NSFW, especially if you work with humorless and/or uptight people. 🙂
George Takei has a bit of fun with his trademark “Oh Myy,” while reading selected passages of Fifty Shades of Grey.
This is our daily open thread — Remember kids, it’s okay to be Takei!
TheZoo 
Kirk: Sulu, take us out of here! Warp factor 5!
Sulu: Oh myy.
And on that note, the world came to an end.
It already happened in Australia.
HEY!! Anybody out there? I’m alive, are you? It’s 3:45 am east coast. Is it a rolling time thing, and you’re all dead, and I’ve 3 hours left, being west coast? I’ve got a ahi tuna steak marinating in olive oil rubbed with salt, pepper, and paprika, and I hate to waste food. HELLO? Jeebus there is a couple of things I need to get right, so I need to know right now. Ah fuck it I’m going to bed. Bonne nuit all.
Hey BnF you made it. Good.
We’re still here. We had enough rain and wind last night to make one think that the Mayans might just be right.
And God will hit Alt+Control+Delete. Reboot. Universe 2.0. This time God will take the whole weekend off…..
lets talk him into to 4 days off
So, I see it takes a threat of worldwide cataclysm for Zooey to remember which day is Friday?
Ooo, be careful about what say. 😉
Dude, I’ve managed to stay out of Alabama this long, and I want to keep it that way. Don’t make me come over there. 😛
So, where do you want me to meet you then? 😀
Oregon Coast. 🙂
To paraphrase something Cenk Uygur said last night, if cutting Social Security ‘strengthens Social Security’, doesn’t it follow that cutting defense, ‘strengthens defense’?
That’s logical, I guess.
Boehner has tucked his tail between his legs and slunk off.
I knew they weren’t going to come to an agreement. Boehner is incompetent.
Boner being incompetent, is exactly what they agreed on….too bad nothing else tho
dive off that cliff!!….
It’s probably more like a curb.
yeah….not even a speed bump
Today’s high in St. Augustine will be 24 degrees lower than yesterday’s 78 degrees. The end of the world was preempted for Winter’s arrival! Brrrr
Our high today will be 40 degrees with a low of 31 degrees. Right now it is 40 degrees. There are gusts of wind. I just hope the trees remain upright.
If your area is like mine, all the weak trees either blew down during the derecho or during Sandy.
Our high is to be 46, and a low of 25, wind about 20 mph. I have the wood rack full for the fire I’m starting later.
You live in Alabama, right? It’s going to get that cold in south?
Yep, to both questions. Huntsville is in the north of Alabama, so we can get pretty cold from time to time.
Boner’s days are numbered, the sharks are circling….
Eric Cantor is having wet dreams over this whole thing….his certainly was nothing but smiles as he dodged the press..
That vicious little shite has his knife out …. the Teabaggers are going to crash the car by grabbing the wheel from the back seat.
Except that in the next congress, there’s gonna be a lot fewer baggers…Hurrah.
How lovely if lil’ Eric finally gets his heart’s desire and finds he can no more govern the ungovernable than Boehner. If Congressman Can’t goes full teabag, I’m hoping we can oust him. Not all the R’s in his district are crazy.
I have been thinking about switching parties just so I can vote for an Eisenhower Republican to replace the tea bagger in my district.
I don’t know about the rest of the world but I’m pretty sure Boehner’s ended yesterday.
That’s what he gets for naming an economic plan after an abortion pill.
Good one. Never gave that a thought until now.
was that why the Teabaggers voted it down?
“{Republicans} are vandals. They aren’t legislators. They have nothing to contribute to the polity at all. All they want to do is destroy–the federal government; Barack Obama; the national economy as long as Obama is president might gain from good economic news. That is an agenda of destruction; of vandalism quite literally. This should be manifestly clear this morning even to the most monastic heirs of David Broder.” — Michael Tomasky writing this morning
If you haven’t already listened to this interview by Terry Gross, here is the link:
http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=2&t=1&islist=false&id=167694808&m=167695043
It’s extremely informative. I didn’t know all this about guns. The guest refers to semi-automatics as assault weapons. I call them people killing machines.
The “assault” part of the name says it all.
People killing machines.
The end of the world….?? Here’s what happens next…
There will be hell to pay.
Portland, Oregon checking in: Terrifying weather, looks just like Portland in December. Cold by our standards and the rain and wind don’t make that comfortable. And it’s dark when I go to work and dark when I leave. End of the world presumably.
It’s actually about seven degrees warmer right now than it was 24 hours ago but it won’t be warming appreciably today or any time soon. On the upside, my 11-day vacation starts this afternoon.
on a lighter note…… the sinister Evil Snow Man returns!
New post below. The Pimeria Alta, a (mostly) non-political look at the first Spanish “invasion” of Arizona — the consequences and the relics which remain — in a brief intro plus a pair of photo-poetic “essays” on the topic.
The teabaggers are at it today. They are practicing with their high powered guns and people killing machines at the local gun club. I must have missed the NRA press release.
Our teabaggers are lined up in front of a local guns/ammo/pawn shop, about thirty of them, waiting to get in for whatever reason.
La Pierre (spit. double spit) started off the lying session by stating they hadn’t spoken about the incident, until now, out of respect.
Did anyone expect anything else from this sack of shit?
Yawn, the NRA says that line every time. If the truth be told, the NRA is a prop for the gun manufacturing and importing industry.
And is the NRA going to pay for all those guards, or will that come out of the education budget? Morons.
ICYMI (or in case I missed someone else posting it), here are 27 fictions that became science facts in 2012. Cool!
http://www.buzzfeed.com/donnad/27-science-fictions-that-became-science-facts-in-2
Thanks for linking this. Some very interesting things took place this year.
thanks Wayne!….great stuff, as usual!
WOW There is some really cool shit!
I won’t link to the place where I found this comment, but it’s fifty shades of fundy crazy:
“Not coincidental. Batman shooting and Newtown horror orchestration conducted by same people. Bullet proof vests and masks on both shooters. Why mask a dyed orange haired guy? Why mask Lanza(who ostensibly was going suicide? Note the dates of these occurrences. Both incidents on the Friday after the new moon. This has occult fingerprints. To gain power in their world innocent sacrifice is required on certain lunar cycles and dates.”The father of the shooter is Peter Lanza, rumored to be scheduled to testify on the international LIBOR scandal. Guess who else is rumored to be scheduled to testify on the LIBOR scandal? Father of the BATMAN theater shooter.” Both men move up the ranks for this evil–
Drugged mind controlled “patsys” delivered to location by at least 2 other individuals at both murders. These other individuals were initially present in both reports and then subsequently erased from the record. The media was told to leave off the batman episode because of its glaring mind control ramifications.
Where is our homeland security? FBI? Nefarious men committing murder to further a world agenda, funded by the uber-wealthy border-less corporations, are now getting away with the murder of our little ones. Where’s our CIA? Have they all been compromised? Shame on them.”
They must have run out of tin foil at this guy’s Safeway…
Hey! We’re still here!
Kind of a Buffy apocalypse.
Ironically, I think Wayne LaPierre shot himself in the foot with that address.
From TP, Wayne LaPierre’s 10 ‘best’ statements:
1) Gun-free schools zones “tell every insane killer in America that schools are their safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk.”
2) “There exists in this country a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells, and sows, violence against its own people.
3) “[V]iolent crime is increasing again for the first time in 19 years! Add another hurricane, terrorist attack or some other natural or man-made disaster, and you’ve got a recipe for a national nightmare of violence and victimization.”
4) “We need to have every single school in America immediately deploy a protection program proven to work —and by that I mean armed security.”
5) “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Would you rather have your 911 call bring a good guy with a gun from a mile away … or a minute away?”
6) “And throughout it all, too many in our national media … their corporate owners … and their stockholders … act as silent enablers, if not complicit co-conspirators.”
7) “Then there’s the blood-soaked slasher films like ‘American Psycho’ and ‘Natural Born Killers’ that are aired like propaganda loops on Splatterdays and every day, and a thousand music videos that portray life as a joke and murder as a way of life.”
8) “In a race to the bottom, media conglomerates compete with one another to shock, violate and offend every standard of civilized society by bringing an ever-more-toxic mix of reckless behavior and criminal cruelty into our homes — every minute of every day of every month of every year.”
9) “Through vicious, violent video games with names like Bulletstorm, Grand Theft Auto, Mortal Kombat and Splatterhouse. And here’s one: it’s called Kindergarten Killers. It’s been online for 10 years. How come my research department could find it and all of yours either couldn’t or didn’t want anyone to know you had found it?”
10) “Isn’t fantasizing about killing people as a way to get your kicks really the filthiest form of pornography?”
Someone should skull-f**k that bastard with the barrell of his own M4
It’d be a real shame if someone who bought a gun at a gun show were to kill LaPierre. Really, a shame.
The gun manufacturing industry would set up another one of their representatives to lead the NRA.
He forgot to mention the need for big profits by the gun manufacturing industry.
Re: #10
😯
What the hell do you think you’re selling Wayne?
Thanks, Firefox. You apparently decided on your own to log me out of every single online account I have. So helpful. Or maybe this is the fault of the Mayans.
It does that to me on this site every so often. No idea why. I click my name and my password enters, thankfully, because I have no clue what it is anymore.
Oh, yeah. WordPress does that do me on a regular basis. Today it was everything from Gmail to the Washington Post.
There are about 90,000 elementary schools in the United States. Let’s say you pay one single-shift guard about $60,000 including benefits, taxes and overhead. You’ve just spent $5.4 billion to do what?
Uh huh, cost effective and way more government intervention.
At least you wouldn’t have to worry about covering shifts. Anywhere with evening classes you’ve just doubled the cost. Or more, really, because you have to cover weekends as well.
Of course, high school and college kids could pack their own heat.
That’s the answer, tax credits for students to carry concealed permits to school…..
But that’s not the funny part. The funny part is that police officers have very specific training about stumbling into a shooting. The first step is to take cover then call for and wait for backup. The second step might include directing potential victims away from the fire zone but the main task is to keep apprised of where the shooter is so that the backup officers can be effectively deployed when they arrive. The NRA freaks seem to think that real police officers are suicidal/homicidal like their counterparts in movies.
There was an armed guard at Columbine High School.
Hey, even David Koresh and his gang had the FBI outgunned.
David Koresh was using the armor piercing bullets along with the high powered guns.
Wayne LaPierre can kiss my ass.
Having armed guards/teachers in schools is fucking insanity, and raises our children in terror.
I don’t want MORE piss-soaked fuckwits like LaPierre and his kind in this country.
Pennsylvania man cites Newtown while ripping down atheist holiday display
No sense of irony in that one.
Pennsyltucky has a lot of these stupids moving about the state.
Oh for crap’s sake, here comes Scott Brown again – great job Mr President
Beth, baby, call the White House and get him to do something else – you know what a shitsack Brown is.
Taking a cabinet position is usually the end of the line politically. Hillary won’t run again. She is still paying off the bills from her 2008 campaign.
I would have preferred to see Kerry remain in the Senate but it’s not a complete disaster. Things aren’t going to change until the Dems can seat 60 senators and/or the filibuster is reformed. Even if Brown or some other GOoPers ends up with the seat it won’t really affect the balance of power. Plus, I just have a feeling that the good people have seen enough of Snotty and there’s little chance of him winning another election.
Another great victory for the NRA.
4 Dead, 3 State Troopers Injured After Blair County (PA) Church Shooting
Cue Mike F**kabee telling the loonies on Planet Fox that obviously this is because we have systematically ‘removed God from’ ….churches?
In 3,2,1….
Yeah, I can’t wait to hear that one. 😀
But. But. But, if they had been armed school teachers, they would have stopped the shooter.
Looks like we are having a Tea Party Xmas!
Holy fuck.
God must have been missing at that church.
One would be hard pressed to tell the difference between that part of PA and the backwoods of WV.
The office manager sent a cartoon over email but I can’t seem to get it to copy. Its one Mayan guy working on a stone tablet and a second who asks “Hey, you want to grab a beer?” The worker replies “Well, I’m supposed to get this calendar done but if I don’t it won’t be the end of the world.”
😆
An armed guard or cop in a school might be workable but only if the school is like the one-room red schoolhouse in the country. Most schools are multiple buildings and certainly multiple classrooms. Maybe the intruder can alert the school beforehand as to which building and classroom he’ll be shooting up.
I’d like to have a republican armed guard at each classroom door. With no firing pin in their weapons.
You know, just for display purposes only.
But, they have to work for free. Keeping costs down, you see.
There might be something to that. If someone pointed a gun at them the following involuntary voiding of bowel and bladder could be considered a defensive weapon. Sort of like that toad that flips its stomach out of its mouth when threatened.
Maybe we are misinterpreting the whole Mayan apocalypse thing. Maybe what they were saying wasn’t the world was going to end, it was just going to go stark staring bonkers without a calendar.
I have spent some time trying to identify the precise moment that the world became “stark staring bonkers”. If I have to pick one I go with the incident where the “leader of the free world” played like he was looking for WMD under his podium, for laughs, and wasn’t hauled off the stage and transported immediately to a cell in The Hague.
Wayne LaPierre’s speech:
“We are the true victims here;
You make us look bad”
Wah.
Another treasure from cheeseflap!
Brilliant! You amaze me.
If any of the fine ladies of the Zoo community happen to run into Ms. Allen; would you kindly punch her in the throat and take a picture of her face turning purple? I abhor violence but this woman desperately deserves some.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/12/21/1370841/conservative-columnist-doubles-down-on-women-are-to-blame-for-newtown-argument/
I am so against violence. Not in cases like this. I can get quite seriously angry.
I’m not a violent person either, but I’d be willing to give her an object lesson in female aggression by whacking her upside the head with an EZ Bake.
She has a problem with a gender neutral EasyBakeOven™? Men are chefs. They’re showcased! Why shouldn’t/wouldn’t a boy want to bake/cook.
Women like this idiot make me boiling mad. She denigrates her own gender. Can only imagine she dislikes her mother for whatever reason.
I bet she’s waiting for Santa to bring her the Dream Date game he forgot when she wished her mom would let her wear a training bra.
Iowa Mensclub:
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A dentist acted legally when he fired an assistant that he found attractive simply because he and his wife viewed the woman as a threat to their marriage, the all-male Iowa Supreme Court ruled Friday.
The court ruled 7-0 that bosses can fire employees they see as an “irresistible attraction,” even if the employees have not engaged in flirtatious behavior or otherwise done anything wrong. Such firings may be unfair, but they are not unlawful discrimination under the Iowa Civil Rights Act because they are motivated by feelings and emotions, not gender, Justice Edward Mansfield wrote.
These touchy feely Right Wingers are really creeping me out. That said, the assistant is better off somewhere else because her boss is probably going to get hit with a civil suit from a patient under gas.
Firing her was clearly wrong. He should have spent more time flagellating himself for bad thoughts and stepped up to a hairier shirt.
He could have simply pulled all her teeth out, making her less attractive.
Or maybe not…
I saw the article about how regular massaging of a woman’s breasts can help prevent cancer cells from developing. I now know why I’ve never heard of penis cancer!
And they’re not singing as themselves…
She got that right…