August 26, 2010 07:30 PM
Open Thread
It's okay, Mehlman, even before you overshared your "journey," it was a Shatner / Common People / Animated Trek kind of night. h/t Dangerous Minds.
Open thread below.
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Foist.
(My first foist in the new and improved C&L)
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
Hooray, i'm so fucking cheering that me eyebrow fel off. That's right, my eyebrow just decided to leave my face because you are so fucking awesome to make not only this first post but also made the first post that actually matters.
You so fuckink rule! \mm/ you are to much metal for one hand. \mm/.
Bite my shiny metal ass.
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I don't give a toss.
Too bad about your eyebrow. That kinda sucks.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
With all due respect, A.A, you are one miserable-looking bastard. ;)
If a drone kills a child in Kandahar, do the crying parents make a sound?
http://www.commondreams.org/further/2010/08/26-2
Is it possible that NOBODY in their marketing department saw the resemblance between their new spot and the Abu Graib torture photo??!
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
about torture porn going mainsteam and creeping into the strangest of places...
I've never seen change without a fire
I can't believe that will last long
see a psychiatrist.
I've never seen change without a fire
How about the clown(s) at Verizon who approved it and placed it to run. Marketing 101 anyone?
We're not going to get very far if you keep injecting logic into the conversation!
...if the suggestion hadn't been planted in your head, you wouldn't have noticed it at all, right? Because it's a very quick move, and it's there to work subliminally, as the first two images in my comment directly below.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
I mean, geez. I mean, gee whiz. I mean, Jesus Christ, c'mon.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
where is that first pic from?
If a drone kills a child in Kandahar, do the crying parents make a sound?
IIRC, there's a lot more Christ/crucifix imagery in that film. I can't recall if it's Brando or Malden who's sprawled out with arms outstretched at one point...Whichever one, I can't find an image.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
(and/or his or her support staff) will join the ranks of the unemployed pool.
I feel sorry for their children who may soon go hungry...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Really?
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
;)
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
and the orange goes away.
I'll miss the orange but the site has a nice look.
I'm trying to rhyme something on orange.
I have nothing. :(
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"door hinge" is better, and i got that from a song. I was trying to make up a word that would make some kind of sense. I got nothing. Just nothing. Orange is the devil's word. Bloody hell. :)
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You said Stonehenge.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
...that's exactly what I was thinking about. ; )
I was giggling, too.
go to www.conservapedia.com (yes, it's like wikipedia, but with a conservative slant) and search for Ken Mehlman. You think his bio was edited yesterday? lol.....
convieniently became a stub as soon as he did so.
I've never seen change without a fire
a screenshot exists somewhere on teh internets.
If you look at the history on him, he's never had much on his page.
"Liberals claim that the river at the bottom carved the entire Grand Canyon. Based on the shape of the Canyon, what do you think?"
Un-fucking believable!
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
"what do you think?"
I do not think at all. I just say crap because i'm on a trip. The earth's hollow and Hitler is building a base there, getting help from aliens of cource. Also, heaven is not up into the sky, it's below the Nazi crap. Heaven is the core of the earth.
I base this crap on bollocks.
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http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=...
me-oww!
They use home-schooled student essays as entries. I saw a few horrible ones a few years ago, but haven't been back since.
Stuff (something) like
Patriot/Patriot Act: A true patriot gives up some of his liberties when called upon to do so by the nation. (As I recall.)
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
Ya gotta love how the GOP is the world's foremost practitioner of affirmative action. I mean, they really go all out.
Their last chairman is both Jewish and gay.
Their current chairman is both African-American and a Circus Clown-American.
Perhaps the next chair of the RNC will deliver her anti-Islam, anti-women speeches while wearing her Burqa.
Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?
"Circus Clown"
FFS, why do you hate clowns?
Ah, right, because they are creepy.
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They vote by the Volkswagen-load.
FCC indecency thing to go up to SCOTUS. I guess even in racist eras, the law sometimes crapped on white people, too. Totally not cruel and unusual, amirite? Chicken feed tied to bad eggs. Pretty much agree. Michigan gets tea-bagged. Thanks for letting me unknowingly give you AIDS. Ta-ta! You think if it was a Christian priest, he'd be given some context? No glove, no love, Larry. Christ, imagine how easy it would be to deal with this shit in a non-socialized medicine country. Drug war kills 72 migrants. Palindrone lies about Obamacare. Jimmy frees another hostage. London bus ads stump for female priests in the Catholic Church. Won't somebody think about the health mafia organizations?! Already reported on C+L, but I'm considering a good nick-name for such a guy. Maybe Uncle Elton?
Truly horrible, and apparently, from the figures given, probably not an isolated incident. And not surprisingly, not one mention on KCAL9 (local LA news), despite our relatively close proximity to the tragedy.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
The Government can now TRACK YOU VIA GPS with absolutely NO WARRANT and there's only one news outlet that's even bothered to post a story about it.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,859...
Orwell vs. Huxley - Amusing Ourselves to Death
ACLU: 'Pain ray' in California prison amounts to 'torture' of US prisoners
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/0826/aclu-pro...
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Dammit, I liked the orange! And I don't like the teeny little Lying Crook guy. Make him big again! You have ruined everything! You will burn in hell!
And I want a cool avatar and can't figure out how to do it. I'm old.
Go to > "my account" > "edit" > scroll down to "picture" and upload your picture.
I hope that makes sense to an old fart like you. :)
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I don't give a toss.
Decided to be cool by being the only one here without an avatar. doing it bareback.
Lessee...There's Annaleigh and Abbybwood, Geronimo and DanDierdorf, calgarylady...It's a virtual Mongolian clusterfuck of the avatar-challenged!
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
degrees during the day, I'm too lazy to be lazy. But soon, I shall play with that part. ;)
I've never seen change without a fire
I'm so lazy i can't be bothered to reply to your post.
Ah crap....D'oh!!!!
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It's too late for me, since I joined the ranks of the avatared almost immediately, but if I had a choice between an avatar and a Mongolian clusterfuck, I think I'd go with the latter. Keep that in mind.
;D
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Stupid gnome. Pesky stupid gnomes! Reag!!!!!1
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I don't give a toss.
Ahem....mine is an atari, thank you.
If a drone kills a child in Kandahar, do the crying parents make a sound?
Pffft, c64 is so much better. The SID chip actually could make music.
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I don't give a toss.
Tis is my first avatar-- ever-- so I was kind of excited.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
But I have to say that most of the comments regarding the look have been overwhelmingly positive.
As for the avatars, just follow Alerta_Alerta's directions.
I'll just call it my 'black box'...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
So the site mon is now a generic Moderator? The site mon had a mystic feeling about it. A fecking moderator? Mods are arseholes. Or nazis, or teh anti Christ, or whatever.
Hey, i'm just saying crap here, do whatever you want to do with it. *grin*
Bite my shiny metal ass.
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I don't give a toss.
I have a cool one (as others have told me), but you can't tell at this size. 100x100 pixels, preferably 150x150, is the minimum my eyes can read easily.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
older and I got it you old fart.
If you can even SEE the damn thing.
This was the 'quote of the day' on the Thom Hartmann show today:
"It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies." -- William O. Douglas
Hopefully I got that right :)
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
And why is the White House backing him?
If you missed Cenk Uygur's rant on Alan Simpson, you gotta hear it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_JrFPJpYIo&fe...
Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!
That's an instant classic.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
The new comments thing is bugged as hell.
It says there are new comments when there are not. also i do not like the red flashing.
just saying.
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I don't give a toss.
It's your responsibility to click on the flashing red new comments button thingy and confirm that you have read all the new comments, otherwise how does the flashing red new comments button thingy know to stop flashing?
sheesh!
Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!
And it was fucking awesome!
And you guys are crazy random spewing nimnuts, lacking all and any orange pigmentation.
Seriously, I knew I could laugh at Shatner spoken words songs, but not laugh and think it's cool at the same time. Awesome, I want some of what these other guys have been taking.
"lacking all and any orange pigmentation"
BS, i'm Dutch. I'm all fucking orange!
And yeah, Shatner is a cool mofo.
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"BS, i'm Dutch. I'm all fucking orange!"
I'm pretty sure after the World Cup your orange is being held in escrow as the new national color is now yellow with a tint of red.
C'mon, now...They played the game they had to play to keep pace with Spain. Reminded me of Madden's Oakland Raiders: "If you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'."
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Lalalalala, there never was a game, i can't hear you.
2010 never happened. The Netherlands does not exist.
Belgium is a joke country.......wait.....wutlol.
:)
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Who had Spain winning the whole enchilada? [50% raise hands]
Who had the Netherlands going to the finals? [crickets chirping]
You have nothing for which to feel shame. Well, except for that fucking potty-mouth of yours...But other than that, nothing.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Me feeling ashamed? I'm a narcissist. I love myself so much i have sex with myself. Or are you still talking about football/soccer?
Bite my shiny metal ass.
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I don't give a toss.
I do not give a rats arse.
And yes, i'm seeing red because of......something something.....rage
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That was FREAKIN awesome!
The shat rules.
This quote stood out to me, and every teabagger believer in "liberal fascism" needs it on a post-it note stuck to their foreheads for when they look in the mirror:
"Fascism is a set of ideologies and practices that seeks to place the nation, defined in exclusive biological, cultural, and/or historical terms, above all other sources of loyalty, and to create a mobilized national community. Fascist nationalism is reactionary in that it entails implacable hostility to socialism and feminism, for they are seen as prioritizing class or gender rather than nation. This is why fascism is a movement of the extreme right."
Ok, so maybe it won't fit on a post-it note. :P
I've never seen change without a fire
But what's it got to do with Shatner's rendition of "Common People"?
A time and a place for everything. Even bad rhyming.
It's from Fascism: A Very Short Introduction by Kevin Passmore.
I've never seen change without a fire
Your country might be a fascist if there is:
1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism
2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights
3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
4. Supremacy of the Military
5. Rampant Sexism
6. Controlled Mass Media
7. Obsession with National Security
8. Religion and Government are Intertwined
9. Corporate Power is Protected
10. Labor Power is Suppressed
11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts
12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment
13. Rampant Corruption
14. Fraudulent Elections
Has this stuff been heightening since 9/11, the Anthrax attacks, and George Bush or what??
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
I do not think any country can be a fascist.
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of fascism...
I've never seen change without a fire
Fascism.
It's what all Republicans want.
They thought they had it all wrapped up after Bush.
That's what really pisses them off.
they almost got away with it, so now there's a big push to put it though. If they succeed this time, then welcome to a permanent fascist America. They will make sure there will never be another fair election, ever again.
If you think that's an extreme prediction then you haven't been paying attention.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
.
Don't Be A Sucker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23X14HS4gLk
In this anti-fascist film produced by US Military in the wake of WWII, the producers deconstructs the politically motivated social engineering of Germany by the Nazi regime.
Its argument is just as timely and relevant today.
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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Feed Americans.
It won't fit in the average teabagger's brain, either.
sadly.
I've never seen change without a fire
When the System convicts an innocent man of rape and takes more than a decade of his life, and how he makes the best of it.
http://www.ocweekly.com/2010-08-26/news/herma...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Very entertaining!
Leonard Nimoy visited the little town of Vulcan, Alberta earlier this year:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RECHKdQIumY
He's bloody old.
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I don't give a toss.
and he is a really cool dude ;)
Oh, i had a nerdgasm for sure. :)
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Was that just a byproduct of being in Canada?
Or is he hip, man?
I think he's square, man.
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Ha!
calgarylady is captain obvious.
;)
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Does CNN serve any journalistic purpose any more?
Besides a platform for right wing nuts to pitch their snake oil?
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
No!
you had to ask?
[I know. the question was rhetorical]
Some stuff you can't make up!
"Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a physician!"
"I'm beginning to think I can cure a rainy day!"
(OK I made the first one up)
The people of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." J.K. Galbraith
'dammit Jim, I'm a doctor,'
'not a brick layer'
among others...
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Mehlman's coming out.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/ns/msnbc_...
You beat me to it...
Q U E S T I O N:
If Ken Mehlman thinks that gays should support the G(no)P due to, as Ken puts it, "Islam is the greatest threat to Gay Rights in America" ...
... Then is he suggesting that it was Islam that put the DOMA on State ballots and furthermore, being that it was Ken, himself that pushed DOMA, wouldn't THAT make him one of those "Islamists" he says Gays should fear?
ONCE A HYPOCRITE...
... ALWAYS A HYPOCRITE!
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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Feed Americans.
only a couple hundred people show up for Beck's fiasco at the Lincoln Memorial this Saturday. Will MSNBC be there?
to leave the link.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/ns/msnbc_...
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If Glenn Beck was sensitive to the Civil Rights struggle...
... He would move his rally. But he won't.
I expect that Glenn Beck will someday, proclaim that he is Jesus Christ.
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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Feed Americans.
Then we'll discuss the results.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Or is that Shatner Song actually pretty damn good? I was so expecting another Rocket Man type laugh, but didn't.
To verify that the economy is going nowhere?
Remember bu$h at the boar BBQ with Merkel, 2006? (yes, the one where he tried to massage her and kept talking about the pig at the press gathering.) The Germans aren't too pleased with the bill.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/08/b...
(PS If a state needs 12,000 police officers for one BBQ, would you say we live in police states?)
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
The biggest pig there wasn't the barbecued one, it was the one that got the shoe hurled at it later.
A belligerent intoxicated man with a beer in hand strolled into a mosque in Queens, shouted the word "terrorists" and callously urinated on rugs as worshippers engaged in prayer, cops and witnesses said last night, according to published reports.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38866797
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHYSRF7qBOU
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