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April 17, 2012

Overnight Open Thread (4-17-2012) – The Mailing It In Edition
— Maetenloch

USA: The Least Racist Country in the World

If you were to poll the average American, they would likely rank the US as one of the most racist countries on Earth due to of course slavery, Jim Crow laws, Rodney King, OJ, and everything else that we're rhetorically beaten up with ad nauseum. But as any American who has ever lived abroad well knows - the opposite is actually true: We're the least racist country in the world.

But the Left and the MSM are obsessed with race and continually dwell on racial relations in the US. So it's not hard to come away from the media and educational system convinced that we're irredeemably racist and xenophobic. Now of course we're not without any sin but unlike nearly every other country in the world we are quite willing to air our dirty laundry publicly and positively delight in critiquing ourselves.

So it's nice to see Dennis Prager point this all out:

In light of the tragic killing of black teenager Trayvon Martin -- and the manufactured hysteria surrounding it -- one thing needs to be stated as clearly and as often as possible: The United States is the least racist and least xenophobic country in the world. Foreigners of every race, ethnicity, and religion know this. Most Americans suspect this. Most black Americans and the entire left deny this.
Black Africans know this. That is why so many seek to live in the United States. Decades ago, the number of black Africans who had immigrated to the United States had already surpassed the number of black Africans who were forcibly shipped to America as slaves.
And members of other races and nationalities know this. Even Muslim and Arab writers have noted that nowhere in the Arab or larger Muslim world does an Arab or any other Muslim have the individual rights, liberty, and dignity that a Muslim living in America has.

Europeans - in particular the Germans and the French - love to smugly lecture Americans over how awfully we treat blacks here but are blind to the motes in their own eyes.

And when any of these people come here - from anywhere, speaking any language, looking like a member of any race -- they are accepted as Americans the moment they identify as such. He or she will be regarded as fully American. This is not true elsewhere. A third-generation Turkish-German, whose German is indistinguishable from the German spoken by an indigenous German, will still be regarded by most Germans as a Turk. The same holds true elsewhere in Europe.

But just start asking them why it is that 3rd generation Turks in Deutschland can't ever be German or how come no Arabs happen to live in the 14th arrondissement of Paris and after a little hemming and hawing and throat clearing you'll start hearing raw talk that would make even a jaded Klansman raise an eyebrow.

But of course we - with our own black president, judges, cabinet members, and congressmen and myriad other minorities integrated into our society - are the racist ones.

Obama: We Blame Counter-Revolutionary Speculators and Hoarders For High Gas Prices

Under pressure to take action on rising gasoline prices, President Barack Obama wants Congress to strengthen federal supervision of oil markets, increase penalties for market manipulation and empower regulators to increase the amount of money energy traders are required to put behind their transactions. The White House plan, which Obama was to unveil Tuesday, is more likely to draw sharp election-year distinctions with Republicans than have an immediate effect on prices at the pump.

Which has also been their go-to excuse every other time oil prices have peaked. Because it could only be due to evil speculators and never, ever bad energy policies from the White House.

Worthwhile Canadian Currency Initiative

Are Octopuses Intelligent?

Another measure of intelligence: you can count neurons. The common octopus has about 130 million of them in its brain. A human has 100 billion. But this is where things get weird. Three-fifths of an octopus's neurons are not in the brain; they're in its arms.
"It is as if each arm has a mind of its own," says Peter Godfrey-Smith, a diver, professor of philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and an admirer of octopuses. For example, researchers who cut off an octopus's arm (which the octopus can regrow) discovered that not only does the arm crawl away on its own, but if the arm meets a food item, it seizes it -- and tries to pass it to where the mouth would be if the arm were still connected to its body.
"Meeting an octopus," writes Godfrey-Smith, "is like meeting an intelligent alien." Their intelligence sometimes even involves changing colors and shapes.

Mmmm tasty fried aliens.

More Immanent Pancake Making

Apparently pancake making could happen at any time in the 70's which gave photos from then a rather p0rny vibe:

As I've mentioned before, you'd be hard pressed to find a picture of people in the seventies in a social setting NOT within minutes of pancakes. Combine (1) the sexual revolution, (2) drug experimentation gone amok, (3) women's liberation, and (4) tens of millions of Baby Boomers all in their prime, and what do you get? All you can eat pancakes.

The Yahoo AoSHQ group. You know the way.

Braaak.

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1 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: steevy at April 17, 2012 06:22 PM (7W3wI)

2 You said it, steevy!

Posted by: A Mindful Webworker at April 17, 2012 06:23 PM (lBpVP)

3 Don't click on the MacKeeper ad. It is malware: http://tinyurl.com/6pye2vt

Posted by: Sadder but Wiser at April 17, 2012 06:23 PM (UzoCM)

4 Not first! Also, feel better Maet.

Posted by: Conservative Crank at April 17, 2012 06:24 PM (1zwZo)

5 I don't know what you're talking about. You Americans are the most racist people ever.

Posted by: European Soccer fan throwing bananas at black players at April 17, 2012 06:24 PM (GULKT)

6 Hi Andrew!

Posted by: Mark formerly in Spokane,now in Sandy Ut at April 17, 2012 06:24 PM (8ac7j)

7 Any oil speculators here? I'm hunting them down!

Posted by: Barry Soetoro at April 17, 2012 06:25 PM (c3mby)

8 From Swwetness & Light, news Barney Frank intends to marry another ["s]fruit "man": "Speaking of untruths from Mr. Frank, this is probably the opposite of an "unintended benefit," since it will assure Mrs. Frank the Â‘benefitÂ’ of lifetime healthcare coverage through the US taxpayer. By the way, we are surprised there hasnÂ’t been any speculation that FrankÂ’s wife husband partner might try to fill BarneyÂ’s seat. IsnÂ’t that is a well established tradition among Democrats?" ********************* But... Hasn't Barney been having his seat "filled" for years, so to speak?

Posted by: CoolCzech at April 17, 2012 06:26 PM (niZvt)

9 Posted by: Mark formerly in Spokane,now in Sandy Ut at April 17, 2012 10:24 PM

How's life among the polygamists?

Posted by: huerfano at April 17, 2012 06:26 PM (bAGA/)

Octopussies intelligent?

Octomom sort of blows that theory.

Posted by: Roy at April 17, 2012 06:27 PM (tiOTz)

11 Effeminate Orgy Masters is a great name for a college band.

Posted by: Alex at April 17, 2012 06:27 PM (jdZlf)

Other countries kill their racists, or they die at the hands of their racees.

We're the only country that puts them on TV and give them a title of Reverend.

Posted by: Roy at April 17, 2012 06:28 PM (tiOTz)

13 We should do a 25 cent coin featuring Helen Thomas in livid color.

Posted by: CoolCzech at April 17, 2012 06:29 PM (niZvt)

14 11 Octopussies intelligent? Octomom sort of blows that theory. Posted by: Roy at April 17, 2012 10:27 PM (tiOTz) Exception proves the rule?

Posted by: Conservative Crank at April 17, 2012 06:29 PM (1zwZo)

15 Good evening.

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 06:29 PM (F79HU)

16 Anthrax - Safe Home

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMRgrZYzg4A

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 06:29 PM (F79HU)

17 It may be smart, but tako taste good.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 17, 2012 06:29 PM (UvwYZ)

18 I work with a number of real imported black Africans. If you want to hear real disdain and condescension, listen to them talk about American blacks. Just...wow. Really, really conservative. Those guys make Glenn Beck sound like an independent.

Posted by: NC Ref at April 17, 2012 06:29 PM (/izg2)

19 I've known a few Europeens, watched a little Europeen TV... so obviously I'm an expert. And they do seem to be preening, self-righteous drooling bigots, mostly.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 17, 2012 06:29 PM (bxiXv)

20 If President Shrinkage wasn't sufferring from it, he'd go after the real speculators - like OPEC.

Posted by: Roy at April 17, 2012 06:30 PM (tiOTz)

21 I wil never understand why Scott Ian got rid of Charlie Benante. Guy's like the Eddie Van Halen of thrash metal. Total asshole.

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 06:30 PM (F79HU)

22 Do you folks realize that not capitalizing your name is the equilalent of being a submissive? Some of you should not do that. Dagny, please capitalize your name. You seem a warrior queen, not a submissive prole.

Posted by: Hydrocarbon Liberation Front at April 17, 2012 06:31 PM (NVu2l)

23 Exception proves the rule?

Posted by: Conservative Crank

No. I meant literally.

Posted by: Roy at April 17, 2012 06:31 PM (tiOTz)

24 There was also a study, sorta recently, where people in the service and travel industries were polled. Americans came in #1 for the kindest, and those most willing to try to speak the language of the country they are visiting. I lived in Ireland for a while, and they seemed pretty cool all around - at least where I worked and lived. The main concern was getting to the pub after work. All family members went, including children. It was nice, except I was used to the non-smoking restaurants and pubs in the states, and couldn't handle the thick smoke for very long. But, while working in France, well you know how this story ends. (and, not coincidentally, they came in dead last, I believe in the most ugliest of character).

Posted by: yea at April 17, 2012 06:31 PM (HOOye)

25 Anthrax is the anthrax of metal. And Green Day is the Sha Na Na of punk.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 17, 2012 06:32 PM (UvwYZ)

26 23 Do you folks realize that not capitalizing your name is the equilalent of being a submissive? Some of you should not do that. Dagny, please capitalize your name. You seem a warrior queen, not a submissive prole.
Posted by: Hydrocarbon Liberation Front at April 17, 2012 10:31 PM (NVu2l)

Oh kiss my ass.

Posted by: buzzion - lazy asshole at April 17, 2012 06:32 PM (GULKT)

27 Don't go! Don't go!
It's a... cookbook!

Posted by: a dog holding a book in his paws called 'how to serve puppies' barking to Bo at April 17, 2012 06:32 PM (HFim5)

28 Some of you should not do that. Dagny, please capitalize your name. You seem a warrior queen, not a submissive prole. A dude with balls wouldn't say please .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at April 17, 2012 06:33 PM (npr0X)

29 Europeans - in particular the Germans and the French - love to smugly lecture Americans over how awfully we treat blacks here but are blind to the motes in their own eyes. Not to mention that even the supposedly "progressive" of the "progressive", the Swedes, aren't above race-baiting with odious cakes. Apparently "gender neutrality" is a more laudable goal than treating other races as equals in white-bread Scandi-land.

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 17, 2012 06:33 PM (h/3sQ)

30 Swedish Cultural Minister and racist cake ...

http://tinyurl.com/74o3cog

Click for an eyeopener of a cake ...

Posted by: Adriane at April 17, 2012 06:33 PM (VVZaH)

31 Evening all!!! Prager's article is absolutely spot on. In Saudi, 5th and 6th generation kids born there of foreign parents are NOT citizens. Same for Kuwait, and most Gulf countries. In 1987, when talks about the return of Hong Kong to China ramped up, many Hong Kong citizens believed they had the trump card of British Passports. They were sadly mistaken when Britain's white paper announced that Hong Kong British passports weren't REALLY British passports, and thus Hong Kong citizen s were not British citizens, and couldn't come to Britain. There was a great deal of gnashing of teeth during the years leading up to the transfer. So yeah, Americans are not really racist at all. They are also far more polite overseas than Europeans want to admit. We watched a massive fist fight breakout between Italians and Germans, while waiting in the SHarm El Sheik immigration lines. Just because.

Posted by: moki at April 17, 2012 06:33 PM (dZmFh)

32 22 Benante is the drummer.

Posted by: steevy at April 17, 2012 06:34 PM (7W3wI)

33 And Green Day is the Sha Na Na of punk.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 17, 2012 10:32 PM (UvwYZ)

Up twinkles.

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 06:34 PM (F79HU)

34 The White House sent a gift to the Chinese leadership. A book - "How to wok your dog."

Posted by: Roy at April 17, 2012 06:34 PM (tiOTz)

35
Posted by: a dog holding a book in his paws called 'how to serve puppies' barking to Bo at April 17, 2012 10:32 PM (HFim5)

Reference fail. "To serve puppies" would be the correct title

Posted by: buzzion at April 17, 2012 06:34 PM (GULKT)

36
The honkies are inherently racist because they believe black folk like fried chicken and waffles. This isn't true because we actually prefer arugula salad and wagyu beef.

Posted by: Calypso Louie Farrakhan at April 17, 2012 06:34 PM (TkGkA)

37 Swedish meatballs = here, we don't want our balls.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 17, 2012 06:34 PM (UvwYZ)

38 I think listening to a little Levon Helm tonight would be appropriate. The Night The Drove Ole Dixie Down or my favorite The Weight. May God grant him peace on his journey home.

Posted by: mpfs at April 17, 2012 06:35 PM (TlwCF)

39 Did you guys see the link on Drudge the other day that Qatar is the most obese country in the world. Kind of blows out of the water all those "The US is the fattest nation evah eleventy!1!111!" articles, television specials, and government programs.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 17, 2012 06:35 PM (RZ8pf)

40 14 We should do a 25 cent coin featuring Helen Thomas in livid color. Posted by: CoolCzech at April 17, 2012 10:29 PM (niZvt) ---------- If I had a sister, or a mother, or a daughter, she would NOT look like Helen.

Posted by: my dog at April 17, 2012 06:35 PM (HOOye)

41 Basically, Europe is a continent full of liberals. And, as a result, it's just about like you'd expect.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 17, 2012 06:36 PM (bxiXv)

42 Benante is the drummer.

Posted by: steevy at April 17, 2012 10:34 PM (7W3wI)

I said Charlie Benante.

Why did I say Charlie Benante?

I'm a fucking idiot. I meant John Bush.

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 06:36 PM (F79HU)

Today, Microsoft revealed that they would be releasing Halo 4 (which will likely be the most hyped title in gaming history) at midnight on November 6th, 2012. Yeah, THAT November 6. Better yet, the sequel to the fastest selling game of all time, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, will also likely be bowing on election day.

Will Obama's youth vote suffer in the wake of Dorito and Mountain Dew fueled all-nighters? Not sure, but how hilarious will it be if it does?

Posted by: Tad Blatherton at April 17, 2012 06:36 PM (HueOF)

44 Robert at April 17, 2012 10:36 PM (F79HU)

Go ahead and blame Bush ... everyone does ...

Posted by: Adriane at April 17, 2012 06:37 PM (VVZaH)

45 I'm a fucking idiot. I meant John Bush. Sure , blame Bush .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at April 17, 2012 06:37 PM (npr0X)

46 Anthrax - Nobody Knows Anything

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRi-Cz9Ib8o

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 06:37 PM (F79HU)

47 Axelrod make any commercials for the Romney campaign today?

Posted by: Roy at April 17, 2012 06:37 PM (tiOTz)

48 I work with a number of real imported black Africans. ---------------------------------------- Now there's a recipe for empire.

Posted by: Killjoy at April 17, 2012 06:38 PM (Vcu9j)

49 I have neighbors from another country as well. I can't tell their politics, though, because they don't speak English.

Posted by: USS Diversity at April 17, 2012 06:38 PM (vpe0k)

50
Go ahead and blame Bush ... everyone does ...

Posted by: Adriane at April 17, 2012 10:37 PM (VVZaH)

BOOOOOOSHHH!!!!!!!

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 06:38 PM (F79HU)

51 Oh kiss my ass.

Posted by: buzzion - lazy asshole at April 17, 2012 10:32 PM (GULKT)

I would never oppose your classifying yourself. You know you better than I do...bitch.

Posted by: Hydrocarbon Liberation Front at April 17, 2012 06:38 PM (NVu2l)

52 Fine

Posted by: DAGNY DAMNIT at April 17, 2012 06:38 PM (CMM9V)

53 g'evening, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 17, 2012 06:39 PM (JMmQ9)

54 Damn you Adriane . For your fast typing and agressively capatilized name .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at April 17, 2012 06:39 PM (npr0X)

55 45 I read that they didn't fire Bush.They brought Belladona in to do a song and Bush decided to re form his old band Armored Saint.

Posted by: steevy at April 17, 2012 06:39 PM (7W3wI)

56 Aloha, y'all!

Posted by: cthulhu at April 17, 2012 06:40 PM (kaalw)

57 Scott Ian is a dick though.

Posted by: steevy at April 17, 2012 06:40 PM (7W3wI)

58 So I should pre-order these titles for Christmas now?? Is that possible?

Posted by: DAGNY DAMNIT at April 17, 2012 06:40 PM (CMM9V)

Speaking of Farrakhan, WTF is up with him the last week or so? He is kind of scaring me with his unhinged rantings.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 17, 2012 06:40 PM (RZ8pf)

Posted by: DAGNY DAMNIT at April 17, 2012 10:38 PM (CMM9V)

Dammit is spelled with two Ms and no Ns.

Posted by: Robert, busting your balls at April 17, 2012 06:40 PM (F79HU)

61 Lived in a couple of foreign nations, visited or worked in many. Most racist? Japan, by far. Even within their own nation. The Honshu Japanese don't like either the Hokkaidans or the Okinawans. The tolerate white Americans, British, etc. Don't like blacks. Really, really don't like Koreans.

Posted by: L Rob in OK at April 17, 2012 06:40 PM (7yvLv)

"New study reveals some Himalayan glaciers in Karakoram mountain range may actually be getting bigger"

That's why they call it Climate Change now. Next year it'll be Climate Hope.

Posted by: Roy at April 17, 2012 06:41 PM (tiOTz)

63
7 Any oil speculators here? I'm hunting them down!
Posted by: Barry Soetoro at April 17, 2012 10:25 PM (c3mby)

That's funny, I would have put you down as hunting for one-eyed snakes to gobble up... with relish!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at April 17, 2012 06:41 PM (lce0m)

64 64 Speaking of Farrakhan, WTF is up with him the last week or so? He is kind of scaring me with his unhinged rantings.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 17, 2012 10:40 PM (RZ8pf)

Are they different from the unhinged rantings he's been doing for the past few decades?

Posted by: buzzion at April 17, 2012 06:41 PM (GULKT)

65 Sniff my butt, buzzion. I can barely read as it is let alone off a TV screen. Woof. Woof.

Posted by: a dog holding a book in his paws called 'how to serve puppies' barking to Bo at April 17, 2012 06:42 PM (HFim5)

Octopi are smarter than Obama voters

So there's that...

Posted by: TexasJew at April 17, 2012 06:42 PM (hfqkA)

67 71 True.

Posted by: steevy at April 17, 2012 06:42 PM (7W3wI)

68 66-I think the Koreans really, really don't like the Japanese, either! Neither do the Chinese. Isn't it great we are just one big happy love-world???!!! Coexist!!!!! /need I?

Posted by: moki at April 17, 2012 06:42 PM (dZmFh)

69
Millionaire Orgy Masters

Just another position that the 1% is denying the 99%ers

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at April 17, 2012 06:42 PM (lce0m)

70 64 Speaking of Farrakhan, WTF is up with him the last week or so? He is kind of scaring me with his unhinged rantings. Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 17, 2012 10:40 PM (RZ8pf) He says stuff like that all the time. This is what's called an "orgy of coverage." And to get that mental image out of your head, you may want to go watch a few hours of funny cat videos on YouTube.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 17, 2012 06:43 PM (bxiXv)

71 50 Axelrod make any commercials for the Romney campaign today? Posted by: Roy at April 17, 2012 10:37 PM (tiOTz) ----------- s/be the other way around gold for the romney campaign to quote axelrod

Posted by: axelrod pulled a biden at April 17, 2012 06:43 PM (HOOye)

72 >>>That's why they call it Climate Change now. Next year it'll be Climate Hope. They've already tried "Climate Disruption".

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 17, 2012 06:43 PM (h/3sQ)

73 I'll fix that then.

Posted by: Dagny, Warrior Queen at April 17, 2012 06:43 PM (CMM9V)

74 My forays in the continent of Europe have led me to an inescapable conclusion: the buildings are nice, and sometime it's cleaner- but it's is just like fucking Mexico: full blown socialist, lazy, racist muther effers, everyone. And, can no one outside Texas make a fucking taco?

Posted by: Beefy Meatball at April 17, 2012 06:43 PM (mxnUd)

75 I am an oil speculator. I buy fuel at the lowest prices I can readily find to preclude paying more later. It's actually nearer to shooting craps than speculating, but . . . . . . .. .

Posted by: L Rob in OK at April 17, 2012 06:43 PM (7yvLv)

76
Good evening, good people. Nice day today. Rediscovered that you should not attempt fishing with a lab for company.

They have NO concept of boating safety, and little interest in learning any. Should have known better, I guess. Still, a lot of fun on her part.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 17, 2012 06:43 PM (SAMxH)

Aloha, y'all!

You in Hawaii or feeling tropical?

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 17, 2012 06:44 PM (RZ8pf)

78 L Rob, it's kind of funny the Japanese hate koreans since the Yamato Japanese are Pakche Koreans.

Posted by: Jerry at April 17, 2012 06:44 PM (4SKYj)

79 The "pancake making" thing is a bunch of Rodox photo sets. Anybody can see that.

Posted by: Mike James at April 17, 2012 06:44 PM (spLGA)

80 Dennis Prager is dah man!

No, not The Man. Just a great mensch.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at April 17, 2012 06:44 PM (Ck8hC)

81 Seems like it's time to break out this little ditty from my childhood: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp6dsKleGpU

Posted by: cthulhu at April 17, 2012 06:45 PM (kaalw)

82 How did Damn it become spelled dammit. Is that true or just a shot at Romney?

Posted by: Dagny, Warrior Queen at April 17, 2012 06:45 PM (CMM9V)

83 So does mean that Octopi are truly "brain food" then? Except I'd never be crazy enough to eat them alive. I will consume most things, but only after they've been thoroughly killed.

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 17, 2012 06:45 PM (h/3sQ)

Do you folks realize that not capitalizing your name is the equilalent of being a submissive?

Go fuck yourself.

Posted by: fluffy at April 17, 2012 06:45 PM (3SvjA)

85 I read that they didn't fire Bush.They brought Belladona in to do a song and Bush decided to re form his old band Armored Saint.

Posted by: steevy at April 17, 2012 10:39 PM (7W3wI)

Armored Saint had reunited in about '99 and released a new album in 2000 when Anthrax was on a hiatus. Ian announced an Among The Living era reunion without informing Bush which was Ian's backhanded way of firing him.

When Belladonna split after that they brought in a guy named Dan Nelson, recorded an album, had some kind of blowup and Nelson split and the album went unreleased.

Scott Ian is a dick though.

Posted by: steevy at April 17, 2012 10:40 PM (7W3wI)

No kidding! Great guitarist, total shitcock.

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 06:45 PM (F79HU)

86 82
Good evening, good people. Nice day today. Rediscovered that you should not attempt fishing with a lab for company.

They have NO concept of boating safety, and little interest in learning any. Should have known better, I guess. Still, a lot of fun on her part.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 17, 2012 10:43 PM (SAMxH)

What do you have against black labs, you racist..

Posted by: TexasJew at April 17, 2012 06:45 PM (hfqkA)

87 Japanese take that whole "descended from the gods" thing very seriously.

Posted by: steevy at April 17, 2012 06:45 PM (7W3wI)

88 I guess the more appropriate question I should have asked then is what's up with the "orgy of media coverage" surrounding Fartingkan's latest emissions? Are they setting up for something?

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 17, 2012 06:46 PM (RZ8pf)

89 64 Speaking of Farrakhan, WTF is up with him the last week or so? He is kind of scaring me with his unhinged rantings. Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 17, 2012 10:40 PM (RZ8pf) ---------- the countries going make the Burning of Rome look like a campfire after Obama loses

Posted by: axelrod pulled a biden at April 17, 2012 06:46 PM (HOOye)

90 They have NO concept of boating safety, and little interest in learning any. Should have known better, I guess. Still, a lot of fun on her part. Played chase the lure all day did you .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at April 17, 2012 06:46 PM (npr0X)

91 Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 17, 2012 10:44 PM (RZ8pf)

Just feeling tropical.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 17, 2012 06:46 PM (kaalw)

92 71 Would each arm get its own vote? I foresee more voter fraud.

Posted by: no good deed at April 17, 2012 06:46 PM (mjR67)

93 22 Benante is the drummer. Posted by: steevy at April 17, 2012 10:34 PM (7W3wI) And if memory serves, he's also Scott Ian's cousin. 'sup jackwagons

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 17, 2012 06:46 PM (Rhie+)

94 Well, with the Japanese, it's not even race per se, it's just that you're not Japanese.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 17, 2012 06:46 PM (UvwYZ)

95 Steevy, The descended from gods thing is a cover-up of the fact that they were forced out of the Korean peninsula.

Posted by: Jerry at April 17, 2012 06:47 PM (4SKYj)

96 Oh those liberals always screaming how America is racist... I always assume that when a liberal criticizes anything, they're really just projecting. Racism, war on women, destroying the middle class, domestic terrorists--what have I missed?

Posted by: Conservative Crank at April 17, 2012 06:47 PM (1zwZo)

97 Well as Avenue Q so notably sang "Everybody's a little racist"

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 17, 2012 06:47 PM (RZ8pf)

98 Octupuses are curve busters! I hate when one showed up in one of my classes. Brains in their arms!

Posted by: L Rob in OK at April 17, 2012 06:47 PM (7yvLv)

99 Games: Currently playing Skyrim, World of Tanks, Minecraft, Kerbal Space Program, and a half dozen others like TF2. So I think I might hazard a guess about that info of the Halo 3 release - yes, it is going to depress the male 18-24 demographic by a huge amount for election day. It's alright though, they're console players. Pussies.

Posted by: Inspector Asshole at April 17, 2012 06:47 PM (XsH6E)

100 My small s steevy is a statement.Of something.Not submission though.

Posted by: steevy at April 17, 2012 06:47 PM (7W3wI)

101 I'm baking cookies and watching hockey...Go Blackhawks!

Posted by: garrett at April 17, 2012 06:47 PM (6hAEO)

102 104 Well as Avenue Q so notably sang "Everybody's a little racist"

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 17, 2012 10:47 PM (RZ8pf)

And the Internet is for Porn..

Posted by: TexasJew at April 17, 2012 06:48 PM (hfqkA)

103 Lived in a couple of foreign nations, visited or worked in many. Most racist? Japan, by far. Even within their own nation. The Honshu Japanese don't like either the Hokkaidans or the Okinawans. The tolerate white Americans, British, etc. Don't like blacks. Really, really don't like Koreans.

Posted by: L Rob in OK at April 17, 2012 10:40 PM (7yvLv)

Foreigner's caught being on the wrong side of the law in Japan suddenly find their basic rights out the window.

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 06:48 PM (F79HU)

104

Well, with the Japanese, it's not even race per se, it's just that you're not Japanese.

This.

Posted by: L Rob in OK at April 17, 2012 06:48 PM (7yvLv)

105

Well now I want a pina colada. And a lounge chair on a beach at the lagoon.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 17, 2012 06:48 PM (RZ8pf)

106
The Night The Drove Ole Dixie Down or my favorite The Weight.

May God grant him peace on his journey home.

Posted by: mpfs at April 17, 2012 10:35 PM (TlwCF)

If you don't have Dirt Farmer, mpfs I strongly recommend it.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 06:49 PM (SsG4J)

107 Tammy!!

Posted by: Jerry at April 17, 2012 06:49 PM (4SKYj)

108 Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 17, 2012 10:44 PM (Ck8hC)

Prager's brother is a professor of Pulmonology at Columbia Medical School. As smart, and a genuinely kind man (his kid wrote a damned good book on baseball).

It's an impressive family.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at April 17, 2012 06:49 PM (nEUpB)

109 So I think I might hazard a guess about that info of the Halo 3 release - yes, it is going to depress the male 18-24 demographic by a huge amount for election day. It's alright though, they're console players. Pussies.Posted by: Inspector Asshole

Not that it matters, but Halo 4. And yes, console players are pussies ... and not the good kinds either.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at April 17, 2012 06:49 PM (Ck8hC)

110

The rudest encounter I've had with anyone of another nationality was with an arrogant German, while on a business trip overseas.

He lectured me (uninvited) on the arrogance of Americans and how I should read Michael Moore if I wanted to become more enlightened. Since it was a business situation, I refrained from throwing a drink in his face.

Posted by: Who Knows at April 17, 2012 06:50 PM (W+Itt)

111 108 If you are wearing an apron you are gay.

Posted by: steevy at April 17, 2012 06:50 PM (7W3wI)

112 All right, who is first ?

Posted by: yankeefifth at April 17, 2012 06:50 PM (Z9EHQ)

113 Jerry!!!!!!!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 06:52 PM (SsG4J)

114 All right, who is first ?

What's on 2nd ...

Posted by: Adriane at April 17, 2012 06:52 PM (VVZaH)

115 Miss Tammy!

Posted by: yankeefifth at April 17, 2012 06:52 PM (Z9EHQ)

116

109 104 Well as Avenue Q so notably sang "Everybody's a little racist"
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 17, 2012 10:47 PM (RZ8pf)
And the Internet is for Porn..

Posted by: TexasJew at April 17, 2012 10:48 PM (hfqkA)

Using WoW. Um might be a NSFW sort of thing at the end. Its been a few years since originally watching it and laughing. http://tinyurl.com/ytn943

Posted by: buzzion at April 17, 2012 06:52 PM (GULKT)

117 All right, who is first ?

Posted by: yankeefifth at April 17, 2012 10:50 PM (Z9EHQ)

I would surely love some pheasant feathers......

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 06:52 PM (SsG4J)

118 Yankee!!! Please see my comment above.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 06:53 PM (SsG4J)

119
Spent a couple years in Europe, and some of it in France. Paris, aside from the city itself, pretty much sucked in terms of the people. If you got out into the farm areas, the people were downright nice--especially when the discovered you were a GI. Wasn't THAT far removed from WW2. so the acceptance was good. Plus the food wasn't half bad.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 17, 2012 06:53 PM (SAMxH)

120 19 I work with a number of real imported black Africans. If you want to hear real disdain and condescension, listen to them talk about American blacks. Just...wow. Really, really conservative. Those guys make Glenn Beck sound like an independent.

Posted by: NC Ref at April 17, 2012 10:29 PM

American blacks are not considered to be "black" by most Africans. They also consider American blacks to be lazy and spoiled. I heard one I worked with lecture a black girl at length about how she had it made here, all she had to do was work hard and stop complaining about who did or did not like you

Posted by: kbdabear at April 17, 2012 06:53 PM (Y+DPZ)

121 All right, who is first ?

Posted by: yankeefifth at April 17, 2012 10:50 PM (Z9EHQ)

That shipment of Colombian hookers finally arrive?

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 06:53 PM (F79HU)

122 All right, who is first ?

Yes.

Posted by: Bud Abbott at April 17, 2012 06:53 PM (jPURh)

123 80-No (Hides big Texas hair, cowboy boots, and Tex Mex plate)

Posted by: moki at April 17, 2012 06:53 PM (dZmFh)

124 All right, who is first ? Yes, he is.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at April 17, 2012 06:54 PM (75ggp)

125 My neighbor is a Navy doctor and has said the same thing regarding racism in other countries. In his experience Japan was the worst.

Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at April 17, 2012 06:54 PM (E1JyF)

126 Go fuck yourself.

Posted by: fluffy at April 17, 2012 10:45 PM (3SvjA)

See? You know who you are. Capitalize, or embrace the beta. There is no other choice. Didn't you feel more manly when you stopped slurping the Scott Brown penis? Be honest.

Posted by: Hydrocarbon Liberation Front at April 17, 2012 06:54 PM (NVu2l)

127 Do you want me to send them to you or do you and Thor want to harvest them yourselves?

Posted by: yankeefifth at April 17, 2012 06:55 PM (Z9EHQ)

128 Japanese take that whole "descended from the gods" thing very seriously. Posted by: steevy at April 17, 2012 10:45 PM (7W3wI) Hence the obsession with tentacle pron. /Cthulhu, bitchez

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 17, 2012 06:55 PM (Rhie+)

129 127 This has been my experience as well.

Posted by: steevy at April 17, 2012 06:55 PM (7W3wI)

130 What's on 2nd ...

I don't know....

Posted by: NC Ref at April 17, 2012 06:55 PM (/izg2)

131 Anybody watched that show "Duck Dynasty?" I was screaming in hysterics when I watched an episode. I saw the one where he sent his dad and uncle to career day.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 17, 2012 06:55 PM (RZ8pf)

132

For me the rudest contact I had overseas was with a Frenchman, storekeeper. Pretended not to speak or understand English when we asked questions. Then when we brought our purchases to the counter with francs in our hands he became midwestern fluent. Bastard. On the way out he told us goodbye and I told him to kiss my ass. Mrs L Rob felt I had misbehaved.

Best overseas contacts ever were in northern France, specifically in Normandy. They have streets named after GIs, we were in uniform. It was nearly impossible to buy beer - they didn't want to take our money. The older gents (this was in 1989, 45th anniversary of D Day) all wanted to have their pictures taken with us.

Posted by: L Rob in OK at April 17, 2012 06:55 PM (7yvLv)

133 Go across the border into Mexico if you want to see institutional racism at work. The darker and more Indian you are, the poorer you tend to be. The poorest I saw on the streets of Tijuana were pure Indians.

What they think of blacks down there would make the most backward town in Mississipi look enlightened. They don't tend to change their opinions when they get to this side of the border either

Posted by: kbdabear at April 17, 2012 06:56 PM (Y+DPZ)

134 116 "Halo 4" Yeah, typo. I tried the first Halo when it was ported - and ported badly. Looked like purple and blue glowing dogshit through a vaseline-smeared lens. Don't get me started on console port UI crap, either. But it's going to be a massive college dormroom hit - and it is a game that lends itself to co-op/multiplayer with multiple hour-long sessions that will easily black that entire day out of most of their minds. Add in the low number of actual employed in the mix and you got Obama's cockholster league out on vacation whooping it up when he most needs their flaccid, puny votes.

Posted by: Inspector Asshole at April 17, 2012 06:56 PM (XsH6E)

135 3rd base.

Posted by: mpfs at April 17, 2012 06:56 PM (TlwCF)

136

Thirding what others have said about the feelings of Africans towards black Americans.

It's also not until you see Africans that you realize just what a large percentage of European blood most "black" Americans have.

Posted by: Who Knows at April 17, 2012 06:56 PM (W+Itt)

137 135
Japanese take that whole "descended from the gods" thing very seriously.
Posted by: steevy at April 17, 2012 10:45 PM (7W3wI)

Hence the obsession with tentacle pron.

/Cthulhu, bitchez

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 17, 2012 10:55 PM (Rhie+)

I always thought it was part of their much-vaunted politeness.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 17, 2012 06:56 PM (kaalw)

138 We had an admin named "hu" once. she really hated that abbott and costello thing.

Posted by: yankeefifth at April 17, 2012 06:56 PM (Z9EHQ)

139 Posted by: yankeefifth at April 17, 2012 10:55 PM (Z9EHQ)

Sending is fine. I'm not 100 percent sure you and Thor ought to meet, especially out hunting. You are liable to put very bad ideas in to his head.

Ideas it took me years to remove.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 06:57 PM (SsG4J)

140 101 Well, with the Japanese, it's not even race per se, it's just that you're not Japanese.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 17, 2012 10:46 PM (UvwYZ)

Yeah the Japanese don't like all non-Japanese. But then the Koreans hate the Japanese and pretty much all non-Koreans as well . Even other Koreans they're not so keen on.

Posted by: mætenloch at April 17, 2012 06:57 PM (pAlYe)

141 My son is really addicted to Minecraft. It's getting better now but there were a few months when I was afraid I'd lost him to the computer forever.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 17, 2012 06:57 PM (RZ8pf)

142 117 I had a similar encounter with a German outside a resturant in Barcelona about a year and a half ago. When I told him I was from Texas, he started going off. So, I beat him until it just got too sad, seeing what a pussy he was- it ruined a perfectly good ass-kicking. Hey, Dusseldork: "Boo!"

Posted by: Beefy Meatball at April 17, 2012 06:58 PM (mxnUd)

143 Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 17, 2012 10:55 PM (Rhie+)

Where you been??

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 06:58 PM (SsG4J)

144

You can always tell that people who claim the US is the most racist country in the world never spent time overseas. When I was stationed in Korea, they were pretty open about racism. They would bar foreigners from clubs. If it were to happen here, I guarantee you it would be a national story.

I was denied entry into a club called "The Magic Cajun" with Paul Prudhomme's face on the sign. Not even my Louisiana drivers license let me in because they didn't allow Americans in there.

Posted by: Pechon at April 17, 2012 06:58 PM (801aO)

145 142 3rd base.

Posted by: mpfs at April 17, 2012 10:56 PM (TlwCF)

By Thursday for $5.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 17, 2012 06:58 PM (kaalw)

146 I don't know....

Short Stop!!!

Posted by: Adriane at April 17, 2012 06:59 PM (VVZaH)

147 kbdabear, I live in a "no blacks after dark" town. Know who has that rule in place? The local hispanics.

Posted by: Who Knows at April 17, 2012 06:59 PM (W+Itt)

148 I always thought it was part of their much-vaunted politeness. Posted by: cthulhu at April 17, 2012 10:56 PM (kaalw) Heh. Somehow I KNEW you'd turn up.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 17, 2012 06:59 PM (Rhie+)

149

Posted by: Inspector Asshole at April 17, 2012 10:56 PM (XsH6E)

Despite my love of Halo, I promise to go out and vote down the SCOAMF, I'd stay there all day hitting the vote button if they'd let me!

Posted by: tsrblke at April 17, 2012 06:59 PM (SYrwI)

150 Ideas it took me years to remove.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 10:57 PM (SsG4J)

You cannot remove bad or unwanted ideas from a man's head. You can only change his priorities.

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 07:00 PM (F79HU)

151

Capitalize, or embrace the beta. There is no other choice.

Assert myself and do it your way?

Stop being a nag.

Posted by: fluffy at April 17, 2012 07:00 PM (3SvjA)

152 >>>Foreigner's caught being on the wrong side of the law in Japan suddenly find their basic rights out the window. Actually, you are assumed to be a tourist, and thus are excused for faux pas. You are assumed to be a dumbass, unless you really fck up. Just play it cool.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 17, 2012 07:00 PM (UvwYZ)

153 148 My son is really addicted to Minecraft. It's getting better now but there were a few months when I was afraid I'd lost him to the computer forever.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 17, 2012 10:57 PM (RZ8pf)

He hasn't decided to build a to scale version of the Enterprise-D yet has he? And I know about how you feel about geeky things, so you might need to be prepared to fan yourself. http://tinyurl.com/2g446kd

Posted by: buzzion at April 17, 2012 07:00 PM (GULKT)

154 139 For me the rudest contact I had overseas was with a Frenchman, storekeeper. Pretended not to speak or understand English when we asked questions. Then when we brought our purchases to the counter with francs in our hands he became midwestern fluent. ---------- You'll find the same up in Quebec, Canada. French wannabe's. And, extremely anti-American.

Posted by: axelrod pulled a biden at April 17, 2012 07:00 PM (HOOye)

155 Maet, I lived in Korea, Nobody was hating on me or rude for that matter. Well, except for the communist sympathizers.

Posted by: Jerry at April 17, 2012 07:01 PM (4SKYj)

156 What's on 2nd ...

I don't know....

3rd base

Oh, brother.

Posted by: Retread at April 17, 2012 07:01 PM (joSBv)

157 84 L Rob, it's kind of funny the Japanese hate koreans since the Yamato Japanese are Pakche Koreans.

************
Heh. Kyoto has burial mounds called "misasagi", supposedly ancient imperial tombs. No one's been allowed to dig in and explore them, because the fear is...

.....they will be filled with Korean artifacts.

Posted by: Jim Sonweed at April 17, 2012 07:01 PM (SV4OI)

158 147 What's too funny is that when they looked at the g-nome, the Japanese are descended from the koreans. They hate that. (That cannot possibly be the correct spelling of G-nome. It's not a garden g-nome. Help me out).

Posted by: Dagny, Warrior Queen at April 17, 2012 07:01 PM (CMM9V)

159 well it won't suppress any of our votes here in WA. We're an entirely mail in state. Which actually serves the purpose as well as far as the youth vote goes.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 17, 2012 07:01 PM (RZ8pf)

160 Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 10:58 PM (SsG4J) I've been around, lurking more than commenting lately. It's been a busy month or so, and the word funneh gods haven't been looking kindly on me lately.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 17, 2012 07:02 PM (Rhie+)

161 Ideas it took me years to remove. Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 10:57 PM (SsG4J) you mean the whole spanking red heads thing?

Posted by: yankeefifth at April 17, 2012 07:02 PM (Z9EHQ)

162 wish I could mail it in like the Maet! Nicely done sir!

Posted by: bill-o at April 17, 2012 07:02 PM (AWwDY)

163 166 well it won't suppress any of our votes here in WA. We're an entirely mail in state. Which actually serves the purpose as well as far as the youth vote goes.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 17, 2012 11:01 PM (RZ8pf)

Do you have to provide your own stamp?

Posted by: buzzion at April 17, 2012 07:02 PM (GULKT)

164 @139

      Tell me you toured the beaches.

      We did--I saw where my uncle came ashore.



      `

Posted by: irongrampa at April 17, 2012 07:03 PM (SAMxH)

165 buzzion, no but he made a Tardis.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 17, 2012 07:03 PM (RZ8pf)

166 64 Speaking of Farrakhan, WTF is up with him the last week or so? He is kind of scaring me with his unhinged rantings.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 17, 2012 10:40 PM (RZ8pf)

That was just a normal afternoon for old Calypso Louie. The MSM covers this shit up all the time, kind of like how they cover a group of Dems and a group of Republicans.

If they cover the Republicans, they find the craziest person in the same area code to interview instead of the little old church ladies that make up 95% of the crowd.

If they cover dems, they interview the little old man and lady that happen to be in the crowd with the leather clad, dildo shoulder padded, ball gag wearing crossdressing midget tranny Indians.

Posted by: MrCaniac at April 17, 2012 07:03 PM (1grxW)

167

Posted by: Dagny, Warrior Queen at April 17, 2012 11:01 PM (CMM9V)

Close. Genome.

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 07:03 PM (F79HU)

168 Heh, the @Obamadogrecipes on twitter is pretty funny. My favorite so far is Spagetti and Meat Bo's.

Posted by: robtr at April 17, 2012 07:03 PM (MtwBb)

169 Stop being a nag.

Posted by: fluffy at April 17, 2012 11:00 PM (3SvjA)

If IRC, you were a hard charger before Scott Brown betrayed you. I would love to think you'd move to Texas and bring that passion to my state.

Posted by: Hydrocarbon Liberation Front at April 17, 2012 07:03 PM (NVu2l)

170 I heard one I worked with lecture a black girl at length about how she had it made here, all she had to do was work hard and stop complaining about who did or did not like you

Yeah I've heard a few epic rants like that. Lots of awesomeness.

Posted by: NC Ref at April 17, 2012 07:03 PM (/izg2)

171

Oh shit. You've all probably heard about the shootings in Tulsa a while back. All victims black, the shooters white (but one of them was initially reported to be a native american). Both arrested within about a day and a half; both essentially admitted the shootings. One of the shooters posted some incriminating stuff on facebook related to his own father's shooting in the past, by a black. Pretty well open and shut, one might think.

Not so fast. Today, who shows up? Jesse F'n Jackson. Saying the shootings amounted to a "terrorist attack". That's a quote.

Posted by: L Rob in OK at April 17, 2012 07:04 PM (7yvLv)

172 Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 11:00 PM (F79HU)

You are wise beyond your years, my son.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 07:04 PM (SsG4J)

173
Dagny - "genome"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at April 17, 2012 07:04 PM (lce0m)

174 Evening all. Sorry , I am late.. busy laughing at #Obamadogrecipes on twitter.

Posted by: Jumbo Jogging Shrimp at April 17, 2012 07:04 PM (DGIjM)

175 172 buzzion, no but he made a Tardis.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 17, 2012 11:03 PM (RZ8pf)

Was he able to make it bigger on the inside?

Posted by: buzzion at April 17, 2012 07:04 PM (GULKT)

176 Aaaaaannnnnddddddd I'm out.

I'll be back to kill the ONT later.

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 07:05 PM (F79HU)

177 This robot http://bit.ly/IZthCZ was reading the comments the other night and dropped and did 30. Not shown: splitting wood shirtless.

Posted by: A Mindful Webworker at April 17, 2012 07:05 PM (lBpVP)

178 As for my recommendations for pc-gaming morons, you have to try Kerbal Space Program. There's a demo version for free on their website (same name, kerbalspaceprogram dot com). Right now it's just barebones, but it's great for people who enjoy making rockets and having them explode a lot. Oh, and you can land on the moon (named "Mun"). But you'll blow up a lot first. And second. And smack into the Mun. You design your own rockets with a bunch of parts, wire it together, and hope it makes orbit (if it clears the tower). Eventually it will have a career mode with docking and multiple planets. It's fun right now though.

Posted by: Inspector Asshole at April 17, 2012 07:05 PM (XsH6E)

179 ITC, nice to have you back. You can hang around even when you're not funny, you know!They tolerate me here.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 07:05 PM (SsG4J)

180 You'll find the same up in Quebec, Canada. French wannabe's. And, extremely anti-American. Posted by: axelrod pulled a biden at April 17, 2012 11:00 PM (HOOye) Yep. My one day-trip to Montreal while on a job in VT was singularly unpleasant. Plus, there's the unholy dish that is poutine.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 17, 2012 07:06 PM (Rhie+)

181 you mean the whole spanking red heads thing?

Posted by: yankeefifth at April 17, 2012 11:02 PM (Z9EHQ)

Eau contraire, mon ami.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 07:06 PM (SsG4J)

182 OK, the all time racist champeens are - Japanese, far and away, then Argentines, Saudis, maybe Germans and Koreans. On a train from Prague to Berlin I had a very well educated German or Austrian engineer ask if I knew why European unemployment was so high - "it's because of the Jews, of course."

Posted by: Skookumchuk at April 17, 2012 07:06 PM (0Db2g)

183 Oh for all the Mad Men fans: "Whoaaa Fat Betty Blam a Blam" http://tinyurl.com/c7c9pn2

Posted by: buzzion at April 17, 2012 07:06 PM (GULKT)

184 see you later Robert

Posted by: yankeefifth at April 17, 2012 07:07 PM (Z9EHQ)

185

You bet we saw the beaches, irongrampa! We stayed in a hotel right in the Omaha beach gap. The tides on 6 Jun in '89 were essentially the same as in '44 at the same time of day. I walked out to the edge of the ocean an looked back. It was a very long way to a little ledge of sand. It gave me chills.

I have a plastic water bottle of sand I picked up that day.

Posted by: L Rob in OK at April 17, 2012 07:07 PM (7yvLv)

186 3rd base.
Posted by: mpfs
Is that a Susquehanna hat you're wearing?

Posted by: andycanuck at April 17, 2012 07:07 PM (HFim5)

187 Hey, faptastics! I'm just sorry I missed the "Obama eats dog meat" thread, I bet that was a good one . . . Love you guys!

Posted by: Peaches at April 17, 2012 07:08 PM (XeuJD)

188

If IRC, you were a hard charger before Scott Brown betrayed you. I would love to think you'd move to Texas and bring that passion to my state.

I worked hard in Jan 2010, and don't regret it. Brown is a dud, but we stuck in thumb in the Democrats eye. They will keep pouring in resources to try to remove him.

When I depart, I'm going north.

Posted by: fluffy at April 17, 2012 07:08 PM (3SvjA)

189 The problem with Chinese dogs is that you are hungry again an hour later.

Posted by: Barack Obama at April 17, 2012 07:08 PM (veH1G)

190 Octupussy Pancakes. That is what the 70s swingers were hiding.

Posted by: Calyx the Unanswered at April 17, 2012 07:08 PM (7UDrY)

191 Even if you're full-blooded Japanese, if you move & live overseas for ten years or so and move back, you are no longer considered Japanese.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 17, 2012 07:08 PM (UvwYZ)

192 Just to taunt Peaches. I have cookies.

Posted by: buzzion at April 17, 2012 07:09 PM (GULKT)

193

If being a PC playing he-man makes one a 10 on a scale of gamer cred, I rank about a 3. I can't really get into anything too involving beyond run/point/shoot. I'll be picking up my copy of both shooters on my way back from pulling the lever to flush President Skidmark.

Posted by: Tad Blatherton at April 17, 2012 07:10 PM (HueOF)

194 Brown is a dud, but we stuck in thumb in the Democrats eye. They will keep pouring in resources to try to remove him.

Amen. To see the "Kennedy" seat go Red was worth every penny I sent, too. Anyone who thought Brown was going to be a hrad core Conservative was naive beyond belief.

Thanks, fluffy, for your hard work.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 07:11 PM (SsG4J)

195 Just to taunt Peaches. I have cookies.

I got my own damn cookies . . . well, I have one. That's enough, because I gots lots of beer and frozen crap. Life is good. Or what passes for good in the Age of Obama.

Posted by: Peaches at April 17, 2012 07:11 PM (XeuJD)

196 When I depart, I'm going north.

Posted by: fluffy at April 17, 2012 11:08 PM (3SvjA)

God speed. If you can't live in Texas, be as free as you can.

Posted by: Hydrocarbon Liberation Front at April 17, 2012 07:11 PM (NVu2l)

197 Oh, dear God!. Sad thing is that he could run in many places and probably be elected to something (the best position he's qualified for is dog-catcher). Alec Baldwin Hints at Political Run http://tinyurl.com/8yr9h9j

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 17, 2012 07:11 PM (h/3sQ)

198

Plus, there's the unholy dish that is poutine.

It's a bit salty, but it's a heart attack on a plate. What's not to like?

Posted by: fluffy at April 17, 2012 07:11 PM (3SvjA)

199 154 kbdabear, I live in a "no blacks after dark" town. Know who has that rule in place? The local hispanics. Posted by: Who Knows at April 17, 2012 10:59 PM

Is it in the Glendora/Arcadia area of the San Gabriel Valley? I remember some guy from there telling me how funny he thought it was that Glendale once had that "rule" years ago. The guy was obviously of Mexican descent and admitted it, complained of how cops hassled Mexicans but thought it was cool that blacks were kept out of a town

Posted by: kbdabear at April 17, 2012 07:12 PM (Y+DPZ)

200 of course we have to provide our own stamp.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 17, 2012 07:13 PM (RZ8pf)

201 Amen. To see the "Kennedy" seat go Red was worth every penny I sent, too. Anyone who thought Brown was going to be a hrad core Conservative was naive beyond belief.

Agree!! I sent money to that little shitbird and I don't regret it. Now I just hit "delete" when I see his emails, but it was a lot of fun at the time.

How you doin', Tammy?

Posted by: Peaches at April 17, 2012 07:13 PM (XeuJD)

202

I got my own damn cookies . . . well, I have one. That's enough, because I gots lots of beer and frozen crap. Life is good. Or what passes for good in the Age of Obama.

Posted by: Peaches at April 17, 2012 11:11 PM (XeuJD)

But you don't have Keebler Chips Deluxe Dark Chocolate Chunk coockies.

Posted by: buzzion at April 17, 2012 07:13 PM (GULKT)

203

God speed. If you can't live in Texas, be as free as you can.

Live Free or Die.

Posted by: fluffy at April 17, 2012 07:13 PM (3SvjA)

204

warm oatmeal cookies and a double espresso

no apron

Posted by: garrett at April 17, 2012 07:14 PM (6hAEO)

205 Peaches! I am doing great! Thor keeps feeding me fresh salmon grilled on cedar planks. It's like freaking candy.

How are you? And Karen?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 07:14 PM (SsG4J)

206 To see the "Kennedy" seat go Red was worth every penny I sent, too. Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 11:11 PM (SsG4J) Yup. Except that I'm pretty sure that my Brown contribution directly lead to some hacker getting into my bank account less than 48 hours later. Got all the $ back, but it was a major pain in the ass.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 17, 2012 07:15 PM (Rhie+)

207 warm oatmeal cookies and a double espresso
no apron

Pepperidge Farms Nantuckets and as many beers as I want
no pants

Posted by: Peaches throws down at April 17, 2012 07:15 PM (XeuJD)

208 Hydrocarbon, you do realize there are 49 other states (and 7 secret ones) that need conservatives as well?

Posted by: Conservative Crank at April 17, 2012 07:15 PM (1zwZo)

209 There's a scene in "Collateral" where Tom Cruise forces Jamie Foxx to get the backup flash drive from his client, and had to walk through a Tejano Mexican club to see him. As he's walking though, just about every customer is shooting him dirty looks.

Posted by: kbdabear at April 17, 2012 07:15 PM (Y+DPZ)

210

...and a one goal Blackhawks lead!

(again)

Frolik!

Posted by: garrett at April 17, 2012 07:15 PM (6hAEO)

211 Live Free or Die.

Live Free but please bath and use deodorant ...

Posted by: Adriane at April 17, 2012 07:16 PM (VVZaH)

212 one small dog, cook it fast and furious, Holder the sauce. #obamadogrecipes

Posted by: Jumbo Jogging Shrimp at April 17, 2012 07:16 PM (DGIjM)

213 ...fuck. Ray Whitney.

Posted by: garrett at April 17, 2012 07:16 PM (6hAEO)

214 201 If being a PC playing he-man makes one a 10 on a scale of gamer cred, I rank about a 3. Well, I wrote my first game on a DEC PDP-8e. Had 12k of memory. Had to load each room (it was an adventure game) on a separate 3/4 inch tape. I had a backup on paper tape. My first shooter was an X-Wing fighter game I wrote on the TRS-80 model I. Stored on a cassette. Yeah. (hitches pants, squints, clears throat)..Yeah, I'd have to say, 'bout a twelve. Yup. Twelve.

Posted by: Inspector Asshole at April 17, 2012 07:17 PM (XsH6E)

215 The phone rang earlier this evening, I answered it and the woman on the other end asked for my wife by her "real" name, which no one who knows her uses. From that I could tell it was a telemarketer, so I asked her what she wanted. She said she was calling from the Obama campaign. I replied that I don't allow my wife to talk on the phone. While she was digesting that, I also told her that I don't allow my wife to vote because I think women voting is a bad idea and shouldn't be allowed. I asked her if her husband allows her to vote, she said she wasn't married and I said "Well, then your father shouldn't let you vote." We wound up talking for a good fifteen minutes, with her telling me how great Obama is and me pointing out what a miserable failure he's been, and her blaming all his failures on the Evil Booosh and me pointing out all the things that have gotten worse over the last three years. Finally she said that she just didn't know what else to say to me and that she had other people to call, so she was going to have to hang up. I told her to get some better talking points and call back anytime, but don't expect to speak to my wife. All in all, I was quite pleased with myself. And before the Moronettes jump all over me about the voting and talking on the phone business, believe me, it's all bullshit, but it's a really effective way to piss off a liberal woman.

Posted by: Iowa Bob at April 17, 2012 07:17 PM (gIrkv)

216 SCOAMF also admitted to eating snake. Maybe that explains that whistle when he ssssspeaks.

Posted by: Retread at April 17, 2012 07:17 PM (joSBv)

217

no pants

well, yeah. that.

Posted by: garrett at April 17, 2012 07:17 PM (6hAEO)

218 I vote Japanese for most racist. I worked for them. Their moniker for Americans is 'white dogs.'

Posted by: Calyx the Unanswered at April 17, 2012 07:17 PM (7UDrY)

219 one small dog, cook it fast and furious, Holder the sauce. #obamadogrecipes

Posted by: Jumbo Jogging Shrimp at April 17, 2012 11:16 PM (DGIjM)

I love you sooooo much, Shrimp, even as I roll about the floor laughing my ass off.

Posted by: Peaches at April 17, 2012 07:17 PM (XeuJD)

220 Hydrocarbon, you do realize there are 49 other states (and 7 secret ones) that need conservatives as well?

Posted by: Conservative Crank at April 17, 2012 11:15 PM (1zwZo)

The only advice I've given since Obama came to power is "Move South."

Do what you think is best. I certainly did. I moved to Texas.

Posted by: Hydrocarbon Liberation Front at April 17, 2012 07:18 PM (NVu2l)

221 SCOAMF also admitted to eating snake. Maybe that explains that whistle when he ssssspeaks. Posted by: Retread at April 17, 2012 11:17 PM (joSBv) Pants Pythons

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 17, 2012 07:19 PM (Rhie+)

222

208 kbdabear, no, I live much farther south than that.

It's a pretty well documented phenomena, though, in many historically black areas in LA, that once the numbers shift, there is a fairly organized effort to push the remaining blacks out completely.

Posted by: Who Knows at April 17, 2012 07:19 PM (W+Itt)

223 Posted by: L Rob in OK at April 17, 2012 11:04 PM (7yvLv)

Mr England is mostly Cherokee, so it ain't about what the MFM 'reports'. Look at his photos, and what he says he is.

This case won't be Zimmermanned because Indian England and his inbred pal were shooting Blacks to avenge the killing of I.E.'s father

and yes, everyone should visit Omaha Beach in their lifetime, if at all possible. There are a dozen or so American military cemeteries in France and the French take very good care of them.

Patton's grave is in Luxembourg; since I done bin there, they done moved his grave up to the front. It used to be back with the rest

Posted by: SantaRosaStan ( Cognitive Elite member ) at April 17, 2012 07:19 PM (Dll6b)

224 Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 17, 2012 11:15 PM (Rhie+)

It's kind of amazing it doesn't happen more often, really.

Every freaking time I buy perfume from Europe, someone steals the info and buys train tickets, or Eurail passes. Thor made me get a credit card just for overseas purchases.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 07:19 PM (SsG4J)

225

Yeah. (hitches pants, squints, clears throat)..Yeah, I'd have to say, 'bout a twelve. Yup. Twelve.

Posted by: Inspector Asshole at April 17, 2012 11:17 PM (XsH6E)

A photo of Inspector Asshole

http://tinyurl.com/83s5et3

Sorry couldn't resist after that.

Posted by: buzzion at April 17, 2012 07:19 PM (GULKT)

226 I usually don't like to eat pancakes at a breakfast place, they don't taste like the ones Mom used to make.

So, what's going on tonight?

Posted by: Theresa at April 17, 2012 07:19 PM (Cf5RM)

227

Good night, morons everywhere. Thanks for the ONT, Mr Loch. Keep yer powder dry.

Posted by: L Rob in OK at April 17, 2012 07:20 PM (7yvLv)

228 Europeans - all of them, as far as I can tell - are wildly racist. Sure, they talk a good game, but when it comes down to anything of substance ... lily white, and determined to stay that way.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 17, 2012 07:20 PM (yEQr9)

229 Drive-by post: Hi all! As a black African living in this great country, I can tell you that America is very likely the most open society on earth. In general, American's are friendlier, nicer, and more accepting to me than many of my own people. I've often said that this is the place where black people anywhere on earth from any background have the greatest chance of making something of themselves without having to have connections. Bye y'all!

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at April 17, 2012 07:20 PM (bHslY)

230 117
The rudest encounter I've had with anyone of another nationality was with an arrogant German, while on a business trip overseas.
He lectured me (uninvited) on the arrogance of Americans and how I should read Michael Moore if I wanted to become more enlightened. Since it was a business situation, I refrained from throwing a drink in his face.

Posted by: Who Knows at April 17, 2012 10:50 PM (W+Itt)

Worst encounter I had with a German was on a cruise ship. MrsCaniac and I were going snorkeling, and this fat pasty German shoved his Speedo wearing ass into our faces, literally in our faces.

"You'll find the same up in Quebec, Canada. French wannabe's. And, extremely anti-American.

Posted by: axelrod pulled a biden at April 17, 2012 11:00 PM (HOOye)"

I have a friend from the Maritimes, Quebecers hate anyone that speak English, and go out of their way to not speak English with tourists even though they learn English. Most of the Maritime residents learn French because the government makes them in school.

Posted by: MrCaniac at April 17, 2012 07:20 PM (1grxW)

231 one small dog, cook it fast and furious, Holder the sauce. #obamadogrecipes

Posted by: Jumbo Jogging Shrimp at April 17, 2012 11:16 PM (DGIjM)

Shrimpy didya Tweet this??????

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 07:21 PM (SsG4J)

232 Humpf! Got shut out of *both* my Twitter accounts. Too many #ObamaDogRecipes to re-tweet :-(

Posted by: Polliwog, Hobbit Teahada at April 17, 2012 07:21 PM (X8/ER)

233 Obama can't spend his time on these silly attacks; he has a lot on his plate right now. #obamadogrecipes

Posted by: Jumbo Jogging Shrimp at April 17, 2012 07:21 PM (DGIjM)

234 235 I usually don't like to eat pancakes at a breakfast place, they don't taste like the ones Mom used to make. So, what's going on tonight? Posted by: Theresa at April 17, 2012 11:19 PM (Cf5RM) There was some troll bashing in the previous thread, if that's your thing.

Posted by: Conservative Crank at April 17, 2012 07:21 PM (1zwZo)

235 Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at April 17, 2012 11:20 PM (bHslY)

Girl, can't you ever stick around????

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 07:21 PM (SsG4J)

236 Yes, the Obama dog recipe meme is very much alive and well on Twitter, but I've seen this clever (out of many clever) comments: Formerly RightGirl ‏ @SalaciousSully Secret Services said they were bringing bitches back to the hotel. President thought it was a pot luck.

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 17, 2012 07:22 PM (h/3sQ)

237

Europeans - in particular the Germans and the French - love to smugly lecture Americans over how awfully we treat blacks

True, and it's rich coming from the French - who astounded even the Nazis with the alacrity with which they rounded up Jews - or the Germans, whose human rights record is, well, let's say, better than it used to be.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 17, 2012 07:23 PM (yEQr9)

238 Most Germans are crazy, BTW. maybe racist, maybe not--but crazy

nice roads, tho ---clean, too. ---and yeah, a lot of the wimmin is fine.

Posted by: SantaRosaStan ( Cognitive Elite member ) at April 17, 2012 07:23 PM (Dll6b)

239

Yes, the Obama dog recipe meme is very much alive and well on Twitter

Hey, it's a dog eat dog world.

Posted by: Barack Obama at April 17, 2012 07:24 PM (yEQr9)

240 I was looking at a photo of that kim girl on television. I think it may well take all day to spand an ass that big. fyi

Posted by: yankeefifth at April 17, 2012 07:24 PM (Z9EHQ)

241 Chique, Don't go! Come Back Chique!

Posted by: Jerry at April 17, 2012 07:24 PM (4SKYj)

242

Cassette... that's OG. The closest point of reference I have to that is spooling up a (store bought, not hand coded) copy of a Buck Rogers game on a Coleco Adam when I was in middle school and thinking, "Wow! For a game on a tape, the soundtrack kind of sucks."

Good times.

Posted by: Tad Blatherton at April 17, 2012 07:24 PM (HueOF)

243 Shrimpy didya Tweet this?????? Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 11:21 PM (SsG4J) no, I am not that clever. My best was Muttloaf and pupptato's

Posted by: Jumbo Jogging Shrimp at April 17, 2012 07:25 PM (DGIjM)

244 I think it may well take all day to spand an ass that big. fyi

Posted by: yankeefifth at April 17, 2012 11:24 PM (Z9EHQ)

But would it be a wasted day, or one well-spent?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 07:25 PM (SsG4J)

245 nice roads, tho ---clean, too. ---and yeah, a lot of the wimmin is fine.

Posted by: SantaRosaStan ( Cognitive Elite member ) at April 17, 2012 11:23 PM (Dll6b)

Plus, they're totally beer-centric.

And, yes, Chique, stick around, girl, you know we love you . . .

Posted by: Peaches at April 17, 2012 07:25 PM (XeuJD)

246 Humpf! Got shut out of *both* my Twitter accounts. Too many #ObamaDogRecipes to re-tweet :-( Posted by: Polliwog, Hobbit Teahada at April 17, 2012 11:21 PM (X8/ER) Polli! I requested twitter to lock you out for a while so you would come back and visit us.

Posted by: yankeefifth at April 17, 2012 07:25 PM (Z9EHQ)

247

Oh, the latest on the ghey sex payoffs at the NC democrat HQ.

What? Democrats, teabaggers? Are you sure?

Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 17, 2012 07:26 PM (yEQr9)

248

Posted by: NC Ref at April 17, 2012 10:29 PM (/izg2)

Growing up near a university town, and with no large American black population, actual *African* Americans are pretty much all I knew. Both culturally ( the ones I knew are Christians) and fiscally conservative. I'd guess that they probably believe strongly in national defense as well, although it wasn't a topic at the time.

Posted by: Polliwog, Hobbit Teahada at April 17, 2012 07:26 PM (X8/ER)

249 Any white person in Nigeria would realize how much more racist that country is than America.

Posted by: logprof at April 17, 2012 07:26 PM (ykSKg)

250 20,000 Frenchmen volunteered for the Waffen-SS.......or so I'm told.

More than a few dudes from the other occupied countries, too. Even Bosnia, which had a Truly Strange pseudo-division of Muslim SS-Mann dudes in funny hats

Posted by: SantaRosaStan ( Cognitive Elite member ) at April 17, 2012 07:26 PM (Dll6b)

251 Obama can't spend his time on these silly attacks; he has a ~~lot~~ lab on his plate right now. #obamadogrecipes

Posted by: Jumbo Jogging Shrimp at April 17, 2012 11:21 PM (DGIjM)

FIFY stolen from Twitter

Posted by: Retread at April 17, 2012 07:26 PM (joSBv)

252 Europeans - in particular the Germans and the French - love to smugly lecture Americans over how awfully we treat blacks Yeah, I had a Tunisian professor who'd received his PhD from the Sorbonne. Despite his being a radical commie shitbag, the easiest way to derail his lecture was to mention the French. He'd go on epic rants about Frog racism against Arabs and forget about actually teaching us something.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 17, 2012 07:26 PM (Rhie+)

253 But would it be a wasted day, or one well-spent? Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 11:25 PM (SsG4J) It would be well spent, definitely, I am just saying it would need to set aside a day.

Posted by: yankeefifth at April 17, 2012 07:27 PM (Z9EHQ)

254 I've lost 44 lbs total, and soon I can have cheeseburgers again! yay!

Dammit, chemjeff, that is fuckin' amazing!!

Posted by: Peaches at April 17, 2012 07:27 PM (XeuJD)

255 As a black African living in this great country, I can tell you that America is very likely the most open society on earth. In general, American's are friendlier, nicer, and more accepting to me than many of my own people. Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at April 17, 2012 11:20 PM (bHslY) And we like you for the same reason we dislike Calypso Louie, not because of the color of your skin, but because of the content of your character. Too bad the left never got that message.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 17, 2012 07:27 PM (bxiXv)

256 Posted by: Peaches at April 17, 2012 11:25 PM (XeuJD)

The Rhein and Mosel valleys are wine-centric. Go for the Mosel / Moselle

Posted by: SantaRosaStan ( Cognitive Elite member ) at April 17, 2012 07:28 PM (Dll6b)

257

Hey, I'm cool too, I programmed a BASIC computer game on an Atari computer which used cassette tapes. Those were the days.

A friend and I were just teasing our kids today about how "back in the day" there were no video tapes, no DVDs, no streaming video, that you had to watch shows on the network's schedule, not your own. They just rolled their eyes.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 17, 2012 07:28 PM (RZ8pf)

258 Good news that we are decent, racially tolerant people. But all that good will shall be lost if we elect a guy whose lazy-ass trophy wife hangs the family dog from the garage lift while they go to Canada on vacation. Can you imagine? Friggin' CANADA!?!

Posted by: ObjectionSustained at April 17, 2012 07:28 PM (yfgUc)

259 I like turtles.

Posted by: Dick Downgrade at April 17, 2012 07:28 PM (WUWb9)

260

Posted by: Hydrocarbon Liberation Front at April 17, 2012 11:18 PM (NVu2l)

I tried to suggest that but my wife didn't want to give up her job. Although MO ain't that bad with our low low cigarette taxes (I don't smoke) and surprisingly simple Gun laws. And the hunting, that's some good hunting. (I'll be out turkeying it up this weekend.)

Posted by: tsrblke at April 17, 2012 07:28 PM (SYrwI)

261 Hey Polliwog, have you discovered that the cake is a lie? And have you learned what you should really do with lemons?

Posted by: buzzion at April 17, 2012 07:28 PM (GULKT)

262 My best was Muttloaf and pupptato's

Posted by: Jumbo Jogging Shrimp at April 17, 2012 11:25 PM (DGIjM)

LOL!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 07:28 PM (SsG4J)

263 227 I vote Japanese for most racist. I worked for them. Their moniker for Americans is 'white dogs.' Posted by: Calyx the Unanswered at April 17, 2012 11:17 PM (7UDrY) They are surely xenophobic, but they actually love americans, by and large. It's the world's most american-friendly nation!

Posted by: HoboJerky, profit of DOOM! at April 17, 2012 07:28 PM (dptRY)

264 I was laughing until I was gasping for breath at the #ObamaDogRecipes hash on Twitter. There were some pretty funny pictures of Obama with dogs. I guess Axelrod tweeted a nice photo of Brak and Bo riding in a car, all nice and cozy, man and dog together, like. Someone tweeted that Brak was just taking him to one of those cook your own food places.

Posted by: Theresa at April 17, 2012 07:29 PM (Cf5RM)

265 Heh. I wonder if African Chick remembers Brown Coat Liberation Front from the Banhammer days. She's cool. If I was single, I'd chase her.

Posted by: Hydrocarbon Liberation Front at April 17, 2012 07:30 PM (NVu2l)

266 Anyone see where in Obumbles book he wrote about eating dog meat?

Posted by: Jake at April 17, 2012 07:30 PM (AZ8Mb)

267 Speaking of Europe, how's that British "free" healthcare coming along? NHS's Sir Bruce Keogh warns over overnight discharging Hospitals in England have been told to end the practice of discharging patients in the middle of the night in order to free up beds. http://tinyurl.com/c9jeexm

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 17, 2012 07:30 PM (h/3sQ)

268 Time for the old folk. More boating lessons for Spastic Lab tomorrow.

Goodnite, good people. Stay safe.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 17, 2012 07:30 PM (SAMxH)

269

They are surely xenophobic, but they actually love americans, by and large. It's the world's most american-friendly nation!

I think that that's Poland. Reagan is God there, because of his support for Solidarity.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 17, 2012 07:30 PM (yEQr9)

270 Congrats, chemjeff, that is AWESOME!

Polli, I'm glad yankee turned you in!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 07:30 PM (SsG4J)

271 one of those cook your own food places.

Don't most people call that a "kitchen?"

Posted by: Peaches at April 17, 2012 07:31 PM (XeuJD)

272

Dammit, I didn't hear about Levon Helms. Sad to hear, always like him. I loved "It Makes No Difference" by The Band but Levon didn't sing that one. In any case, prayers go out to ole Levon. Cancer is a viscious bitch.

Posted by: stillers at April 17, 2012 07:31 PM (4b311)

273 'dog' in Japanese translates as 'bacon'. ---So they're calling us White Bacon...

Posted by: SantaRosaStan ( Cognitive Elite member ) at April 17, 2012 07:31 PM (Dll6b)

274 good night irongrampa

Posted by: yankeefifth at April 17, 2012 07:31 PM (Z9EHQ)

275 Mexico is pretty racist too. The white Europeans call themselves Spaniards and don't like the short brown not spaniards. on the flip side the brown ones really don't like the white ones.

Posted by: Jake at April 17, 2012 07:32 PM (AZ8Mb)

276 267 Posted by: Peaches at April 17, 2012 11:25 PM (XeuJD)

The Rhein and Mosel valleys are wine-centric. Go for the Mosel / Moselle

Posted by: SantaRosaStan ( Cognitive Elite member ) at April 17, 2012 11:28 PM (Dll6b)

--My Kraut ancestors hail from the Moselle valley in the Palatinate.

Posted by: logprof at April 17, 2012 07:32 PM (ykSKg)

277 Finally she said that she just didn't know what else to say to me and that she had other people to call, so she was going to have to hang up. I told her to get some better talking points and call back anytime, but don't expect to speak to my wife.

Posted by: Iowa Bob at April 17, 2012 11:17 PM

Reminds me of the call I got once from some cubicle dweller calling me to subscribe to the LA Slimes

Telemarketer: "For just 8 dollars a week, you get our award winning coverage"

Me: "What award? Cy Young? Best Picture, Miss Congeniality?"

Telemarketer: "It's an award"

Me: "You don't know? If I won third place in the county bean dip cooking contest, I'd know what it was for"

Telemarket: "It's on my script. Do you wanna subscribe or not? I don't have a lot of time"

Me: "But you thought I'd have a shitload of time to listen to you read off a computer screen?"

Telemarketer: "Click"

Posted by: kbdabear at April 17, 2012 07:32 PM (Y+DPZ)

278 269 I like turtles. Tonight I dine on Turtle soup...

Posted by: The Shredder at April 17, 2012 07:33 PM (h/3sQ)

279 Wait, Levon is dead? OMG and RIP, that sucks . . .

Posted by: Peaches at April 17, 2012 07:33 PM (XeuJD)

280 Levon Helms is an Arkansas boy, though I believe he has lived in NH or NY forever.

Awesome, awesome, awesome man.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 07:33 PM (SsG4J)

281 Not yet, Peaches, but final stages.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 07:33 PM (SsG4J)

282 http://tinyurl.com/7tfcftf

this is so wrong

Posted by: St Pancake at April 17, 2012 07:33 PM (0It32)

283 --My Kraut ancestors hail from the Moselle valley in the Palatinate.

Posted by: logprof at April 17, 2012 11:32 PM (ykSKg)

Saarland, oder Rheinland Palatinate ??? Die Mosel Tal steht im Saarland, ich glaube

Posted by: SantaRosaStan ( Cognitive Elite member ) at April 17, 2012 07:34 PM (Dll6b)

284 macht nichts........

Posted by: SantaRosaStan ( Cognitive Elite member ) at April 17, 2012 07:35 PM (Dll6b)

285 The Spanish also not know for their race hospitality. A few years ago an African Soccer team took the field and the Spanish crowed hooted monkey sounds from the stands

Posted by: Jake at April 17, 2012 07:35 PM (AZ8Mb)

286 'dog' in Japanese translates as 'bacon'. ---So they're calling us White Bacon...Posted by: SantaRosaStan

I have no idea why the sudden hate for the Nipponese, but damn, ninja, dog doesn't translate to bacon, if that even made sense.

Are Japanese racist? As another commenter already put it, it's not so much about race as it is 'you're not Japanese.'

All Old World countries are populated by retrograde natives that favor their own kind. They're called humans... since the dawn of time.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at April 17, 2012 07:36 PM (Ck8hC)

287 Pleh. Calmer now, not going to vent. (I'm liable to note details that would get me identified anyway.)

For now, let's just say it's truly sad how poorly certain key non-profit organizations are outfitted on the local level and leave it at that.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, in Cylon hell at April 17, 2012 07:36 PM (Fs7RJ)

288

One has to wonder what Barry really means when he orders a Chicago dog.

/weak, I know

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at April 17, 2012 07:36 PM (ND9u8)

289 Awesome, awesome, awesome man.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 11:33 PM (SsG4J)

Yeah, just looked it all up. This is so sad, he was always so amazing. God bless him and his family . . .

Posted by: Peaches at April 17, 2012 07:36 PM (XeuJD)

290 Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 17, 2012 11:36 PM (Ck8hC)

it was joke---chill you must

Posted by: SantaRosaStan ( Cognitive Elite member ) at April 17, 2012 07:37 PM (Dll6b)

291 When Romney put his dog on the roof of the car, was the car on his personal car lift? Just think of the commercials Obama could run......

Posted by: Damn Sockpuppet at April 17, 2012 07:37 PM (fiXQh)

292 Unless you are ethnic Japanese I don't think you can get a Japanese passport. I used to work with some ethnic Koreans that were born in Japan and needless to say the Koreans and the Japanese did not see eye to eye

Posted by: Jake at April 17, 2012 07:38 PM (AZ8Mb)

293 Obama drinks Coca Collie--the paws that refreshes.

Posted by: andycanuck at April 17, 2012 07:38 PM (HFim5)

294 261 20,000 Frenchmen volunteered for the Waffen-SS.......or so I'm told.

More than a few dudes from the other occupied countries, too. Even Bosnia, which had a Truly Strange pseudo-division of Muslim SS-Mann dudes in funny hats

Posted by: SantaRosaStan ( Cognitive Elite member ) at April 17, 2012 11:26 PM

During the early years of the German Republic, or First Reich, from 1870 to 1920, Germany was actually the most tolerant country towards Jews in Europe. The most anti-Semitic were the Slavic Europeans. It must be passed down through generations because fourth generation Poles from Chicago make yechy faces when Jews are mentioned

Posted by: kbdabear at April 17, 2012 07:39 PM (Y+DPZ)

295 'dog' in Japanese actually translates as 'White killers of Negroes, in Florida'

Posted by: SantaRosaStan ( Cognitive Elite member ) at April 17, 2012 07:39 PM (Dll6b)

296 I used to work with some ethnic Koreans that were born in Japan and needless to say the Koreans and the Japanese did not see eye to eye Posted by: Jake at April 17, 2012 11:38 PM (AZ8Mb) I thought they were about the same size.

Posted by: yankeefifth at April 17, 2012 07:39 PM (Z9EHQ)

297 288 . . . Telemarketer: "Click" Posted by: kbdabear at April 17, 2012 11:32 PM (Y+DPZ) Yeah, I enjoy getting telemarketers to hang up on me, instead of hanging up on them.

Posted by: Iowa Bob at April 17, 2012 07:39 PM (gIrkv)

298 Awww, y'all are so sweet. Been working like a dog, but I'll stay for a while because of all the love. @260, Nigerians treat white people a lot better than fellow Nigerians. I know this from experience. But yeah, they'll insult you white folks behind your backs and the vast majority would have a massive fit if you wanted to marry their child. Oh, and even though we're all black, we have lots of juicy tribalism. Aside from that, I think Nigerians are pretty good with white folks.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at April 17, 2012 07:39 PM (bHslY)

299 Hey, it wasn't that bad, in fact I kind of enjoyed it. At least there wasn't a hibachi up there, iykwimaityd . . .

Posted by: Romney's Dog at April 17, 2012 07:39 PM (XeuJD)

300 Hospitals in England have been told to end the practice of discharging patients in the middle of the night in order to free up beds.

http://tinyurl.com/c9jeexm

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 17, 2012 11:30 PM (h/3sQ)

It is already here. My 76yo mom broke her shoulder on Easter sunday, and the ER turfed her out within 2hours without a cast. She has advanced senile dementia, and we were cool with the incontinence until one day she added violent hydrophobia to that. That's when we failed and pulled the trigger on the long term health care. If you don't have it, buy it. My wife and I tried very hard to keep her at home, but we nearly died between the waking up twice a night to change her diaper and bedding and losing sleep, and trying to work full time. I am not nearly as tough as I thought I was. Buy the long term insurance. It will save your life and health.

Posted by: Hydrocarbon Liberation Front at April 17, 2012 07:40 PM (NVu2l)

301 I think that that's Poland. Reagan is God there, because of his support for Solidarity. Posted by: Jay Guevara

Actually, it's unsurprisingly Kenya.
I shit thee not.

Link in sig.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at April 17, 2012 07:40 PM (Ck8hC)

302 298 Pleh. Calmer now, not going to vent. (I'm liable to note details that would get me identified anyway.)

For now, let's just say it's truly sad how poorly certain key non-profit organizations are outfitted on the local level and leave it at that.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, in Cylon hell at April 17, 2012 11:36 PM (Fs7RJ)

Heh. The BH and I have a running gag that when we go counter-clockwise on a loop trail, we'd have to shout "Pleh! Pleh! Em eucser! Em eucser!" if we got lost or injured.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 17, 2012 07:40 PM (kaalw)

303 because fourth generation Poles from Chicago make yechy faces when Jews are mentioned

Posted by: kbdabear at April 17, 2012 11:39 PM (Y+DPZ)

maybe because Czarist Russia dumped most of its Jewish population in its Polish provinces ---- Poland was not a nation from 1795 to 1918

Posted by: SantaRosaStan ( Cognitive Elite member ) at April 17, 2012 07:41 PM (Dll6b)

304 For now, let's just say it's truly sad how poorly certain key non-profit organizations are outfitted on the local level and leave it at that. Posted by: Brother Cavil, in Cylon hell at April 17, 2012 11:36 PM (Fs7RJ) That's not specific, that could be *anybody* in this economy.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 17, 2012 07:41 PM (bxiXv)

305 Obama drinks Coca Collie--the paws that refreshes.

Posted by: andycanuck at April 17, 2012 11:38 PM (HFim5)

I have been Tweeting too much today......I was trying to retweet this!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 07:41 PM (SsG4J)

306 OMG. I just realized I committed an apostrophic crime! (Yes, I made the word up.) American's???? Oy.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at April 17, 2012 07:41 PM (bHslY)

307
Saarland, oder Rheinland Palatinate ??? Die Mosel Tal steht im Saarland, ich glaube

Posted by: SantaRosaStan ( Cognitive Elite member ) at April 17, 2012 11:34 PM (Dll6b)

--Nein, the Moselle valley is in the modern R-P, as well as the Palatinate as it existed in 1738, when my forefathers came to the New World.

Posted by: logprof at April 17, 2012 07:42 PM (ykSKg)

308 Chique, I've met a total of trhee nigerians. Sorry to say, they were all jackwagons. I've met the same number of Ghanans, They were awesome.

Posted by: Jerry at April 17, 2012 07:42 PM (4SKYj)

309 Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at April 17, 2012 11:39 PM (bHslY)

Howdy, chique! -- whatcha been workin' on?

Posted by: cthulhu at April 17, 2012 07:42 PM (kaalw)

310 Austria was as tolerant or more so than Germany during that time period too.

Posted by: Who Knows at April 17, 2012 07:42 PM (W+Itt)

311 317 OMG. I just realized I committed an apostrophic crime! (Yes, I made the word up.) American's???? Oy. Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at April 17, 2012 11:41 PM (bHslY) sure you made the word up but holder will have a special unit to prosecute the crimes by morning.

Posted by: yankeefifth at April 17, 2012 07:43 PM (Z9EHQ)

312 During the early years of the German Republic, or First Reich, from 1870 to 1920, Germany was actually the most tolerant country towards Jews in Europe. The most anti-Semitic were the Slavic Europeans. It must be passed down through generations because fourth generation Poles from Chicago make yechy faces when Jews are mentioned

Posted by: kbdabear at April 17, 2012 11:39 PM (Y+DPZ)

Let's not forget that Persia became "Iran" - a loose Farsi translation of "Aryan" after the Third Reich took power. On the other hand, they never asked for ID from voters, though that's likely because there was no voting. Either way, we're so terribly awful and stuff, and need to be more like people from the other 180-some countries whose lives are worse on average.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at April 17, 2012 07:43 PM (ND9u8)

313 I think I am sick of my favorite restaurant .

Posted by: yankeefifth at April 17, 2012 07:43 PM (Z9EHQ)

314 I think maybe Canada might be less racist than the US but probably not. Only someone who hasn't traveled outside the country (or never met an immigrant) thinks the US is more racist than... pretty much anywhere. Most other nations, especially Asian ones, are incredibly bigoted and racist. Its not even a secret.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 17, 2012 07:43 PM (r4wIV)

315 #241, Polli, noooooo!

Just checked my account, though, and it still lists you.

Posted by: Theresa at April 17, 2012 07:43 PM (Cf5RM)

316 I tried watching Bobcat Goldthwait's comedy special tonight. Just before turning it off, I learned that the Tea Party is a white supremacist group.

Posted by: Z Ryan at April 17, 2012 07:44 PM (tsC/8)

317 Jake isn't kidding about Mexico's racial issues. Many of the Spaniard decendants carry themselves with arrogance and entitlement that eclipses that of the smuggest eurotrash you could fine. Most, if not all, negative impressions I have personally had with Mexican nationals has been with those sort.

Posted by: Tad Blatherton at April 17, 2012 07:44 PM (HueOF)

318 @260, Nigerians treat white people a lot better than fellow Nigerians. I know this from experience. But yeah, they'll insult you white folks behind your backs and the vast majority would have a massive fit if you wanted to marry their child. Oh, and even though we're all black, we have lots of juicy tribalism.

Aside from that, I think Nigerians are pretty good with white folks.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at April 17, 2012 11:39 PM (bHslY)

--Really? Interesting. In any case, Nigeria has so many tribes thrown together it's a wonder it survived the attempted Biafran secession.

Posted by: logprof at April 17, 2012 07:44 PM (ykSKg)

319 Even though I think Romney will not be a very good President. (but wwwwwaaayyyy better than the marxist we have now...) Gotta cut him some slack on the dog on the roof. Ever see a dog in the back of a pickup truck? they go crazy sniffin and grinnin. I'm assuming Romney's mut liked being on top of the car.

Posted by: Jake at April 17, 2012 07:45 PM (AZ8Mb)

320 Evening M&Ms

Posted by: Zakn at April 17, 2012 07:45 PM (7F9i5)

321 okay, logprof, your map-fu is stronger than mine. But it's Rheinland-Pfalz now --- 'Palatinate'...... kaput

Posted by: SantaRosaStan ( Cognitive Elite member ) at April 17, 2012 07:45 PM (Dll6b)

322 I really do not have a problem with different races but I hate other countries.

Posted by: yankeefifth at April 17, 2012 07:45 PM (Z9EHQ)

323 "I work with a number of real imported black Africans. If you want to hear real disdain and condescension, listen to them talk about American blacks. Just...wow. Really, really conservative. Those guys make Glenn Beck sound like an independent."
This, times 50. I know a bunch of West Africans and they have ABSOLUTELY NO TOLERANCE for most American blacks. I could tell you some stories hoo boy.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 17, 2012 07:45 PM (r4wIV)

324

During the early years of the German Republic, or First Reich, from 1870 to 1920, Germany was actually the most tolerant country towards Jews in Europe. The most anti-Semitic were the Slavic Europeans. It must be passed down through generations because fourth generation Poles from Chicago make yechy faces when Jews are mentioned

Germany was the most pro-Semitic country in Europe for centuries. After the Spanish Inquisition, Jews fled Spain, but neither France nor England wanted them. Germany (then a series of duchies) accepted them without qualm.

Poles and Russians hate Jews in part because Jews were tax/rent collectors for the landowners.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 17, 2012 07:46 PM (yEQr9)

325 An attention whore is back for more; Shannon Tweed this woman is not. Samantha Brick: I know IÂ’m beautifulÂ—Daddy told me so http://tinyurl.com/cy5t9dl

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 17, 2012 07:46 PM (h/3sQ)

326 Jerry, I wish I could, but I can't disagree with you there. Most of my Nigerian friends are really cool people, but yeah, we have our share of jerks. Sigh.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at April 17, 2012 07:46 PM (bHslY)

327 Unless you are ethnic Japanese I don't think you can get a Japanese passport. Posted by: Jak

I heard Bush was an alien hybrid crafted by Zionists on the dark side of the moon!

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at April 17, 2012 07:46 PM (Ck8hC)

328 323 During the early years of the German Republic, or First Reich, from 1870 to 1920, Germany was actually the most tolerant country towards Jews in Europe. The most anti-Semitic were the Slavic Europeans. It must be passed down through generations because fourth generation Poles from Chicago make yechy faces when Jews are mentioned
Posted by: kbdabear at April 17, 2012 11:39 PM (Y+DPZ)

--Actually, kbd, the First Reich was the Holy Roman Empire. The Hohenzollerns were the Second Reich.

Posted by: logprof at April 17, 2012 07:47 PM (ykSKg)

329 Re: hating on other cultures, I suspect that xenophobia is a deeply ingrained survival trait, going back to when distrusting a different tribe might keep you alive. Also, the need to feel superior to someone seems universal. Damn filthy Scandies.

Posted by: Iowa Bob at April 17, 2012 07:47 PM (gIrkv)

330 Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at April 17, 2012 11:39 PM (bHslY)

Honestly, I think a certain amount of this goes on everywhere, across all racial lines. I think a certain amount of what we call racism today is somewhat hardwired in humans. People are more comfortable around people who look like them and speak their language.

I kind of resent that we can't even notice and celebrate our differences these days.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 07:47 PM (SsG4J)

331 I have been Tweeting too much today......I was trying to retweet this!
Go ahead, Tammy, I'm not on Twitter to send it myself. BTW, does anyone else feel like some Collie cobbler?

Posted by: andycanuck at April 17, 2012 07:47 PM (HFim5)

332 and pandas. hate the effin pandas. I would cover my walls, floors, and wear panda shoes, clothes and coats if I could get my hands on enough pandas.

Posted by: yankeefifth at April 17, 2012 07:47 PM (Z9EHQ)

333 ...committed an apostrophic crime! (Yes, I made the word up.)... - chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) "Apostrophic" is certainly going in my lexicon!

Posted by: A Mindful Webworker at April 17, 2012 07:47 PM (lBpVP)

334 http://tinyurl.com/87qhsgk

Axl Rose gets political sort of.

Posted by: LC LaWedgie at April 17, 2012 07:47 PM (0It32)

335 Austria was as tolerant or more so than Germany during that time period too.

Posted by: Who Knows at April 17, 2012 11:42 PM (W+Itt)

hmmm. The dude who was mayor of Vienna for a long time during that era was a notorious anti-Semite. Hitler worshiped the dude--never missed a speech / pogram.

Posted by: SantaRosaStan ( Cognitive Elite member ) at April 17, 2012 07:47 PM (Dll6b)

336 Zakn! How are you??

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 07:48 PM (SsG4J)

337 Zakn!

Posted by: yankeefifth at April 17, 2012 07:48 PM (Z9EHQ)

338 No. That's a real word.
"The American's dog went missing after a visit from President Obama. The Briton's was too."

Posted by: andycanuck at April 17, 2012 07:49 PM (HFim5)

339

bwahahaha ace has a new twitter name.

The Orphaned Puppy, Obama ate his fucking father.

Posted by: robtr at April 17, 2012 07:49 PM (MtwBb)

340

Oh, and even though we're all black, we have lots of juicy tribalism.

I had a Nigerian postdoc (stand up guy, btw) who indicated that there was little love lost between Christian and Muslim parts of Nigeria. (Also probably a tribal issue.)

Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 17, 2012 07:49 PM (yEQr9)

341 Most Excellent MissT! How about yourself?

Posted by: Zakn at April 17, 2012 07:49 PM (7F9i5)

342 I'm assuming Romney's mut liked being on top of the car.

Posted by: Jake at April 17, 2012 11:45 PM (AZ8Mb)

Exactly. At least there was no barbecue sauce involved.

Posted by: Peaches at April 17, 2012 07:49 PM (XeuJD)

343 325 I think maybe Canada might be less racist than the US but probably not. Only someone who hasn't traveled outside the country (or never met an immigrant) thinks the US is more racist than... pretty much anywhere. Most other nations, especially Asian ones, are incredibly bigoted and racist. Its not even a secret.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 17, 2012 11:43 PM (r4wIV)

--From my brief experience here, I think Canadians are more tolerant of Blacks, but that may be because the "permanent" underclass is more First Nations (Indians) than Blacks as in the USA.

Posted by: logprof at April 17, 2012 07:49 PM (ykSKg)

344 One of my AA friends keeps saying how we African's don't like "black people" (i.e., AA's). I find hate/dislike to be too energy consuming, but yeah, most Africans and, I believe, people from the Caribbean aren't exactly enamored of AAs. As for me, I tend to take people on a person to person basis, so I don't dislike anyone until s/he gives me a reason to. And it takes a lot. (Unless you're a female Hwood celebrity. Most of them annoy me.)

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at April 17, 2012 07:49 PM (bHslY)

345 Karl Luegar

Posted by: SantaRosaStan ( Cognitive Elite member ) at April 17, 2012 07:50 PM (Dll6b)

346 332 okay, logprof, your map-fu is stronger than mine. But it's Rheinland-Pfalz now --- 'Palatinate'...... kaput

Posted by: SantaRosaStan ( Cognitive Elite member ) at April 17, 2012 11:45 PM (Dll6b)

--Feh. It was the Palatinate for hundreds of years and I won't quit now.

Posted by: logprof at April 17, 2012 07:51 PM (ykSKg)

347 Hi Five y5! If any of ya'll haven't listened to Prager and Ace's show, do so. It's all kind of awesome

Posted by: Zakn at April 17, 2012 07:52 PM (7F9i5)

348 I kind of resent that we can't even notice and celebrate our differences these days. Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 11:47 PM (SsG4J) I know! I love the fact that there's so much variety among people (aside from sociopathic traits). I love exploring racial (i.e., physical) and cultural differences. And most people are uncomfortable with it because of PC, and I guess historical, um, issues with race.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at April 17, 2012 07:52 PM (bHslY)

349 How about yourself?

Posted by: Zakn at April 17, 2012 11:49 PM (7F9i5)

Hanging in there. Packing up for Arkansas. Trying to ignore the fact that I'll be leaving my man soon.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 07:52 PM (SsG4J)

350 Need an Allen West Fix
http://tinyurl.com/84oeh7g

19 min of awesome - and no teleprompter!

Posted by: someone at April 17, 2012 07:52 PM (bqjJT)

351 I actually got an interesting offer from a fellow in nigeria. apparently his family is having difficulties with the government. needs some help unfreezing some assets or something. sounds there is a pretty good return on my investment if I help him.

Posted by: yankeefifth at April 17, 2012 07:52 PM (Z9EHQ)

352 Think I'll go take a little seven-hour nap. Hate to leave before there's boobehs, but what can ya do? Good night, gracies.

Posted by: A Mindful Webworker at April 17, 2012 07:53 PM (lBpVP)

353 (Unless you're a female Hwood celebrity. Most of them annoy me.)

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at April 17, 2012 11:49 PM (bHslY)

You are not alone, though I prefer not to distinguish by gender. They're pretty much all worthless. In Shakespeare's day, actors were a gnat's ass above lepers on the social ladder. That's one of the old ways I could get behind a return to.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at April 17, 2012 07:54 PM (ND9u8)

354 Jake isn't kidding about Mexico's racial issues. Many of the Spaniard decendants carry themselves with arrogance and entitlement that eclipses that of the smuggest eurotrash you could fine. Most, if not all, negative impressions I have personally had with Mexican nationals has been with those sort. Posted by: Tad Blatherton at April 17, 2012 11:44 PM (HueOF) I goes both ways. I worked with a brown mexican lady who married/divorced a white guy. When she went on vacation to Mexico to visit her family down there, her family gave her shit because her kids were halfwhite and looked white.

Posted by: Jake at April 17, 2012 07:54 PM (AZ8Mb)

355

#346 SantaRosaStan

I was thinking of the polyglot nature of the Empire, and the flowering of Jewish accomplishments, with little aggressive persecution.

Ironic that the greatest oppressor sprang from that climate and place.

Posted by: Who Knows at April 17, 2012 07:54 PM (W+Itt)

356 Aww. Are you going back to Arkansas for money reasons?

Posted by: Zakn at April 17, 2012 07:55 PM (7F9i5)

357 Chique, I have a mexican friend that says I'm bigotted without being prejudiced. I told her it's fun to stereotype everytime I have to tow her Chevy with my Ford.

Posted by: Jerry at April 17, 2012 07:56 PM (4SKYj)

358 I love the fact that there's so much variety among people (aside from sociopathic traits). I love exploring racial (i.e., physical) and cultural differences. And most people are uncomfortable with it because of PC, and I guess historical, um, issues with race.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at April 17, 2012 11:52 PM (bHslY)

I can tell you that PC has probably killed many people with African blood, let alone women. For so many years, the medical model was based on white men. There are real differences between races and genders, and this PC crap won't allow anyone to explore it. (I think that HAS actually been changing for awhile now, but it's scary to think how much time was lost)

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 07:56 PM (SsG4J)

359 --Feh. It was the Palatinate for hundreds of years and I won't quit now.

Posted by: logprof at April 17, 2012 11:51 PM (ykSKg)

and the Moselle River winds its weary way through the Saar before dead-ending into the Rhine at Koblenz. Been there; many times.

Posted by: SantaRosaStan ( Cognitive Elite member ) at April 17, 2012 07:56 PM (Dll6b)

360 I think a lot that's called Racism isn't really, its just people being jerks. Sure, they may attach to ethnic background like "those filthy icebacks" but that's like saying "I hate that fat bastard," fat's just another word to throw at them, not any sign of innate animosity toward fat people.
I'll tell one story of my friends. They were having a celebration, some holiday or just a party to get together, about 50 of them, first generation immigrants from Sierra Leone.
Well in walks some gang bangers, bad dudes I wouldn't ever mess with. They want to crash the party, join in the fun with their guns and drugs and attitude. Up to them walks some of the ... bigger fellows from the party, and I mean BIG, one of them looks like a damn pirate, with the head bandanna and all.
They have a little talk with the bangers and they meekly turn around and walk away apologizing. The folks from Africa have no tolerance for those punks, absolutely no respect or patience. I love em, but damn their food is inedibly hot. Tasty but holy crap, talk about the ring of fire a few hours later.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 17, 2012 07:57 PM (r4wIV)

361 I had a Nigerian postdoc (stand up guy, btw) who indicated that there was little love lost between Christian and Muslim parts of Nigeria. (Also probably a tribal issue.) Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 17, 2012 11:49 PM (yEQr9) Nah, that's separate from tribalism. It stems from the fact that for the longest time the ruling class consisted almost exclusively of Northern Muslims, who are generally uneducated (especially in comparison to people from the southern part). The fact that northern Muslims have been committing, uh, domestic contingency operations, against Christians in the north for a while doesn't help. Southern Muslims are generally very tolerant. In fact, there are households composed of both Muslims and Christians, and they get along just fine. I heard the Northern Muslims don't consider them real Muslims and so will attack them along with all the other infidels.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at April 17, 2012 07:57 PM (bHslY)

362 If I had a puppy, he'd look like... lunch.

Posted by: president o'bumbles at April 17, 2012 07:58 PM (HFim5)

363 several of Top Nazis were Austrian, 'who knows', including Heydrich's replacement as head of the SD, and some other dudes I can't remember

Posted by: SantaRosaStan ( Cognitive Elite member ) at April 17, 2012 07:58 PM (Dll6b)

364 Miss Tammy, how long before you go to Arkansas?

Hope you can still join us here!

Posted by: Theresa at April 17, 2012 07:59 PM (Cf5RM)

365 wow, a game is going to be announced for the Vita in May

Posted by: The Dude at April 17, 2012 07:59 PM (M8yfa)

366 I got kicked out of Canada twice on Friday. No joke.

Posted by: Tonic Dog at April 17, 2012 07:59 PM (X/+QT)

367 Aww. Are you going back to Arkansas for money reasons?

Posted by: Zakn at April 17, 2012 11:55 PM (7F9i5)

Eh, little bit of everything. Mama is getting a bit feeble, and since I got officially laid off, and we're going to move for good next year anyway, seemed like heading back early and getting settled might be the thing to do. (She lives right next to us)

Sounded good when we talked about it, but now that the time is almost here, I am getting rather weepy and female-ish about it!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 07:59 PM (SsG4J)

368 fucking smelly hairy punjabi bastards are the most racist

Posted by: ktnxbai *cough* at April 17, 2012 08:00 PM (m3QBT)

369 and the Moselle River winds its weary way through the Saar before dead-ending into the Rhine at Koblenz. Been there; many times.

Posted by: SantaRosaStan ( Cognitive Elite member ) at April 17, 2012 11:56 PM (Dll6b)

--Never been there. I have been to Alsace-Lorraine (Nancy/Strasbourg) and Luxembourg on the other side, though.

Posted by: logprof at April 17, 2012 08:00 PM (ykSKg)

370 "Southern Muslims are generally very tolerant. In fact, there are households composed of both Muslims and Christians, and they get along just fine."
The former Yugoslav republics are like that. The Muslims there don't care what you are, that's between you and God, not them. They just hate the old racial enemies.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 17, 2012 08:00 PM (r4wIV)

371 Tammy, so true. I work in Pharma, and there are definitely racial/group differences. Sometimes, they result in different effects/exposures of drugs, sometimes not. To whoever asked what I do, I mathematical modeling and simulation of clinical drug trial data for a living.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at April 17, 2012 08:02 PM (bHslY)

372 Heh, "Bichon apatit!" (Iowahawk)

Posted by: logprof at April 17, 2012 08:03 PM (ykSKg)

373 The former Yugoslav republics are like that. The Muslims there don't care what you are, that's between you and God, not them. They just hate the old racial enemies.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 18, 2012 12:00 AM (r4wIV)

So they're halfway to not killing each other for sport! Tolerance is beautiful.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at April 17, 2012 08:03 PM (ND9u8)

374 I make racism seem like a good idea.

Posted by: Baraka Obama at April 17, 2012 08:04 PM (FcR7P)

375

Chique's a math geek?

Posted by: Jerry at April 17, 2012 08:04 PM (4SKYj)

376 Going home to help Mama is as good an excuse as any to bail from Commiformia.

Posted by: Zakn at April 17, 2012 08:04 PM (7F9i5)

377 Anyone feel like Shih Tzu stew? And do you want to split a Bo-Bo platter?

Posted by: president o'bumbles at April 17, 2012 08:04 PM (HFim5)

378 OK. Off to bed. It was so much fun de-lurking hanging out with you folks. Good night! P.S. Sorry to hear about your job, Tammy.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at April 17, 2012 08:04 PM (bHslY)

379 Sounded good when we talked about it, but now that the time is almost here, I am getting rather weepy and female-ish about it!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 11:59 PM (SsG4J)

Does it help that I envy you? A lot?

Posted by: Peaches at April 17, 2012 08:05 PM (XeuJD)

380 Good night, chique!

Posted by: logprof at April 17, 2012 08:05 PM (ykSKg)

381 Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at April 18, 2012 12:02 AM (bHslY)

I worked at a hospital years ago, and of the doctors I worked with was especially intelligent, as well as very attuned to his patients.

He told me that he noticed early on that African Americans seemed to have high blood pressure even when sleeping, whereas Caucasians bp stabilized at night. Made a HUGE difference in their meds and overall treatment, and yet he got lambasted for thinking there could be such differences.

I believe it's been proven, now.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 08:06 PM (SsG4J)

382 Night Chique!

Posted by: Jerry at April 17, 2012 08:07 PM (4SKYj)

383 "So they're halfway to not killing each other for sport!"
Having studied Islam considerably, I can say there's nothing innate about the Koran that requires people to be murdered or subjugated, most of that came from later interpretations by clerics and the Hadith.
The passages that call for conquest and domination came from the conquest period of Muhammad's life, and they are "abrogated" by later verses that tell how to rule (its a principle of Islam that if an earlier passage conflicts with a later one - and it happens more than a few times - then the later one is used, because it was a more current revelation from Gabriel).
But 1500 years of what essentially is a family feud, the real kind, not the game show... that doesn't go away so easy.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 17, 2012 08:07 PM (r4wIV)

384 Night, chique! Come back soon!

Peaches, yes, a bit!

And yea, Zakn, it does make a difference that I'm leaving to enjoy some time with mama before she goes full-board demented.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 08:08 PM (SsG4J)

385 --Never been there. I have been to Alsace-Lorraine (Nancy/Strasbourg) and Luxembourg on the other side, though.

Posted by: logprof at April 18, 2012 12:00 AM (ykSKg)

Strasbourg was nice. There was a USAF base in Nancy, back in The Day. Played a high school tennis match there--and won. ------yes, I beat a guy from Nancy. His shame was my ally

There's a huge statue on the southern bank of the Mosel as it runs into the Rhein. 'Deutsches Eck' -- the corner of Germany. Survived the Allied bombing.

Posted by: SantaRosaStan ( Cognitive Elite member ) at April 17, 2012 08:09 PM (Dll6b)

386 Today the First Lady debuts her Spaniel Artichoke Salad... only 1,500 calories per serving.

Posted by: The Chew at April 17, 2012 08:09 PM (0It32)

387 Some good games in 5 hours but I wish it was tomorrow, Group B should be really sweet.

Posted by: The Dude at April 17, 2012 08:10 PM (M8yfa)

388 Posted by: at April 18, 2012 12:07 AM (r4wIV)

Agreed. I'd say the desert vendetta culture far pre-dates Islam. I'd say most cultures mold their religion around their basic cultural beliefs.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 08:10 PM (SsG4J)

389 I hate to rain on the whole dog recipe thing, but hasn't anyone considered that dog is in no way halal?

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at April 17, 2012 08:12 PM (ND9u8)

390 Has anyone ever read The Voyage of the Damned?

It was a true story that happened in 1939. Germany allowed Jews who paid a large passage and turned over whatever property they held in Germany over to the Reich.

They boarded the liner St Louis without a destination, but hoped that America or some other nation in the Western Hemisphere would give them sanctuary.

The St Louis was denied entry into Havana, and while it idled off the coast of Florida, many influential American Jews appealed to the State Dept and FDR himself to let them in. They were denied entry, and was forced to return to Germany after no other country would allow them to enter.

The captain of the St Louis hated the Nazis and said that he would intentional ground the ship in English waters to force them to take in the refugees. The British, Belgians, Dutch, and French agreed to take in the refugees.

FDR refused to take them in, and there are other instances of him turning his back on European Jews, yet to this day most of the old American Jews think the man was a near god

Posted by: kbdabear at April 17, 2012 08:12 PM (Y+DPZ)

391 Strasbourg was nice. There was a USAF base in Nancy, back in The Day. Played a high school tennis match there--and won. ------yes, I beat a guy from Nancy. His shame was my ally
There's a huge statue on the southern bank of the Mosel as it runs into the Rhein. 'Deutsches Eck' -- the corner of Germany. Survived the Allied bombing.

Posted by: SantaRosaStan ( Cognitive Elite member ) at April 18, 2012 12:09 AM (Dll6b)

--Cool! Germany is the biggest western European country I have not really explored (I don't count the couple hours I crossed from Strasbourg) and I would like to see so much more. Nancy, by the way, is a hugely underrated city that not many tourists get to see --beautiful place.

Posted by: logprof at April 17, 2012 08:12 PM (ykSKg)

392 I tried Yorkie pudding once but it was too tough on my balls.

Posted by: president o'bumbles at April 17, 2012 08:12 PM (HFim5)

393 "I'd say most cultures mold their religion around their basic cultural beliefs."
I think that's absolutely true about Islam. I think Muhammad wrote a religion roughly based on his childhood understanding of Judaism and Christianity that was adapted to Arab cultural sensibilities.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 17, 2012 08:13 PM (r4wIV)

394 The Orphaned Puppy is still at it!

@AceofSpadesHq Some look at the way the world is and ask, Why? Others look at how it could be and ask, Why not? I look and ask, Why did Obama eat my dad?

Posted by: Theresa at April 17, 2012 08:13 PM (Cf5RM)

395 M&Ms crack me up on all levels. So I'm checking my twitter to reply to a DM from MissT, and I see I have a new follower. Chick name, No tweets, gotta be spam bot amirite? Description is "Um, Yea Mom, moron." Immediate follow back!

Posted by: Zakn at April 17, 2012 08:13 PM (7F9i5)

396 384 The former Yugoslav republics are like that. The Muslims there don't care what you are, that's between you and God, not them. They just hate the old racial enemies.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 18, 2012 12:00 AM (r4wIV)

I've heard some Croatians claim that the Bosnian Muslims are actually Croatian, it's just that back when that part of the world was held by the Ottoman Empire, their ancestors converted for the tax breaks (since keeping to non-Islamic faiths was permitted but you had to pay fines.) Generally speaking they weren't fervent worshipers before independence, though that may have changed since.

Posted by: sistrum at April 17, 2012 08:13 PM (AyryN)

397 Tell me if this reminds you of a certain stuttering clusterfuck's ideology --

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."

Winston Churchill

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 17, 2012 08:14 PM (ccXZP)

398 "FDR refused to take them in, and there are other instances of him turning his back on European Jews, yet to this day most of the old American Jews think the man was a near god."
Absolutely true fact and when that's brought up, they find excuses for why he was forced to do it, regretfully, and you have to let a man make mistakes and on and on. FDR didn't love the Jews or fight to save them, he could give a crap. He fought to stop tyranny, especially the anti-communist tyranny of the Nazis.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 17, 2012 08:14 PM (r4wIV)

399 359 I kind of resent that we can't even notice and celebrate our differences these days.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 11:47 PM (SsG4J)

I know! I love the fact that there's so much variety among people (aside from sociopathic traits). I love exploring racial (i.e., physical) and cultural differences. And most people are uncomfortable with it because of PC, and I guess historical, um, issues with race.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at April 17, 2012 11:52 PM (bHslY)

Just in one little corner of culture -- cuisine -- there's so much that people blow off. According to these guys [ http://www.pfaf.org/user/default.aspx ], "There are over 20,000 species of edible plants in the world yet fewer than 20 species now provide 90% of our food." Somewhere, there's a culture that makes something awfully tasty out of plant #14,247.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 17, 2012 08:15 PM (kaalw)

400 Ace is now the 'orphaned puppy" on twitter. hilarious.

Posted by: Jumbo Jogging Shrimp at April 17, 2012 08:16 PM (DGIjM)

401 Oh Dude. Got my 3DS. Couldn't be happier. The thing is awesome! I also now have what I call a 3DS purse. I don't know how to feel about that.

Posted by: Zakn at April 17, 2012 08:16 PM (7F9i5)

402 their ancestors converted for the tax breaks (since keeping to non-Islamic faiths was permitted but you had to pay fines.) Generally speaking they weren't fervent worshipers before independence, though that may have changed since.

Posted by: sistrum at April 18, 2012 12:13 AM (AyryN)

yes, I've told that several times. No 'jizra' if you converted, and you got a shot at Ottoman govt jobs / bribes / payola if you were no longer an infidel.

and you got to wear the funny hats, too

Posted by: SantaRosaStan ( Cognitive Elite member ) at April 17, 2012 08:19 PM (Dll6b)

403 412 Oh Dude. Got my 3DS. Couldn't be happier. The thing is awesome! I also now have what I call a 3DS purse. I don't know how to feel about that.

Posted by: Zakn at April 18, 2012 12:16 AM (7F9i5)

Yes you do.

Posted by: Freddie Mercury at April 17, 2012 08:20 PM (ND9u8)

404 Winston Churchill

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 18, 2012 12:14 AM (ccXZP)

What he wrote about Islam and Muslims is also very interesting.

Posted by: SantaRosaStan ( Cognitive Elite member ) at April 17, 2012 08:21 PM (Dll6b)

405 Oh Dude. Got my 3DS. Couldn't be happier. The thing is awesome! I also now have what I call a 3DS purse. I don't know how to feel about that.

Posted by: Zakn at April 18, 2012 12:16 AM (7F9i5)

make sure you buy one of these

http://tinyurl.com/86avlpl

They are worth their weight in gold

Posted by: The Dude at April 17, 2012 08:21 PM (M8yfa)

406

There are real differences between races and genders, and this PC crap won't allow anyone to explore it. (I think that HAS actually been changing for awhile now, but it's scary to think how much time was lost)

Historically pharma was loathe to include women in drug trials because statistically a certain proportion of them were likely to be/become pregnant during the trial, and a (small) proportion of them were likely to bear children with birth defects, which would inevitably be attributed to the drug trial. Bye bye, several hundred million dollars.

Once, during the silicone breast implant bullshit, I was involved in a research program that produced a cardiac stent that eluted a drug that impeded restenosis (a big problem with such stents). Top management was impressed, but said, "An implanted device? Nope. Forget it. Don't want the liability. No implants of any kind. Period."

Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 17, 2012 08:22 PM (yEQr9)

407 Evenin' folks.

Just got back from hearing Colonel Ed Shames of the 3/506 I company in WW2 speak. He denies he's a hero, I'll respectfully disagree.

For those of you who have no idea, he was the officer in the unit that stumbled into (his words) the concentration camp at Augsburg and was most likely the first American officer to see Dachau near Munich.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at April 17, 2012 08:22 PM (xKC/c)

408 oh and as for a case, I've got a Hori card case. It's pretty nice

Posted by: The Dude at April 17, 2012 08:23 PM (M8yfa)

409 I did get a full size stylus. Definitely helps. Kid Icarus is STUNNING. After playing that for about 5 min with the small stylus and getting cramped the fuck up, I tagged in the pen and it was much better

Posted by: Zakn at April 17, 2012 08:24 PM (7F9i5)

410 of course, Kid Icarus still fucks up your wrist anyways if you don't use the stand and in 3D (which I find to be mandatory)

Posted by: The Dude at April 17, 2012 08:27 PM (M8yfa)

411 wow, Vita isn't even selling shit in software in Japan

http://tinyurl.com/d66yuke

Posted by: The Dude at April 17, 2012 08:30 PM (M8yfa)

412 New Obama campaign song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3w4pjE90ZU

Posted by: kbdabear at April 17, 2012 08:30 PM (Y+DPZ)

413 BiDil got FDA approval as a heart treatment only for blacks. It failed to get a race-neutral approval from the FDA. This was because of trials which showed efficacy among blacks and not among others.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 17, 2012 08:31 PM (X3lox)

414 Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 18, 2012 12:31 AM (X3lox)

That is unconscionable. It is beyond horrifying.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 08:35 PM (SsG4J)

415

FDR didn't love the Jews or fight to save them, he could give a crap.

Seriously, why should he? His first responsibility was to the American people, and where he considered their interests to lie. An American President isn't in office to right all the world's wrongs.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 17, 2012 08:36 PM (yEQr9)

416 Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 18, 2012 12:35 AM (SsG4J)

Why?

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 17, 2012 08:36 PM (X3lox)

417 Why?

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 18, 2012 12:36 AM (X3lox)

Maybe I misread your comment? They won't allow it to be used because it isn't racially neutral? Despite the fact that it helps blacks more than other drugs?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 08:37 PM (SsG4J)

418 425 Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 18, 2012 12:31 AM (X3lox)

That is unconscionable. It is beyond horrifying.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 18, 2012 12:35 AM (SsG4J)

Yet another reason to keep government of all kinds, shapes, and sizes way-far-away-away from healthcare.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 17, 2012 08:37 PM (kaalw)

419 oh and though the single player is quite beefy, Kid Icarus online multiplayer is fucking awesome

Posted by: The Dude at April 17, 2012 08:37 PM (M8yfa)

420 I've heard some Croatians claim that the Bosnian Muslims are actually Croatian, it's just that back when that part of the world was held by the Ottoman Empire, their ancestors converted for the tax breaks (since keeping to non-Islamic faiths was permitted but you had to pay fines.) Generally speaking they weren't fervent worshipers before independence, though that may have changed since. Posted by: sistrum at April 18, 2012 12:13 AM (AyryN) that tax is called 'jiza'

Posted by: Jake at April 17, 2012 08:38 PM (AZ8Mb)

421

That is unconscionable. It is beyond horrifying.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 18, 2012 12:35 AM (SsG4J)

Why do you say this? If it didn't work in other groups, why should it be approved for them? To take the reductio ad absurdem, would birth control pills be approved for men? What's the point?

Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 17, 2012 08:38 PM (yEQr9)

422 "His first responsibility was to the American people, and where he considered their interests to lie."
It wouldn't have hurt America to help a ship load of Jews fleeing Germany, but the point is that his reputation as the golden god-king who saved Israel is bunk.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 17, 2012 08:39 PM (r4wIV)

423

Jim Treacher

Question: Why did Mitt Romney put his dog on the roof of his car?

Answer: So Barack Obama wouldn't eat it.

Posted by: robtr at April 17, 2012 08:41 PM (MtwBb)

424 From somebody called Dog Lovers For Obama on Twitter:
"It's not bad enough that their candidate abused Seamus & Ted Nugent threatens our President but now they accuse PBO of eating dogs? Low"

Honestly, do crazy progs do anything else but whine? I'm tempted to DM her and ask her if she wants any cheese.

Posted by: Theresa at April 17, 2012 08:42 PM (Cf5RM)

425 Maybe I misread your comment? They won't allow it to be used because it isn't racially neutral? Despite the fact that it helps blacks more than other drugs?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 18, 2012 12:37 AM (SsG4J)

No. The FDA approved its use for blacks, only, because it only showed effectiveness in trials with blacks (self-identified blacks, for the trials). The FDA did the right thing, for once. But the public myth that there are no real physiological differences between races suffered a major body blow.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 17, 2012 08:42 PM (X3lox)

426 432
That is unconscionable. It is beyond horrifying.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 18, 2012 12:35 AM (SsG4J) Why do you say this? If it didn't work in other groups, why should it be approved for them? To take the reductio ad absurdem, would birth control pills be approved for men? What's the point?

Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 18, 2012 12:38 AM (yEQr9)

The problem is not that, "If it didn't work in other groups, why should it be approved for them?" -- it's that "If it didn't work in other groups, why should it be approved for anyone?"

Posted by: cthulhu at April 17, 2012 08:42 PM (kaalw)

427

Maybe I misread your comment? They won't allow it to be used because it isn't racially neutral? Despite the fact that it helps blacks more than other drugs?

No, you misread, and misunderstand the FDA procedures. A drug approved for any indication can be prescribed by any physician for any purpose that he deems appropriate (an "off-label" use), but he's on the hook for that decision. FDA approval for an indication means that the drug can be marketed for that purpose. If a drug isn't approved for that indication, physicians can still prescribe it, but the manufacturer can't market it for that indication.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 17, 2012 08:42 PM (yEQr9)

428 Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 18, 2012 12:38 AM (yEQr9)

Jay, read upthread a bit. It has been proven over and over again that blacks respond very differently than Caucasians to many meds, especially bp meds. If certain meds have been proven to help them, why shouldn't they be allowed to have them, for God's sake?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 08:44 PM (SsG4J)

429 A new entry in the worst video in human history contest;

http://tinyurl.com/7gdgcyp

Yes, it beats that 70s Finnish space themed video that held the mark previously...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 17, 2012 08:44 PM (3aXbg)

430 Sandra Fluke has just been invited to address a closed forum of Georgetown students--and look at how their press release puffs up lil grass-roots EveryYoungWoman Sandra: Â“Sandra Fluke is former co-president of Georgetown Law Students for Reproductive Justice and a Public Interest Law Scholar at Georgetown's Law Center,Â” said the invitation. Â“She is former Vice President of Georgetown Law's Women's Legal Alliance and Career Chair for Outlaw, the Law Center's LGBT student group. She is also the Development Editor of the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law. Link at my nic.

Posted by: JewishOdysseus at April 17, 2012 08:45 PM (Dd+yB)

431 435 From somebody called Dog Lovers For Obama on Twitter:
"It's not bad enough that their candidate abused Seamus Ted Nugent
threatens our President but now they accuse PBO of eating dogs? Low"

Um, how exactly does quoting what PBO (ostensibly) wrote in a damn AUTOBIOGRAPHY that the liberals pointed to as PROVING his superlative talents and genius constitute "accusing"?

Posted by: sistrum at April 17, 2012 08:47 PM (AyryN)

432 No, you misread, and misunderstand the FDA procedures.

Okay, I'll take your word for it! Getting sleepy anyway, should probably call it a night!

Y'all behave, now.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 08:47 PM (SsG4J)

433 If certain meds have been proven to help them, why shouldn't they be allowed to have them, for God's sake?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 18, 2012 12:44 AM (SsG4J)

BiDil IS FDA-approved for blacks for heart treatment. It was the first "racial drug", so to speak. It didn't receive approval for anyone else. As Jay said, doctors can still prescribe it; I'm not sure insurance would cover it, though, as it is against FDA guidance. I don't know about that, though.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 17, 2012 08:47 PM (X3lox)

434

What is the plan for getting us out of the U.N., Mitt? They help our enemies, or at least everyone that hates us, everywhere. It is a failed institution, no less so than a Solyndra, and a tried-and-failed idea, no less so than Socialized Medicine. Why are we funding it, listening to it, obeying it, cooperating with it and hosting it's subversion here on our land. Out, Mitt! Out! "They all hate us anyway, let's drop the big one and see what happens!" (lol!)

Posted by: And Irresolute at April 17, 2012 08:48 PM (RC3M9)

435

Posted by: buzzion at April 17, 2012 11:28 PM (GULKT)

No, I'm stuck in room 15 and can't figure out the walk-through's explanation. The kids are playing it now, but I might go back at some point.

Posted by: Polliwog, Hobbit Teahada at April 17, 2012 08:48 PM (X8/ER)

436 What is the plan for getting us out of the U.N., Mitt?
Posted by: And Irresolute at April 18, 2012 12:48 AM (RC3M9)

If Robert Moses were still around, he would just declare the UN site an important parking lot for some highway and have the place bulldozed by Thursday.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 17, 2012 08:50 PM (X3lox)

437 I've been living in China for 17 years. To this day total strangers I meet hear I am from the US and they say "美国好! America Good!" The direct translation is "beautiful country". On the other hand people from different provinces hate each other, and country vs. city arguments are common. One thing the Chinese always band together for is their hatred of the Japanese. Anti-Japanese sentiment holds throughout Asia, can't really blame them. The #1 most xenophobic people I've every met are the Koreans by far. Them people is tense!

Posted by: Datou at April 17, 2012 08:50 PM (jUalk)

438

"If it didn't work in other groups, why should it be approved for anyone?"

You misunderstand. A drug is approved for a given indication. If it is not indicated for a given patient population, it is not approved for use in that patient population, and cannot be marketed for use in that population, because it has not been shown to be efficacious in that population. (Sorry for the repetition of the p-word, but I'm trying to be clear.)

Once again, think birth control pills. They are FDA approved for use (i.e., marketing) in fertile females of childbearing age. They are (I assume) not approved for use in prepubscent or post-menopausal females, nor in males of any age, until and unless they are shown to be of benefit to them. The logic is that every drug has deleterious side effects, and thus some efficacy must be shown in the target population to warrant assuming that risk.

By the same token, thalidomide - which by the way is in many respects a wonder drug - is FDA approved for some indications, as long as the patient is not a fertile woman of childbearing age.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 17, 2012 08:51 PM (yEQr9)

439 How loving owners transport their dogs.

http://tinyurl.com/7qm95e7

Posted by: @davidaxelrod at April 17, 2012 08:52 PM (0It32)

440 The #1 most xenophobic people I've every met are the Koreans by far. Them people is tense!

Posted by: Datou at April 18, 2012 12:50 AM (jUalk)

The Seoul Olympics was the worst display of blatant, ridiculous, offensive home nation cheating that I have ever seen in my life. It repulsed me and turned me off from the Olympics, in general. My opinion of South Korea dropped 8 steps, too, and it wasn't all that high to begin with.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 17, 2012 08:53 PM (X3lox)

441 Nite MissT

Posted by: Zakn at April 17, 2012 08:53 PM (7F9i5)

442 sorry to hit and run

Can you imagine the howling (pun intended) if Mitt Romneys father promised to feed him Tiger Meat so he could gain its powers?

Posted by: Shiggz Rocketsurgeon at April 17, 2012 08:54 PM (RfvTE)

443

If certain meds have been proven to help them, why shouldn't they be allowed to have them, for God's sake?

Tammy, read ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 18, 2012 12:42 AM (X3lox). The drug IS approved for blacks, with whom it works. It's just not approved for anyone else.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 17, 2012 08:54 PM (yEQr9)

444

Posted by: Theresa at April 17, 2012 11:43 PM (Cf5RM)

Sorry, didn't mean to worry you. Just meant that I'd hit the tweet limit on both accounts.

Hi, Tammy and Y5

Posted by: Polliwog, Hobbit Teahada at April 17, 2012 08:57 PM (X8/ER)

445 Long story short: to achieve FDA approval (i.e., to be legally marketed for a given purpose), a drug must be shown to work for that purpose. If the efficacy requirement requires a demographic restriction (to exclude those for whom it is not efficacious), then that will be included in the approval.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 17, 2012 08:58 PM (yEQr9)

446 Oh god. Room 15. I love that room except the last part where you have to navigate the corners. I had to create a rule about portal use that serves me to this day.

Posted by: Zakn at April 17, 2012 08:59 PM (7F9i5)

447 448 Posted by: Datou at April 18, 2012 12:50 AM (jUalk)

Any time someone claims all cultures are equal, remember this -- many people died trying to cross the Berlin Wall from East to West Germany.

Not one person ever died trying to go the other way.

Thanks for your input on Chinese thought.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 17, 2012 09:00 PM (ccXZP)

448 I know, Sistrum! It's like they have no sense of humor or something, and can't take a frikken' joke. That's the trouble with progs, they're waaaaay to sahnsahtahve.

I would never have even known about the eating dog thing if I hadn't read it from Twitter.

Posted by: Theresa at April 17, 2012 09:01 PM (Cf5RM)

449 http://tinyurl.com/76wxejc

Posted by: bill-o at April 17, 2012 09:01 PM (AWwDY)

450 "As air moves over the olfactory membrane, odor molecules settle on the scent receptors and get recognized. The more air there is flowing over the membrane, the more scents the dogs can detect. So when a dog sticks its head out the window, itÂ’s like pigging out at a hi-definition all-you-can-smell scent buffet."

"As a vet I can tell you its actually quite dangerous. Think of the little rocks and flying debris that put dings in our windshields and front fenders. Now think of what those bit might do to a dogs unprotected eyes. Nothing wrong with letting them hang out the window through the neighbor hood or get a good whiff at stop lights, but put the window up (an inch or so to keep the air moving is fine) but no Â“scent buffetÂ” is worth losing an eye."

These two bits were cribbed from a post yesterday at mental_floss. So it looks like big ol' meanie Romney's windshielded carrier-on-top method of dog transport might be the canine idea of Las Vegas with loving safety measure added.

Posted by: sistrum at April 17, 2012 09:03 PM (AyryN)

451 Well, you didn't worry me, Polli, I just remember Miss T. having problems with Twitter.

Wait, there's a tweet post limit?

Posted by: Theresa at April 17, 2012 09:05 PM (Cf5RM)

452

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 17, 2012 11:59 PM (SsG4J)

How far north in Arkansas are you going to be?

Posted by: Polliwog, Hobbit Teahada at April 17, 2012 09:07 PM (X8/ER)

453 90 Do you folks realize that not capitalizing your name is the equilalent of being a submissive?

Only if I were to accept asswipe's definitions of "how things are." In other words I submit not. Try & make me.

Posted by: bill-o at April 17, 2012 09:08 PM (AWwDY)

454 Honestly, do crazy progs do anything else but whine? I'm tempted to DM her and ask her if she wants any cheese.
Posted by: Theresa at April 18, 2012 12:42 AM

The Lefties are really butthurt over this story, with the talking point "youthful indiscreation, let's move on"

It really bugs the shit out of them that their lord god Obama is the butt of some really funny jokes

Remember, he's too sacred to make jokes about

Posted by: kbdabear at April 17, 2012 09:09 PM (Y+DPZ)

455

I have been checking out the Occup-herds new push for a Spring Assault. They have fliers, pamphlets, game plans. I think it is important for us to see what they plan. There is a way for us to use their materials against them.
Check link in name. If you have time, do some research yourself. Beat them with their own fists.

Posted by: Calyx the Unanswered at April 17, 2012 09:10 PM (7UDrY)

456 wow, finally saw the Torres hit on Hossa. He didn't need to leap to lay the wood down, he fucked up

Posted by: The Dude at April 17, 2012 09:11 PM (M8yfa)

457 102 Steevy, The descended from gods thing is a cover-up of the fact that they were forced out of the Korean peninsula.

Yes the hate the Koreans goes back a few hundred years or so.

Posted by: bill-o at April 17, 2012 09:11 PM (AWwDY)

458

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at April 18, 2012 12:12 AM (ND9u

I hadn't until a lefty started complaining about anti-muslim bigots, forgotten the muslim bit entirely. Indonesia has a lot of haram traditions though, drinking, pig eating, stuff like that and used to be a lot more relaxed. Imposition of sharia is fairly recent, and still not broadly enforced.

Posted by: Polliwog, Hobbit Teahada at April 17, 2012 09:12 PM (X8/ER)

459 Hi. Love ya.

Obama: As American as Mom, apple pie, and eating a fuckin dog, a snake, some locusts, and maybe some tiger.

Posted by: sifty at April 17, 2012 09:14 PM (uGQ4X)

460 Sifty - how you been brother?

Posted by: Jornolist at April 17, 2012 09:16 PM (SsSaL)

461 Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 18, 2012 12:51 AM (yEQr9)

Ah.....I was starting from a general mistrust of the FDA and went a step too far.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 17, 2012 09:16 PM (kaalw)

462 Obama: As American as Mom, apple pie, and eating a fuckin dog, a snake, some locusts, and maybe some tiger.

Posted by: sifty at April 18, 2012 01:14 AM (uGQ4X)

He chowed down on a lot of boogers, too, if that counts for anything.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 17, 2012 09:16 PM (X3lox)

463 GnuBreed - A band of people were sneaking out of Communist Yugoslavia. On the third day they had to take cover in a wheatfield; they could hear the patrol dogs coming closer, closer. One of them was my mother, clutching her 3 year old son. She had already been walking two days barefoot; the leader had made her take off her shoes at the beginning because they squeaked.

Suddenly there fell a shower of rain, washing away their scent. The dogs moved onwards past them.

Yeah, nobody has tales of going like that in the other direction!

Posted by: sistrum at April 17, 2012 09:17 PM (AyryN)

464 "so I misunderstood- when she said 'walk the dog,' I thought she said ' wok the dog!'. "

Posted by: Stuff Obumbles Wrote at April 17, 2012 09:17 PM (6kE8K)

465 Wife is letting me go out to smoke - she's all giddy over a purse she saw in a magazine - same purse ahem I bought her.

Posted by: Jornolist at April 17, 2012 09:18 PM (SsSaL)

466

Ah.....I was starting from a general mistrust of the FDA and went a step too far.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 18, 2012 01:16 AM (kaalw)

No probs. FDA isn't malign. Bureaucratic and cautious as all hell (because no one jumps in their shit over refusing to approve a drug, but everyone does if the drug turns out to have problems), but not malign.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 17, 2012 09:22 PM (yEQr9)

467

Posted by: B. Banzai's watermelon at April 18, 2012 12:55 AM (gXkQ7)

Lol, the ending song is how we came to the game. You should check Captainvalor's youtube channel where he ASL signs the ending song. That was how we found out that Portal existed.

Thanks for the link as well.

Posted by: Polliwog, Hobbit Teahada at April 17, 2012 09:22 PM (X8/ER)

468 I am looking for any and all ideas for anti-Obama themes for bumper stickers and or lapel pins. Me and a friend are going to get something rolling. We just need some clever ideas. For real - we need ideas.

Posted by: Jornolist at April 17, 2012 09:22 PM (SsSaL)

469 Hey sifty, Long time, how has life been in the 83607? (I think that is the zip code)

Posted by: Jake at April 17, 2012 09:25 PM (AZ8Mb)

470 The #1 most xenophobic people I've every met are the Koreans by far. Them people is tense!

Posted by: Datou at April 18, 2012 12:50 AM (jUalk)

Whenever I had to deal with arrogant Koreans, I would let slip an interest in two obscure villages (how far away, train or bus, etc.) When they asked why, I would explain those were the villages my father's older brothers were shot in (wounded, both are still around). Tended to settle down the attitude for a while.

Posted by: Jean at April 17, 2012 09:25 PM (WkuV6)

471 Iowa Bob, great story up to the point where you kiss the 'ette's asses.

Posted by: Repeal the 19th at April 17, 2012 09:25 PM (GRBbg)

472 480 - simple is best. An Obama logo in the following: N(0), (O)pps, Just G(O), G(O)LF/W(O)RK

Posted by: Jean at April 17, 2012 09:27 PM (WkuV6)

473 A new whiff ... no BO

Posted by: Jornolist at April 17, 2012 09:28 PM (SsSaL)

474 or Work/G(O)lf, if your a Mitten wearer you could work a beehive into the Work

Posted by: Jean at April 17, 2012 09:28 PM (WkuV6)

475 I am looking for any and all ideas for anti-Obama themes for bumper stickers and or lapel pins.

"Have your pets spayed or neutered" -- Bob Barker
"Mmmm, hors d'oeuvres!" -- Barack Obama

Posted by: AmishDude at April 17, 2012 09:29 PM (J5tI6)

476 Fucking Brutal hit on Hossa. Yea, didn't need to leap into that to make the check.

Posted by: Zakn at April 17, 2012 09:29 PM (7F9i5)

477

Hi all, hows everyone doing tonite? Good I hope..

Hi Theresa and Tammy

Posted by: lou's a girl at April 17, 2012 09:30 PM (fHyXI)

478 475 sistrum,

That is scary but inspiring.

Many times I have read of those who faced real adversity in reaching for freedom; they are its staunchest defendants.

OBoobie and crew have known nothing but luxury and ease -- no wonder they hate it. As an example, the most eager jihadists in our midst are generally well educated, not down trodden poor folk.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 17, 2012 09:31 PM (ccXZP)

479

Posted by: Theresa at April 18, 2012 01:05 AM (Cf5RM)

Yes, and I'm not sure how high it is, just that I hit it rourinely even with 2 accounts. Mostly though, that's because I re-tweet a lot. I have about 14,000 tweets between the two and I'd be shocked if 5% of that was original material.

Posted by: Polliwog, Hobbit Teahada at April 17, 2012 09:31 PM (X8/ER)

480 Hope and stench... No bama.

Posted by: Jornolist at April 17, 2012 09:32 PM (SsSaL)

481 Transparently corrupt a dem.

Posted by: Jornolist at April 17, 2012 09:33 PM (SsSaL)

482 Following the KISS principle --

Buck Ofama

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 17, 2012 09:34 PM (ccXZP)

483 OMG -- Obama Must Go!
Nobama Â• Bye-den 2012

Posted by: sistrum at April 17, 2012 09:35 PM (AyryN)

484 Well, I can't spell worth beans and the dog's put himself to bed. Guess I should take the hint.

Posted by: Polliwog, Hobbit Teahada at April 17, 2012 09:35 PM (X8/ER)

485 No faux redo 2012.

Posted by: Jornolist at April 17, 2012 09:35 PM (SsSaL)

486 For real - we need ideas.

Posted by: Jornolist at April 18, 2012 01:22 AM (SsSaL)

Romney 2012

He won't eat your dog

Posted by: robtr at April 17, 2012 09:35 PM (MtwBb)

487 My candidate may be an empty suit but yours is an asshole?

Posted by: The Dude at April 17, 2012 09:35 PM (M8yfa)

488 Hey Kids

Posted by: jc at April 17, 2012 09:37 PM (ufJKx)

489 499 My candidate may be an empty suit but yours is an asshole?

Posted by: The Dude at April 18, 2012 01:35 AM (M8yfa)

Good, I was gonna say yours is a marxist, but that would be a selling point..

Posted by: lou's a girl at April 17, 2012 09:37 PM (fHyXI)

490 Obama in orange 2012.

Posted by: Jornolist at April 17, 2012 09:37 PM (SsSaL)

491

Any big lottery piles of cash out there I can win?

Decided I am tired of being broke, and need a couple millions, or so?

Posted by: lou's a girl at April 17, 2012 09:38 PM (fHyXI)

492 Reboot ... 2012

Posted by: Jornolist at April 17, 2012 09:39 PM (SsSaL)

493 Good evening again.

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 09:39 PM (4ixH5)

494 @306 - SRStan - you are killin' it! Personally, I heart the white bacon translation. It sounds about right.

Posted by: Calyx the Unanswered at April 17, 2012 09:39 PM (7UDrY)

495 Reboot ... 2012

Posted by: Jornolist at April 18, 2012 01:39 AM (SsSaL)

thought this was supposed to be anti-Obama and not anti-Romney?

Posted by: The Dude at April 17, 2012 09:40 PM (M8yfa)

496 Got Milked?

followed by the Obama logo with a red slash thru it

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 17, 2012 09:41 PM (ccXZP)

497 Let's be clear...2012

Posted by: Jornolist at April 17, 2012 09:42 PM (SsSaL)

498 508 Got Milked?

followed by the Obama logo with a red slash thru it

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 18, 2012 01:41 AM (ccXZP)

Hell no, leave the Dairy farmers alone.

Posted by: lou's a girl at April 17, 2012 09:43 PM (fHyXI)

499 483 Iowa Bob, great story up to the point where you kiss the 'ette's asses.
Posted by: Repeal the 19th at April 18, 2012 01:25 AM (GRBbg)

Shaddup and go to sleep, dawn's a'comin and that cotton outside ain't gonna pick itself.

Posted by: Repeal the 13th at April 17, 2012 09:43 PM (FYCiJ)

500 Gnu - that my friend is a winner. Nice.

Posted by: Jornolist at April 17, 2012 09:44 PM (SsSaL)

501 Sweep the change...2012.

Posted by: Jornolist at April 17, 2012 09:45 PM (SsSaL)

502

How about "Obama fucking sucks, we can do better, even if we elect a dog"

People love dogs, might work.

Posted by: lou's a girl at April 17, 2012 09:46 PM (fHyXI)

503 Hush hush now voices carry. Sorry it's now playing. What a good tune.

Posted by: Jornolist at April 17, 2012 09:47 PM (SsSaL)

504 Octopus architecture sounds a lot like earlier generation mainframe computers. Modest CPU power with a lot of intelligence in peripheral systems.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at April 17, 2012 09:47 PM (oSJMO)

505 taking so damn long to install Witcher 2

Posted by: The Dude at April 17, 2012 09:49 PM (M8yfa)

506 515 Hush hush now voices carry. Sorry it's now playing. What a good tune.

I got it on my Walkman.

Posted by: Rollergirl at April 17, 2012 09:49 PM (FYCiJ)

507 No Marxists...2012

Posted by: Jornolist at April 17, 2012 09:50 PM (SsSaL)

508 People love dogs, might work.

Unlike Obama, dogs are loyal too.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at April 17, 2012 09:50 PM (oSJMO)

509 Dems showed us the Romney Dog Carrier, so here's Obama's Dog Carrier

http://tinyurl.com/8aatxmb

Posted by: kbdabear at April 17, 2012 09:51 PM (Y+DPZ)

510 "Many times I have read of those who faced real adversity in reaching for freedom; they are its staunchest defendants."

Definitely my parents were such. Too bad the 3-year old grew up to be my brother the insane progressive, proselytizing for a sort of Star Trek Socialism where the genius of the technocrats would create a world of endless supplies of goodies and money would be abolished, where noone has to work and could just suck up anything and everything they desired. Remember the "Zeitgeist" stuff that Jared Loughner was said to follow? THAT crap he loves. Sometimes I wonder if the refugee flight at that crucial time of life established a thought pattern that the "golden land" is always over the next horizon, and being always dissatisfied with what is.

Posted by: sistrum at April 17, 2012 09:51 PM (AyryN)

511 Okay, where's navycopjoe?

current Cubs record is 3 and 8

It's just a flesh wound.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 17, 2012 09:52 PM (ccXZP)

512 Must read write up at Zero Hedge! http://tinyurl.com/cma873s Compares the debt and taxation problems of the Roman Empire in its last days to America today.

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 09:56 PM (4ixH5)

513 Some red meat among friends. Team Obama is beyond nervous with internal polling data. Despite CNN's Arc polling screen crawls.

Posted by: Jornolist at April 17, 2012 09:58 PM (SsSaL)

514 ----Too bad the 3-year old grew up to be my brother the insane progressive, proselytizing for a sort of Star Trek Socialism where the genius of the technocrats would create a world of endless supplies of goodies and money would be abolished, where noone has to work and could just suck up anything and everything they desired.----

Like, dude, that totally works, you know. I was even issued my very own Ashley Judd before I was 17. For some reason she didn't want to spend all her off-duty hours playing Angry Birds with me though and asked to leave the ship after a week.

Posted by: Wesley Fucking Crusher at April 17, 2012 09:58 PM (FYCiJ)

515 I heart the white bacon translation. It sounds about right.

Posted by: Calyx the Unanswered at April 18, 2012 01:39 AM (7UDrY)

When I'm hot, I'm hot; when I'm not, I'm not. ---wow, that was profound.

I lived in Japan for a year, but as a little kid. One of the few things I remember is taking the ferry across some bay ( where there's now a long bridge ) and my cap blew off into the water. Freaked out, I did.

My father calmed me down by telling me that a fish was wearing the cap. Apparently I though that made it okay--or tolerable

Posted by: SantaRosaStan ( Cognitive Elite member ) at April 17, 2012 09:58 PM (Dll6b)

516 Is that a monkey mounted on a kangaroo humping a fish in the Pancake photo?

Posted by: Lt. York at April 17, 2012 10:02 PM (BArWe)

517 505 Good evening again.

Posted by: Robert at April 18, 2012 01:39 AM (4ixH5)

TPAKTOP!!!!

Posted by: Socialist Masters at April 17, 2012 10:04 PM (kaalw)

518 And the Romans ... They debased their currency the old fashioned way. Now we have Pomo and reproduction of fiat leveled in banks 40 to 1. With an entire banking system insolvent with off balance sheet debt nearing 100T.

Posted by: Jornolist at April 17, 2012 10:05 PM (SsSaL)

519 I don't know how we can avoid total banking collapse. SMOD 2012!

Posted by: Zakn at April 17, 2012 10:08 PM (7F9i5)

520 Any wonder we rarely hear from professor Krugman anymore?

Posted by: Jornolist at April 17, 2012 10:09 PM (SsSaL)

521 Jerry - not cool at all.

Posted by: Jornolist at April 17, 2012 10:10 PM (SsSaL)

522 TPAKTOP!!!! Posted by: Socialist Masters at April 18, 2012 02:04 AM (kaalw) Ктулху!

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 10:11 PM (4ixH5)

523 Pale is the moon,
Bright is the sun,
Night falls o'er the Chez,
And my taxes are done...

Burma shave ...

Posted by: Adriane at April 17, 2012 10:12 PM (VVZaH)

524 Jerry - not cool at all.

Posted by: Jornolist at April 18, 2012 02:10 AM (SsSaL)

Ooklay atay hetay ashhay.

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 10:12 PM (4ixH5)

525 no, Jerry, the economy is still spiraling downwards and Hussein has lost his ju-ju. Bitch be goin' down.......

'hope and change' has been revised and updated to 'dread and despair' --- Vote right or die

Posted by: SantaRosaStan at April 17, 2012 10:13 PM (Dll6b)

526 Iceland forgave all mortgages.

Iceland doesn't own any homes in the US ...

Probably doesn't own any homes in Iceland, either.

Posted by: Adriane at April 17, 2012 10:13 PM (VVZaH)

527 531 Wasn't there an anti Obama sticker that said "Do not re-nig"?

Posted by: Jerry at April 18, 2012 02:07 AM (uhPd1)

You suck.

Posted by: lou's a girl at April 17, 2012 10:13 PM (fHyXI)

528 Bright is the sun,
Pale is the moon,
I go to my bed
To cuddle and spoon...

Posted by: sistrum at April 17, 2012 10:14 PM (AyryN)

529 Iceland has about as many people as.......what city has a quarter million souls??

Posted by: SantaRosaStan at April 17, 2012 10:14 PM (Dll6b)

530 sistrum at April 18, 2012 02:14 AM (AyryN)

enjoy the silverware : -)))

Posted by: Adriane at April 17, 2012 10:16 PM (VVZaH)

531 Jerry, do you like gladiator movies?????????????????????????

Posted by: SantaRosaStan at April 17, 2012 10:16 PM (Dll6b)

532 Wasn't there an anti Obama sticker that said "Do not re-nig"? Posted by: (uhPd1) TB3K request por favor. Out of bounds for socking regular. Cornholing penalty is in effect.

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 10:16 PM (4ixH5)

533 Jerry - you are correct. The phantom REO holdings are non public knowledge. The unvarnished truth is a major currency reset is in the works. There is real private money liquidating out of paper position as we speak. The coefficient on untethered fiat is closing fast. Buy at least 3 silver coins and hold them in your pocket at all times at the very least because we are soon going to learn how unsophisticated our exotic sophistications really are. By that I mean a complete writ large collapse. No joke.

Posted by: Jornolist at April 17, 2012 10:17 PM (SsSaL)

534 531 Jerry the fucktard troll (uhPd1), after earning his daily ration of 12 ounces of liquid protein at the local gloryhole, drops in at AoSHQ for a dessert butt fucking.

Ya know Jerry, if you suck out your own butt afterwards you can probably get a few extra ounces of rations per day.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 17, 2012 10:18 PM (ccXZP)

535 Beneath the pale moon
Adrianne relaxes,
Her strength sapped and spent
Like Obama treats taxes.

Posted by: sistrum at April 17, 2012 10:19 PM (AyryN)

536 Ктулху!

Posted by: Robert at April 18, 2012 02:11 AM (4ixH5)

That's actually kind o' neat.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 17, 2012 10:20 PM (kaalw)

537 553 I am a republican

Posted by: Jerry at April 18, 2012 02:20 AM (uhPd1)

you are the least interesting man in the world.

Posted by: lou's a girl at April 17, 2012 10:21 PM (fHyXI)

538 Jerry - we has your ISP. And I will publish. Your incursion is out of bounds. This is Ace's house and it will be defended.

Posted by: Jornolist at April 17, 2012 10:22 PM (SsSaL)

539 556 Warren Buffet has prostate cancer

Posted by: Jerry at April 18, 2012 02:22 AM (uhPd1)

Grow up

Posted by: lou's a girl at April 17, 2012 10:23 PM (fHyXI)

540 Jerry - you really think I am joking about your ISP and that I can't skip trace you down to zip, name and phone number? You really want to test me. Just say it.

Posted by: Jornolist at April 17, 2012 10:26 PM (SsSaL)

541 558 I am not a man lou's girl

Posted by: Jerry at April 18, 2012 02:23 AM (uhPd1)

So what, grow up.

Posted by: lou's a girl at April 17, 2012 10:27 PM (fHyXI)

542 That's actually kind o' neat. Posted by: cthulhu at April 18, 2012 02:20 AM (kaalw) I credit Google. So evil yet so damned useful.

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 10:28 PM (4ixH5)

543 480 I am looking for any and all ideas for anti-Obama themes for bumper stickers and or lapel pins.

Me and a friend are going to get something rolling. We just need some clever ideas.

listen to steevy: 1 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: bill-o at April 17, 2012 10:28 PM (AWwDY)

544 I am looking for any and all ideas for anti-Obama themes for bumper stickers and or lapel pins.

2012: Obama vs. America

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 17, 2012 10:30 PM (X3lox)

545

561 558 I am not a man lou's girl
Posted by: Jerry at April 18, 2012 02:23 AM (uhPd1)

And by the way bitch,

its lou's a girl.

Posted by: lou's a girl at April 17, 2012 10:32 PM (fHyXI)

546 564 I am looking for any and all ideas for anti-Obama themes for bumper stickers and or lapel pins.

2012: Obama vs. America

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 18, 2012 02:30 AM (X3lox)

========

been used, but it is good. 2008 you voted to prove you are not a racist. 2012 vote to prove you are not an idiot.

Posted by: jc at April 17, 2012 10:32 PM (ufJKx)

547 2012: America Un-Precedented

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 17, 2012 10:35 PM (X3lox)

548 Jerry - you do not come in here and throw that crap down. You owe Ace an apology.

Posted by: Jornolist at April 17, 2012 10:37 PM (SsSaL)

549 After Obamacare is struck down, It's going to be President Unconstitutional along with President Downgrade.

Posted by: Zakn at April 17, 2012 10:37 PM (7F9i5)

550 OOPS! with the O's replaced with Obama circles.

Posted by: Truman North at April 17, 2012 10:38 PM (I2LwF)

551 Maet - Jerry is to be banned. That is a fun declaratory statement.

Posted by: Jornolist at April 17, 2012 10:40 PM (SsSaL)

552 Well Black Spring Break is over once again on the MS Gulf Coast. Year One was a total disaster, with one of our main roads effectively shut down, out biggest mall forced to close early, and so forth.

A heavy police presence in subsequent years has seriously reduced property crimes and traffic blocks. There were a mere handful of felony arrests this year; many participants expressed their happiness of the safety they felt and that they wanted to return here next year.

They liked a law and order atmosphere? Go figure.

Grievance mongers, please recalibrate your 'hate whitey' meters as they seem to be malfunctioning.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 17, 2012 10:40 PM (ccXZP)

553 Well, gonna go smoke a still legal cig. Whos going with me?

Posted by: lou's a girl at April 17, 2012 10:42 PM (fHyXI)

554 Truman - that is brilliant.

Posted by: Jornolist at April 17, 2012 10:43 PM (SsSaL)

555 I'm down to smoke. Be the most hated person by libs and the MSM (but I repeat myself. A Smoking, Jesus Lovin, Tea partier. vOv

Posted by: Zakn at April 17, 2012 10:44 PM (7F9i5)

556 Well, gonna go smoke a still legal cig. Whosgoing with me?
Posted by: lou's a girl at April 18, 2012 02:42 AM (fHyXI)

Just finished one. Enjoy.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 17, 2012 10:44 PM (X3lox)

557 L'girl. Already lit one.

Posted by: Jornolist at April 17, 2012 10:44 PM (SsSaL)

558 I miss smoking.

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 10:46 PM (4ixH5)

559 Gomez Adams "Watch his Smoke" ...

Posted by: Adriane at April 17, 2012 10:46 PM (VVZaH)

560 Zakn - how's life treating you?

Posted by: Jornolist at April 17, 2012 10:46 PM (SsSaL)

561 I miss smoking.
Posted by: Robert at April 18, 2012 02:46 AM (4ixH5)

I miss smoked schnauzer.

Posted by: King Barry at April 17, 2012 10:47 PM (X3lox)

562 Never lost any weight with smoking, though.

Maybe it's because I was never a heavy smoker.

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 10:47 PM (4ixH5)

563 I miss smoked schnauzer.

Posted by: King Barry at April 18, 2012 02:47 AM (X3lox)

I miss British colonial rule in Kenya.

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 10:48 PM (4ixH5)

564 I miss smoking.

http://tinyurl.com/6tjhzu3

Happy To Help

Posted by: Adriane at April 17, 2012 10:49 PM (VVZaH)

565 Doris Day just was on a radio commercial here in LA. Next up... Your hit parade.

Posted by: Jornolist at April 17, 2012 10:49 PM (SsSaL)

566 Damn if I don't love ya'll.

Posted by: lou's a girl at April 17, 2012 10:50 PM (fHyXI)

567 Happy To Help Posted by: Adriane at April 18, 2012 02:49 AM (VVZaH) Spot me $300 bucks?

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 10:50 PM (4ixH5)

568 Damn if I don't love ya'll.

Posted by: lou's a girl at April 18, 2012 02:50 AM (fHyXI)

Whoa whoa whoooaaaa...

Buy me dinner and a movie first.

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 10:51 PM (4ixH5)

569 And that's a wrap. P.S. Jerry - you will be banned.

Posted by: Jornolist at April 17, 2012 10:51 PM (SsSaL)

570 Maybe it's because I was never a heavy smoker.

Posted by: Robert at April 18, 2012 02:47 AM (4ixH5)

Heavy smokers tend to be fat!

Posted by: lou's a girl at April 17, 2012 10:55 PM (fHyXI)

571 Posted by: Jornolist at April 18, 2012 02:51 AM (SsSaL) Thumbs up

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 10:56 PM (4ixH5)

572 Spot me $300 bucks?

http://tinyurl.com/6njhgy8

happy to help with that too :-))

Posted by: Adriane at April 17, 2012 10:57 PM (VVZaH)

573 It's extraordinary -- since smoking has declined so much in California, I can actually tell when another car half-a-block ahead of me has a guy smoking behind the wheel.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 17, 2012 10:57 PM (kaalw)

574 Heavy smokers tend to be fat!

Posted by: lou's a girl at April 18, 2012 02:55 AM (fHyXI)

I guess there's a happy medium between too little and too much?

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 10:57 PM (4ixH5)

575 Buy me dinner and a movie first.

Posted by: Robert at April 18, 2012 02:51 AM (4ixH5)

....and a mankini......and a tractor......

Posted by: cthulhu at April 17, 2012 10:58 PM (kaalw)

576 What did the gypsy say when she won the lottery?

Boy! am I a happy medium!!!!

Posted by: Adriane at April 17, 2012 10:59 PM (VVZaH)

577 585 It's extraordinary -- since smoking has declined so much in California, I can actually tell when another car half-a-block ahead of me has a guy smoking behind the wheel.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 18, 2012 02:57 AM (kaalw)

Is it because he got killed by gangbangers, or is smoking a cig, just gotta be sure?

Posted by: lou's a girl at April 17, 2012 10:59 PM (fHyXI)

578 happy to help with that too :-))

Posted by: Adriane at April 18, 2012 02:57 AM (VVZaH)

You're like a wish granting genie!

I'd also like Christina Hendricks to be waiting for me at home wearing nothing but a bow.

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 11:01 PM (4ixH5)

579 Boy! am I a happy medium!!!!

Posted by: Adriane at April 18, 2012 02:59 AM (VVZaH)

*Rimshot*

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 11:02 PM (4ixH5)

580 ....and a mankini......and a tractor......

Posted by: cthulhu at April 18, 2012 02:58 AM (kaalw)

The mankini is only for special occasions. ;p

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 11:02 PM (4ixH5)

581 Fellow Arkansan Morons? I thought I was alone.

Posted by: Pre at April 17, 2012 11:02 PM (8LCi0)

582 534 TPAKTOP!!!!

Posted by: Socialist Masters at April 18, 2012 02:04 AM (kaalw)

Ктулху!

Posted by: Robert at April 18, 2012 02:11 AM (4ixH5)

ok that totally cracked me up

i almost replied "Shto?"

then i got it and lost my mind...

Posted by: gushka haz a new Kitty what plays fetch! ! at April 17, 2012 11:04 PM (r7Ddb)

583 589 585 It's extraordinary -- since smoking has declined so much in California, I can actually tell when another car half-a-block ahead of me has a guy smoking behind the wheel.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 18, 2012 02:57 AM (kaalw)
Is it because he got killed by gangbangers, or is smoking a cig, just gotta be sure?

Posted by: lou's a girl at April 18, 2012 02:59 AM (fHyXI)

Cig. It's odd, though -- I've had a gf who smoked, teachers who smoked, my uncle smoked for a while, my dad occasionally smoked pipes and cigars.....it wasn't all that bothersome. But it's become so unusual that I can detect it at extreme distances.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 17, 2012 11:05 PM (kaalw)

584 593 Fellow Arkansan Morons? I thought I was alone.

Posted by: Pre at April 18, 2012 03:02 AM (8LCi0)

====

Sorry, we'll knock next time. We didn't actually see anything though, honest.

Posted by: jc at April 17, 2012 11:05 PM (ufJKx)

585 Posted by: gushka haz a new Kitty what plays fetch! ! at April 18, 2012 03:04 AM (r7Ddb)

It's all your fault, you know.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 17, 2012 11:06 PM (kaalw)

586 US, least racist country, except almost all blacks. If I remember correctly they voted 99.9999% for the last president based on his race. Matter of fact, I can look at any black now and know they are racist.

Posted by: Jimmah at April 17, 2012 11:07 PM (UpwlP)

587 Sadly, the section of The Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg that has the propaganda posters was closed for refurbishment when we were there. We saw some reproductions in the bookstore, but it was not the same.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 17, 2012 11:08 PM (kaalw)

588 597 Posted by: gushka haz a new Kitty what plays fetch! ! at April 18, 2012 03:04 AM (r7Ddb)

It's all your fault, you know.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 18, 2012 03:06 AM (kaalw)

yeah. I do.

....and im so proud.

Posted by: gushka haz a new Kitty what plays fetch! ! at April 17, 2012 11:08 PM (r7Ddb)

589 Cig. It's odd, though -- I've had a gf who smoked, teachers who smoked, my uncle smoked for a while, my dad occasionally smoked pipes and cigars.....it wasn't all that bothersome. But it's become so unusual that I can detect it at extreme distances.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 18, 2012 03:05 AM (kaalw)

Sorry, i was just being a smartass.

Listening to Toby Keith, I know hes not your cup of tea, but, hey at least he loves our soldiers..

Posted by: lou's a girl at April 17, 2012 11:09 PM (fHyXI)

590 lost my mind...

Posted by: gushka haz a new Kitty what plays fetch! ! at April 18, 2012 03:04 AM (r7Ddb)

Check behind the nightstand?

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 11:09 PM (4ixH5)

591 And, BTW, there were no mankinis.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 17, 2012 11:09 PM (kaalw)

592 599 Sadly, the section of The Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg that has the propaganda posters was closed for refurbishment when we were there. We saw some reproductions in the bookstore, but it was not the same.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 18, 2012 03:08 AM (kaalw)

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you don't have to go to Russia to see Soviet propaganda. It is all around us now in real time. Apparently, the reason we fought the cold war is so we could make all their propaganda become ours instead. Victory!!!

Posted by: jc at April 17, 2012 11:11 PM (ufJKx)

593 you don't have to go to Russia to see Soviet propaganda. It is all around us now in real time. Apparently, the reason we fought the cold war is so we could make all their propaganda become ours instead. Victory!!!

Posted by: jc at April 18, 2012 03:11 AM (ufJKx)

The more cosmopolitan viewers and those with a more nuanced palate seem to be thinking it's more 30's Berlin -- http://tinyurl.com/7otld7l

Posted by: cthulhu at April 17, 2012 11:15 PM (kaalw)

594 Night all. God Bless

Posted by: lou's a girl at April 17, 2012 11:15 PM (fHyXI)

595 Good night, Lou! I'll take a raincheck on dinner.

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 11:17 PM (4ixH5)

596 Febuary AND March sales of Electric Ford Focus were ZERO. Ford plans to double those sales this month. (Drudge)

Posted by: Jimmah at April 17, 2012 11:17 PM (UpwlP)

597 Listening to Toby Keith, I know hes not your cup of tea, but, hey at least he loves our soldiers..

Posted by: lou's a girl at April 18, 2012 03:09 AM (fHyXI)

I don't buy his records, but I'd go to a concert with a friend who wanted to take me. Unlike some other groups, who I wouldn't piss on if they were on fire.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 17, 2012 11:17 PM (kaalw)

598 G'night, lou! When's this dinner thing happening?

Posted by: cthulhu at April 17, 2012 11:19 PM (kaalw)

599 608 Febuary AND March sales of Electric Ford Focus were ZERO. Ford plans to double those sales this month. (Drudge)

Posted by: Jimmah at April 18, 2012 03:17 AM (UpwlP)

Yeah, but have they incinerated anything?

Posted by: Chevy Volt at April 17, 2012 11:20 PM (kaalw)

600 OK just gonna say this once, get your asses down to Vegas, and I will cook Ya'll dinner, Or we could all just go out and get drunk as hell....

Posted by: lou's a girl at April 17, 2012 11:22 PM (fHyXI)

601 but I'd go to a concert with a friend who wanted to take me. Posted by: cthulhu at April 18, 2012 03:17 AM (kaalw) What if, instead of Toby Keith, it was a concert headlined by Rotting Flesh?

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 11:23 PM (4ixH5)

602 OK just gonna say this once, get your asses down to Vegas, and I will cook Ya'll dinner, Or we could all just go out and get drunk as hell....

Posted by: lou's a girl at April 18, 2012 03:22 AM (fHyXI)

Dinner, followed by drinking, followed by hooking up with a hot Vegas showgirl.

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 11:23 PM (4ixH5)

603 And, BTW, there were no mankinis.Posted by: cthulhu

That's what she said, hah!

Posted by: Oscars [/i] [/b] at April 17, 2012 11:24 PM (Ck8hC)

604 Robert did you see this last night?

http://tinyurl.com/2qaysy

Posted by: jc at April 17, 2012 11:27 PM (ufJKx)

605 US, least racist country, except almost all blacks. If I remember correctly they voted 99.9999% for the last president based on his race. Matter of fact, I can look at any black now and know they are racist.Posted by:Jimmah

Shit just got obviously racist.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at April 17, 2012 11:30 PM (Ck8hC)

606 http://tinyurl.com/2qaysy

Like I always say to the Belgians, 'No chocolate! No piece!'

Posted by: Adriane at April 17, 2012 11:31 PM (VVZaH)

607 http://tinyurl.com/2qaysy Posted by: jc at April 18, 2012 03:27 AM (ufJKx) I'd like to introduce him to my friends, Johnny Hildo and Larry Bagina.

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 11:32 PM (4ixH5)

608 I did kind of disappear last night. Fucking Wikipedia DAMN YOUR MAGNETIC GRIP!!!!!!!!!!!

I started searching into some 'rasslers and it spiraled out of control.

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 11:33 PM (4ixH5)

609 What if, instead of Toby Keith, it was a concert headlined by Rotting Flesh?

Posted by: Robert at April 18, 2012 03:23 AM (4ixH5)

Depends on the friend. Besides, "Thessaloniki, Un" -- they're Greek? WTF do they know?

Posted by: cthulhu at April 17, 2012 11:34 PM (kaalw)

610 Oh, and if anyone wants to come over to my place and watch Jackie Brown on blu you're more than welcome to.

Bring dip.

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 11:35 PM (4ixH5)

611 they're Greek?

Posted by: cthulhu at April 18, 2012 03:34 AM (kaalw)

Greeks are crazy for the heavy metal.

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 11:36 PM (4ixH5)

612 Believe or not, one of the things Dr. Tits is famous for his work studying ovals.

Posted by: jc at April 17, 2012 11:36 PM (ufJKx)

613 *snarl!* *snarl* *hissss*

Posted by: morons in pit at April 17, 2012 11:37 PM (kaalw)

614 It's a Wonderful Night ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwqhw1tnKhM

Posted by: Adriane at April 17, 2012 11:37 PM (VVZaH)

615 Good night, Truman!

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 11:38 PM (4ixH5)

616 626 Believe or not, one of the things Dr. Tits is famous for his work studying ovals.

Posted by: jc at April 18, 2012 03:36 AM (ufJKx)

I'm kind o' worried about that "Tits alternative" thing.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 17, 2012 11:38 PM (kaalw)

617 *snarl!* *snarl* *hissss*

Posted by: morons in pit at April 18, 2012 03:37 AM (kaalw)

\m/

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 11:38 PM (4ixH5)

618 "Snakes!!! I hate snakes!!!"

Posted by: morons in a snake pit, or in an airplane w/Indiana Jones at April 17, 2012 11:39 PM (VVZaH)

619 From now on should any moron exclaim "We should consult Dr. Tits!!" we will all have to take that seriously.

Posted by: jc at April 17, 2012 11:41 PM (ufJKx)

620 The seas roll and boil,
The poor Earth quakes,
When Samuel L, deplanes,
Screaming, "I hate snakes!"

Posted by: Edgar Allan Adriane at April 17, 2012 11:42 PM (VVZaH)

621 630 626
Believe or not, one of the things Dr. Tits is famous for his work studying ovals.

Posted by: jc at April 18, 2012 03:36 AM (ufJKx)

I'm kind o' worried about that "Tits alternative" thing.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 18, 2012 03:38 AM (kaalw)

=====

Yeah, me too. But I am thinking that the concept of the Tits Building could be alright.

Posted by: jc at April 17, 2012 11:43 PM (ufJKx)

622 Oh, please! Oh, please! Don't be throwin' me into that moron pit!

Posted by: B'rer Moron at April 17, 2012 11:44 PM (kaalw)

623 I wonder if his children refer to themselves as itty bity Titties?

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 11:45 PM (4ixH5)

624 jc at April 18, 2012 03:41 AM (ufJKx)

but we already takes the boobehs very, very seriously ...

Hell, Robert would take boobies attached to Christina Hendricks so seriously, his sense of humor might be permanently damaged.

AND HE'S OK WITH THAT!!!!!

Posted by: Edgar Allan Adriane at April 17, 2012 11:45 PM (VVZaH)

625 637 I wonder if his children refer to themselves as itty bity Titties?

Posted by: Robert at April 18, 2012 03:45 AM (4ixH5)

Worse, just imagine what a study group comprised of his children would be referred to on the official agenda.

Yes, the Itty-Bitty Titty Committee.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 17, 2012 11:47 PM (kaalw)

626 So why is your name Latrine?

We changed it back in the 14th century.

Wait, your name was changed to Latrine?

Yeah. Used to be Shithouse.

Posted by: A selection from Robin Hood Men In Tights at April 17, 2012 11:48 PM (4ixH5)

627 Hmmmm.....I suspect everyone is reeling in shock.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 17, 2012 11:48 PM (kaalw)

628 638 jc at April 18, 2012 03:41 AM (ufJKx)

but we already takes the boobehs very, very seriously ...

Hell, Robert would take boobies attached to Christina Hendricks so seriously, his sense of humor might be permanently damaged.

AND HE'S OK WITH THAT!!!!!

Posted by: Edgar Allan Adriane at April 18, 2012 03:45 AM (VVZaH)

====

Good point. Perhaps we should place him under observation. It's for his own good and stuff.

Posted by: jc at April 17, 2012 11:49 PM (ufJKx)

629 Yes, the Itty-Bitty Titty Committee.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 18, 2012 03:47 AM (kaalw)

I'ma be chuckling all night now.

Posted by: A selection from Robin Hood Men In Tights at April 17, 2012 11:51 PM (4ixH5)

630 AND HE'S OK WITH THAT!!!!!

Posted by: Edgar Allan Adriane at April 18, 2012 03:45 AM (VVZaH)

Christina Hendricks' boobalies are serious bidness.

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 11:51 PM (4ixH5)

631 It's for his own good and stuff.

Posted by: jc at April 18, 2012 03:49 AM (ufJKx)

Patient was observed repeatedly fondling himself and occasionally scratching his ass before picking his nose.

Posted by: Herr Doktor at April 17, 2012 11:53 PM (4ixH5)

632 Here's an observation Robert can be put under ...

http://tinyurl.com/3g6ehy4

Posted by: Adriane at April 17, 2012 11:54 PM (VVZaH)

633 Anyone who doesn't have a Kindle yet or needs another: Wal-mart is supposed to have the low-end model for $80 + $30 gift card on April 29th.

http://tinyurl.com/7u5devm

Lowest price I've seen yet for a new unit.

Posted by: epobirs at April 17, 2012 11:54 PM (kcfmt)

634 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tits_alternative

The Tits alternative.

Also known as the ass.

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 11:54 PM (4ixH5)

635 644 AND HE'S OK WITH THAT!!!!!

Posted by: Edgar Allan Adriane at April 18, 2012 03:45 AM (VVZaH)

Christina Hendricks' boobalies are serious bidness.

Posted by: Robert at April 18, 2012 03:51 AM (4ixH5)

=====

All the more reason to consult Dr. Tits!! He has expertise in both ovals and conic sections. Hell, he could probably even invent an Edith Head style 60's movie pointy bra for the fair lass. Although I think that could cause a shortage in several important defense materials.

Posted by: jc at April 17, 2012 11:56 PM (ufJKx)

636 The Tits alternative.

Also known as the ass.

C? that's Y Iz come herein for the edumacation. I thought the Tits alternative was silicone ...

Posted by: Adriane at April 17, 2012 11:56 PM (VVZaH)

637 http://tinyurl.com/3g6ehy4

Posted by: Adriane at April 18, 2012 03:54 AM (VVZaH)

Yes. Yes. I will make sweet sweet love to you by the fire, Christina.

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2012 11:57 PM (4ixH5)

638 all this talk of teh boobehs: http://tinyurl.com/7e8os72

Posted by: bill-o at April 17, 2012 11:57 PM (AWwDY)

639 Had a dental appointment this afternoon. To a certain extent, I appreciate my dentist's desire to continually improve things.....but the latest innovation is a 2" thick, 12" wide, memory foam overlay to the standard dental chair.

Problem: I'm more than 12" wide. So I overhang it on the sides and feel like I'm strapped over a balance beam, about to fall off. Somewhat disconcerting.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 17, 2012 11:58 PM (kaalw)

640 Yes. Yes. I will make sweet sweet love to you by the fire, Christina.

Posted by: Robert at April 18, 2012 03:57 AM (4ixH5)

.....patient has become delirious.....

Posted by: cthulhu at April 18, 2012 12:00 AM (kaalw)

641 Had a dental appointment this afternoon.

Gadzooks!?! How is this possible without Obamacare to save us from Big Teeth and Big Amputations?

Posted by: Adriane at April 18, 2012 12:00 AM (VVZaH)

642 Hell, he could probably even invent an Edith Head style 60's movie pointy bra for the fair lass. Although I think that could cause a shortage in several important defense materials.

Posted by: jc at April 18, 2012 03:56 AM (ufJKx)

And someone would undoubtedly lose an eye. Maybe two!

I thought the Tits alternative was silicone ...

Posted by: Adriane at April 18, 2012 03:56 AM (VVZaH)

Some people will tell you it's feet.

Posted by: Robert at April 18, 2012 12:00 AM (4ixH5)

643 Yes. Yes. The pointy bra!

http://popwebgame.com/funny_pic/images/pointybra.jpg

Posted by: Adriane at April 18, 2012 12:03 AM (VVZaH)

644 650 The Tits alternative.

Also known as the ass.

C? that's Y Iz come herein for the edumacation. I thought the Tits alternative was silicone ...

Posted by: Adriane at April 18, 2012 03:56 AM (VVZaH)

=====

Well, it's round and has a point, but Nah, it still doesn't seem right.

http://tinyurl.com/7l4yl7t

Posted by: jc at April 18, 2012 12:03 AM (ufJKx)

645 656 Had a dental appointment this afternoon.

Gadzooks!?! How is this possible without Obamacare to save us from Big Teeth and Big Amputations?

Posted by: Adriane at April 18, 2012 04:00 AM (VVZaH)

We are about -> <- this close to where doctors are paid in corn likker and chickens. Medicare, insurance, Obamacare, HSAs, are on the verge of collapse.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 18, 2012 12:04 AM (kaalw)

646 .....patient has become delirious.....

Posted by: cthulhu at April 18, 2012 04:00 AM (kaalw)

Got my red jumpsuit and everything.

Posted by: Robert at April 18, 2012 12:04 AM (4ixH5)

647 http://tinyurl.com/7l4yl7t

oh just pad it with some tissues. Most guys won't know the difference if it's under a tight sweater ...

Posted by: Adriane at April 18, 2012 12:05 AM (VVZaH)

648 Well, it's round and has a point, but Nah, it still doesn't seem right.

http://tinyurl.com/7l4yl7t

Posted by: jc at April 18, 2012 04:03 AM (ufJKx)

No, no -- that's not boobehs, that's caulk!

Posted by: cthulhu at April 18, 2012 12:06 AM (kaalw)

649 ... or if it's dark ...

Posted by: cynical moron at April 18, 2012 12:06 AM (VVZaH)

650 So stock up on corn likker and chickens.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 18, 2012 12:07 AM (kaalw)

651 .....and wait for the number....

Posted by: cthulhu at April 18, 2012 12:07 AM (kaalw)

652 Most guys won't know the difference if it's under a tight sweater ... Posted by: Adriane at April 18, 2012 04:05 AM (VVZaH) Tight sweater...*Drifts off*

Posted by: Robert at April 18, 2012 12:07 AM (4ixH5)

653 a caulk in the dark - staring Peter Sellers and Christina Hendricks

Posted by: Adriane at April 18, 2012 12:07 AM (VVZaH)

654 ....and say, "shucky darn" as it goes by.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 18, 2012 12:08 AM (kaalw)

655 The magic number, the number of tight sweaters.

Posted by: Robert at April 18, 2012 12:08 AM (4ixH5)

656 I suppose I could hope for two post-facto adjustments to come through from the troll-buster.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 18, 2012 12:09 AM (kaalw)

657 See this is why people become Democrats ...

Robert gets 666 AND Christina Hendricks in a tight sweater.

Nothing is left for the rest of us but caulk and bad health care ...

Posted by: Adriane at April 18, 2012 12:10 AM (VVZaH)

658 a caulk in the dark - staring Peter Sellers and Christina Hendricks

Posted by: Adriane at April 18, 2012 04:07 AM (VVZaH)

Replace Sellers with Columbo and you could call it a Faulk in the dark.

Posted by: Robert at April 18, 2012 12:10 AM (4ixH5)

659 Replace Columbo with polio vaccine and you can have ....

wait for it ....

A Salk in the Dark!

Posted by: Adriane at April 18, 2012 12:12 AM (VVZaH)

660 672 a caulk in the dark - staring Peter Sellers and Christina Hendricks

Posted by: Adriane at April 18, 2012 04:07 AM (VVZaH)

Replace Sellers with Columbo and you could call it a Faulk in the dark.

Make it an action film on Alcatraz with Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage, and it could be "Caulk of The Rock".

Posted by: cthulhu at April 18, 2012 12:12 AM (kaalw)

661 and on that note ...

G'night all.

Happy tax and tight sweater day!!!!

Posted by: Adriane at April 18, 2012 12:13 AM (VVZaH)

662 Mix it up with an animated bovine named Ferdinand, and you'd have "A Caulk and Bull Story."

Posted by: cthulhu at April 18, 2012 12:14 AM (kaalw)

663 I suppose I could hope for two post-facto adjustments to come through from the troll-buster.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 18, 2012 04:09 AM (kaalw)

Or you could get a troll bustiere and hope shapely curves.

Posted by: Robert at April 18, 2012 12:14 AM (4ixH5)

664 675 and on that note ...

G'night all.

Happy tax and tight sweater day!!!!

Posted by: Adriane at April 18, 2012 04:13 AM (VVZaH)

Wait, what?!??!? Adriane had a tight sweater today????

Posted by: cthulhu at April 18, 2012 12:15 AM (kaalw)

665 Good night, Adriane!

Posted by: Robert at April 18, 2012 12:15 AM (4ixH5)

666 Of course, we could also use the caulk to eliminate as many cases of plumber's crack as possible. Inconvenient, yes, but effective. Pesky side effect is some weight gain.

Posted by: jc at April 18, 2012 12:16 AM (ufJKx)

667 Night Adriane. Happy ZZZZ.

Posted by: jc at April 18, 2012 12:17 AM (ufJKx)

668 Repairing an old accordion that makes unwanted high-pitched noises, using fine DAP products: "Caulk up the squeakhole."

Posted by: cthulhu at April 18, 2012 12:18 AM (kaalw)

669 Make it an action film on Alcatraz with Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage, and it could be "Caulk of The Rock".

Posted by: cthulhu at April 18, 2012 04:12 AM (kaalw)

Mix it up with an animated bovine named Ferdinand, and you'd have "A Caulk and Bull Story."

Posted by: cthulhu at April 18, 2012 04:14 AM (kaalw)

Oh man...I shouldn't be laughing, my boss will think I'm having a good time or something.

Posted by: Robert at April 18, 2012 12:18 AM (4ixH5)

670 "Caulk up the squeakhole."

Posted by: cthulhu at April 18, 2012 04:18 AM (kaalw)

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Robert at April 18, 2012 12:19 AM (4ixH5)

671 Ooops. Sorry, Robert. Don't want to cause you any grief.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 18, 2012 12:21 AM (kaalw)

672 Jornolist, if you are still around, Lifes been good.

Posted by: Zakn at April 18, 2012 12:21 AM (7F9i5)

673 My Maserati does 185 ....

Posted by: jc at April 18, 2012 12:22 AM (ufJKx)

674 Anyway, it's time to slither off to the lair. G'night, all!

Posted by: cthulhu at April 18, 2012 12:23 AM (kaalw)

675 nn Cooth

Posted by: Zakn at April 18, 2012 12:25 AM (7F9i5)

676 Night CT.

Posted by: jc at April 18, 2012 12:26 AM (ufJKx)

677 Good Night Kids. Tomorrow we can do a survey of the pivotal and highly acclaimed peer reviewed publications of Dr. Heartshapedfinelittlesmoothtightass.

Posted by: jc at April 18, 2012 12:30 AM (ufJKx)

678 Don't want to cause you any grief. Posted by: cthulhu at April 18, 2012 04:21 AM (kaalw) It was a joke. :p.

Posted by: Robert at April 18, 2012 12:39 AM (4ixH5)

679 Good night, Cooth.

Good night, JC.

Posted by: Robert at April 18, 2012 12:39 AM (4ixH5)

680 Okay, Me, when I get home I expect to sleep a solid eight to nine hours. None of this wake up at 3 PM after just six bullshit we've been doing for the past two weeks. You know how I get cranky and irritable when I don't get enough sleep.

Posted by: Robert's Brain at April 18, 2012 12:46 AM (4ixH5)

681 Morning Vic, Hope the morning finds you well. I'll be watching a stopwatch and taking readings most of the day. Ring shear test. Joy. Glad it's the only instrument we have that isn't computer controlled.

Posted by: teej at April 18, 2012 02:08 AM (d+1xu)

682 Morning Morons. Day shift crowd coming in now. Its 6 a.m.

Posted by: Vic at April 18, 2012 02:08 AM (YdQQY)

683 Looks like today is baseball day on TCM.

Posted by: Vic at April 18, 2012 02:15 AM (YdQQY)

684 I'm out. Good night, ONT. Good morning, Vic. Good morning, Teej.

Posted by: Robert at April 18, 2012 02:19 AM (4ixH5)

685 Goodnight Robert

Posted by: Vic at April 18, 2012 02:21 AM (YdQQY)

686 Imus spewing shit about Buffett getting rad treatments for stage 1 prostate cancer. Just because he is stupid he figures everyone else should be as well.

Posted by: Vic at April 18, 2012 02:23 AM (YdQQY)

687 Imus's favorite subject is Imus. I've been hearing about Imus from Imus for each time I accidentally tuned into his show for 30 years now. Funny thing is, change "my cocaine habit" to "my prostate cancer," and you can sew his 1980's monologues with his 2010's schtick into one seamlessly extended drone. No wonder His Friend Charles McCord finally bailed on him.

Posted by: CoolCzech at April 18, 2012 02:28 AM (niZvt)

688 Now that Romney has pulled ahead of Bambi in the polls, the Morning Joe odditorium no longer things polls this far out from November are significant. Meanwhile, disturbingly, Hillary is increasingly resembling a balding old Reeses Monkey with a beer gut.

Posted by: CoolCzech at April 18, 2012 02:34 AM (niZvt)

689 We have a "red sky this morning. Good thing I ain't a sailor anymore.

Posted by: Vic at April 18, 2012 02:40 AM (YdQQY)

690 And polls this far out ARE virtually worthless.

Posted by: Vic at April 18, 2012 02:40 AM (YdQQY)

691 New poll thread up from CAC

Posted by: Vic at April 18, 2012 02:53 AM (YdQQY)

692 Actually the 14th arrondissement of Paris does have Arabs. According to the every-accurate Wikipedia, 4.3% of the 14th are "born in foreign countries with French citizenship at birth", and a footnote says that these are mostly pieds-noirs, the native Algerian elite from the time of French governance (and their descendants). The French take on nationality might allow the pieds-noirs to pass - after all they would be quite culturally French, especially after a generation or two. Not to miss at a chance for Frog-bashing, but fair is fair.

Posted by: Surellin at April 18, 2012 08:04 AM (DWuhs)

693 It's 'beams' people are blind to: 'motes' they see just fine.

Posted by: PersonFromPorlock at April 18, 2012 12:13 PM (2VCZA)

694 Immanent?

Posted by: Kevin at April 18, 2012 12:36 PM (3o64G)

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