5 – Chris PartlowAhem. The correct list looks like this:
4 – Herc
3 – Stringer Bell
2 – Bodie Braudus
1 – McNulty
Funny thing is, that’s exactly how he looked during his childbirth.
Twitter and Facebook have become cesspools of schadenfreude. I’d like to think that most people wouldn’t dare say to a friend, colleague, or relative the mean-spirited gloating hatefulness that has become common in the last few days...
Liberals need to pipe down. Ruthlessly delighting in Republican sadness will not help bring anyone together to make the most of Obama’s second term.No, Slate's Katherine Goldstein, you need to give me a fucking break. What kind of bubble do you live in? Do you have Republican friends? I doubt it, because if you did, you'd know that Obama being elected to a second term did not suddenly silence them and make them realize that maybe, just maybe, they need to rethink a few things. Nope. For the most part they've doubled down on the hate and bile. Donald Trump. Victoria Jackson. The Nuge. Calls for assassination. Racial epithets Heck, even normal people on my Facebook feed freaking the fuck out. Not to mention this nutcase.
Peggy Noonan, whose uniquely airy style of kindergarten-reading-level prose works upon the political chattering classes (but no one else) like a snake charmer's flute works on a cobra, wrote one of the most vapid, scoff-worthy, fact-free columns of the pre-election news cycle, in which she predicted that Mitt Romney would win because she'd been seeing a lot of his yard signs around, lately. Well, now comes the post-election follow-up: Peggy Noonan is resigning from her job as a WSJ columnist, in acknowledgement of the unavoidable fact that she is an embarrassment to her profession.
Ha, playing. Just playing.Starvation, pestilence, disease. These are all things which depress me. But none as much as the fact that Peggy Freaking Noonan probably brings in a seven-figure salary.
I initially selected Obama but Romney was highlighted. I assumed it was being picky so I deselected Romney and tried Obama again, this time more carefully, and still got Romney. Being a software developer, I immediately went into troubleshoot mode. I first thought the calibration was off and tried selecting Jill Stein to actually highlight Obama. Nope. Jill Stein was selected just fine. Next I deselected her and started at the top of Romney’s name and started tapping very closely together to find the ‘active areas’. From the top of Romney’s button down to the bottom of the black checkbox beside Obama’s name was all active for Romney. From the bottom of that same checkbox to the bottom of the Obama button (basically a small white sliver) is what let me choose Obama. Stein’s button was fine. All other buttons worked fine.
I asked the voters on either side of me if they had any problems and they reported they did not. I then called over a volunteer to have a look at it. She him hawed for a bit then calmly said “It’s nothing to worry about, everything will be OK.” and went back to what she was doing. I then recorded this video.Fucking conspiracy theory loons.
I wouldn’t take the Turner-coached Chargers over the Panthers practice quad on the first game of the season. But if he’s one loss away from getting canned, I’ll take the Turner-coached Chargers over the ’85 freakin’ Bears.
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Today's the first day of beef ribs and char-grilled patties, of chicken breast smothered in barbecue sauce and pulled pork Broham sandwiches.Not gonna argue that Phil's is the best BBQ ever, as it probably couldn't hold a candle to Carolina, Memphis, KC, or Texas 'que (I speculate, since I've never had any of the aforementioned), but it is easily the best in San Diego.
The average child will eat 3,500 to 7,000 calories worth of treats on Halloween night.
KING: What else, Governor Romney? You've been a chief executive of a state. I was just in Joplin, Missouri. I've been in Mississippi and Louisiana and Tennessee and other communities dealing with whether it's the tornadoes, the flooding, and worse. FEMA is about to run out of money, and there are some people who say do it on a case-by-case basis and some people who say, you know, maybe we're learning a lesson here that the states should take on more of this role. How do you deal with something like that?
ROMNEY: Absolutely. Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that's the right direction. And if you can go even further and send it back to the private sector, that's even better. Instead of thinking in the federal budget, what we should cut -- we should ask ourselves the opposite question. What should we keep? We should take all of what we're doing at the federal level and say, what are the things we're doing that we don't have to do? And those things we've got to stop doing, because we're borrowing $1.6 trillion more this year than we're taking in. We cannot...
KING: Including disaster relief, though?
ROMNEY: We cannot -- we cannot afford to do those things without jeopardizing the future for our kids. It is simply immoral, in my view, for us to continue to rack up larger and larger debts and pass them on to our kids, knowing full well that we'll all be dead and gone before it's paid off. It makes no sense at all.I think you might wanna make sure your kids actually survive a disaster and its aftermath before worrying about the debt you'll leave them.
By 1982, Stewart was married to actress Alana Hamilton, ex-wife of actor George Hamilton. They went on vacation in Hawaii, and Toon came along. The hotel was overbooked, so Toon and Alana's son Ashley, who was 7, shared a room. "Toon, of course, couldn't resist pulling some bloke in the bar that evening and taking him back to the room. I fired him in the morning. Toon's revenge was absolutely inspired. He fed the press a story in which, as a consequence of an evening spent orally servicing a gang of sailors in a gay bar in San Diego, I had been required to check into a hospital emergency room to have my stomach pumped...I have never orally pleasured even a solitary sailor, let alone a ship's worth in one evening. And I have never had my stomach pumped, either of naval-issue semen or of any other kind of semen. With minor variations...this story has stayed with me ever since. Say what you like about Tony Toon-and God rest his soul-but he was good at his job."
A man followed another man into a Queens deli Sunday evening and stabbed him multiple times in the buttocks, said police.Oh, and for the squares who don't get the reference, here:
Closeted gay man terrified his wife will discover his secret: youtu.be/Oye4rhUa2Fk
— BarryDeutsch (@barrydeutsch) September 6, 2012
The best way I can describe his narrative technique is to explain the movie's most hilarious scene. It's early on, and D'Souza is recounting, via voiceover, a debate he once had on Stanford's campus with Jesse Jackson. (D'Souza has a thing with Jesse Jackson; he shows up, like, seven times in the movie. Is it still 1988?) He talks about how Jackson claimed, in their debate, that racism was less overt than it used to be but still existed, bubbling under the surface.
While D'Souza's telling this story, the movie shows us a black guy walking into a bar full of white people. He sits down at the bar between two white guys and, just as D'Souza's relaying Jackson's message that race is a larger part of society than we want to admit, the two white guys flat get up and walk away from him, right out of the room. Everyone in the bar then looks at the black guy, accusingly, menacingly.
Oh shit, right? But then D'Souza hits the moral of the story. He tells us, still via voiceover, that what he told Jackson back then was that in his experience, racism had been mostly eradicated. While he's saying this, while the words are coming out of his mouth, the two white guys come back to the bar and ... give the black guy a birthday cake. It was his birthday all along! Everyone in the bar then gives him a standing ovation. It turns out this bar wasn't full of crackers who instantly sprint out of the room when you sit down, black guy. It was just your birthday! Surprise! White people love you!
You want off-the-charts status? Check out the curriculum vitae of one Willard M. Romney: $200 million in the bank (and a hell of a lot more if he didn’t give so much away), apex alpha executive, CEO, chairman of the board, governor, bishop, boss of everything he’s ever touched. Son of the same, father of more. It is a curious scientific fact (explained in evolutionary biology by the Trivers-Willard hypothesis — Willard, notice) that high-status animals tend to have more male offspring than female offspring, which holds true across many species, from red deer to mink to Homo sap. The offspring of rich families are statistically biased in favor of sons — the children of the general population are 51 percent male and 49 percent female, but the children of the Forbes billionaire list are 60 percent male. Have a gander at that Romney family picture: five sons, zero daughters. Romney has 18 grandchildren, and they exceed a 2:1 ratio of grandsons to granddaughters (13:5). When they go to church at their summer-vacation home, the Romney clan makes up a third of the congregation. He is basically a tribal chieftain.
Professor Obama? Two daughters. May as well give the guy a cardigan. And fallopian tubes.And if there's anyone I'm going to listen to on the subject of macho-macho-manliness, it's Kevin Williamson.
Everybody Agrees That Usain Bolt Is 1 Billion Times The Star That Michael Phelps Is Right?:
So I tweeted this out last night….
“Usain Bolt is 1 billion times the star Michael Phelps is. Fact”
I honestly didn’t even think it was that big of a statement. It would kind of be like me tweeting that “It will get dark tonight. Fact”. Like I honestly didn’t think anybody would debate it. But apparently there are some knuckleheads out there who think Phelps is a bigger star because he has like 38 medals or something. Umm how many times do I have to go over this? He competes in a dumb ass sport where you can win 9,000 medals essentially doing the same thing. Yes he’s the best swimmer on the planet. Not the fastest, but the overall best. Meanwhile Usain Bolt is the fastest motherfucker on the planet. I don’t care what country you live in, what sport you play, that matters. If you go ask other pro athletes who they’d want to meet the answer is going to be Usain Bolt 100% of the time. The reason is because speed is universal. Everybody can appreciate it, understand it and be in awe of it. The 100 meter dash is the signature event of the Olympics. Both summer and winter. The only other title that may be more prestigious than being World’s Fastest Man is being Heavyweight Champion of the World. That’s it. And right now Usain Bolt is dominating the title. He’s like Tyson in his prime. Not just winning, but winning for fun. A star of stars. It’s nothing against Michael Phelps. He’s the greatest swimmer who has ever lived, but that pales in comparison to being the fast human who has ever lived. And if you don’t agree with that than you my friend are a certified idiot.I'll add this: As to this Michael Phelps as the "Greatest Olympian Ever" BS, um, no. I'd put Usain Bolt ahead of Phelps, but that would still be wrong.
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