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Yeah, some guy calls everyone an idiot, but mostly you, and refuses to 'engage' the actual debate when he practically disects your posts line for line and further points out how your arguments are not only 'idiotic' (your word) but fail to actually the address the points stated. Some guy pisses me off when he points out how 'everyone' talks out their ass and massages the info to suit their own agenda... like the time 'everyone' said: OK, just up front, likelyhood is one word. Next, Andrew Lawrence (who I am not sure is actually Austrian) created the skyscraper index as a bit of a joke and freely points out that while there seems to be an anecdotal relationship between the construction of US landmark skyscrapers and economic busts; He ONLY looked at the United States for his data and ONLY considered the most ostentatious examples. He further points out that he did NO study or speculation on the underlying economic trends. There was nothing scientific at all involved in his analysis. NOTHING about unsustainable booms fueled by central bank credit. It was merely pointing out that in America, historically, this seems to be the trend. Some guy once said until 'everyone' quits injecting their bullshit opinions into the actual factual side of the story they are not only going to be continually called an idiot, but they also run the risk of being called a flat out liar. 'Everyone' should also look into the finer aspects of point/counterpoint because injecting previously undiscussed parameters or refusing to actually recognize truths that run against their personal beliefs isn't considered 'entirely kosher'.

Why not? I read the other day how Dem's are stockpiling C-Span footage of Rep's obstruction on the floor. I can't wait until the mid-term election ad season warms up!

Also I'll dust off the story I think I've told in previous sharting threads... oldie but a goodie. So it was back in Y2K and I was living near some college I hated attending and I woke up for an 8am class. I can function pretty well on autopilot (hence the nonstop drinking) so I rolled into the kitchen wearing nothing but boxer shorts, grabbed the empty coffee pot and turned to the sink to fill it. I didn't really have to bend over but I was going to just sort of rest my elbows on the counter top; as I leaned forward I was seized by a single violent cough. All this before the pot was even half full but, eventually, I turned back around to fill the coffee maker when lo and behold, a small puddle of shit on my kitchen floor. I mean, I knew it wasn't there when I walked in the room but I never even felt my asshole open up. I was worried that I'd crapped my drawers so I immediately pulled them down to inspect. Inspection PASSED! Not a spec or particle of turd on my body or the underpants, yet... the little lumpy puddle was undeniable. I needed coffee and I had to get to class so I just cleaned it up and made coffee but still I wonder... When I was a kid a friend and I started calling styrofoam packing peanuts "ghost poop" but in the year 2000 it became all to real! Aside from that, I'll take it! (Now YOU act like a sexy stewardess and say out loud: "The coffee?") Then realize deep in your soul that I nod, smile and half-laugh and say "the coffee... AND the books" (winx).

Remember that time I shit your pants? You were SO pissed!

Really Earl? Torn ACL? OUCH! How does that happen? She was on a regular out route but when she juked and made the cut she heard a pop? Hope that works out perfect. Does she have a 'funnel head' device? My brother's dog just got fixed so she got a funnel head. She's the one that shat the 100ft. tapeworm right next to the playground full of kids... some of you may remember. Anyway, she got fixed last Wednesday and the Vet said 'make her wear the hat so she doesn't lick it' but she didn't lick it so he just let it ride. Everything was fine until last night when she apparently got interested, this morning it was a gaping wound. Turns out it's no real problem, but now she MUST wear the funnel. This has lead to amusing new behaviors. First, she can't quite see 'over the bowl' when she sits normally so she has to rear her head way back just to see your face if you're standing and that is pretty funny but she has an even better trend. For lack of a better term I'll call it "The Plow". Earlier we thought it was because she didn't have peripheral vision, or was perhaps trying to remove the funnel but it's my opinion that she's just heartbroken and confused. She'll walk too close to a wall or piece of furniture and run the funnel into it, then she just stands there. Even better is outside where she'll walk around until something on the ground interests her and she'll go to sniff it but she ends up jamming the funnel in the dirt without her nose actually getting near the ground, and then she just stands there... not sniffing, not anything, just bummed and confused. She'll stand there until you get her attention or make her move. She's just beaten. Fortunately she should be back to the regular world by next weekend. Here's a picture of her in happier times. I like to say she's outstanding in her field but she's actually just laying around my back yard. oh, btw, her name is Allie.

Oh but wait, as of today, you're totally allowed to carry guns of all sorts into national parks, provided that the state allows it as well. You can thank that gun-hating liberal President we have for that one.

WORLD DOMINATION!

Well here's my thing, basically it's just some flashing text and a little bit of music, seems simple but I just don't know where to start. My last programming experience was in the 80's with Basic. I could mock it up in Flash in a hlf second but I just don't know where to start converting that into phone code.

Historically speaking, the Republican party is recognized as the first to really demand civil equality and suffrage for both freed blacks and women. Abe Lincoln was a Republican.

I just tossed out 22 pairs of old socks, I still have many pairs and now I'll have to wash them every 2 weeks for a bit but I am about to go on a sock buying frenzy, cushy toes here I come! Also, does anyone around here know how to develop/write Iphone apps?

yeah, I don't think stupidity is gonna be a real factor, ignorance maybe but probably not...

My apologies. I should have closed this by now. I blame the Pro-Bowl switch and Olympic anticipation but still, excuses are sand in place of sugar. Off season talk belongs to the people, I'll close this as soon as I see an off-season/pre-season thread. My coverage will restart on the first night of next year's season. I think that's Sept. 9 w/ the Saints v. ?

Errbody keeps talking about the net domination (which was utter and awesome [12oz. FTW!]) but this was also very nearly 'irl news' with an NPR interview/debate scheduled between Adam and a prominent Oontzer. The editors at NPR skewed the coverage and made the interview sort of irrelevant in the context of the story they eventually presented but... there were 2 or 3 irregulars around here that handled the fuck out of that. Kudos again.

to the question, I'm pretty sure that my appreciation of early 90's hip hop requires me to be 'ghost' in any situation even remotely featuring Patrick Swayze... That's definitely gonna be my role in the theater when this comes out, I hate ALL of the hollywood remakes. They always fuck up the most important stuff. Just fer instance, that Book of Eli crap, way to destroy the very soul of the movie, the one question viewers could ask each other when the film was over... kudos, a satisfying meal of celery soup, rice cakes and vanilla beans waved over the top of a glass of water.... Mmm 'biblical'.

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the other dy I put pinto beans, corn, diced tomatos w/ cilantro ans limw juice plus some chilli powder... very yummy.

I don't think it's possible for a cougar to be less than 46, 48 is I think as young as they've been found wild. 45 and under is either a MILF or a FREAK.

Oh also, think of all the sexless treehugger quotes: "Yeah, she cost less than my Prius and by the month she's cheaper to run than my toaster! PLUS! Like other Toyotas, she just won't stop!"

Well, I am, after all, a man so... as long as she 'looks' clean and has a sharp haircut I'm game. But Cracked is on to something here: I picture dude who got lucky at the local bar, brings home a human chick ('no you can't drive home in THIS wheather, my place is a block away...). Then the lightning storm and the robort crashes out of the closet door Terminator style... probably not getting that 'happy ending' or a second date, or a date ever again if she has Twitter of MyFace...

Really, it's Wow? Is that why you say: For the record, I reside solidly in the camp of the sceptics but not on the neophyte idiot's side of the camp. Are you suggesting I didn't argue the topic when I said: Then you say: Because it's so cliche around here that the unspoken subtext when somebody mentions my name is 'that guy who calls everybody a Nazi'. I'm such a hypocrite that I won't 'argue the point' but immediately point out obfuscation like: Or the fact that, at least around here, when people are faced with actual facts, or feel their arguments slipping into the idiot zone they almost always take a shot at my screen name, thusly: On the topic of screen names, I've been clinically dead twice in my life, never for more than a minute or so but, I know the Angel of Death and, you, sir, are no Angel of Death Moving Forward Again you allege: I think I clearly stated my position and breaking it down to Coke v. Pepsi is pretty much redundant, espescially since Decy so deftly argued the point after me. Well, apart from the fact that I'm actually the person arguing FOR civil liberties, as opposed to corporate entitlements, that has actually happened to me, up until I quit your quote. I have been raided by the ATF. Ninja ass paramilitary with some very small and vicious looking HK's and the ski masks. Fed shit. It was such an obvious set up that when the Sherriff of the county showed up to remand me into his custody the fed's stepped in and said, 'Nah, this one's ours'. Then I was taken to the city jail, booked and released within an hour and they were waiting outside to give me a ride home, AND apologize and explain how I was not going to be able to avoid some misdemeanor gun and drug charges and that they were actually sorry they'd been fed such shitty info. You don't even seem to be able to argue American law with a British citizen. He refutes almost every point you have, WTF? You have a slipperier grasp on the American legal system that a foreigner? Shouldn't that disqualify you from political arguments with your own countrymen? Shit, if you had tits you'd be Sarah Palin! I'm gonna start calling you 'Midnight Snack' because everynight someone eats you up. You might as well tell us all about your picture of Jesus riding a dinosaur. Or obfuscate some more, if you can't win the argument, change the subject right? Yeah, nobody agrees so we should drop it, that's the way our founding fathers would have done it. because, yeah, this whole thing really boils down to 'slander laws' What am I; You're fucking fact checker monkey? Figure that shit out for yourself homie, then arrive with a truly informed opinion. You go on to say: ...and, yeah, no. The Magna Carta is universally recognized as the first document to establish what we now refer to as 'human rights'... Perhaps even the 'modern birth of courts'. You seem to suggest there were no such thing as tribunals and full on court systems before the U.S. war of independence. Being a fairly vocal proponent of the IRA in the 80's and still vehement concerning a united Ireland, I can still actually give props to the English for this one. I encourage everyone to bone up on the historical facts surrounding the signing but still... supported. Plus the fact that the Bill of Rights was just a parroting of ideals forged by the French revolution. Of course, we're also sidestepping the traditional view that God, Himself, is the ultimate arbiter. There is one small fact I'd like to point out to Decy, a thread I started last year, found HERE. It's mostly just a reminder of how we flogged AoD before with the whip of his own ignorance but it's also a continuing lesson about his WILFULL IGNORANCE and inability to comprehend reasonable arguments.

That's just a matter of taste, you can have my kitten nuggets when you pry them from my pudgy greasy fingers!

Hey, I used to have one of those! Shot like shit. I bought it for $80 bucks, cut the clip from 30 to 15 capacity and sold it for $400 so I felt pretty good about the whole thing. How's that 'shop job' coming along?

re: detente... I was being pretty generous with my language, based on the fact that neither party has yet nuked the other. But I digress... NSA and Google

welcome to P2K

Not usually too difficult, just don't film them making fools of themselves, that's a beating, a camera smashing and a trip to jail.