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Birthright Citizenship RobVG June 29, 2025 3:34 pm (CurrentEvents)

To be blunt, NASA is now dead RL June 27, 2025 11:56 am (Space/Science)

Just for the record... ER June 22, 2025 8:59 am (CurrentEvents)

NSIDC offline? ER June 12, 2025 12:19 pm (Space/Science)

Musk trashes his own AI after it chose a liberal worldview. RobVG June 23, 2025 9:56 am (CurrentEvents)

Psyche keeps its date with an asteroid BuckGalaxy June 22, 2025 5:21 pm (Space/Science)

The Three Unknowns After the U.S. Strike on Iran BuckGalaxy June 22, 2025 12:58 am (CurrentEvents)

There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy. BuckGalaxy June 22, 2025 12:29 am (Flame)

"Remember, what the dormouse said, ER June 5, 2025 4:14 pm (Space/Science)

Not ready for prime time BuckGalaxy June 19, 2025 12:18 pm (Space/Science)

hypocrisy ER June 15, 2025 2:30 pm (Flame)

So, it is official RL June 6, 2025 5:39 pm (Space/Science)

Notice To Editors: by podrock October 23, 2011 2:17 pm

As far as I know, I do not have that privilege, nor do I have a key to the wardroom ... by Ainz 2011-10-28 14:41:00
- Hey Ainz....nice to see you here. I came back, and post every now and then when I can REMEMBER that ... by Lindy 2011-10-29 20:41:08
- Actually, you do have that priviledge, you are an editor, just like everyone who made the jump from the Damn ... by podrock 2011-10-28 16:25:03
By the way, love the "global post." by TB 2011-10-23 20:03:36
- For when Robert or Podrock are unavailable by Jody 2011-10-23 21:06:04
  - You're incorrigible. A good thing, of course. LOL by Eri 2011-10-23 23:10:57
Thanks for trying to herd the cats, podrock. I expected things to get a bit chaotic when a whole group ... by Robert 2011-10-23 15:07:16
- Now, listen, Robert, that last line was so small I had to copy it to my Word Processor and enlarge. ... by Eri 2011-10-23 15:17:36
  - I'm just a modest kinda guy, what can I say? by Robert 2011-10-24 12:26:40
    - And my eyes ain't what they used to be. Of course, the rest of me isn't, either. by Eri 2011-10-24 14:57:10
Has anyone besides Bowser complained about his stuff being tampered with? Jeff's turned out to be a misfire. This may ... by TB 2011-10-23 15:00:29
- The bigger picture is that, regardless of what really happened, doubt has crept in. This rickety software does not foster ... by Robert 2011-10-23 15:10:08
  - Not to worry, Robert. I got fine with it as long as I was reassured there was transparency and ... by bowser 2011-10-23 16:52:32
  - The obvious solution is fixing things so that people can only edit their own stuff. Point is, nobody's really had a ... by TB 2011-10-23 15:25:38
Pod, mark me off your list. As I stated in the thread below, I would NEVER do that. ... by Eri 2011-10-23 14:52:41

And the Democratic ideas keep on coming... by TB October 22, 2011 9:15 pm

OK. Enough is enough. Frank, we had a truce, a ceasefire, a detant. by bowser October 21, 2011 12:48 pm

Want to make it up? Admit that not one of your posts have been edited by me or anyone else. ... by FrankC 2011-10-21 14:17:57
- I will do my best with a post which is confusing to me. First, I am able to observe a truce, ... by bowser 2011-10-21 17:23:05
  - You are the one who asked for a way to "make it Up" Obviously nearly everything is confusing to you. You ... by FrankC 2011-10-21 18:00:33
    - Wow. You couldn't even admit you broke the truce, your word, a pledge. Aren't honorable. Gotta be ... by bowser 2011-10-21 18:09:59
- All right, don't make me stop the car. by TB 2011-10-21 15:05:33
  - Oookay... by TB 2011-10-21 18:13:31
    - No shit. by Eri 2011-10-21 20:36:46
      - I ain't gonna clean it up. It's Flame, after-all. (...lurking in the boiler room...) by Pod The Janitor 2011-10-21 22:36:58
        
        I think you and TB and I should go out for a beer while they duke it out. As ... by Eri 2011-10-22 07:14:00
        
        Don't like beer. I'm a Riesling man, late harvest. by TB 2011-10-22 09:39:33
        
        Ah hell, I'd go for Riesling. I enjoy it. Of course, we'd look wussy in the neighborhood bar ... by Eri 2011-10-22 11:03:39
        
        I drink it because I like it. Including with steak. Screw the rules. Besides, red wine gives ... by TB 2011-10-22 11:26:21
        
        Then you definitely want to stay away from the reds! Reds are my favorite. I screw the rules, ... by Eri 2011-10-22 12:34:11
        
        Best wine I have ever had by Jody 2011-10-22 13:00:50
        
        Ooh, I love Shiraz but that's a hefty price for one. For me anyway. Them thar Aussies shore ... by Eri 2011-10-22 22:43:48

Was Qaddafi Murdered? by RobVG October 20, 2011 9:53 pm

Romanian Dictators, Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu were captured by rebels while trying to get out of the country. They were executed ... by FrankC 2011-10-21 12:25:46
Expect an SNL skit... by Robert 2011-10-21 11:42:01

Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind? by bowser October 19, 2011 4:18 pm

Lord have mercy...I need to double up on my anti depressants when I read your posts Bowser. Or commit suicide. ... by Jody 2011-10-20 07:45:21
- My posts are usually lessons in spiritual Newtonian physics, very basic, very simple and yet hard for materialists to follow. Newton: ... by bowser 2011-10-20 12:25:55
  - Damn I wish I was as smart as you. Why...you know me better than I know myself. Cool. So, what am ... by Jody 2011-10-20 15:27:51
    - Relax. I simply said some people wouldn't understand it, and apparently you don't. What's the problem? Do you ... by bowser 2011-10-20 17:21:29
      - Amazing that everyone has an opinion. Amazing that every opinion comes from our own unique perspective. Amazing that our perspective ... by Jody 2011-10-20 20:03:18
      - "He believes that he is “special” and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special ... by FrankC 2011-10-20 17:56:25
  - Narcissistic personality disorder by FrankC 2011-10-20 13:23:56
    - Sheldon! OK, so I watch The Big Bang Theory. by Eri 2011-10-20 19:39:52
    - Ha! I have all of those and three more they didn't even think of! That makes me better ... by TB 2011-10-20 13:28:37
      - Well I don't suffer from that...oh wait...Bowser...do I suffer from that? by Jody 2011-10-20 15:29:45
        
        I'm probably better qualified to answer that, Jody. Ummmm, what was the question? by Eri 2011-10-20 19:41:05
Sorry but your post reminded so much of this Star Trek episode. by RobVG 2011-10-19 19:33:55
- "The Capitalist Weapon" by RobVG 2011-10-22 08:26:00
- Following up a bit. I believe, I may be wrong, but I believe it is the Conservatives around here ... by bowser 2011-10-20 03:15:18
  - That was an Ugly, Ugly Post by FrankC 2011-10-20 12:09:44
    - "Well, it is Flame Frank" Bowser obviously sees anyone who isn't a conservative as a saint. by RobVG 2011-10-20 20:56:55
      - Geez! Is that an accurate observation, or not? It seems to be. And if it's accurate and ... by bowser 2011-10-20 23:18:00
        
        I thought it was just another "ChickenHawk" post by RobVG 2011-10-21 08:31:11
        
        If anyone wants my opinion (and doesn't everyone?) it wasn't particularly ugly. by TB 2011-10-21 07:33:40
      - And Vice-Verse. Hell,I don't have a problem with it being an ugly post. Just that he doesn't think it is ugly. Th ... by FrankC 2011-10-20 22:27:47
        
        Bowser has always been able to burrow deep under your skin by RobVG 2011-10-21 09:26:17
        
        He'll never take over as long as Tom is around. :) Actually, he is probably an embarrassment to the liberals way ... by FrankC 2011-10-21 11:19:16
        
        Okay, let's settle down a bit. I can get this kind of stuff on five dozen other boards. by TB 2011-10-21 07:18:59
        
        Tom, I admire your even disposition and I understand that in the absence of history's more famous political misfits, Bowser ... by FrankC 2011-10-21 10:48:43
    - Hi. As part of the unilateral truce and ceasefire I'm observing, Frank, I should probably let you in on ... by bowser 2011-10-20 12:41:26
      - Thank you for all you do Bowser. You are a breath of sunshine on this forum. BTW I don't post ... by FrankC 2011-10-20 12:47:58
        
        Well... by TB 2011-10-20 13:00:48
        
        Damn! Someone get that poor heehaw outta the well! by Eri 2011-10-20 19:44:36
    - I've done both of those, and neither of them are causes for insult. by TB 2011-10-20 12:32:24
      - So have I but I never bragged about it. We do what we have to do. by FrankC 2011-10-20 12:36:57
- Nice call! 500 geek points! But as I pointed out, when wars were nasty, dirty, and very, very personal, there ... by TB 2011-10-19 20:31:21
  - You have a good point. I guess it doesn't matter. n/t by RobVG 2011-10-19 20:42:50
    - Well, I don't know that it completely doesn't matter. I've noticed that the world seems to have largely run ... by TB 2011-10-19 20:58:25
On the other hand, by TB 2011-10-19 17:27:05
- Why do you think poisonous gas and biological weapons have been banned? Why has no one used a nuclear ... by bowser 2011-10-20 03:04:48

When the individual is nothing by TB October 18, 2011 2:59 pm

More on this phenomenon. by Lee 2011-10-22 19:09:16
Update: by TB 2011-10-21 09:06:08
Think I'll pass. The written description is more than I can handle. by FrankC 2011-10-18 17:04:22
- It was definitely horrifying. And the assholes who just walked by her without a thought. How cold can ... by Eri 2011-10-18 18:32:25
  - Tragic. Obscenities come in small versions, such as this, and larger versions. People don't seem to care much ... by bowser 2011-10-19 12:13:55
    - Not to get off topic or anything, but you do know we started the War of 1812, don't you? ... by Eri 2011-10-19 12:17:58
      - And despite the "If your child speaks English thank a soldier" bumper-stickers, that was the last time the US was ... by bowser 2011-10-19 12:45:58
        
        That girl died on the altar of a worldview that believes people are cogs in service of the State. ... by TB 2011-10-19 17:12:22
        
        I don't know where to start. That post is so absurd that it would take an ER dissect it ... by bowser 2011-10-20 02:43:45
        
        My post was intended as a response to your "tragic" comment, and it's too late to move it now. by TB 2011-10-20 10:21:51
        
        Hear, Hear!!! by FrankC 2011-10-20 11:38:38
Oh Tom...I have nothing to say. by Jody 2011-10-18 16:10:17

Five myths about healthy eating by TB October 18, 2011 2:22 pm

We've been here before, cont. by TB October 18, 2011 10:41 am

Wealth redistribution by TB October 18, 2011 9:03 am

Ya gotta love it. Pickpockets as agents of "Wealth redistribution". And finding them among a group such as ... by bowser 2011-10-19 12:57:14
- There is no difference, in essentials, between someone who takes someone else's "kitchen money" because he wants to buy something ... by TB 2011-10-19 17:21:02
On a related note, by TB 2011-10-18 09:11:27

And for those who missed it, The Warrior Song by FrankC October 17, 2011 2:43 pm

Now I'm ready to go out and kick ass, kill, kill, kill! Those type of songs are designed to hype people ... by Eri 2011-10-18 00:46:45

Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue by FrankC October 17, 2011 1:52 pm

Remembering the past by TB October 17, 2011 11:32 am

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