The DUzy Awards
The DUzy Awards's Journal***** DIY DUzy Thread II (In which we try again) *****
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The first thread in this experiment met with mixed results. Those are mostly my fault, I think, I really didn't provide examples of what I think will work or how I think of one way this could work.
So with many thanks to those who participated in the first thread, let's talk a bit about what the voices in my head are telling me, eh?
This thread will be most fun if the DUzy can be reasonably replicated here in a reply to this OP. People should be able to scroll through the thread and get the joke.
An example from the earlier thread (Note I'm guilty of not doing this also) of what I think might work:
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28. I loved this one by sendero...
Last edited Fri Oct 4, 2013, 01:05 AM USA/ET - Edit history (1)
Republican "compromise"..
.... ok, we'll cut off both your legs.
NO.
Ok, let's compromise, we'll just cut off one of your legs.
NO.
Ok, well then we'll just cut off your arm.
FUCK NO.
Waaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh you won't COMPROMISE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023774533#post27
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023747598#post28
Please copy the link location of the "link here" link at the bottom of the post and paste it after the excerpt. Note that more than one reply can be copied this way. This way it will be easy for people to reply to the joke without having to click away from this thread.
I want to thank everyone for helping to build a funner DU! Especially Flying Squirrel!
Oh and there are these if you want to use them as well:
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If it's worth sharing, it's worth a little cut and paste, right?
***** DUzy Nomination Thread *****
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Welcome to the inaugural thread of the DUzy Awards 3.0!
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You might be wondering "Hey where are the DUzys?" or "Why is this post so short and not funny?"
In the past the DUzys worked by the heroic effort of one individual assembling a DUzy of a post from forwarded links to snark and pun. Well, that was way too much work for any individual, so we are going to try a new way.
Here is how it is going to work: When you see something that is DUzy worthy, then reply to this thread with a link to the set up or straight line (if there is one) and let us know the reply that is the DUzy.
Excerpts are encouraged and if it was enough to make you laugh, then be a good citizen and share it here.
The DUzys will only work with your participation, and doing it this way, there should be no DUzy withdrawal because they will be accessible 24/7.
I will rotate the thread probably every week, kind of on Sunday.
This thread is for DUzys. If you have ideas about ways to make them work better or funner then please use this thread for that commentary.
Enjoy,
-Hoot - Your DUzy facilitator.
Coming soon to a GD forum near you: DUzy Awards 3.0
(Scene/Camera S/C): Wide shot of a darkened large space evoking a castle keep, a single ray of light peeking through the center of a stained glass rose window illuminating a desk on which rest a scepter and motley hat. Shot gradually tightens to the desk. A chair is turned with its back to the desk.(Typical Theatrical Deep Toned Preview Voiceover, TTDTPV): In a forum so full of hilarity, it has overwhelmed 2 prior hosts by overflowing inbox and looming deadline. A new fool picks up the scepter and motley of The Duzy Awards!
(S/C): The chair turns and a hand reaches for the motley hat
(TTDTPV): Will he succumb to the pressures of hate mail claiming "Hey I was the butt of that joke!" or threads in GD wondering where the DUzys have gone because they're late again! (evil laughter in the background)
(S/C): Sound of a needle being dragged across a vinyl record...
Just hold on here! Wait just a dagone minute and listen. I'm not the new host of the DUzy Awards as I intend to be the facilitator. To do the pretty graphics and colorization for each nomination is a huge chore. So I'm not going to do it quite that way, I would like to see the DUzys transformed into a DU powered phenomenon. I have a plan, it will probably change over time as adjustments are needed.
Here's how it will work:
Every week, I will start a DUzy Nomination thread. I was thinking Sundays would be good.
When you run across something that is DUzy worthy, reply to the nomination thread with a link to the DUzy set up or straight line and the post number you are nominating. Feel free to provide an excerpt, etc. People will be able to comment on your submission as well.
When I start a new thread, I will self delete the old thread so that we only have one thread a week that can be posted to.
I know people are funny enough to keep the thread kicked, but I will try to keep it on the first 3 pages.
Along the way and from time to time we may do things like 'Best Of' threads, or subject threads (like Cruz) as the humor moves us and life allows. We might devise some sort of poll like the photography group does, or not, we'll see. The intent is to do some sort of periodic summary or recap of DUzys.
Your input is critical to the success of this method, please tell me what you think.
Should "The DUzy Awards" not recommend any threads?
This is in response to a question posed in ATA:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1259&pid=2226
Sometimes when I'm logged in as The DUzy Awards I see something I'd like to recommend. It would be cumbersome to log out, then log back in as Flying Squirrel to recommend the thread. In no case have I ever (nor do I plan to ever) recommend a thread twice (i.e. under both accounts.) It's listed in the profile of The DUzy Awards that Flying Squirrel is currently the one compiling the DUzy Awards. There is no kind of official DU sanction for The DUzy Awards.
At the same time, I am aware of the high profile of this account, and take care when posting the DUzy's to try and avoid controversy or offense.
Please let me know what you think and it will guide my future actions regarding thread recommendation.
* * * DUzy Awards: Week ending June 21, 2013 * * *
[center] Welcome to the DUzy Awards!
Flying Squirrel before compiling the DUzy Awards:
Flying Squirrel while reading the first few submissions:
Flying Squirrel continues to read DUzy submissions:
Flying Squirrel finishes compiling the DUzy Awards:
To nominate a post for a DUzy, simply reply to the post with "DUzy"
somewhere in your response, and I'll do a search;
if you want to make sure I notice it, PM a link to "The DUzy Awards."
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Editorial comments by me are in [font color=#FF0000] red italics. [/font]
[font color=blue][center]Special thanks to:
Aerows, alsame, awoke_in_2003, BainsBane, Callmecrazy, CatWoman, cliffordu, Cooley Hurd, Demeter, derby378, dixiegrrrrl, dlwickham, Dollface, Dragonfli, Earth_First, eridani, EvilAL, femmocrat, Fire Walk With Me, Frosty1, FSogol, galileoreloaded, Ghost in the Machine, Habibi, HappyMe, HardTimes99, Ilsa, In_The_Wind, janlyn, JNelson6563, Junkdrawer, KamaAina, kentuck, Lisa0825, longship, malaise, meow2u3, MiddleFingerMom, Monkie, monmouth3, NV Whino, pacalo, pinboy3niner, reflection, ReRe, Robb, scarletwoman, tavalon, treestar, truebluegreen, Viva_La_Revolution, and zbdent
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[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by jberryhill
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023044896
[font color=black] Do you know where your shit goes?
For those of you who do not have your own septic system, but are hooked into a sewer system...
Serious question:
Do you know, as you sit here right now, where your shit goes after you flush the toilet?
And I mean specifically, so that if I handed you a map, you could point to a spot on it and say, "My shit goes here!"
And, if you do know, do you know how it gets there? How many other people's shit goes there? And what happens to it there?
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 2 by Major Nikon
[font color=black] I'm pretty sure it goes downhill
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 3 by Tx4obama
[font color=black] I heard someone say that NSA is collecting it all, then they do analysis on it to see what everyone
is eating 
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 40 by customerserviceguy
[font color=black] Ridiculous
They're only keeping metapoop.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 43 by FSogol
[font color=black] As a mechancial engineer, I often get to decide where your shit goes.
How do you like them apples? 
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=#800080] [center] Poll by In_The_Wind
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018416850
[font color=black] Do we fart while we sleep ?
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 3 by LiberalEsto
[font color=black] Genteel ladies never participate in such vulgar practices
If anything, we might -- and I emphasize might -- evoke ethereal nocturnal zephyrs.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 5 by pipi_k
[font color=black] You call 'em
zephyrs...
I call 'em Nor'easters...
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 14 by winter is coming
[font color=black] Maybe it's zephyrs in your bedroom.
In mine, global warming has clearly contributed to violent weather patterns. 
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 7 by ConcernedCanuk
[font color=black] The answer my friend, is blowin In The Wind!
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Quite an interesting topic for someone with your username!
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by applegrove
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018415766
[font color=black] WHY! WHY! WHY is my keyboard not rendering the proper punctuation
marks (insert question mark here).
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by pscot
[font color=black] I think that's a new feature
that came with your last Windows update. You'll learn to love it. Or not.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 2 by applegrove
[font color=black] I shut down my whole computer and rebooted. Problem gone.
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[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 3 by pinboy3niner
[font color=black] Good!
That could be crippling for a Canadian, eh?
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by Enrique
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023056895
[font color=black] Michael Hastings' widow to Geraldo: You are a sick bastard
Geraldo hasn't forgiven Hastings, even in death, for reporting on his beloved General.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 2 by warrprayer
[font color=black] Geraldo has nothing to worry about
they only murder real journalists.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 17 by red dog 1
[font color=black] I was taping that show where the white supremicist threw the chair at him
and hit him in his big nose.
I must have watched & re-watched that segment 100 times.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 20 by MADem
[font color=black] Now he has the smaller nose...and don't ever kiss his forehead, because you'll be kissing his ass.
The plastic surgeon took fat out of his ass and put it in his forehead (to say nothing of other parts of his face) to smooth out his wrinkles.
No, I am not making this up...!
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/211526/CHEEK-TO-CHEEK-FAT-TRANSFER-FLESHES-OUT-GERALDOS-LINES.html?pg=all
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 39 by mountain grammy
[font color=black] wondering what to do with my excess ass fat... will send it to Geraldo.
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[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 55 by MADem
[font color=black] Ha ha ha!! He's so vain, he probably kisses himself in the mirror every morning...
So he'd be kissing YOUR ass!!
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 5 by lpbk2713
[font color=black] She's pointing out the obvious.
He works for Faux. Therefore it goes without saying that he is a sick bastard.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by warrior1
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023048236
[font color=black] Statistics on phone calls, text messages, emails,etc.
[/center]http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_phone_calls_are_made_daily_in_the_US
Question: Hope many on average phones are made a day in US
I estimate about 2 billion calls are made in a day.
http://email.about.com/od/emailtrivia/f/emails_per_day.htm
Question: How Many Emails Are Sent Every Day?
Answer: Statistics, extrapolations and counting by Radicati Group from April 2010 estimate the number of emails sent per day (in 2010) to be around 294 billion.
294 billion messages per day means more than 2.8 million emails are sent every second and some 90 trillion emails are sent per year. Around 90% of these millions and trillions of message are but spam and viruses.
The genuine emails are sent by around 1.9 billion email users.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_messaging
In the United States, text messaging is also popular; as reported by CTIA in December 2009, the 286 million US subscribers sent 152.7 billion text messages per month, for an average of 534 messages per subscriber per month. The Pew Research Center found in May 2010 that 72% of U.S. adult cellphone users send and receive text messages.
In the U.S., SMS is often charged both at the sender and at the destination, but, unlike phone calls, it cannot be rejected or dismissed. The reasons for lower uptake than other countries are varied—many users have unlimited "mobile-to-mobile" minutes, high monthly minute allotments, or unlimited service. Moreover, push to talk services offer the instant connectivity of SMS and are typically unlimited. Furthermore, the integration between competing providers and technologies necessary for cross-network text messaging has only been available recently. Some providers originally charged extra to enable use of text, further reducing its usefulness and appeal. In the third quarter of 2006, at least 12 billion text messages crossed AT&T's network, up almost 15 percent from the preceding quarter.
In the United States, while texting is widely popular among the ages of 13–22 years old, it is increasing among adults and business users as well. The age that a child receives his/her first cell phone has also decreased, making text messaging a very popular way of communication for all ages. The number of texts being sent in the United States has gone up over the years as the price has gone down to an average of $0.10 per text sent and received.
In order to convince more customers to include text messaging plans, some major cellphone providers have recently increased the price to send and receive text messages from $.15 to $.20 per message. This is over $1,300 per megabyte. Many providers offer unlimited plans, which can result in a lower rate per text given sufficient volume.
So, tell me how the NSA manages to listen, read all this information?
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 6 by FSogol
[font color=black] I should go work for the NSA, I listen to people's phone calls when in the grocery store.
[/center]They fall into 4 categories:
1. Self actualization: I am here.............in the produce aisle
2. Human Desires: "I don't know where they keep the Ho-hos" or in a Barry White voice, "Hey Baby..."
3. Incomprehensible: "uh huh.....yeah, uh huh..."
4. Never-ending: So Suze says to Brenda, no way! and I say, you didna girl, so she says nope, I 'm not play'n that, so I say...."
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=black] [center] Reply 2 by FSogol
[font color=black] So, tell me how the NSA manages to listen, read all this information, with a measly $20 million?
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 4 by HappyMe
[font color=black] Workers get paid in popcorn.
They have to have something to munch on while they sift through the kitteh pictures, drunk texts, and horrifically boring phone calls.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 9 by randome
[font color=black] It's one hell of an If statement. In VBA.
If Instr(text, "kitteh"
goto forgetIt
elseif Instr(text, "mom"
goto forgetIt
elseif Instr(text, "poser"
goto forgetIt
And so on and so on.
Of course a devious terrorist would write something like this:
"Don't forget to tell the kitteh that muffins will arrive at 8pm."
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by Galraedia
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014514612
[font color=black] McConnell: ‘Absurd’ to ban corporations from having same rights as ‘people’
[/center]Source: Raw Story
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Friday said that he opposed a constitutional amendment to ban corporations from having the same rights as people because the idea was “absurd.”
Speaking to the conservative American Enterprise Institute, McConnell accused President Barack Obama’s administration of using a “culture of intimidation” to stifle free speech.
Following the remarks, the Washington Free Beacon’s Lachlan Markay asked McConnell for his thoughts on a constitutional amendment proposed by Sens. Jon Tester (D-MT) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) to clarify that corporations are not “people” and restore Congress’ ability to limit corporate influence in elections.
“Well you have to give them some points for not hiding it,” McConnell quipped. “They are uncomfortable with corporate free speech obviously.”
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/21/mcconnell-absurd-to-ban-corporations-from-having-same-rights-as-people/
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 13 by ZRT2209
[font color=black] What does God have to say about it?
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by marmar
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023045720
[font color=black] Just when you think they can't get any more foaming-at-the-mouth insane ......
GOP Congressman: Abortions Should Be Banned Because Male Fetuses Masturbate
Posted on Jun 18, 2013
[/center]During debate Monday on a House bill that would ban virtually all abortions starting 20 weeks after conception, Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Texas, made what likely amounts to be the most absurd argument ever for why the country should outlaw the medical procedure.
“Watch a sonogram of a 15-week baby, and they have movements that are purposeful,” Burgess said during a late-night House Rules Committee meeting on the Republican bill. “They stroke their face. If they’re a male baby, they may have their hand between their legs. If they feel pleasure, why is it so hard to believe that they could feel pain?”
That’s right. Burgess is suggesting abortions should be banned as early as 15 weeks after fertilization because male fetuses masturbate. And he knows this because—as a former ob-gyn—he’s witnessed it himself (but apparently this is a phenomena he’s seen only in male fetuses, not female ones).
“There is no question in my mind that a baby at 20 weeks after conception can feel pain,” he said. “The fact of the matter is, I argue with the chairman because I thought the date was far too late. We should be setting this at 15 weeks, 16 weeks.” ........................(more)
Complete piece
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 3 by LonePirate
[font color=black] Is Burgess now guilty of possessing/viewing child pornography?
If he wants to make such ridiculous claims, perhaps he should be investigated and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 5 by Initech
[font color=black] I think The Masturbating Fetuses are playing Austin City Limits this year.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by boston bean
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023038822
[font color=black] Texas Congressman: Masturbating Fetuses Prove Need for Abortion Ban
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 21 by Hassin Bin Sober
[font color=black] Life begins at fwap fwap fwap.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=#800080] [center] OP by ChoppinBroccoli
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023053750
[font color=black] CNN Isn't Afraid To Tackle The Hard-Hitting Topics Of The Day
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 4 by FSogol
[font color=black] Was he busted down to Lieutenant Commander because his cereal removes the skin from your gums?
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 20 by kentauros
[font color=black] If so, then he advanced in the ranks again,
and by the 31st century was an Admiral 
http://www.lavasurfer.com/cereal-fictional.html
"Admiral Crunch" and "Archduke Chocula" were both 31st century breakfast cereals depicted on the animated TV series "Futurama". They were seen on the second episode of the series, episode 1ACV02, "The Series Has Landed". The routine went like this:
[div class=”excerpt”]Fry: "I'm never gonna get used to the thirty-first century. Caffeinated bacon? Baconated grapefruit? Admiral Crunch?"
Leela: "Well if you don't like that, try some Archduke Chocula."
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 31 by awoke_in_2003
[font color=black] Caffeinated bacon and baconated grapefruit?...
Color me there.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 6 by Major Hogwash
[font color=black] You can't make this stuff up.
Next week: Count Chocula, not a real member of royalty.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 7 by AndyA
[font color=black] This is better than what I thought it was.
[/center]Figured Kim K. found a pimple on her butt, Beiber got stopped for speeding (again), some celebrity wore the same outfit that another celeb had already worn, one of the "Real Housewives" got into a verbal confrontation with another housewife, new photos of a totally ripped __________________ (insert name of favorite star) have appeared, Rand Paul said something stupid, Michele Bachmann said something stupid, Rush Limbaugh said something stupid, Louie Gohmert said something stupid, Jim Inhofe said something stupid, Harry Reid threatened to deal with the filibuster situation again, Paris Hilton has done something outrageous for the free publicity, The Donald said something stupid again, Lindsay Lohan is back in court for something, another reality show has been revealed to be a fraud, Sarah Palin said something stupid, etc., etc., etc.
Gotta admit, they're getting more creative: Cap'n Crunch is a new one. What's next?
The Leprechaun hawking Lucky Charms isn't real?
Anything they can do to divert attention from the real issues. Why talk about jobs, corruption in government, people in Congress who lie to us, failure to prosecute Wall Street, etc., when you've got pimples on the butt of people who are famous for no reason at all?
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 10 by arcane1
[font color=black] The Leprechaun is real, but he's in the country illegally
:rofl
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 14 by valerief
[font color=black] T'is the Cap'n News Network, matey! Aarrrr! nt
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 15 by Recursion
[font color=black] Any commissioned commander of a vessel is called by right "Captain"
These people can't even get their stupid non-stories right...
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 28 by Buns_of_Fire
[font color=black] But was he REALLY commissioned?
Either way, I want to see his birth certificate and schedule of service to his crunchry.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 30 by zappaman
[font color=black] I have actually had that debate!
Our excuse was that we were stoned.
Could that be an explanation here...?
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=#800080] [center] OP by snooper2
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023060763
[font color=black] So what am I supposed to do with my Paula Deen cookware set?
That shit wasn't cheap
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by IDemo
[font color=black] Continue using it but omit butter and 'N words' from all recipes n/t
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 7 by bunnies
[font color=black] lol!
toss your oodles with pine uts and add utmeg to taste. Garnish with aval oranges. 
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 12 by QC
[font color=black] You could whip up a big batch of Klan Chowder in that stockpot. n/t
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 14 by Bay Boy
[font color=black] I corrected the ad copy...
...Rubberized handle for a cool touch; copper-plated ring for convenient hanging
Tempered glass lids lock in flavors and provide easy monitoring of cooking progress
Oven safe to 350 degrees F; whites only
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 45 by pipi_k
[font color=black] Well...
If you catch the pot calling the kettle black, kick it to the curb
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by malaise
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023039037
[font color=black] ''Baked Alaska'': 90-95° temps shatter all-time records
[/center]http://www.katu.com/blogs/weather/All-time-record-heat-in-Alaska-has-locals-sweltering-211932651.html
Many people head to Alaska to visit the snow-capped mountains and awe-inspiring glaciers.
Monday, sitting on a glacier might not have been a bad idea.
A major ridge of high pressure brought intense heat to south-central Alaska with four towns experiencing heat never before felt in their record-keeping history.
* Talkeetna hit 96 degrees (Old record: 91, set three dates, most recently... Sunday)
* Cordova hit 90 (Old record: 89, set July 16, 1995)
* Valdez also hit 90 in the city (Old record: 87 set on back-to-back days of June 25-26 in 1953)
* Seward hit 88 degrees, breaking the old record of 87 set on July 4, 1999.
Remember air conditioning is in extreme short supply there, if not non-existent.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 2 by marmar
[font color=black] It's so hot Sarah Palin's IQ soared to 75.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by Robb
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023045929
[font color=black] Gun owners target family event (Stay classy!)
[/center]Advocates are encouraging gun owners to bring their weapons to Open Streets family-oriented events in Minneapolis and St. Paul.
A group of gun owners have set their sights on a series of Twin Cities neighborhood family events for their own gun-toting get-togethers, beginning this weekend.
The gun owners “meet-up” events, in which the promoters suggest guns be carried openly and not just concealed, came as a surprise to some city officials and organizers of the Open Streets neighborhood gatherings.
“I’m shocked and saddened,” said Nancy Homans, policy director for St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman. “It seems like guns isn’t the right kind of activity for this event. We’re not even allowing alcohol. … I’m not sure there’s much of a connection between these two events.”
The Facebook page promoting Open Streets-Open Carry says gun owners will add “their own twist” to the neighborhood events by “encouraging ‘open carry’ for pro-active, positive visibility of law abiding gun owners participating in normal social activity … Like normal people!”
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In an e-mail to Minneapolis city officials, Shelley Leeson, the gun group’s director, said she was informing them of her group’s plans as a professional courtesy. “I do not find it necessary to seek ‘permission’ or give ‘warnings’ to police about our lawful activities.”
Read More: http://www.startribune.com/local/minneapolis/212085201.html
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 5 by Turbineguy
[font color=black] No alcohol?
I would never go to a gun event where no alcohol was permitted.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=#800080] [center] OP by Earth_First
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023057200
[font color=black] We've got a live one!
This is the type of crap that I'm surrounded by in Conservative Western, New York...
Yes, the license plate reads 'NRA R US'
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 3 by Liberal Veteran
[font color=black] That van couldn't be more creepy if it had "Free Candy" painted on it.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 5 by DisgustipatedinCA
[font color=black] No blue stripe on the van. I question the driver's patriotism
Also, do you know what the back of the van says? It looks like it could be God Knows....or something else with G and Kn...
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 8 by Liberal Veteran
[font color=black] It might say "God Bless the KKK"
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 11 by Earth_First
[font color=black] You wanted the back...?
There's a whole other side to the van plastered in a similar fashion, I wasn't able to capture a photograph...
This guy lives in the same community as me?! J.F.C.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 30 by scarletwoman
[font color=black] Wait! Are those bullet holes in the back?!?!
I must say, they certainly add to the overall effect...
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 18 by Scuba
[font color=black] 275 horses under the hood, and one jackass behind the wheel.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=#800080] [center] OP by TalkingDog
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023039149
[font color=black] OH NOES1!! SATIN!
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by annabanana
[font color=black] Wait.. I thought we elected muslin?
I just don't cotton to these threads..
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 26 by Blue Owl
[font color=black] Muslin... Satin... The fabrics of their pathetic lives...
n/t
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 50 by GraniteDem
[font color=black] Those racists ......
are out of their Cotton picking minds!
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 131 by Tommy_Carcetti
[font color=black] I thought we elected the second coming of Linen. nt
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 47 by tarheelsunc
[font color=black] False...
we elected al-gora, and we got satin instead.
[font color=#FF0000] Many, many, MANY more puns at the link... DUzy to all! [/font]
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=#800080] [center] OP by Major Nikon
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018415285
[font color=black] Watch out
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by damnedifIknow
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023060863
[font color=black] Spank your wife for Jesus
[/center]"Christian Domestic Discipline, or CDD as its adherents call it, is a movement that seeks to carry out God's will. Which specific plan of God's? Oh, you know, just that all women obey their husbands fastidiously — a dynamic that CDD thinks is best maintained through doling out out corporal punishments. Its few thousand practitioners, however, claim that it's not domestic abuse."
We offer a LOVING approach to all who wish to learn and grow in a traditional Male, head of household, female submissive, Christian Domestic Discipline relationship."
http://jezebel.com/spanking-for-jesus-is-exactly-as-fucked-up-as-it-soun-514271243
Amen 
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 5 by riqster
[font color=black] I'll have to consult my Jesus Magic 8-Ball before responding:
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 4 by Bay Boy
[font color=black] There is also "Spank it for Jesus"
but that's slightly different.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by UrbScotty
http://www.democraticunderground.com/11034586
[font color=black] Woman allegedly bites off finger of another woman during fight over cigarettes
[/center]A fight over 50 cents and a cigarette resulted in a Muskegon woman’s finger being bitten off and spit out in a front yard Monday evening on Southern Avenue.
Danielle Lott, 46, who lives in the 400 block of West Southern where the brawl occurred, said Tuesday all that’s left of her finger is "a nub.”
The finger was bitten off just under the first knuckle.
It was gathered up at the scene and transported, along with Lott, to a local hospital Monday night. But the damage to the digit was too extensive, and it could not be reattached, Lott said.
http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2013/06/post_265.html
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 2 by Dr. Strange
[font color=black] They'd rather fight...
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by Arugula Latte
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018415315
[font color=black] Well, we can all go on with our lives now. Kim Kardashian's baby's name has been revealed.
"Kaidence Donda West"
Which brings up the topic -- Truly Bad Baby Names
What baby names make you cringe?
I can't stand the super trendy, weirdly spelled ones (Helllooooo, "Kaidence" . The worst one, though, IMO, is "Nevaeh" -- "heaven" spelled backwards. Gag. It seems to be popular with fundies, not surprisingly.
Others?
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 46 by KamaAina
[font color=black] Who named their kid Apple?
Steve Jobs?
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 3 by ret5hd
[font color=black] Has anyone used the name "Trendi" yet? If not, they should.
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[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 4 by NightWatcher
[font color=black] Will the name pass the Walmart Test?
What will the name sound like when you scream it out while looking for them in the aisles of Walmart? I heard a woman screaming "Serenity, Serenity!" The irony was great.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 5 by Arugula Latte
[font color=black] middle name: "Now!"
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 10 by Quantess
[font color=black] What's up with people naming their kids Blue?
t sounds exactly like blew.
Yes, it's a pretty color, but it's not that pretty of a word.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 27 by Blue_In_AK
[font color=black] Whachu talkin' about???
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 18 by avebury
[font color=black] We have a summer intern with the first name of Princess.
My reaction when I heard - Are you serious? She will be going into the navy at the end of the year. Boot camp will probably be interesting.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 21 by Boomerproud
[font color=black] I went to school with a a girl named Mary Juana.
I heard a story from my best friend's mom who worked with a guy whose last name was Lear. He had twin daughters named Chrystal Chanda Lear and Gay Cava Lear. I bet he thought he was being so clever.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 28 by Blue_In_AK
[font color=black] I'm doing data entry of names being gathered
for a ballot referendum here, and I've seen some doozies. The weird spellings kill me because I'm trying to match them up with the voter rolls, and people's printing is horrendous.
The funniest one I've seen was Grey Skythes. Mr. and Mrs. Skythes probably thought they were very clever.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 33 by MiddleFingerMom
[font color=black] It could have been worse... It could have been Blue Skythes.
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[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by HarveyDarkey
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018415405
[font color=black] I want one of these
and the kayak is pretty nice too:
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 3 by MiddleFingerMom
[font color=black] I would want a transparent seat so that I could moon snorkelers and such. Otherwise...
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[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 4 by pinboy3niner
[font color=black] When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, thaaaaat's MFM's dory
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 9 by ConcernedCanuk
[font color=black] you want a bikini?
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and that ain't a kayak
it's a canoe/kayak
but it IS awesome!
(I stole the girl)
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by onehandle
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023064822
[font color=black] SUPERMOON On Sunday! Runnnnnnn!
[/center]Supermoon June 2013: Everything You Need To Know About Perigee Moon This Weekend
One of the biggest celestial events of the year is almost upon us!
Set to peak on Sunday, June 23, the 2013 supermoon is noteworthy not only for the remarkable sight it will present to skywatchers but also because it will be the largest supermoon this year.
Also known as a perigee moon, the event occurs when a full moon lines up with the Earth and the sun at a specific point in its orbit, called the lunar perigee. That's the point at which the moon is nearest to Earth as it traces its elliptical path around our planet.
Since it's closer to us, the moon appears up to 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than usual. Coined by astrologer Richard Nolle, the term "supermoon" essentially means a bigger and brighter full moon.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/20/supermoon-june-2013-perigee-moon_n_3461899.html
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 3 by BlueStreak
[font color=black] I think that thing is Mooning us
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[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=#800080] [center] OP by Major Nikon
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018406432
[font color=black] When I said we needed a safety board for the Lounge, this is not what I had in mind
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=#800080] [center] OP by dipsydoodle [/font]
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018409390
[font color=black]Lodger Required - UK advert [/center]
Hello, I am looking for a lodger in my house. I have had a long and interesting life and have now chosen Brighton as a location for my retirement. Among the many things I have done in my life is to spend three years alone on St. Lawrence Island. These were perhaps the most intense and fascinating years of my life, and I was kept in companionship with a walrus whom I named Gregory. Never have I had such a fulfilling friendship with anyone, human or otherwise, and upon leaving the island I was heartbroken for months. I now find myself in a large house over looking Queens Park and am keen to get a lodger. This is a position I am prepared to offer for free (eg: no rent payable) on the fulfillment of some conditions. I have, over the last few months, been constructing a realistic walrus costume, which should fit most people of average proportions, and allow for full and easy movement in character. To take on the position as my lodger you must be prepared to wear the walrus suit for approximately two hours each day (in practice, this is not two hours every day - I merely state it here so you are able to have a clear idea of the workload). Whilst in the walrus costume you must be a walrus - there must be no speaking in a human voice, and any communication must entail making utterances in the voice of a walrus - I believe there are recordings available on the web - to me, the voice is the most natural thing I have ever heard. Other duties will involve catching and eating the fish and crabs that I will occasionally throw to you whilst you are being the walrus. With the exception of this, you will be free to do whatever you choose, and will have a spacious double room, complete run of the house (with the exception of my bedroom and my workshop), and use of all facilities within. I am a considerate person to share a house with, and other than playing the accordion my tastes are easy to accommodate.
Due to the nature of this position I will need to audition all applicants before agreeing to take the chosen candidate on as a lodger. Please contact me if you have any questions.
[center]http://www.gumtree.com/p/flats-houses/lodger-required/1021568193[/center]
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by pinboy3niner
[font color=black] Coo coo ca choo
I'm there, baby!
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 3 by rurallib
[font color=black] Oddly, I think the Lounge may have someone who could fit the bill
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 4 by pscot
[font color=black] Several someones, I would imagine
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 6 by eppur_se_muova
[font color=black] "other than playing the accordion my tastes are easy to accommodate" ...
Well, at least it's not the bagpipes.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by Scuba
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022982884
[font color=black] At Theme Parks, a V.I.P. Ticket to Ride
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 9 by madmom
[font color=black] Stuff like this is why I refuse to go to "amusement" parks...
what's so "amusing" about standing in line for hours for a 3 minute ride? What's so amusing about heat prostration? What's so amusing about spending hundreds of dollars for the a fore mentioned "fun"? Try going camping, visit a national park, go see the Grand Canyon, or the bad lands. This, IMO, is MUCH more amusing not to mention educational as well. 
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 14 by Scuba
[font color=black] + One Zillion
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 16 by Buzz Clik
[font color=black] A zillion? Really? You only get one vote, Scuba.
You're starting to act like you have a DU VIP Pass.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 21 by kiva
[font color=black] "It creates the haves and have nots"
Last edited Mon Jun 10, 2013, 12:28 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)
Of course, one could say that about going to Universal Studios and other theme parks at all.
Edited to remove unnecessary snark.
[font color=#FF0000] (DUzy awarded for the phrase "Edited to remove unnecessary snark" [/font]
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=#800080] [center] OP by Playinghardball
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022994917
[font color=black] Fun Fact...LMAO
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by bunnies
[font color=black] No wonder right wingers think life begins at conception. nt
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by sibelian
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023003366
Right. So presumably all my porn passwords are now in the hands of the CHINESE?
The YELLOW PERIL plotting and scheming in their OPIUM DENS are now metaphorically sniffing my underpants. I feel so fucking secure.
Way to go, NSA.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by CJCRANE
[font color=black] Chinese agents are now rubbing their
hands with glee!
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 3 by HubertHeaver
[font color=black] uhh.....it's not their hands they're rubbing.....
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 2 by Jeff In Milwaukee
[font color=black] One of my favorite porn sites...
involves Chinese sniffing my underpants. So no big whoop....
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 5 by In_The_Wind
[font color=black] Must change passwords ~ Kumquat will become cumquat
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=#800080] [center] OP by MineralMan
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022985262
[font color=black] Warning: Take Batteries Out of All Cell Phones RFN!
I hear that the government is tracking everyone using the built-in GPS in your phone 24/7! THEY KNOW WHERE YOU ARE!
After you do that, shut off the electricity in your home, unplug all computers and other electronic devices, and tape aluminum foil on all windows. Then, go into your guest bedroom and pull the covers over your head.
Let those with ears hear, and those with eyes read.
I'll say no more...you have been informed!
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 3 by onehandle
[font color=black] Then how will I get my porn? nt
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 7 by boston bean
[font color=black] I'm seeing a whole new meaning for your screen name. nt
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 23 by In_The_Wind
[font color=black] Books
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 10 by msanthrope
[font color=black] The old-fashioned way--delivered by the USPS in a plain brown wrapper.
We could save the USPS. Think about it.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 15 by emulatorloo
[font color=black] Plus USPS tracking numbers are a bit of a joke
Never been able to track a package with them - sounds like a foolproof plan!
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 4 & 38 by geek tragedy
[font color=black] With AT&T's crappy coverage, they can only tell where I am 30% of the day.
Can you imagine the drone program using AT&T to track a subject?
"We have the target located within a several block radius. Just about have him . . . shit, dropped call."
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 41 by William769
[font color=black] Please stop I haven't had this good of a laugh in a while my sides are hurting!
I just scheduled my colonoscopy with my doctor on my verizon phone I wonder if they have a camera for that also?
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 52 by azurnoir
[font color=black] whoa that just gave new life to
the government peering up ones 'backside'
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 55 by William769
[font color=black] Please They wouldn't be the first!
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 56 by KittyWampus
[font color=black] OMG! The Govt. is secretly taping the insides of our colons?
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 81 by Sheepshank
[font color=black] I know you think you are joking
but there was a lengthy discussion on another bb where the freepers were freaking out about the very same colon health subject matter...of course it had to do with Obama care...but it all ties together!
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 84 by Whiskeytide
[font color=black] How else can they...
...locate republican's heads?
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 43 by SecularMotion
[font color=black] Good Evening. We're from the Government
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by HipChick
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022978568
[font color=black] We don't trust private contractors to operate metal detectors at airports
but we do trust them to run NSA surveillance programs and access to data? um...ok..
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by Fumesucker
[font color=black] Totally different, one is looking at your naughty bits, the other at your naughty bytes n/t
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by HipChick
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022991278
[font color=black] Snowden lied about his salary...
He only made $120,000 a year...confirmed by Booze Allen Hamilton...contractor rates in the industry are good, but not $200,000 good without advanced degrees...
First rule in being a martyr..don't lie..it adds to lack of credibility...
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 17 by Nuclear Unicorn
[font color=black] Any guy trying to date a dancer exaggerates the size of his salary -- amongst other things.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by JaneyVee
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022978974
[font color=black] WHY Hong Kong?!!!
In 2006 Hong Kong passed laws to allow wiretapping phones, bugging homes, offices, & monitoring email. Not exactly a bastion of free speech: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/world/asia/06cnd-hong.html?_r=0
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 5 by randome
[font color=black] Because a sign on the Ecuadorian embassy in the U.K. said 'No Vacancies'?
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by Hissyspit
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014507286
[font color=black] CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell Resigns
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 3 by Ian David
[font color=black] He wants to spend more time spying on his family. n/t
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=#800080] [center] OP by Gravitycollapse
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022973720
[font color=black] I saw heavily armed NYPD guarding the Morgan Stanley building entrance...
In Manhattan. Helmeted and carrying AR15s.
I asked them if they were protecting us from the bank. They didn't seem terribly amused.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 8 by MannyGoldstein
[font color=black] Don't worry - they'd do the same for you if you had any perceived threats
They're here to serve and protect all of us.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by yortsed snacilbuper
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251310175
[font color=black] Josh Romney not ruling out run for office in Utah
Romney said he plans to continue to play a role in Utah politics.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865581188/Josh-Romney-not-ruling-out-run-for-office-in-Utah.html
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 2 by Capt.Rocky300
[font color=black] Does Josh not understand.........
Dog Catcher is a local position, not state wide?
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 8 by Hippo_Tron
[font color=black] He probably doesn't understand the need to have dog catcher
I mean, doesn't everyone just put them on the roof of their car?
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by steve2470
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023019765
[font color=black] Man Claims He Spotted Florida’s Elusive Skunk Ape
http://miami.cbslocal.com/2013/06/14/man-claims-he-spotted-floridas-elusive-skunk-ape/
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by NightWatcher
[font color=black] thought this was going to be a Rick Scott thread
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 4 by johnp3907
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[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by Archae
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022969232
[font color=black] Why do we so eagerly take to woo?
I mean medical woo.
That includes the anti-vaccination nutjobs and con artists.
Homeopathy.
Chiropractic.
Naturopathy.
Faith healing.
First off, how can we tell what is woo and what isn't?
Well, there are some sure signs a medical claim is woo.
Refusal to be scientifically tested, or after testing, claims that can't be backed up.
"Conspiracy" by the government/"big Pharma"/etc. to keep a product off the market.
Only evidence shown is testimonials.
"Ancient Chinese secret" or such.
So why do too many people go for woo?
Because medical science doesn't have all the answers.
So people go for outlandish claims.
"Miracle" cures.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by Liberal Veteran
[font color=black] People who believe in pseudoscience have a misalignment of their chakras.
I have a friend that can fix that with crystal healing meditation.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by CK_John
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022996445
[font color=black] You go for an interview and are handed this question.
Define the basic difference between IPv4 and IPv6.
Would you be able to answer this query to get the job???
Welcome to the cyber-era and the reason that 50% of college grads and those over 40 can't find a job.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 18 by proud2BlibKansan
[font color=black] IPv2
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 29 by Squinch
[font color=black] Michelle Bachmann said the vaccine for it causes cancer.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by steve2470
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022996215
[font color=black] Mother, daughter caught smuggling $59k sewn in bras
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/06/11/mother-daughter-caught-smuggling/2413447/
[/center]DETROIT -- Two Canadian women were caught trying to sneak nearly $73,000 into the U.S. by hiding the bulk of the loot —$59,000 — in their bras, according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday in Detroit federal court.
The women, who were mother and daughter, were detained at the Detroit-Windsor tunnel on Sunday while en route to Detroit Metro Airport, where they had planned to catch a flight for Lebanon to visit family, the complaint said.
Red flags went up at the border when the mother, Moura El-Asmar, 51, told a customs and border officer that she was carrying $3,300 in Canadian currency. When questioned about U.S. reporting laws, she "stated once again" that she only had $3,300.
Turned out, she had a lot more tucked in her bra, the complaint said.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by FarCenter
[font color=black] That's some bust!
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 3 by pinboy3niner
[font color=black] How much were they smuggling? BRAzillions!
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 4 by TheCowsCameHome
[font color=black] They made quite a pair.
Yep.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 6 by malaise
[font color=black] Didn't know they made bras in size
K!
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 7 by pintobean
[font color=black] Now I understand the term
"cop a feel".
"A bulky mass was discovered on the bra," the complaint stated. [/center]
I don't think it takes Sherlock Holmes to discover a bulky mass in a bra.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 8 by Blue Owl
[font color=black] Since when is it illegal to underwire funds?
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 10 by rug
[font color=black] It won't hold up in court.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 11 by Hekate
[font color=black] Busted
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=#800080] [center] OP by KG
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018405713
[font color=black] Squeezing breasts could prevent cancer, best. study. ever. says
Getting to second base, the holy grail for hormonal boys, is now science: New research has shown that squeezing breasts could prevent malignant breast cells from causing cancer....
http://m.now.msn.com/squeezing-breasts-can-stop-cancer
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 10 by pink-o
[font color=black] Oh, please! Who put up the grant money for that research?
And how many scientists volunteered to help with the live subject experiments?
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 41 by AsahinaKimi
[font color=black] I would never ask my cat...
Ouch....ouch!! stop that!!! (at least Husbands or boyfriends don't have claws)
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 33 by 7wo7rees
[font color=black] Next you're going to tell me masturbation cures blindness. n/t
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 43 by Orrex
[font color=black] Well, you're reading this, aren't you?
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by n2doc
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022992554
[font color=black] Nestlé introduces bottled water for “trendy, high-income” women
[font color=#FF0000] As tears stream from my eyes, I give this entire thread a DUzy and highly recommend watching the videos at the link. [/font]
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=#800080] [center] OP by ashling
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018407204
[font color=black] Addresses only the British could have
[font color=#FF0000] I fear I may have crossed the line by adding this one in.. but these are some pretty funny names. [/font]
Keep the faith, DU!
* * * DUzy Awards: Week ending June 7, 2013 * * *
[center] Welcome to teh DUzy Awards!
To nominate a post for a DUzy, simply reply to the post with "DUzy"
somewhere in your response, and I'll do a search;
if you want to make sure I notice it, PM a link to "The DUzy Awards."
DUzy winners are noted in [font color=#800080]purple;[/font]
Editorial comments by me are in [font color=#FF0000] red italics. [/font]
[font color=blue][center]Special thanks to:
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[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by FarCenter
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022931271
Hay Festival 2013 - 'Irritating' silent letters could become obsolete
Leading linguist David Crystal tells the Telegraph Hay Festival 2013 that in 50 years' time silent letters will be dropped from many common words, thanks to the internet.
The internet will make English misspellings acceptable, according to one of the country’s most senior linguists, who predicts that in 50 years’ time many common words will be spelt without “irritating” silent letters.
David Crystal, currently professor of linguists at Bangor University, told the Telegraph Hay Festival that it would be “inevitable” that people would drop the ‘p’ from receipt, and change the ‘c’ from necessary into a ‘s’, as well as “simplifying” other words.
“Is it one ‘c’ and two ‘s’s in necessary or two ‘c’s and one ‘s’? It doesn’t actually matter at the end of the day. At the moment it matters, but over time one spelling will emerge and probably a simpler spelling will emerge.”
Prof Crystal said that he started monitoring the word “rhubarb” a decade ago, by typing in the correct spelling into a search engine, and then typing in the word without the ‘h’. He said: “I got millions of hits for rhubarb with the ‘h’, and just one or two without the ‘h’. I did the same job a few years later, and without the ‘h’ got hundreds of hits, and then a few years later hundreds of thousands of hits. Rhubarb is still the dominant one by a factor of 50. But think ahead 50 years – and that this is the time frame over which spellings change – and rhubarb with the ‘h’ and rhubarb without ‘h’ will be equal.”
He said that the ‘h’ was illogical and was never included in Middle English.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/hay-festival/10093089/Hay-Festival-2013-Irritating-silent-letters-could-become-obsolete.html
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=black] [center] Reply 1 by FarCenter
[font color=black] Hay Festival 2013: Oxford professor asks for grammar pedants to relax
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 7 by ananda
[font color=black] Shaxpere concurrs.
..
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by panader0
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018403131
Anyone know a good treatment for cracked ribs?
I'm pretty sure the doctors don't do anything except wrap the area with tape. I took a really good spill the other night (yes, alcohol was involved) and now I'm fairly certain there's one or two cracked ones under my left shoulder blade. The pain is epic.
I cannot afford to go to the hospital.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by MrScorpio
[font color=black] Bar-B-Que Sauce?? Nt
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 7 by olddots
[font color=black] I'd say drink untill the pain goes away
but with your luck you might fall down again
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by quinnox
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022932203
Do you have any trouble eating chicken - in terms of
digestion and your system? I don't know why, but chicken seems to be really hard on my system, if you get my meaning. Meat (beef) is to a lesser extent too, but chicken especially.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by Silent3
[font color=black] As soon as it stops moving, it goes down much easier. n/t
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by Liberalynn
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018405075
Anyone Else Wlling to Date Themselves? Who Remembers This Song?
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by olddots
[font color=black] I've dated myself many many times ...............
dinner and a movie then its home for some cheap sex before I cry myself to sleep .
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=#800080] [center] OP by rug
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018405331
Time to soap the old ferret.
[font color=#FF0000] (If the picture isn't moving, try the link - it's mesmerizing) [/font]
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by Dreamsoldier76
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022943025
Worst Person Ever
Okay so which political person is the absolute worst of the worst, lowest of the low *currently in office...?
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by NightWatcher
[font color=black] That dude, what's his name. The guy with the hair and fake smile
Come on, you know
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by HipChick
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022938239
John McCain gains a new Daughter...
An All-American wedding! Arizona Senator John McCain's son, Jack McCain, wed Renee Swift on Saturday, June 1 in San Francisco, Calif., a spokesperson for the senator confirms to Us Weekly.
Jack, 27, is a Navy lieutenant and helicopter pilot. His bride, 29-year-old Swift, is a San Francisco Bay Area native and a captain in the United States Air Force Reserve.
The spokesperson tells Us that the happy pair met in Guam, where they were both stationed.
The rehearsal dinner was in the Tonga Room at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco on Friday, May 31. The pair then married Saturday, June 1, at Grace Cathedral with a reception at the California Academy of Sciences.
"Wonderful day at my son Jack's wedding!" Sen. McCain tweeted, Instagramming a picture from the reception.
Swift looked stunning on her special day, wearing a white sweetheart neckline wedding dress with narrow cap sleeves and a natural waistline. She completed her look with a simple necklace and put her hair in sleek undo.
Following their wedding festivities, it's back to work for the newlyweds.
"Jack will return to Guam for another deployment after their honeymoon in Africa," the spokesperson reveals.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 34 by Bad Thoughts
[font color=black] they should make a Cherios commercial! eom.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by WilliamPitt
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022932473
Apparently, I scared the shit out of Glenn Beck on Thursday.
"These guys are so damn evil, man."
He sounds pretty freaked out to me.
Good.
P.S. Please forgive the commentary at the link. This was posted by one of my more prodigious stalkers. He's special.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 25 by Warren DeMontague
[font color=black] What the fuck is wrong with his hands?
"And WOE be unto those for on that day the socialists will rain down a plague of little bunny foo-foos"
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by CatWoman
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022936588
Karl Rove Melts Down When Confronted With Evidence of Bush IRS Investigation
When David Plouffe confronted Karl Rove with evidence that his Bush administration used the IRS to investigate the NAACP, Rove melted down and stammered baloney.
Video from ABC News:
http://www.politicususa.com/karl-rove-turns-sta-confronted-bush-irs-investigations.html
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by Octafish
[font color=black] The response of the professional liar.
Fury, followed by melting.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by Bosonic
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014502075
Russia's Vladimir Putin says his marriage is over
Source: BBC
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila have said their marriage is over.
The couple, who had been married for 30 years, made their divorce public on Russian state television after attending a ballet performance.
"It was a joint decision, we hardly see each other, each of us has our own life", Mr Putin said.
Mrs Putin had rarely been seen in public in recent months, prompting much speculation in Russian media.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22806866
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by Poll_Blind
[font color=black] ...
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 2 by KansDem
[font color=black] ...
Cue the music! "The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, and Vlad"
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 10 by Poll_Blind
[font color=black] ...
The ID and EGO in one shot.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 13 by Vwolf
[font color=black] Put another one on the other end of the horse and you're set n/t
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by Tripper11
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022948902
Latest Breaking News Forum?
Where did it go?
I looked around for some announcement or thread....didn't find any.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 3 by pinboy3niner
[font color=black] Two words: Stealth Mode.
Already I fear I may have said too much.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 4 by JHB
[font color=black] There's nothing new, just the same crap over and over and over again...
...and the Admins finally decided to give up hope.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 5 by Earth_First
[font color=black] Apparently LBN found out where GD hangs out when the Admins are sleeping...
LBN will stumble in with a new tattoo smelling of newsprint and toner around the collar...
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=#800080] [center] OP by Posteritatis
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014498446
Far-Right Extremists Chased Through London by Women Dressed as Badgers
[font color=black]Source: International Business Times
A rally by extremists from the British National Party and the English Defence League was dwarfed by opposition campaigners staging rival protests in London on Saturday 1 June.
Shortly after lunch, a die-hard core of around 50 BNP and EDL supporters was confronted outside parliament by hundreds of activists from anti-extremist groups including Unite Against Fascsim and Hope Not Hate.
But in the event, both groups were upstaged by agitators of a different stripe. Decked out from head to toe in black and white, the group that won the day were campaigning for neither for race war nor ethnic equality, but an end to the government's cull on badgers.
And it was the pro-badger campaigners who appeared to steal a march on the political activists.
Read more: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/473597/20130601/bnp-edl-hate-fascist-badgers.htm
The Internet will produce no finer headline today. I was driven - nay, compelled - to pass that one along.
There's an easily-pausable autoplaying, unrelated video to the side at the link, just to be warned.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by Spitfire of ATJ
[font color=black]I bet they were terrified!!!
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 2 by magellan
[font color=black]2. First time a real woman ever paid any attention to most of them
You bet they were terrified!
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 16 by NickB79
[font color=black]Looks like a good time to stand my ground!
You guys run and save yourselves, I'll sacrifice myself to slow them down!
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 4 by 24601
[font color=black]4. Badgers! We don't need no stinkin badgers!
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 8 by HooptieWagon
[font color=black]8. Damn furriners...
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by Uzair
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022950178
I know prostitutes
One I met at a strip club and we're good friends. A couple of others I met through her, another I met the old fashioned way.
All of them are in it because they like sex. The money is a side benefit. My friend, she is an office worker by day, a stripper and escort by nights and weekends. She has a bachelors degree and lives a happy, normal life. Her clients are screened, and tend to be middle aged professionals in unhappy marriages.
The other two -her friends- are of similar mind. One has a boyfriend who is ok with what she does. She is in school, working on a masters degree. She told me the money is good and that she enjoys her work. The other is not in college, does not have any plans to go back to school, and is happy with her life as well. She works in a department store and strips and escorts on the side, again because the money is good.
All of them say they wouldn't do it if they didn't enjoy it. They like the sex, sure, but they also like meeting new people, they like the idea that they're fulfilling someone's fantasy, they like the money. They see themselves as professionals, doing a job. They're comfortable with their sexuality and don't care about the prudish views of society at large.
They also acknowledge that there is a dark side to their profession. This dark side, we all agree, comes from the illegality of it: sex slaves, trafficking human beings, child victims, brutal abuses. These victims are not protected by the law. They can't go to the cops because then THEY will be arrested. They live in a society that shames them.
Maybe others here have similar experience with escorts as me, maybe not. I don't know, but this is my anecdote. I haven't ever met a sex worker who was forced into it. I think there are two groups. And I think we all agree that the group of women who are forced against their will into prostitution are victims of rape, plain and simple. I do not deny their existence, nor do I pretend that they are anything but victims here. They are victims of their pumps, but they are also victims of their government, and victims of a puritanical society.
Long story short: it needs to be legalized and legitimized.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 2 by jberryhill
[font color=black] I want the "I Know Prostitutes" T-shirt
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] reply 26 by Buzz Clik
[font color=black]You're welcome...
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 3 by Ohio Joe
[font color=black] ok but... it's all you get
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 12 by Tien1985
[font color=black] The back should say
"All 3 of them!"
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 15 by Chan790
[font color=black] I have a .gif for that!!
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by MineralMan
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022951471
Man beat 15-year-old girl brought to Twin Cities to be a prostitute
http://www.twincities.com/crime/ci_23385893/man-prostituted-beat-teen-roseville-and-st-paul
For those who are posting that prostitutes do that willingly, and that it's OK, please read below and at the link:
After the 15-year-old refused to prostitute herself again for Arteco Marvell Rhodes, the 38-year-old Chicago man beat her with a baseball bat, strangled her, urinated on her and threatened to kill her and burn her body or throw it in the river, according to a criminal complaint filed in Ramsey County District Court.
The complaint charges Rhodes with first-degree sex trafficking, third-degree criminal sexual conduct and possession of child pornography.
According to the complaint, the teen, identified as TJ, met Rhodes in Chicago, and he asked her if she wanted to make money and be "part of a family."
"Rhodes told her they were going to go to Minnesota to do 'tricks,' " the complaint said.
More at the link...
This is prostitution that is not OK. It's also prostitution that is very common in urban areas all over this country. There are people who work as prostitutes willingly, but that does not make prostitution OK across the board. Some of the men who pay for sex pay for sex with 15-year-old girls like this one. Some people may even know men who do this. I don't know any such men. If I did, I would turn them in to the police, instantly. This is prostitution, too. It's not OK. Not at all OK.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 33 by jberryhill
[font color=black] Some people think picking vegetables is okay
Nonetheless, there are people who are beaten and enslaved to pick vegetables.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 36 by arely staircase
[font color=black] i know vegetable pickers
nt
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by Playinghardball
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022940755
Native American student denied high school diploma for wearing tribal feather
A high school graduate in Alabama is being denied her diploma after being fined $1,000 for wearing a feather reflecting her Native American heritage.
“I don’t think it’s fair at all,” 17-year-old Chelsey Ramer told WPMI-TV. “I feel like its discrimination.”
Ramer, a member of the Poarch Creek Band of Indians, wore the feather while taking part in the graduation ceremony at Escambia Academy High School in defiance of school policy forbidding “extraneous items” from being worn without school permission.
The school sent a contract for graduating seniors to sign before the May 23 event, but Ramer told the station she never signed it. Escambia is now withholding her diploma until she pays the fine.
“About two months ago, me and the other Indian seniors from the graduating class asked our headmaster if we could wear the feathers on our caps,” Ramer told Indian Country Today Media Network. “She told us ‘no’ and that if we did, she would pull us off the field.”
However, Ramer attended and walked in the ceremony without incident. Indian Country Today reported that the headmaster who denied Ramer’s request, Betty Warren, has been replaced by David Walker, who coaches Escambia’s girl’s basketball team.
“He said if it was up to him, he would give me my diploma,” Ramer said to Indian Country Today. “But he had to go through the board to get it approved.”
Watch WPMI’s report on Ramer’s fine, aired Friday, below.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/03/native-american-student-denied-high-school-diploma-for-wearing-tribal-feather/
Maybe they need to change Alabama to Talibama...
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 7 by okwmember
[font color=black] Its ironic because the idiom "a feather in your cap"
means to have accomplished something. Which graduating would certainly be an example of.
And if there must be a fine to discourage others, why so large an amount? A $1000 is outrageous. It seems a reasonable fine that could be placed in a educational fund would be more than enough to make the point that we don't want students to deviate from the dress code.
More important than the diploma though is whether they can withhold her transcripts.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 26 by ReRe
[font color=black] That's right. Yankee Doodle "stuck a feather in his cap...
... and called it macaroni!" American as apple pie.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 108 by whistler162
[font color=black] So instead of admitting it was a feather
she should have called it macaroni instead and said it was a show of patriotism.
Foolish rule.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=#800080] [center] OP by TalkingDog
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022959120
Verizon's Share Everything Plan
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 3 by Poll_Blind
[font color=black] And remember: The "Share Everything" plan is ONLY available on...
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 5 by KurtNYC
[font color=black] When Verizon says that they listen to their customers, they MEAN IT.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 9 by Spitfire of ATJ
[font color=black] ....
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by onehandle
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014502989
Texas woman arrested in ricin letters to Obama, Bloomberg: Officials
Source: NBC News
A Texas woman has been arrested in connection with the mailing of three letters containing a form of the poison ricin to President Obama, New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg and the director of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, federal authorities said.
Shannon Rogers Guess Richardson of New Boston, Texas, originally called the Federal Bureau of Investigation claiming that her husband had sent the letters, officials said. The investigators found that she had sent the letters herself, they said.
The woman was arrested in Arkansas on charges that will be filed Friday afternoon, the authorities said.
Read more: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/07/18829206-texas-woman-arrested-in-ricin-letters-to-obama-bloomberg-officials?lite
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 13 by AtheistCrusader
[font color=black] All this story needs now is an astronaut in diapers, and we're good.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by Renew Deal
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022946374
Delivering Domino's Pizza by Unmanned Helicopter: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Proving that it’ll try anything short of making tasty pizza in order to get you to buy its pizza, Domino’s has uploaded the above video to its U.K. and Republic of Ireland YouTube account.
The video’s caption: “See the latest delivery innovation from Domino’s. The DomiCopter – taking deliveries to new heights.”
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http://techland.time.com/2013/06/03/delivering-dominos-pizza-by-unmanned-helicopter-what-could-possibly-go-wrong
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 4 by lame54
[font color=black] For one - you could end up with a Domino's pizza
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 5 by tridim
[font color=black] I'm going to have a pizza sent to Alex Jones' house.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by avaistheone1
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014502212
World's Oldest Cancer Found in Bone of 120,000 Year-Old Neanderthal
Source: International Business Times
The world's oldest known human tumour has been found in the rib bone of a Neanderthal who lived more than 120,000 years ago.
The bone was evacuated from a site in Krapina, Croatia more than 100 years ago and has been found to have contracted the fibrous dysplasia tumour, a cancer which is common among modern-day humans.
This discovery by David Frayer from the University of Kansas predates previous evidence of the tumour by more than 100,000 years.
Before this discovery, the earliest bone tumour was seen in an Egyptian mummy around 2,000 years ago.
Read more: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/475461/20130606/oldest-cancer-tumour-neanderthal-bone-120000-years.htm
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 5 by NickB79
[font color=black] Probably ate too much GMO mammoth
Fucking Monsanto!
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by cali
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022941072
New Jersey Man Who Named Son After Adolf Hitler Shows Up For Family Court Hearing Wearing Full Nazi
Uniform.
The New Jersey man who is fighting to regain custody of his young children--one of whom he named Adolf Hitler Campbell--showed up today for a Family Court hearing wearing a full Nazi uniform and a Hitler mustache.
Heath Campbell, founder of the Hitler’s Order hate group, appeared this morning at a Flemington, New Jersey courthouse for a closed hearing on his request for visitation with his youngest child, a two-year-old boy.
In November 2011, the child (and his three siblings) were taken into custody by state welfare officials, who accused Campbell, 40, and his wife of child abuse. Campbell has contended that he never neglected his children, claiming that they were seized by the state solely due to the their names (one of his daughters is JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell).
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http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/nazi-dad-in-family-court-691243
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 4 by Warren DeMontague
[font color=black] Well, if he's in the market for a new teapot, I have an idea.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=#800080] [center] OP by B1560dixiegrrrrl
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022944256
Seems there is more than ONE Hitler teapot, to add to the........furor.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 3 by Buzz Clik
[font color=black] That's a bit creepy. The other one is more whimsical.
Here's another:
And here is one I really like:
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 26 by Arugula Latte
[font color=black] I have an idea for an entire line of dictator tea kettles.
Next one up ... Pol Pot!
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 42 by riqster
[font color=black] We'll Marx that one down on the list
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 45 by Arugula Latte
[font color=black] And, for our Mexican friends ...
Pour-firio Diaz
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 47 by riqster
[font color=black] I'm Lenin towards that option.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 52 by pinboy3niner
[font color=black] Well quit Stalin and make a decision
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 59 by riqster
[font color=black] Be careful, I can be Amin guy when I am provoked.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 61 by pinboy3niner
[font color=black] Well, excuuuuuse Moi
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 75 by riqster
[font color=black] One Mao time, buddy, and
I'll Chou you up En Lai you out.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 60 by hootinholler
[font color=black] I Tojo before not to be so impatient.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 62 by pinboy3niner
[font color=black] Franco, my dear, I don't give a damn
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 72 by hootinholler
[font color=black] Khadaffi my cloud then.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 73 by pinboy3niner
[font color=black] It's Suharto find a good cloudmate these days
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 92 by hootinholler
[font color=black] Lets just Kruzchev on outta here then
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 97 by pinboy3niner
[font color=black] You Gowon ahead
I'm gonna stay and have a few words with my Papa, Doc. See ya Taylor, alligator.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 74 by riqster
[font color=black] Ayatollah you no already.
Khomeini times must I say it?
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 77 by Arugula Latte
[font color=black] Some people are Mussolini in on this thread
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 79 by riqster
[font color=black] A bunch of commie-dian types
But they pun quickly. Some of the fascist posters in the West.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 83 by Arugula Latte
[font color=black] Yep. And there are some real Sekos among them.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 93 by hootinholler
[font color=black] It's pretty big here enough to Ramses a few more in
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 91 by hootinholler
[font color=black] Cesar later then.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by adric mutelovic
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014501225
Man gets 30 months for returning used enemas to CVS
Source: Orlando Sentinel
A Jacksonville man will spend 30 months in prison for using about 12 enemas and then resealing and returning them to a CVS store in 2012.
Ronald Eugene Robinson, who was 34 when he was arrested last year, was sentenced to prison this week by U.S. District Judge Timothy Corrigan. He had pleaded guilty to product tampering.
His sentence will be followed by two years of supervised release, said U.S. Attorney's Office spokesman William Daniels.
Defense attorney Roland Falcon said his client wasn't trying to hurt anybody. He was doing it because he was in financial trouble.
Read more: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-used-enemas-cvs-20130605,0,5796038.story
How slick.
[font color=#FF0000] (Wayyy too many DUzies to ...er... flush 'em all out - just follow the link and enjoy!) [/font]
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by Robb
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022953381
10 injured in shooting accident at suburban gun club
Ten people were injured Tuesday night at a Kane County shooting club after being struck by buckshot fired from a gun that had been mistakenly loaded with a live round, authorities said.
The incident took place about 7 p.m. at the St. Charles Sportsmen's Club, near Elburn, when a 69-year-old club member from St. Charles fired his shotgun into the clubhouse floor, sending buckshot ricocheting and striking people who were nearby, Kane County sheriff's Lt. Pat Gengler said.
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Illinois State Police Sgt. Matt Boerwinkle said that because no charges were filed, the man's firearms owner's privileges would not face any sanctions. The state police issue firearm owner's identification cards.
Read More: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/suburbs/batavia_geneva_st_charles/ct-met-gun-club-accident-0606-20130606,0,731254.story
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 8 by Ohio Joe
[font color=black] And not one of them returned fire?
What good is arming them then
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by warrior1
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022953043
Slack-Jawed Yokels Attempt Tree Removal With Car, Fail Miserably
http://jalopnik.com/slack-jawed-yokels-attempt-tree-removal-with-car-fail-511514154
And now, for the most concentrated dose of stupidity you'll probably see all month
This amazing video surfaced in Oppo-town this afternoon when it was posted by reader Bring Back The Stealth. (I'm also taking the rare move of stealing his headline, because it's brilliant and I can't think of a better one.)
In it we see a group of morons, er, amateur arborists who attempt to extract a rather large tree using only an ancient, front-wheel-drive Oldsmobile shitbox and a chain. Needless to say, it doesn't work, sending the car airborne more than a few times
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 17 by bluedigger
[font color=black] It would have worked with the right Olds.
They needed a Cutlass, obviously.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 23 by secondvariety
[font color=black] What's that
thing called when you keep doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results?
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 26 by RedSpartan
[font color=black] Trickle-down economics.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=#800080] [center] OP by Eyerish
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018404055
You had one job...
[font color=#FF0000] (Many more pics in the OP!) [/font]
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by jakeXT
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018405166
After 10-mile run, woman gives birth to surprise baby
After a 10-mile training run, Trish Staine was in pain. Not post-training-run pain. Real, excruciating pain.
“I was yelling and screaming -- I thought I was dying,” says Staine, who was in training for Grandma’s Half Marathon in her hometown of Duluth, Minn. at the end of the month. Her family called an ambulance, and when they got to the hospital, they expected a diagnosis of a pinched nerve, a kidney stone, maybe a burst appendix, they told the Duluth News Tribune. But what the nurse treating Staine found was a fetal heartbeat.
“And I’m, like, looking around, like, no, I don’t believe it,” Staine told TODAY on Thursday. She says hadn’t missed any periods, she didn’t have a “baby belly” – and her husband, John, had had a vasectomy.
But despite all that, Staine soon delivered a healthy girl weighing 6 pounds, 6 ounces.
The Staines already have two biological children, ages 7 and 11, and two foster children, plus John’s three boys who are 17, 19 and 20.
http://www.today.com/health/after-10-mile-run-woman-gives-birth-surprise-baby-6C10224162
10 miles and over 6 pounds lost
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 3 by pinboy3niner
[font color=black] Immaculate deception?
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 14 by bluedigger
[font color=black] This is why I quit running years ago.
You can't be too careful.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 15 by nolabear
[font color=black] Apparently she didn't run fast enough. SOMEBODY caught her.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=#800080] [center] OP by NightWatcher
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018405198
The most epic FAKED photobomb (finish your drink first)
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 5 by pinboy3niner
[font color=black] Some clowns always have to horse around at weddings
Even if it eclipses the rite and becomes the mane event.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 17 by BlueJazz
[font color=black] Hope the bride is ok with this. I wouldn't want her to have any night-mares about the consequences..
... but I'm sure some jokers on this site will milk it for everything they can just to get a rise out of someone.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 18 by Enrique
[font color=black] a double wedding
* * * DUzy Awards: Week ending May 31, 2013 * * *
[center] Welcome to the DUzy Awards! Containing the words 'Pit Bull' and 'Gun' two weeks running... counting 'Brad Pitt' in the first week, there's a chance that we've been auto-trashed three weeks in a row!
To nominate a post for a DUzy, simply reply to the post with "DUzy"
somewhere in your response, and I'll do a search;
if you want to make sure I notice it, PM a link to "The DUzy Awards."
DUzy winners are noted in [font color=#800080]purple;[/font]
Editorial comments by me are in [font color=#FF0000] red italics. [/font]
[font color=blue][center]Special thanks to:
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[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=#800080] OP by ProdigalJunkMail
Welcome to Pit Bull Underground
[font color=black] where you can love 'em or hate 'em, but you damn sure have to post every friggin' article supporting YOUR position thus proving the 'others' wrong!
sP
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] [div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by SoCalDem
[font color=black] Damn you !!!!
I put every permutation of the word "pittbull"..capped, hyphenated, misspelled on my "hide by keyword" trash can option....and your post (and others) still show up..
It still hides the "gun" word though
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] [div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 2 by NutmegYankee
[font color=black] I just want to see a pciture of a pit bull holding a gun.
Then DU will be complete
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] [div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 5 by JeffHead
[font color=black] You asked for it.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] [div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 12 by LostOne4Ever
[font color=black] Bow Before your Bulldog Overlords!
There is no escape. Trust me I have looked. 
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] [div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 15 by ProdigalJunkMail
[font color=black] or they'll tear your face off
or lick you to death or something awful like that.
sP
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] [div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 19 by LostOne4Ever
[font color=black] Worse!
They will attack you with bunnies!
Some of which will troll you!
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=#800080] OP by ohiosmith
I don't get behind a lot of posts in GD! This is an exception: "We Need 3 Major Parties"
[font color=black] Damn straight! And multiple mid-size and smaller ones every month! 
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=black] On an OP by rug
Man threatens to blow up state building's misspelled sign
http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/3ENdjPlfsiS5biOQ1Zxv7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTMxMA--/
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center][div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by KurtNYC
[font color=black] He was taken to a criminal pschologist who comforted him by saying:
"There, their, they're...."
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] [div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 2 by Wait Wut
[font color=black] Whenever we drive to California...
...we have to pass through 'Hope, Arizona'. They have a sign as you're leaving town:
Your Now Beyond Hope
The husband starts giggling about a mile before we get to the sign because he knows I'm about to have a meltdown. Even better? The old sign was falling apart, so they replaced it...and didn't change it.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=#800080] OP by niyad
okay, because we need a laugh?? heard this tonight from an unimpeachable source (ie, one of
[font color=black] the people drinking at our "end of festival" pot luck)
"women become lesbians when they eat too many eggs". on that note, dear friends, bon nuit.
(edited to note: I was assured that "drunken friend at party" is a reliable source of information, should you also encounter such)
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 2 by DJ13
[font color=black] What happens when the men eat too many sausages?
They fart.
(Get your mind out of the gutter!)
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 15 by scarletwoman
[font color=black] I've been wracking my brain...
The best I can come up with is that when you crack two eggs into a frying pan, they can sorta look like a pair of tatas...
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 23 by mercuryblues
[font color=black] but what
happens when you put some link sausage in the frying pan? Does it neutralize the lesbian eggs?
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 26 by onethatcares
[font color=black] hard boiled or over easy?
just wondrin
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 28 by scarletwoman
[font color=black] Over easy makes you a lesbian trollop, obviously.
Hard boiled makes you a lesbian detective.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 17 by PDJane
[font color=black] On the door of a stall in the women's washroom in Swiss Chalet on Yonge St.
(It's no longer there). "MY MOTHER MADE ME A LESBIAN" Written underneath; "If I buy her the yarn, can she make me one too?"
It makes more sense..........
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=black] On an OP by Sunlei
Dirty lettuce photo gets 3 Burger King workers fired
CBS/AP) MAYFIELD HEIGHTS, Ohio - Burger King says three workers were fired after a photo posted online appeared to show an employee stepping on lettuce in bins at a northwest Ohio restaurant.
The company says it won't tolerate such violations of its strict procedures for safely handling food.
It didn't comment on the circumstances in which the photo was taken. News outlets say the picture was posted on the free-for-all website 4chan.org, and GPS data embedded in the photo led to the restaurant.
A screenshot obtained by CBS Cleveland affiliate WOIO shows how the computer-savvy sleuths -- who call themselves "anons," tracked down the restaurant's location.
story and picture here- http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57475840/dirty-lettuce-photo-gets-3-burger-king-workers-fired/#addcomm
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 7 by Orrex
[font color=black] You're right. Lettuce not dwell on the past.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 9 by Dash87
[font color=black] I better put my foot down and leaf this thread alone
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 15 by Orrex
[font color=black] It's important not to lose your head while you're at it.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 16 by Dash87
[font color=black] You're right. I ought to romaine impartial
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=black] On an OP by The Straight Story
Scientists uncover frozen mammoth, blood flows out
A Siberian expedition finds a well-preserved woolly mammoth. When scientists investigate, blood comes running out, lending hope to an ambitious cloning project.
When it comes to cloning extinct critters, it seems most people are holding out more hope for re-creating woolly mammoths than building "Jurassic Park." The researchers involved in a mammoth-rebuilding project are probably pretty excited about a recent find by Russian scientists who uncovered a fairly fresh new mammoth.
A paleontological expedition from the Research Institute of Applied Ecology of the North, North-Eastern Federal University, and the Russian Geographical Society discovered a female mammoth in a remarkably good state of preservation in the Novosibirsk archipelago in Siberia. North-Eastern Federal University has partnered with controversial South Korean cloning scientist Hwang Woo-Suk (who was found to have faked data involving a procedure to clone human embryonic stem cells) for a mammoth-cloning effort.
"The fragments of muscle tissues, which we've found out of the body, have a natural red color of fresh meat," says expedition leader Semyon Grigoriev. "The reason for such preservation is that the lower part of the body was underlying in pure ice, and the upper part was found in the middle of tundra."
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57586638-1/scientists-uncover-frozen-mammoth-blood-flows-out/
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by randome
[font color=black] Here come the clones!
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 2 by FSogol
[center][font color=black] Dibs on the first mammoth-assisted childbirth!
Dolphin-assisted childbirth: Yes, it's a thing now
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 10 by TrollBuster9090
[font color=black] "I wonder if we've still got those old cloning machines in the basement."
All we'd need is a female elephant...
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 11 by RoccoR5955
[font color=black] Michelle Bachmann is "retiring."
There's your female elephant!
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 13 by Brainstormy
[font color=black] A long walk from the ark to Siberia
isn't it? Or did the mammoths come AFTER Noah and all that? I went to a public school and was deprived of creation science.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=black] On an OP by malaise
OK we know there are investigations re Bachmann's finances
but was she a leaker as well??
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by Atman
[font color=black] Well, incontinence is not unusual in women her age.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 17 by Blue Owl
[font color=black] True, she is a pampered figure
n/t
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=black] On an OP by Hissyspit
BREAKING: Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann Says She Will Not Run for Re-Election in 2014
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 46 by Botany
[font color=black] Not running because the POTUS only serves 8 years and it had nothing to do w/any investigsation?
She really is batcrap crazy.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 49 by Mr Samuel Hain
[font color=black] Speaking of which...
Word out of Austin TX this morning is that the city's famous bat population is refusing en masse to defecate, in a show of solidarity with the Congresswoman.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 95 by Fantastic Anarchist
[font color=black] But then how is she going to impeach Obama?
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 110 by SmittynMo
[font color=black] One down. Sooooo many more to go n/t
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=black] On an OP by ashling
Michele Bachmann in tough spot; plan your popcorn needs accordingly
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/28/1212213/-Michele-Bachmann-in-tough-spot-plan-your-popcorn-needs-accordingly
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 4 by kimbutgar
[font color=black] She'll have foreign policy cred from her upcoming trip to Russia
As a member of the house foreign committee (why John bonner!). I hopes she doesn't embarrass us or incite a war with her stupid comments.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 6 by pinboy3niner
[font color=black] She could save money by just going to Sarah Palin's house
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=#800080] OP by Are_grits_groceries
Bachmann and Palin are going to team up:
[font color=black] Heh!
Get all kinds of teh crazy in one place.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by JHB
[font color=black] Bachmann-Palin Overdrive
Takin' care of business
(On teevee)
Takin' care of business
(It's about ME!)
Takin' care of business
(Don' cha know?)
Takin' care of business
(And always pushing guano)
Griftin'
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=#800080] OP by Playinghardball
Which one do you want to buy?
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 8 by bluedigger
[font color=black] Depends.
At the rate I'm going, I'll need adult diapers before I need condoms again.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=black] On an OP by UTUSN
"EVERYBODY tells me, 'Please run for president. Please run for president.' " (TRUMP.)
*************QUOTE*************
http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/trump_researching_run_YO6Qa9F3xQLS1UmLzQkKdJ
Trump researching 2016 run
Donald Trump has spent more than $1 million on electoral research for a potential presidential run in 2016.
Sources said the tough-talking “Celebrity Apprentice” host is increasingly being asked to speak at Republican events, and he appeared at the Oakland County Republican Party Lincoln Day Dinner in Novi, Mich., last week to a record crowd of 2,300.
“Everybody tells me, ‘Please run for president. Please run for president.’ I would be much happier if a great and competent person came along,” Trump reportedly told attendees. “I’d be happy if President Obama did a great job. I’m a Republican, but before anything, I love this country. I would love to see somebody come in who is going to be great.” ....
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 6 by temporary311
[font color=black] Are they telling him because they want him to win,
or because they think his campaign would be hilarious?
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 37 by LongTomH
[font color=black] Ding, Ding, Ding! We have a winner!
Probably they're all Democrats!!!!!
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 21 by MrScorpio
[font color=black] He probably knows a lot of stand up comedians...
Of course, THEY would all tell him to run.
Not to mention editorial cartoonists, TV and radio pundits, people who would buy the assets he'd sell off for quick cash, other people who want to run and would look good next to him by comparison, people with a sick sense of humor, people who want the Republicans to lose badly, the voices inside of his head, the people who make his hair pieces, circus geeks...
Whatever.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 23 by Segami
[font color=black] Please run Chump,....and make your hair your running mate!
My money is on the hamburger!
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 36 by Octafish
[font color=black] Run moth-like caterpillar hair-do! Run!
We love you. Not just for your money. You're humor.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=black] On an OP by kpete
Oh Oh, this pic is going to get them both in trouble....
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57586460/obama-urges-good-times-at-the-jersey-shore/
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by arely staircase
[font color=black] how did it turn out
awkward white guy high five?
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 18 by pipoman
[font color=black] Nah, Barack pulled his hand back and smoothed his hair at the last second,
so it was an awkward white guy standing there with his hand in the air..
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 24 by sfpcjock
[font color=black] I'm worried. Christie has lost like half an Obama already..
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=black] On an OP by Tx4obama
Obama: Washington can still be 'fixed'
Chicago (CNN) - Speaking at a political fundraiser, President Barack Obama promised Wednesday to work tirelessly to convince the American people that Democrats’ ideas are the right ones.
But at the same time, he attempted to strike a bipartisan tone, acknowledging that while Washington may appear broken, “it can be fixed.”
“We’ve got everything that we need to succeed,” the president said at the fundraiser for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “But the one thing that’s still missing is a politics that matches up with the decency and the hard work and determination and creativity of the American people. We’ve got a politics that’s stuck right now.”
Vowing to work with all Republicans who “don’t think compromise is a dirty word,” Obama said that the task facing all politicians is to create a government that’s befitting the next generation of Americans.
“The generation coming behind us, I mean they are spectacular,” the president said.
-snip-
Full article here: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/29/obama-washington-can-still-be-fixed/
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 4 by pscot
[font color=black] He's right. Cut off the Republicans balls
and their behavior will improve right away.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=black] On an OP by babylonsister
"Rest in peace, The Onion. You will be missed."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/27/1211908/-The-Onion-Calls-it-Quits
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 14 by scarletwoman
[font color=black] They're shutting down due to the leek investigations.
[font color=#FF0000] (Fear not... The Onion isn't going anywhere.) [/font]
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=black] On an OP by The Straight Story
JCPenney Billboard Promotes Tea Kettle That Looks Like Hitler
A JCPenney billboard promoting an exclusive Michael Graves-designed tea kettle has been turning the heads of motorists driving along the 405 near Culver City.
Not so much for the teapot's "cool-touch handle" or its "space-saving design" but for its uncanny resemblance to Adolf Hitler.
The odd coincidence was first noticed by Reddit, where users were quick to wonder if this was truly just an odd coincidence.
"There's no way that wasn't done on purpose!" exclaimed Redditor mattaukamp. "Well, look at us - we're all looking at and sharing a picture of an advertisement," responded Redditor LevTolstoy. "If it was done on purpose to get people's attention, but keep the ability to deny doing it on purpose, it's brilliant."
http://gawker.com/jcpenney-billboard-promotes-tea-kettle-that-looks-like-510086791?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_facebook&utm_source=gawker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 8 by eShirl
[font color=black] maybe it looks like Charlie Chaplin
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 15 by Cirque du So-What
[font color=black] I'm a little teapot
Eastern front
watch me pull my Blitzkrieg stunt
all the annexed nations will bear the brunt
'cause I'm a worthless little...dictator
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 32 by El Fuego
[font color=black] First pressure cooker bombs, now we're being menaced by Hitler teapots.
I'm afraid to go in the kitchen!
"Terminator IV: Rise of the Housewares"
[font color=#FF0000] At first I was like, What?? But the longer you look at it... lol [/font]
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=black] On an OP by HiPointDem
Japanese company develops technology to mass-produce 'spider silk' fabric (non-oil based)
Spiber Inc. of Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture, demonstrated one application of its technology by displaying a dress made of the synthetic spider silk fabric on May 24 at Roppongi Hills in Tokyo.
Spider silk is four times stronger than steel and more elastic than nylon. However, it has been difficult to artificially raise spiders in the manner of silkworms because spiders tend to be highly territorial, and in some species, the female eats its male partner after mating.
Spiber Inc. was able to synthesize genes to allow simple microorganisms to produce the same proteins created by spiders in spinning their silk. Those genes were inserted into bacteria and cultivated to manufacture the protein. The company also developed technology to weave that protein into fabric form, making possible the mass-production of synthetic spider silk fabric.
The fabric is called "QMONOS," read "kumonosu" or spider web.
"This fabric can be used in various industries, such as automobiles and medicine," said Kazuhide Sekiyama, Spiber president. "It is a major first step toward a manufacturing process that does not depend on petroleum.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/economy/technology/AJ201305250027
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by lob1
[font color=black] Beautiful dress, except flies stick to it.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=#800080] OP by ashling
Where's that chalk I put in the glove compartment?
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=black] On an OP by Hissyspit
PHOTO: Weather Channel's Storm Chaser Mike Bettes' SUV Thrown
@SeanSchoferTVN: The @weatherchannel vehicle just got thrown 200 yards by tornado. We stopped to help & they are OK. @jimcantore http://t.co/AayAhvuBwA
Reports are they were scraped up some, but o.k.
Bettes: "What we were trying to do was get away from it."
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 4 by BlueJazz
[font color=black] His car says: Tornado Hunt 2013 ! I believe it found one.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=#800080] OP by MrScorpio
For the headline writer, it was an opportunity of a lifetime...
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 2 by Nimajneb Nilknarf
[font color=black] It doesn't often get much better than that, but it does once in a while.
Crack found between suspect's buttocks
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 4 by TlalocW
[font color=black] They have more fun in England
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mrGcEvCfTXU/UXJ2FzwTa8I/AAAAAAABJ4c/0GEsX7UQqBo/s1600/Is+this+the+rail+price.jpg
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 13 by Buzz Clik
[font color=black] The flow of traffic across the mess left the asphalt pitted.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 14 by kentauros
[font color=black] I hope the person responsible is canned.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 15 by demwing
[font color=black] Those cars are really sandwiched together
and that truck is TOAST
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=black] On an OP by Renew Deal
Anyone take defensive driving online?
Last edited Tue May 28, 2013, 10:25 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)
My state offers it, but I've never taken it before. Is it easy to do? Does it take 6 hours like the classroom version? Did you get credit with DMV?
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by olddots
[font color=black] " I've beer taken it before " ?
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 2 by Renew Deal
[font color=black] Damn autocorrect
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 3 by struggle4progress
[font color=black] Did you get a ticket for getting on the internet without looking to see if anyone was already there?
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=black]On an OP by jakeXT
Diet soda erodes teeth as much as meth, crack: Case study
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by railsback
[font color=black] Already gave sodas up
I wasn't winning anything on MyCokeRewards anyways
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=#800080] OP by Xyzse
Prancercise: I could not stop laughing
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/05/exercise-youre-doing-it-wrong/276395/?google_editors_picks=true
http://www.amazon.com/Prancercise-The-Physical-Spiritual-Excellence/dp/159594690X/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1369922076&sr=1-1-fkmr1&keywords=rohrbach+prancercise
[font color=black] The comments are funny too.
Find your inner horsie...
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 3 by graywarrior
[font color=black] I whinneyed and ate some oats...burp
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 16 by Yavin4
[font color=black] It's funny until Ann Romney sees you and slaps a saddle on your back
and enters you in the Olympics.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=black] On an OP by undergroundpanther
shit foam and exploding barns
When you hear about foam in the context of food, you might think of the culinary innovations of the Spanish chef Ferran Adrià, who's famous for dishes like apple caviar with banana foam.
But this post is about a much less appetizing kind of foam. You see, starting in about 2009, in the pits that capture manure under factory-scale hog farms, a gray, bubbly substance began appearing at the surface of the fecal soup. The problem is menacing: As manure breaks down, it emits toxic gases like hydrogen sulfide and flammable ones like methane, and trapping these noxious fumes under a layer of foam can lead to sudden, disastrous releases and even explosions.
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2013/05/menace-manure-foam-still-haunting-huge-hog-farms
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by pinboy3niner
[font color=black] Oh sure, blame it on...
...moi.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 2 by Buns_of_Fire
[font color=black] Shit foam, jiggling and pulsating...
Where's Steven McQueen ("The Blob"
when we need him?
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 16 by n2doc
[font color=black] I thought you were talking about Rush Limbaugh n/t
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 17 by Blue Owl
[font color=black] Next time I see a teabagger foaming at the mouth...
I'll keep this thread in mind.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=black] On an OP by trumad
Zimmerman's lawyer said that pot has been known for aggressive behavior.
Snarf--- what---fighting over a Little Debbie?
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 23 by Rex
[font color=black] Yes, stoned couch potatoes have been known to
have violent outbursts of slap fight over a misallocated bag of gummy bears. These fights usually last 3 or less seconds as can be heard the war screams of, 'come on man!' and 'you stop!'.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=black] On an OP by steve2470
Fight erupts between parents at kindergarten graduation
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57587076/fight-erupts-between-parents-at-kindergarten-graduation/
Cleveland police say they've made eight arrests after a brawl broke out at a kindergarten graduation.
Police say a fight between two teen girls Friday morning spread among adults and other teens in the crowd.
No one was seriously injured.
Police told CBS affiliate WOIO that the suspects will be charged with inciting a riot.
*end of excerpt*
SMDH !
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 3 by muntrv
[font color=black] I hope the teen girls weren't the ones graduating.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=black] On an OP by Dash87
America as a punishment and revenge society.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 25 by dawg
[font color=black] We should find out who is responsible for making our culture like this ...
and make them pay!!!
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=#800080] OP by Playinghardball
A recent startling discovery...the mysteries are finally explained!
[font color=black] Shouldn't this put the Washington monument right about...
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 8 by awoke_in_2003
[font color=black] Well, I have always thought the Washington Monument...
was a phallic symbol telling the world "we are going to fuck you"
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=#800080] OP by Kali
hahahahhahaa!
[font color=#FF0000] (Recognition is the first step!) [/font]
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