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Warning: Major Spoiler Alert They really killed him. Like in really, really dead. Like in not coming back at the end of the episode. Or next week. Or ever. Dead, dead, dead & dead. I mean so dead he's already been replaced. And that's about as dead as you get in a TV series. Ok, so don't look unless you really want to know: "A regular on Seth MacFarlane's popular animated series since its pilot in 1999, Brian the family dog was hit and killed by a car during the Season 12 episode Life of Brian, in which Stewie destroyed his time machine and the Griffins adopted a new pet. The show's executive producer Steve Callaghan spoke to E! Online about the painful decision, which forced the family to say teary goodbyes to their bruised and bloodied dog." HAH! Bet you thought it would be Apoo the Hindu convenience store guy!

Maybe the whole thing is just an elaborate Iranian head fake. Or maybe it will be sabotaged by Iranian hard liners. Or Israel &/or the Saudi's will sabotage it. Or Obama will fuck it up. Or the Russians will get pissed off about something else entirely and fuck it up just to spite everybody else. Or... Or...(pick your favorite baddie) will sabotage it/fuck it up. Who knows? What We Do Know: Last spring Obama sent several private letters to the Supreme PoohBah stressing he was sincere about resolving the nuclear issue w/o linking settlement to other outstanding issues and backing off the US's regime change posture. (Remember all the conservative hullabahoo when those leaked out? Last March said PooBah inserted a single sentence in a single speech (between two whole paragraphs roasting the Great Satan) indicating he could support negotiations. All last summer secret preliminary talks were held in the Gulf States between the PooBah's personal representatives and the president's guys. Meantime the PooBah engineered the election of Rouhani, a career diplomat, to replace Mr. Crazy Eyes as president. The Iranians agreed to provisions in the interim agreement that would genuinely handicap a last minute secret push to complete a bomb. MOST IMPORTANTLY: This agreement is being presented to the Iranian people as a good thing for the country, a triumph of Iranian diplomacy, and has been greeted by almost universal joy & approval by the public. Only the most ideological right wing whackadoodles are bitching (at least in public). Now this is a fairly fragile regime lacking in support from large sectors of Iranian society. They have now put themselves in a position that makes it very problematic domestically for them to pull the old switch-a-roo at the negotiations. They have put themselves under enormous domestic pressure to pull off a successful permanent treaty. All in all, I'd say there's a fair chance we'll see a treaty signed next summer that everybody but the Israeli & the Iranian right wing will be content with. Assuming the PooBah lives long enough to give the treaty his blessing. Always a bit problematic in this region.

Pooh! I was thinking 'naked ice dancing." Deeply disappointed.

At this point in my life, I'm just glad not to be riding in a hearse. I do reserve the right to kvetch vociferously from the peanut gallery.

Clearly a conspiracy by Irish and Italians police brass to keep out Jews.

Pols lie, it's what they do. All the time. It's just that we don't always recognise it when they're telling a lie we want to hear. Point of fact, Israel can't do that, not effectively. That's why Netanyahu has been working so hard to corner Obama and make him do the nasty for them. I see no particular reason to go out of our way to humiliate an Iranian president who appears willing to defy the crazies in Iran on behalf of a settlement. With that proviso, I agree with you. And I won't believe it even then. But then you've always been something of a pollyanna.

How do you find stuff like this?

The White Holland, the standard American commercial breed, is so stupid/inbred it will stand around in a rain storm looking up for the source of all that water until it drowns. (not an urban legend, at least according to a friend of mine whose childhood chores included chasing the turkeys in out of the rain). SOP is to clip the beaks while chicks because turkeys in crowded commercial conditions peck each other to death if you don't. Whites have to be bred artificially. Males are unable to mount hens w/o injury or death. (Some of the lesser commercial breeds can still get the job done on their own.) The level of care afforded turkeys (or any other domestic animal for that matter) is a function of how much extra you as a consumer are willing to pay for their care. I understand top quality Kobe (wagyu)beef steers get a full muscle massage (no happy ending) every day. Of course it costs up to $500/lb. in a Tokyo restuarant.

Seems to me Iran agreed to 1) Stop enriching above 5% (reactor fuel level) 2) destroy existing stock of 20% enriched uranium (last step before bomb grade) 3) cease work on the plutonium breeder reactor (currently not far from going online) 4) Allow close & intrusive inspection of all of above 5) talk about reaching a permanent arrangement over the next 6 months. Seems to me the 5+1 (or 3+3 or Obama + whoever) agreed to 1) allow Iran access to some, not all, of their own money now frozen in Western accounts 2) allow the banks in Iran to use the international banking system to transfer funds 3) allow outfits like Lloyds of London to insure oil tankers carrying Iranian oil to buyers already allowed to purchase same under current sanctions, thereby substantially reducing their shipping costs 4) ease prohibitions on sale of spare parts to the oil industry and other industrial plants 5) (implicitly) refrain from bombing the shit out of Iran pending further talks. All bets are off if Iran cheats or drags feet. Did I miss something important?

Actually, shoes protect against hook worms, AS. PS I think the first great public health campaign sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation was a South wide effort to worm adults and kids. Seems that the Yankees had come to the conclusion that one reason their wage slaves in the South were so lackadaisical in their work habits was chronic & heavy parasitic load. PPS LOL, the origin of the phrase 'wormy bastard'. PPPS If God had wanted us to have indoor shitters, why did he make corn cobs?

hahahahahahahaha...OMFG

Coming from Tomcal, that's one hell of an endorsement!

I'm big on the dressing and gravy but the turkey itself is too bland for my taste. As long I don't wind up in the hospital, I couldn't care less about ithe turkey's life style prior to slaughter (hey, I'm trying to be honest here.). FYI you can't get fresh turkey unless you chop the head off yourself (see below). Word to the wise: when you chop off its head, the damned thing is gonna hop up & run lickerty-split all over the place squirting blood for about 15 or 20 seconds before it finally keels over. Forewarned is forearmed. "Fresh vs Frozen: Thanks for heavy lobbying by the Tyson Corporation the definition of "fresh" when it applies to poultry means it has never been cooled to lower than 26 degree F. Now I promise you, if you pick up a turkey at 26 degrees F it is hard as a rock so the term "fresh" doesn't really mean anything when buying a turkey at your local store. It just means that it hasn't been hard frozen. Truth is, flash frozen turkeys (frozen fast to below 0 degrees F) can be fresher tasting that many "fresh" turkeys that have been sitting around for a few months. To further complicate matters the USDA definition of frozen means that the turkey has been brought to a temperature no lower than 0 degrees F. Turkeys stored at a temperature of 5 degrees F can actually be labeled "not previously frozen", though they can not be labeled as fresh. These turkeys are considered "hard-chilled" or "deep-chilled". Personally I call temperatures between 0 and 26 degrees F something other than chilly." In all fairness to Tyson Foods, it is physically impossible to satisfy the holiday surge in demand for 'fresh' turkey. Unless folks are willing to eat turkey that's been sitting around in storage unfrozen for weeks and weeks on end. But then what these folks want won't count for much in the greater scheme of things because they'll be too busy dying of salmonella poisoning to purchase much in the way of groceries.

Oh my fucking God, Baker sets up Kennedy for the best blowjob of his life (but from an East German spy)? And when Jerry Ford gets himself some too, J Edgar uses the tapes to blackmail him. And Baker's take-away from all that is that Mr. Hoover abused his office. Hahahahahahahahahahahhahaha...no way anybody could ever make up crazy shit like that, it has to be true. -------- PS I was laughing so much, I forgot I was reading a post from AS and actually started copying sections for a new post here. Except I was going to use the main forum.

New book on Jack Kennedy's best gay friend. http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/books/2013/11/22/photos-memories-jfk-his-gay-best-friend?page=0,9 From the wiki article on Lem, it's a fair conclusion that Jack (&probably Bobby) were aware he was gay.

Charlie, apparently pumpkin is one of those 'good for what ails you' folk remedies for canine digestive tract disorders. I found several scientific sounding explanations by vets for why it works for diarrhea but nothing for vomiting, though it was recommended for mild to moderate doggy nausea by several (including Cesar Millan's vet!).

Charlie, if you don't explain this one, I'm going to be up all night googling shit trying to figure it out. ----- p.s. yes, a hearty thank you to Justice Kennedy . And a tip of the hat to Lucky who predicted a good outcome back when I was sure taking the marriage issue to the Supremes would be a disaster. You were right, I was wrong.

Hyptno Toad & Hedonism Bot---2, Libertarians---0.

1) Woke up this morning; 2) Still breathing at 2:18 pm; 3) Arthritis not quite as bad as usual. Oh, & I forgot, bowel movement went pretty well around 1:00 pm. Do I get to count this last one for tomorrow if I come up short on new stuff?

Enough on nickels; now it's back to our regular scheduled programming: Just For AdamSmith

RA1, you could just look it up online, lol, but if I remember right, there's about 7 to 8 cents worth of metal in a nickel. The rest is administrative overhead plus a minor distribution cost.

Watching them do their moves out on the street somehow makes me understand better just how athletic they really are.

Depending on the cost of metals, it now costs around 10 or 11 cents to mint a nickel, so one can see where Uncle Sam might get a little peeved at some clever fellow melting the little buggers down to make a few bucks. LOL, melt 'em and sell the metal back to the mint! The perfect racket.

Somehow that line seemed much more clever when I was 21.