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Tuesday, November 20, 2007 09:06 AM

Scott and his family have long ties to the Bush family

That go back years and years. Odd that he would rat them out at this point unless he was feeling heat from another quarter. Or, he recognizes the era of Bush is nearly over and there's nothing that they can do to either help him or harm him.

Tuesday, November 20, 2007 09:08 AM

It's a cliche to say that

societies with nothing better to do do things like this. Anyway, with Sweden being the #1 destination in Europe for Iraqi refugees it will be interesting to see that clash of cultures evolve.

Tuesday, November 20, 2007 09:19 AM

Having worked for a motion picture company

I can tell you that the labor unions there give new meaning to the word 'lavish'. Not the actors but the 'little people', the grips, painters, electricians, sound recorders, gaffers, animal handlers, etc. We should all be so mistreated. There was an insider novel a few years back called Golden Triple Time, written by "Zoe Garrison" (not her real name). The title comes from the pay scale of on location labor. Golden triple time is quadruple overtime plus an overbonus. Usually reserved for less than comfortable surroundings like the jungle, but at base rates that are comparable for other union type skilled labor jobs - 4 or 5x is massive. Moreover, a union worker can be a member of multiple unions simultaneously and get a time card for up to 10 jobs at the same time. So you can be an animal handler and a painter and paid for both of them in the same day.

Tuesday, November 20, 2007 03:26 PM

DoD rips a page from the NFL.

Then they should make it a deferred bonus, payable on exit or apportioned. Because the men and women already paid taxes on it and now the government wants the sum back.

Tuesday, November 20, 2007 03:28 PM

No all it means is that all this research is leaving the US

The Fundies don't want it HERE. So we send it to Korea, Japan, Israel, Germany, etc. It's not a big deal. PLUS it means that soon most of our graduate life sciences programs won't be filled with them thar damn foreigners, making the anti immigrant folks happy too. I applaud this effort to ban science from America.

Friday, November 23, 2007 03:51 PM

Too bad this is the wrong audience for such a movie

An audience which is hardwired to hate the character, the story, the genre, the very words of the review. But I guess that's sort of the point of the movie, in an inverse way. Does it sting, Saloniks, to the object of such scorn?

Friday, November 23, 2007 03:54 PM
Original article: The divine sound of silence

C'mon people you're slipping.

I would have expected at least one of you precious snowflakes to mention Kurt Cobain's suicide in passing.

Friday, November 23, 2007 04:06 PM
Original article: Ask the pilot

Price of fuel

At $3/gal people drive. At $4/gal people will drive. At $5/gal people will drive, less, and eat less. At $6/gal people will drive less and stop buying expensive clothing. At $7/gal people will drive a lot less and will start to go hungry. At $8/gal most people won't be able to drive and the national guard will be at the gas station. At $9/gal tanks are in the streets to maintain order.

But people don't really HAVE to fly. If the price of jet fuel doubles, triples, the airlines simply stop operating at more than 10% of today's capacity since tickets will cost more than Hanna Montana tickets. And that's fine, really. I mean how many people do you know take the QE2 around the world? How many people do you know rent out and entire island in the Caribbean for their vacation? The era of the common man flying around the world has only been since the late 1960's and it's rapidly coming to an end. So what?

Saturday, November 24, 2007 07:49 AM
Original article: TV Daily

I struggled through 15 mins of Cattlecar Galactica Razor

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

breathe

heheheheheheeheheheheheheeh

here it is:

2 shot: head 1 says something snappy to head 2

head 2 admits he/she is deeply worried and/or in love with someone/something

head 1 laughs and says don't worry.

overhead shot of a group of people.

cue ominous music

lather rinse repeat/

BSG is the biggest load of badly written sci-fi trying to be a chick movie I have ever seen.

Saturday, November 24, 2007 03:01 PM
Original article: The divine sound of silence

We could kill rap and adult contemporary for starts

the problem is not that music is too pervasive it's that music is crap straight up and down 100% machine mass produced bullshit. Hey Rap stars, when they start using your shit to sling gummy worms and breakfast cereal you should take the checks and shut up about slingin rock and bein shot 9 times an shit. Hey fake overprocessed 'country' adult contemporary divas? Yeah your garbage is even unlistenable on a femine hygiene products commercial during a chick movie. Making it Muzak makes it better. And for what it's worth, I was in the grocery store - granted it was a regular one and not a macrochaotic whole foods faux hippie place - and there was a Muzak version of Nirvana's Lithium on. The humor value alone made me feel well enough to not punch Sequoia the brain damaged cashier in the head.

Monday, November 26, 2007 09:19 AM

Just for fairness's sake there must be an impeachment

If for no other reason than to grind the government to a halt and crush everyone involved just like in the 90's, impeachment makes perfect sense. It's really the only way to reel in the power of the executive branch. And it should be made a perfect artifact of all presidencies. As soon as one is elected, begin to look for reasons to imprison him/her. The US is on a glide path to third world status. We might as well have a third world government. I for one couldn't be happier.

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