Comments on: FDL Late Nite: An Esoteric Disquisition on Privacy

By: JaneKnowles

JaneKnowles — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 19:16:41 +0000

Maybe I’m in the minority, but I feel like the YouTube wars are only amusing to those involved in them. No, I don’t lack a sense of humor, I’m just tired of having to scroll past music videos posted up on political sites. It’s almost as bad as people in bands trying to force me to listen to endless recordings of live performance–though at least that make sense as they’re actually making the music.

I guess it’d be one thing if I shared the musical taste of the blog master or mistress, but one thing I’ve discovered is that the folks who run political blogs appear to be allergic to either pop music or rap.

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 14:31:12 +0000

Thought the video was hilarious, still laughing and singing it to myself.

By: John Casper

John Casper — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 13:14:15 +0000

new thread

By: lotus

lotus — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 13:13:17 +0000

Oh well, John, maybe these good folk will forgive us. This once. *g*

By: John Casper

John Casper — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 13:09:57 +0000

“That “to” was redundant, wadnit.”
Yep, and mine was too.

By: lotus

lotus — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 13:09:05 +0000

CNN is just wall-to-wall unmitigated horror. Jeezo-petes.

By: lotus

lotus — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 13:06:47 +0000

That “to” was redundant, wadnit.

By: lotus

lotus — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 12:57:10 +0000

Oh man, ya gotta see Salam’s new video at http://www.journeyman.tv/?lid=56445 (transcript available there too).

WRT to videos, a very-minor-woe is me. They’re so dark on my screen that I can barely make out faces, and subtitles plumb worthless. My local techie just says it’s because my monitor is (a) Gateway and (b) antique (but feeling a new fridge coming on soon, I need to soldier on with it). There’s a drop-down door below the screen, and when I poke the little wheel behind it, a mini-window with “Contrast” and other controls in a hub-&-spoke pattern appears. But when I try to put the cursor on the mini-window, the arrow just disappears behind it, and after a bit, the mini-window itself goes away.

Any advice for me, anyone? To avoid hijacking the thread any further, you could email me at lotuslander@cfl.rr.com

Much thanks in advance for any help.

By: John Casper

John Casper — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 12:51:47 +0000

Wrt to JWR’s 115, all four canonical gospels (Mk, Mattt, Luke, John) are written after the Romans destroyed Jerusalem in 70CE. It was that event, not the (Roman) crucifixtion of Jesus which primarily caused the remnants of Israel to expel followers of the Nazarene from Judaism. That’s where the anti-semitism in the NT mostly comes from, Jewish followers of Jesus who worshipped in the Temple from his death @ 30 until 70, getting kicked out of the Temple, and losing their jobs, which were contingent on being observant Jews. It was only then they had to start a new religion. Naturally they turned to Paul’s writing, 49 - @60, because he had converted the Greeks, who did not understand the essential Jewishness of Jesus. Until the unearthing of the Dead Sea Scrolls and other non-canonical documents from the 1st Century, we did not understand how much our understanding of Jesus had been filtered by Greek culture.

By: John Casper

John Casper — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 12:40:20 +0000

Bush isn’t anti-terror, he just wants to balance it to maximize US influence in the region.
The whole world appears to have figured this out, except for the TM in the US, selectect parts of the West, and Israel.