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jberryhill
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February 11, 2013
That's right, with thousands of blocks and a one million dollar prize, who will be the lucky winner to pick the one where Dorner is hiding, and claim the one million dollar prize.
You can't win if you don't play, so call in and stake your claim to be the winning tip!
LAPD "Block Bingo" Prize At One Million!
That's right, with thousands of blocks and a one million dollar prize, who will be the lucky winner to pick the one where Dorner is hiding, and claim the one million dollar prize.
You can't win if you don't play, so call in and stake your claim to be the winning tip!
February 10, 2013
Don't let the capsule description about Nazis hiding on a secret moon base fool you. This is not your run of the mill Nazis-on-the-moon picture. While easily mistaken for another piece of B-movie flotsam, which is what I was expecting, this film is a window into the deepest fears of its international production crew about the American political psyche.
The film is set in a 2018 US which has elected a vacuous, egotistical woman as president who decorates her office with animal carcasses while crafting a media image as a downhome, folksy patriot.
Sound familiar? Oh, yes. And she looks familiar too.
It's election season, and she has set her hopes on being the first president to put a black man on the moon. Unfortunately, the mission doesn't succeed, and she is looking for some other way to boost her rootin', tootin' cred. However, unknown to earth, the mission did reach the moon, and our African American astronaut has been captured by Nazis who have been planning to stage a triumphant return to earth in the Gotterdamerung, an immense space battleship. The battleship is nearly operational, but the Nazis have not been able to perfect the control system for it.
By a remarkable stroke of luck, the Nazis confiscate the astronaut's iPhone and find that it is the missing piece of the control system they have been seeking. Unfortunately, the remaining charge in the iPhone is used up during testing, and so they must mount an expedition to earth, in order to visit an Apple store to obtain another one.
These Aryan Apple fanboys are just the ticket needed for the president's media advisor to find a way out of her career-ending moon landing PR debacle, not to mention inflaming her unusual romantic inclinations.
Many of the scenes are satiric takes on classic movie moments, including one absolute killer take off on the granddaddy of internet movie scene memes that is just not to be missed.
So, forget what you think this movie is about, and give it a look-see. You'll thank me later.
"Iron Sky" on Netflix
Don't let the capsule description about Nazis hiding on a secret moon base fool you. This is not your run of the mill Nazis-on-the-moon picture. While easily mistaken for another piece of B-movie flotsam, which is what I was expecting, this film is a window into the deepest fears of its international production crew about the American political psyche.
The film is set in a 2018 US which has elected a vacuous, egotistical woman as president who decorates her office with animal carcasses while crafting a media image as a downhome, folksy patriot.
Sound familiar? Oh, yes. And she looks familiar too.
It's election season, and she has set her hopes on being the first president to put a black man on the moon. Unfortunately, the mission doesn't succeed, and she is looking for some other way to boost her rootin', tootin' cred. However, unknown to earth, the mission did reach the moon, and our African American astronaut has been captured by Nazis who have been planning to stage a triumphant return to earth in the Gotterdamerung, an immense space battleship. The battleship is nearly operational, but the Nazis have not been able to perfect the control system for it.
By a remarkable stroke of luck, the Nazis confiscate the astronaut's iPhone and find that it is the missing piece of the control system they have been seeking. Unfortunately, the remaining charge in the iPhone is used up during testing, and so they must mount an expedition to earth, in order to visit an Apple store to obtain another one.
These Aryan Apple fanboys are just the ticket needed for the president's media advisor to find a way out of her career-ending moon landing PR debacle, not to mention inflaming her unusual romantic inclinations.
Many of the scenes are satiric takes on classic movie moments, including one absolute killer take off on the granddaddy of internet movie scene memes that is just not to be missed.
So, forget what you think this movie is about, and give it a look-see. You'll thank me later.
February 1, 2013
As some members of our community take offense at the label "truthers" now being applied to various theories about events impacting politics, in the manner that "-gate" has become a suffix for all manner of political scandal, I would like to propose that we use a sui generis term for this manifestation, and call them:
Hookers.
Sandy Hook "Truthers"
As some members of our community take offense at the label "truthers" now being applied to various theories about events impacting politics, in the manner that "-gate" has become a suffix for all manner of political scandal, I would like to propose that we use a sui generis term for this manifestation, and call them:
Hookers.
January 30, 2013
We might as well fill out the cabinet now.
Who will Hillary appoint as Secretary of Transportation?
We might as well fill out the cabinet now.
January 26, 2013
All we have to do is lose 10 senate seats in 2014
And then WE can control the Senate!
January 25, 2013
One of the reasons why there is a Democratic majority in the Senate is that Senators are elected at-large from each of their states, and thus the Senate is immune to gerrymandering. That is one of the reasons why you will occasionally hear R's state they want to repeal the Constitutional Amendment which established direct election of Senators, and go back to having Senators elected by the respective state legislatures.
Should the Senate Republicans continue to obstruct to the degree they have so far, then in the absence of filibuster reform, they have to own their obstruction, and answer to their at-large state electorates. With filibuster reform, their obstruction is blunted, but so are the electoral consequences of obstructing popular legislation.
Which Senate seats are up for election in 2012?
Put another way, which R senators need to have a sign saying "obstructionist" hung around their necks as the next two years proceed?
At present, it looks like this:
Alabama Jeff Sessions Republican Running
Alaska Mark Begich Democratic Running
Arkansas Mark Pryor Democratic Running
Colorado Mark Udall Democratic Running
Delaware Chris Coons Democratic Running
Georgia Saxby Chambliss Republican Retiring
Hawaii Brian Schatz Democratic Running
Idaho Jim Risch Republican Running
Illinois Richard Durbin Democratic Undecided
Iowa Tom Harkin Democratic Undecided
Kansas Pat Roberts Republican Running
Kentucky Mitch McConnell Republican Running
Louisiana Mary Landrieu Democratic Running
Maine Susan Collins Republican Running
Massachusetts (John Kerry) Democratic
Michigan Carl Levin Democratic Undecided
Minnesota Al Franken Democratic Running
Mississippi Thad Cochran Republican Undecided
Montana Max Baucus Democratic Running
Nebraska Mike Johanns Republican Running
New Hampshire Jeanne Shaheen Democratic Running
New Jersey Frank Lautenberg Democratic Undecided
New Mexico Tom Udall Democratic Running
North Carolina Kay Hagan Democratic Running
Oklahoma Jim Inhofe Republican Running
Oregon Jeff Merkley Democratic Running
Rhode Island Jack Reed Democratic Running
South Carolina Lindsey Graham Republican Running
South Carolina Tim Scott Republican Running
South Dakota Tim Johnson Democratic Undecided
Tennessee Lamar Alexander Republican Running
Texas John Cornyn Republican Running
Virginia Mark Warner Democratic Running
West Virginia Jay Rockefeller Democratic Retiring
Wyoming Mike Enzi Republican Running
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I note that McTurtle is up in 2014. Is it better, for him, to have been perceived as having continued to make deals with Harry Reid under which Republican ability to obstruct is marginally weakened, or to have something imposed upon him?
The Senate, the filibuster, and gerrymandering
One of the reasons why there is a Democratic majority in the Senate is that Senators are elected at-large from each of their states, and thus the Senate is immune to gerrymandering. That is one of the reasons why you will occasionally hear R's state they want to repeal the Constitutional Amendment which established direct election of Senators, and go back to having Senators elected by the respective state legislatures.
Should the Senate Republicans continue to obstruct to the degree they have so far, then in the absence of filibuster reform, they have to own their obstruction, and answer to their at-large state electorates. With filibuster reform, their obstruction is blunted, but so are the electoral consequences of obstructing popular legislation.
Which Senate seats are up for election in 2012?
Put another way, which R senators need to have a sign saying "obstructionist" hung around their necks as the next two years proceed?
At present, it looks like this:
Alabama Jeff Sessions Republican Running
Alaska Mark Begich Democratic Running
Arkansas Mark Pryor Democratic Running
Colorado Mark Udall Democratic Running
Delaware Chris Coons Democratic Running
Georgia Saxby Chambliss Republican Retiring
Hawaii Brian Schatz Democratic Running
Idaho Jim Risch Republican Running
Illinois Richard Durbin Democratic Undecided
Iowa Tom Harkin Democratic Undecided
Kansas Pat Roberts Republican Running
Kentucky Mitch McConnell Republican Running
Louisiana Mary Landrieu Democratic Running
Maine Susan Collins Republican Running
Massachusetts (John Kerry) Democratic
Michigan Carl Levin Democratic Undecided
Minnesota Al Franken Democratic Running
Mississippi Thad Cochran Republican Undecided
Montana Max Baucus Democratic Running
Nebraska Mike Johanns Republican Running
New Hampshire Jeanne Shaheen Democratic Running
New Jersey Frank Lautenberg Democratic Undecided
New Mexico Tom Udall Democratic Running
North Carolina Kay Hagan Democratic Running
Oklahoma Jim Inhofe Republican Running
Oregon Jeff Merkley Democratic Running
Rhode Island Jack Reed Democratic Running
South Carolina Lindsey Graham Republican Running
South Carolina Tim Scott Republican Running
South Dakota Tim Johnson Democratic Undecided
Tennessee Lamar Alexander Republican Running
Texas John Cornyn Republican Running
Virginia Mark Warner Democratic Running
West Virginia Jay Rockefeller Democratic Retiring
Wyoming Mike Enzi Republican Running
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I note that McTurtle is up in 2014. Is it better, for him, to have been perceived as having continued to make deals with Harry Reid under which Republican ability to obstruct is marginally weakened, or to have something imposed upon him?
January 24, 2013
But you are just banning "the way it looks"
Just as a thought experiment inspired by a comment in another thread, I'd like to get a sense of what people think about form, function and psychology.
This is a 1973 Dodge Dart:
This is also a 1973 Dodge Dart:
They are the SAME car, with just some differences in styling and and a few parts. Each is capable of exceeding the speed limit or causing general carnage.
If I give you ten million teenagers, and I ask you to give 5 million of them the first car, and 5 million of them the other car, at let them drive around for a year, then at the end of that year, would you expect:
January 24, 2013
Jeez... Does it dial 911?
Who needs this game when Craigslist is free?
When did Mystery Date get a cell phone?
Jeez... Does it dial 911?
Who needs this game when Craigslist is free?
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