Giles: I jump out of the circle, jump back in, and, and, shake my gourd. Buffy: Hey, I think I know this ritual. The ancient shamans were next called upon to do the Hokey-Pokey and to turn themselves around.

'Dirty Girls'


Natter 70: Hookers and Blow  

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.


msbelle - Oct 16, 2012 5:43:00 pm PDT #25944 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I want the single parent violence quote. I WANT IT NOW. have been googling, got nothing.


Hil R. - Oct 16, 2012 5:43:37 pm PDT #25945 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I'm not watching either. Could someone explain the binder thing to me?

Romney said that, when he was hiring his cabinet, there weren't any women who applied, so he went out to recruit them, and had binders full of women.


DavidS - Oct 16, 2012 5:49:03 pm PDT #25946 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Not that I want a gun, but that's a huge population of non-dangerous people.

Now I just think you want a gun.


Connie Neil - Oct 16, 2012 5:49:42 pm PDT #25947 of 30001
brillig

It's not a quote so much as the distillation of a paragraph about how gun violence is related to kids not being raised in families with moms and dads--married moms and dads--and people shouldn't have kids if they're not--and I was being horrified and didn't quite hear the rest, but there was something about not having kids if they're not prepared for them or something like that.


Burrell - Oct 16, 2012 5:50:55 pm PDT #25948 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

You mean when he was governor? I didn't realize one applied to be a cabinet member.


sarameg - Oct 16, 2012 5:51:27 pm PDT #25949 of 30001

Y'all trust me, right?

Pleading the Fifth. I still have that, right?


Jessica - Oct 16, 2012 5:52:51 pm PDT #25950 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

In responding to a question about assault weapons, he said the best thing to do to reduce gun violence would be for people to wait until they were married to have babies.


Connie Neil - Oct 16, 2012 5:53:00 pm PDT #25951 of 30001
brillig

My favorite bit was when Romney asked Obama if Obama had looked at his pension, starting in on a bit of how Obama's pensions also invested in Chinese companies etc. etc., and Obama said, "I haven't looked at my pension, it's not as big as yours."

That was lovely.


DebetEsse - Oct 16, 2012 5:57:36 pm PDT #25952 of 30001
Woe to the fucking wicked.

For msbelle: From a transcript on the debate from NYT.

He mentioned good schools. I totally agree. We were able to drive our schools to be number one in the nation in my state, and I believe if we do a better job in education, we’ll -- we’ll give people the -- the hope and opportunity they deserve, and perhaps less violence from that.

But let me mention another thing, and that is parents. We need moms and dads helping raise kids. Wherever possible, the -- the benefit of having two parents in the home -- and that’s not always possible. A lot of great single moms, single dads. But gosh, to tell our kids that before they have babies, they ought to think about getting married to someone -- that’s a great idea because if there’s a two-parent family, the prospect of living in poverty goes down dramatically. The opportunities that the child will -- will be able to achieve increase dramatically.

So we can make changes in the way our culture works to help bring people away from violence and give them opportunity and bring them in the American system.


Jessica - Oct 16, 2012 5:58:54 pm PDT #25953 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

But to put that remark in context, the original question was "What will you do to keep AK-47s out of the hands of criminals?"