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#18781
Quote from: Falkie2013 on September 08, 2012, 10:23:11 PM
Someone needs to photoshop the photo below and change it to :

Talking to the Bored.

Or Boring the Dead
#18782
Random Topics / Re: Things That Annoy You
September 08, 2012, 05:59:24 PM
Quote from: Sardondi on September 08, 2012, 04:28:44 PM
...Sound-level anomaly between tv programs and the commercials. Just what the hell kind of perversity/ineptitude/arrogance is it that permits this? Were I paying gazillions to advertise my products, I think I would realize that it tend to piss people off when ads for my product abruptly blast them from the comfort of their Barcaloungers.

It seems a problem that could be fixed, at least coordinated, by the sponsors, the ad producers/sellers, the networks or the FCC. So I can only assume the blaring-commercial problem must be perceived by these entities as a benefit to them. HOW?!?!

Then how could you hear the ads in the kitchen, bathroom, laundry room, or outside?
#18783
Quote from: HorrorReporter on September 08, 2012, 12:08:53 PM
During 'open lines' last night, Tommy stopped by the studio to tell George he got "texasted" by someone who wanted to know what mistake George has made that he never told anyone before. George went on to tell something that he has told countless times before, obviously ignoring the second part of the 'texasted." George said he was interviewing people on local TV, two kids of a women who was murdered by their dad, the woman's husband.. apparently the mom made steak with too much fat on it, the dad chocked the mom with it,  and the daughters appeared with Snoory on local TV. George laughed as he recounted that he asked them, "What's your beef!?"  George didn't understand why they began to cry until he realized that he said 'beef' and maybe it hit a raw nerve. And the lesson? George learned to 'think before he spoke.'   

I found the story amazing.
1) George mangles words beyond recognition.
2) He often doesn't think before he speaks, many times does not even think for 4 straight hours a night.
3) He pretends to be innocent, all the while the smug Noory no doubt knew the inside joke of what he was doing back on local TV. Once a jerk always a jerk. His 'nice guy' routine is getting really disgusting.

and 4) I really don't even believe the story.

I'm not completely convinced George speaks English. 

It could well be that he is able to memorize the occasional complete speech in a language he doesn't understand, and for 4 hour bursts can read (somewhat) index cards that are sounded out for him


If he were honest, George would admit his biggest mistake is lyng about bein' innereschted in thuh pair-uh-normal to get the job, then claiming he puts in eight hoers uh'v show prep ev'ry day.  He has to be miserable, even with the paycheck
#18784
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Ian Punnett
September 08, 2012, 01:56:35 AM
Quote from: Eddie Coyle on September 07, 2012, 11:02:08 PM
       Predisposition indeed. They're essentially from the same sociopathic branch that produces politicians and bankers. Power, power and a little more power is what they seek. Even, a small timer like "Deacon Punnett" has these traits.

          The bright side of the 11 years spent in Catholic schools? I learned what utter bullshit organized religion was up close and personal.

Not just bankers, nearly all the big shots in the corporate world, jockeying for position, always coming up with ways to screw everybody else over - each other, bosses, staff, customers, suppliers, shareholders..  And cops, even rent-a-cops, don't forget that mentality.

Sometimes I wonder if the religious leaders believe this stuff.  Does the Pope?  I'm guessing not.  Or the Alatollahs, Mullahs, Imams?  They seem crazy, but again guessing no.  What about priests - pedaphile and othewise?  How about Romney and that weirdo Morman stuff?  Hard to believe he does.  It seems to me Deacon Punnett just found another job with short hours where he has a fairly captive audience he can yak at for an hour or so and have them hanging on his every word. 

I quit going to church in Jr High when I realized the church kids were mostly jerks and the kids at school were mostly nicer.
#18785
Quote from: ChewMouse on September 07, 2012, 07:47:18 PM
You know, in my day, you took your chances and did your time. Eat that sweet-looking cleaner block out of the toilet? Fine, that's three days of diarrhea for you. Break open your Etch-A-Sketch to see and taste the lead pellets? Great, there went 50 points off your IQ. Kiss the dog when he's chewing a bone? Very good, we'll go to the hospital for nineteen stitches but there's no "plastic surgery" talk involved here, and nobody is hurting the dog over this event, the dog was justified. Fall off your bike and crack your skull? Excellent, now you'll be riding the short bus when school starts. Stick a coat hanger into a wall outlet? That hurt, didn't it? Bet you won't do that again. Fly forward from the backseat into the ashtray when Daddy slammed on the brakes? Well hang on back there, it's not like you didn't know you were in a moving vehicle, even if you were just three...

Turn the radio to C2C when Noory on, go buy another one tomorrow after smashing it against the wall
#18786
Random Topics / Re: Things That Annoy You
September 06, 2012, 11:14:12 PM
Dee instead of day - Saturdee, Sundee, Mondee Night Football
#18787
Politics / Re: 2012 Democratic National Convention Agenda
September 06, 2012, 04:33:56 PM
Quote from: Zircon on September 06, 2012, 12:15:59 PM
... Renton was a cesspool then and remains one now - even with all that money once coming in. Typical government waste and tons of social programs funded by hard working people and a highly successful company. You would not believe how lucrative it once was for those on the dole in King Country in the 1980s-1990s.

There's nowhere to cut, there's never anywhere to cut.  The rich aren't paying their fair share.

Ever notice when the subject of taxing the rich comes up, no one proposes actually taxing overall wealth - instead they talk about taxing current income.  Probably realize the rich would just pick up and move somewhere else if we had a true wealth tax.  Either that or the people shouting the loudist about taxing the rich - the folks in Hollywood, people like the Kennedy's (then) and Pelosi's (now) - are themselves already rich and want anything but a tax on wealth.

Most people go thru the various stages, poor and low paid coming out of school, earning more as they move up thru the ranks or as their farm or small business grows, more highly paid later in life - when they are paying for their kids tuition and saving for retirement.  None of that matters to the Liberal though, nope, we just get a constant drum beat of 'Tax the Rich' sloganeering.



#18788
MV your current avitar reminds me of this - Comander-in-Chief Beetle Bailey

#18789
Quote from: b_dubb on September 04, 2012, 08:20:30 PM
we need to load up a stealth bomber with marijuana seeds and disperse that payload all over northern korea.  actually that would be quasi-barbarous because it's not like they have anything to eat when the munchies set in

How about 'shrooms then?
#18790
Politics / Re: 2012 Democratic National Convention Agenda
September 06, 2012, 12:02:21 PM
Quote from: M. Knight on September 06, 2012, 09:38:02 AM

I would also add something else that should not be considered a commodity:  homes


And with a record number of Americans on food stamps, add food.  So what is it exactly that motivates us to go to work or start a business if all this stuff is 'free', er, no longer a commodity?  Maybe the best workers get the best pot and seats at ballgames, nothing more?

So who decides who gets what or who lives where?  And why are we handing these decisions over to someone else instead of deciding for ourselves what we want and working toward getting it?  I really don't understand the rush to hand over our freedom and personal liberty.
#18791
Quote from: Morgus on September 06, 2012, 12:43:37 AM
Noory had both the earthquake predictor scientist and psychic Dr. Louis Turi on in the first hour for a few minutes for them to confirm they had correct recent predictions regarding earthquakes and other disasters.

"Sumpthin's gonna happen"
#18792
Politics / Re: 2012 Democratic National Convention Agenda
September 05, 2012, 09:32:13 PM
Quote from: Jasmine on August 31, 2012, 11:12:27 AM
... What positive changes have ever resulted from a change of political party winning the Presidency? Can someone enlighten me, because perhaps I cannot see the forest for the trees.  From where I sit, there is never change...

... "The reason they call it the 'American Dream' is that you have to be asleep to believe it." - George Carlin...


I thought George Carlin was a great comedian but did he ever wonder why people flock here from all over the world?  Did he ask why boat people could come here and in a generation be middle class business owning citizens that send their kids to some of the best universitites in the world?  Where else does that happen?  Or ever happened?

Are we really to believe it didn't matter who won the election in 1980, Reagan or Carter? 

Or '84 Reagan / Mondale?

Or '88 Bush / Dukakis?

Ok not every election matters as much as others, '92 and '96 - Bush / Clinton and Clinton / Dole probably weren't that different, but does anyone think Gore (2000)would have cut the taxes Bush did, or responded to 9/11 by attacking Iraq?  Would 'global warming' be the big scare it is now if Gore had become president after that election?  Would Kerry (2004) have been a different president than Bush?  What was all the Obamamania in 2008 if Hilary or John McCain would have been 'the same'?

Not convinced?  We can go back further - JFK / Nixon in 1960, Goldwater / LBJ in '64, Nixon / Humphrey in 1968.  How are any of these 'the same'?

The world would be a different place if any of these had turned out differently - everything from US involvement in Viet Nam, to the 'Great Society' programs, to Watergate.  What is all the complaining about Reagan budget 'cuts' if Carter would have been no different - would Carter have stopped projecting weakness in foreign affairs, restructured the tax code (and thus the economy) to set in motion 25 years of expansion (which included the creation of Silicon Valley and all that tecnology), or stopped appeasing the USSR and taken the same steps Reagan did to set course to end that regime peacefully if only he'd won in 1980?   
#18793
Quote from: JulietCapulet on September 05, 2012, 06:13:43 PM
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, and novel without falsehood. 

And, so I go into this good night with no expectation but to experience what the most courteous hosts of the enjoyable Coast shall enlighten me with and upon.  So hungrily I await.

Good luck with that
#18794
Politics / Re: Lyin Ryan
September 05, 2012, 07:09:16 PM
Quote from: Ben Shockley on September 04, 2012, 10:41:44 PM
First, let me say that I have nothing personal against Paper*Boy, despite his efforts like in the post I'm about to reference.   PB, you occasionally bug me in these political threads, but I'm generally with you on the "Coast"-related stuff.   But in this latest attempt to school my sorry ass, you just served up too easy of a target, and asked for this.  You lobbed a slow one across home plate.  You didn't even walk into an ambush; you walked into my camp and surrendered.

There is an old saying that "it's better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt."  In online forums, the choice is even easier.   "Silence" in a forum does not connote "foolishness" nor anything else; you're just not there.   Particularly in a thread where you have no early stake, "remaining silent" is just the default condition for the majority of forum members.   But when you choose to speak up, you take on all the weight of the topics under discussion, and you really should be up to the task, lest you "remove all doubt" of foolishness.

Monday night, our pal Paper*Boy spoke up, and removed all doubt.

I had earlier been trying to lead McPhallus out of a jumble of cartoonish political epithets and into real life when I admitted that:which apparently so exercised Paper*Boy that he threw all notions of self-restraint and fact-checking to the wind, and, using exactly that quote from me as his necessary and sufficient cause, he by god waded in!
HUH?
No, Paper*Boy.
If you could have contained your zeal for just a bit, it shouldn't have taken more than a few seconds online searching to reveal that Max Weber and Ralf Dahrendorf were 2 of the most important, mainstream, and generally non-controversial social-science academics of the last 100+ years.   Unlike what PB went on to imply, those men had/have absolutely nothing to do with "murders of tens of millions, mass deportations, intentional starvations, [etc.]"   They were 2 academic figures who happened to shape my thinking particularly with regard to social conflict, and should be familiar at least by name to anyone who has ever been exposed to even Intro-level Sociology, or to higher levels of History, Political Science, or Economics.   You know: disciplines focusing on the kind of things that people in these political threads like to wax profound on and therefore, ideally, should know something about.   I dropped those names with the exact purpose of steering McPhallus' earlier labeling of me away from his Orwellianly-inaccurate "Fascist," past "Marxist," and on to some eponymous tenets (academic, not political) I actually have some connection to.

I'm not suggesting that anyone needs any particular type or level of education to post here, although one might expect that, given the level of passion that many people bring into the political threads --and the interpersonal stakes thus created-- they might have a little more knowledge about what they're spouting than just whatever "their gut tells them."  Especially since --as PB shows us-- "your gut" may be a better projector of your own prejudices about another poster than an interpreter of what he wrote.   So when you think you're using some reference (names in this case) as evidence for a real killing debate point against someone, you might do well to know just who the hell the names are, and whether or not they have a damn thing to do with the "therefore" part of your smashing argument.

Finishing up:
Where did that come from?   I never said anything like that in this thread so far.   Nagging conscience, PB?We wouldn't want to exaggerate, would we?
Thanks at least for assuming that I have some positive qualities.  I mean-- assuming that you think being "educated and informed" IS good.   Or are those supposed to be the charges that get me burned at the stake?
Somehow, I'm reminded of the Rush song "Witch Hunt."


Ok, you got me.  I have zero formal training in the intricacies of Marxist thought.  Or any desire to get any.  I did spend 5 months in PR China in 1986, HQ'd in Shanghai but mostly traveling around the rest of the country.  This was 3 years before the Tianamen Square incident, and I've seen enough of that system up close, first hand.  Absolutely unbelievably repressive - one friend built a tiny darkroon in his crummy apartment and developed film for his friends, a very small business.  He was arrested and grilled several times just in the time I was there.   

I've been back a few times since, and have also visited Laos, Cambodia, and Viet Nam.  No one in any of these places is talking about this Weberian-Dahrendorfian stuff - they're just glad to be rid of all of it.   Too bad for them though, right?

1986 was the instant before China went fairly capitalist, with Deng was doing what he could to throw off that crap system.  A few places I visited were 'Special Economic Zones', places where tiny businesses were allowed to sprout - cafes, bike rentals, tiny shops, stuff like that.  Just the diference between those SEZ's and the rest of the country was astonishing - it didn't even take me the usual half a day to find a hotel room and another 3 hours to find somewhere to eat.  Trust me, no one I talked to thought that what they really needed to do was embrace Weberian-Dahrendorfian theory.

If you are truly curious, I recommend getting off campus and wintering in North Korea.  That's probably as close to PR China circa 1986 as you could find now.


But back to my original post.  It wasn't about the failure of Marxism, or ivory tower studies, it was about why you need to name call and insist the rest of us are racists.  Nice try changing the subject, I can guess why you don't want to answer the question, but since I reiterated it for another poster as well, you've had 2 chances to answer.  Should I put it down to PWI - posting while inebriated?
#18795
Random Topics / Re: Nickelodeon and Your Children
September 05, 2012, 05:54:46 PM
I guess Ian was actually The Night Watchman.  Back when Noory wanted to be The Night Hawk.

I think George got tired of explaining he meant the Night Hawk airplane and was perplexed that people thought it was a reference to the bird.  Moron.  Yeah, ol' Loo-tenant George 'Nighthawk, like the airplane' Noory.
#18796
Quote from: Starbreaker on September 05, 2012, 12:46:33 PM
I've decided George Noory needs to stop picking guests...

I don't think George does a damn thing except read thru a few emails, check up on celeb gossip, watch movie trailiers, have some bs time-wasting meetings, look for sick stories about kids and animals, give Tommy shit, and go out to eat with his office groupies.  I'm guessing Lisa picks the guests
#18797
Random Topics / Re: Things That Annoy You
September 05, 2012, 05:31:02 PM
Quote from: HorrorRetro on September 05, 2012, 04:36:42 PM
I'm annoyed when I see adults write alot rather than a lot...

I kinda sorta wanna do that alot
#18798
Random Topics / Re: Things That Annoy You
September 05, 2012, 05:28:53 PM
Quote from: b_dubb on September 04, 2012, 08:16:20 PM
... in the court of the crimson king ...

Does anyone know if those guys are done, or done touring, or what.  I think last time they came here was around 2005 or so.  Belew's been thru with his side band a couple of times, but no Fripp - I miss those great shows
#18799
Random Topics / Re: Nickelodeon and Your Children
September 05, 2012, 05:25:34 PM
Remember when Ian Punnett used to call himself The Watchman?   I think he preferred that to The Ferret.
#18800
Quote from: HorrorRetro on September 04, 2012, 11:41:37 AM
I had my own legal document editing and proofreading business, so I am particularly sensitive to seeing mistakes in the news.  After reading a story written at a 3rd-grade level, I became so disgusted that I wrote the editor of the local news organization's web site and complained.  The response I got back was, "Do you want the news fast or correct?"  I swear to God, that was the reply I got back.  I wrote back, "Both.  I don't think it's too much to ask that professionals write the story rapidly and correctly."  They then replied back that every story went though seven proofreaders, blah, blah, blah.  Well, I guess all seven proofreaders were illiterate, because the stories were almost incomprehensible.

At the time, I thought it might have been a local thing.  We've since moved twice, and I see the same mistakes over and over again on the local news. 

(If you see any mistakes in my post, I haven't reached my optimal coffee levels yet.)

I love it when people on the radio or TV grotesquely mispronounce a word, name of some nearby town, or someone's name.  Especially when they do it in their usual 'all knowing, listen to me voice'.  Hilarious. 

I at least understand that though - George Noory regularly mispronounces everyday words, the names of large cities and well known people.
#18801
Random Topics / Re: Things That Annoy You
September 04, 2012, 04:38:50 PM
Quote from: onan on September 04, 2012, 05:33:30 AM
Yeah, Hands Across America was a confluence of many of the things I hate: Large groups of non-thinking mouth breathers. Mouth breathers that think standing akimbo is the same thing as doing something noble. Businesses that want to make a buck off of mouth breathers in a group. "Artists" that want to share their vision of peace and happiness in song and T shirts.

We are the world would have been a much better song if they had video of the hand holders being ran over by truckers.

This is awesome, I had to laugh,  And agree.

Last week I was sitting in a coffeeshop right across the street from UC Berkeley and was talking to a sort-of acquaintence/friend of mine - an old lefty geezer left over from the 60s.  Somehow he mentioned this very event as one of the most memorable and inspirational events of his life.  I didn't remember it at all and it turned out it was during a time I was out of the country for 6 months.  I couldn't bear to tell him what a load of horse-shit I thought it sounded like, now here it is again.  Too funny.
#18802
Politics / Re: Lyin Ryan
September 04, 2012, 07:30:57 AM
Quote from: PhantasticSanShiSan on September 03, 2012, 11:40:19 PM
... Unfortunately, it's impossible to properly judge the true value of a socio-political system when it has never been implemented properly and honestly on a national level.  And I'm not sure if it is logically viable to judge one system by the mores and values espoused in another, especially when using selective historical evidence.

Oh right, the noble commie. To be fair I should have included examples of all the good things people like Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot did for their people.

But my question for him was, given the level of horror and misery inflicted in the name of Marx so far, why does Mr Shockley seem to assume any poster suggesting a different path may be more prudent is some sort of racist?   
#18803
Tommy
#18804
Politics / Re: Lyin Ryan
September 03, 2012, 10:08:58 PM
Quote from: Ben Shockley on September 03, 2012, 09:32:55 PM
... Actually, by training, I'm a "Weberian-Dahrendorfian" theorist...

Ok, so you are an adherent of an obscure branch of Marxism.  Given the, umm, less than sparkling history of Marxism in general in the 20th century - you know, murders of tens of millions, mass deportations, intentional starvations of whole populations, hellish prison camps for political prisoners, complete lack of freedom or human rights, the occasional genocide - how is it you assume anyone not agreeing with you in your theoretical training is somehow the worst type of racist rather than someone just not as educated and informed as you?  That is the case right - it turns up in nearly all your posts?
#18805
Politics / Re: Economic Failure
September 03, 2012, 01:14:59 PM
Remember back in the 80s all those jobs created under the Reagan boom - the Ds were telling us they were all hamburger flipping jobs when most weren't.

Now any job - part-time seasonal, a person leaving one job for another, phony 'stimulus' government jobs that will disappear when the stimulus money runs out, other jobs that are double counted - anything really, to show something for the $5 trillion Obama  has tacked onto the national debt.  Anything to try to make some kind of claim that things are moving forward when they cleunder this regime when they clearly aren't.
#18806
Politics / Re: Where are the articles?
September 03, 2012, 12:02:08 PM
Remember when the Ds, the Libs, the activists and especially ACORN were all out demanding the banks make more housing loans to poor people in the inner city?  They called it 'Red Lining', most banks and loan originators were mostly set up to originate loans that would be approved under Fannie Mae guidelines and could then be sold to Fannie.  Oher lending institutions were better equipped to originate 'non-conformng' loans to lower income folks in lousy neighborhoods and did so, but that wasn't good enough somehow. 

Once again the race card was played through the media, and the plaintiffs went judge-shopping, hoping to find courts that would force banks to give out loans to people that couldn't afford them.   Many of these sub-prime loans were part of the rotten debt that oozed up to kick off the Collapse of '08.  When Obama was a lawyer for ACORN he had a role in this, a fact that was buried during the Obamamania of 2008.  Turns out his role was more than just a cheerleader.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/03/with-landmark-lawsuit-barack-obama-pushed-banks-to-give-subprime-loans-to-chicagos-african-americans/

It's a shame this President was never vetted and we still don't know much about him or who he really is.
#18807
Politics / Re: Where are the articles?
September 03, 2012, 10:09:14 AM
Another non-story is the homeless.  If a person never went outside, just stayed home consuming news, that person would think we had no homeless from 1993-2000, a massive homeless problem again starting 2001-2008, and no homeless from 2009 to now even with all the economic chaos. 

Pretty strange, maybe lots of people want to live outside in 4 and 8 year cycles.  I can't quite put my finger on why that would be. 
#18808
Politics / Where are the articles?
September 03, 2012, 10:03:21 AM
How many days has it been since Hurricane Issac and most of New Orleans is still without power?  To the media somehow it's just a local issue, a non-issue really.  Imagine if an R was president - we'd all be reliving Katriana, it wold be leading off the news, on the front page of newspapers, magazines - another FEMA failure under an uncaring Repub Pres.

Remember the Bush bashing with Katrina.  Never mind that FEMA is a last responder, there to backup state and local agencies and supplt what they ask for.  No, under the R's, when an incompetent D mayor and D govenor fail, when they were told to get ready and didn't, somehow it bacame Bushes fault. 

I'm thinking if an R was president today this would be covered much much differently.  There's your media bias.

#18809
Random Topics / Re: College Football Contest
August 31, 2012, 08:59:30 PM
So I turn on the TV to see how the Boise State / Michigan State game is going.  First thing I hear is Goddamn Lou Fucking Holtz giving an update on other scores.  I wait 8 months and this is what I hear 

I hate hearing Lou Holtz, constantly plugging the teams he's coached - South Carolina, Arkansas, Notre Dame, never anything interesting to say on that or anything else, not ever.  That irritating speech impediment, 'glub, glub, glub'... he's either on just about every good game, doing the pregame show, or doing updates all game long.   It's not like he's the only person available to do this stuff.  Please just die already. 

#18810
I wonder how that Hawaii studio is coming along, still just a few weeks away
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