Open Thread Friday

This picture of John Barrymore is interesting in that it shows differences in fashion (hats, gloves, cufflinks, mustached vs, van-dyke etc.)

Will the FCC let me read this?

Is Barack Obama going to cripple our healthcare system?

Why yes! Yes, he is. For he's:

PRESIDENT THALIDOMIDE

http://naturalfake.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/presi...

if you force the writers to do your bidding, you might not get what you wanted.
Obama (my peace be upon him) should have demanded script approval

The great Soupy Sales is gone.

I remember watching his show when I was five or six. Soupy, and old "Little Rascals" ("Our Gang") and Three Stooges shorts (hosted by "Officer" Joe Bolton on New York's Channel 11) were all major influences in developing my sense of what was funny.

RIP

What the FCC is up to is ridiculous, convoluted, and I seriously doubt they have any authority to do it. But since when has that bothered the federal government?

Simple analogy, when you go to a hotel, you can either spend a lot of money and get a suite with all the bells and whistles, or you can save a few bucks and get a cheaper room.

They're talking about forcing the hotels (ISP's) to charge the exact same for the penthouse as they do for the bunk beds in the basement.

And there's only one place where this can lead, to every one sleeping in bunk beds in the basement, because if the ISP's can't make enough profits from the high end service, they'll simply stop supplying it.

Wouldn't surprise me in the least if it's some half-assed attempt to squash sites like Drudge. If his ISP can't charge enough for his circuits to justify them, they'll crank them down, and then access to his site will be extremely limited.

I wouldn't put anything past these a holes.

"The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve “the common good.” It is true that capitalism does—if that catch-phrase has any meaning—but this is merely a secondary consequence. The moral justification of capitalism lies in the fact that it is the only system consonant with man’s rational nature, that it protects man’s survival qua man, and that its ruling principle is: justice."

—Ayn Rand

Ed, I think we all know that this is just another step in the total control direction that this administration is taking. I wouldn't be surprise if in the near future that our internet access gets either stopped all together or limited to say 2 hours a day. All they would have to do is say something like "hey you can have 2 hours today, but you're free to pick your times". I am still in awe that we have come so far down this socialist road.

I've never heard of Mizzy.

But…but…the FCC would never do anything to regulate political content on the Internet, right? They couldn't do that…could they?

Have faith in the internet, and the people who run it, and especially those who hide in the shadows of it (by that I mean the hackers, the good kind).

They're already light years ahead of government, and they're increasing their lead millisecond by millisecond.

This won't go unanswered. Back in 2003 when America first invaded Iraq for the second time, Al Jezzera was putting out some pretty inflammatory propaganda. Suddenly they were knocked off the internet world wide.

That was not an accident. I know a very internet savvy guy who just told me to keep my eye on the news concerning Al Jezzera.

The government won't even know what hit them.

I don't think they could. Honestly. I work in internet security, so I work under the hood. Despite what the commercials tell you about rock solid, dependable, reliable network access, it ain't all that organized.

The internet was based on the idea that since a computer could be programmed to solve a maze, like a mouse, why couldn't information be broken up into small "data packets" or "datagrams" and do the exact same thing over a network?

When some one plugs a wide are router into the "internet" (which is really just a way for humans to conceive the over all network), you promise to do your best to get traffic moved to the next "hop." There is no guarantee that you will be able to do that, you just have to promise to make an honest attempt.

So no single person or group controls the internet, so single person or group even knows what it is (I know that's kind of confusing, but it's true). People generate graphics that appear to simulate what it might look like conceptually, but know one really knows what it looks like, because its not something tangible.

Government can't even run the county clerk's office (they forgot to send me my property taxes one year, so I had to pay a penalty), there is no way in hell they can control the internet. They can make things difficult, they can break things around the edges, but the internet is far bigger than any government regulation. Remember how it took Iran 48 hours to start shutting it down during protests? And they have an iron lock on their country's internet access.

By the time the federal government even came up with 10,000 page bill on how to control it, it will already have changed rendering it useless.

I have seen the future, and it is the internet!

Which means, I hope, that you clicked on the link to learn about him. That's great!

Of course. I had no idea who wrote the Addams family song. I still sing it out loud a LOT. Very catchy tune.

For those who believe America is the property of We The People, a note of caution, this may turn your stomach.

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/55971

My sweet, awesome, hippie liberal friend was searching online to help me find a new job and sent me a link to a non-profit that aims to eliminate nuclear weapons.

I was like… yeah, I can't do that. Nuclear deterrence is kind of important. She said something like, Oh well, we have different views, I guess you have a point, lol. And then she said something about her "no military thing." WTF???

It's a good thing I am about to go to physical therapy… I can work out my frustration there.

While it would be difficult being surrounded by people like that for 40 hours a week, it could be a nice gig. It's not like they're going to accomplish anything, so basically you'd get paid for sitting around saying things like "wow, bombs are, like, bad, man."

No, I think Frederic March chose that approach as well, as did Spencer Tracy.

This is the excerpt from the alleged thesis paper:

“… the Constitution allows for many things, but what it does not allow is the most revealing. The so-called Founders did not allow for economic freedom. While political freedom is supposedly a cornerstone of the document, the distribution of wealth is not even mentioned. While many believed that the new Constitution gave them liberty, it instead fitted them with the shackles of hypocrisy.”

I found it on American Thinker.com. I could not find any sites with the entire document, so rabid foaming at the mouth should be curtailed for now at least.

BTW: His mother was Georgiana Drew of the famed Drew family of actors, so you see where the grand-daughter's name came from.

http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/10/23/nonsen...

The reporter above, who was originally attributed wtih having seen the thesis, is stating that this is false.

Maybe there are other sources, but I have not seen them yet.

WPIX !!!!!! Abbot and Costello — Who's on First?

Do you have a link to this? I'd love to read it for myself.

Read about John Barrymore death and what was done to the body….
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000858/bio

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0058213/bio

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