if you multiply the 1000 teabaggers in Portland today by 10,000...you get 28,000.

That's probably not enough. Maybe you should increase the magic number to 100,000, or even 1,000,000.

That should get you there.

1,000 x 10,000 = ten million, not 28,000.

I'm surprised you didn't catch that.

How can 1,000 represent 10 million? The entire population of Oregon is only 3.7 million.

If, by "done for", you mean "controlling our government"...then you would be right.

Maybe not better for the kind of people who complain about a $28 paycheck withholding.

not policy but I do it anyway

You know reallynow, I bought your ticket and I took your ride...and it really wasn't any fun!

traffic school?

are you sure this isn't some sort of dungeons and dragons thing?

we have one metric they may not teach at Harvard...it's called the "smell test".

but hey, you obviously think you're some sort of genius. Good luck in the tent city.

Consider that idea that nobody really cares how you spend the money, except you.

must be in the recording contract

but I wasn't sure if i liked her because i like jazz and she liked synth pop. and her tat was too small...come on, like that's a total give away about ego issues and everything. so then i said ok anyway but she met someone in lit class instead.

I don't think anyone watching the video would be convinced by the other side.

that's how deep this conspiracy goes.

crap!

By ESTES THOMPSON Associated Press Writer

RALEIGH, N.C. April 17, 2009 (AP) The Associated Press

A Marine who fled to Mexico shortly before he was charged with killing a pregnant colleague in North Carolina returned to the U.S. on Friday.

Court documents provide details surrounding the death of Maria Lauterbach.

Cpl. Cesar Laurean, 22, was extradited to face a murder charge in the death of Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach, 20, of Vandalia, Ohio, said FBI spokeswoman Amy Thoreson.

The fact that a mainstream tv program would never have someone on like, say, Noam Chomsky, but would gladly put on Liddy...says a lot.

but comparatively few mass murderers.

isn't violence a predictable byproduct of winner-take-all?

isn't violence a predictable byproduct of fluoridated water?

isn't violence a predictable byproduct of bad magazine writing?

They'd be afraid of being called anti-American

That's exactly the problem...it's difficult to be so far to the right that one is considered anti-American.

only the fanciest, for me

telepathy, teleportation, food synthesis...Star Trek had this all figured out quite a while ago.

I like the comics

inquiring minds want to know

If I were using a "cloud" calendar/appointment/email app, and this was the attitude of the people running it, I sure wouldn't be using it for very long.

The Republicans are scraping the bottom of the barrel...even Palin is falling out of favor.

At some point I fully expect a beyond the grave videotape "interview" with Reagan.

this kind of murder is so rare that it's statistically insignificant...meaning that you can't draw any larger conclusions about men from it.

seems to be driving traffic here.

the article you reference does not cite any relevant research.

a "theme" supported by "facts" is not research.

I'll stand by my original assertion that this particular murder was a statistical outlier.

a confidence interval would be nice, too...maybe that "theme" has something to say about it.

I'm belaboring this point because TCF frequently pulls out some weird-beard occurrence to justify a pet gender theory...usually a theory that says men are bad in some way.

before Retired Military Patriot shows up to argue with Electro.

soft techniques have been shown to work, if the goal is extracting reliable information...as opposed to doling out punishment, or generating "confessions".

I don't have an answer to your first question. It does seem like some people have selective memory when it comes to 9/11.

But it's our constitution...we can live up to it or not.

If you’re watching baseball on TV, you could switch to photo web feeds from people’s cameras at the game and receive their tweets on screen, with a graphic showing GPS coordinates of their stadium location. Creepy, cool, and useful!

sorry I don't have ADHD.

so I've heard, anyway.

Interpreting the Constitution as permitting waterboarding in secret prisons is, to most experts outside the administration, legally outrageous and politically untenable.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/10/AR2005121000934.html

As for letting the information retrieval experts do their job...CACI International has an impressive portfolio of services, but I don't see interrogation/torture among them:

http://www.caci.com/

Maybe they've never heard of the Stockholm Syndrome...they probably don't teach that at the CACI rubber truncheon school.

I read it on the internet.

I think Captain Kirk wore a toupée.

it's sci fi for the ipod generation.

We can kill, but we can't waterboard? . . . a ridiculous proposition.

We can kill, but we can't rape and pillage?

We can kill, but we can't systematically exterminate?

That's right NotOrbitBoy...it's called morality.

not so much with the newer shows...TNG in particular exudes the vibe of a local theater company. I wonder if the writers are a bit younger now.

I'm not making any "war criminals" judgements at the moment...just suggesting that we avoid rape, pillage, torture, and genocide using our security forces.

Is that too complicated for you?

1. You waterboard KSM, eventually he starts saying things, much of which is BS.

2. You take what KSM said and try to verify it. Along the way, you are likely to come up with new questions, or information.

3. You waterboard KSM again. This time you may what found to be true (or false) from the previous session. Eventually KSM yields more.

4. You continue this pattern, hopefully identifying additional sources of information, and piecing together the puzzle.

Not any more you don't.

maybe what you need is a really good crack habit, or heroin addiction.

Please, don't limit yourself. Aim high!

to quit writing about drinking.