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Discussion Boards => Thaddeus Boyd's Panel of Death => Topic started by: Thad on October 29, 2008, 10:48:21 AM
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SUCK IT, LIEBERMAN. (http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/29/12353/920/92/645721)
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WOOOO
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NYT (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/us/politics/07cong.html?ref=politics): Lieberman's fate's up in the air at this point.
As I read it, it looks like Reid may have offered him a less prestigious committee chairmanship if he'd voluntarily step down from his Homeland Security chair. (I'd read this earlier today, in the Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/06/lieberman-tries-to-cling_n_141876.html), but waited to comment until I'd seen that part of the story corroborated by a major outlet.) I think that's a reasonable compromise -- it's more than a slap on the wrist, but still jibes with Obama's message about coming together and putting past rivalries behind us.
I see three possible outcomes:
1. Lieberman blinks, agrees to Reid's terms.
2. Reid (or the Steering and Outreach Committee) blinks, pussies out, lets Lieberman keep his chair.
3. Neither blinks; Lieberman refuses Reid's terms and is forced out of his chair, throws a tantrum and decides he's going to caucus with the Republicans.
I see #2 as the worst possible outcome. Lieberman has had this coming for a long time -- at least since the Clinton impeachment proceedings -- and at some point somebody is going to have to show him that being a backstabbing piece of shit has consequences.
In the meantime, some Connecticut Dems are pushing censure (http://blogs.courant.com/rick_green/2008/11/ct-dems-lieberman-resolution-e.html). I don't expect that to pass, and it doesn't actually DO anything if it does, but hey, at least they're talking about it.
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4. Lieberman uses his Shining Wit to change Reid's mind, and as a result we're faced with the establishment of a new department: Double Homeland Security. Under DHS we'll have no privacy on principle, meaning our internets are tapped, our anuses bugged, and an agent will come to the home of every landowner and hide somewhere uncomfortable, like under the kitchen table, and by law you have to ignore him no matter what or he'll shoot.
don ban me thad i was born this way
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Per Jane Hamsher (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-hamsher/reading-the-lieberman-tea_b_142073.html), there's one I missed:
Resign. This was essentially what bitterman was threatening the Democratic caucus with in his press conference yesterday, when he said he was "weighing his options." Republican governor Jody Rell then appoints Rob Simmons, and the seat threatens to turn into a solid "R."
Don't see that one happening. Joe's more likely to go "R" himself than quit and let someone else do it.
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The Huffington Post is a celebrity rag for politics nuts.
Obama's Dog: IS IT POOPING?
Sascha Obama: GROWING LIKE A REAL CHILD
Palin: WHAT A NAKED WHORE
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The Huffington Post is a celebrity rag for politics nuts.
You know, I was just noticing how wet this water I'm drinking is.
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all the things you like are inferior to all the things i like
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That band was cool until it became too popular.
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http://www.hillaryis44.org/?p=772#comments
Denial, bargaining, depression, anger, and back to denial.
::3:
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Republicans to lose at least one seat on most committees. (http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/reid-looks-to-chop-republican-committee-seats-2008-11-08.html)
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...looking like Lieberman's probably going to keep that seat after all and be stripped of one that doesn't matter.
This doesn't especially surprise me -- I didn't really expect even resounding victory would cause the Democrats to fucking grow a pair -- but for fuck's sake, he is BAD AT HIS JOB. Even leaving aside that I despise him as a human being, he has done fucking nothing with his chairmanship and doesn't deserve to keep it on those grounds alone.
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...So what do we retitle the thread?
I like "Democrats Are Still Fucking Pussies (Even after two consecutive massive victories)".
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DNR Will Eat Nothing
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Bill O'Reilly Radio Show Going Off-Air (http://www.cnbc.com/id/28069031/for/cnbc/)
Parties on Endor begin @ 7.
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FINALLY
CHRISTMAS IS DEFEATED
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...it's only going off the air so he can devote more energy to his TV presence.
Show of hands, here: who still listens to radio?
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Heyo!
though it's mostly so I can laugh myself to sleep with coast to coast am
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I listen to cross country checkup on CBC myself.
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...it's only going off the air so he can devote more energy to his TV presence.
Absolutely. This occurrence is connected in no manner to Westwood One (http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=WWON.OB), producer of the radio show.
(http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7885/westwoodll8.jpg)
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Show of hands, here: who still listens to radio?
People who own cars with working radios.
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Assuming they're not using their iPods, CD players, or
tape players iPod tape deck extensions.
When I had to drive for two hours a day I used the time to learn Japanese. Ore wo baito!
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Assuming they're not using their iPods, CD players, or tape players iPod tape deck extensions.
These things are foreign to my car.
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Mine too. :sadpanda:
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Assuming they're not using their iPods, CD players, or tape players iPod tape deck extensions.
Hey, some of us watch TV on a GPS that takes SD cards. Couple episodes of Simpsons really takes the edge off a commute.
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I'd yell at you for that, but trying to translate from another language is probably even more distracting. Carry on.
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:painful: Then the edge returns from the windshield glass embedding into the skin, as the limp body careens forward onto the wet pavement.
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Mmmm. Schadenfreude (http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/26/how-to-make-a-schadenfreude-pie/) :cake:
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Those horrible Bratz dolls are going away forever. (http://consumerist.com/5110077/this-bratz-price-tag-is-surprisingly-honest)
These things didn't actually bump me towards "hate" until I saw the "Bratz Babies" spinoff. The phrase "baby bottle with bling" is horrible enough to behold and the entire thing was this horrifying conflation of baby antics and sexy makeup-ridden mall sluttery.
Seriously, it makes me sound like some kind of grandpa to tell it, but look it up on youtube. I don't want to link it.
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There's actually a lot about the Bratz shut down that bugs me, though. First off, it was a fucking court order that did them in -- which in itself bugs me crapless. Secondly? Mattel got the court order because apparently the guy who designed the Bratz dolls was working for Mattel when he started working on them. I haven't been able to determine the exacts, like whether or not the guy in question even submitted his designs to Mattel in the first place, but the whole thing comes off like a big fat loogie in the face of creator's rights.
And of course there are all the other little ramifications. Bratz was popular, in major part, due to the fact that they were pretty all-inclusive. At times gross and sexualized, yeah, but with them everything didn't revolve around the pretty blonde girl, and I've never heard about any girls starving themselves in order to obtain "Bratz" proportions.
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There's actually a lot about the Bratz shut down that bugs me, though. First off, it was a fucking court order that did them in -- which in itself bugs me crapless. Secondly? Mattel got the court order because apparently the guy who designed the Bratz dolls was working for Mattel when he started working on them. I haven't been able to determine the exacts, like whether or not the guy in question even submitted his designs to Mattel in the first place, but the whole thing comes off like a big fat loogie in the face of creators' rights.
If he signed a contract saying "Everything I create belongs to Mattel" then it's pretty open-and-shut. Now, if you want to equate that kind of contract to a sort of nasty indentured servitude, that's a conversation we can have, but he still signed it.
And of course there are all the other little ramifications. Bratz was popular, in major part, due to the fact that they were pretty all-inclusive. At times gross and sexualized, yeah,
What are the times they're NOT?
but with them everything didn't revolve around the pretty blonde girl,
If you say so. I can't conjure a mental image of any of them that aren't blond.
and I've never heard about any girls starving themselves in order to obtain "Bratz" proportions.
My favorite Bratz description ever, via AV Club (http://mobile.avclub.com/content/blog/on_bratz_and_men):
Barbie may boast a figure out of Russ Meyer’s fevered imagination but Bratz are the first line of mass-produced dolls that’d probably go down on their owner’s dads if they bought them a mojito or two.
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Error: critical failure while attempting to care. Sarcasm aborted.
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If he signed a contract saying "Everything I create belongs to Mattel" then it's pretty open-and-shut. Now, if you want to equate that kind of contract to a sort of nasty indentured servitude, that's a conversation we can have, but he still signed it.
Well, yes, I do consider that sort of contract an incredibly vile sort of business practice.
Anyway, as I said, though: I don't know the particulars. He very well may have signed such a contract, but his Bratz designs may have never even gotten past the "doodles in his private sketchbook" stage in development by the time he left Mattel.
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If Mattel's contracts are anything like Disney's though, he's still screwed, DN.
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Well, yes, I kind of guessed that part when Mattel got a court order that destroyed an entire multi-billion dollar company.
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While I understand why businesses have the "stuff you invent while working for us is ours" contracts, it's definitely a really fuzzy area with potential for abuse.
And DN is right in that the product itself shouldn't really be taken into account when talking about whether this sets a good precedent or not.
Having said that, this is the Schadenfreude topic and I want to restate that this is what was destroyed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUbDbugyzHg
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(http://i358.photobucket.com/albums/oo22/driftycity/pedobear.gif) Truly dark times have befallen us.
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Cheney pulls muscle while packing, will be in a wheelchair for the inauguration. (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/01/19/white_house_says_cheney_to_be.html?wprss=44)
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Even Cheney's own body wants to kick him in the ass on the way out.
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I'm honestly quite surprised Cheney does his own moving.
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Cheney pulls muscle while packing, will be in a wheelchair for the inauguration. (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/01/19/white_house_says_cheney_to_be.html?wprss=44)
(http://i358.photobucket.com/albums/oo22/driftycity/grave-1.gif)
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I guess there is no exaggerating the skeletons in Cheney's closet if he almost literally can't lift them!
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I'm honestly quite surprised Cheney does his own moving.
Who else is he going to trust with his man-sized safe?
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Yeah, do you think he trusts anyone else to see all the shit he's got to incinerate?
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Dating A Banker Anonymous (http://dabagirls.wordpress.com/)
We can only pray that 4Chan chooses this site as its next target for a random digital drive-by.
WHERE SPOILED WOMEN GO TO WHINE
SARAH BOESVELD
January 29, 2009
Buh-bye bottle service and surprise trips to Bermuda. Hello bemoaning boyfriends who loaf around the house and beg you to cook them dinner.
'Tis the harsh new reality for women dating former bankers - but they needn't wallow alone.
Dating a Banker Anonymous, a blog and relationship support group, is there with a tissue and a gaggle of teary peers.
The group was formed last fall by New Yorkers Laney Crowell and Megan Petrus, two best friends whose "relationships tanked with the economy." Noticing they weren't the only Wall Street widows, the pair launched dabagirls.wordpress.com, a "safe place ... free from the scrutiny of feminists," for women to vent and share stories.
Blog posts range from the ridiculous ("FYI DABA girls - chopping vegetables along side your man in a hot New York sized kitchen is NOTHING like the sexy kitchen scene ... in 9½ Weeks") to the seriously pained.
One said her "FBF," or finance guy boyfriend, had lost his passion for life (for golf, too, but still). Another said her honey was so stressed, their sex life had gone from dynamite to dismal, forcing her to flee to South America and hook up with a Latin stranger.
"We do make light of everything on the blog and it's very tongue-in-cheek," Ms. Crowell, 27, told The New York Times this week. "But it all stems out of really serious and heartfelt situations."
Many posters say they wanted to stay with their boyfriends despite all the cancelled invites to the Hamptons. But for those who've chosen the single life instead, DABA girl "Sidney" offers hope.
"Somewhere out there, some other finance guy is raking it in right now. Have faith that if you continue to starve yourself to perfection, he will find you."
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cry me a rainbow
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Blagojevich's last day. (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/30/us/30scene.html?_r=1&hp)
At moments during the day, Mr. Blagojevich reflected on what was ahead, most immediately how best to pay his mortgage come March 1 without his $177,000-a-year salary.He spoke of the guilt he felt toward his family for entering a political life, the “personal Greek tragedy” that he said he saw as his circumstances, and, all the while, his love of his job. His biggest error, he said, was the friends he had picked.
:perfect:
Those sentences being next to each other is the most delicious sour grapes.
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At moments during the day, Mr. Blagojevich reflected on what was ahead, most immediately how best to pay his mortgage come March 1 without his $177,000-a-year salary.
:loser:
Maybe he can move to south Phoenix. There are a hell of a lot of families there getting by on less than $177K.
Hell, he could probably run for governor here.
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Obama goes in DC cage, Westboro goes in University of Chicago water. Frat's in the water. Our frat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZfZiBRFM5w
Farewell and adieu to you, fair Spanish gents. Farewell and adieu, you men of Spain. For we've received orders for to sail back to Boston. And so nevermore shall we see you again.
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Heh. I was just coming to bump this very same thread.
Ranks of world's Billionaires cut by nearly a third. (http://business.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090311.wrbillionaires0312/BNStory/Business/home)
:profit: :richiam: ... :ohshi~: :glee:
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I think we have enough fans of Matt Taibbi around here to start our own cult, but if you haven't gotten into him well then now is a good time to start.
AIG Exec Whines About Public Anger, and Now We're Supposed to Pity Him? Yeah, Right (http://www.alternet.org/workplace/133627/aig_exec_whines_about_public_anger%2C_and_now_we%27re_supposed_to_pity_him_yeah%2C_right/)
WARNING: Might use some dirty language, which keeps it from being legitimate journalsim.
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oh it's journalism all right
YELLOW JOURNALISM :serious:
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Ask yourself this question: If your company made that much money, and the boss of the unit made almost $280 million in just a few years, exactly how likely is it that you wouldn't know where that money was coming from?
Hanlon's Razor says "Actually pretty likely."
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Zynga shares down 40%. (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/26/zynga_q2_results/)
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Zynga shares down 40%. (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/26/zynga_q2_results/)
There are lots of reasons why Facebook's stock is not performing as well as some said it would be its recent 5% dip is being attributed to Zynga
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How to Pronounce Schadenfreude (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3_DjiLLDfo#ws)
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General Mills Anti-Gay Protest Gone Wrong.mp4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_pSRLVDVH4#)
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http://feministing.com/2013/10/25/this-daily-show-interview-cost-racist-gop-official-his-job/ (http://feministing.com/2013/10/25/this-daily-show-interview-cost-racist-gop-official-his-job/)
The law is going to kick the Democrats in the butt. If it hurts a bunch of college kids that are too lazy to get up off their bohonkas and go get a photo ID, then so be it. If it hurts a bunch of whites, so be it. If it hurts a bunch of lazy blacks that want the government to give them everything, then so be it.
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Huh, I guess it just hurt him.
So be it.
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Just reading the article doesn't capture the amazingness of the interview.
Be sure to watch the video at the bottom of the article.
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Ratings on Duck Dynasty premiere drop by 28% (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/duck-dynasty-phil-robertson-season-five-ratings-down)
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Aaaahhhhh
Yesssssssssssss
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(http://www.reactiongifs.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/hehehehehe_duck.gif)
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Oh, hey. It's that invisible hand everybody's always talking about.