August 22, 2012

The DUzy Awards for Friday, August 3rd, 2012

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[center][font size=7]WELCOME to the DUZY AWARDS![/font][/center]

Welcome, insomiacs, to a very special episode of The DUzy Awards, starring Will Farrell as Dr. Cliff Huxtable, Dave Barry as Engineer Brett, Lewis Black as Sgt. Phil Fish, and Ron White as Lt. Tawny Madison. Special guest Marc Maron stars as Punky Brewster.



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If text is in [font color=#FF0000]red italicized text[/font] that’s a comment from me.

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[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by raccoon
[font size=+1] How do you get a bad odor out of car?[/font]
BIL left raw chicken parts in truck over weekend….and the windows were rolled up, and 100 plus weather...

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Capt. Obvious [/font]
[font size=+1] 1. Drive it into a pond [/font]
Make sure the bodies are still in the trunk


[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Make sure the bodies are still in the trunk [/font]
[font size=+1] 5. Ask it to get out and see if you got a flat and then take off real quick [/font]
Well that was how I got my brother-in-law out.
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] SidDithers [/font]
[font size=+1] 6. The Beast!!... [/font]
/Seinfeld

Sid
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] 2pooped2pop [/font]
[font size=+1] 8. Throw Mitt out of it [/font]
should take care of it. Oh nm. I see it was chicken parts, not chicken hawks.


that being said, try vinegar
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Scootaloo [/font]
[font size=+1] 10. Oh, that's easy. [/font]
Take a toothbrush, a box of baking soda, a pan of water, and a bright red speedo.

Drive your brother in law to a busy mall marking lot, hand him these items and say "put this on and start scrubbing my car, or you walk home."

Be sure to post the video on youtube.

"left raw chicken parts in the truck over the weekend," I mean what the hell, man...
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] HughBeaumont [/font]
[font size=+1] 20. Wake up Eric Cantor and say "Your cab's here, stupid!" [/font]
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] JohnnyRingo [/font]
[font size=+1] 34. Divorce [/font]
Oops... I just read the rest of your post, and I see it's a food smell.
My solution may not apply to your situation.

GD, 30 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021045050


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]Original post by [font color=#800080] EarlG [/font]
[font size=+1] Pic Of The Moment: You're Next, Poland![/font]


[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] deutsey [/font]
[font size=+1] 6. Mittzkrieg n/t [/font]

Video & Multimedia, 30 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101745004


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]Original post by [font color=#800080] kpete [/font]
[font size=+1] OMG! - Mitt Romney’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad[/font]


http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/07/31/614111/mitt-romneys-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-trip-to-europe/

GD, 31 July 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021051026


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by Newsjock
[font size=+1] UC Davis confirms officer at center of pepper spraying controversy no longer on the force[/font]
Source: Sacramento Bee

Lt. John Pike, the UC Davis police officer who became a focal point of last November's pepper spraying incident during a campus protest, is no longer employed by the university, a spokesman confirmed late Tuesday.

UC Davis spokesman Barry Shiller said he could not discuss the details of Pike's departure, but in response to queries from The Bee, he said Pike was no longer employed there as of Tuesday.

"Consistent with privacy guidelines established in state law and university policy, I can confirm that John Pike's employment with the university ended on July 31, 2012," Shiller said. "I'm unable to comment further."

Pike, 39, declined to comment when reached by The Bee, saying he wanted to consult with his attorney first.

Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/07/31/4679466/uc-davis-confirms-officer-at-center.html

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] jberryhill [/font]
[font size=+1] 5. Collage cops aren't as bad as the macrame' cops [/font]
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] KurtNYC [/font]
[font size=+1] 21. ...he is now working in a restaurant [/font]
grinding pepper for customers with salads or pasta dishes. Actually anything. No matter what they order he just comes over and grinds pepper and the customer is like "I don't want any pepper!" and he says "Yes you do. Stop resisting! Stop resisting!"

LBN, 31 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014182303


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]Original post by [font color=#800080] Starry Messenger [/font]
[font size=+1] "Jobsy the Elephant haz a sad"-or My Adventures With the RNC Donation Survey!![/font]
The RNC decided to send around a donation beg-notice in the form of an "Official Survey!!11" to my house. This thing was monstrously huge and must have cost a fortune to print and bulk mail. You'll notice later on that they grovel for a $15 "Survey tabulating" donation--classy. They also asked on the mail return envelope that you stick a stamp over the bulk mail return postage to save them money. Naturally, I declined.

Instead they will get some new artwork, courtesy of Starry Messenger from my empire here in Revolutionary Silicon Valley. I thought I'd share:









GD, 1 Aug 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021057621


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by FarCenter
[font size=+1] IRS May Lose $21 Billion in Identity Fraud, Study Says[/font]
Identity thieves are poised to claim $21 billion in fraudulent tax refunds over the next five years, according to a report by the inspector general who oversees the Internal Revenue Service.

The report released today documents the growth in tax fraud through identity theft and includes previously unreleased details of potentially fraudulent returns.

For example, the IRS sent more than $3.3 million in refunds to an address in Lansing, Michigan, that was listed on 2,137 separate tax returns. In at least 10 cases, the IRS sent more than 300 direct deposits of refunds totaling more than $470,000 to the same bank account.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-02/irs-may-lose-21-billion-in-identity-fraud-study-says.html

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] valerief [/font]
[font size=+1] 1. Too bad the IRS doesn't have computers. nt [/font]

GD, 2 Aug 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021061802


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]Original post by [font color=#800080] EarlG [/font]
[font size=+1] Pic Of The Moment: Tampa Officials Ban Puppets In RNC Event Zone (Guns Still Permitted)[/font]


Tampa officials ban puppets in republican convention event zone

Video & Multimedia, 2 Aug 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101745791


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by Solomon
[font size=+1] Bwaahaa! Romney Demands Harry Reid To Prove It.[/font]
Listening to Hannity on the way home and mittwitt was a guest. Hannity played a clip of Reid saying Romney hasn't paid taxes over a 10 year period.

The mitster said it was a ridiculous lie and demanded Reid prove it.



How crazy is that? He's sitting on the proof of the pudding. Why don't he prove Reid wrong? Embarass the hell out of the guy?


I really think this fool thinks he can be president without showing his tax returns.

Americans aren't THAT stupid are we?

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Summer Hathaway [/font]
[font size=+1] 19. Any day now ... [/font]
View profile
Mitt will be down to yelling, "I know you are, but what am I?"

This will inevitably be followed by a press release declaring who's rubber and who's glue ...

GD, 2 Aug 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021063911


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by No DUplicitous DUpe
[font size=+1] Romney Just Drove By Me - Thanks DU for Helping Me Make This Sign [/font]
Romney and 12 GOP governors just passed me on the way to the local high school in Basalt, CO. for a campaign stop.
Hat tip to all the people in this thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021044216 who helped me with the words for this sign.

**NOTE: I retroactively fixed the spelling error on the sign.


Photo by: Hinton Harrison

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Photo by: Hinton Harrison [/font]
[font size=+1] 10. Other than misspelling narcissistic, it's a damn good sign. [/font]
Of course, you''ll still have to explain it to teabaggers (it's over two syllables).
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] dixiegrrrrl [/font]
[font size=+1] 19. I am sure he mis spelled that word SO teabaggers could read it. [/font]


GD, 2 Aug 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021063808


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by ProSense
[font size=+1] Here's why Romney will NEVER release his tax forms, and why we need to keep hounding him[/font]

I mean, is that a case of Mitt projecting again:

Civil Rights Group Calls For Probe Of Romney’s ‘Interference’ With VA Voter Registration
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021032485

Let me add to the speculation, this time with more evidence. Where did Mitt live from 1999 to 2002: Utah or Massachussett?





http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002945250



On edit, to be clear, Mitt maybe hiding other damaging information:

Experts’ Best Guesses On Romney’s Swiss Bank Account
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021011251

Clear it all up, Mitt. Release your tax returns.



[font color=#FF0000]Whew! A lot to copy, but worth it! Release the returns, Romney!!![/font]

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] sofa king [/font]
[font size=+1] 5. Mitt: The only documented case of voter fraud in 2010! [/font]
Mitt's going to have to stay overseas for awhile, because he's too ironic to pass through a metal detector.

GD, 28 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021035433


Thanks to: coalition_unwilling, dixiegrrrrl, eridani, nc4bo, pinboy3niner, Ikonoklast, The Velveteen Ocelot, Curmudgeoness, and rocktivity!!!!!


This very special DUzy episode was brought to you by: Apple, makers of the newest iNoun.

Man, I missed a lot of good shit when I was back among the corn and soybeans!
-Krispos42
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July 30, 2012

The DUzy Awards for Friday, July 27th, 2012 (ish)

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[center][font size=7]WELCOME to the DUZY AWARDS![/font][/center]

Welcome, insomiacs, to a very special episode of The DUzy Awards, starring Worf as Dr. Cliff Huxtable, William Riker as Engineer Brett, Patrick Stewart as Sgt. Phil Fish, and Deanna Troi as Lt. Tawny Madison. Special guest Beverly Crusher stars as Punky Brewster.


How it works:

You see a funny post and you want to put it in contention. Great! Send a private-message to “The DUzy Awards” and include a link to the original post and the # of the reply you want to nominate, and then copy-and-paste the OP and the nominated post into the message. That’s in case of a self-deletion or an edit or something.

If a member’s name is in [font color=#800080]purple text[/font], then that member has won a DUzy for the week.

If text is in [font color=#FF0000]red italicized text[/font] that’s a comment from me.

All past DU3 DUzies are in this account’s Journal for your enjoyment. If you want the older ones, go find JeffR’s Journal on DU2… if you can!!! Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by ProSense
[font size=+1] Darrell Issa proposes renaming the ocean after Ronald Reagan[/font]

I propose renaming Issa "Congressman Dumbfuck."

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] NRaleighLiberal [/font]
[font size=+1] 1. I think we should name the floating plastic bag garbage island after St Ronnie. that OK with me. [/font]

GD, 23 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002994564


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by Liberal_in_LA
[font size=+1] Romney camp used Colorado shooting as distraction to hide buy of 100,000 Twitter followers[/font]
The Romney campaign is facing allegations of buying Twitter followers after Romney’s Twitter account mysteriously gained more than 135,000 followers since Friday. The Romney campaign denies buying Twitter followers but fails to offer any reasonable explanation for the freakishly rapid growth in the last 48 hours.

The website 140elect.com, which tracks the Twitter presence of presidential candidates, first noticed the spike which began Friday afternoon and continued through Saturday, July 21. According to the website, Romney was gaining around 3,000-4,000 new followers per day for the past month. However, Friday, July 20, the number inexplicably and dramatically jumped as Romney acquired 23,926 new followers. On Saturday, July 21, the numbers exploded as Romney gained well over 75,000 Twitter followers for the day.

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Jason Easley at PoliticusUSA speculates: Something strange is going on with Mitt Romney’s Twitter account. It looks like the Romney campaign is using the Colorado shooting as a distraction to hide their buying 100,000 new Twitter followers.

NY AltNews reports Romney’s Twitter account is now surging with phony followers. The website suggests “spam automation, purchased traffic or perhaps even sabotage” are responsible for the inexplicable, dramatic surge in Romney’s Twitter account.

Romney’s Twitter account had over 673,000 followers on July 20, but his graph made a “hockey stick” leap yesterday, climbing to over 767,000. Nevertheless, Romney’s Twitter account trails Barack Obama's Twitter account by more than 16 million followers.

http://www.examiner.com/article/twittergate-romney-camp-denies-buying-twitter-followers

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] hatrack [/font]
[font size=+1] 12. Phony purchased Twitter followers are people, my friend. [/font]


GD, 22 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021000368


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by steve2470
[font size=+1] Hiker spots man in goat suit frolicking with a herd[/font]
http://www.abc4.com/content/news/top_stories/story/Hiker-spots-man-in-goat-suit-frolicking-with-a/8tKqdZF7s0eioSivDg8O-w.cspx

Coty Creighton was hiking Ben Lomond peak early Sunday morning, when he came across a herd of goats and noticed one was trailing behind. Coty pulled out his binoculars to get an even closer look, and realized it was a man, acting like a goat.

"His goat costume was definitely home made, it wasn't done very well he had a full mask covering his face up and fake horns coming off the top of his head, he even had to lift the mask at times to make his way and see over rocks and bushes," Creighton said.

Creighton tried to rationalize it, thinking the guy may have been a photographer, but he had no gear.

"Once I realized he had no camera gear or anything else, it went from being really funny to really creepy," he said.

*end of quote*

Yeah, old news from July 19th but comic relief is good

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] lapfog_1 [/font]
[font size=+1] 8. EWE! [/font]

GD, 24 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021011657


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by Comrade_McKenzie
[font size=+1] Romney Advisor: 'Obama doesn't appreciate the ANGLO-SAXON heritage we share with Great Britain.'[/font]
What the London Daily Telegraph calls one of Romney’s “advisors” told the paper that Romney was better positioned to understand and respect the ‘special relationship’ between the US and Great Britain than President Obama, whose father was from Kenya.

Said the advisor: “We are part of an Anglo-Saxon heritage, and he feels that the special relationship is special. The White House didn’t fully appreciate the shared history we have.”

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/07/romney_camp_mitt_will_bring_a_white_mans_touch.php?ref=fpblg

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] gkhouston [/font]
[font size=+1] 35. Blow that dog whistle all you want, I'm not getting on the roof of the car. n/t [/font]

GD, 24 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021016812


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by Bertha Venation
[font size=+1] grammar question[/font]
What is the family of language called that includes homonyms, antonyms, heteronyms, etc.? Does it have a name?

Thank you.

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Kennah [/font]
[font size=+1] 8. Fox News just reported ... [/font]
... homonyms will destroy traditional marriage.

[font color=#FF0000]Rumor has it that President Obama is a practicing homosapien![/font]

The Lounge, 24 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018160827


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]Original post by [font color=#800080] Ikonoklast [/font]
[font size=+1] I Mistakenly Attended A Voter Registration Event That Was Being Held By Local Republicans.[/font]
They really, really, really did their best to discourage any Democrats from signing up.



[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Moonwalk [/font]
[font size=+1] 1. It's an Anglo-Saxon thing [/font]


GD, 25 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021022835


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by superpatriotman
[font size=+1] Gorillas Seen Destroying Poachers' Snares in Rwanda[/font]


http://refreshingnews99.blogspot.in/2012/07/gorillas-seen-destroying-poachers.html



more at link

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] ithinkmyliverhurts [/font]
[font size=+1] 4. Poachers were surprised that the gorillas possessed language skills as well: [/font]


[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] lpbk2713 [/font]
[font size=+1] 14. Dismantling the traps wasn't so bad for them ... [/font]


... it was Googling for the instructions on how to do it that was their biggest obstacle.

GD, 25 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021019934


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by Swede
[font size=+1] Maybe Mitt can try the cheesy bangers and mash?[/font]


[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF] maddezmom
[font size=+1] 8. just found another: fitless cock [/font]
fitless cock

Definition

Scotland
Oatmeal, shredded suet and finely chopped onion (2:1:1) brought together with beaten egg, shaped in the form of a chicken, wrapped in a floured cloth and boiled for two hours.

Also called dry goose

(Note Fitless cock was traditionally eaten on Shrove Tuesday)
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] arely staircase [/font]
[font size=+1] 9. spotted dick is one of the first stages of fitless cock. nt [/font]

GD, 26 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021026205


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by reformist2
[font size=+1] No Joke: Mittens eats only the Tops of Muffins![/font]
"Romney prefers to eat only the tops of muffins, the logic here being that during cooking the butter and unhealthful lipids have melted down into the base."

Read More http://www.gq.com/news-politics/politics/201208/mitt-romney-wells-tower-gq-august-2012#ixzz21kiuVdov



[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] greatauntoftriplets [/font]
[font size=+1] 3. Of course he does! [/font]
He likes to stick with the upper crust.

GD, 26 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021025605


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by ProSense
[font size=+1] Romney: Don't let US become a second-tier nation. Like Britain[/font]




[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] NightWatcher [/font]
[font size=+1] 2. he's like a Sarah Palin that nobody wants to fuck [/font]

GD, 26 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021026748


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by Renew Deal
[font size=+1] North Korea flag blunder mars Olympics day one[/font]
Source: AFP

London's Olympics got off to an embarrassing start when North Korea's women footballers refused to play after a mix-up over their national flag, in one of a series of blunders.

Hosts Great Britain had kicked off the sports festival, years in the making and costing billions of dollars, with a 1-0 win over New Zealand as women's soccer got under way two days before the opening the ceremony.

The United States beat France 4-2 and Japan overcame Canada 2-1. But North Korea's opener against Colombia was held up after their players were pictured next to South Korea's flag on the big screen at Glasgow's Hampden Park.

The North Koreans were finally persuaded to take the field and the match, scheduled for 7:45 pm (1845 GMT), began at 8:50 pm. Red-faced organisers were quick to apologise for the howler.
<snip>

Read more: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/football-kicks-off-london-games-152555131--oly.html
____________________________________

Someone should be fired for their stupidity.

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF] EarthCitizen
[font size=+1] 6. How does something like that possibly happen [/font]
How does something like that possibly happen
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF] Renew Deal
[font size=+1] 7. Laziness, poor education and training, bad planning [/font]
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] doohnibor [/font]
[font size=+1] 8. Or on purpose... [/font]
I can't think of a mis-flagging that could cause more angst among the contestants. Unless the TeaParty team was introduced under the banner of Kenya.

LBN, 26 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014177211


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by UnrepentantLiberal
[font size=+1] Evangelist Billy Graham defends Chick-fil-A[/font]

By Richard Allen Greene
CNN
July 26, 2012

Billy Graham, the dean of American evangelists, has once again broken his usual silence on hot-button issues, defending the president of the Chick-fil-A restaurant chain for his opposition to same-sex marriage days after issuing a letter decrying what he sees as the nation’s moral decay.

Earlier this year, the ailing preacher publicly endorsed a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay unions in North Carolina, raising eyebrows among many who’d watched Graham studiously avoid thorny social issues for years.

On Thursday, he issued a statement of support for the popular fast-food chain. Many people have slammed Chick-fil-A President Don Cathy for saying his company backs the traditional family unit and is opposed to same-sex marriage.

Graham praised restaurant founder S. Truett Cathy and son Don Cathy, the company’s president, “for their strong stand for the Christian faith.”

More: http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/26/evangelist-billy-graham-defends-chick-fil-a/

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Jeff In Milwaukee [/font]
[font size=+1] 1. I thought he was dead (nt) [/font]
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Robb [/font]
[font size=+1] 7. He will have been. Retroactively. [/font]

[font color=#FF0000]Robb is a dingbat[/font]

GD, 26 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021028769


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by flamingdem
[font size=+1] Mitt wants a .. porn filter on every computer in America? Next on Lawrence O'Donnell[/font]
Wow, now I'm sure he's toast!

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF] Drunken Irishman
[font size=+1] 2. I'LL GIVE YOU MY PORN WHEN YOU PRY IT FROM MY STICKY, DEAD HANDS! [/font]

[font color=#FF0000]Amen![/font]

GD, 19 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002978708


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by AnotherMcIntosh
[font size=+1] In a way this video is funny. It involves a gun safety instructor who boasts that he is the only [/font]
one in the room who is sufficiently familiar with a Glock .40.

Start at 0:40 and continue through 0:56 et seq.

&feature=player_embedded

No matter what you see, you have to admit that this guy is a man. After he shoots himself in the foot, he pretends that it doesn't hurt. Or at least he does so for a little while.

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] justanidea [/font]
[font size=+1] 6. Looks like he didn't keep his booger hook off the bang switch. nt [/font]

GD, 25 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021017084


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]Original post by [font color=#800080] HarveyDarkey [/font]


GD, 23 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021008923


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by Tx4obama
[font size=+1] The USA Fencing Mask Is Awesome And Intimidating, And Awesome[/font]



Full post here: http://www.sportsgrid.com/media/2012-summer-olympics-media/the-usa-fencing-mask-is-awesome-and-intimidating-and-awesome/

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF] Occulus
[font size=+1] 3. What's with the electronics on the masks? [/font]
I don't recall seeing those before in Olympic fencing.
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] jberryhill [/font]
[font size=+1] 10. Keep score [/font]
They don't actually get to kill their opponent because of recent cowardly rule changes. Instead, contact is detected electronically.
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] jberryhill [/font]
[font size=+1] 15. Fencing has been electrified for a while [/font]
I suppose next you'll want to know how they keep the horses from drowning during water polo. Same killjoys got rid of horses in that formerly fun to watch sport.

GD, 28 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021039388


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by Aviation Pro
[font size=+1] What a fucking douche....[/font]
...anyone else catch Lurch the Fucking Stiff's™ interview on Skeletor Scheiffer's Face the Nation?

Basically, this numbnutz motherfucker wants another war; this walking shitstain is just following his "kingly' DNA where the only thing he knows is causing wars where our nation's finest are chewed up in another fucking meat grinder; and he's willing to say this as he squats in the most volatile region of the world.

The question that the interviewer should have asked this assclown is, "would you encourage your five coward sons to volunteer for service or are you going to let the poor and middle class fight this one too, fuckstick?"

Go fuck yourself and the four deferments your rode in on, phlegm.

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] hfojvt [/font]
[font size=+1] 57. sheesh, talk about eschatological excesses [/font]
View profile
inside joke

Ecclesiaticals endeavor to explain or establish an excuse for egregiously eschewing or ebulliently espousing eschatoligical excesses.

Brought to you by the letter E.

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021040807


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[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by blm
[font size=+1] WHAT did Romney know about federal program that insured pension funds and WHEN did he know it?[/font]
The corpmedia and many in the left media are missing one of the major points of the story - INSURANCE FRAUD.

When Romney underfunded GS Industries pension fund by $44 million and taxpayers ended up being billed for it through the federal program that insured these pension funds, he likely knew he could plunder the assets that should have been used for pensions and no one would dare call him out for insurance fraud.

So...we need to keep pressuring for this answer.

WHAT did Mitt Romney know about the federal program that insured pension funds of bankrupted companies and WHEN did he know it?

No doubt in my mind that Romney and others have committed INSURANCE FRAUD..... paid for by American workers' taxes.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-15/romney-s-bain-yielded-private-gains-socialized-losses.html

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There are many other examples of this debt-fueled strategy. In the two years following the acquisition in 1993 of GS Industries, a steel mill, for $8 million, Bain Capital increased the company’s debt to $378 million on operating income of less than a 10th of that amount. Some of this was used to pay Bain Capital a $36 million dividend in 1994. That degree of leverage was excessive in light of the cyclicality and capital-intensive nature of the steel industry.

By the time the company went bankrupt in 2001, it owed $554 million in debt against assets valued at $395 million. Many creditors lost money, and 750 workers lost their jobs. The U.S. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., which insures company retirement plans, determined in 2002 that GS had underfunded its pension by $44 million and had to step in to cover the shortfall.
-----

It's the INSURANCE FRAUD, stupid!

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF] Kalidurga
[font size=+1] 2. Now you just have to figure out how to put that info on a bumper sticker [/font]
because that is the attention span of the people that support Romney.
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] JHB [/font]
[font size=+1] 15. Romney Shorted Employee Pensions and all I got... [/font]
...was this lousy bill for it. (Uncle Sam)

GD, 16 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002957530


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by Playinghardball
[font size=+1] And she's on the Intelligence Committee??[/font]
Amazing!


[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] 11 Bravo [/font]
[font size=+1] 3. Well, to be fair, there is no "Complete Fucking Idiot" committee. [/font]

GD, 20 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002984498


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by 2ndAmForComputers
[font size=+1] 2ndAmForComputers[/font]
Pro tip:
If you hide an opinion of mine, it just means that opinion is further solidified. That means, I now think a harder version of what was in the hidden post.

That is all.

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF] scarletwoman
[font size=+1] 3. I'm curious. At what, exactly, do you consider yourself to be a "pro"? [/font]
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF] 2ndAmForComputers
[font size=+1] 5. Being an evil and despicable soldier of Satan, of course. [/font]
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] scarletwoman [/font]
[font size=+1] 7. Name-dropping fails to impress. [/font]

M-D, 13 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1240123422


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]Original post by [font color=#800080] ProSense [/font]
[font size=+1] Romney's new official campaign photo [/font]



GD, 15 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002954694


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]Original post by [font color=#800080] ProSense [/font]
[font size=+1] Report: Romney Has Made V.P. Pick, Announcement Could Come This Week[/font]

Until the actual announcement, here's a good read:

Romney’s Bain Yielded Private Gains, Socialized Losses
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-15/romney-s-bain-yielded-private-gains-socialized-losses.html

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/15/1110294/-BREAKING-FROM-BLOOMBERG-Romney-s-Bain-Yielded-Private-Gains-Socialized-Losses

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] myrna minx [/font]
[font size=+1] 3. He's selected Ronald Reagan, retroactively. [/font]


GD, 16 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002955895


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by Jackpine Radical
[font size=+1] For all you people calling Romney a chickenhawk, QUIT IT! It will backfire.[/font]
He has retroactively enlisted in the Marines and volunteered for combat duty in Vietnam.

When elected President, he will retroactively issue himself a Medal of Honor.

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] VOX [/font]
[font size=+1] 15. Mittens has shattered the boundaries of time and space... [/font]
He can be anywhere, anytime, before or after any event. He's involved in pursuits that haven't happened yet, and yet they've already occurred.

Mittens is a quantum-physics miracle.
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] progressoid [/font]
[font size=+1] 29. He is Schrodinger's Candidate! [/font]


GD, 16 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002956011


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]Original post by [font color=#800080] Major Nikon [/font]
[font size=+1]How computers are made [/font]


[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] bluesbassman [/font]
[font size=+1] 1. Ohm my god! [/font]


The Lounge, 16 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018155416


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by chieftain
[font size=+1] I thought the retroactive retirement was the dumbest thing I had heard in this election.[/font]
And then Mitt brought up Teresa Heinz Kerry's lack of transparency regarding her tax returns. Make no mistake about it folks, Willard, aka master of the universe, is in complete control of his campaign and we could not be luckier.
These financial geniuses think they are exponentially smarter than us mere mortals. No one will be able to convince Willard that he is wrong. They have chosen a real liability to lead their ticket.

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] msanthrope [/font]
[font size=+1] 3. So Mitt is running for First Lady? nt [/font]
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] chieftain [/font]
[font size=+1] 4. Yes, retroactively in 2004. n/t [/font]

GD, 16 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002960338


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by WilliamPitt
[font size=+1] HOLY SHIT: Upon Which I Gift To You The LOL ROFL ROFL LOL Of All Time...[/font]
...no, you're reading it right: "Palin was the better candidate" - McCain

John McCain: I Didn’t Pick Romney Because ‘Sarah Palin Was The Better Candidate’
By Benjy Sarlin
TPM

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) defended Mitt Romney from Democratic speculation that he passed on him as a 2008 running mate after reviewing his tax returns, saying Sarah Palin was simply the better choice at the time.

McCain called the tax claims “outrageous” and “disgraceful” in an interview with Politico Tuesday. He said he chose Palin “because we thought that Sarah Palin was the better candidate.”

The motherfucking rest: http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/07/john-mccain-sarah-palin-romney-vp.php?ref=fpblg

With friends like these, who needs enemas...except McCain, it seems...

Too rich. Just too fucking rich. "Palin was better." Cue the next Obama gut-you-and-watch-you-die-slow commercial in 3...2...1...

TO REITERATE: The last GOP presidential nominee just announced that the present GOP nominee is inferior to Sarah fuckin-fa-chrissake Palin.

Yes. That happened.



[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] KurtNYC [/font]
[font size=+1] 34. "Governor Romney I knew Sarah Palin, I looked at Russia with Sarah Palin, [/font]
Governor You're No Sarah Palin !"

(with apologies to Lloyd Bentsen and JFK)

GD, 17 July 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002963386


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by Tx4obama
[font size=+1] New Tv Ad: ''Tricky Mitt''[/font]





[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] pacalo [/font]
[font size=+1] 11. He's going to be whining for another apology.[/font]


Romney makes note to self: 'Maybe time for a Checkers Seamus Speech?'



Video & Multimedia, 18 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101742024


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by onehandle
[font size=+1] 7-Eleven selling mashed potatoes and chicken gravy from Slurpee machines[/font]
Oh. My. God.



The 7-Eleven convenience store chain is now featuring a Slurpee-type machine that dispenses mashed potatoes and gravy.

The Huffington Post on Monday confirmed that the Maggi mashed potato vending machines were beginning to show up in stores in the U.S.

For a dollar, you can get a generous helping of mashed potatoes. And then you can wash it down with a Big Gulp for only a dollar more.

The process is simple: Place the cup under the nozzle, press the “Mashed Potatoes” button and wait for your potatoes to be dispensed. Next, press the optional “Chicken Gravy” and wait two seconds for your gravy.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/07/16/7-eleven-selling-mashed-potatoes-and-chicken-gravy-from-slurpee-machines

We. Are. Doomed.

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] eShirl [/font]
[font size=+1] 7. Do they give you a fork or a straw? [/font]


GD, 18 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002968689


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by demtenjeep
[font size=+1] Obama's favorite GS cookies??? He has good taste![/font]
He can kiss the Tagalong voters goodbye. President Barack Obama on Monday revealed that his favorite Girl Scout Cookies are Thin Mints—an announcement that generated a boo or two from a rowdy crowd at a town hall-style rally in Cincinnati.

After questions on gay rights, environmental protection and how he planned to help small businesses, Obama took a question from a young girl named Julie, who piped up with "what's your favorite Girl Scout cookie?"

"I've got to say, this is one of the toughest questions," the president said. "I've got to say I'm pretty partial to those mint, uh…" Most of the crowd laughed, clapped and cheered, but at least one person booed.

"That's just me! I didn't meant to create controversy. Did you hear there was somebody booing?" Obama said with a chuckle. He located the boo-er and said, "You had a different opinion. What are you, oatmeal?" Peanut butter, came the answer. "Peanut butter is quite good too, but I'm going with the mint," the president replied.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-reveals-favorite-girl-scout-cookie-spoiler-thin-221055909.html

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF] Aerows
[font size=+1] 45. You laugh [/font]
I didn't even get ONE little cookie. They were gone when I went to look for them as a dessert. I thought it would be a nice little treat to have one.

Aerows was disappoint.


[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] pinboy3niner [/font]
[font size=+1] 48. First, you need to evict this guy from your house...[/font]

Sure, he may be furry and lovable, but as long as you host him, you'll never get any cookies.

Second, you need a Girl Scouts home delivery right now. Or check the local supermarkets for their cookie sales out front.

Aerows deserves cookies! Aerows should not be disappoint!

GD, 16 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002960476


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by Iggo
[font size=+1]I really miss OP Ignore. [/font]
That is all.

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] OP Ignore [/font]
[font size=+1] 9. I've missed you too, darling [/font]


M-D, 13 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1240123292


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]Original post by [font color=#800080] mfcorey1 [/font]
[font size=+1] What did you do retroactively today? nt [/font]
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Summer Hathaway [/font]
[font size=+1] 5. I un-met my first two husbands. [/font]
I spent the rest of the day explaining to my kids that they were never born.

GD, 18 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002971494


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by sinkingfeeling
[font size=+1] What's the first thing you notice about Rmoney's Veep short list?[/font]



http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/16/12767257-handicapping-a-potential-veep-shortlist?lite&__utma=14933801.193758565.1342439791.1342444496.1342455988.3&__utmb=14933801.26.10.1342455988&__utmc=14933801&__utmx=-&__utmz=14933801.1342439791.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none)&__utmv=14933801.|8=Earned%20By=msnbc%7Ccover=1^12=Landing%20Content=Mixed=1^13=Landing%20Hostname=www.nbcnews.com=1^30=Visit%20Type%20to%20Content=Earned%20to%20Mixed=1&__utmk=143889717

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Happyhippychick [/font]
8. It looks like the gay Brady Bunch? [/font]


Politics 2012, 16 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/125156688


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by Punkingal
[font size=+1] While on NPR, Rubio Questions Usefulness of NPR[/font]
Source: ABC OTUS News


Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., expressed worry this morning about broadcasting outlets that use taxpayer money to stay on the air.

But Rubio made his comments on NPR, a broadcasting outlet that uses taxpayer money to stay on the air.

"I do have concerns about spending money on public broadcasting," Rubio told Diane Rehm during an hourlong Q&A on NPR.

NPR has been a source of criticism from congressional Republicans who view it as a liberal refuge that espouses its views courtesy of public funding. Although only 2 percent of NPR's funding comes from government grants, the loss of federal funding would undermine the ability of NPR stations to pay for NPR programming, NPR says.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/while-npr-sen-rubio-questions-usefulness-npr-154934066--abc-news-politics.html
____________________________________

What an arrogant prick!

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] KamaAina [/font]
[font size=+1] 3. While on DU, KamaAina Questions Usefulness of Rubio [/font]


LBN, 19 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014171057


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by SickOfTheOnePct
[font size=+1] So I had a post hidden today that was posted on June 30th[/font]
Seriously? Someone had to go back 3 weeks to look for something to alert on?

Yeah, I called someone an asshole, over the top, and probably should have been alerted on...the day it happened, not 3 weeks later.

Just venting, as I don't get why someone would or should be able to go back that far for an alert.

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] arcane1 [/font]
[font size=+1] 3. Maybe Romney retroactively alerted on it [/font]

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] jorno67 [/font]
[font size=+1] 15. I'm going to bookmark this thread so I can alert on it a month from now.... [/font]
Even though your OP is ok today, I might be more sensitive later on.



M-D, 18 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1240124822


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by backscatter712
[font size=+1] One of the biggest reasons I'm boycotting the Olympics again this year: London's Brand Gestapo.[/font]
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/britain-flooded-with-brand-police-to-protect-sponsors-7945436.html



Seriously. Restaurants not allowed to serve chips (French fries in the U.S.) because McDonalds bought the rights to serve them for the Olympics?

I'd recommend another riot, but that would violate the TOS, wouldn't it?

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] -..__... [/font]
[font size=+1] 36. "The Gestapo" wearing "purple caps and tops"?!? [/font]
Heinrich Himmler would be weeping at the thought of that fashion faux pas.
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] FSogol [/font]
[font size=+1] 38. They were all out of Brown shirts. [/font]


GD, 16 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002959387


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by nmbluesky
[font size=+1] Obama kisses his wife (Kiss-Cam)[/font]
I watched USA basketball game and I saw President Obama kisses his wife on TV..
I upload for my youtube..
and enjoying this

&feature=player_embedded

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Quiet_Dem_Mom [/font]
[font size=+1] 21. OMG!11!!!! A Terrorist Lip Bump! Right there on the TeeVee. [/font]



Video & Multimedia, 16 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101741690


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by Upton
[font size=+1] Spanish Olympians mock their own uniforms..[/font]


On the left is Saul Craviotto, a gold medal-winning canoeist, who tweeted this image of him in Spain's Olympic garb and offering a "no comment" about their look: "I leave it up to you."

Retired tennis player Carlos Moya said, via Twitter: "Looking forward to seeing Feliciano López wearing the official Olympic uniform. He'll never have worn anything so ugly in his life."

Field hockey player Alex Fabregas tweeted the photo in the right, with a request to his fans: "Spare the adjectives ..."

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/olympics-fourth-place-medal/spain-garish-london-olympics-uniforms-mocked-spanish-olympians-161035657--oly.html



[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Upton [/font]
[font size=+1] 3. Those Spanish unis are horrible.. [/font]
so it wouldn't take much for the US to be seen as superior in that category. Actually, they're not too bad..don't think much of the berets though..

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF] Auggie [font color=#800080][/font]
[font size=+1] 10. Looks military, with a huge corporate logo on front [/font]
Sums up this country perfectly.

Sports, 19 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/120416543








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[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by trumad
[font size=+1] Fuck Ann Romney and the horse she rode in on.[/font]
Nuff said.

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Lionessa [/font]
[font size=+1] 1. You really want to bone her and her horse? EWWW. [/font]
Please improve your taste.

GD, 8 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002916873


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]Original post by [font color=#800080] Major Nikon [/font]
[font size=+1] Batcrab[/font]


The Lounge, 9 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018150883


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]Original post by [font color=#800080] UTUSN [/font]
[font size=+1] Forget making up a "scientology," they made up a language, too: "my Dynamics" and "hatting"[/font]
If the dude's "Dynamics" is affected, does he lose his Clear card?!1 Is "hatting" something involving Greek fisherman's caps, preferably in cotton-poly because wool is too hot?!1

My flailing at humor here belies my true fear.


*************QUOTE*************

http://gawker.com/5924273/scientologist-leader-urges-censorship-of-media-stand-up-and-defend-our-religion

[font size=+1]Scientologist Leader Urges Censorship of Media: ‘Stand Up and Defend Our Religion’[/font]

by Louis Peitzman

.... The email was sent to Ray McKay, whom Rathbun calls "a well-known OSA operative." In the email, the author, Daniele Lattanzi, refers to the Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes divorce and the negative attention it has brought to Scientology.

“I am not a big fan of media, but you may have glanced the news of the split between TC and Holmes and all the speculations around. While this is a personal matter, when people start to bring our religion into the middle and a bunch of uninformed people start to spread false datum, rumors and defame our religion it became a matter that does affect my Dynamics and I believe that affects yours as well.

“Well, I am not somebody that I am going to simply stand and watch a bunch of uninformed people putting my religion under the carpet. So here is a simple hatting on how you can causative fight back and at the same time stand up and defend our religion on the internet.”


What follows is a step-by-step guide to censoring coverage of Scientology on the internet by reporting "abuse." Lattanzi suggests scanning TomKat articles for comments that "defame or degrade" Scientology. This concerted effort, he believes, will have an impact on stopping the spread of negative information. ....


On his blog, Rathbun has spent years documenting these attempts at censorship and subterfuge by Scientology — all of which are denied by Church officials. The harassment Rathbun has faced is supposedly the work of individual Scientologists and not condoned by the Church, something Rathbun is certain isn't true. ....

*************UNQUOTE*************

GD, 9 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002920585


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]Original post by [font color=#800080] Junkdrawer [/font]
[font size=+1] Thought Bubbles needed....(Photo from Romney's NAACP speach)....[/font]


ON EDIT:

struggle4progress's Winner:



[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] dionysus [/font]
[font size=+1] 2. . [/font]
< ( W... )
( T... ) >
< ( F... )
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] nc4bo [/font]
[font size=+1] 9. Asshole? Naw girl - he's the whole ass! [/font]
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] DainBramaged [/font]
[font size=+1] 12. Yep [/font]

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] malaise [/font]
[font size=+1] 21. Whatthefuckever!! [/font]
Freakingpriceless
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] spanone [/font]
[font size=+1] 33. 'he's not white, he's clear' [/font]

GD, 11 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002931454


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]Original post by [font color=#800080] Amerigo Vespucci [/font]
[font size=+1] MARTIN BASHIR IS SPANKING LUKE RUSSERT'S ASS LIKE A SANTANA CONGA SOLO [/font]
BASHIR: "Are John Boehner and Mitch McConnell fighting for the top 3 percent?" (Their assertion that not extending the Bush Tax Cuts would stifle "job creation&quot .

Russert wouldn;t answer and started giggling. He said "I'm not John Boehner or Mitch McConnell! Yoi have to have them on your show!"

Bashir said "We've asked, they won't come on."

The closest Russert would come to answering the question is to say that it's a "talking point."

At the end of the segment Russert called it a "tough interview."


GD, 9 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002922287


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by Major Nikon
[font size=+1] Brilliance in ergometry[/font]


[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF] HopeHoops
[font size=+1] 1. A condom next to the computer is trouble waiting to happen, well, unless you're watching porn. [/font]
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF] Major Nikon
[font size=+1] 2. You use condoms while watching porn? [/font]
Isn't that taking safe sex a step too far?
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] rug [/font]
[font size=+1] 3. He doesn't want to catch a virus. [/font]

The Lounge, 10 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018151337


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]Original post by [font color=#800080] graywarrior [/font]
[font size=+1] I do not like this Romney Mitt[/font]


Politics 2012, 10 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/125153805


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]Original post by [font color=#800080] Are_grits_groceries [/font]
[font size=+1] Great letter from Michigan resident on behalf of beavers living behind his house:[/font]
STATE OF MICHIGAN

JOHN ENGLER, Governor
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
December 17, 1997

CERTIFIED

Mr. Ryan DeVries
Dear Mr. DeVries:

SUBJECT: DEQ File No. 97-59-0023-1 T11N, R10W, Sec. 20, Montcalm County

It has come to the attention of the Department of Environmental Quality that there has been recent unauthorized activity on the above referenced parcel of property. You have been certified as the legal landowner and/or contractor who did the following unauthorized activity:

Construction and maintenance of two wood debris dams across the outlet stream of Spring Pond. A permit must be issued prior to the start of this type of activity. A review of the Department's files show that no permits have been issued.

Therefore, the Department has determined that this activity is in violation of Part 301,. Inland Lakes and Streams, of the Natural Resource and Environmental Protection Act, Act 451 of the Public Acts of 1994, being sections 324.30101 to 324.30113 of the Michigan Compiled Laws annotated. The Department has been informed that one or both of the dams partially failed during a recent rain event, causing debris dams and flooding at downstream locations. We find that dams of this nature are inherently hazardous and cannot be permitted. The Department therefore orders you to cease and desist all unauthorized activities at this location, and to restore the stream to a free-flow condition by removing all wood and brush forming the dams from the strewn channel. All restoration work shall be completed no later than January 31, 1998. Please notify this office when the restoration has been completed so that a follow-up site inspection may be scheduled by our staff. Failure to comply with this request, or any further unauthorized activity on the site, may result in this case being referred for elevated enforcement action. We anticipate and would appreciate your full cooperation in this matter.

Please feel free to contact me at this office if you have any questions.

Sincerely,
David L. Price
District Representative
Land and Water Management Division

------------------------------------------

Reply: 1/6/98
Dear Mr. Price:

Re: DEQ File No. 97-59-0023; T11N, R10W, Sec 20; Montcalm County

Your certified letter dated 12/17/97 has been handed to me to respond to. You sent out a great deal of carbon copies to a lot of people, but you neglected to include their addresses. You will, therefore, have to send them a copy of my response.

First of all, Mr. Ryan DeVries is not the legal landowner and/or contractor at 2088 Dagget, Pierson, Michigan — I am the legal owner and a couple of beavers are in the (State unauthorized) process of constructing and maintaining two wood "debris" dams across the outlet stream of my Spring Pond. While I did not pay for, nor authorize their dam project, I think they would be highly offended you call their skillful use of natural building materials "debris". I would like to challenge you to attempt to emulate their dam project any dam time and/or any dam place you choose. I believe I can safely state there is no dam way you could ever match their dam skills, their dam resourcefulness, their dam ingenuity, their dam persistence, their dam determination and/or their dam work ethic.

As to your dam request the beavers first must fill out a dam permit prior to the start of this type of dam activity, my first dam question to you is: are you trying to discriminate against my Spring Pond Beavers or do you require all dam beavers throughout this State to conform to said dam request? If you are not discriminating against these particular beavers, please send me completed copies of all those other applicable beaver dam permits. Perhaps we will see if there really is a dam violation of Part 301, Inland Lakes and Streams, of the Natural Resource and Environmental Protection Act, Act 451 of the Public Acts of 1994, being sections 324.30101 to 324.30113 of the Michigan Compiled Laws annotated.

My first concern is — aren't the dam beavers entitled to dam legal representation? The Spring Pond Beavers are financially destitute and are unable to pay for said dam representation — so the State will have to provide them with a dam lawyer. The Department's dam concern that either one or both of the dams failed during a recent rain event causing dam flooding is proof we should leave the dam Spring Pond Beavers alone rather than harassing them and calling their dam names. If you want the dam stream "restored" to a dam free-flow condition — contact the dam beavers — but if you are going to arrest them (they obviously did not pay any dam attention to your dam letter — being unable to read English) — be sure you read them their dam Miranda first.

As for me, I am not going to cause more dam flooding or dam debris jams by interfering with these dam builders. If you want to hurt these dam beavers — be aware I am sending a copy of your dam letter and this response to PETA. If your dam Department seriously finds all dams of this nature inherently hazardous and truly will not permit their existence in this dam State — I seriously hope you are not selectively enforcing this dam policy — or once again both I and the Spring Pond Beavers will scream prejudice!

In my humble opinion, the Spring Pond Beavers have a right to build their dam unauthorized dams as long as the sky is blue, the grass is green and water flows downstream. They have more dam right than I to live and enjoy Spring Pond. So, as far as I and the beavers are concerned, this dam case can be referred for more dam elevated enforcement action now. Why wait until 1/31/98? The Spring Pond Beavers may be under the dam ice then, and there will be no dam way for you or your dam staff to contact/harass them then. In conclusion, I would like to bring to your attention a real environmental quality (health) problem; bears are actually defecating in our woods. I definitely believe you should be persecuting the defecating bears and leave the dam beavers alone. If you are going to investigate the beaver dam, watch your step! (The bears are not careful where they dump!)

Being unable to comply with your dam request, and being unable to contact you on your dam answering machine, I am sending this response to your dam office.

Sincerely,
Stephen L. Tvedten
cc: PETA
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/07/regarding-your-dam-complaint.html

Ha!

GD, 12 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002935022


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by Ian David
[font size=+1] Boston Globe To Team Romney: Sorry, No Dice[/font]
Boston Globe To Team Romney: Sorry, No Dice

The Boston Globe will not be issuing a correction to its report on Mitt Romney’s departure from Bain Capital, according to Politico. The Romney campaign formally demanded a retraction earlier today, maintaining Romney was CEO in name only, delegating all day-to-day operations to 26 managing directors at the firm from February 1999 on.

“We received your request late this afternoon for a correction regarding this morning’s Globe story,” wrote Globe editor Martin Baron to Romney communication director Gail Gitcho. “Having carefully reviewed that request, we see no basis for publishing a correction. The Globe story was entirely accurate.”

More:
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/boston-globe-to-team-romney-sorry-no-dice



[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] tanyev [/font]
[font size=+1] 10. Well, this week has been an unMITTigated disaster for Team Rmoney. [/font]

GD, 12 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002937850


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by cynatnite
[font size=+1] The Edifi Christian tablet will bring you closer to God...[/font]
If you've been wanting a tablet but thought the options currently out on the market are just too heathenish for your tastes, your wait is over. A group called Family Christian announced the sale of Edifi, which it claims is the world's first Christian tablet. Edifi features a web browser with a built-in "safe search" and options for Christian radio stations. It also runs the company's Holy Bible application, which contains 27 different English translations of the Bible; who knew there were that many to choose from?

The device is made by Cydle in South Korea, and the Android tablet's specs are very similar to those of the Kindle Fire. Brian Honorable, a technology supervisor at Family Christian, said the Edifi was designed to be a direct competitor to the Amazon product. "It goes along with our mission," Honorable said in an interview with FoxNews.com, "Trying to get people closer to God… through a tablet." We're pretty sure that your tablets aren't getting you into trouble with any higher powers. Although those Apple fans do have a near-religious devotion to their favorite products.

Honorable didn't give details about how many Edifi tablets have been sold, just that the numbers were "strong" thus far. Probably not as strong as the new iPad, which might have sold more than 1 million units on its first weekend alone. But who's counting?

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/rejoice-edifi-first-christian-tablet-190513571.html

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] jberryhill [/font]
[font size=+1]1. Early versions were impressive [/font]

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Initech [/font]
[font size=+1] 2. Why not? Moses carried a tablet. It was called the iCommand. [/font]
*rimshot*


GD, 12 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002938717


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by Scuba
[font size=+1] Jury system gets another one right[/font]
At Sat Jul 7, 2012, 12:50 PM an alert was sent on the following post:

People Just Don't Get IT
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=160920

REASON FOR ALERT:

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate. (See <a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=aboutus#communitystandards" target="_blank">Community Standards</a>.)

ALERTER'S COMMENTS:

Homophobe. Please revoke posting privileges.

JURY RESULTS

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Sat Jul 7, 2012, 12:56 PM, and the Jury voted 6-0 to HIDE IT.

Juror #1 voted to HIDE IT and said: he cast his net wide, but he's in water way over his head. what a twit.
Juror #2 voted to HIDE IT and said: Smh
Juror #3 voted to HIDE IT and said: No explanation given
Juror #4 voted to HIDE IT and said: No explanation given
Juror #5 voted to HIDE IT and said: I agree with the alerter. This type of post (person?) shouldn't be HERE.
Juror #6 voted to HIDE IT and said: Ridiculous and hurtful and homophobic.

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] NYC_SKP [/font]
[font size=+1] 21. The former member was on to us libruls: I one day hope to marry a tree. [/font]
(sarc)

I lovely loquat, much younger than I but unbelievably beautiful.

I know, people would talk, but...


[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] scarletwoman [/font]
[font size=+1] 22. Me too! We could make it a treesome! [/font]

M-D, 7 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1240120975


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by EarlG
[font size=+1] Pic Of The Moment: Thank Goodness For Business Experience[/font]


Romney: I Didn't Even Know About That Bermuda Company!

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Blue Owl [/font]
[font size=+1] 14. Get a BRAIN Morman [/font]
n/t

Video & Multimedia, 10 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101739896


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by FarLeftFist
[font size=+1] The Newsroom is making the MSM look like FOOLS.[/font]
When a fictional tv show does more hard hitting investigative & truthful journalism about the radical right-wing in 3 episodes than the entire MSM has done in the past decade you know the MSM has reached a new loooow.

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] dipsydoodle [/font]
[font size=+1] 12. Spoiler [/font]




GD, 10 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002925706


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by Kadie
[font size=+1] Romney addresses the NAACP annual convention in Houston, Texas - pics[/font]


































US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney addresses the NAACP annual convention in Houston, Texas on July 11, 2012.



pics from news.daylife.com

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] tk2kewl [/font]
[font size=+1] 1. Whatcha talkin' 'bout Willard!!??11?!! [/font]

The looks he is getting from the audience are priceless!

Video & Multimedia, 11 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101740171


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by kpete
[font size=+1] You Know Who Else Has or Had Swiss Bank Accounts?[/font]
THU JUL 12, 2012 AT 11:52 AM PDT
You Know Who Else Has or Had Swiss Bank Accounts?
by Dave the pro


Kim Jong-il
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/7442188/Kim-Jong-il-keeps-4bn-emergency-fund-in-European-banks.html

Hosni Mubarak
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/f5c8422e-3631-11e0-9b3b-00144feabdc0,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2Ff5c8422e-3631-11e0-9b3b-00144feabdc0.html&_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailykos.com%2Fstory%2F2012%2F07%2F12%2F1109101%2F-You-Know-Who-Else-Has-or-Had-Swiss-Bank-Accounts#axzz20QzGtU7j

Bahsar Assad
http://www.mesop.de/2012/06/04/switzerland-issued-an-asset-freeze-on-20-million-swiss-francs-in-bank-accounts-belonging-to-relatives-of-bashar-assad/

Saddam Hussein
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2742/is_344/ai_n25086978/

Omar al-Bashir
http://www.sudantribune.com/Sudan-President-stashed-billions,37328

Islam Karimov
http://www.uznews.net/news_single.php?lng=en&cid=30&nid=19271

Robert Mugabe
http://www.theweek.co.uk/people/37637/how-mugabe-lost-his-swiss-bank-account

Osama bin Laden
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/09/11/060911ta_talk_coll

Augusto Pinochet
http://www.redorbit.com/news/international/374757/pinochets_daughter_freed_on_bail_in_tax_fraud_case/

Slobodan Milosevic
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/1999/jun/27/balkans3

Ferdinand Marcos
http://articles.latimes.com/1986-03-13/news/mn-19580_1_swiss-bank-account

for info:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/12/1109101/-You-Know-Who-Else-Has-or-Had-Swiss-Bank-Accounts

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] aikoaiko [/font]
[font size=+1] 10. The Swiss? [/font]


GD, 12 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002938332


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]Original post by [font color=#800080] http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002938332 [/font]
[font size=+1] Romney to fire campaign spokespeople and outsource lying to Chinese firm[/font]
Faced with the growing expense of having his US staff keep up with the calvalcade of daily bullshit, Mitt Romeny today announced that he would be firing his US campaign staff and instead directing all pesky media inquiries to Prevarico Heavy Industries, a public relations company in the Fuqyu Province of China.

GD, 12 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002939578


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by HereSince1628
[font size=+1] OMG!!! I haven't had a thread hidden in 90 days![/font]
I gotta fix THAT!!!!!!!!!!!

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Warren DeMontague [/font]
[font size=+1] 8. And to think, you've been here since 1628. [/font]


M-D, 8 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1240121469


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE][font color=#800080] Mayberry Machiavelli [/font]
[font size=+1] "I did NOT have financial relations with that company!"[/font]


[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] eridani [/font]
[font size=+1]23. So where are all the photoshoppers when we need them? n/t [/font]

Politics 2012, 13 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/125155232


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by ProSense
[font size=+1] Oh for God's sake, it isn't a swiftboating.[/font]
[div clas=excerpt] Oh for God's sake, it isn't a swiftboating.

by Sarge in Seattle

Romney got caught telling a lie. Period. That isn't a swiftboat job, as CNN is implying. Romney was legally and factually sole owner, President, and CEO of Bain Capital between 1999 and 2002, and was paid a salary of at least six digits (maybe more, we don't know) as compensation for his services as president and CEO. These are FACTS.

Romney's position that he had no "responsibility" for the operations of Bain while he was sole owner, president, CEO, and being paid a big salary for performing the job of president and CEO is a lie. By definition, the salaried president, CEO, and sole owner of a company is responsible for the management of that company. Whether or not we can prove he actually did anything to earn his salary is irrelevant. He owned the company and was its top executive. This isn't a "quirk" of law or a technicality. He, and he alone was entirely responsible for the management decisions made while he was owner and self appointed head of the company. There isn't any wiggle room here. None!

Keep in mind that as sole owner, Mitt Romney, and only Mitt Romney had the authority to appoint a president and CEO of the company, and set the salary. Mitt Romney picked Mitt Romney to be president and CEO, and decided that he, Mitt Romney, as president and CEO, should be paid a salary north of $100,000 per year (we don't know how far north, it could have been $20 million).

Seriously, can this be any more black and white? Mitt Romney was sole owner of Bain, selected himself as president and CEO, paid himself at least a $100,000 salary, and claims absolutely no responsibility whatsoever for what took place while he was the sole owner and salaried top executive.

And CNN paints him as a victim of "swiftboating"? Give me a break!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/13/1109788/-Oh-for-God-s-sake-it-isn-t-a-swiftboating

It's fascinating that CNN is shilling for Romney by claiming this is "swiftboating." Let's remember back to 2004 when there was real swiftboating. What did CNN do? The MSM, including CNN, became shills for the Swift Liars.

Nearly eight years later, CNN wants to admit that swiftboating is nasty, deceptive and destructive personal attacks by falsely equating factual reports about Romney and Bain to the despicable practice it previously perpetuated. They're chosing to defend Romney against the facts when they sided with the liars against Kerry.

Is This the Silliest Thing Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post Has Ever Written?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002942909

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Coyotl [/font]
[font size=+1] 18. When you run your own flag ship into an iceberg, it is called a Titanic disaster, not swiftboating [/font]
And rearranging the deck chairs while the M$M band plays on does not deter the inevitable

GD, 14 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002946401






Thanks to: L0oniX, eppur_se_muova, DinahMoeHum, Arugula Latte, Ikonoklast, eridani, hootinholler, Sedona, maddezmom, scarletwoman, rocktivity, and pinboy3niner!!!


This very special graphically intense DUzy episode was brought to you by: The McDonald’s McD-LT, Crystal Pepsi, Sony BetaMax, the Atari 2600, the letter E, and the number ?. I apologize for the excess pictures of Mittens, but remember… if he wins, we have to look at him for FOUR FUCKING YEARS!!!!!!!!





-Krispos42

ETA: I changed the font to "Georgia". Fuck Arial![/font]

July 8, 2012

The DUzy Awards for Friday, July 6th, 2012

[center][font size=7]WELCOME to the DUZY AWARDS![/font][/center]

Welcome, sleepyheads, to a very special episode of The DUzy Awards, starring Bill Cosby as Dr. Cliff Huxtable, Harry Dean Stanton as Engineer Brett, Abe Vigoda as Sgt. Phil Fish, and Sigorney Weaver as Lt. Tawny Madison. Special guest Soleil Moon Frye stars as Punky Brewster.


How it works:

You see a funny post and you want to put it in contention. Great! Send a private-message to “The DUzy Awards” and include a link to the original post and the # of the reply you want to nominate, and then copy-and-paste the OP and the nominated post into the message. That’s in case of a self-deletion or an edit or something.

If a member’s name is in [font color=#800080]purple text[/font], then that member has won a DUzy for the week.

If text is in [font color=#FF0000]red italicized text[/font] that’s a comment from me.

All past DU3 DUzies are in this account’s Journal for your enjoyment. If you want the older ones, go find JeffR’s Journal on DU2… if you can!!! Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by Rose Siding
[font size=+1]Right out loud at TeaParty.org[/font]


Right on! NO VIOLENCE as they peacefully take the government into custody.

This is the same nitwit that the Secret Service visited before. After the ruling this week I just got curious about how they were handling it so I peeked in and holy moley, they are all so phreaking nuts. Some will look for help from county sheriffs and some are trading email so spies (ahem) won't know their plans.



So. Everyone be on the look out for Custody Teams, I guess?

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF] pinboy3niner
[font size=+1] 80. You, Slayer and I know [/font]
And we're not alone by far.

We continue to see a lot of loose talk from the right about 'revolution' or 'civil war.' Sometimes, we even see that kind of talk from our brothers on the Left.

Apart from Slayer's quite devastating point, those of us who have been there, who have seen combat up close and personal, question why anyone would wish that upon our fellow and sister Americans.

Apart from the other craziness, THAT is what I will never fucking get. Death and maiming in our families would be a good thing? Just because we have a black guy in the Oval Office? As much as we like to slam Pharmaceuticals, I think there are some people who could use a few more...
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] coalition_unwilling [/font]
[font size=+1] 104. LMFAO - Give me Librium or Give Me Meth - n/t [/font]

GD, 2 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002894485


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by 2ndAmForComputers
[font size=+1] Hebron: border police officer kicks a palestinian child, 29/06/2012, raw footage[/font]
Posted without comment. Thread title is that of the YouTube video.
#t=0s

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Scootaloo [/font]
[font size=+1] 1. Delegitimization! Demonization! Depilation! Desi Arnaz! [/font]
...Sorry, figured I'd co-opt the catchwords before the Usual Suspects showed up.

Camera distribution project, huh? Good idea on B'Tselem's part.

Israel/Palestine, 3 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/113413138


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by villager
[font size=+1] Warning signs for Fundie families? The Dangers of kids and paleontology![/font]


GD, 7 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002911938


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by Honeycombe8
[font size=+1] What ordinary item don't you have by choice that most people do?[/font]
What ordinary item don't you have by choice that most people do?

I don't have or use electric can openers. I have one in the pantry (it was given to me used). But I don't see the need for them. I have a perfectly good and easy to use Kitchen-Aid manual can opener. It fits in a drawer. Someone told me I'm weird for not having an electric can opener.

Is there some ordinary item that YOU don't have, by choice, that other people do?

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] klook [/font]
[font size=+1] 13. A car elevator. [/font]
Most people have those, don't they?


The Lounge, 7 July 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018149175


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by Tx4obama
[font size=+1] Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) says he will have Eric Holder arrested[/font]


[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] aint_no_life_nowhere [/font]
[font size=+1] 13. Maybe Mittens can take his State Trooper's uniform out of storage [/font]
Otherwise, I don't anticipate any arrest being made by any legitimate law enforcement agency.

Politics 2012, 29 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/125150725


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by Control-Z
[font size=+1] Come on, folks. DUers alerting on "fuck"?[/font]
Seriously? This is DU - a political, democratic, not really underground, discussion board.

Is it not abusing the jury system to be alerting on the use of the word "fuck" when not directly calling someone something like a "fucked up ass wipe" or similar?

Alert happened here. I kid you not.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1127&pid=18943

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF] MADem
[font size=+1] 21. Don't forget this gem! [/font]
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=11211


One of my personal all-time favorites.
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Chan790 [/font]
[font size=+1] 44. It's replaced "So how 'bout them Mets" as my conversational awkward-pause filler. [/font]
Q: So what'd you end up doing last night?
C: I went to Citronelle. It was a good night, this really hot older bartender and I ended up going home together.
Q: My mom works at Citronelle.
C: Brown hair, blue eyes, 45ish, went to Morocco last year on vacation?
...
C: Fuck Ron Paul.

M-D, 1 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1240118126


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by Odin2005
[font size=+1] Odin2005[/font]


[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Gore1FL [/font]
[font size=+1] 5. I know why they call it that. [/font]
Without the Higgs Boson the Pope wouldn't have mass.

[font color=#FF0000]Oooo, nice!!![/font]

Atheists & Agnostics, 2 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12308969


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by Omaha Steve
[font size=+1] "Let's call this right-wing "freedom" catch phrase what it really is...[/font]
Working America

"Let's call this right-wing "freedom" catch phrase what it really is: a grossly political strategy to dupe the public, which holds the word "freedom" as something sacred." -Richard Trumka http://huff.to/M3Uftu



[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] EC [/font]
[font size=+1] 1. The forth freedom is missing an e.. n/t [/font]

[font color=#FF0000]The rest of the subthread is pretty funny… a DUzy for all participants![/font]

GD, 3 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002899454


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by pokerfan
[font size=+1] Remember to set your clocks forward tonight[/font]


[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF] CJCRANE
[font size=+1] 2. Both of you are going to be embarrassed tomorrow if you do that... [/font]
because you need to set your clock back one second.
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF] pokerfan
[font size=+1] 4. I had a 50-50 chance [/font]
I always screw that up. It's like some form of temporal dyslexia.
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] eppur_se_muova [/font]
[font size=+1] 5. I believe the term would be "dystempor". I hear they have shots for that. nt [/font]

Science, 30 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12287859


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by Tx4obama
[font size=+1] Terry Branstad, Iowa Governor, Leaves Hospital After Choking On Carrot[/font]
Source: AP via HuffPo

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad was briefly hospitalized Wednesday in Los Angeles after choking on food during a ceremony for the re-dedication of the USS Iowa battleship, his spokesman said.

Branstad choked on a carrot during the event and vomited, spokesman Tim Albrecht said. He said the governor was taken to a nearby hospital "out of an overabundance of caution," went through a series of tests and was released after his health turned out to be fine.

"We're glad he's okay. He's in great spirits," Albrecht said. "He's probably a little more embarrassed than anything."

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/04/terry-branstad-iowa-governor-hospital_n_1649870.html

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Orrex [/font]
[font size=+1] 14. An important lesson [/font]
This story, no matter who wrote it,
Left out the main point to be noted.
A carrot is tasty,
But please don't be hasty!
Chew carefully; never deep throat it.

LBN, 4 July 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014159223


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by n2doc
[font size=+1] First Photo of Shadow of Single Atom[/font]
ScienceDaily (July 3, 2012) — In an international scientific breakthrough, a Griffith University research team has been able to photograph the shadow of a single atom for the first time.



"We have reached the extreme limit of microscopy; you can not see anything smaller than an atom using visible light," Professor Dave Kielpinski of Griffith University's Centre for Quantum Dynamics in Brisbane, Australia.

"We wanted to investigate how few atoms are required to cast a shadow and we proved it takes just one," Professor Kielpinski said.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120703172543.htm

Published this week in Nature Communications, "Absorption imaging of a single atom "is the result of work over the last 5 years by the Kielpinski/Streed research team.

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Arctic Dave [/font]
[font size=+1] 1. Wait! Take another, his eyes were closed. [/font]
Just kidding. Very cool.
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Lochloosa [/font]
[font size=+1] 3. Say Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis and SMILE! [/font]

Science, 5 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12288030


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by Laura PourMeADrink
[font size=+1] So, What is pissing you off tonight?[/font]
Mine, since it is 4th of July...

That as long as I live, I will be from a country where the last president
invented a fake war where hundreds of thousands of people died...AND..
he and his VP are resting comfortably somewhere, sipping on something.

We are not on top in so many things, too many to mention. These we
can change. But, we can never change that we started a fake war.

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] taterguy [/font]
[font size=+1] 67. Juror #4 [/font]
As usual

GD, 4 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002902800


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In a locked original post by the tombstoned echofreak
[font size=+1] How does this make you feel[/font]
I thought these people were heroes?



[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] 2on2u [/font]
[font size=+1]1. It makes me feel like I need reading glasses. n/t [/font]
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Liberal Veteran [/font]
[font size=+1] 3. It makes me feel....like I need glasses. [/font]

[font color=#FF0000]Both posted at 5:48pm[/font]

GD, 5 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002906151


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by UnrepentantLiberal
[font size=+1] BACKFIRED: Louisiana GOP Angry That Muslims Can Use School Vouchers[/font]

GOP legislators in Louisiana have realized to their horror that their bill to provide vouchers for private religious schools can actually be used by Muslims.



Rep. Valarie Hodges, a Republican who represents East Baton Rouge and Livingston, now says she wishes she hadn’t voted for the Jindal voucher bill. “I actually support funding for teaching the fundamentals of America’s Founding Fathers’ religion, which is Christianity, in public schools or private schools,” Hodges told the Livingston Parish News. "I liked the idea of giving parents the option of sending their children to a public school or a Christian school,” Hodges added. The newspaper reported that she “mistakenly assumed that ‘religious’ meant ‘Christian.’” “Unfortunately it will not be limited to the Founders’ religion,” Hodges told the News. “We need to insure that it does not open the door to fund radical Islam schools. There are a thousand Muslim schools that have sprung up recently. I do not support using public funds for teaching Islam anywhere here in Louisiana.”

Americans United for the Separation of Church and State writes:

Some legislators aren’t comfortable funding Muslim schools. What’s to be done? How about not establishing these programs in the first place? Let Muslims fund Muslim schools. Let Catholics fund Catholics ones. Let fundamentalist Protestants pay for the conservative Christian academies and so on.

The law has already gone into effect and provides for no state oversight regarding curriculum or educational standards.

More: http://www.joemygod.blogspot.com/2012/07/backfired-louisiana-gop-angry-that.html

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Rambis [/font]
[font size=+1] 6. "Educatin the Muslins" [/font]
Only leads to more cloth terrorists!

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] pinboy3niner [/font]
[font size=+1] 9. That sign is materially false [/font]
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Roy Rolling [/font]
[font size=+1] 44. good one [/font]
apparently, the argument on the sign is full of loopholes
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] pinboy3niner [/font]
[font size=+1] 53. That's where their argument unravels, alright [/font]
Clearly, it was made out of whole cloth to begin with.
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Fawke Em [/font]
[font size=+1] 75. It certainly calls into question the issues looming over our nation. eom [/font]
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Tommy_Carcetti [/font]
[font size=+1] 86. I disagree. Obama's policies closely mirror those espoused by Linen. nt [/font]
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Aerows [/font]
[font size=+1] 48. It undermines [/font]
the very fabric of our nation.
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Manifestor_of_Light [/font]
[font size=+1] 52. Is he three sheets to the wind, so to speak???? [/font]

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] tclambert [/font]
[font size=+1] 100. I don't cotton to that belief. [/font]

GD, 5 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002904834


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by kpete
[font size=+1] Anderson Cooper: "The Fact Is, I'm Gay."[/font]


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I've always believed that who a reporter votes for, what religion they are, who they love, should not be something they have to discuss publicly. As long as a journalist shows fairness and honesty in his or her work, their private life shouldn't matter. I’ve stuck to those principles for my entire professional career, even when I’ve been directly asked “the gay question,” which happens occasionally. I did not address my sexual orientation in the memoir I wrote several years ago because it was a book focused on war, disasters, loss and survival. I didn't set out to write about other aspects of my life.

Recently, however, I’ve begun to consider whether the unintended outcomes of maintaining my privacy outweigh personal and professional principle. It’s become clear to me that by remaining silent on certain aspects of my personal life for so long, I have given some the mistaken impression that I am trying to hide something - something that makes me uncomfortable, ashamed or even afraid. This is distressing because it is simply not true.

I’ve also been reminded recently that while as a society we are moving toward greater inclusion and equality for all people, the tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible. There continue to be far too many incidences of bullying of young people, as well as discrimination and violence against people of all ages, based on their sexual orientation, and I believe there is value in making clear where I stand.

The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn’t be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.

more:
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/07/anderson-cooper-the-fact-is-im-gay.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+andrewsullivan%2FrApM+%28The+Daily+Dish%29

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Ian David [/font]
[font size=+1] 4. Good for Anderson, but that doesn't get him out of doing New Years Eve with Kathy Griffin. n/t [/font]
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] markpkessinger [/font]
[font size=+1] 68. Why, this is the most shocking thing since Clay Aiken came out! n/t [/font]

GD, 2 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002891459


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by WI_DEM
[font size=+1] Mittens dispatching Jindal & Pawlenty to refute Obama on his bus tour[/font]
(the Jindal-Pawlenty tour aka the bore tour):

For the Ohio leg of the trip, Romney has dispatched Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty to visit the regions on Obama's itinerary ahead of the president's arrival.

They will "emphasize the gap between what President Obama said he would accomplish and his lack of results on jobs, health care and the debt," a Romney spokesman told the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Obama has released new advertising questioning Romney's commitment to keeping jobs in America while pointing to his decision to rescue U.S. automakers, a major employer in Ohio.

Obama will deliver his first address Thursday in Maumee, Ohio, before traveling to Sandusky and Parma. The bus tour starts a new phase of Obama's re-election campaign as he takes a more retail-oriented approach before the September convention in Charlotte, N.C. It follows a six-state bus trip by Romney through the Midwest last month that included stops in Ohio and Pennsylvania.



Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07/05/obama-sets-out-on-campaign-bus-tour-with-jobs-report-looming/#ixzz1zl3GnW4E

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] hobbit709 [/font]
[font size=+1] 5. This will work out well. [/font]

Mr. "We don't need to spend money on NOAA" and Mr. "I vetoed a tax bill that would have maintained the bridge that went down."

GD, 5 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002904049


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by kpete
[font size=+1] Who's a good boy, you are, yes you are, yes you are.[/font]


[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Kennah [/font]
[font size=+1] 18. The dog is just testing trickle down theory [/font]

GD, 2 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002893450


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]Original post by [font color=#800080] cleanhippie [/font]
[font size=+1] Particle Physics Gives Me A Hadron [/font]


Science, 6 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12288081


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]Original post by [font color=#800080] krispos42 [/font]
[font size=+1] Romney's horse heads for the Olympics [/font]


GD, 5 Jul 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002903875


Thanks to: BlueCollar, 2ndAmForComputers, eppur_se_muova, Tx4obama, scarletwoman, Warpy, klook, eridani, LadyHawkAZ, dixiegrrrrl, maddezmom, rocktivity, and Mira!!!


This very special super-sized DUzy episode was brought to you by: The International Association of Left-Handed & Farsighted Obstetricians & Gynecologists, The Foundation for the Restoration of the Slide Rule, International Astronomers for the Little Bang Theory Association, the letter D, and the number ?.


-Krispos42

June 30, 2012

The DUzy Awards for Friday, June 29th, 2012

[center][font size=7]WELCOME to the DUZY AWARDS![/font][/center]

Welcome to the funniest of DU! This week features an awesome photoshop thread, so be sure to check it out!

This week’s improvement: I finally figured out how to make the damn text bigger. SOMEBODY *cough* deprecated the <big> HTML command and didn’t tell anybody what the replacement was.

Here’s the code:

<font size=X> Text you want made bigger </font>


Replace < and > with square brackets, and let X equal a number between 1 and 7. Normal text is size 3.


You can also make X be, +1 or +2, if you want the text to go up one or two sizes, or –1 or –2 to go back down.


Okay, shitcan the geek stuff! Let’s get funny!




How it works:

You see a funny post and you want to put it in contention. Great! Send a private-message to “The DUzy Awards” and include a link to the original post and the # of the reply you want to nominate, and then copy-and-paste the OP and the nominated post into the message. That’s in case of a self-deletion or an edit or something.

If a member’s name is in [font color=#800080]purple text[/font], then that member has won a DUzy for the week.

If text is in [font color=#FF0000]red italicized text[/font] that’s a comment from me.

All past DU3 DUzies are in this account’s Journal for your enjoyment. If you want the older ones, go find JeffR’s Journal on DU2… if you can!!! Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by MiddleFingerMom
[font size=+1] I shit you not -- a dog with two assholes.[/font]
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[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] GeorgeGist [/font]
[font size=+1] 4. It's quite common ... [/font]


The Lounge, 23 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018139760


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original self-deleted post by Ptah
[font size=+1] This message was self-deleted by its author[/font]
This message was self-deleted by its author (Ptah) on Sun Jun 24, 2012, 09:38 AM. When the original post in a discussion thread is self-deleted, the entire discussion thread is automatically locked so new replies cannot be posted.

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Ptah [/font]
[font size=+1] 53. I'm going to stop this thread. [/font]
I started this thread to bemoan the peddling woo-woo being allowed to stand.

Now it has been threadjacked by more woo-woo.





Original post:
You can reverse and cure all these diseases
At Sun Jun 17, 2012, 04:44 PM you sent an alert on the following post:

Chronic disease is caused by chronically eating wrong
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1147&pid=527

The reason for the alert was:

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate. (See <a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=aboutus#communitystandards" target="_blank">Community Standards</a>.)

You added the following comments:

Vegan spam.

A randomly-selected Jury of DU members completed their review of this post at Sun Jun 17, 2012, 09:33 AM, and voted 2-4 to keep it.

Thank you.

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Interesting jury result.

M-D, 17 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1240111328


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by kpete
[font size=+1] Jail is pretty fucking humiliating and crazy, huh Jerry?[/font]
Fellow Inmates Reportedly Sang “Hey, Teacher, Leave Those Kids Alone” To Jerry Sandusky

Following guilty verdicts on 45 of 48 counts, Jerry Sandusky was shipped off to Centre County Correctional Facility, the same facility he was initially held in December. According to a fellow inmate at the time, known only as Josh, Sandusky was on the receiving end of some a cappella ridiculing.

Other prisoners were barred from communicating directly with Sandusky, but they could see him. And when the lights went out, inmates serenaded the disgraced coach with a famous line from Pink Floyd's "The Wall."

"At night, we were singing ‘Hey, teacher, leave those kids alone,' " Josh said, adding that everyone knew who Sandusky was because inmates had access to television and newspapers.

Jail is pretty fucking humiliating and crazy, huh Jerry?

http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/06/24/062412-news-sandusky-folo-1-2/
http://deadspin.com/5920864/fellow-inmates-reportedly-sang-hey-teacher-leave-those-kids-alone-to-jerry-sandusky

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF] pinboy3niner
[font size=+1] 7. Yes, the state has a responsibility to prevent suicide by its prisoners [/font]
It also has a responsibilty to prevent physical violence against a prisoner.

The singing...well, I guess that's a horror he'll just have to endure.
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] cliffordu [/font]
[font size=+1] 9. Really. THAT's torture. [/font]
Hope they don't sing any Nickelback. The UN might get involved.

GD, 24 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002852538


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by SoCalDem
[font size=+1] We are series..Hugh Fail[/font]


[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Lint Head [/font]
[font size=+1] 1. Man? Date? CNN now reporting that the eHarmony, Match.com, OKCupid and DateHookup are [/font]
very pleased with the man date being up held.
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] monmouth [/font]
[font size=+1] 2. Anything from "Christian Singles?"....n/t [/font]

GD, 28 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002868942


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by ailsagirl
[font size=+1] "Republicans should be panicking right now..."[/font]
Mitt Romney Slides into Panicked Free Fall over Outsourcing Claims
Jason Easley
June 22, 2012

=snip=

What is stunning is that once again, the Romney campaign didn’t see this coming. They should have had their statement and defense prepared months ago. It is like they didn’t expect anyone to actually look at Romney’s time at Bain, and compare that to what he is saying on the campaign trail. The truth was revealed by what Romney’s spokeswoman didn’t say in her statement. She didn’t dispute the facts. She didn’t dispute the research, and she offered no explanation for Romney’s record.

Their half baked denial reeked of panic, and a campaign that was totally caught off guard. I am sure Romney will be heading to Fox News ASAP to attack The Washington Post, and try to put a spin on this.

His problem is that it won’t work. Finally, Romney’s critics have a way to make his time at Bain stick in the minds of voters. Mitt Romney sent jobs overseas. Romney can try to parse and explain, but he can’t counteract that one sentence message. It is clear and easy to repeat point that voters can take with them into the booth on Election Day.

Republicans should be panicking right now.



=snip=



http://www.politicususa.com/mitt-romney-slides-panicked-free-fall-outsourcing-claims.html

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] 2on2u [/font]
[font size=+1] 5. A vulture revealed...... [/font]

I’m sorry, sir—only one carrion per passenger…

http://www.rumproast.com/index.php/site/comments/im_sorry_sir_--_only_one_carrion_per_passenger/
There’s little consensus on how effective the attacks on Romney’s record as a “vulture capitalist” will be with the GOP base or the American public in general. Steve M thinks the attacks won’t work since Americans are programmed to uncritically worship capitalism and speculates that any attempt to inject nuance into the debate will turn into the usual old “capitalism vs. socialism” false dilemma. He could be right.
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Scootaloo [/font]
[font size=+1] 9. Hey now! [/font]
The vulture may not be a pretty bird. In fact it may be downright hideous, with its head and neck coated in slippery gore. it's even worse when they vomit it all back up to feed their bald, blind, wriggling offspring. Sure you can smell one from a hundred yards away, and the scent is not unlike someone having dumped an ashtray full of Milwaukee's Best over week-old roadkill. Sure, they projectile-defecate, and I'll grant, they may be unable to exist at all without pecking at the unwanted remains of some other animal's meal. And sure, their bodies are refuges for all sorts of lice, larva, and gnarly microbes.

But they would still be insulted by being compared to Romney, because at least a vulture is an integral and valued member of its community.

So watch it with insulting the Aegypiinae subfamily, will ya?

Politics 2012, 22 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/125148538


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by nmbluesky
[font size=+1] The boy salutes President Barack Obama, (different view)[/font]


A young boy along the rope line salutes President Barack Obama after the President spoke at the NALEO Conference in Orlando, FLorida, June 22, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)



US President Barack Obama salutes an audience member after speaking to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials during their annual conference at the Walt Disney World Resort June 22, 2012 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] unblock [/font]
[font size=+1] 4. look mommy! the nice man thinks the lights are too bright just like me! [/font]
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] FailureToCommunicate [/font]
[font size=+1] 5. Fox headline: "Obama uses gang sign to little boy" [/font]
(Look at the intensity of the older man holding the kid!)

Video&Multimedia, 22 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101736268


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]Original post by [font color=#800080] savalez [/font]
[font size=+1] Send CNN/FOX this news tip! [/font]
DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN!

CNN: http://www.cnn.com/feedback/show/?s=newstip

FOX: http://help.foxnews.com/entries/500736-where-can-i-send-story-questions-corrections-or-news-tips



[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] rocktivity [/font]
[font size=+1] 1. DUzy candidate! [/font]



GD, 28 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002871484


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]Original post by [font color=#800080] WCGreen [/font]
[font size=+1] So I just woke up today and I see all this foldarall all over the news about some kind [/font]
of whoop de doo change in the way this here governent rations the health care...

Pwwwwwt. In my day we just cut things off that wa botherin' us and went on doin' what we was doin', we didn't need no governent git in the way....

Next thing you know they'll be letting negroes sit in the front of the bus....

Or put them homersexual in the Army...

By gum, what's this country coming too...

28 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002875551


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]Original post by [font color=#800080] Brickbat [/font]
[font size=+1] When MFM did some work as a biologist, he made a hugely important discovery.[/font]


The Lounge, 26 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018141199


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by Hissyspit
[font size=+1] Tom Tomorrow: Unspeakable[/font]


DailyKos Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/25/1102290/-Unspeakable

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[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Ichingcarpenter [/font]
[font size=+1] 8. Sausage Box [/font]
House Speaker, John Boehner led the assault on Vagina saying:

“We cannot have that disgusting, scientific word used on any political floor anywhere in the country. We are here to do the people’s business and we believe the American people will support us in our choice.

Sausage Box was actually 7th most popular, but the top six were so foul, even I couldn’t go along with them, although some of them were quite funny. Sausage Box is a big favorite in the Boehner family, so I am delighted it was chosen.”

So, yet again Speaker Boehner has shown us his class and leadership and a willingness to move quickly. Privately he said:

“We could not tolerate Vagina being an issue in our campaign to crush Democrats on all fronts in the November election. We believe Sausage Box will defuse the firestorm, now we can get back to hating the President.”


Sausage Box was not Senator McConnell’s first choice, but for the sake of party unity he will go along with it.

Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell, said:

“My vote went to Aunt Hilda’s Hidey Hole but will accept Sausage Box. Speaker Boehner uses it all the time, so I am quite familiar with the term. I do wish Boehner would stop crying, just because he won.”

McConnell added:

“We have straw polls from time to time, most members are not really interested, but this Vagina thing really caught their interest and we recorded a 100 per cent participation from both houses for the first time.

This shows the American people that the Republican party is a party of action and how decisive we are on issues that matter.”


Representative Eric Cantor was disappointed with the choice, but said he would get used to it.
House Majority Leader, Eric Cantor said he was a little dismayed at the choice of Sausage Box:

“My choice was the number one pick among all Republicans, a simple four letter word that just rolls of the tongue, but like the good Republican I am, Sausage Box it is from now on. The American people will notice how we all pull together in a crisis of this magnitude, unlike Democrats who only want to talk about issues that aren’t important.”

But Cantor suggested this is not the end of of the Sausage Box versus Vagina:

“When I eventually get some real power, President maybe, I would consider a new poll and actually pick the number one choice, I will try and get used to Sausage Box, but privately, in the comfort of my own home, I shall continue to use my personal favorite.”

Mother of 28 children, Representative Michele Bachmann, said: “I have never heard of Sausage Box being used for down there, but I like it, after all, that’s what it is. I voted for my husbands favorite, Gash, and he will probably keep using it, but I shall withhold until he uses Sausage Box.”

GD, 25 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002853548


Thanks to: bluesbassman, tawadi, jorno67, Lint Head, rocktivity, and CaliforniaPeggy!!!


Well, it’s still Friday in Fort Pierre, South Dakota. Lemme give a shout-out to the drunken Pierre residents that crossed the Missouri to Fort Pierre at last call!



-Krispos42

June 25, 2012

The DUzy Awards for Friday, June 22, 2012

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[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by kpete
[big] Due To U.S. Obesity, Global Population Is 17 Million Tons Overweight[/big]
Due To U.S. Obesity, Global Population Is 17 Million Tons Overweight
By Tara Culp-Ressler on Jun 18, 2012 at 12:15 pm

Although the United States represents just 5 percent of the global population, it contributes to one-third of the world’s total weight, researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine concluded in a study released today.

The study calculated the weight of the global population at 316 million tons, and estimated that about 17 million tons of that figure is due to the growing numbers of people who are overweight. Increasing levels of fatness around the world threaten future food security, the researchers argues, since current levels of obesity could have the same impact on global resources as an additional half billion people.

Researchers calculated the average global body weight at 137 pounds; however, there are huge differences across regions. The average is 178 pounds in North America and 127 pounds in Asia, for example. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the United States has the highest biomass of any other nation:



http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/06/18/501286/17-million-tons-overweight/

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF] Son of Gob
[big] 11. How the heck did Eygpt get so fat? [/big]
I don't get that.
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] L0oniX [/font]
[big] 15. Something to do with their food "pyramids"??? [/big]

GD, 18 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002823352


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by n2doc
[big] "Get this thing off of me!"[/big]
Octopus hitches ride on dolphin's genitals



By Stephanie Pappas
(livescience.com)
(LiveScience) An octopus got the joyride of its life last week when it somehow became stuck on the belly of a bottlenose dolphin in the Ionian Sea. More specifically, the tentacled sea creature had a seat on the dolphin's genital slit.
Researchers with the Ionian Dolphin Project, part of the Tethys Research Institute, were observing a foursome of dolphins near the island of Kalamos off the west coast of Greece. Suddenly, one of the dolphins leapt out of the water with something strange dangling from its stomach. It wasn't until the researchers examined their photos of the leap that they realized the unidentified object was an octopus.

The tentacled hitchhiker was attached to the dolphin's genital slit. Photographer Joan Gonzalvo isn't sure what the octopus was up to, though he told New Scientist that perhaps the dolphin tried to eat the octopus and the animal lodged itself along the dolphin's genital slit to escape.

The dolphin may have been leaping from the water to detach its uninvited guest, Gonzalvo, the project manager of the Ionian Dolphin Project, wrote on the organization's blog. After shaking the octopus loose, the dolphin continued to swim with no signs of discomfort, he added.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57455945/octopus-hitches-ride-on-dolphins-genitals/

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Ian David [/font]
[big] 2. God made Flipper and Eve, not Oscar and Flipper! n/t [/big]


[font color=#FF0000]Ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch![/font]

Science, 19 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12287546


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by backwoodsbob
[big] wtf has happened to the DU I Loved?!?[/big]
we are entering the end run of a presidential campaign and what is the front page of GD covered with?..Porn threads.

WTF?

DAMNIT lets get some focus people.The asshat rMoney is gonna make this a race and we have 50 fucking threads about porn?

DAMNIT!

WTF has happened to this place?

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] deutsey [/font]
[big] 35. Headline, Nov. 7, 2012: "Romney Wins in a Landslide! Experts say DU Porn Discussions a Main Factor" [/big]


GD, 20 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002831674


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]Original post by [font color=#800080] Spitfire of ATJ [/font]
[big] Post your "Neil Munro Interupts Famous Speeches" Pics[/big]
First. The blank you'll need for insertion:




I'll get the ball rolling:





[font color=#FF0000]Everybody that made one gets a DUzy! I’ll post some of the ones I like, but they’re all great! [/font]



[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Frank Cannon
[big] 24. Or maybe this one... [/big][/font]

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] LunaSea [/font]
[big] 14. The Champion [/big]

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] ghurley [/font]
[big] 48. May 1, 2003 [/big]

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] TalkingDog [/font]
[big] 78. fast quick and cheap [/big]

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] TalkingDog [/font]
[big] 82. Real and cartoon is... tough. [/big]

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Whisp [/font]
[big] 274. neither could he [/big]

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] ThoughtCriminal [/font]
[big] 97. Feeding the Multitude [/big]

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] johnnie [/font]
[big] 121. Ok... [/big]
It wasn't technically a "Famous speech" but the ban is legend here at DU.



[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Spitfire of ATJ [/font]
[big] 458. Neil Munro's nightmare [/big]


GD, 16 Jun 2012

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002815391


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]Original post by [font color=#800080] NYC_SKP [/font]
[big] *****WHY DO I EVERY DAY SEE A GIGANTIC DICK ON THE DU HOME PAGE?*****[/big]
Seems like EVERY DAY it's the same one!!

Am I INSANE???22@22??22!!!



Please forgive me, I have 3 broken ribs and am not finding relief for that....



NONETHELESS!!11!!11ELEVENS!



I LOVE THIS PLACE!









GD, 20 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002834990


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by proud2BlibKansan
[big] Students bully school bus monitor, post video on YouTube[/big]

&feature=player_embedded#t=0s

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) -
A group of students in western New York are being investigated after tormenting a school bus monitor for more than 10 minutes and posting video of the incident on YouTube.

In a clip titled "Making the Bus Monitor Cry," the students -- male and female -- takes turns hurling profanities and insults at the woman, identified as Karen Klein.

At one point, Klein removes her sunglasses and begins to cry. A student mocks her, saying, "She probably misses her box of Twinkies."

The students attend Athena Middle School in the town of Greece, a suburb of Rochester, New York.

Klein remains calm during the incident, as students continue to mock her, calling her fat and suggesting she commit suicide.

more . . . http://www.kctv5.com/story/18838290/students-bully-school-bus-monitor-post-video-on-youtube

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] rocktivity [/font]
[big] 1. What is our children learning? [/big]
There is a crisis in our educational system indeed...if our kids are so dumb they record the crimes they commit AND publish them online!

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Hotler [/font]
[big] 178. They're learning to be republicans. n/t [/big]

GD, 20 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002834461


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]Original post by [font color=#800080] MindMover [/font]
[big] Ryan Being Vetted for VP[/big]
Source: National Review

I’m reliably informed that Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the Budget Committee chairman, has submitted paperwork to the Romney campaign. Sources confirm that he is being vetted for the vice-presidential nomination.

Read more: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/303798/ryan-being-vetted-vp-robert-costa#

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] DFW [/font]
[big] 6. Yeah, but don't get too excited [/big]
So was Quickdraw McGraw, Huckleberry Hound, Harpo Marx and the Thee Stooges. Oh yeah, and I think Marco Rubio.

LBN, 22 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014149952


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by Ruby the Liberal
[big]Du, Please.[/big]
Who has the results on this, a most excellent Samuel L Jackson setup/rebound post?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1240113504#post9

Sorry REP. Thought that was a riot, sis.

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Dr. Strange [/font]
[big] 20. This reminds me of a passage: Jackson 25:17 [/big]
The path of the righteous DUer is beset on all sides by the inequities of the Lounge and the tyranny of GD. Blessed is he who, in the name of TOS and good will, shepherds the posters through the valley of the trolls. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost threads. And I will PPR down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and threadjack my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my banhammer upon you, dumbass.

M-D, 20 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1240113603







Thanks to: L0oniX, eridani, Little Star, rocktivity, MindMover, and Ruby the Liberal!


It was a short week… WTF? C’mon, slackers, we’ve got ROMNEY running for high office, and we can’t find more than a half-dozen things a week funny about THAT???

-Krispos42

June 16, 2012

The DUzy Awards for Friday, June 15th, 2012

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[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002794414
[big] Ran across this very smart doggie, carrying a big sign with an important message [/big]


[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF] targetpractice
[big] 9. Bizarre... Someone Photoshopped the E's. This version is correct... [/big]
Notice that both occurrences of "E" in the original post don't look like other "E's" on the sign. I wonder why any fool would go to the trouble just to make a dog look dumb. Or, perhaps this version was altered to make the pooch seem smarter. ;-P
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Gidney N Cloyd [/font]
[big] 10. I think in yours I see a little Whiteout under the A in the second 'AFFECT.' [/big]
Clearly a correction's been made. My yellow lab tries to gaslight me like this all the time. It's not going to work with this pup, either.
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] SaB2012 [/font]
[big] 22. Actually, no. The "correct version" is the photoshopped one. [/big]
I easily confirmed this by merely zooming in on the text and noting that the "A" in the second "affect" is exactly the same (except for some pixelization) as the "A" in the first "as."

As for the "E's," there's actually no rhyme or reason to how they look in the original version with the bad spelling. In "same-sex" they are virtually "C's"" with lines through them, but then in "marriage" and "me," they are squared.
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Gidney N Cloyd [/font]
[big] 29. {sigh} Do you expect us to believe a dog knows how to photoshop? [/big]
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] tclambert [/font]
[big] 17. My dog is much worse. I asked him, "What's on top of a house?" He said, "Bark." [/big]
"No! What covers a tree?"
He said, "Woof."
"No! What's a wild dog called?"
"Arf."
"No! What's that organization of old people?"
"Roof."
"No! What's the longest side of a right triangle called?"
"Hypotenuse."
"One out of five! You don't get a treat for one out of five. Stupid dog."
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF] piratefish08
[big] 28. dogs are horrible spellers. it's embarrassing. [/big]
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Remmah2 [/font]
[big] 30. Don't let cats fool you. [/big]
I caught mine using spell check.

GD, 10 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002794414


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by rug
[big] Turtle Divorce: Giant Turtles Divorce After 115 Years Together[/big]
Posted: 06/08/2012 2:40 pm Updated: 06/09/2012 4:57 am

You can't say they didn't try.

After an impressive 115 years together, two giant turtles at an Austrian zoo are refusing to share their cage anymore, the Austrian Times reported Friday.

"We get the feeling they can't stand the sight of each other anymore," said Helga Happ, director of the Klagenfurt-based zoo, where the turtles -- Bibi, the female and Poldi, the male -- have lived for the last 36 years. Before that, they called Basel Zoo in Switzerland home.

According to the paper, zoo staff realized something was amiss when Bibi bit off a chunk of her partner's shell. When the attacks continued, Poldi was moved to another cage.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/08/turtle-divorce_n_1581463.html?ref=mostpopular

Bibi and Poldi in happier times.



The look on her face says it's over.



[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Gidney N Cloyd [/font]
[big] 9. They need to bring in a spiritual advisor... [/big]

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] rug [/font]
[big] 10. He looks distraught over this. [/big]
No one likes to see their parents divorce.

The Lounge, 9 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018130539


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by xchrom
[big] 'Sexual depravity' of penguins that Antarctic scientist dared not reveal[/big]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/09/sex-depravity-penguins-scott-antarctic



Two adult Adelie penguins with a chick in Antarctica. The abuse of the young was one of the things which shocked George Levick. Photograph: Steve Bloom Images /Alamy

It was the sight of a young male Adelie penguin attempting to have sex with a dead female that particularly unnerved George Murray Levick, a scientist with the 1910-13 Scott Antarctic Expedition. No such observation had ever been recorded before, as far as he knew, and Levick, a typical Edwardian Englishman, was horrified. Blizzards and freezing cold were one thing. Penguin perversion was another.

Worse was to come, however. Levick spent the Antarctic summer of 1911-12 observing the colony of Adelies at Cape Adare, making him the only scientist to this day to have studied an entire breeding cycle there. During that time, he witnessed males having sex with other males and also with dead females, including several that had died the previous year. He also saw them sexually coerce females and chicks and occasionally kill them.

Levick blamed this "astonishing depravity" on "hooligan males" and wrote down his observations in Greek so that only an educated gentleman would understand the horrors he had witnessed. Back in Britain he produced a paper (in English), titled Natural History of the Adelie Penguin. However, the section about the animal's sexual proclivities was deemed to be so shocking it was removed to preserve decency. Levick then used this material as the basis for a separate short paper, Sexual Habits of the Adelie Penguin, which was privately circulated among a handful of experts.

In fact, Levick's observations turned out to be well ahead of their time. Scientists had to wait another 50 years before the remarkable sexual antics of the Adelie were revealed. By this time his pamphlet and its detailed records of Adelie shenanigans had been lost to science .

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Bolo Boffin [/font]
[big] 9. March of the Penguins 2? [/big]
What's Morgan Freeman doing?

Science, 9 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12287290


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by jpbollma
[big] Just Wanted to Give Reminder Of Mitt's Craziness: Kolob[/big]
Perhaps Mitt wants austerity on Earth in order to raise funds for a jobs program on Kolob??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolob


According to several LDS writers (such as Cleon Skousen in his book The First 2000 Years), the earth was created near Kolob over a period of 6000 years (six "days" in Kolob time), and then moved to its present position in our solar system. This hypothesis is based on oral comments attributed to Joseph Smith, Jr. The hypothesis is also based on a passage from the Book of Abraham stating that in the Garden of Eden, time was measured "after the Lord's time, which was after the time of Kolob; for as yet the Gods had not appointed to Adam his reckoning". According to the hypothesis, the reason that Earth time was measured in Kolob time was because the earth was physically located near Kolob. As a corollary, some LDS writers argue that at the end times, the earth will be plucked from the solar system and returned to its original orbit near Kolob.


hahaha this really does take the crazy to a whole new level.

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] aint_no_life_nowhere [/font]
[big] 1. With my apologies to Mormans [/big]
(because I assume most of them are decent people who don't fire their workers with glee) I can't help it that when I hear that name Kolob that's sacred to Mr. Romney it sounds like something out of D.C. Comics in the 1930s: Kal-El from Krypton - Wil-ard from Kolob.

GD, 10 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002794650


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]Original post by [font color=#800080] applegrove [/font]
[big] The right is so concerned with 'decay in morals' and how this will lead to the end of the empire.[/big]
Isn't it more likely that it is the decay in business morals that will destroy our way of life? (and has already in the last decade).
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] rug [/font]
[big] 1. The Lounge is the perfect place to discuss decaying morals. [/big]
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF] applegrove
[big] 2. Oh. My bad. [/big]
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF] Kali
[big] 9. hee hee [/big]
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1240108223



The Lounge, 11 Jun 2012, 10:05pm EDT

In an original post by MineralMan
[big] Whose idea was it to put The DU Lounge link between[/big]
GD and Meta? I looked up a few minutes ago and found myself in The Lounge. I had posted several times there. Someone please help!

The DU Lounge is very like the Hotel California - You can check out but you can never leave. At any moment, your mouse may betray you. This must not go on uncorrected! I ask you, ladies and gents...is this right?


M-D, 11 June 2012 8:51pm EDT
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1240108223

[font color=#FF0000]I don’t know who gets what, but the coincidence is funny as hell![/font]


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by marmar
[big] Cop dies during 3-way sex; widow wins $3M lawsuit[/big]
from the USA Today, via the Detroit Free Press:



A jury has awarded a Georgia woman $3 million over her husband's heart attack, finding that his doctor should have warned the Atlanta cop against strenuous activity like the three-way sex he was having at the time he died, WXIA-TV reports.

William Martinez, a 31-year-old Atlanta police officer, collapsed and died while he and a male friend were having sex with a woman who was not his wife at an Atlanta airport motel in 2009.

The jury on Friday found that Dr. Sreenivasulu Gangasani and the Cardiovascular Group were 60% to blame for Martinez's death from atheroschlerotic coronary artery disease, agreeing with the plaintiff that the doctor did not properly diagnose and treat Martinez for high blood pressure, chest pains, shortness of breath and irregular heartbeat. ................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.freep.com/article/20120612/NEWS07/120612002/Cop-dies-during-3-way-sex-widow-wins-3M-lawsuit?odyssey=obinsite

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] rug [/font]
[big] 3. He was found 40% liable for his own death. That's not fair. [/big]
It should only be 33 1/3%.

[font color=#FF0000]Maybe he just brought a bit more to the bedroom than the other guy?[/font]

GD, 12 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002801246


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by romantico
[big] Noah's Ark. Your Thoughts[/big]
There is a new film being made about Noah's Ark with Russell Crowe playing Noah. Having grown up in a religious conservative household, I never gave the Noah's Ark story much credibility. A big boat with 2 of every kind of animal? I've always had trouble with this story,even as a kid when I believed things that I am embarrassed to admit today as an adult. I remember really getting into this heated argument years ago with a lady I use to work with. She was a very religious woman who acted as if she was there and knew for a fact that the story was one hundred percent accurate.

My problem is, even if it were true people actually thinking the ark is hiding someplace in plain sight. Mt. Ararat in Turkey is believed to be the resting place of the ark. I think the wood after all these years would have rotted. So, the thing is this. I never had an interest in Noah's ark since I was a kid. In my mind I debunked it and just dismissed it. I love a good conspiracy,even the ones I have a hard time believing. This one never really got my attention.Until now.

I'm reading a book by Nick Redfern called The Pyramids and the Pentagon. Its a fun read and it talks about the CIA's interest in Noah's Ark.I'm learning some things I had not heard before and am just curious to hear what some others think about Noah's Ark and the story,the myth, and their thoughts on the subject.

Here is a link to the book:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Pyramids-Pentagon-Governments-Civilizations/dp/1601632061/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1339511253&sr=8-1

Here is a link to the movie:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/its-confirmed-noahs-ark-is-coming-to-the-big-screen-and-guess-whos-playing-the-lead-role/

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] NickB79 [/font]
[big] 19. Noah's Ark: An STD-infected, bug-infested, shit-encrusted cruise from Hell [/big]
You've got literally MILLIONS of animals on board this ship, with 90% of them being insects and spiders of some sort crawling all over everything around you, and on you while you sleep.

You've got animals screaming, braying, trumpeting, and shitting EVERYWHERE for weeks and weeks on end, at all hours of the day.

You have to make sure they all get food and water every day for the entire trip.

It's dark and hot and it stinks and there's little ventilation.

You can't kill any of them no matter how often you step in a steaming pile of shit because then you'd be driving a species to extinction and violating God's will.

The ship is swaying and heaving in massive waves, because the entire world is underwater, and Dramamine is still 5,000 years from being invented.

And to top it off, you and every other person on board this ship are carrying MULTIPLE varieties of STD's, because we know they couldn't have all evolved or anything so therefore they must have been brought with on the Ark. That, or there was one unlucky fucker who got to carry every known kind of crotch rot known to man and somehow survived long enough to infect his own family with all of them before he died so they would carry on to this day.

Make a movie of THAT Noah's Ark, and I will be there opening night to see it!
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Ptah [/font]
[big] 22. You should write ad copy for Carnival Cruises [/big]

The Lounge, 12 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018132574


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by cynatnite
[big] Could getting single payer be this simple?[/big]
Let’s begin by imagining that Congress and the president decided to adopt a genuinely radical health care plan—the kind in place in most of the industrialized world. They decide on a “single-payer” system, where the government raises revenue with taxes, and pays the doctor, hospital and lab bills for just about everyone.

Put aside the question of whether this is a good idea, or an economically sustainable notion. The question is: would such a law be constitutional?

The answer, unquestionably, is “yes.” In fact, it would be the simplest law in the world to enact. All the Congress would need to do is to take the Medicare law and strike out the words “over 65.” Why is it constitutional? For the same reason Medicare and Social Security are: the taxing power. Its reach is immense. During World War II, the maximum income tax rate was 91 per cent (it was paid by few, thanks to loopholes, but still). The same Congress that could abolish the estate tax could set just about whatever limit it chose; it could impose a 100 percent tax on estates over, say, $5 million. If it decided that a national sales tax was an answer to huge budget deficits, it could impose one at whatever level it chose.

http://news.yahoo.com/supreme-irony--would-a--single-payer--health-care-plan-be-less-vulnerable-to-the-court-than-the-affordable-health-care-act-.html

Of course, it wouldn't be this easy, but I love the simplicity of the idea.

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] 3waygeek [/font]
[big] 34. It won't happen, in large part because the Republicans have struck the words "over 65" [/big]
from their IQ requirements for candidates.

GD, 12 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002800319


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by kpete
[big] Feds Sue Larry Craig Over Bathroom Sex Sting Defense Cash[/big]
Source: Talking Points Memo

Federal campaign regulators brought the hammer down on disgraced former Sen. Larry Craig on Monday, accusing him of misusing hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign cash to pay for his legal defense following an arrest in a Minneapolis airport bathroom sex sting.

The Federal Election Commission filed a federal lawsuit against Craig, who now works as a lobbyist in Washington, D.C., asking a judge to order the former lawmaker to pay back his campaign committee more than $200,000 and stop him from raiding the committee for his own personal use.

Craig did not return a message left at his lobbying firm.

The case stems from the Idaho Republican’s embarrassing 2007 arrest by an undercover cop in a Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport bathroom stall. The cop said Craig made sexual advances toward him by tapping his feet under the stall divider.

Read more: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/06/larry_craig_fec_election_bathroom_sex_sting_airport_defense.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TPMmuckraker+%28TPMmuckraker%29

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] rocktivity [/font]
[big]9. Let's spin that oldie but goodie "Tap Three Times With Your Loafer If You Want Me" [/big]
&feature=player_embedded#t=0s

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] 66 dmhlt [/font]
[big] 11. Ronald Raygun: "Mr. Craig, tear down this stall." [/big]

LBN, 12 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014142004


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by kentuck
[big] Another day, another struggle against the propaganda...[/big]


[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] underpants [/font]
[big] 3. ...okay now let's go to the Fox News weather and find out where Obama is making unicorns cry [/big]

GD, 14 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002807166


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by ohiosmith
[big] Update: Motion Denied! Boo Hoo! Floyd Mayweather doesn't like jail....[/big]
LAS VEGAS -- A Las Vegas judge has denied a request from boxer Floyd Mayweather to serve the remainder of his jail sentence from home.

Judge Melissa Saragosa denied Mayweather's request late Wednesday.

Mayweather claimed he was underfed and also unable to train. The judge denied his request, saying chose not to eat the food available and that he could train in his cell.

Mayweather was sent to jail for 90 days starting on June 1 after being arrested for domestic violence.

He was accused of hitting and threatening his ex-girlfriend, stealing her cell phone and threatening two of their children at her home in September 2010. He could have faced 34 years in prison.

Link: http://www.8newsnow.com/story/18782945/breaking-judge-denies-mayweathers-house-arrest-appeal?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lasvegasnow%2Fiteam+%288+News+NOW+-+I-Team+Reports%29




So Floyd Mayweather Jr. doesn’t like jail. As heavyweight champion Joe Louis said when he was told that an opponent didn’t like to get hit in the body, “Who do?”

With his client just 12 days into a three-month jail sentence on domestic battery at the Clark County Detention Center, Mayweather’s lawyer, Richard Wright, filed an emergency motion on Monday to have the 35-year-old pound-for-pound king finish his sentence under house arrest.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal got a copy of the 35-page motion, which paints Mayweather as a man who is more than just a little homesick. Wright said the boxer’s physical condition is deteriorating with the stress that he’s under while in jail and his boxing career is in jeopardy.

Wright called Mayweather’s condition “inhumane.” For his own safety Mayweather is in segregation and spends 23 hours a day confined to his cell in a part of the jail that houses felons. He has access to the recreation area for one hour a day, but can’t use the training facilities. Along with being subjected to the poor prison food, he is getting out of shape.



Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more-sports/floyd-mayweather-jr-files-house-arrest-lawyer-richard-wright-calls-jail-conditions-inhumane-article-1.1094689#ixzz1xhIvkRD3

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] HopeHoops [/font]
[big] 14. 23 hours of confinement and bad food? That's called "a job". [/big]
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] ohiosmith [/font]
[big] 15. Or in some cases, marriage! [/big]


The Lounge, 13 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018133398


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by ohiosmith
[big] Just follow the signs.......[/big]


[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] geardaddy [/font]
[big] 1. What if I don't like Sue? [/big]
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] ohiosmith [/font]
[big] 2. No refunds! [/big]


The Lounge, 12 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018132842


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]Original post by [font color=#800080] Botany [/font]
[big] Romney did not know what a chocolate donut was[/big] http://www.mediaite.com/online/mitt-romney-apparently-doesnt-know-what-a-donut-is/ video



“Garrett, can you see that one of those chocolate…uh…chocolate goodies finds its way to our ride?”

[font color=#FF0000]Lots of winning replies in this thread! Rofl!!![/font]

GD, 12 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002799780


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by Bozita
[big] Man shoots himself in the penis in Birmingham[/big]
Man shoots himself in the penis in Birmingham
10:55 AM, June 15, 2012
By Tammy Stables Battaglia
Detroit Free Press Staff Writer


A Southfield man is recovering after accidentally shooting himself in the penis as he adjusted his gun, according to police.

The 45-year-old heating and air-conditioning company employee was on a job in Birmingham on Tuesday when the incident took place, Birmingham Police Deputy Chief Mark Clemence said today. He was getting ready to work and was moving the .40-caliber Glock pistol in his pants when it discharged at 11:15 a.m.

"Through and through, if you can believe it," Clemence said. "The situation could have been a lot worse. You think about it -- your femoral artery runs down there. He could have shot it off. It could have been a lot worse. It’s a big bullet; you’re not talking a small bullet."

-snip-

Although he had a permit to carry the gun, he may face charges of reckless discharge of a firearm, Clemence said. The city's prosecutor is expected to review the case, he added.

more...
http://www.freep.com/article/20120615/NEWS03/120615029/Man-shoots-himself-in-the-penis-in-Birmingham?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] marmar [/font]
[big] 9. Brings all-new meaning to "gun nuts" [/big]
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] rug [/font]
[big] 24. Glock Shoots Cock [/big]

GD, 15 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002811789


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by Judi Lynn
[big] Colombia's poor won't value free housing: Giuliani .[/big]
Colombia's poor won't value free housing: Giuliani .
Friday, 15 June 2012 15:25 Seth Robbins

Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani indirectly criticized the Colombian president’s plan to give 100,000 houses to the country’s poorest citizens, saying that people do not value objects they obtain free of charge.

Warning that he does not know the full details of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos’ plan, Giuliani, speaking at a conference in Cartagena Friday, said that “people only value what they earn,” local news media reported.

~snip~
Giuliani said the key to helping poorer families is to offer them work that allows them to earn income for housing, calling handouts “disrespectful," according to Portafolio.co.

“Reward them if they evolve and earn a place in society through effort,” Giuliani said. “And take away the benefits if otherwise.”

More:
http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/24630-colombias-poor-wont-value-free-housing-giuliani.html

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] MiniMe [/font]
[big] 5. That can't possibly be the complete quote, 9-11 is not mentioned once. [/big]

Latin America Group, 15 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/11083508




Thanks to: eppur_se_muova, The Velveteen Ocelot, Mira, eridani, Kali, BillyJack, liberaltrucker, eridani, meow2u3, rocktivity, coalition_unwilling, dixiegrrrrl, and roody!!!


Yay, all caught up!
-Krispos42

June 16, 2012

The DUzy Awards for Friday, June 8, 2012 - Part 2

[center][big][big][big]WELCOME to the DUZY AWARDS![/big][/big][/big][/center]

Your approximately weekly delivery showcase of the best of DU!


How it works:

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If a member’s name is in [font color=#800080]purple text[/font], then that member has won a DUzy for the week.

If text is in [font color=#FF0000]red italicized text[/font] that’s a comment from me.

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[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by muriel_volestrangler
[big] You may laugh. You may vomit. You won't believe it. Presenting: Breitb-art. For $4,000.[/big]
Via Tbogg:


A Tbogg commenter points out 'giclee' is a marketing term for ink-jet printing.

It reminds me of the painting from Ghostbusters 2:

but a bit creepier.

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Buns_of_Fire [/font]
[big] 20. For four grand you'd think it would at least be on black velvet. [/big]
With Saint Reagan's smiling visage over his right shoulder.

These people just ain't got no culture.

GD, 2 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002758523


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]Original post by [font color=#800080] RoseMead [/font]
[big] I've found the solution to all the Meta drama[/big]
in one easy-to-use form.



M-D, 7 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1240106907


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by kpete
[big] Obama: Bush Tax Cuts For Wealthy Will Not Be Extended, Period[/big]
Source: Huffington Post

Obama: Bush Tax Cuts For Wealthy Will Not Be Extended, Period

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE -- The White House is insisting President Barack Obama will not extend the Bush-era tax cuts for wealthier Americans – even temporarily.

Obama spokesman Jay Carney said the president has been clear in his opposition to extending tax cuts for households with annual incomes above $250,000.

.............

Carney's stand came after former President Bill Clinton caused a political headache for the White House by suggesting in an interview that tax cuts for people of all incomes – including the rich – should be extended into 2013 to avoid economic harm and allow time for a broader fiscal deal.

Pressed directly on whether Obama would support a temporary extension, Carney said: "He will not. Could I be more clear?

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/06/obama-bush-tax-cuts-will-_n_1574165.html

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] woo me with science [/font]
[big] 23. ... [/big]


LBN, 6 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014137697


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by kpete
[big] Florida Voter Purge Will Continue, Defying Federal Warning[/big]
Source: Huffington Post

Florida Voter Purge Will Continue, Defying Federal Warning
Posted: 06/02/2012 9:23 am Updated: 06/02/2012 9:54 am

Florida will defy a federal warning to stop purging people the state suspects aren't U.S. citizens from voter registration rolls.

Despite a Justice Department letter, objections from county elections officials and evidence that a disproportionate number are voters of color, Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner's office planned to continue scrubbing the election rolls, a spokesman said Friday. Gov. Rick Scott (R) ordered the search for potentially ineligible voters.

“We have an obligation to make sure the voter rolls are accurate and we are going to continue forward and do everything that we can legally do to make sure than ineligible voters cannot vote,” said Chris Cate, a spokesman for Detzner. “We are firmly committed to doing the right thing and preventing ineligible voters from being able to cast a ballot. We are not going to give up our efforts to make sure the voter rolls are accurate."

Justice Department officials declined to comment on Florida’s plans.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/02/florida-voter-purge-federal-warning_n_1564131.html

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] AnotherMcIntosh [/font]
[big] 26. Will someone please tell Holder that Detzner and Scott are selling medical marijuana? [/big]
It may be the only chance.

LBN, 2 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014134421


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by trumad
[big] Can we have a group that helps members quit DU?[/big]
We've got all kinds of addiction groups here at DU but not one for DU addiction.

I tried quitting a couple of days ago, but lasted errr 2 days.

The group would be interesting---

Hi, I'm trumad. I've been a member for 11 years and I'm trying to quit.

I guess if a member of that group didn't show up, it worked.

If he or she did, its a relapse.

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] hlthe2b [/font]
[big] 2. Ok... you are going to have to lay out the 12 steps for this. [/big]
Somehow I'm guessing if you include a requirement to "make a list of persons harmed and be willing to make amends to them all", that will be the "sticking point" for most hard core DU addicts.

M-D, 8 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1240107206


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by onehandle
[big] 'Car Talk' Guys Are Retiring, But Their Best Stuff Will Be Rebroadcast[/big]
Source: NPR

June 8, 2012; Our Fair City – Tom and Ray Magliozzi, aka Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers, the comedian mechanics who host NPR's Car Talk, will tell their listeners this afternoon that as of this fall, they'll no longer record new programs. But their weekly call-in series will continue to be distributed by NPR drawing on material from their 25 years of show archives.

"My brother has always been 'work-averse,' " says Ray, 63. "Now, apparently, even the one hour a week is killing him!"

"It's brutal!" adds Tom, 74.

The brothers have been taping Car Talk at WBUR in Boston for 35 years, and the show has been a staple on NPR Member stations for the last 25 years. With older brother Tom turning 75 this year, the guys decided it was time to "stop and smell the cappuccino."

Read more: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/06/08/154576808/car-talk-guys-are-retiring-but-their-best-stuff-will-be-rebroadcast

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Blue Owl [/font]
[big] 3. Remember that weird call from the guy asking how to strap a dog kennel to the roof? [/big]
Wow that was a strange one.

LBN, 8 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014139118




Thanks to: eppur_se_muova, Sedona, dixiegrrrrl, rocktivity, Hatchling, and MADem


Okay, tomorrow, next week, whatever. Now I’ll hammer out this week’s DUzies!
-Krispos42

June 9, 2012

The DUzy Awards for Friday, June 8, 2012 - Part 1

[center][big][big][big]WELCOME to the DUZY AWARDS![/big][/big][/big][/center]

Your weekly delivery of humor of the writing and graphic sort! From the same website that brings you “Your Sunday LOL Cats”, “The Best of DU Hate Mail”, and whatever idiocy Free Republic is spewing!


How it works:

You see a funny post and you want to put it in contention. Great! Send a private-message to “The DUzy Awards” and include a link to the original post and the # of the reply you want to nominate, and then copy-and-paste the OP and the nominated post into the message. That’s in case of a self-deletion or an edit or something.

If a member’s name is in [font color=#800080]purple text[/font], then that member has won a DUzy for the week.

If text is in [font color=#FF0000]red italicized text[/font] that’s a comment from me.

All past DU3 DUzies are in this account’s Journal for your enjoyment. If you want the older ones, go find JeffR’s Journal on DU2… if you can!!! Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!




[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by NightWatcher
[big] Thoughts on what Death is like?[/big]


[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] hay rick [/font]
[big] 2. If you were evil you spend eternity in Meta-discussion. [/big]
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] ManyShadesOf [/font]
[big] 5. some prepare by spending their lives [/big]
Meta-tating
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] hay rick [/font]
[big] 6. OmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmMG. [/big]
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Wait Wut [/font]
[big] 12. I just finished watching All That Jazz. [/big]
Death has lots of music and dancing. It's better than that whole white tunnel thing. I'm claustrophobic, Heaven or Hell...tunnels are just bad.

The Lounge, 1 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018126207


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by The DUzy Awards
[big] The DUzy Awards for Friday, June 1st, 2012[/big]

<massive snip>

Thanks to: Make7, UnrepentantLiberal, beac, Scuba, LiberalAndProud, scarletwoman, Vanje, dixiegrrrrl, rocktivity, and Mira!


Submitted for shits and giggles,
-Krispos42

[font color=#FF0000]Yeah…. I’m not going to re-post the entire friggin’ DUzy awards!!! I’m crazy, not stupid![/font]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002758525

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] grantcart [/font]
[big] 14. I get the giggles part but why do you post it for [/big]
shits?
[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] krispos42 [/font]
[big] 19. Depends. [/big]
I'm heavily invested in the parent company of Depends.

GD, 2 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002758525


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by trumad
[big] 30,000 feet up and heading to San Fran...... Ask me anything?[/big]

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] taterguy [/font]
[big] 1. Are your arms getting tired? [/big]

[font color=#FF0000]Groan.[/font]

The Lounge, 3 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018126824


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]Original post by [font color=#800080] MrScorpio [/font]
[big] There is no Zombie Apocalypse...[/big]
Zombies aren't real.

What's really going on is actually a Cannibal Holocaust.

So, my advice to all of you is to avoid going out in public covered in BBQ sauce while holding an apple in your mouth… You might just look a tad too tempting.

Those cannibals are EVERYWHERE, people!

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Initech [/font]
[big] 4. I'm betting season 3 of the Walking Dead is going to be a reality show at this point. [/big]
:zoiks:

GD, 4 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002763911


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by xchrom
[big] The Navy Thinks This New $7 Billion Ship Is The Answer To All Its Chinese Concerns[/big]
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-uss-zumwalt-ddg-1000-a-silver-bullet-of-stealth-2012-06


DDG 1000 Zumwalt has a peripheral vertical launch system (PVLS), which consists of 20 four-cell PVLS situated round the perimeter of the deck


DDG 1000 will have a 'tumblehome' hull form, in which the hull slopes inward from above the waterline

Looking a bit like an old Civil War Ironclad, the $7 billion DDG 1000 USS Zumwalt will focus on land attacks, relying heavily on its advanced stealth technology to slip in close to shore before unleashing its massive onboard arsenal.
A new take on the Zumwalt was published today by the Eric Talmadge at the Associated Press who points out that in addition to the ship's wide array of conventional weapons the Zumwalt will eventually carry the Navy's much anticipated "railgun".
The railgun is an electrically powered artillery weapon that launches massive projectiles at high speeds without the use of gunpowder or explosives. Instead, an electric current is run through the artillery shell, the current interacts with the magnetic fields in the rails and pounds the shell from the barrel.
The Navy successfully tested the railgun in February, but it has not yet been fielded for service.
The Zumwalt was originally estimated to cost about $3.8 billion, but so much technology crammed on board that its cost has nearly doubled, and after the first three are built, production will stop. Including the exhaustive research and development required by each vessel to total cost jumps to $7 billion apiece.
In addition the Zumwalt will be built to receive the Navy's new electromagnetic rail-gun that can fire projectiles at over five times the speed of sound. All this new technology adds up.


***oy -- boys and there toys.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-uss-zumwalt-ddg-1000-a-silver-bullet-of-stealth-2012-06#ixzz1wp4JVAAV

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] Egalitarian Thug [/font]
[big] 16. Dear Dept. of the Navy, I'm awfully sorry about your penis, but please stop making us pay [/big]
for your feelings of inadequacy.

GD, 4 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002762210


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by kpete
[big] Erupting Urinal Soaks House Press Gallery[/big]
Source: National Journal

Erupting Urinal Soaks House Press Gallery

By Billy House
Updated: June 4, 2012 | 6:25 p.m.
June 4, 2012 | 2:36 p.m.

A big splash occurred on Monday morning at the House Press Gallery in the U.S. Capitol.

No, this wasn’t one of those unexpected guest appearances for celebrities to talk to reporters about some favorite cause.

This splash came from an exploding urinal. More specifically, something suddenly broke in the piping of the third-floor urinal, and water began spewing from beneath the men’s room door.

As the water flowed, it first surrounded the Associated Press’s working area, then spread toward both ends of the gallery, which was occupied by fewer than usual reporters and staffers, because the House is out of session until Tuesday.

Read more: http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/erupting-urinal-soaks-house-press-gallery-20120604

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] pinboy3niner [/font]
[big] 2. Hey, AP. Urine for a real treat! [/big]


LBN, 4 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014136082


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by ohiosmith
[big] Help me out here! What kind of tree do you think this is?[/big]


[font color=#FF0000]The thread is hilarious! Everybody in there gets a DUzy!!!

[/font]

The Lounge, 5 June 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018128177


[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]In an original post by lonestarnot
[big] Hey you lurking freeper trolls! Doesn't it bother you that[/big]
your fucking leaders don't give a fuck about you unless you are a richie rich? I mean couldn't you use some of the money that they steal from you to buy some fucking dentures?

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FFFFFF][font color=#800080] oldhippydude [/font]
[big] 1. why do think they call it ..indentured servitude [/big]
something they can sink their teeth into

GD, 3 Jun 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002760342









Thanks to: Wait Wut, eridani, dixiegrrrrl, Renew Deal, jp11, Tx4obama, Make7, From The Ashes, and Matariki!!!


Sorry once again, but this is a two-parter. Hellofa busy week… two kids ballgames, a business meeting after my regular job, the Venus transit, and working on my uncle’s Subaru all conspired to rob me of any evening time!

I’ll try to hammer out a second half tomorrow!


Submitted in desperate hopes of avoiding torches and pitchforks,
-Krispos42