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I recently walked by this:


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Any idea what she is?

Kaa

Well, my former (and evidently incorrect) impression was that the pinky stern was typically a couple of feet high -- so that you can see over it, for example. But this one looks to be over 8 feet!
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Hmm... I admit to not having seen many pinky schooners, but those that I saw didn't have such a hugely high stern. However a look at the 'net shows that yes, indeed, people build them that way, too....

Found this by a pier in Salem:


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Well, it's a bit more complicated. Yes, you can be innocent and take the Fifth. But you must have "reasonable cause to apprehend danger from a direct answer". And it's for the court (I don't know if...

Huh? I do NOT agree that either Pigford or Fast & Furious were "conspiracy theories thrown at Obama" as you said in the OP.



Ah. That makes sense :-D

Kaa

Well, both the USDA and the BATF are part of the executive branch, are they not? I haven't heard anyone claiming that Obama was personally telling everyone to apply for compensation or was personally...

Because there's no conspiracy involved in either of these. Pigford is the case of a blatant race-based handout and Fast & Furious is the case of BATF being remarkably stupid and callous. No one ever...

A bit too early to tell, don't you think? If she gets charged with perjury, that won't look like such a smooth move...

Kaa

How's Pigford or Fast and Furious a conspiracy theory..?

Kaa

Nah, I didn't do that (look Ma no hands! :-D). Actually, that was shameless plagiarizing from Hit&Run: http://reason.com/blog/2013/05/22/gay-rights-and-gun-rights-linked-in-seat

But your logic is...

To head the IRS' tax-exempt division...

Well, I guess you might be right :-D



Actually, not too bright a lawyer either, since her prepared statement directly contradicts her taking the...

Well, there is that little issue is that if you actually don't have good reasons to believe you're guilty of a crime, taking the Fifth is itself a crime of at least perjury.

You are not telling...

Oh, it's hilarious. But I thought it would take a special kind of ammo -- and maybe a special kind of gun, too -- to make the head literally explode. As opposed to just making an ugly exit wound....

Well, except that, y'know, these posters are physically on walls in Seattle. Mostly in Capitol Hill, as I understand...

Kaa

Lois Lerner was hilarious!

First she read the prepared statement which said "I have done nothing wrong. I have not broken any laws. I have not violated any IRS rules or regulations and I have not...

Exceptions who stand out from the general anti-semitic background. Disraeli was Jewish by birth, of course, and I think Zola was more interested in justice and French honour.

Kaa

Anti-semitism in XIX century Europe was quite mainstream and not controversial. Pretty much all public figures who had something to say about Jews said unpleasant things.

Kaa

With the exception of publishing anti-semitic tracts, your description doesn't look like a proto-Nazi at all. You don't need to connect everything that you find morally objectionable to Nazism, you...

Go Seattle :-)

http://cloudfront-media.reason.com/mc/_external/2013_05/gay-rights-and-gun-rights-post.jpg?h=367&w=300

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In the darkness, of course :-/

..what? ring? Oh, don't pay any attention, it's just silly old tales, nothing to it, really...

Kaa

I'll take tribalism over the One State to rule them all...

Kaa

Yes. Pay attention to the words "another, foreign entity B". You're quite mistaken that B's profits are A's income, some basic accounting would tell you that's not true.

Moreover, the correct...

That's just the Washington Sq. joints, for the tourists. Being tourists, they deserve it :-)

Kaa

But they are. A US corporation is taxed on its worldwide income (note: that's not how the rest of the Western world does it).

I would like to offer for your consideration a radical idea: there...

We just need someone in need of courage, then. Would you recommend anyone for the position?

Kaa

Well, it kinda starts to get complicated once you bring out THAT broad a brush. Humans tend to identify with something bigger than them, that's probably one of biological imperatives. But identifying...

It's not judging, it's just a gotcha. All the judging was done before.

Kaa

It's not the word, it's the very specific intonation :-)

Kaa

I think IRS is considerably bigger, thought it's not an "Obama scandal".

Also the "phone records business" has an accompanying thread of the DoJ's investigation of James Rosen (and, in particular,...

Many things. Investing the sense of self into a corporate brand is probably the the major point, though the lack of critical thinking and the tendency to rabid aggression against those who dare to...

Well, first of all we'd have LOTS of articles and threads about the final proof that Obama is a replicant :-D

Kaa

P.S. That would also neatly explain his birth certificate problems 8-)

<looks down at his IBM Model M keyboard>

<grins>

Kaa

That's a really bad idea unless you happen to have a clean room in your house. Most any dust particle inside the hard drive can crash the heads. Not to mention that I have no idea how would you go...

Ah. The ones in neither of which the word "tortoise" is mentioned?

I am quite familiar with the film. But the OP talks about a twitter trap which shortcuts the movie scene to the question about...

Happily, that idea is nothing but a silly scarecrow, dragged out when there is a need for a strawman.

Capitalism is what you get when people are personally free (as opposed to feudalism) and can...

More or less, yes, you did. You basically said that some sufficient feeling of being a victim is full justification for engaging in terrorism. That is an... interesting view.

Kaa

That mythical creature with the magical power to appear with precisely the set of virtues that the speaker needs at the moment..? :-D

Kaa

LOL. What's your preferred alternative, pray tell?

Kaa

Which link would that be?

And, of course, in the twitter exchange the question was phrased as "You're walking through a desert and you see a turtle..." So BrianY's retort was completely...

Now all you need is TripAdvisor ratings and Yelp reviews :-)

Zagat and Michelin can't be too far behind!

Kaa

What, you're going to deviate from your usual practice and actually stop digging? :-D

Kaa

I am not sure I understand -- could you expand on the "alternatives don't exist" part?



And that, too, please -- how are they not the same? What makes them different? Are there two categories?...

This thread improved noticeably :-) But all y'all speak funny :-D In my language a "hot pot" is a piece of hardware also known as a slow cooker. A casserole is either something Julia Child would cook...

OK, lesson one. Turtles and tortoises are different :-P

Kaa

Actually, I don't. What are the qualifiers?

In fact, I'm fascinated by your defense of terrorism. Could you please expand on when do you think it's justified? Surely the experience of the...

I didn't notice you use any qualifiers when talking about terrorism and response to tyranny. Maybe you want to re-read your post #35 again?

Kaa

I had no idea, Norman, that you had such strong feelings about the rights of American Indians...

Kaa

So, um, you blow up Federal buildings in Oklahoma City, or fly planes into skyscrapers?

Kaa

Looking at Wikipedia that doesn't seem to be true. In particular, there are significant differences between provinces.

There's also that interesting bit: Canada top court: Quebec common law...