MsGuy

Drop the tomatoes into boiling water for 3 or 4 seconds, shock them in ice water and the skin slips off faster than Hito out a restroom window when it's play time on a date with AS.

Damn right, AS. Two weeks ago the toggle switch that allowed me to switch back and forth between pages disappeared and I don't have any fucking idea how to coax it out of hiding. :no:

"A minister in Netanyahu's inner security cabinet, Naftali Bennett, flew to Washington this week to urge members of Congress, many of whom are very close to Israel, to reject the proposed Iran deal. "I think more and more members of the House and Senate understand now ... that the deal being formed is a deal that removes the sanctions without dismantling the Iranian nuclear machine," Bennett told Israel Radio on Friday." http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.558257 Can you imagine the hoorah that would be raised if a senior US cabinet secretary flew to Israel unbidden and openly lobbied individual Knesset members to sabotage the most delicate and critical Israeli diplomatic initiative of the decade? Israel is asking its friends in Congress to cancel the president's ability to modify some sanctions as part of a nuclear deal with Iran and, further, to add much stricter mandatory sanctions while negotiations are in progress. Obama is begging Congress for a few weeks delay to see if he can firm up a deal. Or, to say it more plainly, Netanyahu wants Congress to undermine the president's credibility in Iran and abort any possible deal before it's made.

Were you testing the pic posting mechanism or were you testing whether we liked the pic?

I don't care about all that. I still remember how cute he was dancing around in tighty whiteys & socks.

I read somewhere (Bloomberg/BusinessWeek?) that several factors came together to create the perfect storm of a fucked up roll out. 1) The administration declined to make critical implementing decisions until after the presidential election for fear of giving the Republicans avenues for attack ads. 2) Rather than create a central software czar with the power to hammer out the software, Obama left it to the relevant agencies to implement the site. Apparently around 28 different bureaus had some kind of responsibilty for parts of ObamaCare, so, of course, 28 different government silos set out to write their very own chunks of the software w/o the slightest consultation with any of the others. 3) Oh, did I mention that there would be no time for beta testing before the thing went live? SO.... you put the entire program under extremely tight time constraints (politically delayed decisions, remember) and then set loose 28 different government bureaucracies, most of whom have no particular inhouse programming expertise, to writing software, cobble the monstrosity together and open for business with negligible testing. Now if that ain't a recipe for FUBAR, I ain't never seen one. BusinessWeek also lobbied for open source based rather then proprietary software, but that involves technical issues far beyond my comprehension.

Tom's currently suing some tabloid for saying he abandoned contact with his kids. Tom says it's only that his movie work gets in the way, a situation he likens in duration and difficulty to an Army guy being deployed to Afganistan. Poor Tom and then the tabloids make light of his plight. Will his burdens never lighten?

FYI: Hasidic sects are cult organizations originally formed around a charismatic Rebbe, usually a couple of hundred years ago, ownership of which passed on to members of his family through the generations. It's as though the great great grandson of Joseph Smith owned the Mormon Church. The reigning Grand Rebbe is regarded as especially holy and touched by God, although that doesn't seem to prevent the kids from gut fighting over their inheritance (we're talking of organizations that command revenues in the hundreds of millions). More on the Satmar Hasidic dynasty: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satmar_(Hasidic_dynasty)

You mean Prince Charles, I presume?

Anyone here have any information on whether Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg is a reliable informant? http://www.vice.com/read/the-child-rape-assembly-line-0000141-v20n11 I've read before that the Satmar Hassidic sect he refers to is insular and whacky even for an Ultra Orthodox Jewish sect. The charges of wide spread child rape being covered up (&/or participated in) by the Rabbinate seems extreme but then so did the early charges against the Catholics and their bishops.

The older I get, the less I care for Mr. Wilson.

Oz, if you would just let loose of one of those programmers long enough for him to come up for air, he could probably show you what you need to know.

hahahahahahahahhahahahaha... oooo...catty tonight, AS

Yep, beautiful.

I'll bet he was a Belgian of the Walloon persuasion. A Frog is a Frog is a Frog even if he holds a Belgian passport.

Apparently hundreds of thousands (millions?) of existing policies don't meet the standard to be deemed acceptable under Obamacare, some for substantive reasons but many for piddley &/or technical reasons (don't cover birth control/deductables slightly too much/whatever) and some folks are getting pissed off when they get notices that their insurance is being canceled.

Maybe it's his uncle you're thinking of. One of them is thought to prefer masculine companionship.

I don't know, Lookin, I ain't that smart.

Lucky, some years back a guy by the name of Alan Socal submitted (and had accepted ) a completely nonsense paper to a respectable literary journal. The paper, "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" , was stuffed higgledy piggledly with whatever academic buzz words and concepts were fashionable in literary criticism at the time. Shit storm and much hilarity ensued as left wing feminist theory borrows heavily from this particular school of thought (or non-thought). See the second link above under "other papers" toward the end of the other post. Socal's paper was addressing what he saw as wooly-headed intellectual fraud in academia whereas the paper AS is posting about really is more about a finantial scam run by some ex prof who basically pretends to run a legitimate scientific journal but accepts all papers submitted on payment of his "editorial" fees. He preys on post grads and junior academic types desperate to publish a paper.

Zipper, I suspect the the English aristocracy as a class regards marital fidelity and and other such oddities of sexual morality as a peculiarly middle class perversion. Please note that Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, in line with the great majority of aristocratic lads, does not wear a marriage ring.

LOL, after many (ok--two) attempts to decipher Professor Calaos's statement of his organization's methodology, I'm wondering if the good professor has devised a content free grammar based automatic writing program for his own use. "Our methodological strategy will be a systemic, not a systematic one. To organize the editorial process and to manage the publishing operational activities will be done with an open, adaptable and evolutionary methodological system. It will have the flexibility required to adapt the journal, its editorial policy, its organizational process and its management to the dynamics of its related areas and disciplines, to changes produced by the inherent learning process involved, and to the uncertainty of the environment. It would be a matter of applying Ashby’s Requisite Variety principle, concepts related to Prigogine’s dissipative structures and other basic principles found in General Systems Theory, General Systems Methodology and Cybernetics. Consequently, we will not have a deterministic and a completely pre-conceived systematic editorial methodology, nor completely pre-determined and static editorial policy, but, in both cases, they will be open, flexible, adaptable and evolutionary. "

Did it matter all that much to the corpses themselves (whether of Nagasaki or Hiroshima or Tokyo or Osaka or Hamburg or Dresden) that they achieved their crispy state through a nuclear firestorm or by means of one of more conventional origin?

LOL, AS, is your brain so fried you can't recognize a Palace inspired puff piece? :laugh: :laugh: (although I must confess the occasional fantasy of life in an English public school with him when we were both 15.)

I only counted seven reasons. What did I miss?

Good catch, Charlie. I had Owen's poem in mind when I composed my post. ---- Hunting and fishing clubs around the country have programs set up to provide outdoors opportunities for injured vets. No hoopla, no flag waving, just ordinary folks going out of their way to help give disabled vets the chance to get out & fish and hunt. Now that's the kind of honoring of vets I salute.