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by Karl Bode Friday 05-Feb-2010 tags: BBR-News
The weekend is here, we're heading out to help DC-area residents shovel snow. Empty your thoughts into the comment section below. Just clean up after yourselves, you troublemakers.

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Very funny video: The Demon Sheep ad in Calif Primary

A Carly Fiorina ad in the Republican Senate Primary.
Strangest/funniest ad I have ever seen:
Look for the Demon sheep at 2 mins 30 secs in to the ad:

»www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRY7wBuCcBY


There is now a DEMON SHEEP group on Facebook:
»www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2···51726..1

News story: »news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100205/wr_···internet

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Re: Very funny video: The Demon Sheep ad in Calif Primary

Considering the bitch damn near drove HP into the ground, there's no way in hell anyone should vote for her. Well, TK probably would.

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Re: Very funny video: The Demon Sheep ad in Calif Primary

No doubt!

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Amazing how people Fail upwards, eh?

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said by digitalfreak:

TK probably would.
amazing how a name change can fool people.

q.

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Re: Very funny video: The Demon Sheep ad in Calif Primary

Oh, I'm quite aware that Overmodded is TK. Guess he figured removing the My... links in his sig would help with the deception, but it wasn't really that difficult to figure out.

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I agree, that is funny! I wonder why they picked Sheep out of all animals?

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Is Carly Fiorina really the best that the "Democrat-lite" party in California can do?

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Have a good one.

better you than me for snow.
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Another week down!

And it was fun!

Anyway if anyone has time please watch these. My friend made this one

»www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAfZ5CqhG-U


And I made this one

»www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRp8Cpzvs0I


And most importantly have a good weekend!

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Its snowing!

Another snowy weekend in the urban doldrums's. My dailup wont receive emails and my wireless card went south. Got plenty of beer!

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Re: Its snowing!

I'll be sure to have a round after I get snow shoveled once it's finished snowing.

Have a great weekend!

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it got to 102F here in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Yesterday, my girlfriend almost fainted when we were walking downtown.

»www.accuweather.com/world-index-···uweather

this just goes downhill from now on, we really did screw up the weather worldwide... we can clearly see from COP15 last year that all nations are aware of this, but the big players (US, China, Russia..) HAVE to REALLY step in, otherwise its pointless.

»www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMQnI02E···embedded


have a good weekend you all! sorry about the rant, but that should worry us all, worldwise.

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Re: Its snowing!

Are you against clubbing baby Seals too?
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Re: Its snowing!

Nice one!

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said by furionbr:

it got to 102F here in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Yesterday, my girlfriend almost fainted when we were walking downtown.
this just goes downhill from now on, we really did screw up the weather worldwide... we can clearly see from COP15 last year that all nations are aware of this, but the big players (US, China, Russia..) HAVE to REALLY step in, otherwise its pointless.

Hot in Brazil in the middle of their summer and cold and snowy in the Northeast in February. I can't ascribe that to Global Warming Climate Change.
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What terrible horror!

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Re: Its snowing!

said by Tairei:

What terrible horror!
Lol

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Snow??

I hate snow. Never liked it and I am not looking forward to the 3 inches they say we might get here on this 23 mile by 120 mile sandbar we live on called Long Island.
If only the gulf stream would shift 300 miles north - we'd never see snow here. It would be like a big Bermuda.....
Think about it...

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Re: Snow??

said by NY Tel:

I hate snow.
When I was a kid, I loved it. I wanted snow every day. As an adult that has to get to work & shovel a driveway, I hate it.

said by NY Tel:

If only the gulf stream would shift 300 miles north - we'd never see snow here. It would be like a big Bermuda.....
Think about it...
You know what, you're onto something there. If this place turned into Bermuda, I'd quit my jobs and open a tourist shop. You know anyone that can move the jet steam?

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Its getting closer......
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said by NY Tel:

If only the gulf stream would shift 300 miles north - we'd never see snow here. It would be like a big Bermuda.....
Think about it...
And then its going to be 100 degrees all summer long. Be careful what you wish for.

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Re: Snow??

said by patcat88:

said by NY Tel:

If only the gulf stream would shift 300 miles north - we'd never see snow here. It would be like a big Bermuda.....
Think about it...
And then its going to be 100 degrees all summer long. Be careful what you wish for.
lol.....I know.

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And there goes the polar cap, the ocean rises and Long Island and NY city goes under water when they warm up!

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Re: Snow??

said by CaptainRR:

And there goes the polar cap, the ocean rises and Long Island and NY city goes under water when they warm up!
Well my home is 219 feet above sea level so I would probably live on a much smaller Island and should probably re-examine that boat purchase now.

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The Politics of Beer

said by blog.nielsen.com July 30, 2009 :

Is the President Seeking to Connect with Mainstream America by Choosing Bud Light?

The White House announced that the President will be drinking Bud Light at tonight’s much-publicized “Beer Summit.” Consumer and media research firm Scarborough Research shows that Bud Light is also the beer choice for politically mainstream Americans. Bud Light drinkers (ages 21+) have no distinct political profile. They are just as likely as all drinking-age Americans to consider themselves Democrat, Republican, or Independent, and are average for voting in presidential, statewide and local elections. Bud Light drinkers are also average for being registered to vote.
Concrete Proof.

1. President Barack O'Bama reveals his bias (beer-as?) again.

2. Beer Drinkers have no distinguishing characteristics whatsoever.

Now you know.

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I didn't pay too much attention with regard to the specifics, because I believe it's a bit broad to classify Bud drinkers as less political or involved as a non-Bud drinker.

With that said, as an Obama supporter and a supporter of all things beer, I found his choice of beer poor. Not that I have anything against Bud specifically - I enjoy an ice cold Budweiser in the summer - I would have preferred Obama think about it a little. I'm sure there are many fine small American breweries in the D.C. area. Heck, not that far up the road from D.C. is America's Oldest Brewery. They offer many nice brews. Seems it would have been a little more logical to pick there, have the media do a little piece on them, bring some attention to a place in PA that can probably use the attention.

Meanwhile, Bud advertises in more mediums than I can count, so they don't exactly need the help.
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So this is BO's big push to identify with the average American? The beer he is going to drink in public, but I'd bet not privately? How shallow can he get? How much less substantive can he get?

He's bankrupted the country and to show how "American" he is he's going to announce he's changing his brand of beer as his political solution..... What an idiot.

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Re: The Politics of Beer

The things one reads while parked on the crapper w/ a laptop!

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Re: The Politics of Beer

said by Madness:

The things one reads while parked on the crapper w/ a laptop!
And here I thought I was the only guy that did that.
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Re: The Politics of Beer

said by backfeed:

And here I thought I was the only guy that did that.
I certainly won't admit to doing that.

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said by Noah Vail:

2. Beer Drinkers have no distinguishing characteristics whatsoever.
i do take offense to that (well, as much as a beer drinker can take offense). i find that a person's choice in beer says a lot about them - as long as its beyond a domestic. i drink bud light, but its not my favourite. give me something "wheat" anyday - but then again, living in the phoenix metroplex, its summer every day.



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Blizzard Warning, woohoo

12"-24" or more of snow outside my door as of this time tomorrow.

I'll be just fine so long as the power and internet doesn't go out

They say it could be record breaking for my location. Sussex County Delaware.

This should be interesting...
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Re: Blizzard Warning, woohoo

And yet here I am in upstate New York and we're not expected to see a single flake.

Weather can be weird.

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Got 2 ft here in S.Jersey. Police ordered all cars off the road except police, fire, & emergency vehicles. But I paid a neighbor kid to dig out the driveway, so when they reopen the roads I'm good to go if necessary. But have no plans to drive anywhere until the weekend is over.

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It's SNOWMAGEDDON!

We got walloped up here to. I'm just north of the DE line in Delaware County.

They say another 12" could be on the way for Tuesday into Wednesday.

Well, at least it's not a drought!
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went to oldest sons first piano recital.
did good proud of him

»yfrog.us/5fv0sz if anyone cares to see a few seconds of it.
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Re: .

said by John McClane:

went to oldest sons first piano recital.
did good proud of him
I'm impressed. How did you get the Rockette's to make an appearance?

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'back when TV's were Steam Powered.

I strung together a bunch of net videos tonight. Together, they made a NBC Thursday night lineup, circa 1985.
The Cosby Show - Family Ties - Cheers - Night Court - Hill Street Blues.

My 16yo had never seen any of these shows, thought they were hilarious. I hadn't seen them all in the same night, since the 1980s. The lineup was like a micro golden age o' tv.

Seems there was always one show no one liked as much as the rest. I didn't care much for Family Ties back then, my wife didn't do HSB.

Tonight, the draw was good enough to have everyone in the room, watching the same thing - without coercion.

Who'd of thunk it?

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TW Cable Internet

I just wish TWC would upgrade our area to DOCSIS 3.0. We all know they (TWC) is making money, so just do the upgrading and get on with business.

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Condition'd for Suspicion


Hmmmm.
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It's been 20 years since I first understood the lengths the press will go through, to form public opinion via the news. That has me evaluating, every facet of content delivery, to see if there is a larger goal in story choice and layout.

Sometimes I see clear agenda, othertimes I can rule it out; most often there isn't enough evidence to say anything.

In my opinion, Matt Drudge has always scrutinized the grouping of his stories. Sometimes I see agenda, sometimes they're ordered just because of similarities.

Tonight's story grouping bothered me, no matter the reason.

I object to a story, about the PotUS's children,
directly adjacent to a story
about a murdered child; in an upscale environment.

No matter the intent, I still see association. Consideration and tact should have had a couple of bylines padding between the two stories.

To take a step back, I believe anything other than a full news blackout of every President's (under 21yo) children, is inappropriate. I don't care if his 12yo wins the No-Bull-Please-Prize. Positive stuff can be novelized after office.

No sitting president should ever have his/her minor children in the news, even if they desire it. The children sacrifice enough, we shouldn't taint what little they retain of their parents during the 4/8 years.

I like Matt Drudge and I openly support (much of) his agenda. However, I strongly feel he should have handled this choice differently.

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Re: Condition'd for Suspicion

I tend to agree with you on the children should be off limits, not that they ever have been, but that is another topic. To follow up on what you said, yes, off limits, but when one of the parents decides to use them for pushing their pet project, then they (the parents/president/first lady) have no room to talk, or b*tch about media coverage of their children, since the parents opened the door.

In short, both sides need to leave the children out of the media.

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said by Austinloop:

I tend to agree with you on the children should be off limits, not that they ever have been, but that is another topic. To follow up on what you said, yes, off limits, but when one of the parents decides to use them for pushing their pet project, then they (the parents/president/first lady) have no room to talk, or b*tch about media coverage of their children, since the parents opened the door.

In short, both sides need to leave the children out of the media.
The problem is that the Politicians want to use their children when it is convenient for them and furthers their careers. But when something negative crops up they scream & whine about how it hurts the children if covered. I agree kids should be hands off, but it never will be as long as the pols continue to use their own kids.

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money

dont know about you but I finished my taxes this week and also had a ball with the Market and Siruis and XM shooting up. . .

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Weaponizing Budget Deficit for political gain

"The main difference between last summer, when we were mostly (and appropriately) taking deficits in stride, and the current sense of panic is that deficit fear-mongering has become a key part of Republican political strategy, doing double duty: it damages President Obama’s image even as it cripples his policy agenda. And if the hypocrisy is breathtaking — politicians who voted for budget-busting tax cuts posing as apostles of fiscal rectitude, politicians demonizing attempts to rein in Medicare costs one day (death panels!), then denouncing excessive government spending the next — well, what else is new?

The trouble, however, is that it’s apparently hard for many people to tell the difference between cynical posturing and serious economic argument. And that is having tragic consequences.

For the fact is that thanks to deficit hysteria, Washington now has its priorities all wrong: all the talk is about how to shave a few billion dollars off government spending, while there’s hardly any willingness to tackle mass unemployment. Policy is headed in the wrong direction — and millions of Americans will pay the price. "

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Tragic situation 19 inchs of snow in D.C.!!!!

Frakin' gridlock out the wazoo!!!!!!

Yeah! Then can't FSCK anything up until the snow melts...

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What is missing from this (and most) discussions about taxes and deficits are two points. First, there is no linear relationship between tax rates and taxes collected. The relationship is bell curved. If you tax too heavily, the activity that is taxed will diminish to a point where less revenue is taken in. Liberals think of the world as static. They think that I will stand still while they shoot at me, but I won't. I will duck and dodge, and adapt (anyone hear of offshoreing). Secondly, apparent fairness in a tax is crucial to it's acceptance. We drive on potholed roads, watch our schools crumble, see old folks who worked until they couldn't any more go hungry, all the while the self selected poverty class "leeches" live better than the majority of people in the world without a lifting a finger, politicians build monuments to themselves with little or no public benefit, and in general, most tax dollars are used for things I do not agree with. I would be less inclined to duck and dodge, and would more easily accept higher taxes if I agreed with how the majority of taxes were used.

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Re: Weaponizing Budget Deficit for political gain

This is why we're in this mess, tho. Nobody can agree what should be cut, and nobody wants their agenda or ideology to suffer--- so the cuts must come from the other side.

Results? Our politicians just spend money on everything. Which we can't afford.
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What's the name of that thread (Music every day)

Where people post interesting music once per day?

It's a huge awesome thread but I can't find it!

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Re: What's the name of that thread (Music every day)

1 person, 1 song, 1 day
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»[video] 1 person, 1 song, 1 day

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Some classic Humor from Yesteryear :D

»www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW8r503ny1Q

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I love snow.

It's frozen water falling from the sky.

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More Political Choices Than Ever!

Murray Hill (Inc) campaign election ad.

»www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHRKkXtxDRA

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is pirate bay site down again

just looking at going to pirate bay website and couldn't get there anyone else having problem getting there or know if it's down.

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Re: is pirate bay site down again

said by sdfsdfsd :

just looking at going to pirate bay website and couldn't get there anyone else having problem getting there or know if it's down.
Working fine
»thepiratebay.org

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Is this video fake?

»www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MwgJGZ6BIk


It's either a fake OR a very cool-headed pilot and some very good luck.....
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Re: Is this video fake?

Fake here is a link »www.snopes.com/photos/airplane/onewing.asp

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Obviously fake, but here's a real one—with a model plane:

»www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOBB_-gZFNo

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