Highlights of this day in history: Guerrilla leader Che Guevara executed in Bolivia; Anthrax-laced letters sent to Capitol Hill; Achille Lauro hijackers surrender; Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize; North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device; Google announces plans to purchase YouTube for $1.65 billion; Musician John Lennon born.
Other notable October 9th events include:
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1604 – Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.
1701 – The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
1804 – Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.
1888 – The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
1907 – Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.
1919 – Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds "win" the World Series.
1936 – Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to generate electricity from the Colorado River and transmit it 266 miles to Los Angeles, California.
1986 – The musical The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.
1999 – The last flight of the SR-71.
2009 - Tickets to Love Never Dies, Andrew Lloyd Webber's sequel to his The Phantom of the Opera musical, go on sale.
2009 - US President Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize.
Check out the last entry in the post above...
ReplyDeleteSo much for Obama's promise that if you make less than $250,000 you will not pay an extra dime of taxes
ReplyDeleteAh, but with the coming hyperinflation, we WILL all be making more then $250,000. Unfortunately, the cost of a loaf of bread will be $70,000.
(From the previous thread.)
Obama won what?
ReplyDelete/for what?
Other events:
ReplyDelete1635 – Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he speaks out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land.
1967 – A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
1969 – In Chicago, the United States National Guard is called in for crowd control as demonstrations continue in connection with the trial of the "Chicago Eight" that began on September 24.
1970 – The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
1989 – An official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh.
2001 – Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack.
2006 – North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device.
(Answer to JamesTKirk, on the previous thread)
ReplyDeleteZimbabwe, Zimbabwe, God shed his grace on theeeeee...
Obama won because leftard anti-semites hate America and want to reward the man who replaced (finally!) George W. Bush.
ReplyDeleteSimple as that.
Obama didn't win shit.
ReplyDeleteHe was given the Peace Prize.
Because they wuvs him.
The sickness is spreading....
This whole anti-christ thing is starting to make more sense.
ReplyDeleteMust go to work and try not to think about it for a while.
sasquatchonsteroids said...
ReplyDeleteObama didn't win shit.
He was given the Peace Prize.
Because they wuvs him.
/unreal
Born today:
ReplyDelete1937 – Brian Blessed, English actor
1940 – John Lennon, British musician and songwriter (The Beatles) (d. 1980)
1941 – Trent Lott, American politician
1952 – Sharon Osbourne, English music manager and wife of Ozzy Osbourne
1953 – Tony Shalhoub, American actor
1954 – Scott Bakula, American actor
Check out the last entry in the post above...
ReplyDelete*whimper*
Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize to mixed reviews
ReplyDeleteObama's press secretary woke him with the news before dawn and the president felt "humbled" by the award, a senior administration official said.
/he should be embarrassed, or at least someone should be embarrassed
Will CNN be fact-checking the alleged list of accomplishments that merited this award, or are they too busy schooling SNL for daring to criticize Teh One?
ReplyDelete/he should be embarrassed, or at least someone should be embarrassed
ReplyDeleteEmbarrassed ?
Mr Leggo my Ego ?
Of course you are right. Look for the story of how the Prize committee melted their own jewelry down to make him a crown.
The Halos' will be returning. Won't that be fun..
99 Red Balloons singer Nena in Damanhur naked time travel sect
ReplyDeleteTHE pop star behind the '80s smash Red Balloons has become mixed up with a cult which boasts it possesses a working time machine - which can only be used nude.
German singer Nena, whose song caused a storm Down Under in 1984, is so keen on Italy's Damanhur sect that she printed its symbol on her new album, Bild newspaper reports.
Sect founder Oberto Airaudi boasts he can implant spirits into newborn babies - and developed his own time machine.
The only problem is the machine cannot transport clothing, meaning time travellers have to climb in completely naked.
/any excuse for Germans to get naked
I nominate Madonna as Queen of the Virgins.
ReplyDelete/might as well have some fun with it.
I nominate Obama for Miss Universe 2009 ...
ReplyDeleteSeriously!?
ReplyDeleteThat's ridiculous. I've never had to take my clothes off to time travel.
ReplyDeleteBut I wonder if I could convince my Yeoman that she had to...
heh, found on another blog:
ReplyDeleteI see that the prize is continuing to be a booby prize. Count how many times you hear the words, “you’re sh**ing me!” today.
Iran to "blow up heart" of Israel if attacked: official
ReplyDelete"Even if one American or Zionist missile hits our country, before the dust settles, Iranian missiles will blow up the heart of Israel," Mojtaba Zolnour said, according to IRNA news agency.
F*** off.
Too bad Obama's not Catholic.
ReplyDelete/he could be named Pope, wouldn't even have to wait for the current one to die, or even canonized as a Saint
O-BA-MA
ReplyDeleteO-BA-MA
O-BA-MA
Drink the kool -aid, it's reaaaaaallllly gooooood.
If I were Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter I'd be pissed, they worked years for a Nobel and had to share it.
A Nobel for a narcissist- this is like giving Viagra to Bill Clinton.
It's not that I think the Prize is worth a bucket of spit anymore, it's just that I know the honored pedestal those idiots put the winners on... What's the opposite of schadenfreude? I've got it.
ReplyDeleteBIGGEST LOAD OF CRAP EVER:
ReplyDeleteThe Nobel Peace Prize for 2009
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.
Obama has as President created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play. Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conflicts. The vision of a world free from nuclear arms has powerfully stimulated disarmament and arms control negotiations. Thanks to Obama's initiative, the USA is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting. Democracy and human rights are to be strengthened.
Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future. His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population.
For 108 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to stimulate precisely that international policy and those attitudes for which Obama is now the world's leading spokesman. The Committee endorses Obama's appeal that "Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges."
Oslo, October 9, 2009
Killian said: "/he could be named Pope, wouldn't even have to wait for the current one to die, or even canonized as a Saint"
ReplyDeleteLets list his miracles...
He's already turned an acorn into a big white house...
Obama wins Nobel Prize for Outstanding Apology from an American President!
ReplyDeleteF-this.
Maybe we can persuade Obama to quit as President and become Sec General of the UN.
ReplyDeleteNever mind,then we'd have President Plugs.
I told the news to my wife and two daughters- all three had one word response:
"Why?"
Littleoldlady, we're heading up to Langhorne this evening- kids have a dance competetion tomorrow. That's thirty miles the other side of Philly from you isn't it?
Got to run- our verizon net service was out at the house this morning, I need to do some honest work today.
Iran: Prize will help Obama to end world injustice
ReplyDelete"We hope that this gives him the incentive to walk in the path of bringing justice to the world order," said Ali Akbar Javanfekr, Ahmadinejad's media aide.
/see, it's already paying dividends!
Jim,
ReplyDelete30 miles? Is that how far it is? How come it takes me close to an hour to get there? (Hmmm.)
I'd love to come watch the girls dance but I'm picking up my cousin at the airport early tomorrow morning. Weekend company.
/figures. :-(
Nobel Process
ReplyDeleteDeadline for submission is February.
Short list is selected Feb-March.
What a farkin' sham sham sham that's right I said sham.
Had him pegged from the start.
Human worship.
I see that the prize is continuing to be a booby prize.
ReplyDeleteNo, it's still make of gold, not silicone.
Really, really sad that this award has been politicized...
ReplyDeleteThis is yet another slap in the face of George W. Bush and the work he tried to do...
I would love to hear the conversation this morning between Hillary and Bill ... hahahhaha ...
ReplyDeleteHe's already turned an acorn into a big white house...
ReplyDeleteLOL.
I gues the Oscar and Pulitzer is coming then too...
ReplyDeleteOver at AOS.
ReplyDeleteHe was the tenth caller
LMAO.
Lol, we'll be at the middle school at Langhorne Yardley road and Woodbourne Road. About a mile off Rt 1/ I 95 interchange. Starts around 10, we'll be there until at least 3.
ReplyDeleteSoS ... best one yet ...
ReplyDeleteBarack Obama adviser says Sharia Law is misunderstood
ReplyDeletePresident Barack Obama's adviser on Muslim affairs, Dalia Mogahed, has provoked controversy by appearing on a British television show hosted by a member of an extremist group to talk about Sharia Law.
Miss Mogahed, appointed to the President's Council on Faith-Based and Neighbourhood Partnerships, said the Western view of Sharia was "oversimplified" and the majority of women around the world associate it with "gender justice".
The White House adviser made the remarks on a London-based TV discussion programme hosted by Ibtihal Bsis, a member of the extremist Hizb ut Tahrir party.
The group believes in the non-violent destruction of Western democracy and the creation of an Islamic state under Sharia Law across the world.
/let's give Obama another Nobel Peace Prize!
I can only add, WTF?
ReplyDeleteKillian ... that right there is some serious sh*t ... makes my blood boil ...
ReplyDeleteRookie President of the United States Wins Top America Hater Award!
ReplyDeleteStart Putting the Face on Mt. Rushmore!
Wow Killian... That's incredible...
ReplyDeleteStart Putting the Face on Mt. Rushmore!
ReplyDeleteAs if Obama would want to share the spotlight with those dead white guys. Obama would insist upon his own, even bigger mountain, with just his visage on it.
tfc3rid said "I gues the Oscar and Pulitzer is coming then too..."
ReplyDeleteYou just think you're joking. HBO has been plugging a heartening and hopeful documentary about the wondrous ascension. I can see it now...
Killian Bundy said...
ReplyDeleteThey called for Sharia Law to be "the source of legislation" and said that women should not be "permitted to hold a position of leadership in government".
WTF? She was sitting RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEM!!!
/burqarize that lady
That's true Teddy R., Lincoln, Washington and Jefferson are just typical white people...
ReplyDeleteSpenser...
ReplyDeleteI'm not joking... Oscar will find a docu to give Obama an award... Pulitzer will give him best Op-Ed piece or some crap like that...
JTK, maybe since he's President of the World, we can convince him to personally sit for a portrait of a big ice carving on Everest. Shouldn't take more than a few months...
ReplyDeleteHey, dozens of U.S. troops have been killed in Afghanistan since Obama received McChrystal's urgent request for more troops.
ReplyDelete/shouldn't Obama be awarded the Purple Heart for that, and the Medal of Honor too?
Speaking of President of the World, I caught a commercial last night here in NY for HSBC with a 'soap box'. One guy gets on and says 'I am a citizen of the World and so proud of that!'...
ReplyDeleteGot more time than anyone else... Sickening...
/shouldn't Obama be awarded the Purple Heart for that, and the Medal of Honor too?
ReplyDeleteDistinguished Service Cross?
A dawg’s sense of smell never ceases to amaze turn. Yesterday on our walk along the American the boob sniffed out an old, old tennis ball in a very desolate location. You would have never expected a tennis ball to end up there; it must have floated down from upriver some where. For some reason this summer he has taken to hunting tennis balls, forget about the stick. He learned the sooner he finds one the sooner he gets to play fetch. If he finds one soon enough he gets to play on the way to the river, at the river, and on the way back from the river. Hell it doesn’t stop there; he gets to play with the ball when he gets back home too. So after getting back home and hanging up his lead I turned around and, as expected, he had that ball right there smack dab in the middle of the patio and had assumed the fetch position over by spa. Anybody who has ever had a lab knows the look … eyes wide open with an intense stare, ears perked up, head down low, paws spread apart, wagging tail. So I bend down to pick up the ball and it’s not the old ball we found at the river, it’s a new one. He sniffed out a newer one on the trail back and decided to upgrade! Damn dog, too funny. Oh morning all, did Dianna show up?
ReplyDeleteNobel committee: "... Thanks to Obama's initiative, the USA is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting. Democracy and human rights are to be strengthened. ... "
ReplyDeleteWait -- this guy just defunded that Iranian Human Rights group.
Again, WTF?
OH FOR FUCK SAKES! OBAMA WINS THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR DOING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING MORE THAN MAKING IDIOTIC POLLYANNA SPEECHES YOU WOULD EXPECT TO HEAR FROM ANY BEAUTY PAGEANT CONTESTANT ?!?!?!?!?!?
ReplyDeleteI'm going back to bed.
They awarded it based on the hope for change...
ReplyDeletefrom Tigerhawk:
ReplyDeleteYO OBAMA, I'M GONNA LET YOU FINISH, BUT I JUST WANNA SAY THAT MARTIN LUTHER KING JR WAS THE BEST NOBEL PRIZE WINNER OF ALL TIME.
/shouldn't Obama be awarded the Purple Heart for that, and the Medal of Honor too?
ReplyDeleteGive him the ones J F'n K threw away.
Centaur,
ReplyDeleteAnd he invited those peace-loving Taliban to join the Afghan government.
wtf, o's advisor on muslim affairs said sharia law is gender justice! omg...
ReplyDeleteOK, as Captain, I'm implementing a new directive for the remainder of this conversation.
ReplyDeleteHendeforth, you can only refer to the Nobel "Peace" Prize if you include the sarcasm quotes around the word "Peace".
Failure to comply will result in the quartermaster issuing you a red shirt.
OMG ... I just opened my Cracker Jack box ... guess what! ... I got a Nobel Peace Prize ... sweet! ...
ReplyDeleteNow must go feed the tax machine ... hope ya'll have a great day ...
Failure to comply will result in the quartermaster issuing you a red shirt.
ReplyDeleteHow about Pees Prize ?
Can I say that?
Skip the overpass hunting. I am looking for an isolated cave like enviroment far from civilization. I don't want to be anywhere around the crazy when it breaks. :-/
ReplyDeletePees Prize works.
ReplyDeleteOk just back now. Unfuckingbelievable, o gets the nobel peace prize?
ReplyDeleteJust walked in and heard the Obaminable news. 10^100 googol times feck!
ReplyDeleteI knew the IgNoble P*ss Prize had been devalued beyond devaluation once it had been given to Yasser Arafish.
Transnational elitist "progress"ivists look out for each other, and look to poke the USA in the eye. Still, to award this prize to a hack politician that hasn't even been in office for a whole ten months sets a new standard in political prostitution.
Alfred Nobel must be spinning in his grave today.
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ReplyDeleteThe media contiunues to rewrite history and turn facts upside down...
ReplyDelete"The award appeared to be a slap at President George W. Bush from a committee that harshly criticized Obama's predecessor for his largely unilateral military action in the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. The Nobel committee praised Obama's creation of "a new climate in international politics" and said he had returned multilateral diplomacy and institutions like the U.N. to the center of the world stage."
Fact check time: The US lead mission to overthrow the Taliban was endorsed & authorized by the UN, endorsed by NATO, and supported by contributions from over 40 countries. How is that unilateral?
The liberation of Iraq was endorsed & supported by a "Coalition of the Willing" and included contributions from more that 30 countries. How is that unilateral?
Ongoing US operations by the US lead GWOT were endorsed & supported by more than 60 countries in places ranging from Mauritania, the Horn of Africa, Indonesia, and the Philippines. How is that unilateral?
On the subject of the North Korean nuclear weapons program, the US joined in 6 Party talks
including North Korea, South Korea, Japan, China & Russia. How is that unilateral?
On the subject of the Iranian nuclear weapons program, the US joined in multiparty talks involving the UN, the EU, Russia, the Gulf States and Iran. How is that unilateral?
And now along comes Obama who pledges to hold direct unconditional talks with the rulers of Iran & North Korea, cutting out US allies, who snubs European contributions to the GWOT, who sells out new US allies in eastern Europe to appease Russia, and who undermines Israel to flatter the Arabs for empty rhetorical concessions. How is that "multilateral"?
Oh man, I need a fucking drink already.
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ReplyDeleteHow is that unilateral?
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't count if it doesn't include France.
Finally Free said...
ReplyDelete/nothing personal, but what happened elsewhere stays elsewhere, house rules
Welcome, Finally Free - care to give us your elder name?
ReplyDeleteFinally Free, I'll just say I like your nic and leave it at that :) Any clues to any previous identities you can give?
ReplyDeleteThe dogs won't go outside...something about some cats that stole reality.
ReplyDeleteNOW WHAT?
"So soon? Too early. He has no contribution so far. He is still at an early stage. He is only beginning to act," said former Polish President Lech Walesa, a 1983 Nobel Peace laureate.
ReplyDelete"This is probably an encouragement for him to act. Let's see if he perseveres. Let's give him time to act," Walesa said.
So the Nobel Committee hands out Peace Prize preemptively to award Obama for the accomplishments he has yet to achieve. Un-fucking-believable!
While they're at it, I expect to get the Nobel Prize for Medicine for the cures for cancer, dandruff, flatulence & halitosis which I expect to achieve. Too early? Give me time to act.
I would also like the Nobel Prize for Physics for my invention of a time machine, the warp-coil engine and zero gravity boots.
Yet the choice was stunning given that the nomination deadline of Feb. 1, less than two weeks after the Obama presidency began.
ReplyDeleteBarack Hussein Obama...Mmmm, mmmm, mmmm!
Kenneth said "So the Nobel Committee hands out Peace Prize preemptively to award Obama for the accomplishments he has yet to achieve. Un-fucking-believable!"
ReplyDeleteHey, when you're a lib. As our failed governor in MI said a few million jobs ago, "Wait until you see the next four years... It'll blow you away!"
/Is that what the sore feeling in my ass is?
I would also like the Nobel Prize for Physics for my invention of a time machine
ReplyDeleteI already invented a time machine, and I'm using it to see German pop stars naked.
It's more of an award to the American people and their enlightenment in electing a leader like The Zero.
ReplyDeleteJamesTKirk said...
ReplyDeleteOK, as Captain, I'm implementing a new directive for the remainder of this conversation.
Hendeforth, you can only refer to the Nobel "Peace" Prize if you include the sarcasm quotes around the word "Peace".
Captain...I'll take Putz Prize for $200 please.
redstateredneck said: "Yet the choice was stunning given that the nomination deadline of Feb. 1, less than two weeks after the Obama presidency began."
ReplyDeleteCrap, that adds an even greater degree of asinineness to it, doesn't it?
redstateredneck said...
ReplyDeleteBarack Hussein Obama...Mmmm, mmmm, mmmm!
LOL Morning rsrn.
Captain...I'll take Putz Prize for $200 please.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite so far. Here, have a blue shirt and a phaser.
Oh man, I need a fucking drink already.
ReplyDeleteKenneth, you're on a roll this morning. That was a great post dude.
Oh man, I need a fucking drink already.
ReplyDeleteThe sun is always over the yardarm... if you just lower the yardarm enough.
Kenneth -- I'll meet you at the bar.
ReplyDeleteKenneth...
ReplyDeleteExcellent and true words!
/Is that what the sore feeling in my ass is?
ReplyDeleteMy advice to you is to avoid bar stools for awhile. It's rather emberassing when you hit the floor after sitting down.
Some things you just gotta laugh about.
ReplyDeleteGood Morning, {all y'all}~
It's almost the WEEKEND! ! !
Hey, is it too late to reconsider the Olympics decision?
ReplyDelete/Obama has a Nobel Prize now
To admin: got the hint, thanks. Would have been more circumspect under normal circumstances.
ReplyDeleteKillian said: "Hey, is it too late to reconsider the Olympics decision?"
ReplyDeleteHell, they just awarded him the gold medal in the decathalon, didn't you hear?
Did the First Dog Leave a Number Two on Air Force One?
ReplyDeleteThe mystery begins in a Pittsburgh bar where several high-flying airline types met last month.
The group swapped stories over drinks when three people present let loose with a good tale. Bo, the presidential puppy, recently left a present on the presidential jet, they said, and a flight attendant had nearly stepped in it.
“You can imagine the horror on board when they discovered what it had done,” a participant in the conversation said, referring to Bo.
Reports of other puppy-like behavior support the story. At least two reporters spotted Bo running loose aboard Air Force One this summer. News stories say he chews socks, magazines and the presidential sneakers. In an NBC television interview around the time of the alleged accident, President Barack Obama said Bo has chosen notable venues in the past.
“We go out and we’re walking and I’m picking up poop, and in the background is the beautifully lit White House,” the president said. “It’s quite a moment.”
A White House press official was certain—the scoop on the poop was a crock. The press office checked with the Air Force One flight crew who said Bo had not desecrated the jet.
. . .
But we were nagged by a question—was the pile denial a White House cover up?
The source of the story refused to recant. A press officer for the 89th Airlift Wing, which includes Air Force One, had no comment. A government airline carpet contractor didn’t return calls.
Then a new source emerged: Herb McConnell, former public affairs officer for Andrews Air Force Base, home of Air Force One. McConnell thought the story was “funny,” “logical,” and “not as bad as some I’ve heard.”
According to McConnell, he checked with two contacts in the 89th Airlift Wing. Both separately confirmed Bo’s youthful indiscretion, although neither of them would speak directly with Washington Wire.
“Of course the dog accident on Air Force One happened,” McConnell contends. But the 89th won’t go public with it, he said, because it is strict Air Force policy not to discuss passengers’ activities.
The White House stands by its denial. And Bo isn’t talking.
Oh sure, blame the dog. If it was a simple puppy "poop accident", why is the White House stonewalling?
/you know, it's not like there weren't plenty of other potential suspects on the plane at the time
The libs are going to be insufferable gloating that Teh Won has been chosen by the (hushed tones of reverence)"Nobel Committee".
ReplyDeleteWhos fault will it be when he falls flat on his face ?
ReplyDeleteBush ?
Racists ?
Evil Rethuglican minorities in the House and Senate ?
Finally Free,
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the promised land!
If you're finally free why not use your prior nic?
ReplyDeleteOh sure, blame the dog. If it was a simple puppy "poop accident", why is the White House stonewalling?
ReplyDeleteBecause, just as "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism" has become passé with a Dem in the White House, so has the other classic slogan "Just poop."
sasquatchonsteroids said...
ReplyDeleteWhos fault will it be when he falls flat on his face ?
Bush ?
Racists ?
Evil Rethuglican minorities in the House and Senate ?
Nope, the evil "Vast Right Wing Conspiracies".
If you're finally free why not use your prior nic?
ReplyDeleteI tried switching my nic in order to leave the past behind, but was having trouble getting the new nic to work here.
Hi Finally Free! Feels good, don't it.
ReplyDelete@Killian: who knows, it may have been a package deal.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I have been as afraid for the USA and its true allies in my life. Clearly, up is down and down is up.
/Actually, I wonder what Sarkozy and Merkel are thinking now. Can't imagine either of them feeling enthusiastic about this.
Nope, the evil "Vast Right Wing Conspiracies".
ReplyDeleteYeah, that's much easier to type.
Covers all of it.
Copy.Paste.
(However, I did let people know who I was... And I still plan to use the new nick when the new CC site is up.)
ReplyDeleteCaptain, was your new name already taken or something?
ReplyDeleteJamesTKirk
ReplyDeleteWhat's the new nic gonna be?
/Enquiring Minds
Spock?
ReplyDeleteData?
ReplyDeleteUhura?
ReplyDeleteTribble?
ReplyDeleteCheckoff?
ReplyDeleteThe new nick was being verified through WordPress, which was spotty at best. The old nic, which I'm verifying through Google, works here just fine.
ReplyDelete@Centaur: yes, it sure does.
ReplyDelete@JamesTKirk: changed nics for a combo of technical and personal reasons.
@Redstateredneck: for the Tranzi set, the Nobel committee is one of the mainstays of tranzi-ism.
Actually, there are several committees, and for example the guys that pick the science and medicine Nobels are a different bunch.
Kids from the Ron Clark Academy are on CNN singing for health care reform set to Miley Cyrus' "Party in the USA." The song mentions "Obama says everyone needs health care now."
ReplyDelete/puke
oh, robobmonkey!
ReplyDeleteWell kids can just pay for health care with obama money, sheesh
ReplyDeleteɐɯɐqo ʞɔɐɹɐq oʇ sǝoƃ ǝzıɹd ǝɔɐǝd lǝqou 9002 ǝɥʇ puɐ
ReplyDeleteWell kids can just pay for health care with obama money, sheesh
ReplyDeleteIs that the money you get for passing "Go"?
@JamesTKirk: does anybody have an idea what the new site will be based on? WordPress presumably?
ReplyDeleteWhich league will Obama pitch for in game 1one of the World Series?
ReplyDelete/or maybe he can just start for both teams
The numbers don't flip, Bigfoot.
ReplyDelete@sasquatchonsteroids: heh :-)
ReplyDeleteI know, Capin, just an upside down sorta day.
ReplyDeleteThe new site will have its own registration, so it won't require external verification like this one does. I've already requested the new name for the new site.
ReplyDeleteThis just in ... OBAMA BOWLS 300!
ReplyDeleteOBAMA CURES WORLD HUNGER!
ReplyDeleteI know, Capin, just an upside down sorta day.
ReplyDeleteI tried rewriting the flip site to include more characters (including numbers) but there just aren't upside-down versions of the numbers available in unicode. You can swap 6's and 9's, and leave 8's and 0's as themselves, but you're pretty much out of luck with the rest of them.
Well, there's Ɛ for 3 and ∠ for 7, but that's about it.
Yes, I waste far too much time on things like that.
OBAMA STOPS GLOBAL WARMING?
ReplyDeleteOBAMA WIPES OUT AIDS!
ReplyDeleteThis just in ... OBAMA BOWLS 300!
ReplyDeleteObama bowls 301! Obama scores 19 on a single hand of cribbage! Obama wins a game of Tic-Tac-Toe with only two X's!
OBAMA PHASES OUT PETROLEUM!
ReplyDeleteOBAMA EXTENDS LIFE!
ReplyDeleteThis just in ... OBAMA BOWLS 300!
ReplyDeleteObama beats Ronery in North Korean Open!
OBAMA OUT OBAMAS HIMSELF!
ReplyDeleteObama wins a game of Tic-Tac-Toe with only two X's!
ReplyDeleteLMAO.
turn, you are on it this morning!
ReplyDelete:D
Captain, you play cribbage?
ReplyDeletewins a game of Tic-Tac-Toe with only two X's!
ReplyDeleteLOL, now that was funny!
JTK: I like the 19 hand in cribbage myself. :D
ReplyDelete/sums him up totally at the moment.
Captain, you play cribbage?
ReplyDeleteYep. My family was big on playing games together, and that was one of them.
From Mr. Brogan at the UK Telegraph-
ReplyDelete-They could have awarded it to Kylie Minogue and I wouldn’t have been half as surprised as I am watching the television screens around me proclaiming that Barack Obama has been awarded the 2009 Nobel peace prize. The whole business of a bunch of Scandinavian worthies doling out the profits of a long-gone dynamite maker’s fortune has always smacked of the worst sort of self-satisfied plutocratic worthiness. But this takes the biscuit. President Obama remains the barely man of world politics, barely a senator now barely a president, yet in the land of the Euro-weenies (copyright PJ O’Rourke) the great and the good remain in his thrall. To reward him for a blank results sheet, to inflate him when he has no achievements to his name, makes a mockery of what, let’s face it, is an already fairly discredited process (remember Rigoberta Menchu in 1992? Ha!). That’s not the point. What this does is accelerate the elevation of President Obama to a comedy confection, which he does not deserve, and gives his critics yet another bat to whack him with. Shame on the Swedes Norwegians*. He should turn it down, even if he does look great in white tie and tails.
LMAO turn.
ReplyDeleteBBL
OBAMA ACOMPLISHES THE IMPOSSIBLE 19 CRIBBAGE HAND!
ReplyDeleteGotta run, have a great day all.
ReplyDeleteHeck turn, I got 19 hands a lot in cribbage. That's nothing to brag about at all. ;)
ReplyDeleteDude we have to get together some day and play. Dad taught me that game when I was a young boy. I taught it to turnspawn2 and he was kicking my ass in only a matter of days. I'll never forget my dad loosing to my Uncle by one point because he got suckered in to cutting the cards!
ReplyDeleteDude we have to get together some day and play.
ReplyDeleteWhere are you?
blue, you play too. Great game.
ReplyDeleteSac
ReplyDeletemr hightechredneck and I used to play cribbage for hours when we were first married but we have not played in years and I have honestly forgotten everything about it.
ReplyDelete/a mind is a terrible thing to waste.
Tata Motors raises $750 million to pay down Jaguar debt
ReplyDeleteTata Motors ?
I'm in the DC area. My wife won't play cribbage, it's too much like Fizzbin to her.
ReplyDeleteI've motorboated some Tatas in my time. I hope I don't owe part of that $750 million.
ReplyDeleteYeah turn. Learned to play at my grandfathers knee so to speak. Been playing cribbage since I have been 8. Best line I used in college was "I have been playing crib since you were in diapers". My heart crashed when I realized that the girl I said it to was....
ReplyDeleteI'll be out in DC in January and will drop you a comment here. Staying at the Wardman Park Marriot for a few days.
ReplyDeletewho?
ReplyDeletered, it would come back to you pretty quick. Actually I haven't played in quite some time, last camping trip I loas $75 to that little shit turnspawn2.
ReplyDeleteU.S. forces leave east Afghanistan area after attack
ReplyDeleteThe pullout was announced before the October 3 attack, but the assault has drawn fresh attention to a new U.S. strategy to move troops out of remote areas and focus more on populated districts.
There's a new strategy ?
I thought it was still collecting dust on O's desk, awaiting his stunning revelation.
Maybe Reuters knows....
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who blue?
ReplyDeleteSOS, have you heard a number for the Taliban killed in that attack where we lost 8 men?
ReplyDeleteIrony: A Prize for Creating Weimar America
ReplyDeletePresident Obama richly deserves his prize. No one has done more for the cause of false Euro-peace (appeasement leading to war) than he has, not even James Carter. I spoke to my cousin (who voted for him and now regrets his choice very much) and his comment sums it up, "He hasn't done ANYTHING."
But he has. In nine months, Obama has:
- managed to all but lose the war in Afghanistan
-tossed Israel and Eastern Europe to the wolves
- let North Korea break its international obligations without any punishment
- backed an anti-American leftist in his efforts to over through the rule of law in Honduras and replace it with a Castro-Chavista leftist dictatorship
- threw Israel under the bus five times and set back any hopes for peace with the Palestinians by 10 years
- reached and even loosened sanctions on the terror sponsoring murdering slime that run Syria (and gotten nothing for that)
- kow-towed to Putin’s new Russian imperial ambitions
- sucked up to the Chinese by tossing the Dalai Lama under the bus
- cut US defense in the face of modernizing enemies
- surrendered US pre-eminence in world affairs for a few sound bites
- let the dollar crash through his feckless economic leadership
The nuclear cherry in this fecal sundae of failure, he has failed to check Iran's nuclear weapons program in any meaningful way (if anyone tells you Iran just wants nuclear energy, just slap them it is simpler than trying to explain that peaceful nuclear programs don't have ballistic missile programs and facilities tunneled into mountains) he has abjectly and stupidly let the Ayatollahs humiliate the western powers without any response while the now completely illegitimate regime stole the June 12th election, butchers opponents in their jails and sponsors terrorist groups all over the world. Obama has let the chance to destroy the regime from within fall through our fingers, he even CUT the budget of a human rights organization opposed to the regime to earn the good intentions of the Ayatollahs. Apparently, US policy is the Mullahs have more of a right to flaunt treaty violations than Iranian families have to not get bills for the bullets the Regime used to murder their children.
Let us be very clear: John McCain would not have done any of this.
But Barry did give a great sounding speech in Cairo blaming America for all that is wrong in the world because we all know that everything in 90% of the states heading from Casablanca due east would just be peachy if American imperialism hadn't made the Islamic world the case book example of failed human development on the planet.
Clearly the world functions the way he believes it does or the way I do. It is one or the other. If a massive world war breaks out, and I think we are on the verge of WWIII, then Obama and his leftist kumbaya sophistry is forever shown to be the brilliant ideas that Orwell said only idiots could believe; if world tensions decrease and international relations become smooth with great progress emerging from the new international order, I will admit I am wrong.
Look for Sudan to stop helicoptering the Janjaweed to Darfur to murder defenseless villagers and Osama bin Laden will declare an end to his Jihad because America has repented.
To those with your "I Got This" posters of Obama. He has got it. He has his Nobel Peace Prize and it will either go on the shelf next to Arafat's, where I think it belongs, as a symbol how leftist ideology crushed the western world through ideological auto castration and policy suicide or he will emerge a triumphant genius who delivered the world into a new era in human relations and governance.
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There have been many well earned Nobel’s over the years, Medecin Sans Frontiers, Lech Walesa, Eli Weisel, Norman Bourlag, Mother Theresa, Martin Luther King and many of the other winners truly deserved their prizes but mixed in with greatness are the likes of the sociopathic liar Rigoberta Menchu, M.S. Gorbachev, The American Friends Service Committee (a Soviet front group since the 30s), Arafat and Jimmy Carter.
ReplyDeleteThe economy lost 521000 jobs last month; Obama's domestic policies are not working too well and the Republicans, if they had any leadership, should be putting together a platform for 2010 that promises to restore US economic leadership through fiscal responsibility, energy independence and national security.
The future will reveal the true value of Obama’s work. But if you are a betting person, consider that James Earl Carter, the philosopher-king whose ideas greatly align with Obama’s is the wimp who let Iran collapse into the current Islamic Republic, let the Sandinistas establish a Soviet Republic in Nicaragua, was so much of a chump that Russia was confident the US would do nothing while they set off an arms race and invaded Afghanistan; Carter let a US Embassy be held hostage by a bunch of criminals for 444 days.
This prize is a symbol of a great lie, the worst is yet to come and his fellow useful idiots will honor him for the coming disasters.
I think I still have it.
ReplyDelete@Spenser: Hear, hear!
ReplyDeleteAyatollah, BUT HE WON!
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great post
*applause for Ayatollah*
ReplyDelete*January challenge accepted for Turn, assuming schedules mesh*
ok, cool
ReplyDelete@Ayatollah Ghilmeini: Ding! Ding! Ding!
ReplyDeleteI'll be there the 10th through the 13th looks like
ReplyDeleteInstapundit is aggregating, how shall I say, less than impressed responses:
ReplyDeletehttp://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/86454/
Go read the whole thing (heh).
Alright, new thread, everybody upstairs.
ReplyDelete/this thread will self-destruct in five minutes
Welcome Finally Free,
ReplyDeleteI hope you feel at home here. I'm sure some of us are curious to know what your former nic was, and since this is a no blog-bitching zone, & as we have nothing to hide here, you ought to feel comfortable. Still, as you said, you have your reasons & we will respect that if you wish to start afresh.
Power Line weigh in:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/10/024667.php
The head of the FBI was banned from online banking by his wife after he nearly fell for a phishing scam.
ReplyDeletehttp://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10370164-245.html
You can't make these things up.
Ayatollah Ghilmeini
ReplyDeleteYou got it!