The Glade 4.0

Maintaining adequate diet is killer, though.

You think brains are in short supply?

Well, now that you mention it...

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GRAAAAAAAAINNNNNNNNSSSSSSS!!!

That wasn't me. Although I should get around to recreating ZombieAbe.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Nice avatar though. Nice play on the theme, too.

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

That...isn't a zombie. That's Harold. He is a mutant(not a ghoul like many believe, and even if he was, ghouls aren't undead anyway).

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"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

Of potentially interesting note on the immigration front, Hazleton mayor Lou Barletta ousted Kanjorski from his 26-year-held seat in Congress. If you've followed immigration news the past few years, you will know him as the guy who enacted measures in the city to try and crack down on the people that knowingly support illegal immigrants (employers, landlords, etc). Though the ordinances were ruled unconstitutional on the grounds of being outside the legal authority of a city, efforts appealing the decision remain strong.

Whether you agree with the action attempted in Hazleton or not, he's one of the few people that have actually tried to address the issue, and he has now won a seat in Washington. As a first time Representative I don't know that he'd exactly have much sway, but who knows.

The guy comes from a rich Hazleton tradition of Italian Mafia roots, and he even looks like he has connections of that sort... so maybe he'll surprise us!

Picture spoilered - click and see to practically feel the Mafianess!

Oh, Godfather, I don't know what to do, I don't know what to do....

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Remember, tomorrow is the official, annual "Blow Up Your Government Day," a tradition dating back 405 years.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Good Times!

Does a "shalacking" a couple of days early county, or do we actually have to blow something up?

Bangs, you need big bangs...or more accurately, potential for big bangs...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes

Guy Fawkes never actually blew anything up, but he came close enough they tortured and kind of executed him almost immediately. Kind of because he jumped off the scaffold to his death, in a "you don't kill me, I kill me" kind of defiance.

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"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

Huh, interesting. I hadn't read much about him before, so I had assumed he was at least directionally similar to the characterization in the movie V (yeah, I know not a safe assumption). From the wiki, it appears he wasn't so much anti-goverment as pro-Catholic and his actions were purely driven by religious conviction.

The movie was not about Guy Fawkes. There isn't anything really innaccurate about Evey's discription of Guy Fawkes in the prologue. (Even her offhanded use of the term "Anarchist" at the end of the opening monologue is just a reference to the fact that the man wanted to blow up parliament.) It's the direction of the movie afterward that makes one assume V was following in the footsteps of Fawkes. In reality, the only way prisoner number 5 follows Fawkes is in his desire to blow up Parliament.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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You know I'd consider the election results more indicative of the changes in political advertising laws. Two weeks before the election, pro-Republican PACs had spent 9x the amount on advertising than pro-Democrat PACs.

The fact of the matter is that advertising DOES sway elections and with such a huge spending gap, this is more about rich people/corps stirring up fears to win an election and buying their way to do it.

Spending does have an effect, but there's a lot more going on than just "rich people stirring up fears."

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It doesn't take much looking around to find cases where people spent a lot of money on their campaigns and still lost.

How does $100 per vote sound (in a losing effort) ?

http://middletownpress.com/articles/201 ... 580927.txt

This is just one example. There are plenty of others spread across both parties...

Yeah, I'd like to see those numbers.

What I've found from OpenSecrets.org is that the Dems were ahead in all catagories:







Does spending sway you in elections? Do people buy your vote?

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Oh snap!

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

Losing Democrat: White House tone deaf



Ran for gov. of Florida, Alex Sink.

Man, that must have made for some great headlines on Wednesday. "Sink sunk"

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Yeah, I've been hearing a lot of excuses like this. Folks don't want to admit that the people hated their policies.

'Till I get proof, I'll keep assuming that you all are as immune to advertisement as I am where my political opinions are concerned.

If sheer volume of advertisement made a difference, the last two years of all the hoopla over the issues vs. the simple Republican response of "no" as a counterpoint would have me backing the Democratic party.

I typically vote 100% Democratic party for local and state office. Not this time. Next time... probably not either. 2014, we'll see.

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