I'MMA LET YOU FINISH

GravatarWho edits the editors?


GravatarGood morning.


GravatarHey, kids - it's that time of year!


GravatarAll those zeroes, so confusing.


GravatarAnd this surprises whom?


GravatarAnd via Digby, good one from Charles Pierce at Altercation yesterday:

...The other night, talking with my man Olbermann, greasily hiding behind what was the living definition of a s**t-eating grin, Milbank explained his take on the "How do we beat the bitch?" controversy currently plaguing John McCain, who is not, Milbank was quick to point out, running for "knighthood in some order of chivalry." He further explained that McCain was smart enough to realize that it would "be suicide to quarrel with this phraseology." So now it is not only politically permissible -- but the very essence of shrewd politics -- to go along with calling Senator Hillary Clinton almost anything. Why stop here? Why not just call her a "c**t"? That'd be a brilliant tactical maneuver, wouldn't it, Dana? Go for the gold, boys.


GravatarMath is hard?


GravatarAccording to my math, that means they got the story 99.9% wrong.


GravatarOT: Boiling it down it means many 'New' Labour types have no natural sympathy for liberal or libertarian ideas and this means that their natural reflex is to command and control, to democratically centralize is the natural impulse.


GravatarI keep coming on to this site right after Atrios adds a post. I must be in psychic communion with the Blue Devil.

Proof positive!


Gravatarcan you imagine how many eyes and sets of hands had to read that before it got into print?
what were they all doing? thinking?

I am more worried about their conclusions and what, not paying attention to details, such as here, means for what they support and oppose.
very sloppy.


GravatarMaybe the NYT is correct. Maybe we are leveraging the war funding now.


GravatarOh good.
You fixed your margins.

You're sweet.


GravatarSo that "Diamonds or pearls" question to Sen Clinton had a pop culture reference? Who knew--and you kids stay off my lawn.


http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=2...feature=related


GravatarI guess we're not talking about real money...


Gravatarmy sleep deficit is becoming highly leveraged


GravatarSo that "Diamonds or pearls" question to Sen Clinton had a pop culture reference? Who knew...

Um, olexicon and I?


Gravatarjooliani, fooliania.
cant we just elect roger ailes and be done with it?


GravatarAlthough I found this tune from the Back Dorm boys much funnier:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B...h? v=BE1gYMF8kgs


GravatarThe same thing happens to me! I sometimes confuse the Post with a real newspaper! Weird.
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GravatarSo that "Diamonds or pearls" question to Sen Clinton had a pop culture reference?

Question for next debate: oysters or snails?


GravatarYes, NTodd, you whippersnapper you, but did Hillary?


GravatarOT: Two Canadian soldiers of the Nato-led force in Afghanistan have been killed by a roadside bomb in the south of the country, military officials say.

An interpreter was also killed in the incident while three other soldiers were wounded.

More than 200 soldiers of the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) have been killed in 2007.

Meanwhile, US and police forces claimed to have killed scores of insurgents in clashes across southern Afghanistan.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world...sia/ 7099873.stm


GravatarI guess because Gore used another Fleetwood Mac song.

The question was idiotic.


GravatarOh man, is Pepsi sponsoring those Chinese dudes? Is nothing sacred?


GravatarQuestion for next debate: oysters or snails?
dave™©


Links or patties.

That says a lot about a person.


GravatarBut it takes 30 years to count to a billion.


GravatarYou got that right. I could really give a rat's asshole with mayonaise about the $600 million in domestic gross.

Well, as I tell my kids, words have meanings. When talking about movies, flop, without any modifiers -- like "artistic flop" -- means it failed at the box office, which Titanic, for all its suckiness and stupidity, didn't.


GravatarBawled out

David Smith receives a dressing down from a US officer - over his reflections in a previous entry in his diary


GravatarYes, NTodd, you whippersnapper you, but did Hillary?

We speculated about which album she preferred. Olex thought it would be 1999, but I went for Lovesexy.


GravatarHey, kids - here's a little Saturday morning cartoon for ya!


Gravatari've softened up on Titanic, I used to really loathe it

but now, i don't really care


GravatarBut it takes 30 years to count to a billion.

Only if you do it 1 number per second. And it's actually almost 32 years.


GravatarHey, kids - here's a little Saturday morning cartoon for ya!
dave™©


Yay!

/Makes tent out of blankets and TV table, grabs cereal bowl


Gravatari know I ended up watching it with my Qatari friend when I was in Egypt, she liked the costumes.


GravatarBill O'Really said that Revelations "was written . . . what? Five thousand years ago."

Heh.


GravatarLike Bush, Cheney, and Gonzalez - only 3 more zeros.


GravatarBTW, I know I mentioned these guys were gonna play "Alice's Restaurant" at noon (PST) on Thanksgiving Day, but now I find out these guys are also playing it - at 6 am, 12 noon, and 6 pm (PST).

And they're both advertising it.

Don't miss it!


GravatarOnly if you do it 1 number per second. And it's actually almost 32 years.

Let me verify that: 1, 2, 3, 4.....

I'll be back later.


GravatarMy annual eye examination is this time of year - I bet it's just the same for the Times editors.


Gravatari've softened up on Titanic, I used to really loathe it

I finally saw it a couple of years ago on HBO.

I dunno... it didn't seem that bad.

But I prefer Cameron's "Aquaman"...


GravatarMore than 200 soldiers of the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) have been killed in 2007.

216. Breaking 2006's record of 191, which shattered 2005's record of 130. Last year the diff was 3x non-US deaths. This year, about 10% more US and non-US deaths.

It's a lovely fucking war.


GravatarHULK SMASH

You're telling me.


GravatarI can count to 8 or 9 in 1 second, so I could be done counting to a billion in about 3.5 years.


GravatarBill O'Really said that Revelations "was written . . . what? Five thousand years ago."

He's as much a student of Christianity as Dog Burner is...


GravatarPot or booze...........or both.


GravatarAfter 60 years of marriage, survivors generally have only memories and family photographs of their wedding day. But when you are the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, whose anniversary is on Tuesday, not only will there be a service at Westminster Abbey - at which the sermon will be preached by the Archbishop of Canterbury, who wasn't even born when the wedding took place - but the National Archive has also been thrown open to disclose all the details of the day.
(snip)
They also disclose the horror of Queen Mary, the widow of George V, when the palace received a lace tray cover, woven by Mahatma Gandhi himself as a wedding present for the royal couple, because she thought it was his loincloth.

The book says that the government gave the couple the standard extra 200 clothing coupons, allowed to all brides, but that they were also inundated with coupons sent by women from all over the country - all sent back because passing on coupons was illegal. Among gifts from abroad were 131 pairs of nylons and 500 cases of tinned pineapples from the governor of Queensland. The New York Institute of Dress Designers sent 25 dresses as a gift, 20 of which were given to other brides getting married at the same time.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/ monarc...2212499,00.html


GravatarIt's a lovely fucking war.

Time for revivals of all those Nam-era plays and musicals... "Oh! What a Lovely War," "We Bombed in New Haven," "Happy Birthday, Wanda June"...

And a special rotating production of "All My Sons" with "The Andersonville Trial."


GravatarI can count to 8 or 9 in 1 second, so I could be done counting to a billion in about 3.5 years.
NTodd, On On WANDERSEXXX


how long does it take you to say 14,787,777?


GravatarClimate change is accelerating, U.N. panel reports
http://www.yahoo.com/s/738589


Gravatar216. Breaking 2006's record of 191, which shattered 2005's record of 130. Last year the diff was 3x non-US deaths. This year, about 10% more US and non-US deaths.

Yeah, but the surge "changed everything."


GravatarI can count to 8 or 9 in 1 second, so I could be done counting to a billion in about 3.5 years.

Sure in the early stuff. But how fast can you say 438,767,754?


GravatarThere is no "s" in Revelation.


GravatarDamn. I owe lipreader a beverage!


GravatarThe US justice department is investigating the soaring building costs for a huge American embassy in Baghdad. Postponing its scheduled opening last month, the state department said it didn't "have an answer" as to when it would be finished.

The embassy was supposed to have opened by now but has suffered from repeated postponements because work has either been judged to be below standard or because of design changes.

The original budget for the embassy, the biggest US one in the world, was $592m (£296m) but this has jumped by a further $144m.

The new justice department investigation was disclosed in a report prepared for a Congressional hearing on Wednesday. The report revealed that, in addition to two other investigations related to Iraq, the justice department is looking into state department officials involved with the embassy.

The state department announced last month the opening would have to be delayed indefinitely while the contractor, based in Kuwait, dealt with a series of problems.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/ S...2212478,00.html


GravatarToonscribe owes me a billion cokes.


GravatarSure in the early stuff. But how fast can you say 438,767,754?

I'll start counting in Base10k.


GravatarThe original budget for the embassy, the biggest US one in the world, was $592m (£296m) but this has jumped by a further $144m.

A hundred million here, a hundred million there, pretty soon we're talking real money


GravatarConservative groups have reacted angrily to an official report showing that divorce rates in Spain have soared since a new law was introduced by the Socialist government in 2005.

According to the National Institute of Statistics, 126,952 divorces were registered in 2006, a 74.3% increase on the previous year. The sharpest rise was seen in divorces between those who had been married for less than a year: 945 were registered in 2006, up 330.6%.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/spain/ ...2212603,00.html


GravatarGuess those leaves won't rake themselves. Nor will spouse be happy doing it alone...

/glances out window at spouse busily working in yard. Sips third cup of coffee


GravatarI'll start counting in Base10k.
NTodd, On On WANDERSEXXX!


OK, I believe you. Now, get started!


GravatarThere is no "s" in Revelation.

Makes you think.

(Thinks...)


GravatarGuess those leaves won't rake themselves.

I don't rake.

[runs downstairs for first cup of coffee]


GravatarConservative groups have reacted angrily to an official report showing that divorce rates in Spain have soared since a new law was introduced by the Socialist government in 2005.


They need to relax. Same thing happened in the states, around about '65-70. People who'd been trying to get divorced for years and years, finally were able to. Huge spike.


GravatarComing up next on the 10@10 Marathon: "Great Clapping Songs."

Could be, as they say, a hot one!


Gravatarglances out window at spouse busily working in yard. Sips third cup of coffee
noblejoanie


Nothing pisses me off more than someone working hard when I want to be lazy.


GravatarWe either rake the leaves or shovel them out of the wind tunnel that is our city driveway after the first heavy snow. It's much easier to rake 'em.


GravatarThere is no "s" in Revelation.

Yes, but O'Really doesn't know that.


GravatarGenomsnittslönen för läkare på drygt 55 000 kronor i månaden ser hög ut jämfört med många andra yrkesgrupper. Men statistiken ger en felaktig bild hävdar Joel Bäck som är klar med sin läkarutbildning och nu gör allmäntjänstgöring under två år.

The average salary for a doctor at about 55,000 (Swedish) crowns a month seems high compared with other professions, but the stats paint an inaccurate picture relates Joel Back who has finished his medical school studies and now is doing a two year residency.

— Jag har en månadslön på 22 500 kronor trots att jag har ansvar för svårt sjuka patienter. Folk tror inte det är sant när man berättar det. Hantverkare man anlitar tjänar ju bra mycket mer, säger Joel Bäck.

I have a 22,500 crown monthly salary despite having rsponsibility for severely ill patients. People don't believe it when you say it. A handy man usually earns a bit more, says Back.



GravatarThere is no "s" in Revelation.

Yes, but O'Really doesn't know that.
Snow, Liberal


We should save time and discuss what he does know.


Gravataroh, dear, I find this disturbing.

From memeorandum:

Costume flap imperils immigration post 
—  WASHINGTON - Just when it appeared Julie Myers had cleared every
hurdle in her quest to officially become the nation's top immigration
official, a dreadlocked wig and a prisoner's outfit could cost her the
job.  —  Myers, director of Immigration …
Link Search: Ask, Technorati, Sphere, Google, and IceRocket


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Discussion:
michellemalkin.com and Dependable Renegade



Gravatartommy flanagan should be reporting this.

"the democrats are going to approve fifty doll... i mean, fifty million ... no, wait fifty billion dollars. yeah, billions. that's the ticket."


GravatarComing up next on the 10@10 Marathon: "Great Clapping Songs."

I didn't know they wrote that many songs about syphillis.


Gravatar DHAKA (Reuters) - Military ships and helicopters were trying on Saturday to reach thousands of survivors of a super cyclone that killed more than 1,600 people and pummeled impoverished Bangladesh with mighty winds and waves.

Cyclone Sidr smashed into the country's southern coastline late on Thursday night with 250 kph (155 mph) winds that whipped up a five meter tidal surge. It was the strongest cyclone since a 1991 storm that killed some 143,000 people in Bangladesh.

Navy ships scoured coastal areas for hundreds of people reported missing and sought to clear river channels clogged with sunken vessels to restore normal navigation, officials said.

Helicopters flew sorties to devastated areas, dropping food, drinking water and medicine for the survivors.

"We are here to help you. You help us by allowing a safe landing and keeping a safe distance," the pilot of a helicopter warned people in Mathbaria, Barisal district, as they thronged towards his craft, television pictures showed.

The official death toll rose to 1,595 late on Saturday and disaster ministry officials said it was likely to rise further. Private television channels said the death toll had already crossed 2,000.


http://ca.today.reuters.com/news...& archived=False


GravatarWe should save time and discuss what he does know.

Done.


Gravatarhttp://talkingpointsmemo.com/arc...ives/ 059111.php

Krongard Resigns
But not the one you might think.

Buzzy Krongard resigned today from Blackwater's advisory board.


GravatarWhat really got me riled during the debate was wolfie's insistence that the debaters should choose between "safety" and "civil liberties," with the implication being that safety was the correct answer. What a fucking nazi.


Gravatarwatertiger and michelle, sitting in a tree, K-I....


GravatarUm....

Congrats watertiger on the yahoo link?

Expect a lot of crazy company.


Gravatar"Senator Lieberman regrets her lapse in judgment regarding the Halloween incident," spokeswoman Leslie Phillips said. "He is inclined to support her nomination, given the committee's review of her entire record, the fact that the union representing 7000 ICE employees supports her and her year's experience in office."

If anyone ever deserved to be called every fucking slur for "Jew" in the fucking book...


Gravatarwatertiger and michelle, sitting in a tree, K-I....

C-K-I-N-G...


GravatarBuzzy Krongard resigned today from Blackwater's advisory board.

He'll be absorbed into some other organized crime outfit soon enough.


GravatarWe're currently at 10 to the 6th power.  I'm waiting for 10 to the 9th.


GravatarC-K-I-N-G...

watertiger

Well, that's moved well beyond flirting, so I'll just watch.


GravatarC-K-I-N-G...

watertiger


i love watching a master at work.


Gravatarbuzzy.


jesus christ.


GravatarHad dKos existed in 2000, I suspect it would have had the same level of hate for Al Gore as it does now for Hillary.


GravatarThat'd be enough to make me click that MM link.


GravatarWhat really got me riled during the debate was wolfie's insistence that
the debaters should choose between "safety" and "civil liberties," with
the implication being that safety was the correct answer. What a
fucking nazi.


Refer to Benjamin Franklin.


GravatarWhat really got me riled during the debate was wolfie's insistence that the debaters should choose between "safety" and "civil liberties," with the implication being that safety was the correct answer. What a fucking nazi.

Yeah.


Gravatarwatertiger and michelle, sitting in a tree, K-I....

C-K-I-N-G...


Drat! I was going there.

First come gloves.
Then come chairs.
Then come Malkin in a coffin carriage.


GravatarI esp. liked this from one of Magalangadingdong's lapdogs:

Whoa! I am no fan of hers but, she does need to have a personal life - geez. Before we take her life away and make it a 24/7 job, lets work on the biggest problem with the biggest do-nothing congress evah.

Dear Lapdog: Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky. Discuss.


Gravatar
I didn't know they wrote that many songs about syphillis.


Tertiary syphilis appears to be the malady of choice afflicting this regime.


GravatarHad dKos existed in 2000, I suspect it would have had the same level of hate for Al Gore as it does now for Hillary.

Had dKos existed in 2000, Gore would have won.


GravatarMorning, all.

Steve's movie reviews:

MR MAGORIUM'S MAGIC EMPORIUM.
Okay, the Kenosha Kid's right -- Natalie Portman is very attractive.
Nice cameo by Kermit the Frog. Can't remember anything else about it.

BEOWULF.
Grendel looks like a leprous Rondo Hatton. Everybody else, including the CGI Angelina, looks hydrocephalic.
Not quite as loopy as 300, but close.


Gravatardebaters should choose between "safety" and "civil liberties," with the implication being that safety was the correct answer.

give me liberty or ... oh, fuck it. just keep the boogeyman away.


GravatarTertiary syphilis appears to be the malady of choice afflicting this regime.

Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere

"Clap Three Times"


GravatarI have finally decided.

The Hulk can beat Superman, simply because, Supes is too principled to kill Hulk immediately, and the madder Hulk gets, the stronger he gets, so he'd eventually beat the hell out of him.

Just thought you'd all like to know.


Gravatar
We're currently at 10 to the 6th power. I'm waiting for 10 to the 9th.


I'm waiting for the US national debt to be measured in moles (6.022×10 to the power 23).


GravatarTime for Clap Rock on the 10@10 Marathon!


GravatarHad dKos existed in 2000, Gore would have won.
gobacktotex

Gore did win.


Gravatarsongs about syphillis.

Pills of White Mercury


GravatarMR MAGORIUM'S MAGIC EMPORIUM.

Does Emma Thompson have something to do with that? Or am I thinking of something else?

I would certainly take Emma over Natalie any day...


GravatarNot a day goes by that I don't not worry about terrorists. Am I being too double negative?


Gravatarsteve: how about the golden compass? will it help me get any converts?

although really, atheists don't see any point in killing god.


Gravatargoddamned Car Talk!  You won't let me leave this house!


Gravatar
Gore did win.


Thank you.


Gravatarsimels!

We actually kept Celine Dion outta our neighbourhood!


GravatarTertiary syphilis appears to be the malady of choice afflicting this regime.

Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere

Also the Austin Dog Burner(TM)


Gravatargoddamned Car Talk! You won't let me leave this house!

And yet, you don't have a car.

How weird is that?


GravatarNot a day goes by that I don't not worry about terrorists. Am I being too double negative?

Terrorists are the least of my worries right now.

Economic destruction plays a far more prominent role.


GravatarThe Hulk can beat Superman

... anywhere but at the box office.


GravatarThe badly decomposed remains of about 30 people have been discovered by Iraqi police on the outskirts of a mainly Sunni district in southern Baghdad.

Police estimated that the victims were killed at least six months ago.

US troops have recently taken control of Doura district, which was previously dominated by a Sunni militant group linked to al-Qaeda.

It is the third such mass grave to be uncovered this month in the capital, according to US and Iraqi forces.

Dozens of bodies have been found in areas west and north of Baghdad where US forces are conducting campaigns to destroy al-Qaeda and related groups.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middl...ast/ 7099954.stm


GravatarOK 32 years with lunch breaks
I'm still counting 1,279...


GravatarGore did win.
lipreader

"Fuck him if he can't take a joke." - G.W. Bush


GravatarThe Hulk can beat Superman

I actually used to work at a comic book shop where these sort of arguments went on for days...


GravatarAlso the Austin Dog Burner(TM)
steve simels


If he got syphilis it was by mail order.


Gravatar
And yet, you don't have a car.


Oh sweet mystery of life at last I found yooooooouuuu.....


GravatarMADRID.- El secretario general del PSOE, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, abrió el Comité Federal de su partido advirtiendo a sus dirigentes de que las elecciones no están ganadas. "Estamos bien, pero las elecciones no están decididas. Hay que sudar la camiseta como la mayoría de nuestros votantes la sudan en sus trabajos".

Madrid-The secretary general of the socialist party, Zapatero, opened the federal committee of his party telling his lieutenants that the election has not yet been won. "We are okay, but the elections have not yet been won. We need to get our shirts sweaty like the majority of voters sweat in their jobs.

http://elmundo.es/elmundo/2007/ 1...1195293018.html


GravatarThe copy editing of the Times began to decline years ago with the advent of spell[ing] checkers, adding greatly to the loss of their dignity otherwise due to lousy reporting and editing and general dumbing down.


Gravatar
Also the Austin Dog Burner(TM)


Nah. He's got mad cow.


GravatarOh sweet mystery of life at last I found yooooooouuuu.....

Is it hot in here, or is it me???


GravatarThe Hulk can beat Superman

... anywhere but at the box office.
dirk gently, sociopathetic

The next Hulk film will wipe the floor with that last dreary Superman film.


GravatarSteve, Toby has crabs, not syphilis.  You can't get syphilis from a blow up doll.


GravatarHad dKos existed in 2000, Gore would have won.
gobacktotex

Gore did win


True. I should have said he would have been president de facto as well as dejure.


Gravatar
The Hulk can beat Superman


The madder Hulk gets, the stronger Hulk gets.


GravatarThe copy editing of the Times began to decline years ago with the advent of spell[ing] checkers...

All newspapers, really. Nowadays, they also want copy editors to function as graphic artists - gotta know Quark/InDesign and Illustrator.


GravatarMakes me rethink "Clap For the Wolfman"...


GravatarLet's see:

$1,000,000.00 = 1 Million

$1,000,000,000.00 = 1 Billion

$1,000,000,000,000.00 = 1 Trillion

I think that's right.


Gravatarhow long would it take to count all the real numbers between 0 and 1,000,000,000?

long time prolly.


Gravatar"I actually used to work at a comic book shop where these sort of arguments went on for days..."

I loved that scene in Stand By Me where they are arguing who would win - Mighty Mouse or Superman.

Vern: You think Mighty Mouse could beat up Superman?
Teddy: What are you, cracked?
Vern: No, I saw him on TV the other day, he was holding five elephants in one hand.
Teddy: Boy, you don't know nothing. Mighty Mouse is a cartoon. Superman's a real guy. There's no way a cartoon could beat up a real guy.
Vern: I guess you're right. It'd be a good fight though.


GravatarGore did win.
lipreader | 11.17.07 - 11:53 am | #


so did kerry.

it's an interesting argument being had by far too few people. it goes like this:

tfh: the 2004 election was stolen. look at this 543 page report detailing what happened in ohio alone.

ta: they wouldn't do that. you're a conspiracy kook.

-------
tfh = tinfoil hatter
ta = typical american.


GravatarWe have actual copy editors at my place of work.


Gravatareuphronius, I tried it once as a little girl.

I got tired.


Gravatarmy tree version of the NYT says "billion"


GravatarSpell checkers have increased the victims of lightening a billion fold.


GravatarTerrorists are the least of my worries right now.

Economic destruction plays a far more prominent role.

Sallyh,

I believe that was a stated goal of OBL.


GravatarExcept in Britain, a billion is a million million, what we call a trillion.


GravatarThe next Hulk film will wipe the floor with that last dreary Superman film.
Duane V | 11.17.07 - 11:57 am | #


please, dog, don't let them make another one!


GravatarI think that's right.

Well, if you're British, a billion is what we call a trillion.

British billion = a million million.

American billion = a thousand million.


Gravatar1Watt, OBL didn't have to even lift a finger on that one.  Bush is doing a bang up job all by himself.


GravatarOr something like that:

1,000,000,000 is a billion in North American, but is a thousand million in Britain.

1,000,000,000,000 is a trillion in North America, but a billion in Britain.

I think.


GravatarWell, if you're British, a billion is what we call a trillion.

British billion = a million million.

American billion = a thousand million.
Richard | Homepage | 11.17.07 - 12:01 pm | #


wow, i didn't know that.

i think that was the last thing.


GravatarThe madder Hulk gets, the stronger Hulk gets.
Richard | Homepage | 11.17.07 - 11:58 am | #


Whoever knows fear, burns at the Manthing's touch....


GravatarHulk must smash puny Moe!


GravatarBritish billion = a million million.

American billion = a thousand million.
Richard

Fucking €


Gravatarsimels I'm adding a couple of movies to your Tom Petty tape.

An old movie called McVicar with Roger Daltrey and Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance.

Approve?


GravatarSpell checkers have increased the victims of lightening a billion fold.
lipreader | 11.17.07 - 12:00 pm | #


it used to be just jacko.


GravatarSimels, are you still  here?

I do these for you.


Gravatarplease, dog, don't let them make another one!

I think I heard they were already working on it.


GravatarIn Canada we just say "a shit load, eh?"


GravatarHere's a special "behind the scenes" report from Disneyland:

...there's been a growing list of incidents perpetrated on attractions at Disneyland that are not only illegal but that are increasingly, well... let's just say disturbing.

The big problem isn't graffiti or hot-to-trot teens in a back row, it's park visitors smuggling in the cremated remains of their loved ones and then spreading the ashes inside a favorite attraction. The Haunted Mansion is by far the most popular location for this, but you'd be surprised where else people are dumping cremated remains at Disneyland.

The craze seems to have gotten its start at the Haunted Mansion, with the earliest known incident taking place in the late 1990's. Ever since then the practice becomes more popular by the year, and it happens so frequently now that Disneyland has trained the ride operators how to handle such an incident and what to do when remains are discovered inside the attraction. Sometimes the person spreading the ashes is seen on the surveillance cameras and the Cast Members can respond quickly.

Because they have been instructed by the Security and Legal departments to never actually detain a park visitor, most of the perpetrators spreading the ashes are never actually caught however, and they disappear into the park. But when a Haunted Mansion Cast Member sees ashes being spread from a passing Doom Buggy, the attraction is cycled out and shut down for hours at a time while the Custodial department comes in and begins the clean up. The Anaheim Police are also involved in the incident, but there's rarely anything they can do about it either.

Sometimes however the cremated ashes aren't found until the end of the night when the Cast Members close down the rides and walk the tracks looking for lost and found. Just last month that situation occurred when a Cast Member at the Haunted Mansion found several piles and a trail of ashes alongside the ride track. The Anaheim Police and Disneyland Security were summoned, and judging by the large amount of ashes this deposit was likely a small group of deceased people, or perhaps a very large married couple. The police identified the substance as human remains, and the custodial crew came in for the clean up.

To respond to this growing problem, Disneyland's custodial department recently had to purchase special vacuums with very sophisticated HEPA filters that can capture the gritty ash of human remains while also capturing the small bone fragments that can also be present after cremation. The Cast Members who work in Attractions know the code words when calling the custodial hotline, and they tell the custodial dispatcher that they need a "HEPA Cleanup" as soon as possible.


GravatarAll quantities must be expressed in SI units.

Thank you


GravatarWe can barely imagine the number and depth of dirty tricks in every state in the nation during both the '00 and '02 elections.


GravatarIs it hot in here, or is it me???
dave™© | Homepage | 11.17.07 - 11:57 am | #


it's watertiger.


Gravatar
Whoever knows fear, burns at the Manthing's touch....


Marvel once put out a comic called Giant-Size Man-Thing.


Gravatarsimels I'm adding a couple of movies to your Tom Petty tape.

An old movie called McVicar with Roger Daltrey and Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance.

Approve?
HoneyBearKelly | Homepage | 11.17.07 - 12:02 pm | #

I'll pass on McVicar. Don't know the other one, so it sounds interesting...


Gravatar1Watt, OBL didn't have to even lift a finger on that one. Bush is doing a bang up job all by himself.
Sallyh

OBL did have to make a couple of videos to help the igit in chief win.


GravatarWhoever knows fear, burns at the Manthing's touch....

That's "Giant-Sized Man-Thing", friend...


GravatarMeant '04 election, of course.


GravatarOoops - Coke to Richard...


GravatarAlso the Austin Dog Burner(TM)
steve simels

If he got syphilis it was by mail order.
lipreader


Yes, Houston has a huge syphilis outbreak...
Somebody take his passport


GravatarAll quantities must be expressed in SI units.

is that from the swimsuit issue?


Gravataryeah, OBL made those videos. that's right. lol.


GravatarMeant '04 election, of course.
Bobby, Who ♥ Kucinich


Time flies when you live in a fascist nation...or something like that.


GravatarSimels, are you still here?

I do these for you.

watertiger | Homepage | 11.17.07 - 12:03 pm | #


I love you beyond the power of words to express...


Gravatar1Watt, but he didn't win.

Mathematically, it isn't possible that Bush legitimately won in 2004.  And he was appointed in 2000.


Gravatarif i remember correctly in 2004 everyone just kind of assumed the CIA was putting out tapes to help bush win.


GravatarGeez, we're reading each others minds on this thread.


GravatarDrinking owls


Gravatardirk, in your case, Swedish Bikini Team issue.


GravatarI'm gonna take a nap so I'll be at full strength for this evening's drinking.


GravatarWe can barely imagine the number and depth of dirty tricks in every state in the nation during both the '00 and '02 elections.
Bobby, Who ♥ Kucinich | 11.17.07 - 12:04 pm | #


we don't have to image. most of it is well documented.

we only have to look.


Gravataraiiight, while I could listen to Click and Clack all day, Jonathan Schwartz's voice gets on my last nerve.

Errands beckon.

later, all you (rhymes with "sandpaper")...


GravatarRe-HICA!

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Sallyh! ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
.


Gravatarhi steve,
have you seen Gone Baby Gone or American Gangster...


GravatarIf anyone ever deserved to be called every fucking slur for "Jew" in the fucking book...
dave™© | Homepage | 11.17.07 - 11:48 am | #


Thanks Dave. Can we use all those words for black people when discussing Judge Thomas?

Just checking on proper form.


GravatarThe big problem isn't graffiti or hot-to-trot teens in a back row, it's park visitors smuggling in the cremated remains of their loved ones and then spreading the ashes inside a favorite attraction.

Put my ashes in Minnie's thong panties.


Gravatarta = typical american.
dirk gently, sociopathetic

I have it on good confidence that NTodd is an Atypical American.


And Toonscribe, that Hulk film is almost finished and in the can, man!


GravatarWhether the Democrat bill said $50MM or $50B is irrelevant. It mandated troop withdrawals just as our troops are pressing the advantage against the agents of Osama bin Laden in Iraq.

We're killing more Middle East terrorists, at a lower cost to our brave soldiers, than at any other time in the history of the War on Terror. In fact, troop losses are lower than several years during the past four administrations when America was *not* at war.

This has been an amazing, remarkable achievement for the U.S. military. Once the partisans depart the political field, military historians will correct the record, and Democrats will be viewed as acting shamefully against American interests for cheap political victories.


Gravatar"math is hard"-beltway bumpkins


GravatarMaybe people were finally beginning to count the zeroes and comparing those social programs which will make us paupers with the War On Iraq, which will make us rich.

So they descend to direct obfuscation, if that's the word I want.


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