Saturday, October 31, 2009

The Official Late Night Chill Open Thread

Posted by Corre∫pondence Committee at 9:00 PM

82 comments:

  2. Syrah said...
    Its magic clock night.

    In that case, here's the magic clock!


    /Try it out - it's cool

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  3. Oh my gosh, I fell asleep for a minute and I'd forgotten all about that. Fall back! Extra sleep!

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  4. Woot! Fourth and my real avatar!!
    Good evening y'all!

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  5. Hey Syrah - I like that avatar - I presume it's just for tonight?!

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  6. Hey Syrah - I like that avatar - I presume it's just for tonight?!

    A Costume Avatar for the candy holiday.

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  7. Ah, well that's good, cause I prefer your regular avatar anyway!
    Hey, anyone wanna here a REAL ghost story?
    (sorry I missed the thread where folks were talking about this!)??

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  10. It's Burkh-ingham Palace: Hate preacher calls for the Queen to wear full Muslim dress

    The Queen forced to wear a burkha and Buckingham Palace turned into a mosque - that was the vision of Britain under Sharia law proposed by a Muslim firebrand yesterday.

    . . .

    He said: 'We hope to eradicate man-made law from Britain and the world. We call upon Gordon Brown to implement Sharia law and we call upon the Queen to give up playing God. There is only one supreme being. When Sharia law is implemented, maybe in 10 or 15 years' time, she would be expected like all women in Britain to be covered from head to toe, only revealing her face and hands.'

    If Her Majesty refused, he said she would be 'punished' according to Sharia law.

    Choudary's sidekick Abu Rumaysahl added: 'Buckingham Palace would become a mosque and play a central role in society.'

    /God bag the Queen

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  11. The Queen forced to wear a burkha and Buckingham Palace turned into a mosque - that was the vision of Britain under Sharia law proposed by a Muslim firebrand yesterday.

    Oh yeah, that'll happen.

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  12. Why thank you Corre∫pondence Pumpkin Committee!!

    This did NOT happen to me. But maybe 15 years or so ago, a team of what would probably now be called Ghost Busters, but were really scientists - physicists, Medical Doctor and others. They went to a castle in Scotland, the name of which escapes me now (damn senior moments!) where for years and years, in one stone hallway, when tourists and sometimes staff would walk about 20 feet or so down a stone hallway (no windows, but a door on the near left of the hallway) and ALL of 'em said that at that exact spot, the temperature seemed to drop perhaps 20-30 degrees for that fifteen feet of hallway. And one security guard reported seeing a "ghostly" image in the hallway.
    So our team of Ghostbusters went and - sure enough each of them felt the same sudden and deep drop in temperature. But none of them saw anything and the physicist checked out the castle and especially that hallway and could find no physical reason (no windows in the floor above or below that would account for such a sudden drop in temperature)! (continued)

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  13. HEY, ARE ALL Y'ALL READING MY GHOST STORY?!?

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  14. I AM READING YOUR GHOST STORY BUT YOU DIDN'T FINISH IT!!!!!!!!!! LOL

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  15. Well anyway, our erstwhile team of "ghostbusters" decided to set up two video cameras at the hallway, one a regualar ole video camera and one an infrared video camera that night.
    The next day they rushed to see the videos and they saw............nothing. So the leader decided it was just an unexplained natural phenomina that the temperature dropped in that hallway. But one of the other members of the team said "let's try it again and use a thermal imaging video camera. After all, we are checking on this sudden drop in temperature that vistiors and staff sometimes feel in that portion of the hall way. So they set up both an infra-red video camera, a thermal imaging camera and a regular video camera the next evening.
    In the morning they all went to see the videotapes not expecting to see anything at all
    (continued).

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  17. When they checked the videotapes, on the Thermal imaging camera AND on the infrared camera, they clearly saw (and showed us viewers) an apparition
    not a person, but more like a nearly transparent "nightie" or nightgown, coming out of that door and moving across that exact section of hall way and into the stone wall at the end of the hall!! It didn't appear to be a person - no head or feet visible but SOMETHING MOVED ACROSS THAT HALLWAY that was,as I said, an apparition.
    The NEXT night, they used the same set up and also put in a hydrometer (indoor thermometer) and son of a gun, same image on the thermal imaging camera and the hydrometer or whatever showed that when that apparition crossed across the hall, the temperature dropped by nearly 30 degrees!
    No explanation - no history of anyone meeting a gruesome death or anything there - just this weird apparition!!! Someone found the plans for the castle when it was first built, and at the end of the hallway where the apparition appeared to disappear into the stone wall, there HAD originally been a door.
    Pretty cool, huh?

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  18. Mark Steyn: 0bama appoints Bush as 'blame czar'

    That's a good one! I had it scheduled for this afternoon but we got crowded so I moved it until tomorrow afternoon...I love Steyn!

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  19. Well - so whaddya think of that story? Huh?

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  20. Corre∫pondence Pumpkin Committee - HEY! Didn't ya read my story?!?

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  21. Hey Real, old buddy, old pal ....I'll be thinking of you when I can't sleep tonight ....that one gave me triple goosebumps ...in waves! Yikes!

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  22. Wow, realwest - that's quite a story!

    I once played a gig at a place and when I was in my room afterwards, I was sitting in bed and a lightbulb popped and broke over my head (it was attached to the headboard). The next night the manager told me someone had recently shot himself sitting in bed in that room.

    THAT was weird. A coincidence, I'm sure, but weird!

    BOO. : )

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  25. Top Jerusalem Post headline: Clinton rejects PA preconditions, calls Israeli concessions 'unprecedented'

    Just below is the story of 60 of the few remaining Yemenite Jews being smuggled out with the help of the US State Dept.

    [FYI, Yemen used to have a hefty Jewish community, almost all of whom were airlifted to Israel shortly after its independence in 'Operation Magic Carpet'.]

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  26. Hey Pink Populator Pumpkin (nice nic, btw) what gave me goosebumps when I saw it on TV was that NONE of the "ghostbusters" thought it was a ghost, but conceeded that they didn't know what the hell it was, either!!

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  27. And here's something to gladden my heart tonight:
    The NY Yankees beat the Phillies in Philly 8-5!
    And now lead the series 2 games to 1.
    Go Yankees!!

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  29. Ruh roh! Phillies fans are gonna be in a baaaaaad mood. I wasn't even thinking about the game!

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  30. Well the Phillies will get another chance tomorrow and on Tuesday - no days off.
    But from a Yankees' fan perspective, no matter what happens the World Series will be either won in Philly - or, at worse, the Yanks go back to Yankee Stadium for the final game or games!
    Feeling really good about this!

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  31. Woops, that should be tomorrow and Monday, no days off!

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  32. Realwest, Scotland has been called one of the most haunted countries on earth. I lived in Northern Scotland for two years and I saw some things that just can't be explained.

    Of course... it could have been the scotch...

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  33. Wendy - I'm 3/4 Scot myself and I know how "haunted" Scotland is supposed to be. And it wasn't scotch whiskey that was on that thermal imaging videotape nor on the indoor thermometer!

    I don't really believe in Ghosts myself, but after seeing that show, let's just say I've opened my mind to the possibility!

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  34. Of course... it could have been the scotch

    Heh. : )

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  36. And how can I *not* post this on Halloween?

    Frankenstein by Edgar Winter.

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  37. Oh, cool, F2! I have a friend who used to play with him.

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  38. Finally Free said...
    And how can I *not* post this on Halloween?

    Frankenstein by Edgar Winter.

    It would be even more impressive if the group's movements ever caught up to the music.

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  39. F2, I was just looking at my NAIL MEET HEAD and I can't find the Steyn piece - I must have switched it to Krauthammer.

    I'm losin' it. : )

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  40. Finally Free! Thanks for the link to the Great Recession to the Great Depression comparison.
    I think the Author of the article is in fact trying to sell a book: Free Markets = BAD'
    Government Spending = GOOD.
    What he misses is the fact - as is manifest today - government spending does not increase wealth; does not produce producers, hell it doesn't even produce consumers (see the cost to the government of the Cash for Clunkers program).
    In point of fact, as everyone on C2 knows, the government doesn't have it's own money. It takes money from us - and worse, also runs up our credit cards and home equity lines of credit to their max and takes that money too. And it doesn't spend it well (the lack of accountability for the money spend by the Federal Government is truly astounding) nor, notwithstanding President Obama's fiction about
    jobs saved and created, OUR MONEY has resulted in an "official" unemployment rate of over 10%; unofficial estimates place it at 16% and no one has even TRIED to figure out how many UNDERemployed Americans there are.
    Indeed, as reported by the AP no less, and confirmed by the Congressional Budget office:
    After all the noise over Democrats' push for a government insurance plan to compete with private carriers, coverage numbers are finally in:

    Two percent.

    That's the estimated share of Americans younger than 65 who'd sign up for the public option plan under the health care bill that Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is steering toward House approval.

    The underwhelming statistic is raising questions about whether the government plan will be the iron-fisted competitor that private insurers warn will shut them down or a niche operator that becomes a haven for patients with health insurance horror stories.

    Some experts are wondering if lawmakers have wasted too much time arguing about the public plan, giving short shrift to basics such as ensuring that new coverage will be affordable.

    "The public option is a significant issue, but its place in the debate is completely out of proportion to its actual importance to consumers," said Drew Altman, president of the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation. "It has sucked all the oxygen out of the room and diverted attention from bread-and-butter consumer issues, such as affordable coverage and comprehensive benefits."

    The Democratic health care bills would extend coverage to the uninsured by providing government help with premiums and prohibiting insurers from excluding people in poor health or charging them more. But to keep from piling more on the federal deficit, most of the uninsured will have to wait until 2013 for help. Even then, many will have to pay a significant share of their own health care costs"
    Two Percent. For over one TRILLION DOLLARS.
    http://enews.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20091031/4aebc450_3421_1334520091031867776594

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  41. @Realwest: two effing percent?!

    Just so you know, the percentage of people in Holland not covered by their socialized medicine system (mostly due to various administrative SNAFUs and "falling between the cracks") is... 1.5%

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  43. Evening all. Nice ghost story Real. Amazing how some real ghost stories all involve an abnormal drop in temperature. Must be a reason for it.

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  44. Only 2%? Oh, good. So anyone already without medical insurance won't be fined if they don't sign up for the government plan?

    Yeah, that's what I thought.

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  45. Happy Halloween, Bat! Hey, P2! How was your evening?

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  46. Finally Free said...
    @Realwest: two effing percent?!

    It must be true - it came from an Associated Press story!

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  47. C², FML. Three people at the bar were in "costume". Two of them were bar staff. I saw more people in costume on the bus ride home :p

    /damn you H1N1

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  48. The Phillies are in the World Series? That 1-2 punch of Schmidt and Luzinski finally paid off.

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  50. Somali fundamentalists whip bra-wearing women for being a 'deception to men'

    ISLAMIC militants who control much of Somalia's war-battered capital are beating up women who break their strict interpretation of sharia law, witnesses said yesterday.

    Fundamentalists from the Al-Shabaab group, which has seized half of Mogadishu, have attacked women who wear bras or who fail to don headscarves, reports said.

    Officials, who declined to be named, said that 130 people, including men caught chewing dried khat leaves, a mild narcotic, had been rounded up over the past two days in a clampdown on those seen to be disobeying sharia law.

    /Islam, what's not to like?

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  51. Finally Free - I'm just reporting what the AP said that the Congressional Budget Office has said.
    Combine that with the recent revelations that the "average" health care insurance company makes around 6% profit per year and what do you get? Not a need for health care insurance reform, but a need to change health care delivery costs and the quickest, most certain way to do that is to STRICTLY LIMIT TORT LITIGATION OVER MEDICAL MALPRACTICE - which PELOSI'S bill manifestly does NOT do. As a "veteran" of the VA health care delivery system and of the Medicare health care delivery system (in the sense of the reimbursement rates to doctors, hospitals and pharmacuetical companies), the government not only doesn't have the answer, it doesn't even have a clue.

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  52. Looks like the Halloween spell is over!

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  53. Hey Pumpkin Pi Guy - the AP story just rewrote what the CBO is saying.
    But you seem surprised - that we'd spend something over a TRILLION DOLLARS over 10 years to benefit two percent of those under 65 who cannot afford health care insurance. Why is that?

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  54. Looks like the Halloween spell is over!

    So THAT'S what that was. ; )

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  55. @Realwest: Texas placed caps on malpractice suits. Any other states with similar initiatives?

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  56. None that I'm aware of Finally Free. And I'm unfamiliar with the Texas caps - do you have a link or know what they are?

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  57. Realwest said...
    Hey Pumpkin Pi Guy - the AP story just rewrote what the CBO is saying.
    But you seem surprised - that we'd spend something over a TRILLION DOLLARS over 10 years to benefit two percent of those under 65 who cannot afford health care insurance. Why is that?

    Huh?!? Where did I say that?

    No, as a matter of fact, I'm not surprised at that.

    It's the lack of attention to true rights and civil liberties that surprises me.

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  58. Meat creates half of all greenhouse gases

    Climate change emissions from meat production are far higher than currently estimated, according to a controversial new study that will fuel the debate on whether people should eat fewer animal products to help the environment.

    In a paper published by a respected US thinktank, the Worldwatch Institute, two World Bank environmental advisers claim that instead of 18 per cent of global emissions being caused by meat, the true figure is 51 per cent.

    /hmmm, stop eating meat or the average temperature in Saudi Arabia will rise above 180F, tough choice

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  59. Pi Guy! That's the problem with blogging instead of face to face - had you seen me writing that you would have seen a big smile on my face; I know you don't believe that!
    As for true rights and civil liberties (and this I am typing with a straight face) you'll never find them in a government run by LEFTISTS.
    The LEFT insists on telling you what rights and liberties you need and when -its so much easier to have flexible morality when trying to consolidate power in the Government. The LEFT WANTS YOU TO HAVE TO RELY ON IT FOR EVERYTHING OF VALUE.

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  60. Killian Bundy - ROFLMAO! Tough choice, indeed!
    LOL!

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  61. Tort reform?

    Not a chance.

    From BigGovernment:

    Section 2531, entitled “Medical Liability Alternatives,” establishes an incentive program for states to adopt and implement alternatives to medical liability litigation. [But]…… a state is not eligible for the incentive payments if that state puts a law on the books that limits attorneys’ fees or imposes caps on damages.

    Translation: We'll send money to your state as long as you don't pass any laws that limit the amount of money our largest doners can sucker out of stupid jurors.

    And yes, I did read the legislation and it appears to be legit.

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  62. @Wendy: translated into plain English: ambulance chasing tort lawyers give too much money to the Democratic party, and we gotta keep'em happy?

    /No offense meant to any lawyers on C2!!!

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  63. Yep, you are absolutely correct Wendy. Tort reform in a state, means no Federal Money for your state!
    But in typical LEFTIST weasel words, the Dems in Congress can now say "but we did include incentives for States to reduce medical liability lawsuits."

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  64. Hey Finally Free - while there are lots of lawyers on C2, I don't believe any of 'em are ambulance chasers; all of us seem to have a thing called a conscience.

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  65. Will this be known as the John Edwards section?

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  66. Well y'all, I see by my computer clock that it's time for me to go to sleep!
    I do hope you all had a Happy Halloween and that I get the chance to see you all down the road!

    Good night, all.

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  67. Ah wait, can't leave y'all on such a down note,
    check out these two cartoons:http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/2009/10/30/ and

    http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/2009/10/31/


    Have a great evening/early morning you all! Hope to see you all down the road!

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  68. Night Realwest, see you later on when ever.

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  71. So, when's Fruitcup tonight?

    Normally, it's scheduled for 2:00 AM PT. However, after 1:59 AM tonight, it becomes 1:00 AM again!

    On the other hand, littleoldlady is on the East Coast, where it's already changed over and...

    Hmmmm....

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  72. Well, I am beat so I am out of here. Talk to you all later.

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  73. G'Night, PP.

    As a matter of fact, I have lots of personal and professional work to do, so I'd better get going myself.

    Goodnight, all!

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  74. @Realwest: G'nite!

    @Wendy: heh

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  77. Looks like you're all enjoying post-Halloween "sleeps of the just", so somebody should push the kill switch to keep the train going?

    Killswitch Engage: Holy Diver (Ronnie James Dio cover)

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  79. That was just a time check, btw. ;-)

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  81. @Lol: shavua tov, how are you today?

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  82. F2! :-)

    I'm confused. ;-)

    /changing time does that to me

    How's by you?

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