I think that it's a good idea to see what you like to, what countries you visit most and what vendors are around. My first house was in Groddle Forest near the subway. That worked for me. My current house is in Bortola a few streets from the subway. I rarely go there. I don't like my current place. I need more garden plots and a Spice tree.
- Anika
from FFHound!
I just purchased a nice little home in Marylpole Mount Quarters. Cute places. Decent prices. Sucks that selling the home only for 80% of what I paid for it.
- CW✔
Cool - I'm trying to focus on what I want to do right now, and I'm thinking of moving more towards the engineering stuff - so access to mining materials will be good. I'll have to think on it today and see what I can find that I like when I get home.
- Jennifer Dittrich
After the claim that http://friendfeed.com/rahshee... wouldn't start a meme, I had to at least give it a try. This is mildly better to look at than the original that the lickers came from (you know which image I'm talking about, I refuse to link to it).
I knew the "Remove It Permanently" Firefox addon would come in handy.
- Sue - Friendfeed is best
Since I can't hide this by going to "My discussions" page, I'm commenting now so it'll appear in my home page with the "Hide" Link! #smartiam
- directeur
Only about 1040 more comments to go until we overtake the original!
- Andy Bakun
Bonnie, who has the talent? I hope you're not referring to me, this is the shittiest photoshopping (well, GIMPing), I've ever done. That being said, I spent way too much time on it when I did it.
- Andy Bakun
Andy could probly supply source for the Rah chest..
- Joe The Sausage
I will acknowledge I got it off friendfeed, but the assertion of who's it is is not legitimately authenticated. We're gonna have to see a Certificate of Authenticity for this chest.
- Andy Bakun
"If the NFL owners want a fight over money, they can have one. The minute they announced they couldn’t live on their cut of $9.3 billion in revenue and locked out the players, threatening to cancel next season, they revealed their feudal-lord natures. They overreached. Instead of worrying about player salaries, they should worry about fans who are sick of being treated like serfs. Here’s a good question: what right do owners have to padlock stadiums that taxpayers helped pay for? The NFL owes fans a season. Why? Because the fans paid for it, that’s why, and this isn’t 13th-century France, and a season ticket package is not a wheat levy. They paid for it with outrageously priced seat licenses, as well as bond issues for stadiums, tax abatements, and sweetheart leases, not to mention all kinds of gratis services from cities and counties, right down to free snow removal."
- Katy S
from Bookmarklet
Rene discovered a new group of domestic terrorists: right-wing hackers just killed the live feed from the Capitol building in Madison, WI #fightthepower#fascismatourdoorstep
Ha ha, so now "right-wing hacker terrorists" is equivalent to a fascist state? You're hilarious, dude.
- Kevin L
Yes, Kevin. But you have your head obviously so far op your own ass you wouldn't recognize fascism when it kicked your head in even farther. It is people exactly like you who enable the fascist state by laughing at this. You are equivalent to Germans after WWII who excused themselves for "only following orders." Go ahead and look the other way.
- Rene, Pro Button Pusher
Kevin, do you truly not see how what Walker is doing NOW is a mirror equivalent to the fascist direction that this country has been going since Bush/Cheney admin? I'm not *assuming* that right-wing hackers are responsible for the feed-kill because I don't know (I wasn't online when it happened)...but given the timing, and Walker attempting to shut down the Capitol during peaceful protests...yeah, I'd call it a serious fascist move on his part.
- Prosey BUTTONS!
What I thought was funny wasn't so much that you think fascism is coming. I think it is too, from both sides. I thought it funny that you attribute it to "terrorists" and then call that some sort of government intervention. Which is it?
- Kevin L
I agree that it's coming from both sides (particularly with Dem silence in the matter)...as far as the situation specifically in Wisconsin, though, it *is* Reps...and the place where I place (predominantly) Reps in the terrorist category is in the subject of the abortion debate, which is oblique to this - as opposed to directly connected - but it's all part of a bigger pattern. I can't speak for Rene, but that is how I see it...*nod*
- Prosey BUTTONS!
That's the price of liberty, I guess. :D
- Steven Perez
Yeah but this one time, this one Democrat said "gun". So it's even.
- <3Heather<3
William Charles "Bill" Ayers is an American elementary education theorist ... he co-founded the Weather Underground, a self-described communist revolutionary group[2] that conducted a campaign of bombing public buildings during the 1960s and 1970s, motivated by U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Kevin L
In an op-ed piece after the election, Ayers denied any close association with Obama, and castigated the Republican campaign for its use of guilt by association tactics.
- Kevin L
I don't think anyone is denying that the Weather Underground and the SDS were openly advocating violence. But their actions and statements certainly weren't 'sanctioned' or 'defended' by the Democratic Party, and indeed many of their actions were directed *at* the Democratic Party. (Does anyone remember 1968 in Chicago?) Democratic leadership denounced the actions and tactics of those...
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- Mark J
"Today, Senate Republicans voted unanimously against legislation to close the pay gap between women and men. The Senate voted 58-41 against allowing debate on the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would help end discriminatory pay practices against women. It had already passed the House. More than 45 years after passage of the Equal Pay Act, the pay gap shockingly persists with women still earning on average 77 cents to every man’s dollar. According to the National Women’s Law Center, “This persistent pay gap translates to more than $10,000 in lost wages per year for the average female worker.” The gap is even worse for women of color: African-American women earn 61 cents and Latinas earn 52 cents for every dollar a white non-Hispanic man earns."
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
Also: how the HELL do these people still keep getting into office?
- ωαřмaiden ☆TeamOtto☆
Closed-off informational loop. By the time 2012 rolls around, everyone who watches cable news will KNOW that Obama blocked an increase in women's wages. Because Fox will start some idiocy saying as much, and the news networks will present it in the interests of not looking liberal, and everyone who can't spend half an hour reading up on the issue will hear "Obama ... blocked ... Republicans ... women's wages ..." and think Obama cut their funds.
- Steven Perez
Ladies, still want to be Republican (those of you who are)? You can thank your male party peers for this, I am not being facetious when I ask why an intelligent woman would be Republican in this day and age. The not so bright I can understand, but if you are intelligent, concerned about things like, oh, equal pay, why oh why?
- Angel R. Rivera
"It’s not always a disaster when plans go astray. Fourteen years after the celebrated sessions in Havana that gave rise to the Buena Vista Social Club, AfroCubism is a re-imagining of how that record might have sounded if the original idea of a collaboration between Malian and Cuban musicians had worked out. In the event, the Malians didn’t arrive, so the project became almost purely Cuban, and spawned the eponymous mega-hit."
- Melissa
from Bookmarklet
No, I'm not from America... How very observant of you... So why do I care about the election, US politics in general and what right do I have to comment on it? Well, if you don't understand the very real effect that even the most mundane thing you guys do has on the rest of the world, that's why. You fart, we sniff. Eat less cabbage.
I'm not a birther -- no way do I think Obama was born in Kenya. Clearly he was a Muslim terror baby.
- Stephen Mack
Image credits: Upper right: Fox News poll at http://www.foxnews.com/opinion... that has a curious lack of an option that represents anything close to my position (well, "other" I guess). Upper left: Immigration protest sign taken from this ludicrous piece:...
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- Stephen Mack
Wait, so California voters banned Gray marriage??
- Kevin Fox
from iPhone
Sweet jeebus, there are not enough LIKE buttons for me to hit for this post!
- vicster
Sadly, yes. We banned Gray Davis and recalled gay marriage.
- Victor Ganata
So what you're saying, Victor, is you want to reinstate Gray Davis and then marry him?
- Stephen Mack
The funny thing is, Schwarzenegger screwed up the state far worse than Davis did (and the Governator didn't have Enron trying to sabotage him), but we re-elected Schwarzenegger. Go figure.
- Victor Ganata
"There is a very depressing story today in The Washington Post about the lunatic racist Pamela Geller, who has been leading the crusade against the so-called Ground Zero mosque. This is a woman who once called me a "Jewicidal Jihadi" for advocating for peace and compromise in the Middle East. It's a clever phrase, true, but, moi? In other dank corners of the Interwebs, I'm thought of as a blood-and-soil Jewish nationalist. I didn't really address her charges at the time, because it was my impression that Geller was a marginal nutbag, but it seems as if she's setting the national agenda now on matters related to Islam and religious freedom. To which I say, Jesus H. Christ."
- Sean McBride
from Bookmarklet
Sean... you have her completely wrong. she isn't religious.... and most of her supporters and people she promotes like PAT CONDELL'S GODLESS COMEDY are radically against all religion... (not just Islam) which is why the JIDF does not endorse her.
- NoahDavidSimon
Great. What happened, did Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter retire?
- Steven Perez
she has no relation to the politics of Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter. you are going to have to come to terms with this. her main interest is women's issues... though she is not a feminist... she is very concerned about women's rights and their conditions in the middle east. I'm trying to be honest with you here... and if you can show me that this isn't a piss on the Zionist show I might be able to educate you where she is coming from.
- NoahDavidSimon
now that I have read the article... I can tell you it is complete bullshit. Debbie Schlussel is not in league with Pamela. She has concluded that there already is a Mosque by the world trade center. to mention Debbie in the same sphere as Pamela says more about the writer then any reality on the ground.
- NoahDavidSimon
RT @JIDF He has me blocked. Please correct your post - there's far more reasons I do NOT support Pamela Geller than you suggest.
- NoahDavidSimon
you will have to speak to @JIDF on twitter directly
- NoahDavidSimon
"President Obama's position in support of the right of a Muslim organization to build a community center near Ground Zero in New York is now picking up the endorsement of a very prominent 9/11 widower: Former Bush administration Solicitor General Ted Olson."
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
no they don't Alex fake equivalence, the RIGHT has a problem but on topic given the commerce clause gave the biggest 2nd amendment win in DC gun law smackdown, I'm curious how the NRA takes the propsed umm repeal
- WarLord
Both parties are, at best, fair weather friends of the 1st and 4th amendments, and Democrats are generally not big supporters of the 2nd and 10th. I assume you can name a few areas you feel the GOP is weak on, as well.
- Alex Scrivener
I won't dispute that both parties have an agenda with regards to which parts of the Constitution they favor and despise, but the point is, right now, there's only really one side that is actively proposing we gut significant parts of the Constitution.
- Victor Ganata
"Either Palin is confused about the revenue numbers involved with extending the tax cuts, or she's willfully distorting the Democratic plans. We'll let you be the judge of that. Regardless, Wallace was very specific about asking her about tax increases for the top 2 percent. And that does not represent the largest tax increase in history. The unlikely outcome that she seems to be talking about -- that all of the Bush tax cuts will be repealed -- wouldn't be the largest tax increase in history either. Palin read the number on her hand correctly, but that's about all she got right. So we rate her statement Pants on Fire."
- LANjackal
from Bookmarklet
"An anonymous liberal blogger in Washington state hopes that progressives across the country will show up to tea party rallies on September 12 and -- if it's legal -- light up a confederate flag so tea partiers can watch it burn. "I think that it would start a great conversation about race and about how it's being used for political gain right now," the blogger, who preferred to be identified by his online handle, "General J.C. Christian," told me Monday. "I can imagine people showing up at the tea parties, which I'll do at my local one, and the tea party backers will start explaining why [the flag] is about state's rights, not slavery, and all that and basically hang themselves." "I think that will be one of the messages that come out of the tea party events if my idea works out and people actually embrace it," he added."
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
I'd also worry about safety... some of the tea party backers are armed.
- John (bird whisperer)
I hope it happens. I would love to see the results.
- Alex Scrivener
I would too, but I'm watching from a distance. I'd get my ass whooped if I tried that in "occupied Virginia".
- JCunwired
BTW - and I realize this is a bit OT - why is the battle flag - not even the regular national flag of the seceding states' Confederacy - the flag of modern-day Confederate sympathizers?
- Andrew C (✓)
"PHOENIX – Opponents of Arizona's immigration crackdown went ahead with protests Thursday despite a judge's ruling that delayed enforcement of most the law, and dozens of people in Phoenix were arrested after peacefully confronting officers in riot gear. Gov. Jan Brewer called U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton's Wednesday's decision halting the law "a bump in the road," and her spokesman said they'd appeal to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco later Thursday. Outside the state Capitol, hundreds of protesters began marching at dawn, gathering in front of the federal courthouse where Bolton issued her ruling on Wednesday. They marched on to the office of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who has made a crackdown on illegal immigration one of his signature issues. At least eight protesters approached a police line and allowed themselves to be arrested. A group of about two dozen protesters then sat down in the middle of the street or refused to leave, and police...
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- Joe The Sausage
from Bookmarklet
This is so stupid, this is fanning the flames of the racists. The battle has been won, SB1070 has been crippled, what is the point of these protests. Constructive collaboration is better than nana-ing.
- Rene, Pro Button Pusher
I still wonder what the Supremes do with this law, I dunno if kill is a slam dunk in the conservative court
- WarLord
I don't think enforcing federal law is that bad of an idea. Killing the entire law may prove to be counterproductive.
- Rene, Pro Button Pusher
"Glenn Beck has denied being "responsible" for a planned attack on the leaders of the Tides Foundation, a nonprofit organization Beck has repeatedly demonized. Beck has said that he "stand[s] by each one" of his attacks on the group and lauded his coverage of the organization."
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
"“I may introduce a constitutional amendment that changes the rules if you have a child here,” Graham said during an interview with Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren. “Birthright citizenship I think is a mistake, that we should change our Constitution and say if you come here illegally and you have a child, that child’s automatically not a citizen.” [...]"
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
"A howler by goalkeeper Robert Green gifted the United States an equaliser as England struggled to a disappointing 1-1 draw in their opening Group C game at the Royal Bafokeng Stadium. The 29-year-old goalkeeper failed to stop a routine shot by Clint Dempsey after 40 minutes and the ball slipped from his grasp and dribbled across the line after captain Steven Gerrard had put England ahead in the fourth minute. It was a shattering moment for England and manager Fabio Capello who had gambled in handling Green only his ninth start for England and it restored the United States' confidence after a shaky opening."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
"Dozens of headless skeletons excavated from a northern English building site appear to be the remains of Roman gladiators, one of whom had bites from a lion, tiger, bear or other large animal, archaeologists said Monday. Experts said new forensic evidence suggests the bones belong to the professional fighters, who were often killed while entertaining spectators."
- I like big Botts
from Bookmarklet