HULK SMASH!!!
The title of this award-winning 1963 film refers to the number of films its director felt he had made to that point
Eight and a half?
Yes!
Nice pics.
You are the new Jeapordy champion!
al sharpton threatens to shut down new york city because 3 police officers were found not guilty in a court of law. let him just try. send this bum to guantanamo in chains, he is a punk who doesn't deserve to live in the usa. who in the hell does he think he is
GALACTUS IS COMING!
http://www.yourmomsbasement.com/
...tus_is_com.html
Well, it wasn't likely to be 200 Motels....
Well, it wasn't likely to be 200 Motels....
Believe it or not, one of our regulars failed to answer the question in a rather spectacular fashion.
Andromeda-Milky Way collision
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
And...y_Way_collision
The Andromeda-Milky Way collision is a predicted galaxy collision, due to take place in approximately three billion years time, between the two largest galaxies in the Local Group, the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy[1]. It is often used as an example of the kind of phenomena associated with such collisions in simulations.[2] As with all such collisions, it is unlikely that objects such as stars contained within each galaxy will actually collide, as galaxies are in fact very diffuse—the nearest star to the Sun is in fact almost thirty million solar diameters away from the Earth. (If the sun were scaled to the size of an American quarter, the next closest quarter/star would be 475 miles away). If the theory is correct, the stars and gas contained in Andromeda will be visible to a naked-eye viewer (if one exists on Earth at the time, see Evolution of the Sun and planetary environments) in approximately three billion years.[3] If the collision occurs, the galaxies will likely merge into one larger galaxy.
It is worth noting that there is, as yet, no way to know whether the possible collision is definitely going to happen or not. The radial velocity of the Andromeda galaxy with respect to the Milky Way can be measured by examining the Doppler shift of spectral lines from stars in the galaxy, but the transverse velocity (or "proper motion") cannot be directly measured. Thus, while it is known that the Andromeda galaxy is getting closer to the Milky Way by about 120 km/sec, there is no way to tell whether it is going to collide, or miss. The best indirect estimates of the transverse velocity indicate that it is less than 100 km/sec[4]. This suggests that the dark matter halos, although possibly not the actual disks, of the galaxies will collide. A future European Space Agency spacecraft, the Gaia mission, expected to launch around 2011, is intended to measure the positions of stars in the Andromeda galaxy with sufficient precision to pin down the transverse velocity[1]
Oh, Richard, that is priceless!
Thanks, Avedon!
You anticipated my last post on the thread before.
And TKK, that was COLD.
You mean... 2001?
You know WE have the right of way.
We might as well pack it all in, then.
jk
Four hundred seventy five miles between quarters.
Long, long way.
We're coming for your lily-white ass, you punk.
And TKK, that was COLD.
I'm just funnin. And he's probably out on a date with some hot divorcee right now.
I don't believe in anything more than 6,000 years old.
And he's probably out on a date with some hot divorcee right now.
The Kenosha Kid
You mean... 2001?
"What is Ocean's Eleven, Alex!"
We iz not trollz.
We are, however, going to go have a nice spa in the dusky early evening, next to the jasmine.
Arthur needs to shout at the Boston crybabies next door.
Ahem...
Did someone mention hot divorcee?
And he's probably out on a date with some hot divorcee right now.
Guess he didn't check his e-mail...
Boston crybabies?
We are all made of stars.
We iz not trollz.
We iz!!! Do you haz snax?
We are all made of stars.
Richard
I'm mostly made of snot.
I just learned that Jane Weidlin from the GoGos is a dominatrix...
All these early 80s rocker chicks look older than I do. It shocks me.
What part of the Bible was the colliding galaxies in?
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All these early 80s rocker chicks look older than I do. It shocks me.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
I heard their lips are sealed.
(Just got that joke from the 80's)
WTF are you people going on about?
Keep it down...I'm trying to get some sleep!
Those d___ed black and white terrierists with the hypothyroidic eyes. All day long, bitching and moaning about everything. "Our person has gone", "the landlord's in the hall", "what was the siren going on about", "where is the key", "Did you remember to eat the kid's homework." Absolutely endless.
Jane Weidlin turns 50 next month.
Someone posted a link earlier to a Bit Torrent offering. I downloaded the link, grabbed a Bit Torrent client, Azureus and set things up. The Azureus client has lots of videos related to space, including Hubble stuff, Mars Rovers, and STS launches.
Hello.
I went to the Museum of the Native American and both parts of the National Gallery today.
I'm so tired I could puke.
Tried to tell Josie that Boston terriers are dogs. She discounts the possibility...
Jane Weidlin turns 50 next month.
Jiminey GoGo Crickets!
It's nice to know the universe will continue even if we destroy our planet as we know it today.
Chuck Missler, a former systems analyst turned evangelical preacher and born physics nerd, argues that six-day creation is possible because time was faster back then, and it is slowing down thanks to entropy and the expansion of the universe, which is not due to the big bang.
I went to the Museum of the Native American and both parts of the National Gallery today.
Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Brooklyn anymore!
God, Rick Springfield is still fucking hot, and he's almost 60.
Simels, take heart.
mer
It's nice to know the universe will continue even if we destroy our planet as we know it today.
Heh. The universe won't even care. Ecce Homo indeed.
It's nice to know the universe will continue even if we destroy our planet as we know it today.
I doubt that we can destroy the planet. We can destroy ourselves and all the other animals, sure, but the planet will go on.
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Our galaxy is colliding with another galaxy? Shit. What time is this supposed to happen? I was going shopping. But I think I'll go f*ck Naomi Campbell, instead. Anyone got her number? She looks like she could use it. Might as well go out with a big bang, yeah?
OK, a little bang. How do these spammers KNOW???!!!
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Heh. The universe won't even care. Ecce Homo indeed.
I care.
/Luke Skywalker
Messiah Obama to Billary:
"Can you keep on bitch-slapping me like that? Reminds me of Michelle...."
Echidne: yup; can't make the point often enough. Nature is far more adaptable than is technological human civilization.
I always had a thing for Belinda Carlisle.
Now Mo Dowd likes Hillary -- because she eats her fries
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/2...ion/
27dowd.html
Use the fork, Luke. Not the spoon!
Hah! found it. Grieg's March of the Trolls. Music for this blog:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=b...feature=related
Dowd likes it that Hillary Clinton eats her fries like a man.
"I doubt that we can destroy the planet. We can destroy ourselves and all the other animals, sure, but the planet will go on."
--Echidne
Of course, you're right. It's what I was thinking, but I didn't word it correctly.
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Now Mo Dowd likes Hillary -- because she eats her fries
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/2...ion/ 27dowd.html
P O'Neill | Homepage | 04.26.08 - 8:12 pm | #
Really? I drink her milkshake.
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This is the song my ex-husband insisted we have our first dance to at our wedding.
(Hint: It's the ultimate 80s song; we were married in '86.)
Dowd likes it that Hillary Clinton eats her fries like a man.
I'm gonna get myself diagnosed with something mental. To compete in the field of political commentary that appears absolutely necessary. Just think of Christopher Hitchens and of Maureen Dowd and so many others.
From the Credit Where Credit is Due Department, Dave Ross took his whorish media colleagues to task in the commentary I just heard (CBS News Radio), noting that (to paraphrase) there's nothing Jeremiah Wright can do in today's media environment to get the truth out about what he has said,... so he went to Bill Moyers' show, about the only place left in the media where the truth still matters. How sad that this is true.
Eh, just had to vent. Back to finish that fascinating YouTube Echidne posted last night, and lurking in general. Have a good evening all.
I always had a thing for Belinda Carlisle.
Me, too. So pretty. A Republican, natch.
This is a better March of the Trolls:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=d...feature=related
All those galaxies really saw their draft prospects slide following their collisions.
I went to the Museum of the Native American and both parts of the National Gallery today.
Did you eat in the cafeteria at the Museum of the American Indian? If not, should head back tomorrow and give it a try: foods of native peoples from across the Americas. Teh awesome.
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Echid:
blogs are for venting, not for "commentary".
Enjoy.
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Dowd likes it that Hillary Clinton eats her fries like a man.
Is Dowd saying that Hill has a prehensile penis?
Oh, no, that would be eating AS a man. My bad.
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his is the song my ex-husband insisted we have our first dance to at our wedding.
I'd have picked Safety Dance.
Just think of Christopher Hitchens and of Maureen Dowd and so many others.
It's all about the booze.
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echid:
on the other hand, if you're yet another "progressive" mental case--that's different...
Good evening, bloggers!
E-mail subject line of the day:
"Cum filled panty for sale"
Like, ewww. DOAN WANT!
I never had a thing for Belinda Carlisle.
Me, too. So pretty. A Republican, natch.
She lives in France and is apparently a Buddhist. She put out an album in french last year.
Dowd likes it that Hillary Clinton eats her fries like a man.
ProfWombat
Men and women eat fries differently (I mean besides CoT, who likes some strange dipping sauce, iirc)?
on the other hand, if you're yet another "progressive" mental case--that's different...
I'm very smart and can put my big toes in my eye sockets should I so wish to do.
Echidne: there's an astounding, truly astounding amount of psychopathology visible in politics and the media these days; no attempt to hide it, mitigate it, even. It dominates the discourse with extraordinary frequency, regularly trumping anything approaching fact, logic and analysis. I've never seen anything like it.
I'd have picked Safety Dance.
Gomez
But you weren't my first husband, natch.
I was all excited about the Pentagon suspending it's military analyst propaganda program (even if it is temporary), until I read this morning's paper and learned we might be attacking Iran soon.
Cripes, I hope this is all just posturing. It's scaring the crap out of me.
Zombie Chief Justice no I didn't but my friend did.
I took the tour and the guide said that the cafeteria has 365 chairs.
Cool, eh?
"Cum filled panty for sale"
What kind of panty?
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Beale:
What, Hillary out behind the backstop again?
I never had a thing for Belinda Carlisle.
Yuck. Girl couldn't carry a tune if it had handles.
I'd have picked Safety Dance.
Gomez
That's okay, I never wanted to fuck Kraftwerk.
What, Hillary out behind the backstop again?
Now, that's mean.
It dominates the discourse with extraordinary frequency, regularly trumping anything approaching fact, logic and analysis. I've never seen anything like it.
It IS odd. Odder than one might think at first glance, because the first glance suggests that they do it because we then talk about it and the ads get more clicks. But it would be possible to write on the issues in a fetching manner and we'd click on those more.
Cool, eh?
Tis. And it is the best food on the mall or in any of the restaurants surrounding the mall. Except maybe for that tapas place.
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What kind of panty?
Granny panty?
Echid:
a "progressive" who's also a contortionist can utterly write her own ticket...
That's okay, I never wanted to fuck Kraftwerk.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
I hear they kept their rooms neat as a pin.
like we all know that chimp and cheney and their collection of whores and fawning acolytes in the media are on the tvs on cspan at the WH reporters dinner. ed chen of LATimes is sitting next to mrs. chimp.
they put their hands of their hearts for the star spangled banner but most of them didnt sing.
do they hate america?
Rashard Mendenhall and Limas Sweed.
No more John and Jim.
My copy and paste fucks up on my new computer. That was intended for your Belinda Carlisle comment, 'mez.
Where's Toddler?
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Galaxy Song
Spoken: Whenever life gets you down Mrs. Brown,
And things seem hard or tough,
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft
And you feel that you've had quite enough...
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
Eric Idle, "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life"
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BTW, the pics of the colliding galaxies look naughty!
The fact that idiots like Dowd can be major media figures is indicative of the decline of American civilization.
Where's Toddler?
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
Haven't seen him since the afternoon.
Echidne: there's an astounding, truly astounding amount of
psychopathology visible in politics and the media these days; no
attempt to hide it, mitigate it, even.
All that lead in the atmosphere, canned foods, etc, has had an effect, apparently.
Jane Wiedlin was the true talent of the Go Gos.
You should see this 1920s 25k carved emerald on Antiques Road Show. The ring is to die for.
From the ends-justify-the-means department; office of terror torture.
Letters Give C.I.A. Tactics a Legal Rationale
By MARK MAZZETTI
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has told Congress that American intelligence operatives attempting to thwart terrorist attacks can legally use interrogation methods that might otherwise be prohibited under international law.
The legal interpretation, outlined in recent letters, sheds new light on the still-secret rules for interrogations by the Central Intelligence Agency. It shows that the administration is arguing that the boundaries for interrogations should be subject to some latitude, even under an executive order issued last summer that President Bush said meant that the C.I.A. would comply with international strictures against harsh treatment of detainees.
While the Geneva Conventions prohibit “outrages upon personal dignity,” a letter sent by the Justice Department to Congress on March 5 makes clear that the administration has not drawn a precise line in deciding which interrogation methods would violate that standard, and is reserving the right to make case-by-case judgments.
“The fact that an act is undertaken to prevent a threatened terrorist attack, rather than for the purpose of humiliation or abuse, would be relevant to a reasonable observer in measuring the outrageousness of the act,” said Brian A. Benczkowski, a deputy assistant attorney general, in the letter, which had not previously been made public.
Echidne: I think there's something rather basic going on, where individual pathologies mirror and reinforce those of the larger society. I don't think human beings were meant to live as they are so often compelled to do these days.
I'm beginning to be of the opinion that there's serious philosophical work to be done in the wake of Bushism, of at least as serious and extended as that the left found itself forced to do in Stalin's wake.
It isn't Cartier, though. If it were Cartier or Tiffany, $ 30 to $ 40 K.
Hines Ward is gonna be pissed.
Jane Wiedlin was the true talent of the Go Gos.
"talent" and "The Go Gos" -- two words that should never be in the same sentence together.
Just sayin' ...
ProfBats__t:
keep us posted, dude, on your masterwork. somehow the pathology just might be living in your own head, like a parasite..
Okay, litz, Talent and The Bangles.
Gomez,
Chicken dance.
"talent" and "The Go Gos" -- two words that should never be in the same sentence together.
Perhaps you'd like to tell us who you consider talented, so we can make snide remarks about them.
keep us posted, dude, on your masterwork. somehow the pathology just might be living in your own head, like a parasite..
Lubyanka
Must you always be an insulting prick?
Echidne: I think there's something rather basic going on, where individual pathologies mirror and reinforce those of the larger society. I don't think human beings were meant to live as they are so often compelled to do these days.
You are right. I have tried to get a wider view but it's hard when you live inside the era. But we are losing our connection to the soil and to each other in a very fundamental sense at the very same time that soil is in trouble. The ideas of kindness, caring and empathy are trivialized or ridiculed. Globalization is a game with mostly losers, yet those losers are told that they are winning.
Then there is the whole "it's just how things are" meme, which I hear more and more often on television and radio. This stops further analysis in its tracks.
I'm beginning to be of the opinion that there's serious philosophical
work to be done in the wake of Bushism, of at least as serious and
extended as that the left found itself forced to do in Stalin's wake.
If I may interject, ProfWombat, we've not come to terms with *any* of our country's wrongdoings to date. Dealing with Bushism is going to be at the tail of a very long line.
Lubyanka: you have an idea, a fact, out with it. Otherwise, I'll continue to ignore you. I've got better things to do than respond to otherwise meaningless insult.
Well, folks, I had kinda hoped that some food would improve my cranky mood, but it hasn't, although I did have a brief moment of grinhood posting this week's Bonus Critter Blogging.
I think it best I absent myself from this felicity.
Have a good evening, bats. The rest of you, ESAD.
Okay, litz, Talent and The Bangles.
Ach. Marginally better, but only barely.
Revolutionary Sewing Circles might be a good idea. Or Gardening Clubs For Ass Kickers.
If I may interject, ProfWombat, we've not come to terms with *any* of our country's wrongdoings to date. Dealing with Bushism is going to be at the tail of a very long line.
GeorgeM | 04.26.08 - 8:30 pm | #
But Bushism is much constructed from America's original sins of slavery and extermination.
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If you want to understand politics, you need to observe the behavior of some of our more aggressive fellow primates. We won out over them because we are even more aggressive, territorial, hierarchical, technological and our A-chimps are crazier.
The least reasonable person always wins, in our system, unless all the other chimps gang up on him/ her. It's like prison.
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Perhaps you'd like to tell us who you consider talented, so we can make snide remarks about them.
Certainly!
From the '80s, I was a fan of Eurythmics, Echo & The Bunnymen, David Bowie, the English Beat ...
The Go Gos had some really good songs. So I assume that someone had some talent there and all I have to go on is what I can hear and see as a musician. Wiedlin could play her instrument and put together a catchy tune.
If you want to understand politics, you need to observe the behavior of some of our more aggressive fellow primates. We won out over them because we are even more aggressive, territorial, hierarchical, technological and our A-chimps are crazier.
But we don't know this. We may have "won" because we were like the bonobos.
Tried to tell Josie that Boston terriers are dogs. She discounts the possibility....
Josie Wombat Johnson is correct!
Did the Go-Gos sing, "This town is our town, this town is so glamorous. I bet you'd live here if you could and be one of us"?
I liked that song.
I'm beginning to be of the opinion that there's serious philosophical work to be done in the wake of Bushism, of at least as serious and extended as that the left found itself forced to do in Stalin's wake.
ProfWombat | 04.26.08 - 8:27 pm | #
We live with Dewey's moral failure to confront either race or WWI. A failure that revealed something was deeply wrong with American liberalism - that is was too deeply invested in the empire.
Prof Bats__t:
will be waiting here for your groundbreaking work on yet another tired, marginal, stupid "progressive" meme--"Our Bush-Caused Horrible Times For Me And My Fellow, Uh, 'Progressives'..."
But Bushism is much constructed from America's original sins of slavery and extermination.
Why did we build this amusement park on top of an old Indian burial ground?!
George: sure; I've read Zinn and agree with you. But Bushism has been a sustained assault on reality, an exaltation of politics over truth, a renunciation of the values of the American political contract to which we've always at least paid lip service. And it's been an abject failure, in every venue it's been tested in. We're left with the questions of why Bushism was allowed free rein, why Bushism has proven so reliable in begetting catastrophe, and how such might be avoided in the future.
The Go Gos had some really good songs.
Wiedlin was the main talent in that group. I thought the song were catchy but vapid. And I just never could get past Belinda Carlisle's weak vocals.
a "progressive" who's also a contortionist can utterly write her own ticket...
Stupedookit can stick its head so far up its ass it can suck itself up into itself.
Think of a republic black hole.
But Bushism is much constructed from America's original sins of slavery and extermination.Agreed. Do you start at the head or the tail?
From the '80s, I was a fan of Eurythmics, Echo & The Bunnymen, David Bowie, the English Beat ...
Bowie put out one good album in the '80's, and a fair amount junk.
Eurythmics had some pretty good stuff.
I didn't give a rats ass for Echo & The Bunnymen or the English Beat.
will be waiting here for your groundbreaking work on yet another tired, marginal, stupid "progressive" meme--"Our Bush-Caused Horrible Times For Me And My Fellow, Uh, 'Progressives'..."
Lubyanka
Get lost, cunt.
foods of native peoples from across the Americas. Teh awesome.
Yes, but what with things being as they are, we'd like to have our foods back, please.
'Enkew.
This town is our town, this town is so glamorous. I bet you'd live here if you could and be one of us"
Korn?
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But we don't know this. We may have "won" because we were like the bonobos.
Echidne | Homepage | 04.26.08 - 8:34 pm | #
We do know this by observing our present system.
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Did the Go-Gos sing, "This town is our town, this town is so glamorous. I bet you'd live here if you could and be one of us"?
I liked that song.
alcyone
yep
David Bowie is a rip off, commercialized Iggy Pop.
Blech.
Howard Zinn!!! The glorious poster-boy of America's "progressive" malcontents!
you go, Zinnian numbnuts!!
comedy on steroids, dudes!
We're left with the questions of why Bushism was allowed free rein, why Bushism has proven so reliable in begetting catastrophe, and how such might be avoided in the future.
I don't have the answers to these questions, naturally, but allowing a theoretical idea (neoconism) to take over the practical business of running a country is surely part of the problem. Add to that the conservative spirit of the 1990s, with lots of public values changing towards more regressive ones, the general obliviousness of many voters to the hidden issues (or any kinds of issues as opposed to "character") and so on.
"We won out over them because we are even more aggressive, territorial, hierarchical, technological and our A-chimps are crazier."
Did we really win? What does winning mean? Destroying the earth faster?
Go Go's - This Town
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T...h?
v=TmSE6Pd5xws
I didn't give a rats ass for Echo & The Bunnymen or the English Beat.
I didn't like a lot of punk or "new wave" but those two I loved. "I Confess" was a favorite.
Echid:
Bonobo this...
Courtesy the beautiful Audrey, for the blog
We do know this by observing our present system.
That goes around in a circle, though, arguing that the present explains the past which explains the present.
Scuze me, I'm gonna take a Lubyanka and then wipe my Annie.
comedy on steroids, dudes!
Tossed Salad and Lubejobbit are the most tedious trools on the web.
yep
Tralfaz
Just tried to find it on YouTube. No luck. But I saw they also did "Vacation all I ever wanted Vacation got to get away." I sing that song all the time when life gets crazy.
The nose causes the tail!
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"We won out over them because we are even more aggressive, territorial, hierarchical, technological and our A-chimps are crazier."
Did we really win? What does winning mean? Destroying the earth faster?
mer | 04.26.08 - 8:39 pm | #
By the logic of our system, we won because we use THEIR hands/ paws for trophies, not the other way around.
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A martial arts film starring Chiwetel Ejifor?
I am SO THERE!
Frank Rich takes a break from Hillary-bashing, sort of
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/2...ion/
27rich.html
Echid:
Bonobo this...
Straight out of the Charlie Rockett years.
Breaking: The Packers have drafted a QB.
Go Go's - This Town
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T...h? v=TmSE6Pd5xws
Richard | Homepage
HEY! How'd you do that???
And the Michigan QB is going to Miami.
Just tried to find it on YouTube. No luck.
Look at my last comment. I found it.
here's a solution:
pray for cheaper gas
Gomez: that is a surprise...
"We won out over them because we are even more aggressive, territorial,
hierarchical, technological and our A-chimps are crazier."Sometimes I think that the "Ascent of Man" has meant disaster for the Earth and its other inhabitants.
We have essentially three brains that are not completely integrated. Who's really in charge in our heads?
So am I the only one alarmed at the news we're ready to strike Iran? I mean cripes, how do we stop this?
Yeah, Fucking prayer.
Works every time....
Sheesh.
HEY! How'd you do that???
I typed ...
this town go-go's
in the search box.
I'm beginning to be of the opinion that there's serious philosophical work to be done in the wake of Bushism, of at least as serious and extended as that the left found itself forced to do in Stalin's wake.
ProfWombat
Post Traumatic Bush Syndrome is gonna be a bitch.
I read a wonderful Swedish book once about the funny things children say. It was arranged into chapters by the topic and in the biology chapter one little boy said:
"The feet are the most important part of the body. They are used for steering."
And one little girl said:
"People have all kinds of skin. Backskin is in the back. Foreskin is in the front."
Some of the research I've seen isn't that different from these kinds of theories.
Yo Gomez -
The Razorbacks had two, count em, two running backs picked in the first round.
RunDMc to da Raiduhs and Felix Jones to the Cowpokes.
I'd rather be Felix.
how do we stop this?
We'll worry about that once we are done starting it, just like Iraq and giving the Hagee's of the islamic world a reason to exist.
Who has a copy of The Fourth Man they can send me?
I typed ...
this town go-go's
in the search box.
Richard
Well, fuck. I typed
go gos this town
and got nothin'. then i typed just
go gos
and still didn't find it.
maybe it was the apostrophe??
Courtesy the beautiful Audrey, for the blog
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
Who was that woman he passed on the way?
Very hot.
Post Traumatic Bush Syndrome is gonna be a bitch.
The Lubewacka trool shows symptoms of this.
p.s listening now. it's a fine tune! thanks.
I typed the lyric and got Korn.
go figure.
I'd rather be sold into slave labor than drafted by the Raiders.
Yo Gomez,
This is explictly for you.
Watch it and weep, babe.
I'd rather be sold into slave labor than drafted by the Raiders.
In this case, you'd make a lot more money running the ball for Davis.
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That goes around in a circle, though, arguing that the present explains the past which explains the present.
Echidne | Homepage | 04.26.08 - 8:41 pm | #
The existing system is based more on violent dominance than peaceful cooperation. Not so much in our own individual lives, but in the running of our society at large. Behavior we would never accept from individuals in our group is perfectly OK if done by whole nations, industries, etc. War, ruthless exploitation, lying, stealing, cheating: No-no's entre nous, but they get you elected and/ or make you billion$ on a larger scale.
Not approving it, simply noting it. We can't change it till we recognize it: Crazy people rise to the top in our system. Millions die as a result,. Time to change the system to look more like our individual bonobo-like existence.
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Echidne: the neocon theory was never asked to conform to reality. THere was never a mechanism to do so. There was never an observation, however well confirmed, that would cause the true believers a moment's doubt. So when facts changed, when extrapolation from prior experience, itself to say the least imperfectly apprehended, the neocons and Bushists persevered. When voices were raised in dissent, they were exiled from the Justice Department, from HHS; senior NASA scientists were told what they could or couldn't say by idiots. So their ideology, never quite realistic, diverged further and further from any connection whatever with actual event, becoming more and more a caricature of itself, a reflection in a funhouse mirror. Catastrophe supervened on every front.
billy b,
We failed top get an OT, we should have traded up.
WE are gonna suck big time next year.
Who was that woman he passed on the way?
According to the beautiful Audrey, she played Cher on "Clueless" on tv, but not in the movie.
maybe it was the apostrophe??
more likely the hyphen. if you want to make sure you get two gos in a row, you should type "go go". With the quotes.
We failed top get an OT, we should have traded up.
WE are gonna suck big time next year.
That's doubtful.
B'mo picked up the Flacco kid from DE.
According to the beautiful Audrey, she played Cher on "Clueless" on tv, but not in the movie.
TV Cher was prettier than Movie Cher.
But not as sexy.
Oooooooh. Baby bobcats.
For some reason, I seem to have a knack for finding things on the internet.
A few days ago, Phila mentioned a recording that he'd been looking for for years. I found an mp3 of it in less than 5 minutes.
Maybe I should open up a business.
Echidne: the neocon theory was never asked to conform to reality. THere was never a mechanism to do so. There was never an observation, however well confirmed, that would cause the true believers a moment's doubt.
Exactly. Thus it's interesting to read about the roots of the movement, how it all came from one man, pretty much, whose students became the real powers in the administration.
I think that we must keep an eye on any such developments in the future.
B'mo picked up the Flacco kid from DE.
billy b
He couldn't beat out Palko at Pitt.
We'll see how that goes.
t of a, more caption | Homepage | 04.26.08 - 8:50 pm
Ah. Thanks.
That goes around in a circle, though, arguing that the present explains the past which explains the present.
Echidne
This is why you need an Historian. Unfortunately, this one is hors de combat for the evening. Please call back later.
"We won out over them because we are even more aggressive, territorial,
hierarchical, technological and our A-chimps are crazier."
Sometimes I think that the "Ascent of Man" has meant disaster for the Earth and its other inhabitants.
We have essentially three brains that are not completely integrated. Who's really in charge in our heads?
GeorgeM | 04.26.08 - 8:43 pm | #
Yeah. So, what do we do about it? We're the zookeepers.
.
I can double for a historian in a pinch.
TV Cher was prettier than Movie Cher.
But not as sexy.
Concurrage.
Howard Zinn!!! The glorious poster-boy of America's "progressive" malcontents!
you go, Zinnian numbnuts!!
History from the perspective of the regular guy. Have you even read Zinn you dumbfuck?
Watch the video I sent you upthread.
Echidne: the neocon theory was never asked to conform to reality. THere was never a mechanism to do so. There was never an observation, however well confirmed, that would cause the true believers a moment's doubt.
Prof - excellent analysis.
IMHO, the self-professed intelligentsia that are the neo-cons are not quite as intelligent as they might think.
Echidne
They hardly came to power. They clawed their way in, helping eachother, as you would expect a gang to. Probably they were following the path laid by the equally gangsterous, nepotistic, venal and destructive Chicago School. Because they are intelligent invaders seeking to subvert whatever is the present challenge to their parasitism, defending against them is like "airport security."
Wombat -
Are you on the Harvard Bookstore's e-mail list? Interesting event with Zinn and Russell Banks and someone else coming toward the end of May...
The neocon stuff is more like a religion where critical thought is discouraged. In some ways this era has perhaps been the era of rigid and fanatical religions of all kinds, including some political ideologies and some types of research even.
He couldn't beat out Palko at Pitt.
We'll see how that goes.
I wondered what the deal on that was. I've seen the kid play several games - he's got the talent, plus that howitzer of an arm.
Apparently, Sun Myung Moon has retired.
They hardly came to power.
I know that it was more complex than that, a process of infiltration as you mentioned. They also were very quiet about some parts of their belief systems, especially its incredible elitism and the cynical way in which religions were to be used (to keep the masses under control).
The neocon stuff is more like a religion where critical thought is discouraged.
"We create our own reality."
Sure you do, neocon dipshits.
History from the perspective of the regular guy. Have you even read Zinn you dumbfuck?
Lubewackit read?
Luby has to get crib notes to understand "My Pet Goat".
I AM KIROK!!!!
Yeah. So, what do we do about it? We're the zookeepers.
Personally, I think we'll destroy ourselves, because we are incompetent zookeepers
billy b: clinging to belief in the face of changing circumstances, and refusing to acknowledge reality, make you stupid. It's happened on the left. It's now happened on the right.
Which is why I'd like to hear the Democratic candidates thoroughly trash the idea of the unitary executive. The very last thing needed is an aggrandizement of power in a single executive entity that styles itself accountable, if at all, only every four years.
They also were very quiet about some parts of their belief systems, especially its incredible elitism and the cynical way in which religions were to be used (to keep the masses under control).
Very much the puppet masters, or at least that's what they aspire to be.
Andromeda-Milky Way collision
There goes my retirement plans
Now it's just static and stagnant. We're there. We're staying. That's it.
we are never leaving. ever. that's where the oil is.
windows vista ultimate vs. XP pro?
barack obama vs. hillary clinton?
"In some ways this era has perhaps been the era of rigid and fanatical religions of all kinds, including some political ideologies and some types of research even."
More commonly known as a bunch of jerks.
I AM KIROK!!!!
Kirok
I'm sure you are.
the cynical way in which religions were to be used (to keep the masses under control).
uhh, wait a minute, are we talking about neokes or nazis?
I got on the Harvard Bookstore's list; thank you
A Kiss Is Not A Contract
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
A contract requires an offer and acceptance.
For some reason, I seem to have a knack for finding things on the internet.
A few days ago, Phila mentioned a recording that he'd been looking for for years. I found an mp3 of it in less than 5 minutes.
Maybe I should open up a business.
Richard | Homepage | 04.26.08 - 8:51 pm
You can be a professional 'expert searcher'. Work from home!
(really)
I guess girls just want to have fun, and I'm the only girl here...
sorry for being shallow.
some types of research even.
Echidne
Erm?
I guess girls just want to have fun, and I'm the only girl here...
ahem
Edward Gibbon talked of the multiplicity of religions in Rome at one point. He described them as 'to the believers, equally true, to the philosophers, equally false, and to the magistrates, equally useful.'
A contract requires an offer and acceptance.
Wanna contract?
ahem
Echidne
Can you do that newt thing, like Hecate does?
I guess girls just want to have fun, and I'm the only girl here...
ahem
Echidne
ahem
Which is why I'd like to hear the Democratic candidates thoroughly trash the idea of the unitary executive. The very last thing needed is an aggrandizement of power in a single executive entity that styles itself accountable, if at all, only every four years.
Damned straight, my friend.
The administrations of Nixon, Reegun, Little Boots, and Pork Chop Halliburton attest to what you say.
Best. Gardening. Magazine. Cover. Evar.
Erm?
Certain fields of evolutionary psychology come to mind. Everything is set into a certain framework, even if alternative theories could have been easily tested in the same piece.
ahem
Echidne
You are a goddess, not just a mere girl.
I guess girls just want to have fun, and I'm the only girl here...
sorry for being shallow.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | 04.26.08 - 9:03 pm |
She-bop?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v...h?
v=vzpxRd44PpE
Wanna contract?
I prefer to expand.
Mike Douglass really did have everybody on his show.
Wanna contract?
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
A line I could never use.
Can you do that newt thing, like Hecate does?
No, sadly. But I can turn newts into humans.
JR, kerosene and a match
Look what the motherfucking cat dragged in.
I wondered where your sorry Canuck ass was...
A Kiss Is Not A Contract
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
A contract requires an offer and acceptance.
Gomez | 04.26.08 - 9:03 pm | #
Sounds like a contract to me.
Does anyone wanna recommend a non-political site that they like to read regularly? TIA
Certain fields of evolutionary psychology come to mind. Everything is set into a certain framework, even if alternative theories could have been easily tested in the same piece.
Echidne
And it is thoroughly trashed on a regular basis by other reserachers.
I think you're skating a bit close to PoMo here... 
The contract in common law requires an offer, an acceptance of the offer, and consideration. Without consideration, the contract won't stand under common law. The Uniform Commercial Code will sometimes salvage a contract that wouldn't fly under common law.
re-HICA!
LarryElvis just ate a june bug. Izzat okay?
.
I think you're skating a bit close to PoMo here..
I could go on for hours on the topic, but the stuff can be found on my blog.
Also, it's Saturday and I'm off.
The neocons are a cancer. Carter and Turner might have thought they had put them into remission. Sleeper cells. Metastasis. And here we are. Terminal.
Does anyone wanna recommend a non-political site that they like to read regularly? TIA
Why, yes! My new cooking blog!
The contract in common law requires an offer, an acceptance of the offer, and consideration.
Oh I intend to be very considerate.
I've got a question for you fine folks...I need Internet in two different rooms, preferably DSL or cable; I'd prefer not to use wireless if at all possible, and I'd rather not run cables along the wall if I can help it. Is there some sort of configuration I don't know about that'll make it easy?
Does anyone wanna recommend a non-political site that they like to read regularly? TIA
alcyone
That depends on how you define "politics", but sciblogs is full of 'em. Also John Hawkes, JREF, Panda's Thumb....
Why, yes! My new cooking blog!
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
Do you have a link?
alcyone try by Ken Levine.
Back from the bookstore, with an extra stop for mediocre mexican food.
Thanks for all the recommendations in the last thread.
Whaddid I miss?
some sort of configuration I don't know about that'll make it easy?
Magic.
The man is from Pittsburg...likely bring a six pack of Iron City to impress.
I've got a question for you fine folks...I need Internet in two different rooms, preferably DSL or cable; I'd prefer not to use wireless if at all possible, and I'd rather not run cables along the wall if I can help it. Is there some sort of configuration I don't know about that'll make it easy?
why don't you want wireless?
Phila--why don't you want to use wireless?
Jeez. No wires and no wireless? Doesn't leave many possibilities...
.
Yeah. So, what do we do about it? We're the zookeepers.
Personally, I think we'll destroy ourselves, because we are incompetent zookeepers
GeorgeM | 04.26.08 - 9:01 pm | #
OK, So that's one vote for mass suicide.
.
wireless coke, t of a.
Jeez. No wires and no wireless? Doesn't leave many possibilities...
Saw a hole in the wall for your arm and head?
Phila: I've got a question for you fine folks...I need Internet in two different rooms, preferably DSL or cable; I'd prefer not to use wireless if at all possible, and I'd rather not run cables along the wall if I can help it. Is there some sort of configuration I don't know about that'll make it easy?
Use 802.11g/n/etc. with WPA PSK2. You'll be okay, unless the NSA wants to send you to Gitmo (in which case, I think they could fake whatever evidence they needed to hold you, forever).
.
Not approving it, simply noting it. We can't change it till we recognize it: Crazy people rise to the top in our system. Millions die as a result,. Time to change the system to look more like our individual bonobo-like existence.
.
cosanostradamus
SMART MONEYS!
Gahhh...
Hey, Al Sharpton says he's going to shut the city down.
Dear Rev. Al:
Please shut down the city on a weekday, and please do it before I got to work and not after. Also, as long as I am making requests, please do it on a Monday, as that is the day when I am required to attend a really boring meeting.
Thank you for your time and consideration in this matter.
Very truly yours,
res
This should not be legal
http://icanhascheezburger.com/20...-pictures-rwar/
Does anyone wanna recommend a non-political site that they like to read regularly? TIAWell, if you like bicycling, here's a touring journal site. People post accounts of their tours from around the world.
As an example, a woman rode her recumbent trike from Asheville, NC to Alsaka and back. Then to the West Coast, down into Mexico, and back. Amazing person.
Do you have a link?
alcyone
Actually, I was just teasing. As in a teaser. I've decided I want to create a food blog, with photos, recipes in detail, pretty extensive.
Was just looking for names today.
I'm thinking "Oral Vixation"
Thanks for asking, though.
I tend to read art and music web pages when I'm not reading politics. I guess I'd tell you that it's all based on your personal taste.
Oh, and poetry.
res ipsa do you think you can get him to do it on Tuesday?
I think I'm still going to be tired.
Thanks for all the recommendations in the last thread.
Whaddid I miss?
Gromit |
What recommendations? Did someone mention that you should add on the eschatonia(?) site atriot book, film, music recommendations??
Does anyone wanna recommend a non-political site that they like to read regularly? TIA
alcyone
BibliOdyssey
BLDGBLOG
Bioscope
Things
wood s lot
Office Naps
Comics Carmudgeon
Niches
Just to name a few....
Oooh, Buchholtz has a cone hitter through 6. And the Yankees lost. Tant pis.
res ipsa do you think you can get him to do it on Tuesday?
I don't think he's gonna honor any requests from some white bourgeoisie, but I'll see what I can do.
Just please let it be on a weekday, Al. What would be the point on a weekend, after all?
Vicki--any art one you can name?
And good luck with the cooking blog. I saw folks offering names earlier. I thought of Blogable Feast...
Comics Curmudgeon 
The man is from Pittsburg...likely bring a six pack of Iron City to impress.
I venture a guess that he'd prefer an iced tea.
Maybe an OJ in the morning.
I will give him a Slurpee though, if he wants one.
I don't think this is quite what Kurt had in mind, Mr Hoobler...
Back from the bookstore, with an extra stop for mediocre mexican food.
Thanks for all the recommendations in the last thread.
Whaddid I miss?
Gromit | 04.26.08 - 9:10 pm
What didya get?
Best only-partly political blog:
Newscoma.
I swear to the FSM, she is 2009's Atrios.
.
Perfesser Chimpy
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/sl...adcdf255645847/
A slurpee implies a slurpor, but perhaps I shouldn't go there...
I venture a guess that he'd prefer an iced tea
Medium coffee. None of that grande shit.
What recommendations?
I asked for book recs in last thread.
Did someone mention that you should add on the eschatonia(?) site atriot book, film, music recommendations??
Yes, I'll try to do that, but it won't happen very soon. And whiskey ina wants sex toys too.
Jeffraham Prestonian
just the man i was looking for.
it's a done deal so no use telling me i should not have gone with crooked E vendor.
my question is XP or Vista?
i already bought and xchanged two HP's which i believe failed because of the Vista.
but it's so pretty.
P O'Neill: Perfesser Chimpy
Let me guess the entertainment: Dennis Miller?
Not Colbert, of course.
.
GeorgeM --that looks good, thanks.
And thanks for the list Phila.
GravatarJeez. No wires and no wireless? Doesn't leave many possibilities...
Wires are OK...I'd just like them to go through the basement (for instance) rather than down the hall.
What I'd like to do is have it pretty well hardwired...one thing I thought of was a female wall jack, with a cord running under the house to another female wall jack, so you'd run a line out of the room with the router, and so forth.
Just wondering if that's silly, or if there's an easier way to do it.
OK, So that's one vote for mass suicide.Not suicide. I don't think we're smart enough in the right way.
Delay of gratification for one thing. Tribalism is another. Acceptance of animals as living beings in their own right.
And whiskey ina wants sex toys too.
Gromit | 04.26.08 - 9:16 pm | #
Ha! Don't we all!
Let me guess the entertainment: Dennis Miller?
Not Colbert, of course.
.
Jeffraham Prestonian
It's Craig Ferguson.
And good luck with the cooking blog. I saw folks offering names earlier. I thought of Blogable Feast...
alcyone
Hmmm, missed that one...
"Victual Reality" been taken yet?
Gonna go and cook dinner. See you later.
charley: my question is XP or Vista?
XP, maaan. The NT technology is tried and relatively fixable. Can't say that for the 64-bit abomination.
.
another female wall jack
Everyone should have one of those.
dick cheney desecrated the stage and made fun of OB's minister Rev. Wright.
mo rocca (sp?)up next.
Vista sucks Simels' cock.
Pam Anderson is at the big dinner
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/sl...15222f0a75c25c/
Phila: sure. I drilled holes in the floor, passed the wires down to the basement and around to the router; hid 'em above a suspended ceiling.
Stay out of the basement, Phila.
The radon might be lurking.
P O'Neill: It's Craig Ferguson.
You. Are. SHITTING. ME.
NO!
I'm going to lose all respect for him if he doesn't outdo Colbert...!
.
I think C-span is re-running the radio and tv correspondent's dinner before the white house correspondents' dinner live event.
What didya get?
Nothing too heavy, and it was B&N so the selection of Eschaton-recommended titles wasn't too great. And they did not have a section for the Plotke family, to my great dismay.
- Omnivore's Dilemma
- first of the Discworld series
- A Sara Paretsky mystery
- a graphics book on Celtic knots
Vista is what AOL always wanted to become.
GravatarPhila--why don't you want to use wireless?
Mainly because I've found it to be kind of erratic.
Phila,
Did you move?
I wouldn't worry about wireless, from a security standpoint. Anything that really needs to be encrypted will be encrypted before it leaves your computer.
I run my wireless AP wide open, no encryption. There's practically no one around here to use it, but I wouldn't care if there was and they did, as long as they didn't interfere with my VoIP.
We have cordless phones that sometimes jam the wifi for points in the house that are a long way from the access point, but if you're careful buying your cordless phones you can probably avoid that.
If you only need a network connection in one place on a fairly infrequent basis, you could try tethering the computer to your cell phone, but that wouldn't be as cheap as wifi.
watertiger is gonna have a field day
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/sl...c96f3ab1993102/
a graphics book on Celtic knots
Gromit | 04.26.08 - 9:21 pm | #
My wedding band is a common celtic knot wrapped around my finger.
What I'd like to do is have it pretty well hardwired...one thing I thought of was a female wall jack, with a cord running under the house to another female wall jack, so you'd run a line out of the room with the router, and so forth.
Just wondering if that's silly, or if there's an easier way to do it.
Phila, Pizen Sarpint
Damn sure easier than fishing the thing up the wall, into the attic, and all that mess. Though there IS a flat ethernet cable for under rugs...
I've had great luck with wireless here at home, now that I've figured out the password that Nim assigned to access it.
If I ever move, though, I am so gonna need help in reconfiguring everything.
Vista is what AOL always wanted to become.
Exactly!
P O'Neill:
The hand was just removed fom the ass in that picture.
My wedding band is a common celtic knot wrapped around my finger.
Shared Humanity
I did one of those in three colours of gold.
Awesomely annoying
The hand was just removed fom the ass in that picture.
so
It's usually Cheney's hand.
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/sl...c96f3ab1993102/
What I'd like to do is have it pretty well hardwired...one thing I thought of was a female wall jack, with a cord running under the house to another female wall jack, so you'd run a line out of the room with the router, and so forth.
unless your crawl space is unusually large or unusually accessible, I'd consider running the cable over the ceiling.
alcyone |Just remembered. If you're running firefox, download the Stumbleupon
plug-in
That'll keep you busy...
my question is XP or Vista?
i already bought and xchanged two HP's which i believe failed because of the Vista.
but it's so pretty.
charley
XP all the way. there are themes that mimic Vista if you need the eye candy.
Buchholz has seven innings of one hit ball. Impressive.
The radon might be lurking.
Toby | 04.26.08 - 9:20 pm | # [kill][hide comment]
Moron.
Just FYI, the former owners paid for the remediation, it cost 'em only $950, and it's a point of contention I won't have to face if I decide to sell down the road...no buyer's gonna ask me to fix it, 'cause it's below the EPA threshhold. It wasn't quite the impractical, expensive, and pointless project you claimed, in other words.
And of course, what makes you think you know anything about hazmat chemistry, science, or anything else remains one of the mysteries of the ages.
Red Sox youngsters batting averages:
Ellsbury (rookie) .300
Pedroia (2nd yr) .330
Lowrie (rookie) .357
Phila has mail.
This one is also disturbing.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/20...d-790/
#comments
I did one of those in three colours of gold.
That bullshit was popular back when I got married.
What are the 3 colors - yellow, white, and rose or some horseshit? I was having none of that crap.
Oh, is this a chemistry thread? Coool.
A thousand bucks on a non-problem that doesn't even rise to the level of an EPA threshhold? Wow. What a hard bargain you must drive.
unless your crawl space is unusually large or unusually accessible, I'd consider running the cable over the ceiling.
t of a, more caption | Homepage | 04.26.08 - 9:25 pm | # [kill]
Running it along the floor joists would be pretty easy, I think...just a matter of going into the basement and either drilling a few holes or using some staples.
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OK, So that's one vote for mass suicide.
Not suicide. I don't think we're smart enough in the right way.
Delay of gratification for one thing. Tribalism is another. Acceptance of animals as living beings in their own right.
GeorgeM | 04.26.08 - 9:17 pm | #
Not approving it, simply noting it. We can't change it till we recognize it: Crazy people rise to the top in our system. Millions die as a result. Time to change the system to look more like our individual bonobo-like existence..cosanostradamus
SMART MONEYS!
Gahhh...
charley | Homepage | 04.26.08 - 9:11 pm | #
OK, so that's one against mass suicide, one abstaining. Who's first?
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I am not sure who the entertainmentis at the WH corresp dinner.
while they eat and currently cspan is showing last week's radio and tv folks dinner, where cheney was top dog. that is where mo rocca is doing his thing.
I will return to it when it is live. I like the longest day better--on amc.
watertiger is gonna have a field day
and you're getting h/t after h/t amigo!
Tlaz: on another occasion, the troll spoke with unwonted skepticism about radon as a health hazard, and proved immune to multiple cites from the literature.
What are the 3 colors - yellow, white, and rose or some horseshit? I was having none of that crap.
billy b
No.. not the usual horseshit, which is easy to do with wire.
This one had the actual knotwork all the same colour (yellow), the band ground was white, and the band sides (raised) were red.
That meant taking apart three waxes and removing everything. Gah.
Physics, bitches:
Defying Gravity
alcyone |Just remembered. If you're running firefox, download the Stumbleupon
Ooh. Wow.
the bad news
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Mid...t/
JD25Ak01.html
Petraeus' rise lets Cheney loose on Iran
By Gareth Porter
WASHINGTON - The nomination of General David Petraeus to be the new head of the US Central Command ensures that he will be available to defend the George W Bush administration's policies on Iran and Iraq at least to the end of Bush's term and possibly even beyond.
It also gives Vice President Dick Cheney greater freedom of action to exploit the option of an air attack against Iran during the administration's final months.
I've had no problem with wireless. It runs a printer, netflix streaming, two or three computer, etc. And I got so tired of cables that I got a wireless keyboard and mouse. Very nice.
Running it along the floor joists would be pretty easy, I think...just a matter of going into the basement and either drilling a few holes or using some staples.
ça va.
btw, if you need cat5, I've got about two miles of it in my garage. just come by and pick it up.
A thousand bucks on a non-problem that doesn't even rise to the level of an EPA threshhold? Wow. What a hard bargain you must drive.
Toby | 04.26.08 - 9:29 pm | # [kill][hide comment]
It was ten times the EPA threshhold, shithead. It was well over the level at which remediation is recommended.
So yeah, getting it fixed for free really was a pretty shrewd move on my part...much more shrewd than, say, spouting a bunch of pseudoscientific Petzoldian horseshit at any buyer who asks me to fix it down the road.
Dumbass.
This should not be legal
http://icanhascheezburger.com/20...-pictures-rwar/
Holy crap. A week's worth of cute overload...
What didya get?
Nothing too heavy, and it was B&N so the selection of Eschaton-recommended titles wasn't too great. And they did not have a section for the Plotke family, to my great dismay.
- Omnivore's Dilemma
- first of the Discworld series
- A Sara Paretsky mystery
- a graphics book on Celtic knots
Gromit | 04.26.08 - 9:21 pm |
Good Mix.
I went to our formerly independent bookstore's new digs at our new upscale shopping place. Was pleasantly surprised to find enough things to use my gift card (It used to be the largest indy in the state of Ohio, now owned by some Christian bookmaker/seller, original store is crap now).
btw, if you need cat5, I've got about two miles of it in my garage. just come by and pick it up.
t of a, more caption | Homepage | 04.26.08 - 9:33 pm | # [kill]
Thanks! I'll send my trained owl by for it!
Tlaz: on another occasion, the troll spoke with unwonted skepticism about radon as a health hazard, and proved immune to multiple cites from the literature.
Hmm. It's a pretty well-known carcinogen, though I don't know what the thresholds are (what levels for how long)...though it would be easy to find that, I'm sure.
But hey, Prof, I'd prefer Toby keep smoking those cigs and eating his bacon and kielbasa. Nitrosamines rule!
It also gives Vice President Dick Cheney greater freedom of action to exploit the option of an air attack against Iran during the administration's final months.
If that happens, I will fucking guarantee you a Democratic congress and administration for the next 3 generations, PROVIDING we're all still alive.
i was in the used bookstore this afternoon and saw a copy of
Biology for Christian Schools
it was near a copy of
Cloning for Dummies
I have to wire my house for ethernet and cable, I hope I know what I'm doing.
KRAFTWERK - DAS MODEL
They've taken over.
Y'know, the Vice President isn't the Commander in Chief, according to a quaint 18th century document...
two of the best blogs i've come across via the esteemed Phila are
amy stein, and alec soth, whose site is apparently under reconstruction, but well worth a check.
rootless-e | 04.26.08 - 9:32 pm | #
Let's obliterate them. Wait, I've heard that before. Now who would have said that!
Why are we having this conversation, again?
.
WTF is Ashlee Simpson doing at the WH Correspondents' Dinner?
Tlaz: there's plenty freely available on the subject...
Buchholz has seven innings of one hit ball. Impressive.
ProfWombat
OUCH!!!
I'm in love, y'know.
.
Thanks charley (and Phila). I need art sites.
WTF is Ashlee Simpson doing at the WH Correspondents' Dinner?
You don't want to know. Trust me.
Why are we having this conversation, again?
Which?
Oh goodie! I love Kraftwerk.
Shared Humanity: Which?
This one, right here, with the party to whom I am referring, as you can see!
.
'night bats.
Tlaz: on another occasion, the troll spoke with unwonted skepticism about radon as a health hazard, and proved immune to multiple cites from the literature.
ProfWombat | 04.26.08 - 9:31 pm | # [kill][hide comment]
There are grounds for skepticism based on the measured level, the amount of time you intend to live in the house, and so on. I can see situations where you wouldn't bother to get it fixed.
The problem with Toby - well, one of 'em - is that sees everything as political, first and foremost. So to him, radon is completely harmless, period, no matter what any scientists say, and the only reason an issue's being made of it is because the UN is trying to force us by degrees to live under a socialist Nanny State. It's situational ad hominem masquerading as ontology.
And of course, what makes you think you know anything about hazmat chemistry, science, or anything else remains one of the mysteries of the ages. Phila
What the austinazi doesn't know dick about could fill the universe. Might even be what's behind dark matter.
If that happens, I will fucking guarantee you a Democratic congress and administration for the next 3 generations, PROVIDING we're all still alive.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | 04.26.08 - 9:35 pm | #
Ever since Katrina, I have gone from bitter anger two a towering rage about these guys.
Oh goodie! I love Kraftwerk.
Tlazolteotl
Coolest Germans I've ever seen.
I have to wire my house for ethernet and cable, I hope I know what I'm doing.
I wouldn't bother with the ethernet unless you've got a strong reason to do it. It's just more twisted copper like the telephone wiring you threw out ten years ago when you bought the cordless phones.
Praise for Mathew Yglesias' new book...
"A very serious, thoughtful argument that has never been made in such detail or with such care."
—Ezra Klein, staff writer at The American Prospect
It's situational ad hominem masquerading as ontology. Phila
He got a real purty mouth on him, ain't he?.
t of a,
Shit, I just figured out you have a new handle.
WTF is Ashlee Simpson doing at the WH Correspondents' Dinner?
She's Antonin Scalia's date.
I will fucking guarantee you a Democratic congress and administration for the next 3 generations,
I really think you're underestimating the stupidity of the American public. We'll be doing well to get a Democratic administration this time around, and it wouldn't surprise me at all if it got Jimmy Cartered and sent home in 2013.
He got a real purty mouth on him, ain't he?.
JeffCO | 04.26.08 - 9:45 pm | # [kill][hide comment]
Just said it that way 'cause I knew it'd piss Toby off. He's always complaining about people's "ad hominiememism."
I wouldn't bother with the ethernet unless you've got a strong reason to do it.
Gigabit ethernet. I'm actually running 2 Cat5e, 2 RG6, 2 fiber as a single cable. I've got open walls so it's worth getting out of the way now.
The "hope I know what I'm doing" part has to do with placing the gang boxes and running the cables properly through the wall studs.
He got a real purty mouth on him, ain't he?.
purtier than a twenny dollar whore!
Mmmmmmm.... adhominemy grits... auauaughghghghghh
Hmmm, I see from her blog that watertiger was travelling on a secret mission today. It would be irresponsible not to speculate:
- Potatoes in the tailpipes of the limos at the Correspondents' Dinner?
- Interviewing for a job in Australia?
- Delivering home made eclairs and other tasties to the hoi polloi in Westchester?
I've always believed that physical reality is just a conspiracy to discredit the free enterprise system.
Ellsbury (rookie) .300
I have been apprised of the fact that young Jacoby has a rather strong following amongst the local gay community. I had no idea...
I've always believed that physical reality is just a conspiracy to discredit the free enterprise system.
Finite systems suck.
just got a popup advert with the message
Trading Options: What's holding you back?
I've always believed that physical reality is just a conspiracy to discredit the free enterprise system.
Them boys in France just speak French to make guys like toby feel stupid.
I've got a question for you fine folks...I need Internet in two different rooms, preferably DSL or cable; I'd prefer not to use wireless if at all possible, and I'd rather not run cables along the wall if I can help it. Is there some sort of configuration I don't know about that'll make it easy?
Phila, we get the net to a back room through the house electric wiring. Involves two fairly small boxes: router to electric at one and and elctric to computer at the other. Came with the BellSouth router when they finally got DSL to us out here in the sticks.
(This may have been what JP told you up above but his post was one of those "I know these individual words are English but when you put them together this way they are not" category. )
A visit to Beijing's Penis Restaurant.
- Potatoes in the tailpipes of the limos at the Correspondents' Dinner?
I wish I had thought of that.
I have been apprised of the fact that young Jacoby has a rather strong following amongst the local gay community. I had no idea...
Really! He's very good looking and has a striking blonde girlfriend.
And I see that I jinxed Buchholz by just thinking of going into the other room to turn the game on (didn't do it though)
Pam Anderson hanging with the WH press. Perfect.
Andrew Sullivan, flouncy-in-drag "conservative", puts his greased orifices to work for Messiah Obama!
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/
A visit to Beijing's Penis Restaurant.
Want plum sauce with that?
Phila, we get the net to a back room through the house electric wiring. Involves two fairly small boxes: router to electric at one and and elctric to computer at the other. Came with the BellSouth router when they finally got DSL to us out here in the sticks.
Thanks, Xan! That's exactly the kind of info I was looking for...sounds much easier than what I was planning....
charley: my question is XP or Vista?
XP, maaan. The NT technology is tried and relatively fixable. Can't say that for the 64-bit abomination.
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Jeffraham Prestonian
thanx for answering my next question, i think, will xp pro give a choice between 64 bit and 32 bit?
computers have become like politics, a complicated array of choice...
"for every problem there is a solution, simple, neat, and wrong..."
- Potatoes in the tailpipes of the limos at the Correspondents' Dinner?
Piss in the gas tanks.
You'll be glad to know that the Times looked far and wide for a reviewer who would do justice to Martin Amis' new book, which construes Islam as the enemy, and they gave the nod to that scholarly, unbiased Leon Wieseltier. And even he doesn't like it much...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/2...html?
ref=review
Potatoes in the tailpipes of the limos at the Correspondents' Dinner?
Piss in the gas tanks.
Gravel inside the hubcaps.
I've always believed that physical reality is just a conspiracy to discredit the free enterprise system.
Sufferin' Hussein Succotash | 04.26.08 - 9:52 pm | # [kill][hide comment]
That really is about the size of it, sad to say....
A visit to Beijing's Penis Restaurant.
Want plum sauce with that?
General Tso' Cheeking!
Potatoes in the tailpipes of the limos at the Correspondents' Dinner?
Piss in the gas tanks.
Gravel inside the hubcaps.
Sardines on the manifold.
the essential horror of Islamic "civilization" is revealed in their criminal behavior of providing science and math textbooks to Europeans and thus enabling a worldwide reign of terror the likes of which was never imagined.
I wish I had thought of that.
watertiger | Homepage | 04.26.08 - 9:54 pm | #
you were probably too busy putting together plans for a new coffee shop...
ProfWombat, I raise the last (or next to last) glass of Marc de Chateauneuf du Pape in your honor.
How are you doing?
I have a request for people in the SF Bay area who eat out in SF restaurants. The Golden Gate Restaurant Association has lost in it’s court battles to over turn the City’s health care ordinance. Now they beguna campaign of lies, deceptions and mud slinging especially aimed at Supervisor Tom Ammiano.
Please consider inquiring if the restaurant has a menu surcharge to pay for health care and not eating there is they do. Also please consider not going to 2223 Market or Range as they have been especially vile, including refusing service and tell lies about a patron’s behavior with regard to the surcharge.
I don't think I could shake Chimpy's hand under any circumstances. Maybe if I spit in it first.
Really! He's very good looking and has a striking blonde girlfriend.
Oh, not implying that he's gay, and wouldn't care if he was... Just that all of my gay friends have adopted him as a pin-up crush. See also "Anderson, Brady...")
You'll be glad to know that the Times looked far and wide for a reviewer who would do justice to Martin Amis' new book, which construes Islam as the enemy, and they gave the nod to that scholarly, unbiased Leon Wieseltier. And even he doesn't like it much...
That review was all over the place. Especially comparing the Martin Amis book to Nicholson Baker's.
you were probably too busy putting together plans for a new coffee shop...
Cafe Snark.
I've always believed that physical reality is just a conspiracy to discredit the free enterprise system.
Sufferin' Hussein Succotash |
That really is about the size of it, sad to say....
Phila, Pizen Sarpint
It's an attractive philosophy if one lives totally removed from the realities that most of the world's population have to deal with.
This radon thing is funny, though. I mean, I assume Toby lives in a dumpster and always will...but if he actually did buy a house that had a high radon reading, he'd be huffing and puffing and hehindeeding about the Great Remediation Conspiracy, and making a big deal about how he's too "smart" to fall for it...which means that if he needed to sell later, there'd be a decent possibility that some buyer would force him to do it at his own expense. But at least he'd have won a moral victory, I guess....
I don't think I could shake Chimpy's hand under any circumstances. Maybe if I spit in it first.
JeffCO | 04.26.08 - 9:59 pm | #
Imagine that he was standing on the other side of a narrow pit filled with vipers. I'd grab his hand in an instant.
Chimpy live
I really think you're underestimating the stupidity of the American public. We'll be doing well to get a Democratic administration this time around, and it wouldn't surprise me at all if it got Jimmy Cartered and sent home in 2013.
t of a, more caption
SMART MONKEYS!
Bush live on Cspan right now. White House Correspondents Dinner. Getting a standing ovation.
steve: well, thank you.
(raises glass)
May our children do better with the world than we did; may the world allow them to accept progress rather than reject it out of suspicion.
(drains glass, throws it in fireplace)
Wonder if he'll joke about Jenna's kids fighting in Iraq.
Does John McCain have a woman voter problem?
Women... they just won't vote for him. Hah!
All these women are saying... yeah but let me, interrupt you, there Donna.
Women just won't vote for him, they just don't like the big mean dad, apparently.
Ok, we'll be right back to see if Pat Buchanan can shed any light on this.
Right back.
(Cross talk)
Getting a standing ovation.
moan | 04.26.08 - 10:01 pm | #
the village is honoring its idiot...
the essential horror of Islamic "civilization" is revealed in their criminal behavior of providing science and math textbooks to Europeans
I totally agree, especially since I flunked algebra the first time I took it.
I've never forgiven those camel jockeys...
God, You Tube leads one down a strange path. Example: start searching broadway musicals, and soon you have every kid in Butcher's Holler singing (badly) that one song that might get them noticed...
I don't think I could shake Chimpy's hand under any circumstances. Maybe if I spit in it first.
maybe if I had a poisonous sea urchin in my hand...
Tony Stewart rulz.
leibniz: Wieseltier isn't exactly the man to turn to for a balanced, nuanced view of Islam. My guess is he found the book so repellent that he tried to salvage maybe a little something out of the notion of a demonized Islam. What it has to do with Baker's book is quite beyond me, except that Leon disliked them both.
Did Anyone Catch Rev. Jeremiah Wright on Bill Moyers? Amazing."
What a brilliant man. Very clear that Obama threw him under a bus as well. I bet watching Rev. Wright, a whole LOT of Obama's supporters and staff, especially the younger ones were awakened to the truth, I bet they were like, 'Damn!! The wrong guy is running for President!
May our children do better with the world than we did; may the world allow them to accept progress rather than reject it out of suspicion.
(drains glass, throws it in fireplace)
ProfWombat | 04.26.08 - 10:02 pm
I'm hopeful. Not optimistic, necessarily, but hopeful.
I just came from seeing my younger daughter as Elizabeth in "Six Degrees of Separation" tonight. It was fun hearing her say: "Well, fuck you, 'quality of mercy.' "
Jeremiah in '08!!' LOL Seriously, if you haven't watched, do...everything becomes REAL clear. Bill Moyers is to b e congratulated for having the Rev. Wright on - it was the best conversation and dialogue I've heard this year - maybe in several years. I am impressed, and a bit angry that this man was portrayed with such disrespect and his words twisted and taken out of context in the media. But they have an excuse, they are evil corporate thugs.
What's Obama's excuse?
I should have said, "God, You Tube is a freak show."
I regret the error.
maybe if I had a poisonous sea urchin in my hand...
The fact that these asses can sit there and laugh along with a war criminal says all I need to know about their personal integrity. They can pretend it's "respect for the office" but since Chimpy has demonstrated from day 1 that he has no respect for it either, that dog won't hunt.
What it has to do with Baker's book is quite beyond me, except that Leon disliked them both.
ProfWombat | 04.26.08 - 10:05 pm | # [kill][hide comment]
You're talking about "Human Smoke"? Yeah, I bet he hated it....
if he actually did buy a house that had a high radon reading, he'd be huffing and puffing and hehindeeding about the Great Remediation Conspiracy,
Either that or blaming it on George Soros, who as we all know is guilty of Just About Everything.
no hand shake for me short of waterboarding.
I'm short term frustrated and concerned, and long term optimistic. There's any number of quite obvious things screaming to be done; sooner or later, there will be no choice.
Is Craig Ferguson going more for the Colbert approach, or the Rich Little safety dance?
Heading out on the town. G'night, all.
Is Craig Ferguson going more for the Colbert approach, or the Rich Little safety dance? puppethead
He said the other day he was taking the "I just became a citizen please don't kick me out" route.
Messiah Obama chickenshitting out of debates with bitch-slapping Billary?
Afraid to confront Hillary?
Yeah, that's the dude we need...
The fact that these asses can sit there and laugh along with a war criminal says all I need to know about their personal integrity. They can pretend it's "respect for the office" but since Chimpy has demonstrated from day 1 that he has no respect for it either, that dog won't hunt.
God damn, that's good.
I like the way you think.
reliving famous moments...but not the infamous no WMD under here?
Wieseltier isn't exactly the man to turn to for a balanced, nuanced view of Islam.
It is sort of like having Judith Miller write review of a Scooter Libby novel: "I found the episode with the bear a gross exaggeration of my own experiences in dating ursines and other species..."
Heading out on the town. G'night, all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j...h?
v=j02k9t4rP50
reliving fatuous moments...but not the infamous no WMD under here?
fascized yer town
He said the other day he was taking the "I just became a citizen please don't kick me out" route.
I was hoping now that he's a citizen he'd feel liberated to get a bit snarky.
Wright says that "Obama said what he had to say as a politician." So, Obama does NOT disagree with Wright, he just had to speak out against Wright because he is a politician. Nothin' but a typical politician, who says what he has to say (lie) to cover his ass.
not the infamous no WMD under here
Hey, good times.
Back when the empire created its own reality.
leibniz: it really does boggle the mind that someone capable of writing a novel including a rape scene with a bear was a highly powerful official in government.
I like the way you think. billy b
I like the way you talk.
I see bug and lubejobbit showed up at the same time.
I'm getting a butler vibe here...
What's Obama's excuse?
Bug
SMART MONKEYS!
one must always remember that one can not be elected with out the smart monkey vote.
there are over six billion smart monkeys. that's a lot of monkeys.
every species eventually outlives it's ecological niche. sure, i read that somewhere, but it seemed kinda true.
Prof W-
Or Lynne Cheney's novel. But I am sure if Clinton or Obama had written such dreck, not one would be talking about it.
JeffCO: the press collusion with Bush, their enjoyment of what passes for his humor, is the classic enabling of a temporarily successful bully. Does nobody in the transaction any credit.
Hey, good times. Back when the empire created its own reality. Sufferin' Hussein Succotash
Sadly, entertaining the WH press corpse is just like shooting swamp rats in Beggar's Canyon.
Prof:
yeah, in that novel the bear raped Glenn Greenwald and made Greenwald's week
I like the way you talk.
say who?
BUSH DIRECTING THE UNITED STATES MARINE BAND TO STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER.
this guy was president for eight years.
the shame is on us.
what can you say...after all the incredibly ugly and immoral things he has done, he still acts without any humility or conscience.
Does nobody in the transaction any credit.
He's also now demonstrating how poorly he conducts himself.
They can pretend it's "respect for the office" but since Chimpy has demonstrated from day 1 that he has no respect for it either, that dog won't hunt
Indeed. That excuse goes for somebody you are obliged to interact with in the course of your work. It does not extend to voluntary socializing.
THE ENTIRE AUDIENCE IS CLAPPING ALONG. RIVETING.
STANDING OVATION.
I didn't even know there *was* a song called Cheney Uber Alles.
From Libby's book:
'At age ten the madam put the child in a cage with a bear trained to couple with young girls so the girls would be frigid and not fall in love with their patrons. They fed her through the bars and aroused the bear with a stick when it seemed to lose interest. Groups of men paid to watch.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The...prentice_(book)
Res ipsa loquitor.
after 12 months and 20 some primary debates, all msm can rant and rave about are about 10 or so sentences that the candidates or acquaintances they know have uttered...
the 'correspondents' dinner should be fucking renamed 'co-conspirators' dinner...
can we have us some more colbert, at least on Monday doing the bit he would have done if he was invited.
could be a fun skit.
he still acts without any humility or conscience.
The Idiot Dauphin we are forced to endure has no synapses left in his drug-addled brain that could form those concepts.
the press collusion with Bush, their enjoyment of what passes for his humor, is the classic enabling of a temporarily successful bully. Does nobody in the transaction any credit.
Besides, the mainstream Press Corpse has been too complicit for too long to just give up on the guy. If they stop clapping and yukking it up they might get the feeling that they've been complete journalistic whores for the past seven years.
ann compton using the third person for what she and her friends do...
"it hasnt gone as the pundits expected."
It does not extend to voluntary socializing. Xan
Bingo!
Evening, all
Anything particularly egregious I should be aware of?
suddenly ProfBatS__t is sounding even weirder than usual
owls!!!!!!!
DWD--
bush at the whorehouse correspondents dinner, concluding now on cspan.
Anything particularly egregious I should be aware of?
I wouldn't call Chimp getting a standing ovation at the Annual Correspondents' Dinner particularly egregious, just garden-variety egregious.
suddenly ProfBatS__t is sounding even weirder than usual
That's not a surprise Cumgummit. You flunked the "My Pet Goat" test.
You thought the goat was your date.
Did ya'll see the latest Dick Morris piece adding to the new "theory" that Hillary is just continuing in the race so she can torpedo Obama and open the way for a run in 2012? What an idiot.
Craig Ferguson can really deliver a joke. That's the mark of a great comedian. They can deliver and time a joke in such a way as to make even bad material funny.
America doesn't make comedians like this. Ferguson is as good as any of the great comedians from the UK. He has complete control of the room.
This performance by Ferguson is a revelation.
In case anyone is interested in seeing what a galaxy merger is like, you can find a quicktime animation (126 MB) of a simulation of the future Milky Way and Andromeda at
http://kicp.uchicago.edu/~brant/
..._nova_merger.qt
This is a computer simulation I calculated for use in a NOVA episode in October 2006, animated by the NCSA. It shows what the collision of our galaxy and M31 might look like in the distant future (>4 billion years).
Believe it or not, many astrophysicists read Eschaton.
The images of the colliding galaxies were rather cool. But it being sunday morning all I could think of was this is how galaxies have sex - to produce orgasmic shock waves in their gas clouds that cause the gestation of lots of baby stars.
To another galaxy, those images are pure porn!
Nice pics. You can look for your own at http://www.galaxyzoo.org Some scientists set it up for the general public to help them with classifying millions of galaxies by looking at them and clicking to record their assessment.
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