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Axios: "CNN+ Looks Doomed"
And Taylor Lorenz looks like a melted waxwork figure of Dom DeLuise. Tell me something I don't know.
They're cancelling all external marketing for the streaming "service" (it's not a service, it's an imposition), which means they're not spending money to promote it. They'll only be promoting it where it's free to promote it, like on CNN's twitter feed.' Or on CNN+ itself. Which no one watches. They might run an ad on CNN, but I imagine they won't run many of those.LOL.
Warner Bros. Discovery has suspended all external marketing spend for CNN+ and has laid off CNN's longtime chief financial officer as it weighs what to do with the subscription streaming service moving forward, five sources tell Axios. Why it matters: Inside CNN, executives think the launch has been successful. Discovery executives disagree. CNN+ has roughly 150,000 subscribers so far.
Warner Bros. Discovery wants to eventually build one giant service around HBO Max. ...
Executives are frustrated that new leadership is moving quickly to dismantle what they see as an eventual lifeline for the cable network. CNN's original plan was for CNN+ to become profitable in four years by investing $1 billion into the service.
... CNN+ launched on Roku last week, which should've prompted a subscription boost.Why would that prompt a subscription boost? Just because garbage is available, doesn't mean people will buy garbage. I have Roku. (Great service, lets you cut the cable cord almost painlessly!) I haven't seen any ads for CNN Minus. (Roku advertises shows and services on the side of the boot-up screen.) I just searched for new channels and did find it, but who is going to bother searching for this? It's like trying to find Taylor Lorenz's phone number to date her. No one wants to fuck an orc. They nasty. Also, CNN Minus isn't branded as CNN Minus. It's branded as CNN. So apparently people also don't want CNN itself! Because Roku is offering them CNN, not CNN Minus, and apparently that's not budging the subscription numbers, either!
You know what really helps apps roll-out smoothly? When almost no one is pinging the server to actually use it.
But with marketing around the service suspended, there are concerns that growth will be short-lived. A point of pride amongst CNN staffers is how smoothly the app's rollout has been technologically.
We should definitely believe CNN. They seem to have a really good bead on reality.
Discovery executives are focused mostly on returning CNN to its journalistic core, a point Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav reiterated in a town hall last week. That includes less of a focus on primetime perspective programming, and more of a focus on hard, breaking news. CNN+ features an array of soft news content, which doesn't align with Discovery's broader vision for CNN. ... CNN+ executives were originally hoping to attract 2 million subscribers in the first year and 15-18 million over four years, as Axios has previously reported.
Around $300 million has been spent and hundreds of jobs have been created to support the service.
I insist, it's not a "service," it's an imposition.
Chris Wallace will soon have more time to spend with his hair dye.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 19, 2022 01:20 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 19, 2022 01:20 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: RUReadingthis at April 19, 2022 01:20 PM (aQ25I)
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"We got Chuck Schumer's office to subscribe off of federal tax money!"
-CNN
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 19, 2022 01:21 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Marcus T at April 19, 2022 01:21 PM (h2OUV)
Posted by: BignJames at April 19, 2022 01:22 PM (AwYPR)
Posted by: Marcus T at April 19, 2022 01:22 PM (h2OUV)
Posted by: gp's Electro-Tonic Tension at April 19, 2022 01:22 PM (qpX6U)
Ah, ace's trademarked cruelty!
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at April 19, 2022 01:23 PM (xzkgL)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 19, 2022 01:23 PM (ynpvh)
Ah, ace's trademarked cruelty!
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at April 19, 2022 01:23 PM (xzkgL)
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Pointed cruel.
9/10.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 19, 2022 01:23 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: gp's Electro-Tonic Tension at April 19, 2022 01:23 PM (qpX6U)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 19, 2022 01:24 PM (9gDA7)
Posted by: 29Victor at April 19, 2022 01:24 PM (BJKQV)
Announcing: CNN++
Posted by: gp's Electro-Tonic Tension at April 19, 2022 01:23 PM (qpX6U)
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Remove the N's.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 19, 2022 01:24 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Puddihead at April 19, 2022 01:24 PM (Nv3bW)
Nothingburger.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 19, 2022 01:24 PM (9gDA7)
Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 name in news at April 19, 2022 01:24 PM (nIYeB)
Posted by: ace at April 19, 2022 01:24 PM (0G13K)
Posted by: Puddihead at April 19, 2022 01:24 PM (Nv3bW)
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I don't know...Josh Gad keeps getting work.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 19, 2022 01:24 PM (LvTSG)
Yeah, the load on their AWS instances are probably averaging 0.01 across the board. Plenty of room for activities!
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at April 19, 2022 01:25 PM (xzkgL)
I predict that they won't run an ad. That would eat up time to advertise their actual CNN shows or to actually sell that ad space. What they'll do is they'll have Chris Wallace or whoever else they have on it, appear on CNN for a segment. And right before for the commercial, "Thank you Chris. And you can check out Chris Wallace's show 'I'm a smarmy little gnome' on our CNN+ app. We'll be right back."
Posted by: buzzion at April 19, 2022 01:25 PM (vMCab)
Posted by: Marcus T at April 19, 2022 01:25 PM (h2OUV)
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Anyone have any strong tape? I need some adhesive for my sides.
Posted by: Azathoth at April 19, 2022 01:25 PM (wb1YC)
well she looks like a goblin and spends her life in goblin mode
Posted by: ace at April 19, 2022 01:25 PM (0G13K)
Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2022 01:26 PM (a7hor)
well she looks like a goblin and spends her life in goblin mode
Posted by: ace at April 19, 2022 01:25 PM (0G13K)
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So, garrett's kind of woman if he were into chicks?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 19, 2022 01:26 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: gp's Electro-Tonic Tension at April 19, 2022 01:26 PM (qpX6U)
Posted by: mrp at April 19, 2022 01:26 PM (6eRlp)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 19, 2022 01:26 PM (9gDA7)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 19, 2022 01:26 PM (23YGv)
Posted by: gp's Electro-Tonic Tension at April 19, 2022 01:26 PM (qpX6U)
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He's got to worry about monetization from YouTube.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 19, 2022 01:26 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: 29Victor at April 19, 2022 01:26 PM (BJKQV)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 19, 2022 01:26 PM (dNqv+)
FIVE sources? Man, that's a lot of hate. Which is nice.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at April 19, 2022 01:26 PM (aXxgO)
That's great news. They could be the example our side needs to get corporations to go back to apoliticalness or at least copoliticalness.
Disney can't go back to CA b/c CA was bankrupting them and they already burned CA, so FL has them by the nuts...and corporate Disney was too stupid to realize that.
PS - It's not like they can pick up and go anywhere else. They don't own Tokyo, China is a dumpster fire, and France - well, you thought CA was costing you and arm and a leg in salary and regulation...
Posted by: Nova local at April 19, 2022 01:26 PM (exHjb)
What's going on with "Goblin" now?
Is calling leftist influencers "goblins" a thing now?
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Cannibal, Zombie, Vampire, Goblin. All of them are monsters. And they all fit.
Posted by: Puddihead at April 19, 2022 01:26 PM (Nv3bW)
Posted by: profligatewaste at April 19, 2022 01:26 PM (Be3jb)
Posted by: mrp at April 19, 2022 01:26 PM (6eRlp)
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"Nah. We're good. Shut up."
-Blackrock
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 19, 2022 01:27 PM (LvTSG)
Kinda like my secret fishing spot. It's so secret, not even the fish know about it.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2022 01:27 PM (a7hor)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 19, 2022 01:27 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at April 19, 2022 01:27 PM (xzkgL)
Does anyone really care
Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at April 19, 2022 01:27 PM (l0lSO)
Posted by: gdgm+ at April 19, 2022 01:27 PM (k6jXd)
Posted by: Ktgreat at April 19, 2022 01:27 PM (AD3JT)
I guess we'll soon see who has the pimp hand.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at April 19, 2022 01:28 PM (aXxgO)
I was calling leftist "goblins" in 2021:
Alternate post title: Texas Hospital Decides To Use Tik-Tok Goblins To Tell Them How To Run Their Hospital
Posted by: Soothsayer is a Movie Critic, Now! at August 19, 2021 05:15 PM (f9z5j)
You're all a year behind me.
Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 name in news at April 19, 2022 01:28 PM (nIYeB)
Posted by: Tater Stelter at April 19, 2022 01:28 PM (FJYfm)
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Money talks. Stakeholders walk. Never liked that stakeholder bullshit.
Posted by: Puddihead at April 19, 2022 01:28 PM (Nv3bW)
Does anyone really care
Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at April 19, 2022 01:27 PM (l0lSO)
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All I know is that covid is airborne, that everyone is going to die, and that when there is no spike in covid cases over the next two weeks, it'll just be further proof that masks are necessary on airplanes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 19, 2022 01:28 PM (LvTSG)
They need to launch "CNN 8: The Ocho."
It can just be livestreams of their anchors and production staff off-the-clock.
The audience will be the repugnant sex deviants for whom PornHub is just another vanilla erotica site for the Stepford Wives who won't get down and dirty like a CNN freak.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2022 01:28 PM (UGDPW)
Posted by: ace at April 19, 2022 01:25 PM (0G13K)
Fitbit logs confirm this; 100% legit.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at April 19, 2022 01:28 PM (xzkgL)
Posted by: Dr Spank at April 19, 2022 01:28 PM (AGpUn)
___________
So cruel! Also funny. But mostly just true.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at April 19, 2022 01:28 PM (k4dH2)
Posted by: Marcus T at April 19, 2022 01:28 PM (h2OUV)
For Wallace's retirement gift.
He's already got a watch.
Throw in some lead-lined waders.
Enjoy retirement Chrissy.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 19, 2022 01:29 PM (uO+/l)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at April 19, 2022 01:29 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: Ace
Maybe the RNC can get him to moderate a presidential debate.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 19, 2022 01:29 PM (pk8mR)
Posted by: gdgm+ at April 19, 2022 01:27 PM (k6jXd)
I guess they ignored mine...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 19, 2022 01:29 PM (ynpvh)
Meanwhile, in Florida . . .
https://bit.ly/3vwYv19
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Still Crazy After All These Years at April 19, 2022 01:25 PM (FVME7)
.........
Maybe the Burmese pythons will scare them away.
Posted by: wth at April 19, 2022 01:29 PM (v0R5T)
This says so much.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 19, 2022 01:29 PM (xuxOR)
I will dance on their ashes.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 19, 2022 01:27 PM (wtvvX)
Careful. I just peed there.
Posted by: Wally at April 19, 2022 01:29 PM (FJYfm)
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He's got to worry about monetization from YouTube.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 19, 2022 01:26 PM (LvTSG)
He's been demonitized for over a year now, hasn't he? He gets all his revenue from Blaze and merch.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 19, 2022 01:29 PM (9gDA7)
Kinda like my secret fishing spot. It's so secret, not even the fish know about it.
haha, that's a good line
Posted by: ace at April 19, 2022 01:29 PM (0G13K)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 19, 2022 01:26 PM (dNqv+)
Aren't those Orcs? A few comments up she was a goblin, but back in the main post she was an Orc. I'm so confused.
Posted by: moon_over_vermont at April 19, 2022 01:29 PM (lElTE)
Is calling leftist influencers "goblins" a thing now?
A piece on here by ACE a few days ago showed how there's a small movement to call being relaxed and taking a day off "goblin mode". I don't know where that came from, since goblins are not known for being lazy, unkempt, and slothful, but whatever. My guess is it somehow comes from that.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2022 01:30 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 19, 2022 01:30 PM (iFTx/)
Announcing: CNN++
Posted by: gp's Electro-Tonic Tension at April 19, 2022 01:23 PM (qpX6U)
CNN doubleplusungood
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 19, 2022 01:30 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Puddihead at April 19, 2022 01:30 PM (Nv3bW)
Of course, that's what a news organization, not a propaganda organ, would do.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 19, 2022 01:30 PM (23YGv)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 19, 2022 01:26 PM (dNqv+)
Aren't those Orcs? A few comments up she was a goblin, but back in the main post she was an Orc. I'm so confused.
Posted by: moon_over_vermont at April 19, 2022 01:29 PM (lElTE)
A Goblin that see's itself as an Orc?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 19, 2022 01:30 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Sir Mix-a-lot at April 19, 2022 01:30 PM (dbdgv)
I will pour imported Russian Oil on their ashes and set it afire again. Just to be sure.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at April 19, 2022 01:31 PM (aXxgO)
You just know they're going to have a "good" orc in Rings of Power.
Posted by: buzzion at April 19, 2022 01:31 PM (vMCab)
That's great news. They could be the example our side needs to get corporations to go back to apoliticalness or at least copoliticalness.
Posted by: Nova local at April 19, 2022 01:26 PM (exHjb)
It would be nice to see a study like the ones done after the Olympics to see if the tax breaks and special considerations that Florida gives to Disney result in a net profit or loss for Florida.
Posted by: 29Victor at April 19, 2022 01:31 PM (BJKQV)
Announcing: CNN++
Posted by: gp's Electro-Tonic Tension at April 19, 2022 01:23 PM (qpX6U)
CNN doubleplusungood
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 19, 2022 01:30 PM (wtvvX)
It worked for C and C+...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 19, 2022 01:31 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at April 19, 2022 01:31 PM (eGTCV)
It's life, Jim. But not as we know it.
Posted by: quantum mechanic at April 19, 2022 01:31 PM (vcv8B)
Posted by: moon_over_vermont at April 19, 2022 01:29 PM (lElTE)
I think in tolkien lore, goblin=orc.
Goblin was usually the opposite number for the elves/pixies in traditional Fairy lore, IIANM.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 19, 2022 01:31 PM (dNqv+)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2022
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So TL was born in 1973, despite Wiki's lying statement of a birth year in the range of '84 to '87?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 19, 2022 01:31 PM (txdEq)
Yeah, all the freaks and trannys on instagram are "green-haired goblins" to me. Because they're goblins.
Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 name in news at April 19, 2022 01:31 PM (nIYeB)
Posted by: Marcus T at April 19, 2022 01:31 PM (h2OUV)
Posted by: USNtakim deplorable still. at April 19, 2022 01:31 PM (0OmEj)
Posted by: Tuna at April 19, 2022 01:32 PM (gLRfa)
Boners created/saved? The maximum allowed.
Posted by: Dr Spank at April 19, 2022 01:32 PM (AGpUn)
Posted by: moon_over_vermont at April 19, 2022 01:29 PM (lElTE)
In the Tolkien cannon Orcs = Goblins
Posted by: 29Victor at April 19, 2022 01:32 PM (BJKQV)
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They probably will out of obligation, but it's not like CNN's addressable market is all that big in the first place.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2022 01:32 PM (DU+/6)
Also, with CNN 8, the authorities can use the subscriber list for surveillance, since any of the porn on that service is guaranteed to be criminal in nature.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2022 01:32 PM (UGDPW)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at April 19, 2022 01:32 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at April 19, 2022
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Aren't they all? With the possible exception of the Pet Thread and the Cafes in the evening?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 19, 2022 01:32 PM (txdEq)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 19, 2022 01:32 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: gdgm+ at April 19, 2022 01:33 PM (k6jXd)
Posted by: Marcus T at April 19, 2022 01:31 PM (h2OUV)
He will land on one of the NBC networks. The damage will be devastating.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 19, 2022 01:33 PM (9gDA7)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 19, 2022 01:26 PM (dNqv+)
Aren't those Orcs? A few comments up she was a goblin, but back in the main post she was an Orc. I'm so confused.
Posted by: moon_over_vermont at April 19, 2022 01:29 PM (lElTE)
A Goblin that see's itself as an Orc?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 19, 2022 01:30 PM (ynpvh)
This is like Rankin and Bass's Hobbit and Return of the King movies all over again!! How do you like that for a deep cut? Who remembers that little tidbit from those animated movies?
Posted by: buzzion at April 19, 2022 01:33 PM (vMCab)
Well, my morale is certainly improving! Keep up the great work!
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at April 19, 2022 01:33 PM (5pTK/)
Posted by: Azathoth at April 19, 2022 01:33 PM (wb1YC)
And you wonder why VDH thinks you're cruel.
The Chris Wallace hair dye thing LOL.
Keep up the great work, avenging Ewok!
Posted by: Auspex at April 19, 2022 01:33 PM (Xo3T0)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 19, 2022 01:32 PM (txdEq)
Book thread?
I'd say the legendary Sex ONT, but that was cruelty on steroids.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 19, 2022 01:33 PM (dNqv+)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 19, 2022 01:33 PM (5NRaB)
Posted by: Marcus T at April 19, 2022 01:34 PM (h2OUV)
Does anyone really care
Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at April 19, 2022 01:27 PM (l0lSO)
.......
It's gotta be 5 o'clock somewhere. *pops beer*
Posted by: wth at April 19, 2022 01:34 PM (v0R5T)
I want a job like that.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 19, 2022 01:34 PM (sWM8x)
i've never been clear on whether orcs and goblins were different names for the same creatures
Posted by: ace at April 19, 2022 01:34 PM (0G13K)
Advertisers are purposely over paying for ads is the only theory that makes sense.
All that being said, I think our sides takes too much comfort in the poor balance sheets of dinosaur media. They still have a lot of influence.
Posted by: Blago at April 19, 2022 01:34 PM (kMONT)
Posted by: Black JEM at April 19, 2022 01:34 PM (LyTO1)
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Ogres on the other hand though !
Posted by: Sir Mix-a-lot at April 19, 2022
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As long as the female elves look mostly like Liv Tyler, it'll balance out.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 19, 2022 01:34 PM (txdEq)
Posted by: Puddihead at April 19, 2022 01:34 PM (Nv3bW)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at April 19, 2022 01:34 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: DudeAbiding at April 19, 2022 01:34 PM (setIA)
7:00 AM ET: 5 Things with Kate Bolduan – 5 Things gives you the five stories you need to know to start your day.
8:00 AM ET: Go There – This is your live, all-access pass to the most essential and visual news stories of the day.
9:00 AM ET: Big Picture with Sara Sidner – Zoom out and contemplate the broader scope of today’s top story and how various pieces of the puzzle connect.
11:00 AM ET: Reliable Sources Daily – CNN’s Chief Media Correspondent and Anchor Brian Stelter brings together all the headlines in the media on Reliable Sources Daily
4:00 PM ET (that's right, 11-4 is TATER TIME): The Source with Kasie Hunt – Join Hunt for exclusive, illuminating interviews, in-depth analysis and straightforward insights for both seasoned news junkies and political novices.
....
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2022 01:34 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: mrp at April 19, 2022 01:26 PM (6eRlp)
the theory behind stakeholder is that there is a trained technocratic elite who can rationalize society to run more efficiently for everyone, and justify it by developing a system where everyone has to play to profit.
What is done instead is a system where everyone has to do what they are told without consideration of profit or benefit just to keep what they have, and the technocratic elite set up as an oligarchy to suppress competition, create their families as inherited royalty and run multi-million dollar rape tents
Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2022 01:34 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 19, 2022 01:34 PM (VWp7G)
It's not just cnn+ dying but the network as well. Cnn+ wasn't just a ploy to grow online it was a lifeboat, that sank. Toodles guys.
Posted by: USNtakim deplorable still. at April 19, 2022 01:31 PM (0OmEj)
Short of an Elon Musk type making a hostile run at the company, it remains.
It's a State media organ. Pravda doesn't go out of business unless and until the regime wants it to.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2022 01:35 PM (UGDPW)
Posted by: Black JEM at April 19, 2022 01:35 PM (LyTO1)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at April 19, 2022 01:32 PM (eGTCV)
Alt.binaries.fat.microphallus.troll.humping
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 19, 2022 01:35 PM (9gDA7)
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Remember when fairies were smoking hawt petite chicks with wings?
Posted by: Puddihead at April 19, 2022 01:35 PM (Nv3bW)
Posted by: ace at April 19, 2022 01:34 PM (0G13K)
It seems to me those creatures were called goblins in The Hobbit and orcs in LOTR.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at April 19, 2022 01:35 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at April 19, 2022 01:35 PM (5pTK/)
Posted by: Ben Franklin -- Male Prostitute at April 19, 2022 01:35 PM (BJKQV)
5:00 PM ET: The Global Brief with Bianca Nobilo – an incisive look at the most important international news stories in the last 24 hours
6:00 PM ET: Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace? – candid conversations with prominent individuals across the spectrum of news, sports, entertainment, art, and culture
7:30 PM ET: The Newscast with Wolf Blitzer – CNN Anchor Wolf Blitzer gives it to you straight, hitting the headlines you need to know on this traditional evening newscast with a sleek, modern twist.
...
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2022 01:35 PM (KZzsI)
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Late to the party, Axios.
I called this *weeks* ago when, shortly after launch, they started that "50% off for LIFE" promotion. That was a big, flashing red light with a warning klaxon that things were *not* working out. You don't do that kind of offer unless one of two things is true:
1. Adoption is slow but you think you're about to hit your growth spurt and you want your early adopters to evangelize the service.
2. Your service is doomed and so the "lifetime" pricing isn't going to matter because the lifetime is going to be brief.
It clearly wasn't door #1, because if it had been then they would have *opened* with that offer, not tacked it on a couple of weeks after initial launch. That leaves door number two.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2022 01:35 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: Nova local at April 19, 2022 01:26 PM (exHjb)
Wait until the Russian oil embargo by the EU begins, which is supposedly going to be announced next week after the French election (according to "sources, but we'll see). Regardless if it's real or just a pretend phasing-out of Russian oil, you're going to see energy prices necessarily skyrocket even more in Europe than they will here.
Posted by: Thrawn at April 19, 2022 01:36 PM (Rl7KJ)
Posted by: Marcus T at April 19, 2022 01:31 PM (h2OUV)
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You just know his wife is tickled to death at the prospect of this lump sitting around the house all day on Twitter.
Posted by: Azathoth at April 19, 2022 01:36 PM (wb1YC)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at April 19, 2022
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It's possible we achieved that in the Taylor Lorenz thread just now.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 19, 2022 01:36 PM (txdEq)
4:00 PM ET (that's right, 11-4 is TATER TIME):
wow. You guys kept saying that Tater was on five hours a day, and I thought you were getting it wrong, and surely, it was five hours per WEEK.
But... it's really five hours of tater per DAY?
What?
are they trying to give him a coronary thrombosis? And what can I do to help?
Posted by: ace at April 19, 2022 01:36 PM (0G13K)
Posted by: Senate Candidate John Fetterman at April 19, 2022 01:36 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Puddihead at April 19, 2022 01:36 PM (Nv3bW)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 19, 2022 01:36 PM (jTmQV)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 19, 2022 01:36 PM (5NRaB)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 19, 2022 01:37 PM (xuxOR)
Posted by: ace
Taylor Lorenz is a goblin. Ana Navarro is an Orc.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 19, 2022 01:37 PM (VWp7G)
For Wallace's retirement gift.
He's already got a watch.
Throw in some lead-lined waders.
Enjoy retirement Chrissy.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 19, 2022 01:29 PM (uO+/l)
He can go fishing with Fredo Corleone...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 19, 2022 01:37 PM (wtvvX)
Goblins: The Orcs (q.v.) (H 30, 13
*Geek bona fides
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 19, 2022 01:37 PM (dNqv+)
With that happy little ditty "Where There's a Whip, There's a Way?" Who could forget that?
Posted by: Oddbob at April 19, 2022 01:37 PM (Ofkwg)
Hey, it's a more relevant concern than CNN+.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 19, 2022 01:37 PM (p+1gI)
Posted by: Kaboom! at April 19, 2022 01:37 PM (aXxgO)
Uh, the internet disagrees, my man.
It's a whole genre of hentai.
Posted by: DudeAbiding at April 19, 2022 01:34 PM (setIA)
I blame World of Warcraft pron
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 19, 2022 01:37 PM (XvPQV)
They will be researching who these drivers are, where they live, what they drive, how much they spend on gasoline, and what might induce them to switch from a gasoline vehicle to a battery-electric vehicle
https://bit.ly/3868PVy
Posted by: bonhomme at April 19, 2022 01:37 PM (eyxn4)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 19, 2022 01:36 PM (jTmQV)
He'd finally get those shelves up?
Posted by: Thrawn at April 19, 2022 01:37 PM (Rl7KJ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 19, 2022 01:35 PM (9gDA7)
++++
They might segment it, but everyone in the press industry is dumped by default into Alt.Total.Loser.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2022 01:37 PM (DU+/6)
---------------
I think she too works at CNN.
Posted by: Puddihead at April 19, 2022 01:37 PM (Nv3bW)
Please consult a physician if you have a Tater lasting for 5 hours.
Posted by: Wally at April 19, 2022 01:37 PM (FJYfm)
Posted by: gp's Electro-Tonic Tension at April 19, 2022 01:37 PM (qpX6U)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 19, 2022 01:36 PM (jTmQV)
I thought he already had that? How else does he pay for his Lambos 'n shit?
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at April 19, 2022 01:38 PM (xzkgL)
Posted by: ace at April 19, 2022 01:34 PM (0G13K)
It seems to me those creatures were called goblins in The Hobbit and orcs in LOTR.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at April 19, 2022 01:35 PM (eGTCV)
Notice how this is much more interesting than talking about CNN+. From the LOTR fandom wiki on Goblins:
A clear illustration that Tolkien considered goblins and orcs to be the same thing, the former word merely being the English translation of the latter, is that in The Hobbit (the only one of Tolkien's works in which he usually refers to orcs as goblins) Gandalf asks Thorin if he remembers Azog the goblin who killed his grandfather Thror, while in all his other writings Tolkien describes Azog as a "great Orc"
Posted by: buzzion at April 19, 2022 01:38 PM (vMCab)
Story at money.usnews.com
Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 19, 2022 01:38 PM (jTmQV)
and he probably makes guest appearances on the other shows too
Posted by: Black Orchid at April 19, 2022 01:38 PM (j9HX3)
Posted by: Dr Spank at April 19, 2022 01:38 PM (AGpUn)
Anderson Cooper Full Circle – CNN Anchor Anderson Cooper hosts a twice-weekly show that features Cooper interviewing authors, entertainers, mindfulness experts and community leaders, while highlighting the stories happening outside of Washington
Boss Files with Poppy Harlow – What does it take to be the boss? CNN Anchor Poppy Harlow gets the answers from the biggest names in business. Sit in on intimate conversations and confessions from today’s most influential leader
Jake Tapper’s Book Club – Read between the lines with CNN Anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent Jake Tapper as he interviews a diverse roster of newsmaking authors and a few of his all-time favorites.
etc
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2022 01:38 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at April 19, 2022 01:38 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2022 01:38 PM (UGDPW)
So a man in Ukraine, Gonzalo Lira, posted some anti-Narrative remarks about the Ukraine War Hoax Bullshit Scam (my words), and the fake news leftist propaganda organ The Daily Beast decided to CALL KIEV and tell them about this guy on the internet named Gonzalo Lira and "ask them if they had any comment."
You see that? The Daily Beast pretended to be real "journalists" and pretend to ask a journalisty question about a response comment, but what they really did was Dox and Expose a man in Kiev to get him arrested and maybe killed.
So, now, Gonzalo Lira is nowhere to be found, either by his own doing to protect himself, or....
Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 name in news at April 19, 2022 01:38 PM (nIYeB)
Historically the boundary between one mythological creature and another was rather vague.
Tolkein started the ball rolling but Gary Gygax/D&D really formalized it.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 19, 2022 01:38 PM (ESjRY)
this ... this brings tears to me ol' eyes it does
Posted by: Black Orchid at April 19, 2022 01:39 PM (j9HX3)
with Star Trek battle music?
I'd fucking pay real money for that.
Posted by: ace at April 19, 2022 01:39 PM (0G13K)
_____________
Only if a cinder block acts as a lifeline to a drowning man.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2022 01:39 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2022 01:34 PM (KZzsI)
++++
Five hours of Tater per *day?* Oy vey. Your modem might shut down to protect itself from all the bacon grease and donut jelly dripping off the bitstream.
Who on earth would subject themselves to five *hours* of the Tater?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2022 01:39 PM (DU+/6)
He can try. Ain't gonna happen.
Posted by: gp's Electro-Tonic Tension at April 19, 2022 01:37 PM (qpX6U)
Only after a Cialis infused vodka gimlet.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 19, 2022 01:39 PM (9gDA7)
------------------
Remember when fairies were smoking hawt petite chicks with wings?
Posted by: Puddihead at April 19, 2022
***
Tinkerbell! And the hot little strawberry blonde fairy in those Dodge Caliber commercials a few years ago.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 19, 2022 01:39 PM (txdEq)
Posted by: Jewells45 at April 19, 2022 01:39 PM (nxdel)
A shelving business?
Posted by: bonhomme at April 19, 2022 01:39 PM (eyxn4)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at April 19, 2022 01:38 PM (eGTCV)
TWO MEN ENTER- ONE MAN LEAVES!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 19, 2022 01:40 PM (dNqv+)
Posted by: profligatewaste
Yes…gold
Posted by: 7man at April 19, 2022 01:40 PM (qwO6y)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 19, 2022 01:40 PM (jTmQV)
Posted by: Azathoth at April 19, 2022 01:40 PM (wb1YC)
____________
DO IT!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2022 01:40 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at April 19, 2022 01:38 PM (eGTCV)
Ref'd by Meghan McBackfat.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 19, 2022 01:40 PM (9gDA7)
well I mean in tolkein. I never got whether he intended orcs to be a new race or if he just meant they were goblins.
I think maybe they were just goblins because wasn't the sword "Goblin-Hammer" called "Orc-Crist" or something?
Posted by: ace at April 19, 2022 01:40 PM (0G13K)
i've never been clear on whether orcs and goblins were different names for the same creatures
Posted by: ace at April 19, 2022 01:34 PM (0G13K)
Common usage is that orcs are big green monstrous humanoids and goblins are little green monstrous humanoids (gnome or dwarf sized). LOTR roughly treats them that way iirc.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 19, 2022 01:40 PM (z5Vrg)
A shelving business?
Posted by: bonhomme at April 19, 2022 01:39 PM (eyxn4)
He could buy enough Bone Broth to last a lifetime!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 19, 2022 01:40 PM (dNqv+)
So, now, Gonzalo Lira is nowhere to be found, either by his own doing to protect himself, or....
Remember during the WoT the left would always pretend how it was brave to oppose Shrub and say even objectively treasonous things about the war as if they were afraid of being arrested or disappeared?
That's because that's what they'd do to anyone that opposed THEIR war...and the Ukraine war is their newest baby.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 19, 2022 01:41 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: radar at April 19, 2022 01:41 PM (3Zp/H)
Story at money.usnews.com
Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 19, 2022 01:38 PM (jTmQV)
++++
Ooooh, so the finance chief at the *parent* company got the axe. Not a good sign, eh?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2022 01:41 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: ace at April 19, 2022 01:41 PM (0G13K)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 19, 2022 01:36 PM (jTmQV)
Dang. I just bit the tip jar last month. Spent it all already?
Posted by: Diogenes at April 19, 2022 01:41 PM (uO+/l)
Posted by: 29Victor at April 19, 2022 01:41 PM (BJKQV)
***
I have no use for this product.
Posted by: Azathoth at April 19, 2022 01:41 PM (wb1YC)
Zabasearch pulled up a few Christopher's in the LA area and, the most likely one, well, had I been willing to part with a few bucks, I probably would have gotten the information.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at April 19, 2022 01:41 PM (5pTK/)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 19, 2022 01:41 PM (3Gj/Q)
I think maybe they were just goblins because wasn't the sword "Goblin-Hammer" called "Orc-Crist" or something?
Posted by: ace at April 19, 2022 01:40 PM (0G13K)
Goblin Cleaver for Orcrist.
Glamdring was the FoeHammer.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 19, 2022 01:41 PM (dNqv+)
Posted by: Jewells45 at April 19, 2022 01:39 PM (nxdel)
___________
Ah, the Hugh Grant business model.
But how many other people would pass Elizabeth Hurley for some dusky skank?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2022 01:42 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2022 01:42 PM (NxtrT)
Posted by: profligatewaste
Yes…gold
thank you very much. You are not uncivilized barbarians, like the rest of the... specimens here.
Posted by: ace at April 19, 2022 01:42 PM (0G13K)
We were told repeatedly by all the Fake News orgs, nbc, abc, cbs, "It's not our job to take sides," during Bush's Iraq war. But all they did was report anti-bush negative Iraq news bullshit to help the enemy.
Ace came up with a great line: "Their not anti-American, they're just on the other side."
Today, they are unabashedly 100% pro-ukraine.
Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 name in news at April 19, 2022 01:42 PM (nIYeB)
Now consider those who jumped at this *deal*!!! lolgf disney.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 19, 2022 01:42 PM (pk8mR)
Glamdring was the FoeHammer.
right, I knew it was foehammer.
Okay, so that doesn't prove anything unfortunately.
Posted by: ace at April 19, 2022 01:42 PM (0G13K)
Posted by: Puddihead at April 19, 2022 01:35 PM (Nv3bW)
Tinkerbell FTW.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 19, 2022 01:42 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: radar at April 19, 2022 01:41 PM (3Zp/H)
++++
He had a blog, IIRC, back when blogs were a thing (present company excluded) and it had some degree of reach. He eventually ended up at CNN, literally as Jeff Zucker's coffee boy who then somehow got a TV show. I am vague on his history, but I remember finding it as preposterous as his show.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2022 01:42 PM (DU+/6)
https://tinyl.io/66LH
I don't quite know how to read it, because they give an all-day schedule, then there's a bunch of month by month shows listed without context or time, so I don't know when they run.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2022 01:43 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2022 01:41 PM (DU+/6)
__________
Parent company to finance chief: "Get out! And take your shit with you!"
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2022 01:43 PM (YqDXo)
no that was not me, if anyone, it was instapundit, but he might have taken it from someone else
Posted by: ace at April 19, 2022 01:43 PM (0G13K)
Posted by: runner at April 19, 2022 01:42 PM (NxtrT)
++++
Fixed your winning bid. Don't overpay.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2022 01:43 PM (DU+/6)
well I mean in tolkein. I never got whether he intended orcs to be a new race or if he just meant they were goblins.
I think maybe they were just goblins because wasn't the sword "Goblin-Hammer" called "Orc-Crist" or something?
Posted by: ace at April 19, 2022 01:40 PM (0G13K)
Here's your answer ace. https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Goblins
Posted by: buzzion at April 19, 2022 01:43 PM (vMCab)
--
Actual numbers: 150,000 subscribers.
AHAHAHAHA! That's pretty humiliating.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 19, 2022 01:43 PM (sVtYq)
Posted by: ... at April 19, 2022 01:44 PM (dscaa)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at April 19, 2022 01:38 PM (eGTCV)
TWO MEN ENTER- ONE MAN LEAVES INSIDE THE OTHER'S STOMACH!
FIFY
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 19, 2022 01:40 PM (dNqv+)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 19, 2022 01:44 PM (wtvvX)
I might as well just set myself to "Coma" right now.
Posted by: Tater's FitBit at April 19, 2022 01:44 PM (aXxgO)
no that was not me, if anyone, it was instapundit, but he might have taken it from someone else
Posted by: ace at April 19, 2022 01:43 PM (0G13K)
I definitely said it first.
Posted by: Amy Schumer at April 19, 2022 01:44 PM (9gDA7)
Posted by: bonhomme at April 19, 2022
***
I am not!
Oh. Wait. You meant the state of Washington. Never mind.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 19, 2022 01:44 PM (txdEq)
Speaking of orcs, goblins, and trolls, is there grinding of bones involved in creating bone broth?
Posted by: bonhomme at April 19, 2022 01:44 PM (eyxn4)
I don't know who said they're not anti-american, they're just on the other side. I don't get that one
Posted by: ace at April 19, 2022 01:44 PM (0G13K)
Posted by: Puddihead at April 19, 2022 01:44 PM (Nv3bW)
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at April 19, 2022 01:44 PM (xzkgL)
well I mean in tolkein. I never got whether he intended orcs to be a new race or if he just meant they were goblins.
I think Tolkein meant orcs and goblins to be the same.
But he used the"goblin" in the Hobbit, mostly, and "orc" in the Lord of the Rings.
Since the Hobbit is aimed at a younger audience the goblins don't seem as vicious as the later orcs in LOTR to the extent that they could be different races.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 19, 2022 01:44 PM (ESjRY)
no just cooking in water for a while
Posted by: ace at April 19, 2022 01:44 PM (0G13K)
In LOTR, they are interchangeable, although goblins seem to be smaller. Goblin was just the word for "orc" that Tolkien used in the Hobbit.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2022 01:45 PM (KZzsI)
- merriam-webster.com
I think it has to be small. No large goblins.
Posted by: HP Desktop REKT By gp at April 19, 2022 01:45 PM (qpX6U)
I'd fucking pay real money for that.
Posted by: ace at April 19, 2022 01:39 PM (0G13K)
at least Pon Farr had some dignity
Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2022 01:45 PM (xhaym)
Speaking of orcs, goblins, and trolls, is there grinding of bones involved in creating bone broth?
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No. You break them, bake them and then boil them to get the broth.
Posted by: Puddihead at April 19, 2022 01:45 PM (Nv3bW)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 19, 2022 01:45 PM (3Gj/Q)
Posted by: ace at April 19, 2022 01:42 PM (0G13K)
Well, it does for Orcrist- at least the smith in Tolkien's mind who forged it thought that Orc=Goblin.
Remember Tolkien created multiple languages so one word in one means something else in another. I think this is one of those cases.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 19, 2022 01:45 PM (dNqv+)
Clearly, CNN believed their own shit about CNN+, which anyone with an IQ above temperature could see was fatally doomed. "CNN is sinking fast, so we'll start charging for it!" Genius.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2022 01:45 PM (YqDXo)
On second thought, I WOULD adamantly counsel him to go for a CNN show.
Posted by: Lost In Space at April 19, 2022 01:46 PM (9I3i5)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 19, 2022 01:46 PM (2K0N+)
Oooooooo. I can see the strategy now. Create a spin-off engineered to fail. Put all the dead weight in the spin-off. Watch the spin-off crash and burn. Lay-off (instead of fire) all staff of the spin-off when you decommission it. CNN(-) isn't a business venture, it's biohazard, collect, contain, dispose.
Posted by: mikethemoose at April 19, 2022 01:46 PM (2xNkz)
Posted by: Puddihead at April 19
Tater go BOOM!
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 19, 2022 01:46 PM (CiSRQ)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 19, 2022 01:37 PM (VWp7G)
Gonna switch memes:
Anna is a Hutt...
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at April 19, 2022 01:46 PM (BgMrQ)
CNN and MSNBC are all over YouTube with Ukraine coverage, so I'm sure they're monetizing that.
Posted by: Auspex at April 19, 2022 01:46 PM (Xo3T0)
AHAHAHAHA! That's pretty humiliating.
Do we even know if those are all actual paid subscribers or if it includes freebies to other people in the media?
Posted by: Oddbob at April 19, 2022 01:46 PM (Ofkwg)
Dem congress-critter staff.
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at April 19, 2022 01:46 PM (JVCkA)
........
I think I see what the problem is here.
Posted by: wth at April 19, 2022 01:46 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: 29Victor at April 19, 2022 01:47 PM (BJKQV)
You want woman sized Tinker Bell
You'll settle for Cosmo and Wanda
You'll get Pat the Gender Fluid Pansexual Kindergarten teacher.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 19, 2022 01:47 PM (ESjRY)
____________
Nothing would be cruller.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at April 19, 2022 01:47 PM (k4dH2)
****
"They have a cave troll."
Posted by: Azathoth at April 19, 2022 01:40 PM (wb1YC)
I actually got that reference. Ha! Good one.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 19, 2022 01:47 PM (eNJEy)
Paul Krugman
@paulkrugman
A prediction about masking: Soon we'll be seeing many incidents in which those who choose to protect themselves with KN95s etc face harassment, even violence. Because this was never about freedom.
7:32 AM · Apr 19, 2022·
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at April 19, 2022 01:47 PM (MFZ8i)
If you send the world's biggest potato to the battle-front as a war correspondent, the poorly supplied Russian troops will halt their advance for at least a day. It'll be like a gigantic Christmas dinner in April.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2022 01:47 PM (UGDPW)
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 19, 2022 01:30
Don’t be hasty. Might tune in on rumble.
Posted by: 7man at April 19, 2022 01:47 PM (qwO6y)
Posted by: HP Desktop REKT By gp at April 19, 2022 01:47 PM (qpX6U)
++++
How, and based on what?
Per Forbes, from last month:
Through February 15, CNN's average prime time audience among viewers 25-54--the key demographic valued by advertisers--was just 126,000 ... Among total viewers, the average audience was 534,000 ...
How on earth did they justify projecting two million subscribers in the first year when their nightly audience is barely a quarter of that and the more tech-savvy younger crowd is less than *10%* of the projection? I'd have fired the finance chief, too, and anyone who listened to him. What kind of fiction are they "projecting" for the main business?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2022 01:47 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: bonhomme at April 19, 2022
______________
Maybe they've had a surge in necklacing. Which wouldn't surprise me.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2022 01:47 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: 29Victor at April 19, 2022 01:47 PM (BJKQV)
Exactly.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 19, 2022 01:47 PM (dNqv+)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2022 01:48 PM (KZzsI)
Also, jon cuck stewart's, who is mostly a woman, now, new failed lousy show on "apple-tv" is a huge Flop.
He's down to, supposedly, 40K viewers per episode.
Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 name in news at April 19, 2022 01:48 PM (nIYeB)
Posted by: Puddihead at April 19, 2022 01:48 PM (Nv3bW)
One month later Leno is back on at 10:00, Fallon is on at 11:30 and Conan gets the shaft on at 12:30. Few watched because it was the same show for 3 hours. Minor differences, but the same show.
CNN + might, and I stress MIGHT, have made it if President Trump was still in office so the Libs could scream more. But even Libs have a limit on how long and how loud they can scream.
Posted by: Picric at April 19, 2022 01:48 PM (13tTk)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 19, 2022 01:48 PM (dNqv+)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2022 01:48 PM (UGDPW)
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 19, 2022 01:48 PM (sVtYq)
youtubers who cook fried rice or show you how to change your oil have twice as many subs
Posted by: kallisto at April 19, 2022 01:48 PM (DJFLF)
Posted by: bonhomme at April 19, 2022
Typical. All they will.wind up doing is go into the car license department and see which drivers have three cars. Even if you don't drive them, you will be a superuser.
The next question is: "So what?! Come get me Inslee you marxist bitch."
Posted by: Diogenes at April 19, 2022 01:49 PM (uO+/l)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 19, 2022 01:49 PM (LvTSG)
I've heard a story that Tolkein wrote to one of the big dictionary companies telling them that had the plural of dwarf wrong.
They responded that they had gotten the information from the top linguist in the field.
He responded in turn that this was true, but he had changed his mind.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 19, 2022 01:49 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 19, 2022 01:49 PM (dNqv+)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp
Gonna switch memes: Anna is a Hutt...
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard
Taylor and Anna are shit stains compared to what I have been up to for way to long.
Posted by: Joy Reid's Panty Stains at April 19, 2022 01:49 PM (9I3i5)
Posted by: mikethemoose at April 19, 2022 01:46 PM (2xNkz)
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I considered this, too, because it would be a way out of contracts and the like. People transfer to CNN+ and then it tanks. Whoops! Sorry!
What makes me question that assessment is that, if it was the plan, why sink that much money into it and advertise it so exhaustively?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2022 01:49 PM (DU+/6)
Do you ever write a comment and then realize it is too gross?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 19, 2022 01:48 PM (dNqv+)
No.
It's often too gross. But I don't know 'til the wave of revulsion it induces.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2022 01:49 PM (UGDPW)
youtubers who cook fried rice or show you how to change your oil have twice as many subs
Posted by: kallisto at April 19, 2022 01:48 PM (DJFLF)
=======
RedLetterMedia has 1.4 million and they're just three dudes in Wisconsin who make fun of 80s B-movies.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 19, 2022 01:49 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: ace at April 19, 2022 01:40 PM (0G13K)
And we haven't even touched the Uruk-Hai yet.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at April 19, 2022 01:49 PM (xzkgL)
How sweaty is Taylor's gunt?
She is puffy and could easily pack on another 200 on that body of hers.
Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at April 19, 2022 01:49 PM (XnbJC)
@paulkrugman
A prediction about masking: Soon we'll be seeing many incidents in which those who choose to protect themselves with KN95s etc face harassment, even violence. Because this was never about freedom.
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How about those popped for having child porn, Paul? Oh wait, they were hacked. I forgot. Or were they just doing research? It's so hard to keep the excuses straight.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2022 01:49 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 19, 2022 01:49 PM (LvTSG)
I have to agree with this.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 19, 2022 01:49 PM (dNqv+)
so most of CNN viewers are 55+.
Shocka
Posted by: kallisto at April 19, 2022 01:50 PM (DJFLF)
I've heard a story that Tolkein wrote to one of the big dictionary companies telling them that had the plural of dwarf wrong.
They responded that they had gotten the information from the top linguist in the field.
He responded in turn that this was true, but he had changed his mind.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 19, 2022 01:49 PM (ESjRY)
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I read that he had wanted to use dwarrow in The Hobbit, but his publisher pushed back on it, insisting on dwarves. He chose not to fight the fight.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 19, 2022 01:50 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 19, 2022 01:49 PM (LvTSG)
You sir, are a man of great taste, and perspicacity!
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at April 19, 2022 01:50 PM (BgMrQ)
Speaking of orcs, goblins, and trolls, is there grinding of bones involved in creating bone broth?
Posted by: bonhomme at April 19, 2022
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I thought you ground bones to make bread?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 19, 2022 01:50 PM (txdEq)
Posted by: red speck at April 19, 2022 01:50 PM (gS3OW)
Posted by: Puddihead at April 19, 2022 01:50 PM (Nv3bW)
Imagine being the President of CNN+ and having to explain this to one's superiors.
LOLs are in prder@
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at April 19, 2022 01:50 PM (JTNPL)
Posted by: Bourbonchicken at April 19, 2022 01:51 PM (44ww/)
I blame credulous management wishcasting that the ridiculous bullcrap being blown up their backside by the company that presented CNN+ as an option was true. I don't remember the name of the company but I envision them a being one of those Dot Com startups with a huge fancy office that has a huge jungle-themed atrium and standing desks and a snack bar but doesn't do much actual work.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2022 01:51 PM (KZzsI)
But he used the"goblin" in the Hobbit, mostly, and "orc" in the Lord of the Rings.
Since the Hobbit is aimed at a younger audience the goblins don't seem as vicious as the later orcs in LOTR to the extent that they could be different races.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 19, 2022 01:44 PM (ESjRY)
Seeing as the Uruk-hai are a thing it's possible they are different and nominally a part of the same larger race with localized terminology.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 19, 2022 01:51 PM (z5Vrg)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2022 01:48 PM (UGDPW)
Discussing whether orcs and goblins are the same creatures in Tolkien. Or discussing CNN+. Come on is that even a choice?
Posted by: buzzion at April 19, 2022 01:51 PM (vMCab)
that sounds like a good channel!
Posted by: kallisto at April 19, 2022 01:51 PM (DJFLF)
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 19, 2022 01:51 PM (sVtYq)
Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 name in news at April 19, 2022 01:48 PM (nIYeB)
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The guy on YouTube that I watch fix old computers and TV sets racks up more than that within 72 hours of every episode he posts - and he's just a middling name in that club on YouTube.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2022 01:51 PM (DU+/6)
Linda Evangelista >>> Evangeline Lilly
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2022 01:51 PM (UGDPW)
@paulkrugman
A prediction about masking: Soon we'll be seeing many incidents in which those who choose to protect themselves with KN95s etc face harassment, even violence. Because this was never about freedom.
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Yeah...no.
He only says this because he knows the opposite is definitely true, he's most likely taken part in it himself. If he ever left his little bubble, he'd realize the truth, that the 10 people who wear masks in church in South Carolina get nothing but the occasional odd look.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 19, 2022 01:51 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Picric at April 19, 2022 01:51 PM (13tTk)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 19, 2022
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I like EL quite a bit too, but LT has the edge for me with that fair skin and dark hair, and she has even nicer feet.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 19, 2022 01:51 PM (txdEq)
@paulkrugman
A prediction about
7:32 AM · Apr 19, 2022·
FIFY
Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2022 01:51 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: mikethemoose at April 19, 2022 01:46 PM (2xNkz)
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We could use this strategy in academia, too.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2022 01:51 PM (YqDXo)
But her character was...stupid.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 19, 2022 01:52 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 19, 2022 01:51 PM (z5Vrg)
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I thought it was that goblins were a specific type of orc, limited to the Misty Mountains.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 19, 2022 01:52 PM (LvTSG)
https://bit.ly/3K1rjnr
Posted by: bonhomme at April 19, 2022 01:52 PM (eyxn4)
The Blue Fairy in "Once Upon A Time".
Smokin'!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at April 19, 2022 01:52 PM (uO+/l)
A prediction about masking: Soon we'll be seeing many incidents in which those who choose to protect themselves with KN95s etc face harassment, even violence. Because this was never about freedom.
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at April 19, 2022 01:47 PM (MFZ8i)
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So compulsory masking *is* about freedom, Paul?
Is your child porn collection about freedom, too?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2022 01:52 PM (DU+/6)
Based exclusively on physical appearance, I'm fine with either.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2022 01:52 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 19, 2022 01:50 PM (LvTSG)
But Tolkien stood his ground on the spelling of "dwarves." Same as "Elves." The editors would "correct" him and he'd correct them right back.
Posted by: 29Victor at April 19, 2022 01:52 PM (BJKQV)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 19, 2022
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I like EL quite a bit too, but LT has the edge for me with that fair skin and dark hair, and she has even nicer feet.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 19, 2022 01:51 PM (txdEq)
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Liv looks weird. I don't like it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 19, 2022 01:52 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 19, 2022 01:53 PM (UuD2k)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2022
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Young Linda Cristal of High Chaparral fame >>> Evangeline Lilly
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 19, 2022 01:53 PM (txdEq)
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at April 19, 2022 01:49 PM (xzkgL)
First described as "goblin-soldiers of greater stature"
Posted by: buzzion at April 19, 2022 01:53 PM (vMCab)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 19, 2022 01:53 PM (dNqv+)
I swear to the Creator that Evangeline (which, by the way, has to be one of the most beautiful women's names of all time) had a short stint as the girl on one of those late night commercials for lonely women who really want you to call them.
Posted by: red speck at April 19, 2022 01:53 PM (gS3OW)
Posted by: Chris Wallace's very jealous eyebrow pencil at April 19, 2022 01:53 PM (DJFLF)
A prediction about masking: Soon we'll be seeing many incidents in which those who choose to protect themselves with KN95s etc face harassment, even violence. Because this was never about freedom.
7:32 AM · Apr 19, 2022·
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at April 19, 2022 01:47 PM (MFZ8i)
Pure projection, yet again.
Yeah, those of us who defied our state's masking orders were met with nothing but love and tolerance from the Karenwaffen.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at April 19, 2022 01:53 PM (xzkgL)
Talk about a pointy eared vixen!
Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2022 01:53 PM (a7hor)
Posted by: Dr Spank at April 19, 2022 01:53 PM (AGpUn)
Posted by: Chrissy Wallace at April 19, 2022 01:53 PM (l02wf)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 19, 2022 01:53 PM (txdEq)
Also, the John Wayne The Alamo, if I am not wrong. Mmmmmm.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 19, 2022 01:54 PM (dNqv+)
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How, and based on what?
__________
The left believes in magical thinking. They think the best way to grow the economy is with more government spending on welfare benefits. They think electricity comes out of walls, and has nothing to do with nasty coal or nuclear plants. They think men can be women and women can be men.
You'll never understand them using logic. They're not logical or rational. They're just nuts.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at April 19, 2022 01:54 PM (k4dH2)
https://is.gd/4BuTLD
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2022 01:54 PM (DU+/6)
DeSantis announces they're looking into going after Twitter's board of directors for breach of fiduciary duties.
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I like this. Probably not super-effective, but good. It's instructive. If enough state/local officials start lawfare against the Feds and their corporate monkey-boys, it will accelerate the dissolution of our Evil Empire.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2022 01:54 PM (UGDPW)
I only post one in a hundred comments I compose for exactly that reason.
Posted by: bonhomme at April 19, 2022 01:54 PM (eyxn4)
Yeah that's how I understand it, which is odd to see Peter Jackson stick them in every orc troop, like in Moria. They were regional tribes.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2022 01:54 PM (KZzsI)
Branch Covidians running up and getting in the face of someone not wearing a mask and yelling at them has been a regular occurrence since COVID theater started.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 19, 2022 01:55 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: red speck at April 19, 2022 01:53 PM (gS3OW)
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Yup, she did.
I think she was one of those stories that she was thinking about giving up acting and going back home until she got cast on Lost. Similar to how Naomi Watts almost moved back to Australia after the failed pilot Mulholland Drive. It was only at the behest of her friend, Nicole Kidman, that she stuck around until after Lynch reapproached the pilot and finalized the film version.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 19, 2022 01:55 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 19, 2022 01:55 PM (3Gj/Q)
I've heard a story that Tolkein wrote to one of the big dictionary companies telling them that had the plural of dwarf wrong.
They responded that they had gotten the information from the top linguist in the field. He responded in turn that this was true, but he had changed his mind. Posted by: 18-1
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Tolkien was a long time contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary as an Oxford don. A lot of his invented languages were influenced by Tolkien's specialty in dead Nordic languages at the conjunction with Old English. Not sure if he was also a specialist in Celtic/Pictish indigenous languages as well.
Posted by: whig at April 19, 2022 01:55 PM (Iq9dF)
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"Please, President of CNN+, explain your reasoning to us. Just ignore the two security guards waiting outside."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2022 01:55 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: blaster at April 19, 2022 01:55 PM (9otr5)
Posted by: 29Victor at April 19, 2022 01:55 PM (BJKQV)
I've read, possibility on her Wikipedia page, that she has moved back to northern Alberta to take care of her father.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at April 19, 2022 01:55 PM (eGTCV)
youtubers who cook fried rice or show you how to change your oil have twice as many subs
Posted by: kallisto
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RedLetterMedia has 1.4 million and they're just three dudes in Wisconsin who make fun of 80s B-movies.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Mark Dice has 1.8 million YouTube subscribers and his studio is his kitchen table. Given the resources available to CNN/CNN+ compared to what is available to a typical YouTube channel makes the disaster that is CNN+ all the more joyful.
Posted by: Joy Reid's Panty Stains at April 19, 2022 01:56 PM (9I3i5)
Posted by: Gary Gygax at April 19, 2022 01:56 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at April 19, 2022 01:56 PM (+HFDN)
https://bit.ly/3K1rjnr
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Dang, Ron DeSantis keeps firing one barrel after another. At least he appears to be very active in getting things done.
By comparison, it makes me feel like my governor Henry McMaster, who's running for reelection this year, is just lying in a beach chair somewhere off the Myrtle Beach coast drinking margaritas and watching passers-by.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 19, 2022 01:56 PM (sVtYq)
Did you just "Mmmmmm" John Wayne in The Alamo?
Dude.
Posted by: bonhomme at April 19, 2022 01:56 PM (eyxn4)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 19, 2022 01:51 PM (txdEq)
.......
We better check their teeth.
Posted by: wth at April 19, 2022 01:56 PM (v0R5T)
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What most people don't realize is that Tolkien's underlying idea of the books was that we are reading in English that which has been translated from a language called Westron.
That language was also referencing words and things from other languages, some of which were translated into Westron and many that were not.
It's entirely possible for different regions to have different names for the same creature. I mean it's not like Europe hasn't done that for centuries.
That said, as others have pointed out, there are in-canon reasons for the difference.
Posted by: Azathoth at April 19, 2022 01:56 PM (wb1YC)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 19, 2022 01:53 PM (dNqv+)
LOTR wiki. https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Goblins
Says he considered them the same.
Posted by: buzzion at April 19, 2022 01:56 PM (vMCab)
Posted by: DNC at April 19, 2022 01:57 PM (ZsR3z)
Was it Iowahawk that did a blogpost a long time ago detailing the criminal records of many fine reporters? That was where I first learned Shep! liked to run over people.
Posted by: Ktgreat at April 19, 2022 01:57 PM (AD3JT)
Not likely. The latest report is that Discovery management specifically blames Tater for CNN sucking and losing all its viewers.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 19, 2022 01:57 PM (ZGrMX)
There a way! 🎶
Posted by: Bourbonchicken at April 19, 2022 01:57 PM (44ww/)
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Right. I am a Roku guy. Affordable devices, simple interface, lots of application coverage, you can block out its telemetry with some convenient firewall or DNS rules.
I am in the camp that CNN was trying to handle, in that if there isn't a Roku app for it, I don't subscribe. I am not running multiple platforms or trying to "cast" my phone or whatever. Not interested, unless it's something absurdly compelling. So if I were in CNN+'s market, the Roku availability would have been a big deal.
The problem is that I am not in the market for CNN+, and neither is anyone else.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2022 01:57 PM (DU+/6)
Wait a minute Mulholland Drive was awesome! It was my finest role!
Posted by: Laura Elena Harring's vajajay at April 19, 2022 01:58 PM (ESjRY)
I swear to the Creator that Evangeline (which, by the way, has to be one of the most beautiful women's names of all time) had a short stint as the girl on one of those late night commercials for lonely women who really want you to call them.
Posted by: red speck at April 19, 2022
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She was! I've seen a sample on YooToob.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 19, 2022 01:58 PM (txdEq)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Still Crazy After All These Years at April 19, 2022 01:58 PM (FVME7)
Resembles the Joker-lady from yesterday.
Posted by: DNC at April 19, 2022 01:58 PM (ZsR3z)
LOLs are in prder@
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at April 19, 2022 01:50 PM (JTNPL)
I have a relative who was high enough in the food chain to be in the room (but low enough to be out of the splatter zone) when the Worldcom CFO had to explain what happened to the board.
It was epic. The guy got started and about 15 minutes in just said "forget it I can't defend it I give up."
Posted by: blaster at April 19, 2022 01:58 PM (9otr5)
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I like this. Probably not super-effective, but good. It's instructive. If enough state/local officials start lawfare against the Feds and their corporate monkey-boys, it will accelerate the dissolution of our Evil Empire.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2022 01:54 PM (UGDPW)
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Me too. Even if in the event it's not effective, it puts the wind up the enemy - not just Twitter, but Facebook, Instagram, etc. who can foresee being on the wrong end of something like this later.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2022 01:58 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Joe Mannix
If you're breaking employment contracts you have to have to make it look real...
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 19, 2022 01:58 PM (pk8mR)
Posted by: Spinal Tap at April 19, 2022 01:58 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at April 19, 2022 01:58 PM (xzkgL)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2022 01:52 PM (DU+/6)
Stories that disappeared quickly for $500, Alex.
Posted by: Inogame at April 19, 2022 01:58 PM (53oGX)
There a way! 🎶
Posted by: Bourbonchicken at April 19, 2022 01:57 PM (44ww/)
+++++
AHHHHHHHHH
I had managed to forget the animated LOTR. Until now.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2022 01:59 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: DNC at April 19, 2022
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Lily Cole >>> Lily James, though.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 19, 2022 01:59 PM (txdEq)
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How, and based on what?
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Everyone in their bubble watches either CNN or MSNBC, and they project their opinions and beliefs on to the rest of the country. In their reality people who care about inflation, immigration, etc are only a small vocal minority. And they are surprised every single time this turns out to be false.
Posted by: 29Victor at April 19, 2022 01:59 PM (BJKQV)
screw it. This is a car. It looks like it was designed for Logan's Run
https://tinyurl.com/2trwwzmu
Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2022 01:59 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: DNC at April 19, 2022 01:57 PM (ZsR3z)
Ooooo...thats a tough one. EL has it going on,but LJ is smokin' to be sure.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 19, 2022 01:59 PM (uO+/l)
@paulkrugman
A prediction about masking: Soon we'll be seeing many incidents in which those who choose to protect themselves with KN95s etc face harassment, even violence. Because this was never about freedom.
7:32 AM · Apr 19, 2022·
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at April 19, 2022 01:47 PM (MFZ8i)
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Projection much, Paul?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at April 19, 2022 01:59 PM (5pTK/)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 19, 2022 01:53 PM (dNqv+)
http://tolkiengeek.blogspot.com/
Everything you could ever want to know...
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at April 19, 2022 02:00 PM (BgMrQ)
There are some more recent aberrations like the woeful "His Dark Materials" crap and some more woke silly fantasy that hasn't caught on at all, but fantasy is one of the few, rare pockets of old fashioned understandings of good and evil.
Westerns used to be, but they've gone full deconstruction and now there's no real daylight between the hero and their opponents (see Unforgiven, for example).
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2022 02:00 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: blaster at April 19, 2022 02:00 PM (9otr5)
By comparison, it makes me feel like my governor Henry McMaster, who's running for reelection this year, is just lying in a beach chair somewhere off the Myrtle Beach coast drinking margaritas and watching passers-by.
In the Senate there are supposedly 50 Republicans. As a politically aware person I can identify 5 of them that have done ANYTHING of note in the last Senate.
In the country there are supposedly 28 Republican governors. I've heard 3 of them do anything in the last two years - and outside of DeSantis - Abbot and Noem have been shamed into every damn thing they've done.
Posted by: Laura Elena Harring's vajajay at April 19, 2022 02:00 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: red speck at April 19, 2022 01:50 PM (gS3OW)
They could follow the Oak Island model and have a small team dig for news.
Oh, wait...
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at April 19, 2022 02:00 PM (wBpKf)
Posted by: DNC at April 19, 2022 02:00 PM (ZsR3z)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2022 01:59 PM (DU+/6)
It wasn't that bad. I thought the Rotoscoping stuff was pretty cool, actually.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 19, 2022 02:00 PM (II3Gr)
There a way! 🎶
Posted by: Bourbonchicken at April 19, 2022 01:57 PM (44ww/)
+++++
AHHHHHHHHH
I had managed to forget the animated LOTR. Until now.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2022 01:59 PM (DU+/6)
Love it. Own in on DVD & streaming (I think). They got the look of Hobbits 100% correct. Far better interpretation than any of the new dreck. Fight me.
Posted by: 29Victor at April 19, 2022 02:00 PM (BJKQV)
Posted by: Jen the original at April 19, 2022 02:00 PM (L4jIC)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 19, 2022 02:00 PM (3Gj/Q)
There a way! 🎶
Posted by: Bourbonchicken at April 19, 2022 01:57 PM (44ww/)
+++++
AHHHHHHHHH
I had managed to forget the animated LOTR. Until now.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2022 01:59 PM (DU+/6)
Frodo, of the nine fingers
And the Ring of Doom.
Posted by: buzzion at April 19, 2022 02:01 PM (vMCab)
Posted by: Lady in Black
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Most GOP governors are in thrall to big bidness aka Chamber of Commerce. Post gubernatorial prospects including getting a high paying no work job due to those contacts or for their relatives. DeSantis obviously wants to be President--that is a different path more or less than grifting. Even Mitt had to change his chameleon colors in 2008 to become "severely conservative" man.
Posted by: whig at April 19, 2022 02:01 PM (Iq9dF)
Still, to barely beat a teenage boy who was trying to make up his mind over what type of potato salad he wanted to make is pretty hilarious.
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at April 19, 2022 02:01 PM (JTNPL)
https://bit.ly/3JVXW6a
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Still Crazy After All These Years at April 19, 2022 01:58 PM (FVME7)
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Sidney Harman bought Newsweek for $1.
Boy, did HE get screwed.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2022 02:01 PM (YqDXo)
They do not only kill/enslave other races...but eat them too.
Of course they supposedly do that to other goblins as well.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 19, 2022 02:01 PM (ESjRY)
A prediction about masking: Soon we'll be seeing many incidents in which those who choose to protect themselves with KN95s etc face harassment, even violence. Because this was never about freedom.
____________
I really doubt that. Most of us don't really give a shit what somebody else chooses to wear when it's not affecting us. What we do object to is being forced to do and wear shit that we know is stupid or ineffective, just so that some snowflake can have the illusion of safety, or some politician can feel powerful.
All the face mask mandates here in AZ have been lifted, but I still see some people wearing them. I don't bother them. It's their choice. The fact that I think it's silly and pointless is irrelevant. It's their business, not mine.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at April 19, 2022 02:01 PM (k4dH2)
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 19, 2022 02:01 PM (rjpjQ)
One of the best animes ever on the subject
https://youtu.be/7z4WJAEG3u8
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 19, 2022 02:00 PM (3Gj/Q)
Orcbolg!
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 19, 2022 02:01 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 19, 2022 02:00 PM (II3Gr)
Yeah. And for 1978 - that was some nice special effects.
Posted by: 29Victor at April 19, 2022 02:02 PM (BJKQV)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at April 19, 2022 01:59 PM (5pTK/)
I look at it more as he knows how his side works. That will be the next play. Victimhood is on the pathway.
Posted by: blaster at April 19, 2022 02:02 PM (9otr5)
ferrari 512 S modulo, body by Pininfarina whose work tended to look like Hot Wheels. In fact he designed a bunch of Hot Wheels
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2022 02:02 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 19, 2022 01:26 PM (LvTSG)
Fixed it for ya
Posted by: kathysaysso at April 19, 2022 02:02 PM (vkS2Z)
They do not only kill/enslave other races...but eat them too.
Of course they supposedly do that to other goblins as well.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 19, 2022 02:01 PM (ESjRY)
Meat's back on the menu boys.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at April 19, 2022 02:02 PM (eGTCV)
Oooooooo. I can see the strategy now. Create a spin-off engineered to fail. Put all the dead weight in the spin-off. Watch the spin-off crash and burn. Lay-off (instead of fire) all staff of the spin-off when you decommission it. CNN(-) isn't a business venture, it's biohazard, collect, contain, dispose.
Posted by: mikethemoose at April 19, 2022 01:46 PM (2xNkz)
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Interesting. Sort of like sending all the telephone sanitizers, account executives, hairdressers, TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards, public relations executives, and management consultants away on a giant space ark to avoid being eaten by a mutant star goat.
Posted by: Interesting Times at April 19, 2022 02:02 PM (ieN7O)
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at April 19, 2022 02:01 PM (k4dH2)
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Krugman really thinks that conservatives are out to ruin other peoples' lives because that's what he wants to do himself.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 19, 2022 02:02 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: 29Victor
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You should not take the brown acid watching Bakshi or worse yet the Rankin Bass horror.
Posted by: whig at April 19, 2022 02:02 PM (Iq9dF)
https://is.gd/4BuTLD
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2022 01:54 PM (DU+/6)
.......
bazoongas
Posted by: wth at April 19, 2022 02:02 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at April 19, 2022 02:03 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at April 19, 2022 02:03 PM (5pTK/)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2022 02:03 PM (ZfdjH)
Posted by: ace at April 19, 2022 02:03 PM (0G13K)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at April 19, 2022 02:03 PM (eGTCV)
No. Slaying them is the only option.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 19, 2022 02:03 PM (II3Gr)
Russell Brand gets 1M+ views on each of his vids, now.
Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 name in news at April 19, 2022 02:03 PM (nIYeB)
Posted by: buzzion at April 19, 2022 02:03 PM (vMCab)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 19, 2022 02:03 PM (txdEq)
Posted by: buzzion at April 19, 2022 02:03 PM (vMCab)
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He probably thinks that Jussie Smollett was actually attacked by two white dudes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 19, 2022 02:04 PM (LvTSG)
In most newer fantasy worlds, the Orcs have become Native Americans, and the humans are usually corrupt and evil.
Interestingly you can see this in active though older worlds like Warhammer...where the humans have gotten darker and darker over time.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 19, 2022 02:04 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 19, 2022 02:03 PM (txdEq)
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Physically? Yeah, count me in. I know nothing about her.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2022 02:04 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: blaster at April 19, 2022 02:02 PM (9otr5)
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Pointing and laughing will become a hate crime.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at April 19, 2022 02:04 PM (5pTK/)
Keep living your bubble Paul. The rest of us will just ignore you and all mask wearers.
We dont give a eff.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 19, 2022 02:04 PM (uO+/l)
Posted by: buzzion at April 19, 2022 02:04 PM (vMCab)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 19, 2022 02:04 PM (3Gj/Q)
https://is.gd/4BuTLD
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2022 01:54 PM (DU+/6)
Happy and nipples
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 19, 2022 02:04 PM (XvPQV)
https://bit.ly/3JVXW6a
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Still Crazy After All These Years at April 19, 2022 01:58 PM (FVME7)
Describing LoTT as "infamous". It's a fucking mirror, you idiots.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at April 19, 2022 02:05 PM (wBpKf)
But... it's really five hours of tater per DAY?
What?
are they trying to give him a coronary thrombosis? And what can I do to help?
Posted by: ace at April 19, 2022 01:36 PM (0G13K)
See, this is the cruelty VDH comes here for.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 19, 2022 02:05 PM (ZGrMX)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2022 02:05 PM (YqDXo)
What funny little birds
They have no wings
Oh, what shall we do
With the funny little things
Oh, what shall we do
With the funny little things?
I love that song!
Posted by: bonhomme at April 19, 2022 02:05 PM (eyxn4)
Boy, did HE get screwed.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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Sidney was Jane Harman (late of Congress, Pelosi crony, and Dem Intel Cmte honcho). Buying Newsweak was for influence peddling in DC by someone already wealthy. Same on a smaller scale as Bezos Blog or whatizname buying the New Republic.
Posted by: whig at April 19, 2022 02:05 PM (Iq9dF)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2022 02:05 PM (KZzsI)
https://bit.ly/3MdwfHB
Isn't this the true meaning of Easter?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Still Crazy After All These Years at April 19, 2022 02:05 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: GetchaPull at April 19, 2022 02:05 PM (K6u1V)
Posted by: Voluptuous elf maiden at April 19, 2022 02:05 PM (l02wf)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 19, 2022 02:03 PM (txdEq
In the Girl Next Door. Yes. Anything else? Um, I don't know.
Posted by: buzzion at April 19, 2022 02:06 PM (vMCab)
Nyah
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 19, 2022 02:04 PM (3Gj/Q)
Better dragon too
Richard Boone's voice > Benedict Cumberbatch's voice
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 19, 2022 02:06 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: whig at April 19, 2022 02:06 PM (Iq9dF)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 19, 2022 02:06 PM (UuD2k)
But... it's really five hours of tater per DAY?
What?
Posted by: ace at April 19, 2022 01:36 PM (0G13K)
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They're implementing "The Producers" strategy by trying to get rid of their last remaining viewers.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2022 02:06 PM (YqDXo)
Old news but "girl fake Thor" movie by Marvel has Thor's hammer as a...
butch dyke.
Yeah, I dunno. I'm hearing the hammer is a lesbo. Not making this up.
Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 name in news at April 19, 2022 02:06 PM (nIYeB)
Posted by: Jen the original at April 19, 2022 02:00 PM (L4jIC)
Yeah, I'm more likely to feel pity that here's someone with a brain broken by MSM/government complex propaganda.
Witnessed a real headscratcher yesterday. A lady in the supermarket with a KN95, which she pulled down under her chin when she poked her head in the dairy products cooler. Uh.....I guess the Death Miasma won't attack you there???
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at April 19, 2022 02:06 PM (xzkgL)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 19, 2022 02:03 PM
Pre-chunky version, yes.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 19, 2022 02:06 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2022 02:06 PM (a7hor)
So I'm now Hordemucated for the day.
Posted by: DaveA at April 19, 2022 02:06 PM (FhXTo)
"If Gregor Samsa were a superhero, this would be his superhero car"
https://tinyurl.com/5n8shpze
Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2022 02:06 PM (xhaym)
"Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Except Orcs"
Isaiah 1:18
Posted by: bonhomme at April 19, 2022 02:07 PM (eyxn4)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Still Crazy After All These Years at April 19, 2022 02:07 PM (FVME7)
Because it simply followed the actual story and nothing but the story.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2022 02:07 PM (KZzsI)
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Shouldn't he be confining himself to Passover comparisons?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2022 02:07 PM (YqDXo)
That's about all I remember about the film, except that it ends way too early.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 19, 2022 02:07 PM (txdEq)
Posted by: whig at April 19, 2022 02:01 PM
True but I have a sense DeSantis is in a hurry to do the right thing…possessed by a sense of purpose in life.
Posted by: 7man at April 19, 2022 02:08 PM (qwO6y)
Did he wear a robe with funny symbols on it and a pointed hat?
Posted by: Diogenes at April 19, 2022 02:08 PM (uO+/l)
Posted by: Soothsayer
You know the world is messed up when RB is a voice of reason.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2022 02:08 PM (a7hor)
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It has its good parts but I can do without Boromir the Viking and Aragorn the Indian tracker.
Posted by: Azathoth at April 19, 2022 02:08 PM (wb1YC)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 19, 2022 02:08 PM (8KNWw)
Haha!!
This day is turning into another "Epic Post" day.
Posted by: LASue at April 19, 2022 02:08 PM (5y7pR)
Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at April 19, 2022 02:08 PM (3YEzm)
Nobody is going to PAY real money to read embarrassingly horrible "pundits" who can't help compare everything to a super villain movie.
Another smart set hell bent on "informing" us dregs
Posted by: GetchaPull at April 19, 2022 02:09 PM (K6u1V)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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I like Fritz the Cat better. As an indy, Bakshi just did not have the juice that Peter Jackson did in financing and selling his huge epic.
Posted by: whig at April 19, 2022 02:09 PM (Iq9dF)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
The Ranch? Yeah.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2022
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Well, I was thinking of her role in that sitcom Happy Endings. I've never seen The Ranch.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 19, 2022 02:09 PM (txdEq)
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So being the Senator from Goldman Sachs prepares you to interpret Christian theology. Okay.
Posted by: Puddihead at April 19, 2022 02:09 PM (Nv3bW)
Posted by: Soothsayer
You know the world is messed up when RB is a voice of reason.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2022 02:08 PM (a7hor)
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This guy?
https://tinyurl.com/5ehht8cj
Yup, this guy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 19, 2022 02:09 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: whig at April 19, 2022 02:09 PM (Iq9dF)
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I like very little of Bakshi's work. I don't think he was a very good storyteller.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 19, 2022 02:09 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 19, 2022
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"As many as we need, hooman."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 19, 2022 02:10 PM (txdEq)
Judging by orc customs...two.
The f*cker and the f*ckee.
And you don't want to be the f*ckee because unlike the Imams that have opined on this topic, they are fine with eating someone/thing they've just f*cked.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 19, 2022 02:10 PM (ESjRY)
Someone should send him a fruit basket congratulating him on his new gig.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 19, 2022 02:10 PM (SH2Zi)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 19, 2022 02:10 PM (8KNWw)
*takes deep breath*
I am sick of Marvel putting out movies with 2000+ year old Thor having to rethink his life and moping about all sad because he has doubts and anxiety like a 14 year old girl.
He's literally been there and done that with EVERYTHING as a hero and "god" for millennia. There is nothing new he has not experienced after all this time. There's nothing that CAN happen to him to make him turn into a wreck fat loser who gave up on life and is so deeply sad and rethinking everything OVER AND OVER in film after film.
Thor is a complete character, when we see him, he's at the end of his story arc, like Conan. He's just who he is and he deals with situations.
*rant over*
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2022 02:10 PM (KZzsI)
Nobody is going to PAY real money to read embarrassingly horrible "pundits" who can't help compare everything to a super villain movie.
Another smart set hell bent on "informing" us dregs
Posted by: GetchaPull
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That is a Salem Communications thing across their websites. Only Fans political commentary for low t 'conservatives'
Posted by: whig at April 19, 2022 02:10 PM (Iq9dF)
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Right. I am a Roku guy...I am in the camp that CNN was trying to handle, in that if there isn't a Roku app for it, I don't subscribe...So if I were in CNN+'s market, the Roku availability would have been a big deal. The problem is that I am not in the market for CNN+, and neither is anyone else.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
I have been using Roku since it was first rolled out and I agree completely. If a service doesn't have a Roku app I don't even bother with it; it is not my job to make it easy for me to access content. Of course, in the case of news and information content, it has to at least be tethered to reality somewhat. That is something CNN stopped doing in any form 20 years ago. As an example of how pathetic CNN is to me anymore I find RT to be more honest than CNN.
Posted by: Lost In Space at April 19, 2022 02:10 PM (9I3i5)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
She's what I have in mind when I tell Mrs D I'm stopping off for a short one.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 19, 2022 02:10 PM (uO+/l)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at April 19, 2022 02:11 PM (5pTK/)
Posted by: Fritz the cat at April 19, 2022 02:11 PM (3YEzm)
The Presidency/Congress/Senate is its own grift, particularly for GOPsters.
The best thing is to use a state-level office to corrode the Republic as much as humanly possible, and then bail when/if you're term-limited.
Only honest approach to politics (from the electoral side, anyway). Attack the regime from below for as long and as hard as you can, and then walk the fuck away.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2022 02:11 PM (UGDPW)
Posted by: Fritz the cat at April 19, 2022 02:11 PM (3YEzm)
Because it simply followed the actual story and nothing but the story.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2022 02:07 PM (KZzsI)
Yep. They also got the characters pretty spot on. And the dragon and the songs (as noted above).
Posted by: 29Victor at April 19, 2022 02:11 PM (BJKQV)
Posted by: wth at April 19, 2022 02:11 PM (v0R5T)
Rosie O'Donnell will play Thor's Hammer
Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 name in news at April 19, 2022 02:11 PM (nIYeB)
Posted by: Soothsayer
You know the world is messed up when RB is a voice of reason.
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I think Misstress T spanks Brand's ass when it comes to views. Go to YouPorn and search for Misstress T. Great entertainment.
Posted by: Puddihead at April 19, 2022 02:11 PM (Nv3bW)
But even Libs have a limit on how long and how loud they can scream.
Posted by: Picric at April 19, 2022 01:48 PM (13tTk)
...and your evidence for this is what?
Posted by: Auspex at April 19, 2022 02:12 PM (Xo3T0)
Too many drugs. I liked Fire and Ice okay but again not great storytelling. But he did a lot to advance the art of animation and was very creative.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2022 02:12 PM (KZzsI)
On Easter Sunday, Chuck Schumer Spoke In Church And Compared The Confirmation Of Ketanji Brown Jackson To The Resurrection Of Jesus
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What an ignoramus.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 19, 2022 01:35 PM (fF2aM)
Schumer was speaking in a CHURCH, on Easter of all days?? Isn't he (or at least he pretends to be) Jewish?
Posted by: LASue at April 19, 2022 02:12 PM (5y7pR)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 19, 2022 01:59 PM (DU+/6)
It wasn't that bad. I thought the Rotoscoping stuff was pretty cool, actually.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 19, 2022 02:00 PM (II3Gr)
"Come back, come back. To Mordor we'll take you."
The Ringwraiths were legit creepy in that one.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 19, 2022 02:12 PM (XvPQV)
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Speaking of bazoongas, I've been getting a kick out of watching a few old episodes of Match Game '75 on the Game Show Network the last few days. One of the contestants was a young woman who looked to be in her mid/late 20s. She was normal body sized, but she had enormous sweater puppies. Almost caricatures. She wore super tight tops and even talked about them when introducing herself. I thought I saw literal drool coming out of Richard Dawson's mouth. Gene Rayburn, hell all of them, were saying not-so-veiled comments about her boobs. If this were today, the studio would burn down with the Phony Rage Warriors on a rampage. It was all in good fun, but we're not allowed to have fun anymore.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 19, 2022 02:12 PM (sVtYq)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at April 19, 2022 02:12 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Comes from the 60's Underground Comics culture. Most of that genre is not exactly literature grade storytelling and what storytelling they did was heavily influenced by substances illegal.
Posted by: whig at April 19, 2022 02:13 PM (Iq9dF)
"I'm obsessed with the truth" Johnny Depp
Defense is probably salivating at attacking his character, and the door is open. We'll see how it shakes out.
https://bit.ly/3jR7ncn
Posted by: bonhomme at April 19, 2022 02:13 PM (eyxn4)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 19, 2022 02:03 PM
Pre-chunky version, yes.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 19, 2022 02:06 PM (II3Gr)
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I just checked, and she's had a couple of kids, so I say "fair enough." At least she wasn't narcissistic enough to pass on motherhood.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2022 02:13 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Puddihead at April 19, 2022
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Never mind "when it comes to views." I wouldn't be at all surprised if the first part of your sentence is literally true.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 19, 2022 02:13 PM (txdEq)
Posted by: wth at April 19, 2022 02:11 PM (v0R5T)
Lance Hendrickson> Hendrik Lorentz > Henrik Lorenz > Konrad Lorenz >>> Taylor Lorenz
Posted by: blaster at April 19, 2022 02:13 PM (9otr5)
She looked goofy as hell, but I said nothing to her. If people want to dress weirdly, that's up to them. I'm not the fashion police, or the covid cops, or anything else. So long as the goofballs are not bothering me, I'm not bothering them.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at April 19, 2022 02:14 PM (k4dH2)
"I'm obsessed with the truth" Johnny Depp
Defense is probably salivating at attacking his character, and the door is open. We'll see how it shakes out.
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This is just the undercard for Princess Harry v. Megan Markle. That one is gonna be truly epic.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2022 02:14 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Nostalgic Warcraft Orc at April 19, 2022 02:14 PM (wBpKf)
Posted by: blaster at April 19, 2022
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But what of Fitzgerald?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 19, 2022 02:15 PM (txdEq)
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^^^^ That's why I pay for a premium membership.
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 19, 2022 02:15 PM (DcKNO)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 19, 2022 02:15 PM (UuD2k)
Posted by: Marcus T at April 19, 2022 02:15 PM (h2OUV)
Posted by: 29Victor at April 19, 2022 02:15 PM (BJKQV)
Posted by: Azathoth at April 19, 2022 02:15 PM (wb1YC)
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 19, 2022 02:15 PM (sVtYq)
The entire concept of a news channel is more or less dead, gone the way of the radio drama show. People don't need to tune into a program to get their news any more, and the only ones who do are reporters and old people (older than us, even). Boomers kind of do, and the Silent Generation does. They still subscribe to newspapers.
Everyone else gets their news from youtube clips, online, twitter, blogs like this, reaction shows like V and Tim Pool, etc. You get the news as it happens, from where it happens, directly in your feed. The days of Walter Cronkite basically telling the world what to think about events hours and even days after they happened are gone.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2022 02:15 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at April 19, 2022 02:15 PM (5HBd1)
Posted by: Puddihead at April 19, 2022
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Never mind "when it comes to views." I wouldn't be at all surprised if the first part of your sentence is literally true.
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She has done some spanking but her forte' lays elsewhere.
Posted by: Puddihead at April 19, 2022 02:15 PM (Nv3bW)
Posted by: Eromero at April 19, 2022 02:16 PM (0OP+5)
Posted by: 7man
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I had thought that of Walker but he ended his political career, not with a bang but a whimper. Primarily due to knuckling under to political Koch network donors for open borders in 2016.
Posted by: whig at April 19, 2022 02:16 PM (Iq9dF)
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 19, 2022 02:16 PM (sWM8x)
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Shouldn't he be confining himself to Passover comparisons?
He was just expounding on things he doesn't believe.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at April 19, 2022 02:16 PM (SchxB)
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Shouldn't he be confining himself to Passover comparisons?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
He should probably stay away from Passover too.
Posted by: Puddleglum at April 19, 2022 02:16 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: wth at April 19, 2022 02:11 PM (v0R5T)
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Lorenzo Llamas > 428 Hendrik Lorentz > Henrik Lorenz > Konrad Lorenz >>> Taylor Lorenz
Posted by: Ladies Who Swoon at April 19, 2022 02:16 PM (JTNPL)
With such a modest ask, I'm amazed it's on life support.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 19, 2022 02:17 PM (ppBhU)
If you watch his version of Lord of the Rings as an adult, you can literally tell where the cocaine peaked.
Posted by: Azathoth at April 19, 2022 02:17 PM (wb1YC)
Posted by: wth at April 19, 2022 02:11 PM (v0R5T)
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Sorry for the typo!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2022 02:17 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 19, 2022 02:15 PM (sVtYq)
Not a divorce case. It's a defamation case.
Posted by: buzzion at April 19, 2022 02:17 PM (vMCab)
Posted by: Eromero at April 19, 2022 02:16 PM (0OP+5)
It's a lemon that thinks it's an apple.
Posted by: 29Victor at April 19, 2022 02:17 PM (BJKQV)
@paulkrugman
A prediction about masking: Soon we'll be seeing many incidents in which those who choose to protect themselves with KN95s etc face harassment, even violence. Because this was never about freedom.
7:32 AM · Apr 19, 2022·
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at April 19, 2022 01:47 PM (MFZ8i)
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Projection much, Paul?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at April 19, 2022 01:59 PM (5pTK/)
You can tell lil' Krugman really wants someone to spank him while wearing a mask (but not a N95).
Posted by: LASue at April 19, 2022 02:17 PM (5y7pR)
Posted by: dartist at April 19, 2022 02:17 PM (+ya+t)
Posted by: Bourbonchicken at April 19, 2022 02:17 PM (44ww/)
Posted by: Puddihead at April 19, 2022
***
Never mind "when it comes to views." I wouldn't be at all surprised if the first part of your sentence is literally true.
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She has done some spanking but her forte' lays elsewhere.
Posted by: Puddihead at April 19, 2022 02:15 PM (Nv3bW)
HA! She can't touch me on anal and blowjobs!
Posted by: David French at April 19, 2022 02:18 PM (3YEzm)
I think that's it, basically. And I think Chris Hemsworth really prefers it that way. It gives him easy stuff to emote and he doesn't like playing the stoic, strong-jawed hero at all. After 2 Thor movies he was about to just break his contract and quit then they put out goofy Thor movie and he loved it.
I mean it was a fun movie, but it wasn't Thor.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2022 02:18 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Eromero at April 19, 2022
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Stands for "Communist News Network." Some substitute "cable" for "communist," but they don't know what they are talking about.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 19, 2022 02:18 PM (txdEq)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at April 19, 2022 02:18 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at April 19, 2022 02:16 PM (SchxB)
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If so, did he then segue into the rule of law, the Constitution, American exceptionalism, City on the Hill, that sort of thing?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2022 02:18 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Ian S. at April 19, 2022 02:18 PM (ZGrMX)
I would take what ZH writes with a grain of salt where Russia is involved. They are a known mouthpiece for the Russians and one of the main principles has links to the FSB and other agencies.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 19, 2022 02:19 PM (h2OUV)
Posted by: Bourbonchicken at April 19, 2022 02:17 PM (44ww/)
Because of course they did.
Posted by: blaster at April 19, 2022 02:19 PM (9otr5)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 19, 2022 02:19 PM (3Gj/Q)
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It's not the divorce case. They've been divorced for a while now. The current case is a defamation case. Heard wrote an op-ed in the WaPo in which she claimed to be a victim of spousal abuse (she didn't explicitly name Depp as the abuser, but then she didn't have to). Depp lost jobs in the "me too" frenzy, so he sued Heard for defamation, saying that she has ruined his film career, and Heard filed a countersuit.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at April 19, 2022 02:19 PM (k4dH2)
https://bit.ly/3vsReiH
Posted by: bonhomme at April 19, 2022 02:19 PM (eyxn4)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 19, 2022 02:19 PM (txdEq)
Posted by: wth at April 19, 2022 02:11 PM (v0R5T)
Lorenz Hart>>>Hendrik Lorentz > Henrik Lorenz > Konrad Lorenz >>> Taylor Lorenz
#broadway
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at April 19, 2022 02:19 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: 29Victor at April 19, 2022 02:19 PM (BJKQV)
He probably loved his role in Chickbusters then.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 19, 2022 02:20 PM (ZGrMX)
Posted by: Roy at April 19, 2022 02:20 PM (Ti+Tv)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 19, 2022 02:21 PM (906pl)
Posted by: Bourbonchicken at April 19, 2022 02:21 PM (44ww/)
49 year old Lawrence Taylor? Sure, I can get behind that.
Posted by: bonhomme at April 19, 2022 02:21 PM (eyxn4)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 19, 2022 02:21 PM (iDcra)
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No kidding. Shows how much I follow celebrity stuff. Oh well, I don't much care for him anymore. Not since the day I saw him wearing his stupid Che jewelry. But that chick seems really off balance. Hope he wins...to the extent I care.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 19, 2022 02:21 PM (sVtYq)
Posted by: Anna Puma
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You left out the Brothers Krofft (Sid and Marty). CNN HQ is built on the remains of The World of Sid and Marty Krofft theme park in Atlanta and I think the emanations left in that place ate the brains of CNN staffers.
Posted by: whig at April 19, 2022 02:21 PM (Iq9dF)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 19, 2022 02:21 PM (ppBhU)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at April 19, 2022 02:21 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: Skip's new phone at April 19, 2022 02:22 PM (HTVWm)
Posted by: Roy
Last time I checked in on them they had more customers than every MSN media outlet combined.
Posted by: Lost In Space at April 19, 2022 02:22 PM (9I3i5)
>>I mean it was a fun movie, but it wasn't Thor.
There are so many Walter Simonson Thor story arcs they could choose from and they choose this garbage.
Sad.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 19, 2022 02:22 PM (2K0N+)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 19, 2022 02:21 PM (906pl)
And was married to a big boobied blonde that was twice his height.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 19, 2022 02:22 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: 29Victor at April 19, 2022 02:19 PM (BJKQV)
I went to a physical bookstore today. On their Marvel table they had some new book with a pregnant chick as Spiderman on the cover.
Posted by: blaster at April 19, 2022 02:22 PM (9otr5)
Posted by: 29Victor at April 19, 2022 02:22 PM (BJKQV)
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Whaaat? Did WaPo also solicit (?) an op-ed from Stormy Daniels, or Heidi Fleiss?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2022 02:23 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Roy at April 19, 2022 02:20 PM (Ti+Tv)
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ISWYDT, nicely playe...err streamed.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 19, 2022 02:23 PM (iDcra)
He's unattractive, he has an annoying voice and thick lips.
Now, if they put on one of those Mexican Weather girls wearing something tight, that would bring in some CNN+ subscriptions.
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 19, 2022 02:23 PM (DcKNO)
Posted by: Roy at April 19, 2022 02:20 PM (Ti+Tv)
Golden!
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 19, 2022 02:23 PM (II3Gr)
When it's sold on the scap heap of history we should have a party
Posted by: Skip's new phone at April 19, 2022 02:22 PM (HTVWm)
Yeah. A raiding party. A rampaging gang of land-pirates picking the CNN offices clean of all physical valuables, feasting on roasted Tater, etc.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2022 02:23 PM (UGDPW)
So week two they were zombies?
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 19, 2022 02:23 PM (3Gj/Q)
No kidding. Shows how much I follow celebrity stuff. Oh well, I don't much care for him anymore. Not since the day I saw him wearing his stupid Che jewelry. But that chick seems really off balance. Hope he wins...to the extent I care.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 19, 2022 02:21 PM (sVtYq)
Yeah, he's not worth shit. Its just that he is the tool for which we find ourselves needing to use to fight back against the MeToo BelieveAllWOMEN!!!! garbage.
Posted by: buzzion at April 19, 2022 02:23 PM (vMCab)
Posted by: Bourbonchicken at April 19, 2022
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Johnny was always a good-lookin' dude, though. He should have learned about crazy/hot when he was dating in the '70s and '80s. Remember, he first shot to notice as one of the young undercover cops on 21 Jump Street -- one of Fox's heartthrobs like Jason Priestly and Luke Perry.
If he refused to learn, well, that's another story. But I'll bet he had the opportunity.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 19, 2022 02:24 PM (txdEq)
Posted by: blaster at April 19, 2022 02:22 PM (9otr5)
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If a supervillain punches her in the stomach causing a miscarriage, is the supervillain good or bad?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 19, 2022 02:24 PM (LvTSG)
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I don't take anything at ZH as gospel, but if they're right about coming EU bans, we're very likely to see more chaos in energy costs.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 19, 2022 02:24 PM (sWM8x)
Posted by: Puddihead at April 19, 2022 02:24 PM (Nv3bW)
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Morbidly obese chicks who eat on live camera for their fans have more subscribers than CNN+...
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 19, 2022 02:24 PM (sVtYq)
https://bit.ly/3jQgutU
Posted by: bonhomme at April 19, 2022 02:24 PM (eyxn4)
"Why do we keep losing money???"
--Marvel Comics execs
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2022 02:24 PM (KZzsI)
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Well, Marvel DOES produce comic books after all. They're aiming at a demographic that moves their lips when they read.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2022 02:24 PM (YqDXo)
Fun Fact: In the Rankin/Bass Return of the King, either Merry or Pippin (I forget which) was voiced by Casey Kasem. Dude was in everything!
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 19, 2022 02:21 PM (906pl)
And was married to a big boobied blonde that was twice his height.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 19, 2022 02:22 PM -
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He never had to carry an umbrella.
Posted by: irright at April 19, 2022 02:24 PM (SchQD)
No kidding. Shows how much I follow celebrity stuff. Oh well, I don't much care for him anymore. Not since the day I saw him wearing his stupid Che jewelry. But that chick seems really off balance. Hope he wins...to the extent I care.
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I'm kinda hoping there is a hung jury. That way nobody wins, except the lawyers.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at April 19, 2022 02:25 PM (k4dH2)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at April 19, 2022 02:16 PM (SchxB)
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Well, since Schumer is a politician, he was obviously playing to his strength.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at April 19, 2022 02:25 PM (5pTK/)
Posted by: blaster at April 19, 2022
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Believe it or don't, but I saw that, a graphic novel, at the public library on Saturday. Libraries have graphic novel sections now --?
It ain't only CNN+ that's doomed.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 19, 2022 02:25 PM (txdEq)
Posted by: New Coke at April 19, 2022 02:26 PM (qs/P1)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 19, 2022 02:24 PM (LvTSG)
I guess it depends on whatever your truth is.
Unless you are an icky pro-lifer. Then your truth is garbage.
Posted by: blaster at April 19, 2022 02:26 PM (9otr5)
That was actually a pretty good show. The DeLouise kid was great too. And Holly Robinson was such a cutie.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2022 02:27 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: PabloD at April 19, 2022 02:27 PM (8Ua3M)
All they are trying to do is stay alive. Hence why you can check movies out of the library also.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 19, 2022 02:27 PM (3Gj/Q)
https://bit.ly/3jQgutU
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Um, how can they just decide to move judicial decisions to themselves?
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 19, 2022 02:27 PM (sVtYq)
I gather from comments here that Heard is the Russian in this? Am I supposed to root for Johnny in this manufactured teledrama? He's the Zelensky, right?
It's hard to keep track anymore. I know that Will Smith is Russian. And Chris Rock is muh Good Guy.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2022 02:27 PM (UGDPW)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 19, 2022
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And was married to a big boobied blonde that was twice his height.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 19, 2022
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She played the tall blonde at Louis's party in Ghostbusters. Casey did the voice as himself on "American Top 40" in an earlier scene, and his wife had a small speaking role.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 19, 2022 02:27 PM (txdEq)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at April 19, 2022 02:27 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: Azathoth
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I haven't seen it since the big screen.
Posted by: whig at April 19, 2022 02:28 PM (Iq9dF)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2022 02:24 PM (YqDXo)
Exsqueeze me?
[Insert a "your mom" joke about reading and lips that I cannot currently formulate]
Posted by: 29Victor at April 19, 2022 02:28 PM (BJKQV)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at April 19, 2022 02:28 PM (OalnH)
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I'll translate: graphic novel --> comic book
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2022 02:28 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at April 19, 2022 02:28 PM (5HBd1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 19, 2022 02:22 PM -
Then we will dine in the shade!
--Casey Kasem.
Posted by: blaster at April 19, 2022 02:28 PM (9otr5)
She played the tall blonde at Louis's party in Ghostbusters. Casey did the voice as himself on "American Top 40" in an earlier scene, and his wife had a small speaking role.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 19, 2022 02:27 PM (txdEq)
And flopped her cans around when she and Louis tried to get everyone to dance at his party.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 19, 2022 02:29 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: PabloD at April 19, 2022 02:27 PM (8Ua3M)
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I was in high school when those films came out, and I was a LOTR superfan. Every change announced or leaked, I was convinced that the films would fail commercially because no one would accept them.
The kicker was the death of Saruman and the excision of the Scouring of the Shire.
And yet, the movies still made a billion dollars each. It was a clear lesson in the fact that my opinions weren't the opinions of the masses.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 19, 2022 02:29 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 name in news at April 19, 2022 02:29 PM (nIYeB)
I'd enjoy Tater being fired in the middle of a show. Maybe the power could just be cut off.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at April 19, 2022 02:27 PM (eGTCV)
Nope.
Land-pirates burst in and chop a hole in the floor. They fill it with broken-up hardwood paneling from Zucker's office and roast the Tater. Then, they feast.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2022 02:29 PM (UGDPW)
I know an awful lot of people who think that way. I didn't care, and never much liked Bombadil, but the whole sequence made lot better sense out of how the hobbits got their weapons than Aragorn just handing them out like candy on Halloween: "here's some powerful weapons that can actually harm ringwraiths, I just had some swords hidden away in my cloak!"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2022 02:29 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 19, 2022 02:29 PM (II3Gr)
https://bit.ly/3EpUYpr
Posted by: bonhomme at April 19, 2022 02:29 PM (eyxn4)
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That was actually a pretty good show. The DeLouise kid was great too. And Holly Robinson was such a cutie.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2022
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It was well done. The young cops played as high school kids, but they got involved in the lives of the students they "went to school with," and often wondered about the ethics and morality of what they were doing.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 19, 2022 02:29 PM (txdEq)
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Why not? They decided to throw the border wide open by themselves. They decided not to enforce immigration laws by themselves. They decided to spend taxpayer dollars on "free" cell phones for illegals, and free plane and bus rides around the country, by themselves.
The Biden Junta doesn't need to follow no stinkin' laws. They ARE the law!
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at April 19, 2022 02:29 PM (k4dH2)
3.5 yards of gravel being delivered and I need to move it from point A to point B.
Anyone want to help? Payment with be in Valu Rite.
Later!
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at April 19, 2022 02:30 PM (5pTK/)
Posted by: PabloD
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From what I remember, Tom Bombadil was more or less a leftover from earlier drafts in the LOTR and you have to be hardcore reader of Chris Tolkien's edited versions of his father's notes to follow the evolution of that character.
Posted by: whig at April 19, 2022 02:30 PM (Iq9dF)
All they are trying to do is stay alive. Hence why you can check movies out of the library also.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 19, 2022 02:27 PM (3Gj/Q)
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Here in California the libraries do a land office business. They're chock-a-block with malodorous vagrants who spend the day there until closing time.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2022 02:30 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2022 02:30 PM (BJC33)
I'm kinda hoping there is a hung jury. That way nobody wins, except the lawyers.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at April 19, 2022 02:25 PM (k4dH2)
I'm in this camp. They're both products of the liberal hollywood elite batshit cray environment.
I wouldn't care if they both went bankrupt to the lawyers suing the shit out of each other.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 19, 2022 02:30 PM (Zz0t1)
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Yeah, I was just looking at that. Seen that happend to COIN several times over the last week or so. Some whale is moving.
Posted by: Puddihead at April 19, 2022 02:31 PM (Nv3bW)
This is just one more example of the Biden Administration's "do it with executive orders because the courts are slow to respond and maybe we can get away with it" strategy.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2022 02:31 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Warmed over Mod Squad.
Posted by: whig at April 19, 2022 02:31 PM (Iq9dF)
https://bit.ly/3jQgutU
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Um, how can they just decide to move judicial decisions to themselves?
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 19, 2022 02:27 PM (sVtYq)
I can't see the link, but are they moving it to administrative courts?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 19, 2022 02:31 PM (UuD2k)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at April 19, 2022 02:32 PM (xPJvm)
https://bit.ly/3EpUYpr
Posted by: bonhomme at April 19, 2022 02:29 PM (eyxn4)
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Elon, anything you'd like to tell us?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2022 02:32 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 19, 2022 02:32 PM (SVo7f)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 19, 2022 02:21 PM (906pl)
Pippen: "Gandalf, I don't want to stay here!" (Definitely not Kasem).
Merry: "You should have studied maps more and played less in Rivendale. This is Fangorn Forest!" (Certainly sounds like Kasem).
Yes I actually have those lines memorized along with the voice intonations. I'm not sure if that's sad or what but we watched that LOTR version probably 200 times as kids.
Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at April 19, 2022 02:32 PM (qs/P1)
Posted by: Bourbonchicken at April 19, 2022 02:32 PM (44ww/)
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 19, 2022 02:33 PM (sVtYq)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2022
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True. I'll admit that in some cases (1980s "X-Men"?) they are often much better written than the lurid covers indicate, sort of like some pulp-ish 1950s paperback originals on the drugstore racks. But if you'd asked about having a rack of comic books at the public library when I was a teenager, the look of horror on the librarians' faces would have suggested you had a horn growing out of your forehead.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 19, 2022 02:33 PM (txdEq)
Might just be general reaction to Twitter's "poison pill" decision and jitters about the legal ramifications. Get out before the stock crashes, etc. There might not be much left of Twitter when this is all said and done, which would just be a real tragedy.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2022 02:33 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Tom Bombadildo at April 19, 2022 02:33 PM (3YEzm)
https://bit.ly/3EpUYpr
Posted by: bonhomme at April 19, 2022 02:29 PM (eyxn4)
Share prices dropped $3 on that move, also.
Posted by: blaster at April 19, 2022 02:34 PM (9otr5)
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Link was so cool for about two episodes and then we found something else to do.
Posted by: Puddihead at April 19, 2022 02:34 PM (Nv3bW)
Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at April 19, 2022 02:34 PM (qs/P1)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Warmed over Mod Squad.
Posted by: whig at April 19, 2022
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Seemed more plausible on Jump Street, though.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 19, 2022 02:34 PM (txdEq)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 19, 2022 01:26 PM (LvTSG)
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That's why he has the Mug Club. He knows he isn't getting any money from youtube. He just has to worry about having a platform to air his stuff.
Posted by: Darth Randall at April 19, 2022 02:34 PM (zL564)
https://bit.ly/3jQgutU
Asylum seeker: "Then the cruel old lady in the hovel across the street said she hopes I die for dumping my pail of sewage in front of her hovel! I do not feel in my hovel anymore!"
Biden Immigration Drone: "Permanent Asylum granted to escape persecution and execution by old ladies. Next case!"
Posted by: Gref at April 19, 2022 02:34 PM (AMIL/)
Saw "Everything Everywhere All At Once" yesterday.
Whatever you think this movie is going to be from the trailer, it isn't. Fun multiverse romp? Nope.
Literally, the whole movie, everything everywhere (!) in this flick is about getting the Mother to say to her fat, gay daughter - "I love you and accept you fat, gay daughter, mostly because you're gay.
The daughter is the villain attempting to kill her Mom throughout the multiverse cuz she's not accepted every time every where(!). But, really the whole movie takes place in the Gay-O-Verse. Example? Antagonistic warriors power-up by sticking deildo-like objects up their butts, which waggle around as they fight.
Anywho... Yes, there are some funny sequences and moments. But, mostly this movie is for you if you can't get enough gay and fat angry lesbians in your life and viewing experience in a movie that operates at the lamest of the lame Chinese lame, silly comedy level.
Watch if you wish, but wait till it's streaming for free.
Posted by: naturalfake at April 19, 2022 02:35 PM (5NkmN)
Posted by: 29Victor at April 19, 2022 02:35 PM (BJKQV)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2022 02:35 PM (YqDXo)
Well Bombadil did do something (rescued the Hobbits when they were paralyzed by the Barrow Wights and going to die) so they could arm themselves with powerful ancient magic weapons, but... that entire sequence could have been written much better.
I think JRR Tolkien had a type of character from other myths he wanted to blend into his myth but couldn't figure out exactly how to work it in. So it feels jarring and out of place and to me at least unlikable.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2022 02:36 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: naturalfake at April 19, 2022 02:35 PM (5NkmN)
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I think I'll wait until they pay ME to watch it. Although I still won't.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2022 02:36 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: wth at April 19, 2022 02:11 PM (v0R5T)
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Dont forget us magical quivers!
Posted by: Quiver of Ehlonna at April 19, 2022 02:36 PM (JTNPL)
Posted by: Notsothoreau
Until this defamation trial started, I wasn't aware of the whole situation. I must admit it is so crazy I can't close my eyes. This is 100 times better than Tonya Harding at her peak.
From what I gather from the internet chatter, Amber is something of a class A++ psychopath though there is a compelling case she is simply a A++ narcissist. Plus, Elon Musk dated her and dumped her ass.
Posted by: Lost In Space at April 19, 2022 02:36 PM (9I3i5)
Well Bombadil did do something (rescued the Hobbits when they were paralyzed by the Barrow Wights and going to die) so they could arm themselves with powerful ancient magic weapons, but... that entire sequence could have been written much better.
I think JRR Tolkien had a type of character from other myths he wanted to blend into his myth but couldn't figure out exactly how to work it in. So it feels jarring and out of place and to me at least unlikable.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2022 02:36 PM (KZzsI)
Ahem!!
Posted by: Old Man Willow at April 19, 2022 02:37 PM (3YEzm)
Posted by: Bourbonchicken at April 19, 2022 02:32 PM (44ww/)
Tom is Middle Earth. Tom is what the Enemy wants to destroy. Tom is nature and beauty and magic and joy. Tom is what they are fighting for.
Posted by: 29Victor at April 19, 2022 02:37 PM (BJKQV)
Posted by: Quiver of Ehlonna at April 19, 2022 02:38 PM (JTNPL)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2022 02:33 PM (KZzsI)
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I love that Musk stuffed Twitter into the washing machine and put it on a long cycle.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2022 02:38 PM (YqDXo)
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I had no idea about any of this before hearing about it here. I couldn't name a movie either one of the
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2022 02:39 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Bourbonchicken at April 19, 2022 02:32 PM (44ww/)
Tom is Middle Earth. Tom is what the Enemy wants to destroy. Tom is nature and beauty and magic and joy. Tom is what they are fighting for.
Posted by: 29Victor at April 19, 2022 02:37 PM (BJKQV)
Not quite.
Posted by: Iarwain at April 19, 2022 02:39 PM (3YEzm)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
From the existing administrative courts. That just might be illegal under existing laws but the difficulty is standing to challenge the rule. Probably have to be states.
Ultimately, the AG was the final arbiter of asylum claims from what I remember but with ICE now in Homeland Security, that would now be the Sec. of Homeland Security I guess. But, I don't think that the Secretary would be able to delegate authority on asylum cases to regular bureaucrats. Asylum claims are fact based applications of immigration law and regular bureaucrats would be unable to do that job. A similar example would be an administrative rule that granted the Social Security Administrator plenary power to decide who got Social Security or Disability. Congress itself provides the delegated authority and the guidance on how that authority is to be used--not legislative rules by an agency designed to circumvent the congressional limits on administrative discretion.
Posted by: whig at April 19, 2022 02:40 PM (Iq9dF)
(Briefly, Aragorn learns lessons from Theodan, not the other way around. Denethor was treated poorly by the movie -- his is a tragic story of what happens when a good man falls into dispair, not one of him simply being crazy. Faramir utterly refuses any temptation from the ring -- he doesnt divert Frodo to Osgiliath like in the movie. There is a contrast there between his Numenorean side (which was more prevalent in him than Boromir) and that of "lesser men" who would be tempted. Jackson annihilated that distinction.)
Posted by: Revenant at April 19, 2022 02:41 PM (b9Gb2)
Posted by: Iarwain at April 19, 2022 02:39 PM (3YEzm)
Quite. Tolkien was anti-technology. One of Saruman's great evils was poluting and defiling Orthanc and the surrounding area and then doing the same to The Shire. Tom is unspoiled nature. He's the personification of Middle Earth.
Posted by: 29Victor at April 19, 2022 02:43 PM (BJKQV)
Posted by: naturalfake
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You should be doing movie critiques--that was better than Christian Toto.
Posted by: whig at April 19, 2022 02:44 PM (Iq9dF)
Posted by: Bonecrusher at April 19, 2022 02:44 PM (uUMuz)
Posted by: 29Victor at April 19, 2022 02:45 PM (BJKQV)
Yeah its pretty awful what he did to many key characters especially in the 2nd and 3rd films. I didn't mind skipping Bombadil, but leaving out what I consder the highlight of the series with the scouring and turning Denethor into a monster and Faramir into just one more guy who gets corrupted by the ring was unforgivable.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2022 02:46 PM (KZzsI)
A social media platform's policies are good if the most extreme 10% on left and right are equally unhappy
Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2022 02:47 PM (BJC33)
Posted by: 29Victor at April 19, 2022 01:24 PM (BJKQV)
It is neither cherry nor lemon. It is a cancerous tumor on the intellect of humanity. They are the equivalent of a nasty shart in the tuxedo of life.
Posted by: Bonecrusher at April 19, 2022 02:49 PM (uUMuz)
Posted by: 29Victor
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Even in the LOTR books, most of what Aragorn did was condensed aside from his Strider alter ego. Epic literature has that problem--you can't focus much on individual character development.
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Real Clear Politics
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Paul Anka Haiku Contest Announcement
Integrity SAT's: Entrance Exam for Paul Anka's Band
AllahPundit's Paul Anka 45's Collection
AnkaPundit: Paul Anka Takes Over the Site for a Weekend (Continues through to Monday's postings)
George Bush Slices Don Rumsfeld Like an F*ckin' Hammer
Democratic Forays into Erotica
New Shows On Gore's DNC/MTV Network
Nicknames for Potatoes, By People Who Really Hate Potatoes
Star Wars Euphemisms for Self-Abuse
Signs You're at an Iraqi "Wedding Party"
Signs Your Clown Has Gone Bad
Signs That You, Geroge Michael, Should Probably Just Give It Up
Signs of Hip-Hop Influence on John Kerry
NYT Headlines Spinning Bush's Jobs Boom
Things People Are More Likely to Say Than "Did You Hear What Al Franken Said Yesterday?"
Signs that Paul Krugman Has Lost His Frickin' Mind
All-Time Best NBA Players, According to Senator Robert Byrd
Other Bad Things About the Jews, According to the Koran
Signs That David Letterman Just Doesn't Care Anymore
Examples of Bob Kerrey's Insufferable Racial Jackassery
Signs Andy Rooney Is Going Senile
Other Judgments Dick Clarke Made About Condi Rice Based on Her Appearance
Collective Names for Groups of People
John Kerry's Other Vietnam Super-Pets
Cool Things About the XM8 Assault Rifle
Media-Approved Facts About the Democrat Spy
Changes to Make Christianity More "Inclusive"
Secret John Kerry Senatorial Accomplishments
John Edwards Campaign Excuses
John Kerry Pick-Up Lines
Changes Liberal Senator George Michell Will Make at Disney
Torments in Dog-Hell
The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon
A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates
Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)