June 04, 2012
— Maetenloch
That may be the consensus on the right based on some juicy quotes about his time as a lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School - quotes that I've even covered myself.
But John Steele Gordon of Commentary commits journalism and goes to the source - the dean of the law school while Obama taught there who also happens to be Gordon's cousin - and gets the straight scoop:
...The idea that Obama had lousy grades is demonstrably untrue. He graduated magna from Harvard Law, which means that he was at least in the top 15 or 20 percent of his class at HLS. Most of the exams are blindly graded. I don't want to argue about the relevance of grades, but the idea that they weren't very good is just not right.
To say that some professors hated him because he was unqualified is mystifying. His credentials (president of HLR and magna) are completely traditional law professor credentials. His classes were consistently popular. He spent relatively little time schmoozing with faculty or hanging out with them (and this, at least in retrospect, has made at least one conservative colleague speak ill of him), but this is different from him being unqualified.
Someone who says Obama is not smart is someone who hasn't met him. I'm completely confident you wouldn't like him if you met him and you would think him ideological and not warm and fuzzy, but I would be stunned if you didn't think he was smart.
Now I've always assumed that Obama was at least fairly intelligent - but never quite as brilliant as he's made out to be nor the genius he sees himself as. But he's been able to skate by in life based on his verbal glibness, his race, and people's willingness to imagine great qualities (including brilliance) on what is actually a blank slate. And that's made him lazy and arrogant about his intellect.
As Gordon points out a rigid ideology and limited knowledge of the world are enough to make functional idiots of even the smartest people. So at a certain point it's no longer relevant whether he is in fact a mega-brainiac or merely Biden-esquely borderline average - his polices are failures and his judgment is foolishly bad and smart or dumb that's more than enough reason to toss him out.
Most of the 'solutions' that members of the political class come up with to deal with the underclass are based on a kind of naive optimism. If only we give them the tools to better themselves, they'll take them up with alacrity. Problem is, unless those tools are in a canvas bag in the back of a locked white van, they're unlikely to show much interest.
Book Review: Aliens: Colonial Marines Technical Manual
If you've ever wondered how you would field strip the M41A Pulse Rifle, this book is for you:
This thing is detailed - frighteningly so. Even as a die-hard fan of the Aliens series, I am overwhelmed by the amount of information in Brimmicombe-Wood's book. If you've ever wanted to cosplay as Hudson, Hicks, or Vasquez, this book would serve as an excellent reference for making custom USMC armor and props.
I mean, if you absolutely must know what kind of ammunition an M41A Pulse Rifle uses ("10 millimeter explosive tip caseless. Standard light armor piercing round, why?"), then Aliens: Colonial Marines Technical Manual is for you. It contains expansive descriptions and blueprints of the UD4L Cheyenne dropship and the 'Conestoga'-class spaceships (The Sulaco), both featured in James Cameron's Aliens.
Thanks to Russ.
The Cosmopolitan Tongue: The Universality of English
Here's a fascinating article by linguist John McWhorter on why it's not so terrible if languages die out and why English is likely to stay the world's lingua franca for a long time.
And notice how daunting the prospect of Chinese as a world language is, with a writing system that demands mastery of 2,000 characters in order to be able to read even a tabloid newspaper. For all of its association with Pepsi and the CIA, English is very user-friendly as the world's 6,000 languages go. English verb conjugation is spare compared to, say, that of Italian-just the third-person singular s in the present, for example. There are no pesky genders to memorize (and no feminine-gendered tables that talk like Penelope Cruz). There are no sounds under whose dispensation you almost have to be born as a prerequisite for rendering them anywhere near properly, like the notorious trilly r? sound in Czech.
And how English itself is likely to mutate and split into new languages:
For example, most Americans pronounce disgusting as "diss-kussting" with a k sound. (Try it-you probably do too.) However, some people say "dizz-gusting"-it's easier to pronounce the g after a softer sound like z. Imagine a language with the word pronounced as it is spelled (and as it was in Latin): "diss-gusting." The group speaking the language splits into two groups that go their separate ways. Come back five hundred years later, and one group is pronouncing the word "diss-kussting," while the other is pronouncing it "dizz-gusting." After even more time, the word would start shortening, just as we pronounce "let us" as "let's." After a thousand years, in one place it would be something like "skussting," while in the other it might be "zgustin." After another thousand, perhaps "skusty" and "zguss." By this time, these are no longer even the same language.
DEA Wants To Install License Plate Scanners on Interstates
"Everyone driving on Interstate 15 in southwest Utah may soon have their license plate scanned by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. The DEA and two sheriffs are asking permission to install stationary license plate scanners on the freeway in Beaver and Washington counties. The primary purpose would be to catch or build cases against drug traffickers, but at a Utah Legislature committee meeting Wednesday, the sheriffs and a DEA representative described how the scanners also could be used to catch kidnappers and violent criminals. That, however, wasn't the concern of skeptical legislators on the Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Interim Committee. They were worried about the DEA storing the data for two years and who would be able to access it."
Because drugs are such a problem that we must start down the path of a police state to fight them. I'm sure the data will only be used for drug cases and never ever abused or shared with other agencies. 
Touching The Void author faces angry teenage Twitter mob
Apparently many of them blame his book for why they failed their English GCSEs. Them fail Inglish - thats unpossible!
It is a tale of sheer determination in the face of almost unbelievable adversity - a mountain climber left for dead after breaking his leg and tumbling into a crevasse.Few who have read Joe Simpson's brilliant book Touching the Void, or seen the 2003 documentary of the same name, remain unmoved by the author's bravery and incredible will to survive.
But the 1988 work appears to have struck an entirely different chord with dozens of teenagers tasked with studying it for their GCSE English literature exams.
And Joe Simpson didn't drag his body down an entire mountain just to hear bunch of semi-literate teenagers whine about his story.
But the student hit back writing: 'i am a student who learn english; but you are a stupid who fell down on the mountain.'Another student wrote: 'Your book is s*** and you should feel bad.'
...But by Wednesday night the author appeared to be getting more than a little hacked off: 'A lovely day of children writhing in their hellish hormonal middens . good night vile innocents may you all seethe in bilious acid pus ...'
And yesterday he declared: 'Ok bored of this now so I'll either stop twitter or block all school kids - shame on the good ones - but the loathsome scroats can sod off!'
In fact his book is excellent and in a rare occurrence the movie is just as good. If the unhappy students couldn't find something enjoyable in it, then they're just retarded scroats.
What It's Like To Watch Porn For A Living
I know it sounds like a dream job for some of you but just wait until it's Wednesday afternoon and you've had to watch and evaluate Midget Gang Bangs 1 through 43 and there's still another twenty to go.
I watch porn for a living. More specifically, I manage a proprietary database owned by a porn company, making schedules for cable porn. My job is to watch movies and decide whether we're going to buy them, then write titles and synopses, and put everything into a schedule with plenty of variety. There are surprisingly strict rules for all those things.
...The rules for titles are really involved - there are a lot of words you can't say on TV. We have a whole folder at work containing all the rules. You can't say cock, so I'll say something like "big weiners" or "12-inchers." You can't say pussy, so I'll say "pink." I have to really have my finger on the pulse of what the current sex slang is. Lately I've been using "handy-j" a lot, for hand-job. Basically the goal is to have the title be as explicit as possible without breaking any rules. I prefer titles that clearly explain what happens in the film - like, say, "Horny Girls Having Sex."
The Yahoo AoSHQ group. Bla bla bla.
And don't forget about the Job Bank.
And my twitter thang.
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Posted by: steevy at June 04, 2012 05:49 PM (Xb3hu)
Posted by: steevy at June 04, 2012 05:50 PM (Xb3hu)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 04, 2012 05:50 PM (niZvt)
There's this thing called undergrad. He might want to look into Obama's record there (in particular, graduating without any honors).
I believe Obama's reasonably clever. There's being smart as clever, though, and being being smart as in knowing a lot. Contrary, to popular belief, you really don't have to know a whole lot to graduate from a top law school, especially with affirmative action (and especially when there's not much in your undergraduate record to indicate you know a ton).
Posted by: AD at June 04, 2012 05:52 PM (0n+rl)
...And being smart as in not making typos. I should probably work on that.
Posted by: AD at June 04, 2012 05:53 PM (0n+rl)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 04, 2012 05:53 PM (niZvt)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at June 04, 2012 05:54 PM (RZ8pf)
For example, most Americans pronounce disgusting as "diss-kussting" with a k sound. (Try it-you probably do too.) However, some people say "dizz-gusting"-it's easier to pronounce the g after a softer sound like z. Imagine a language with the word pronounced as it is spelled (and as it was in Latin): "diss-gusting." The group speaking the language splits into two groups that go their separate ways. Come back five hundred years later, and one group is pronouncing the word "diss-kussting," while the other is pronouncing it "dizz-gusting." After even more time, the word would start shortening, just as we pronounce "let us" as "let's." After a thousand years, in one place it would be something like "skussting," while in the other it might be "zgustin." After another thousand, perhaps "skusty" and "zguss." By this time, these are no longer even the same language.
The problem with this is that we are not exactly going to be separate groups. The way the world works you're not going to have groups isolated on an island or separated by moutains modifying their original common language like you have in the past.
Posted by: buzzion at June 04, 2012 05:55 PM (GULKT)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 04, 2012 05:56 PM (niZvt)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 04, 2012 05:57 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 04, 2012 05:57 PM (niZvt)
Posted by: Derak at June 04, 2012 05:57 PM (mnWNX)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 04, 2012 09:57 PM (piMMO)
I'll say it. He's not smart. Anyone that thinks socialism/communism is a good idea is a fucking idiot.
Posted by: buzzion at June 04, 2012 05:58 PM (GULKT)
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at June 04, 2012 05:58 PM (7SDtn)
I'm already getting emails from NFL.com about signing up for FF.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 04, 2012 05:59 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 04, 2012 05:59 PM (niZvt)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at June 04, 2012 05:59 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at June 04, 2012 06:00 PM (7SDtn)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 04, 2012 06:00 PM (niZvt)
If any subject involves an actual law of the universe, that subject is over his head and always has been.
Watching him try to write a legal description that actually closes would probably make you wince. He may be verbal, and he may to able to work well with opinion-based matters, but he is probably innumerate.
Posted by: jc at June 04, 2012 06:01 PM (i8c5b)
Might one get good grades in Harvard Law School NOT for the brilliance of one's work, but for its PC content?
Posted by: datsnotamore at June 04, 2012 06:01 PM (mFLsH)
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I guess it depends upon how someone might classify another as "smart".
I believe he is both smart and capable and a complete fucking moron all at once.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 04, 2012 06:02 PM (piMMO)
graduated magna from Harvard Law, which means that he was at least in the top 15 or 20 percent of his class at HLS.
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And what were they grading him on, his work or his skin color and "Kenyan origin"?
Posted by: 18-1 at June 04, 2012 06:02 PM (3aXbg)
Posted by: JPS at June 04, 2012 06:02 PM (BJYM4)
Posted by: Joe Namath on the phone at June 04, 2012 06:03 PM (Rhie+)
Might one get good grades in Harvard Law School NOT for the brilliance of one's work, but for its PC content?
Posted by: datsnotamore at June 04, 2012 10:01 PM
I um uh like graduated um uh like from like Harvard um uh law. Like um uh it was like um hard.
Posted by: Caroline Kennedy at June 04, 2012 06:03 PM (bAGA/)
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Let me, uh, be clear. As I have, uhhhh, always said. Uh, um, like, uh, I'm, uh, really good at uhhhhh speaking to people.
Posted by: Barack Obama at June 04, 2012 06:04 PM (3aXbg)
Posted by: teej at June 04, 2012 06:04 PM (sbimF)
Remember: nobody is more racist than American liberals. Deep down they are certain that black people aren't as smart as white American liberals are (because nobody else anywhere ever in the history of the world is that smart). But they also want to see black people do well with their help, so they'll happily bend rules, facilitate cheating, and inflate grades to boost a suitably clean and articulate black student.
Posted by: Trimegistus at June 04, 2012 06:05 PM (igSy1)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 04, 2012 06:05 PM (niZvt)
Posted by: SamIam at June 04, 2012 06:06 PM (BBm11)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 04, 2012 06:06 PM (Rhie+)
I'm coming around the corner at Madison and 45th about 2 years ago. I see a big crowd coming down the sidewalk and think "oh cripes who are these jerks gonna be."
In the middle of that crowd is Joe Willy Namath himself.
I stop and say "Broadway Joe!!!"
He stops. Turns to me and shakes my hand. I tell him he's always been a hero to me. He says "Thanks buddy."
You can't bad mouth Joe Namath to me. He was was tough as nails and one hell of a quarterback. If he had the benefit of modern medical science, his knees wouldn't have ever been an issue.
(If he'd told me to "fuck off" like Geraldo Rivera did I wouldn't be writing such a laudatory post)
Posted by: ironbill at June 04, 2012 06:06 PM (8HjJL)
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Huh?
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 04, 2012 06:07 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: tcn at June 04, 2012 06:07 PM (WhSRj)
Posted by: grease monkey at June 04, 2012 06:08 PM (VSWPU)
Funny that is was the conservative faculty member taking issue with O's failure to schmooze with them. In my life experience that simply doesn't ring true at all. Something stinks here...hell, it all stinks, but that stunk the worst.
Maybe if Baird spoke in Austrian I'd understand better.
Posted by: Hurricane at June 04, 2012 06:08 PM (NrdQS)
Posted by: MrCaniac at June 04, 2012 06:08 PM (1grxW)
Posted by: nikkolai at June 04, 2012 06:09 PM (pSsN0)
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at June 04, 2012 06:10 PM (uB19f)
up. What is the fewest number of socks you can take from the drawer
without looking and be sure to get a pair of the same color.
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11
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 04, 2012 06:10 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: teej at June 04, 2012 10:04 PM (sbimF)
Cripes, 15 years later and everyone remembers the knees.
Posted by: Monica Lewinsky at June 04, 2012 06:11 PM (1grxW)
Posted by: Michael Rittenhouse at June 04, 2012 06:11 PM (2Oas0)
Posted by: teej at June 04, 2012 06:12 PM (sbimF)
Posted by: sTevo at June 04, 2012 06:12 PM (VMcEw)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at June 04, 2012 06:12 PM (DGIjM)
I said 11 didn't I?!
Don't watch Grimm through a crack in my fingers and and do math at the same time.
Got it.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 04, 2012 06:13 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at June 04, 2012 06:13 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: real joe at June 04, 2012 06:13 PM (PD2ad)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 04, 2012 06:14 PM (niZvt)
Obama may have gotten straight As at Columbia and Harvard. However...
In the fall of 2008 Charlie Gibson asked BHO if he still favored increasing the capital gains tax rate, even though there was statistical proof, no arguments, that raising the rate actually decreased government revenue. Obama replied that the rate should be raised because it was a question of fairness.
QED: He's an idiot.
Posted by: Jim in Virginia at June 04, 2012 06:14 PM (9PrZI)
OK, I'll say it if it hasn't already been said here.
It's not that he's a know nothing, its just that what he does know is so wrong.
I believe Reagan might have brought that up about his kind.
Posted by: Jimmah at June 04, 2012 06:14 PM (cWkOB)
Just doing a drive-by - posted this yesterday, just for fun 'cuz it's a fun song:
Sunday Fun - "Long Tall Texan" wp.me/p1ipEz-1QG
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at June 04, 2012 06:15 PM (0xqzf)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at June 04, 2012 06:15 PM (DGIjM)
Posted by: MrCaniac at June 04, 2012 06:15 PM (1grxW)
Posted by: Waterhouse at June 04, 2012 10:11 PM (3ZJiy)
BTH, email me your ip address and I'll forward it to pixy for unbanning.
Posted by: Mætenloch at June 04, 2012 06:15 PM (pAlYe)
Posted by: thunderb at June 04, 2012 06:15 PM (Dnbau)
Jumbo Shrimp, that is terrible. My prayers to your family.
What the hell is the world coming to that a nice old lady hanging laundry to dry gets shot in the back.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at June 04, 2012 06:15 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 04, 2012 06:16 PM (i0App)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 04, 2012 06:16 PM (niZvt)
Obama smart? In a way, he obviously is. He can be articulate at times (for instance, in front of a teleprompter).
But his actual thinking ability it hampered and cloistered by his lifetime of Leftist indoctrination. He has a limited ability to see beyond what he has been taught since he was a yout, and frankly he doesn't WANT to see any further than that.
I think it's interesting that the "dolt" Bush had actually read Obama's autobiography and could talk to him about it at one time in the past (around 2005 when he was a freshman Senator). George could and did think and read beyond his political preference, which is the sign of a confident and inquisitive man. Obama - not so much. I truly think that Obama's highest achievement WAS to graduate magna at Harvard Law. It probably took some work and sweat to do it, and is probably the only time in his life he actually had to put forth some effort to achieve something. And he reverted to form as President of the Law Review, where he did.......nothing.
Everything else has been AA for him. People handing him the golden Gong and he thinking he had hit another home run. Like that stupid Peace Prize award. If he was such a great teacher at Chicago, why did he leave, and not seek tenure either there or somewhere else? Because it would have been WORK. He would have to think and write as well as teach.
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at June 04, 2012 06:16 PM (sJTmU)
Everyone gets outrageously outraged about the latest police state thing and then goes back to numb until the next outrage they will forget about in a couple of weeks.
What's the point. People will bend a knee even if the state demanded their first born, which is exactly what the draft might wind up being to family.
Why go through the endless angst, when the totalitarian hell is all we can look forward to?
Posted by: Mr. Happy at June 04, 2012 06:16 PM (8ruiH)
Ace, you patriotic bastard you. Secretly supporting the economy all this time and not saying a word about it!
Posted by: Boomer Redneque at June 04, 2012 06:17 PM (eQnzo)
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Hey!
I had a moment of stupidity! I can't always be perfect.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 04, 2012 06:17 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at June 04, 2012 06:17 PM (DGIjM)
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at June 04, 2012 06:18 PM (uB19f)
Law geek here.
Under traditional 4th amendment jurisprudence, you have no expectation of privacy in what you choose to expose to public view. I don't think this means we should have to put up with 24/7 surveillance every time we leave the house.
Posted by: real joe at June 04, 2012 06:18 PM (PD2ad)
Posted by: tcn at June 04, 2012 06:18 PM (WhSRj)
Posted by: teej at June 04, 2012 06:18 PM (sbimF)
Isnt that awful?! She is in her 70's.
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Hopefully it wasnt on purpose. Just a couple weeks ago (Bumbfuck OH) my daughter calls me from the next block over from me and says her outside table shattered. In the pile of tempered glass was a thick glass ashtray that WAS on the glass table with a hole through it. Don't know what made the hole clean through the ashtray, (and the table beneath it), but figure that odd are it was a bullet.
Posted by: Jimmah at June 04, 2012 06:19 PM (cWkOB)
Posted by: President Chet Roosevelt at June 04, 2012 06:19 PM (caupe)
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at June 04, 2012 06:19 PM (nUY/O)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at June 04, 2012 06:19 PM (DGIjM)
Posted by: Scobface at June 04, 2012 06:20 PM (IoNBC)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 at June 04, 2012 10:16 PM (Gk3SS)
I can't stop looking at your eyes. The make you ethereally beautiful, like some kind of goddess, or elven gueen.
Hi, my name is, (eyes look down for a show of humility, followed by a direct stare into yours) Frey. I have to get to know someone as unique as you. Say you'll let me buy you a drink?
Posted by: Mr. Happy at June 04, 2012 06:20 PM (8ruiH)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at June 04, 2012 06:20 PM (DGIjM)
Besides, if you DID strike out, you always have boobies of your own to play with, GRRRRR!!!Posted by: CoolCzech at June 04, 2012 06:20 PM (niZvt)
Posted by: thunderb at June 04, 2012 06:21 PM (Dnbau)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at June 04, 2012 06:21 PM (DGIjM)
Posted by: AnonymousDliver-San at June 04, 2012 06:22 PM (eHIJJ)
Posted by: buzzion at June 04, 2012 09:58 PM (GULKT)
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^^^ THIS. I was gonna say the first part, but buzzion one-upped me with the perfect, irrefutable example of why this must be true...
Posted by: Boomer Redneque at June 04, 2012 06:22 PM (eQnzo)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at June 04, 2012 10:19 PM (DGIjM)
No shit. They used to teach ducking in childhood. She was obsolete.
Posted by: Govt. Drone at June 04, 2012 06:22 PM (8ruiH)
Posted by: t-bird at June 04, 2012 06:23 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Dick Nixon at June 04, 2012 06:23 PM (VrVBw)
It's not your fault. You were Grimm'd.
Say you'll let me buy you a drink?
I'd rather have the Aliens Tech Manual. (Actually, that's true)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 at June 04, 2012 06:23 PM (Gk3SS)
Posted by: Dagny at June 04, 2012 06:23 PM (WCAIB)
Posted by: jenny tries too hard at June 04, 2012 06:23 PM (snRY5)
up. What is the fewest number of socks you can take from the drawer
without looking and be sure to get a pair of the same color.
Posted by: grease monkey at June 04, 2012 10:08 PM (VSWPU)
3 -- which is why I buy scads of identical socks.
Posted by: cthulhu at June 04, 2012 06:23 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at June 04, 2012 06:24 PM (DGIjM)
Posted by: jenny tries too hard at June 04, 2012 06:24 PM (snRY5)
You know what I would like to know? I would like to know if the students who swarmed the US Embassy in Iran all those years ago, if they have any regrets now having lived under the Ayatollah's repressive regime for all of these years. And how many of those students eventually fled Iran for America, the same country they were chanting "death" to all those years ago.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at June 04, 2012 06:24 PM (RZ8pf)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlVDGmjz7eM
Posted by: MrCaniac at June 04, 2012 06:24 PM (1grxW)
Posted by: real joe at June 04, 2012 10:18 PM (PD2ad)
True. There's no question that this is legal and in fact many toll roads already do the same thing. But that doesn't mean it's a good idea or that drug enforcement justifies this kind of routine monitoring.
Frankly I'd feel better if it was the FBI doing it since their actions are more closely watched by Congress and civil liberties organizations.
Posted by: Mætenloch at June 04, 2012 06:24 PM (pAlYe)
Mildly nsfw: http://bit.ly/MusyOg
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 04, 2012 06:24 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Anne Nuclear Wintour at June 04, 2012 06:25 PM (niZvt)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 at June 04, 2012 06:25 PM (Gk3SS)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at June 04, 2012 06:25 PM (DGIjM)
Originality and creativity doesn't seem to be his strong suit, and what would a lecturer do but recite what was already written by others.
There's a good reason that he's the only editor of Harvard Law Review never to write an opinion or analysis
Posted by: kbdabear at June 04, 2012 06:25 PM (Y+DPZ)
Posted by: Scobface at June 04, 2012 06:26 PM (IoNBC)
Posted by: t-bird at June 04, 2012 06:27 PM (FcR7P)
Awwww don't feel bad. I'm just better than you.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 at June 04, 2012 06:27 PM (Gk3SS)
One of their leaders was Achmedajihad, and I haven't heard that he has any regrets
Posted by: kbdabear at June 04, 2012 06:27 PM (Y+DPZ)
My wife's cousin played for Alabama when Joe Namath was there. He didn't know Joe that well, but had a few funny stories to tell about him.
Says he was a helluva guy. He had to go to some kind of prep school off campus to get his grades up before he could get his scholarship and start playing. I guess Willy Joe wasn't a scholar, huh?
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at June 04, 2012 06:27 PM (sJTmU)
Posted by: Jimmah at June 04, 2012 06:28 PM (cWkOB)
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That vid of it chasing the cows was the only reprieve from my disgust at the original vid.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 04, 2012 06:29 PM (piMMO)
So, "smart" can also mean well-practiced and disciplined.
You know what else looks smart? Tic-Tac-Toe Chicken. If you don't see the levers moving and lights blinking, you might actually think you're losing to a chicken. In modern politics the chicken uses a teleprompter.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at June 04, 2012 06:29 PM (eHIJJ)
Sorry if I'm not buying the "journalism" that was supposedly "committed" on Obama's academic past. It's simple hearsay and nothing more. If we're going to objectively judge the man's intellect based on his academic credentials both as a student and a "professor", then let's see the measure of his performance as a student and his published papers.
Since - for some completely unfathomable and mystifying reason unknowable by modern man - we are not granted access to Mr. Transparency's brilliant body of academic work, we're forced to judge him based off of what we have observed from him in his time as an elected official. He hasn't demonstrated an ability to grasp basic things like cause and effect, responsibility, or rudimentary leadership. His complete inability to speak extemporaneously in a remotely cogent manner (SCOAMF) shows that his cognitive ability might not be all that great, but his ability to communicate on a level commensurate with his position just isn't there.
At best the man is of average intellect.
Posted by: Burn the Witch at June 04, 2012 06:30 PM (rX1N2)
Posted by: Anne Nuclear Wintour at June 04, 2012 06:30 PM (niZvt)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 04, 2012 06:30 PM (Rhie+)
Posted by: Joe Namath at June 04, 2012 06:30 PM (QVm9U)
Every one of them features a salesperson who is a complete moron.
Are they supposed to be funny?
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 04, 2012 06:30 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: t-bird at June 04, 2012 06:30 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Scobface at June 04, 2012 06:31 PM (IoNBC)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 at June 04, 2012 10:23 PM (Gk3SS)
Big impish smile. look left and right to make sure no one is listening...
"I have some romulan ale at my table. Perhaps I could tempt you with that. My special friend Freya is guarding it. I'm sure we can make her give some up. If you'd help....
Posted by: Frey, God of fertilityl at June 04, 2012 06:32 PM (8ruiH)
Posted by: Jean at June 04, 2012 06:32 PM (WkuV6)
Posted by: Bob at June 04, 2012 06:32 PM (PJXbW)
Posted by: Dagny at June 04, 2012 10:23 PM (WCAIB)
Mr. President!
Posted by: cthulhu at June 04, 2012 06:32 PM (kaalw)
Well, you just ruined the previous 137 comments. I usually read a few dozen of the ONT before I stick my dick into the argument of the minute, but you seem to have nailed it.
Someone buy this man a beer and a blowjob (my apologies if you are a chick).
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 04, 2012 06:32 PM (nEUpB)
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at June 04, 2012 06:32 PM (uB19f)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at June 04, 2012 06:32 PM (Why44)
I know I'm fixated on this Iran movie thing, but it's on my mind. I'm just really disappointed that an amazing story like that of the fake film crew has been taken over and probably wrecked entirely by the likes of Ben Affleck and George Clooney.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at June 04, 2012 06:32 PM (RZ8pf)
11, if you want a specific color.
Posted by: Jimbo at June 04, 2012 06:32 PM (O3R/2)
Posted by: thunderb at June 04, 2012 06:33 PM (Dnbau)
Posted by: Scobface at June 04, 2012 06:33 PM (IoNBC)
Jimmy Carter was a nuclear engineer, certainly requires a much higher IQ than a communications major. But he was a micromanaging asshole who refused to listen because he felt he already knew it all
As I've said many times, elitists are impressed by credentials, but Americans are impressed by results
Posted by: kbdabear at June 04, 2012 06:33 PM (Y+DPZ)
Posted by: cthulhu at June 04, 2012 10:32 PM (kaalw)
COOTH!
Download Spotify you shall. Rock out to Mike Keneally you will. Free shit it is.
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 06:33 PM (F79HU)
kbdabear @ 126
That is exactly right. He has certain interpersonal skills that he uses to seduce equally vain "intellectuals", thus persuading them of his genuine abilities.
Michael Beschloss, another phoneybaloney intellectual, was persuaded of Barack's brilliance because he wrote "two books".
Did he, and were they really any good? And is that it? Two books and make him President. No other achievements to speak of in his life. People that are really brilliant are usually really driven to be creative and do things.
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at June 04, 2012 06:34 PM (sJTmU)
Posted by: grease monkey at June 04, 2012 06:34 PM (VSWPU)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at June 04, 2012 06:34 PM (DGIjM)
That's a good point. I've always said that I don't care if someone is ignorant, in the meaning of not knowing something, what I mind is if that person doesn't care to learn. Ignorance can be corrected. Jackassery cannot.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 at June 04, 2012 06:34 PM (Gk3SS)
Posted by: bannor, voting Sweet Meteor oh Death 2012 at June 04, 2012 06:34 PM (LJxoD)
Posted by: Formerly Rocket Surgery, now Nic-less for her Pleasure. at June 04, 2012 06:34 PM (4qU0l)
BECAUSE NO ONE DEMANDED IT!
IRON MAIDEN!
POWERSLAVE!
Rock this shit hard, yo.
Iron Maiden - Aces High
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0Hm79q4M-U
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 06:34 PM (F79HU)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 at June 04, 2012 10:27 PM (Gk3SS)
We don't know that until one passes out from exhaustion before the other.
Posted by: Frey, God of fertilityl at June 04, 2012 06:35 PM (8ruiH)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at June 04, 2012 06:35 PM (DGIjM)
Posted by: Scobface at June 04, 2012 06:35 PM (IoNBC)
Posted by: DC in Towson, bleeding heart piece of shit at June 04, 2012 06:35 PM (4QAQg)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 04, 2012 06:36 PM (niZvt)
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at June 04, 2012 06:36 PM (nUY/O)
Posted by: Formerly Rocket Surgery, now Nic-less for her Pleasure. at June 04, 2012 10:34 PM (4qU0l)
Howdy, Gern!
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 06:36 PM (F79HU)
Douglas G. Baird, is my first cousin. So I asked him about the quote and about the possibility that the reason Obama has refused to release his academic records was that his grades werenÂ’t all that good. HereÂ’s what he wrote back: "The idea that Obama had lousy grades is demonstrably untrue."
Speaking of committing journalism:
BAIRD, DOUGLAS
CHICAGO,IL 60637 UNIVERSITY OF CHGO/PROFESSOR 7/29/99 $1,000 Obama, Barack (D)
BAIRD, DOUGLAS
CHICAGO,IL 60637 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 10/4/02 $1,000 Obama, Barack (D)
BAIRD, DOUGLAS
CHICAGO,IL 60637 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 9/30/03 $1,000 Obama, Barack (D)
BAIRD, DOUGLAS G
CHICAGO,IL 60637 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 4/14/04 $2,000 Obama, Barack (D)
BAIRD, DOUGLAS G
CHICAGO,IL 60637 UNIV. OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL/PROFESS 7/7/00 $500 Rush, Bobby L (D)
BAIRD, DOUGLAS G
CHICAGO,IL 60637 UNIV. OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL/PROFESS 11/1/06 $250 Rush, Bobby L (D)
Donating to not just Obama, but Bobby effing Rush? Think I'll just ignore his opinion of The O's smarts -- and John Steele Gordon's too.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 04, 2012 06:36 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: steevy at June 04, 2012 06:36 PM (Xb3hu)
Posted by: Riding Through The Desert On A Sock With No Name at June 04, 2012 06:36 PM (MG6Y6)
Posted by: Scobface at June 04, 2012 06:37 PM (IoNBC)
Posted by: Dexster Jettster at June 04, 2012 06:37 PM (V492T)
Posted by: James T. Kirk at June 04, 2012 06:39 PM (niZvt)
Posted by: David, infamous sockpuppet[/i][/b] at June 04, 2012 06:39 PM (UtoLw)
will cost $10 each so they pay $30. Later the clerk realizes that
he made a mistake and should have only charged them $25. He gives
a bellboy $5 to return to them but the bellboy is dishonest and
gives them each only $1, keeping $2 for himself. So the men actually
spent $27 and the bellboy kept $2. What happened to the other
dollar of the original $30?
Posted by: grease monkey at June 04, 2012 10:34 PM (VSWPU)
Each man paid $10 and got one back, so they paid $27. $2 is in the bellboy's pocket and the other $25 is in the hotel's till. Why should we still be talking about $30, when it has become irrelevant?
Posted by: cthulhu at June 04, 2012 06:39 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at June 04, 2012 06:40 PM (nUY/O)
You are blindfolded and have 20 glory holes with ten white dicks and ten black dicks. How many dicks must you suck to be sure you have sucked a pair the same color.
Posted by: Bawney Fwank at June 04, 2012 06:40 PM (cWkOB)
Posted by: steevy at June 04, 2012 06:40 PM (Xb3hu)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at June 04, 2012 10:21 PM (DGIjM)
***************
My guess? There's a tasty deer out there whose life briefly flashed before his eyes for no reason he could explain...
What town, if I may ask? Or at least what county?
Prayers for a fast recovery.
Posted by: Boomer Redneque at June 04, 2012 06:40 PM (eQnzo)
Posted by: HULUGU at June 04, 2012 06:41 PM (me1bn)
Thank you. Just credit the account. I'm saving up for Top Shelf Valu-Rite Gutter-Fermented Champagne for November.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at June 04, 2012 06:41 PM (eHIJJ)
Someone took a passage from "The Audacity of Hope", the book not ghostwritten by Ayers, and posted it without disclosing the source. Commenters did the "LOL STOOPID PALIN" type of comments and the author later disclosed it was from the SCOAMF
Posted by: kbdabear at June 04, 2012 06:41 PM (Y+DPZ)
SCOAMF's dog ate it. No, wait, SCOAMF ate the dog, didn't he?
Posted by: Retread at June 04, 2012 06:41 PM (joSBv)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at June 04, 2012 06:42 PM (Why44)
"The problem with this is that we are not exactly going to be separate groups. The way the world works you're not going to have groups isolated on an island or separated by moutains modifying their original common language like you have in the past."
I wouldn't bet on it.
Posted by: Screaming Meteor of Death at June 04, 2012 06:42 PM (l3vZN)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at June 04, 2012 06:42 PM (COZhO)
Posted by: King Arthur at June 04, 2012 06:42 PM (niZvt)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at June 04, 2012 06:43 PM (DGIjM)
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 04, 2012 10:36 PM
Good work LDC, it's always good to see someone who discovers "The Rest of the Story"
Posted by: kbdabear at June 04, 2012 06:43 PM (Y+DPZ)
Add a clear majority of the world's carrier battle groups, nuclear weapons, and fiat currency -- and you have a winner.
Posted by: Jean at June 04, 2012 10:32 PM (WkuV6)
Also, it is spoken in the main economic powers in most of the continents. Britain in Europe, the US and Canada in N. America, South Africa in Africa, Hong Kong, India and Singapore in Asia, and Australia.
Posted by: MrCaniac at June 04, 2012 06:44 PM (1grxW)
From Project A-kon 15 in Dallas, TX we have a whole squad of Colonial Marines. Do not know if they ever found any aliens, did find a lot of anime fans though.
http://tinyurl.com/cyfc8ty
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 04, 2012 06:44 PM (R6nK6)
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at June 04, 2012 06:44 PM (nUY/O)
Posted by: steevy at June 04, 2012 06:44 PM (Xb3hu)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at June 04, 2012 06:45 PM (DGIjM)
Donating to not just Obama, but Bobby effing Rush? Think I'll just ignore his opinion of The O's smarts -- and John Steele Gordon's too.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 04, 2012 10:36 PM (kdS6q)
Like I said - total hearsay. Journalism my ass.
Posted by: Burn the Witch at June 04, 2012 06:45 PM (rX1N2)
Monty Hall has a contestant who may win "A NEW CAR!!!" behind one of three doors. The contestant picks door number 1. Monty then reveals a goat behind door number 2. He then gives the contestant a chance to change his mind and pick door number 3. What is the chance that the car is behind door number 3?
Yes, I know Ace told you that there would be no math. He lied.
Posted by: David, infamous sockpuppet[/i][/b] at June 04, 2012 06:46 PM (UtoLw)
will cost $10 each so they pay $30. Later the clerk realizes that
he made a mistake and should have only charged them $25. He gives
a bellboy $5 to return to them but the bellboy is dishonest and
gives them each only $1, keeping $2 for himself. So the men actually
spent $27 and the bellboy kept $2. What happened to the other
dollar of the original $30?
Posted by: grease monkey at June 04, 2012 10:34 PM (VSWPU)
Obama get it. That where Obama Stash come from.
Posted by: Peggy Joseph at June 04, 2012 06:47 PM (1grxW)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at June 04, 2012 10:45 PM (rX1N2)
Uh do you know what journalism is? Hint: it involves quoting people by name on the record.
Whether you believe it or not is another story.
Posted by: Mætenloch at June 04, 2012 06:47 PM (pAlYe)
Posted by: Bawny Fwank at June 04, 2012 06:47 PM (Hl5ka)
Edon Ohio... Williams County. Far NW corner of Ohio.
----
Know the place well. There's a grocery store, and a bank, and thats about it. The main town is probably 1/2 square mile.
Posted by: Jimmah at June 04, 2012 06:47 PM (cWkOB)
Posted by: Formerly Rocket Surgery, now Nic-less for her Pleasure. at June 04, 2012 06:47 PM (4qU0l)
Monty Hall has a contestant who may win "A NEW CAR!!!" behind one of three doors. The contestant picks door number 1. Monty then reveals a goat behind door number 2. He then gives the contestant a chance to change his mind and pick door number 3. What is the chance that the car is behind door number 3?
****
Is this a math, or a logic question?
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 04, 2012 06:48 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at June 04, 2012 06:49 PM (DGIjM)
Posted by: King Arthur at June 04, 2012 06:49 PM (niZvt)
Posted by: Formerly Rocket Surgery, now Nic-less for her Pleasure. at June 04, 2012 10:47 PM (4qU0l)
How about Bruce Dickinson's Tight Spandex?
Chick'll dig it.
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 06:49 PM (F79HU)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 04, 2012 06:50 PM (R6nK6)
Had a Phd college professor living next door; wife was a legal assistant. Water started gushing from a broken sink pipe and these two came running over to our place saying, "We need the phone number for the water company!!!!"
Hubby went over and shut off their main water valve.
Posted by: Russkilitlover at June 04, 2012 06:50 PM (Btey0)
Posted by: Riding Through The Desert On A Sock With No Name at June 04, 2012 06:50 PM (MG6Y6)
Posted by: David, infamous sockpuppet[/i][/b] at June 04, 2012 06:50 PM (UtoLw)
And, first hit on google:
Ever since Barack Obama's election as president, there has been anticipation among scholars at the University of Chicago's Law School that one of their own could be headed to the U.S. Supreme Court bench in the next few years.
"There's definitely extra buzz on campus," said Douglas Baird, a law professor who recruited Obama to the faculty. "They will be naturally on the short list, but not because he is sentimental about the law school, but because they fit the ticket."
Commentary Magazine: How Do I Vet Sources?
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 04, 2012 06:51 PM (kdS6q)
Monty Hall has a contestant who may win "A NEW CAR!!!"
behind one of three doors. The contestant picks door number 1. Monty
then reveals a goat behind door number 2. He then gives the contestant a
chance to change his mind and pick door number 3. What is the chance
that the car is behind door number 3?
Still the same. The "Let's Make a Deal" people just bring out another prize behind the door, so instead of a goat, it will probably be a lifetime supply or Rice A Roni or Astroglide.
Posted by: MrCaniac at June 04, 2012 06:51 PM (1grxW)
Yes, I know Ace told you that there would be no math. He lied.
Posted by: David, infamous sockpuppet at June 04, 2012 10:46 PM (UtoLw)
In this universe, does Monty Hall wear a goatee?
Posted by: cthulhu at June 04, 2012 06:51 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: t-bird at June 04, 2012 06:52 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 04, 2012 06:52 PM (QTi/j)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at June 04, 2012 10:49 PM (DGIjM)
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Wauseon for 20 years, then Angola IN, so I'd go through Montpelior practically all the time last year. Matter of fact that was my closest bank branch to Angola. After the divorce I made my mark in Montpelior, actually Lake Seneca. Thats about all I can publicly say about that though.
Posted by: Jimmah at June 04, 2012 06:53 PM (cWkOB)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 04, 2012 06:53 PM (niZvt)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 04, 2012 06:54 PM (nEUpB)
In this universe, does Monty Hall wear a goatee?
Yes he does. And when the contestant is called down, Monty spreads their wealth to the audience. Lovely Carol is also an S&M queen.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 04, 2012 06:55 PM (R6nK6)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 04, 2012 06:55 PM (niZvt)
Posted by: cthulhu at June 04, 2012 06:55 PM (kaalw)
graduated magna from Harvard Law, which means that he was at least in
the top 15 or 20 percent of his class at HLS. Most of the exams are
blindly graded. I don't want to argue about the relevance of grades, but
the idea that they weren't very good is just not right.
Is cousin the Dean describing the current standard at HLS for latin honors or is he describing the 1991 standard in effect when Obama graduated? The grade inflation at Harvard at the time Obama was there was massive and legendary. It was substantially reformed several years after Obama left.
Have any presidents of the Harvard Law Review -- an elected position -- ever graduated without latin honors? With a latin honor less than magna?
If cousin the Dean has the 1991 standard will he post them on-line? I've looked and cannot find the 1991 standards anywhere on-line.
Not likely cousin the Dean is going to fess up now to having hired an ijit, is it?
How does cousin Dean account for the fact that Obama alone among Harvard Law Review presidents never published anything under his own name?
How many other faculty has cousin the Dean ever recruited to a tenured position at U Chicago Law who had zero academic publications?
Did cousin the Dean ever actually require Obama to supply a HLS transcript when he was hiring Obama? If so, will he release it? If not, why not?
Posted by: Dean Wormer's ulcer at June 04, 2012 06:55 PM (u3N3z)
The key disconnect, is that Good grades do NOT indicate intelligence. They indicate an ability to do two things... Memorize facts... and parrot the Profesors Opinions back to him...
Origional thought is NOT really needed for good grades... and problem solving??? only needed if you are a math, medicine, or engineering major... which Obama was not.
Add in no real world expeirnce, and no WISDOM?
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 04, 2012 06:55 PM (lZBBB)
Posted by: eman at June 04, 2012 06:56 PM (6KkLK)
Posted by: Formerly Rocket Surgery, now Nic-less for her Pleasure. at June 04, 2012 06:56 PM (4qU0l)
Posted by: cthulhu at June 04, 2012 10:55 PM (kaalw) Didn't that guy advertise looking for someone who wanted to be eaten, the Berlin monster.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 04, 2012 06:56 PM (R6nK6)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at June 04, 2012 06:57 PM (DGIjM)
I am adrift on the nic-less seas.
Posted by: Formerly Rocket Surgery, now Nic-less for her Pleasure. at June 04, 2012 10:47 PM (4qU0l)
Jeebus, that is so wrong. YOU choose your name. YOu do not have one given to you like a fucking rescure dog.
Fok! Grow a pair and then get back to us.
Posted by: Frey, God of fertilityl at June 04, 2012 06:57 PM (8ruiH)
Posted by: Formerly Rocket Surgery, now Nic-less for her Pleasure. at June 04, 2012 10:56 PM (4qU0l)
Sounds cool.
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 06:57 PM (F79HU)
Uh do you know what journalism is? Hint: it involves quoting people by name on the record.
Whether you believe it or not is another story.
Posted by: Mætenloch at June 04, 2012 10:47 PM (pAlYe)
Yeah, the guy he "quoted" said the claims were "demonstrably" untrue. Did the so-called journalist ask him to demonstrate his assertion? No? Hint: then all he did was parrot...his cousin. Hint#2: not journalism
Which is pretty much what journalism has devolved to which is roundly criticized by the day on this blog, both of which aren't really in keeping with your snarky "commits journalism" line now is it?
Posted by: Burn the Witch at June 04, 2012 06:57 PM (rX1N2)
Don't know. Don't care. Can I trade Door #1 for Door #2?
Posted by: Lonely Talibanana at June 04, 2012 06:57 PM (eHIJJ)
Posted by: Yip in Texas at June 04, 2012 06:57 PM (Mrdk1)
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 06:58 PM (F79HU)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 04, 2012 06:59 PM (niZvt)
Posted by: Ezra's Equal at June 04, 2012 06:59 PM (V492T)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 04, 2012 06:59 PM (R6nK6)
Posted by: David, infamous sockpuppet[/i][/b] at June 04, 2012 07:00 PM (UtoLw)
Posted by: Achmed the Lonely Shepard at June 04, 2012 07:00 PM (jucos)
Posted by: The Town of Brattleboro, Vermont at June 04, 2012 07:01 PM (YVbwx)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 04, 2012 07:01 PM (niZvt)
Posted by: 19K - B5D, having shat, is off the pot at June 04, 2012 07:01 PM (4qU0l)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 04, 2012 10:59 PM (R6nK6)
Yeah, that over the top homoqueer guy from Americam Idol. Name escapes me. From what little I've seen of the guy with the band he's actually really good. He's no Freddy Mercury, but who is?
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 07:01 PM (F79HU)
Posted by: cthulhu at June 04, 2012 07:02 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Scobface at June 04, 2012 07:02 PM (IoNBC)
I havent been back to Montpelier since my Grandma died. : (
All my cousins live around there. I wonder if you know any of them?!
What a small world!
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at June 04, 2012 10:57 PM (DGIjM)
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I don't know many people in that town, except the one that wants to kill me, and someone else. But its nice territory, and nice and hilly. I almost moved there last year, spent a day scouting out the town. It was there or Angola, so I took Angola, but moved back to OH last Nov.
Posted by: Jimmah at June 04, 2012 07:03 PM (cWkOB)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 04, 2012 07:03 PM (niZvt)
***
I can't remember his name either but that was the last year I watched anything having to do with AI so I did see him perform a couple of times.
Just awful.
And then, IIRC, he became a major diva/PITA after AI
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 04, 2012 07:03 PM (piMMO)
license plate scanned by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
Law geek here.
Under traditional 4th amendment jurisprudence, you have no expectation of privacy in what you choose to expose to public view. I don't think this means we should have to put up with 24/7 surveillance every time we leave the house.
Posted by: real joe at June 04, 2012 10:18 PM (PD2ad)
Isn't there a "probable cause" issue for gathering evidence? I think, technically, that's what has to happen with radar. The officer has to "observe" you speeding before pointing the radar at you. Can't "search and seize" evidence without that.
Posted by: Michael Rittenhouse at June 04, 2012 07:03 PM (2Oas0)
Posted by: steevy at June 04, 2012 07:04 PM (Xb3hu)
Generally, there's "cum laude", "magna cum laude", and "summa cum laude" -- meaning roughly (and remember that you can be "lauded to the skies" in English): "with praise", "with great praise", and "with total praise".
Posted by: cthulhu at June 04, 2012 07:04 PM (kaalw)
Hmm, the Wikipedia article on the Monty Hall problem is fascinating and detailed with lots of blobby math stuck in there, but to break up the tedium also fun illustrations of goats behind doors.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at June 04, 2012 07:04 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at June 04, 2012 07:04 PM (DGIjM)
Posted by: Ezra's Equal at June 04, 2012 07:04 PM (V492T)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2I3aJhKDqE
This one.
This one gets cranked to 11.
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 07:05 PM (F79HU)
How many other faculty has cousin the Dean ever recruited to a tenured position at U Chicago Law who had zero academic publications?
I didn't think Obama's faculty position was a tenure-track one
Posted by: chemjeff at June 04, 2012 07:05 PM (v2FRB)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 04, 2012 07:06 PM (niZvt)
Only game that looks interesting out of today is Watch Dogs (ie Persons of Interest the game) even though it fails at taking place in Chicago and not doing anything right about the city (Jim Butcher all over again)
Posted by: The Dude at June 04, 2012 07:06 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at June 04, 2012 07:06 PM (jucos)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 04, 2012 07:06 PM (R6nK6)
This is the guy who had to stop an interview to brag about successfully swatting down a fly
Posted by: kbdabear at June 04, 2012 07:07 PM (Y+DPZ)
Posted by: David, infamous sockpuppet[/i][/b] at June 04, 2012 07:07 PM (UtoLw)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 04, 2012 11:03 PM (piMMO)
As long as he doesn't start sucking off the guitarist in the middle of a show I think he'll do alright.
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 07:07 PM (F79HU)
Posted by: Yip in Texas at June 04, 2012 07:08 PM (Mrdk1)
Posted by: Robert
That would be very awkward ....
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 04, 2012 07:08 PM (R6nK6)
Posted by: I miss Machines Guy at June 04, 2012 07:08 PM (ZUWaD)
Posted by: eman at June 04, 2012 07:09 PM (6KkLK)
I blame the absence of general European wars for such behavior. In a perfect world, the idiots tweeting Joe would be twisting limply from the barbed wire in Flanders as opposed to cluttering the ether with their drivel.
Posted by: RDS at June 04, 2012 07:09 PM (YAGV/)
Posted by: Alex at June 04, 2012 11:08 PM
That was the book Bill Clinton wrote about his marriage with Hillary
Posted by: Yip in Texas at June 04, 2012 07:10 PM (Mrdk1)
Posted by: eman at June 04, 2012 07:10 PM (6KkLK)
Wouldn't the high average IQ of serial killers actually indicate higher intelligence is linked to evil impulses? Perhaps due to hubris?
I would think it indicates that the wiring in the brain is messed up.
Posted by: Alex at June 04, 2012 07:10 PM (tGh6R)
Posted by: I miss Machines Guy at June 04, 2012 11:08 PM (ZUWaD)
Wouldn't it just find its way to Disney Land?
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 07:10 PM (F79HU)
Posted by: t-bird at June 04, 2012 07:10 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at June 04, 2012 07:11 PM (uB19f)
Posted by: steevy at June 04, 2012 07:11 PM (Xb3hu)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at June 04, 2012 07:11 PM (DGIjM)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at June 04, 2012 07:11 PM (jucos)
Posted by: Bawney Fwank at June 04, 2012 07:12 PM (V492T)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 04, 2012 07:12 PM (niZvt)
And even better yet the internet café was on Karl Marx Strasse.
Posted by: andycanuck at June 04, 2012 07:12 PM (nrW1y)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIzUTgtZ9_Q
This is the last one. This is the one you need to hear.
Fourteen minutes of fuck yeah!
CRANK IT!
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 07:12 PM (F79HU)
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 11:05 PM (F79HU)
pshawww!!
Look up Amon Amarth, Runes to My Memory.
Posted by: Frey, God of fertilityl at June 04, 2012 07:12 PM (8ruiH)
*****
To a point, I suppose. It's not a simple concept.
There is something seemingly more evil about someone with the capacity to plot, plan, and then methodically carry out an act such as serial killers do. That is, as compared to someone with an I.Q. of 80. The act of murder is, in itself, evil, and I know there shouldn't be degree of evil, but I think most would agree that some crimes defy imagination.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 04, 2012 07:13 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at June 04, 2012 07:13 PM (tKFT6)
Bad logic.
How dumb are the ones who get caught before they commit their second of a planned 84 murders?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 04, 2012 07:13 PM (nEUpB)
Everyone driving on Interstate 15 in southwest Utah may soon have their license plate scanned by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
----
A plate is scanned almost everywhere you go, but it's not logged yet that I know of. Going accross the state line the plates get scanned, and about 20 miles in there are always stories of seemly fellows being stopped by the highway patrol. I assume thats about how long it takes to be flagged, and pulled over after entering the state.
On that same note, I pity the people driving with expired plates, because its getting to the point that if a cop car is in sight, you're plate is being ran automatically.
Posted by: Jimmah at June 04, 2012 07:14 PM (cWkOB)
there generally isn't a publication requirement in order to be a lecturer at a university
Posted by: chemjeff at June 04, 2012 07:14 PM (v2FRB)
Yes, but I did it at Georgetown! Where did you go to school?
Posted by: Sandra Fluke (rhymes with rancid bitch) at June 04, 2012 07:14 PM (nEUpB)
Posted by: Frey, God of fertilityl at June 04, 2012 11:12 PM (8ruiH)
Got it. 
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 07:14 PM (F79HU)
Posted by: sistrum at June 04, 2012 07:14 PM (AyryN)
Posted by: Alex at June 04, 2012 07:15 PM (tGh6R)
Posted by: Alex at June 04, 2012 11:08 PM
Octomom?
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at June 04, 2012 07:15 PM (tKFT6)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 04, 2012 07:15 PM (niZvt)
And even better yet the internet café was on Karl Marx Strasse.
Posted by: andycanuck at June 04, 2012 11:12 PM
I did ponder it a bit.... then I scratched my belly and went and got a beer out of the fridge.
Posted by: Yip in Texas at June 04, 2012 07:15 PM (Mrdk1)
****
I've been down this road before, hence my earlier question about whether it is based in logic or math.
The last time someone posted that question they then presumed to explain that Hall wouldn't suggest curtain number 3 if the car was really there. Which is like saying the odds of holding a flush are different because someone is a capable bluffer.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 04, 2012 07:15 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: eman at June 04, 2012 07:16 PM (6KkLK)
He's been immersed in this 'lifestyle' for years. These are his heroes, his gotoers, his compadres. So to his fellow travelers on the socialist trail, he seems very literate and informed.
But he has the math skillz of an idjit. This makes him a dummy in my book. Only 229 days until he is gone from office.
Posted by: GnuBreed at June 04, 2012 07:16 PM (ccXZP)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at June 04, 2012 07:16 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: Bawney Fwank at June 04, 2012 11:12 PM (V492T)
That was years ago, when you had to pay for stuff. It should all be provided for free now.
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at June 04, 2012 07:17 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at June 04, 2012 07:17 PM (uB19f)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 04, 2012 07:17 PM (05RcU)
Posted by: Jimmah at June 04, 2012 07:18 PM (cWkOB)
But there are degrees of evil, and we see it every day in the real world. Our choice as humans with free will is whether to succumb to the allure of evil behavior, or control those impulses. Most of us are not perfect at controlling those impulses, but are pretty good.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 04, 2012 07:18 PM (nEUpB)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at June 04, 2012 07:18 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 04, 2012 07:18 PM (niZvt)
Posted by: steevy at June 04, 2012 07:19 PM (Xb3hu)
Posted by: Alex at June 04, 2012 11:08 PM (tGh6R)
I dunno, but are you sure you're not getting it confused with an animated series called "Tripping the Rift" ?
... which was racy, but not actually pr0n.
Posted by: Lewis at June 04, 2012 07:19 PM (UB1pV)
Posted by: Bauney Fwank at June 04, 2012 07:19 PM (Mrdk1)
It's clear that the JEF isn't particularly smart: he went to Occidental, where, as per a pervious Ace commenter, those who can't hack college go, where, as per Iowahawk, a deep and complex bullshit reigns supreme. Proof: no transcripts, and it's been three years. How tough is getting a 3.8 in Marxist Bullshit?
JEF was admitted to Harvard Law on the request of a black radical. It can't have been for any other reason; which other Occidental grad made it to Harvard Law?
The intelligence in the current administration is in the advisors, specifically, the ones provided by the power brokers that wanted their man in the WH. The JEF was the one that simply happened to get an incredible streak of luck.
If Romney pushes the correct buttons, specifically, Romney manages to divert debate questions to discussions on the economy and the rest of the JEF's record, the speechwriters and coaches won;t be able to prevent the inevitable meltdown.
The JEF has lost only once, to a Chicago local where there could be no "fix".
If Romney refuses to play exactly by the (assumed-to-be-fixed) debate rules, then the JEF will have to think on his feet. He is unable. It is beyond him. Without a wire, the failure will be catastrophic, and on national television.
Posted by: Arbalest at June 04, 2012 07:19 PM (hK6yM)
Touching THE void, is still my greatest aspiration.
Posted by: 40-year old loser (in other words, me for real) at June 04, 2012 07:20 PM (RzLbD)
The XKCD comic was so true. When I don't have access to Wikipedia, my IQ drops by 30 points.
Posted by: Alex at June 04, 2012 07:21 PM (tGh6R)
Posted by: David, infamous sockpuppet[/i][/b] at June 04, 2012 07:21 PM (UtoLw)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at June 04, 2012 07:21 PM (DGIjM)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 04, 2012 07:21 PM (niZvt)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at June 04, 2012 11:16 PM (RZ8pf)
Yeah. jack of all trades tend to survive the end time. Learn to indentify wild, edible plants and you'll do fine. Even hunters don't know that for the most part. Learn, live. be, believe.
Posted by: Frey, God of fertility at June 04, 2012 07:22 PM (8ruiH)
Posted by: AltonJackson at June 04, 2012 07:22 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Yip in Texas at June 04, 2012 07:22 PM (Mrdk1)
Posted by: Scobface at June 04, 2012 07:23 PM (IoNBC)
*****
O'Reilly cracked up when talking about it. He said she's at some club called "Teasers".
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 04, 2012 07:23 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: steevy at June 04, 2012 07:23 PM (Xb3hu)
Posted by: AltonJackson at June 04, 2012 11:22 PM (JMmQ9)
Guess we could always invade The Hostages.
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 07:24 PM (F79HU)
Posted by: cthulhu at June 04, 2012 07:24 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: KZnextzone realizing you all heard this 3 hours ago...sigh... at June 04, 2012 07:24 PM (ZUWaD)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 04, 2012 07:24 PM (05RcU)
Posted by: Einstein at June 04, 2012 07:24 PM (V492T)
Posted by: Alex at June 04, 2012 11:21 PM
30 points? I'm worse than that. But I'd have to go to Wikipedia to argue with you.
Posted by: 40-year old loser (in other words, me for real) at June 04, 2012 07:24 PM (RzLbD)
Posted by: David, infamous sockpuppet[/i][/b] at June 04, 2012 07:25 PM (UtoLw)
Wasn't Touching the Void the name of a porn film?
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Its my domestic partners pet name for my ass hole.
Is that over the top for the ONT?
Posted by: Bawney at June 04, 2012 07:25 PM (cWkOB)
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at June 04, 2012 11:17 PM (uB19f)
Funny. If there was a 180 IQ serial killer out there the FBI would not only not catch them, they wouldn't admit they existed.
Enjory your spring break.
Posted by: Frey, God of fertility at June 04, 2012 07:25 PM (8ruiH)
Posted by: The Dude at June 04, 2012 07:26 PM (tw6Ar)
Rime Of The Ancient Mariner, Live After Death, 1985
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulfnJ0E34fU
Bang your fooking head!
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 07:26 PM (F79HU)
Posted by: DC in Towson, bleeding heart piece of shit at June 04, 2012 07:26 PM (4QAQg)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at June 04, 2012 07:26 PM (jucos)
Posted by: Ezra's Equal at June 04, 2012 07:26 PM (V492T)
Posted by: AltonJackson at June 04, 2012 11:22 PM (JMmQ9)
Guess we could always invade The Hostages.
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 11:24 PM (F79HU)
Might get a bit crowded. I understand that the comments don't have to be double-spaced over there.
Posted by: cthulhu at June 04, 2012 07:26 PM (kaalw)
Which is pretty much what journalism has devolved to which is roundly criticized by the day on this blog, both of which aren'treally in keeping with your snarky "commits journalism" line now is it?
Posted by: Burn the Witch at June 04, 2012 10:57 PM (rX1N2)
Gordon actually managed to track down someone with 1) first-hand knowledge of Obama's qualifications and performance and 2) get them to make statements and judgments about them. So for the first time ever we have on thw record statements about Obama's qualifications which now can be checked and verified.
That counts as journalism in my world.
Posted by: Mætenloch at June 04, 2012 07:27 PM (VDusq)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 04, 2012 11:24 PM
That would be me..
Posted by: Squaw Phocohantas mine nipples are hot because they're in the cauldron at June 04, 2012 07:27 PM (ZUWaD)
Yup, nothing sexier than boobs flopping down to her bellybutton, covering stretch marks the size of Bryce Canyon...
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 04, 2012 11:18 PM (niZvt)
fap fap fap fap fap
Posted by: Billy Jeff Clinton at June 04, 2012 07:27 PM (1grxW)
Posted by: Ezra's Equal at June 04, 2012 11:26 PM (V492T)
Bless you, sir, for you have brought the lulz.
Okay, now I'm out.
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 07:28 PM (F79HU)
Posted by: Scobface at June 04, 2012 11:23 PM (IoNBC)
Funny. You need to meat a true sociopath like George Soros. It is like speaking to Satan in the flesh.
Posted by: Frey, God of fertility at June 04, 2012 07:28 PM (8ruiH)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 04, 2012 07:28 PM (niZvt)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at June 04, 2012 07:29 PM (DGIjM)
Obviously it's a classic bell shaped curve. But assuming that there is some minimum intelligence requirement for serial killers is irrational. Maybe serial killing is on par with some hard-wired behavior like being able to curl your tongue under or juggling. And...we don't know all murders that are the result of serial killing because it is entirely possible that some serial killers have patterns that we simply do not see.
There might be a killer who has been murdering for 30 years and has hundreds of victims under his belt, and can't pump his own gas or cook his own food because he is stupid in all other respects!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 04, 2012 07:29 PM (nEUpB)
Void one, of course. I've explored my own void two and found it to be alimentary.
Posted by: 40-year old loser (in other words, me for real) at June 04, 2012 07:29 PM (RzLbD)
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at June 04, 2012 07:29 PM (uB19f)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 04, 2012 07:30 PM (nEUpB)
I get teased about being the one who is always pulling out her smartphone to look something up, but secretly I (like to)think my friends admire my ability to find answers to ridiculously obscure questions quickly. I just wish that all this random trivia would stay stuck somewhere in my brain so I could kick ass when we played board games like Trivial Pursuit.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at June 04, 2012 07:31 PM (RZ8pf)
I think IQ just isn't a very good measure of anything important in the real world.
As it was explained to me once, IQ is a good measure of something, because it correlates well with a lot of other variables. It's just not a good measure of intelligence.
Posted by: Alex at June 04, 2012 07:31 PM (tGh6R)
Posted by: AltonJackson at June 04, 2012 07:31 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: t-bird at June 04, 2012 07:31 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at June 04, 2012 11:29 PM
And when do we start training for that...?
Posted by: The guy with the funny teeth from Armageodon at June 04, 2012 07:32 PM (ZUWaD)
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 11:23 PM (F79HU)
The Grand Canyon.
Posted by: andycanuck at June 04, 2012 07:32 PM (nrW1y)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 04, 2012 07:32 PM (R6nK6)
Posted by: Jimmah at June 04, 2012 07:32 PM (cWkOB)
Posted by: Scobface at June 04, 2012 07:32 PM (IoNBC)
Posted by: indigo child at June 04, 2012 07:32 PM (xXhWA)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at June 04, 2012 07:34 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: AltonJackson at June 04, 2012 07:35 PM (JMmQ9)
An average white student at HLS has an IQ in the high 130s. Subtract 15 points and you have Obama, maximum.
Posted by: JB at June 04, 2012 07:35 PM (xVcWj)
In the real world, that just doesn't work.
Lots of lower-IQ people are wonderful, responsible people. Lots of higher-IQ people are absolute fucking bastards.
I think IQ just isn't a very good measure of anything important in the real world.
Posted by: Scobface at June 04, 2012 11:23 PM (IoNBC)
"Mr. Carrol. Are you a bright man?"
"No I am not!"
Great commercial. preview.tinyurl.com/c33ru9q
Posted by: buzzion at June 04, 2012 07:35 PM (GULKT)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 04, 2012 07:35 PM (R6nK6)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at June 04, 2012 07:35 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: Ezra's Equal at June 04, 2012 07:36 PM (V492T)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at June 04, 2012 07:36 PM (DGIjM)
Posted by: The Dude at June 04, 2012 07:38 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: Cicerokid at June 04, 2012 07:38 PM (dUDkg)
Posted by: AltonJackson at June 04, 2012 07:38 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at June 04, 2012 11:36 PM (DGIjM)
It's Ace, and it's Friday, there was a pretty good chance that he wouldn't have been blogging already.
Posted by: MrCaniac at June 04, 2012 07:38 PM (1grxW)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at June 04, 2012 11:31 PM (RZ8pf)
If I played it I probably would 
I was the one that classmates wanted on the team when there was a trivia game of the material for review for a test. And some of my buddies were very happy when I joined the academic team as a junior.
Posted by: buzzion at June 04, 2012 07:39 PM (GULKT)
It's a good measure of "cognitive ability." There's no general consensus as to what "intelligence" is, but certainly at higher levels it is a lot easier to correctly abstract general principles from observed data. The lower down you go, the more concrete and rule bound a person tends to be, which can be disadvantageous for independent thought.
Posted by: JB at June 04, 2012 07:40 PM (xVcWj)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at June 04, 2012 11:35 PM (RZ8pf)
the Minecraft set is pretty cool (friend bought one for his kid)
Posted by: The Dude at June 04, 2012 07:40 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: eman at June 04, 2012 07:40 PM (6KkLK)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at June 04, 2012 07:40 PM (RZ8pf)
Jimmy Carter was a nuclear engineer
kbdabear at June 04, 2012 10:33 PM (Y+DPZ)
Actually he was more like a nuclear technician - nothing at all like an engineering degree. That "nuclear engineer" stuff was a campaign lie.
http://tinyurl.com/75uujtm
Posted by: Elizabeth Warren. See me shrivel. at June 04, 2012 07:41 PM (8hBZi)
and, as I am informed by The Boy™, LEGO has a new line of Monster Hunters (or some siht). We had a long discussion tonight as to why the Mummy in 'sposed to be scary
Its like a zombie. But headshots won't kill it.
Posted by: buzzion at June 04, 2012 07:41 PM (GULKT)
Posted by: cthulhu at June 04, 2012 11:26 PM (kaalw)
http://www.spotify.com/
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 11:28 PM (F79HU)
Unfortunately, you must login with the book that is face....and Cthulhu don't do that.
Posted by: cthulhu at June 04, 2012 07:42 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Yip in Texas at June 04, 2012 07:43 PM (Mrdk1)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 04, 2012 07:43 PM (niZvt)
Posted by: AltonJackson at June 04, 2012 07:44 PM (JMmQ9)
Its like a zombie. But headshots won't kill it. Posted by: buzzion at June 04, 2012 11:41 PM
you mean.. like a democrat then
Posted by: Yip in Texas at June 04, 2012 07:44 PM (Mrdk1)
Holy crap, I didn't know Lego had a Minecraft set. You just freakin made my son's entire night, I had to call him at his Dad's to let him know. And extra bonus, his dumb mom found a $75 Lego gift card that he got from his Aunt and Uncle 2 Christmases ago that he'd never spent.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at June 04, 2012 07:45 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: Scobface at June 04, 2012 07:46 PM (IoNBC)
Posted by: buzzion at June 04, 2012 07:48 PM (GULKT)
Posted by: KZnextzone at June 04, 2012 07:48 PM (ZUWaD)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 04, 2012 07:48 PM (niZvt)
because it correlates well with a lot of other variables. It's just not a
good measure of intelligence."
It's a good measure of "cognitive ability." There's no general consensus as to what "intelligence" is, but certainly at higher levels it is a lot easier to correctly abstract general principles from observed data. The lower down you go, the more concrete and rule bound a person tends to be, which can be disadvantageous for independent thought.
Posted by: JB at June 04, 2012 11:40 PM (xVcWj)
IQ is a good measure of doing well on IQ tests. Nothing more.
Posted by: cthulhu at June 04, 2012 07:48 PM (kaalw)
****
I know/knew a man who is presently on death row. Tommy has an I.Q. of about 80 and hung out with the crappy crowd of druggies and drug dealers that my mother associated with when I was a teenager. They all treated him like an imbecile and he continued to hang out with them. Then, a couple of kids didn't pay their drug bill and were killed. Afterward, another woman, having nothing whatsoever to do with the the murder of the two kids, was also killed.
There were 5 people involved in the murders and only one, Tommy, got the death penalty. All the others served a few years and were released. Tommy was terrified of the others and would have done anything they told him to do yet each of them turned states evidence and blamed the murders on him.
What he did was evil, pure and simple, but what they did was more evil in my opinion.
Let's put it this way. Tommy was such an imbecile that after the murders, once he became a wanted man, he came to my house to ask my mother for help and she persuaded him that if he would go to the police, and tell them that she had convinced him to tun himself in, she would collect the reward money and get a lawyer for him.
He did, and she didn't.
Someday I'll tell you the whole shitty saga.
BTW, Tommy is still on death row and attorneys have been fighting his sentence for 30 years due to his mental capacity.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 04, 2012 07:49 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at June 04, 2012 11:45 PM (RZ8pf)
yeah, it's really cool. Only real downside is it's a bit skimpy on stuff as they almost make you buy 2 sets.
man, now I'm really curious on how much it cost LucasArts to make a 3d model of a young Wayne Newton
Posted by: The Dude at June 04, 2012 07:49 PM (tw6Ar)
That's my point. For all we know the best serial killers are 13-year-old girls. They kill between their first and 20 menses, and then stop.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 04, 2012 07:50 PM (nEUpB)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 04, 2012 07:51 PM (niZvt)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 04, 2012 11:43 PM
You have seen to the center of the problem, Monty DOES know. That is the key. He shows you the loser. (with two left over, there is always a loser) Your initial choice is ALWAYS 1/3. The opposite, 2/3 is always better.
Posted by: 40-year old loser (in other words, me for real) at June 04, 2012 07:52 PM (RzLbD)
Posted by: Tommy at June 04, 2012 11:51 PM (ZUWaD)
can I call you Candy Cane?
Posted by: The Dude at June 04, 2012 07:53 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 04, 2012 07:53 PM (niZvt)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at June 04, 2012 07:55 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: eman at June 04, 2012 07:55 PM (6KkLK)
*****
Anyone who has lived with a 14 year old girl knows that they are capable of pure evil.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 04, 2012 07:55 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Jimmah at June 04, 2012 07:56 PM (cWkOB)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 04, 2012 07:56 PM (niZvt)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 04, 2012 11:43 PM
You have seen to the center of the problem, Monty DOES know. That is the key. He shows you the loser. (with two left over, there is always a loser) Your initial choice is ALWAYS 1/3. The opposite, 2/3 is always better.
Posted by: 40-year old loser (in other words, me for real) at June 04, 2012 11:52 PM (RzLbD)
Going back to the Monty with the goatee -- if Monty always gives you the option only when he knows you have the car, then you should never switch. If he always displays a goat and gives the option, you should always switch. If he sometimes displays a goat whether or not you've chosen the car, and sometimes attacks you with a bat'leth during the show, you should probably avoid being a contestant.
Posted by: cthulhu at June 04, 2012 07:58 PM (kaalw)
But you are assuming that standard intelligence is linked to success as a serial killer, and I don't accept that premise. I mentioned earlier that it could be some weird skill like Rainman's counting ability.
Who knows?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 04, 2012 07:58 PM (nEUpB)
because it correlates well with a lot of other variables. It's just not a
good measure of intelligence."
It's a good measure of "cognitive ability." There's no general consensus as to what "intelligence" is, but certainly at higher levels it is a lot easier to correctly abstract general principles from observed data. The lower down you go, the more concrete and rule bound a person tends to be, which can be disadvantageous for independent thought.
Posted by: JB at June 04, 2012 11:40 PM (xVcWj) [br[
IQ tests show your ability to learn and integrate new information, and then use it on the fly. In the case of the SCOAMF/T, it's not that useful a measure, in my opinion. The willingness to learn is not measured, and no account is taken for the ideological marriage to certain ideas. The smartest man in the world, if he is ideologically and intelectually uninterested or inflexible, is no smarter than his fellow travelers. If you have a 400 hp brain, but make your mind a car that limits itself to 65mph and can only turn left or right, all that excess brainpower dies on the vine. You have blinded yourself to outcomes oustside of your expectations, based on a belief sysstem that has failed consistently for over a century. If one is able to completely disregard the 20th century, the 100 million dead as a result of collectivist policies, and the suffering of the survivors that was a result, yet still come back to the same old and tired ideologies, I think that demonstrates a refusal to learn, which negates any natural intelligence advantages a man or woman might have in their favor.
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at June 04, 2012 07:59 PM (kRURw)
Grades and class standing cease to be an objective measure of merit when you have senior faculty members mashing a big fat thumb down on the pan of the scales.
Posted by: torquewrench at June 04, 2012 07:59 PM (g2X0m)
Who knows?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 04, 2012 11:58 PM (nEUpB)
Definitely going in the pit. Definitely Definitely. Gonna wear her skin. Definitely.
Posted by: Buffalo Rainman at June 04, 2012 08:00 PM (GULKT)
Where's the list??
(we just a grad list the other night that had him at Columbia, where it looked like he didn't graduate with any distinction. It's quite possible he didn't hit his stride until he went to HLS.)
But where's the evidence??
Posted by: Jim Sonweed at June 04, 2012 08:01 PM (YZFki)
Speaking of young killers, two boys were arrested in Tacoma and will be charged as adults for murder, they are 16 and 14. They killed another kid--in their own house--after that kid came by I guess to sell them marijuana. Their mother came home while they were cleaning up the mess and they told her that the mess was chili. She went upstairs, found the body in the tub, went to the police station to report it (one does wonder why she didn't just call 911) and when she returned home the boys had put it in the recyling bin and wheeled it behind the house (totally would've been busted in the end anyway, everyone knows that bodies go in the compost bin, not the recycling bin). The police asked the boys where the body was and they told the police where to find it.
Sadly, I assume that given the poor track record of our court system here they'll be back out on the streets making chili again in no time.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at June 04, 2012 08:01 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: The Dude at June 04, 2012 08:01 PM (tw6Ar)
Anyone who has lived with a 14 year old girl knows that they are capable of pure evil.
This is why every father knows that teenage girls should all be placed in convents from 13 to 25.
Posted by: Alex at June 04, 2012 08:01 PM (tGh6R)
Posted by: 19K - B5D, having shat, is off the pot at June 04, 2012 08:02 PM (4qU0l)
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at June 04, 2012 08:02 PM (kRURw)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at June 04, 2012 10:15 PM (RZ8pf)
I know. Crazy.
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at June 04, 2012 10:19 PM (DGIjM)
My mom told me a story about how my grandfather was out in the Minnesota woods hunting, and was walking back to his vehicle at the end of the day when he felt like his shirt was wet. He looked down and saw quite a bit of blood coming from his chest. He apparently had been hit with a stray .22 bullet, and not only didn't hear it but didn't feel it when it hit. It lodged 2cm from his heart.
A kid I went to high school with lost his father during hunting season, when a stray bullet hit him in the head...while he was in his car driving on the highway at 60mph.
Posted by: model_1066 at June 04, 2012 08:02 PM (PWwbk)
Posted by: Yip in Texas at June 04, 2012 08:03 PM (Mrdk1)
Posted by: 40-year old loser (in other words, me for real) at June 04, 2012 08:04 PM (RzLbD)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at June 04, 2012 08:05 PM (DGIjM)
Posted by: Vermin at June 04, 2012 08:05 PM (dAIU+)
behind one of three doors. The contestant picks door number 1. Monty
then reveals a goat behind door number 2. He then gives the contestant a
chance to change his mind and pick door number 3. What is the chance
that the car is behind door number 3?
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The seductive answer would be 1 in 2, because there are two doors left, right?
Not so fast... you have to be clear on the nature of the game.
As mentioned earlier, I also figured the real chance on the TV show was related to whether or not they felt like giving away a car, or a lifetime supply of slightly brown bananas, and that the prize draw was essentially manipulated.
But let's talk about a fair version of the game where there *is* a car, and it stays behind the door it was behind when you picked door 1. Given otherwise even odds, the chance of the car being behind door 1 is 1 in 3, and nothing will change those odds. If you picked door 1 a hundred times, about 33 times you'd get a shiny new Yugo, regardless of any goats or pink thong underwear or anything else that may be shown to you behind another door.
Now, it would make for bad TV to open the door *with* the car to show you that you basically just lost, so in this scenario we can assume the host selects one of the not-car doors you didn't pick to reveal. In this case it was door 2, but lets assume that if the car was behind door 2, he would show you door 3 instead. The question that helps us drive away that wonderful piece of socialist manufacturing mediocrity is now how likely are you to find a car behind that door you didn't pick and haven't seen.
There are two approaches to that question that point to the same answer- one is simply in a situation where you know the probability of one of two choices, you can interpret the remaining choice to be the remaining probability. The other is that you can interpret door 3 as the sum of the probability of either door 2 or door 3 being the car door, with door 2 ruled out now thanks to the giant trail of goat crap leading away from our example- the goat wandering off in the time it takes to explain this.
In either case, that probability is 2 in 3.
Posted by: John Galt's Bile Duct at June 04, 2012 08:05 PM (+/VIS)
Posted by: Buffalo Rainman at June 04, 2012 08:05 PM (GULKT)
Posted by: eman at June 04, 2012 08:06 PM (6KkLK)
Posted by: sexypig at June 04, 2012 08:07 PM (wWV5q)
Posted by: Yip in Texas at June 04, 2012 08:08 PM (Mrdk1)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at June 04, 2012 08:09 PM (DGIjM)
Posted by: Yip in Texas at June 04, 2012 08:10 PM (Mrdk1)
Posted by: 19K - B5D, having shat, is off the pot at June 04, 2012 08:11 PM (4qU0l)
Posted by: model_1066 at June 04, 2012 08:11 PM (PWwbk)
Posted by: Buffalo Rainman at June 05, 2012 12:05 AM (GULKT)
****
In all these years, I don't think I've ever typed the words "thread winner", until now.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 04, 2012 08:12 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 04, 2012 08:12 PM (C8mVl)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at June 04, 2012 11:55 PM (RZ8pf)
It's the Lego speculators, and I need another term to go after them.
Posted by: Preznit Baracka at June 04, 2012 08:13 PM (1grxW)
>>>>>>>>>>>>
No, he was NOT.. He took one course in nuclear power.
That said, he graduated a respectable 59th of 820 in his Naval Academy class, with no specific major. USNA grads are obviously highly intelligent, though not necessarily effective in all endeavors.
Just look at John McCain.
And...majoring in Communications does not necessarily mean that a person has a lower IQ than an engineer.
You , Mr. Smartie, could benefit from a Critical Thinking 101 course.
Posted by: Jim Sonweed at June 04, 2012 08:13 PM (YZFki)
I'm off to dream land as well, thanks to the Dude for the Lego heads up which helped me maintain my cool mom status.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at June 04, 2012 08:14 PM (RZ8pf)
I meant "standard" as in: standard measure.
And you did say that -- "the true population more likely has a higher average IQ than 130." I just disagree with this statement. There isn't enough data to demonstrate it.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 04, 2012 08:14 PM (nEUpB)
Posted by: Thorvald at June 04, 2012 08:15 PM (OhenJ)
Posted by: steevy at June 04, 2012 08:15 PM (Xb3hu)
****
One of the brightest and hardest working people I've ever worked with is a communications major. She is now a manager of communications for a multi-billion dollar company.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 04, 2012 08:16 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Alex at June 04, 2012 08:17 PM (tGh6R)
Posted by: Buffalo Rainman at June 05, 2012 12:05 AM (GULKT)
****
In all these years, I don't think I've ever typed the words "thread winner", until now.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 05, 2012 12:12 AM (piMMO)
Nothing more satisfying than getting laughs by successfully combining two movies I've probably seen less than an hour of combined.
Posted by: buzzion at June 04, 2012 08:18 PM (GULKT)
Posted by: steevy at June 05, 2012 12:15 AM (Xb3hu)
so she is being an even bigger crank than usual?
Posted by: The Dude at June 04, 2012 08:19 PM (tw6Ar)
The Dog-Eating Retard is not anything near "smart". He's a fucking retard. Who thinks the dean of the law school that hired the idiot is going to say, "Yeah ... we hire retards - especially if they're black."?
This is all too funny. The Indonesian's IQ hovers around 84. He would have been purely lucky to have broken 920 on his SATs. He's a stone cold idiot.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 04, 2012 08:19 PM (X3lox)
Yeah... I mean 13-year-olds have the body strength, the cunning, the access and ability to use deadly weapons, the ability to conceal their tracks....
So "for all we know", we don't know what we know based on the evidence, the modus operandi, and all that other stuff.
Yeah.
That's it....that's it.
The police should put out BOLO on their cold cases...
Posted by: Jim Sonweed at June 04, 2012 08:20 PM (YZFki)
That counts as journalism in my world.
Posted by: Mætenloch at June 04, 2012 11:27 PM
There's just one question they can't get around;
Would Preznit Endzone Dance keep his school transcripts sealed if he was such a stellar student?
Posted by: kbdabear at June 04, 2012 08:21 PM (Y+DPZ)
Screw you and Uhuru too!
Posted by: lieutenant-commander scott at June 04, 2012 08:21 PM (nrW1y)
You do realize that I am making an absurd point to demonstrate our lack of any real data?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 04, 2012 08:22 PM (nEUpB)
Posted by: 19K - B5D, having shat, is off the pot at June 04, 2012 08:22 PM (4qU0l)
Tits-On-A-Chair is so batshit she makes Pamela Geller sound understated
Posted by: kbdabear at June 04, 2012 08:23 PM (Y+DPZ)
Harvard Lawn School is a destructive joke of a shitty institution.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 04, 2012 08:24 PM (X3lox)
Posted by: MrCaniac at June 04, 2012 10:44 PM (1grxW)
***************************
Gee, look. Those are all countries with reasonably functioning governments (well, HK used to have). Almost like there was some benefit to having English-speaking white guys or Engrish-speaking Asians in charge, along with an underlying framework of English-speaking English common law. In English. (No "press 1" shit.)
Racist bastards. How DARE they travel the world, leaving functional governments in their wake. (And before you flame me, I understand they were neither perfect nor 100% successful. But the proles gotta *make* it work.)
Posted by: Boomer Redneque at June 04, 2012 08:24 PM (eQnzo)
Posted by: 19K - B5D, having shat, is off the pot at June 04, 2012 08:24 PM (4qU0l)
Posted by: 19K - B5D, having shat, is off the pot at June 05, 2012 12:22 AM (4qU0l
Don't I get to pick one of three doors first?
Posted by: buzzion at June 04, 2012 08:25 PM (GULKT)
Is that why they're a bunch of grassholes?
Posted by: andycanuck at June 04, 2012 08:26 PM (nrW1y)
Posted by: ChampionCapua at June 04, 2012 08:26 PM (KZi9D)
Twelve hours later, she would still be killing that bitch from study hall and asking everyone "Doesn't she deserve this? I mean, really. Look at those shoes."
Posted by: irright at June 04, 2012 08:27 PM (RzLbD)
Posted by: andycanuck at June 05, 2012 12:26 AM (nrW1y)
I like the way your mind works.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 04, 2012 08:27 PM (X3lox)
Posted by: kbdabear at June 05, 2012 12:23 AM (Y+DPZ)
heh
Posted by: The Dude at June 04, 2012 08:27 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: 19K - B5D, having shat, is off the pot at June 04, 2012 08:28 PM (4qU0l)
Posted by: Ace's liver at June 04, 2012 08:28 PM (1+XRG)
I might be pissed if I actually paid any money to watch it.
Posted by: Waterhouse at June 04, 2012 08:29 PM (3ZJiy)
Cold Steel actually makes an Army officers saber that is functional, not just a stainless steel wall hanger.
This, however, is neither, it's a reproduction of the saber designed by Alfred Hutton for use as a training sword. I've taken a couple of classes in military saber and would like to get one for practice at home. Since I'm currently hunting for work, I don't know if I can afford it right now.
Posted by: Alex at June 04, 2012 08:29 PM (tGh6R)
http://tinyurl.com/3n3dvs5
Posted by: Oschisms at June 04, 2012 08:30 PM (pfVS8)
http://bit.ly/KBS6F0
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 04, 2012 08:30 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: zeera at June 04, 2012 08:30 PM (XtxRN)
Posted by: Waterhouse at June 05, 2012 12:29 AM (3ZJiy)
13 episodes, too expensive to film any more and they are moving too fast for Martin 
Posted by: The Dude at June 04, 2012 08:31 PM (tw6Ar)
Utter bullshit the likes of which are found readily on Coast to Coast AM and nowhere else.
Care to cite?
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at June 04, 2012 08:32 PM (famk3)
Posted by: Ace's liver at June 04, 2012 08:33 PM (1+XRG)
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at June 04, 2012 08:33 PM (nUY/O)
Obviously not. There are geniuses even in sociology.
The average communications major vs. the average engineering major is a different story.
Posted by: JB at June 04, 2012 08:33 PM (xVcWj)
Posted by: 19K - B5D, having shat, is off the pot at June 04, 2012 08:34 PM (4qU0l)
Posted by: JB at June 04, 2012 08:35 PM (xVcWj)
http://tinyurl.com/3n3dvs5
Posted by: Oschisms at June 05, 2012 12:30 AM (pfVS
In addition, it was historically pathetic for a president of the Lawn Review, which used to be the highest GPA and thus nothing less than summa. But, then again, the Dog-Eating Retard was the Precedent of the Lawn Review ... as usual.
The Indonesian Imbecile specializes in being First and Worst.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 04, 2012 08:36 PM (X3lox)
Posted by: The Dude at June 04, 2012 08:36 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: whiskey tango at June 04, 2012 08:37 PM (JvP2I)
Posted by: 19K - B5D, having shat, is off the pot at June 04, 2012 08:37 PM (4qU0l)
Posted by: Buffalo Rainman at June 05, 2012 12:05 AM
Buffalo Rainman, PLEASE tell us you've seen Wapner today.
Posted by: irright at June 04, 2012 08:37 PM (RzLbD)
Posted by: whiskey tango at June 05, 2012 12:37 AM (JvP2I)
You can be both, but the Indonesian Imbecile is clearly not. He's an idiot. I wouldn't let him help a 6th grader with his homework. I doubt you would, either.
He's a blithering idiot who has the mathematical sophistication of a slow 8th grader. Seriously.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 04, 2012 08:39 PM (X3lox)
Iron on target from a distance is a very good thing. This is for fun. Also, I think the Army would be a lot better if officers were allowed to duel to settle their differences. At the very least allow us to go at it with singlesticks!
Posted by: Alex at June 04, 2012 08:40 PM (tGh6R)
Posted by: The Dude at June 04, 2012 08:40 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 04, 2012 08:41 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: 19K - B5D at June 04, 2012 08:42 PM (4qU0l)
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at June 04, 2012 08:44 PM (nUY/O)
Posted by: 19K - B5D at June 04, 2012 08:46 PM (4qU0l)
Not him.
People are smart would have known by spring of 2009 that that course of action was a political boomerang assuring a one-term presidency (I did, and I'm no genius.)
Not him.
Obama isn't that smart (by Presidential standards), and on top of that he is ignorant and incurious. His bitter clinging to Marxism is merely an inevitable symptom of those two characteristics - he is Nietzsche's archetypal Tarantula.
Posted by: JB at June 04, 2012 08:46 PM (xVcWj)
Posted by: 19K - B5D at June 05, 2012 12:42 AM (4qU0l)
just makes me wish the book would finally come out
Posted by: The Dude at June 04, 2012 08:48 PM (tw6Ar)
I'm reading reviews of Prometheus by regular viewers and they are cheesed off. Its lame, irrational, contrived, derivitive, and poorly scripted. Its like a knockoff of Alien by someone who sort of remembered the movie, with really great visuals, according to these reviews.
Just a heads up.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 04, 2012 08:50 PM (r4wIV)
Posted by: Piercello at June 04, 2012 08:50 PM (L4NUg)
Posted by: 19K - B5D at June 04, 2012 08:50 PM (4qU0l)
The average communications major vs. the average engineering major is a different story.
---------------
Maybe so -- which is why the over-generalization was challenged. But Carter wasn't even an average engineering major -- he was a superior engineering major.
Why Communications majors were ever injected to this is something kdkabear has to reply to. He said:
"Jimmy Carter was a nuclear engineer*, certainly* requires a much higher IQ* than a communications "
* not a nuclear engineer
* "certainly" not
* the notion that "IQ" measures intelligence or aptitude equally in all fields has been debunked a long time ago.
QED
Posted by: Jim Sonweed at June 04, 2012 08:51 PM (YZFki)
Just a heads up.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 05, 2012 12:50 AM (r4wIV)
even with the prospect that I might be out of a job in a few weeks, can't wait to see it with everyone in the office on Friday
Posted by: The Dude at June 04, 2012 08:52 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 08:53 PM (4ixH5)
http://exm.nr/M8vgm9
And her is Ali's Twitter feed:
https://twitter.com/#!/ali
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 04, 2012 08:54 PM (piMMO)
Fucking awesome.
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at June 05, 2012 12:44 AM (nUY/O)
Let's not get cocky. We are still in the shadow of an existential danger. That said, we have something today that makes things infinitely better than they were in the late 70's.....we've seen things break for the worse, but we've also seen them break for the good. If Ronaldus Maximus had never been, we might be trapped in a hopeless dystopian nightmare where the only question was how fast we were sliding into totalitarianism -- the direction seemed fixed since FDR. We now know that we can summon the will and the spirit and reverse that downward slide....if only for a time.
Posted by: cthulhu at June 04, 2012 08:54 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: JB at June 05, 2012 12:46 AM (xVcWj)
Yep, or as he prefers to imagine himself, The Avenging Angel of the Third World.
Personally, I rank him as a common slug - pissed as hell, but just a slug, nonetheless. A little salt and he'd be all gone.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 04, 2012 08:54 PM (X3lox)
Posted by: The Dude at June 04, 2012 08:55 PM (tw6Ar)
They should all Snap, Crackle and Pop.
Posted by: andycanuck at June 04, 2012 08:56 PM (nrW1y)
Posted by: The Dude at June 05, 2012 12:55 AM (tw6Ar)
Oh, what a world it would be!
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 04, 2012 08:57 PM (X3lox)
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at June 04, 2012 08:58 PM (nUY/O)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 04, 2012 08:59 PM (bxiXv)
True. But tell you what, I'll take the bet on engineer as house odds every time and you take the other side every time. Deal?
Posted by: jc at June 04, 2012 08:59 PM (ufJKx)
Posted by: Ken J at June 04, 2012 09:00 PM (u8k4G)
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at June 04, 2012 09:02 PM (nUY/O)
That's not a major. I mean, let's be honest.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 04, 2012 09:02 PM (X3lox)
Posted by: Thorvald at June 04, 2012 09:03 PM (OhenJ)
That's not a major. I mean, let's be honest.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 05, 2012 01:02 AM (X3lox)
Oh, c'mon.....
Posted by: MA, Library Science at June 04, 2012 09:03 PM (kaalw)
“Then the cop said to me, ‘I don’t have time to play this constitutional bullshit with you.
You know, I must be getting grumpy in my dotage, because I'd send that sack of shit to North Korea, too. He could go on the same plane as Bloomberg.
****
Right! Because finding that unmanned, unregistered deadly weapon was of the utmost priority!
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 04, 2012 09:04 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: polynikes at June 04, 2012 09:05 PM (09Sew)
Posted by: Jean at June 04, 2012 09:05 PM (WkuV6)
Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at June 04, 2012 09:06 PM (21lBC)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 04, 2012 09:07 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: 19K - B5D at June 04, 2012 09:09 PM (4qU0l)
Posted by: Jean at June 05, 2012 01:05 AM (WkuV6)
I'm not. I want toelect Mittens and then impeach him and throw him out right after the inauguration. America is itching to impeach and toss a President, to redefine the strict limits of the office that the Indonesian Mutt Muncher has absolutely made minced meat of.
But the single most important action that must be taken after Barky is finally driven from the Oval Office, is that he and his junta are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and receive commensurate punishments. Without that, nothing will be fixed.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 04, 2012 09:09 PM (X3lox)
Right. Pull the other one. It has bells on it.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at June 04, 2012 09:09 PM (eHIJJ)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 04, 2012 09:13 PM (bxiXv)
Well, is it okay if I watch some gay pron to get some cocksucking pointers? I mean, just in case ole Winston gives the go ahead Tuesday night.......which is likely.
I've already got the pudding at room temp.
I've bought into the CAC hype that the WI recall is a referendum. I'm also anxious to see how the CA city pension reform votes go, being as how they are proposed by Dem mayors.
Posted by: GnuBreed at June 04, 2012 09:14 PM (ccXZP)
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at June 04, 2012 09:14 PM (nUY/O)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 05, 2012 01:09 AM (X3lox)
I'm right behind you on this. They can't be charged until BHO can't pardon 'em, but the moment afterward, EVERYTHING should come out. EVERYTHING. Every Rezko tape, every Solyndra meeting -- what the hell, John Kerry's service record. This BS that Constitutional restrictions don't bind Dems because they're pure of heart and their shit smells faintly of violets needs to be so over in January, 2013.
Posted by: cthulhu at June 04, 2012 09:14 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Thorvald at June 04, 2012 09:15 PM (OhenJ)
Posted by: 19K - B5D at June 04, 2012 09:17 PM (4qU0l)
He's still tweeting the under the Bizarro meme.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 04, 2012 09:17 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: The Other Other McCain, You Know, the Original at June 04, 2012 09:19 PM (eHIJJ)
Posted by: DC in Towson, bleeding heart piece of shit at June 04, 2012 09:19 PM (4QAQg)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 04, 2012 09:21 PM (bxiXv)
For a while there in the 1980s-early 1990s, grade inflation made it a lot easier to cop a magna cum laude at Harvard Law School. I think in Obama's time it meant something like top 25% of the class. After Obama's time they changed it so it wasn't pegged to a specific GPA number; instead, magna would require a GPA in the top 10% of the class, whatever that was. (These days, hell, I don't even think they give real grades with letters, pluses and minuses at HLS anymore. Kagan did away with letter grades as Dean.)
Nonetheless, top 25% at HLS is impressive on its face.
But that prompts an interesting question. Since his law school grades were quite high, why haven't we seen Obama's HLS transcripts?
After all, that would seem to be a great way to instantly put a lot of suspicions about him to rest without having to show us his college transcripts (which I suspect were garbage). His supporters could say, "who cares if O partied and slacked his ass off in college; look at his law school performance, he obviously is sharp and got his sh*t together. Move on."
I have a strong hunch the reason we haven't seen Obama's law school transcripts is because they would tell us what courses he chose to take.
I suspect that Obama took a WHOLE LOT of squishy, blatantly left-wing race/gender/critical legal studies/etc. classes in law school. That they are all over his transcript. Which would (a) tend to strongly confirm the view of him as a budding hard-left identity politics radical, and (b) would tarnish his magna honors, because a lot of those fluffy ideological classes are small enrollment, everyone's tight with the prof, and there is major grade inflation in them compared to the "core" subjects like Federal Courts or Corporate Tax.
So the law school transcripts are kept under wraps.
BTW while Harvard Law does have blind grading of exams, upper level seminars (including the lefty ones that I speculate Obama loaded up on) have you write a research paper, and those are not blind graded.
Posted by: MPV at June 04, 2012 09:21 PM (2AfKV)
I thought Ford gave blanket pardons to a bunch of folks including Nixon, even though he wasn't yet charged?
Besides, even if I have this wrong, the LightBringer can surely set a few new precedents in this area.
Posted by: GnuBreed at June 04, 2012 09:21 PM (ccXZP)
Posted by: whiskey tango at June 04, 2012 09:22 PM (JvP2I)
Posted by: DC in Towson, bleeding heart piece of shit at June 04, 2012 09:25 PM (4QAQg)
http://bit.ly/M1jvyu
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 04, 2012 09:25 PM (piMMO)
tomorrow's talking point today? If you are a serious romney supporter, they are losing in the comments following the article...
Posted by: .... at June 04, 2012 09:28 PM (oZfic)
On the other hand, it might lead to someone enjoying a joint without the fear that twenty heavily armed and armored killjoys are going to pay him a visit. We obviously can't have that.
Posted by: sum(random) at June 04, 2012 09:29 PM (UCyxd)
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at June 04, 2012 09:31 PM (nUY/O)
For an indicator of why this election is so important, consider this: America has only ever held a gubernatorial recall election twice in its history--in 1921 and 2003.
The 2003 recall involved Davis and Arnie replacing him in CA. This is a very rare event y'all.
Posted by: GnuBreed at June 04, 2012 09:31 PM (ccXZP)
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 09:31 PM (4ixH5)
I'm not sure, but it probably involves heavy machinery that vibrates violently.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at June 04, 2012 09:34 PM (xKC/c)
I suspect he has a flagrantly politically charged / flaky sounding selection of courses on his law school transcript, and that's why they're hiding it even though his grades were high.
Posted by: MPV at June 04, 2012 09:34 PM (2AfKV)
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 09:37 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 04, 2012 09:39 PM (piMMO)
http://tinyurl.com/7zd9qzj
And make it a reality TV show at the same time.
And if there are any inhabitants on Mars they'll buy it for some shiny beads.
Dutchies are nuts, they could do it.
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 09:39 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 05, 2012 01:39 AM (piMMO)
She's a kooky bitch that makes the rest of us look really bad. Best to ignore her.
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 09:40 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: 19K - B5D at June 04, 2012 09:41 PM (4qU0l)
http://tinyurl.com/32lqdm
Posted by: Robert at June 05, 2012 01:26 AM (4ixH5)
Gushka's a sweetheart.
Posted by: cthulhu at June 04, 2012 09:41 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 05, 2012 01:39 AM (piMMO)
crank who thinks a muslin with a suicide vest is hiding under your bed ready to crawl up your ass and push the button
http://tinyurl.com/blk3vny
Posted by: The Dude at June 04, 2012 09:41 PM (tw6Ar)
I don't need her to make me look bad.
Wait, what?
Posted by: Blanco Basura at June 04, 2012 09:42 PM (xKC/c)
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 09:44 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: The Dude at June 04, 2012 09:44 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at June 04, 2012 09:45 PM (nUY/O)
***
I was curious because she was mentioned over at Ali Akbar's tweet stream. Some SC attorney has offered to represent, pro bono, anyone who feels they've been defamed by her.
I popped into her Twitter site and she is fighting like a teenage girl over there. No idea what got it started.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 04, 2012 09:46 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 04, 2012 09:47 PM (bxiXv)
Can't. Fucking. Wait.
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at June 05, 2012 01:45 AM (nUY/O)
I'm still pissed that the cute rocket scientist lost to the horrible Mexican toad last time. I'd like to know where a little push might make a difference.
Posted by: cthulhu at June 04, 2012 09:48 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 05, 2012 01:47 AM (bxiXv)
a shart is more important than that fucking hag
Posted by: The Dude at June 04, 2012 09:49 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 04, 2012 09:50 PM (bxiXv)
****
How the heck is it that I spend so much time on the interwebz and listening to news radio/t.v. and this is the first I have ever heard of her?
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 04, 2012 09:50 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 09:51 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at June 04, 2012 09:51 PM (nUY/O)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 05, 2012 01:50 AM (piMMO)
because you've been lucky, extremely lucky
Posted by: The Dude at June 04, 2012 09:52 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 04, 2012 09:52 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: cthulhu at June 04, 2012 09:52 PM (kaalw)
Coincidentally, she's harassed people, sued them, harassed them at work, etc.
****
Ahhh.
Yeah, she's threatening to sue folks as I type this.
Checked out her website's "about" section and I'll be darned if she doesn't think mighty highly of herself.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 04, 2012 09:53 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: The Dude at June 04, 2012 09:54 PM (tw6Ar)
http://tinyurl.com/7q5zwj3
Yes, because turning the United States federal government into an accomplice in the murders of several hundred Mexican citizens is percectly honorable.
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 09:58 PM (4ixH5)
http://tinyurl.com/7q5zwj3
Yes, because turning the United States federal government into an accomplice in the murders of several hundred Mexican citizens is percectly honorable.
Posted by: Robert at June 05, 2012 01:58 AM (4ixH5)
One might think that an Anglo press flack declaring a Hispanic VP candidate "off-limits" might be more insulting.....
Posted by: cthulhu at June 04, 2012 10:01 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 10:05 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: cthulhu at June 04, 2012 10:08 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: jc at June 04, 2012 10:11 PM (ufJKx)
Posted by: The Dude at June 04, 2012 10:12 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: jc at June 05, 2012 02:11 AM (ufJKx)
Speaking of which, I might like boats......has bean been summoned, lately?
Posted by: cthulhu at June 04, 2012 10:14 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 04, 2012 10:15 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Zakn at June 05, 2012 02:19 AM (zyaZ1)
thought you gave it away?
Posted by: The Dude at June 04, 2012 10:20 PM (tw6Ar)
Holy shit I want one of those. I wonder if he'd make me one if I supplied my own deceased pet.
Posted by: Contemplative Lobster at June 04, 2012 10:21 PM (dKWiU)
Posted by: rabidfox at June 04, 2012 10:33 PM (HIvH/)
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 10:33 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: rabidfox at June 04, 2012 10:34 PM (HIvH/)
http://tinyurl.com/73zlo9s
This one...this one is for me.
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 10:35 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 10:38 PM (4ixH5)
http://tinyurl.com/cjwtjkb
http://tinyurl.com/d7vauzy
If ya liked 'em five bucks is a steal.
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 10:39 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Zakn at June 04, 2012 10:40 PM (zyaZ1)
http://tinyurl.com/cmywabm
Classic. I've linked Promised Land at least twice here before, I should do this one soon.
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 10:41 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: The Dude at June 04, 2012 10:50 PM (tw6Ar)
I can't help but think maybe cool weather is to blame. When it's nearing triple digits who the hell has time to do shit like this?
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 10:53 PM (4ixH5)
http://tinyurl.com/77y2zvc
Posted by: Robert at June 05, 2012 02:33 AM (4ixH5)
That looks ready to take out for a spin.
Posted by: cthulhu at June 04, 2012 10:53 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: The Dude at June 05, 2012 02:50 AM (tw6Ar)
Steam? That some kinda turkish bath?
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 10:55 PM (4ixH5)
http://tinyurl.com/73zlo9s
This one...this one is for me.
Posted by: Robert at June 05, 2012 02:35 AM (4ixH5)
I dunno, she looks like she has a hard time affording fabric....she may be a destitute waif.....
Posted by: cthulhu at June 04, 2012 10:55 PM (kaalw)
http://tinyurl.com/73zlo9s
This one...this one is for me.
Posted by: Robert at June 05, 2012 02:35 AM (4ixH5)
====
did you see more, or are you taking the non-Lovett thing on faith?
http://tinyurl.com/7vd3d9m
Posted by: jc at June 04, 2012 10:56 PM (ufJKx)
Posted by: jc at June 05, 2012 02:56 AM (ufJKx)
Lovett? I'd love it sitting on my face, yes.
Linky no worky.
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 10:58 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: cthulhu at June 05, 2012 02:55 AM (kaalw)
I will take care of all her needs...and desires...*Licks lips*
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 10:58 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Robert at June 05, 2012 02:57 AM (4ixH5)
didn't know you could be cold in a Greek bathhouse
Posted by: The Dude at June 04, 2012 10:59 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: The Dude at June 04, 2012 11:02 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: jc at June 05, 2012 02:56 AM (ufJKx)
Lovett? I'd love it sitting on my face, yes.
Linky no worky.
Posted by: Robert at June 05, 2012 02:58 AM (4ixH5)
========
She's Hot to Go --
She's hot to go she's ready
She's hot to go right now
She's hot to go
You've got to know
That stop-and-do-it gal
Now I crept up from behind her
She looked so fine to me
But when I stepped around her man
My eyes could plainly see
She was ugly from the front
She was ugly from the front
She was ugly from the front
And I said ugly-ugly-ugly-ugly-ugly
Well I could handle it behind her
And I like it on the side
But don't make me look around her man 'cause she's
Ugly-ugly-ugly-ugly-ugly
She was ugly from the front
She was ugly from the front
She was ugly from the front
And I said this girl was so ugly...
But you ugly too
Posted by: jc at June 04, 2012 11:05 PM (ufJKx)
format me and the horse I rode in on.
if it ain't one formatting thing, it's another.
Posted by: jc at June 04, 2012 11:08 PM (ufJKx)
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 11:09 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: jc at June 05, 2012 03:08 AM (ufJKx)
What if you come down with the blue screen of death? Just shoot the horse?
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 11:14 PM (4ixH5)
'sup Horde,, tnks Robert but I'd need a trolling motor to partake of her delights to the full extent.. them twin motors would cause premature eject...
Posted by: beanervt at June 04, 2012 11:14 PM (KZLoo)
Posted by: jc at June 05, 2012 03:08 AM (ufJKx)
What if you come down with the blue screen of death? Just shoot the horse?
Posted by: Robert at June 05, 2012 03:14 AM (4ixH5)
===
well I'm pretty sure I'd rather shoot it than format it. Besides that I'm not that tall.
Posted by: jc at June 04, 2012 11:17 PM (ufJKx)
at least in the Presidency?? He's basically a high rent used car salesman,, who we can't afford.
Posted by: beanervt at June 04, 2012 11:17 PM (KZLoo)
Posted by: jc at June 04, 2012 11:18 PM (ufJKx)
Posted by: DC in Towson, bleeding heart piece of shit at June 04, 2012 11:19 PM (4QAQg)
You don't need fewer motors, you just need more girls.
http://tinyurl.com/77afr2a
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 11:20 PM (4ixH5)
Carry on.
Posted by: DC in Towson, bleeding heart piece of shit at June 05, 2012 03:19 AM (4QAQg)
Fascinating.
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 11:21 PM (4ixH5)
Holy Canolli JC,,, that sounds like some serious shit...can I help??
Posted by: beanervt at June 04, 2012 11:23 PM (KZLoo)
Posted by: DC in Towson, bleeding heart piece of shit at June 04, 2012 11:27 PM (4QAQg)
Posted by: The Dude at June 04, 2012 11:28 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: DC in Towson, bleeding heart piece of shit at June 04, 2012 11:31 PM (4QAQg)
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 11:32 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 11:37 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: cthulhu at June 04, 2012 11:41 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: cthulhu at June 05, 2012 03:41 AM (kaalw)
===
that's cuz he's a bogart.
Posted by: jc at June 04, 2012 11:42 PM (ufJKx)
Heading north, as soon as I get the car packed. I won't be able to join the fun, but I do have some pudding for tonight.
I might get snowed on tonight or tomorrow night: http://tinyurl.com/7cdcuv5
Posted by: fluffy at June 04, 2012 11:44 PM (z9HTb)
Posted by: DC in Towson, bleeding heart piece of shit at June 04, 2012 11:45 PM (4QAQg)
Posted by: cthulhu at June 05, 2012 03:41 AM (kaalw)
Don't want you to feel left out.
http://tinyurl.com/7datj9n
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 11:45 PM (4ixH5)
What ever are these loons going to do when their chitown Jesus is evicted in Nov??? we be going to need more straight jackets I fear....
Posted by: beanervt at June 04, 2012 11:47 PM (KZLoo)
Posted by: jc at June 05, 2012 03:42 AM (ufJKx)
Here's lookin' at yo...wait, you're not Bergman! What the fuck is goin' on?
Posted by: Humphrey Bogart at June 04, 2012 11:47 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: beanervt at June 05, 2012 03:47 AM (KZLoo)
Offer them kool-aid, spike it beforehand.
Posted by: Robert at June 04, 2012 11:48 PM (4ixH5)
They've consumed the "K-A" for so long now I don't know if spiking it would even work..
Posted by: beanervt at June 04, 2012 11:56 PM (KZLoo)
Posted by: zeera at June 05, 2012 12:08 AM (XtxRN)
Posted by: beanervt at June 05, 2012 03:56 AM (KZLoo)
Spike it with quaaludes. Lefty chil'uns are so cute when they're sleeping.
Posted by: Robert at June 05, 2012 12:14 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: jc at June 05, 2012 12:19 AM (ufJKx)
Crafty bastid ain't he Cooth?? I thought for sure you'd collect after seeing Gushie's one for the squid...
Posted by: beanervt at June 05, 2012 12:19 AM (KZLoo)
Posted by: zeera at June 05, 2012 12:21 AM (XtxRN)
Posted by: beanervt at June 05, 2012 04:19 AM (KZLoo)
I seek to be at one with the Beast.
Posted by: Robert at June 05, 2012 12:21 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: beanervt at June 05, 2012 12:24 AM (KZLoo)
The way your going your going to own that bastid beast in short order... at the very least you'll probably be renting out souls to him/her what ever...
Posted by: beanervt at June 05, 2012 12:30 AM (KZLoo)
and lest not we forget his 4.0 in government teet sucking.. which really brought up his average..
Posted by: beanervt at June 05, 2012 12:33 AM (KZLoo)
Posted by: Robert at June 05, 2012 12:46 AM (4ixH5)
So from this AP headline I'm assuming the warming nuts have decided to just start melting them ice caps until the unbelievers toe the line???
Posted by: beanervt at June 05, 2012 12:56 AM (KZLoo)
If you want to broadcast someone's evilness then you must say it loudly and often.
Who will be affected by this shutdown?
Not Congress (unless people write them but that doesn't require a shutdown nor does a shutdown facilitate it.)
Not Brett Kimberlin et al. He's loving the idea.
NO ONE WILL CARE. Except for those that already DO care.
This is doing something for the sake of doing something.
An action that if liberals did it, we'd be mocking them.
Ace is WRONG about this having much effect and may actually have a negative effect. It certainly will cause many people to browse elsewhere and THE MESSAGE WILL THEN FAIL TO BE HEARD.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and all that at June 05, 2012 01:13 AM (CP+yl)
"Ace is WRONG about this having much effect and may actually have a negative effect. It certainly will cause many people to browse elsewhere and THE MESSAGE WILL THEN FAIL TO BE HEARD."
I agree. Ace might as well just hold his breath until he passes out, it would have the same effect.
None.
Posted by: GMB at June 05, 2012 01:24 AM (kPe9l)
Posted by: teej at June 05, 2012 01:58 AM (sbimF)
Posted by: Robert at June 05, 2012 02:03 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: stillers at June 05, 2012 02:07 AM (88te+)
Posted by: teej at June 05, 2012 02:11 AM (sbimF)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 05, 2012 02:21 AM (niZvt)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 05, 2012 02:27 AM (niZvt)
Morning CC,,, that sounds like it could lead to frustration...
Posted by: beanervt at June 05, 2012 02:28 AM (KZLoo)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 05, 2012 02:30 AM (niZvt)
Posted by: beanervt at June 05, 2012 02:35 AM (KZLoo)
l'il barry never graduated from anything. His whole life was and is a cereal box diploma from the mailbox. The difference is there were multiple payments and he may have actually walked across a stage in a gown. BUT
There's no proof of anything. Perfessor says he graduated magna? PROVE IT!
This is just crap filling oozing out of a crap sandwich.
And another thing: mornin' 'rons and 'ronettes.
Posted by: Blacksmith8✡ at June 05, 2012 02:37 AM (nlRaq)
Posted by: teej at June 05, 2012 02:53 AM (sbimF)
This being the case dear professor is really making a false appeal to authority in that those honors had been trivialized when / if Obama and anyone else at the time received them.
Sorry one professor making such a claim hardly amounts to accurate sourcing, how about verifying the data instead of going by the word of mouth of yet another likely liberal educator.
Posted by: Fire with Fire at June 05, 2012 03:44 AM (lcwvr)
There is no need to search for hidden proof of what is so manifestly obvious.
Posted by: Barky the Narcissiphant at June 05, 2012 05:32 AM (c8WV/)
Posted by: toby928© at June 05, 2012 05:55 AM (NG097)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 05, 2012 07:58 AM (exvgC)
"Under a system implemented three years ago that first took effect with this year's class, Harvard Law said it will limit magna cum laude degrees to the top 10% of the class. The next 30% will receive cum laude degrees.
The policy for summa cum laude, the highest honor, is unchanged. One summa degree was awarded this year, Harvard Law School said.
Under the old system, 76% of Harvard Law grads earned honors, the school said."
Posted by: commander ) at June 05, 2012 11:05 AM (St0Ya)
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