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Fringe lost me when they did the episode in which a hooker becomes pregnant minutes after her encounter with a client and gives birth an hour later. Six hours after that the baby becomes a fully grown man who dies of old age while roaming the hospital basement. To go from a newborn to a fully developed man require the infant to add mass - at least 100 pounds. Where did this mass come from? In the womb, the fetus can draw from the mom, but once out in the hospital it has to get the mass from something. Did they set it on a block of suet instead of a crib?

This is such a fundamental question, I was amazed that none of the "investigators" asked it right from the start. "Ummm...how does a baby put on a hundred pounds of meat in the cellar of a hospital?" These guys are supposed to be bright, aren't they?

The very idea was so utterly ludicrous and unscientific I tuned out and never came back.

I weep for the younger generation. In 1978 we'd have laughed this off in home room.

Wusses.

Isn't is funny that we need foreign newspapers to hear this sort of thing? The lap-dog U.S. media would never dare...

Impressive catch, especially for Massachusetts. I’m a bit to the North, on the New Hampshire seacoast, but I can tell you for certain that Tiger Sharks are very, very rare in these waters.

She's channeling somebody...

It most likely would have spat him out - a whale shark’s throat is tiny - about the size of your wrist. They probably know how to avoid sucking in stuff that’s too big to eat, so I doubt it would have even allowed him into its mouth at all.

LOL! So did I, that’s why I remember it. I was psyched to find the full version up on the Internet.

Let us not forget 1972's very odd PBS version: "Between Time And Timbuktu" (a compilation of Vonnegut stories strung together), which featured the comic duo Bob and Ray, who stole the show.

Harrison Bergeron snippet here

Full version of "Between Time And Timbuktu"

Watch it just for Bob (who plays news anchor "Walter Gesundheit") and Ray (ex-astronaut "Bud Williams Jr").

Except cultivated fish are genetically inferior to wild stock. Canada considers escaped farm Salmon that mingle with wild Salmon "Genetic Pollution". Rather than introduce weaker fish to the wild, shut down the wild fishery, let it replenish and use the farmed one to keep the tables stocked at home.

Ask yourself this: how in line with Conservative principle is it to spend public money to make fish that you then dump into the ocean so that private individuals can hoover up those public-owned fish and sell them for a profit?

It’s pretty simple, really. The commercials just took too many fish. They will keep taking too many fish until there are no fish to take. Or rather, they will take more and more of fewer and fewer. The resource will collapse, like Striped bass did in the 70’s, then when (or if) it recovers a decade or two later the dance of depletion will resume. Meanwhile the stocks take hideous genetic damage. Size limits, for example, on Cod require small fish under 24’ to be thrown back. Result? Cod over 24” are rare. The fish have bred themselves small to survive the pressure.

When I was a kid growing up in Portsmouth, NH, my dad and I often ran our boat a few miles offshore to jig up Cod and haddock. They were plentiful. Then the Russian trawlers moved in a swept the groundfish clean. The 200 mile limit went into effect, one trawler was seized and slowly the haddock and cod began coming back. But that didn’t last. Our own boats became so good at finding fish, netting up entire schools, that the cod got bad again, haddock in close waters non-existent, flounder and even species that were never on the table like pollock disappeared by the end of the 90’s. I went 30 miles offshore to Jeffrey’s Ledge a week ago and saw two draggers essentially vacuuming fish off the bottom. This can’t go on forever, if your business is unsustainable you need to get one that works. But you don’t get to destroy an entire resource before you go under.

If the perp used crazy glue it wouldn’t necessarily feel wet Crazy glue is thin and transparent and it bonds to skin instantly. One tiny tube’s worth squeezed in a small bead around the pot seat would do. When the guy sat down the pressure of his butt would spread the bead out and then ZAP!

She's right. Glee started out as a funny, quirky show featuring truly talented kids trying to survive as high school outcasts, and dedicated teachers trying to keep them on track even while their personal lives were a mess. It was a smart formula and it worked.

Yeah, season one was very entertaining, especially the music and dance. But season two devolved into a protracted gay sermon. What is it about libs and propaganda? They create a good show, gain an audience and within months they have to start shovelling the agenda down our throats, ruining the show and driving everyone away.

On a side note, isn't it interesting how all the female characters are portrayed as b*tches, sluts or mentally ill? You can see the misogyny of the gay writers on full display here. They resent the fact that girls can be odious, cruel and snotty and still attract the boys as long as they're pretty. The gay characters, on the other hand (there seems to be more every minute), are portrayed as virtual saints.

It’s global warming

Your ball, your field, your rules - fair enough. I am a member of ConClub and a Freeper (as are many of our fellow bloggers on our site) and I can attest our motives are pure when we choose to share our work on this forum. Last tuesday we passed the one million hit mark on our site, so we don’t need to pimp the blog (but new viewers are always welcome). To hit a million views on a straight-up politics/culture blog with no naked ladies or cute kitties is no small achievement, particularly when done by a small cadre of conservatives (no advertisements) who do it for love of truth and country.

The Arts are totally politicized, and within their insular group vitriolic anti-Palin comments are routine and unremarkable. It’s only when they venture outside their bubble that they realize there are people out there who think differently from them and don’t take kindly to mockery. It always comes as a bit of a shock, which is quite funny when you bother to think about it.

The entertainment industry is dominated by liberals and it became quite fashionable among that group over the years to include digs against republicans in everything they do. Even non-political shows would drop in anti-GOP quips here and there, while some (I'm looking at YOU, Battlestar Galactica) went completely around the bend, allowing their anti-Bush fervour to dominate entire season(s).

Shortly after the left launched their "civility" campaign, determined as they were to wring some sort of political advantage from the Giffords shooting, I knew they'd have trouble living up to this newfound standard, because they are the most uncivil lot out there. The lefty blogosphere fairly drips with venom. But, as usual, these standards are set to apply to the other guy and not their own.

As the saying goes: "If it weren't for double standards, liberals would have no standards at all".

AGW is the Tautology that cannot be disproved. For all their blather about skeptics rejecting “science”, real science requires theories to be falsifiable. In this case any evidence to the contrary is yet more confirmation of the correctness of the Alarmist position or the malevolent intent of their enemies. It more like a cult mentality.

It would be nice if those tools just went away. They provide libs with a convenient boogeyman.

Yeah they'd run out of steam pretty quick. This series is set in Georgia and judging by the drone of the Cicadas in the background, in high summer. Ever see a dead thing on the road in the summer heat? It's leather in 3 days. Those Zombies would be slim jims in a week.

And how do a bunch of lumbering unarmed dead people overwhelm an Abrams tank? Even assuming they could take out army bases on land, what about the navy? Where are the carrier battlegroups in the middle of the Pacific Ocean? Zombies couldn't touch them!