tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.comments2023-10-09T04:11:47.358-07:00Not A Potted PlantBurt Likkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16060980744675990412noreply@blogger.comBlogger3723125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post-23287985433911499382017-02-19T09:12:39.824-08:002017-02-19T09:12:39.824-08:00Just come across your blogsite- better late than n...Just come across your blogsite- better late than never you might say.<br />Thank you for this interesting and informative post.<br />As an Englishman I confess my ignorance of American history, and appreciate the opportunity to remedy this, even if only slightly, by reading posts such as yours.<br />Thanks again.<br />Brian.umblepiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13455889107917179909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post-84502802082497062952012-10-25T10:10:07.051-07:002012-10-25T10:10:07.051-07:00it is on the other side...google it. Shows it clea...it is on the other side...google it. Shows it clearly. Thats why he sat the way he did so it was hidden from the camera.<br /><br />11 Alive News in Atlanta showed it. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00845570835576357988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post-11167494748532932132011-09-10T00:30:40.546-07:002011-09-10T00:30:40.546-07:00The guy will live forever in my heart I named my D...The guy will live forever in my heart I named my Daughter Tianna in his and the fallens honour. I used to be too shy and nervous to talk to strangers but now after thinking for a second about the tank man I am afraid of nothing..o0rich0ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06869183594449199019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post-40276779841245802422011-08-05T15:53:59.939-07:002011-08-05T15:53:59.939-07:00Thank you for the education.Thank you for the education.photoelliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04515533518513849828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post-39841108903060672012011-07-26T02:11:07.550-07:002011-07-26T02:11:07.550-07:00I completely agree with you. I lived in that area ...I completely agree with you. I lived in that area for three months (felt like 5 yrs!). I went to the very same Denny's on Wadsworth.:) I also lived in Cherry Creek North and Park Hill for several months as well. The whole city of Denver is creepy to me and I couldn't wait to leave. No one and nothing was what it seemed to be. I never got the free feeling vibes like the hippies and new agers. I think you pretty much have to be on drugs and/or brainwashed by a new age guru to even feel good vibes in that place. Even after coming from NYC, I found the people there to be rude, cold, judgmental, greedy (was stolen from, ripped off, lied to, scammed by pretty much by every person I met there) secretive and nothing like a community or neighborhood at all. After leaving there I learned a lot about secret and not so secret military projects, the largest fusion threat center, secret and not so secret tunnels and bunkers, as well as some weird secret society stuff that takes place there. I almost have to believe some of the questionable eerie things about Denver and Colorado because it seems perfectly aligned with the intense creepy 'vibe' I got there. I was wondering if other people felt the same way so I googled "eerie colorado" and got your page. :) Awesome! Thanks for sharing.NYvoicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00983885888055779507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post-41938653321814217882011-05-20T05:15:59.804-07:002011-05-20T05:15:59.804-07:00Dandruff shampoo and conditioner work well. Also a...Dandruff shampoo and conditioner work well. Also a leave in conditioner, but takes a little while to get used to because your beard feels wet until the conditioner dries. Another thing to do is get a nice brush and actually brush your beard so the bristles massage and exfoliate the skin underneath.Jeremyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05235409772907398400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post-27585654546696704172011-04-09T04:46:39.316-07:002011-04-09T04:46:39.316-07:00There is nothing to represent the EU, and this is ...There is nothing to represent the EU, and this is precisely because it IS nothing, and it wants to be nothing.<br /><br />European identity has become anti-identity.Armed with Knowledgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03359547020414493150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post-12960365589264583782011-03-03T12:42:28.972-08:002011-03-03T12:42:28.972-08:00I pictured Adrien Brody as Waterhouse (skinny piti...I pictured Adrien Brody as Waterhouse (skinny pitiful guy who could deliver doleful, sarcastic lines) and Salma Hayek as Eliza (sexy and intelligent).Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06539753092598408699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post-86332355492646840062011-02-11T14:28:08.090-08:002011-02-11T14:28:08.090-08:00Minor point. Aguilera wasn't lip-synching. I...Minor point. Aguilera wasn't lip-synching. I've done live audio engineering so here's take...<br /><br />The reason her audio volume didn't change is that when the signal from her mic comes through the sound system, it gets processed by sophisticated digital equipment designed to keep the sound at a regular volume. What likely happens, or something similar to this, is that the audio is a little high when it comes out of the sound system initially... but before it comes out of the loudspeakers (or transmitted via TV), the equipment knocks the volume down a little to a predefined level. It's called audio limiting.<br /><br />Thus, if the mic moves away from her mouth, the equipment says to itself, "Okay, because the audio was a little too high to begin with, it's now at a more normal level and I don't have to limit the signal as much... so I'm going to back off a little on my limiting so the signal stays at that predefined level." I could be wrong, but I would think that's what they were doing.<br /><br />Aside from that minor critique... you're right, Aguilera's botched words were shameful. And I too had high expectations for Black Eyed Peas... both my girlfriend and I were dreadfully disappointed. I was saying they SHOULD have lip-synched the half time show in order to ensure better overall entertainment... at least we wouldn't have been distracted by how awful it was and maybe we could have enjoyed it, even if we knew it was kinda fake. Before it was even over, we were online looking for other people who thought it was awful. Even Keith Olbermann weighed in... maybe that's not surprising.Patrick Cardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17675380479716941609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post-33959474814267043072011-02-07T12:25:38.164-08:002011-02-07T12:25:38.164-08:00Well, no. first, the alleged deficit is waaaaaaaa...Well, no. first, the alleged deficit is waaaaaaaaaay the heck out, and IIRC would result in a 20% benefit cut in the worst likely case.<br /><br />Second, the last time the American people accept such a 'fix' was the Greenspan commission, where one (going on two) generations of Americans agreed to pay extra SS taxes, to help fund their retirements. <br /><br />That money was immediately spent on reducing the taxes on the rich, which was supposed to result in increased economic growth, which it didn't.<br /><br />Third, let's ramp up taxes on the rich. It's clear by now that the right-wing claims that this would cause problems are simply wrong; massive tax reductions resulted in no positive effects, and many negative (asset prices bubbles).Barry DeCiccohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04735814736387033844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post-34207297892109263782011-02-07T12:16:53.428-08:002011-02-07T12:16:53.428-08:00"I'd known that the Federalist Society wa..."I'd known that the Federalist Society was a collection of libertarian and conservative lawyers but I hadn't counted on my fellow libertarians being such a small minority of those present. "<br /><br />I think that libertarians tend to do this; they don't realize that conservative activisits frequently mean it when they argue for very non-libertarian positions.Barry DeCiccohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04735814736387033844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post-41424548661093196332011-02-05T10:47:15.237-08:002011-02-05T10:47:15.237-08:00Two smart people didn't seem to get this. He&#...Two smart people didn't seem to get this. He's making fun of people who offer "historical proof" of the Bible being true.Burt Likkohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16060980744675990412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post-6471880433057479292011-02-05T08:58:27.777-08:002011-02-05T08:58:27.777-08:00What the hell?What the hell?Stephen M. Stillmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17008964260739891695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post-11231904186800542552011-02-05T08:50:45.083-08:002011-02-05T08:50:45.083-08:00Wow! He's only 19? What a speech- and withou...Wow! He's only 19? What a speech- and without any notes. I wish my graduate students showed half the speaking ability and presence.Stephen M. Stillmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17008964260739891695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post-84674554186941705022011-02-04T11:04:15.031-08:002011-02-04T11:04:15.031-08:00It's like when a homeless person strikes up a ...It's like when a homeless person strikes up a conversation with you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post-73890488242435679992011-02-03T11:25:11.927-08:002011-02-03T11:25:11.927-08:00Assange's mission is plainly not peaceful, for...Assange's mission is plainly not peaceful, for precisely the reasons you enumerate. I find him thoroughly problematic, and his willy-nilly, gleeful approach to sharing any and all secret information makes any good he does a mixed blessing, at best.<br /><br />However, let's not kid ourselves that the Nobel Peace Prize has anything to do with "peace." Plenty of winners give the lie to this particular notion. Mother Theresa may have been a wonderful humanitarian (though not to hear Hitchens tell it), but what did that have to do with peace? Believe what you will about Al Gore (and I am that rare liberal apostate who questions the scientific validity of anthropogenic global warming), but even if you accept his data, what does that have to do with peace? And I don't think even Barack Obama would argue that Barack Obama deserved the Peace Prize, at least at that point in his career. (You and I differ about his options re: accepting the award anyway.)<br /><br />No, Assange would fit in perfectly with many other plainly ideological, peace-unrelated winners.Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11213051268392108382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post-49631033766194853862011-02-02T08:48:56.734-08:002011-02-02T08:48:56.734-08:00Because disclosing a bias is not the same thing as...Because disclosing a bias is not the same thing as actually being fair.<br /><br />Let's say you've got a black defendant and the judge says: "You should know that I'm in the Klan. Now, I can be fair an impartial and I'm going to see to it that you get a by-the-book trial and any decisions I make will be based strictly on the law, and on the facts and evidence before me. So I'm not going to recuse myself. But I'm disclosing to you that I'm a member of the Klan." <br /><br />I wouldn't be cool with that. Even if the judge followed through and actually delivered a by-the-book trial, making no errors in his rulings.Burt Likkohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16060980744675990412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post-17866769509802630222011-02-02T05:03:48.499-08:002011-02-02T05:03:48.499-08:00On examination, it doesn't look like bias or a...<i>On examination, it doesn't look like bias or anything improper, but it's important that the courts be perceived as unbiased and a part of that perception comes from the willingness of the members of the bench to make disclosures so as to display their impartiality.</i><br /><br />Why is it important to maintain the illusion of something we all know is false? Like every other person, judges have ideological bias. Isn't it better to have it out in the open where we can see it?Brandon Berghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14490308321355825389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post-564903335262238152011-02-01T06:18:25.659-08:002011-02-01T06:18:25.659-08:00What a great question. It's hard to answer bec...What a great question. It's hard to answer because we wound up with a really complex cocktail of wines. The critical add, I think, was the Bordeaux. Everything else was full of big, bright, acidic tastes. The thinner, sweeter flavors from France mellowed out the tannins and its earthiness helped keep the final product smooth and drinkable.<br /><br />If I were going to add anything to it, it would be a touch of Grenache, for the same reasons. A Zinfandel or a Cabernet would dominate the mix, which as it is has more syrah than anything else. So maybe less of that.Burt Likkohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16060980744675990412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post-51356694560254098172011-01-31T23:59:06.816-08:002011-01-31T23:59:06.816-08:00Do you feel any of the wines could have been left ...Do you feel any of the wines could have been left out of the blend? Any sort of wine you think could have been added to improve matters?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post-52149048390416926792011-01-31T06:26:58.049-08:002011-01-31T06:26:58.049-08:00Ding ding ding ding ding ding! Exactly right, Dan....Ding ding ding ding ding ding! Exactly right, Dan.<br /><br />It's bad enough to say, "I really like that new Avril Lavinge song." It's much, much worse to say, "I want to <i>smell</i> like Avril Lavinge."Burt Likkohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16060980744675990412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post-76985942171429212262011-01-31T05:46:24.122-08:002011-01-31T05:46:24.122-08:00They all have awful, shoddily-produced celebrity f...They all have awful, shoddily-produced celebrity fashion lines or perfumes or accessories. (I'm betting on it being perfumes that triggered this post.)<br /><br />Hadley Freeman, the delightful fashion advice columnist for the Guardian, counsels that it is perfectly acceptable to dump someone for wearing celebrity perfume.Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11213051268392108382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post-66698267067454316182011-01-30T21:32:21.782-08:002011-01-30T21:32:21.782-08:00I'll give you all a hint. I was in Kohl's ...I'll give you all a hint. I was in Kohl's when I wrote and published this post.Burt Likkohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16060980744675990412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post-69120133849856949062011-01-30T20:19:46.823-08:002011-01-30T20:19:46.823-08:0042. The answer is 42.42. The answer is 42.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post-22368235605126823972011-01-27T23:12:55.980-08:002011-01-27T23:12:55.980-08:00Regarding MSG, here's a good rundown on the ca...Regarding MSG, here's a good rundown on the case against the case against MSG:<br /><br />http://www.good.is/post/don-t-be-scared-of-msgAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com