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Heh. Malin Akerman on how to take a photo with a celebrity. (vid) -- (link) - con_carne May 5, 10:30
Top male and female baby names for 2010: Jacob and Isabella -- (link) - Biden May 5, 10:29 2
- Imagine in high school in 15 years "yeah, your mom was SO original" -- nm - ty97 May 5, 10:31
- so its a definite loss for Team Edward -- nm - crash davis May 5, 10:31
The fuzzed-out classified image ... that was probably fuzzed out to conceal the quality of american satellite imagery, correct? -- nm - Beryllium May 5, 10:28 1
- It was an early leak of Pippa Middleton dancing in her bra. -- nm - Dr.Vermin May 5, 10:29
it's definitely settled down lately but there was a 6.1 quake off Japan today. -- nm - zork May 5, 10:22 1
- Are they having a quake off? -- nm - con_carne May 5, 10:23
Top College Party Coverage: University of Wisconsin Mifflin Street Block Party 2011 -- (link) - con_carne May 5, 10:19
The Situation Room Meme: The Shortest Route From Bin Laden to Lulz -- (link) - con_carne May 5, 10:12 2 1
- Love it. -- nm - lileve May 5, 10:31
- I'm such a sucker for these things -- nm - Hotkiss May 5, 10:23
Does anyone else sense a moment of panic when news networks interrupt regular programming? - MojaveMeg May 5, 10:07 9
- Since 9/11 I've kept a radio on npr/cspan all day as a kind of canary in the coalmine. Sometimes they'll lose signal for a second - Max May 5, 10:18 2
  - Serious question: If during that silence Steve Innskeep said "Hit it, Max!" what would you do! -- nm - con_carne May 5, 10:21 1
    - I'd drop a beat. -- nm - Max May 5, 10:23
- Something I never liked much about me: I'd get a certain (thrill? excitement? adrenaline rush?) because something 'big' may be about to be reported - ty97 May 5, 10:18
- is Generalissimo Franscico Franco still dead? -- nm - zork May 5, 10:18
- Little bit. It's not like they're going to interrupt Survivor to tell you what a nice day it is. -- nm - con_carne May 5, 10:14
- always. -- nm - loosilu May 5, 10:13
- Usually just annoyance, because I don't sit down to watch regular programming until 1 to 3 weeks after it aired. -- nm - Beryllium May 5, 10:12
- Used to. -- nm - lileve May 5, 10:10
remember the WH Situation Room photo? The WaPo invited experts (body language, IT, etiquette, movie critic, etc) to do an indepth breakdown. - loosilu May 5, 10:05 16
- I imagine the weight of responsibility would cause tension for anyone in that situation. -- nm - crash davis May 5, 10:13 3
  - another thing that gets me is how dang small this situation room is -- nm - crash davis May 5, 10:19 1
    - Makes it easier to get "situated" -- nm - Bill Clinton May 5, 10:21
  - *spis on daiquiri* -- nm - Biden May 5, 10:17
- But Gates is just rockin' that Treacy hat. -- nm - Amy May 5, 10:09 1
  - darn you. I was about to make a hat joke. -- nm - zork May 5, 10:18
- Also, I just forgot my Claritin, people. -- nm - H.Clinton May 5, 10:09
- Scared, really? Yeah, I don't see much fear in that room. Lots of tension, not much fear. - TWuG May 5, 10:08 4
  - Not much fear since they weren't on the front lines -- nm - Hotkiss May 5, 10:16 2
    - you don't have to be on the front lines to feel fear. -- nm - loosilu May 5, 10:16 1
      - and I will concede that I dont' think I see it. anxiety, maybe. -- nm - loosilu May 5, 10:21
  - just a guess. It's not an expression we've seen before. And he looks very small, considering he's a tall guy. -- nm - loosilu May 5, 10:12
- i read that this morning at the doctor's office. it's a silly exercise. there wasn't anything at all insightful - prayformojo May 5, 10:08 3
  - after reading it, "silly" is the first word that came to my mind. -- nm - b. May 5, 10:36
  - This right here demonstrates good reason not to release the bin Laden photo. -- nm - Max May 5, 10:34
  - There's a lot of stretching but I still enjoyed it. aslo wanted to add: You can see the red and yellow stickers on the laptops. - loosilu May 5, 10:12
Have there been any reports of damage from that quake in mexico? -- nm - Beryllium May 5, 10:04
Before he was sworn in as president, Barack Obama said in 2008 that he was going to "to throw my weight around a little bit" to nudge college football - crash davis May 5, 09:59 5
- I have no idea if I like the government poking in here, but: yes please. -- nm - ty97 May 5, 10:05
- Someone needs to write that to-do list and cross off the items that have been accomplished. :) -- nm - Beryllium May 5, 10:01 3
  - Its not important, but I'm finding it funny that the NCAA is now having to answer crap questions from the Justice Dept, much the way the NCAA does - crash davis May 5, 10:04
  - Done. 135 kept, 40 compromised, 42 broken, 70 stalled, 219 in the works, 2 not yet rated -- (link) - TWuG May 5, 10:04 1
    - That's what I said, but what I *meant* was an actual to-do list graphic, and in simplified terms. - Beryllium May 5, 10:10
Amusing thing for Canadians and Hockey Fans: The hockey arena in my City is holding a show on the suit jackets of Don Cherry..... - Walt_Disney May 5, 09:55 1
- he goes to Fabricland, picks out material for drapes and upholstery, then drops it off at a tailor to be made into suits. Rick Mercer went with him -- nm - zork May 5, 09:58
I'm rather tickled to see Jon Stewart and Sarah Palin in agreement! - Dr.Vermin May 5, 09:55 7
- If your goal is to make Americans understand the cost and bloodiness of war, show dead American soldiers. That will make Americans feel. - ty97 May 5, 09:58 2
  - Agreed, but not the IM. - Dr.Vermin May 5, 10:12
  - Yup. (nm) - musubi May 5, 10:00
- there's an argument to be made for releasing the photos. The argument is not "we need to not look like pussys" though. -- nm - Reagen May 5, 09:56 3
  - Very true. - Dr.Vermin May 5, 09:59 1
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  - One argument is "They have already been circulated around some circles in washington. Wait a month and Wikileaks will out." -- nm - Beryllium May 5, 09:57
Two recounts, potentially three, in the works from Monday's election -- (link) - Reagen May 5, 09:50 24
- Speaking of... what happened with the Wisconsin Supreme Court election? -- nm - Mop (207 lbs) May 5, 09:58 2
  - Recount is on-going. Meanwhile, 9 Republicans in state senate up for recall this summer. -- (link) - Mop (207 lbs) May 5, 10:05
  - harper won that one, too -- nm - Beryllium May 5, 10:03
- phew, not my riding. - Beryllium May 5, 09:53 13
  - Hes supposed to be announcing a cabinet next week. I see them calling back Parliament before the end of the month to pass the budget and throne speech - Walt_Disney May 5, 09:58 6
    - solid plan (especially the IM). I got 2 out of 3 things I wanted from the election ... my riding isn't Con, and May got in. - Beryllium May 5, 10:01 5
      - I agree mostly with the IM..... - Walt_Disney May 5, 10:04 2
        
        I wonder how many time Pierre Trudeau has rolled over in his grave yet. -- nm - zork May 5, 10:07 1
        
        Quebec has had an unusual level of earthquake activity the past few years -- nm - Beryllium May 5, 10:11
      - I wouldn't call your IM a miracle at all - I'd bet on it happening. -- nm - Roger More May 5, 10:03 1
        
        (I wasn't being entirely serious. :) ) -- nm - Beryllium May 5, 10:11
  - Is a riding like a congressional district? -- nm - Diva May 5, 09:57 2
    - more or less. -- nm - Reagen May 5, 09:57 1
      - but without the gerrymandering -- nm - zork May 5, 09:59
  - how would Parliament already be in session? -- nm - Reagen May 5, 09:54 2
    - I dunno, harper seemed fired up to get stuff moving ASAP - I guess he might just have meant within the party, though -- nm - Beryllium May 5, 09:55 1
      - (Also, before this week, I don't know if Harper ever seemed fired up about anything) -- nm - Beryllium May 5, 09:55
- what's going to happen to the NDP girl who might have forged a bunch a sigs to run? -- nm - Beaker May 5, 09:52 6
  - Why voters elected the NDP�s �Vegas girl� anyway......(link) -- (link) - Walt_Disney May 5, 10:01 3
    - Heh - I was listening to the French station when they went through the riding winners, and the commentary was "Madame Las Vegas a gagné" -- nm - Roger More May 5, 10:05
    - What would they name a Liberal-Green merger? -- nm - Beryllium May 5, 10:03 1
      - According to the article, a Chrimas tree :) -- nm - Roger More May 5, 10:06
  - No one's officially complained, to my knowledge. -- nm - Reagen May 5, 09:53
  - she's going to be forced to join the NDP - oh, wait -- nm - Beryllium May 5, 09:53
CNN: "Bin Laden's wife says she didn't leave compound for five years, Pakistani spokesman says." - Beryllium May 5, 09:50
Okay, to clarify: despite previous reports, the helicoptor at the compound did *not* crash because of a sleeping air traffic controller. -- nm - J.Carney May 5, 09:49
In the deep dark hills of eastern Kentucky, thats where I trace my bloodline. I saw on a gravestone there, you'll never make it out of Harlan alive. - crash davis May 5, 09:48
Andie (and others), you might know this. Who do you contact to get synchronization rights for music used in films or video online (youtube, etc) - oblique May 5, 09:48
I've dumped Digsby for Pidgin, and tossed in Tweetdeck for my Twitter and Facebook updates. I'm very pleased to be done with Digsby. -- nm - Mop (207 lbs) May 5, 09:46
the media has their panties in a bunch because they were duped into passing along false information from the government uncritically as "reporting" - znufrii May 5, 09:44 18
- Link? -- nm - con_carne May 5, 09:51 2
  - just my own opinion. -- nm - znufrii May 5, 09:52 1
    - Ironically, your post reads as if it's fact, not opinion ;) -- nm - con_carne May 5, 09:53
- This does make sense. -- nm - Dr.Vermin May 5, 09:45 5
  - and "duped" is probably too strong a term, unless the deception was intentional on the part of the Obama administration - znufrii May 5, 09:48 4
    - "*You* go to the front lines and find the facts for yourself!" -- nm - con_carne May 5, 09:51
    - Here's a term for people: "Fog of War". -- nm - Reagen May 5, 09:48 2
      - "But, but...! The President was watching it LIVE! How could they not know every detail instantly?!" -- nm - TWuG May 5, 10:00
      - this. -- nm - loosilu May 5, 09:53
- The media has been passing off statement from politicians as news and fact without questioning it for years now. I welcome if they stop it, at last. -- nm - ty97 May 5, 09:45 8
  - I think good agencies are clear their news just just from a "source." By and large, it's the commentators who run with it as "fact." -- nm - con_carne May 5, 09:47 6
    - My bigger beef is journalists who interview but don't force answers - ty97 May 5, 09:52 4
      - Sadly, I think investigative journalism puts people to sleep, unless there's boobs. -- nm - con_carne May 5, 09:57 2
        
        or a predator of some kind is being caught. -- nm - Reagen May 5, 09:58 1
        
        People want their news spoon fed to them. People don't like thinking a lot. This always be a problem as long as news is for-profit and depends - con_carne May 5, 10:01
      - that is pretty much the same thing. - znufrii May 5, 09:56
    - unfortunately, this in not always the case. -- nm - znufrii May 5, 09:51
  - exactly my point. -- nm - znufrii May 5, 09:46
WTF, off duty cop at a bar on long island? -- (link) - znufrii May 5, 09:39 2
- "There's definitely something more to this story that's not being reported" Yeah, cause he'd be the first idiot to ever have too much to drink and - Reagen May 5, 09:47
- Wait, wait... I've heard this joke. -- nm - Mop (207 lbs) May 5, 09:42
Next time, listen to the janitor. -- (link) - Dr.Vermin May 5, 09:39 [youtube]
Ranking Roger's Neighborhood: When the English Beat broke up, members went off to form (blank) and (blank) -- nm - Mop (207 lbs) May 5, 09:37 3
- General Public. -- nm - pmb May 5, 09:48
- FYC and something else. -- nm - loosilu May 5, 09:38 1
  - That might fly if Bob Barker was hosting, but this is Trebek's world, girlie! -- nm - Mop (207 lbs) May 5, 09:42
So overkill! -- nm - lileve May 5, 09:34 1
- I can't get to sleep, I think about the implications. -- nm - Spawn May 5, 09:38
ST Poll: If photos of your past were vetted could you marry a Prince or run for political office, or No? -- nm - ty97 May 5, 09:33 27
- I have no idea but Bubbles can tell you -- nm - JaxSean si May 5, 09:54 1
  - pretty much. -- nm - JaxSean May 5, 09:57
- Totally....unless the ones of me in the bathtub naked at two years old get people concerned. -- nm - Walt_Disney May 5, 09:49 2
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    - *holds book in front of crotch* -- nm - WaltDiznee May 5, 10:01
- All my crazy stuff was done before digital cameras. No one took random photos. It was too much trouble. -- nm - Amy May 5, 09:43 1
  - right? we spent our money on drugs, not on developing film. -- nm - west coast jones May 5, 09:46
- depends on whether or not the People Who Better Damn Well Stay Quiet damn well stay quiet -- nm - prayformojo May 5, 09:43
- Probably not. -- nm - kelly May 5, 09:40 1
  - Eh, actually I'd probably be okay. the only incriminating photos came from my own camera, and I was the only one with the pictures. -- nm - kelly May 5, 09:50
- Mostly yes. - musubi May 5, 09:40
- no way -- nm - Danedukenuuk May 5, 09:38
- Am I running for the Cannabis Party of America? -- nm - con_carne May 5, 09:38
- I think I'm clean, photo-wise. But if considered for a cabinet position, there are some witnesses that would need to be disappeared. -- nm - Dr.Vermin May 5, 09:37 4
  - This. Thankfully my partying days happened before the cell phone camera days. -- nm - Stephen May 5, 09:41 1
    - "Thankfully, the world hasn't yet been educated about Blurry Face Syndrome" -- nm - Beryllium May 5, 09:42
  - you mean like most of ST? - loosilu May 5, 09:38 1
    - "Hey, are you going to believe what you read on the *internet*?" - Dr.Vermin at confirmation hearing May 5, 09:41
- Mmm I think so. There's one on Flickr where the description says I'm in a Coffe Shop in Amsterdam... - Guigue May 5, 09:37
- just photos, sure. - znufrii May 5, 09:36 1
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- Lets just say I could give Bill Maher a run for his money. -- nm - Spawn May 5, 09:36
- I don't think there's anything bad. -- nm - loosilu May 5, 09:36
- no way in hell - Epiphany May 5, 09:35
- Hell yeah. I've never done anything embarrassing in my life. That isn't sealed by court order. -- nm - Mop (207 lbs) May 5, 09:35
- political office in canada? sure (no-one would care.) marry a prince? maybe not. - Andie May 5, 09:34
- I believe so. -- nm - Will Hunting May 5, 09:34
"United States Weekly: bringing you the latest in British ass." -- nm - con_carne May 5, 09:33 6
- And, apparently, puppy-licking. -- nm - Beryllium May 5, 09:34
- Bah! Thjat -- nm - Reagen May 5, 09:34 4
  - 's what I subscribe to British Ass Weekly for! -- nm - Reagen May 5, 09:34 3
    - I prefer UK Fanny -- nm - zork May 5, 09:35 2
      - I am more of a Mexican Chi Chis reader, myself. -- nm - Spawn May 5, 09:39
      - Snogger -- nm - Beryllium May 5, 09:36
Okay, to clarify: the Pakistani Girl Guides (scouts) that were selling khurma cookies at the door of the compound were *not* killed, only grazed. - J.Carney May 5, 09:32
No Jeter in the lineup today, not that his hitting help them lately -- nm - budice May 5, 09:32 1
- Oh... BURN! -- nm - Mop (207 lbs) May 5, 09:34

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