July 17, 2012
— Maetenloch
"The Obama Effect": Not a Parody
Okay when I first watched this trailer I thought it was just a fairly lame SNL attempt at parody but nooooo...it's for reals - as in people are actually going to the theater tonight and paying money to see it without men with guns or kidnapped children in vans down by the river being involved.
Charles Dutton wrote and directed this movie where he plays man in his 50's who has a heart attack and then develops a obsessive man-crush on the presidential candidate, Barack Obama. He dedicates his entire life to Obama's campaign but then realizes - thanks to the guidance of Saint Obama - that he's also neglected his family and friends. Luckily thanks again to the 'Obama Effect' he gets his life back on the right path just as Obama sweeps to glorious victory in the 2008 election.
Yep there's 83 more minutes of maudlin agit-prop where this came from. Even Twilight-loving Mrs. Justin Bieber-signature-practicing middle-school fan girls would find this movie just a bit heavy handed. And before you watch the trailer below be sure and read King Shamus' epic take-down of it here.
Oh and the black Republican character is supposed to be an over-the-top caricature but I'm betting that a movie about him would have been a lot more entertaining, interesting and profitable as well.
According to this movie Democrats quit their jobs, have uncontrollable man-crushes on their presidential candidates and annoy their neighbors. In the meantime, Republicans get to be rich and have a lot of sex. Was the script written by Ralph Nader?
Conclusion: What is the point of "The Obama Effect"? Seriously, what story is this flick supposed to tell? I think everybody knows Obama won the 2008 election. We needed a feature length motion picture to fill us in on that?...Apparently "The Obama Effect" means people should sacrifice their time, money and livelihood so that their dreamy puppy-dog crush can live in a nice house and rule over us all in an imperious fashion.
If that's the case, then we've all been living The Obama effect for the last three years, whether we wanted to or not.
Of course as a convicted felon Charles Dutton couldn't actually vote for Obama himself in 2008 so I guess this movie falls under fantasy-prop as well.
Ah Those Thoughtful Columbia, GA Code Enforcement Officers
Because if you don't hear them knock at the door, they'll even come inside and wake you up.
A woman got the shock of her life when she woke up to find a stranger in her bedroom, yelling at her to wake up because her grass was too long. Erica Masters was asleep when Columbia County Code Compliance Officer Jimmy Vowell entered her Martinez, Georgia, home without permission to serve a violation notice for her overgrown lawn. After knocking on the woman's door a few times, Vowell let himself and made his way into her bedroom, which was captured on surveillance video.
Ten Conspiracy Theories for Nerds
For the nerd-types who prefer smarter theories and less conspiracy involving <shudder> other human beings.
Of course the details don't really matter since this is all just a simulated universe where entities like you and I can imagine simulated universes. Oh and the NSA has had quantum computers since the late 70's. Computers capable of simulating smaller universes.
The Simulation Argument. This is legion in popular culture from "The Matrix" and "Inception" and other sci-fi, so we'll just refer you to Nick Bostrom's formulation of it. In theory we could tell the difference if something happened in the manner of The Truman Show where a light labeled "Sirius" falls from the sky. But are there any such events?
We offer one complexity-related observation. Although it is routine to say that classes like P and BQP have universal simulation, this isn't strictly true. The universal function for P doesn't belong to P - if it did, then P would be in some fixed polynomial time bound, which it isn't. Although proving this is technically murkier for "random" or "promise" classes like BQP the essential idea holds for any reasonable complexity class. Thus a universal simulation involves dropping down to a lower grade than the resources on which you draw. If our universe is convincingly universal, perhaps this is a well-motivated reason to reject the argument.
Heh: "You Got Laid Last Night? That's Nice, But . . .somebody else made that happen. Sport."
"If you are healthy, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great doctor somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American medical system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in bikepaths and broccoli. If you've got a healthy body - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen. Cyclosporine didn't get invented on its own."
Getting Star Trek on the Air Was Impossible
From a series of letters between Isaac Asimov and Gene Roddenberry on the difficulties of creating an entertaining sci-fi tv series and trying to be scientifically accurate at the same time.
Quoting Ted Sturgeon who made his first script attempt with us (and now seems firmly established as a contributor to good television), getting Star Trek on the air was impossible, putting out a program like this on a TV budget is impossible, reaching the necessary mass audience without alienating the select SF audience is impossible, not succumbing to network pressure to "juvenilize" the show is impossible, keeping it on the air is impossible. We've done all of these things. Perhaps someone else could have done it better, but no one else did.
June, 1967Dear Isaac,
Wish you were out here.
I would dearly love to discuss with you a problem about the show and the format. It concerns Captain James Kirk and of course the actor who plays that role, William Shatner. Bill is a fine actor, has been in leads on Broadway, has done excellent motion pictures, is generally rated as fine an actor as we have in this country. But we're not getting the use of him that we should and it is not his fault. It's easy to give good situations and good lines to Spock. And to a lesser extent the same rule is true of the irascible Dr. McCoy. I guess it's something like doing a scene with several businessmen in a room with an Eskimo. The interesting and amusing situations, the clever lines, would tend to go to the Eskimo. Or in our case, the Eskimos.
And yet Star Trek needs a strong lead, an Earth lead. Without diminishing the importance of the secondary continuing characters. But the problem we generally find is this-if we play Kirk as a true ship commander, strong and hard, devoted to career and service, it too often makes him seem unlikable. On the other hand, if we play him too warm-hearted, friendly and so on, the attitude often is "how did a guy like that get to be a ship commander?" Sort of a damned if he does and damned if he doesn't situation. Actually, although it is missed by the general audience, it is Kirk's fine handling of a most difficult role that permits Spock and the others to come off as well as they do. But Kirk does deserve more and so does the actor who plays him. I am in something of a quandary about it.
Got any ideas?
Gene
Read the rest to see how Asimov resolved the Kirk/Spock plot quandry.
Seven hawt sets walk into a bar. How many ways can they hook up?
First World Problems: There's Now Plastic Surgery for Fat Toes
Because women don't have enough of a perfection complex in our culture, now comes the latest plastic surgery craze: toe-slimming surgery, for those with toe-bese phalanges. Apparently plastic surgeons are seeing a rise in people requesting toe-shortening and slimming procedures. Surgeon Oliver Zong says the operation was born out of patient requests.
...But ethical or no, people are doing it. People like E.R., who was stricken with an ultra-large big toe. "I always had issues with it," he said. "It was one of those things that you're just not comfortable with and try to hide it." So he had the toe shaved down.
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Posted by: steevy at July 17, 2012 06:25 PM (6o4Fb)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at July 17, 2012 06:26 PM (3yCFy)
Posted by: no good deed at July 17, 2012 06:26 PM (0lYad)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at July 17, 2012 06:28 PM (3yCFy)
Posted by: Kratos at July 17, 2012 06:29 PM (c1WVm)
Posted by: huerfano at July 17, 2012 06:29 PM (bAGA/)
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 17, 2012 06:29 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at July 17, 2012 06:30 PM (3yCFy)
Posted by: Chappaquiddick Ted & Horny John Edwards at July 17, 2012 06:30 PM (V/Aej)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at July 17, 2012 10:30 PM
If it weren't for those Latins, we'd be grunting and clicking right now.
Posted by: huerfano at July 17, 2012 06:31 PM (bAGA/)
Posted by: Sonnyspats at July 17, 2012 06:31 PM (Qr9Rc)
Shatner really gets overlooked for the real talent he is. Some day people will look back and realize how good he really was, despite being basically a goofball.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 17, 2012 06:31 PM (r4wIV)
Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at July 17, 2012 06:32 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: MikeD at July 17, 2012 06:32 PM (p8QOg)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at July 17, 2012 06:32 PM (3yCFy)
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 17, 2012 06:33 PM (V/Aej)
Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at July 17, 2012 06:33 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: Samuel Williams in Ocala at July 17, 2012 06:33 PM (Dll6b)
I'm done with 99% of all of the Hollywood fucks. The good ones, you know, the real men and women are all or pretty much dead now.
Posted by: Samuel Adams at July 17, 2012 06:34 PM (ZOf1l)
Posted by: no good deed at July 17, 2012 06:34 PM (0lYad)
It is a photograph of a fat, out of shape woman who needs to lose a huge amount of weight.
She is a pig....just disgusting.
http://is.gd/iNx938
ATC in particular is warned off this link.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at July 17, 2012 06:34 PM (nEUpB)
This statement and the fact that his girlfriend was Majel "Manface" Barrett is exhibit # 1 in my theory that Gene Roddenberry took a lot of drugs
Posted by: kbdabear at July 17, 2012 06:35 PM (Y7XKa)
"Vogel" is the most common slang word in German for dick
the formal / dictionary meaning is 'bird' .. Germans are complex
Posted by: Samuel Williams in Ocala at July 17, 2012 06:35 PM (Dll6b)
Posted by: jake in ID at July 17, 2012 06:35 PM (RQjPS)
Posted by: wizardpc at July 17, 2012 06:35 PM (KRFJ9)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at July 17, 2012 06:35 PM (Ebp3s)
Posted by: Big Zesty at July 17, 2012 06:35 PM (LC+RE)
Posted by: DAve at July 17, 2012 06:36 PM (BoI09)
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 17, 2012 06:36 PM (V/Aej)
Posted by: Samuel Williams in Ocala at July 17, 2012 06:36 PM (Dll6b)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at July 17, 2012 06:36 PM (Ebp3s)
Posted by: Preznit Training Pants at July 17, 2012 06:36 PM (jucos)
Posted by: robtr at July 17, 2012 06:37 PM (MtwBb)
Posted by: steevy at July 17, 2012 06:38 PM (6o4Fb)
Posted by: Samuel Adams at July 17, 2012 06:38 PM (ZOf1l)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at July 17, 2012 06:38 PM (jucos)
If that is a spider or Helen Thomas and not Kate Upton and/or Christina Hendricks I will cut you.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 at July 17, 2012 06:38 PM (Gk3SS)
Posted by: Okay, okay, Complete Jokes at July 17, 2012 06:38 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: Marlon and Shawn Wayans at July 17, 2012 06:39 PM (0lYad)
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Anyhow, there's a supposedly a major Nork announcement that will be made noon Nork time i.e. roughly twenty minutes. Great Leader Un must be very ronery. Posted by: Kratos at July 17, 2012 06:39 PM (c1WVm)
Posted by: Reggie1971 at July 17, 2012 06:39 PM (HTAoH)
Posted by: Waterhouse at July 17, 2012 10:34 PM (HNsjb)
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Pfffffffttttttttt. Shit. He didn't do it by himself ya know
Posted by: Preznit Training Pants at July 17, 2012 10:36 PM (jucos)
Yeah roads, hospitals, teh intertubez and uh, government subsidized hobos were all involved. I didn't do it on my own.
Yet strangely if it sucks, it's all mine baby.
Posted by: Mætenloch at July 17, 2012 06:40 PM (pAlYe)
Oh, and for some laughs check out Empire of Jeff's latest post on his blog
http://tinyurl.com/6w4qsgh
Posted by: kbdabear at July 17, 2012 06:40 PM (Y7XKa)
Posted by: Okay, okay, Complete Jokes at July 17, 2012 06:40 PM (QupBk)
Suck it up and find out for yourself.
Damned whiners.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at July 17, 2012 06:41 PM (nEUpB)
Posted by: Chrissie Matthews at July 17, 2012 06:41 PM (6o4Fb)
Posted by: Preznit Training Pants at July 17, 2012 06:41 PM (jucos)
Now, if the Soopermexican were to beat up that plagiarising tool George Lopez and put THAT on youtube . . .
Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at July 17, 2012 06:41 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: Okay, okay, Complete Jokes at July 17, 2012 06:41 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: Mætenloch at July 17, 2012 10:40 PM (pAlYe)
Tell me about it.
Posted by: Paul Verhoeven at July 17, 2012 06:42 PM (Dll6b)
Posted by: steevy at July 17, 2012 06:42 PM (6o4Fb)
Posted by: DAve at July 17, 2012 06:43 PM (BoI09)
I think that you and I have the same taste.
One question: Sophia Loren?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at July 17, 2012 06:43 PM (nEUpB)
That's right! Dutton's show was "Roc."
He was like a bald, angry Bill Cosby.
Except that Cosby wasn't bald and angry.
Posted by: ErikW at July 17, 2012 06:44 PM (R+3MQ)
Mmmm. Bunk!
WTF, GTFO Dick Morris.
Posted by: Rex Ryan at July 17, 2012 06:44 PM (ppQNN)
Posted by: Okay, okay, Complete Jokes at July 17, 2012 06:44 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: wizardpc at July 17, 2012 10:35 PM (KRFJ9)
Interesting. Makes me wonder what he would have done if no one was home. Just turn around and leave? Was he *hoping* no one was home? I hadn't thought beyond the "eek" of thinking of waking up to have someone in my home.
Posted by: Polliwogette, teahada Hobbit at July 17, 2012 06:44 PM (h6HiH)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at July 17, 2012 06:45 PM (3yCFy)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at July 17, 2012 06:45 PM (csi6Y)
Posted by: DAve at July 17, 2012 06:45 PM (BoI09)
Posted by: Okay, okay, Complete Jokes at July 17, 2012 06:45 PM (QupBk)
That would be flash mobs in Wal Marts stealing shit and thinking you are sticking to the man.
Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at July 17, 2012 06:46 PM (Cydud)
Barack Obama was seated next to a little girl on an airplane trip back to Washington. He turned to her and said, "Let's talk. I've heard that flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger."
The little girl, who had just opened her book, closed it slowly and said to The Obama, "What would you like to talk about?"
"Oh, I don't know," said the Obama. "How about What Changes I Should Make To America?" and he smiles.
"OK," she says. "That could be an interesting topic. But let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same stuff - grass. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty, and a horse produces clumps of dried grass. Why do you suppose that is?"
Obama, visibly surprised by the little girl's intelligence, thinks about it for a second and finally says, "Hmmm, I have no idea."
To which the little girl replies, "Do you really feel qualified to change America when you don't know shit?"
Posted by: grease monkey at July 17, 2012 06:46 PM (VSWPU)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at July 17, 2012 06:47 PM (csi6Y)
soopermexican is doing twitter that americans refuse to do.
Ok I denounce myself, soop is american, if he isn't he should be.
Posted by: robtr at July 17, 2012 06:47 PM (MtwBb)
But the critics better say it's good or the fanboyz will cut them up - http://tinyurl.com/82rl3y3
Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at July 17, 2012 06:47 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: Okay, okay, Complete Jokes at July 17, 2012 06:47 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: DAve at July 17, 2012 06:48 PM (BoI09)
Posted by: steevy at July 17, 2012 06:48 PM (6o4Fb)
Posted by: Okay, okay, Complete Jokes at July 17, 2012 06:48 PM (QupBk)
That Obama, what a uniter!!
Rottentomatoes has not posted any reviews by critics--probably b/c the critics have taken the coward's way out and not dared to write one. The 2 reviews there are funny: "spoiler alert: Obama wins."
Posted by: PJ at July 17, 2012 06:49 PM (DQHjw)
A. Because he's running out of George Bush jokes.
Posted by: grease monkey at July 17, 2012 06:49 PM (VSWPU)
Posted by: Okay, okay, Complete Jokes at July 17, 2012 06:49 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at July 17, 2012 06:50 PM (QTHTd)
Not to mention far more talented.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at July 17, 2012 06:50 PM (3yCFy)
Posted by: Uncle Jim at July 17, 2012 06:50 PM (Cydud)
Posted by: Okay, okay, Complete Jokes at July 17, 2012 06:50 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: Okay, okay, Complete Jokes at July 17, 2012 06:52 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: Okay, okay, Complete Jokes at July 17, 2012 06:52 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: grease monkey at July 17, 2012 06:53 PM (VSWPU)
Posted by: Okay, okay, Complete Jokes at July 17, 2012 06:53 PM (QupBk)
Michael Vick intended to lie his way through the dogfighting scandal
http://tinyurl.com/6qtxxhj
The writer of this article tries his best to excuse Vick's lying as "everybody in trouble lies, get over it"
Yet sportswriters call Tim Tebow "polarizing" and a menace to the good name of the NFL
Posted by: kbdabear at July 17, 2012 06:54 PM (Y7XKa)
I heard of the Obama Effect movie last Thursday and that there was going to be a preview on Friday, the 13th. Otherwise I didn't pay too much attention beyond thinking it sounded incredibly stupid and hoping whoever made the movie ends up losing lots of money.
Posted by: Theresa at July 17, 2012 06:55 PM (36Yg+)
Posted by: Okay, okay, Complete Jokes at July 17, 2012 06:55 PM (QupBk)
hahaha more super soopermexican
If youÂ’ve got a business. you didnÂ’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. #NorthKoreanAnnouncement
Posted by: robtr at July 17, 2012 06:55 PM (MtwBb)
Hell, when it comes to being rich and having a lot of sex, Republicans are pikers. Heh, heh.
Except our partners are willing.
Posted by: Alex at July 17, 2012 06:55 PM (3+RPg)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at July 17, 2012 06:56 PM (3yCFy)
Posted by: Alex at July 17, 2012 06:56 PM (/yzYn)
Posted by: steevy at July 17, 2012 06:57 PM (6o4Fb)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at July 17, 2012 06:57 PM (3yCFy)
Posted by: Okay, okay, Complete Jokes at July 17, 2012 06:57 PM (QupBk)
I was working for WB when his show was just starting out, and the studio did all they could to promote his show short of putting flyers on every windshield in Southern California
It's a lot easier for Lopez to blame "racism" than to admit to himself that his show sucked and people just didn't like it
Posted by: kbdabear at July 17, 2012 06:57 PM (Y7XKa)
Posted by: grease monkey at July 17, 2012 06:58 PM (VSWPU)
Posted by: Okay, okay, Complete Stolen Jokes at July 17, 2012 06:58 PM (QupBk)
July 26, 2012
7-9PM
208 Beynon Drive, Clarks Green
(509) 951-5014 (this is my cell phone # from my old location. I live
in Clarks Green now).
Casual Dress
Light refreshments and beverages will be served.
This is a get together for women in our neighborhood to come together
and meet each other, share our stories about why we support the
President and commit to supporting him in his re-election campaign. We
hope you will consider volunteering for campaign events coming up in
the Abingtons as well. Also, you are welcome to bring any friends who
support the President!
Please reply to this email and RSVP so we can accurately plan our
seating and refreshments.
Thank you!
Maureen Gray
Neighborhood Team Leader
Obama-Biden 2012
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Posted by: hutch1200 at July 17, 2012 06:59 PM (6EMIB)
Posted by: Ben at July 17, 2012 06:59 PM (VPxJg)
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 17, 2012 07:00 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Barry "Blood-and-Guts" Obama at July 17, 2012 07:00 PM (ppQNN)
Posted by: derit at July 17, 2012 07:00 PM (ruiF1)
I bet the land line's a 586 number. No. Worse. 585.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 at July 17, 2012 07:00 PM (Gk3SS)
She also confirmed that her husband had signed one of the petitions that she circulated.
Posted by: steevy at July 17, 2012 10:57 PM (6o4Fb)
I'm rusty on my Morse Code but I'll get on that.
Posted by: ErikW at July 17, 2012 07:00 PM (R+3MQ)
Posted by: Okay, okay, Complete Stolen Jokes at July 17, 2012 07:00 PM (QupBk)
There is a real dilemma in the black community. Obama is a failure and it is obvious. So what to do about it? The consensus is act like ti does not exist. The last thing middle class supposedly intelligent people want to talk about is Obama. Beyond the knee jerk "Republicans are out to get him." They DO NOT WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT. My good female friend, a lawyer, has never been to a public school, buried under student loans 5 years after law school, and the lasat thing she wants to talk about is Obama. Because there is nothing positive she can say.
I made a prediction to my coworker, black kid fresh out of college; it was this: As Obama tanks watch black people turn on him and he won't be black anymore. This was maybe 4 months ago. And we get Chris Rock, Tavis Smiley and Morgan "Right in the kisser" Freeman playing out that exact scenario.
I could easily see Obama slipping to 80-85 percent of the black vote nationally. This would be devastating to black democrats. Could be electoral game changing. So view this movie as an affirmation that prostrating yourself for Obama is the right thing to do.
*I'll bet Kat Williams has a come to Jesus moment in which he realizes the error of his Republican ways...
Posted by: theworldisnotenough at July 17, 2012 07:01 PM (v2BZS)
Posted by: Mr. Plinkett at July 17, 2012 07:01 PM (c1WVm)
Posted by: Okay, okay, Complete Stolen Jokes at July 17, 2012 07:02 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: Okay, okay, Complete Stolen Jokes at July 17, 2012 07:03 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: hutch1200 at July 17, 2012 07:04 PM (6EMIB)
The rich Republicans stabbed him in the back.
Posted by: 1920s Deutshe conspiracy theories at July 17, 2012 07:05 PM (QTHTd)
Finally Bush ask to call the USA, he talks for an hour. Satan says that will be $5. Putin starts screaming WTF?
Satan says since Obama got elected the USA has gone to hell.
It's a local call.
I didn't do this by myself, I stole it from someone.
Posted by: Uncle Jim at July 17, 2012 07:06 PM (Cydud)
Posted by: Okay, okay, Complete Stolen Jokes at July 17, 2012 07:08 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: jake in ID at July 17, 2012 07:11 PM (RQjPS)
Greetings from South Central. Virginia.
For all you historically oriented war Morons. A strange but true blurb by Rabbi Daniel Lapin:
“Their horse cavalry, of which they had twelve brigades, charged valiantly against the swarming tanks and armored cars, but they could not harm them with their swords and lances.”
Thus did Winston Churchill describe Poland’s attempt to defend itself against the German invasion of September 1st, 1939. In his war memoirs, German general Heinz Guderian wrote, “The Polish… in ignorance of the nature of our tanks, had charged them with swords and lances and suffered tremendous losses.” In his 1959 novel, The Tin Drum, German novelist Gunther Grass likened the Polish horsemen’s doomed assault against a Germany Panzer division to Don Quixote’s hopeless idealism.
There’s only one problem—it never happened.
In reality, at 2:00 pm in the afternoon on the first day of World War II, the commander of the 18th Regiment of the Pomorska Cavalry Brigade, successfully attacked and overran a badly exposed battalion of German infantry near the Polish village of Krojanty. Suddenly German tanks appeared and began firing at the retreating Poles, most of whom were killed. The next day, the Germans brought war correspondents to the scene and told them that the Polish cavalrymen had charged the German tanks.
This was a falsehood preserved as truth. However, some truths eventually become thought of as false.
In times to come, people will assume that some of World War II history was fabricated. They will claim that it’s hard to believe that the ‘bad guys,’ Hitler, Stalin, and Molotov really had sinister-sounding names that mean ‘wolf’, ‘steel’ and ‘hammer’ respectively while France was led by a man, De Gaulle, whose name just coincidentally means ‘Of France’. England’s leader just happened to be a ‘Church-on-the-hill’ and America’s a ‘Field-of-Roses’ whose speeches were written for him by the rose-man, Samuel Rosenman.
LetÂ’s not forget that the hull of the ship of state was in the hands of Secretary of State, Cordell Hull and that the man who nourished the roses with money or morning dew (morgen thau in German) was Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau.
They will say that historians made up the name of the man who led the allied invasion from England to Normandy on D Day in 1944, Eisenhower. The general’s real name must have been lost in the mists of time so the literary academics decided to be poetic. One of the invading leaders of the Norman invasion of England in 1066 was Taillefer whose name means ‘Hewer of Iron’. Improvising a name for the World War II leader, they simply translated Hewer of Iron into German and got, yes, Eisenhower.
So it just happened that back in the 20th century, the bad guys all had malevolent names and the good guys all had benign ones? Puh-leez.
That these things are all true, challenges rational belief. Yet they are true.
Posted by: RushBabe at July 17, 2012 07:11 PM (tQHzJ)
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Wait until Obamacare officials are waking you up to get in your voluntary mandatory morning job before work.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2012 07:11 PM (AUeaU)
Posted by: toby928© at July 17, 2012 07:11 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: toby928© Says How about this? at July 17, 2012 07:13 PM (QupBk)
Argh - I have no idea how much a referral is worth - I did some googling, but couldn't find anything. Thoughts?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2012 07:13 PM (AUeaU)
The rich Republicans stabbed him in the back.
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Well, I stabbed him in the backside, and now the bitch won't return my calls.
Posted by: Kal Penn at July 17, 2012 07:15 PM (AUeaU)
Posted by: Ma Bell at July 17, 2012 07:16 PM (uVuwp)
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 17, 2012 07:17 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: RushBabe at July 17, 2012 07:18 PM (tQHzJ)
I'm not too bothered, it wasn't mine.
Keep them coming. That constant joke thing could have been annoying, but the jokes were mostly really funny. Can't complain if I'm laughing.
Posted by: Splunge at July 17, 2012 07:20 PM (2IW5Q)
Beynon is off South Abington, wasn't much there when we lived in the Green. What's it like now?
Posted by: irongrampa at July 17, 2012 07:20 PM (SAMxH)
Posted by: Y-not at July 17, 2012 07:20 PM (5H6zj)
I want to know to what extent they understand that the MSM, in the age of Obama, has moved from simple partisan bias to active collusion.
The template has been set, Obama will launch an attack of the week, and in coordination the MSM will demand that Romney answer the "serious and troubling questions that have been raised."
Anyone who discounts the power and influence of this wholly corrupt MSM on an ignorant and easily manipulated populace is a fool.
I truly hope the Romney camp knows their enemy, the last couple of weeks haven't been reassuring.
Posted by: cm9000 at July 17, 2012 07:21 PM (lzvtR)
First, we kill the "educators'" ...complacency.
Posted by: derit at July 17, 2012 07:21 PM (ruiF1)
Posted by: Robert at July 17, 2012 07:22 PM (HWUv9)
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The company I left a few months ago is going full Titanic.
So...I have more people looking for life boats then I know what to do with.
I could send them to the recruiter that placed me. So I sent him an email essentially asking if they give a referral fee - and the answer was essentially yes, how much do you want.
I know how much various companies will pay for internal referrals in my field, usually $1-2k. I know that recruiters normally get a fraction of the first year's salary with in software development is usually 60-100k for the people I'd be sending to him.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2012 07:24 PM (AUeaU)
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 17, 2012 07:24 PM (V/Aej)
Posted by: Robert at July 17, 2012 07:24 PM (HWUv9)
Posted by: Robert at July 17, 2012 07:26 PM (HWUv9)
: irongrampa at July 17, 2012 11:20 PM
It's actually near the North Campus. The one w/the pool on Noble Rd.
Carlton Chevrolet drove me nuts until today...where your relative worked.
Posted by: hutch1200 at July 17, 2012 07:28 PM (6EMIB)
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 17, 2012 07:28 PM (V/Aej)
They completely miss the point that Obama was actually elected because a lot of "independents" apparently were affected by Obama in the same way the hero of this tale was.
And also because of at least a smidgeon of white guilt.
Top it all off with a few diehard who refused to vote for Mr RINO himself and voila'; instant karma puts a turd in the White House.
The only good thing that I can find to say about this movie is that at least they acknowledge that there's such a being as a Black Republican.
Maybe it will give some Blacks something to think about.
Posted by: jakee308 at July 17, 2012 07:28 PM (pASI9)
Posted by: @PurpAv at July 17, 2012 07:29 PM (69eVP)
Posted by: Y-not at July 17, 2012 07:30 PM (5H6zj)
Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama (Mmm Mmm Mmm) at July 17, 2012 07:31 PM (HWUv9)
Posted by: president o'bumbles at July 17, 2012 07:31 PM (vDl/w)
Posted by: hutch1200 at July 17, 2012 07:32 PM (6EMIB)
Posted by: Y-not at July 17, 2012 07:33 PM (5H6zj)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 17, 2012 07:33 PM (r4wIV)
Posted by: @PurpAv at July 17, 2012 07:34 PM (69eVP)
Posted by: jake in ID at July 17, 2012 07:35 PM (RQjPS)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, New Caprica Sanitation Department at July 17, 2012 07:35 PM (x8wJs)
Give Okay a break, he's going for quantity and if you don't like the joke, others may be LOLing.
evenin' folks...
Posted by: KZnextzone at July 17, 2012 07:37 PM (UXEgP)
Link?
Posted by: Alex at July 17, 2012 07:37 PM (3+RPg)
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 17, 2012 07:38 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: president o'bumbles at July 17, 2012 07:39 PM (vDl/w)
Posted by: NewBrunswicker at July 17, 2012 07:40 PM (WBLGe)
...it must be a govt produced DVD burner. If the Soviets made DVD burners, this would be it.
Posted by: @PurpAv at July 17, 2012 07:40 PM (69eVP)
RSVP for "Whores 4 obama, scranton"...from post #113
Posted by: hutch1200 at July 17, 2012 07:40 PM (6EMIB)
Posted by: clemenza at July 17, 2012 07:41 PM (yNm6D)
Posted by: @PurpAv at July 17, 2012 07:42 PM (69eVP)
Posted by: no good deed at July 17, 2012 10:34 PM (0lYad)
Or me. Guy comes into my bedroom, he better be married to me, or my son after a nightmare. Else, he goes back out bloody.
Posted by: tcn at July 17, 2012 07:44 PM (eFcVx)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at July 17, 2012 07:44 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: clemenza at July 17, 2012 07:44 PM (yNm6D)
Ok, I'm calling every chick I know to RSVP to this thing for barry. Both of 'em!
Maybe I'll bus a load up from the projects to the hoi polloi scrunt-fest!
Posted by: hutch1200 at July 17, 2012 07:45 PM (6EMIB)
Thought I was right, but it's been a long, long time for me.
Last time I was down there i couldn't believe the changes. For a while, nothing looked familiar. Good memories, though.
Posted by: irongrampa at July 17, 2012 07:46 PM (SAMxH)
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 17, 2012 07:47 PM (JMmQ9)
------
Unfortunately that is a losing strategy when the media keeps pounding the "cloud hanging over Romney's tax returns," and Obama transcripts fom Occidental and Columbia registers a yawn from 0.02 of the population.
Posted by: cm9000 at July 17, 2012 07:47 PM (lzvtR)
And he got six frigging seasons! How many people walking the earth can even say they ever shot a pilot, never mind got picked up for lengthy primetime run? They kept that beast going for well over a hundred episodes and that means a syndication package that has Lopez pulling in the kind of money 99% (heh) of us could only dream of earning. For work he'd done years ago.
Damn, this racist country has been hard on him.
Posted by: epobirs at July 17, 2012 07:47 PM (kcfmt)
...this shit is getting old fast...
...I'm willing to pay extra for it!!!...
Posted by: @PurpAv at July 17, 2012 07:50 PM (69eVP)
Posted by: hutch1200 at July 17, 2012 07:50 PM (6EMIB)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at July 17, 2012 07:51 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 17, 2012 07:52 PM (JMmQ9)
returns one week after Barack Milhaus Kardashian releases his college
transcripts from Occidental and Columbia"
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Unfortunately that is a losing strategy when the media keeps pounding the "cloud hanging over Romney's tax returns," and Obama transcripts fom Occidental and Columbia registers a yawn from 0.02 of the population.
Besides, anyone really gonna trust the documents that Barry would produce? Yeah, me neither.
Posted by: Doubting Thomas at July 17, 2012 07:52 PM (rqkRG)
Posted by: NewBrunswicker at July 17, 2012 07:53 PM (WBLGe)
Posted by: fixerupper at July 17, 2012 07:56 PM (ffV1/)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at July 17, 2012 07:56 PM (rX1N2)
Posted by: Fox 2! at July 17, 2012 07:56 PM (RJOgX)
#105
Little Rock, Charlotte, Atlanta, Baltimore, Washington DC, Orlando, Jackson, Dallas, Houston, Detroit and Norfolk."
Hmm ... what do those markets have in common, demographically?
They are all east of Salt Lake City i.e.: Mormans migrated away from.
Posted by: Rmoney Voter at July 17, 2012 07:57 PM (Eq5Eh)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at July 17, 2012 11:44 PM
(bxiXv)
I've read enough of your comments to know you are a hell of a lot smarter than I am, but have to disagree on this. The media, under Obama has shall we say, "changed" maybe even "transformed."
Like I said, it has gone from bias to collusion.
Posted by: cm9000 at July 17, 2012 07:58 PM (lzvtR)
I t will be interesting to see how large a role the 'been there, done that, guilt expunged' effect on non-black Obama voters will play the second time around.
Posted by: epobirs at July 17, 2012 07:58 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 17, 2012 07:59 PM (JMmQ9)
What? I couldn't hear what you said over Ann Hathaway's leather-clad thighs.
Posted by: derit at July 17, 2012 07:59 PM (ruiF1)
"Damn, this racist country has been hard on him.
Posted by: epobirs at July 17, 2012 11:47 PM (kcfmt)"
Especially considering the fact that the guy just isn't funny.
Posted by: Burn the Witch at July 17, 2012 08:00 PM (rX1N2)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 17, 2012 08:00 PM (r4wIV)
Like I said, it has gone from bias to collusion.
Posted by: cm9000 at July 17, 2012 11:58 PM (lzvtR)
Now that's just crazy.
Posted by: JournOlist at July 17, 2012 08:01 PM (KI/Ch)
Anybody else read or hear about the guy with the huge schwanz who got frisked by the TSA? 13 inches erect. Now that could cause some serious internal damage. Gives new meaning to the big bang.
Posted by: joanne likes trey gowdy's hair at July 17, 2012 08:04 PM (VNFBf)
O M G
I'd forgotten what modern HTML was capable of offering.
Posted by: epobirs at July 17, 2012 08:05 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 17, 2012 08:06 PM (JMmQ9)
Good, that'll move the main message forward for a few weeks.
Posted by: Clutch Cargo at July 17, 2012 08:06 PM (Qxdfp)
Since it is a quiet night, let me ask a question. That miserable Drudge site is always reloading to jack up the page view totals and it is a real hassle on a slow data connection.
One of the things about it is it always seems to load up an old version, until I manually hit refresh. I have IE9 and haven't found any settings that would seem to work on getting the current page the first time.
Any ideas? Thanks.
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at July 17, 2012 08:07 PM (Ebp3s)
"Unfortunately that is a losing strategy when the media keeps pounding the "cloud hanging over Romney's tax returns," and Obama transcripts fom Occidental and Columbia registers a yawn from 0.02 of the population."
Fewer and fewer are buying what the media is selling.
It's a wonderful chance to use the left's more potent weapons they've had a monopoly on until recently - ridicule. "I'll release my tax returns as soon as The Most Transparent Presidency Ever releases his academic records. If he can't release those basic records, how will we ever get to the bottom of hundreds of dead Mexicans and a slain border patrol agent? How can we ever expect true transparency? What else has he hidden from the American people?"
It won't be a huge tactical victory, but it will be one more thing to make Obama react to and one more chink in his armor.
Was that racist?
Posted by: Burn the Witch at July 17, 2012 08:07 PM (rX1N2)
Sure about that? I'd love to see the documents and reveal he's a fucking fraud. But what happens when we don't get to see that? Then he'll likely get to point to whatever bs therein (or changed to include/exclude) and say see, nothing to see here. Just these crazy right wing racists looking to prove the first black president isn't smart enough. Or scammed the system by claiming he was a foreign student. Or blah blah blah.
Then the MSM will pull their faces out of his lap long enough to echo that once again (like the "birth certificate") these documents show what Obama says. See isn't he soooo truthful! Nothing to fear from him once again.
Then what?
Posted by: Doubting Thomas at July 17, 2012 08:07 PM (rqkRG)
Posted by: @PurpAv at July 17, 2012 08:08 PM (69eVP)
Posted by: X-RAy at July 17, 2012 08:09 PM (qqnGn)
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 17, 2012 08:10 PM (JMmQ9)
This is why leftist push for things like the motor voter law. They want everybody who can fog a mirror to cast a ballot. (They'll take care of the post-living voters on their own.) It has long been common for operatives of DNC candidates to cruise around skid row and hand out money to anyone who get in their bus and vote the way they're told.
Nancy Pelosi's father was big on this sort of thing. You can bet she is dead set against anything that might eliminate a person from casting a vote or three.
Posted by: epobirs at July 17, 2012 08:12 PM (kcfmt)
Women are fainting at his rallies, still, but I'm probably not too lonely in believing that these are preconceived theatrical gestures, whether planned in the campaign, or hatched in the quivering belly of some follower who still believes, or wants to think she does.
His crowds are remarkably tiny, and his increasingly whiny pleas for money smack of the sort of dude that no self-respecting woman would want to date. He looks like a loser.
The thing is falling apart, and not a moment too soon. This movie may be treasured someday, as a documentary of the last wheezing gasp of a dying cult.
Posted by: Splunge at July 17, 2012 08:13 PM (2IW5Q)
So, if the woman who developed and wrote Gilmore Girls were to have a love child with Aaron Sorkin... exactly how annoying would the television show that this child produces be?
Posted by: Alex at July 17, 2012 08:13 PM (3+RPg)
Posted by: @PurpAv at July 17, 2012 08:14 PM (69eVP)
It is a script built into the page to insure the ads get updated. Instapundit does the same annoying thing. It doesn't matter what browser you use since the code would work on anything going back to the mid-90s.
You can turn off JavaScript but that could get kind of tedious since you don't want it off most of the time. One alternative is to install another browser just for sites where you don't want JavaScript running.
Posted by: epobirs at July 17, 2012 08:16 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: @PurpAv at July 17, 2012 08:16 PM (69eVP)
Any ideas? Thanks.
Here's something that might be worth a try. Go to Tools/F12 Developer Tools. Click the Cache tab, and select "Always Refresh from Server."
Posted by: Splunge at July 17, 2012 08:18 PM (2IW5Q)
Thank you for your response. It makes Drudge virtually unreadable in the hinterlands.
Later, folks.
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at July 17, 2012 08:18 PM (Ebp3s)
It would still only a be fraction of the potency of either a PBS or BBC "gem".
Posted by: derit at July 17, 2012 08:19 PM (ruiF1)
Posted by: AltonJackson is actually up past his bedtime at July 17, 2012 08:20 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: andycanuck at July 17, 2012 08:23 PM (vDl/w)
FireFox+Noscript will make that a lot easier.
I tell it what sites get to use javascript and which don't.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2012 08:24 PM (AUeaU)
Thanks Splunge! I believe that did the trick.
Put more water in the soup, there's better times a coming.
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at July 17, 2012 08:25 PM (Ebp3s)
Someday, I do hope to visit the Clinton Presidential library, and see the original kneepads. The replicas just aren't the same.
The Obama library should feature his ego in a huge jar, and his merit in a very small one.
Posted by: Splunge at July 17, 2012 08:25 PM (2IW5Q)
Posted by: X-RAy at July 17, 2012 08:26 PM (qqnGn)
Posted by: zeera at July 17, 2012 08:30 PM (XtxRN)
Posted by: Serious Cat at July 17, 2012 08:31 PM (zrpqj)
Posted by: cm9000 at July 17, 2012 08:34 PM (lzvtR)
Posted by: Roger Ebert's twitter at July 17, 2012 08:34 PM (rqkRG)
It's like accidentally burning down your house and proudly saying, "I did this! I am responsible!"
Posted by: AmishDude at July 17, 2012 08:35 PM (J5tI6)
Posted by: X-RAy at July 17, 2012 08:36 PM (qqnGn)
It's the same mentality that places self-esteem as a more important factor in students than whether they can read, compute, etc.
Myself, I'd rather have a school full of highly educated and able but somewhat depressed kids than a collection of grinning idiots
Posted by: epobirs at July 17, 2012 08:38 PM (kcfmt)
http://tinyurl.com/6o323o3"And if you don't vote for Barack Obama, you're insane," said Hamill, who gave his voice to the Joker in the recent smash-hit video game "Batman: Arkham City."
"'Cause without him, I think the middle class will completely disappear. And you look at Romney—and I'm sure he's a nice guy, but I think he's like The Thing: He only imitates human behavior. He's not actually human himself. "
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2012 08:41 PM (bwH3a)
Obama, you're insane," said Hamill...Cause without him, I think the middle class will completely disappear.
It's annoying how the other side doesn't even try to think.
Posted by: Splunge at July 17, 2012 08:43 PM (2IW5Q)
Mark Hamill, the voice of Joker, says vote for Obama. What about Bain again?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2012 08:45 PM (bwH3a)
Self-esteem is really important. But you don't get it by being praised undeservedly. The best definition I've seen is that (real) self-esteem is "the reputation you get with yourself."
Whatever they're handing out at these schools, it isn't self-esteem. I've worked with a couple of the products of this process. They're screwups, and they think they're full of wisdom. Barack Obama is a lot like them.
Posted by: Splunge at July 17, 2012 08:46 PM (2IW5Q)
Posted by: X-RAy at July 18, 2012 12:36 AM (qqnGn)
Wrong, I think this is a problem for some on the Right, this desire to dismiss the media, and to declare them as irrelevant. Sure a growing number of us recognize their corruption, still our numbers are dwarfed by the completely ignorant who absorb what passes for knowledge by osmosis.
Posted by: cm9000 at July 17, 2012 08:49 PM (lzvtR)
a) Well, that sounds like well-reasoned analysis. I stress the "anal", as being the source of that "thought"
b) what the fuck does that have to do with "the disappearing middle class"?
Posted by: Waterhouse at July 17, 2012 08:50 PM (HNsjb)
Posted by: IdowhatIwant at July 17, 2012 08:51 PM (a4CUi)
Posted by: Barack's exhaust port at July 17, 2012 08:52 PM (rqkRG)
And Obama is a dude. He's a fancy dressed city boy who'd shriek and jump into a nearby cowboy's arms if he saw a snake. He's a tinhorn wannabe with a brand new rhinestone cowboy outfit on. Dude is an insult out west, folks.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 17, 2012 08:52 PM (r4wIV)
Also, can Roc give him a call sometime.
Posted by: AmishDude at July 17, 2012 08:52 PM (J5tI6)
Posted by: X-RAy at July 17, 2012 08:54 PM (qqnGn)
Posted by: The Dude at July 17, 2012 08:55 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at July 17, 2012 08:55 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: epobirs at July 17, 2012 08:55 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at July 17, 2012 08:55 PM (bxiXv)
sure he's a nice guy, but I think he's like The Thing: He only imitates
human behavior. He's not actually human himself.
Nice, Mark. Not only are your opinions (how is the middle class doing under Obama, exactly?) just stupid to the point of stupid, you can't even think of analogies that aren't from the pages of a comic book.
Some people undermine their own point just by expressing it.
Posted by: AmishDude at July 17, 2012 08:55 PM (J5tI6)
Mark Hamill. As deep a thinker as palin steele.
Posted by: Waterhouse at July 17, 2012 08:57 PM (HNsjb)
It's bien pensant liberalism at its most perfect. All Hamill had to do was express hatred for Republicans and dress it in some sort of larger concern. It doesn't have to make sense. There need be no logical progression or argument. What Hamill did was tell all of his friends that he hates the right people. Mission accomplished.
Posted by: AmishDude at July 17, 2012 08:58 PM (J5tI6)
Posted by: epobirs at July 17, 2012 08:59 PM (kcfmt)
1) Tell him that if Obama is struck down in the election, he will become more powerful than Mark Hamill can imagine.
2) Dangle a shiny object. So shiny!
Posted by: Splunge at July 17, 2012 09:05 PM (2IW5Q)
Posted by: IdowhatIwant at July 17, 2012 09:06 PM (a4CUi)
Wow, I was just wondering the other day; what does Mark Hamill think of Mitt Romney?? The fact that The Obama Effect is a "serious" film is hilarious! It could be the funniest unintended comedy of all time!!
Posted by: stillers at July 17, 2012 09:07 PM (RU8Dc)
It seems to me that while the media was in the tank for the Democrats since at least 1962, they've gotten extremely more so since the arrival of the new media blew their monopoly completely out of the water.
Now, faced with a real competitor for control of the public's understanding of events, they've gone overboard to the left, furiously trying to control events and politics to their liking because they think they have to in order to counter Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, and those damnable blogs.
In the process they're ripping off the mask like Horatio Caine's stupid sunglasses and its ugly underneath.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 17, 2012 09:07 PM (r4wIV)
There is a real dilemma in the black community. Obama is a failure and it is obvious. So what to do about it? The consensus is act like ti does not exist. The last thing middle class supposedly intelligent people want to talk about is Obama.
Great post. Insightful.
Posted by: AmishDude at July 17, 2012 09:08 PM (J5tI6)
Hence, Morgan Freeman saying Clinton was the black president and this Obama guy is just some halfrican American posing as black.
I think more than a few blacks are really annoyed at how lousy Obama is at the job and can see through his "dropping the g, I love basketball" pose. He just is inauthentic, so to speak.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 17, 2012 09:11 PM (r4wIV)
Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known as Mr. Barky at July 17, 2012 09:13 PM (A+OEV)
Posted by: X-RAy at July 17, 2012 09:13 PM (qqnGn)
My apologies to IdowhatIwant for not providing a more scintillating discourse about high-minded subjects. Now FOAD if the ONT isn't to your liking.
Posted by: epobirs at July 17, 2012 09:14 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: kbdabear at July 17, 2012 09:19 PM (Y7XKa)
Mark Hamill:
We don't need your opinion.
Obama's not the one we're looking for.
You can shut the **** up and go about your business.
Move along. Move along
Posted by: jakee308 at July 17, 2012 09:19 PM (pASI9)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 18, 2012 01:11 AM (r4wIV)
---------------------------------
I'm not annoyed I'm actually disappointed. I knew he was a leftist, but he is astoundingly incompetent as well. Even the professional left sees it, they are annoyed he is making their ideology seem shitty.
Posted by: theworldisnotenough at July 17, 2012 09:22 PM (v2BZS)
Posted by: X-RAy at July 17, 2012 09:25 PM (qqnGn)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at July 17, 2012 09:26 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: jakee308 at July 17, 2012 09:34 PM (pASI9)
which old thread?
this old thread.
Ding dong the thread is really dead
(and so was Paul. He just didn't know it till recently.)
Posted by: jakee308 at July 17, 2012 09:39 PM (pASI9)
http://tinyurl.com/7y92lpx
Posted by: Robert at July 18, 2012 01:20 AM (4ixH5)
***sniff*** It's Bee-yoo-tee-full!
Posted by: cthulhu at July 17, 2012 09:39 PM (kaalw)
And , of course, we all benefit from infrastructure paid for (but not designed, not constructed) by government. So why do some become successful and others not?
Then there's Henry Ford: he created a mass-production line for cars that preceded the roads needed to carry them. More cars, THEN more and better roads.
So...government infrastructure not a necessary condition...not a sufficient condition. Ergo content-free bloviation for political effect -- by the Blue-Lipped Princeling with almost ZERO experience in the private sector.
Posted by: Jim Sonweed at July 17, 2012 09:40 PM (fBsx6)
Posted by: X-RAy at July 17, 2012 09:41 PM (qqnGn)
I'm pretty sure he never met a payroll or made a profit.
Unless he dealt dope in Chicago.
Posted by: jakee308 at July 17, 2012 09:42 PM (pASI9)
Posted by: epobirs at July 17, 2012 09:42 PM (kcfmt)
I stopped awhile ago and only upgrade now and then or until something forces me to.
Flash is a bastardized pos. Responsible for more hangups, lockups, unloaded pages and broken links than just about any other piece of software on the 'net.
Adobe should be ashamed of themselves.
Posted by: jakee308 at July 17, 2012 09:45 PM (pASI9)
I think you are wrong and blacks will vote for Obama in the same numbers they did in 2008.
Posted by: cm9000 at July 17, 2012 09:46 PM (lzvtR)
Posted by: epobirs at July 18, 2012 01:42 AM (kcfmt)
if it means more 3D video, I'm okay with this
Posted by: The Dude at July 17, 2012 09:46 PM (tw6Ar)
Is that apprentice dust on the fingertips, Senator?
What?! No, I just mentor young...er, I mean that I counsel budding....uh, look there! Yoda, that damned 1 percenter, is hoarding midichlorians!
Posted by: derit at July 17, 2012 09:47 PM (ruiF1)
Posted by: X-RAy at July 17, 2012 09:48 PM (qqnGn)
Posted by: cthulhu at July 18, 2012 01:39 AM (kaalw)
Can't help but wonder what a lesbian nazi zombie vampire werewolf shark octopus hooker (with laser) charges.
Especially in this economy.
Posted by: Robert at July 17, 2012 09:50 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: The Dude at July 17, 2012 09:51 PM (tw6Ar)
[hammers chest of thread]
Stay with us now.
[more chest compressions of thread]
You can make it. you can make it
[hammers chest of thread again]
Posted by: jakee308 at July 17, 2012 09:51 PM (pASI9)
No, not gonna happen. The Flash rendering issue has been my only complaint with the last several renditions of Firefox.
I like seeing the latest. It's part of my job, such as it is.
Posted by: epobirs at July 17, 2012 09:52 PM (kcfmt)
Presumably whatever it wants. I don't think it cares about money all that much.
Can we have your liver?
Posted by: epobirs at July 17, 2012 09:53 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: X-RAy's Liver at July 17, 2012 09:56 PM (qqnGn)
" The fence angles quickly away from home plate; right-center field extends out to 421 feet (128 m) from home plate. Atop the fence are four pillars with fountains atop. These four pillars will burst jets of water when the Giants hit a home run, win a game, and at the end of the National Anthem."
Posted by: crosspatch at July 17, 2012 09:57 PM (ZbLJZ)
Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at July 17, 2012 09:57 PM (qmMAj)
Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at July 17, 2012 09:59 PM (qmMAj)
The Go Go's "Our Lips Are Sealed":
http://youtu.be/r3kQlzOi27M
Posted by: derit at July 17, 2012 09:59 PM (ruiF1)
Posted by: Robert at July 17, 2012 10:00 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at July 18, 2012 01:57 AM (qmMAj)
Holy shit, is it part electric eel too?
Posted by: Robert at July 17, 2012 10:00 PM (4ixH5)
No, but they did build the infrastructure.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at July 17, 2012 10:00 PM (xKC/c)
Flash isn't broken in IE10 on Win8, which is as recent as it gets. Nor is there a problem in Chrome. Go bitch at Mozilla and possibly Adobe.
Posted by: epobirs at July 17, 2012 10:02 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: X-RAy's Liver at July 17, 2012 10:02 PM (qqnGn)
Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at July 17, 2012 10:04 PM (qmMAj)
Here's something so fuckin' cute you'll vomit and stab your eyes out before running naked down a dark alley screaming.
Posted by: Robert at July 17, 2012 10:05 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at July 18, 2012 02:04 AM (qmMAj)
I don't know where that thing has been.
Posted by: Robert at July 17, 2012 10:06 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: epobirs at July 18, 2012 02:02 AM (kcfmt)
considering in how shit-tastic Mozilla has been these past few years, there should never be a time where someone isn't bitching at them
Posted by: The Dude at July 17, 2012 10:10 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at July 17, 2012 10:11 PM (qmMAj)
I've got 8 and "I'm doin' fine".
Posted by: jakee308 at July 17, 2012 10:12 PM (pASI9)
Posted by: Robert at July 17, 2012 10:13 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: The Dude at July 17, 2012 10:13 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at July 18, 2012 02:11 AM (qmMAj)
Tea and crumpets, guvnuh, wot?
Posted by: Robert at July 17, 2012 10:14 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: X-RAy at July 17, 2012 10:14 PM (qqnGn)
http://youtu.be/YgPvRSAdK6o
Posted by: derit at July 17, 2012 10:14 PM (ruiF1)
I kept MS-DOS till 2002. (I have the DOS DukeNukem3D user created files to prove it).
I didn't put Win 3.1 on until about '97 and that was really just a shell.
Went Win 98 in 2003 cause I need some hardware and none of it would work with DOS.
Went Win XP when I bought a Dell in 2003 and 2005 and that's IT until I'm satisfied that Win 8 is the fixed version of the latest OS attempt. Or until all of my 3 computers die.
Then I'll have to buy one with it installed.
And yes, I can still remember how to create and trouble shoot a .bat file.
Posted by: jakee308 at July 17, 2012 10:18 PM (pASI9)
Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at July 17, 2012 10:22 PM (qmMAj)
Posted by: X-RAy at July 17, 2012 10:23 PM (qqnGn)
Keep it up with the occasional reference to the theme "Cops Gone Wild'. This is a way underexposed problem in the US and it will only get worse. The SC is part of the problem here, finding justifications for dog searches of cars, Border Patrol searches of electronic records such as on phones and laptops, no knock warrants, secret warrants and warrantless searches, etc.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Yeah that sounds real ambiguous to me. Shucks, I can find all kind of exceptions in that wording if I've got shit for brains.
Good evening, all.
Posted by: GnuBreed at July 17, 2012 10:28 PM (ccXZP)
I KNOW!
Last time I ran a scan there was something over 40,000 files on this thing. ?!!!!!!!
What happened is that after the price of memory dropped and a processor that could handle protected memory came out, programmers got laaaaaazzzzzzy and instead of fine tuning their code and making it small and fast, they threw stuff in .dll's and then put them all over the place.
MS led the way with some of the slowest largest code ever written in win '95. 3rd party software makers just followed suit.
It got worse when the registry came to the fore and then they could put shit ANYWHERE and the program could find it.
Ah well. Those were the days. 640k memory and 20meg hard drives. Hard resets cause some subroutine hung and couldn't return.
.com and .exe files of 30k's or less still the speed's the same as they were fast only because they were small now even though they're huge, the processors are faster and the memory is faster. I've got 4gig ram and it blazes.
I had an xt once that only had a 10 meg hard drive and it was slower than snail shit.
I don't miss it one bit. Except I could build my own programs from scratch without buying a $200 Editing suite.
Posted by: jakee308 at July 17, 2012 10:34 PM (pASI9)
Find out about her million $ real estate portfolio. Check out her $33k 7 day cruise vacation. Nice work, Javier.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/7du945t
Posted by: GnuBreed at July 17, 2012 10:39 PM (ccXZP)
That is a sloppy developer problem. Plenty of apps mind their business and keep themselves to themselves.
Microsoft has made major changes in the post-XP releases to offer better segregation of user data from apps. A system that had only compliant apps on it could back up a user just by copying their entry in the Users folder and copying it back when the machine is restored. (This is an area where Unix and derivatives have long had the advantage, although some versions got fancy and screwed it up.)
You may have noticed that post-XP Windows versions have a Program Data directory, separate from Program Files. This is to encourage the preferred practice of keeping files subject to change in a separate area from those that remain static once installed. This makes it easier to defend against malware by making larger areas subject to rapid testing for conformance to checksums and other measures.
The infrastructure is there but unless you want to go completely to the walled garden approach where all software has to pass through a central authority for approval on following the guidelines, it is really hard to get everybody to follow the rules. One of top items that caused existing software to break under Vista and later is the protections added to the registry. Third party developers had been completely ignoring the rules laid down long ago and Microsoft got tired of being blamed for when things got broken by these bad apps. (Quicken and QuickBooks were huge offenders in this area.) The real blame for Microsoft was in not being more hard-assed about this a decade earlier but the long prevailing policy was to let ISVs do what they wanted.
One of the other big items was companies still using 16-bit installers on their latest versions. 16-bit support went away and these dumb shits had the nerve to act surprised. It had only been announced three years in advance.
Posted by: epobirs at July 17, 2012 10:42 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at July 17, 2012 10:42 PM (qmMAj)
Posted by: X-RAy at July 17, 2012 10:44 PM (qqnGn)
Posted by: pat at July 17, 2012 10:48 PM (UFxap)
Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at July 17, 2012 10:48 PM (qmMAj)
Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at July 18, 2012 02:48 AM (qmMAj)
Spotlights make me nervous, too.
Hold me.
Posted by: Some Bandit at July 17, 2012 10:50 PM (4ixH5)
Roses are red
My balls are blue
I've nothing under 80 proof
Not even a brew.
Posted by: GnuBreed at July 17, 2012 10:51 PM (ccXZP)
Posted by: Gambler NOT in a spotlight at July 17, 2012 10:52 PM (qmMAj)
Posted by: David "Bent" Beckham at July 17, 2012 10:55 PM (qmMAj)
Posted by: Gambler NOT in a spotlight at July 18, 2012 02:52 AM (qmMAj)
Dinner and a movie first?
Posted by: Frito Bandito at July 17, 2012 10:56 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Berserker at July 17, 2012 10:57 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: X-RAy at July 17, 2012 10:57 PM (qqnGn)
Posted by: David "Bent" Beckham at July 18, 2012 02:55 AM (qmMAj)
And while you're doing that I'm fucking the pool boy. Not that I'm complaining.
Posted by: Posh Spice at July 17, 2012 10:57 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: jc at July 18, 2012 02:56 AM (ufJKx)
Hhhhhheeeeeeehhhhh heh heh heh!
Posted by: Muttley at July 17, 2012 11:01 PM (4ixH5)
SEATTLE (AP) -- Two Seattle men say they spent more than two hours in a detention center at the Canadian border after U.S. border agents discovered illegal chocolate eggs in their car.
I feel safer already.
Posted by: GnuBreed at July 17, 2012 11:01 PM (ccXZP)
Posted by: X-RAy at July 17, 2012 11:01 PM (qqnGn)
Posted by: Berserker at July 18, 2012 02:57 AM (FMbng)
coming "soon"
Posted by: The Dude at July 17, 2012 11:01 PM (tw6Ar)
SEATTLE (AP) -- Two Seattle men say they spent more than two hours in a detention center at the Canadian border after U.S. border agents discovered illegal chocolate eggs in their car.
I feel safer already.
Posted by: GnuBreed at July 18, 2012 03:01 AM (ccXZP)
===
and then they shot them with beanbags. Not the men, the eggs.
Posted by: jc at July 17, 2012 11:02 PM (ufJKx)
Posted by: GnuBreed at July 17, 2012 11:05 PM (ccXZP)
Posted by: Didn't hear that from me at July 17, 2012 11:09 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Babe Ruth ain't nothing but a candy bar ... at July 17, 2012 11:09 PM (qmMAj)
Posted by: X-RAy at July 17, 2012 11:13 PM (qqnGn)
Posted by: Babe Ruth ain't nothing but a candy bar ... at July 17, 2012 11:19 PM (qmMAj)
Posted by: X-RAy at July 18, 2012 03:13 AM (qqnGn)
http://tinyurl.com/85sklrk
Posted by: jc at July 17, 2012 11:20 PM (ufJKx)
Posted by: I'm wearing socks with my nightcap at July 17, 2012 11:20 PM (qmMAj)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Mayor Ed Lee said he wanted to spark a discussion about a spike in violent crime when he mentioned that he was considering a controversial stop-and-frisk policy used by police in New York, Philadelphia and some other big cities.
And so it goes.
Posted by: GnuBreed at July 17, 2012 11:22 PM (ccXZP)
If I'm not back before everyone bails...GOODNIGHT!
Posted by: Robert at July 17, 2012 11:23 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: X-RAy at July 17, 2012 11:23 PM (qqnGn)
Posted by: X-RAy at July 18, 2012 03:13 AM (qqnGn)
hey, what about me??
http://tinyurl.com/82rg7ne
Posted by: yellowbeard at July 17, 2012 11:24 PM (ufJKx)
Posted by: No sourkraut for me! Danke! at July 17, 2012 11:25 PM (qmMAj)
Posted by: GnuBreed at July 17, 2012 11:26 PM (ccXZP)
Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at July 17, 2012 11:29 PM (qmMAj)
Posted by: epobirs at July 17, 2012 11:30 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: epobirs at July 17, 2012 11:34 PM (kcfmt)
Nite all.
Posted by: GnuBreed at July 17, 2012 11:35 PM (ccXZP)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at July 17, 2012 11:40 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: X-RAy at July 17, 2012 11:41 PM (qqnGn)
There is some stuff that I only have a few times a year or just once but when you want to fire neurons that remember that flavor nothing else will do.
Posted by: epobirs at July 17, 2012 11:41 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at July 17, 2012 11:45 PM (piMMO)
http://bit.ly/PeAX7F
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at July 17, 2012 11:52 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: X-RAy at July 17, 2012 11:53 PM (qqnGn)
Posted by: zeera at July 17, 2012 11:53 PM (XtxRN)
Posted by: X-RAy at July 18, 2012 12:03 AM (qqnGn)
He's just trying to distract attention form his very real legal troubles with the DOJ, which is as we all know led by another POS hack. It's hard to figure out who to root for in that loser vs loser battle.
Maybe they can both lose.
Posted by: GnuBreed at July 18, 2012 12:06 AM (ccXZP)
****
On his twitter feed is a tweet from mid-June when he was subpoenaed by a Florida attorney. It looks like Florida might also be questioning his eligibility to be on the ballot.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at July 18, 2012 12:07 AM (piMMO)
Posted by: a cynical but rarely angry Adriane at July 18, 2012 03:29 AM (qmMAj)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's funny. 
Posted by: Robert at July 18, 2012 12:09 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Robert at July 18, 2012 12:09 AM (4ixH5)
He's just trying to distract attention form his very real legal troubles with the DOJ, which is as we all know led by another POS hack. It's hard to figure out who to root for in that loser vs loser battle.
Maybe they can both lose.
****
Well, maybe it takes an SOB who's not bound by the polite struggle to remain politically correct to investigate such a concern. Folks have been so afraid of being labeled a loon for even entertaining a "what if" that nobody but the most bold will take it on. Is it for publicity? Perhaps. But there's apparently enough weight behind the allegations that Florida is looking into them.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at July 18, 2012 12:15 AM (piMMO)
Posted by: X-RAy at July 18, 2012 12:32 AM (qqnGn)
Yeah. So says who? Oh yeah that paragon of virtue and truth Eric "I cannot tell a lie big enough" Holder. And his clown posse the DOJ.
Uhhh huh. Like I'm even believing anything that person or his so called department of Justice says about anyone.
Seeing as how they've LIED about everything they've done so far and have let loose criminals and incarcerated innocents.
I think I'd be willing to stand next to Sheriff Arpaio when he stands in front of jury of his peers rather than within 20 feet of Holder.
Posted by: jakee308 at July 18, 2012 12:43 AM (pASI9)
Posted by: sardine mamba at July 18, 2012 12:58 AM (PAocH)
Posted by: teej at July 18, 2012 02:39 AM (vzfrq)
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Posted by: German Shepards Pie at July 18, 2012 04:32 AM (sXKTc)
You do know Stalin wasn't his real name, right?
Posted by: Klawnet at July 18, 2012 06:35 AM (a/VXa)
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