Crap Throwing Monkey

Poor lady. Plenty of other people lost sons in Iraq and oppose the war and the president. She gets national - and maybe international, I don't know - fame simply because she's gullible and easily manipulated.

Seriously...start calling other lenders and seeing what they can do for you. Tell them your problems with Citi, tell them the schedule you want, see if they'll put something together that beats Citi rate- and time-wise. They may even waive the application fees, just for the chance to !@#$ over Citi (lenders have been known to do that). I know it's a royal pain in the ass to do something like that...but if my wife were dealing with a buyer going through what you are, that's what she'd say, complete with "Here's the numbers of some reputable loan officers who'll come through for you." I'd call my wife right now and see if she could recommend anyone...but she's got an even dozen closings today (four is a busy day for a normal closer. Twelve should be impossible. She's Super Closer), and she'll kill me if I interrupt her.

Sue the Egyptians. They invented beer 6000 years ago...without beer, there wouldn't be bars to serve Bacardi in.

I think it is. But maybe not.

The sun? I haven't seen it all day. I figured it was locked up in Gitmo...

Go read my even earlier posts in this board, when I said otherwise. Note that I only started blaming the Lebanese after you made the contention that Hizb'Allah = Lebanon. It's called "using your own nonsense against you". Edit: Actually, looking back, I made the contention that Hizb'Allah doesn't represent Lebanon...and you !@#$ing argued with me that they do. So now when I say they do, you argue with me that they don't. This is why people treat you like an idiot.

Yeah, they're "part of" the Lebanese government. Two cabinet ministers and eleven seats in parliment. They're not THE Lebanese government. They're a political party...with their own private militia outside the control of the Lebanese government. And for the roughly one billion dollars they pumped in to rebuilding Lebanon...yeah, they're pretty charitable. If they'd just divest themselves of their military pretensions like they're supposed to under UN resolutions, they might even achieve respectability.

Paul? Joe? Mike? Which one of you is this?

And yet, when I asked you to demonstrate even vaguely how solar panels contribute to global warming, you couldn't even begin to do it and dismissed the question. Nah...I think I have to go with you being a science idiot. Occam's Razor and all...

So in other words, this is nothing new. Just a continuation of the war that began...in 1979? 1967? How about 1948? Let me make this perfectly clear: there is NO law of warfare regarding "proportionality". None. Not when Hizb'Allah rockets Tel Aviv, not when Hamas bombs Sbarro's Pizza restaurants, not when Israel bombs the sh-- out of Lebanon. "Proportionality" in war is just a concept the ignorant use to make themselves feel warm and fuzzy inside that they're fighting a war "humanely". It's a crock. The only way to fight a war humanely is to do it as quickly as possible - to do so disproportionally, in fact. A "proportional" war just kills people without end...case in point: the Arab-Israeli conflict, which has been fought "proportionally" for 60 years now. And furthermore, it's not my contention that Lebanon declared war on Israel. It's yours. I've said repeatedly that Hizb'Allah declared war, acting in their own interests and not those of the Lebanese. So don't spin your bull sh-- back on me, either. So, yes...if Israel killed every man, woman, and child in Hizb'Allah...that would be perfectly acceptable to me, as you don't pick fights with bigger bullies and then whine about it when you get pummelled.

You forgot "Maybe we can trade Losman for him now. Git 'er done."

I have a talent for that: looking at a technical problem and intuitively pulling out the two or three salient issues of it. It used to freak out my thesis advisor; he'd start describing a problem, and I'd start giving him off-the-cuff results before he'd finished describing it. Nowadays, of course, my talent in that regard only sees use in egg dropping contests...

To properly decelerate the egg, I think the cradle might be too stiff given the size of your overall package (that double entendre ought to get some laughs from the peanut gallery). Plus...when you can engineer out of paper, you officially get to wear the "engineering geek" badge. All the more reason to go with rubber bands, I suppose.

I think this movie was set between I and II. Which doesn't make a whole lot of sense either...but I read it somewhere...

My idea's cooler.

There is that possibility, too. Forget winning...just toss the egg and watch it smash. It does provide a certain satisfaction...

I used to do this for model rocketry contests. If you google for model rocketry egg launching, you should find all the help you need. The most important thing to remember is that an egg is stronger along it's long axis than its short one, and strongest at the tip of the narrower end. Whatever you design, designing it so that the egg lands on that tip will greatly increase your chances. The other thing to remember is: the egg must decelerate on impact SLOWER than the container does. So just doing something like wrapping it in bubble wrap won't work - the wrap won't absorb enough of the impact. What I'd probably do on this short notice...newspaper and masking tape. Alternate between folded sheets of paper (folded every quarter-inch accordion-style - narrower if you can), flat sheets of paper, and masking tape to hold it together. Wrap the egg in an egg-shaped capsule of that, with the egg near the back of the capsule (i.e. if you have a six-inch limit, have four inches of paper layers at the front - the narrowest end - of the egg, where it'll land). The capsule will want to fall egg-side down, since most of the weight is there, so attach a parachute to the back end, so it falls in the orientation (narrowest end down) you want it to, and MAKE SURE THE PARACHUTE IS BIG ENOUGH (it doesn't have to slow the fall, it just hast to keep the capsule falling in the right direction.) Do that, and your four inches of corrugated paper construction between the egg and the ground will crush on impact and absorb most of the force, and the egg will likely survive. Not certainly, as not all eggs are created equal and you might get a defective one. But probably.

Good idea. Because, frankly, you were babbling.

So nothing about global warming makes sense to a guy who admits he wouldn't even pass third grade science? You'll pardon me for pointing out that the reason none of it makes sense might have less to do with the science than it does you...

I don't think so either. But plenty of other people seem to. The definition of "icon" can change generation by generation. Doesn't mean that Paris Hilton's not a twit, of course...but then, people thought Marilyn Monroe was in her time, too.

But diplomacy's not working!!!!

I wouldn't even give it that much. That joke sucked.

No, they named it after Albert Tuna. Bill Parcells' younger brother.

That'll be about three hours too late.

In other words...he was Fletch.