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 | Damaging another person's car: is this appropriate behavior? - Rex on 5/22/13 at 2:00 pm
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Help Board
| Have you ever considered an IRC chat applet within the site? - Rex on 5/22/13 at 1:57 pm
I ask because of examples such as today's thread on the House IRS hearing. Almost all of the posts within are of the spur of the moment basis... forgettable and discardable. A live chat (which is relatively easy to implement, by the way) might work pretty well for live commentary on such events.
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Movie/TV Board
| Another weird looking actor - Rex on 5/22/13 at 6:47 am
It's a strange thing... I can handle outright ugly, but weird makes it hard to look at the screen. I like Parks and Recreation, but I wish that Ron Swanson were killed off:
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ae/RonSwanson.jpg[/img]...
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Political Talk
| What did he know and when did he know it? - Rex on 5/21/13 at 3:41 pm
POOF... there goes the "cover up" conspiracy bull shite. The Treasury Department informed Darrell Issa [b]in mid 2012[/b] of its audit into the IRS.
[quote]Menendez: "In 2012?"
George: "And since then, yes."
Menendez: "Thank you."[/quote]
[link=(http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/in...
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O-T Lounge
| OKC survivor finds her missing dog while talking to reporter - Rex on 5/21/13 at 8:21 am
[link=(http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50147264n )]Sweet[/link]...
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O-T Lounge
| Are these pit bulls? - Rex on 5/19/13 at 3:30 pm
Woman attacked by two dogs; police kill them.
WARNING: video is disturbing
[link=(http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OHJuVVzXLGs#!)]LINK[/link]...
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Political Talk
| Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts - Rex on 5/19/13 at 2:08 pm
Remember this story? The Bush Administration was actually LISTENING to telephone conversations without warrants, outside of existing FISA law and in contradiction to the Constitution.
[link=(http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/politics/16program.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0)]LINK[/link]
So, what wa...
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Political Talk
| A Marine sounds off about holding the President's umbrella - Rex on 5/19/13 at 6:57 am
[i]"Yes, the President of the United States of America had a boot Corporal hold an umbrella for him while he gave a speech.
The reactions were interesting because people let their political butthurtedness flow into their opinions on the matter. People seem to forget that we’re Marines, and this ...
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Political Talk
| Grover Norquist's group, Americans for Tax Reform, aka "The Tea Party", is - Rex on 5/18/13 at 9:37 am
a 501(c)(4), which according to IRS Code is a civic league or organization organized for the promotion of social welfare or a local association devoted to charitable, educational, or recreational purposes, none of which can be for profit.
According to Code, organizations that engage in "excessive...
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Money Talk
| Any credit agency workers here? - Rex on 5/17/13 at 5:09 pm
Suppose Joe Blow makes a loan for a house or a car or whatever.
How many installments on the loan does he have to send in on a timely basis in order to score a positive comment on an Equifax-type credit report?
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O-T Lounge
| CNBC just flashed that American Airlines will allow passengers without roller - Rex on 5/17/13 at 12:55 pm
bags to board before those with. Hip hip hooray! About damn time.
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Political Talk
| There was writing on the inside of the boat - Rex on 5/17/13 at 7:19 am
I wonder if he used the term "collateral damage" sarcastically or if he actually believes what he did fits the definition:
[link=(http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/16/us/boston-bombing-investigation/index.html?hpt=hp_t1)]LINK[/link]...
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Movie/TV Board
| Anybody else think Chris Pine is weird-looking? - Rex on 5/16/13 at 7:16 pm
Makes me uncomfortable to look at his scenes.
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Chris_Pine_2012.jpg/220px-Chris_Pine_2012.jpg[/img]...
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O-T Lounge
| Microwaving water - pass this along, you might save someone a lot of suffering - Rex on 5/16/13 at 5:29 pm
Something many of us did not know....!!!!
Microwaving Water
A 26-year old man decided to have a cup of coffee.
He took a cup of water and put it in the microwave to
heat it up (something he had done numerous times before).
I am not sure how long he set the timer for, but he wanted
to bring...
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Political Talk
| Wow. What Ben Rhodes wrote versus what Jonathon Karl said he wrote - Rex on 5/14/13 at 6:19 pm
What Ben Rhodes ACTUALLY wrote in his email:
[quote]"Sorry to be late to this discussion. We need to resolve this in a way that respects all of the relevant equities, particularly the investigation.
There is a ton of wrong information getting out into the public domain from Congress and people...
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Music Board
| A truly wonderful song you've probably never heard - Rex on 5/14/13 at 12:39 pm
Powerful stuff from our neighborhood:
[link=(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIXjgSgSoTs)]LINK[/link]...
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Political Talk
| Did the Bush-appointed IRS director plot to take down Obama? - Rex on 5/14/13 at 11:24 am
She has already admitted that her agency has targeted groups who are likely to not be fans of Obama politically. Will her next step be to declare that Obama instructed her to do so?
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Movie/TV Board
| Pics of abandoned Star Wars sets in Tunisia - Rex on 5/12/13 at 12:52 pm
[link=(http://mashable.com/2013/05/11/star-wars-tunisia/)]LINK[/link]
[link=(http://en.rocketnews24.com/2012/07/02/star-wars-tatooine-set-pieces-still-standing-in-the-tunisian-desert-we-investigate/)]and a video here[/link]
[img]http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDEzLzA1LzEwLzJlL1JhZGlNYXJ0...
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Political Talk
| Robert Gates on Benghazi - Rex on 5/12/13 at 12:00 pm
Which of you pretends to know more than Robert Gates?
[quote]"Frankly, had I been in the job at the time, I think my decisions would have been just as theirs were," [/quote]
[quote]"I would not have approved sending an aircraft, a single aircraft, over Benghazi under those circumstances,"[/quote]
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O-T Lounge
| How does one turn off Facebook notifications that your friend has - Rex on 5/11/13 at 9:55 am
fed some panda at some stupid zoo to keep him alive in some stupid online game?
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Political Talk
| Explain the "conspiracy" and what was "covered up", please - Rex on 5/10/13 at 9:05 am
What did Obama conspire to do regarding Benghazi and what was then covered up? This time, be coherent.
Seems to me that all this fake Benghazi outrage stems from the embarrassment Mitt Romney suffered during the Candy Crowley-moderated town hall presidential debate in October.
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Movie/TV Board
| Why is "Overboard" never listed as one of your favorite comedies? - Rex on 5/7/13 at 9:38 am
I'm sure it must be. I've seen it about ten times myself... it's pretty entertaining.
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Political Talk
| The NRA's position on 3-d printable guns will be interesting. - Rex on 5/7/13 at 8:30 am
It will give us a good measure, I think, of the NRA's true mission.
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Political Talk
| Three examples provided by DailyKos of government pensions - Rex on 5/3/13 at 1:11 pm
[link=(http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/18/1187925/-Banrupting-US-Government-Pensions)]LINK[/link]
Case #3- The 42-year-old military "retiree" really bugs the shite out of me. I know some early military retirees in their forties, too, who are living luxury lives in beach condos. Virginia Be...
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O-T Lounge
| "It's all good" in Cajun? - Rex on 4/29/13 at 8:45 pm
C'est tout bon?
I don't trust this translator.
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Movie/TV Board
| "The Booth at the End" on HuluPlus has to be the cheapest TV series - Rex on 4/29/13 at 10:45 am
ever produced.... amazingly stationary but strangely compelling.
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Music Board
| What are some unpopular opinions about songs or musicians? - Rex on 4/29/13 at 10:43 am
I'll start one, albeit admittedly not as drastic as the "Beatles weren't influential" one.
"Sledgehammer" by Peter Gabriel is not a good song. A boring pedestrian melody....
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Political Talk
| Krugman feeling his oats - Rex on 4/29/13 at 8:48 am
[i]"the drive for austerity has lost its intellectual fig leaf, and stands exposed as the expression of prejudice, opportunism and class interest it always was."[/i]
Whether or not you agree with Krugman this is a good article. He's not your typical self-loving jargon-obsessed economist; his wri...
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Political Talk
| Mississippi public school forces students to listen to Jesus lecture - Rex on 4/27/13 at 9:49 am
while teachers block the exits.
[link=(http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/04/26/mississippi-school-forces-students-to-listen-to-christian-lecture-teachers-block-exits/)]LINK[/link]
A lawsuit has been filed.... swell... but the ongoing problem is that school boards, principals, and teachers who ...
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More Sports Board
| This Manti Teo love has now reached Theater of the Absurd levels - Rex on 4/26/13 at 9:08 pm
Really, ESPN??? ANOTHER 10 minute discussion???
WTF is this?
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