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The first 9mins of this is so brutally effective in articulating what should be middle class outrage at Mitt Romney being the GOP candidate that - Mel Profit Jul 17, 12:13 1
- This morning I mentioned how Stewart killed last night, after re-watching, half of this needs to be an ad. -- nm - MDH Jul 17, 12:16
McCain: I didn't pass on Romney because of his tax returns, I passed because Sarah Palin was the better candidate! -- (link) - Reagen Jul 17, 12:13 8
- Oof -- nm - amoxy Jul 17, 12:19
- The scene in Game Change where three Republican candidates (I think it was McCain, Huckabee and Giuliani?) were all in the men's room pre-debate - Roger More Jul 17, 12:18
- "....for my illogical hail mary strategy" -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 17, 12:17
- that actually makes sense. -- nm - loosilu Jul 17, 12:16
- Well ...... I dunno if that's a slight against Romney himself, or just against McCain's campaign strategy. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 17, 12:15 3
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  - he needs Palin now to stay in office. -- nm - Remlik Jul 17, 12:15 1
    - he doesn't need Romney -- nm - Remlik Jul 17, 12:15
ST poll -- do you wear a watch, or do you just look at your phone to get the time? - evil atheist znufrii Jul 17, 12:09 24
- I love watches and wear one everyday. -- nm - Krusty Jul 17, 12:19
- I have worn a watch since I was 7 years old. -- nm - loosilu Jul 17, 12:14
- Occasionally wear a watch in the field, otherwise phone. -- nm - mafic Jul 17, 12:13
- Phone. Used to wear a watch, but now I can't feel comfortable with anything on my wrist. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 17, 12:13
- Watch -- nm - TWuG Jul 17, 12:12
- hate watches, so pretty much phone if I absolutely need to know the time which is almost never -- nm - CQ Jul 17, 12:12
- watch. (I feel naked without one.) - kelly Jul 17, 12:11 1
  - ditto. I never check my phone and I love watches. -- nm - Mel Profit Jul 17, 12:15
- Watch...or I check the time on the clock tower ;) -- nm - MojaveMeg Jul 17, 12:11
- My phone, but I can usually guess about what time it is rather close. - Will Hunting Jul 17, 12:11 2
  - yes I do. -- nm - kelly Jul 17, 12:12
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- phone. though when I get dressed up I'll wear a watch. -- nm - Remlik Jul 17, 12:11
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- In my apartment phone/ clock on stove. At work, pc. -- nm - MDH Jul 17, 12:10
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  - This. Just like how cameras are obsolete. ;-) My phone, amongst all its other uses, is also a pocket watch. - Beryllium Jul 17, 12:14 2
    - I did go through an actual pocket watch phase just after college - evil atheist znufrii Jul 17, 12:16
    - I usually don't have a pocket, so I need it on my wrist. -- nm - loosilu Jul 17, 12:14
  - if you say so. - evil atheist znufrii Jul 17, 12:11
- I'm going to go drop my lunch on the floor and then pick it up and eat it. -- nm - con_carne Jul 17, 12:10
- neither. ask someone or look at my computer screen -- nm - Beaker Jul 17, 12:10
- no, no. -- nm - peglegpete Jul 17, 12:10
- phone. -- nm - Andie Jul 17, 12:09
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- Jeb Bush, August 5th -- nm - CQ Jul 17, 12:11
- He should name whoever he wants right now, and then retroactively name someone else later on. -- nm - Reagen Jul 17, 12:10 1
  - "If Romney loses, he can always say that he retroactively withfrew from the presidential race in 2011" -- nm - MDH Jul 17, 12:11
- T'Paw, August 2nd -- nm - evil atheist znufrii Jul 17, 12:10
- Pawlenty the Tuesday before the convention. -- nm - spamlet Jul 17, 12:10 3
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    - August 27-30 -- nm - evil atheist znufrii Jul 17, 12:20
    - I have no idea. - spamlet Jul 17, 12:19
- No idea. Way too much work to sift through the rumors. -- nm - con_carne Jul 17, 12:09
- Bobby Jindal, August 12th. -- nm - mafic Jul 17, 12:04 4
  - I think he'd be a good pick. He's rehab'ed his image from his disaster of an appearance years ago. -- nm - Remlik Jul 17, 12:05 3
    - If Obama is from Kenya, where we people say Jindal is from? - MDH Jul 17, 12:08 2
      - he's republican, therefore he's an inspiring story. -- nm - loosilu Jul 17, 12:16
      - Good question. -- nm - Remlik Jul 17, 12:10
- No idea, so I'll guess Kelly Ayotte, the bigoted Senator from NH -- nm - MDH Jul 17, 12:02 1
  - A week before the convention (he wants the one week of press bump, then convention bump) and hopes to have it sustain -- nm - MDH Jul 17, 12:04
- George W Bush; July 32 -- nm - Beaker Jul 17, 12:01
- Brett Favre at training camp -- nm - Epiphany Jul 17, 12:01
- Thursday before the Convention --- Paul Ryan. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 17, 12:01
- Stephen Forbes, July 27th -- nm - Beryllium Jul 17, 12:01
- a female by September 1st. -- nm - Spawn Jul 17, 12:00 1
  - but then he loses the boy scout vote! -- nm - amanda Jul 17, 12:02
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- heh. It was funny when I was looking. The positive reviews had like 10 comments and the negative ones had hundreds -- nm - Beaker Jul 17, 12:09
- Well, they had to be told how wrong they were! -- nm - Spawn Jul 17, 12:08
"...the accepted narrative around Citizens United is, at best, overly simplistic. And in some respects, it�s just plain wrong." -- (link) - evil atheist znufrii Jul 17, 11:57
Shameless' pictures of Emmy Rossum at Comic-Con are beautiful, she is trying to sway me to the dark side. -- nm - MDH Jul 17, 11:54 1
- Are you new here? -- nm - Spawn Jul 17, 11:55
So, what is the IR status in Blood Feud? I think we need to revote and vote on what the slot will be used for. - The Dark Spawn Jul 17, 11:54 16
- Oh, look. David's blood pressure just doubled. -- nm - spamlet Jul 17, 12:08 1
  - Nah, this one is a non-starter. -- nm - David Jul 17, 12:10
- Also, do we know if RC is playing this year? -- nm - Spawn Jul 17, 12:06
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- Nah. -- nm - David Jul 17, 11:59 7
  - It just seems to defeat the purpose of us having small rosters. -- nm - Spawn Jul 17, 12:02 6
    - Everyone has a vote to state their opinion on the subject. -- nm - David Jul 17, 12:03 5
      - Sadly, many did not seem to understand exactly what it was they were voting for. -- nm - Spawn Jul 17, 12:04 4
        
        People are voting for an IR spot. It's not rocket science. -- nm - David Jul 17, 12:07 2
        
        Welcome to Blood Feud! -- nm - spamlet Jul 17, 12:09 1
        
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        I tried to vote for Pat Robertson! -- nm - Beaker Jul 17, 12:05
- Maybe a second vote on how to use it, rather than an entire new vote where it could split the vote and get rejected - Beaker Jul 17, 11:55 2
  - Agreed. -- nm - Spawn Jul 17, 11:56 1
    - ::put Beaker on IR:: -- nm - Spawn Jul 17, 11:56
What time is it? San Clemente can't decide if the city or county is responsible for repairing/adjusting their clock tower.. -- (link) - MojaveMeg Jul 17, 11:42 2
- "Adjust the clock tower!" -- nm - Old lady in Marty McFly's face. Jul 17, 11:55 1
  - I like the comment that "So many people are walking around with smartphones" - so it really doesn't matter if the clock is right. -- nm - MojaveMeg Jul 17, 12:07
This track is the reason I like Justice -- (link) - con_carne Jul 17, 11:41 [youtube] 1
- okay this is much, much better - Epiphany Jul 17, 11:52
*grabs CQ by the ear* - Mel Profit Jul 17, 11:39 4
- heh -- nm - CQ Jul 17, 11:53 3
  - After reading that, WarMachine nearly sent a doctor. -- nm - WarMachine Jul 17, 11:55 2
    - funny thing is, there's some people who might think I'm serious, heh -- nm - CQ Jul 17, 11:59 1
      - Oh! Carry on. -- nm - Mel Profit Jul 17, 12:01
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- Except maybe on Twitter, for later reposting on Buzzfeed. -- nm - Mop on Galaxy SIII Jul 17, 11:58
- It was intended as a joke. I meant that a person's absence was itself a smarter way to go than my choice to engage in the debate. - Fuzzy Jul 17, 11:50 2
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  - this was how I took it -- nm - Beaker Jul 17, 11:51
- Exactly. Jim was not able to post today, or he would have. -- nm - The Dark Spawn Jul 17, 11:41
ST Poll: the 3 second rule...do you follow it? - Beaker Jul 17, 11:29 18
- Depends on the floor, but our rule is 5 secs. For the most part, I follow it, if the dog doesn't beat me! -- nm - miffed67 Jul 17, 12:07
- Eh, not usually. Sometimes. -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 17, 11:59
- 7 seconds for me -- nm - CQ Jul 17, 11:54
- No, the dog is usually too fast. -- nm - ceregon Jul 17, 11:48 1
  - L2 -- nm - SyrDragon Jul 17, 11:54
- Yup. -- nm - MDH Jul 17, 11:41
- no. -- nm - loosilu Jul 17, 11:40
- depends on the floor. -- nm - Andie Jul 17, 11:37
- pretty much yes -- nm - Epiphany Jul 17, 11:36
- No. -- nm - Roger More Jul 17, 11:31
- Depends on the floor and the food item. -- nm - sycor Jul 17, 11:30 6
  - I'll tag my yes with these qualifiers as well -- nm - Beaker Jul 17, 11:35
  - yes -- nm - amoxy Jul 17, 11:35
  - yes. A cookie? sure. A slice of pizza? no. -- nm - The Dark Spawn Jul 17, 11:33 2
    - pizza, depends on the surface and whether it was face down or face up -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 17, 11:39
    - 1.5 seconds for a slice of dessert pizza. -- nm - Ender Jul 17, 11:35
  - meaning at home, yes, at work, no. In public, no. -- nm - sycor Jul 17, 11:31
- Yes (just ate a cheesie in fact) -- nm - Beaker Jul 17, 11:29
Is pacrat still around? Nice article on that Arizon pastor he posted about a couple weeks ago -- (link) - oblique Jul 17, 11:29
ST Reading Poll: What are you reading? -- nm - Beaker Jul 17, 11:27 31
- reading a Star Trek Typhon Pact novel (Set post Nemesis, DS9). -- nm - Remlik Jul 17, 11:57 3
  - It is funny. In my minds eye if you are not reading a comic, working, watching video or sleeping, you are reading a Star Trek book. -- nm - Spawn Jul 17, 12:00 2
    - well yeah pretty much, I read other stuff, I just read A LOT. -- nm - Remlik Jul 17, 12:07 1
      - zombie books get a spin on the nook as well as biographies. Getting ready to read Clapton's book -- nm - Remlik Jul 17, 12:08
- A book on WWII by Anthony Beevor. -- nm - mafic Jul 17, 11:56
- CQ Fun Camp handbook -- nm - CQ Jul 17, 11:53
- If it Bleeds -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 17, 11:40
- The Gatecrasher. - Andie Jul 17, 11:37 2
  - Poor mary. -- nm - The Dark Spawn Jul 17, 11:44
  - heh. -- nm - Epiphany Jul 17, 11:38
- Wind through the Keyhole - Stephen King - it's a story within a story within a story -- nm - Epiphany Jul 17, 11:36
- Reading The Twelve by Justin Cronin and listening to the first Artemis Fowl (again). -- nm - The Dark Spawn Jul 17, 11:31 2
  - A footnote: commuting with audiobooks has ruined me. I used to adore reading, but the absorption rate has been thrown off by audio. - Spawn Jul 17, 11:59 1
    - One of us! One of us! -- nm - oblique Jul 17, 12:01
- This week it's Night - evil atheist znufrii Jul 17, 11:30
- A Brad Thor book ... they've all run together at this point. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 17, 11:28
- Forever War. - Mel Profit Jul 17, 11:28 8
  - Read that last year, very enjoyable. They are making a movie out of it? -- nm - amoxy Jul 17, 11:49
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    - what caught my attention was the comparison to Starship Trooper. - Mel Profit Jul 17, 11:35 5
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        the last I saw was from '10 with yet another script attempt so it may be dying. -- nm - Mel Profit Jul 17, 11:38 1
        
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      - (I just finished reading this again). -- nm - Beaker Jul 17, 11:36 1
        
        Spoilers - amoxy Jul 17, 11:50
- Potter. I'm on book 2 now -- nm - oblique Jul 17, 11:28
- Reading The Devil's Eye, listening to The Name of the Wind. -- nm - Ender Jul 17, 11:28
- A Brief History of Kublai Khan (really good) and Wiseguy (the Henry Hill bio Goodfellas was based on) -- nm - Beaker Jul 17, 11:28 1
  - waiting on: Dead Zero by Stephen Hunter, The Killing Floor by Lee Child and The Fear Index by Robert Harris - Beaker Jul 17, 11:39
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- st -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 17, 11:27
Wait, Danzig Street? -- nm - Reagen Jul 17, 11:26 1
- Danzig Needs a Hug -- nm - The Dark Spawn Jul 17, 11:26
so are we in agreeance on Forza 3? -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 17, 11:26 6
- Yes, I'm going to pick it up. -- nm - spamlet Jul 17, 12:09
- Regular or Platinum? -- nm - JaxSean Jul 17, 12:07 2
  - max says the only difference is platnium has a few extra cars, so i will just get regular. - tRuMaN Jul 17, 12:10 1
    - Gamestop has it for $15 used. -- nm - spamlet Jul 17, 12:15
- Sure. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 17, 11:49
- I'm in. -- nm - Krusty Jul 17, 11:31
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where theives and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs." - Dr.Vermin is quoting Jul 17, 11:25

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