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grrlscientist | September 23, 2008tags: Politics, Ralph Nader, Cardozo, humor, funny, streaming video
This is a silly video by Ralph Nader, who feels left out of the political process since the electorate finally sees him for what he is. So Ralph talks about dressing up as a panda with Cardozo the Amazon parrot, who lives with former Salt Lake City Mayor, Rocky Anderson, in a lame attempt to recapture his old glory days of spoiling elections and making life worse for the electorate [2:45]
Cardozo, here you are from the free flying Amazon jungle to a cage in Utah -- albeit an open door cage with a fine master. Do not feel sad…
tlambert | September 23, 1997Alan Peyton-Smith writes:
Oh, BTW, I have good reason to believe that this Brian Ross we're
talking about is the same Brian Ross who created a few extra Internet
accounts for himself under false names such as David Bowman and Kylie
Minogue and Tim Lambert and possibly several others.
Are you really gullible enough to believe everything you read on
Usenet? A gentleman who goes by the name of Nosy has been making the
absurd allegation that I am really a pseudonym for Brian Ross. He's
doing this in a rather lame attempt to annoy me.
I'll be happy to prove that I'm not a pseudonym for Brian…
tlambert | March 3, 1996Frank Warren writes:
You argue your own straw man here, as though a very young [...]
person, has a realistic option besides a firearm.
Now there's an idea for the anti-spanking crowd: Arm the very young
and their parents will have second thoughts about spanking them. I
can see the placards at the next gun-rights demonstration now:
"GUN RIGHTS FOR KIDS"
"KIDS HAVE A RIGHT TO SELF DEFENCE"
"NO MORE HOMEWORK"
Gun manufacturers will finally take into account this market segment
in their product design: smaller guns for smaller hands, lighter
trigger pulls, bright colours, tie ins with…
tlambert | October 21, 1994Richard A. De Castro writes:
So, in addition to getting the (perhaps, perhaps not) Dr. Van Meurs thrown
out of the country png (persona non gratia), which means that he would
probably never (ever) be allowed back in, another tactic would be to
get him banned from the NSF-net side of the internet.
The possibilities are endless.
All right!! Someone else who prepared to publicly come out against
free speech in order to preserve our liberties. Dennis, you've
started a movement!
I suggest we call ourselves CREEP - Club to REmovE Pim. Dennis can be
president. I came up with a club song:
Who's…
tlambert | October 19, 1994Dennis O'Connor writes:
The issue of wether Dutch Naval Lt. Van Muers is actually a foriegn
agent illegally operating under the guise of a student visa will be
resolved by the FBI and State Department. It is not relevant to the
charter of talk.politics.guns.
I had considered Dennis to be a paranoid loon or an agent provocateur,
but two documents somebody emailed me have caused the scales to fall
from my eyes. I now realize that Dennis is a true patriot who speaks
the Truth. The first document, "The Protocols of the Elders of the
Hague" is the Dutch secret plan for world domination. The…
tlambert | February 5, 1994Nosy wrote:
Saying all firearms are phallic symbols is stupid and a lie.
Bizarre. Nosy is apparently unaware of the difference between a
phallus and a phallic symbol.
No, the whole concept of a "phallic symbol" is discredited and
worthless concept. I'm not aware of any respectable schools of
psychology that still teach it, except as an example of bogus
methodology. The concept seems to survive only in non-scientific
circles such as feminist literary criticism. To apply a term
that is known to be meaningless is "stupid and a lie."
Let me get this straight: You claim
The term "phallic…
tlambert | March 2, 1993Since Scripter argues so badly, litters his postings with insults and
outright lies, deliberately cooks his statistics and frequently gets
his facts wrong, it seems to me that he he is trying to convince
people that the pro-gun case is totally without merit. Is Charles Scripter an HCI plant?
Ingredients of a Scripter posting.
(1) Insults:
... oppressors, such as yourself, ...
... stupid sheep ...
... Lambert, much as the rapist does ...
... Tim "Lean back and enjoy it" Lambert.
You are
but a filthy vermin that scurrys for hiding when the light is turned
on. Likewise your arguments require…
tlambert | December 15, 1992If Andy had claimed that the
Earth was flat and standard references on the subject and most other
people were wrong, it is conceivable, if unlikely, that he could be
correct. However, when he tells us that the dictionary and everyone
else is wrong about the meaning of the term "Saturday Night Special"
he cannot possibly be correct. Usage defines meaning.
Andy Freeman writes:
That's an interesting leap by Lambert. A dictionary has a definition
so he assumes that "everyone" uses it that way. The dictionary's
definition is wrong BECAUSE usage does define meaning and the usage is
"guns owned…
tlambert | December 14, 1992Andy Freeman said:
The Random House Dictionary is wrong on this one. They often lack the
technical knowledge to "define" terms and go with something that
sounds good, but is wrong or basically meaningless.
If Andy had claimed that the
Earth was flat and standard references on the subject and most other
people were wrong, it is conceivable, if unlikely, that he could be
correct. However, when he tells us that the dictionary and everyone
else is wrong about the meaning of the term "Saturday Night Special"
he cannot possibly be correct. Usage defines meaning.
That's an interesting leap by…
tlambert | December 8, 1992bill nelson writes:
"Saturday Night Special" was a term dreamed up by the anti-gunners. Such
weapons have not existed for many years.
Scot Thorstad writes:
You should be ashamed Bill, You usually do excellent research.
The 1984 (latest edition) of the Random House dictionary defines
Saturday Night Special as "a cheap, small caliber handgun that is
easily obtainable" of which there are many around.
Andy Freeman said:
The Random House Dictionary is wrong on this one. They often lack the
technical knowledge to "define" terms and go with something that
sounds good, but is wrong or basically…
tlambert | June 6, 1992Wayne J. Warf said:
I just wonder if this was a little fishing expedition by Tim. You
know, take a bunch of stats and run pairwise correlations on them and
see if any pop out significant at p<.05. Of course, doing this
without adjusting your significance levels skews the results tremendously,
but one wonders just the same. Was there an a priori hypothesis being
tested against the null or was it just "shotgun statistics".
<sarcasm>
Yes, I sat up late at night trying to correlate things with gun
ownership. I tried the number of letters in the country's name, the
number of medals won…