201. A 'values' voter speaks her mind on Obama

Comment #267219 by Tezcatlipoca on October 20, 2008 at 10:52 am

re 11 #267213

I have a work neighbor who is like this lady. She can't admit her animosity about Obama is because he's black. She spews out a bunch of right wing radio talking points. She considers herself a good christian.

202. A 'values' voter speaks her mind on Obama

Comment #267212 by Tezcatlipoca on October 20, 2008 at 10:49 am

I'm unable to see the clip right now 'cause youtube is blocked here at work. That being said I have seen the movie The Outlaw Josey Wales. If I was in town getting supplies and saw crazy eyes here coming up on me I'd blast her first whether or not she had flap holster. (skewed movie reference...)

203. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #267207 by Tezcatlipoca on October 20, 2008 at 10:44 am

MaxD

The only plasterer I know moved out to Utah. So, it's drywall, tape and mud. My house is 90 years old so everything is a negoitiation. The terms level and plumb do not exist...

204. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #267154 by Tezcatlipoca on October 20, 2008 at 9:45 am

Take no notice of the sibilant sss in classs...pure coincedence I asssure you...

no reptoidsss here...nothing to sssee...

205. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #267140 by Tezcatlipoca on October 20, 2008 at 9:22 am

re 267131

As a middle classs (for the midwest) person I know this much. Most of any extra cash I get goes right back out to Home Depot, Menards, Lowes, etc. I've still got to rewire, put in drywall to replace the lathe and plaster and then retrofoam. I'm sure when I take out the lathe and plaster I'm going to find, at best, old newspaper for insulation or nothing at all.

Also, I think about the skit from SNL in the mid 90's. "Everybody else has stuff. I want stuff. I want stuff too..."

206. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #267134 by Tezcatlipoca on October 20, 2008 at 9:11 am

I think it's funny that a described moderate and centrist (Powell) gets called a RINO (Republican in name only) by some lady in NC who refused to shake Obama's hand. The electorate seems to be able to compartmentalize and have amnesia (much like myself after that truck pulled in front of me and my motorcycle...) with regards to events that are more than a few months old.

207. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #267123 by Tezcatlipoca on October 20, 2008 at 8:50 am

re 267110

also, as a neo-con, an attack on Powell using Iraq/Lies etc, is an attack on their own position.

208. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #267120 by Tezcatlipoca on October 20, 2008 at 8:46 am

re 267022

noted that Al agreed with Bonzai

the end times are nigh...

p.s. Palin, Palin, Palin...

p.p.s. 2600 or so posts to go!

209. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #265834 by Tezcatlipoca on October 17, 2008 at 10:53 am

Gregg,

I have not read that book. I will look out for it. The only problem would be finding the privacy to read it. War deities have to keep up our street cred.

210. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #265819 by Tezcatlipoca on October 17, 2008 at 10:30 am

My Rottweiler Mo ate

1. a recliner

2. a wood consel television

3. the bathroom door trim

4. a few various tables

and various other miscellaneous items.

Then he stopped. Right before I was going to send him to dog heaven. Great dog. Unfortunately I left him in my mothers care while he was a puppy for a couple of weeks while I went out of state to work. When I got back my mother had a new dog. I had visitation rights.

211. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #265812 by Tezcatlipoca on October 17, 2008 at 10:25 am

H4D,

I'm on the East side of Lansing (West of Michigan State University) I was born in Texas but we (half of my father's side of the family) came here to work in the GM plants and go to MSU. Mom is from Pirmasens, Rhineland-Pfalz, Germany.

Al-puppies need to go out every 2 to 4 hours or so until they grow a little and get a bit of muscle control. My best friend's family just got a little female pit puppy. I like pit bulls as long as they are raised responsibly. But then again I like chihuahua's to a degree because they think they are pit bulls. :)

212. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #265781 by Tezcatlipoca on October 17, 2008 at 9:33 am

We've been watching the games at the grad/family student housing at MSU...Spartan Village. The brothers from California got a rather large lcd hd tv this fall. The on campus cable system has fox cbs nbc abc in hd as well as ESPN. We are a little agitate when games we like are on ESPN2 as it's not in hd on this system. ;) We've been grilling for the games. Bratwurst simmered in beer then grilled. Chicken. Fajitas. Once in a while a couple of local markets have sales where they sell a whole ribeye for under $4 a pound sliced free. On those occasions it's steak. Plus the new ziploc freezer bags that let you pump the air out work really well. I'm stocked up. I have found that I can ambidextrously flip tortillas on the two front burners of a stovetop. Two weeks ago I made a pot of Fireworks Chili. Baked Mac and cheese. The games are really an excuse to get together, cook, and eat.

213. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #265768 by Tezcatlipoca on October 17, 2008 at 9:12 am

The little fiend jumped on my leg as I was stepping over the edge of the tub getting out of the shower this morning. Luckily he didn't get too much air and latch his claws into anything besides my right calf. I haven't gotten to youtube in the last few days but perhaps this weekend. Althought MSU-OSU will consume 3 hours of my free time this weekend...

All in all though he's at least doubled in size. I let him run around the toms a bit and since there is no female around they tolerate him.

214. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #265753 by Tezcatlipoca on October 17, 2008 at 8:59 am

SSO,

is Skylark a male avatar of Bast?

215. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #265746 by Tezcatlipoca on October 17, 2008 at 8:53 am

One of my friends from Califas who is here at MSU in graduate school is a Raiders fan. He says much the same thing. Don't wear a visitors jersey or gear and you should be okay...

I keep asking him why he isn't a Chargers fan since he did his masters as an Aztec apparently he's drank the Al Davis kool aid.

216. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #265703 by Tezcatlipoca on October 17, 2008 at 8:12 am

H4D- 2980 posts to go :)

I believe Skylark wills it as well.

-edit-our nemeses in this endeavor are those trollish minions of haha yahoo on that other thread. DAMN THEIR BLACK HEARTS!!! *sorry, just mentioning them caused my caps lock to activate*

217. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #265679 by Tezcatlipoca on October 17, 2008 at 7:39 am

I would recommend Uncle John's cider. An unpasteurized blend bringing together tart and sweet. Refreshing and delicious. Well worth the trip North of St. Johns Michigan... The cider mill's pies, especially apple, are very good as well.

It is rumoured that 3 out of the 4 major party candidates for President and Vice-President gave out high fives after sampled the goods. The other wanted to suspend his campaign until the pastry crisis had been dealt with.

218. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #265362 by Tezcatlipoca on October 16, 2008 at 1:54 pm

The new grad student I have living with me this year (from Texas) is traumatized by the performance of the Cowboys. Having grown up with the Lions myself he is getting very little sympathy. I just tell him he should be taking care of his assigned readings and not dwelling on the failure of the Cowboys to meet expectations.

;)

219. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #265341 by Tezcatlipoca on October 16, 2008 at 1:26 pm

I believe the unemployment rate nationally is 6 percent or so.

-edit-I don't know if this is 6% of the total population of the U.S. or of the 18 and up year old population

220. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #265232 by Tezcatlipoca on October 16, 2008 at 9:25 am

That strange reality is usually achieved by ingesting various fungi...

-edit- whereas I grew up drinking (the)Kool-aid ;)

221. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #265209 by Tezcatlipoca on October 16, 2008 at 8:55 am

re social security.

It's where it's at today because it has been continually raided to enable budgetary hi jinks.

-edit- It would be nice if Bill Maher left the job of being an anti-vaccination nut to Jenny McCarthy

222. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #265206 by Tezcatlipoca on October 16, 2008 at 8:50 am

re 265202

"ain't we gonna bury em Josey?" "Naw kid, buzzards gotta eat, same as the worms."

223. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #265205 by Tezcatlipoca on October 16, 2008 at 8:48 am

My summer...

Got $600 back (incentive money) bought pavers, sand and paver base. Built 12' x 14' patio. Bought extra tank of propane in anticipation of some extra grillin'

Cracked a piggy bank. Got the remaining 8 old drafty windows in my house replaced. $2600. Bought 4 tires for my car as a have a long commute every day. $500 Bought a replacement Price Pfiester bath faucet because I couldn't find a replacement shower diverter for the antiquated crap that is currently in my large bathroom. $80. (He) washing machine (to replace the one that unexpectedly went kaput) $800.

So, to as an illustration to Al's point, every extra cent I managed to accrue this spring and summer went back out. The Candiens that built the GE washer are happy. The folks at Menard's are happy about the building supplies. The folks at Guardian Window (in Toledo) who built the windows are happy and Dave (the guy from West Michigan Glass Block who installed the windows) is happy. Home Depot is happy as well about the washer and faucet purchases...

I'm not too happy except the stuff works well and hopefully I'll get an energy credit for the washer and windows. Now I need to save every penny for a strike fund as my contract is up in April. Yahoo!

If there is no strike then that piggy bank will buy something. Flooring, Tub surround, 12 gauge 20 amp wire, drywall... ugh.

224. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #265195 by Tezcatlipoca on October 16, 2008 at 8:31 am

Apparently Joe the Plumber (Joe Wurzelbacher of Cincinnati)may be related to Robert Wurzelbacher (of Cincinnati) the son in law of Charles Keating.

bluega.dailykos.com

www.eisenstadtgroup.com/2008/10/15/joe-the-plumber-wurzelbacher-related-to-charles-keating-oops

daily kos and a blog as sources but something with more validity may pop up later. I'm sure the dogs will be on it.

225. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #265140 by Tezcatlipoca on October 16, 2008 at 6:08 am

3211 posts to go. Damn that Haha Yoyo and his mindless, drooling, cut and paste trolling minions. They may have done what light sabers, alternate thread discussion and the perfidity of the RC church could not... killed this thread...

the thread is dead, long live the thread...

unless of course you believe in the resurrection...

-edit- grammar

-edit2- and grampa too...

226. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #264933 by Tezcatlipoca on October 15, 2008 at 1:17 pm

I just read way too much about light sabres...

my guess is that Sarah Palin's is red...

;)

227. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #264917 by Tezcatlipoca on October 15, 2008 at 12:46 pm

Damn! I knew I was missing a color. I'm sure there are Yellow and Orange as well. Now I'm going to have to google "light sabre colors" (or colours) and see what comes up.

228. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #264911 by Tezcatlipoca on October 15, 2008 at 12:42 pm

3286 or so posts to go...

Blue vs Green vs Red light sabres...discuss!

re 264905 Ouch! Poe's law should have kicked in...

229. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #264872 by Tezcatlipoca on October 15, 2008 at 10:51 am

TWP-

They have to find the right voice impersonater first.

230. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #264855 by Tezcatlipoca on October 15, 2008 at 10:06 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldnetdaily

Great source!

-edit- damn my employer! Blocking youtube access!!! You'd think they expect me to work or something...

231. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #264850 by Tezcatlipoca on October 15, 2008 at 9:50 am

Luckily the sink was close by...and my impromptu baptism...

I has the lolkitten. It bites the hand that feeds it!

When I saw it on my front porch at 2am in the morning (when it was approximately 6 weeks old) my only comment was "Aww Shit!" I put out food to see if there were any littermates or mama but no luck. Now the fiend seems to think it is entitled to both canned wet food and my hand as dinner.

232. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #264842 by Tezcatlipoca on October 15, 2008 at 9:42 am

The funny thing about the (battery) acid trip was that we were right outside a service station with a pretty large utility sink. It was quite a religious event having my head repeatedly dunked in a sinkful of cold water (luckily I was wearing glasses) and from all the little pinholes that appeared in my vietnam vintage field jacket from the battery acid. At least I thought it was funny in hindsight since I emerged relatively unscathed. The sight of the hydrogen inside the casing starting to combust was quite fascinating. Kind of an "oh shit!"
moment.

-should I click the palin link from my work computer?-

233. [UPDATED] Richard Dawkins on Harun Yahya's Atlas of Creation

Comment #264831 by Tezcatlipoca on October 15, 2008 at 9:22 am

Hellene re-264827 question 4 part 2

Wasn't it extorted from people?

234. Ecological Flea

Comment #264830 by Tezcatlipoca on October 15, 2008 at 9:20 am

Because her worth is on 50% of his?

235. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #264829 by Tezcatlipoca on October 15, 2008 at 9:19 am

H4D-

awww, Bambi and Thumper...how sweet.

*loads 30.06* Ever seen what a 180 grain bullet does to a snowshoe? Bwah hah hah haaaa!

;)

I'm really kidding, Although my friend hit a snowshoe head on with his 35 remington once in the U.P. There was nothing left except for a the head and some spine. He hit the next one through the side of the head...I guess he learned from the first. He wanted rabbit for something called gleesaunce (phonetically spelled) Anyways, I was cured of my inclination to hunt by 1. A car battery exploding in my face on one trip. 2. A skunk walking up on me in the stand of grass I was hiding in on another 3. various other mechanical failures.

p.s. Approximately 3300 posts (and one debate) to go...Bwah hah hah haaaa

236. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #264823 by Tezcatlipoca on October 15, 2008 at 9:10 am

One of the questions I have, regarding sample, may be answered if I get my hands on a copy of Brownmiller's book and it's bibliography. Using terms like "all too common", "often described" etc are what concern me. Is the source drawn from congressional hearings where folks who have been summoned for testimony on the basis of there being a report of rape? Or is it a blind sample with controls? I wonder about that. I don't wonder whether or not crimes of this sort happened.

237. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #264818 by Tezcatlipoca on October 15, 2008 at 9:01 am

I think Epeeist was talking about the percentage of rapists who know their victims (70%) which would be less likely in a combat zone. Other factors (group pressure etc...) that would increase incidece are/were present as well. I don't belive Epeeist was dismissing them merely wondering about the affect military theater vs civilian life variables would have.

238. [UPDATED] Richard Dawkins on Harun Yahya's Atlas of Creation

Comment #264815 by Tezcatlipoca on October 15, 2008 at 8:53 am

"THE CADDIS FLY IS STILL ALIVE TODAY"

Not the one pictured with the hook in it...

hahahaahaaha...(co-workers are not amused by my spontaneous laughter....)

239. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #264807 by Tezcatlipoca on October 15, 2008 at 8:42 am

Dammit!

My first timed out post!

Here goes (again somewhat)

Thanks for the links. I managed to read the first link. I have some questions about sample sizes and such but found it enlightening. I would have liked to see more primary source sampling (before it's too late Dad is 67...) to see what the incidence of this criminal behavior is vs the number of troops deployed. My only primary source stated he would have dealt with Sgt Meserve (and the rest of that squad) by using the business end of his M-16. He was quite vehement about this. He got quite agitated and was very irate by the end of Casualties of War.

anyways,

back to work for a bit...

240. [UPDATED] Richard Dawkins on Harun Yahya's Atlas of Creation

Comment #264758 by Tezcatlipoca on October 15, 2008 at 7:33 am

re 264756

Bravo! I'd be honored to be depicted with you in bas relief, paint, or carved on a pyramid wall anytime...

241. [UPDATED] Richard Dawkins on Harun Yahya's Atlas of Creation

Comment #264753 by Tezcatlipoca on October 15, 2008 at 7:25 am

Oh my, are we seeing the evolution of creationist tactics? They seem to be taking a page out of the P.Z. Myers playbook regarding this site. I feel like a pedestrian underneath a flight of geese btw...

242. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #264743 by Tezcatlipoca on October 15, 2008 at 6:57 am

My .02 about the vietnam thing. My pops was there from 65 to 66 with the 1st Cavalry. He has some pretty gruesome stories but none of them involving Vietnamese women. Now, when Casualties of War, the film with Michael J Fox in it as a soldier who witnessed the rape of a Vietnamese girl, came out on cable, we watched it together. Watching films set in Vietnam with my father is always "interesting". The major thing I remember about it is that my father called Michael J Fox's character a pussy. He said the character should have shot his squad and he said he would have. (Pops was a staff sargeant at that time). Now I don't the year that movie was set. And my father came from Ft Benning and was airborne and had ranger training and so could have been considered an "elite" soldier with command training. But I am a bit sceptical about the rapes. Not that some of these horrendous crimes occurred but the levels reported. Does anyone have any statistics from credible sources or is this something along the lines of "I know a guy who knew a guy..."? A serious question as I have only my own anectdotal evidence (my father) to go by.

243. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #264433 by Tezcatlipoca on October 14, 2008 at 11:53 am

twp,

I'm not gonna touch that last bit of information with a ten foot, um, pole...

244. Richard Dawkins at Conservative Party Conference 2008

Comment #264411 by Tezcatlipoca on October 14, 2008 at 11:06 am

Okay, for the record, the Fanusi discussion belongs on the Palin thread where it originated...otherwise the goal of 10,000 posts will not be reached. ;)

p.s. I think that it should be described as a whirling dervish of destruction myself.

245. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #264408 by Tezcatlipoca on October 14, 2008 at 11:02 am

I won a tv from my favorite local watering hole 3 years or so back. Had on a caesar costume.

246. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #264406 by Tezcatlipoca on October 14, 2008 at 11:00 am

Skylark doesn't look like he takes to being "dressed up"...From the looks of this particular picture I'd say he doesn't take kindly to being switched from his favorite food either.

247. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #264344 by Tezcatlipoca on October 14, 2008 at 8:17 am

I don't know if there would have been enough secret service agents available if Palin would have went out on Philly ice in a Ranger jersey.

248. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #263987 by Tezcatlipoca on October 13, 2008 at 12:58 pm

Re-263985

Terrorist... ;)

249. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #263982 by Tezcatlipoca on October 13, 2008 at 12:55 pm

Now is it a few drops of methyl bromide that will make a whole room smell like vomit...

250. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #263971 by Tezcatlipoca on October 13, 2008 at 12:39 pm

I was going to comment on the property destruction issue but must refrain, on advice of counsel.