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"Julian Castro is speaking. 8 yrs after young Hussein Obama spoke. Next convention I think the breakout speaker will be Esperanza Hitler-Borg" -- nm - Don Homer Sep 5, 04:57
Best traffic jam ever! -- (link) - prayformojo Sep 5, 04:46 [youtube]
Is this board better off than four boards ago? We say no. -- nm - The Right Sep 5, 04:40
Wake up - prayformojo Sep 5, 04:38
One good use for a Hummer, out of Taber Alberta. -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 4, 23:37 2
- ballsy -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 4, 23:54
- I suspect he's batman. -- nm - mafic Sep 4, 23:48
*snicker* news hour had 30 seconds about the shooting, and then proceeded to cover the election results for several minutes -- nm - Beryllium Sep 4, 23:02 1
- ooh! Now they're talking about the Enbridge pipeline. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 4, 23:03
*switches to CNN* oh shit, rahm! -- nm - Beryllium Sep 4, 22:50
Just think: The top story on our local news tonight was "Are health benefits of organic produce exaggerated?" - Beryllium Sep 4, 22:31 3
- Yup, it's been a story here all day too. -- nm - MojaveMeg Sep 4, 22:48
- It's the chemicals that'll keep you well preserved for years to come. -- nm - Mop Sep 4, 22:47 1
  - mmm, delicious Weyland Petrochemicals -- nm - Beryllium Sep 4, 22:47
How does "Stargate Command" get verified? heheh -- nm - Beryllium Sep 4, 22:26 2
- their voice is their passport. -- nm - mafic Sep 4, 22:35 1
  - *glares* -- nm - Don S. Davis and Mitch Pileggi Sep 4, 22:38
Thanks for the birthday wishes everyone. I took the morning off to catch up with Breaking Bad and I just had cake for lunch. All is good. nm - ralph wiggum Sep 4, 22:01 4
- Yay! Happy B-Day Wiggums!!! -- nm - JenBro Sep 5, 03:45
- Happy B-Day. -- nm - Under the Influence Sep 4, 23:44
- Happy Birthday -- nm - Karl_S Sep 4, 23:16
- happy birthday :) -- nm - peglegpete Sep 4, 22:03
I wonder what Halo 4's "only one map remake" will be ... all I know is that it is "NOT small" - Beryllium Sep 4, 21:39
Just to bring home the point... Scott Brown's daughters are *hot*. -- (link) - Mop Sep 4, 21:32 [Image] 8
- As the father of a daughter, Imma going on the record right now that I'll never take a picture with her if she's just wearing a seashell bikini top. - Name Withheld By Request Sep 4, 22:21 7
  - oh, wait - what if *you're* wearing the seashell bikini top? -- nm - Beryllium Sep 4, 23:07 2
    - then he'll get in all the photos he can, because one day that'll embarrass the hell out of her. -- nm - mafic Sep 4, 23:20 1
      - That's the way to do it. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 4, 23:26
  - she also appears to be wearing a skirt/bikini bottom of some sort too. -- nm - mafic Sep 4, 22:32
  - *pats nwbr on the head* he thinks he still has choices, how cute -- nm - Beryllium Sep 4, 22:25 2
    - never let your daughters have a cell phone with a camera -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 4, 22:38
    - Notice I didn't say she'll never be wearing said seashell bikini top. *shudders* -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Sep 4, 22:30
My local police department retweeted this pic ... possible new Standard Issue Equipment changes :) -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 4, 21:25 1
- peanuts are as dangerous as bullets to those with that particular allergy, they need to resupply with those multi color sprinkles -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 4, 21:49
Happy birthday, Grandma Wiggum! -- nm - David Sep 4, 21:18 6
- Oi! nm - ralph wiggum Sep 4, 21:42
- Did I miss something on Facebook? -- nm - amoxy Sep 4, 21:22 3
  - just the vagaries of the dateline. -- nm - mafic Sep 4, 21:43
  - We're behind the curve because of the time zones again. East coast is getting the Sept 5th news already. -- nm - MojaveMeg Sep 4, 21:35
  - yes -- nm - the liioulu without chrome Sep 4, 21:29
- granny wiggie? -- nm - budice Sep 4, 21:20
Tim - Qale Sep 4, 21:17
Wow, Pauline Marois was just taken off-stage mid-victory speech by her security team. - Roger More Sep 4, 21:07 36
- Montreal Police Twitter feed. -- (link) - Mop Sep 4, 22:51
- Watch the video on CBC. At the 0:05 mark, look just to the immediate right of Marois. -- (link) - Name Withheld By Request Sep 4, 22:38 8
  - Holy...! -- nm - Mop Sep 4, 22:45
  - It does look like a hole, and it does look like it appears just as she tilts her head ... yikes. - Beryllium Sep 4, 22:42 6
    - Of course. That's why I want to see what comes out tomorrow. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Sep 4, 22:43 5
      - It's making some news on the U.S. outlets. Front page of CNN.com. -- nm - Mop Sep 4, 22:49
      - Just idle chatter tonight, but the confirmed victim was a techniti0an. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Sep 4, 22:47 3
        
        SFEK... A technician. Possibly back stage at the time? -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Sep 4, 22:47 2
        
        PQ saffers -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Sep 4, 23:41 1
        
        PQ staffers confirm: No hole in backdrop. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Sep 4, 23:41
- Report is one victim has died. -- nm - Mop Sep 4, 22:03 1
  - Yep, CBC tweeted such -- nm - Beryllium Sep 4, 22:04
- Update - now rumor has it, 2 people were shot, not burned ... -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 4, 21:37 7
  - Are people going to have to speak French now? is that the lady that won? -- nm - Bacon via droid Sep 4, 21:43 6
    - expect sound and fury. and very little action. -- nm - mafic Sep 4, 21:48 3
      - Support for sovereignty is at about 28%, which has got to be an all time low. Best she could do is nudge it into the 30's. -- nm - Mop Sep 4, 21:50 1
        
        And the PQ only got 1% more than the Liberals in the popular vote. -- nm - Mop Sep 4, 21:54
      - expect .. politics! -- nm - Beryllium Sep 4, 21:48
    - The sovereignty-supporting party won a minority victory. So ... sort of? -- nm - Beryllium Sep 4, 21:44
    - She got a minority, so nothing changes. -- nm - Mop Sep 4, 21:44
- Shot fired from a starter pistol, according to this article. -- (link) - Mop Sep 4, 21:28
- Deflected bad press from the last couple of days over French nationalists by making her look sympathetic! -- nm - Mop Sep 4, 21:25
- Extraordinary rendition! Extraordinary rendition! -- nm - David Sep 4, 21:18 2
  - I think we have prisons in nunavut. Fairly certain. - Beryllium Sep 4, 21:24 1
    - "there is no stockades, no guard tower, no electronic frontier" -- (link) - Remlik Sep 4, 21:35 [youtube]
- "appears to be carrying rifle or stun gun" ... that could have got real nasty, real fast. Yikes. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 4, 21:08 10
  - starter pistol, is what I'm hearing. -- nm - Reagen Sep 4, 21:11 6
    - "Oh cripes - now there's been a fire set behind the club where the PQ has gathered - this is not cool" -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 4, 21:13 5
      - Local news radio story with picture of suspect. -- (link) - Mop Sep 4, 21:54 1
        
        Memo to Marois: Get tougher looking bodyguards. -- (link) - Mop Sep 4, 21:56
      - Fire is out. Two people injured, one person arrested. -- nm - Roger More Sep 4, 21:17 2
        
        They're in critical condition, apparently -- nm - Beryllium Sep 4, 21:29 1
        
        Yeah, that's not good :( -- nm - Roger More Sep 4, 21:32
  - (Also, I'm not sure how you confuse those two... I mean, I get general confusion, but *those* two? Hmm.) -- nm - Beryllium Sep 4, 21:09 2
    - cattle prod maybe? -- nm - mafic Sep 4, 21:13 1
      - ... maybe those should be standard issue in parliament ... would make CPAC more fun -- nm - Beryllium Sep 4, 21:13
Interesting fact about Argo/The Canadian Caper I just read in Wikipedia. - Mop Sep 4, 20:57
Stephen Jackson vs. Det or Doug Martin vs. Carolina - amoxy Sep 4, 20:39 10
- Martin, Detroits strong up front and weak in the secondary -- nm - Bacon via droid Sep 4, 20:54 5
  - Just being a starter doesn't mean a guy can play. -- nm - David Sep 4, 21:16 4
    - Carolina was weak vs the run last year. I think I read 138 yards per game given up to rushing -- nm - Bacon via droid Sep 4, 21:22 3
      - Doesn't matter if Tampa can't run. -- nm - David Sep 4, 21:27 2
        
        To be fair, they did sign Carl Nicks this off-season. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 5, 04:52
        
        Okay, you are making me dig out my mega logic. Crash wanted him, but I stole him first. So, he's going to be good and Crash will be sad -- nm - Bacon via droid Sep 4, 21:28
- Is there a third option?if not, Jackson. -- nm - David Sep 4, 20:45 3
  - I can only play two and I am already playing Forte - amoxy Sep 4, 21:10
  - Alfred Morris vs the Saints. - the wrong element, bad guy Sep 4, 20:49 1
    - Shannahan likes to fuck over FF teams at the last minute -- nm - Bacon via droid Sep 4, 21:08
Random True Blood news: Season 6 will be 10 episodes, not the usual 12. -- nm - Qale Sep 4, 20:23 8
- Random True Blood: It's been on the air for 5 seasons already. -- nm - Mop Sep 4, 21:01
- True Blood: Now 17% less sucky! nm - HBO Promo Department Sep 4, 20:31 2
  - Happy Birthday!! (or is it belated birthdat?) -- nm - the liioulu without chrome Sep 4, 20:48
  - happy birthday, HBO promo department. -- nm - mafic Sep 4, 20:39
- Is that good news for the die-hard fans who hate the show? -- nm - nubby Sep 4, 20:27 3
  - I figure it's gone one maybe two left. Might as well run it out. -- nm - Qale Sep 4, 20:38
  - I'm at the point where if they cancelled it I wouldn't mind, except for the lack of clothesless Skarsgaard. -- nm - the liioulu without chrome Sep 4, 20:30 1
    - Me too -- nm - Epiphany Sep 4, 20:32
two families where having two parties in a park over the weekend. a kid from one party hit a kid from another party - tRuMaN Sep 4, 20:14 4
- So the kid who punched another kid has a day who will randomly fire a gun into a group of people? Shocking. -- nm - Mop Sep 4, 22:58
- The violence inherent in a two-party system! -- nm - Dr.Vermin, votes for Gary Johnson Sep 4, 21:49
- This happened to a friend from my last job in RI. She and her husband had problems with the neighbor; the neighbor started berating her kids at her - kelly Sep 4, 20:27
- This is also an argument against having guns. -- nm - the liioulu without chrome Sep 4, 20:15
is it just me, or are the Dems talking way more about the military (and military families) then the republicans did. -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 4, 20:11 11
- Romney got knocked for not mentioning the war(s) in his speech. The Dems wanted to be sure to make hay about it at the convention. -- nm - Mop Sep 4, 21:26
- word cloud says afghanistan mentioned only once, troops not even that -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 4, 20:56
- Anything to avoid talking about the economy. -- nm - Ender Sep 4, 20:19 5
  - I hopebthey over that, and a plan, for the rest of the convention -- nm - Truman Sep 4, 20:31
  - Night Two: Puppies and the Films of Aaron Sorkin. - Dr.Vermin Sep 4, 20:29 3
    - Kittens! Better with kittens. " kittens against Mittens!" -- nm - Epiphany Sep 4, 20:33
    - I missed y'all's answers to the poll on B3. -- nm - nubby Sep 4, 20:30 1
      - ah, I missed the poll! - Dr.Vermin Sep 4, 21:17
- Military wives are one of Michelle's causes. -- nm - MojaveMeg Sep 4, 20:13 2
  - lesbivulture. -- nm - Max Sep 4, 20:16
  - yeah, but other speakers talked about it. - tRuMaN Sep 4, 20:14
"When you walk through the door of success you don't slam it behind you." - TWuG Sep 4, 20:11
Redmond, probably Pierce. - the wrong element, bad guy Sep 4, 20:09 11
- Yeah, it kinda reminded me of, "Who is Peyton's back-up?" -- nm - Spawn Sep 4, 20:10 10
  - The only problem in this league is waivers are used. So if Rice is hurt I can't really run to the PC and get his backup. - Bacon Sep 4, 20:13 9
    - This is the best way to handle pickups. Lock all rosters till Tuesday AM and handle based on priority system - Strongbad Sep 5, 04:51
    - My point is, I would not *want* his back-up. -- nm - Spawn Sep 4, 20:14 7
      - I would at least want to wait until I saw what he did while giving Rice a rest week one. - the wrong element, bad guy Sep 4, 20:26 5
        
        Exactly. - Spawn Sep 4, 20:30 4
        
        That was one weird draft. I have stud RBs, good QB, 49ers Defense, Gates for TE and total shit for receievers -- nm - Bacon Sep 4, 20:33 3
        
        TOTAL SHIT! - Bacon Sep 4, 20:33 2
        
        Trade away a RB. Or Gates, if you can. - the wrong element, bad guy Sep 4, 20:51 1
        
        not at the pc. trades are always hard because nobody is realistic - Bacon via droid Sep 4, 21:07
      - Ah, well yeah. It might be better to get a back that splits with another one. Gotcha -- nm - Bacon Sep 4, 20:14
Stutter? -- nm - amoxy Sep 4, 20:04 9
- "when, when" "and,and" - Remlik Sep 4, 20:05 8
  - Well, it *is* time to get the papers get the papers. -- nm - GoodVermin Sep 4, 20:26
  - She probably hates bald dudes. -- nm - David Sep 4, 20:09
  - wow you wouldnt be able to listen to me longer than a minute -- nm - mud Sep 4, 20:08
  - I almost wonder if it's a stylistic choice. -- nm - mafic Sep 4, 20:08
  - she does it all the time though, its not just for this speech -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 4, 20:07 1
    - ah. fair enough. it just really stood out to me. -- nm - Remlik Sep 4, 20:08
  - Eh, it comes across as passion. -- nm - Spawn Sep 4, 20:06 1
    - it does.... - Remlik Sep 4, 20:07
can't decide if I should preorder borderlands 2. I'll be away for two weeks right at release time, so I won't be picking it up till early october, - mafic Sep 4, 20:03
it seems like the first lady is setting the bar high for all the other major speakers. - tRuMaN Sep 4, 20:03 3
- She just delivered an absolutely amazing speech. The subtle destruction of Romney w/out ever mentioning his name, wow. -- nm - MDH Sep 4, 20:06 1
  - yup, and the narrative that let her do that and talk about policy without being a policy speech -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 4, 20:08
- *snork* -- nm - Bubba Sep 4, 20:03
Home. Run. -- nm - Spawn Sep 4, 20:03 4
- [tries to hide under chair] -- nm - clint Sep 4, 20:05
- Grand Slam -- nm - Remlik Sep 4, 20:05
- she uses dem big words most gop cant understand -- nm - budice Sep 4, 20:04 1
  - Both words and concepts. - Spawn Sep 4, 20:05

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