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Richard Branson - I want to be him. So bad.

Feds force elderly couple out of their privately owned home: http://www.ktnv.com/news/local/226557661.html?lc=Smart

This follows similar optional acts which the Obama Administration has taken in an attempt to make the shutdown as painful as possible to average Americans, while at the same time keeping the machinery of government operating at some 83% of full level. This includes the unbelievably cynical decision to call US Park Service personnel vital so that they can be kept on the government payroll so that they can be used to block access to the National Park System including using physical force to remove veterans from the WWII memorial. Worse, Obama is willing to manufacture a crisis situation for perceived political gain, such as in shutting down of the "Amber Alert" system.

But pain is only for the little people, since Obama has kept open his favorite National Parks golf course, and has made sure that Michelle' Obama's silly little "Let's Move" website is running at 100%.

We have a tyrant as a President.

Quote from: Eddie Coyle on October 05, 2013, 09:32:33 AMI'm annoyed that I missed the epicene,Afrocentric mononymous hipster "Toure" on MSNBC utterly fail on air to locate Kenya on a map. Apparently it occurred last week.

That's because "Kenya" is the white oppressor's word for the lovely area which in Toure's mother tongue is known as "Mobettaland".

Quote from: Eddie Coyle on October 04, 2013, 11:23:24 PMI always found Eastwood's attraction to Sandra Locke...odd. I thought she was a bit bird-faced. Looks like a nurse who'd poison patients at a VA hospital.

Sondra Locke reminds me of a rat. I shudder every time I look at her. And there's no doubt she has Eastwood to thank for her career, inasmuch as he jammed her square peg into every round hole of a movie he made until he better-dealed her. Clint's whole style of using the casting couch as a way to scout life partners creeped me out. He was blatant about it, like a 30's movie mogul: "Schtick with me, Shweetheart, and I'll make you a star!". First it was Sondra Locke who he replaced with Frances Fisher. I want to include Lesley Anne Warren as the first casting couch girl, but maybe that's just because she's also a redhead which Eastwood seems so attracted to making his long-term mistress.

Quote from: scottydawg on October 04, 2013, 05:44:23 PM...Notice how he defers to his wife by saying her full name? Almost like "Mistress, May I?"

Echoes of the most bizarre Whitley I ever heard, when he, for some damn reason related to his bizarre imperative to self-destructive over-sharing, discussed with George an event in which he was some remote place (the famous cabin in the woods?) alone with some woman who was putting the moves on him, and Whitley kept calling his wife to tell her how the seduction was going and discuss whether or not he should succumb and start an affair with the woman.

Words fail me.

Quote from: NowhereInTime on October 04, 2013, 05:18:16 PM
Oh no! Massuh 'Dondi done laid down da law! Whatevs you do don't piss off massuh dondi!

Someone change the name to Sardondi-gab.com? No? Didn't think so.

I'm sorry. I hadn't realized you aligned with SR-71. I can tell you really care. I should be more sensitive to special needs. Please accept my apologies.

Quote from: bateman on October 04, 2013, 05:34:44 PM
Are we still talking about actresses we find revolting?

Julia Roberts...

I've never gotten it about her. Talent, looks or personality. Just....nada.

Quote from: Chine on October 04, 2013, 04:40:33 PMMickey Rourke. What a shame. He was absolutely attractive at one time. Especially, in 9 1/2 weeks.

Mickey Rourke? He's exactly what Robert Louis Stevenson had in mind when he wrote Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde. That was a quite a trick he pulled by adding that half-inch of Neanderthal brow he got from doing gallons of HGH, plus the 100 pounds of freakish body mass he got from a decade of crazy use of injectable steroids (which BTW will have necessarily turned his testicles into lumps of near-flesh about the size, softness and utility of a pair of marbles). Sandra Bernhard's testicles have more life in them than Mickey Rourke's. And speaking of Sandra, I kinda like her because she just will not submit. You go, uh, girl.

Quote from: onan on October 04, 2013, 04:39:09 PMI wonder how many of us would make a cover of the national magazine, excluding if we blow something up.

Absolutely true. And I'll start applying the same admittedly harsh standard regarding comment about physical characteristics of celebrities to myself and regular folks just as soon as we hold ourselves out as celebrities and use our faces and bodies to become millionaires.

Yes, Ms. Sarah Jessica Parker-Broderick can be difficult to behold coming from the gym after practicing her anorexia. But in Hocus Pocus, she was somehow made quite fetching. Of course that was about 20 years ago.

Otherwise, there's always Rhea Perlman to crack the lens. And there was the late Charlotte Coleman ("Scarlett" in Four Weddings And A Funeral).

Quote from: FightTheFuture on October 04, 2013, 12:44:25 PMI have to confess; I had no idea Whitney taking an alien probe in the 6 hole is responsible for that phenomena entering our cultural lexicon.

That's quite a legacy. Way to take one for Hollywood, Whit. 

He is obsessed with discussing how the aliens sodomized him. And each time, with every telling, it gets more and more involved and detailed. He is truly obsessed. It's very creepy.

Statists and those fond of the exercise of central government power are fond of saying that "The Constitution isn't a suicide pact"; meaning that the "niceties" of our laws shouldn't prevent the state from protecting itself when threatened....just like any parasite will do when the host tries to rid itself of a pest which is draining ti of life. The concept is used to justify suspensions of constitutional rights and the like. It's a very dangerous mindset, in that it sets "the government" up as a separate, legitimate body, apart form the people which it was created to serve.

I'm thinking about this because of California. It's a state which has more natural resources than any but Alaska, and was the land of milk and honey until the last years when the progressives got a stranglehold on the levers of power and drove it into de facto bankruptcy and ruin. Taxation is out of control; industry and commerce is choked to death; the taxpayers are on the hook for public employee pensions which will pay the police, firemen, garbagemen, clerks, professors, etc as much as $300,000 a year and more. And the ste clearly can;t pay it. It's already in debt for almost $50 BILLION. And we know what comes next: having US bail them out. Meaning, they'll want US to pay their insane public pensions. California is Detroit writ large.   

And it seems to me that for the remaining states to save ourselves from being stuck with the huge tab which California's grossly incompetent and criminally irresponsible prog politicians have saddled their state with, we must kick California out of the union. It's a failed state, raped and ruined by the liberals who have had a chokehold on it for a generation or more. Ordinarily we'd say, "Hey, you chose it, you deal with it." But you know that won't be the case. As we speak California progs are trying to persuade the United States to help them out. Just a little bit - you know, something like $100-, $200-Billion. And the sweetener is the progs will first make sure California never again can possibly vote for anyone but the most viable socialist-style candidate. And they're doing it by opening up the state borders with Mexico, and telling anyone who will listen "Come to California, where we'll give you everything." Which is what the whole Immigration proposal is about anyway: a way to make the Democrats the sole party in power. And they're so vile they don't even have the decency to be a ashamed.

So let's protect ourselves, and get rid of California. It's nothing but a tumor now: cut it out.

Quote from: onan on October 04, 2013, 01:05:00 PM...My memory of LMH led me to believe the show would be torturous. I didn't find that. I don't think she was stellar but I liked her more than I expected too, lucky me.

That voice! That high nasal drone! ARRRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!

Quote from: bateman on October 04, 2013, 12:32:15 PMThis is pretty horrifying:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/03/fox-news-poll-voters-support-delaying-obamacare-but-oppose-defunding-it/

We have an oppressive government which is out of control and unresponsive to the will of the people. We have a President who is usurping powers which he clearly does not have under the Constitution, and he has essentially abandoned the duties of his office so that he might play partisan politics all the day long.

Why does this situation not call for a rebellion?

Quote from: SR-71 on September 28, 2013, 09:01:34 PMRomney should have won. I'm no fan of comrade obama. Obama is sending the us of a down the wrong tracks. He is turning the us of a into uss of a. The country is getting deeper in debt because of comrade obama.

Quote from: SR-71 on October 02, 2013, 01:16:42 AMComrade obama sucks because there is no budget. Wtf obama.

Quote from: SR-71 on October 02, 2013, 01:25:03 AMComrade obama and congress both sucks because there is no budget. Because there is no budget many people will not be paid but obama and congress will be paid. That sucks. Obama and congress is fucking a lot of people and they are not using lube nor giving a reach around. That is making me MAD. Obama and congress PLEASE grow up and stop playing around with people lives.

You know, I purposely haven't gigged you. Not because I thought you weren't gig-worthy: you were. But it would have felt like clubbing baby seals. It seemed like there was something developmentally wrong with you; like you weren't quite right. But now I see you're just a regular, garden-variety jackass who likes what he thinks is the attention he gets from posting inane and meaningless topics.

This has gotta stop.

This is classic trollage. When a guy joins for the express purpose of posting a jackass topic like "Paul McCartney Is Dead", it's nothing but a meme-initiation attempt.

What an asshole. 

Quote from: Eddie Coyle on October 04, 2013, 09:41:54 AMThe Tourettian-like insistence of "no links to terrorism" by authorities almost instantaneously when something that could possibly be terrorism occurs. If the Nairobi mall siege happened in Denver or Atlanta...they'd still be debating whether it was terrorism.

"Terrorism"? EC, the Ministry of Propaganda - that's what used to be known as our media -  wouldn't even have agreed to recognize it as having occurred.

“We’ve been told to make life as difficult for people as we can. It’s disgusting.” said an angry Parks Service ranger. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/3/pruden-the-cheap-tricks-of-the-game/

Such a vile, petty, tiny man.

Quote from: aldousburbank on October 03, 2013, 03:26:16 PM
P*B, much of this reads like Independence Hall, Philly, 1776.

I'm just waiting to be told I'm going to have to house troops, and then it's shooting time.

Seriously, anyone in America who isn't already committed to The Great Tit sees through the grotesquely cynical twists of truth Obama has engineered in his selective shutdowns. He is as great a demagogue as America has ever produced, and by far the worst ever in the White House. It would be nothing to him to see this country in flames.

Quote from: SR-71 on October 03, 2013, 02:16:44 PM
I work for the dept. Of defense

Oh crap.

Quote from: Quick Karl on October 03, 2013, 12:00:00 AM
That isn't how they roll. You have to cancel the card and wait for a new one to be issued, and not even that will guarantee you wont still be charged (banks never lose, everyone else does). Then there is the updating of every other account / service you are paying for with the same card.

Sirius cancelled the account - it's a moot point.

I've never been presented with that as the process. All it took was for me to tell MC "these charges are not authorized". End of story.

Quote from: Test4echo on October 03, 2013, 05:16:10 AM
Just create a free e-mail account on yahoo or whatever and go with the free trial.(Again)
I'm on my 3rd free trial cause here in Canada its only 14 days.
I plan on subbing after this trial is over, Art is better than ever as far as I'm concerned and he's worth the money.
But...I could have the free trials for as long as the free trials last.

So cheer up and stop whining. Go get a free trial using a new e-mail.

I'm doing it now. After a computer crash the Sirius site wouldn't let me back on the site under my original trial info, so I just started another trial (just 4 days later) using a different email on the same computer.

(But on an unrelated issue I have to say I've been using the trial less and less. Last night I tuned in an hour into the show, and left 5 minutes later. I've been underwhelmed by the guests.)

Well, it's all about your priorities: more personnel was sent to prevent 90-year-olds from being able to visit their own WWII memorial than were sent to rescue an American ambassador and three other Americans under deadly attack by a mob in Benghazi. http://washingtonexaminer.com/shutdown-overreach-more-personnel-sent-to-wwii-memorial-than-benghazi-park-service-closes-park-it-doesnt-run/article/2536710

The cynicism and inherent dishonesty and corruption of this administration beggars belief.

It's clear Sirius uses low-rent fraudster tactics about cancelling. But what's the problem with simply notifying your credit card that any future charges are not authorized?

Quote from: bateman on October 01, 2013, 04:41:46 PMI am a terrible person, but this image has always made me laugh.

I was reminded of the arrogance and mob thuggery that Critical Mass has sunk to in recent years, and then I saw this pic, and I too involuntarily laughed. Which brings up a profound theological question. If my brain has been preset, does laughing at this mean I'm going to hell? You know: if someone gets my mind ready by posting about how CM has been acting more like arrogant jerks than some sort of special interest group in the last several years, isn't it like setting up a line of claymores around this pic? And as soon as the next stimulus trips that wire - BLOOEY! - there goes the laugh on the hellbound train. 

So, if we hit the mental claymores, are we damned? Or just insensitive to sustainable blahblah? And breeders? 

Quote from: WildCard on October 01, 2013, 07:18:59 PM
"The gods of the Hindus are the structures of personality purified into their essential meaning. Hinduism is the path of soul-knowledge, for knowledge of the gods is knowledge of the soul. The great systems of soul-knowledge were the Egyptian religion and Hinduism. No amount of scientific knowledge of the 'unconscious' will provide as much food for the energetic body as true relationship with the Hindu gods."

"Why do our religions have victims?"
"Because they demand belief, and belief is always a lie, for the essence of reality is not fact but question."
-The Key
Whitley Strieber

I'm sorry, but relying on Whitley Strieber for anything more than the immediate state of the weather, much less as an avatar of the value of spiritual truth, is just an uphill climb.

Quote from: bateman on September 30, 2013, 09:21:26 PMThese animals ride in packs from way uptown down into civilization on their dirt bikes and ATVs. Seriously, ATVs. Well this past weekend, the animals attacked. Put them down.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/09/30/watch-disturbing-video-shows-confrontation-between-bikers-suv-in-nyc/

It was a like a 1970's Movie Of The Week. As was foreseen by anyone who viewed the vid, trouble for the SUV family came later they SUV got off the expressway, where they were stopped by traffic at a red light, where the bikers smashed the driver's window and tried to do the same to the backseat window (where the couple's baby was strapped in). This was all that the co-conspirator cameraman decided he should record (or upload), because after the vid ends, the driver got badly cut up by the animals.

My question: where the hell were the police? I'm assuming there were three communication devices in that SUV, and that police had been contacted. So remember, when trouble strikes, the police are only 20 minutes away...if they come at all. My schadenfreude bone hopes the SUV family are devout liberals who fear guns. But regardless of whether a driver caught in similar circumstances has contributed to his/her predicament by voting for those who have contempt for the 2d Amendment, the move to take is to stay moving until the attention of police a police vehicle can be attracted. And the way to stay moving is to keep on an expressway.

Quote from: ksm32 on September 30, 2013, 09:48:27 PMIn 2002 my wife and I did a make-over on my daughters bedroom....

Quote from: steelbot on October 01, 2013, 01:19:14 AMOK - so here goes....

Art,
Roswells, and long life!,

I have two separate stories, and both are NOT first hand experience by me, but rather stories told by my mother, grandmother, and aunt, and the other story involves the same entity possibly, and mother and my uncle....

Fantastic stories. To me, stories from personal experience are the most valuable evidence we have of  the fact "there's something more out there". Thanks.

Quote from: FightTheFuture on October 01, 2013, 08:38:33 AM
I have one of the most bizarre stories you`ll ever hear. only, I wasn`t present when it took place. Happened to my older brother and my mother, prior to my birth.

I sent it to Art every year he did "ghost-to-ghost" but he never did shit with it. It is absolutely 100% true and mind-blowingly weird.

?

Quote from: bateman on September 30, 2013, 08:33:06 PM...Here are some keywords for you NSA schmucks to keep things interesting, though......

Damn if you didn't get "jihad" and three versions of "bomb". Well done. If every communication device you have hasn't been tapped into for at least 6 hours I'll be surprised.

Quote from: sleeplessinca on September 30, 2013, 08:33:22 AM
Dumb autocorrect.  HARbinger=BADfinger

Autocorrect is responsible for many more mistakes than ever would have been made without it.

Quote from: UFO Fill on September 30, 2013, 08:41:24 AMMaybe LMH will share her feelings of the night George fired her on the air. Yes, it was an April 1 show, but still.

That was the night I decided George had a cruel streak in him.

Quote from: eddie dean on September 29, 2013, 09:01:23 PMThanks!
It is going on my mp3 player tonight!

Lyrics for Baby Blue by Badfinger:

Guess I got what I deserve
Kept you waiting there, too long my love
All that time, without a word
Didn't know you'd think, that I'd forget, or I'd regret

The special love I have for you
My baby blue

All the days became so long
Did you really think I'd do you wrong
Dixie, when I let you go
Thought you'd realize, I would know, I would show

The special love I have for you
My baby blue

What can I do, what can I say?
Except that I want you by my side
How can I show you? Show me a way
Don't you know, the times I tried

Guess that's all I have to say
Except the feeling just gets stronger everyday
Just one thing, before I go
Take good care, baby let me know, let it show

The special love you have for me
My Dixie dear

I was around when this song was released, and even as a kid who didn't even have his license yet, every time I heard it even back then I felt this tremendous nostalgic heartache. Now, when a grass-green kid of 15 or so feels those waves of bittersweet emotion about loss and choices and roads not taken, I'd say the songwriter hit his target. Today, when I'm old enough to have actually experienced several different varieties of loss, I still get that butterflies-in-the-stomach feeling every time I hear this song. What talents. And what a shame that there were two suicides in this band. A fact doubtless not lost on Vince when choosing the music.

Quote from: aldousburbank on September 29, 2013, 09:48:15 PMWas thinking about Batty Brooke's post-
My basic lifestyle and history of intentional query has left me with many a "supernatural" experience in that they score high above the bell curve for what we need to function in the everyday. I let them go AS stories save those that are instructional, inspiring. Sometimes these make for good sharing in the proper set and setting.

There are exceptions. One in particular forever displaced my cherished belief in concensus reality, and came equipped with sheer terror. Not tripping guys, and witnessed by others and all that. But the negative feeling and implications are well beyond the art of good storytelling. It was instructive to me on a personal level, especially in terms of handling one's shit in the face of something indescribeably creepy and potentially not survivable.

My point here is that I can relate to self editing in some matters such as these because it's just not very cool.

Okay, and now you have fired my curiosity up. I think the consensus is, Batty and aldous absolutely must share. Guys, we have all night.

Which brings up the Art Bell Ouija Board incident. I'm having trouble understanding how he could so readily speak of the fact of having had a negative experience, but his absolute refusal to discuss it more than that. Why bring it up if the incident is so horrible that it does not bear repeating? Of course it sets tongues wagging, and make a great part of the legend of Art. Surely I'm missing something about this, because I would think that had I had such an experience, I wouldn't even breathe a word of it. Thoughts?