I actually heard someone use the term "deaf and dumb" the other day -- she's younger than me and works in a medical field -- and I was too shocked to say anything.  That's probably why the thought was percolating in my head, actually.

228 Does anyone know any good blackbird recipes?

229 time for a new thread?

230

So eat what you want, it is speaking English that is killing you

No hablo ingles.  Viva la raza!

231 Does anyone know any good blackbird recipes?

Blackbird pie. You'll need 24 of 'em.

232 shhhh... I'm watching Pelosi on TV

233 Barry flew Air Force One 172 days last year, and anyone wonders why birds drop dead from the sky?

234 238 The article stated that Dallas County has extensive procedures to store crime scene evidence like swabs indefinitely. There was also other evidence pointing away from the now exonerated person. You also underestimate the power of a motivated DA to get a conviction without regard to the facts.
 
Hell, they just recovered DNA from a 400,000 year old tooth so a 30 year time frame doesn't sound too exotic.

235 ok....the capt is gone.... who's next......

236 I really never understood the term 'dumb'.   It never made sense to me because some of the smartest/happiest/loving people were my deaf/blind/handicapped. 

237 Who enjoyed Mary Shelley's novel, The Modern Prometheus?

"Have all my hopes been electrocuted?"

Or subjected to electromagnetism?

Hey, this Bearden guy is fun. Admit it, Circa.

Or lightning....and yes, there were storms that day.  Give it a rest.

238 248 shhhh... I'm watching Pelosi on TV

Posted by: Cherry ð at January 04, 2011 11:10 AM (+sBB4)

Dear God, why? 

239 I really never understood the term 'dumb'.   It never made sense to me because some of the smartest/happiest/loving people were my deaf/blind/handicapped.

"Dumb" used to mean the same thing as "mute". Then people started referring to people who were too stupid to speak as "dumb" and it gradually became a synonym for "stupid". Kind of the way "gay" used to mean "happy".

240 Key word being "was".  I was confused by that pairing myself, along with the finding that Macauley Culkin is still alive!  I don't remember him in anything past "Richie Rich".  He was pretty awful in a movie called "Party Monster" a couple of years back. His horrible performance went largely unnoticed mostly because Seth Green's was even worse. I guess once you've had Michael Jackson's fingers inside you, you kind of lose your enthusiasm for your career.

241 Barry said that its understandable that the GOP has to 'play to its base' for awhile.  My thought is:  They should rule they way they ran.  No elected official should play to their base.  That is just admitting that they have no ethics, morals, etc., doesn't it?  If they really meant what they ran on, there would be no 'playing' would there?

242 Posted by: George Orwell

good

243

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.

Now that's the kind of notion I was counting on from the newly elected republicans!  errr, what?  It was Bambi circa 2006???

244 Cherry π

heh²⁴

245 252 I really never understood the term 'dumb'.   It never made sense to me because some of the smartest/happiest/loving people were my deaf/blind/handicapped. 

Posted by: momma at January 04, 2011 11:11 AM (penCf)

I imagine that's why it fell into disfavor.  It was an antiquated term that is synonomous in the modern age with calling someone stupid.  When I was a kid it used to puzzle me, too. 

246 I guess once you've had Michael Jackson's fingers inside you, you kind of lose your enthusiasm for your career. It put me off bananas entirely.

247

My brother-in-law's family is friends with a couple who named their child Nawlege.

Nurse friend of mine ran into a  "La - a" -

Pronounced "La-Dash-Uh". 

Really.

248 Fox news just reported the blackbirds were killed by blunt force trauma.

249 For anyone who takes offense to the traditional use of "dumb" for 'mute', what about the sign language sign for dumb (as in stupid)?  Hitting yourself in the forehead.

Oh, let's not even get into the politics and linguistics of the "deaf community". Having witnessed it up close and personal, it's far too depressing to think about.

250

Well now right here is the problem. The term "Dumb" means unable to speak.

So most deaf people were unable to speak, if they were born deaf. Unttil someone like Helen Keller came along.

So what is the alternative "terms"?  Hearing and Speech impaired?

Does it make any difference how you phrase it?

 

 

251 262 For anyone who takes offense to the traditional use of "dumb" for 'mute', what about the sign language sign for dumb (as in stupid)?  Hitting yourself in the forehead.

Posted by: iknowtheleft at January 04, 2011 11:16 AM (G/MYk)

I always prefer to modify that particular move, and hit the OTHER person on the forehead.  More effective.

252 Posted by: GnuBreed at January 04, 2011 11:10 AM (h0RtZ)

What the Dallas County has is a DA who's hot to free convicts.  He's so in bed with The Innocence Project, he should be asking for regular steak dinners IYKWIM.

And no scientist will tell you they could get a DNA match at 400,000 years- they can isolate a lot of things, but not to the level of evidence required in a criminal trial.

The thing is, the stuff I heard makes me wonder if he really was convicted wrongfully- it's possible, certainly, but there is no way DNA evidence can exonerate anyone.  It is an inclusive-only piece of evidence.  That is, it can't say someone wasn't there, only that they were.  We had a big dust up with Ace about this very thing (also a Texas inmate) a couple of months ago. 

And I really doubt they were considering DNA evidence in Dallas County in 1979- whatever the Dallas DA says.  DNA Evidence wasn't even really known back then, it wasn't until the 90's that it started being accepted as evidence in trial, and not until the mid 90's that laypersons were informed enough about it to trust DNA evidence and the Experts who presented it at trial.

253 265 Fox news just reported the blackbirds were killed by blunt force trauma. Posted by: Ed Anger at January 04, 2011 11:17 AM (7+pP9) Updraft? Wind shear? Colonel Mustard, in the parlor, with the candlestick?

254 more in lousiana, kentucky, chesapeake bay

255

Nurse friend of mine ran into a  "La - a" -

Pronounced "La-Dash-Uh". 

Really.

 

Oh.

My.

God.

256 Posted by: Assorted Fowl Botherers© at January 04, 2011 11:20 AM (RD7QR)

That's another question... why was it the people in Clue were so dumb?  I mean, it's not like a lead pipe, a candle stick, a knife, or a rope would leave a gunshot wound, and not the rope nor any of the blunt objects would leave stabbing wounds.  I suppose you could tie the rope into a monkey's-fist and beat someone to death with it, but really, you couldn't tell by the type of wound what weapon was used?

257   "If Bearden is correct in his Scalar EM theory, then we can build devices which would enable us to alter gravity, time, inertia, and the apparent mass of an object."

Posted by: maverick muse at January 04, 2011 07:34 AM (H+LJc)

Alter gravity?

258 Dumbbells, despite mass, don't vibrate to ring.

ETYMOLOGY:
From an apparatus similar to that used in ringing a church bell, but without the bell, used for practice or physical exercise

259 #231 - Ambulance chasing will get slow after the snowbirds go back up north, huh?

260 Hot blackbird wings are tasty

261 Posted by: MWR at January 04, 2011 11:22 AM (4df7R)

In certain hospitals (mostly catering to illegal immigrants) one of the most often chosen names is "Female" (pronounced: Fe-mall-ee) because the uneducated girls giving birth (mostly to anchor babies- yay!) don't realize the pink ankle-band on the baby isn't actually a name.

262 I think the technical term for what befell those birds is "flying into stuff". Further study may be needed.

263 The V got them.

264 Government Motors posts a gain.  How much of this is smoke-and-mirrors/government coercion nonsense...you decide.

GM reports U.S. sales up 16 percent in December, best sales month of the year - CNBC http://bit.ly/gJXylM

265 They obviously died in the air, since they were scattered.

Otherwise, they would have been in a big pile.

266 Rumor has it, according to the AP, that although blunt force trauma was involved, the several hundred blackbirds were previously spotted drinking heavily at a local bar. A bartender and several waitresses present overheard the large party of birds discussing an impending foreclosure, and have been unemployed for over a year. One witness claims he heard the blackbirds blame the stress of unpaid medical bills for their philandering with a flock of golden finches and overeating of sunflower seeds, as well as those berries that make birds drunk.

267

The sign for "insane" is pretty funny.  The old "cuckoo" hand gesture.

"When the Sun goes down and everybody leaves, I'm gonna fuck you till your eyes pop out!"

268 Birds killed by rival gang.

269 If 5,000 birds dropped dead in a forest...

270

So what is the alternative "terms"?  Hearing and Speech impaired?

Does it make any difference how you phrase it?

I think it's more about people's modern knowledge of older terminology.  Today, the first thing a person hears when they hear "dumb" is "stupid," not "mute."  Just like the first thing anyone thinks when they hear "asylum" is "madhouse," not "refuge."  Anyone who's read a few books knows that "dumb" also means "mute," but there are so many liberals lying around, getting in people's way and generally making a nuisance of themselves, that most folks don't pay attention to dictionary definitions.  So I can understand not wanting to label people who are mute as "dumb," even if it's a completely legitimate term, just because there are a lot of genuinely stupid people who would assume "deaf and dumb" means "deaf and stupid." 

Which really leads back to my original question: how long until "dumbstruck" is considered a negative PC term, on par with "retarded"?  And when the hell are we going to start demanding that Nigeria change it's name because it contains allusions to the evil N-word?  And come to think of it, all those romance languages?  French, Spanish, Italian?  Start changing the names of your colors RIGHT NOW, because "negro" might mean "black" in Spanish, but it means RACISSSSSSSST in English.

*cough* I'm apparently on an anti-PC binge this morning.  My apologies. 

271 61 ****Too bad most reports have birds dying before midnight and most firework displays launch at midnight on New Years Eve.
________

Which just goes to show you precisely how evil fireworks are. The waves of fear from the explosions actually travel backwards in time to frighten poor little birdies to death.

Just like skeptical waves from scientists researching psychic activity, which travel backwards in time to screw up the experiments. And I wish I were making that excuse up.

272 Imagine if she married him and her name became Mila Kunis Culkin.

273 "In certain hospitals (mostly catering to illegal immigrants) one of the most often chosen names is "Female" (pronounced: Fe-mall-ee) because the uneducated girls giving birth (mostly to anchor babies- yay!) don't realize the pink ankle-band on the baby isn't actually a name." True story. My wife is personally aware of sich a case.

274 Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at January 04, 2011 11:28 AM (9hSKh)

It may be fairly honest (as these things go).  I see a lot of new GM vehicles (especially the new Camarro and Silverado) all over the place here in Central Texas.  And they are the '10 & '11 models, so I'd say they are actually selling vehicles.

Obviously my own observations are low for statistical analysis, but I would be willing to give that particular report at least a little benefit of the doubt.

275

 How much of this is smoke-and-mirrors/government coercion nonsense...you decide.

What is : All of it?

276 Fox news just reported the blackbirds were killed by blunt force trauma.
Posted by: Ed Anger

I saw that earlier. But didn't see any hail or precipitation mentioned in their weather yesterday. Blunt force trauma is the natural result from energy blasts, no telling the source without evident research.

Who here's a specialist on zero point?

277 If 5,000 birds dropped dead and there were no grant money or tax/regulation schemes to be profited by....

278 Posted by: George Orwell at January 04, 2011 11:31 AM (AZGON)

My mom and brother both taught in Alverado, TX for a while (my mom for many years, my brother for 1) and they had many Mexican girls named "Female" in their classes.

279 I imagine that's why it fell into disfavor.  It was an antiquated term that is synonymous in the modern age with calling someone stupid.  When I was a kid it used to puzzle me, too.

When I was about 5 years old my mom brought home a labrador puppy that she had adopted from The Dumb Friends League in Denver Co.

Whaaa?

Why can't we get a smart dog from the store or from the animal shelter like everyone else?

280

*cough* I'm apparently on an anti-PC binge this morning.  My apologies. 

Not to worry. I was just getting at how this whole "PC" language starts.

281 Viva chalupa.

282 That's another question... why was it the people in Clue were so dumb?  I mean, it's not like a lead pipe, a candle stick, a knife, or a rope would leave a gunshot wound, and not the rope nor any of the blunt objects would leave stabbing wounds.  I suppose you could tie the rope into a monkey's-fist and beat someone to death with it, but really, you couldn't tell by the type of wound what weapon was used?

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at January 04, 2011 11:24 AM (8y9MW)

I think they were all too drunk on absinthe and laudanum to differentiate between blunt force trauma to the head and a pack of cheap cigars.

283 Blunt force trauma is the natural result from energy blasts,

lol

I thought it was hurricanes and time control.

284 80 Did I just hear correctly?  BO signed the Food Safety shit without a public ceremony?

Weird.  Almost like he knows it will piss people off when they figure out what is in this shitrag.  Almost like he didn't want to bring attention to it.

Fuck bag.

Posted by: momma at January 04, 2011 09:33 AM (penCf)

You just shut the hell up. We needed this!

285 I really never understood the term 'dumb'.   It never made sense to me because some of the smartest/happiest/loving people were my deaf/blind/handicapped. 

Posted by: momma at January 04, 2011 11:11 AM (penCf)

 

I knew this one kid like that, I never saw anything like him in any amusement hall. He could sure play a mean pinball.

286 "Hail forms in strong thunderstorm clouds, particularly those with intense updrafts"

I just found this in wiki.  I urgently need to get this information to the government.

287 I keep poking the thread with a pointy stick but it doesn't move.

288 lol Waterhouse baseball bat

289 105 Coincidence? I think not. It "was almost certainly caused by an accidental catastrophic failure of a large TR Woodpecker transmitter about 30 kilometers away", where the device in question generated "giant electrogravitational standing waves." I have begun preparations to protect my family and myself. I suggest you all do the same.
________

Oh, I have. I've been nailing couches to the walls and ceiling and put the big-screen TV on a lazy susan device so that when gravity goes in funny directions we can still watch TV.

290 I just found this in wiki.  I urgently need to get this information to the government.

Leaks doesn't care

291

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 04, 2011 11:37 AM (1Jaio)

Didn't you used to be the Bally table king?

Sorry about that loss.

292 Sounds to me like kids playing with high end fireworks.

293

Not to worry. I was just getting at how this whole "PC" language starts.

Posted by: HH at January 04, 2011 11:34 AM (6oDXl)

I bet we could get some grant money from the gubmint to research the issue.  That'd be one way to get my tax dollars back...

(It's sad, really, that there are times I wish i was still in school JUST so I could write research papers that use actual facts and scientific methods to completely undermine liberal propaganda. It would be a nice cottage industry.)

294

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 04, 2011 11:37 AM (1Jaio)

Didn't you used to be the Bally table king?

Sorry about that loss.

Posted by: HH at January 04, 2011 11:39 AM (6oDXl)

 

I just handed my pinball crown to him. Because even at my favorite table he can beat my best

295 It appears Obama's crack and smoking habit is taking it's toll on his hea;th.

296 Anyone else listening to this crap on Laura Ingrahm about mandatory back-up cameras on ALL automobiles?

297 (It's sad, really, that there are times I wish i was still in school JUST so I could write research papers that use actual facts and scientific methods to completely undermine liberal propaganda. It would be a nice cottage industry.) Posted by: MWR at January 04, 2011 11:41 AM (4df7R) Unfortunately, you would flunk out after the first semester, and not because of your grasp of the material.

298

I bet we could get some grant money from the gubmint to research the issue. 

Hell, I'll give you a start! The term "Liberal".

 

299 319 Anyone else listening to this crap on Laura Ingrahm about mandatory back-up cameras on ALL automobiles? Posted by: garrett on Jeopardy at January 04, 2011 11:43 AM (51Lv9) Ah yes, because cars aren't expensive enough yet.

300 X-Ray camera "captures" lightning.

301 Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at January 04, 2011 11:20 AM (8y9MW)
 
What if your rape/murder evidence in the 1970s-80s included a swab test of the vagina for serotype, which does not exclude the defendant?  In such a case, it would be used to say that the defendant has the same type and would be a factor in conviction. Yes, I doubt DNA testing was done for this trial back in the 70s-80s.
 
Whereas DNA evidence is conclusive beyond a reasonable doubt. At the very least, not being tied by the DNA evidence throws that entire line of argument out, resulting in a minimum of a need for a new trial.
 
It's probably true that the current DA has a sympathetic ear. Yet I also know that other exonerated defendants had DNA tests pointing directly to a different person, found in their criminal DNA database from other crimes.
 
I'm of the opinion that being wrongly incarcerated is probably near the top of the cruelest thing the State can do to a person.

302 [Poke poke poke poke]

303

Ah yes, because cars aren't expensive enough yet.

You would not believe the moonbat who is on the 'pro' side of this nonsense.  What a fucking moron.

304 DeMint voted against the food safety bill and the call for cloture on it.

305 Anyone else listening to this crap on Laura Ingrahm about mandatory back-up cameras on ALL automobiles?

Too bad the government won't just let us use EM rays to maneuver us through the space/time continuum to a point where the thing we're about to hit is no longer there.

306 295 Fox news just reported the blackbirds were killed by blunt force trauma.
Posted by: Ed Anger

bird 300 feet in the air + death + gravity + solid blunt object (Earth) = blunt force trauma.

If you died of a heart attack while skydiving and forgot to pull the chute, the coroner would likely miss the heart attack part.

Just sayin.

307

Gummy bears are a pork product! Yes, itÂ’s true! The Germanians render pigs into sweeties! ThatÂ’s where the distinctive gumminess comes from.

308 mornin, fags

309

bird 300 feet in the air + death + gravity + solid blunt object (Earth) = blunt force trauma.

He fell on a knife...four times.

310 Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 04, 2011 11:42 AM (1Jaio)

Where are his disciples? They lead him in, but he just does the rest.

311 You see what your support/indifference of socially-liberal policies has wrought? Losers.

312 On that stupid bill to require back up cameras in autos because stupid people run over their own kids on occasion; it didn't have much chance of passing during the last congress. Since all unpassed bills die at the end of a congress if people still want it, it must be redrafted and resubmitted.

It pretty much now has zero chance of passing.

313 319 Anyone else listening to this crap on Laura Ingrahm about mandatory back-up cameras on ALL automobiles?

Posted by: garrett on Jeopardy at January 04, 2011 11:43 AM (51Lv9)

Add another couple of grand to base price of all new cars. Then add a new statute charging you with criminal negligence for not checking your camera.

What could go wrong?

314

mornin, fags

I miss smoking.

315 I thought Blunt was from Missouri.

316 331 mornin, fags Posted by: Soothsayer the magician at January 04, 2011 Mornin', Sooth! Why is everyone so grouchy today?

317 Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 04, 2011 11:42 AM (1Jaio)

Where are his disciples? They lead him in, but he just does the rest.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at January 04, 2011 11:50 AM (LH6ir)

 

Exactly and he's got crazy flipper fingers. Never seen him fall

318 264 Nurse friend of mine ran into a "La - a" - Pronounced "La-Dash-Uh".
_________

I wonder of Ladasha gets annoyed at folks who misspell his/her/its name as "la-hyphen-a".

319

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at January 04, 2011 11:50 AM (LH6ir)

That hearing, speaking, vision impaired youth, sure participates well on an antiquated machine.

320 327 DeMint voted against the food safety bill and the call for cloture on it.

Posted by: Vic at January 04, 2011 11:47 AM (M9Ie6)

But ultimately it passed after his bribe campaign contribution.

http://tinyurl.com/24pbb2o 

Jim DeMint – R SC – Bribe For: $149,935 – Against: $5,000

It passed with unanimous consent. Funny that.

321

I wonder of Ladasha gets annoyed at folks who misspell his/her/its name as "la-hyphen-a".

First word out of my mouth was, " It's a  hyphen! ".

Her reply : "Not in the Trailer park it isn't.".

322 So if Yahoo News is any indication, the liberal media is ramping up the bullshit - Barky's approval rating supposedly over 50% and Everybody is like so totally ready to tax the rich and all our problems will just go poof!

323 I resent this whole making fun of names thing.

324

But they get to really tick lots of people off by trying to take control of their words and try to make them feel guilty and as if they're nasty, evil people for just being normal.

Hallelujah!  You are preaching to the choir.

The evolution and study of language has always interested me.  Heh, when I was in college one of my courses dealt with persuasive rhetoric, and one of the classes focused on so-called "God words."  God words are those terms that are considered inviolate in the social consciousness.  Calling them into question or straying from their traditionally established narratives are good ways to get yourself shunned in "polite" society.  This would be along the lines of someone using the term "Nazi" in a positive manner ("Oooh, that dress she's wearing is awesome.  It's so NAZI!").  When my professor asked for examples, NO ONE else in the room (there were about 20 of us, all seniors) offered any, so I gave him a laundry list:

Affirmative action
Feminism
Global Warming
Etc, etc

The looks on my classmates' faces were PRICELESS.  It was pretty obvious that none of them had ever even considered that there could be more than one side to any of those ideas.  Which, considering we were all going to be graduating and heading out into the workforce within a year, was a pretty depressing thought.  That was back in 2001/2002, though - since then, this old slew of "God words" has been replaced with newer, sexier terms.

Old hat: Racist
New Hotness: Islamophobe

325 Barky's approval rating supposedly over 50%

The less power he has, the more popular he becomes. 

The other Queen is really popular, too. 

326 For some reason, I have a sudden desire to buy sunglasses. 

327 One of you morons top this for weirdest start to New Year's Day evah:

Husband and I are sound asleep.  At 8:00 a.m. the doorbell rang.  WTF?  D'oh goes to the door and a strange acting young woman asks him his name.  He tells her, and asks her name.  She answers "Ashley".  I stagger down the hall in my favorite pink jammies with yellow ducks, and see the woman as she points to our Christmas flag flying at the front of the house, and demands to know, "What is the significance of that flag?"  D'oh tells her, "It's a Christmas Santa flag."  Then he tells her she woke us and bids her goodbye.

You can't even see the flag from the street, as our house sits back a good way.  She had to walk all the way up our drive to get a half-way decent look at what it was.

Chick had "issues" with our decorations. 

328 The best part about these sunglasses is that both the sexes can wear them.

Woohoo!

329 Buy BADASSS sunglasses.

330 195

The mass animal deaths are accompanied by a strong scent of elderberries.


Yourrrrrrrrr mother was a hamsterrrrrr....

331 I named my children Chlamydia, Hepatitis, Aquanetta and D'Crisco.

332 D'oh - casing, seeing if somebody was home

333 355 The best part about these sunglasses is that both the sexes can wear them.

Woohoo!
Posted by: Society of Hermaphrodite Equality at January 04, 2011 12:02 PM (264lw)

At the same time!?

334 Mega Millions up to $330 mil.  It's mine, bitches!

335 Praise gaia!  Rush is back!

336

D'oh - casing, seeing if somebody was home

Sounds more like a Tripper that wandered off from a New Year's Eve Bash.

Used to happen a lot in every college town I lived near.

 

337 My brother-in-law's family is friends with a couple who named their child Nawlege.

I had an uncle who taught twins named Murine and Urine.


I have to confess to a habit of watching college games that I don't care about just for the entertainment of hearing the oddball players' names, and I proactively denounce myself.

338

First word out of my mouth was, " It's a  hyphen! ".

Her reply : "Not in the Trailer park it isn't.".

If I were that girl, I'd wait until I was old enough to hire a lawyer, and sue my parents for being idiots of the highest order.  Like that girl in New Zealand a few years ago whose parents named her (no joke), "Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii."  She got herself made a ward of the state so she could legally change it.  Shows a lot of prescience for a nine year old.

 How much weed do you have to be smoking to think that naming your child something that monstrously stupid is a GOOD IDEA?  Children are not pets.  Do not name your son "Mr. Whiskers" unless you're ready to foot the psychiatry bills.

339 We live in a gated community.  If the bitch comes back, I'm calling security.  A friend thinks she might be an autistic adult daughter of someone in the neighborhood.  Still, weird way to wake up on New Year's Day. 

As my husband said later, what if our kid was deployed?  We would have had heart attacks hearing the doorbell ring like that.

340 358 I named my children Chlamydia, Hepatitis, Aquanetta and D'Crisco. Do they have cousins named Noxema and LaSchwinger?

341 I'm making lemoncello and orangecello today.  Hope it doesn't give anyone any ideas for baby names.

342 Posted by: GnuBreed at January 04, 2011 11:46 AM (h0RtZ)

I think you're missing what I'm saying.

Let's turn this around: if, now, 31 years after the fact, the DA had said: "whoops, we just re-tested the DNA and got a match to [New Suspect]," his Forensics lab would say: "no we didn't.  At least, not with enough certainty to take it trial."  If he tried to force the issue, then whichever of them drew the short straw and had to take the stand would be demolished on cross when they had to say "Well, the sample is from 1979, and we didn't really know a whole lot about preserving DNA back then..." and the evidence would either be thrown out by the judge or largely ignored by the jury.

Also, you can't say he wasn't there, just because he wasn't nice enough to leave any DNA that you found.  1) It could have been there any the officer at the time just missed it (it happens).  2) People wear gloves and assorted other accouterments for a variety of reasons, and sometimes a happy (for them) accident is that it also prevents leaving behind any testable DNA.

Let's say a woman is raped and goes to police.  The cops scrape her fingernails and find skin there.  There is nothing, necessarily, that says that skin is from her attacker.  He could have worn clothing preventing him from getting scratched, for instance, or bound her so she couldn't scratch him.  That would require some other explanation for the skin, but it would not exclude anyone as a suspect.  (Yes, if she says she scratched him, and they find a guy with scratches on his face, arms, &c. that would include him very strongly, but just the existence of DNA evidence doesn't, by itself, exclude anyone).

The point here is that DNA isn't really evidence, any more than a bloody rag is evidence, out of context.  There are lots of reasons people have rags with blood on them around the house.  My dad has several- they're mostly for cleanup around the workshop/garage, but when he cuts himself he'll use the closest thing he can find to hold against the cut until he gets inside to wash it and put on a bandage.  If there's only a little blood (ie: it's not completely soaked) then he keeps it: no reason not to.

So, without knowing more than what was reported (what evidence was entered at trial, what testimony was given, etc.) I can't say if he was wrongly convicted or not.  What I can say, with certainty, was the DNA evidence did not "prove" that he didn't do it- it only proved that he wasn't the one who left that particular piece of DNA.

343 Obama prayer leads to sergeant being suspended

344 I want to start a band called The Tears of John Boehner.

345 My husband's oldest cousin was interning in a large urban hospital.  He asked a baby momma what her daughter's name was, and she responded, "Femalay".  He asked where she came up with the name and she pointed to the baby's ID bracelet, "female".  Swear to God this is true.

346 I have to confess to a habit of watching college g ames that I don't care about just for the entertainment of hearing the oddball players' names, and I proactively denounce myself.

Posted by: Wodeshed at January 04, 2011 12:08 PM (0aAJI)

I've often been of the opinion that a lot of football players become football players so they can beat up the kids who used to pick on them because of their names.  No way you get through childhood with a name like "Thigpen" without having every other kid in class calling you "Pigpen" before you've even finished day one of first grade.

347 371 Obama prayer leads to sergeant being suspended File under "Dissent no longer patriotic."

348 She changed it to "La - a".

Posted by: iknowtheleft at January 04, 2011 12:12 PM (G/MYk)

You're going to have to buy me a new keyboard.  I just laugh-spewed Coke all over mine.

349 New Black Panther Party?
Posted by: CDR M

...case dismissed

350 My wife had a football player/student named Cheadrick, who pronounced his name as "Cedric". Why bother with all the extra letters/confusion?

351 Laura Ingrahm about mandatory back-up cameras on ALL automobiles?

Yeah, the caller who told the lady to stuff her mandate since he'd never had an accident and drives responsibly. Her response, he can't guarantee he'll never have an accident. AS IF her mandated gimmick will guarantee he'll never have an accident.

352 Sioghelldunh. A new spelling for Sheldon.

353 383 Sioghelldunh. A new spelling for Sheldon.

Posted by: George Orwell at January 04, 2011 12:24 PM (AZGON)

Please, PLEASE tell me that's a joke.  I just can't tell anymore.

354 Isn't that kind of taken already with Tears For Fears? Posted by: CDR M No, that was Steers, Beers n Queers.

355 344 327 DeMint voted against the food safety bill and the call for cloture on it.

Posted by: Vic at January 04, 2011 11:47 AM (M9Ie6)

But ultimately it passed after his bribe campaign contribution.

http://tinyurl.com/24pbb2o 

Jim DeMint – R SC – Bribe For: $149,935 – Against: $5,000

It passed with unanimous consent. Funny that.

Posted by: Barbarian at January 04, 2011 11:56 AM (EL+OC)

I'm confuzzled.  This list says DeMint didn't vote for it.

356 Please, PLEASE tell me that's a joke.  I just can't tell anymore. Huh? What do you mean?

357 <sup>Ms. Francis, who had a diagnosis of lung cancer in 2007 and underwent surgery and chemotherapy, died from complications of pancreatic cancer at a retirement home in Santa Barbara, Calif.

Interview in which Ann Francis asks for and smokes a cigarette:

http://tinyurl.com/2f9m9e8

Thanks, all you cigarette manufacturing bastards for taking Ann Francis from us.</sup>

358 Maybe there was a time travel experiment and someone killed a bird in the past, and then X amount a years later into the present day all the future generations spawned by that one bird all died at once because they technically don't exist anymore. It would explain how it was just one species of bird.


yeah I know, too much sci-fi channel. lol

359 381 ...Why bother with all the extra letters/confusion?

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 04, 2011 12:19 PM (ON0+x)

Specifically to annoy appointment secretaries who have to look up information in computerized databases, and have to sift through a zillion different spellings of the name "Catherine" before they get the right person.

SEC'Y: Okay, ma'am, may I have your first and last name?
CALLER: Catherine Smith
SEC'Y: *after finding three dozen variations of "Catherine Smith" in the patient database* Do you spell your first name with a C or a K, ma'am?
CALLER: K.
SEC'Y: Is that "K-A-T-H-E-R-I-N-E," or "K-A-T-H-R-Y-N"?
CALLER: Actually, it's K-A-T-U-R-Y-H-N.
SEC'Y: *sigh* Of course it is.

*sets up appointment*

*Caller hangs up*

*Phone rings again*

SEC'Y: Hello, ACME Botanical Spa, how may I direct your call?
MALE CALLER: I need to set up an appointment.
SEC'Y: Okay, sir, I can do that for you.  May I have your name?
MALE CALLER: Cedric Johnson.
SEC'Y: And are you currently a member of the spa's loyalty program?
MALE CALLER: Yep.
SEC'Y: *searching*  I'm sorry, sir, I can't find your name in the system. How do you spell it?
MALE CALLER: J-O-H-N-S-O-N.
SEC'Y: *still searching* Still no luck, sir.  *gets a bad feeling* Sir, how do you spell your first name?
MALE CALLER: C-H-E-A-D-R-I-C-K.
SEC'Y: *sigh* Of course you do.

360 386 344 327 

I'm confuzzled.  This list says DeMint didn't vote for it.

Posted by: RushBabe at January 04, 2011 12:27 PM (urYpw)

I are confused now as well?

361

390 Maybe there was a time travel experiment and someone killed a bird in the past, and then X amount a years later into the present day all the future generations spawned by that one bird all died at once because they technically don't exist anymore. It would explain how it was just one species of bird.

I like the cut of your jib, sir.

362 Posted by: RushBabe at January 04, 2011 12:27 PM (urYpw)

There were actually two votes, one in Nov and one in Dec. In Nov DeMint voted against cloture and against the bill after cloture was achieved. The bill was passed but had to go back to the House.

It was amended again in the House to exempt small farms and sent back to the Senate. Once the small farms were exempted they passed it via voice vote, unanimous meaning no record of votes.

DeMint simply ceased fighting against it.

363 Huh? What do you mean?

Posted by: Myke Hunnte at January 04, 2011 12:27 PM (AZGON)

HA. HA.  That one I can see.

Though it makes me wonder about all the REAL Mike Hunts out there (you know they exist).  They must have REALLY been teased in school.

One last odd name story.  My co-worker's best friends have the last name "Trout."  Their first child was a daughter, and they named her "Brooke."

Put it together.

364

Posted by: MWR at January 04, 2011 12:42 PM (4df7R)

Better than "rainbow", "brown", or "lake".

365 385 - CDR M, just catching up from last night. Nice piece at the Clarion Advisory. Thanks for all your hard work on the ONT, btw.

366 stupid update moved the frogger game off the list.

367

I miss smoking.

Posted by: garrett

me, too...it's been since september for me

368 has this been covered? http://tinyurl.com/2be2b8f

369 Historical trivia, 140 years ago this week, the successful Waco suspension bridge over the Brazos preceded the Brooklyn Bridge construction.

370 RIP Anne Francis, Gerry Rafferty, and John Wheeler III.

371 stupid update moved the frogger game off the list.

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