The News Thread - Page 3

inked · 02-25-2008, 12:15 PM

Climate change, aherm, like change in Cuba, eh?

hectorberlioz · 02-25-2008, 05:32 PM

Mmm! Tapeworms yummy!
Abe Lincoln portrait made of pennies!
Umm...'THEY' are moving stars. Make sense?
Mary as a pretzel. I don't see it.
Cool (*cough*) ice formations after a snowstorm!:D

**Nurvingiel** · 02-26-2008, 03:52 AM

Hector, that gummy tapeworm is so gross! Ewww

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Originally Posted by inked

Climate change, aherm, like change in Cuba, eh?

I wouldn't say Raul Castro is a huge change to Cuban politics, really. He's been his brother's right-hand man for fifty years already. What's he gonna do differently?

More news:

Nader runs again for U.S. president
What I don't understand about this article is Ralph Nader is introduced as a consumer advocate. Isn't he the leader of the American Green Party?

EU-27 Emissions down 8% since 1990
Well done EU members!

Please continue embarrassing our politicians; maybe they'll eventually start doing something.

More killed in Turkey cross-border offensive
This is something that the media hasn't being paying enough attention to.

sisterandcousinandaunt · 02-26-2008, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Nurvingiel

Nader runs again for U.S. president
What I don't understand about this article is Ralph Nader is introduced as a consumer advocate. Isn't he the leader of the American Green Party?

No, he isn't. He hasn't even been a member, mostly. He's what we refer to as a "carpetbagger".

The Greens in the US. *sigh* Okay, first you have to understand this. http://www.greenparty.org/index.php
http://www.gp.org/index.php

You can see from the second link that the Greens (as a political party) are already partway through their own primary season...with candidates that didn't include Nader. He, of course, had already endorsed Edwards, during the Iowa caucuses. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1207/7647.html

If you read the political/presidential section of this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Nader you can get some idea of how chaotic the Green Party map is, and the ZERO amount of work Nader has put into making it an effective alternative.

Everyone knows a Nader. Naders like to get up to the mike, but never hire the hall. Naders have big ideas to start things, but figure other people will do the scut work. Naders lose interest quickly in things with no press coverage.

And, of course, Naders, if they get a chance, have millions in stock while criticising corporations.

If you have the idea I dislike the man, I can tell you...he earned it.

brownjenkins · 02-26-2008, 01:58 PM

Sounds like Ron Paul.

inked · 02-26-2008, 07:26 PM

Nurv, you are batting a 1000 today. Climate change (not the oft touted and erroneous global warming/carbon footprint/ Al Gore debacle!) is to the earth as Raoul is to Cuba in leadership. "not much change" WOO-WOOO

!

**Nurvingiel** · 02-27-2008, 03:03 AM

Woah now, I never made any connection between the stories.

I was just posting interesting things.

And you have an extra "a" there. It's "batting 1000" or "batting a thousand."

But I'll make it up to you for nitpicking by posting something I think you'll enjoy.

Disputing the 'consensus' on global warming

inked · 02-27-2008, 01:11 PM

A great one has passed! William F. Buckley:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/27/bu...nt&oref=slogin

sisterandcousinandaunt · 02-27-2008, 03:03 PM

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Originally Posted by inked

A great one has passed! William F. Buckley:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/27/bu...nt&oref=slogin

I was just coming to say so. A true loss.

And Nurv, I don't know about Canada, but "batting a thousand" is grammatical, hereabouts.

hectorberlioz · 02-27-2008, 03:08 PM

I know he was a giant in the Conservative movement (invented modern conservatism as we know it), but I haven't been familiar with his work.

He did play Harpsichord though, which is a huge plus in my book.

sisterandcousinandaunt · 02-27-2008, 03:12 PM

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Originally Posted by hectorberlioz

I know he was a giant in the Conservative movement (invented modern conservatism as we know it), but I haven't been familiar with his work.

He did play Harpsichord though, which is a huge plus in my book.

He was often wrong. But with verve.

hectorberlioz · 02-27-2008, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by sisterandcousinandaunt

He was often wrong. But with verve.

He played harpsichord, that's enough for me

sisterandcousinandaunt · 02-27-2008, 06:07 PM

Look at this rescue.
http://www.myfoxphilly.com/myfox/pag...d=1.1.1&sflg=1

Gwaimir Windgem · 02-27-2008, 11:32 PM

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Originally Posted by sisterandcousinandaunt

I was just coming to say so. A true loss.

And Nurv, I don't know about Canada, but "batting a thousand" is grammatical, hereabouts.

Nurv's point, though, is that "1000" already contains a quantifier for the "thousands", namely, in the 1. It could be read as "one thousand" or (more loosely) "a thousand". This being so, "batting a 1000" would be at best "batting a a thousand."

We grammar nazis stick together.

GrayMouser · 02-28-2008, 02:41 AM

Always liked reading William F. Buckley, even when I totally disagreed with him, which was almost always, but then I'm a sucker for that elitist snotty Anglophilic style of snark.
He was pro-segregation and anti-Civil Rights Movement in the 50s, but realised the errors of his ways in the 60s (he also had a soft spot for Franco and clerico-fascism in general).

He certainly looked with some dismay on the Bush/Cheney perversion of conservatism.

***Rían*** · 02-28-2008, 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Gwaimir Windgem

Nurv's point, though, is that "1000" already contains a quantifier for the "thousands", namely, in the 1. It could be read as "one thousand" or (more loosely) "a thousand". This being so, "batting a 1000" would be at best "batting a a thousand."

We grammar nazis stick together.

I think it's one of those odd mistakes that is now a permanent expression. It really should be "batting a hundred" (percent), though, I think. I think it only came about because they had 3 places to the right of the decimal point for batting averages (e.g., .459) so a perfect percentage would "look" like the number 1000 (e.g., 1.000) Is that right, do you guys think?

Insidious Rex · 02-28-2008, 02:24 PM

Nit picking twits...

Technically it should be "batting one" but how stupid does that sound. Lets not try to grammar nazi sports colloquisms shall we. Its an exercise in futility. I mean that’s just a slam dunk…

brownjenkins · 02-28-2008, 03:06 PM

Bah!

Buckley's no loss. I have no respect for people who take joy in creating division, dead or alive.

***Rían*** · 02-28-2008, 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Insidious Rex

Nit picking twits...

Technically it should be "batting one" but how stupid does that sound. Lets not try to grammar nazi sports colloquisms shall we. Its an exercise in futility. I mean that’s just a slam dunk…

I just thought it was interesting ... *dodges the slam dunk and makes an end run around IRex*

hectorberlioz · 02-28-2008, 04:10 PM

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Originally Posted by brownjenkins

Bah!

Buckley's no loss. I have no respect for people who take joy in creating division, dead or alive.

Is this your subtle way of being unifying?

02-25-2008, 12:15 PM	#41
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02-25-2008, 05:32 PM	#42
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02-26-2008, 01:58 PM	#45
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02-26-2008, 07:26 PM	#46
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	Nurv, you are batting a 1000 today. Climate change (not the oft touted and erroneous global warming/carbon footprint/ Al Gore debacle!) is to the earth as Raoul is to Cuba in leadership. "not much change" WOO-WOOO! __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941

02-27-2008, 01:11 PM	#48
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	A great one has passed! William F. Buckley: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/27/bu...nt&oref=slogin __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941

02-27-2008, 03:08 PM	#50
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02-27-2008, 06:07 PM	#53
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02-28-2008, 02:41 AM	#55
GrayMouser Elf Lord Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Ilha Formosa Posts: 2,068	Always liked reading William F. Buckley, even when I totally disagreed with him, which was almost always, but then I'm a sucker for that elitist snotty Anglophilic style of snark. He was pro-segregation and anti-Civil Rights Movement in the 50s, but realised the errors of his ways in the 60s (he also had a soft spot for Franco and clerico-fascism in general). He certainly looked with some dismay on the Bush/Cheney perversion of conservatism. __________________ Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them? "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us, but pigs treat us as equals."- Winston Churchill

02-28-2008, 02:24 PM	#57
Insidious Rex Quasi Evil Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Maryland, US Posts: 4,634	Nit picking twits... Technically it should be "batting one" but how stupid does that sound. Lets not try to grammar nazi sports colloquisms shall we. Its an exercise in futility. I mean that’s just a slam dunk… __________________ "People's political beliefs don't stem from the factual information they've acquired. Far more the facts people choose to believe are the product of their political beliefs." "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

02-28-2008, 03:06 PM	#58
brownjenkins Advocatus Diaboli Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Reality Posts: 3,767	Bah! Buckley's no loss. I have no respect for people who take joy in creating division, dead or alive. __________________ Your reality, sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever.

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