Tech Note: The Integrated Image Library for LGF Pages

Organize, search and reuse images for LGF Pages

LGFSeptember 2012 • Views: 33,353

Today we have a really nifty new feature to announce, appearing now in your LGF Pages posting bookmarklet. Look to the bottom left of the window and you’ll now see a button labeled “Image Library,” which, if you click, will bring up the following dialog box — a miniaturized version of our new Image Library app.

This version of the Library works in a very similar way to the stand-alone app; you can click the image thumbnails to see larger versions, page back/forth and beginning/end, enter descriptions/keywords and save them, search for images matching keywords, and see the image’s information.

But there’s an extra feature that’s not in the stand-alone app — you can insert the HTML code to display an image directly into your LGF Pages post, with an optional caption that appears under the image, by clicking the button labeled “Insert.”

NOTE: If you’re planning to insert an image, before opening the Image Library you should first make sure the text cursor is at the point where you want the code to be inserted.

To make it even simpler to reuse images and captions, when you insert the code for one of your images, your image alignment and caption settings are automatically saved.

Have at it, Pages authors!

P.S. Almost forgot to mention that the “Upload Image” feature has also been revamped to use Ajax-like techniques to upload files (actually, it’s using the IFRAME method), so that it no longer needs to open in a separate window.

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freetoken Fri, Sep 28, 2012 2:28:05pm

Pictures!

wrenchwench Fri, Sep 28, 2012 2:32:58pm

Youtube Video

freetoken Fri, Sep 28, 2012 2:41:05pm

Looking at today's headlines, I get the feeling that much our our (American) media just isn't trying very hard anymore. What gets written is mostly filler, or reports of he-said-she-said, with very little analysis or investigation.

One of very many cases today:

If the polls prove correct, another battle over the budget may shake markets again

Do reporters ever challenge their interviewees anymore?

freetoken Fri, Sep 28, 2012 2:50:59pm

Here's another "winner":

Some Mormons plan fast for Romney to give him edge in debates

Politics is at best an imprecise science. Who knows what goes into an election victory? Was it the economy? Was it the advertising? Was it personal magnetism? Was it … the fast? [...]

First off, Mr. Landsberg, "politics" may be grouped into what is called the "social sciences", which itself is debatable, but one thing is for sure - there is no such thing as an "imprecise science." The phrase doesn't make sense. Sure, the phrase has been used before, but it doesn't have any real meaning.

Next, he asks " Who knows what goes into an election victory? " Well, politicians pay big money to advisors who have a track record in this regard, and it often comes down to simply turn-out - getting those who would vote for a candidate out of obligation (or habit) to the polls.

So why lead off an article with a paragraph lacking in meaning and perhaps misleading?

Well, the rest of the article is a puff-ball piece about some Mormons who are supposedly going to fast to help Mitt.

At the end of the article the writer adds a bit more color - snark - to the piece:

Calls for a miracle may suggest some level of anxiety among Romney supporters, as his standings erode in a number of nationwide polls. The Salt Lake Tribune reported that some fast supporters have also suggested putting Romney's name on the "temple prayer roll," "which is typically reserved for those who are sick."

Which I guess makes this whole article a comic piece?

Perhaps I'm just too grumpy today, but the quantity of meaningless filler in even leading media has become so much that there is almost no return on investment of reading.

freetoken Fri, Sep 28, 2012 3:06:58pm

Final soapbox rant of the afternoon - that abyss called "education":

That Elusive Diploma

[...]

Just over half (58 percent) of first-time, full-time students who entered a four-year U.S. college or university in 2004 graduated by 2010, according to the government’s National Center for Education Statistics. Among Hispanics, the proportion is only 50 percent; for African-Americans, just 40 percent. And of students who attend two-year public community colleges, only about 20 percent earn a certificate or a degree within three years.

Why is this happening? The problem is complicated, but two major reasons emerge: Students drop out because of a lack of money, a lack of preparation to meet the academic challenges, or both.

[Extensive section on the costs of higher education ...]

One strategy that has proven successful is to offer courses, often known as First-Year Experience programs, that teach students the basic skills of academic life. “It’s one of the very few interventions in education that has data behind it,” said Robert S. Feldman, dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Massachusetts. These courses teach how to take notes, ask questions in class, navigate a campus, and get along with roommates. “The majority of students don’t have great preparation coming out of high school,” Feldman said. Students who take First Year Experience courses are less likely to drop out, are more socially engaged, and have higher grade-point averages when they graduate than students who don’t. Feldman prefers that these courses be required and offered for credit because, if given a choice, “students always think they don’t need it.”

[...]

Teach "how to take notes"? "ask questions in class"? "navigate a campus"? WTF?

Where did the previous 12 years of education go?

Some campuses are indeed large, even intimidating to the newcomer, but it takes all of a what, a week, to walk around and become familiar with key buildings and offices?

Here is something, I'd call it "truth" but that'll likely irk someone, to deal with: not everyone is fit for higher education.

Ergo, college is not for everyone.

And we shouldn't pretend it is otherwise, because that is a form of cruelty.

And, insisting that everyone goes to college is a backhand way of denigrating those jobs that simply don't require 4 years of academic study.

So let's just stop it.

simoom Fri, Sep 28, 2012 3:07:47pm

Michelle Goldberg @ The Daily Beast:
A pseudo-documentary that slimes Ann Dunham, the president’s late mother, is being mailed to swing-state voters. A look at the film and Dinesh D’Souza’s book, Obama’s America.

So this is what it’s come to.

After four years of invective, four years during which the right has called President Obama a traitor, a communist, a fraud, an affirmative-action case, a terrorist-sympathizer, and a tyrant, its shrillest voices have been reduced to the most primal insult of all. They are calling Obama’s mother a whore.

...

It’s tempting to ignore Dreams From My Real Father because it’s so preposterous. The movie claims that Obama’s actual father was the poet and left-wing activist Frank Marshall Davis, who Dunham met through her father, who was a CIA agent merely posing as a furniture salesman. “My election was not a sudden political phenomenon,” says the narrator, speaking as if he were Obama reading his autobiography. “It was the culmination of an American socialist movement that my real father, Frank Marshall Davis, nurtured in Chicago and Hawaii, and has been quietly infiltrating the U.S. economy, universities, and media for decades.”

Davis enjoyed taking nude photos of women, and the images said to be of Dunham, to which the director pays lascivious attention, are presented as evidence of their intimate relationship. “These photos were taken a few weeks before 1960, when Mom was about five weeks pregnant with me,” the narrator says. “Frank then sold the photos to men’s mail-order catalogs.”

...

D’Souza argues that part of the reason Ann Dunham sent Obama to live with her parents in Hawaii was so she could pursue affairs with Indonesian men. “Ann’s sexual adventuring may seem a little surprising in view of the fact that she was a large woman who kept getting larger,” he writes. On the next page, he continues, “Learning about Ann’s sexual adventures in Indonesia, I realized how wrong I had been to consider Barack Obama Sr. the playboy … Ann … was the real playgirl, and despite all her reservations about power, she was using her American background and economic and social power to purchase the romantic attention of third-world men.”

There is no evidence for any of this—D’Souza mentions the name of exactly one man who Dunham had a relationship with after her divorce. Even if it was true, however, it’s hard to see how it’s relevant to Obama’s supposed taste for subversion, since as D’Souza himself points out, Obama wasn’t living in Indonesia at the time. The chapter is simply an expression of glandular-level contempt. It shows that a writer once considered a legitimate conservative intellectual has been reduced to sputtering “yo mama” at our president.

Daniel Ballard Fri, Sep 28, 2012 3:10:14pm

Now that's a wonderful resource Charles thank you very much. I think it will be worthwhile to be able to grab images that go with a current comment, maybe a chart from a Page to show the facts to go with the point discussed. Many of us have our own hot button topics we get into deeply enough we have Paged and included supporting charts graphs etc.

I had not thought of all those photographs in your server as a collection. But hey thanks again, it's my LGF portfolio!

freetoken Fri, Sep 28, 2012 3:17:19pm

Did Slow Space Rocks Seed Life on Earth?

PANSPERMIA!!

Amory Blaine Fri, Sep 28, 2012 3:17:28pm

re: #5 freetoken

Conversely, not every job "requires" a degree, yet to obtain a job that doesn't pay poverty level wages "almost" requires a degree.

Daniel Ballard Fri, Sep 28, 2012 3:22:09pm

JamesWI,
I was late with this being at work today but I did reply downstairs...
re: #403 Daniel Ballard

freetoken Fri, Sep 28, 2012 3:23:14pm

Perhaps one of the more under-reported stories from yesterday:

NASA Rover Finds Old Streambed on Martian Surface

NASA's Curiosity rover mission has found evidence a stream once ran vigorously across the area on Mars where the rover is driving. There is earlier evidence for the presence of water on Mars, but this evidence -- images of rocks containing ancient streambed gravels -- is the first of its kind.

[...]

But I guess that someone in Utah is going to fast for Mitt is bigger news.

Oh, and let's not miss this: Kourtney and Mason went shopping.

Gus Fri, Sep 28, 2012 3:24:15pm

This is what I found in the website of the author of that "Obama/1.4 billion dollar man" website:

Image: reparations.jpg

More here. I added the worst to my page.

Charles Johnson Fri, Sep 28, 2012 3:25:40pm

By the way, I also changed something else about the way images are uploaded. Previously I was running JPEG images through a type of filter that actually resaved them at a lower resolution. Now your original resolution is preserved. Should mean a lot sharper images.

Gus Fri, Sep 28, 2012 3:31:00pm

re: #12 Gus

This is what I found in the website of the author of that "Obama/1.4 billion dollar man" website:

Image: reparations.jpg

More here. I added the worst to my page.

Another.

Image: bamatoken2.jpg

Daniel Ballard Fri, Sep 28, 2012 3:41:41pm

re: #13 Charles Johnson
A curious thing-Sometimes when I make an image at 196 k or so (according to Picasa or PS) it gets rejected as too big. Is there a variable in how that is calculated or something?

darthstar Fri, Sep 28, 2012 3:41:49pm

When you walk through the valley of the shadow of death, it means you've been using Apple Maps.
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) September 28, 2012

Mr. Crankypants Fri, Sep 28, 2012 3:42:40pm

re: #14 Gus

Another.

Image: bamatoken2.jpg

What the fuck is wrong with him?

Of course this is my usual reaction to anyone who posts this kind of stuff. And when the MBF raises its ugly head, I usually respond the same way and say "how about nobody does it? and what is wrong with you that you think everybody does it is an excuse for that kind of behavior?"

freetoken Fri, Sep 28, 2012 3:45:40pm

Oh goody, Ray is coming to town:

San Diego's Creation and Earth History Museum to host free 'Museum Day 2012'

[...]

Luckily for you, if you are in the San Diego area this coming weekend, Saturday September 29th, you, your family, and friends can stop by San Diego's very own Creation and Earth History Museum. The museum will be hosting a tremednously fun, exciting, and scientifically educational, free event for the whole family.

The event will include guest speakers Tom Cantor, Ray Comfort, and Darek Isaacs. There will be balloon artists present, face-painting, music, refreshments, raffles, reptile encounters, "creeping things", and even a petting zoo are all part of the event.

[...]

What did we do to deserve this?

Charles Johnson Fri, Sep 28, 2012 3:46:30pm

re: #15 Daniel Ballard

A curious thing-Sometimes when I make an image at 196 k or so (according to Picasa or PS) it gets rejected as too big. Is there a variable in how that is calculated or something?

The "196K" number is probably an approximation rounded to a multiple of whatever block size that system is using. The LGF limit is exactly 200,000 bytes, so if the block size is 16K, for example, the file could actually be over 200,000 bytes, rounded to the nearest multiple of 16K. That could be why it gets rejected.

engineer cat Fri, Sep 28, 2012 3:54:03pm

re: #19 Charles Johnson

The "196K" number is probably an approximation rounded to a multiple of whatever block size that system is using. The LGF limit is exactly 200,000 bytes, so if the block size is 16K, for example, the file could actually be over 200,000 bytes, rounded to the nearest multiple of 16K. That could be why it gets rejected.

keeping in mind that 196 * 1024 => 200,704 and thus more than 200,000 bytes, for those used to thinking of k as 1000 instead of 1024

wrenchwench Fri, Sep 28, 2012 3:58:37pm

Sky

My neighbor just put this up on Facebook. It was taken last week, looking east just before sunset.

Lidane Fri, Sep 28, 2012 4:02:32pm

re: #6 simoom

Michelle Goldberg @ The Daily Beast:
A pseudo-documentary that slimes Ann Dunham, the president’s late mother, is being mailed to swing-state voters. A look at the film and Dinesh D’Souza’s book, Obama’s America.

Question: When was Dinesh D'Souza ever considered a legitimate conservative intellectual? He's always been a hack.

Gus Fri, Sep 28, 2012 4:12:11pm

bbl

engineer cat Fri, Sep 28, 2012 4:13:36pm

Romney Poll Slide Stopped As Blog-o-Sphere Digests Dinner

endless carping and snide remarks to resume shortly

Kragar Fri, Sep 28, 2012 4:25:18pm

Hitting the game store tomorrow. Got to remember to bring my camera to get some more shots of my Space Wolves, previously seen..

Image: 107_0034.JPG

Image: 107_0035.JPG

Image: Wolf_Guard.jpg

freetoken Fri, Sep 28, 2012 4:26:10pm

re: #22 Lidane

Question: When was Dinesh D'Souza ever considered a legitimate conservative intellectual? He's always been a hack.

What is "a legitimate conservative intellectual"?

Lidane Fri, Sep 28, 2012 4:27:16pm

re: #26 freetoken

What is "a legitimate conservative intellectual"?

I have no idea. I was quoting from the original post.

I guess it's a conservative intellectual that can't get pregnant. Or something.

freetoken Fri, Sep 28, 2012 4:27:40pm

re: #27 Lidane

Maybe it's like a True Scotsman?

allegro Fri, Sep 28, 2012 4:29:41pm

re: #26 freetoken

What is "a legitimate conservative intellectual"?

He rapes you while impersonating Grover Norquist quoting Nietzsche?

freetoken Fri, Sep 28, 2012 4:30:52pm

This topic has been raised a couple of times, so I thought I would share a link to a blog in bookmarks that I on rare occasion visit that specializes in gnostic and feminine Christianity stuff:

The Forbidden Gospels

It's done by a more serious scholar, not a flakey crystal-worshipper.

Catch:

Is Jesus is "too holy" for sex?

and

Who's afraid of the married Jesus?

Kragar Fri, Sep 28, 2012 4:31:14pm

Inside The Planning Of A James O'Keefe “Sting”

Conservative activist James O'Keefe plotted a potential voter fraud sting of the Service Employees International Union in 2010 in Massachusetts — a sting that, had it been carried out, could have been funded by Rick Santorum patron Foster Friess.

The plot is elaborated on and eventually ruled out in an email chain started by conservative writer John Fund, who emailed Republican National Lawyers Association executive director Michael Thielen that the union was "contracting for buses on election day."

"If you're black or brown they'll rope you in and take you to the polls, registration can be worked out," Fund wrote, per his "Boston source." His email was forwarded on to others, forming the basis for the plans.

The email exchange, parts of which may be missing, is below. Read from the bottom. The last email is from James O'Keefe to associates Stan Dai and Nadia Naffe, who later filed harassment charges against O'Keefe.

Others on the thread include Heather Higgins, the founder of the conservative Independent Women's Voice and the late Andrew Breitbart.

dragonfire1981 Fri, Sep 28, 2012 4:31:54pm

FL Republicans fire Voter Registration firm THEY hired because of, you guessed it...voter fraud!

Election officials in Florida were scouring their records for fraudulent voter registration forms on Friday after the Republican party said it had fired a company hired to gather new voters because of reports its employees may have submitted bogus forms.

The Palm Beach County elections office first reported finding 106 potentially fraudulent registration forms earlier this week that had been submitted by Strategic Allied Consulting (SAC), a Virginia firm hired by Florida's Republican party.

Since then scores more suspicious forms have been detected in at least five other Florida counties where election officials say SAC worked to register voters.

Federal Election Commission reports from the state Republican party show it paid SAC more than $1.3 million this summer for voter registration services.

SAC was also hired to do voter registration work for the Republican party in four other key swing states - Nevada, Virginia, Colorado, and North Carolina - for a total of $2.9 million, according to the Republican National Committee (RNC).

"When we learned on Tuesday about the instances of potential voter registration fraud that occurred in Palm Beach County, we immediately informed the Republican National Committee that we were terminating the contract with the voter registration vendor we hired at their request because there is no place for voter registration fraud in Florida," state Republican Party Executive Director Mike Grissom said in a statement.

The RNC also severed ties with SAC. "We have zero tolerance for any threat to the integrity of elections," RNC spokesman Sean Spicer said in a statement.

allegro Fri, Sep 28, 2012 4:33:38pm

re: #30 freetoken

Is Jesus is "too holy" for sex?

This one has always bugged me (haven't read the article yet). The human experience is sexual - it encompasses everything there is to be human. What's with the celibacy fetish?

freetoken Fri, Sep 28, 2012 4:36:38pm

re: #33 allegro

This one has always bugged me (haven't read the article yet). The human experience is sexual - it encompasses everything there is to be human. What's with the celibacy fetish?

In the other blog entry I linked she writes:

[...]

My question is why did the sexual Jesus become the heretical Jesus while the glorification of the celibate male become the dominant orthodox view?

We can't seem to get away from it. We are back to sex and gender, and the distorted picture of the female body that Christianity has maintained. We are confronting holy misogyny.

We are looking directly through the eyes of the ancient male who valorized the male body while vulgarizing the female.

We are facing the fact that our Christian tradition made this ancient male hatred of women and their bodies sacred. This hatred is embedded in biblical texts starting with the Genesis story. It continued to be the foundation for all theology built by the catholic Christians, including Augustine's ideas. The worldview of Christianity sees the female body and sex through Augustine's distorted lens and his doctrine of original sin.

As long as the female body is viewed as substandard, subhuman, and naturally deficient as stories like Genesis reflect, as long as sexual desire is perceived to be the penalty for sin as Augustine taught, there is no way we can conceive of Jesus as married or partaking in the pleasures of sex. Our distorted views of human sexuality and the female body will not give us permission to consider the possibility.

[...]

I think the answer to your question is in the "vulgarizing the female" part.

allegro Fri, Sep 28, 2012 4:38:09pm

re: #34 freetoken

In the other blog entry I linked she writes:

I think the answer to your question is in the "vulgarizing the female" part.

Somehow that doesn't surprise me at all.

Kragar Fri, Sep 28, 2012 4:45:49pm

Allegations uncovered that right wing attorney Larry Klayman sexually abused his own children

Decatur Deb Fri, Sep 28, 2012 4:47:45pm

re: #32 dragonfire1981

FL Republicans fire Voter Registration firm THEY hired because of, you guessed it...voter fraud!

That's a riot. The story broke in Okaloosa County. Tomorrow wife and I are driving to Okaloosa County to do a day of Dem GOTV.

Lidane Fri, Sep 28, 2012 4:50:11pm

re: #36 Kragar

Allegations uncovered that right wing attorney Larry Klayman sexually abused his own children

Wow. Just...wow.

Page 3 in the Binder of Women Fri, Sep 28, 2012 4:53:04pm

re: #21 wrenchwench

Sky

My neighbor just put this up on Facebook. It was taken last week, looking east just before sunset.

I spy a moray eel.

Kragar Fri, Sep 28, 2012 4:54:38pm

re: #38 Lidane

Wow. Just...wow.

Nut Watch - 1998

Klayman is one of the fringe characters who has sprouted in the moist ground of the Clinton scandals as mushrooms do after a spring rain. But Klayman is not treated like a fringe figure. He has, by and large, achieved the mainstream credibility he craves. He is a frequent guest on such TV programs as Crossfire, Rivera Live, MSNBC's Internight, and The Charles Grodin Show (with whose twitchy host he seems to have a special affinity). Klayman is financially supported, praised, and frequently cited by the wider conservative movement. But he isn't just a nutter who gets right-wing foundation money and gets on television. He's a nutter with a law degree who takes advantage of the courts to harass his political opponents.

Lidane Fri, Sep 28, 2012 4:58:51pm

re: #40 Kragar

Yeah, I remember Klayman from the 90's. He runs Judicial Watch and he's a total wingnut loon. He's also a birther.

Kragar Fri, Sep 28, 2012 4:58:57pm

I would very much like to break something right now.

danarchy Fri, Sep 28, 2012 5:03:14pm

Heh thought this was kinda funny. Looks like Krugman is a bigger geek than I thought. :)

Interstellar Trade

dragonfire1981 Fri, Sep 28, 2012 5:06:07pm

re: #42 Kragar

I would very much like to break something right now.

Larry Krugman's legs?

(sorry if that was over the line, feel free to delete it Charles)

Page 3 in the Binder of Women Fri, Sep 28, 2012 5:06:12pm

I know its going to be haaaaaaaaaard

Ann Romney: If elected, biggest challenge is mental well-being of Mittcbsnews.com/8301-250_162-5… via @cbsnews

— EHMoss (@trillium_mimi) September 28, 2012

Obdicut Fri, Sep 28, 2012 5:06:50pm

re: #45 We're All Welfare Queens Now

I know its going to be haaaaaaaaaard

[Embedded content]

The poor guy.

Kragar Fri, Sep 28, 2012 5:07:48pm

re: #44 dragonfire1981

You said the wrong Larry.

bratwurst Fri, Sep 28, 2012 5:08:12pm

re: #41 Lidane

Yeah, I remember Klayman from the 90's. He runs Judicial Watch and he's a total wingnut loon. He's also a birther.

Not only has he not been part of Judicial Watch in nine years, he sued them in 2006. Time to update your dossier! After his hair brained attempt to run for the Senate from Florida, he did start the similarly named "Freedom Watch" in the middle of the last decade.

Kragar Fri, Sep 28, 2012 5:09:49pm

re: #48 bratwurst

Not only has he not been part of Judicial Watch in nine years, he sued them in 2006. Time to update your dossier!

And I updated my page. Thanks.

Gus Fri, Sep 28, 2012 5:13:16pm

re: #45 We're All Welfare Queens Now

I know its going to be haaaaaaaaaard

[Embedded content]

That's pretty freaky. Especially considering his preexisting erratic personality.

Kragar Fri, Sep 28, 2012 5:13:16pm

Thinking I should update the page to say pundit instead of attorney. Which seems more accurate?

Kragar Fri, Sep 28, 2012 5:13:48pm

re: #50 Gus

That's pretty freaky. Especially considering his preexisting erratic personality.

Better vote for Obama, for the sake of Mitt's mental health.

bratwurst Fri, Sep 28, 2012 5:16:50pm

re: #51 Kragar

Thinking I should update the page to say pundit instead of attorney. Which seems more accurate?

He certainly qualifies as both.

Without giving away too much personal information here, someone close to me has had several real-life dealings with this guy. I am told he is not any better in person than he appears in public.

kirkspencer Fri, Sep 28, 2012 5:17:43pm

re: #45 We're All Welfare Queens Now

I know its going to be haaaaaaaaaard

[Embedded content]

OK, I went and read the actual article, and I'm still thinking she really had no idea how that would sound -- that the person next to the Big Button may have mental issues due to the job's stresses.

Really, is the Romney team just a deep operative team for the Democrats that succeeded beyond anyone's expectations?

dragonfire1981 Fri, Sep 28, 2012 5:17:44pm

re: #47 Kragar

You said the wrong Larry.

D'oh!

Obdicut Fri, Sep 28, 2012 5:18:12pm

I met a man today whose last name is Dickensheets.

That is all.

Reverend Mother Ramallo Fri, Sep 28, 2012 5:20:13pm

re: #12 Gus 802

This is what I found in the website of the author of that "Obama/1.4 billion dollar man" website:

Image: reparations.jpg

More here. I added the worst to my page.

Damn...
Just damn.

Page 3 in the Binder of Women Fri, Sep 28, 2012 5:20:36pm

re: #50 Gus

That's pretty freaky. Especially considering his preexisting erratic personality.

I'm kinda biased, but there's just something about Mitt that makes me think he has thrown a temper tantrum or two.

Kragar Fri, Sep 28, 2012 5:20:41pm

re: #53 bratwurst

He certainly qualifies as both.

Without giving away too much personal information here, someone close to me has had several real-life dealings with this guy. I am told he is not any better in person than he appears in public.

Went with pundit instead, more encompassing.

Gus Fri, Sep 28, 2012 5:21:28pm

re: #57 Reverend Mother Ramallo

Damn...
Just damn.

I know right. Contrast that with his "positive thinking" BS and books. It's like this guy is leading a double life.

Page 3 in the Binder of Women Fri, Sep 28, 2012 5:21:54pm

re: #56 Obdicut

I met a man today whose last name is Dickensheets.

That is all.

lol

Kragar Fri, Sep 28, 2012 5:21:54pm

re: #58 We're All Welfare Queens Now

I'm kinda biased, but there's just something about Mitt that makes me think he has thrown a temper tantrum or two.

He's going to pick a country, hold it down and give it a haircut to make it fit in.

engineer cat Fri, Sep 28, 2012 5:22:14pm

re: #56 Obdicut

I met a man today whose last name is Dickensheets.

That is all.

"i met a man who's name was Cheatham

he had some peanuts and he let me eat'em"

Decatur Deb Fri, Sep 28, 2012 5:22:53pm

re: #56 Obdicut

I met a man today whose last name is Dickensheets.

That is all.

Rather Dickensian name.

engineer cat Fri, Sep 28, 2012 5:24:06pm

“You know, I’ve got a little secret here," Romney told a rally crowd of a few hundred supporters. "That is that the Obama campaign thinks Pennsylvania is in their pocket -- they don’t need to worry about it. And you’re right, and they’re wrong.

"We’re going to win Pennsylvania. We are going to take the White House."

At the fundraiser earlier this morning in Philadelphia, Romney was more circumspect about his chances, telling donors it would "really shock people" if, on Nov. 6th, Pennsylvania seemed to be going his way. He first predicted "it could happen" before closing with an outright prediction: "I'm going to win Pennsylvania."

Romney's campaign has not run any television advertisements in the Keystone state, and the candidate himself has not appeared here since mid-summer. No Republican has carried Pennsylvania since George H. W. Bush in 1988.

is he bluffing or does he know sumpin we dunno?

Page 3 in the Binder of Women Fri, Sep 28, 2012 5:24:35pm

re: #60 Gus

I know right. Contrast that with his "positive thinking" BS and books. It's like this guy is leading a double life.

direct me to the page please?

Gus Fri, Sep 28, 2012 5:25:18pm

re: #66 We're All Welfare Queens Now

direct me to the page please?

About That 'Taxpayers Spent $1.4 Billion on Obama Family Last Year' Outrage

wrenchwench Fri, Sep 28, 2012 5:25:50pm

re: #67 Gus

About That 'Taxpayers Spent $1.4 Billion on Obama Family Last Year' Outrage

How'd you do dat?

Decatur Deb Fri, Sep 28, 2012 5:26:05pm

re: #65 engineer cat

“You know, I’ve got a little secret here," Romney told a rally crowd of a few hundred supporters. "That is that the Obama campaign thinks Pennsylvania is in their pocket -- they don’t need to worry about it. And you’re right, and they’re wrong.

"We’re going to win Pennsylvania. We are going to take the White House."

At the fundraiser earlier this morning in Philadelphia, Romney was more circumspect about his chances, telling donors it would "really shock people" if, on Nov. 6th, Pennsylvania seemed to be going his way. He first predicted "it could happen" before closing with an outright prediction: "I'm going to win Pennsylvania."

Romney's campaign has not run any television advertisements in the Keystone state, and the candidate himself has not appeared here since mid-summer. No Republican has carried Pennsylvania since George H. W. Bush in 1988.

is he bluffing or does he know sumpin we dunno?

Desperate sales manager self-delusion.

Gus Fri, Sep 28, 2012 5:26:35pm

re: #68 wrenchwench

How'd you do dat?

Family secret! I have no idea. I just highlighter the text on the right bar and then did "view selection source" copied that and pasted it here.

Gus Fri, Sep 28, 2012 5:27:11pm

Allegations uncovered that right wing pundit Larry Klayman sexually abused his own children

Gus Fri, Sep 28, 2012 5:29:15pm

I am from the planet ZOMG!

Reverend Mother Ramallo Fri, Sep 28, 2012 5:29:28pm

re: #65 engineer dog

“You know, I’ve got a little secret here," Romney told a rally crowd of a few hundred supporters. "That is that the Obama campaign thinks Pennsylvania is in their pocket -- they don’t need to worry about it. And you’re right, and they’re wrong.

"We’re going to win Pennsylvania. We are going to take the White House."

At the fundraiser earlier this morning in Philadelphia, Romney was more circumspect about his chances, telling donors it would "really shock people" if, on Nov. 6th, Pennsylvania seemed to be going his way. He first predicted "it could happen" before closing with an outright prediction: "I'm going to win Pennsylvania."

Romney's campaign has not run any television advertisements in the Keystone state, and the candidate himself has not appeared here since mid-summer. No Republican has carried Pennsylvania since George H. W. Bush in 1988.

is he bluffing or does he know sumpin we dunno?

I hope he doesn't think he's gonna cheat his way into the WH.
Ugh.
Maybe I should say, I hope he can't cheat his way into the WH.

Gus Fri, Sep 28, 2012 5:33:22pm

I am from the planet ZOMG!

Here's the code for this...

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b_sharp Fri, Sep 28, 2012 5:47:47pm

re: #4 freetoken

Here's another "winner":

Some Mormons plan fast for Romney to give him edge in debates

First off, Mr. Landsberg, "politics" may be grouped into what is called the "social sciences", which itself is debatable, but one thing is for sure - there is no such thing as an "imprecise science." The phrase doesn't make sense. Sure, the phrase has been used before, but it doesn't have any real meaning.

Next, he asks " Who knows what goes into an election victory? " Well, politicians pay big money to advisors who have a track record in this regard, and it often comes down to simply turn-out - getting those who would vote for a candidate out of obligation (or habit) to the polls.

So why lead off an article with a paragraph lacking in meaning and perhaps misleading?

Well, the rest of the article is a puff-ball piece about some Mormons who are supposedly going to fast to help Mitt.

At the end of the article the writer adds a bit more color - snark - to the piece:

Which I guess makes this whole article a comic piece?

Perhaps I'm just too grumpy today, but the quantity of meaningless filler in even leading media has become so much that there is almost no return on investment of reading.

I think some people would be surprised at just how 'hard' some of the social sciences can be. I not only had to take two classes in survey/test design, but stats for my undergrad degree in Psychology.

(No, I don't remember much about test design, or stats from 30 years ago.)

b_sharp Fri, Sep 28, 2012 5:53:37pm

re: #12 Gus

This is what I found in the website of the author of that "Obama/1.4 billion dollar man" website:

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More here. I added the worst to my page.

Disgusting.
Coulter says racism is dead.
She's a moron.

b_sharp Fri, Sep 28, 2012 5:56:38pm

re: #22 Lidane

Question: When was Dinesh D'Souza ever considered a legitimate conservative intellectual? He's always been a hack.

Since Hitch was unable to debate him.

CuriousLurker Fri, Sep 28, 2012 6:58:53pm

Sahhhweet! I can totally see using this for design elements. Now if only I had a place to tore my snippets... Just kidding, Charles. (Stop glaring at me!)

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