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I've got a fake Rolex a buddy got me from China I'd be happy to sell you for $70. I've never worn it. It's high on the bling factor.

It's also the best excuse for failure. Sarah Palin comes to mind.

But hey, Stalin sucked worse so it's all OK. Setting a low standard is the surest formula for success.

I've got to wonder whether adult infants like KKK ever ask themselves whether they're rooting for the country that is or the country that could be.

It's also helpful to remind ourselves that we live in a country where a substantial percentage of the population favors waging first strike nuclear war against Iran. Furthermore, we bought and paid for the capability to do just that a thousand times over. Yes, we're all so very different here.

A whole lotta WWII analogies get trotted out in threads like these, but I think it's instructive to track the nations which have started wars since then, and who is inarguably on the top of that heap. You can pretty much check the 'bullshit' box as far as justifications go for just about every single one of those conflicts, too. Once we're in a war, of course, a whole lot of civilians die, but Hey, we didn't really mean it. Yeah, we're so very different from the rest, but not necessarily in the way we'd all like to believe.

Climbers should pay for their own emotional rescue.

You gotta love the sanction of mid term elections. Oh, I forgot, the Dems are threatened because they aren't far enough Right

I reckon yall argue lahk faggits.

Torturers now enjoy statutory retroactive immunity from prosecution dating back to 1997 (from memory), thanks to your congress. Previous lawsuits on behalf of those victims of mistaken identity who were renditioned and tortured by the US have been tossed out on grounds of national security. I don't think these guys are gonna get very far. It would be great if they did, though.

Good post and good points. Concerning the reaper drones: law enforcement agencies have tried to fly drones over urban areas for years. What's stopped them? The good old FAA...but how long can that weak insurance policy last? The Delfly is a 3 gram (yes, you read that correctly) plane that can fly for 3 minutes under remote control...with a video camera. Insect sized drones are coming soon to a neighborhood near you: Moore's Law and our military industrial complex guarantees it. Will the FAA continue to object to drones the size of bees? Doubt it. Law enforcement invariably gets most of the toys the military uses. Right now a very high end processor costs about $400. According to Moore's Law, that same processor will cost 4 cents in about 12 years. Surveillance technology will be practically free. Unless we lay down some pretty strict civil libertarian ground rules regarding privacy and surveillance now...yeah, you get the idea.

Nancy's frozen head will rest beside Ronald's, once they construct a large enough cryo chamber for it.

Ultimately a successful president? In what way? He was a disaster, and an extremely unpopular one, to boot.

I recall in incident a few years back where a Russian airline pilot let his son fly the plane...into the ground.

Sarah Palin carries a dog eared 3x5 in the shape of her ass with the word 'elitist' on it so she can remember how to pronounce it. One lumping or two?

Perhaps they'll spark a fashion movement. That's your cue for a photo, Prole.

I'd guess that the tea baggers and most certainly more fringe groups will remain 'volume rich, money poor'. These are...uh...not sophisticated folks we're talking here, and they're movement targets the lower social echelons. Dysfunction doesn't exactly help income level. The GOP will speak some of their language in order to lure them (back) into the tent, but that's about where it will end.

If they want to test their theory about concentration camps and martial law, they should revolt. They'll quickly find that they're 100% correct on all counts. Given the draconian police response that marches out to control, say, a bunch of grandma's protesting nukes a the Port of Tacoma, I'd imagine the response these McVeigh wannabes evoke would be a bit on the warm, ala Waco, side. Any rise in the number of hate groups probably corresponds much more with the new ability to a) get a free website and b) get cheap, high speed web access, than with any real increase in overall membership. If membership in such groups were to increase (it may well have, but the researchers presented didn't track it), that would actually mean something. As for some huge, pending revolt...yeah, we'll see, I guess. Presumably, these folks never vote Democrat, so at least some of them, probably most, vote Rfuck. It would be amusing to see them go up against the new security state they helped create, you know, the one libruls are now behind the wheel of. Rotsa ruck!

French bread is flour, water, yeast, and salt.

It seems like the logic of wild animal trainers is based on "it hasn't happened yet so it probably won't I hope" A lot of them hold on to this after being injured multiple times. I visited a croc farm in Oz. The feeder had a nice bravado thing going before feeding, but once got into the pen with a 2000 lb albino monster that had already killed 3 potential mates to deliver its weekly chicken, he looked like he couldn't wait to get the hell out of there...which he did right quick after dropping off the happy meal. I wondered why he couldn't just chuck the chook over the fence, we wouldn't think any less of him for it for it, but that's Australia for ya.

ROTFLMAO!! uhhh, introducing our newest star....Tillicum...uhhhh...Shamu... uhhh "Earl the Killer Whale" I just netflixed "Jodhaa Akbar", a Bollywood epic about 16th century moguls, complete with battle elephants crushing the guts out of foot soldiers' mouths and everything. Not a mode of death Hollywood's addressed yet as far as I can tell. The cool thing about Bollywood is they still do it with lots and lots of real people, elephants, and castles n shit rather than CGI. Spaghetti western style acting, but the music and battle scenes rocked. Shamu should travel to India to have his/her (?) story told properly.

We're obviously headed for negative population growth and zero or negative growth economics; our present system is based on the false assumption of unlimited cheap energy and other resources. After an exhaustive 5 minute google, I can't find much of anything serious about a zero growth economic model. It doesn't seem like there's an economist out there whose tackled this indoor elephant. Strange. Or not, maybe. We're fucked. Eventually.

My only objection to Red Mill: I hate the Rolling Stones.

I'm burrowing through a 50 lb bag of Red Mill flour myself. Unfortunately, it's not very good stuff for bread making. King Arthur is still the best...and the most expensive, of course. Wish I could find it in bulk.

Well there's a part of the planet I'll probably never get to. Thanks for letting us see it.