Crap Throwing Monkey

G. Dewey Norwood? That's quite the metro-funky name...

His wife needed the phone book; he can't reach the keyboard.

Part of the steering linkage. So what?

I toss out drive-by snide remarks about your gay car. It's like referring to VABills' resemblance to a lawn gnome: it's an entertaining exercise to see how many different ways in how many different contexts I can make snide remarks, but it's not important. You, on the other hand, started a nineteen-page thread on how your 110-hp car could beat a Mustang GT in a street race...hell, I've seen you start THREE threads about your car so far, two of which were deleted after you couldn't take the heat of being told that your car is, in fact, gay. You're constantly indulging in the BF-ian stragety of "picking at it so it doesn't heal", because you love the attention. Which is, in fact, one of the few things gayer than your car.

I figured it was just as applicable an observation to this conversation...

Don't even argue with him. He just stated that the research isn't worth doing because the results of the research wouldn't be worthwhile...even though we don't know that because we haven't done the research. How do you even begin to argue with a bull sh-- position like that?

But didn't Roe v. Wade lead to an increase in abortion?

WAAAAAAH! The Crap Throwing Monkey's picking on my gay-ass metro-funky car! Ed, when's the last time you didn't post about your car? You've been bragging about that thing almost non-stop since you overpaid for it. We're not the ones obsessed with it. Someday you're going to realize that this line of "defense" really doesn't have any legs. To me, it's not a end-all, be-all, metro-funky "It's not American, so it's God's gift to automotive technology" statement of my ultimate validation in life. It's just a damn car.

It depends. As far as I know, "predatory lending" is determined on a state-by-state basis. Citi hasn't been nailed in this area for it, and shouldn't be, to the best of my knowledge...but other jurisdiction may define it differently. (And yes, all lenders are predatory to some degree. REAL predatory lenders, though - the "Oh, you were late paying your credit card last month? Your interest rate's now 30%" type - are pure evil.)

Please explain to me how that's even remotely the same thing. This should be utterly surreal...

Actually, I'd even dispute the result being positive fiscally. It's a short-term budgetary gain...but the trade-off is a long-term loss of medical research skills and technology, and the benefits thereof. See my NCA reference above... Very similar to AIDS research. That early-on (and even currently) was considered a "waste", because the "cure" for AIDS was "Stop having sex, dumbasses!" But the knowledge that developed from AIDS research is already worth many times more than the federal money that was put into it. That doesn't hold for all science, of course...but in this case, it's a reasonable expectation.

Hey, it's not often I get to disparage two people - particularly when one of them's me - with one comment. You've got to take those opportunities when the come...

I never disliked Fina. I just thought he was a prototypical '80s tackle playing in the '90s. I suspect he would have dominated 10 years earlier...but by the time he did enter the league, players were a lot bigger.

This is the most damning proof yet that you are, in fact, a !@#$ing idiot...

I wouldn't call her an annoyance. Helen Thomas is just Old School. She's one of the few on the press corps I respect, actually...she comes from the generation of journalists that grew up in the shadow of Edward R. Murrow; she already had a successful, mature career when the "Deans" of modern newscasting were discovering in Vietnam and Watergate that they could make news instead of just reporting it.

Exactly...just think of all those additional blastospheres that would die if we were allowed to isolate their stem cells! You know that's the logic, too: that allowing new federally-funded stem cell lines would lead to an increase in abortion as stem cells were harvested to create the new lines. No Blastosphere Left Behind, dammit!

I saw yesterday's press conference. Thomas and Snow must be friends, for the set-ups she feeds him.

I'd have voted for you...except you're just not important enough to annoy me. Frankly, I don't even give you a second thought. Diving spaghetti-slurping greaseball mother!@#$er...

Herpes? I thought Ed was calling you a herpetologist...

Just talked to the wife about this. She shared a few things: 1) It's normal. CitiMortgage's no better nor worse in this regard. 2) Her words: you had no business going on vacation for three weeks when you're buying a house. The example of "why not" she gave is: even if the mortgage company had everything they needed, had the state come back saying "We need this, too" (which can happen - happened to us), you'd have been SOL. I tend to agree with her sentiment, if not her phrasing. Bad timing, like you said...but my wife is very unforgiving about things like that, since she has to deal with it on a daily basis from buyers, sellers, developers, lenders... Having bought a house a few months ago, I just can't see how you managed to find time for a vacation. 3) She says you should also ask them to waive their garbage fees - document preparation, application fees, doc review, and such. Least they can do in compensation. 4) The seller would be absolutely insane to rip up your contract and start anew. They've got a buyer in hand (you), so what they're threatening is to start the process over from the beginning over a few days' of scheduling. Also...read your contract carefully. They may not even be able to "rip it up"; as you have the commitment letter in hand, they may have to give you an extra week or two to get the loan approved...or, if they rip it up, you have grounds to sue them on breach of contract (you get your deposit back anyway...but you can go after them for your costs in buying the house and appliances, as well.) But if they seriously threaten to rip up the contract, just reasonably point out that it'll just delay their move to Ohio that much more...

At which point people will B word about the greedy drug companies holding all the patents to the therapeutic results of the research, and how the government should take them over...

I can actually understand that...the president was elected by a majority, giving him a "mandate" to do as he thinks is proper. He may very well honestly believe that he was elected because of his stance on this topic, and is therefore only executing the will of the majority. I disagree with it. Strongly. But I can understand it. It's not "I'm doing what I believe is right", but "I'm doing what I believe and 50 million voters told me is right." Well...okay. I think you're full of sh-- George, I don't think it's nearly that black and white (many people - like myself, for instance - voted for you because we thought your opponent was somehow, amazingly, more of a pinhead than you are). But I understand the logic. And I'll give you a golf clap for being honest and up-front about it (oh, yeah, that's how you were less of a pinhead...) And to reprise my global warming bitching again: THIS is why I hate it when politics and science get intermingled. You get bad policy and bad science. Hey, guess what...it's starting to look like stem cells can be implicated in a good number of cancers (this month's Scientific American has an article on it, I believe). Too bad NCA can't study that...but hey, no problem, at least we're saving the lives of blastospheres...

Obviously, you drive an American car. Is this the part now where I make fun of your interest in lizards?

Eunuch. Conversely, I've got three cats. I'm hung like a friggin' elephant.

Probably wouldn't change the government's reaction, though. There's this very fundamental aspect of reality - namely, reality - that dictates what you can and can't do in a situation regardless of how much people whine and B word and cry and moan.