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QUOTE(WCSox @ Mar 24, 2006 -> 12:31 AM) Open? . . .strained

QUOTE(TheBlackSox8 @ Mar 23, 2006 -> 03:11 PM) great ....that means it's going to have a soundtrack that i won't like. Then get off yer arse and start a band and send in some snakes-on-a-motherf***ing-plane-worthy songs already!

Lifted from some dudes blog: Oh god, yes According to The Hollywood Reporter, the fan-based underground support for Snakes on a Plane has become so great that the filmmakers are now doing a reshoot to include more action sequences... as well as calling Samuel L. Jackson back in so he can actually say in the movie "snakes on a motherf***ing plane." This could very well end up the greatest movie ever made by anyone, ever.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Mar 23, 2006 -> 12:08 AM) He fell of a burning bridge while on fire, impaled himself on a stick, then was dismembered by a mountain lion and a bear, while being shot. What the hell is wrong with Chef that he can't come back after that?!? That sure as hell wouldn't keep Kenny down!

QUOTE(samclemens @ Mar 23, 2006 -> 06:22 PM) looks like you would have preferred the US to side with Iran in the Iran-Iraq war. why is that? your point is... You are aware that, despite our official claim of neutrality, we did in fact send arms to Iran as well as Iraq during the conflict? Specifically 1985-1986. Got Reagan in some hot water. . . not ringing any bells? Guess Reagan isn't the only one who can claim, "I don't recall." :rolly

An eventually famous child actor starred in a commercial for a Chicago financial institution back in the 70s. Name the kid and the institution.

QUOTE(Leonard Zelig @ Mar 23, 2006 -> 09:18 PM) Brent Mydland. Yup. Grateful Dead and keyboardists was like Spinal Tap and drummers.

QUOTE(WCSox @ Mar 23, 2006 -> 07:07 PM) I wonder how Hillary would characterize her marriage? Complicated?

QUOTE(Mplssoxfan @ Mar 23, 2006 -> 03:35 PM) Jerry, Pigpen, Keith and I'm missing one, right? Yep. Think of the keyboardist curse.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 23, 2006 -> 03:19 PM) Damn am I old What were the names of the Animaniacs? Not sure about the spelling, but they were Wakko, Yackko and Dot Warner

Name all the deceased members fo the Grateful Dead.

QUOTE(Steff @ Mar 23, 2006 -> 02:43 PM) For the NICK fans.. What was the original SNICK lineup (4 shows)? Clarissa Explains It All The Ren and Stimpy Show Roundhouse (what a piece of crap that was) Are You Afraid of the Dark?

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 23, 2006 -> 02:29 PM) I still have other reservations about the surveillance happening outside FISA, from a Constitutional and plain old legal standpoint. Those actions appear to be in question still. I agree that still seems to be the heart of the matter. COR seems only to have made a specific ruling about a request FISA denied that it apparently shouldn't have after Patriot Act. But to extrapolate from that a legality for all the surveilance that has occured outside of FISA is premature, I think. Regardless of whether all of the wiretaps external to FISA woulda/shoulda been approved under a post-Patriot FISA is not relevant since the adminsitration and NSA decided not to go through that established channel. In light of the discussion here, I think Byron York NR piece alludes to the notion that with the loosened standards of Patriot/FISA the NSA surveilances would have been approved. In cases where there really is a suspected El Quaida connection on one end of the calls I don't think that truly ever was in debate. What was (and I think still is) in debate is whether the president had the authority to go outside of FISA in those instances. If I'm following evertything, York implies that he did, while Balta's interpretation is that the COR ruling doesn't speak to the survailance carried out outside of FISA.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 23, 2006 -> 01:57 PM) As I understand it, reading York article and excerpts from the legal decision on Truong, the COS includes: 3 federal judges (judicial) US solicitor general (executive) Deputy AG (executive) A "justice official" (not sure) An FBI official (executive) VP Cheney's personal attorney (executive and just plain weird if you ask me) Now, perhaps this is my misinterperetation, but this COS made a legal decision that had the binding force of a court decision. And those officials were involved. To me, that's wrong. Am I misunderstanding something? Truly, tell me if I am. I think there may be a misunderstanding. My reading of the NR piece gave me the impression that only the three judges comprosed the actual court of review, while the others in attendence were arguing a (rather one-sided) case.

QUOTE(mreye @ Mar 23, 2006 -> 01:23 PM) What was the 2nd video on M-TV? You Better Run, Pat Benetar

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Mar 23, 2006 -> 12:09 PM) isnt the answer 42? You are correct, Sir!

QUOTE(mreye @ Mar 23, 2006 -> 11:23 AM) What album does "Rat" actually play? Ach, beat me to the answer. . . but I presaged your question! The answer remains Physical Grafitti.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Mar 23, 2006 -> 11:11 AM) Based on the advice of Demone. Playing what cassette tape is essential in making out with a girl? Zeppelin IV. Of course the song they played in the movie is off of Physical Grafitti! What is the Answer to The Ultimate Question Of Life, the Universe and Everything?

"Take it from me, girls – there's no good reason to rush into S-E-X. That's why I hope these scientific facts help you choose abstinence, so you need never know the heartbreak of being trapped in a loveless marriage just because you drank too many margaritas one night and gave up your honey pot to a pushy young cokehead from a so-called 'good family.'"

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Mar 22, 2006 -> 06:22 PM) I might be seeing Jamie Collum this weekend. Collum!. . . Collum!!. . . Collum!!!

QUOTE(Soxy @ Mar 22, 2006 -> 04:18 PM) Women, dutch or otherwise shouldn't be punished for having big boobs. If anything they should be rewarded. No, they should be equal. They should be equal, but sometimes it just happens and one is just a little bigger than the other. . . You were talking about the boobs, right?

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 22, 2006 -> 03:40 PM) So if everyone poking holes in a flawed report is whining, what do you call all of the liberals who do the samething to GWB? "Helping the terrorists?"

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Mar 21, 2006 -> 06:42 PM) There, I think I've gone through this issue, and man I need a break. We all need a break after that. Seriously, you should tighten that post up just a bit, link it to the NR piece and submit it as a diary on DKos. I didn't see anybody touch on it there, and in fact didn't even know about the article until YAS posted it here today.

QUOTE(Middle Buffalo @ Mar 21, 2006 -> 08:35 PM) Single worst album purchase I have ever made was Black 47. Luckily it was a BMG 1 cent pick. Still felt ripped off, though. Black 47 are forever a product of their time. They didn't know if they wanted to be traditional Irish folkies, rockers, or the Beastie Boyz, so they decided to try to be all three things simultaneously and it didn't work on a lot of cuts on that record. For Funky Ceili is an exception to that rule. But, yeah, the beat box drum machine sounded pretty thin against electric guitars adn trad instruments back then and it sounds distinctly dated now. Still, any good Irish neighborhood pub worth its salt had better have it on the jukebox though.

Yeah, yeah, I agree it's refreshing that GWB has momentarily stepped at least partially out of the reality filtering buble and is actually responding to an unscreened/unscripted question here an there.. BUT, you cannot take him at face value when he says he didn't wantt to go to war in Iraq. You can't. All the facts clearly indicate this was NOT a last resort choice like he keeps trying to paint it. Bush appears to be the only person left who believes his own myth that he went to war with Iraq as a last resort. The evidence is overwhelming to the contrary: ThinkProgress was nice enough to do the legwork, and this is just a smattering of all that has been documented that contradicts the official 'last resort' party line.: How is any of this indicative of a 'last resort' choice by a reluctant wartime President?? And why are you all giving him a pass on it? And I agree with bmags that "9/11!! El Quaida!! Taliban!! Afghanistan!!. . . " is a complete Chewbacca Defense of the Iraq Invasion. "Here, Look at the Monkey! Look at the Silly Monkey!!"