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siamesedreamer · « **Reply #3780 on:** April 27, 2009, 03:16:20 PM »

Air Force One flies over Manhattan at low altitude for a photo op and authorities were told beforehand not to alert the public.

Eric P · « **Reply #3781 on:** April 27, 2009, 03:20:48 PM »

nyc freaked out or didn't react, depending on who you ask

i didn't hear about it until i was already at work so no reaction here. however the reaction on the nyse floor was pretty funny with people literally fleeing for their lives.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #3782 on:** April 27, 2009, 03:26:24 PM »

Quote from: Eric P on April 27, 2009, 03:20:48 PM

nyc freaked out or didn't react, depending on who you ask

i didn't hear about it until i was already at work so no reaction here. however the reaction on the nyse floor was pretty funny with people literally fleeing for their lives.

That's just cause they thought he was coming to regulate them.

Eric P · « **Reply #3783 on:** April 27, 2009, 03:28:10 PM »

it's good to know that educated floor members will have the same reaction as america's next top models

[youtube=560,345]4fjpwTWbAyQ[/youtube]

Oblivion · « **Reply #3784 on:** April 27, 2009, 07:15:07 PM »

Hachi machi!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/27/spanish-fly-carla-bruni-s_n_191951.html

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #3785 on:** April 27, 2009, 07:25:48 PM »

dat ass

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #3786 on:** April 27, 2009, 09:21:29 PM »

dayom

Brehvolution · « **Reply #3787 on:** April 27, 2009, 09:25:28 PM »

no bra

Flannel Boy · « **Reply #3788 on:** April 27, 2009, 09:33:18 PM »

Flannel who?

Cheebs · « **Reply #3789 on:** April 27, 2009, 11:44:32 PM »

Carla Bruni > Flannel Girl?

Crushed · « **Reply #3790 on:** April 28, 2009, 12:01:18 AM »

Quote from: Malek on April 27, 2009, 09:33:18 PM

Flannel who?

Flannel Girl looks. The boy she's fallen for has left his computer unattended. She can't help but take a peek. She gasps as she sees his betrayal. She was about to give herself to him. She runs.

Flannel Boy · « **Reply #3791 on:** April 28, 2009, 12:25:20 AM »

my timing is always off.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #3792 on:** April 28, 2009, 02:15:41 AM »

[youtube=560,345]G7d_e9lrcZ8[/youtube]

Forgot how I eventually found myself to Fox debate videos, but it's hilarious how hard they try to smear and nail Paul, whereas today the same people who booed/smeared him then praise him now.

FlameOfCallandor · « **Reply #3793 on:** April 28, 2009, 10:11:10 AM »

[youtube=560,345]cWt8hTayupE[/youtube]

FlameOfCallandor · « **Reply #3794 on:** April 28, 2009, 10:12:10 AM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on April 28, 2009, 02:15:41 AM

Forgot how I eventually found myself to Fox debate videos, but it's hilarious how hard they try to smear and nail Paul, whereas today the same people who booed/smeared him then praise him now.

Ron Paul was ahead of his time.

AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #3795 on:** April 28, 2009, 10:53:00 AM »

Quote from: FlameOfCallandor on April 28, 2009, 10:12:10 AM

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on April 28, 2009, 02:15:41 AM

Forgot how I eventually found myself to Fox debate videos, but it's hilarious how hard they try to smear and nail Paul, whereas today the same people who booed/smeared him then praise him now.

Ron Paul was ahead of his time.

and/or a relic of 50 years ago

Eric P · « **Reply #3796 on:** April 28, 2009, 11:18:54 AM »

seeing as most republicans seem to be a relic of 75 years ago, i would def label ron paul as being ahead of his time

FlameOfCallandor · « **Reply #3797 on:** April 28, 2009, 11:22:14 AM »

Quote from: Eric P on April 28, 2009, 11:18:54 AM

seeing as most republicans seem to be a relic of 75 years ago, i would def label ron paul as being ahead of his time

http://instantrimshot.com/

TVC15 · « **Reply #3798 on:** April 28, 2009, 12:25:19 PM »

as you scroll down

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1174221/Highly-intimate-photos-video-Carla-Bruni-ex-lover-stolen-Paris-flat.html

Eric P · « **Reply #3799 on:** April 28, 2009, 01:15:21 PM »

Specter now a dem.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0409/Specter_switching_parties.html

archie4208 · « **Reply #3800 on:** April 28, 2009, 01:18:46 PM »

RIP Republican Party

Cheebs · « **Reply #3801 on:** April 28, 2009, 01:20:49 PM »

FILIBUSTER PROOF MAJORITY

HOLY SHIT

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #3802 on:** April 28, 2009, 01:26:50 PM »

fuck i'll do waterboarding and take that shithead's money, at $1000 a second even if i only lasted 5 seconds it would be worth it

no checks, though, i wouldn't trust olbermann not to stop payment

Cheebs · « **Reply #3803 on:** April 28, 2009, 01:28:42 PM »

Basically there is nothing stopping dems from getting through their huge health care reform now. No more excuses, no way to blame republicans. they lost their filibuster powers (well soon as franken is seated which wont take THAT long).

No more fillibuster possibilities from republicans...this is like christmas.

Eric P · « **Reply #3804 on:** April 28, 2009, 01:29:20 PM »

Quote from: Eel O'Brian on April 28, 2009, 01:26:50 PM

fuck i'll do waterboarding and take that shithead's money, at $1000 a second even if i only lasted 5 seconds it would be worth it

no checks, though, i wouldn't trust olbermann not to stop payment

it's donated to charity

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #3805 on:** April 28, 2009, 01:30:11 PM »

considering my current bank balance i think i qualify

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #3806 on:** April 28, 2009, 01:51:08 PM »

I wake up to big news wtf. It's like NPD day or something

Cheebs · « **Reply #3807 on:** April 28, 2009, 02:06:14 PM »

Michael Steele put out a statement.

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Some in the Republican Party are happy about this. I am not.

Let’s be honest-Senator Specter didn’t leave the GOP based on principles of any kind. He left to further his personal political interests because he knew that he was going to lose a Republican primary due to his left-wing voting record.

Republicans look forward to beating Sen. Specter in 2010, assuming the Democrats don’t do it first.

So the GOP is already calling our new boy a left-winger in less than a day. How long till he is a socialist to them?

siamesedreamer · « **Reply #3808 on:** April 28, 2009, 02:11:46 PM »

Specter on March 17th:

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I am staying a Republican because I think I have an important role, a more important role, to play there. The United States very desperately needs a two-party system. That’s the basis of politics in America. I’m afraid we are becoming a one-party system, with Republicans becoming just a regional party with so little representation of the northeast or in the middle atlantic. I think as a governmental matter, it is very important to have a check and balance. That’s a very important principle in the operation of our government. In the constitution on Separation of powers.

This is like a nightmare that won't ever end. Its hard to get mad though. The GOP is so broken I'm not sure they'll ever ecover. The DEMs now own everything good or bad.

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #3809 on:** April 28, 2009, 02:14:05 PM »

HAW HAW HAW

man, didn't see this coming

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #3810 on:** April 28, 2009, 02:18:22 PM »

let's start the civil war 2

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #3811 on:** April 28, 2009, 02:24:10 PM »

can we skip civil war 2 and just reinvoke the 3/5 rule for white Southerners

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #3812 on:** April 28, 2009, 02:32:09 PM »

i wouldn't fuck with white southerners, almost all of us own multiple firearms, including the children

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #3813 on:** April 28, 2009, 02:41:33 PM »

well, we own lots of rei brand camping gear

Mandark · « **Reply #3814 on:** April 28, 2009, 02:48:05 PM »

Obama looks down at dead elephant carcass.

"Looks like this party got crashed."

Puts on sunglasses.

"YEEEEEAAAAAHHHH..."

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #3815 on:** April 28, 2009, 02:58:05 PM »

Quote

In a speech on Monday at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, President Obama presented a vision of a new era in research financing comparable to the Sputnik-period space race, in which intensified scientific inquiry, and development of the intellectual capacity to pursue it, are a top national priority.

The president laid out an ambitious plan to invigorate the country’s pipeline for innovation, from grade-school classrooms to corporate, government and academic research laboratories.

Mr. Obama’s plan includes fulfilling commitments dating from the Bush administration to double the budgets of the National Science Foundation, the science office of the Department of Energy and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

But he is also seeking increases in direct federal investment in medical and energy research, and he would make permanent what has been a sporadic research and experimentation tax credit offered to companies that push beyond the quest for quarterly profits to pursue breakthroughs.

Over all, he described his initiative as “the largest commitment to scientific research and innovation in American history,” receiving hearty applause from the scientists and observers who packed the halls at the National Academy headquarters for the group’s annual meeting.

Mr. Obama made clear that a new burst of advances in energy technology, medicine and other important arenas would not come from money alone, but required scientists to get out of their laboratories and find ways to inspire young people “to create, build and invent — to be makers of things, not just consumers of things.”

Many elements of his plan had already been introduced, including $400 million in initial financing under the economic recovery bill for an Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy, akin to a defense research agency created after the Soviet Union launched Sputnik.

He provided fresh detail on an initiative, already included in the economics stimulus bill, creating a $5 billion “Race to the Top” fund available to states doing the most to increase the ranks of trained science and math teachers. Mr. Obama noted that the country faced a shortfall of more than 280,000 math and science teachers by 2015.

He pledged to lift public and private investment in research and development in the United States beyond its high point in 1964, at the peak of the space race and cold war, when such money was 3 percent of the gross domestic product.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/science/earth/28speech.html?_r=1&partner=MOREOVERNEWS&ei=5040

Eric P · « **Reply #3816 on:** April 28, 2009, 02:59:47 PM »

god let's hope so

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #3817 on:** April 28, 2009, 03:07:15 PM »

Mandark · « **Reply #3818 on:** April 28, 2009, 03:07:39 PM »

I think there was a bit in Audacity of Hope where he talked to scientists who were much more worried about grants and funding than they were about intelligent design and stem cells.

He was probably making a more general point about moving beyond culture war issues, but it's nice to see him remember the lab geeks.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #3819 on:** April 28, 2009, 03:13:46 PM »

Holy shit @ Specter. I kind of expected it to happen at some point- several Dems flipped after '94. Fuck, Richard Shelby used to be a Democrat.

Eric P · « **Reply #3820 on:** April 28, 2009, 03:24:46 PM »

anyone live in florida?

https://www6.hsmv.state.fl.us/mvcheck/platecheck/main.jsp

BRB LOL is available

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #3821 on:** April 28, 2009, 04:14:00 PM »

"The outbreak of swine flu should be renamed 'Mexican' influenza in deference to Muslim and Jewish sensitivities over pork, said an Israeli health official Monday.

Deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman said the reference to pigs is offensive to both religions and 'we should call this Mexican flu and not swine flu,' he told a news conference at a hospital in central Israel.

On Friday, Rep. Eric J.J. Massa (D), a freshman lawmaker from upstate New York, called for a complete closure of the border. He was joined Monday by Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, a group that advocates for reduced immigration, which urged Congress to halt all but "non-essential traffic" at the border and the deployment of the U.S. military to stop illegal immigration.

Massa changed his tune slightly Tuesday morning. "The good news is, it looks like this kind of swine flu is treatable if you can get to the doctors within three to four days," he told MSNBC, adding that his point was that the U.S. government needed to control its borders. "To the extent that my request has brought attention to this in the United States, I think I've served the people of my district," he said.

DAMN YOU ~~SWINE~~ MEXICAN FLU!

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #3822 on:** April 28, 2009, 04:19:18 PM »

They should call it Illegal Immigrant Flu.

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #3823 on:** April 28, 2009, 04:22:51 PM »

This has certainly fueled xenophobe nightmares of a lone, sick illegal immigrant coming into an all-American community and spreading the deadly virus! Kill them all at the border!

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #3824 on:** April 28, 2009, 04:28:41 PM »

Everyone wants to rename it!

The European Union says the swine flu epidemic should be renamed "novel flu" because the current name is misleading and could unnecessarily damage the pork industry.

European Union Health Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou says pork is safe to eat and has nothing to do with the swine flu outbreak. She says the "wrong connotation" contained in the name "swine flu" could hurt pork producers.

...

The World Organization for Animal Health, which handles veterinary issues around the world, issued a statement late Monday suggesting that the new disease should be labeled “North American influenza,” in keeping with a long medical tradition of naming influenza pandemics for the regions where they were first identified.

Mandark · « **Reply #3825 on:** April 28, 2009, 04:41:04 PM »

Nice to see that they all have their priorities straight. Sheesh.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #3826 on:** April 28, 2009, 04:42:20 PM »

Vilsack and Napolitano are holding a presser, and Vilsack just said it should be called H1N1. Which is just nowhere near as catchy as SWINE FLU.

Eric P · « **Reply #3827 on:** April 28, 2009, 04:44:10 PM »

they should call it H1N13, so that we can all call it Hiney flu

TVC15 · « **Reply #3828 on:** April 28, 2009, 04:45:38 PM »

Quote from: Eric P on April 28, 2009, 04:44:10 PM

they should call it H1N13, so that we can all call it Hiney flu

Why not H1M13, since most of the Americans that have it are in Hymietown?

Eric P · « **Reply #3829 on:** April 28, 2009, 04:46:50 PM »

yes but not in the diamond district

Cheebs · « **Reply #3830 on:** April 28, 2009, 06:05:27 PM »

I turned on glenn beck to see his reaction to the specter thing but all he is doing is rambling about how outrageous it is obama used a teleprompter when giving his swine flu speech.

TVC15 · « **Reply #3831 on:** April 28, 2009, 06:08:21 PM »

Quote from: Eric P on April 28, 2009, 04:46:50 PM

yes but not in the diamond district

You know, the Jews were also known for not catching the plague back in the day, too.

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #3832 on:** April 28, 2009, 06:19:39 PM »

i can't believe no one's gone with the obvious "jew flu" yet

it rhymes, you can say it in a singsong voice, and it kills you

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #3833 on:** April 28, 2009, 06:51:48 PM »

Quote from: Cheebs on April 28, 2009, 06:05:27 PM

I turned on glenn beck to see his reaction to the specter thing but all he is doing is rambling about how outrageous it is obama used a teleprompter when giving his swine flu speech.

why can't obama think for himself!?

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #3834 on:** April 28, 2009, 07:04:41 PM »

party switch marks threat to the country

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/28/mcconnell-specters-switch_n_192434.html

Eric P · « **Reply #3835 on:** April 28, 2009, 07:09:17 PM »

Quote

I think the danger of that for the country is that there won't automatically be an ability to restrain the excess that is typically associated with big majorities and single-party rule."

giggle giggle

Cheebs · « **Reply #3836 on:** April 28, 2009, 07:14:48 PM »

at Rick Sanchez's "What the hell does that mean?!" when the Republican congressman said the Republican Party is still the big tent party, "the biggest tent of all is the tent of freedom".

http://www.dailykostv.com/w/001239/

Eric P · « **Reply #3837 on:** April 28, 2009, 11:22:59 PM »

http://twitter.com/REALGlennBeck/status/1643850515

Mandark · « **Reply #3838 on:** April 29, 2009, 12:00:24 AM »

Quote from: Eric P on April 28, 2009, 11:22:59 PM

http://twitter.com/REALGlennBeck/status/1643850515

I've spent two minutes trying to come up with the perfect lesbian innuendo quip for this, and I got nothing. I'm declaring it open to the floor.

HyperZoneWasAwesome · « **Reply #3839 on:** April 29, 2009, 12:28:19 AM »

holy crap, that Glenn Beck Twitter is gold.

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"Obama Requests $1.5B To Fight Swine Flu Outbreak" More money out the door.

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" Buchanan: GOP A "Heavily White Party" " Thats how we like it! Get the immigrants out, they brought the swine flu aint they?

Quote

"Ahmadinejad Copies Obama's "Yes We Can" For Iranian Election" Worked for one dictator, why not another?

Quote

Texas seceding from the union, adopting the fair tax: Result, millions of illegals! All Northerners!

News:

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