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Pretty "over the top" on the comments:

The guy with the 'Darwin Award' for the dead salvage guy - I think that should retire the asshat trophy for this thread...

I salute the guys who righted the ro-ro ship and prevented those 4000 cars from "decomposing" on the sea floor. (Great article at Wired, reads like good fiction, Highly Recommmended!!)

I happen to think that scrapping the cars was the RIGHT THING to do. I wouldn't wish those unknown unknowable potential problems on anybody.

Well maybe the dimwit with his Darwin comment ;)

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WarLord

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Optimism?

Well yeah that was before we became a fearful, claustrophobic, goalless and soulless society busy avoiding responsiblity by electing snarky war mongering frat boys and bitching about taxes...

We have no great goals as we slip into a terrified lassitude

Mars? That costs TAX dollars! Moon? Not until we're done with the pillage of Iraq, thank you very much.

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"...I miss meat and blood very much..."

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So I'm guessing a PETA sponsorship is pretty much out of the question...

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Wall Drug in Wall SD still sells coffee for a nickel self serve and honor system with a stack of cups next to the big coffee pot and a wood box with a slot

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There are two sides -

One is a well paid propaganda of the China political agenda enabled by corporate media and big business that carefuly overlooks any evils done by China while selling this fiction of non political Olympics and not incidently selling a shitload of slave labor logo merchandise...

I don't really think BB has to recap the avalanche of puerile pro-China press, leave it to Faux

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Ever since Jesse Owens ruined Adolf Hitler's little coming out party in 1936 its been clear that Olympics = Politics

Now we can ignore China's ethnic cleansing as they were prepared to ignore Germany's...

But a better plan would be to call them to account!

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But by God its SECURE!!!!

Not satisfied with shoeless waterless sheep bleating their way aboard de plane, now the sheep peeps don't even get their luggage LOL

When the airlines and security apparat piss in your face just keep telling yourself "its raining"

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About those business models for writers:

Writers I know who are savvy are putting "donation jars" on the sites with their stories

Some come right out and say: "It costs 'X dollars' for the next update/chapter" some just say "whatever you think its worth"

Some are using lulu in addidtion depending...

The fact is the 'dead tree guys' are mired in a failed model with DRM and silly ass licenses and going no where fast -- the new guys are bypassing 'New York' to go straight to the customer and the cash without passing GO

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I hate to give up my books but at a certain point (when the house is full) the oldest go to Goodwill there to be sold for a few bucks to benefit their employment mission

I don't care much about copyright or license or verbiage I want exactly the same ability to dispose of my old books by giving, selling or whatever be they dead tree or live electron...

Its not a license to read if its on Paper --I own IT

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To #27 re economic cost of security theatre

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I think Bruce Schneier (sp) did a cost/benefit of the whole "nine one one vote Republican TSA security theatre" and the imputed cost of lost time and lost productivity was astronomical!

Check his website -- it was his or linked through him

The cost of time, the rat hole of tax dollars the loss of constitutional rights with the attendant building of a fearful terrified sheeplike group of citizens who forget how to question their leaders but merely follow dumbly shoeless waterless and terrified of shadows

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That post about Real ID, the shock bracelet, the pain of wrong names on terror watch list et al ad infinitum ad nauseum all point to the utter pointlessness of this wiki thingy

We shoeless waterlss sheep are caught in a Nine One One meme that eats our rights and shits on our constitution

Until we are brave enough to fight back, this campaign is masturbation

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Rutger Hauer in that movie with the bomb around his neck....

Why this idiocy reminded me of that movie but having it posted one down from "Real ID" was just perfect!

This is what we shoeless, waterless sheep deserve, next they just shove the electrodes up our ass and trigger it in the voting booth if we fail to vote ummm 'right'

TSA means never having to say you're sorry ;)

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Let's not overlook recent events, like elctions, I guarantee Congress pays attention:

"Democrat Bill Foster was elected to Congress in Denny Hastert's long-time, bright red district in Illinois."

Foster ran opposing the WAR and Teleco immunity.

Congress can count votes and Foster winning after running the "harboring terrorists" gauntlet of the standar Righ wing 'nine one one meme' had to have a positive effect on this issue

This is not a slam dunk for Dubya anymore

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Mattazuma "Grandstanding"

Why yes it is!

But the truly odd thing is that Pelosi thinks the winner is going against the Nine-One-One meme

Democrats seeing Dubya as toothless and 911 as an empty threat with no polirical cost is fascinating

The dems grow a backbone, Bush fumes, film at eleven

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Chavez and Bush, two sides of the same coin.

They need each other desperately. Such despots need an enemy to keep the sheep in thrall...

Dubya has his Axis of Evil {tm} and the TSA to remind the shoeless waterless sheep of their place in the grand scheme of things

Can you say 9/11 sheeple? I know you can...

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The 'good guys' are the ones like Pelosi who have grown a set about rejecting immunity..

Cynicism and "they're all alike" allows the right to win, keep holding them accountable and tell them when they do good!

The bill has a long road to travel before it ever sees Dubya's desk. House Senate Conference committe, then if they agree to language re-vote by both chambers then off to Cheney-ville

Like I said, best outcome would be impasse, assuming house comnferees stick to the language they passed

Often rules require them not to accept lanhguage explicitly rejected, in house case that might include teleco immunity

Lets hope for an impasse

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No line item veto in language just appropriation items

Though his bullshit signing statements come close - the inyeresting point would be the courts stance to a signing statement on teleco immunity

Quick somebody get Greenwald...

Pelosi needs to appoint people will to stand tall on immunty to the conference committee with Senate - mention THAT in your thank you calls....

Best outcome: An impasse kick this to next year
lawsuits carry on without the Senate language...

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Its not that China brings 'anything to the party' except dictatorship, slave labor, and plasic shit WalMart sells that nobody needs

BUT

America has so debased the very idea of "American democracy" with Gitmo, rendition, warrantless wiretaps not to mention the TSA and its billion name watch list that Russia and China suddenly look good by comparison even as they oppress their own populations.

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Do keep in mind in the midst of your anti-smoking Calvinism that Tobacco products are perfectly LEGAL and heavily taxed. You certainly like spending those tax dollars for your favorite entitlement...

Why does this anti smoking ranting always end up reminding me of born agains lecturing about sin and vegans lecturing about the evils of meat

Holier than thou calvinists who cloak a need to require the lack of pleasure as "good for you":

A scarlet 'C' for all those nasty smokers and a scarlet 'M' if you dare to eat the evil beef!

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In every society there are two sets of laws, the big thick books of ALL the laws which our Clavinist tendencies cause us to pass and then the far thinner set with the laws we actually care about and want enforced...

Sex, gambling, drugs, and smoking join all the Calvinist anti-pleasure laws regulating and controlling every facet of our lives but in "reality" we really don't care if somebody loopholes and games the system ;)

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Back in the good old days, when GOV actually regulated industry and food was safe, "downer cattle" were assumed to be unsafe to slaughter and trucked off to the rendering plant to be made into dog food not people food...

Now we just assume that our food is polluted because we have allowed the Republicans to win the war against government and regulation

Lower taxes anyone?

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"...The Burka was chosen, because it is often perceived in the west as a symbol of repression..."

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No, it IS a symbol of a repressive anti-female theocrasy.

Maybe the "perception" is driven by all those Sharia floggings and the actions of Saudi Wahhabbi Thought Police?

See the Islamist 'War Against Valentines Day' for further perceptual clarity...

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So now we all of us live in 'Mayberry RFD' with 'Deputy Barney Fife' in charge of our security

Tripod guns and dream bombs but sadly no 'Sheriff Andy' take away Barney's bullet and stop the foolishness

Dump out you water and take off your shoes sheeple it only gets worse from here

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Note to Skep:

Its not ANAL, its a design feature, clearly you are not paying attention

Its an expedition vehicle that might travel on rough roads, up and down and along steep inclines - anything not in a "custom fit location" is likely going to spill, break, etc

That sound is the umm point going by, try to catch it or a clue ;)

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All the references to the USS Cole are so many "straw men" havng no bearing on the incident in question

The USS Cole was anchored and unready!

ALL US warship traversing the Strait are manuvering to advantage and ready to 'rock and roll'

It was indeed bass boats against an Aegis!

But Dubya needs a war....

Can you say Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch? I know you can ;)

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Bour3- it's Iranians in Bass Boats Vs an Aeigis Cruiser, not the Battle of Jutland, get a grip!

As provocation it pales by comparison to Cold War incidents with Russian Trawlers and American war ships...

Plus its sorta kinda Iran's strait to patrol, so its sorta kinda expected to meet Iranian patrol boats in THEIR strait ;)

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This tells you all you need to know about the scam:

"...Instead of siding with Yilishen's victims -- mostly poor farmers, construction workers and the unemployed -- the government has blocked Internet postings and ordered reporters off the story, ant farmers say. Attorneys in the nation's capital have been discouraged from representing any of them, according to the website of the Beijing Municipal Lawyers Assn.

Most of the victims say they invested with Yilishen because of its close ties with the government and endorsements by prominent officials. Company officials frequently appeared with senior government officials. The company advertised extensively on state television and received a hard-to-get marketing permit...."

With the explicit and implicit endorsement of the GOV even dead ants can be sold...

Or a war with Iraq or a speedboat attack by Iran!?!

We just got a slightly different box of dead ants shoved up our ass by OUR Gov ;)

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Couple MRE and a gallon or two of water would be a usefuk add to the "insurance policy" kit for anyone planning to survive.

Freeze dried chili be a good logical ethical step before a vegan dines on 'long pig' ;)

In survival realism is useful, aint about stockpiles and stuff, it's about your mind and spirit

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>>>God forbid that someone in government have religious beliefs.

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Luckily everybody who umm 'matters' in our country shares Huckabee's reverence for the crucifiction symbology. ;)

Sadly Huckabee and his evengelical ilk keep reading the wrong gospels. I'm pretty sure Jesus was NOT a fan of waterboarding!

Wine, YES...

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Porn and spam seem to pretty much be it!