Zed!

did the octogon involve an eight way? or was it a drug film about 8balls?

Oh Thers…

The banal point is that “lawyers” represent “clients” and that even people in businesses one might not like are entitled to something called “legal representation,” an observation that renders Chuck’s point “stupid.” (I apologize for the “legal mumbo-jumbo” here; I’m not a lawyer, mostly because I look disappointing in a Lycra bustier, but I do likes me some jargon.)

Silly Progressives™
Must be Thersday!

can’t.stop.laughing

Hard to say. Lee Von Cleef was in it, though.

Thersday!

chuck’s brother died for nothing in the stupid fucking battle for LZ Ripcord and he has never gotten over it.

well there ya go

New Obama segment on TDS: Hope ‘n Change.

hey raven – up late tonight? nice seeing ya here on the dark side of the lake

Fuck Norris.

We can only hope that Kiefer Sutherland doesn’t follow in Chuck Norris’ vutshteps. Imagine the furious wanking if the true Messiah were to reveal himself!

Norris should stick to acting ,if you can call what he does acting!

Have to say, Thers, that I was a bit concerned that my favorite snark merchants would run low on material after the election. Should have known that the wingnuts would rise to the occasion. Based on their performance so far, I would have to say that the next 8 years will be the golden age of snark (as well as wingnut batshit crazy, pig ignorant, and stupid).

Late Illinois b-ball game and now I wound to tight to sleep for a bit.

Now I’m dating myself!

TMI, Chucky-the-former-Chick-Magnet, but with an attitude like that, what the hell did you expect was gonna happen to your dating prospects?

let them work themselves into a fit
I can’t wait to see their heads explode !!

It is happening before our eyes. 8-)

I keep forgetting Chuck Norris is alive.

I must report that I’ve never seen a Norris movie. I didn’t know who he was until the Huckster used him.

so does everyone else – is why he tries so hard

it’s fun watching them on the teevee throwing their hissy fits
they need to come to grips with the fact that they are no longer in charge !

Oh, this is when the wingnuts have their Golden Age, when they’re in Opposition. They loved them some Clinton, they’ll love them some Obama.

During the first 9 months of 2001, John Ashcroft dissed counter terrorism efforts to focus on the more important war on porn. How’d that turn out, anyway?

Never going to happen. They are convinced that they are the natural born lords of the universe.

Chuck Norris always was a right wing tool

I hope he doesn’t come here and beat me up now !!

Yeah, but Obama won’t give them the stain.

I think it fulfills so many of their fantasies of persecution, righteous rage, etc.

chuck’s gonna kick your ass for this …. lol

Who is Chuck Norris? (Rhetorical Q from a popular culter moron. I don’t really want to know.)

And, of course, it’s profitable. Lots of money in crackpot conservatism. As I’ve said before, Jonah Goldberg’s never worked a day in his life.

gotta put on his make up first – otherwise he looks like this

ain’t missing much !

Norrris makes martial arts movies, 2 hours of kung fu non stop

The man who caused me to lose all respect for Christie Brinkley…:-)

Thanks. Not my cuppa.

Who’s Christie Brinkley?

Got that right. All the Reichwing sugar daddies will be shelling out the cash hard and fast at the prospect that the playing field might be even slightly leveled and that they might be forced to pay their way.

Chuck…you ever done steroids???? You know what happens to the peter if you do too much….big body, teeny peter.

Chuck is no Jet Li.

doesn’t he shill for some kind of excercise machine ?

I have long advocate a chant at baseball games: clap, clap, tiny nuts, clap, clap, tiny nuts …

Former super model, also known as the ex wife of vastly overrated singer-songwriter Billy Joel… with all due respect.

Digg it!

Chucky isn’t even Jackie Chan.

the total gym

Heh. I know who Billy Joel is!

TWS (teeny-weenie syndrome) is rampant among conservative men. Needless to say, they tend to overcompensate.

Nor had two neurons to rub together.

Colbert’s brother, Ed (ColberT), a property right lawyer, is on tonight. He’s bald in the middle.

For one thing, Jackie has a sense of humor. Chuck… not so much.

I’m not a lawyer, mostly because I look disappointing in a Lycra bustier,

Thers, bringing a whole new meaning to the bar exam.

dugg, left comment !

Jackie also does his own stunts. Jet Li is the real deal kung fu master, however.

gonna get me one ,so I can have big biceps like Chuck !!

Billy Joel

Yeah, Jet Li DVDs aren’t packaged with a barf bag.

So how ’bout that Neanderthal genome project? As expected, they had little in common with Homo Sapiens but (probably) quite a lot with folks like Chuck and Huck and Billo and Rush.

thanks, billy. now if only we could get everyone to do that!

you forgot Joe the Plumber!

Jet Li is the real deal kung fu master, however.

Didn’t know that. Chuck was a US Karate champ six years in a row back in the mid-70’s.

Evening, all.

Neanderthals see Joe on TV, nudge each other and say, “Geez, what a DUMBASS…”

They’re both masters of their paticular art. I think Jet Li is a wing chun master, and definitely the real deal. His grace is to die for just to watch. Jackie Chan? Pure infectious fun, but he mastered one of the other styles before he got into the hong kong films and doing his own stunts.

When they made The Forbidden Kingdom last year, they loved working together. Less takes of a scene when working with someone who’s on your own level. Instead of constantly reshooting the same scene while working with those with less mastery of the arts and the choreography that is part and partial of all their films.

Nah, Joe the Plumber is a robust australopithecine.

Maybe Chuck is trying out for the job of Morals Czar in the 2012 Huckabee campaign.

Or would that be the 2012 Palin campaign?

Li was all China kung fu champion (real live Shaolin trained). That was how he got into the movies in the first place. Better actor than Chuckles too.

Chan is actually trained (from childhood) as a traditional Chinese actor (Peking Opera), not in martial arts, though there are similarities in the training regimes.

Jackie Chan also has the highest pain threshold known to humans. During Rumble in the Bronx, he broke his ankle, painted the cast to look like his other shoe, and went back to filming.

geez I thought he was closer to our reptilian ancestors

Wait…I thought Joe the Plumber was a expert on the Gaza conflict and now economics…

Howdy RonD. The Chuckster had a role in a Bruce Lee movie and somehow concluded (wrongly) that he belonged in movies.

Surprisingly, Norris has undergone a vasectomy, which seems inconsistent with his usual unenlightened demeanor.

Joe™ gets fired from jobs a lot.

Yep, that’s how Bruce Lee heard about him and cast him in “Return of The Dragon”

Evenin’ Lakers™ … oops, I think that’s already taken …

I’m thinking Tchadensis. Robustus is a bit advanced.

Thanks.

Petro & RonD!

Howdy Ratfood!
If he would just undergo a word-processorectomy now, we would all be better off…

Appropriate reference for Darwin’s 200th birthday.

Which explains his spectacular sense of timing! Talent and real training, that. Cool.

If by “expert” you mean that he can pronounce the words “Gaza” and “tax cut” with coaching…

Norris has undergone a vasectomy

Redundancy?

Dr Dick, it was 20 degrees colder here last week than where you live. I could hear you laughing somewhere for two days.

that’s a lot of candles to blow out

Getting late , time to sign off

Goodnight all !

naw, more like notharctus.

Worth every ounce of breath! It’s the least we can do for the originator of modern biology.

g’nite billybugs

Life is unfair that way sometimes. Couple of summers ago we had a hotter than usual summer here (highs are usually in the 70s-80s all summer). For a couple of days we were hotter than where my son lives in Oklahoma (summertime highs normally 90+ late May-early September).

Doesn’t having a vasectomy somehow compromise some wingnut Biblical injunction to be fruitful and multiply? Does seem kind of weird for Norris.

DrBong,
What’s the best Billy Joel album?

*tips hat* My pleasure, ma’am.

Nite

Nylon Curtain

And modern medicine. I think all the evolution deniers ought to be forced to do without all the benefits of medicine and science deriving from Darwin’s work. Maybe then they will understand the concept of natural selection.

Thanks again. Will buy it.

That is an oxymoron.

Night.

Evenin’ Sir !

A terrific application for natural selection. In other words, we’ll give them a Darwin Award.

I just wish more Republicans would follow his example. Be like a dose of chlorine in the gene pool.

Good evening everyone……. Hey I can taste food….. three days off chemo and I can taste…… woohoo….

LOL !!!

My late bother, Gene, built pools.

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(((katymine)))
Nice to taste again!

(((katymine)))!!!!

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Disclaimer – My most favoritestst Billy Joel song is “She’s Always A Woman”, not sure what album that’s on.

Here’s Gene pool’s website.

Ah, it was only a little while ago that forced oral sex among prison detainees was written off as fraternity hijinx by the Republican vanguard.

Maybe Norris can get David Vitter to hold a hearing.

-G

Actually, the theory of evolution had been kicked around some prior to Darwin’s work. He did a lot to give the idea legitimacy. Sadly, not enough to convince 72 percent of Americans, unfortunately.

Those are some pretty fancy 50-cent words for ol’ Joe…

Yay! Treat yourself to something super scrumptious.

Wow, those look pretty nifty.

I listened to two audio books on the subject, Origins and a short biography. So I have some notion of the original theory and its context. An amazing man, but like Copernicus and Gallileo, it’ll take a couple hundred more years before religious types deexcommunicate him.

like a hot fudge sundae

Not sure about the wingnut biblical violation, but I think we can all be grateful that a simple medical procedure has precluded the possibility that anymore of his genes can be passed on…

Hot fudge sundaes are nature’s most perfect food.

Works for me…

They do good work. Mainly commercial, like motels, but in-ground gunite residential too. As of Christmas, business was still OK. But I wonder how long. My brother died a year and a half ago, but his son owns the business, another son works in it, and a son-in-law. I have no idea how they do it, but every time I visit, I get an earful.

Hot fudge sundaes are nature’s most perfect food.

Seconded.

The latest National Geographic has a great article on Darwin which Elmore has been sharing when he isn’t reading it……

With coffee ice cream and kaluha. The four basic food groups: cholesterol, chocolate, caffeine, alcohol.

I’d be interested to know if there were any comparable surveys conducted 40-50 years ago, before science fell out of fashion with so many Americans.

I like it. A balanced diet is very important.

My neighbor across the street brought me a plate of some of the richest fudge last evening….. it is so rich I can’t eat a whole piece, just tiny slices…… BUT I can taste it…..

Sorry to hear of your loss but nice that his work continues.

His actual contribution was to come up with the mechanism, natural selection, by which evolution works. The idea of evolution was around for half a century prior to The Origin of Species. Darwin’s own grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, had written about evolutionary theory much earlier.

Quality is more important than quantity. Enjoy!

There was some data about that in the biography I listened to last year. I can’t remember it accurately, but to the best of my memory (not to be trusted), the % who accept evolution/natural selection is lower in the U.S. than other developed countries, where it is a bit over 50%, and is lower in U.S. now than a couple of decades ago, but not by a lot. I remember that public acceptance of the theory is reluctant.

The prevalent concept prior to The Origin of Species was based on mutation, right?

eCAHN, that jibes with what I remember as well.

We are still waiting for the Enlightenment to take hold among the majority of Americans.

Well, that must make it so!

85 years later and the Scopes trial continues…

Stirling raises Krugman’s hypothesis that we have gone back to the Dark Ages.

pre-darwinian theories

Contrary to many assumptions, evolutionary theory did not begin in 1859 with Charles Darwin and The Origin of Species. Rather, evolution-like ideas had existed since the times of the Greeks, and had been in and out of favor in the periods between ancient Greece and Victorian England. Indeed, by Darwin’s time the idea of evolution – called “descent with modification” – was not especially controversial, and several other evolutionary theories had already been proposed. Darwin may stand at the beginning of a modern tradition, but he is also the final culmination of an ancient speculation.

“Western Civilization” has always been a bit of an overstatement.

Not really. It was based on transmission of acquired traits to succeeding generations. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck was the leading proponent, but this was also the version Erasmus favored. The idea is generally referred to as Lamarckism or Lamarckian evolution. The irony is that with what we are now learning about epigenetic effects and inheritance, he was partially right.

Not sure we ever left them. Look at who settled this country originally and the three “Great Awakenings“. There is also the fact that we are by far the most religious developed country in the world and have been for a century.

I’m thinking the world will need the Second Islamic Golden Age to survive.

Here you go, katymine.

There is a tendency to believe humans progress in a linear fashion. Sometimes it seems the reality has always been one step forward, two back.

religious developed country

Oxymoron? I guess it depends on what you mean by “developed.”

I have learned in the last 8 years that I do not live in the country I thought I lived in. Instead, I have been living in a bubble, a non-religious one.

Popular belief is in “progressive evolution” – evolving toward ever greater perfection. In reality is it is not directional at all.

Good ol’ punctuated equilibrium…

Industrially advanced. Intellectually, not so much.

Yes, and that’s where “survival of the fittest” is severely misleading. Sure giraffe’s long necks give them a certain advantage, but really, isn’t there a fitter way?

They were beacon of enlightenment when most of Europe was steeped in barbarism. Looks like we’ve leveled the playing field, now we’re all barbarians (present company excluded, of course).

At that pace, we’ll all fall off the edge of the earth.

Splash! Seems a plane hit a house in New yawk.

Could happen, it’s flat, doncha know?

Time to power down. Wishing a splendid evening to all.

And we must now give a tip ‘o the hat to Mendel.

They are well adapted to a particular set of environmental circumstances. Their height and long necks give them access to the leaves at the tops of trees that other species cannot reach. “Fitness” is specific to a given set of conditions. Polar bears are superbly adapted to an arctic environment with long winters and massive sea ice shelves from which to hunt seals. With global warming that environment is disappearing and they will likely do so as well as they are no longer fit in the new ecological conditions.

Thats why I could always stand on my head!

plane carrying 48 people crashed into house in buffalo ny

Civilization a long cycles rather than the Enlightment’s progress.

Night, rf. Think I will exit as well. Take care all.

g’nite ratfood

OMG. Buffalo is my home town. Don’t know if I know anyone who lives in Clarence (suburb) though. And upstate, it’s nasal (Yeork).

Poor Chuck. Why is immoral behavior associated with Democrats and not diaper wearing shithouse stall toe tappers?

I don’t fault any group for an individuals colorful peccadillo’s, and don’t see why their behavior should afflict a group they oppose.

g’nite dr (pause) dick

hey ofg – how ya been?

‘night, ratfood and Dr. Dick.

Yes, I understand that. But if there were an “intelligent” designer, dontcha think he’d have chosen a simpler way.

It’s late and the conversation is intense. I have an idea in mind, but not the metal capacity to express it.

Wow – for a while there we were honoured with the presence of all THREE doctors in the house.

Commuter Plane With 48 Aboard Crashes in Buffalo

A Continental Express flight from Newark to Buffalo crashed
into a house about 4 miles from the Buffalo airport on
Thursday night, according to a spokesman for the National
Transportation Safety Board. The plane carried 48 passengers
and crew, said the spokesman, Ted Lopatkiewicz.

The approach to the Buffalo airport is pretty benign. Flat, long visibilty, no obstacles. I’ll be curious to learn what went wrong.

Me too, eCAHN. Hope nobody aboard was a friend.

In pain. Fell and knocked my shoulder out of socket two days before Christmas. Hurts to type, so no blogging since at my site, some comments from time to time. And yet I still have not missed a day of work supplying an addicted nation.

Scared to turn down any work in todays economic climate. I might need the money tomorrow, y’know?

weather?

ouch! didja go to the doc? i hope it is not a permanent kinda injury ofg

I hope so too. Believe it or not, living in NYC, working on Wall St, I knew no one who died on 9/11. Blessedly.

Why is immoral behavior associated with Democrats and not diaper wearing shithouse stall toe tappers?

It’s a rather puzzling phenomenon, is it not? The only possible explanation being that universal truth: IOKIYOR!

weather.com sez rain & snow, 33 degrees. But that’s common up there, so not unusual.

I have learned in the last 8 years that I do not live in the country I thought I lived in. Instead, I have been living in a bubble, a non-religious one.

ditto

Yes, they knocked me out and jerked it back into place. I have a pm appointment with an Orthopedic surgeon on Monday.

Ice. It’s the miracle drug, even long after the fact.

msnbc sez rain & sleet is reported as the cause of the crash.

Not something I ever thought I’d experience this late in life. Very depressing.

yikes – and ditto on the ice recommendation.

Goodnight, all. The best of all possible tomorrows to you all.

ofg, es fell and broke his arm and is trying to avoid having to have surgery on it by wearing some sorta clamp that holds the arm in place.

fingers and toes crossed you are likewise able to avoid surgery (but without the clamp thingie)

As in the plane iced up?

Here’s a YouTube of some of the plane crash.

g’nite rond

I bought an ice bag in fact. Oddly, in light of tonights news, I drank a Sully, named after the hero airplane pilot. Seemed to help. Does everybody know how to make a Sully?

That’s what they seem to be saying. Aelerons, etc. Of course, it’s much too early to tell for sure.

does it include nerves of steel and a zen calmness? or is that the aftereffect?

Two hits of Grey Goose and a splash of water.

Best wishes, OFG.

Good night to RonD.

On TDS their economic recovery recovery recommendation involved a new currency: sullybucks. But no, I don’t know how to make the drink.

As for ice, use the real thing, if possible. It’s much colder than the ice packs you buy and put in the freezer. Think it has to do with the heat of transformation. (Ask if you don’t know what that is.)

hahahaha of course – tis the perfect description

Nice. I’ll drink to that!

late late nite upstairs

Ouch–hugs OFG, hope you’re back to blogging and commenting more soon.

More like baffling here. Should be exhausting to live in denial.

Yep, the next time Chuckles thinks that Republican are more honest than decent than others, he should be forced to watch this.

195 responses and no-one said The Coctagon?

Well, shame on me.

;>)

You are one funny sonovagun, Thers. Definitely.

Thanks!

Not to get all materialistic and such, but yeah, porn performers (It’s considered incorrect to refer to them as actresses) do indeed remember when porn was bad. What it meant was that they couldn’t give fans their mailing addresses and thereby couldn’t sell their own catalog of movies, magazines, etc. They couldn’t answer fan mail and couldn’t make public appearances at bookstores & strip clubs.
Since then? Yup, they’ve been able to make lots and lots of money that they weren’t able to make before. If porn is made illegal again, the performers will be the first ones to take a financial hit for it.

Hi Jim