March 25, 2012
— Maetenloch
The Real Story of the Murder of Kitty Genovese
On March 13, 1964 Kitty Genovese, then 28 years old, was stabbed to death in Queens, New York by serial killer Winston Mosely. It became an infamous episode when the NY Times published a front page story accusing the neighbors of standing by while she was stabbed to death.
Apathy at Stabbing of Queens Woman Shocks Inspector
For more than half an hour 38 respectable, law-abiding citizens in Queens watched a killer stalk and stab a woman in three separate attacks in Kew Gardens.Twice the sound of their voices and the sudden glow of their bedroom lights interrupted him and frightened him off. Each time he returned, sought her out and stabbed her again. Not one person telephoned the police during the assault; one witness called after the woman was dead.
But there are so many inaccuracies in just the first two paragraphs - things that Martin Gansberg should have known were untrue - that it ought to constitute a case of journalistic malpractice.
Yet for years this incident was used to shame Americans for being hard-hearted and reluctant to get involved. There were even entire psychological theories created to explain the neighbors' behavior. But most of what we know about the case is almost certainly wrong.
In fact Christopher Taylor points out how wrong the very first three sentences are:
The problem is, while there were 38 people living in these apartments, only a few actually had a window on the street side where they could see or hear what was happening. It was three in the morning, so most of them were in deep REM sleep and probably didn't hear a thing.
And it turns out that no one actually saw the entire attack and that the police were called. Plus this happened just down the street from a bar known for its routine late night rowdiness:
She was only attacked twice, once inside where no one could see her. Timing is critical as well. Anyone who woke up to her screams would have taken time to get up and look out the window. By that time, they would have just seen a girl staggering down the street at 3 in the morning as a Corvair sped off.
The few witnesses who were awakened by the attack claimed they thought it was some domestic disturbance or a fight spilling out of the Old Bailey bar, not an unreasonable response. If you were awakened at 3 in the morning by shouts, how likely would you be to strap on your superman outfit and dash into the streets?
You can read more here.
One thing that people don't realize is how fast and undramatic violence can be. When I was younger I once saw a man get stabbed just a few feet away from me. It happened so quick that it took my brain a few seconds to verify that a knife really had gone into that guys chest. And there wasn't a lot of screaming or as much blood as you'd expect. It was nothing like the movies and if I'd been a neighbor looking out the window at the noise, I would have just assumed it was some drunken guys being rowdy.
Low Turnout in the GOP Primaries
So Republican primary voters are depressed by the prospects of Romney as candidate and a loss to Obama in 2012 and haven't been showing up to vote right?
Well not in IL:
Romney actually won more votes in Illinois than John McCain did in 2008 and the number of Republican voters who went to the polls also exceeded turnout four years ago.While turnout in Chicago apparently was extremely low, that wasn't the case for the entire state. Republican turnout was about 2.5% higher compared to four years ago, based on the latest state returns.The Republican vote also surpassed the primary totals in 2004 and 2000.
And not true in general - GOP turnout is actually up in most states - especially the ones we most need to win in the general:
A strong majority of the most competitive races, meanwhile, have actually seen turnout increase since 2008, including Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Michigan, Ohio, Alabama, Mississippi and Illinois. Of those states, only Mississippi wasn't also competitive in 2008.The takeaway: When there is major vote in a competitive race, Republicans are turning out to vote - at a rate slightly higher than they did four years ago.
Various trends and predictions from John Durant. I agree with most of these and even the ones I'm not sure of are at least plausible:
- More and more mysterious conditions will be tied to pathogens.
- The rise in antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria and new viruses will be the most serious threats to human health over the coming decades.
- The rise in resistant or virulent strains of disease will cause a political shift in favor of conservative politicians and values. Their decline will cause a shift in favor of liberal politicians and values.
- The rise in personal measurement (and genomics) will continue to disappoint, as people realize that motivating good behavior is a harder problem than understanding bad behavior.
- We are nearing peak misandry (hatred of men or boys). More people are waking up to the fact that our nation's divorce and custody laws are wildly biased in favor of women, create incentives for women to divorce
- Schools, curriculum, and teaching methods have been structured in a way that don't motivate men.
- Homeschooling will continue to rise, particularly as online learning improves.
Good News: 3D Movies Won't Cost Extra at the Theaters
The bad news - they're going to raise the ticket price for 2D movies to make up the difference.
Among the bigger changes will probably see the 3D-upcharge disappear. 3D charges will help increase the overall ticket-price but, as an industry, I think we'll see a blend begin to emerge in 2012, where patrons will have a single price for both 2D and 3D films. 2D prices will increase and 3D prices will decrease.
And it turns out that the 3D of the 50's was more or less the same as what we have now:
When we picture 1950s movie audiences enjoying 3-D classics like Robot Monster or Gorilla at Large, we tend to imagine them wearing those glasses with two colored lenses, usually red-and-blue or red-and-green. ...But by the time Bwana Devil launched the 1950s 3-D fad, studios had switched to a full-color Polaroid technology using polarized lenses. That's right: it was essentially the same technology theaters still use today. Cat-Women of the Moon's 3-D was more or less the same as Avatar's!
So you've seen this warning phrase on on the jar of p-nitroanline but always wondered exactly what they meant. Well let this video answer your question especially the part around 1:20:
5 Things You Don't Learn About High School Until Too Late
Luckily for me my parents always made it clear that 'these are the greatest days of your life' was a huge lie, and that every person I saw and every thing I did at school was somebody else's choice so of course I'd be annoyed. So my expectations were kept realistic.
And not only are your classmates generally full of shit but also many of your teachers are as well:
These people are, after all, only human, and low-paid humans at that. They may be trying their best. But when you're a kid, you don't realize that your teachers aren't necessarily any wiser than the average person, and may in fact be undergoing medication for numerous mental illnesses.
And then there are the pep rallies which were always the one high school activity that absolutely baffled the foreign exchange students:
Most pep rallies are phrased as "We're all here to get our team pumped up and ready for tonight's game." But does it make sense to pull hundreds of people out of class to cheer for 10 basketball players several hours before the game even starts? The reason it doesn't is because what they're saying isn't entirely the truth. It's not so much about "team spirit" as it is "please buy a ticket and some popcorn and some sodas and some team merchandise." They're not trying to get the team pumped up. They're trying to get you pumped up, because the games need to make money.
Bizarre High Heel Designs by Kobi Levi
Mostly objets d'art but some look practical and attractive.
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The group. Yeah.
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Posted by: HolyMan at March 25, 2012 06:33 PM (uhPd1)
Posted by: USS Diversity at March 25, 2012 06:36 PM (vpe0k)
Posted by: Ronster at March 25, 2012 06:38 PM (T1nDt)
Posted by: AltonJackson has actually accomplished something at March 25, 2012 06:39 PM (JMmQ9)
http://tinyurl.com/7sxvkxk
Posted by: fluffy at March 25, 2012 10:37 PM
That is so cool!
Posted by: mama winger at March 25, 2012 06:39 PM (P6QsQ)
I was listening to this;
http://tinyurl.com/nw9zxn
on Pandora (better sound quality then the link to youtube) and not only did I like it, but I noticed that ethereal quality. I can't quite place it, and obviously I've had the experience before with music, but why does music of this type have that specific quality?
Posted by: 18-1 at March 25, 2012 06:40 PM (3aXbg)
Posted by: model_1066 at March 25, 2012 06:41 PM (PWwbk)
That explosive polymerization reaction was interesting. It looks like a solidified column of smoke.
I wonder what chemjeff thinks of the video?
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop at March 25, 2012 06:42 PM (M0NzJ)
Posted by: Conservative Crank at March 25, 2012 06:42 PM (1zwZo)
The murder of Kitty Genovese?
Explosive polymers?
3D movies?
The anxiety of high school?
Is there a common thread that ties this all together? Throw me a bone here, people.
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes.... at March 25, 2012 06:42 PM (sJTmU)
Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 06:43 PM (Usk3+)
Posted by: fluffy at March 25, 2012 06:43 PM (z9HTb)
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This is why we should be supporting the breakup and federalization of states, not conglomerations like the EU.
Being able to take your capital, skills, and knowledge and vote with your feet is a powerful check on governments, and liberalism.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 25, 2012 06:44 PM (3aXbg)
Posted by: sistrum at March 25, 2012 06:44 PM (AyryN)
I'd still hit it like a car stalled on a bullet train track
So would you
Posted by: kbdabear at March 25, 2012 06:44 PM (Y+DPZ)
Posted by: model_1066 at March 25, 2012 06:44 PM (PWwbk)
Posted by: packsoldier at March 25, 2012 06:45 PM (9tLNI)
Crank @ 15
I take it you are talking about a shotgun, used to shoot deer slugs, and then loading it with shot? What size shotgun is it?
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes.... at March 25, 2012 06:46 PM (sJTmU)
Posted by: Conservative Crank at March 25, 2012 10:42 PM (1zwZo)
Unless it's Steel and the Slug Barrel is old, you'll be fine.
Posted by: garrett at March 25, 2012 06:46 PM (8Yqrz)
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So Japan will save the world with their robots?
It is funny growing up it was all mechs and transformers in my Japanese cartoons. Who knew we were going to get fembots from Japan and the actual combat robots from the US?
Posted by: 18-1 at March 25, 2012 06:46 PM (3aXbg)
Teachers are not low-paid. My ex-s-i-l makes $50,000 for a 9 month work year. She'd probably be able to make more in the private sector, but how many private sector jobs give you June, July and half of August off?
Posted by: huerfano at March 25, 2012 06:47 PM (bAGA/)
Posted by: Conservative Crank at March 25, 2012 06:47 PM (1zwZo)
Posted by: Someone needed to say it at March 25, 2012 06:47 PM (F79HU)
I also read that Trayvon Martin Lurther King was only 100 yards from his father's condo when he started running
Not someone who was chased and gunned down if those two items are true
Posted by: kbdabear at March 25, 2012 06:48 PM (Y+DPZ)
@16
CC:
I'm not a big shotgunner but I seem recall that a slug barrel doesn't have a choke. Therefore, shooting shot shouldn't be a problem. I know we shot both slugs and buckshot out of our issue shotguns.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop at March 25, 2012 06:48 PM (M0NzJ)
Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 06:48 PM (Usk3+)
So would you
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There is a huge difference, so to speak, between a few extra pounds a la Hendricks and say the average Obamette. The former is "curvy" the latter is more spherical.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 25, 2012 06:48 PM (3aXbg)
Posted by: garrett at March 25, 2012 06:48 PM (8Yqrz)
DC in Towson sends his regards, as he won't be around this evening.
Posted by: Tammy al' Bossy Boots at March 25, 2012 06:49 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Truman North at March 25, 2012 06:50 PM (I2LwF)
I'm sure a music major moron will be able to answer that succinctly and correctly but my guess is the balance between the minor and majors, the orchestral arrangement which lends it sell to harmony, and lots and lots of echo.
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] at March 25, 2012 06:50 PM (qOfw/)
Posted by: AltonJackson has an opinion at March 25, 2012 06:50 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Serious Cat at March 25, 2012 06:51 PM (2YIVk)
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You are forgetting winter break and all the fake holidays government employees get.
Teachers work about 180. Your average office worker somewhere around 240.
Converting for time worked, the average teacher's salary in the US is $76k.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 25, 2012 06:51 PM (3aXbg)
I haven't read anything new by Harlan in years. I have some of his early stuff. It used to piss him off mightily that his works were classed as sci-fi.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 25, 2012 06:52 PM (ccXZP)
Posted by: 18-1 at March 25, 2012 10:48 PM
Christina Hendricks is buxom
Meghan McCain and Adele are fat
Rosie O'Donnell is obese
Posted by: kbdabear at March 25, 2012 06:52 PM (Y+DPZ)
yeah here we go. lol
Posted by: Berserker at March 25, 2012 06:53 PM (FMbng)
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I've always been intrigued that the true hero of Watchman was a rightwing extremist.
Of course liberals never end up being quite as smart as they think they/Ozymandias are...
Posted by: 18-1 at March 25, 2012 06:53 PM (3aXbg)
Posted by: Chris at March 25, 2012 06:53 PM (XGZYX)
But that emotional, goosebump etherealness? I am inclined towards some kind of mystical explanation, it just sort of touches some part of your soul somehow.
Posted by: Tammy al' Thor at March 25, 2012 06:53 PM (SsG4J)
Are the vents clean or can they be adjusted on the shotgun? For a deer slug, it's usually "full choke" or closed vents that mean all the powder pushes the slug out the barrel.
For shot, that is usually adjustable in some ways, to affect the spread of shot or the type of shot used. The shot really doesn't diverge until it exits the barrel. Like garrett said, just don't use steel shot, as that may be 'way too hard on the bore after a couple of rounds, if it is an older gun. Check out a good gun store for real advice. Don't go into Columbus with that thing, though, unless you have a permit for that sucker - you'll get arrested . Drive out to Licking County or somewhere east of the city to have a gunshop guy check it out.
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes.... at March 25, 2012 06:54 PM (sJTmU)
OK, OK, since you are all dying to know...tonight's wine is a wonderful 2009 Masciarelli, Montepulciano D'Abruzzo.
...
And my feet are getting warm.
Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 06:54 PM (Usk3+)
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 25, 2012 06:55 PM (vUK/h)
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 25, 2012 06:55 PM (4q5tP)
You can shoot shot from a slug barrel all day every day with no harm. Only drawback is the pattern will be quite wild.
Posted by: irongrampa at March 25, 2012 06:55 PM (SAMxH)
I think there's an echo in here reverberating from last night
Posted by: someone at March 25, 2012 06:55 PM (bqjJT)
That Kitty Genovese crap made it into one of my high-school textbooks.
(Reason #4,530 that we home-school our kids.)
Posted by: Michael Rittenhouse at March 25, 2012 06:56 PM (2Oas0)
Posted by: Insomniac at March 25, 2012 06:56 PM (GjDnP)
1:35 PM White-ass Zimmerman ought to watch his back because we're coming to his house with guns
Posted by: Irony Deficient Facebook and TwitterLeftists at March 25, 2012 06:57 PM (Y+DPZ)
Posted by: OldDog at March 25, 2012 06:59 PM (tQYJH)
Michelle: Does this dress make my ass look big?
No, the dress definitely does not make your ass look fat.
Posted by: Truman North at March 25, 2012 06:59 PM (I2LwF)
Apparently we had a major Trayvon Martin rally here in the Seattle area today, complete with a family member ginning up outrageous outrage. It was at a church and then everyone marched in their hoodies to a park.
Ironically the commenters on the news website I read the story on seemed to be pretty much 10 to 1 not into the "Trayvon was a choir boy" story line.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at March 25, 2012 06:59 PM (RZ8pf)
CJB, I'd be going to either Buckeye Outdoors or NASR (AimHi) rather than anywhere downtown. I have a cop, an ex-cop, and ex-military all offering to teach me handguns and help me get or even run the CCP course. What I'm after right now, though, is the simple point and shoot interface for Mrs. Crank--if it hits the fan, retreat to the bedroom and blast anyone who opens the door. She's handled small guns before but never the 12 gauge. Of course, last time I handled live ammo was almost 20 years ago with a 20 gauge shooting at skeet as a Boy Scout...
Posted by: Conservative Crank at March 25, 2012 06:59 PM (1zwZo)
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Gee why did she only post head shots?
Posted by: Some Naive Moron at March 25, 2012 06:59 PM (3aXbg)
If you're in a hospital today and surgery is/was involved, this is already very much a problem.
Posted by: L Rob in OK at March 25, 2012 06:59 PM (7yvLv)
Of course liberals never end up being quite as smart as they think they/Ozymandias are...Posted by: 18-1
Supposedly Moore found that interpretation ridiculous to the point of calling Rorschach a 'psychopath.' Don't know, don't care. Moore is as Marxist as the come so the idea that his narrative has been stolen and refashioned strikes me as justice.
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] at March 25, 2012 07:00 PM (qOfw/)
Most ethereal pieces of music are in natural minor keys if I'm not mistaken.
I seem to recall that the Aeolian Mode (of a given Key) is usually described as such.
Posted by: garrett at March 25, 2012 07:00 PM (8Yqrz)
Posted by: Insomniac at March 25, 2012 07:01 PM (GjDnP)
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 25, 2012 07:01 PM (R5yLq)
Michelle: Does this dress make my ass look big?
Barack : Well, these Binoculars sure aren't helping!
Posted by: garrett at March 25, 2012 07:01 PM (8Yqrz)
I haven't read anything new by Harlan in years. I have some of his early stuff. It used to piss him off mightily that his works were classed as sci-fi.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 25, 2012 10:52 PM
Ellison is a dick, and not in a good way. Even when I liked sci-fi I hated his stuff, including A Boy and His Dog which is a piece of crap despite its big following.
Posted by: huerfano at March 25, 2012 07:01 PM (bAGA/)
Posted by: Benjamin at March 25, 2012 07:01 PM (uhPd1)
Posted by: Arbalest at March 25, 2012 07:01 PM (9Jdz8)
http://tinyurl.com/7f78enx
Posted by: kbdabear at March 25, 2012 07:02 PM (Y+DPZ)
Posted by: Truman North at March 25, 2012 07:02 PM (I2LwF)
Posted by: Conservative Crank at March 25, 2012 10:59 PM (1zwZo)
Crank, if things are that serious, maybe other measures are also in order, like a vacation out of town or a call to the local constable? Or a call to cousin Guido?
Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 07:02 PM (Usk3+)
I think Harlan Ellison is dead. So the correct terminology is "Harlan Ellison WAS a dick'
Yes he was.
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes.... at March 25, 2012 07:03 PM (sJTmU)
This, the "this is the best time in your life" more has to do with the duh fact that your still young and every little thing is magnified. College is a little better, but still filled with a lot of bullshit. Once you have to work for a living, life is a lot harder, but strangely more comforting, I can't explain it. I'm getting all introspective because I got a ten year high school reunion invite in the mail this weekend, still not going.
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at March 25, 2012 07:03 PM (tKFT6)
According to Winchester, steel shot does not cause damage to choke constriction over normal usage. Always presuming that the barrel is, of course sound.
So why would you wish to shoot shot through a slug barrel, if I may ask?
Posted by: irongrampa at March 25, 2012 07:03 PM (SAMxH)
Posted by: Truman North at March 25, 2012 07:03 PM (I2LwF)
Posted by: Nigel Tufnel at March 25, 2012 07:03 PM (4q5tP)
Definitely not used in the 50s as LCD was first invented at RCA in the 60s. They stupidly failed to pursue it because it was perceived as potentially unwanted competition for existing TV designs. Incredibly stupid for a technology company. Always seek to be your own competition before someone else is and you don't own that product.
Instead of RCA cashing in, serious development of LCD had to wait for the patents to expire.
Posted by: epobirs at March 25, 2012 07:04 PM (kcfmt)
L Rob...I agree. So many antibiotics in our food. I heard that once you have pneumonia that you never really lose it?
Posted by: Benjamin at March 25, 2012 07:04 PM (uhPd1)
Posted by: Ohio Dan at March 25, 2012 07:05 PM (JKNDp)
would be better. Bird-shot would be just as effective at cross-room range; #4 is far more likely to punch holes in the sheetrock and do great damage on the other side of the wall.Posted by: AltonJackson has a question at March 25, 2012 07:06 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Nigel Tufnel at March 25, 2012 11:03 PM (4q5tP)
...
That's the original key of "I Put A Spell On You" by Screamin' Jay Hawkins, if memory serves.
Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 07:07 PM (Usk3+)
Yes he was. Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes.... at March 25, 2012 11:03 PM
Not dead yet, so still a dick. Although, probably not with a functional dick. He's 77.
Posted by: huerfano at March 25, 2012 07:07 PM (bAGA/)
Yes he was.
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes.... at March 25, 2012 11:03 PM (sJTmU)
According to Wikipedia he's still alive. And still very much litigious.
So expect your C and D letter shortly.
Posted by: Mætenloch at March 25, 2012 07:07 PM (+B3Nr)
Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 11:07 PM (Usk3+)
Let's all sing "Kyle's Mom Is A Stupid Bitch In D Minor" - Cartman
Posted by: model_1066 at March 25, 2012 07:08 PM (PWwbk)
I picked Syracuse ton win the tournament.
My daughter picked Indiana.
My son picked Kansas.
So... I guess we root for Kansas
I'm done, good night.
Posted by: Truman North at March 25, 2012 07:09 PM (I2LwF)
Posted by: Tammy al' Thor at March 25, 2012 07:09 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Benjamin at March 25, 2012 07:09 PM (uhPd1)
I heard that once you have pneumonia that you never really lose it?
Benjamin, I don't know about that but those with pneumonia seem to be prone to reinfection.
The methycillin resistant stuff that shows up in the body cavity seems to be the most persistent and virulent. My best friend nearly lost his wife to one of those a few years back, after surgery for a bowel disfunction.
Posted by: L Rob in OK at March 25, 2012 07:09 PM (7yvLv)
Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 07:09 PM (Usk3+)
Good thing there wasn't any armed, gun happy Zimmerman type Hispanic on the street when Kitty Genovese was raped and stabbed in two separate episodes before she finally bled out and died.
Posted by: Ed Anger - Certified Kos Kid at March 25, 2012 07:09 PM (7+pP9)
Hmm, I can see. I have only seen the movie where we were lead to believe that Night Owl was trying to reconstruct an old-fashioned version of the hero in his mentor's image, the original Night Owl.
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] at March 25, 2012 07:10 PM (qOfw/)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 25, 2012 07:10 PM (piMMO)
The problem isn't antibiotics in our food.
The problem is evolution. Bacteria adapting to resist antibiotics. Antibiotics have been around since the late 30's (sulfa drugs), then penicillin (a bunch of varieties), the erithromycins (variations again), cyclosporins, etc.
Every time one is used, it is another chance for bacteria to mutate to resist it. It was only a matter of time before strains of virulent bacteria would become resistant to antibiotics. Scary but true. Hospitals are the worst. There are really virulent strains of staph and streptococcus bacteria present in hospitals, because of all the concentration of disease and uneven efforts at sanitization and sterilization that take place.
And anti-biotics have no effect on viruses, and never did.
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes.... at March 25, 2012 07:11 PM (sJTmU)
And, where Rs aren't turning out in high numbers I would bet that the attitude is more along the lines of Who cares? As long as it isn't Obama, I'm voting for him in the general.
That's what I was thinking anytime I heard low turnout numbers. I almot stayed home myself on primary day.
Posted by: USS Diversity at March 25, 2012 07:11 PM (vpe0k)
I for one, as the mother of a boy, will be happy when the degrading of men and boys stops. I swear it is everywhere now, from television commercials where boys are portrayed as stupid losers, to the way they are depicted on children's shows, to how they are treated in school.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at March 25, 2012 07:11 PM (RZ8pf)
hmmm, wiki doesn't seem to know he is dead. I'm just sayin'.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 25, 2012 07:11 PM (ccXZP)
Tomorrow is a big supreme court vote on Obamacare. How much is at stake? My friend said the poorest americans do not want Obamacare because they already get great free medical care! We pay for these poor republicans getting free medical he said.
Posted by: Benjamin at March 25, 2012 07:12 PM (uhPd1)
Posted by: model_1066 at March 25, 2012 07:12 PM (PWwbk)
Posted by: t-bird at March 25, 2012 07:13 PM (FcR7P)
Latest data shows more men/boys entering mental hospitals than woman/girls.
Posted by: Benjamin at March 25, 2012 07:13 PM (uhPd1)
Posted by: AltonJackson goes "Gran Torino" at March 25, 2012 07:13 PM (JMmQ9)
And anti-biotics have no effect on viruses, and never did.
But they sure as hell get prescribed for viruses, don't they? This may be the biggest contributor to antibiotic resistance in the US, IMO.
Posted by: L Rob in OK at March 25, 2012 07:13 PM (7yvLv)
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 25, 2012 07:14 PM (vUK/h)
Posted by: t-bird at March 25, 2012 07:14 PM (FcR7P)
So I went to pull on some work gloves. Now, these are nice deerskin work gloves, nothing fancy, ten bucks at some large hardware store, but they fit just right. Pulled on the left one. Wanting to keep my wound protected, I tried to pull on the left one, over that thin latex glove.
Couldn't do it. The latex grabs onto the glove, and the extra thickness, however minimal, makes a big difference.
At some point I realized what I was doing: trying to pull on a glove that fit me perfectly over a thin latex glove, finally realizing that the thing was impossible, and my only thought was:
Cochran, you tricky lying bastard!
Posted by: Splunge at March 25, 2012 07:14 PM (2IW5Q)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy aka st tits at March 25, 2012 07:15 PM (iDWQr)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 25, 2012 11:10 PM (piMMO)
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Indeed. I'm not missing my last chance to vote against that idiot. I'm watching the race, but the outcome won't determine my eventual vote. That's set in stone.
Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 07:15 PM (Usk3+)
Amen, PGiS. I am sick of it, too.
I grew up with mostly boys and I love 'em. And I love men, real men.
Posted by: Tammy al' Thor at March 25, 2012 07:15 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: huerfano
I read a few years ago that he was terminally ill with cancer and he had stopped writing so that there wouldn't be any half-written crap lying around that would be published posthumously. I thought by now he would have kicked off.
I'm wrong all over the place tonight. I guessed I picked a bad week to stop sniffing glue.
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes.... at March 25, 2012 07:15 PM (sJTmU)
Hunting duck tomorrow. Anybody want to come?
Posted by: TedNugent at March 25, 2012 07:16 PM (uhPd1)
It could just mean you're a dick wad and people hate you.
Posted by: Inspired by disgust at March 25, 2012 07:16 PM (CP+yl)
I swear it is everywhere now, from television commercials where boys are portrayed as stupid losers
I'll second that. I've been keeping a mental record of commercials that portray men (and, understanding the risk in saying this), especially white men as dumbasses. The "normal" persons in the ads tend to be women or minority group members.
But, heck, maybe I'm just being paranoid.
Posted by: L Rob in OK at March 25, 2012 07:16 PM (7yvLv)
What I see is a massive effort to centralize control of education, a massive effort to legally and socially emasculate men, a massive effort to vastly increase college enrollments (bankrolled by the taxpayers).
Posted by: Trimegistus at March 25, 2012 07:17 PM (v9Kjt)
http://tinyurl.com/7f78enx
*******
Interesting. Not such an innocent looking little boy, eh?
Angela Corey is from Jax and takes no prisoners....well, actually, she takes many, many prisoners! The chick is hard core. The Duval County jail is well above capacity and the libs have been freaking the eff out about what a hard ass she is. It was a show of brilliance for Governor Scott to appoint her special prosecutor. If Zimmerman is guilty, she'll nail his ass. If not, then the nuts are going to leave skid marks reversing direction to claim she's soft on crime.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 25, 2012 07:17 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: t-bird at March 25, 2012 07:17 PM (FcR7P)
What a funny sight, all our ice cream shops opened early, due to the early warm--just in time for the temps to go seasonal again, so you have people sitting at benches in their winter coats licking ice cream cones.
Posted by: irongrampa at March 25, 2012 07:17 PM (SAMxH)
Posted by: TedNugent at March 25, 2012 11:13 PM (uhPd1)
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I love animals, they taste delicious!
...
Ted's sticker on my bass case.
Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 07:17 PM (Usk3+)
Posted by: Al Bundy at March 25, 2012 07:17 PM (vUK/h)
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at March 25, 2012 07:17 PM (TCgGe)
Posted by: Raceafn at March 25, 2012 07:18 PM (591fX)
greatest days of your life' was a huge lie, and that every person I saw
and every thing I did at school was somebody else's choice so of course
I'd be annoyed.
This, the "this is the best time in your life" more has to do with the duh fact that your still young and every little thing is magnified. College is a little better, but still filled with a lot of bullshit. Once you have to work for a living, life is a lot harder, but strangely more comforting, I can't explain it. I'm getting all introspective because I got a ten year high school reunion invite in the mail this weekend, still not going.
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at March 25, 2012 11:03 PM (tKFT6)
The "best time in your life" idea comes from the simple fact there are a lot of people who are big shots in high school that don't come anywhere near that sort of position or status afterwards.
If you got a good career and family afterwards, who cares about high school? In fact, if you got a job that required studying your ass off in school, you're more likely to have hated high school because that didn't count for anything on the popularity totem pole. You were more likely to be towards the bottom of it.
However, if you could have had any girl you wanted in high school, if you were at the top of the totem pole but didn't get a good job afterwards (and there seems to be at least some sort of correlation there), if you looked down on a bunch of nerds in school and now see them making three or four times as much as you make--then, yeah, that was probably the best time in your life.
Posted by: AD at March 25, 2012 07:18 PM (BaM3X)
L Rob..you are right. White men are being portrayed as idiots.
Posted by: TedNugent at March 25, 2012 07:19 PM (uhPd1)
Posted by: Calyx dead thread head at March 25, 2012 07:19 PM (U/goY)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at March 25, 2012 07:19 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: Trimegistus at March 25, 2012 07:19 PM (v9Kjt)
Posted by: TedNugent at March 25, 2012 07:20 PM (uhPd1)
The "best time in your life" idea comes from the simple fact there are a lot of people who are big shots in high school that don't come anywhere near that sort of position or status afterwards.
I call it "Revenge of the Jocks." They were sports stars in high school, but that NFL career didn't quite play out.
Now they're the AC repairmen who go to special school to learn how to screw homeowners.
Posted by: Michael Rittenhouse at March 25, 2012 07:21 PM (2Oas0)
Posted by: t-bird at March 25, 2012 07:21 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: model_1066 at March 25, 2012 07:21 PM (PWwbk)
*****
My favorite bumper sticker ever:
If God didn't want us to eat animals, why are they made out of meat?
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 25, 2012 07:21 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Calyx dead thread head at March 25, 2012 11:19 PM (U/goY
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Hangs head...
Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 07:21 PM (Usk3+)
Jax is responsible for some major epicness.
Lynyrd Skynyrd, Chipper Jones, Tim Tebow and now Angela Corey.
Posted by: Tammy al' Thor at March 25, 2012 07:21 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Tammy al' Thor at March 25, 2012 11:15 PM
Yep, all my cousins who were close in age were boys and I have only brothers, so I got used to being around them and then worked mostly with men. I do hate those sensitive, no-balled hipster douchebags, though.
Posted by: huerfano at March 25, 2012 07:22 PM (bAGA/)
Posted by: TedNugent at March 25, 2012 11:20 PM (uhPd1)
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Have you hunted with my old band leader? His last name is Morris.
Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 07:23 PM (Usk3+)
irongrandpa, the reason is I cannot currently locate the shot barrel--it's here, somewhere, but digging through the rooms where it might be from where I put it a year ago is going to take time, probably several days with my work schedule.
Regarding shot selection, the ex-cop suggest #5, I thought I'd heard somewhere that anything at or above #4 would not cause much penetration through drywall but I'm no expert.
Posted by: Conservative Crank at March 25, 2012 07:23 PM (1zwZo)
Posted by: Calyx dead thread head at March 25, 2012 11:19 PM (U/goY)
mama......... she said they were going to hatch today they but didnt.......
Posted by: Raceafn at March 25, 2012 07:23 PM (591fX)
Well the weather here sucked today so I didn't get to fly. As my businesses have sucked worse, I have been taking small victories where I find them. I have an old Toro Groundsmaster with a 72" deck for a mower. The battery was not charging After seeing the amp meter was corroded and crapy I reconfigured the system a bit and replaced it with a volt meter. Still not charging. O'Reily's couldn't figure out how to check the alternator with their equipment so I went back to figuring. I decided to remove and inspect the regulator. Sure enough a wire had melted on one of the contacts. I used the extra wire on the unit to bridge the break, a little solder and voila. It was charging. I adjusted the charging voltage down from 15 amps to 13.5. Hope it holds.
Posted by: Ohio Dan at March 25, 2012 07:23 PM (JKNDp)
Way easier said than done. In order to prevent a small number of post-op infections (a few of which can be devastating to the individual, but most of which respond nicely to a course of antibiotics once the infection occurs) Everyone gets antibiotics now. There are financial incentives from the government if we can document that they are infused within a certain time frame prior to skin incision. That doesn't even take into account the number of marginal cases for colds/sinus infections that are prescribed.
Posted by: someone at March 25, 2012 07:23 PM (bqjJT)
It's always boys, boys I would have gone to school with.
Five kids in the L Rob fam, 4 boys. Lots of trips to school to sort out the mayhem. We had a first grade teacher tell us that the ONLY problems she ever had in her classes were with boys. That took a follow-up with the principal and a class change.
Posted by: L Rob in OK at March 25, 2012 07:24 PM (7yvLv)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 25, 2012 07:24 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 25, 2012 11:21 PM (piMMO)
PETA
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People Eating Tasty Animals
Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 07:24 PM (Usk3+)
Try it with a golf glove or driving glove. Thin leather shrinks as it dries or the oils (from your hand) dry out.
Yes, I've run into that too with motorcycle gloves, but I don't think it applies to men's dress gloves. They're softer for some reason.
Remember the trial. OJ was to try on the gloves, see if they fit. Then his ten million dollar defense team spoke up: he'd need some protection from murderer cooties, or whatever, so obviously he had to have some protection in the form of thin latex protective gloves. No big deal, right?
Today I discovered that that protective glove keeps you from putting on a well-fitting glove at all. If it doesn't fit, you must acquit? Damn lawyer was playing chess, and the hapless prosecution was playing checkers.
Posted by: Splunge at March 25, 2012 07:25 PM (2IW5Q)
Posted by: Ed Anger - Certified Kos Kid at March 25, 2012 07:26 PM (7+pP9)
I'm really enjoying these Common Knowledge bits, there's so much out there I'm finding I was misled on, seems like most people have been too.Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 25, 2012 07:26 PM (r4wIV)
I don't quite agree with this. A rise in resistant or virulent strains of *venereal* disease will cause a shift in favor of conservative politicians and values, as the hedonists currently influencing all levels of government and academia lose power. An increase in other diseases will lead to a call for greater government control in order to halt the epidemic.
Posted by: Alex at March 25, 2012 07:27 PM (tlK1P)
I'm at that point where I've realized I was wasting my time, but I haven't fixed the problem yet.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith
Dude, you need some more cow bell in your life.
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes.... at March 25, 2012 07:27 PM (sJTmU)
Small victories can be extremely satisfying. Be glad you have a piece of equipment that actually has repairable components. Not like the Deere I got, that features component replacement.
Posted by: irongrampa at March 25, 2012 07:27 PM (SAMxH)
I've just been thinking about that, and the last one I can recall going to see was Cowboys & Aliens (villains are aliens), and before that you have to go back to 2010 to Dawn Treader (villain is amorphous black blob).
So in any film with a human villain, he's a white dude.
Posted by: Trimegistus at March 25, 2012 07:28 PM (v9Kjt)
Posted by: L Rob in OK at March 25, 2012 07:28 PM (7yvLv)
HOW are we going to end the negative portrayals of men in media? HOW are we going to reverse a huge mass of legislation and case law biased against them?
These people can't be reasoned with, can't be bargained with, can't be shamed (have you tried shaming a slut recently?). They will never stop coming after men.
How to fix? It can't be fixed. Can't put the toothpaste back in. The only adaptation strategy is MGTOW. Men Going Their Own Way.
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 25, 2012 07:28 PM (4q5tP)
It's nice to hear someone from the older crowd not buying into the hysteria.
Posted by: Ross' Leather Pants at March 25, 2012 07:29 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 11:09 PM (Usk3+)
The rhythm.
Posted by: V Mo at March 25, 2012 07:31 PM (axc/z)
Do the lake pipes roar?
Don't know what that means, but I want a sidecar for my bully-dog!
Posted by: model_1066 at March 25, 2012 07:31 PM (PWwbk)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at March 25, 2012 07:31 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at March 25, 2012 07:31 PM (TCgGe)
Who knew that one patio chair cushion contains enough shredded foam to cover a quarter-acre?
Posted by: Generic at March 25, 2012 07:31 PM (szPD/)
This should tell you all you need to know about my high school experience.
Posted by: Dianna at March 25, 2012 07:32 PM (mKMj1)
Watching old Star Trek Episode. Spock's brain has been taken out of his body and is used to control an alien planet!
Posted by: SpocksBrain at March 25, 2012 07:32 PM (uhPd1)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 25, 2012 07:32 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: AltonJackson knows the stuttering clusterfuck of miserable failure when he sees The One at March 25, 2012 07:32 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy aka st tits at March 25, 2012 07:33 PM (iDWQr)
Posted by: irongrampa at March 25, 2012 11:27 PM (SAMxH)
You need a horizontal 2 cyl.
Posted by: Ronster at March 25, 2012 07:33 PM (T1nDt)
Isn't Obama "white African"?
Posted by: kbdabear
No, Obama's a "White African-American" because his mother was white and American.
And, no, it doesn't make the slightest sense.
Posted by: Dianna at March 25, 2012 07:34 PM (mKMj1)
Posted by: Conservative Crank at March 25, 2012 07:35 PM (1zwZo)
Posted by: Ross' Leather Pants at March 25, 2012 11:29 PM (piMMO)
Pat Boone is a great guy and a patriot. Met him at a benefit for slain soldiers. He's the real deal. Weird tats, but a good guy.
Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 07:35 PM (Usk3+)
Posted by: Kara of the Others at March 25, 2012 07:35 PM (axc/z)
For the glove, use baby powder
****
Don't use baby powder!
Posted by: Ross' Leather Pants at March 25, 2012 11:27 PM (piMMO)
Then use Talcum Powder. It's probably a better choice.
Posted by: Ed Anger - Certified Kos Kid at March 25, 2012 07:35 PM (7+pP9)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 25, 2012 07:36 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: Dianna at March 25, 2012 07:36 PM (mKMj1)
Do the lake pipes roar?
Don't know what that means ...
Seriously?
http://tinyurl.com/7bvc2pz
Posted by: Waterhouse at March 25, 2012 07:37 PM (DDJTj)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 25, 2012 07:38 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Raceafn at March 25, 2012 07:38 PM (591fX)
Posted by: Generic at March 25, 2012 07:39 PM (szPD/)
Posted by: Frohderick Frohnkensteen at March 25, 2012 07:39 PM (yQwq5)
Ultimately, we'll need novel ways to negate bacterial spread. A promising way to accomplish this is to utilize a natural "enemy" of bacteria - bacteriophages."
I do home there is some bacteriophage type breakthrough on the same level that penicillin was years ago. We need to kill the bad bacteria in an new and novel way. Giving IV rather than oral may help. But, we're gleefully giving IV antibiotics to all these pre-op patients who really don't need them now. All for an additional 2% medicare reimbursement. Hospitals used to try and actually think about which patients were appropriate for antibiotics, but now medicare says if they review so many charts and you haven't given antibiotics up to some certain % of the cases they'll dock payment by 2%. Therefore everyone gets antibiotics so that the chances of meeting some medicare defined goal is enhanced.
Who'd a thought that government would have such an unintended effect?
Posted by: someone at March 25, 2012 07:39 PM (bqjJT)
Posted by: Ross' Leather Pants
I'm going to pretend I didn't get that joke, to preserve my Man Card.
Posted by: Waterhouse at March 25, 2012 07:39 PM (DDJTj)
Cochran, you tricky lying bastard!
Posted by: Splunge at March 25, 2012 11:14 PM (2IW5Q)
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Well, karma is a bitch: get murderer found "Not Guilty", die of brain tumor.
Forgive me if my Giveashitometer pegged at zero when I heard that shitstain died.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop at March 25, 2012 07:39 PM (M0NzJ)
Posted by: Al Bundy at March 25, 2012 07:40 PM (4q5tP)
They tried with obama first, but his brain couldn't handle turning on a toaster.
Posted by: Berserker at March 25, 2012 07:41 PM (FMbng)
Similar story with me and my cousins...we all piled down off that mountain, and I think those poor city teachers didn't know what hit 'em.
I was well-behaved, mind you, but those boys...... lord, lord.
Posted by: Tammy al' Thor at March 25, 2012 07:41 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: That stoner kid at March 25, 2012 07:42 PM (axc/z)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 25, 2012 07:42 PM (FIE/L)
Posted by: Conservative Crank at March 25, 2012 07:42 PM (1zwZo)
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at March 25, 2012 07:43 PM (TCgGe)
Posted by: Calyx dead thread head at March 25, 2012 07:44 PM (U/goY)
We Have gone from Father Knows Best to Dad is a Tool. I have been grousing for years Hollywood and the left have had a war on men, especially the white male. Generally we are portrayed as stumbling clusterf**ks while our wives, children and everyother race or deviant sexual group is portrayed as rational and intelligent. This is a constant theme in comedy and commercials. I refer to the Lifetime Channel my wife watches as the Love, Beat, Rape, Murder, Kill Me channel. The story line generally is a heroine has to track down a murderer while nurturing a new relationship with a guy who is useless once the murderer is confronted and she settles it.
I'm not one who concerns himself with support groups and such but from a strategic vantage it is time men are reassert themselves. Apparently I am not the only that has noticed this trend. Here is a website that addresses this called A Voice For Men. http://tinyurl.com/73f685u They have some interesting articles.
Posted by: Ohio Dan at March 25, 2012 07:45 PM (JKNDp)
Posted by: Tammy al' Thor at March 25, 2012 07:46 PM (SsG4J)
This can also be true at esteemed institutions of higher learning.
Posted by: Prof. Obama at March 25, 2012 07:46 PM (axc/z)
As for high school being the greatest days is semi false. Greatest? doubtful. Easiest? you bet your ass. You are still living at home, having almost all of your wants and needs paid for by your folks and all you have to do is get up 5 days in a row and spend 8-10 hours a day semi coherent and do a little school work/homework.
Posted by: helofixer at March 25, 2012 07:47 PM (hKFLk)
Goodnite, good people. Stay safe.
Posted by: irongrampa at March 25, 2012 07:47 PM (SAMxH)
Posted by: rickl supports SMOD/Supervolcano 2012 at March 25, 2012 07:48 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Raceafn at March 25, 2012 07:49 PM (591fX)
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 25, 2012 07:49 PM (R5yLq)
Posted by: Trimegistus at March 25, 2012 07:49 PM (v9Kjt)
Actually, I recommend any of his books.
Dan is not just an academician, he still plays.
Posted by: navybrat at March 25, 2012 07:49 PM (vJoLw)
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 25, 2012 07:50 PM (R5yLq)
The Box o' Truth also has something to say about birdshot v.s buckshot, slugs and sabot rounds in cylinder bore and rifled barrels, fighing with a shotgun (as your weapon of choice), and body armor. But wait, don't touch that mouse ... there's more ...
The site is easily worth a read.
Posted by: Arbalest at March 25, 2012 07:50 PM (9Jdz8)
Posted by: sistrum at March 25, 2012 07:50 PM (AyryN)
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 25, 2012 07:51 PM (R5yLq)
Men now need support groups. It is logical. It is not logical that men are not seen as equal on Earth. Feminism is not logical.
Posted by: SpocksBrain at March 25, 2012 07:51 PM (uhPd1)
Posted by: Z Ryan at March 25, 2012 11:47 PM (U9NWP
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There's no such thing as bad art, just bad artists. Draw away...
Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 07:52 PM (Usk3+)
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 25, 2012 07:53 PM (4q5tP)
Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 07:53 PM (Usk3+)
very cute grandaughter fell asleep in 5 minutes , thankfully, as she can be quite tough at bedtime., but left cherrios skattered throughout house, i guess i can be grateful they werent legos i was vacuuming up.
that was quite tmi and boring to read, hah.
Posted by: willow at March 25, 2012 07:55 PM (TomZ9)
Posted by: sistrum at March 25, 2012 07:55 PM (AyryN)
Posted by: A Melteddown Webworker at March 25, 2012 07:55 PM (lBpVP)
Harlan is not an easygoing sort but he had to learn to stick up for himself fiercely at a very young age, always being the smallest kid in class.
I've met him on several occasions, heard him speak many more, and know several people who consider him a close friend. And every bit of litigation I've ever heard of him being connected to was entirely justified. James Cameron flat out told a studio exec he was using two of Harlan;s Outer Limits scripts as the basis for Terminator. (He also ripped off some late 70s Warren Comics for some elements of a cyborg character called The Exterminator.) If Poul Anderson were alive he'd have a pretty good case in regard to Avatar being a rip-off of 'Call Me Joe,' a book which won the Hugo in 1958 and would be almost impossible for a lifelong SF geek like Cameron not to be aware of. He could have thrown a million bucks at Poul's widow, Karen, out of his pocket change but that would mean admitting he has very few ideas of his own. This is why we have civil courts.
Among other things, Harlan has been active in trying to help elderly writers in danger of dying penniless and starving because they didn't plan for inevitable.
I have never heard Harlan disdain being known as a Science Fiction writer. He would object to being known solely for that, as it ignores the considerable work he did in non-SF TV, among other things. A far better example of someone who got persnickety about being called an SF writer was Michael Crichton. He made a career of taking ideas that had been done many time very well in SF novels and putting them in the general fiction area of the book store to make orders of magnitude more money than almost every SF writer who has ever lived.
Posted by: epobirs at March 25, 2012 07:56 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 25, 2012 07:57 PM (R5yLq)
That was what "Lick My Love Pump" was composed in.
Posted by: Marty Debergi at March 25, 2012 07:58 PM (1grxW)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy aka st tits at March 25, 2012 07:58 PM (iDWQr)
Posted by: Alex at March 25, 2012 08:00 PM (tlK1P)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2012 08:00 PM (kaalw)
This should tell you all you need to know about my high school experience.
Posted by: Dianna at March 25, 2012 11:32 PM
I don't know if you have Facebook, but once one you went to high school finds you, the rest of your classmates send friend requests, even the ones you couldn't stand or barely knew
Posted by: kbdabear at March 25, 2012 08:02 PM (Y+DPZ)
Posted by: Marty Debergi at March 25, 2012 11:58 PM (1grxW)
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There's an old joke I can't quite remember about a guy doing a single act and singing a sad song about a railroad worker. Guy in the audience is crying his eyes out. Guitarist finishes the song, looks at the crying guy with sympathy and asks, "Railroad worker?" Audience member shakes his head and says, "Musician".
Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 08:02 PM (Usk3+)
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 25, 2012 08:02 PM (R5yLq)
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 25, 2012 11:57 PM (R5yLqtrue, i adore her, but gah, she rips through the house like a little tornado when it gets dark out, I think she fights the thought of sleep..
Posted by: willow at March 25, 2012 08:02 PM (TomZ9)
Posted by: kbdabear at March 25, 2012 08:04 PM (Y+DPZ)
Sooooo, how was dinner?
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy aka st tits at March 25, 2012 11:58 PM (iDWQr)
How was dessert? Wink Wink Nudge Nudge Say no more! Eh, guv'ner.
Seriously, Hummingbird seems very nice and sweet. Hope it works out.
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 25, 2012 08:05 PM (4q5tP)
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 25, 2012 08:06 PM (R5yLq)
Well I hardly knew anyone there. Just like 25 years before. Go figure. I hated HS pretty much and 25 years didn't upgrade my opinion on my classmates. I told him to not bother with any future reunion notices.
Oh, and pep rallies blew chunks too. What a waste of my very valuable goofing off skills.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 25, 2012 08:06 PM (ccXZP)
I mean how else could one spend anywhere nearly $1000 a year on birth control any other way?
...
Oh, I got that covered. at the last second I pull it out.
Posted by: guy with 6 kids he doesn't know about at March 25, 2012 08:08 PM (Usk3+)
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 25, 2012 08:09 PM (R5yLq)
Posted by: sistrum at March 25, 2012 08:09 PM (AyryN)
Just tell her the only reason doctors smack newborns on the ass is to knock the dicks off the dumb ones.
Posted by: Berserker at March 25, 2012 08:10 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: JewishOdysseus at March 25, 2012 08:10 PM (IojUD)
Yes, but it's not something that most American women are aware of. The modern feminist left is run largely by man hating lesbians. The rank and file are useful idiots who believe that they can spend their twenties whoring around, then get married in their late thirties and pop out a perfect little kid with some bizarre leftwing fantasy man all while climbing up the corporate ladder. When it doesn't happen that way, they panic. And deep down, a lot of them probably want to ditch it and be stay at home moms and raise their kids, but have been made to feel guilty about it.
Posted by: Alex at March 25, 2012 08:10 PM (tlK1P)
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 25, 2012 08:10 PM (R5yLq)
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 26, 2012 12:09 AM (R5yLq)
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Oh, but we are talking women. You can die a thousand times dude.
Posted by: guy with 6 kids he doesn't know about at March 25, 2012 08:11 PM (Usk3+)
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 26, 2012 12:09 AM (R5yLq)
C'mon, c'mon -- just tell us which wagers need paid -- we don't need any philosophical ruminations.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2012 08:12 PM (kaalw)
the feral kittens are going to get fixed next week, whether they know it or not. so its just plans plans plans down on this farm. im always so worried when i send cats out to get surgery and i have no idea if the ferals will ever forgive me, but at least they wont make a zillion little babies all over the place and i will get their ears tipped (which means to animal control "im fixed and belong to someone who will miss me" ie: "im close to home and just an outdoor cat on legit business")
sigh. so today was rainy but all in all, a success. and-- i may have sold my friend's horse for them.
Posted by: gushka haz a new Kitty! at March 25, 2012 08:13 PM (r7Ddb)
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 25, 2012 08:13 PM (R5yLq)
Posted by: Alex at March 25, 2012 08:13 PM (tlK1P)
I really could care less about anyone I met in high school. I went to the 10 and 20 year reunions and didn't remember any of them.
Best years of my life I suppose were my 30's raising my kids and creating a home. I have enjoyed the heck out of pretty much all my life. I got very little satisfaction out of highschool and only had a couple teachers I thought earned their pay. I must confess, while over all I was a good kid, some of the time I was a dick to a teacher or two for no good reason.
Posted by: Ohio Dan at March 25, 2012 08:13 PM (JKNDp)
Posted by: Alex at March 26, 2012 12:13 AM (tlK1P)
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That's kinky, right?
Posted by: guy with 6 kids he doesn't know about at March 25, 2012 08:14 PM (Usk3+)
As in Revrund Wright talkin' about Clinton "ridin' dirty" with Monica?
Or is it a reference to Craziebone's opus? Here are the lyrics.
Ah screw it, pixy's formatting antedliluvian formatting bullshit won't let me post the site.
Frack you , pixy: we all know you've got vids of Ace's favorite crack ho and some donkey down in Tijuana. Otherwise a competent boss would have fired you years ago.
So google ridin dirty chamillion lyrics and see for your self.
Bottom line: filth goes mainstream.
Posted by: Jim Sonweed at March 25, 2012 08:14 PM (SV4OI)
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 25, 2012 08:15 PM (R5yLq)
Posted by: steevy at March 25, 2012 08:15 PM (7W3wI)
I don't get the joke but there are two types of "baby powder" sold.
One is finely ground corn starch. It can absorb a bit of moisture, like sweat. Good for itchy ball syndrome.
The other one is made from finely ground soapstone (talc). It turns to goo with sweat but it's great for chafing. It's basically a dry lubricant like graphite.
So read the label and buy accordingly, or you may be sorry.
After putting that bit of knowledge on you morons I bid you goodnight.
May you forever be tormented by jock itch or the female equivalent.
Posted by: Ed Anger - Certified Kos Kid at March 25, 2012 08:16 PM (7+pP9)
A quick internet search turned up this about Harlan from tvtropes.org :
Things he's famously grumpy about include, but are certainly not limited to:
People who discount all science fiction as being no better than the worst of film and TV sci fi ("that hunchbacked, gimlet-eyed, slobbering village idiot of a bastardized genre").
In fact, as of Dream Corridor, he hates the label "science fiction writer", which he sees as too limited, and really doesn't like the label "sci-fi writer".
And he really REALLY doesn't like the term that's pronounced "sigh-fie".
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 25, 2012 08:16 PM (ccXZP)
Posted by: Conservative Crank at March 25, 2012 08:16 PM (1zwZo)
Posted by: The Dude at March 25, 2012 08:17 PM (M8yfa)
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 26, 2012 12:15 AM (R5yLq) ...
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OK, I like you better now. And I'm a guy. Salute.
...
Best advice I ever got: "It's not how many girls you take into the bushes. It's what you do when you take a girl into the bushes."
Posted by: guy with 6 kids he doesn't know about at March 25, 2012 08:20 PM (Usk3+)
Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2012 12:15 AM (7W3wI)
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Better late than never!
Posted by: guy with 6 kids he doesn't know about at March 25, 2012 08:21 PM (Usk3+)
Posted by: sistrum at March 25, 2012 08:21 PM (AyryN)
Posted by: guy with 6 kids he doesn't know about at March 26, 2012 12:20 AM (Usk3+)
Amen to that. I know plenty of men who brag about the number of notches on their belts. Not a one of them is a better man than me.
Posted by: Conservative Crank at March 25, 2012 08:21 PM (1zwZo)
Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 08:22 PM (Usk3+)
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 25, 2012 08:23 PM (R5yLq)
Posted by: The Dude at March 25, 2012 08:23 PM (M8yfa)
Posted by: Alex at March 26, 2012 12:10 AM (tlK1P)
^THIS!
I have seen it. its so pathetic. they want to have it all, find out that guys really dont wanna settle down with a played out whore, who's a cut throat careerist to boot! they would rather have that stupid amiable less educated (no masters) girl willing to make dinner (who Career bitch always denigrated as stupid jesusland trash) It really pisses them off.
what really pisses them off is that younger moms with more kids have more fun with the family than they do with their carreer. This really infuriates them. the coup de grace is when they get artificially inseminated with their miracle baby at 42, that is going to be their final trophy-- its not fun. its just an extension of their career. andother cut throat drive to be the best have the best.
not a journey of love which they have denied themselves, because they look at life all wrong. Many of these people are atheists who believe all the worst things in history are due to having religious beliefs.
Posted by: gushka haz a new Kitty what plays fetch! ! at March 25, 2012 08:24 PM (r7Ddb)
Posted by: MrCaniac at March 25, 2012 08:25 PM (1grxW)
Posted by: Conservative Crank at March 25, 2012 08:25 PM (1zwZo)
But he's not
Posted by: kbdabear at March 25, 2012 08:25 PM (Y+DPZ)
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 25, 2012 08:26 PM (R5yLq)
Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 08:27 PM (Usk3+)
A gentleman does not discuss such things. Not sure why I don't but I'm not big on it either.. lol
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 26, 2012 12:15 AM (R5yLq)
That's ok, I'm looking at the book for SoS wagers, and the only page that has any writing on it is "3/B -- Tue".....and all that's got is the heading. Since there's no serious cash involved, n/m.
I guess you'll just have to write your own history, without being able to have a monetary hedge.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2012 08:27 PM (kaalw)
As in Revrund Wright talkin' about Clinton "ridin' dirty" with Monica?
Or is it a reference to Craziebone's opus? Here are the lyrics.
Ah screw it, pixy's formatting antedliluvian formatting bullshit won't let me post the site.
Frack you , pixy: we all know you've got vids of Ace's favorite crack ho and some donkey down in Tijuana. Otherwise a competent boss would have fired you years ago.
So google ridin dirty chamillion lyrics and see for your self.
Bottom line: filth goes mainstream.
Posted by: Jim Sonweed at March 26, 2012 12:14 AM (SV4OI)
You do know Ace is proud of that video of him losing his virginity?
Posted by: MrCaniac at March 25, 2012 08:28 PM (1grxW)
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 25, 2012 08:29 PM (R5yLq)
rather read Sturgeon than Bradbury even if Sturgeon was an interesting nudist
Posted by: The Dude at March 25, 2012 08:30 PM (M8yfa)
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 26, 2012 12:29 AM (R5yLq)
Tip o' the hat -- sounds like a keeper. Hope you both have lots o' smiles.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2012 08:31 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Conservative Crank at March 26, 2012 12:25 AM (1zwZo)
Yes, and old-school gentlemanly ways of wooing her will no doubt catch her unprepared for the niceness. She may even make remarks to her girlfriends about how certain older men do seem to have something extra special to offer.
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 25, 2012 08:32 PM (4q5tP)
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 25, 2012 08:33 PM (R5yLq)
One pitiful column she wrote a few years back was about spending Thanksgiving with her mother and brothers, sick that mom didn't mind being June Cleaver and running into her bedroom to be alone because they didn't talk about elitist subjects like she did.
It was pitiful because she had nowhere else to go, her elitist friends all having their own families. Pitiful also because for all her disdain for her brothers dinner conversation, she's reputed to be painfully boring to others and she's a nonstop gossip
Posted by: kbdabear at March 25, 2012 08:33 PM (Y+DPZ)
Posted by: Calyx dead thread head at March 25, 2012 08:33 PM (U/goY)
I'm amazed at how many people still watch TV.
...
It sucks. I quit almost completely a few years ago. A few football games and an ancient Star Trek every once in a while is plenty.
Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 08:33 PM (Usk3+)
Posted by: sistrum at March 25, 2012 08:34 PM (AyryN)
He wrote several Twilight Zone episodes, the Star Trek "Enemy Within" episode, and the movie "Duel" along with "I Am Legend"
Posted by: kbdabear at March 25, 2012 08:36 PM (Y+DPZ)
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 25, 2012 08:36 PM (R5yLq)
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 25, 2012 08:40 PM (R5yLq)
It's funny to go out and see those women out with their friends. You can almost smell the desperation. The sad part is that they'll marry some poor schmuck and treat him like crap, probably cheat with her pilates instructor, and still try to make herself into some sort of heroine of female empowerment.
On dating sites, I avoid any profiles over 30 who say they want kids "someday". It means that they don't know what they want, and they have funny ideas about biology.
Posted by: Alex at March 25, 2012 08:41 PM (tlK1P)
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 26, 2012 12:36 AM (R5yLq)
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Not any more dude. That stuff can backfire these days. But with the good ones, it still works.
Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 08:41 PM (Usk3+)
Bet you showered, shaved, and put on clean clothes, too. And not your best pair of basketball/cargo shorts.
Your story is important if for no other reason than to point out what has been lost in the degrading of our social culture.
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 25, 2012 08:41 PM (4q5tP)
He has some serious carving talent. He showed me a carved indian head that he had turned down a $2000 offer for. Really amazing. I'm not into collecting stuff but I want one. I just don't want it $2000 worth.
Anyways, it was a nice low stress family reunion and meal. They don't always go that well in my experience.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 25, 2012 08:42 PM (ccXZP)
Posted by: Conservative Crank voted for Perry, dammit at March 25, 2012 08:42 PM (1zwZo)
Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 08:43 PM (Usk3+)
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 25, 2012 08:43 PM (R5yLq)
Posted by: MaxMBJ at March 25, 2012 08:43 PM (deaac)
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 25, 2012 08:45 PM (R5yLq)
Except the women who prefer assholes. No shortage of them, either, IMHO. Nice guys finish last with this type. They like the Bad Boys.
Posted by: navybrat at March 25, 2012 08:46 PM (vJoLw)
Posted by: Ace's liver at March 25, 2012 08:46 PM (1+XRG)
One pitiful column she wrote a few years back was about spending Thanksgiving with her mother and brothers, sick that mom didn't mind being June Cleaver and running into her bedroom to be alone because they didn't talk about elitist subjects like she did.
It was pitiful because she had nowhere else to go, her elitist friends all having their own families. Pitiful also because for all her disdain for her brothers dinner conversation, she's reputed to be painfully boring to others and she's a nonstop gossip.
-----------------
Thanks, KB, that story proves there IS a God!
Posted by: JewishOdysseus at March 25, 2012 08:46 PM (IojUD)
Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 25, 2012 08:46 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 26, 2012 12:40 AM (R5yLq)
as a person who has been though that, it takes years to get over. though with me it was years of weirdness, and a marriage which is more of a mindfuck. please be patient. i bet if she really likes you as much as it sounds like, she will try like hell to over come it for you.
but i know with me, the harder i fell for Grim, the scareder i got, wondering when the other crazy shoe was gonna drop.
Posted by: gushka haz a new Kitty what plays fetch! ! at March 25, 2012 08:47 PM (r7Ddb)
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 25, 2012 08:47 PM (R5yLq)
Posted by: Alex at March 26, 2012 12:41 AM (tlK1P)
In the over 50 profiles, the box "Want Children" is marked "Not Sure / Maybe" far too often to be simply a misreading of the question.
A misreading like, "Oh not children of my own, but if he has children then that would be okay.
No, it's more like looking to give a man younger-than-her the possibility of being a father. Her age range is 35 - 45. Seriously deluded.
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 25, 2012 08:48 PM (4q5tP)
The articles are OK, but the comments are positively toxic.
AND they are what I call Perma-Bears. They have been predicting the collapse of the system for a long time, like since the web site started.
And they have been wrong that entire time.
Posted by: navybrat at March 25, 2012 08:48 PM (vJoLw)
Got news for you, most Science Fiction fans hate the term sci-fi, not just the writers. It's a derogatory term usually pronounced as skiffy in fandom. It's the mentality that puts 2001: A Space Odyssey on the same level as It Came From Outer Space.
As I said, being called a Science Fiction writer isn't a problem. Being identified with a belittling term of disdain is a problem.
Considering that most of the occasions I met Harlan were SF Conventions, I really don't think the man has a problem being known for Science Fiction. It is the way the mainstream has treated it that is the problem. Keep in mind that for the prime years of his career the NYT Review of Books wouldn't even acknowledge the existence of works published as Science Fiction. They'd gush over Slaughterhouse Five, in which the protagonist is abducted by alien with a non-linear sense of time but Dune or Lord of Light? Never heard of 'em.
Posted by: epobirs at March 25, 2012 08:48 PM (kcfmt)
The problem is that too many men are wimps, and you don't need to be a wimp to be a gentleman.
Posted by: Alex at March 25, 2012 08:49 PM (tlK1P)
Posted by: navybrat at March 26, 2012 12:46 AM (vJoLw)
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The true art is the ability to combine "bad boy" with gentleman.
...
Sean Connery, for example.
Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 08:49 PM (Usk3+)
Except the women who prefer assholes. No shortage of them, either, IMHO. Nice guys finish last with this type. They like the Bad Boys.
Posted by: navybrat at March 26, 2012 12:46 AM (vJoLw)
those people are damaged.
my best guess is they are trying to win over the phantom of a neglectful, absent or abusive dad. Full Stop.
Posted by: gushka haz a new Kitty what plays fetch! ! at March 25, 2012 08:49 PM (r7Ddb)
Posted by: Ace's liver at March 25, 2012 08:51 PM (1+XRG)
How is everyone, good?
Posted by: Theresa at March 25, 2012 08:52 PM (1uZep)
Posted by: Ace's liver at March 25, 2012 08:52 PM (1+XRG)
SoS
Good luck with Miss Hummingbird. Don't be put off by the age difference. I think she has an idea of what she is getting into, and maybe even subconsciously she knows exactly who and what you are as a man - and that is what she wants. Don't feel funny about it, because she sees you differently than others see you or you see yourself.
And by good luck, I mean that I hope you really hit it off. She's been hurt, but now she is older, she is not looking for the superficial that many younger men and women seem to want. She sees you through the eyes of love - and that's really all that matters.
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes.... at March 25, 2012 08:52 PM (sJTmU)
A misreading like, "Oh not children of my own, but if he has children then that would be okay.
No, it's more like looking to give a man younger-than-her the possibility of being a father. Her age range is 35 - 45. Seriously deluded.
Now that is just sad.
Posted by: Alex at March 25, 2012 08:53 PM (tlK1P)
Posted by: Ace's liver at March 26, 2012 12:51 AM (1+XRG)
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My demographic study indicates things will be pretty good by about 2022-2025.
Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 08:53 PM (Usk3+)
Need to find out if 10th Victim is available on DVD ...
Of course, the Coliseum predates it all by about 2000 years ...
Posted by: Adriane at March 25, 2012 08:53 PM (crQEo)
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 25, 2012 08:53 PM (R5yLq)
Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 25, 2012 08:54 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Ace's liver at March 26, 2012 12:52 AM (1+XRG)
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Mish is an oasis of sanity at MarketOracle.
Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 08:54 PM (Usk3+)
Posted by: epobirs at March 26, 2012 12:48 AM (kcfmt)
lack of imagination, inflexible minds.
seriously. thats what it is.
they have trouble relating to anything outside of their mundane existance of New York. God forbid you have to appreciate things outside of their limited experience, political views, or even neighborhood. I hate most agents, along with the critics too. you gotta know someone and have to connections good to get published and marketed correctly these days. Its the same problem Hollywood has, writ small.
Posted by: gushka haz a new Kitty what plays fetch! ! at March 25, 2012 08:55 PM (r7Ddb)
Hey, I don't like it either, but there you are.
While ZeroHedge has been blowing the Big Bear Horns for the last 4 years, people have made trillions of dollars in the market.
And that is not going to stop tomorrow, or the next day, or the day after that.
Posted by: navybrat at March 25, 2012 08:55 PM (vJoLw)
Posted by: sistrum at March 25, 2012 08:55 PM (AyryN)
Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 26, 2012 12:54 AM (ZPrif)
wait. i actually think i read that one!
Posted by: gushka haz a new Kitty what plays fetch! ! at March 25, 2012 08:57 PM (r7Ddb)
Posted by: jake at March 25, 2012 08:58 PM (AZ8Mb)
There's a lot of stuff written on this, especially by pick up artists who use it to their advantage. Basically, the bad boy image conveys leadership or strength, which implies good genes. Furthermore, women like drama, especially young women, and bad boys appeal to that part of them. Dating a bad boy means lots of drama, and feeds to the idiotic idea that they can change him, keeping the good parts and while trading in his Harley for a Honda Civic.
Posted by: Alex at March 25, 2012 08:59 PM (tlK1P)
Posted by: sistrum at March 26, 2012 12:55 AM (AyryN)
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Caveman genes at work. The strongest and most agressive males attracted females to keep the species strong. Alpha males are driven to spread their sperm far and wide. Promiscous women have a gene that complements the alpa male.
Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 08:59 PM (Usk3+)
Posted by: MaxMBJ at March 25, 2012 09:00 PM (deaac)
No, he's better.
Bradbury is an obnoxious drunk obsessed with the virtues of being a pedestrian. I'm not kidding. Over a twenty year period at every event he showed up at he was seriously soused and always wanted to talk about how cars had destroyed Los Angeles. To him Los Angeles is the little chunk of it he walked around in the 40s.
The one virtue of heart disease is it forced him to give up the booze.
Everything Bradbury wrote that merits keeping in print can be read in a day. He was coasting by the mid-60s while only in his 40s and quite young for a writer, getting by on being on the short list of science fiction writers who could be assigned in schools.
Posted by: epobirs at March 25, 2012 09:00 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 25, 2012 09:00 PM (4q5tP)
Spocks Brain Star Treck episode is considered by "experts" to be the most sexist episode. Women on the aliend planet were seen as less intelligent and less rational. The woman thought they could not function on their own without spocks brain.
Posted by: SpocksBrain at March 25, 2012 09:01 PM (uhPd1)
" Dating a bad boy means lots of drama, and feeds to the idiotic idea that they can change him, keeping the good parts and while trading in his Harley for a Honda Civic."
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"I love him for the man he could be!"
...
And if the woman suceeds in changing him, she will drop him in disgust.
Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 09:01 PM (Usk3+)
First sentence. That should teach me to pay $8 for a book on operational research.
Posted by: Alex at March 25, 2012 09:01 PM (tlK1P)
Posted by: sistrum at March 26, 2012 12:55 AM (AyryN)
no they came from a fucked of family paradigm where an asshole was what they saw mommy with, when they were little. This programmed them to seek an asshole's approval when they are big girls like mommy. Sadly this is how little animals learn how to live and forage... from mommy-- and if daddy or the man around mommy, sucks then the little critter learns to seek a sucky mate just like him until they realize "Wow! Im a human not an animal, and I can make better choices!"
Posted by: gushka haz a new Kitty what plays fetch! ! at March 25, 2012 09:02 PM (r7Ddb)
Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 25, 2012 09:02 PM (ZPrif)
Well, it might stop the day after the day after the next one.
Seriously, how much more American debt can the world adsorb, with us running the kind of deficits we are? What is the magic the the Federal Reserve is doing with their balance sheets that allows them to buy so much debt?
We are in such screwy new territory that who knows what could go wrong next? I would be a lot happier if a new administration came in with some prudent financial sense regarding the deficit and slow growth economics. That, and the disaster that is coming in the form of that abortion call "Affordable Care Act", aka Obamacare.
I really think that our future is going to be like Argentina. A country that has material wealth that is all screwed up by its stupid colllectivist politics and a hundred years of bad fiscal policy that wrecked what should have been a wealthy country.
There is a lot of ruin in a nation.
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes.... at March 25, 2012 09:02 PM (sJTmU)
Posted by: MaxMBJ at March 25, 2012 09:02 PM (deaac)
Posted by: Meremortal at March 26, 2012 01:01 AM (Usk3+)
i have never seen a truly bad man successfully changed into anything but an ex.
Posted by: gushka haz a new Kitty what plays fetch! ! at March 25, 2012 09:03 PM (r7Ddb)
And inspiring naughty videos.
Posted by: Alex at March 25, 2012 09:04 PM (tlK1P)
They also do a good job looking at the underlying data on government statistical releases. But yeah, I stay from the comments. Also, they are big Ron Paul fans, so add that to your pipe and give it a few puffs.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 25, 2012 09:05 PM (ccXZP)
A man takes a bride hoping she won't change.
A woman takes a husband as a project.
---- Somebody famouser wrote something along those lines.
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 25, 2012 09:06 PM (4q5tP)
Maybe" far too often to be simply a misreading of the question.
A misreading like, "Oh not children of my own, but if he has children then that would be okay.
No, it's more like looking to give a man younger-than-her the
possibility of being a father. Her age range is 35 - 45. Seriously
deluded.
Now that is just sad.
Posted by: Alex at March 26, 2012 12:53 AM (tlK1P)
I thought the "Wants Children" was the age group.
Posted by: Roman Polanski at March 25, 2012 09:06 PM (1grxW)
Within a few months if everything goes well, there will be a lot more of Poul Anderson's works available in legit e-book form. I'm doing conversions for Karen Anderson. The Game of Empire is mostly done and just today I scanned in all three volumes of The Last Viking series to OCR the text and format.
There are some jerks who have put collections of Poul Anderson stories on Amazon but they have no connection to his family or any publisher he ever worked with. It's too expensive to sue over and the best thing to do is put up official versions of the same material.
And people wonder why Harlan sues people.
Posted by: epobirs at March 25, 2012 09:06 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: jake at March 25, 2012 09:07 PM (AZ8Mb)
Posted by: MaxMBJ at March 25, 2012 09:07 PM (deaac)
Posted by: gushka haz a new Kitty what plays fetch! ! at March 26, 2012 01:03 AM (r7Ddb)
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Correct. As I wrote earlier, the tight wire a great man walks is to be a bad boy and a good man at the same time. I used Sean Connery's James Bond as an example.
Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 09:07 PM (Usk3+)
I like reading the things that you won't get from the MBM or Sell Side shills pushing shit paper that you see on Bubblevision (CNBC), screaming Keynesians like Krugman, and lots of Luap Nor fanboys
They do balance their writers, you can find pure capitalists, OWS fanboys, or apolitical numbers and charts guys
The comments sections appear to have been overrun by the Paulbots
Posted by: kbdabear at March 25, 2012 09:07 PM (Y+DPZ)
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I'd argue it is a reflection of pre-modern conditioning.
Prior to the formation of geenrally law abiding societies, which remember are really recent in human history, your best bet as a woman was to become wife, first, second, or #x, of the local warlord.
Said warlord would likely be an ultra-A asshole. So it is no more surprising women would be attracted to that profile then that men would be attracted to pretty young women (proxies for fertility).
Posted by: 18-1 at March 25, 2012 09:08 PM (3aXbg)
Posted by: Ace's liver at March 25, 2012 09:08 PM (1+XRG)
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 25, 2012 09:08 PM (R5yLq)
But ultimately, the Fed is the reserve currency for the planet. The Euro was challenging that status for a bit, but not lately.
In a way, we have been moving to a new de facto gold standard, in that gold is keeping its value steady against whatever the politicians contrive to do against it. When the big banks are buying gold with both hands (as they have been doing for a year or more) that is when you know that the gold standard is back.
Posted by: navybrat at March 25, 2012 09:09 PM (vJoLw)
Posted by: gushka haz a new Kitty what plays fetch! ! at March 26, 2012 01:03 AM (r7Ddb)
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I have a happy 27 year marriage and I date. I have groupies, I'm a musician and a retired businessman. I don't screw my other women. They are close and great friends and confidants. I prefer the company of women to that of men.
...
I also have a very secure and wonderful wife.
Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 09:11 PM (Usk3+)
Posted by: landofskybluewater at March 25, 2012 09:12 PM (JoIcn)
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IMO, the desire to change for the better has to come from within that person.
Oh and the bit about men hoping their brides don't change...and they do...is so damn true it is stunning.
We really ought to get some government cash to find out what the active ingredient in wedding cake is.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 25, 2012 09:12 PM (3aXbg)
Our politicians and financial elite keep kicking the can down the road, praying that they don't run out of road while they're still alive
Posted by: kbdabear at March 25, 2012 09:12 PM (Y+DPZ)
Posted by: Stephen at March 25, 2012 09:12 PM (uhPd1)
Posted by: Conservative Crank voted for Perry, dammit at March 25, 2012 09:13 PM (1zwZo)
Posted by: jake at March 25, 2012 09:13 PM (AZ8Mb)
Posted by: Ace's liver at March 26, 2012 01:08 AM (1+XRG)
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My calculations indicate we will lose about 45% of our wealth at the rate of about 3.8% a year compounded until we print out way out.
Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 09:14 PM (Usk3+)
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 25, 2012 09:14 PM (R5yLq)
Posted by: navybrat at March 25, 2012 09:14 PM (vJoLw)
Posted by: Zakn at March 25, 2012 09:14 PM (ZNB01)
I think they'll print their way out. It wouldn't be the first time, either. Everybody will be a bit poorer.
***
In almost every sense imaginable using inflation to pay down the debt is the least fair way to handle it.
But it is also the easiest.
We got what $200M in "cuts" in the budget last year, right?
Posted by: 18-1 at March 25, 2012 09:14 PM (3aXbg)
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at March 25, 2012 09:15 PM (rzj9M)
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Obama 2012: Fuck the children.
Posted by: Obama 2012 at March 25, 2012 09:15 PM (3aXbg)
Posted by: Theresa at March 25, 2012 09:16 PM (1uZep)
Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 25, 2012 09:16 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: jake at March 25, 2012 09:16 PM (AZ8Mb)
Posted by: Zakn at March 25, 2012 09:16 PM (ZNB01)
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 25, 2012 09:16 PM (R5yLq)
Posted by: navybrat at March 26, 2012 01:09 AM
Better take a close look at that gold you buy ...
BTW, no one really knows if any nation has the gold they say they do ... especially the Fed
Tungsten-Filled 1 Kilo Gold Bar Found In The UK
http://tinyurl.com/6pwnm4q
Posted by: kbdabear at March 25, 2012 09:16 PM (Y+DPZ)
So did a lot of people, and a lot earlier. Check out 'Armageddon 2419 A.D.' by Philip Francis Nowlan. This was the basis for the Buck Rogers comic strip, though he is solely known as Anthony Rogers in the book. (It can be found on Project Gutenberg.)
First published in serial form in 1928, it features telecommuting couch potatoes who never leave their apartments and view the world through big video displays, ordering in food and other goods as needed. Aerial drones, semi-nuclear weapons, paratroopers, air supremacy failure due to lack of ground force commitment, and a lot else. It seemed amazingly lacking in anachronism when I first read it in 1974.
Posted by: epobirs at March 25, 2012 09:16 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 09:16 PM (Usk3+)
Gold is so high, I can't afford it.
Plus gold is now being counterfeited on a wide scale. Watch out.
Posted by: navybrat at March 25, 2012 09:17 PM (vJoLw)
The Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012 (H.R. 4170)
Congress finds the following:
(1) A well-educated citizenry is critical to our Nation's ability to compete in the global economy.
(2) The Federal Government has a vested interest in ensuring access to higher education.
(3) Higher education should be viewed as a public good benefitting our country rather than as a commodity solely benefitting individual students.
(4) Total outstanding student loan debt officially surpassed total credit card debt in the United States in 2010, and is on track to exceed $1,000,000,000,000 during 2012.
(5) Excessive student loan debt is impeding economic growth in the United States. Faced with excessive repayment burdens, many individuals are unable to start businesses, invest, or buy homes. Relieving student loan debt would give these individuals greater control over their earnings and would increase entrepreneurship and demand for goods and services.
(6) Because of soaring tuition costs, students often have no choice but to amass significant debt to obtain an education that is widely considered a prerequisite for earning a living wage.
(7) Amidst rising tuition rates and stagnant grant funding, many students are forced to supplement Federal loans with private loans, which frequently feature higher interest rates with fewer consumer protections.
(
A borrower who experiences an extended hardship for whatever reason, or a borrower who experiences a series of separate hardships over a longer period of time, will often have no choice but to default on his or her private student loans. Opportunities to put such private loans into forbearance are limited. (9) During the period of forbearance on private student loans, interest continues to accrue and is capitalized, and once the borrower comes out of forbearance, he or she owes significantly more on the principal of the loan than before the hardship period began.
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at March 25, 2012 09:18 PM (e8kgV)
We are all the offspring of the survivors.
***
Makes you wonder what the hell Gaian environmentalists are worshiping.
The problem from evil is a challenge for monotheists - but if you strip away the notion of some sort of metaphysical plan - like an environut - all you have left is a system based on killing the weak and genocide. And THIS is what the environmental left worships?!?
Posted by: 18-1 at March 25, 2012 09:20 PM (3aXbg)
As long as countries print more and more of their currencies, gold and silver should benefit price wise.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 25, 2012 09:20 PM (ccXZP)
Posted by: 18-1 at March 26, 2012 01:08 AM (3aXbg)
you are cracking me up. Up until recently marriages were arranged and who you wanted didnt figure into it. it was a property transfer between your father and the family of the groom. Money changed hands or property and everything. Doweries were important. Bride price was important. Cattle land and gold if you were important, furs, bedding and a few geese if you were not.
looks not so much. personality not so much. love or attraction--NOT AT ALL. Dad sold you to the alliance that was best for the family and offered you the most prosperous or at least stable future if he loved you. If he didnt love you or had too many girls you would be lucky to make it out of the transaction alive.
im sorry. the ultra A asshole just raped who he wanted, made advantageous alliances for gold and property, and no woman wanted to attract that kind of attention, they wanted to AVOID it. They would do their best to talk pops into marrying them off to a man they could be pretty sure would have enough to eat and wouldnt beat them.
(Admission: I have studied ethinology for close to twenty years)
Posted by: gushka haz a new Kitty what plays fetch! ! at March 25, 2012 09:21 PM (r7Ddb)
Posted by: Smokin' Joe Biden at March 26, 2012 01:17 AM (vbh31)
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I do like XX, but red wine is what I drink 99% of the time.
Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 09:22 PM (Usk3+)
Remember when playing the stock market, you're the sucker in a rigged game. The big boys have high frequency trading machines that can buy and sell in nanoseconds for one.
Keep in mind that you'd do prison time for doing 1/10 of what Corzine did, and he won't be reaching for the soap anytime soon
Gold isn't an investment, it's an insurance policy. As long as you keep that in mind it's all good
Posted by: kbdabear at March 25, 2012 09:22 PM (Y+DPZ)
Gold is so high, I can't afford it.
Plus gold is now being counterfeited on a wide scale. Watch out.
Time for another look at our science? (Hey, a lot of you are buying Climate Change science, so a lack of gullibility in the population is not a problem)
Posted by: Alchemists in search of the Philosopher's Stone at March 25, 2012 09:23 PM (4q5tP)
Posted by: navybrat at March 25, 2012 09:23 PM (vJoLw)
Posted by: Zakn at March 25, 2012 09:23 PM (7F9i5)
Women seem to like the jocks and preps. Geeks have to fight like savages.
Posted by: Stephen at March 25, 2012 09:24 PM (uhPd1)
Review the professions we are bringing in people on H1Bs for. This is the breakdown of the fin aid the government will give. So looking to become a software engineer? Uncle Sam will help. Want to major in poli sci? Anthro? Feminist studies? I hope your parents have money....
Posted by: 18-1 at March 25, 2012 09:24 PM (3aXbg)
But James Bond isn't a good man. He is a high functioning remorseless psychopath who happens to work for good guys. The books hinted at this and the movies occasionally offered a glimpse.
Think about what Bond would have become with his talents and capacity for violence if he didn't become a tool of extra-judicial murder and destruction with a license to do so, no less. Not just a thug. This is a guy who can charm as easily as he can murder. A far more frightening sort of person than a mere gunman on a government leash.
Posted by: epobirs at March 25, 2012 09:24 PM (kcfmt)
We are all the offspring of the survivors.
Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 26, 2012 01:16 AM (ZPrif)
indeed. i think the hippies have forgotten this.
Posted by: gushka haz a new Kitty what plays fetch! ! at March 25, 2012 09:25 PM (r7Ddb)
It's real easy -- student loans should be defaultable at any time.....at which point, it becomes a felony to claim the underlying degree, certification, or coursework.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2012 09:26 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: gushka haz a new Kitty what plays fetch! ! at March 26, 2012 01:21 AM
I know two Armenians in Los Angeles whose marriages were arranged. In one, the two had never even met until she stepped off the plane at LAX for the wedding.
Muslim immigrants still have arranged marriages, and if the girl refuses her days among the living are very short
Posted by: kbdabear at March 25, 2012 09:26 PM (Y+DPZ)
Banks are buying gold.
...
I've been an investor in two bank startups. Bankers fuck up all the time.
Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 09:27 PM (Usk3+)
Posted by: Stephen at March 25, 2012 09:27 PM (uhPd1)
Posted by: Robert at March 25, 2012 09:28 PM (4ixH5)
Simply cut the H1Bs altogether, along with any federal college money at all.
Posted by: Alex at March 25, 2012 09:28 PM (tlK1P)
"Yeah..Gold could tank too. No guarantee."
Absolutely. All it would take would be for one of the big players to dump their holdings in a day and you could see a big drop, 25% or so, maybe more.
The best time to have bought gold is when I bought mine, when Ronald Reagan was president and the stuff was about $300 an oz.
Posted by: navybrat at March 25, 2012 09:28 PM (vJoLw)
To Clarify: A GOOD wife is a gift from God.
Posted by: Stephen at March 25, 2012 09:29 PM (uhPd1)
Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 25, 2012 09:30 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Stephen at March 25, 2012 09:31 PM (uhPd1)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2012 01:26 AM (kaalw)
....and, BTW, the sound that you'd hear when that policy went through.......is all the Womyn's Studies Departments getting whacked in the nuts.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2012 09:31 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: kbdabear at March 26, 2012 01:26 AM (Y+DPZ)
same with coptic christians in egypt. they do FGM too. its cultural not religious a sort of regional thing. sadly you cant land a decent husband without it the parents fear, so they clip the girls so they can marry them off advantageously and not have to pay too much to dower them and hope the man treats them with honour as promised.
a lot of orthodox jewish weddings are arranged. a whole lot of them work, a matchmaker screens out the loser then they go on chaperoned dates with the prospects and see what happens. Or the families take the kids into consideration, and fix them up with a match that seems right, and they often work out too, though sometimes they do not, and yes it is very bad for the woman.
Dont think this is just for arabs. I have a friend who is a russian matchmaker and she offered to set ME up! i said uh, no thanks.
Posted by: gushka haz a new Kitty what plays fetch! ! at March 25, 2012 09:33 PM (r7Ddb)
were arranged and who you wanted didnt figure into it. it was a property
transfer between your father and the family of the groom.
Posted by: gushka haz a new Kitty what plays fetch! ! at March 26, 2012 01:21 AM
I know two Armenians in Los Angeles whose marriages were arranged. In one, the two had never even met until she stepped off the plane at LAX for the wedding.
Muslim immigrants still have arranged marriages, and if the girl refuses her days among the living are very short
Posted by: kbdabear at March 26, 2012 01:26 AM (Y+DPZ)
And they do it with the young girls too.
Posted by: Roman Polanski fapping away at March 25, 2012 09:33 PM (1grxW)
Which Star Trek episode was the most sexist/anti female?
Posted by: SpocksBrain at March 25, 2012 09:33 PM (uhPd1)
Posted by: navybrat at March 26, 2012 01:28 AM (vJoLw)
... , , , ,
Congratulations and well done! You are halfway there.
...
Now what?
Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 09:34 PM (Usk3+)
I want a female companion. It is logical.
Posted by: SpocksBrain at March 25, 2012 09:35 PM (uhPd1)
Posted by: SpocksBrain at March 25, 2012 09:36 PM (uhPd1)
"You are halfway there. ...Now what?"
F*ck if I know. Every day on the right side of the turf is a good day.
Posted by: navybrat at March 25, 2012 09:36 PM (vJoLw)
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Yes, in pre-modern societies. I'm talking about the period before city states wherein most of human history occurred. So for example, look at the "rape" (theft not sexual assault in this sense) of the Sabine women by the early Romans.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 25, 2012 09:36 PM (3aXbg)
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 25, 2012 09:36 PM (4q5tP)
Posted by: Stephen at March 25, 2012 09:37 PM (uhPd1)
Posted by: navybrat at March 25, 2012 09:37 PM (vJoLw)
The truth is that even in modern society often times relationships are "arranged". Every dating site claims to use some sort of algorithm to sort potential matches, friends will set you up based on who that think that you would like, etc. Marriage is still something that is as much about the community around the two as it is about the couple themselves.
Posted by: Alex at March 25, 2012 09:38 PM (tlK1P)
Posted by: Zakn at March 25, 2012 09:38 PM (7F9i5)
Which Star Trek episode was the most sexist/anti female?
Posted by: SpocksBrain at March 26, 2012 01:33 AM (uhPd1)
How about the one where the woman transferred her mind into Kirk and vice versa so she could be a Star Ship Captain, but was totally incompetent.
Posted by: Spocks Brain on Drugs at March 25, 2012 09:38 PM (axc/z)
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Didn't they run into businessmen in ToS? That guy that sold them the Tribbles for example?
Posted by: 18-1 at March 25, 2012 09:39 PM (3aXbg)
Posted by: Stephen at March 25, 2012 09:39 PM (uhPd1)
Make sure you enough lead and finely machined steel to hold onto it during a hostile takeover.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 25, 2012 09:39 PM (ccXZP)
Posted by: Calyx dead thread head at March 25, 2012 09:39 PM (U/goY)
Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 25, 2012 09:41 PM (ZPrif)
"Make sure you enough lead and finely machined steel to hold onto it during a hostile takeover."
Yup. Got 'em. And I practice.
Posted by: navybrat at March 25, 2012 09:41 PM (vJoLw)
Posted by: Stephen at March 25, 2012 09:42 PM (uhPd1)
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at March 25, 2012 09:43 PM (e8kgV)
Posted by: Capt. James T. Kirk at March 25, 2012 09:43 PM (JoIcn)
okay haven't read all the comments, can't really stay, am too tired
anyway, the video of the "explosive polymerization" of p-nitroaniline, it's not really a polymerization, it is just a decomposition
the p-nitroaniline decomposes into just soot, the same as the wood in any fire - it forms that big column of soot because the decomposition also produces gases (primarily ammonia and nitrogen dioxide) that propel and buoy the soot upward
anyway, that's your chemistry knowledge for the day
good night all
Posted by: chemjeff at March 25, 2012 09:43 PM (fDtCI)
Posted by: steevy at March 25, 2012 09:43 PM (7W3wI)
Posted by: navybrat at March 26, 2012 01:36 AM (vJoLw)
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Yes, I understand and commiserate. It is similar with most investments. Good luck predicting the future, that's how you got this far.
Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 09:43 PM (Usk3+)
Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 25, 2012 09:44 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: SpocksBrain at March 25, 2012 09:44 PM (uhPd1)
Posted by: OldDog at March 25, 2012 09:45 PM (tQYJH)
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Seems to me that we shouldn't give a dime, but presuming Bales is found guilty, invite Afghan family members to view his hanging.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 25, 2012 09:46 PM (3aXbg)
Posted by: Stephen at March 26, 2012 01:42 AM (uhPd1)
That's why Starship Troopers was such a farce. Denise Richards expertly piloting a cruiser out of dock. Ha! Next thing Hollywood will want me to believe is that she's some sort of Nobel winning PhD research scientist or something.
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 25, 2012 09:47 PM (4q5tP)
Thus now that this money has been paid, the matter is settled as far as Sharia is concerned, and there should be no further protests or agitation over this. About that we shall see, but it is a bad precedent in any case for the U.S. to abide by Sharia in this regard. However, that precedent has already been set so many times that one more is not going to change things significantly.
"Afghan massacre: Kandahar families given compensation," from the BBC, March 25 (thanks to John):
Afghan families who lost relatives in the Kandahar massacre have been paid compensation by the US military.
They received $46,000 (£29,000) for each person killed and $10,000 (£6,300) for each person injured, Afghan officials and tribal elders said.
US staff sergeant Robert Bales was charged on Friday with 17 counts of premeditated murder.
Meanwhile, eight Afghan police officers and an Isaf foreign soldier have been killed by a bomb in Kandahar province....
Will anyone pay blood money for them?
Family members were informed of the payouts at a meeting with personnel from the US military and the Nato-led ISAF forces at the offices of Kandahar's governor.
"We were invited by the foreign and Afghan officials in Panjwai yesterday and they said this money is an assistance from [US President] Obama," Haji Jan Agha, who said he lost his cousins, told Reuters on Sunday.
Compensation payments by foreign forces in Afghanistan are often made in cases of the deaths of civilians.
Compensation is traditionally offered in Afghanistan in a bid to soften anger among a victim's family and also as a gesture of good faith and healing.
Some tribes, however, refuse to take part, seeing cash payment for a life as a disgraceful act, and preferring to take revenge....
Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2012 01:43 AM (7W3wI)
How disgusting. What that country needs is attorneys to make sure that justice is done!!!!!
Posted by: Trial Lawyers Association at March 25, 2012 09:48 PM (1grxW)
Posted by: Stephen at March 25, 2012 09:48 PM (uhPd1)
Posted by: The World is Not Enough at March 25, 2012 09:48 PM (TCgGe)
Anti female? You won't find anyone happier to see females than me.
The door to my quarters was always open to any yeoman in a short skirt who wanted some one on one time with the Captain's Log. Who was it who had that fat pimp Harry Mudd thrown in the brig while I made sure his three "companions" were put into protective custody in the Enterprise's jacuzzi room?
Now Sulu, there was a woman hater. That pillow biter would vomit every time Uhura forgot to cross her legs when she turned around on that swivel chair. Strange thing though, one time Nurse Chapel's skirt rode up when she bent over and from the smile on Sulu's face, you'd have thought he'd been told he was getting a month's shore leave in San Francisco
Posted by: Capt. James T Kirk at March 25, 2012 09:49 PM (Y+DPZ)
Posted by: Stephen at March 25, 2012 09:50 PM (uhPd1)
Yes..No female could fly a starship in Star Trek. The leadership team was men.
Posted by: Stephen at March 26, 2012 01:42 AM (uhPd1)
Fuck you! I crash one starship into a planet and you won't let me live it down!
Posted by: Counselor Troi at March 25, 2012 09:51 PM (JoIcn)
Posted by: Scotty at March 25, 2012 09:52 PM (uhPd1)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread knows it's Leftie Clobberin' Time at March 25, 2012 09:53 PM (dHwuO)
Posted by: 18-1 at March 26, 2012 01:46 AM
Oh, want to hear the worst of it?
Those families were told that the money came from Obama
Posted by: kbdabear at March 25, 2012 09:53 PM (Y+DPZ)
Posted by: Stephen at March 25, 2012 09:53 PM (uhPd1)
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 26, 2012 01:47 AM (4q5tP)
Hey, I docked her a bunch of times!!!
Posted by: Charlie Sheen at March 25, 2012 09:54 PM (1grxW)
Posted by: steevy at March 25, 2012 09:56 PM (7W3wI)
Posted by: OldDog at March 25, 2012 09:56 PM (tQYJH)
Posted by: steevy at March 25, 2012 09:58 PM (7W3wI)
Posted by: Calyx dead thread head at March 25, 2012 09:58 PM (U/goY)
Posted by: CounselorTroi at March 25, 2012 09:58 PM (uhPd1)
That hot black haired half Asian chick with the hipster doofus in that Heineken commercial
Posted by: kbdabear at March 25, 2012 09:59 PM (Y+DPZ)
Those families were told that the money came from Obama
Posted by: kbdabear at March 26, 2012 01:53 AM (Y+DPZ)
It came from his stash. Everyone knows about the Obama stash.
Posted by: Peggy Joseph at March 25, 2012 10:01 PM (1grxW)
Posted by: Calyx dead thread head at March 25, 2012 11:44 PM (U/goY)
Blame the Hunter, not the Meat.
Never had bad moose meat...even from a rutted up bull. You just have to be careful about how you handle them once they are down.
Posted by: garrett at March 25, 2012 10:01 PM (8Yqrz)
Posted by: Lt. Commander Data at March 25, 2012 10:01 PM (JoIcn)
Posted by: Robert at March 25, 2012 10:03 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Stephen at March 26, 2012 01:53 AM (uhPd1)
Marina Sirtis, such a lovely girl when I met her. Really nice
Posted by: The Dude at March 25, 2012 10:04 PM (M8yfa)
Posted by: Capt. James T Kirk at March 25, 2012 10:05 PM (Y+DPZ)
Posted by: Commander Ryker at March 25, 2012 10:05 PM (4q5tP)
I'm not involved in endoscopies. I don't know what the routine is for them. I just know all the hoops we have to jump through for people coming into the OR (and the hours of meetings that have been clocked on how best to document them).
Posted by: someone at March 25, 2012 10:06 PM (bqjJT)
Star Trek has never been, and never will be sexist. Why are you staring at my chest? That's just where I keep the Borg collective.
Posted by: Seven of Nine busting out all over at March 25, 2012 10:10 PM (JoIcn)
Posted by: kbdabear at March 26, 2012 01:53 AM (Y+DPZ)
yeah that burns me up. if you know how that whole blood money thing works it should have either been from the guys family or the American people as a whole or it MEANS NOTHING but a sop to the precedents honour and nobody elses... coulds even piss off the families of the dead since it didnt come from the right people. though im sure hes a SCOAMF, because in doing it the way he did it he inadvertantly admitted he sent that guy to kill those folks on by mistake or had some responsibility for the fuckup. Which is NOT. HIS. STYLE.
Posted by: gushka haz a new Kitty what plays fetch! ! at March 25, 2012 10:11 PM (r7Ddb)
http://tinyurl.com/889hk84
Posted by: Spock's Brain on Drugs at March 26, 2012 02:02 AM
Holy Shit, thanks for bringing back memories that I thought Spock had mind melded out of my head
Shirtless and covered with Vaseline, I swore he was gonna start belting out show tunes
Even after that scene, I would have dipshit ensigns ask me stupid questions about Sulu and Chekov sharing quarters but there was only one bunk
Posted by: Capt. James T Kirk at March 25, 2012 10:12 PM (Y+DPZ)
Posted by: OldDog at March 25, 2012 10:15 PM (tQYJH)
Posted by: vika at March 25, 2012 10:16 PM (sqVOl)
Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2012 01:58 AM (7W3wI)
dunno if there was chasin done... im here kinda. taught my new kitten to play fetch while Grim was at work! even Grimmy was kinda impressed when the little guy started bringing him his foil ball. The little wite kitten acted so proud. hes a big boy now, he thinks.
heh.
hope he never meets Spectre from outside. Hes gotten to be a HUGE black cat.
Posted by: gushka haz a new Kitty what plays fetch! ! at March 25, 2012 10:17 PM (r7Ddb)
Posted by: Barack "Swashbuckler" Obama at March 25, 2012 10:20 PM (JoIcn)
After I had gathered enough direct observational test data on Lt. Yar, I configured my "woman maker" for optimum performance.
Temperature, thrust angle, length, diameter, torque, vibrational frequency, reciprocating speed, pressure spots, rigidity, the works.
I had that bitch yowling in tongues that even I could not translate. Took her 6 hours to recover in sick bay before she regained the power of speech and use of her legs. She was all grins though.
Posted by: Commander Ryker at March 25, 2012 10:22 PM (4q5tP)
Posted by: Lt. Data at March 25, 2012 10:22 PM (4q5tP)
Posted by: Robert at March 25, 2012 10:23 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: vika at March 25, 2012 10:24 PM (sqVOl)
Posted by: vika at March 25, 2012 10:25 PM (sqVOl)
Posted by: LT Worf at March 25, 2012 10:25 PM (tQYJH)
Posted by: Metal bikini Leia being groped by sexually frustrated Jabba at March 25, 2012 10:26 PM (JoIcn)
Posted by: LT Worf at March 26, 2012 02:25 AM (tQYJH)
So that's where you went when you told me you had to release your warrior spirit! Bastard!
Posted by: Counselor Troi at March 25, 2012 10:29 PM (JoIcn)
Posted by: vika at March 25, 2012 10:30 PM (sqVOl)
Posted by: vika at March 25, 2012 10:32 PM (sqVOl)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2012 10:32 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: China dropship at March 25, 2012 10:33 PM (mlZl9)
Lt. Worf, surely you are mistaken. My data banks clearly recorded a sexual encounter with Lt Yar in "The Naked Now"
Posted by: Lt. Data at March 25, 2012 10:34 PM (4q5tP)
Posted by: JEF at March 25, 2012 10:36 PM (j+Izh)
Hi, sweetie!
Posted by: vika at March 26, 2012 02:25 AM (sqVOl)
exactly!
HI VIKA!!!!!
hes been gettin in bed with us and pouncin on toes and stuff and generally being impossible. this way i can now wear him out at will and then carry the little bundle of evil to bed limp and ready to snooze.
Posted by: gushka haz a new Kitty what plays fetch! ! at March 25, 2012 10:36 PM (r7Ddb)
Posted by: vika at March 26, 2012 02:32 AM (sqVOl)
I told George Lucas it was happening, or I was walking off the project and he could find himself a new Jabba.
Posted by: Brian Dennehy at March 25, 2012 10:37 PM (JoIcn)
Posted by: gushka haz a new Kitty what plays fetch! ! at March 25, 2012 10:37 PM (r7Ddb)
Posted by: China dropship at March 26, 2012 02:33 AM (mlZl9)
Thank you, chink!Kindle Fire Apps
Posted by: gay at March 25, 2012 10:38 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: gushka haz a new Kitty what plays fetch! ! at March 26, 2012 02:37 AM (r7Ddb)
Oh yeah! Give me a minute to see if I can hunt it down.
Posted by: Robert at March 25, 2012 10:38 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Robert at March 25, 2012 10:39 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: gushka haz a new Kitty what plays fetch! ! at March 26, 2012 02:37 AM (r7Ddb)
What? What?
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2012 10:40 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: LT Worf at March 25, 2012 10:40 PM (tQYJH)
http://tinyurl.com/6njy5f5
Posted by: Robert at March 25, 2012 10:41 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: OldDog at March 25, 2012 10:43 PM (tQYJH)
http://tinyurl.com/6njy5f5
Posted by: Robert at March 26, 2012 02:41 AM (4ixH5)
i thought that was just so awesome. i had to share
Posted by: gushka haz a new Kitty what plays fetch! ! at March 25, 2012 10:45 PM (r7Ddb)
Posted by: vika at March 25, 2012 10:45 PM (sqVOl)
Posted by: gushka haz a new Kitty what plays fetch! ! at March 26, 2012 02:45 AM (r7Ddb)
It made me lol. Does Cthulhu want the lolz? Cthulhu knows what to do.
www.facebook.com
Posted by: Robert at March 25, 2012 10:51 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: gushka haz a new Kitty what plays fetch! ! at March 26, 2012 02:45 AM (r7Ddb)
Heh.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2012 10:52 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2012 10:55 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Cthsulu at March 25, 2012 10:55 PM (axc/z)
Captain's Log 3/26/2012: I've reached my target depth of 35,756 ft. So far, nothing of interest. All of that Avatar money, right down the shitter on this project.
Wait! What's that in the distance. It appears to be...it is!...a man in Middle Eastern dress. He kind of resembles....hold on, it is.....Osama Bin Laden! And he appears to be getting gang banged by a group of nurse sharks. I can't wait to put this on the big screen in 3-D!
Posted by: James Cameron at March 25, 2012 10:55 PM (JoIcn)
Posted by: vika at March 25, 2012 10:57 PM (sqVOl)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2012 10:57 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: James Cameron at March 26, 2012 02:55 AM (JoIcn)
I'll see it twice!
But I'm pirating it both times.
Posted by: Robert at March 25, 2012 10:57 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2012 02:55 AM (kaalw)
God you're such a Democrat. :p
Posted by: Robert at March 25, 2012 10:58 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: vika at March 26, 2012 02:57 AM (sqVOl)
.....or the stars are right, whichever.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2012 10:59 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: bergerbilder at March 25, 2012 10:59 PM (j+Izh)
Posted by: vika at March 26, 2012 02:57 AM (sqVOl)
It hasn't worked that way for me. What the hell am I doing wrong?
Posted by: Robert at March 25, 2012 11:00 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2012 02:57 AM (kaalw)
Nuh uh.
Posted by: Robert at March 25, 2012 11:01 PM (4ixH5)
Oh my!
Posted by: Cthsulu at March 25, 2012 11:01 PM (axc/z)
Posted by: Robert at March 26, 2012 02:56 AM (4ixH5)
Hey, wait -- how'd you get that picture?
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2012 11:01 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2012 03:01 AM (kaalw)
Just sort of came up.
<<_<<
>>_>>
Posted by: Robert at March 25, 2012 11:03 PM (4ixH5)
One of the long tradition of Star Trek women who are hotter in real life than on the show. Jeri Ryan is one of the few exceptions, because some women just cannot be suppress by the worst costuming.
Posted by: epobirs at March 25, 2012 11:04 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Zakn at March 25, 2012 11:08 PM (7F9i5)
Which Star Trek Character is the most liberal? Sulu?
Posted by: Trekkie at March 25, 2012 11:09 PM (uhPd1)
Posted by: Robert at March 26, 2012 03:01 AM (4ixH5)
OK -- Readers' Digest version: I was going to school at the University of Casual Sun Bathing, and got into a programming class for business majors, where you actually had virtual punched card decks and submitted batch jobs. And half the people who submitted jobs would get printouts after 40 minutes showing the uncompiled code and no output....and would cry to the heavens, "what the hell happened to my output?!?!?"
And I'd say, "Cthulhu got it. It was sitting right there in the output box, and a tentacle came up out of the drains and swiped it."
A bit later, we got to choose our own names for the interactive computer system, and I naturally chose "cthulhu" -- so that I could send user-to-user messages that said, "I've got your output. Don't bother looking for it."
So I've been doing the cthulhu schtick for 30+ years. And I'm still amused by it. As the saying goes, you have to get older, but you never have to grow up.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2012 11:11 PM (kaalw)
Give Mulgrew some respect. She is better looking than Hillary.Hillary is a Romulan or something
Posted by: Trekkie at March 25, 2012 11:11 PM (uhPd1)
Posted by: Stephen at March 25, 2012 11:12 PM (uhPd1)
BEAN!
http://tinyurl.com/3jn25tg
Posted by: Robert at March 26, 2012 03:02 AM (4ixH5)
Hmmm....I can't help but feeling a little summoned, myself.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2012 11:12 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: vika at March 25, 2012 11:13 PM (sqVOl)
Posted by: Zakn at March 25, 2012 11:14 PM (7F9i5)
Posted by: Stephen at March 25, 2012 11:15 PM (uhPd1)
Posted by: vika at March 25, 2012 11:16 PM (sqVOl)
Posted by: vika at March 26, 2012 03:13 AM (sqVOl)
Which of these are the ones that are "unwrapped"?
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2012 11:17 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Trekkie at March 26, 2012 03:07 AM (uhPd1)
Speak for yourself.
Posted by: sulu at March 25, 2012 11:18 PM (axc/z)
Posted by: Trekkie at March 26, 2012 03:09 AM (uhPd1)
I helped save a group of Indians......so eat me, bitches.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at March 25, 2012 11:18 PM (JoIcn)
Posted by: Zakn at March 25, 2012 11:20 PM (7F9i5)
Posted by: Phaser at March 25, 2012 11:21 PM (uhPd1)
Posted by: vika at March 25, 2012 11:22 PM (sqVOl)
Posted by: StarTrekWeaponCollector at March 25, 2012 11:23 PM (uhPd1)
Posted by: Scotty at March 25, 2012 11:24 PM (uhPd1)
Posted by: vika at March 25, 2012 11:24 PM (sqVOl)
Posted by: Zakn at March 25, 2012 11:27 PM (7F9i5)
Posted by: vika at March 25, 2012 11:27 PM (sqVOl)
Posted by: Zakn at March 26, 2012 03:20 AM (7F9i5)
I just got back from Insty and have that waiting. I'm saving it for last.
Posted by: Robert at March 25, 2012 11:27 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: StarTrekWeaponCollector at March 25, 2012 11:29 PM (uhPd1)
Posted by: sistrum at March 25, 2012 11:29 PM (AyryN)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2012 03:11 AM (kaalw)
That was funny. As an aside, every dude I've ever met on the web that used the nick Cthulhu has always been some kind of programmer of some sort.
I smell conspiracy.
Posted by: Robert at March 25, 2012 11:30 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Zakn at March 25, 2012 11:30 PM (7F9i5)
Posted by: vika at March 26, 2012 03:27 AM (sqVOl)
This is all I get when I google Vika's Man...
http://tinyurl.com/7ewn5ur
Posted by: Robert at March 25, 2012 11:31 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: vika at March 25, 2012 11:31 PM (sqVOl)
Posted by: Stephen at March 25, 2012 11:32 PM (uhPd1)
That the one where the Doctor starts having erotic fantasies? I saw a bit of it in passing the other day. The scene where he imagine himself as a painter with 7of9 as his model nekkid except for her eyebrow thingy.
Pretty funny one, especially for that show.
Posted by: epobirs at March 25, 2012 11:33 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Stephen at March 25, 2012 11:33 PM (uhPd1)
I smell conspiracy.
Posted by: Robert at March 26, 2012 03:30 AM (4ixH5)
Yeah, it was kind of amusing -- I was trying to go for an Accounting major with a Comp Sci minor......except UCSB didn't have a business school, didn't have an accounting degree, and didn't have minors. So I ended up taking every accounting course offered, getting a Business Economics degree, and helping two girlfriends through Comp Sci majors.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2012 11:34 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: epobirs at March 25, 2012 11:35 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: vikas man at March 25, 2012 11:38 PM (sqVOl)
Posted by: Will Wheaton at March 25, 2012 11:38 PM (7F9i5)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2012 11:39 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: sistrum at March 25, 2012 11:39 PM (AyryN)
Posted by: Trekker at March 25, 2012 11:39 PM (uhPd1)
Posted by: Zakn at March 25, 2012 11:42 PM (7F9i5)
Posted by: Stephen at March 26, 2012 03:33 AM (uhPd1)
Yeah, and the Enterprise already has one of those.........There can be only one!
Posted by: Guinan at March 25, 2012 11:42 PM (JoIcn)
I remember the episode where Spock and Kirk visitied a planet like Nazi Germany. Spock was beaten and had greenish/blue blood.
Posted by: Stephen at March 25, 2012 11:42 PM (uhPd1)
Posted by: landofskybluewater at March 25, 2012 11:51 PM (JoIcn)
Posted by: Robert at March 25, 2012 11:53 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: vikas man at March 26, 2012 03:38 AM (sqVOl)
*Suddenly appears, take a red magic marker and make a little dot on your forehead*
Posted by: Some weird Indian dude at March 25, 2012 11:54 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Zakn at March 25, 2012 11:54 PM (7F9i5)
Looking back, the only voyager episodes I'd ever care to see again are the ones with the cast getting to do weird stuff like that. The other eps are just painful unless it's got a RiffTrax added to it.
Posted by: epobirs at March 25, 2012 11:56 PM (kcfmt)
1979 -- three years of Carter, the House had been owned by tax'n'spend Dems for a GENERATION, the creeping march of socialism was so inevitable that Nixon had established the EPA. And a washed-up ex-actor was going to get creamed due to the inertia of incumbency.
Mind you, the current disregard for the rule of law and the Constitution is worse. Declining to follow-through on already-won racially-based voter-intimidation is worse. Furnishing arms to kill 300 Mexicans and 2 uniformed Americans is worse. Attacking freedom of conscience directly as an emanation and penumbra of an unconstitutional law is worse. But in 1979, we didn't know we could win -- it was a choice between lose ugly and lose graceful.
We owe a lot to Ronaldus Maximus -- but the most valuable thing he gave us is that "inevitable" isn't.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2012 11:56 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Stephen at March 25, 2012 11:58 PM (uhPd1)
http://tinyurl.com/7teu2db
Posted by: As if you don't already know at March 26, 2012 12:00 AM (axc/z)
That episode reminds me of a Dennis Miller bit about virtual reality. If Joe Sixpack can come home and have simulated sex with Claudia Schiffer for $20, it would make crack cocaine look like decaf.
This is the dark unspoken secret of the Federation. The unproductive masses are kept out of trouble with industrial scale holodecks. Some are having actual sex with each other and never realizing it was a real person. Talk about an opiate of the masses.
Posted by: epobirs at March 26, 2012 12:02 AM (kcfmt)
Posted by: vika at March 26, 2012 12:02 AM (sqVOl)
Posted by: Robert at March 26, 2012 03:53 AM (4ixH5)
(a) That was a much younger Cthulhu. (b) It wasn't at the same time. (c) It was like a catalyzed reaction -- two pairs went into a situation, interacted, swapped reactions for a short time, and ended up as a bunch of reaction products afterwards. I'm not sure any of us are whole even now.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2012 12:02 AM (kaalw)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2012 03:56 AM (kaalw)
=====
Ronnie also gave the biggest bedspins imaginable thru the combination of the 1981 and 1986 tax acts. I guess he figgered he just could not stop the 1986 act cuz he didn't have the votes in the Senate.
Between the two the world ended up crazy confused and right at 1000 savings & loans and banks crashed. I could tell you endless FDIC and FSLIC stories. It was a huge mess and it sucked to be any human in contact with those bureaucracies. Reagan was better than the other choices before of since, but he was a long way from perfect.
Posted by: jc at March 26, 2012 12:02 AM (ufJKx)
Posted by: As if you don't already know at March 26, 2012 04:00 AM (axc/z)
I realy didn't know that. I know what I'm looking up when I get home in the morning.
Farscape can wait.
Posted by: Robert at March 26, 2012 12:05 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: landofskybluewater at March 26, 2012 12:06 AM (JoIcn)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2012 04:02 AM (kaalw)
Not after you tore out my hymen, no. You even said you were gonna take it to the library to have it laiminated to keep in your wallet.
Posted by: Cthulhu's ex at March 26, 2012 12:08 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Stephen at March 26, 2012 12:08 AM (uhPd1)
Posted by: vika at March 26, 2012 04:02 AM (sqVOl)
I have this horrible feeling I'm going to wake up this afternoon to find a jury duty notice in my mailbox.
Posted by: Robert at March 26, 2012 12:09 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Trekker at March 26, 2012 12:11 AM (uhPd1)
Posted by: epobirs at March 26, 2012 04:02 AM (kcfmt)
The moment holodecks become real I'm nailing the hottest Asian actresses of all time.
Posted by: Robert at March 26, 2012 12:11 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: landofskybluewater at March 26, 2012 12:12 AM (JoIcn)
Three of these people are Olympic athletes. Can someone please explain the midget?
Posted by: Robert at March 26, 2012 12:13 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Cthulhu's ex at March 26, 2012 04:08 AM (4ixH5)
Nice try, Robert. I've actually never had a relationship with someone younger than myself.....nor, at that time, anyone less experienced.....nor, at any time, a virgin.
We all believed in so much that wasn't so, and relied on so much that wasn't reliable.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2012 12:14 AM (kaalw)
And if Futurama is correct, Limbo will someday be an Olympic event, so she has that going for her.
Posted by: epobirs at March 26, 2012 12:18 AM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Robert at March 26, 2012 12:19 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: vika at March 26, 2012 12:20 AM (sqVOl)
Posted by: vika at March 26, 2012 12:21 AM (sqVOl)
Posted by: vika at March 26, 2012 04:13 AM (sqVOl)
Dear Citizen,
You are being served warning of posting on a right-wing hate site. Continued adherence to the wrong opinions and ideas will require us at DHS to monitor your activities eventually planting on you the evidence necessary to have you convicted of trumped up charges of bias and thought crimes and crimes against our Lord Obama.
Posted by: DHS at March 26, 2012 12:23 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: vika at March 26, 2012 04:20 AM (sqVOl)
The little nipper!
Posted by: Robert at March 26, 2012 12:23 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: vika at March 26, 2012 04:21 AM (sqVOl)
Regular or diet?
Posted by: Robert at March 26, 2012 12:24 AM (4ixH5)
Bones was able to fully reconnect my brain. Bones did not have the skills to re attach my brain. He connected my vocal cords to my brain. I gave him instructions and he re attached my brain. I was walking around like a robot without a brain. Bones had my body on a remote control.
It was interesting having my brain detached and in crontrol of a planet. The females were very dependent and the men were barbarians. They really needed my brain. I wonder how the women lived with the barbarians afte my brain was re attached and i left the alien planet?
Posted by: SpocksBrain at March 26, 2012 12:26 AM (uhPd1)
Posted by: vika at March 26, 2012 12:28 AM (sqVOl)
Posted by: vika at March 26, 2012 04:28 AM (sqVOl)
they told me if I pulled hard enough money or pez would come flying out.
Posted by: Janet Neopolitano at March 26, 2012 12:30 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: vika at March 26, 2012 04:31 AM (sqVOl)
Don't know if I should invest or swallow whole...
Posted by: Glenn Beck at March 26, 2012 12:34 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Robert at March 26, 2012 04:19 AM (4ixH5)
I normally refer to it as: "after living together for 2-1/2 years, I thought we were practically married -- and she thought we were practically single." -- which is a nice attempt to toss it off lightly. But it wasn't light, and it wasn't fun, and some of the broken pieces of that relationship still find their way into my life today like slivers of broken glass in the carpet.
Talking about it might be some sort of masochistic exhibitionism. Or it might be penance. Or just a warning to others. But it's a bit of the real me, whatever it is -- and that goes a bit beyond vinegar and water.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2012 12:34 AM (kaalw)
Posted by: Janet Neopolitano at March 26, 2012 04:30 AM (4ixH5)
You're just not pulling hard enough. Swing by my place a little later and we can practice it again.........and again......and again.
Posted by: Janet Reno at March 26, 2012 12:35 AM (JoIcn)
Posted by: vika at March 26, 2012 04:21 AM (sqVOl)
Diet's the better spermicide.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2012 12:36 AM (kaalw)
Posted by: vika at March 26, 2012 04:21 AM (sqVOl)
Regular or diet?
Posted by: Robert at March 26, 2012 04:24 AM (4ixH5)
Cherry.
Posted by: The Coca Cola Kid at March 26, 2012 12:37 AM (axc/z)
Posted by: Janet Reno at March 26, 2012 04:35 AM (JoIcn)
Bitch, you so fine! Give us some sugar...
Posted by: Janet Neopolitano at March 26, 2012 12:37 AM (4ixH5)
SUMMONS!
http://tinyurl.com/89z5poh
Posted by: Robert at March 26, 2012 04:36 AM (4ixH5)
I remember her -- kind of flashy, but couldn't string two words together.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2012 12:38 AM (kaalw)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2012 04:38 AM (kaalw)
.....and just like her, to be hanging out with some guy of another species.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2012 12:39 AM (kaalw)
Posted by: vika at March 26, 2012 12:39 AM (sqVOl)
Tongue..does not compute. I think I will now urinate on you.
Posted by: CommanderData at March 26, 2012 12:40 AM (uhPd1)
Posted by: CommanderData at March 26, 2012 12:40 AM (uhPd1)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2012 04:36 AM (kaalw)
No more. I'm calling on a new UN Convention on Spermicide to solve this atrocity!
Posted by: Ricky Santorum at March 26, 2012 12:40 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: vika at March 26, 2012 12:41 AM (sqVOl)
Posted by: vika at March 26, 2012 04:39 AM (sqVOl)
In days of old, when knights were bold --
And rubbers weren't invented....
They tied their socks, around their cocks --
And babies were prevented.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2012 12:41 AM (kaalw)
Posted by: Marina Sirtis of my 13 yr old boyhood fantasies at March 26, 2012 12:42 AM (JoIcn)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2012 12:42 AM (kaalw)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2012 12:43 AM (kaalw)
Posted by: Carter at March 26, 2012 12:44 AM (uhPd1)
Posted by: Robert at March 26, 2012 12:44 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2012 04:43 AM (kaalw)
( . ) ( . )
Like that?
Posted by: Robert at March 26, 2012 12:45 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: vika at March 26, 2012 12:45 AM (sqVOl)
Posted by: vika at March 26, 2012 04:45 AM (sqVOl)
I'd like to give it a try before I pass judgment.
Posted by: Robert at March 26, 2012 12:46 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Dirty Birdy Marina Sirtis at March 26, 2012 12:47 AM (JoIcn)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2012 12:47 AM (kaalw)
Posted by: vika at March 26, 2012 04:45 AM (sqVOl)
Can you go into considerably more detail about this.....including the bases for any conclusions, double-blind studies, and a thorough explication of rationale?
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2012 12:49 AM (kaalw)
Posted by: Dirty Birdy Marina Sirtis at March 26, 2012 12:51 AM (JoIcn)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2012 12:57 AM (kaalw)
Posted by: Dennis at March 26, 2012 04:52 AM (uhPd1)
I'm wondering about the statistics of natural, vanilla-scented, lemon-flavored, or mint, but Vika seems to have disappeared.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2012 12:59 AM (kaalw)
Posted by: vika at March 26, 2012 04:58 AM (sqVOl)
Sounds like it's worth a shot.
Posted by: Robert at March 26, 2012 01:00 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: vika at March 26, 2012 01:00 AM (sqVOl)
Posted by: vika at March 26, 2012 05:00 AM (sqVOl)
Nice change of subject, but are you thinking more of anchovy?
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2012 01:01 AM (kaalw)
Posted by: Robert at March 26, 2012 01:05 AM (4ixH5)
RESUMMONING!
http://tinyurl.com/72mg6mv
Posted by: Robert at March 26, 2012 04:59 AM (4ixH5)
I'm thinking that Robert and Bean have something going....'cause all the rest of us just get moose and squid. It's like a bad transcript to a Boris Badenov interview -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR3xwTXZhXQ
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2012 01:06 AM (kaalw)
Posted by: vika at March 26, 2012 05:00 AM (sqVOl)+
There's a lot of melodrama but it's mostly about big men being awesome and making millions of dollars while drinking like fish.
Also Christina's sexy curves.
Posted by: Robert at March 26, 2012 01:06 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2012 05:06 AM (kaalw)
I post what is relevent to your interests.
I'd link stuff for Vika but I don't think her interests are legal in most states.
Posted by: Robert at March 26, 2012 01:08 AM (4ixH5)
No Mad Men?
Posted by: vika at March 26, 2012 05:06 AM (sqVOl)
I'll confess to several kinds of virginity -- including Mad Men. Other types...not so much.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2012 01:08 AM (kaalw)
Posted by: vika at March 26, 2012 05:06 AM (sqVOl)
His ancestral breeding grounds are in an unknown dimension blocked by the idiot god Azathoth.
Posted by: Robert at March 26, 2012 01:10 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: vika at March 26, 2012 01:10 AM (sqVOl)
I'd link stuff for Vika but I don't think her interests are legal in most states.
Posted by: Robert at March 26, 2012 05:08 AM (4ixH5)
Cousin Jake and the nippy girl you had a while back worked better.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2012 01:10 AM (kaalw)
Posted by: vika at March 26, 2012 01:13 AM (sqVOl)
Posted by: Robert at March 26, 2012 01:14 AM (4ixH5)
http://tinyurl.com/7k2ha2g
Posted by: Robert at March 26, 2012 01:17 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: vika at March 26, 2012 01:17 AM (sqVOl)
Posted by: vika at March 26, 2012 05:13 AM (sqVOl)
Posted by: Don Draper at March 26, 2012 01:18 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: vika at March 26, 2012 05:17 AM (sqVOl)
Speaking of homoerotic subtext, did Gregory House ever jump Wilson's bones?
I thought they would have made TV's cutest queer couple. Was I the only one who concluded House's troubles were stemming from being closeted? Dude was gayer than the entire cast of West Side Story!
Posted by: Don Draper at March 26, 2012 01:20 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: vika at March 26, 2012 01:21 AM (sqVOl)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2012 01:21 AM (kaalw)
Posted by: vika at March 26, 2012 01:22 AM (sqVOl)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2012 01:26 AM (kaalw)
And I should start doing my...my thing. My thing that I do.
Good night, Vika.
Good night, JC.
Good morning, Vic.
Posted by: Robert at March 26, 2012 01:29 AM (4ixH5)
So the stories about the Kitty Genevieve stabbing are all BS. Who would have known it. We had no internet then to refute it.
As for turnout in the Republican Primaries yes IL had an increased turnout, but it wasn't much of an increase statistically (929K vs 900K in 200
. I looked at every one of the primaries a couple of weeks ago and there are two that had significant increases, SC and MA. The rest were mostly no change or a significant decrease. Posted by: Vic at March 26, 2012 02:40 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: Miss Marple at March 26, 2012 02:50 AM (GoIUi)
Posted by: deadrody at March 26, 2012 05:42 AM (eOvu0)
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I'll take the "Nicole Kidman" model, please. About age 30, and with slightly larger, uh, medallions up front.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 26, 2012 06:30 AM (exvgC)
My parents always told us it was because we didn't have any responsibility like a house payment, rtc
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And you had three months (approx.) off for summer. If I hadn't had that time back then to decompress from school, I'd have gone bonkers.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 26, 2012 06:41 AM (exvgC)
Which Star Trek episode was the most sexist/anti female?
Posted by: SpocksBrain at March 26, 2012 01:33 AM (uhPd1)
How about the one where the woman transferred her mind into Kirk and vice versa so she could be a Star Ship Captain, but was totally incompetent.
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Yeah, but she was a nut case from the git-go.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 26, 2012 06:45 AM (exvgC)
Posted by: Escape from Camp 14 ePub at March 28, 2012 06:00 PM (VdybU)
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