You're talking to Serenity. And, Early... Serenity is very unhappy.

River ,'Objects In Space'


Natter 64: Yes, we still need you  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


StuntHusband - Aug 24, 2009 12:33:54 pm PDT #5355 of 30001
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark

Why People Shouldn't Ride Bears

Well. WELL. In my head, I'm taking all SORTS of exception to that assertion.

Indeedy.


beth b - Aug 24, 2009 12:38:45 pm PDT #5356 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

Are production costs getting so low that the world economy could feasibly house and feed everybody in the world?

I guess the way to address this is by breaking certain things down.

did this with some friends of mine, one english,one spent a lot of time in holland and is an EMT. We were talking medical care and why it is so expensive in the US.

here are things we see as contributing to costs:

1) cost of medical school ( cheaper to free in other countires) less debt, lower saleries

2)Cost of insurance. Which is mostly unneeded in other countries -- I'm talking more malpractice and liability ( even for things like your home). of course the cost of private insurance doesn't help. ( My understanding is that there is rivate insurance in England, for example, but it is on top of the usual - which is decent)

3)overtreatment. -- there is a lot of that in the us by people like EMTs, so they don't get sued.

4) drug cost is development cost s -- and that seems to be pretty universal --

Power outage -- for an hour, so no idea if this is still relavant


erikaj - Aug 24, 2009 12:43:00 pm PDT #5357 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!

I knew that would get one of the gay guys in here fired up(I only know for sure what one is, because I got sucked into that dumb Kathy Griffin show last year. Still like her stand-up, but she embarrasses those people who work for her so much...urk!)


Trudy Booth - Aug 24, 2009 12:43:02 pm PDT #5358 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Catching Up

The people at Free Republic are now speculating on whether Obama's foreskin might provide a clue was to whether he was actually born in the US. [link]

Aaaaand it took them just shy of seven months to mention the black guy's cock. Nice work. ::golf claps::

Is it possible to parody Camille Paglia? Or to be more glittery and brittle? Hell I don't even know if Camille Paglia can be considered not low rent. She cites classical literature and popular culture, but since she never gets any of it right I don't see how that counts as high rent. Maybe since she is mostly on the side of rich...

I haven't read a word since she said she had real concerns about Obama's Birth Certificate. Yeah. No.

I assume she's made no mention of his johnson.


erikaj - Aug 24, 2009 12:46:20 pm PDT #5359 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!

Ack...fuckin' freepers just need to die. "Could you just die, Bob?"


beth b - Aug 24, 2009 12:47:04 pm PDT #5360 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

ok -- but that posted , which is odd because I had no internet for another hour


Burrell - Aug 24, 2009 12:50:54 pm PDT #5361 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Why People Shouldn't Ride Bears

Well. WELL. In my head, I'm taking all SORTS of exception to that assertion.

Different sort of bear.

Speaking of the fur-covered sort, it turns out my kids are on the Colbert tip when it comes to bears. We were in the redwoods last week and my son was worried the whole time that we'd run into one.


erikaj - Aug 24, 2009 12:52:51 pm PDT #5362 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!

I'd like that. Well, obviously not in, like, biting range.


Barb - Aug 24, 2009 12:53:26 pm PDT #5363 of 30001
“Not dead yet!”

I may have gotten a wee bit carried away with the spaghetti pie. It weighs maybe six eight ten pounds or so.

I'm not sure how much of that is cheese. Or meat.

Hm.


§ ita § - Aug 24, 2009 1:05:01 pm PDT #5364 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Hate eating out!

Bad Angeleno! Bad!