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Blogger explains to Bachmann, in small words, that you can not have an abortion if you are not actually pregnant...

http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2011/09/13/memo-michele-bachman-cant-have-abortion-pregnant

Things like this are why I'm not convinced when people call themselves "pro-life". Things like cheap/free birth control, emergency contraceptives, and comprehensive sex education have been proven time and time again to reduce the number of abortions. Yet these people are opposed to every single one of them. They aren't interested in reducing the number of abortions. Their real motives are to control women and punish them for having dirty dirty sex. They are happy with high teen pregnancy rates and super high STD rates in the South. As long as the sluts suffer, who cares what happens to them?

Gordon Ramsay's Dwarf Porn Double Found Dead In A Badger Den

http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2011/09/gordon-ramsay-dwarf-porn-double-found-dead-badger-set

In a bizarre case that would have even CSI's top investigators stumped, a dwarf porn star who was Gordon Ramsay's doppelganger was found dead in a badger set in the U.K. RadarOnline.com has learned.

Percy Foster, star of X-rated movie Hi-Ho Hi-Ho, It's Up Your A**e We Go, was about to be rocketed into the ranks of celebrity porn lookalikes due to his resemblance to the Hell's Kitchen host when his partially eaten body was discovered in a badger's den.

According to a report in U.K. tabloid The Sunday Sport, the 3'6" actor was found "deep in an underground chamber by Ministry of Agriculture experts ahead of a planned badger-gassing program near Tregaron, west Wales."

Expert CSI teams had to use fingertip technology to remove his body from the six-foot-deep burrow, and investigators have not yet ruled out the possibility of suicide.

i told you i was hardcore

Per ECH IO:

Discordianism is Militant Agnosticism Subjectivism.

This reminds me of a panel discussion/debate a couple of my professors were in several years ago, with the student leader of the local Campus Crusade for Christ, who had naturally packed the audience with his campus crusaders.

I no longer remember what the actual purpose of the whole thing was, but what sticks in my mind was how the crusaders, both the guy on stage and those in the audience, kept insisting that the Bible wasn't up for interpretation, that the meaning of the Bible was easy to see if you'd just do a plain, simple reading.  

No matter how my professors worked at it, what angle of approach they tried, they could not get the crusaders to see that any reading of a text is an interpretation of the text, regardless of what that text is, and especially if that text is a modern English translation of a collation of 5000+ ancient, fragmentary manuscripts.

Were your professors also interested in herding cats?

That seriously sounds like a debater's worst nightmare, at best.

At that point you ignore what the other debater is saying and try to show the audience how much of an idiot he is.  You ain't changing his mind so you might as well insult him.

I believe Pringles' initial intention was to make tennis balls. But on the day that the rubber was supposed to show up, a big truckload of potatoes arrived. But Pringles was a laid-back company. They said "Fuck it. Cut 'em up!"

It was funnier when Mitch said it.

erv (Abbie Smith) did a funny job covering this:

http://scienceblogs.com/erv/2011/09/yo_dawg_republicans_vaccines_a.php

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/09/13/bachmann_woman_told_me_gardasil_made_her_daughter_mentally_retarded.html

Yeah, Bachmann's done.  Rush was all over her shit for that one.

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/09/13/rush-bachmann-really-jumped-the-shark-on-gardasil/

She should have stuck with the "It'll turn our daughters into sluts" talking point instead. That would have played well with the base.

Sorry to go the easy way out but...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_authoritarianism

http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/

source: http://blog.urbanomic.com/sphaleotas/archives/000489.html

In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend — but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.

The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."


-------------from http://blog.urbanomic.com/sphaleotas/archives/without-a-doubt/without-a-doubt.html

If this was from Rove it is very ironic that in 2008 he also said:

http://www.pollster.com/blogs/karl_roves_math.php?nr=1

ROVE: I'm looking at all of these Robert and adding them up. I add up to a Republican Senate and Republican House. You may end up with a different math but you are entitled to your math and I'm entitled to THE math.

Fun trivia: Sean Connery was, at one point, offered the role for Gandalf in Lord of the Rings, but he turned it down due to reportedly "not understanding the story".

And yet, he had no problems doing Zardoz.

I'm sure it could have been worse.

I could have had Indy.

Indy's defense actually had positive points in our league thanks to a sack, 2 interceptions and a fumble recovery. Pittsburgh had -3 points. You would have done better if you hadn't started a defense.

Also, to literally add insult to injury I have to root for Tom Brady to do well this year. 

Razor 1911 we have accidently borrowed your votedisk.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLID3k3rov0

I hate dubstep but love chiptunes. Does this make me a hypocrite?

Chiptunes?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk-WvHhyMdE

No! Bad Luna! Don't ever do that again.

 

PATTERN SEEKING MACHINE FIND SIGNAL IN NOISE! FILM AT 11!!!
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Please to note that the super computer is still relying on humans to produce the noise. I'd like some rigorous tests to see if it can make predictions that are better than humans and random chance.

[the Pittsburgh defense]

I got Drew Brees and the Pittsburgh defense.

Yeah? How's that working so far?