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It's a 10 year tie of all his shows.

The idiotic shows like remote viewing suck because they are a sucky topic.  The shows with interesting topics suck because George isn't prepared, isn't listening, and can't or won't ask obvious follow up questions.

I'm beyond annoyed when I'm watching a football game and right after the play, when the offence is in the huddle, they cut to another game, or a game from last year, or go to the studio, any of that. 

That's what the pregame show is for.  Show the updates at halftime.  Fucking idiots.

If they want to do something during that time, show how the defense is setting up or something, and talk about that a little.

Poor Casey

Quote from: Sardondi on September 16, 2012, 11:35:26 PM
...  Because all that crapola about "competition is the life-blood of our economic system", and "competition results in benefits to the consumer" is just a bunch of happy horseshit the corporate types sell to the 4H-clubbers. Because the last thing suits want is actual competition - they want to have a monopoly.

Of course no company wants competition - competition sucks, they have to work to provide a certain level of service, they have to hold costs and prices down, do more with less.  People in the workforce are going to be paid less than they want or their employer will find someone else.

But as a consumer it sure is nice to have more than one choice, it's nice to have competition for our dollars, anything from more than one choice of vehicle to buy or lease, or more than one brand of bread to buy.  I'd rather have dozens of cafes to choose from than just one great big restaurant everyone had to go to when eating out (see school cafeteria or airplane food.  Notice how expensive ballpark food is).

This is just one reason why socialism doesn't work, why the government can't do things as well as the private sector (with the exception of policing, court system, roads, military, stuff like that) - the govt offers no choice - we are forced to take their product made lousy due to lack of competition.  Just compare the lines at the DMV to the lines at McDonalds.

Quote from: Frys Girl on September 16, 2012, 06:09:44 PM
Paperboy, nevermind. I just learned that you spelled shah as shaw. Fuck this. I'm out. Have fun with Hannity and Zircon.

Yeah, the people running the Iranian government are the good guys.  How did I miss that.

Our friends from Occupy, fresh off pointedly ignoring the Justice Dept refusal to prosecute Goldman Sachs or any of their executives, or to rally against the Feds' new bond purchase / giveaway program for bankers, is planning a birthday party for itself tomorrow on Wall St.

Childish, self-indulgent, clueless troublemakers with no idea what is going on, or caring - just a chance to get their freak on again for the cameras.  Easily led, how could anyone ever have taken them seriously.

I imagine at some point things will turn violent and it will be explaned away as 'anger' just spontaneously boiling over.  'We're non-violent', they'll say, 'it was the police that made us do all this'.  Assaults, propery damage, arrests, garbage left everywhere, failure to prosecute, yawn.

Quote from: Ruteger on September 16, 2012, 04:13:32 PM
... Why in all-creation would any sane American vote for someone with the middle-name of "Hussein"?

I would vote for someone named Mao bin Allah, or any other name, if they were for for property rights, free exchange, personal responsibility, limited government, low taxes, rule of law, and opportunity for everyone.  Unless they were a Dodgers fan.

Quote from: Frys Girl on September 16, 2012, 12:36:07 PM
People who want to bomb Iran. Fuck all of them. I guess these fuckers had their eyes and ears closed during the Iraq quagmire.

No one is proposing a wholescale bombing campaign on Iran.  The range of actions lie somewhere between doing nothing (i.e., Mossad continuing to kill scientists and infecting their computers with bugs) and a few precision strikes on specific military targets.  An airstike would be something between a near non-event and a disaster, depending on how Iran reacts (along with Russia and China).

Speaking of eyes and ears closed during the Iraq operation, did the Iranians not sit right next door, watch Saddam sponsor terror, bluster and threaten, act as if he was developing nukes and making comments about using them?  Did anyone in the Iranian leadership not notice him ending up being pulled from his spider hole and hung after all that?   

Does none of that sound familiar to anything going on in Iran right now?  If Iran has no intention of using nukes, attacking Israel and Western targets in the region, or even getting nukes in the first place, why are they so intent on following the Saddam Hussein playbook?

Shit on a Stick, with George Noory

Quote from: MV on September 15, 2012, 07:33:21 PM
i like jews, and by extension, i like israel and support their right to exist and protect themselves...

The Israelis are very different from American Jews, at least from my limited experience.  I admire Israel for the most part, certain Israelis - not so much.

Why do we always hear about Israel being the only democracy in the region?   Doesn't Turkey count?  They're a NATO ally, they held down the southern flank against the USSR in the cold war - which was a pretty brave thing to do, they are an emerging country economically, they are very helpful to us behind the scenes with countries in the Muslim world that we are not on friendly terms with, they are influential, moderate, and help with the stability of surrounding countries, and even have good relations with Israel. 

They follow what's in their self interest, as they should,,and the government has  been tilting more 'Islamic' lately, but they are more valuable to us and better allies than Israel is. 

Quote from: MV on September 15, 2012, 07:06:56 PM

i fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucking hate most baseball announcers.  i can't take the pukey, affected voice and delivery for more than 5 seconds.  bob costas is at the top of my hate list.  i hope he burns slowly in a rusty old tool shed.

No announcer can be worse than Brent Musberger, no analyst worse to listn to than Lou Holtz. 

And it's nearly impossible to watch a college football game without one or the other popping up.

They have to die sometime, don't they?

Quote from: M. Knight on September 15, 2012, 05:37:55 PM

your post made me think of this song by the Kinks. 

That's my favorite tune from them!

Quote from: analog kid on September 15, 2012, 05:32:46 PM
... The fact is that the people of Iran are largely westernized, secular, they like the US, and don't want war with anyone, and there is currently zero evidence that Iran is building a nuclear weapon. I'm not much of a conspiracist, but the pro Israel rhetoric in our media is so pervasive and universal that I can't see how it could be anything other than Israeli backed propaganda. They are not saints in their conflict with Palestine by any means and they can go fuck themselves.

The Persians I've met have been nothing but friendly.  I think it would be perfectly safe visiting Iran, although maybe not this week.  Of all the Muslim countries with lousy governments, Iran is the most likely to become a US friend.

I have not had good experiences with the Israelis I've met, at least in the business world - they seem to somehow model themselves after the Russian gangsters you see in the movies.  I'm still waiting for the Israelis to explain their attack on the USS Liberty in 1967, but shhhhhh, we're not supposed to even bring that up.. 

Quote from: Frys Girl on September 15, 2012, 11:59:28 AM
Iran and its government have nothing to gain from conflict. Instead,Iran has been verbally attacked and antagonized. These latest embassy deaths prove how dumb Israel and The Hawks have been. They get a boner thinking of an Iran attack, ignoring shit talkers and actual terrorists. k Sanctions for what? Oh I'm sorry, maube if the drop their pants like the Saudis, sanctions would disappear.

The government of Iran has been and continues to be the number one supporter of terrorism in the world.  Sorry if that hurts your feelings or if you are embarrased by it.  I'm not attacking you.  I think you are probably just a bit defensive, and that's understandable in this high-charged era.

As far as the muslims being antagonized and verbally attacked, what we have in reality is a mutli track approach from them.  1) aways claim to be the victim,  2) agressively issue threats and insist everyone else cater to them 3) cowardly terrorist attacks on innocent people / infidels. 

Treatment of women, storing weapons and hiding in their mosques after attacks where they know decent people won't go to root them out, using clearly marked ambulances on the battlefield to move soldiers and weapons, hostage taking - this week it's attacking embassies, I could go on all day.  Who else does that?  The thing I resent the most is our government letting these people into our country where they immediately claim to be 'offended' at our way of life and start clamoring for everyone to cater to them. 

What the Muslims really need is to to join the 21st Century, and maybe have a Gandhi type figure emerge as a leader instead of more terrorist cowards issuing threats from their rat holes.


Do you really think the West, with our liberty, freedom and democracy is inferior to what goes on in the Muslim world?

Quote from: Frys Girl on September 15, 2012, 11:11:33 AM


Iran hasn't threatened anyone. Zircon, you don't know the origin and history of the situation at all, obviously, like most here in USA.

Can you expand on this a little bit?  Regardless of history or lack of history, threats and dangerous situations are still threats and dangerous situations. 

So are you saying something is being misinterpreted here, or that Iran is justified in issuing threats so therefore they aren't threats?

Quote from: UFO Fill on September 14, 2012, 01:54:01 PM
Where do I go to get a check?

First you have to be a bank.  Then you have to buy junk mortgages at about 12c on the dollar.  Then you have to either be a big Obama donor or get your man in at Treasury or on the white House staff.

Only then can you sell that loan to the Fed for the full face value of the debt.  At that point you are free to either take a monstrous bonus as a reward for making this very profitable deal, or loan the money out into the community.

Again I ask:  Where is Occupy?  I'm starting to think they may just be as big a bunch of frauds and phonys as Obama and the banksters are.

Quote from: Sardondi on September 14, 2012, 11:02:50 PM
I'd say the nation that is the threat is the one that is a fundamentalist theocracy; the one whose political and religious leaders routinely, almost weekly, make pronouncements about how they're going to immolate a tiny country which is the only well-established democracy in the region; the nation whose people can be made to go batshit crazy and spill out into the streets calling for the blood of the tiny country over patently ridiculous and obviously planted rumors; the one which routinely has thousands of its citizens spill out into the streets and celebrate the deaths the murders by suicide bombing of yet more dozens of women and children of the tiny country whose heinous sin was having a religion different than that of the nation whose citizens regularly go batshit crazy and call for the blood of the residents of the tiny country; the nation which is the leading funder and supplier of terrorist murder bombings and assaults. That's who presents the existential threat - the one which has been intentionally engaged in existential attacks on civilians for over 30 years, and promises to continue doing so until all nations on earth accept its religion. 

The threat sure as hell isn't from the well-established democracy which is itself routinely threatened with extinction by its neighbors but which has never, never reduced itself to the barbarity of threatening those neighbors with extinction, even though by the hyperbolic estimates of some that it possesses "300 nukes", supposedly enough to "devastate the entire planet", it could easily do so.

Why the ferk didn't they assassinate Arafat about 1970?

Quote from: analog kid on September 13, 2012, 01:45:08 AM
Romney is being almost universally lambasted for his comment, that politicized the event while the people were dying, and he was smirking the whole time. Might I suggest a broader range of news sources?

We don't have as many campaign ads on TV here in Calif as other places do, but they've been running one with President Clinton a lot since the Convention.  George W Bush and Barrack H Obama have been such lousy presidents, they must have internal polls telling them people are looking fondly back on Ol' Bill, the Lyin' King.  He was certainly fortunate, serving his terms in a period of peace and prosperity.

Anyway, there he was, talking about the good times we had in the '90s - trying to make the connection somehow between that and Obama's policies.  After reading your post I couldn't help but notice that Great Big Smirk on his face the whole time.  Not sure what to make of it.

Quote from: MV on September 14, 2012, 02:32:25 PM
... i think it's nuts to say we need to blow the fuck out of everything because a few embassies were attacked by uneducated, islamic fundamentalist idiots who pretty much know nothing but what they're told to know and what they're told to be offended by. 

Who is saying that? 

The only embassy that was attacked by people that even might have been under the direction of people in control of these governments was Egypt and maybe Sudan.  Our allies Yemen hasn't been toppled by al-Qaeda yet.  The people in Libya are still pretending they are our friends (and maybe they will turn out to be) - it wasn't them or their allies.  The new Tunisiam government is on friendly terms with us.

There is appropriate use of force, and times when things need to cool down.  This is a time for diplomacy.

It's also a time for voting citizens to really take a look at what has been going on in the region, determine whether the president has been working in our best interests and doing a good job of it in general, and examine his actions over the past couple of days. 

For example this came on the first anniversary of 9/11 since the 'Arab Spring'.  Were precautions taken?  Was there any intel sugesting something like this might happen?  If so, did the President act to secure the embassies and personnel?  From here the answers to those question do not reflect well on Obama.

Quote from: Zircon on September 14, 2012, 10:58:03 AM
Ben Bernanke now has the Federal Reserve engaged in an open ended scheme to purchase $40 billion in mortgage-backed securities each month. Being "open ended" means those running this scam will not have to come back and convince anybody for a QE4, QE5 etc. This is nothing other than another banker bailout.

New loans will not be made. The banks are not strapped for monies as they are have approx. $1.6 trillion in excess reserves. In fact, back in 2008, after the TARP bailout, the Federal Reserve paid banks to WITHHOLD loans.

The bailouts are not designed to invigorate the economy but to prop up the stock market for those well invested in the market. The real economy continues to go straight to hell.

The “wealth gap” between rich and poor has vastly increased. This again illustrates how these actions have nothing to do with helping the little guy get back on his feet and everything to do with the concentration of financial power into fewer hands.

Bernanke claims that the justification for QE3 is to boost employment. WTF !!! If anything, Bernanke’s policies are largely responsible for creating high unemployment in the first place. He even said this new policy will not do much to alleviate joblessness. It has come about to prop up assets and nothing more.

The fact that we haven’t seen massive inflation since the start of the Fed’s QE policies shows that the money isn't being pumped back into the economy. QE3 is nothing more than another massive wealth transfer with the middle class and poor as its victims. Another manifestation of neo-feudalism to destroy America and have the globalist bankers pose as the saviors.

The economy is being destroyed by design in order to centralize power and control as our society becomes more fearful. Look at Europe and see what is happening.

Mitt Romney called and begged Ben not to do this. Is that (1) a sign of weakness on Romney's part or (2) a sign of knowing how finances work or is it (3) just a selfish plea? He knows business. Unfortunately those running this nation at the moment are only concerned with bankers and concentrated wealth under the guise of a good market.

We've already had $6 Trillion aded to our National Debt. - 4 years of annual deficits of $1.5 Trillion.  And nothing - nothing! - to show for it.

Apparently they aren't bankrupting the country fast enough, so now Obama and Helicopter Ben are flat-out printing money - $40 Billion a month.  A MONTH!

Just as a few weeks ago when Obama's Justice Dept decided to not prosecute Goldman Sachs or any of their executives for peddling their junk mortgage backed secutities - with which they intended to defraud the buyers - and kicked off the current economic mess - I asked where Occupy Wall Street was.   I ask again - if Occupy Wall Street are who they say they are, and not just a Soros/Obama agitation-propaganda front group, WHERE ARE THEY TODAY?

I'm pretty sure all the Hollywood twits ans skanks are supporting Obama

Quote from: Ben Shockley on September 14, 2012, 10:20:06 AM
"the Shaw"..?
Don't presume what "I know" to be consonant with your fantasies.
Just because YOU don't think overthrowing "some raghead" 60 years ago means a damn thing, don't presume that people in another part of the world dismiss it as easily as you do.   You wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it if a Soviet-inspired coup had overthrown Eisenhower--- wait-- that wouldn't matter because it wasn't in YOUR lifetime-- Okay-- what if some guy you think isn't a legitimate U.S. citizen came "to power" in the U.S.??    You'd be all fired up about THAT, right?  I mean, like you are now over Obama who I presume you are working diligently to have impeached?   Okay, imagine a country full of people like you feel now, BUT even more so, because they actually have something to be pissed off about!!
Honestly, just because YOU weren't alive and in that country to see your president forced out in favor of some guy who was barely known in the country and who then instituted a police state... I know it's hard for you, a good god-fearin 'murcan, but TRY to empathize a little.   Don't you think that would be grounds for a little bit of hatred, and not just for a week or two?

I'm going to go out on a limb and say the people in Iran are a little more focused on getting out from under the Ayatollahs and people like Ahmadinejad right now than on the Shaw.  And yes, that was a different time and the world was a different place. 

Unfortunately Obama apparently likes the regime in Iran as it stands now and couldn't say a few words on behalf of the people there awhile back.  It's not like he doesn't want to meddle - he sure seems happy enough to be helping the jihadis in the other 'Arab Spring' uprisings.

Quote from: analog kid on September 14, 2012, 09:51:59 AM
Romney has all the tact and diplomacy of Kirsty Alley on a twinkie binge. Oh, but it's those "gotcha Journalist" meanies again. Never mind that Mitt has offended or pissed off Russia, China, Brittan, Israel, and now the Muslims. Every time he opens his mouth he puts his foot in it. Every. Single. Time. The boob could have handled it any other way, but he used it as an opportunity for a political attack. His campaign admits he fucked up, as does a lot of the GOP. We don't even need to hear the debates at this point; we've heard enough dribble from this tax dodging corporate vulture automaton. He's now defining "middle income" as $200,000 to $250,000 a year. Is this on the planet Kolob? Clueless car elevator, sci-fi religion having moron.

And again, the administration isn't apologizing for anyone, and this supposed projection of weakness is another canard, as they've taken out a slew of Al Qaeda number 2s and bin Laden. Obama is clearly the better man for the job.

I would just leave you with this:  No one is in love with Romney or any of the R's.  But just about anyone would be better than Obama. 

And Ben, yeah I'm aware of the history with the Shaw.  As you know, I was talking about a much more recent event, something that was at least in our lifetime.

Quote from: analog kid on September 14, 2012, 03:03:44 AM
The embassy issued the statement before the attack occurred, to try to diffuse the situation, and Romney used that as an opportunity to attack the embassy. He's a mental midget with zero foreign policy skills. Being a fuckup in the US is one thing, but when you're a fuckup internationally, you start wars.

And the whole "Obama is apologizing for America" canard isn't even true and never has been.

And this happened because right wingers keep doing these stupid "burn the koran day" stunts that are getting people killed.

A couple of things.  Romney does not have his people on the ground at embassies all over the world.  Not yet anyway.  He has to rely on the media for his information just like the rest of us.  As far as I know, every outlet in the Phony Media reported that statement issued by the embassy in Egypt was in response to the attack, or put it out there for people to come to that conclusion.  Then they asked Ronmey to comment.  Things were fluid, that the way it works sometimes, especially with a major incident on foreign soil and the various media rushing to get the scoop out.

President Obama does have his people on the ground.  He should have had the facts before anyone.  What was he doing?  How was he responding?

None of this is happening in a vaccuum.  This should not be looked at as an isolated event, but as a continuation of a lot of things - the consolidation of power by the Brotherhood in Egypt as factions jockey for power, the growing power of the jihadists to influence and control 'the street'.  It shold be looked at in the context of Salmon Rushdie, those Danish Cartoons, and other so-called 'out-rages'..

The last thing the United States government should be doing is projecting weakness and apoligising for free speech conducted in our own country, especially with the Moslems, especially given this history.  If they can't coherently put out the right message, they should have just remained silent and bunkered down.

The fact is, we have the wrong person in the White House, and the wrong people in our embassies.  Like you said, "when you fuckup internationally, you start wars".  I agree.  I would add that fucking up internationally gives us regimes like the one in Iran, and now the ones now emerging from the 'Arab Spring'.


And for the Phony Media to misreport this, then play 'gotcha' with Romney, well, that's another new low.  I don't think they set out from the start to specifically to do that, but now they have a new tactic in their arsenal of pro-Obama deceit.  Let's watch to see if they use it again.

Quote from: ziznak on September 13, 2012, 01:43:21 PM
Welcome!  Are you an anti-noorite as well?

Quote from: korrine on September 13, 2012, 03:23:33 PM
No no. I love all the C2C men...

We can help with that!

Tommy smells like chicken mcnuggets, gyros, corn dogs, quarterpounders, waffles, bacon, kung pao chicken, cheetos, fruity pebbles, lunchables, lamb curry, gravy, fish sticks, chocolate milk, orange popsicles, tomato soup, pop tarts, sour cream, pizza, stawberry ice cream, curly fries, maple bars, burritos, sweet and sour sauce, peanut butter, gummy bears, chef-boy-ar-dee, cotton candy, barbeque sauce, enchiladas, roast beef, rice krispie treats, carrot cake, spaghetti sauce, cat food, moldy socks, and urine.

Ian reeks of self importance, bluster, and dandruff

Quote from: analog kid on September 13, 2012, 01:45:08 AM
Romney is being almost universally lambasted for his comment, that politicized the event while the people were dying, and he was smirking the whole time. Might I suggest a broader range of news sources?

Wow, Team Obama and his accomplices in the media are critical - they've even brought back the Bush II 'smirk'?.  There's a surprise.  More honest journalism.  Did you hear the tape of the pool reporters discussing how they were going to work together to try to trip up Romney on his comments yesterday (Wed)?  Pretty disgusting stuff from the 'non-biased' media.

I'm guessing normal Americans won't think too highly of the Cairo embassy's comments about  'hurting the feeling of Muslims', instead of expressng outrage these thugs attacked our embassy, or standing up for our freedom of speech.  Pretty sure everyone knows the embassy response came directly from the White House, despite Obama lying about that too.

Obama not attending intel meetings, going to bed before knowing the fate of our embassador to Libya, not providing enough security, going ahead with a fundraiser - yeah, go ahead and try to make Romney look like the one that's incompetent and out of touch.   Then sit back and wonder why the 'elite media' continues to bleed readers and viewers.

Good luck spinning this stuff.  Like I said, let's see what the poll bounce is in a few days.