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ICIP … 107

30 Aug 2011  |  monkeyball  |The Grill
  1. … cowbell for Jacob Funk Kirkegaard (ht: MY)
  2. … the race card for The Liquor Agency Racket
  3. … wooden fish for the Electric Buddhism Sutra Player
  4. … funbag for FLUNKY AND THE ASSCHUGGERS
  5. … doctor for the Pan American Sanitary Bureau

107 thoughts on “ICIP …”

  1. nevermoor Aug 30,2011 11:44 am

    Another day, another pasted email:

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    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • Leopold Bloom Aug 30,2011 2:35 pm || Up

      Huh, Chris van Dyne has moved up in the world.

  2. nevermoor Aug 30,2011 11:47 am
    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • monkeyball Aug 30,2011 11:52 am || Up

      13-year-olds, Dude

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • suspicious coin Aug 30,2011 11:00 pm || Up

        Those are some huge 13-yos. Someone check their birth certificates!

    • elcroata Aug 30,2011 11:53 am || Up

      Which font is it in the headline?

      Because survival is insufficient
    • FreeSeatUpgrade Aug 30,2011 12:39 pm || Up

      Sal knows too much scary stuff for me to consider him benign.

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
      • suspicious coin Aug 30,2011 11:09 pm || Up

        Jeez, you work with the world’s biggest laser *once* and…

    • suspicious coin Aug 30,2011 11:07 pm || Up

      I’m a lot further down on the list.

      Keep going…

      Further down…

      Almost there…

      Too far.

  3. spwc2010 Aug 30,2011 11:50 am

    At first, I thought the headline read “ICP”

    One of my unfulfilled dreams is to play live at the Gathering Of The Juggalos…

    \"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
    • monkeyball Aug 30,2011 11:51 am || Up

      You might be better off playing dead at tGotJ …

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • ptbnl Aug 30,2011 12:19 pm || Up

      You and Tila Tequila both.

      If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
      • spwc2010 Aug 30,2011 12:41 pm || Up

        Shit, they’d LIKE me there. She went there to get hated on and she knew it and everybody else did too.

        \"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
        • ptbnl Aug 30,2011 12:46 pm || Up

          I was just riffing on her dream of playing there being unfulfilled too.

          If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
    • suspicious coin Aug 30,2011 11:10 pm || Up

      I read ICP, too, but I thought of Inductively Coupled Plasmas.

      • andeux Aug 30,2011 11:13 pm || Up

        Iterated closest point

        TINSTAAFK
        • monkeyball Aug 31,2011 7:45 am || Up

          Fucking mathematics, how do they work?

          you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
          • spwc2010 Aug 31,2011 8:45 am || Up

            heh

            \"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
  4. spwc2010 Aug 30,2011 11:52 am

    #2- George Wallace sure pandered to the elderly voter… I wonder if he was secretly into GMILFS…

    \"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
  5. andeux Aug 30,2011 12:01 pm

    salb10
    I’m skeptical of nuclear power as a solution for global warming – it has the same major problem as renewable energy does, of being too expensive relative to fossil fuels. Obviously carbon pricing would correct for that somehow, but it’s not clear if that would be enough. And in light of recent events weakening safety standards in order to make nuclear cheaper would probably be a bad idea.
    All that being said, by the same token, I don’t see how it makes a bit of sense to close already built and still functioning nuclear plants while building new gas- and coal-powered generators.

    TINSTAAFK
    • nevermoor Aug 30,2011 12:11 pm || Up

      Yeah. Is there research out there on the relative merits of closing an existing dirty plant to build a clean one? I suspect that the environmental cost of the shift outweighs the benefits and we should really just be talking about building better new plants, but I in fact have no idea.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • suspicious coin Aug 30,2011 11:11 pm || Up

      My German colleague assures me that it is proof that The German People Are As Dumb As You Americans.

      Nuclear is going to be part of the portfolio of our energy future, I have no doubt about that.

  6. monkeyball Aug 30,2011 12:11 pm

    I think Yglesias is really, really off the mark here. 9/11 happens under a (D) POTUS, there’s no way he doesn’t get impeached — and possibly (under MY’s likely scenario of Jeffords not switching parties) kicked out by the Senate. And if Gore didn’t invade Iraq (debatable counterfactual), Pres Lieberman sure as shit would have.

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • andeux Aug 30,2011 12:31 pm || Up

      Impeached and kicked out for what exactly? Swept out in a 2004 landslide, sure.

      TINSTAAFK
    • nevermoor Aug 30,2011 12:34 pm || Up

      I disagree. FDR, for example. Hell, people rallied around LBJ.

      And of course neither Gore nor Lieberman would have invaded Iraq. Neither of them had daddy issues. It wouldn’t even have occurred to anyone.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • ptbnl Aug 30,2011 12:36 pm || Up

        While he may have been happy to go along with the plan (daddy issues or not), I don’t think that the impetus to invade Iraq came from Shrub.

        If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
        • nevermoor Aug 30,2011 1:39 pm || Up

          I strongly believe it came both from him and from the fact that many of his advisers were part of the first Iraq war. Hell, the New Yorker wrote an article about why Bush would invade Iraq after he won the election.

          Anyway, it doesn’t matter whether it was Bush or his advisors, as none of ’em would have been working for Gore.

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • monkeyball Aug 30,2011 12:43 pm || Up

        LMG “Lieberman + PNAC” 4U

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
        • nevermoor Aug 30,2011 1:37 pm || Up

          Iraq was not militantly Muslim. It was a secular dictatorship.

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • monkeyball Aug 30,2011 12:48 pm || Up

        Also, vastly different GOP (and vastly different Dems, too).

        Data points I’m using are Clinton impeachment/ODS + “Tea Party”/rightward drift of white partisan core + IOKIYAR + post-Gingrich/Rove rules-of-decorum-out-the-window + media-stereotype GOP=strong/Dems=weak.

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
        • nevermoor Aug 30,2011 1:40 pm || Up

          Clinton came out of OKC just fine. I think you’re confusing social issues with attacks-on-america.

          As to ODS, Gore is white.

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
          • Future Ed Aug 30,2011 3:50 pm || Up

            Do you really think OKC would have played out the same way if some a rab was the culprit?

            I have $5. No I don\'t.
            • nevermoor Aug 30,2011 5:08 pm || Up

              In the sense that Americans would play rally-round-the-flag? Yes.

              I’m not at all denying Gore would have invaded Afghanistan. But Iraq was a desire-looking-for-an-excuse that Bush had and Gore didn’t.

              "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  7. nevermoor Aug 30,2011 12:16 pm

    Hit Tracker is fun. (nice work DM)

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  8. monkeyball Aug 30,2011 1:02 pm

    Love me some Clark Kerr.

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • ptbnl Aug 30,2011 1:17 pm || Up

      I’ve failed dismally on all 3 counts.

      If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
    • nevermoor Aug 30,2011 1:40 pm || Up

      Harvard: 0-3.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • andeux Aug 30,2011 1:50 pm || Up

        Yale must be very proud of their parking championship.

        TINSTAAFK
        • nevermoor Aug 30,2011 2:14 pm || Up

          Psh.

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • JediLeroy Aug 30,2011 3:32 pm || Up

      To provide sex spouses for the straight students, sports for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.” Clark Kerr.

      Fixed for BYU.

      az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
      • JediLeroy Aug 30,2011 3:33 pm || Up

        Though, in retrospect, I guess it’s not that different.

        az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
        • nevermoor Aug 30,2011 5:09 pm || Up

          It is if you get caught!

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
          • andeux Aug 30,2011 5:13 pm || Up
            TINSTAAFK
            • JediLeroy Sep 1,2011 8:04 am || Up

              That’s one of the blindest, worst articles I’ve ever read.

              az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
              • andeux Sep 1,2011 9:03 am || Up

                I guess blind is in the (hands-covered) eyes of the beholder.

                TINSTAAFK
                • JediLeroy Sep 1,2011 10:28 am || Up

                  The thrust of the article is that white church members are just as likely to break the honor code as minority non-members, but without repercussions. The article gives no real evidence of deviant church member behavior other than hearsay for a couple incidents. As someone who spent years at BYU, I know first hand about the culture on campus. While not everybody fully abides by the honor code, most member students take it seriously, and the honor code office is strict about enforcing it–without respect for race.

                  The vast majority of athletes at BYU are returned missionaries, and a great many of them are married. It’s not hard to imagine that someone who didn’t grow up with LDS ideas about the morality of premarital sex would struggle more to keep the honor code than people who did.

                  I would fully expect more black non members to have problems with the honor code than Mormons who served missions. Even though the article suggests that returned missionaries are just as likely to break the honor code (but get away with it), everything I’ve ever seen living out here suggests otherwise.

                  az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
                • nevermoor Sep 1,2011 11:15 am || Up

                  I guess my question is whether the “repent to your minister” alternative they suggest sounds at all plausible to you.

                  "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
                • JediLeroy Sep 1,2011 1:07 pm || Up

                  Each semester, you need to get an ecclesiastical endorsement signed by your church’s leaders, whether you’re Mormon or not. Most Mormon bishops would not be inclined to sign an endorsement knowing that honor code violations were going on. Part of the “repentance process” typically includes some sort of probation, regardless of who you are.

                  I fully accept that some cops in the area might be racist, looking for stuff to bust minorities on. People of color certainly do live under a microscope in Happy Valley. But the problem is more likely with the people in Utah County, and not some sort of systematic racism in the university.

                  az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
                • monkeyball Sep 1,2011 1:35 pm || Up

                  Part of the “repentance process” typically includes some sort of probation, regardless of who you are.

                  /napoleon

                  you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
                • DFA Sep 1,2011 6:00 pm || Up

                  and begging.

                  In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
                • nevermoor Sep 1,2011 1:58 pm || Up

                  Thanks.

                  "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
                • andeux Sep 1,2011 11:16 am || Up

                  I don’t think the article ever claims that everyone breaks the honor code at the same rate. And insofar as it even hints at that, yes, that would be a stretch.

                  The actual claim is that when violations do occur, enforcement is stricter for blacks and non-Mormons than for LDS members. And between the anecdotal evidence and the statistics, it makes a pretty convincing case, at least from my point of view.

                  The other claim is that the strict honor code and the religious aspect of the school in general is de-emphasized when recruiting non-Mormon athletes, and in so doing sets a lot of people up to fail. And that one seems even harder to deny. It’s the same kind of thing that happens elsewhere in the cesspool of big-time college sports, but seems especially hypocritical from an institution that makes so much noise about putting its values first.
                  The rationalization (and again, non-religious schools do the same sort of thing), I guess, would be that they’re giving people a great opportunity by exposing them to their educational and religious institution; many of those people benefit greatly from this exposure, and for the ones who don’t it is their own personal failing. But that kind of reasoning seems like a giant load of BS to me.

                  TINSTAAFK
                • nevermoor Sep 1,2011 11:28 am || Up

                  I will admit that I found the accept-player-with-child then kick him out for having a child one, if true, is not at all kosher

                  "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
                • JediLeroy Sep 1,2011 1:12 pm || Up

                  Yeah, that sounds pretty bad. However, we don’t know all the details.

                  For example: guy has pregnant girlfriend, gets into BYU with the mutual understanding that the past is the past, and he either needs to get married or stop shacking up. Guy keep shacking up, gets in trouble, and says that BYU knew about his pregnant girlfriend when they let him in.

                  People with honor code violations are not always going to be happy with BYU. Brandon Davies could have transferred elsewhere, but he decided to stay and go through the “repentance process”. He was just reinstated. It’s not about burning witches at the stake within the church (that includes BYU)–it’s about helping people change.

                  az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
                • elcroata Sep 1,2011 1:30 pm || Up

                  it’s about helping people change.

                  Because survival is insufficient
                • suspicious coin Sep 1,2011 9:37 pm || Up

                  All your bragging about the rifle in the other thread? In the dark, having slept under 5 hours in the previous 48, one-handed diaper changes are my *bitch*.

                • Leopold Bloom Sep 2,2011 3:42 am || Up

                  your’s simultaneously impresses me less and scares me more.

                • monkeyball Sep 2,2011 7:26 am || Up

                  I don’t always change diapers. But when I do …

                  you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
                • JediLeroy Sep 1,2011 1:01 pm || Up

                  I think that this article, written in 2004, is a lot more fair regarding racism in Utah County. Marcus Whalen was my next door neighbor when I first got married.

                  I don’t buy the bait-and-switch line. When you enroll in BYU, you know what you’re signing up for. It’s entirely possible that recruiters don’t focus on the honor code when recruiting, but it seems like it’s pretty common knowledge what BYU expects from its students. I will say that BYU is no place for a person who doesn’t think they can live without premarital sex during college.

                  az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
                • MikeV Sep 1,2011 1:34 pm || Up

                  Well, I’m out then.

                  And I have to say: mikev is one of my favorite people on here -slusser.

                  Thanks, and go As.

                • JediLeroy Sep 1,2011 1:36 pm || Up

                  Yeah, pretty sure there was a no MikeV clause in there somewhere.

                  az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
                • DFA Sep 1,2011 6:05 pm || Up

                  Common knowledge of someone from Texas who isn’t Mormon and is recruited where people are saying it isn’t a big deal and someone who is LDS and knows a lot about BYU is way way different.

                  In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
                • FreeSeatUpgrade Sep 1,2011 6:34 pm || Up

                  Man, was that a hard sentence to read!

                  "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
                • DFA Sep 1,2011 6:46 pm || Up

                  There is guided tour for sale on groupon this week.

                  In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
                • MikeV Sep 1,2011 8:49 pm || Up

                  Of your sentences?

                  And I have to say: mikev is one of my favorite people on here -slusser.

                  Thanks, and go As.

                • DFA Sep 1,2011 10:10 pm || Up

                  yes

                  In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
                • spwc2010 Sep 1,2011 10:56 pm || Up

                  Are you the new Casey Stengel?

                  Actually, the thing with Casey is that he often painted large pictures with his rambling stories, and then would pull the string at the end of the story and tie all the asides and references together and it would all make sense.

                  \"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
                • dmoas Sep 1,2011 11:47 pm || Up

                  Hmm… more like the Eric Byrnes of writing. Completely out of control, balls to the walls, in the most bizarre path possible, but man, when he finally actually reaches his destination sometimes it can be pretty spectacular.

                • monkeyball Sep 2,2011 7:27 am || Up

                  asvd, dmoas

                  you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
                • DFA Sep 2,2011 8:47 pm || Up

                  Well played dmoas

                  In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
                • monkeyball Sep 2,2011 7:29 am || Up

                  And only a numbskull thinks he knows things about things he knows nothing about!

                  you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
                • Leopold Bloom Sep 2,2011 4:31 pm || Up

                  would you stake your Pulitzer on it?

                • dmoas Sep 2,2011 4:48 pm || Up

                  Shit. Does that mean I should stop thinking?

      • ptbnl Aug 30,2011 3:44 pm || Up

        Fixed with qualifier.

        If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
      • monkeyball Aug 30,2011 3:46 pm || Up

        Since you have yet to respond to my Huntsman baiting, I’m tempted to edit “the students” to “each student.”

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • suspicious coin Aug 30,2011 11:19 pm || Up

      Cal: 1-3, unless one wins a Nobel prize.

  9. nevermoor Aug 30,2011 1:44 pm

    Barry Bonds is looking for a skilled Wikieditor.

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  10. FreeSeatUpgrade Aug 30,2011 1:54 pm

    From the Slussnotes:

    Most of the A’s slept in Sunday after arriving at the team hotel at 3 a.m. (average time reported for waking up: 2 p.m.), and a large contingent of players took part in a fantasy football draft.

    Pitchers Gio Gonzalez and Guillermo Moscoso went to a local amusement park.

    “We rode the roller coasters. It was so much fun!” Gonzalez said. “We went to the buffet and it had the absolute most food – we had fried chicken, pizza, burgers, sugar doughnuts. I can’t go to an amusement park without getting mini doughnuts.”

    I sure do love Gio.

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • monkeyball Aug 30,2011 1:54 pm || Up

      Cedar Point is awesome.

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • Leopold Bloom Aug 31,2011 3:58 pm || Up

        It was the amusement park of choice when I was a kid. We went there A LOT.

  11. nevermoor Aug 30,2011 2:15 pm
    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  12. nevermoor Aug 30,2011 2:22 pm

    My 9/18 tickets just came. 126/14/5-8.

    Any of you FKers going to be/FSU close by?

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  13. batgirl Aug 30,2011 2:26 pm

    I just had to post this photo. My friend took his bulldog, Chuckles, to the Giants dog day. Though my friend is a Dodgers fan, Chuckles does look pretty cute in his beard.
    fear the Chuckles!

    • FreeSeatUpgrade Aug 30,2011 4:02 pm || Up

      I was wondering what happened to the middle section of Romo’s beard…now I know that Chuckles ripped it from Romo’s face. Good dog!

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
  14. monkeyball Aug 30,2011 2:33 pm
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • FreeSeatUpgrade Aug 30,2011 4:04 pm || Up

      Notice some fresh, oozing papules on the epidermis? You’ve got Phillies Fever, my friend.

      The meteoric rise to the top of the dermatology profession which my Penn U. uncle experienced around that time suddenly makes a great deal of sense.

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
      • monkeyball Aug 30,2011 4:17 pm || Up

        Facial Shine Upgrade

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  15. nevermoor Aug 30,2011 5:32 pm
    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • FreeSeatUpgrade Aug 30,2011 6:29 pm || Up

      I grant that it’s very early, like two days into a four month grind, but so far my experience of being forced to seek and consume 49ers-related media has been horrifying.

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
      • nevermoor Aug 30,2011 7:08 pm || Up

        Know thy enemy

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  16. FreeSeatUpgrade Aug 30,2011 7:21 pm

    The SF Giants front office may need to improve its quality control.

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • Soaker Aug 30,2011 8:01 pm || Up

      From the blog entry linked at the bottom of that piece:

      According to the affidavit, the Giants were able to trace those two payments as coming from player accounts. The $200,348.89 was “redirected from a Giants’ employee’s direct deposit payment to O’Connor’s Wells Fargo account on or about May 13, 2011.” The $100,090.71 was “a purported tax adjustment to a second Giants’ employee’s salary that was redirected on or about May 13, 2011 to O’Connor’s Wells Fargo account.”

      I realize $200K isn’t much to some of these guys but still, you’d think whoever is managing that player’s money would have noticed the missing $200K back in May if they’d been doing their job. But apparently that went unnoticed; it’s the follow-up inquiry from B of A to the Giants on this woman’s mortgage app, which doesn’t happen until July, that finally tips them off.

      What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
      • FreeSeatUpgrade Aug 30,2011 9:52 pm || Up

        I know, and that’s just 300K of the alleged $1.5M she took; presumably the other 1.2M also came from player payroll funds. And she only got caught because she forged a preposterous letter to explain the income, making B of A compelled to verify it. Any internal controls the Giants have weren’t alerted at all.

        "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
  17. JediLeroy Aug 31,2011 8:10 am

    I find myself leaning towards illegal torrent downloading of video files, given that the overall bandwidth used is much less than Hulu or Netflix if you don’t seed afterwards.

    So, I’d rather be a jerk and a pirate than pay for excess bandwidth charges with my ISP.

    az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
    • JediLeroy Aug 31,2011 8:54 am || Up

      Someone, please–provide me another way. Save me from this criminal path.

      az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
      • monkeyball Aug 31,2011 9:29 am || Up

        Breaking Ba(n)dwidth

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • nevermoor Aug 31,2011 9:39 am || Up

        Does Utah have ISPs that don’t cap bandwidth? I know we have ’em here.

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
        • JediLeroy Aug 31,2011 10:30 am || Up

          Our place has fiberoptic internet, and there’s only one fiberoptic ISP in Provo, which has a 250GB cap. I could see us going through that occasionally when an hour of Netflix HD streaming clocks in at 2.3 GB. I won’t usually watch more than an hour/day, but my wife likes to stream shows through Hulu (plus the occasional torrent).

          We probably won’t go over very often, but I hate having to worry about caps at all.

          az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
          • monkeyball Aug 31,2011 10:36 am || Up

            TWJLS

            I hate having to worry about caps at all

            you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
          • nevermoor Aug 31,2011 10:41 am || Up

            YOU DON’T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT ‘EM IF YOU JUST EMBRACE AND USE ‘EM

            "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
          • elcroata Aug 31,2011 10:42 am || Up

            NEED MOAR FIBER!

            For my job security

            Because survival is insufficient
          • DFA Aug 31,2011 11:48 am || Up

            they screwed it up its cap AND Trade not just cap.

            In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
  18. andeux Aug 31,2011 9:22 am

    A-frickin-men:

    But the real lesson of In My Time is not that Cheney “got away with it,” though I suppose he did. It’s an admonishment to rest of us that the law really matters. The reason Cheney keeps saying that torture is “legal” is because he has a clutch of worthless legal memoranda saying so. Cheney gets away with saying torture is “legal” even though it isn’t because if it were truly illegal, he and those who devised the torture regime would have faced legal consequences—somewhere, somehow. That’s the meaning of the “rule of law.” That, rather than whether America should torture people, is what we should glean from the Cheney book.

    TINSTAAFK
    • monkeyball Aug 31,2011 10:00 am || Up

      She’s trying to counter Glennzilla with that>?

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  19. sslinger Aug 31,2011 10:01 am

    Amputation, boop.

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