You guys had a riot? On account of me? A real riot?

Jayne ,'Jaynestown'


Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes  

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


tommyrot - Oct 19, 2010 8:32:34 am PDT #552 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

OK, this wonkette thing is funny:

Christine O’Donnell Shocks Delaware By Not Knowing First Amendment

Christine O’Donnell (R-DE) believes her participation in an eight-day conservative think tank fellowship is the “number one” thing qualifying her for service in the U.S. Senate. O’Donnell says the “deep analysis of the constitution” taught at Claremont Institute’s competitive Lincoln Fellowship program would help her make sound decisions in the Senate

For some reason, in spite of this she didn't know what was in the First Amendment.

When Coons responded that the First Amendment bars Congress from making laws respecting the establishment of religion, O’Donnell asked: “You’re telling me that’s in the First Amendment?”

Her comments, in a debate aired on radio station WDEL, generated a buzz in the audience.

“You actually audibly heard the crowd gasp,” Widener University political scientist Wesley Leckrone said after the debate, adding that it raised questions about O’Donnell’s grasp of the Constitution.

I'm going to miss Christine O’Donnell after she loses....


Jessica - Oct 19, 2010 8:41:27 am PDT #553 of 30001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

When Coons responded that the First Amendment bars Congress from making laws respecting the establishment of religion, O’Donnell asked: “You’re telling me that’s in the First Amendment?”

Oh, as usual, dear.


zuisa - Oct 19, 2010 8:41:37 am PDT #554 of 30001
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)

I sometimes think that there should be some sort of test that qualifies people to run for office - you know, just to make sure they actually know something about the job for which they are running - but then I LOL so hard at the really clueless ones that I change my mind.


Lee - Oct 19, 2010 8:42:31 am PDT #555 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

It came back for me.

\\o/


§ ita § - Oct 19, 2010 8:43:17 am PDT #556 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

As one of the commenters note: If every kiss begins with Kay, this is the natural progression. Language is dirty within, pictures safe. Technically.


Burrell - Oct 19, 2010 8:45:15 am PDT #557 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Jessica, I am not discounting that study, but I will say it's just one study. In the course of my teaching I've at least skimmed 20 or 30 articles on caffeine, maybe more, and the preponderance of the evidence is that it improves performance. Not as much as some Rx drugs do, it's true, but coffee has the advantage of being widely available OTC.


Jessica - Oct 19, 2010 8:47:44 am PDT #558 of 30001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Lifehacker on ditching cable for the web.

Hmph. Still doesn't explain how I'm going to get HD-cable picture quality off the internet.

(Also, my cable provider is also my ISP. So even if I drop my cable TV, the only way I could drop Cablevision is by moving to a neighborhood with FiOS.)


ChiKat - Oct 19, 2010 8:48:05 am PDT #559 of 30001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?

I love coffee and have a travel mug (=2 cups) of it every morning. Yum. I don't know if it does anything for alterness, but the taste makes me happy and the smell perks me up.


Strix - Oct 19, 2010 8:48:17 am PDT #560 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

I am also hating your doctor, ita. I did the same thing with trazadone a month ago, and I HATED it. I got little to no sleep on it, the sleep I got was rotten, and I staggered around like a drunk the next day, was off balance, felt stupid. And it wasn't the shitty sleep; it was the drug. I know me some sleep-dep feeling. It was horrid.

And any sleep doc should know that there's no way to stock up on sleep.

I drink one cup of cappucino when I wake up. I used to drink tons of coffee, but I've been a one cupper for about 5 years now -- maybe another cup on really tired days, but abso never after noon.


tommyrot - Oct 19, 2010 8:49:24 am PDT #561 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Still doesn't explain how I'm going to get HD-cable picture quality off the internet.

You can get some iTunes TV shows and movies in HD.