December 15, 2012

Keep your jury powder dry - don't post in the rah rah gun threads

I'm voting to hide tonight. If you are too, don't post in the thread. Wait for the alerts or alert 'em yourself.

December 14, 2012

John Birch Society Lauds New Sibel Edmonds Book

http://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/books/item/13807-sibel-edmonds-classified-woman

The point that Rush and Fox didn't come to her aid is true. As always the "leftists" did. They thought they could control her. Ms. Edmonds is, in spite of that, very much aligned with us, those who consider themselves Constitutionalists and who believe in Liberty.

December 10, 2012

"Invasion of the Bee Girls" on Netflix

Feminism meets big pharma in this thought-provoking exploration of government-funded research gone awry. As the men of Peckham are dropping dead from sexual ecstacy, you'll either find yourself gripped with fear or wondering, "How come that never happens in my town?" or wishing that you grew up next door to a drive-in movie theater.

Although not actually shot in 3D, watch out if your partner slips on a large pair of sunglasses before the stunning conclusion of this titillating thriller.

Are those three thumbs up, or are you enjoying the film?

November 30, 2012

Friday Art Quiz! - Cray-zee Over CTYankee

A Friday Art Quiz For The Rest Of Us


Yeah, I know, I know... it's another Friday afternoon here at DU, and you know what that means. All week long you've been waiting and wondering what CTYankee is going to post for the "Friday Art Quiz" and you figure that for the first time in your life you'll be able to recognize anything it or know what it is.

IF this Friday is like most Fridays, you'll again be totally flummoxed, look at the pictures, shrug your shoulders and move on.

But not this week. Not this week.

This week, we have an art quiz for everyone. No stuffy museums, funny sounding foreign names, and nekkid ladies looking like they walked into a blender as viewed through a kaleidoscope.

Oh no.

Today's art quiz is for all of us who spent art class learning the fundamentals. Y'know things like how to coat your hand with Elmer's Glue and then peel it off in one sheet; that "non-toxic means you can eat it!"; and "lefties need different scissors, really?"

Whether you had a box of 4, 12, 64, the really big one with the sharpener, or just a coffee can full of waxy little nubbins, this test will challenge your grasp of the subtle nomenclature of the Crayola spectrum.

Below are six images of Crayola crayon colors.

To get full credit, you must name the color and tell us your most vivid, strange, or unusual childhood memory of mastering the crayon. Bonus points if your memory is connected with the specific color.


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The usual rules apply: No cheating, don't run with scissors and SHARE!

November 29, 2012

There is too much tolerance here

The general gripe with juries is that too many jurors are willing to be forgiving and to tolerate misbehavior.

We need to find a way to discourage permissiveness, giving the benefit of the doubt, second chances, optimism, and charitable assumptions about others.

November 29, 2012

President Obama will not make nominations on a political basis

I am confident that anyone whom this president nominates for a position is a person whom the president believes is well qualified and capable for the job.

It surprises me how the lack of political hackery in this administration is overlooked so frequently.

Take his very first appointment - Joe Biden. Now does anyone think he picked Joe because it had some kind of electoral advantage? That Joe was needed to pull in the crucial Delaware three electoral votes, or to appease some factional constituency?

Hell no. The formal role of the VP is to do two things - break ties in the senate and replace the president if needed. That's it, and that's all - and the first one is irrelevant anyway. He picked Joe because he apparently considers him to be the best replacement, and because of Joe's longstanding Senate experience, he is a valuable advisor.

There seems to be a genuine resistance to people accepting the simple fact that the president takes his job seriously. He is not playing at being president, but is consistently making what he believes to be the objectively best decisions. In that process, it is also apparent that political considerations are way at the bottom of factors he weighs when making those decisions.

November 28, 2012

What's the matter with the Large Hadron Collider?

http://dvice.com/archives/2012/11/lhc-accidentall.php

LHC accidentally creates new form of matter

November 27, 2012

Has anyone said "Recess Appointment" yet?

Or is nobody going to utter those words?

November 27, 2012

Why don't we just keep calling it "Burma"?

There seemed to be some different takes in news organizations of "Myanmar" and "Burma", which was interesting... to me, at least.

It's a little too simplistic to say "Because that's what they call their country!"

I don't know a single German who calls their country "Germany". It's "Deutschland" - which doesn't resemble "Germany" in any way.

I don't know a single Spaniard who calls their country "Spain".

We don't refer to "Italy" as "Italia".

The number of countries to which we do not refer, in American English usage, by "what they call themselves" are legion.

So, it is clear that there is no "we have to call the country whatever they call it" rule, and that is trivially obvious. Why then, do we only apply this rule to some countries, and not to other countries?

November 15, 2012

Will the GOP object to Obama's large inaugural balls?

We should predict the outrages in advance.

They will probably compare the size of Obama's inaugural balls to the size of every other president, and be apoplectic over Obama's massive inaugural balls.

"Suspend your huge inaugural balls" will be the teabaggers' next demand.