Posts by Sam Whiskey

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Have you ever felt an earthquake?

by Iamallcool in

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personally, i have never felt an earthquake in my life.

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Sam Whiskey

Beks - Swingin' Salamis in Friso, who'da thunk it?

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Have you ever felt an earthquake?

by Iamallcool in

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personally, i have never felt an earthquake in my life.

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I've been in quite a few. I remember one in particular where the asphalt of a parking lot literlly had waves like the ocean in it as the earthquake was occuring. I was standing in that parking lot and could not keep my footing, I had to sit on the asphalt and role with it. Cars were heaving against the buildings they were parked in front of. I noticed an Amtrak train doing about 80 miles per hour (back then they did not have speed limits on trains) and wondered if the conductor even knew what was happening. Later that night, it was on the evening news that the train had derailed.

Spooky days....

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Where does my DNA go when I die?

by sabastious in

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when i die my consiousness ceases to exist, but the matter that makes me does not cease to exist, it merely changes form.

dna is where all the "data" that makes me is stored, so where does it go when i die?

what smaller parts does it break down to over time?.

Sam Whiskey

Most of your DNA goes to the worms. If you're really dumb, and the worm ingests your DNA and passes that DNA down to other worms... those worms will burrow toward the Sun and burn up.

Make sure you die smart.....

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Why you should not worry about Japan's nuclear reactor problems.

by beatthesystem in

a nuclear reactor is built in such a way, that when operating normally, you take out all the moderator rods.

so if these radioactive materials are released into the environment, yes, radioactivity was released, but no, it is not dangerous, at all.

when the uranium splits, it generates a neutron (see above).

Sam Whiskey

BTS, thanks for the article and info.

And...there's Villabozo... posting his cute pictures.

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Can I Say Anything Positive about JW's to the Wife?

by punkofnice in

mrs punk and i no longer discuss the jw business posing as religion.. all i get is a hand thrust into my face and a shout of: 'if you can't be positive don't say anything!!'.

i explain i am not trying to be 'negitive' but trying to be informative, factual and honest.

this is because mrs punk would ask: 'why don't you go to meetings anymore?'.

Sam Whiskey

LOL... use "The Hand" on her. I don't know....

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Glenn Beck on His Game Today - Go Glenn!

by Sam Whiskey in

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man!

this guy is spot on.

go glenn!

Sam Whiskey

Nighty nite, sleep tight and hope Glenn Beck does'nt bite.

LOL....

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Glenn Beck on His Game Today - Go Glenn!

by Sam Whiskey in

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man!

this guy is spot on.

go glenn!

Sam Whiskey

Hahaha, bunch of Scmuuucks... Wooops, there goes more of your money. Libs need the number to the local Waaambulance?

NPR Admits It's Packed With Liberals

By Mike Gonzalez

Published March 16, 2011

Times have been tough for NPR in the last six months. Just last week, NPR CEO Vivian Schiller spoke at the National Press Club in Washington. Among other things, she discussed the firing of NPR Senior Correspondent Juan Williams in October. By the end of the week, Schiller herself was out of a job, after a video caught her chief fundraiser making disparaging remarks about Tea Party activists and Jews.

In her speech at the National Press Club, Schiller made sure to emphasize that NPR maintains its commitment to diversity. She meant, of course, racial diversity.

Even casual observers know that the network’s devotion to this cause appears to apply only to the staff’s skin pigmentation not to their political orientation. Something that strikes me as more than passing strange for an organization that inherently deals with politics.

But it’s not just me saying that NPR lacks political diversity—it’s now coming from NPR itself! And this time it wasn’t the result of a sting video, either. The admission came on NPR’s air this past Sunday.

Just look at this the exchange last Sunday between Bob Garfield, host of the NPR show “On the Media,” and Ira Glass, host of “This American Life.” Mr. Glass had challenged Mr. Garfield to conduct an internal audit of liberal bias at NPR and report on it in a week. Mr. Glass added he was sure none would be found (that makes two of us, but I digress). Then the conversation turned to what metrics would be used. Could the absence of conservatives at NPR be a metric?

Bob Garfield: … you and I both know that if you were to somehow poll the political orientation of everybody in the NPR news organization and at all of the member stations, you would find an overwhelmingly progressive, liberal crowd, not uniformly, but overwhelmingly.

Ira Glass: Journalism, in general, reporters tend to be Democrats and tend to be more liberal than the public as a whole, sure. But that doesn't change what is going out over the air. And I feel like, well, let's measure the product.

Sorry, Ira, but you’re wrong. It does change what’s going out over the air. You stuff a newsroom with a bunch of progressives and nary a conservative and you will definitely get a product that at least tilts left. Liberals will not understand, they just won’t “get” at a gut level, what offends conservatives, not just in news selection and reporting but even in cultural programming.

That is why NPR constantly offends conservatives, which is why they don’t want their tax dollars going to it. Anyone at NPR who can’t understand this may not be as intellectual he or she thinks (unless one uses Bertrand Russell’s definition of an intellectual as “a person who pretends to have more intellect than he has”) they are.

And, no, I don’t have to wait a week to prove this point. The examples are seemingly endless.

Monday, on “All Things Considered,” NPR aired a paean to ’60s radical musician Barbara Dane, whom it called “a versatile voice with a political purpose.” The spot included such hagiographic lines as: “Dane has remained a symbol of resistance, someone who isn't afraid to break the rules.”

Barbara may not be afraid, but she certainly did support a regime that terrorizes its own people—Fidel Castro’s in Cuba.

Dane started traveling there when Fidel’s and Che’s firing squads were working overtime. NPR’s “versatile voice” was unstinting in her embrace of the even the most indecent of Castro’s terrorizing techniques.

Let me give you an inside view. I was a child in Cuba then, and the slogan I found most terrifying was “to the paredon,” which I heard communists cry on the airwaves or the street I lived on. Paredon, you see, is Spanish for the walls used by firing squads.

And just what name do you think Dane gave to her product line? Well, Paredon records.

You don’t have to be a Cuban-American to have this sensitivity. Other conservatives have also pointed out today the inappropriateness of the piece on Dane.

Now I ask you, really, NPR? I, and others, found the piece offensive, and typical. Why should conservatives’ taxes pay for this?

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Glenn Beck on His Game Today - Go Glenn!

by Sam Whiskey in

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man!

this guy is spot on.

go glenn!

Sam Whiskey

It's not Christmas for NPR.... Ouch! Bunch of Libs anyway...

House Votes To Block Funding To NPR

By Ronald D. Orol

Published March 17, 2011

WASHINGTON - The House on Thursday voted to prohibit all government funding for public radio operator NPR and its affiliates in a partisan move that is not expected to be approved into law because it doesn't have the support of Democrats. The bill passed by a 228-192 vote, with no Democrats voting for it. The bill would also prohibit NPR from applying for grants offered by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and other federal agencies.

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