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Wait...Amber Heard and Johnny Depp are engaged? -- nm - Jovian Jan 17, 13:22 8
- That's awesome! Good for him. I was really worried that he wouldn't find anyone after his divorce. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 17, 13:24 7
  - he's.... never been married. -- nm - Jack SI Jan 17, 13:35 4
    - he lived with Vanessa long enough to be common-law -- nm - zork Jan 17, 13:38 1
      - but that doesn't entail a divorce. -- nm - Andie Jan 17, 13:48
    - oh sorry, yes he was. from 1983 to 1985. -- nm - Jack SI Jan 17, 13:36 1
      - *raspberry* -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 17, 13:36
  - *blank stare* -- nm - groiny Jan 17, 13:30 1
    - Mop is very concerned about Johnny Depp's happiness -- nm - oblique Jan 17, 13:37
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- My problem with snowden is that he's seemingly releasing the information indiscriminately. - Mel Profit Jan 17, 13:30 10
  - My understanding (and this could be wrong) is that Snowden gave the material to Greenwald and the NYT. - ty97 Jan 17, 13:35 4
    - interesting, I sit corrected. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 17, 14:05
    - yup. I seem to remember hearing that he doesn't even have copies of the information in his possession anymore. -- nm - znufrii Jan 17, 13:36 1
      - probably not it would not be vise to have it -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Jan 17, 13:43
    - see my response below! :) -- nm - Jovian Jan 17, 13:35
  - he's a traitorous douche lord -- nm - Jovian Jan 17, 13:34 1
    - but a brave one still -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Jan 17, 13:44
  - spoils - Beryllium Jan 17, 13:32 2
    - LOL - DaneDukeNuuk Jan 17, 13:43
    - So he should go somewhere that will either turn him over to the US for god knows what on their own, or easily be coerced into it? -- nm - znufrii Jan 17, 13:33
- I'm not surprised. He lives his life in the us vs them realm. Us is always good, them is always bad. -- nm - spamlet Jan 17, 13:27
- it matters who is in office when you'r whisleblowing? -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Jan 17, 13:16 8
  - Good Lord, yes. Did you hear how Lone Survivor is exemplary of how the Obama administration failed our troops? -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 17, 13:22 1
    - all i know is the pope is a communist -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Jan 17, 13:23
  - Welcome to the USA. -- nm - ty97 Jan 17, 13:19 3
    - funny thing is both sides of the aile are atleast equally guilty in the situation -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Jan 17, 13:21 2
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        exactly - DaneDukeNuuk Jan 17, 13:25
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    - is it still whisleblowing then? -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Jan 17, 13:20
NBC orders pilot for drama about a Texas Megachurch... - Jovian Jan 17, 13:06 5
- the dome? -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Jan 17, 13:15
- Law & Order: God -- nm - Beaker Jan 17, 13:11 1
  - L4 -- nm - Diva Jan 17, 13:12
- Sunday Morning Lights -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 17, 13:10 1
- But they are merging it with Constantine. -- nm - Captain Trips Jan 17, 13:06
Mecum car auctions switched from Velocity to NBCSports & Esquire. they started today in Kissimmee and run for the next week -- nm - peglegpete Jan 17, 13:05 2
- i can't get foxsports2 but i do get esquire -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 17, 13:11 1
  - Barrett Jackson is on Fox sat 1-3 and NatGeo from 3-10. the 1-3 is all the expensive pre-war cars in their Salon series -- nm - peglegpete Jan 17, 13:14
Man, if you read the WaPo head story on the speech, you'd think that Obama put the smack down on the NSA rather than rubbing their bellies. -- (link) - spamlet Jan 17, 13:05 3
- "no spying on foreign leaders" is ridiculous, I hope he told the NSA in private "disregard. business as usual." -- nm - Max Jan 17, 13:06 1
  - old habbits change slow -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Jan 17, 13:18
- *is now imagining mel running around at the white house yelling "wub my belly"* -- nm - Truman Jan 17, 13:06
its cheaper to rent a small suv (rogue or ford escape) in houston than any car size but compact. wtf texas. - Truman Jan 17, 13:04 2
- and they all come with gun racks -- nm - peglegpete Jan 17, 13:06 1
  - stocked? -- nm - Beryllium Jan 17, 13:23
"A Running List of What We Know the NSA Can Do. So Far." -- (link) - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 17, 12:47 20
- Honestly I think if you polled Americans, I think most would wish they were still blissfully ignorant that this was going on. I think people want - pmb Jan 17, 13:11 6
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    - I really don't know about that. I think Americans on this issue, like many issues, want it both ways. They want the government to do everything it - pmb Jan 17, 13:18 4
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        Maybe. I think your second sentence may trump that. At least until it comes to light that the data is in fact being used for purposes beyond the - pmb Jan 17, 13:26 2
        
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        Or that could be interpreted in ways they didn't intend or in light of actions of others. But I think the majority of Americans aren't more expansive - pmb Jan 17, 13:30
- A Running List of What We Know the NSA Can't Do. So Far. - ty97 Jan 17, 13:01 7
  - Keep Rodman out of Korea -- nm - Max Jan 17, 13:02 6
    - or Keep Rodman in Korea -- nm - spamlet Jan 17, 13:06 5
      - I am going to laugh in 30 years when we find out Rodman worked for the CIA. -- nm - ty97 Jan 17, 13:08 3
        
        did he bring cigars as a gift? - DaneDukeNuuk Jan 17, 13:09
        
        He's not that smart. -- nm - spamlet Jan 17, 13:09 1
        
        I wouldn't be surprised if he was a stooge. He's dumb enough that he could be spying and not know it. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 17, 13:11
      - or Rodman out of the news -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Jan 17, 13:08
- That probably ain't even half of what they are doing -- nm - decline Jan 17, 12:50 4
  - no it aint - DaneDukeNuuk Jan 17, 13:05 1
    - and Snowdon still has a lot of data he has not realased yet -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Jan 17, 13:07
  - My brother designs satellites, some DOD, and he's described it as "not sci-fiction, but at the same time it's crazy what they can do" -- nm - Max Jan 17, 13:01
  - Nowhere near. -- nm - Captain Trips Jan 17, 12:51
Here is an interesting picture related to photoshopping. Diane Keaton at the Golden Globes and her in a commercial for L'Oreal -- (link) - decline Jan 17, 12:43 [Image] 2
- What's going on with those sharp cheeks? Implants? -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 17, 12:45
- She forgot to use us! -- nm - L'Oreal Jan 17, 12:45
Another local high school goes into lockdown. Local tv station puts out immediate release that it's not their fault this time. -- (link) - spamlet Jan 17, 12:39
Did ML end up having to testify the other day? That couldn't have been pleasant. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 17, 12:34 2
- Yes, and he loved it. -- nm - Captain Trips Jan 17, 12:35 1
  - *stands up and shouts "That's HIM, your honor!"* Sir... we just asked you to state your name. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 17, 12:36
I posted about this guy yesterday. Rawstory has a run down of the fun things GOP candidate Richard Black has to say about rape. -- (link) - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 17, 12:31
YDC: I remembered one big Oscar snub I forgot to post here. Lana Del Ray's "Young and Beautiful" for song. - MDH Jan 17, 12:29 9
- *obligatory link repost* -- (link) - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 17, 12:40 [youtube]
- Which mov...oh, here, let me google that for me. -- nm - Max Jan 17, 12:32
- shocking her daddy didn't buy her a nom -- nm - Pippy Jan 17, 12:30 4
  - that would be the golden globes -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 17, 13:20
  - Shame on you. -- nm - Captain Trips Jan 17, 12:31 2
    - hey she is almost a completely manufacturered star - Pippy Jan 17, 12:32 1
      - How can you think things like that? - Captain Trips Jan 17, 12:32
- Yeah, it has been posted. - Captain Trips Jan 17, 12:30 1
  - heh heh great minds and such -- nm - Pippy Jan 17, 12:34
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- so you're saying you were playing the bad cop, is that it? -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Jan 17, 13:34
- you should read Homicide:a year on the killing streeets (the book the tv show was based on, lots about interogations -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 17, 13:08 2
  - and then watch Scarface, Oldboy and Casino Royale -- nm - decline Jan 17, 13:14 1
    - marathon man -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 17, 13:18
- congrats on the new job -- nm - peglegpete Jan 17, 12:51 1
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- did I miss the news of a job change? -- nm - peglegpete Jan 17, 12:41 7
  - he's a copper now. A G-man tracking down bad guys. You should ask him to see his big gun -- nm - decline Jan 17, 12:46 5
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      - white collar crimes are da bomb! yo! -- nm - decline Jan 17, 12:53
    - Do you have to wait for your 6 month review to get the blue windbreaker with your agency emblazoned on the back? -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 17, 12:48 2
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        That's hot. -- nm - Captain Trips Jan 17, 12:53
  - It's been an ongoing saga. A nighttime soap could revolve around JackDawson's life. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 17, 12:45
- Tax evasion? Hate crime? embezzlement? Robbed a post office to feed her children? -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 17, 12:38 3
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  - "What exactly did the bread taste like, Jean Valjean? -- nm - Dawson si Jan 17, 12:40 1
    - this is *very* funny -- nm - zork Jan 17, 13:32
- Worse news: you then broken down into sympathy tears -- nm - ty97 Jan 17, 12:36 5
  - "oh gosh, i'm sorry. it's okay. shhh, shhh.... here, have my handkerchief..." -- nm - Jack SI Jan 17, 12:39 1
    - What are you doing Saturday night? -- nm - Witness s.i. Jan 17, 12:41
  - Even Better News: Chun's gonna be doing the askin' going forward. -- nm - Diva Jan 17, 12:37 1
    - She's on standby to be the bad cop. "Look, if you don't give me the answers, I'm going to have to let Chun in here. And she stopped at the bar on - pmb Jan 17, 13:05
  - ... and wrote her a check. -- nm - Captain Trips Jan 17, 12:36
- WHERE IS THE DRESS NOW, MS LEWINSKY? -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 17, 12:33
- meany -- nm - decline Jan 17, 12:32 2
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    - There's the ticket! You should bring in a bottle of Vodka and 2 glasses to your next interrogation -- nm - decline Jan 17, 12:38
- So you went bad cop on her? -- nm - eag Jan 17, 12:31
- thats going to happen though - I see it a lot - Pippy Jan 17, 12:31
- Hoover. -- nm - Diva Jan 17, 12:30
- fake -- nm - Beaker Jan 17, 12:30 1
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- Yeah / boo. -- nm - Andie Jan 17, 12:30
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Glenn Greenwald is not impressed by Obama's NSA speech -- (link) - znufrii Jan 17, 12:29 13
- For some reason, I like Greenwald less now that I know he lives in Brazil. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 17, 12:35
- That shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. I doubt anyone was impressed by Obama's speech. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 17, 12:32 2
  - *no one* is impressed by them anymore -- nm - Jovian Jan 17, 12:39 1
    - He speechifies pretty good. -- nm - Dubya Jan 17, 12:41
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  - not as many times as ML has fantasized about hatef*cking him. :) -- nm - znufrii Jan 17, 12:34 1
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  - He asked the witness this question too. -- nm - Diva Jan 17, 12:31 3
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    - it was just that one time I SWEAR!! *bursts into sobs* - Jack's witness Jan 17, 12:33 1
      - *swallows guiltily* -- nm - Witness si Jan 17, 12:36
  - That escalated quickly. -- nm - Captain Trips Jan 17, 12:31 1
    - that's what he said -- nm - Beaker Jan 17, 12:31
Liberal states drink more -- (link) - znufrii Jan 17, 12:22 4
- You know what you did! - Pippy Jan 17, 12:29 3
  - heh. :) - znufrii Jan 17, 12:30 2
    - I love you dearly, but I would have walked to C*ckshuckin' PAand stood in line to whoop your behind if you did that. -- nm - Diva Jan 17, 12:39
    - phew -- nm - Pippy Jan 17, 12:35
Here, anything over a half hour would be a hellish commute for me and I wouldn't do it. - spamlet Jan 17, 12:21 3
- nmessage but sir spamalot - Pippy Jan 17, 12:30 2
  - Not yet. Probably Monday if you sent Weds. -- nm - spamlet Jan 17, 12:32 1
    - kay. seems like a life time ago. -- nm - Pippy Jan 17, 12:56
Also ABC people, if at all possible. Let's get Haley Atwell and Kat Dennings on screen together? - Jovian Jan 17, 12:20 2
- You may have to settle for Colbie and ScarJo -- nm - eag Jan 17, 12:26 1
  - I can settle for that -- nm - Jovian Jan 17, 12:31
*Drives an Elio in the midwest winter. Dies a horrible death* -- nm - rollo Jan 17, 12:17 1
- Yeah, that was part of my 5k limit. It would not be an all year form of transport. -- nm - Captain Trips Jan 17, 12:23
hmm, its like clockwork. day starts off sunny, mid afternoon starts to cloud up and snow - Truman Jan 17, 12:16
"He had a pickup truck and the devil's eyes." -- nm - David Jan 17, 12:14 1
- He stared at me and I felt a change. -- nm - Captain Trips Jan 17, 12:15
Is it time to go home yet? -- nm - Captain Trips Jan 17, 12:14 4
- Yes ... just not where we are ... -- nm - JenBro Jan 17, 12:15 3
  - Show me the way to go home. - Captain Trips Jan 17, 12:16 2
    - me too ... kid sitting is exhausting -- nm - JenBro Jan 17, 12:23
    - indicate the route to my habitual abode - znufrii Jan 17, 12:17

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